After the breakup, I joined the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection

"It's just that the market is not good now, but pagers are still the most fashionable product. What's more, mine is from Hong Kong, so it's much better than those cheap brands in China!"

"In addition to the thirty I have, Boss Shen has left more than two hundred here. When the market gets better, even if I sell them at a loss of two thousand, I can easily sell them for hundreds of thousands, and I can easily pay off the loan sharking!"

"You are a person who works in an office and has a stable income. How can you know how to run a business? I tell you that all the bosses who deal in pagers have become rich. A few hundred thousand is just money. How much can you earn if you work and get a fixed salary..."

Mu Chenggang boasted loudly and became more and more excited. Lu An really couldn't bear to listen any more.

"enough!"

Lu An slammed the table and said, "What do you mean by bad market conditions? It can be easily sold for hundreds of thousands. Can you please stop dreaming about your future here? Go out and take a look. At the bus station, there are people selling pagers for only four hundred yuan!"

Mu Chenggang was horrified: "Impossible! How can a pager only cost 400 yuan? You must be lying to me!"

Mu Chenggang tried to make excuses for himself: "If there is any, it must be a rubbish brand from the mainland. Mine is from Hong Kong, it's different!"

"It's different!"

Lu An bluntly replied, "Aren't all messages received on the Chinese display? Can your pager also make calls? Or is this a Motorola or other world-class brand?"

Mu Chenggang felt guilty and just kept stammering and emphasizing that this was a brand from Gangcheng, and he himself couldn't even tell what brand it was.

Lu An took out the pager that Mu Chenggang had hidden under the bed and saw that it was a brand called Noxin. Lu An searched his memory but could not find this name in later generations.

Lu An held up the machine and said, "Let me tell you, this kind of rubbish page machine only costs a few dozen yuan in Hong Kong."

"impossible!"

Mu Chenggang screamed: "Boss Shen said that the purchase price of this in Gangcheng is 2,000 yuan!"

"Fart you!"

Lu An angrily yelled, "Did you believe him when he said 2,000 yuan? Use your brain and think about it. If the purchase price of this thing is really 2,000 yuan, can he leave more than 200 units here for you?"

Mu Chenggang was stunned. Yes, a pager costs not only 2,000 yuan, but even 1,000 yuan. Then these more than 200 machines are worth more than 200,000 yuan. Boss Shen must be crazy to leave 200,000 yuan behind and run away.

Lu An continued, "Let me tell you, this pile of junk is only worth four or five thousand yuan at most. Boss Shen has already made all the money. He wanted to share the money you made from selling the machine, but now the market is plummeting and he is afraid that the truth will be exposed and you will cause trouble for him, so he left the machine and ran away. Do you really think you got such a big bargain?"

Mu Chenggang finally couldn't hold it in any longer. He shouted, "So what? I can sell this machine sooner or later. It's none of your business!"

Lu An sneered, "Okay, you are quite capable. Then tell me how you plan to sell it? Are you going to compete with others with the price by holding the machine like the vendors at the bus station? Do you believe that if you dare to ask for 300, someone will come out and beat you up, and take away all your machines! You are still selling, what the hell are you selling!"

Mu Chenggang gritted his teeth and said stubbornly: "Don't worry about that. I will definitely pay you back."

"Repay? You can't get money just by talking. That's fifty thousand... No."

Lu An thought for a moment and said, "According to their loan sharking rules, you will have to pay back at least 70,000 or 80,000 yuan. Even if they sell you, you are not worth that much money!"

Lu An squatted down in front of Mu Chenggang, looked him straight in the eye and said, "Do you know what those people will do then? They will ask your sister and your family for it. Do you want to let your sister sell herself?"

"There's something Sister Hong didn't let me tell you, but I feel like I have to tell you now. Do you know that there's a bald-faced miner in your town? Sister Hong is planning to marry him just to get these tens of thousands of dollars for you!"

Mu Chenggang's expression finally changed. He looked at Mu Qinghong in panic: "Sister, is what he said true?"

Mu Chenggang then said loudly: "I am responsible for my own actions, so come to me if anything goes wrong!"

Lu An stood up, looked down at Mu Chenggang and sneered, "Come for you? You can come up with the money, if not, of course they will come to your family. Do you think those people who let you go will talk about benevolence, righteousness, courtesy and faith with you? If you push them into a corner, they will do anything."

Mu Chenggang lowered his head dejectedly, looking as listless as a defeated rooster.

Little guy, I can’t control you even though you’re so young.

Lu An knew the time had come, and then he threw out his thoughts: "So are you willing to listen to me now?"

Mu Cheng just raised his head, tears already streaming down his face: "Please... please help me, I will do anything as long as my sister is not hurt, even if it means selling my blood!"

Lu An waved his hand: "That's not necessary, as long as you can be honest and obedient."

"I will be honest and obedient." Mu Chenggang said.

Lu An turned around and blinked at Mu Qinghong, only to see her standing beside him with a basin of water, stunned.

Mu Qinghong was really shocked. As his biological sister, she knew too well what kind of cowardly temper Mu Chenggang had. He always put himself in charge and never gave up. When had she ever seen him bow down to others like this?

