Zhou Huaishan didn't answer, "You go back first, your third sister-in-law and I will stay here."
"There are so many things in the tractor. It would be a big loss if they are confiscated." Zhou Huaian left a small notebook and hung the bag around his neck. "Hurry up. Uncle Zhang and I have already discussed it. I will be here."
Li Qiuyue didn't want to leave. "Youngest, I'm here. Let your third brother go. If they arrest someone, they won't dare to do anything to me, a woman who's still breastfeeding."
"Third sister-in-law, you go back with third brother, they dare not arrest anyone!" Zhou Huaian felt that although his third sister-in-law had many minor flaws, she was better than most women in the village in that she could stand up and report to the outside world as long as there was something going on at home.
Secretary Zhang looked at Li Qiuyue with appreciation and helped persuade Zhou Huaishan, "Third sister-in-law is right, Third brother, you should listen to the youngest brother and drive the tractor away quickly to prevent them from confiscating your things."
"If it really doesn't work, just leave. Don't go against them, understand?" Zhou Huaishan warned, glanced at his wife and brother, and strode away.
Secretary Yang looked at the tractor coming towards them and said unhappily, "These people are clearly just fooling around. The radio keeps saying,
The current national policy is to encourage farmers to work hard to get rich and improve their lives. If they dare to sabotage, we will smash their tractors."
Zhou Huaian clasped his fists towards them in gratitude, "Thank you, uncles. Don't be impulsive. If the tractor is damaged, it will be a big deal. Wait for them to arrive, take a look at the situation, and do what we agreed on."
Secretary Yang smiled and said, "Okay! I'll listen to you. We should use courtesy first and then force!"
Secretary Zhang: "They are all experienced people who know what to do!"
"That's right!" Old Yin also nodded repeatedly and said to Zhou Huaian, "Don't worry, youngest brother. Just watch us later."
Li Qiuyue looked at the tractor and walked over. "Youngest, you're from the cooperative."
Secretary Zhang sneered, "These people want to buy mountain products, but they can't afford the price. They think it's still the same as before, when no matter what you got, you had to beg them to buy it."
"In the past!" Secretary Lin was furious when he thought of the past. "We used to go to them to sell mountain products. We had to beg them like bastards. Whenever there was a place to sell products, we would not sell them at a lower price."
"What else can I do? I can only hope to sell some mountain products to supplement my family income."
"They're really here!" Secretary Yang and Old Yin also came over. "I thought they'd be here in two days, but they're here so soon!"
"We are not afraid of him. We are responding to the call of the country and making use of our own conditions to get rich through hard work." Secretary Zhang winked at the three of them and said, "Let's go and inform the villagers in each village first. We can't make things difficult for the youngest brother."
"Let's go, let's go!" Several secretaries and Lao Yin went to talk to the villagers.
As they were talking, the tractor stopped by the side of the road. The people from the cooperative who jumped off the tractor were green with envy when they saw the mushrooms brought by the villagers.
Damn it! No wonder the mushrooms sent to us for sale are all those with their umbrellas opened. After all this time, all the good mushrooms are sent here for sale.
Li Qiuyue looked at Zhou Huaian worriedly, "Youngest..."
Zhou Huaian shook his head at her, took out a cigarette and walked over with a smile on his face, "Which unit are you from?"
"Who is your comrade?" The man with a crew cut looked at him arrogantly, "We are from the supply and marketing cooperative. Who allowed you to collect mushrooms here?"
Seeing this, Zhou Huaian smiled and handed over a cigarette, "Comrade, we have a business license, we are responding to the call of the country..."
"Don't try that on me!" The crew-haired guy slapped away the cigarette he offered and pointed at the mushrooms that had already been put into the basket. "All the mushrooms in the bamboo basket are gone."
Zhou Huaian took back the cigarette and said, "Comrade, we are collecting red mushrooms. It's useless even if you confiscate them."
Li Qiuyue stepped forward and opened the lid of the bamboo basket. "Look, we are collecting big red mushrooms, which your supply and marketing cooperative does not collect at all. Why did you confiscate them?"
The flat-headed man took a look at the big red mushroom and said arrogantly, "What do you care whether we buy it or not? You are driving up prices and disrupting the market, and you still dare to be stubborn here. If you don't leave, I will hand you over to the police!"
"Who are you trying to scare?" Li Qiuyue pointed at him. "Do you think it's still the same as a few years ago? You can accuse us of anything you want. We just collect some of the red mushrooms that you don't collect. The rest are all given to us by the public to help sell."
"Third sister-in-law, forget it, we won't accept it." Zhou Huaian said with a frightened look on his face.
Li Qiuyue looked at him dissatisfiedly, "Why are you afraid of them? The current policy allows us to trade freely!"
"Forget it, don't cause trouble and go home!" Zhou Huaian looked timid and cowardly.
"A man is not as brave as a woman." Li Qiuyue glared at him dissatisfiedly, and the uncle and his wife picked up their belongings and were about to leave.
"Don't leave yet!" Old Yin stepped forward and grabbed Zhou Huaian, saying to the flat-headed boy, "There are 15 baskets of red mushrooms here, each weighing 30 jin, a total of 450 jin, 50 cents a jin. You can chase them away, but first decide who will pay for these red mushrooms?"
