The members of the production team have been busy for a whole day, and the effectiveness of everyone's elimination of locusts is very remarkable.
In the production team's field, the corn seedlings were covered with sticky green locust stumps.
Today, the victory over the small locusts was brilliant. But there was no smile on the faces of all the members.
At this time, they
We all already know: the scale of today's locusts is actually not too big. This is just a prelude to a huge natural disaster.
When the members returned home, they dragged their exhausted bodies and heavy hearts.
Everyone simply drank a bowl of glutinous rice paste and then fell asleep.
Everyone had been wielding brooms for a whole day, and the shoulders of many members were already red and swollen.
I no longer have any strength left in my body.
Even wanting to turn over has become an extremely difficult task. Even the slightest movement makes my whole body hurt...
It is important to eliminate locusts and reduce agricultural losses.
same,
Sending urgently needed food to those brigades that are more seriously short of food cannot be delayed any longer.
Wait until night falls.
Tuo Shizhan and Tuo Haili took a bicycle together and rushed straight to the Wutong Brigade.
In the brigade headquarters office of Wutong Brigade.
There was a dim oil lamp on the desk, emitting a faint glow. Next to the oil lamp, there was a brand-new horse lantern.
It's just that although the lantern is bright, it consumes a lot of kerosene.
The cadres of the Wutong Brigade, accustomed to simplicity, were unwilling to waste even a single penny of their collective property.
Now,
The party secretary and the team leader sitting in the brigade headquarters were just sitting there chatting.
There was no need to take care of finances or sit down to write documents, so they chose to just light this oil lamp that was as bright as a bean.
"Hey, old man, I made an appointment with the grain merchant to come over at 8 o'clock this evening. Do you think it's reliable?"
The branch secretary asked the brigade leader, "This amount of money is not a small amount. It basically wiped out all the wealth of our brigade.
If something goes wrong, you and I will become the culprits of the whole brigade and will eventually be held accountable by our superiors. This is still a small matter.
I'm afraid it will delay the lives of our fellow villagers. In that case, you and I will really... die without redemption! Alas..."
The captain shook his head with determination, "No, Luo Xuan came to discuss this matter with me in person the day before yesterday. If others don't know, can you still not believe it, Luo Xuan?"
The branch secretary nodded, "You also told me this, and I believed it at the time.
However, the relationship between this matter is too important.
If this huge sum of money is lost, you and I will each die 50 times, which will not be enough to make amends to the villagers."
The captain patted his waist, where a box cannon was pinned, "Don't worry, I made an agreement with Luo Xuan at that time. When the grain merchant comes to the office, we will discuss the price with him.
After the grain merchant counted the cash, he took the two of us to the place where the grain was stored.
At the same time, the militia captain will lead 7 or nearly 200 strong young men to follow us at a distance of 2 or 3 miles."
The captain chuckled, "With Luo Xuan as our security guard, there are so many people following us.
In addition, you and I survived the hail of bullets and bullets, so what else is there to be afraid of?"
The branch secretary smiles,
He nodded and said, "I'm thinking that Luo Xuan can't lie to us.
They are leaving food for the residents without eating, yet they come to us and contact the grain merchants for us. Isn’t it obvious that Luo Xuan wants to help our brigade!"
The captain smiled and said, "Old man, today you led the masses to kill the small locusts in the fields, are you exhausted?
Hey, haven't you heard? When the members of the Zhengxing Brigade are exterminating pests, how can we not work so hard!
Damn it, Liao Xianming and the others actually dared to go to a credit union and borrow so much money.
Then let each production team raise countless chickens and ducks.
At that time, I was still thinking, what on earth are they going to do? What kind of agricultural and sideline business are they giving out!
Can side hustle and side hustle be done as main hustle? Isn’t it good to have more crops?
Now it seems that the development idea of Zhengxing Brigade is the right one!
I think it will be a bit difficult to save this year's crop."
The branch secretary nodded, "Yes, I'm afraid the crops in the fields will suffer heavy losses this year.
But in the Zhengxing Brigade, they have hundreds of thousands of chickens and ducks to support them, so the lives of the commune members will probably not be any worse no matter how bad they are."
The team leader chuckled: "They are building a team. Although they raise a lot of chickens and ducks, how can there be hundreds of thousands of them?"
The branch secretary glared at him, "You care how many chickens and ducks we have? At least if we sell them to the meat factory, we will make a lump sum of money!"
If Luo Xuan is involved again and the Zhengxing brigade uses the money to buy food, how can the future of the commune members be any worse?"
The party secretary said, take the money and buy food.
This matter is actually not easy to do in practice.
this period,
There are only three channels to purchase grain: one is the public grain station.
However, if there are no quotas for the grain in the grain station, there will be no instructions from superiors.
