Chapter 22 Chapter 22 (Xiao Xiu) Manager 1…
The manager slammed the table and shouted to the waiter, "Replace the chicken soup with mushroom soup!" The waiter trotted and pushed open the curtain at the food delivery counter.
Geng Yunye stood up and said, "Secretary Zhao, we have to go to the Agriculture and Animal Husbandry Bureau to get the pig raising manual. He glanced at the wall clock and said, "Expert Wang from the Animal Husbandry Station will be off work at five o'clock."
Although Geng Yunye didn't know much about pig farming, he remembered the advantages of hybrid breeds. Hybrid pigs sell for twice the price of domestic pigs and are less fishy than pure wild boars.
Zhao Qingfeng asked the waiter to pack up the untouched braised pork. The waiter came over with an aluminum lunch box and said, "Take it with you. Young people need to eat more oil and water."
Geng Mancang stared at the braised pork and swallowed his saliva, while Geng Yunye took the lunch box swiftly.
He once again solemnly reminded: "Secretary Zhao, Gengjiawan plans to harvest the grain half a month in advance. I have extensive experience at sea, having drifted in the South China Sea on a small fishing boat for six years. If we don't harvest the grain in advance, it may lead to a reduction in grain production."
Zhao Qingfeng paused as he raised his hand. He recalled the yellowed file, where the seal of "Special Service Squadron of a Navy Unit" was still faintly discernible. He remembered the bright red "top secret" transfer order in the file, and even more so, the words on the phone: "We must not let Comrade Geng feel disappointed."
"Since you have experience..." Zhao Qingfeng picked up the enamel pot and blew away the tea foam, "The commune will send out a notice tomorrow."
Geng Yunye expressed his understanding: "It would be best to notify as soon as possible. The land of the three neighboring communes is close to the river, so if you need to notify them, just notify them all at once."
Zhao Qingfeng felt that this matter was not that simple. Perhaps Geng Yunye knew some inside information that made him so sure.
"There will be a county meeting the day after tomorrow, and I will bring it up at the meeting." Zhao Qingfeng tapped the table unconsciously with his knuckles, which was his habitual action when making important decisions. "But other communes may not listen to my advice..."
Geng Yunye said lightly: "I have done my best. Success depends on man, but fate is in the way. In the end, only the common people will suffer."
Zhao Qingfeng was shocked. Yes, only the common people would suffer. No matter how the grain harvest was, the grain collection target would not change.
Geng Mancang and Geng Yunye came out of the state-owned restaurant and were on their way back to the brigade. Geng Mancang was holding a bamboo basket filled with piglets and was hesitant to speak.
"Yunye, when did you get to know the commune secretary?"
Geng Yunye shook his head: "I don't know him, he may have seen my file."
The captain didn't know what Geng Yunye was doing in the army. This matter involved confidential information and could not even be mentioned to his family. Since the commune secretary valued him so much, it seemed that Geng Yunye had a high status in the army.
Geng Mancang was lost in thought while picking up the bamboo basket containing the little wild boar. Geng Yunye rode his bicycle and took him back to the team.
"Uncle Mancang, can you keep these two piglets at your house for the time being? I'm going out early and coming back late recently so I may not have the time to take care of them. I will have time to take care of them after the house is repaired."
Even if Geng Yunye didn't mention it, Geng Mancang would have taken the initiative to bring it up: "I was just about to tell you about this. You've never raised pigs, so I'll ask your aunt to help you raise some. She used to be a pig farmer. My pigs just gave birth, and your piglets can drink breast milk."
"That's great. Thank you, Uncle Mancang."
Geng Yunye sent him to the door of his house before riding away on his bicycle. Geng Mancang walked into the house with the pig in his arms, smiling, and suddenly realized something.
He quickly lowered his head. The woven bag slung across his body contained an aluminum lunch box. Geng Yunye had hung the packaged braised pork on him at some point.
Geng Mancang has several grandchildren. Even though they raise pigs, life is not easy for the whole family as they have not split up.
Geng Mancang grinned, "This child is so thoughtful."
