Chapter 381

381 Listen to You

This matter was very important. If the workers found out, they would be panicking, so they definitely couldn’t make it public.

Moreover, the method of purchasing raw materials wasn’t legitimate, so it wasn’t appropriate for too many people to know about it. After thinking about it, Yu Bing explained the current predicament and solution to Wu Jin, Wen Qin, and Jiang Chun in detail.

Although they knew that they would be dead meat if they were caught, they had no other choice. If they really had to pay the compensation, the food factory would definitely have to close down.

Risky maneuvers might pay off lucratively.!

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After Yu Bing and Xiao Sheng brought 1,500 yuan to the county city of Pingjiang County, Xiao Sheng gave Zhang Chao the task of purchasing flour from the county city’s black market. Then, the two of them set off for a county city 200 kilometers away.

The two of them didn’t dare to go to other communes in Pingjiang County. They were afraid that in the future, if they were bumped into and their true identities discovered, they would be backstabbed.

Shanyang County.

Yu Bing and Xiao Sheng finally arrived at the station after about four hours of driving. As soon as they left the bus station, they realized that the city construction and road plan here were clearly much better than in Pingjiang County.

Shanyang County was the richest county city under City H’s jurisdiction.

Shanyang County was located between five counties and cities. It was an important transportation route. There was a saying that if one wanted to be rich, one had to build roads first. This saying fit Shanyang County perfectly.

Shanyang County relied on the convenience of its transportation road and prime location as the main road to develop the county.

The government would set up toll stations at the entrances and exits of every town. These days, unlike in the future, when only highways collected tolls, the local people collected road usage fees for the roads under their jurisdiction whenever they entered or left every place. The dense traffic in Shanyang County also brought a lot of income to the local government.

Moreover, the number of passengers and freight drivers had also led to the economic development of the places along the way. After the related service industry developed, the local government immediately encouraged the relevant towns to open industrial factories to take advantage of the roads.

Coupled with the fertility of the land here, the wheat production was higher than that of the other areas of City H. This also meant that it was easier to buy flour in Shanyang County’s countryside.

Xiao Sheng had only passed by Shanyang County a few times with the convoy, so he wasn’t very familiar with it.

Although they were going to collect it directly, they definitely couldn’t ask a random family if they didn’t know anyone. Otherwise, if they met the wrong person, the two of them would immediately be sent to the police station.

Xiao Sheng didn’t know where the black market was, so he brought Yu Bing around the county city first. His plan was to go to the black market to find someone to help him collect a large amount of wheat.

Soon, Xiao Sheng discovered a suspicious person. The other party was an old man in his fifties or sixties. He had many patches on his clothes, and the soles of his worn-out shoes were almost flat. There were even holes in the soles of his shoes, and his skin looked rugged. He looked a little nervous and kept looking around.

Xiao Sheng quickly determined that this was the first time the other party had entered the county city to sell his family’s things and he probably didn’t even know where the black market was, so he could only find an opportunity to sell them by the roadside alone. Hence, Xiao Sheng immediately changed his original plan.

Xiao Sheng turned around and said to Yu Bing in a low voice, “There’s a loner there. We’ll pretend that we need to build a new house. We’ll say that the workers have a high demand for steamed buns and we don’t have that many flour stamps, so we can only buy more from an individual.”

Yu Bing was better at doing business than Xiao Sheng, but Xiao Sheng was more proficient in underground trading. As the saying went, there were specialties in every industry. Yu Bing nodded without hesitation and said, “I’ll listen to you.”

When Xiao Sheng saw Yu Bing looking at him obediently with her round black eyes, his heart softened, but he suppressed the urge to pat her head again and turned around to bring Yu Bing towards the old man.

This time, Xiao Sheng and Yu Bing’s goal was to go to the countryside, so they specifically wore clean clothes. However, there were two to three patches on their clothes, pants, and semi-new shoes. The first impression they gave off was that they weren’t impoverished, but they weren’t from the city either.