There’s no use holding the money!
I could only stand outside the grain station and jump to my feet in a hurry.
The second channel is the so-called ‘frog market’.
But the stock of grain in that market is extremely limited, and the price is frighteningly high.
As an individual, if your family is short of 10 or 8 pounds of food, you can still try your luck at the frog market.
But as a large village collective like Wutong Brigade, with about 2,000 people.
Want to purchase a sufficient amount of food from the frog market?
That is simply a fantasy and an idiot’s dream.
The last one is to find the legendary and mysterious big grain merchant.
And if you want to find the mysterious big grain merchant.
at present,
For the cadres of the Wutong Brigade, the only channel is through Luo Xuan as a middleman.
So I got in touch with the big grain merchant.
The brigade leader sighed, "The last time I had a meeting in the commune, the cadres of Xiao Laojun's brigade were also there.
According to them, the scale of retting and fertilization by Xiao Laojun's brigade this year is probably the largest in the entire commune."
"In their mountains, there are many green plants and dead branches and leaves. This is just one aspect."
The team leader shook his head and said: "But I heard from the cadres of Xiao Laojun's team that the members of the various production teams at that time still didn't understand and didn't cooperate with the matter of retting.
At that time, Luo Xuan came up with a sum of money, including pheasants and rabbits, as a reward for the 'fertilizer activists'.
This made all the members work in full swing! This is why Xiao Laojun’s team has made a huge achievement today with mountains of farmyard manure.”
"This guy Luo Xuan is a lucky star!"
The branch secretary smiled and said: "What a pity, why can't we have such a capable person in our brigade?
Otherwise, the lives of our Wutong Brigade members might be the same as those of the Zhengxing Brigade, and we would be able to live a slightly more comfortable life."
"Hey, old man! You and I are not the only ones who have this idea.
When did you go to the commune and meet other brigade cadres?
Look at them, do they all hope that there will be such a lucky star in their own territory?"
The team leader was filled with emotion: "There are even other team cadres who are saying that as long as Luo Xuan is willing to transfer his household registration to their production team.
The production team will definitely take special care of him."
The party secretary gave a wry smile, "Luo Xuan, he is currently eating residents' food. How can he transfer his food relationship to the countryside?"
Moreover, even if he wants to return to the countryside.
He lives in the Zhengxing Brigade and has so many acquaintances, relatives and friends, how could he possibly settle down in another production team?"
"Yes, we all know that this is impossible."
The captain smiled and said: "Everyone, isn't it just talk? Have you ever thought about it?"
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Shu and the captain were chatting in the office while waiting for the mysterious grain merchant to come to the door.
Not long after,
I only heard the crisp sound of bicycle bells outside the brigade headquarters yard.
"coming!"
The old party secretary and the captain pulled out the box cannon from their waists at the same time.
They both carefully checked the bullets in the chamber, and then carefully closed the safety on the box gun.
This kind of old-fashioned box gun has been used for a long time, and the rifle wire inside the barrel is almost rubbed flat.
Especially the safety and some parts between the trigger and the trigger are also badly worn.
therefore,
The old branch secretary and the team leader did not dare to be careless, so they could only carefully close the safety door securely.
to avoid fire.
It is important to protect the safety of collective property.
But don’t think this is related to the entire brigade, nearly 2,000 fellow villagers, and grain dealers who ensure food security were accidentally injured.
Also very important!
If something unexpected happens, there will be no next time.
By the time,
Even if the captain has a big bag of money, he doesn't know where to buy food...
"How many banknotes do you have ready?"
outside the house,
A very unfamiliar voice came, with a thick foreign accent, "The coarse and fine grains are each limited to 10,000 jins; the sweet potatoes are large, and I can give you 20,000 jins."
The party secretary and the captain looked at each other.
My heart was suddenly overjoyed!
The captain said tremblingly: "What is the price of each of these grains?"
The grain merchant stood in the shadows outside the courtyard, but did not come in.
Just listen to him say, "The sweet potatoes I brought this time are 20,000 jins, and the corn and rice are about 10,000 jins each. You can add up the money on hand and count the corresponding amounts.
No matter how much you buy or how little you buy, you must take all this batch of grain with you, and not a single grain is allowed to be left behind!
If the money you have on hand is not enough for the time being, I will definitely come to collect the balance in half a month.
In the meantime, hurry up and join in.
I haven't weighed this batch of grain in detail, so I can only give a rough estimate of these figures.
After you take it back, take your time and weigh it again! If the quantity is insufficient, the next time you buy food, you can refund the excess or make up for the deficiency."
The captain was stunned: the price offered by the grain dealer was much higher than the price of rations in the residents' food book.