Mu Qinghong went to find Lu An because she didn't know anyone in the provincial capital, so she was just looking for comfort in desperation.

Besides, Lu An is also from the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection, so maybe he has some connections.

I didn’t expect Lu An to be so capable.

In addition, Lu An just said that she wanted to find someone to marry to raise money for her brother. Mu Qinghong's heart was beating wildly because she had really thought about it.

Lu An... turns out he knows me so well?

Lu An sat back in his chair: "Okay, wipe your tears, crying will cost you time, but crying won't make you money."

Mu Chenggang was now subdued by Lu Anzhi. At Lu An's words, he hurriedly raised his sleeves to wipe his tears, but when they touched his swollen cheeks, he grimaced in pain.

Mu Qinghong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so she had to carry the basin of water and the cool towel to wipe her brother's face.

While wiping, Mu Qinghong told him: "I told you that Lu An is a cadre of the Provincial Commission for Discipline Inspection. He is very powerful. You don't know that in Pingjiang County, even the county party secretary invited him to dinner."

Mu Chenggang, however, was very disdainful, thinking that it was no use being so arrogant in the county, as he would still be unable to make it in the provincial capital.

However, considering the situation just now, Mu Chenggang was embarrassed to say these words in the end. He just looked at Lu An and asked him: "Do you have any way to help me get the money?"

Lu An shook his head: "Before I tell you what to do, I need to know what you have, including how much money you have, how many pagers Boss Shen left for you when he ran away, and whether you have any other debts besides the one with Brother Long. Tell me everything clearly!"

Mu Chenggang nodded repeatedly.

He told Lu An that he still had more than 200 yuan in his hand, which was used for living and rent.

There are 268 pager machines in total, including those left by Boss Shen and those he owns.

In the end, in addition to the money from Brother Long, he also borrowed a total of 10,000 yuan from relatives. Apart from these, Mu Chenggang swore that he had no other debts.

"Actually, four hundred is just four hundred. If these 268 pagers can really be sold, I can get back one hundred thousand yuan, and all the money can be paid back. I can just consider that all my efforts were in vain!" Mu Chenggang said gritting his teeth.

Lu An didn't want to pour cold water on him, but he had to make him face the reality: "From the situation at the bus station where they were selling BB machines for 400 yuan, I'm afraid that price is not good enough to sell. You have to sell it for 350 yuan or even lower."

"And have you ever thought about where you're going to sell it? You think this is an industrial area with many factories and workers who can afford pagers, but you seem to have forgotten that state-owned enterprises are generally not doing well right now. Many factories don't pay wages for half a year or a year, and they're lucky enough not to ask workers for funding."

"Besides, do you think those factory workers who work in factories and go to work every day have any urgent need for pagers?"

Mu Cheng just stood there in a daze.

What Lu An said was something he had never thought about. He thought his choice of Guangming Town was a genius idea. There were many state-owned factories here and the workers had stable incomes. He wishful thinking that they would definitely be able to afford expensive pagers. However, he forgot that the efficiency of state-owned enterprises is no longer as good as before, not to mention that the workers' lives are monotonous and they really don't need any pagers.

Mu Chenggang was at a loss. He suddenly didn't know what to do.

Perhaps these more than 200 pagers are indeed worth tens of thousands of dollars, but the question is who can they be sold to?

They don't have the ability to open a store in a department store.

Suddenly, Mu Chenggang felt so desperate.

At this time, Lu An asked him again: "I have one last question, which is where is your pager connected to the Internet? Is it connected to the public network, or does Boss Shen have his own private pager?"

The development of pagers in that era was very irregular. In addition to the public paging stations of the telecommunications bureau, there were also many private paging stations.

But Mu Chenggang was already numb at this time. He didn't want to answer the question at all. He just waved his hands and said, "I only sell machines. They can connect to the Internet wherever they want. It's none of my business!"

"This is very important. It concerns whether you can sell it for money!" Lu An said angrily.

Mu Cheng was frightened. He stared at Lu An in a daze. After making sure that Lu An was not joking, he hurriedly recalled the past.

"I remember that Boss Shen seemed to have opened a paging station himself, because when we were working on the machine, he told me that he would keep all the money in his pocket, no matter whether it was the network access fee or the paging fee."

At first, Mu Chenggang was still unsure, but later he became more and more certain, and even dug up the number of the paging station: "Yes, he must have a private paging station, this is it!"

Mu Chenggang handed the number to Lu An, and then asked him: "Why are you asking the paging station? We can't get it then."

"That's hard to say."

Lu An told Mu Chenggang: "Boss Shen may have run away with all the money in the paging station account. If we go there now, we may be able to buy the paging station at an incredibly low price."

Mu Chenggang's eyes lit up when he heard this, but then dimmed again: "What's the use? I only have about 200 yuan. I can't use this money to buy it. It's not even enough to pay my salary."

Mu Chenggang also said: "And after all, isn't it true that the pager still can't be sold?"

Lu An rolled his eyes and said, "Who said I was going to sell pagers? Anyway, the prices in different places are competing fiercely with each other now, so let's just do it in one go and give it away for free!"

Mu Qinghong and Mu Chenggang were both dumbfounded.

What the hell?

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