"I heard the farm director respects the elderly and cares for the young. Oh, and the farm's infirmary seems to be very good. I heard they even cured Aunt Duan's chronic lung disease."
The old man touched his bald head in surprise.
Hey, why does it sound like that’s not a farm but a sanatorium?
"Okay, give me an address and a name, and I'll have my secretary talk to someone."
"Thank you so much!"
......
This was the second call Zhang Hongcheng received from Beijing today.
These polite people who had never met each other before all had the same idea - they wanted to secretly send their elderly family members to the Hongqi Wetland Farm to "work".
Zhang Hongcheng pretended to refuse and was embarrassed for a while, and finally agreed "reluctantly".
After listening to the second call, Zhang Hongcheng excitedly waved his fist at the air.
He originally wanted to wait for a channel to contact the "Beijing Daily", but who knew that the old lady who asked him to take care of her in the second call was actually a former editor of the "Glorious Daily"!
Seeing that the radishes in the field were about to be served on the table, Zhang Hongcheng's plan was imminent, so he couldn't wait to drive a small truck to Qitaihe and pick up the old lady to the wetland.
The old lady was also a very insightful person. She wrote a letter of introduction to Zhang Hongcheng without saying much.
The next day was August 10th of the Gregorian calendar, and Zhang Hongcheng forced the farm accountant Luo Qin onto a train to go home and visit relatives.
Another person who returned to the capital with her was Jian Yong.
Jian Yong was carrying two sacks of radishes that had just been pulled out of the ground.
Their mission was simple - to take the old lady's letter of introduction to Beijing to deliver some autumn vegetables to a deputy editor-in-chief of Guanghui Daily.
In accordance with Zhang Hongcheng's request, the old lady wrote in the letter that these radishes were the result of the labor competition among the educated youth and were of great significance. She also wrote the estimated total output of this batch of radishes.
Even though the old lady was a smart person, she couldn't figure out what Zhang Hongcheng's intention was at this moment.
All this happened because Fatty had casually mentioned something like this in a letter in May, and Zhang Hongcheng remembered it, which led to the planning of this great show.
"Because of the exclusive sales policy, during the off-season in August and September, the shelves of hundreds of vegetable stores across Beijing are bare. Sometimes, only potatoes, onions, and pumpkins are left on the counter..."
The term "vegetable shortage" was first put on the city government's agenda in August 1977!
Zhang Hongcheng has less than 700 acres of radishes. Even if the highest yield is more than 3,000 kilograms per acre, the maximum yield is more than 2 million kilograms. For the huge Beijing vegetable market, it can probably alleviate the vegetable shortage for several days.
Moreover, how to bypass the underwriting policy and get one's own carrots into Beijing seems to be a big problem.
But Zhang Hongcheng looked at the old people walking and chatting outside the window and smiled with a little complacency.
[The vegetable famine in Beijing is a true story. For excerpts, see the author's statement.]
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