Gu Yunyang gave Gu Hongtao the key to his house, worried that something might happen to the girl on her way home at night.

Gu Honglan was somewhat pleased, as this showed that her younger brother was further accepting of her and her sister.

She took the key and gave it to Fifth Sister, saying, "It's really not safe. You take it. If it gets late and I don't come to pick you up, you can stay at your brother's... Yunyang's house for the night. Be careful, girls need to be careful..."

Gu Hongtao was almost speechless after hearing this.

Gu Yunyang smiled and went to the commune.

Hao Jianshe called Gu Yunyang over and said, "Yan Cheng didn't show any signs of activity before. But recently, they've started making moves in the countryside."

Gu Yunyang shrugged: "Not surprising at all. Everyone in the commune is close-knit and well-informed."

If they dared to operate within the commune, they would be arrested in no time; it was far more convenient for them to operate in the countryside.

At least you won't get caught.

At most, we'll just earn a little less.

Hao Jianshe and Gu Yunyang both agreed with these points.

Hao Jianshe added, "I estimate they'll take action in the next few days. However, the autumn harvest is about to begin, and I'm afraid this year's harvest won't be very good."

Previously, due to weather conditions, large areas of rice grain filling were disrupted, and this year's yield is likely to decrease significantly.

There's nothing we can do about it.

Gu Yunyang had indeed noticed this before, but he didn't have any good solutions.

"The focus going forward will still be on the autumn harvest."

In the following days, the autumn harvest began in various places.

Fortunately, Gu Yunyang doesn't have to work in the fields; he works at the commune.

Gu Hongtao was given a holiday after working only two days and returned to the Hongqi Brigade to participate in the autumn harvest.

On that very day, Hao Jianshe returned from his inspection and summoned Gu Yunyang over.

“The people from Wanshan are keeping an eye on Yancheng and his group. These past few days, the autumn harvest has started in the commune. They’re even taking advantage of the chaos to sell their mushroom spawn bags.”

Gu Yunyang thought for a moment and said, "I guess there are still some people who haven't heard about it before, and most people who have heard about it have visited our model house in the commune."

But many people are also uneasy, since this requires a real investment.

In the past few days, the mushroom bag factory has produced a large number of mushroom bags, and people in the commune have started lining up to buy them. This has made some people interested again, but they lack the means to purchase them, so they are getting anxious.

Isn't that exactly the point?

Who doesn't want to make money?

However, money isn't so easy to earn.

At first, everyone was hesitant and couldn't believe it.

Now that I see others starting, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep up with their pace of making money.

That's how ordinary people are; they lack their own opinions and just blindly follow the crowd.

When someone makes money doing something, everyone rushes to follow suit.

For example, if someone makes money growing oranges in a certain year, many people will clear out their orchards and start growing oranges the following year.

Little did they know that with everyone rushing in and doing the same thing, market supply exceeded supply.

Nobody is making money.

Unfortunately, no one can see through the rules of the market.

Gu Yunyang asked, "Then, Secretary Hao, what are you planning to do?"

Hao Jianshe thought for a moment and said, "We definitely need to arrest the person, but we have to catch them red-handed."

This is a difficult matter to handle, especially since everyone is busy with the autumn harvest right now.

People from many organizations were assigned to help out.

Catching them is proving to be a bit of a hassle.