Pang Yuanyuan was busy for several days before she remembered what Mr. Cheng had told her to do.
I called that team member over and asked him, but he was also confused.
"This Zhang Hongcheng helped the district women's federation visit seven or eight units in a row."
"Oh, how's the result?"
Pang Yuanyuan went straight to the point. She didn't want this person's topic to take up too much of her time.
"Results?"
The team members scoffed and shook their heads.
"He failed?"
"No, in a sense he has collected nearly every debt."
Pang Yuanyuan didn't even bother to look at her team members.
"Don't keep me in suspense. I'm very busy."
"This Zhang Hongcheng actually exchanged all the IOUs for one condition."
"He exchanged all the supplies that the other party owed to the Women's Federation for fishing in the pond."
"Fishing the pond?"
"These units have ponds under their names, some of which are natural cooling pools, some are flood discharge pools, and some are simply large pits left over from construction that are filled with water."
"I guess he heard there are fish and shrimp in these ponds and wanted to try his luck."
Pang Yuanyuan shook her head, what a waste of her time...
The pump was roaring madly.
The large pond near the construction company was crowded with people watching the fun.
Chu Miaohong and several female comrades from the guesthouse were cleaning a large wooden barrel or bathtub.
Zhang Hongcheng and Tu Hongbing led a group of men wearing leather pants.
This large pond of the construction company was formed when the earth was being excavated, more than fifteen years ago.
I heard from the residents nearby that they often see fish coming up from the pond to breathe, which must be connected to an underground river somewhere underneath.
Zhang Hongcheng is very fortunate that people these days are really simple.
As long as it is public property, even if it is an unattended pond, no one will take the initiative to fish there.
Several anglers who were watching and eager to try their luck kept complaining that they usually rode their bikes to the suburbs when they felt like fishing, but the pond they had their eyes on had been there for years.
The construction company wrote off the supplies it owed the Women's Federation in exchange for allowing the Women's Federation to organize people to dig the pond.
The leaders of the construction company would be so happy to see such a good thing happen that they would laugh even in their dreams.
Among the people watching at the scene, except for a few experienced anglers, almost everyone was not optimistic about the group of people preparing to dig the pond.
It’s just a two-acre pond, what good things can come from it?
Deputy Director Luo and a group of female staff members from the Women's Federation were also busy around, preparing to follow Zhang Hongcheng and the other two into the pond, all of whom were men from their families.
Looking at the pond in front of him, Zhang Hongcheng was naturally full of confidence.
Five years after the reform and opening up, someone contracted the silt in the pond for 200 yuan, intending to dig the silt to fertilize the fields.
As a result, as soon as the pond was drained, the construction company started a lawsuit against the other party.
Two hundred yuan, can you buy so many fish, shrimps and turtles?
Zhang Hongcheng borrowed a lot of pumps from several units he was familiar with, especially the river transportation company. Perhaps because they were too excited about the reopening of the old wharf, they lent him ten pumps at once.
Sixteen pumps were lined up in a row, and the roar of the pumps also announced to others the breadth of Zhang Hongcheng's network of contacts.
Zhang Hongcheng gave himself a new nickname that only Chu Miaohong knew - the water pump maniac.
Zhang Hongcheng believed in the fat man's information without a doubt.
At this moment, his mind was full of the scene when he was a child watching his father and his team deal with the pond in the unit.
Zhang Hongcheng remembers that one of the fish slapped his young self in the face in a very vicious way.
The fish, which was longer than him, was given to his father's family by his father's colleagues with a smile, saying that whoever's child was hit would have to be caught in that family's pot...
Zhang Hongcheng shook his head. His parents from his previous life had passed away for many years, but their voices and smiles were still deeply engraved in his mind.
The pump worked for half the morning and the water in the pond was gradually drained.
The crowd on the shore was already boiling, because the usually quiet pond was also boiling.
Countless fish, big and small, jumped out of the water, trying to fight against their impending fate.
Zhang Hongcheng was the first to go into the water, and a two-foot-long carp jumped directly into his arms.
It was a good sign, but the carp had too many bones and he didn't like it.
With a whoosh, he threw the carp towards Chu Miaohong, who was smiling on the shore.
"I'm going to die from you! Hate you~!"
Chu Miaohong jumped around and bit her lip. She spoke silently but Zhang Hongcheng could understand her lip shape.
The male relatives of the female comrades from the Women's Federation also walked down to the pond laughing.
"Ouch, the mud is so deep!"
"Turtle!"
"Fish, oh my god, what a big one, ouch!"
"Butt, there's a crab on your butt!"
"Snake! I threw it. Oops, it's an eel. Don't run away~!"
Deputy Director Luo felt relieved when he saw the situation in the pond.
It seems that I didn’t lose money this time, I might even make a lot of money.
A paper sign for the Urban Women's Cooperative was erected on the spot.
Several female workers from the Women's Federation stood in front of the counter, holding straw ropes and scales and started selling fish.
Meat tickets, not needed!
And because they don’t debone or slaughter the animals, the price is only half of what it is at the retail store.
The onlookers immediately started calling their friends, and the quarrels among those who cut in line were very lively.
Such fresh and cheap fish is caught and sold right after it is caught.
"Comrade, I want this crucian carp!"
The two female comrades bravely hung up the two-foot-long crucian carp and put it on the scale. Even though the crucian carp jumped desperately, it did not scare the two female comrades.
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