He helped raise the pigs without discussing any compensation. Geng Yunye gave him the braised pork, and he would definitely ask his wife to do her best to raise the two piglets.
He touched the sleeping wild boar in the basket, and the blood-stained straw in it was replaced with new hay at the state-owned restaurant.
"You two are blessed. I promise to raise you both to be plump and black."
The Gengjiawan Brigade held a meeting that evening and mobilized all members to start harvesting millet the next day.
The members had already completed the work before harvesting the millet, and had been weeding in the fields when they were free recently. No one objected to harvesting the millet early, but they just wondered why it had to be done early.
Geng Mancang explained that the weather had been sometimes good and sometimes bad recently, so they took advantage of the strong sunshine to harvest the millet and dry it, and then delivered it directly to the grain management office when the time came.
Geng Yunye returned from the army late and had no rice fields, but the people in Gengjiawan Brigade were basically relatives and friends. He was just a brick, and he could be moved wherever he was needed.
He has been busy these days, personally selecting materials. When all the materials for building the house are bought, the people who will build the house for him will arrive after the harvest.
Chen Ying returned home excitedly and found Cheng Xin, and gave her the cheapest vanishing cream she had bought.
"Sister, I made some money today and bought you some vanishing cream."
She smiled and stuffed the vanishing cream back into her hand, feeling warm in her heart: "Keep it for yourself. I don't like vanishing cream on my face in the summer because it's sticky. You little girls are at the age of loving beauty."
Chen Ying didn't want to give it in the first place, and after Cheng Xin declined twice, she took it back and said a lot of nice things sweetly, which greatly changed Cheng Xin's impression of her.
In Cheng Xin's eyes, Chen Ying has changed from an impolite and uneducated little girl to a good child who knows how to repay kindness.
Chen Ying did the same thing and gave Xu Fengxia clam oil. Xu Fengxia gave her daughter the same excuse, asking Chen Ying to keep the money for herself and not to buy anything for them.
Chen Ying was sure that Cheng Xin and Xu Fengxia would not accept her things, so she deliberately gave them to them. In this way, she was able to quickly gain their trust without spending any cost.
That night, a strange scene occurred in the homes of customers who had bought Chen Ying mushrooms on the black market.
Anyone who has eaten the mushrooms has been possessed by evil spirits. Some have talked to their dogs and called them brothers, some have seen little men floating in front of them, and some have said they have seen their deceased grandmother.
The survivors at home who did not eat the mushrooms huddled together and witnessed their relatives dancing with the mirror in their arms, talking to themselves facing the wall, and swearing brotherhood with the dog. They always felt that the house was eerie and full of people, and they spent a particularly evil night.
The pioneering team actually collected quite a few mushrooms, but when they rushed to the supply and marketing cooperative early the next day to sell them, they learned that the cooperative would no longer be purchasing mushrooms in the near future, and all the mushrooms they collected rotted in their hands.
Some people were determined to sell their products, but were driven away by the supply and marketing cooperative because they thought they were unlucky.
The people who went into the city with me were puzzled. The mushrooms were of good quality, so why were they rejected by the supply and marketing cooperative?
Finally, a local passerby kindly reminded them: "Your team didn't catch the best time to pick mushrooms. In the past, mushrooms were not cheap when they were off the market. As luck would have it, someone bought mushrooms on the black market yesterday, got possessed after eating them at home, and someone in the state-owned restaurant was also possessed, and it was said that he had entertained a leader. To be on the safe side, the supply and marketing cooperative will no longer accept mushrooms of unknown origin. Fortunately, the mushrooms were not sold from the supply and marketing cooperative, so they don't have to bear the responsibility."
The mushroom sellers returned with a cartload of mushrooms, unable to figure out which evil spirit had brought trouble upon them.
Wang Xiuping was also one of the people who went to the city to sell mushrooms. Her two sons went home specially to open up wasteland and pick mushrooms. Her family picked the most mushrooms, but they were all smashed. If she had known this, she would not have allowed her sons to take leave to go home.
After listening to Wang Xiuping's complaints, Xu Fengxia secretly thanked her family for their good luck.
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