Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Chapter 211

The father and son rode the tricycle back to the noodle shop and passed by Lin Shu's fruit shop. They saw Lin Shu arranging people to unload boxes of fruit at the door of the fruit shop.

"Youngest, are there any new arrivals?"

"Dad, are you guys closing up the stall? Business should be good today, otherwise you wouldn't close up so early."

Lin Shu turned around and saw Lin Gang riding a tricycle with Lin Dashan sitting in the bed, so he walked over and stretched his neck to look into the bed.

There aren't many things left.

"Chinese New Year is coming soon. There are a lot more people on the street, so business is naturally good."

Lin Dashan looked at the fruit shop and saw a lot of fruits piled up at the door, so he asked, "What fruits have arrived today?"

"Except for grapefruit, grapefruit, apples, pears, oranges, tangerines, etc., all are packaged in gift boxes, making it convenient for customers to buy them as gifts."

Lin Dashan used to have nothing to do after delivering ingredients to a few stores in the morning. Now, after delivering ingredients, he can go to set up stalls. Not only can he kill time but he can also make money. Now he is addicted.

He pointed at the fruits at the door and said, "Tomorrow we'll set up a stall and bring a dozen or twenty boxes of fruits to see how they perform. Do you think it's okay, youngest?"

Lin Shu looked back at the red fruit packages piled up in front of the fruit shop. Regardless of whether they sold well or not, at least they looked festive.

However, there are quite a few people shopping in front of the fruit shop now. After all, the newly arrived fruits look fresh.

"Okay, tomorrow you can set up your stall first and then ride back to bring a cart of goods over. Just remember not to sell at a low price."

She was still looking forward to making some quick money at the end of the year, but she didn't want to sell this batch of fruits at too low a price.

"I know this. We will sell at the same price as you sell it at."

Lin Shu got Lin Dashan's assurance and nodded, "How much did you earn today?"

When it comes to making money, Lin Dashan can't stop smiling, "Hahaha, I don't know the exact amount yet. We haven't had time to settle the accounts yet."

"Dad, come down. Lin Gang went to park the tricycle. Let's go to the restaurant's private room and count carefully."

Lin Shu helped Lin Dashan get off the tricycle, and then left Lin Gang alone. The father and daughter went to the private room of the restaurant next door.

When setting up a stall to do business, the money usually received is mostly small change. Lin Dashan’s promotion of 50 cents off for every 10 yuan spent made him receive a lot of money today.

When Lin Gang came in, the father and daughter had already counted all the members of the Great Unity Army and the workers, peasants and soldiers.

"The change is six hundred and sixty-five, plus the whole bill is twelve thousand, the total is one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five dollars."

Lin Dashan took out the purchase list from his bag. It was the list that the warehouse keeper had given him when he picked up the goods in the morning. It listed the total price of the goods he had picked up that day.

The total amount after deducting the change is one thousand five hundred and twenty yuan.

In other words, Lin Dashan and Lin Gang earned three hundred and forty-five yuan from their stalls today.

Lin Dashan gave the payment to Lin Shu, and with the more than 300 yuan he earned today, his face was full of smiles.

Lin Gang never thought that setting up a stall could make so much money, and before today he never thought that money could be made so easily.

I earned more than 300 yuan in one day.

You may not know that he bought his job with three or four hundred dollars.

In other words, the money you earn in a day now can buy a job.

Tsk!

As expected, there are many opportunities in big cities like provincial capitals.

Lin Dashan took out the money and gave Lin Gang 170 yuan. "This is your income today. The extra five yuan will be your food expenses today."

Lin Gang received 170 yuan and had no objection to what to do with the remaining 5 yuan.

"Dad, why didn't anyone tell me before that setting up a street stall can make so much money? If I had known earlier, why would I still work? It would be so much fun to set up a street stall every day."

I only earn tens of thousands of yuan a month, which is something you can’t save even if you work honestly for ten years.

"It's not too late to know now. Anyway, we don't have any other relatives in the provincial capital. We just need to visit Gu's family for the New Year. The early bird catches the worm. Let's not rest this Spring Festival and set up a stall."

While others are celebrating the New Year, they are setting up stalls.

Others consume, they make money.

There's nothing wrong with that.

Lin Shu looked at their enthusiastic appearance and didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The next day, the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month.

Lin Shu originally wanted to visit a few shops in Xinfang and then go see how Lin Dashan’s stall was doing.

However, Gu Jiu, whose company had already had a holiday, kept pestering her after breakfast and wanted to take her somewhere.

"Where are you going?" Lin Shu wrapped a scarf around himself and put on a hat and gloves.