But compared to the frog market, the current food prices are much lower.
therefore,
Generally speaking, the current grain prices offered by grain merchants are very cheap.
only,
What puzzled the captain and the party secretary was: Food is so precious now, but the other party can't even weigh it, and can only rely on rough estimates?
To know,
Nowadays, anyone who carries 10 kilograms of grain can walk on the road calmly.
To put it more seriously: it is possible that his life may not be saved...
Now,
For such a large amount of grain transaction, this grain merchant actually dared to sell it based on a "rough estimate" of the amount of grain??!
If the estimate is even slightly wrong, the disparity can easily be thousands of pounds!
Hiss~
The captain and the party secretary looked at each other: How much food does the other party have on hand?
How dare you be so careless?!
This batch of grain is actually swirling in the space and packed in sacks.
Then I roughly estimated how much grain each bag contained. Then based on the total number of sacks, I roughly estimated the total weight.
Such a large quantity required Luo Xuan to weigh it slowly by himself.
Isn't that enough to make you die from exhaustion?
During this period, the cadres in the brigade were very upright. New
So according to Luo Xuan's idea, we might as well let them buy it back and then let the cadres organize the members themselves to compete.
Anyway,
When the Wutong Brigade bought back the grain, they needed to record it in their accounts. The weight of the grain needed to be accurate to half a catty, or even two taels.
Otherwise, they won't be able to do accounting in the finance department.
Luo Xuan was not worried that the brigade cadres would deliberately embezzle his own money.
As for the mysterious grain merchant outside the door, he seemed to be the same and not worried about the cadres of the Wutong Brigade at all.
Will default on his food purchase payment.
His tone was calm, but his attitude contained a warning, "I hope you can keep your word, otherwise there will be no next time.
The militiamen you are ambushing behind the haystacks and under the mountain col are actually meaningless.
If you have that time, you might as well catch more locusts!
There is strong poison hidden in my collar. As long as you make any move, I will bite you and within 10 seconds, you will only get a corpse. Do you understand?"
Neither the team leader nor the party secretary took these implicit warnings from the grain merchant to heart.
I didn't make any mistakes in the first place.
If there is no ghost in my heart, why should I be afraid?
It was just the captain and branch secretary who heard that the other party had brought 40,000 kilograms of grain!!
The two couldn't help but burst into ecstasy...
Mother’s father!
Look at what the other party is doing. They always speak in units of ten thousand kilograms!
When members of the commune usually talk about grain, they usually talk about tens of kilograms or hundreds of kilograms.
But as cadres in the production brigade, the party secretary and the brigade captain, when talking with other brigade cadres about the grain they want to raise.
That is also measured in ten thousand kilograms.
As a production brigade, the actual gap is of course measured in units of 10,000 kilograms.
But everyone thinks: With the current market situation, where can I go?
I can buy a thousand kilograms of grain, and at most three or two thousand kilograms of grain, which is already as high as the sky!
We want to buy this little bit of food for emergency relief, but we can’t find a way yet!
Negotiate a good price.
The team leader and party secretary turned around and entered the office, took out the public funds and counted them carefully.
Then lock the remaining money in a very strong cabinet.
Then he took the money for the food purchase, left the office, and handed the money to the other party.
Tuo Shizhan dropped the cigarette he had just lit and took the money they handed him.
In the darkness, there is no way to count.
Fortunately, during this period, there were no counterfeit coins, so Tuo Shizhan had nothing to worry about.
Tuo Shizhan held the money and said, "I want a few more travel certificates issued by your brigade."
The captain was stunned, "What do you want this thing for?"
In the darkness, Tuo Shizhan glared at him.
Regardless of whether the other party can see it or not, "I will come to your brigade again in the middle of the night. If I encounter any militiamen from your brigade who want to cause trouble for me."
Should I ask you to rescue me? Or should I find a way to escape on my own?"
The captain thought about it and felt that what the other party said was reasonable.
So he went back to the office to prepare a few certificates for him.
Tuo Shizhan's voice came from behind: "How should I open this certificate and which places should be left blank? You don't need me to remind you, right?"
The captain nodded and ducked into the office.
Grain for this transaction:
Among them are 20,000 kilograms of sweet potatoes, which costs 3,000 yuan.
10,000 kilograms of corn should be 7,900 yuan.
And 10,000 kilograms of rice costs 9,300 yuan.
In total, the Wutong Brigade paid the grain merchant 20,200 yuan.
During this period, there were no hundred-dollar bills, and 10,000 yuan was a penny.
Tuo Shizhan collected the two large piles of money and put them into the shoulder bag he carried with him; then he put the change of 200 yuan into his jacket pocket.
I reached out and pressed it, and I felt that the money would not fall out.
Then he took the captain and the party secretary to the place where the food had been placed.
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