Zhou Huaian said with a bitter face, "My fellow villager, you have seen it too. It's not that I want to give money, but they don't allow me to accept it!"
Li Qiuyue also chimed in, "My fellow villager, my uncle is timid. It's useless to hold him back. It's these officials who don't allow us to take him in. You'd better let my uncle go. If they call the police later, we'll be in trouble."
"No!" Old Yin held Zhou Huaian tightly and looked at the little flat-headed boy, "You two families should decide first, who will pay for these red mushrooms?"
The bald guys came here today just to catch the mountain product dealers, but they didn't even bring a scale, let alone money. Looking at the arrogant and unreasonable Old Yin, they didn't know what to do.
Secretary Zhang, Secretary Yang, and Secretary Lin also stepped forward and said, "Comrade, we are the brigade secretaries of Baicaoping, Baicaopao, and Bailingshan brigades. The radio said that the farmers should use their own resources and work hard to get rich.
The red mushrooms collected by these two comrades are the ones you don’t want. You don’t allow them to collect them. Is there any notice in this regard? If so, bring them out so we can see them.”
The horse-faced man standing next to the crew cut whispered in his ear, "Director Kang, we don't accept this!"
The flat-headed guy had no idea what the notice was, so he just said, "They're driving up prices and disrupting the market..."
"Comrade!" Zhou Huaian interrupted him with a frightened look on his face, "You can't say that. I bought the red mushrooms that you didn't want. As for the morels and big-foot mushrooms, they were all sold by the villagers who asked me to help sell them."
At this time, the villagers who were waiting to be weighed came up with red mushrooms in their hands and angrily said to Zhou Huaian, "We are here to collect mushrooms. We listened to you and picked up so many red mushrooms. If you don't want to collect them, don't even think about leaving."
"Yes! I won't accept it. Don't even think about leaving today!"
"My dear brothers and sisters-in-law," Zhou Huaian frowned in embarrassment, "I didn't say I wouldn't accept it!" He looked at the men with the short haircuts, "Comrades, please say something so I can leave earlier."
With so many red mushrooms lying there, how could the bald guys dare to open their mouths? If they dared to let the two mountain product dealers go, they would have to pay to take all the goods back today.
Although they had heard that there were merchants buying red mushrooms, they didn't know where these people sold them.
It’s still the same as before, they collect their red mushrooms and the cooperative collects morels. It’s so nice that everyone lives in peace.
“Who’s not letting us go? Who’s not letting us go…” More villagers gathered around carrying bamboo baskets.
Old Yin pointed at the guys with the flat heads and said, "It's them. All my goods have been weighed, but they want to confiscate them before I've paid for them."
"Why are our things confiscated? It's not that easy!"
Everyone put their backpacks and bamboo baskets in front of the group of people with short hair, and said, "Take the money. If you don't let them take it, then take the money and take it."
"If you don't let anyone collect it, you'll just take it with money. We found it with great difficulty, walking in the dark for a whole day and night to get here..."
"Give me money, give me money, give me money..."
The flat-headed man hurriedly said, "Fellow villagers, don't worry. We will purchase your morels and big-foot mushrooms at the highest grade. We won't buy these red mushrooms for the time being until we notify you. You can take them back and wait for our notification."
Old Yin sneered, "We came all the way here just to sell red mushrooms. If you don't want to buy them, what are you talking about?"
The villagers who hadn't sold their mushrooms were so angry that they came up in groups of three or five and grabbed the guys with the flat heads and said, "You don't want to buy them, and you want to drive away the people who are buying them. Don't even think about leaving if you don't give me an explanation today!"
The flat-headed guy shouted, "Fellow villagers, the highest grade morels are 3.5 yuan per pound, and bigfoot mushrooms are 15 cents..."
"Three dollars is more than three dollars, and you can eat our big-foot mushrooms for 1.5 cents a pound. What the hell do you want?"
The first-class ones are 4.5 yuan per pound, but there is one less piece. The big-foot mushroom is half the price. What are you dreaming of selling it to you?
A woman slapped her legs and cried, "Oh my God, please open your eyes and look, is there still any injustice? Our whole family picked up so many red mushrooms and sold them for money, hoping to use the money to buy food..."
"Old Hei's family, stop crying. If they don't accept us, we can go to their house and eat with them."
"We want to sell red mushrooms. Do you want to buy them? If not, we will carry them back to your house."
The guys with flat heads were swaying from side to side as they were being pulled, regretting what they had said about confiscating the red mushrooms. They turned to look at Zhou Huaian's uncle and sir-in-law, but they couldn't bring themselves to ask them to take the red mushrooms away.
Seeing this, Zhou Huaian stepped forward and said, "Fellow villagers, brothers and sisters-in-law, listen to me, don't embarrass these comrades, they have no choice but to come here."
The guys with the flat heads hurriedly said, "Yes, yes, yes, we came here because we had no other choice. We didn't mean to embarrass you on purpose!"
Old Yin waved his hand arrogantly, "We don't care about these things. Just tell me, which of your two families will pay to take away the red mushrooms we carried?"
"Not only red mushrooms, but also morels. They must be harvested today as well."
Zhou Huaian looked at the flat-headed man with an embarrassed look on his face, lowered his head and said nothing. He wanted him to say he had received the goods first, but he wished! (End of this chapter)
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