"I don't know exactly where we're going. It's organized by Chen Fei. I'll follow him today."

Gu Jiu put on his down jacket, hat and scarf, and took Lin Shu's hand, avoiding Dabao and Erbao, and quietly went out.

"Beep beep!"

"Brother Jiu, sister-in-law, here!"

As soon as the couple walked out of the gate of the compound, they heard the sound of a car horn. Looking in the direction of the sound, they saw Chen Fei waving at them.

"Hurry up, you two, we're the only ones missing."

Lin Shu got into the car and found that there were two other people in the car.

There was a man who looked young but had a beard. After hearing Chen Fei's introduction, I realized that they called him Hu Zi.

The other one was a little older and very tall. Why did Lin Shu feel he was very tall while sitting in the car?

Because his head is closest to the roof.

Especially the long legs that had nowhere to put in the car. Lin Shu, who was sitting in the back seat, couldn't help but worry about him.

Chen Fei called this man Brother Cao.

He was not familiar with Lin Shu, so he just nodded and smiled.

However, they should be very familiar with Gu Jiu, and Lin Shu couldn't ask them where they were going. He could only sit in the car and listen to their conversation, and he could tell from their conversation.

Another friend of theirs formed a team to bring back a batch of stones from other places. Today, many people were invited to go and broaden their horizons.

This is the gambling on stones that Lin Shu heard about in later generations.

Lin Shu has been in the provincial capital for almost two years, and this is the first time he has gone out with Gu Jiu and Chen Fei to participate in an event or party.

Maybe it was because they used to go out often, and Gu Jiu hadn't gone out because she was pregnant and had a child for more than a year, which delayed his time.

[System, Tongzi, you've heard about this, right? It's gambling on stones! You are the system, do you have a scanning function?]

[Replying to the host, the system comes with a scanning function, which is standard. As long as the host is willing to spend points, the scanning function can be enabled at any time. ]

[There really is a scanning function. Can the stone be scanned to see what is inside? ]

System: [Yes!]

[How many points do I need to scan once? ] Lin Shu was worried, thinking that every scan would cost tens of thousands of points.

If that was the case, she wouldn't dare to use them so casually.

[Reporting to the host, using the system scanning function is extremely cost-effective. According to the energy consumed by one scan, one hundred points are required. ]

【Hiss! Zhou Pa Pi! 】

One hundred system points are equivalent to one hundred yuan.

In other words, Lin Shu would only get 100 points if he sold herbs worth 100 yuan to the system.

In this era when the average monthly salary is only a few dozen yuan, one hundred yuan is not a small amount.

[Host, it's a great deal to scan once for 100 points. You don't need to hurt yourself to scan once, and you can get unexpected gains. Why not do it? ]

Although the system's voice was mechanical, Lin Shuyun could tell it was the tone of a profiteer.

The old-style jeep had no heating and was not well sealed. Even when I sat in the car with the doors and windows closed, I could still feel the cold wind blowing in through the gaps.

In less than half an hour, Lin Shu felt the heat in his body disappearing rapidly.

Gu Jiu noticed the change in her lip color and touched her hand; it was cold.

He quickly hugged her and asked, "Are you cold?"

Lin Shu smiled: "Not bad."

"Sister-in-law, hold on a little longer. We'll be there soon."

As soon as Chen Fei finished speaking, the jeep turned into an alley and stopped at a factory after driving for a few minutes.

It is called a factory, but in fact it is more appropriate to call it a warehouse.

The exterior wall is covered with cement. It's been a while and looks gray.

However, there were already quite a few bicycles parked outside the warehouse, as well as a dozen cars.

The factory was already bustling at this time, and those who arrived earlier were gathering around the stone to watch.

Lin Shu followed them in and found that the warehouse was not much warmer, but fortunately there were fires in several places.

There was a circle of tables in the middle of the warehouse, and on the tables were many large and small stones.

There are a lot of stones piled in the center of the table. These stones should be what people in the gambling circle call raw stones.

Lin Shu looked curiously at the people who had arrived earlier. There were people of all ages, more men than women.

In this age of hunger and material shortages, in this inconspicuous warehouse, there are actually a group of people with money who come to gamble on stones.

If Lin Shu hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it.

"Mr. Chen, Mr. Gu, Brother Cao, Hu Zi, welcome, welcome. Thank you all for taking the time to come here. Who is...?"

Just as Lin Shu was observing other people in the warehouse, a thin man walked over with a smile on his face.

The man greeted everyone and then noticed Lin Shu.

"This is my wife Lin Shu, and this is Brother Hou from our compound."

"Hello, Brother Hou."

