Chapter 451: A Common Human Flaw

After a while, Hao Dayou frowned and asked:

"There aren't any buildings in our county that need renovation, are there?"

Wang An smiled and hinted: "The country is vigorously advocating education. Look at our county, is it still missing a school or something?"

After Hao Dayou heard Wang An's words, his tightly furrowed brow immediately relaxed, and he even asked with a smile:

"You're very well-informed! You know things I don't even know?"

Wang An laughed heartily: "That's a must. By the way, big brother, look at the buildings in the county government courtyard, aren't they so dilapidated they're almost uninhabitable?"

Although Wang An's words were exaggerated, the meaning was expressed very clearly.

Therefore, after Wang An finished speaking, the two of them laughed together, and they both laughed quite happily.

It was clear that both of them were happy because they had achieved their own goals.

After laughing, Hao Dayou said gratefully: "Fine, big brother, I, your older brother, owe you this favor. This time, I'm not going anywhere; I'll just stay here at the brick factory."

Wang An smiled: "Mm, anyway, it'll be at most less than 3 months. Watching and waiting won't cause any loss. Don't worry, big brother, within these three months, I definitely won't come to haul bricks, hahaha."

Hao Dayou also laughed:

"Hahaha, that's fine, brother. For your younger brother's bricks, I'll prepare the manpower today and send them over to your younger brother tomorrow. Also, for the sake of you, little brother, I won't charge the shipping fee for the tiles either."

The two chatted a few more meaningless words, and Wang An drove his sled away.

Leaving the brick factory, Wang An checked his watch again and found it was not yet 10 o'clock, so he headed straight for the supply and marketing cooperative.

In truth, the purpose of Wang An checking the time was to catch Fang Xiue's off-duty time.

Otherwise, if Wang An rushed over, he would only be able to wander outside Fang Xiue's house.

On the way to the supply and marketing cooperative, Wang An discovered that all sorts of demons and monsters were out.

And the reason Wang An hadn't seen them when he arrived was simply because these demons and monsters hadn't gotten out of bed at that time.

As a former member, Wang An knew all too well what time these people got up in the morning.

Anyway, very few appeared on the street before 10 o'clock, and after 12 o'clock noon was exactly when the demons and monsters were most active.

And after 12 o'clock, ordinary commoners basically didn't go out much either.

Soon, Wang An arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative. Just as he reached the entrance, a half-grown child of sixteen or seventeen years old came up to him.

Seeing this half-grown child, he was wearing a dirty cotton hat, his clothes and pants were all patches upon patches, and they didn't look very clean either. The cloth shoes on his feet were basically all "blooming."

Anyone who has worn cloth shoes knows that the uppers of cloth shoes are very flimsy; it only takes a short time for the cloth to be worn out, commonly known as "blooming."

Especially at the position of the big toe, after a long time, the big toe would be unable to suppress its curiosity about the world and would come out to see people directly.

Therefore, the saying "wearing a pair of shoes that expose the toes" came about.

Only hearing this half-grown child say:

"Big brother, need help watching the vehicle? Two mao an hour will do."

To tell the truth, at first, Wang An thought this kid was a beggar.

However, after hearing what the kid said, Wang An was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help but laugh.

Because this job of helping watch vehicles was actually invented by Wang An in his past life. However, Wang An was the leader, so the work he did was just wandering around, ready to support at any time.

But for this job, Wang An basically didn't earn any money; to be precise, all the demons and monsters who followed suit didn't earn any money.

Because when going to the market normally, it was a group of people who knew each other, so everyone took turns watching the vehicles. If you wanted to charge money to help watch, people wouldn't use you at all.

If you finally happened upon someone alone, because of the money issue, they wouldn't want to use you either.

In this way, you had to create some trouble for them, making the other party take the initiative to find someone to help watch the vehicle.

But Wang An felt it was a bit unbearable to take action against ordinary commoners.

Therefore, Wang An and his group only did it for a very short time before stopping.

Later, Sun Xianghuo began to vigorously rectify public security, and there were a bunch of temporary police officers patrolling the streets.

Many of these temporary police officers were relatives of those officials.

I have to say, each one was quite capable and really dared to take action, which made the public security of DJ County quite good.

Yet, after Sun Xianghuo was transferred, the situation in DJ County was even worse than before. Later on, various units, including the supply and marketing cooperative, appeared with places to store vehicles, and the job of watching vehicles became even rarer.

And reborn for another lifetime, Wang An had already exited the circle of thugs, but this job of helping people watch vehicles still appeared at this point in time.

I have to say, no matter who is missing from this world, the earth still turns the same, and things that should happen will happen normally.

Two mao an hour to watch a vehicle—this price was already quite expensive. You have to know that a pack of Bingcheng cigarettes was only one mao two, and besides, when Wang An did this job in his past life, he only charged one mao an hour.

However, because Wang An had done this job in his past life and could encounter it again after being reborn, he felt it was quite interesting, so he agreed.

Seeing Wang An take out one mao and hand it over, while saying: "Pay the other mao after an hour, okay?"

The young man took the money, looking quite happy, and said with a smile:

"Mm, big brother, I'll watch the vehicle; it'll be absolutely secure."

Wang An looked at the kid and smiled, then walked into the supply and marketing cooperative.

But Wang An's heart was sighing; as a new generation of little thugs entered the circle, his own "Big Madman" title in the county seat would soon be unknown to anyone.

Although this was his own doing, it had to be said that there was still a bit of a sense of loss in his heart; perhaps this was also a common human flaw! Turning the loss into the motivation to spend money, Wang An began a massive shopping spree in the supply and marketing cooperative.

He didn't expect that the current supply and marketing cooperative was indeed as Wang Shuai had said; many daily necessities no longer required coupons.

For example, matches, soap, cloth, water-washed salt, hard candy, white sugar, brown sugar, foreign cigarettes, flashlights, watches, radios, wall clocks... and so on and so forth.

However, the price without coupons was about 20 percent more expensive than the price with coupons. Even so, everyone's faces were beaming with happy smiles, and regarding the fact that they had to spend more money without coupons, it could be said there wasn't a single bit of dissatisfaction.

But for things like bicycles, sewing machines, black-and-white televisions, etc., coupons were still required.

A three-battery flashlight was 3.5 yuan each; give me 6. A two-battery flashlight was 2.5 yuan each; give me 6 of those too.

The main thing was that the quality of flashlights in this era was really not very good; they would break as soon as they were used.

Small light bulbs for flashlights were five cents each; give me 100. This thing would also flicker and die, and you couldn't figure out what was going on.

Batteries, 3 mao each; give me 100. The radio also needed them, so 100 really wasn't much.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 452 =====