Wang Mingjun put down the phone, looking decidedly pleased with himself.
"Hey, Company Commander, you've really been in the limelight these past two days," Zheng Xiangyang said with a smile. "Apart from the two companies near Regiment Headquarters, every company commander or political instructor in our regiment has come looking for you about this spraying machine work. Well? Have you made back the cost?"
"Long since!" Wang Mingjun laughed heartily. "I had a good eye, didn't I? I knew right then that this spraying machine definitely had a future! Five hundred yuan! I don't think Comrade Li Long originally intended to ask for five hundred at all..."
"Then why were you so determined to pay it?" As Zheng Xiangyang saw it, since Li Long had never intended to ask such a high price, Wang Mingjun could easily have bargained it down.
A hundred yuan was no small sum these days. Although the country had issued hundred-yuan notes, ordinary people who actually managed to save a hundred yuan rarely broke the note to spend it.
It could pay for plenty of things!
"Heh, that's what you don't understand! That's where I was clever! Let me tell you, I've always felt someone in our company has ties to Lao Zhao from the Thirteenth Company. Look, several times now, not long after Comrade Li Long arrived, Lao Zhao showed up.
"It wasn't his first time following our lead to make money, either. This time, it was only because I was decisive and slapped five hundred yuan down in front of Li Long that he couldn't refuse. Otherwise, let me tell you, for all that Lao Zhao looks like a country bumpkin, he certainly has the nerve to act.
"If I hadn't secured this spraying machine outright, if I'd hesitated even a little, he