"Nice to meet you, nice to meet you. My sister-in-law is here. Please let us, Mr. Gu, accompany you to look around here for a while. If you like any stone, Brother Hou will help you cut it."

"Thank you. I may need your help in breaking the stone later."

"As long as you like it, everything is easy to deal with." Brother Hou greeted everyone cheerfully and asked them to gather around the stone to take a closer look.

After Brother Hou went to greet other people, Lin Shu turned around and asked Gu Jiu: "Is he the owner of the casino?"

"Yes, he has a way to get the raw stones. He didn't have the opportunity to make money from them before, but now he has changed. He was the first one to go to the place of origin and transport this batch of stones back."

"If you are doing serious business, why don't you open a storefront on the street to do business, but set up in this warehouse?"

Gu Jiu looked at the slightly larger warehouse and patiently explained, "You don't have to have a street-side store to gamble on stones. In fact, it's more practical to have a warehouse like this converted from a factory."

It was the first time that Lin Shu came into contact with a raw stone. When he touched the stone, it felt just like the stones he usually saw in the wild, oddly shaped, unattractive, and gray. Could it be jade?

"Do you think there is jade in this stone?"

Gu Jiu didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing her question: "Betting on stones, the reason for gambling is that before the stone is cut, everything is possible."

If you are lucky, you may be able to get jade out, but if you are unlucky, you may just get stone out.

Ok.

Lin Shu nodded. This was exactly what she was waiting for.

If the stone she chose turns out to be jade later, she will be lucky.

Chen Fei patted the largest stone nearby and turned to ask everyone: "Brother Cao, Brother Jiu, Hu Zi, do you think there is jade in this stone?"

Brother Cao went forward to examine the stone and shook his head: "It's hard to say."

The most important thing is that none of them know anything about this business.

Everyone who came to this event was just a last-minute effort to learn some knowledge from books last night, and they applied it to these stones.

Brother Cao turned around and asked the others, "What do you think?"

Gu Jiu shook his head, then his beard shook his head, and then he looked at Lin Shu...

what!

Several people found Lin Shu lying in front of a table, carefully examining the stones on the table one by one.

Several people walked over.

"Sister-in-law, do you know how to identify stones?" Chen Fei carefully examined the stone that Lin Shu had examined again.

In his opinion, these stones are all the same and he really doesn't know how to identify them.

Lin Shu turned around and smiled at them, then shook his head: "I don't understand. Since I don't understand, I will observe carefully and choose a stone that I feel is the best."

Everyone: "..."

"I heard that in the gambling stone industry, one cut makes you poor, two cuts make you rich, and three cuts make you wear linen. You can imagine how deep the knowledge is. People like us who are new to it, how can we compare with industry insiders with many years of gambling stone experience.

Since I can’t compete with them, I can only rely on luck. I think it’s better to rely on my feelings rather than researching.”

As he spoke, Lin Shu picked up another stone, looked at it from left to right, knocked it and listened to it, and after a while he took out a small flashlight from his pocket and made it really look like the real thing.

Gu Jiu couldn't help laughing, "When did you prepare the flashlight?"

Lin Shu shook the flashlight in his hand and said nonsense: "I heard that you took me out to play, so I brought one with me because I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to see the road clearly when I got back too late. I didn't expect it to come in handy."

No one else thought deeply about whether this statement was reasonable or not.

They came up to Lin Shu and asked, "Do you think this stone can produce green?"

Lin Shu glanced at the price tag and saw that the stone was only ten dollars.

He picked up the stone and walked to the stone cutting place. "Whether it can be green or not is not up to me. You will know after you cut it."

After Lin Shu paid the money, he handed the stone to a stone cutter and asked him to help cut it.

The old man who was cutting the stone looked at it carefully and started working without saying anything.

Everyone was very nervous at first, but after seeing the relaxed expression of the old man who was cutting the stone, everyone realized that the stone was probably of good quality.

Lin Shu, on the contrary, kept reminding the old man to concentrate and not to damage her jade.

The old man was so annoyed that he blew his beard and glared, "You little girl, do you know the business or do I know the business?"

"No matter whether I know how to do it or not, it is your responsibility to work hard and be responsible for every stone." Lin Shu glared back, not wanting to be outdone.

The old man's beard curled up with anger, but there was nothing he could do.

For the sake of this job, I had no choice but to compromise and start to crack the stone seriously.

After cutting one third of the stone, what was left was still stone, which made everyone feel disappointed.

I thought the first stone would be a good start, but I didn’t expect that the novice protection period was useless. It is very difficult to cut jade without knowledge of the industry.

Lin Shu didn't allow the old man to give up and made him solve the problem to the end.