Chapter 172 Midnight Meeting
In the brigade office, when everyone was present, the secretary was the first to ask, "Guoqing, you don't have a good reason tonight, and we are not done with you."
"Yes, yes. We are already hungry. Eating that little bit of wild vegetable porridge is not enough. If you ask us to run around, we will be too hungry to sleep tonight. We will all ask you for food."
"Come, come, one candy for each of you. I guarantee you will all have a good sleep tonight." Team leader Wang Guoqing gave each cadre a piece of hard fruit candy. These were the few pearls he stole at the risk of being discovered by his wife. He knew that the situation at these guys' homes was similar to his. Even if the secretary's home was a little better, it wouldn't be much better, at most just a little bit better.
"Captain, where did you get this fruit candy? You stole the fruit candy from the children at home and gave it to us. Aren't you afraid that your wife will scold you? Be careful, she won't want you to go to bed with her tonight. I think you should take it back." The accountant told Wang Guoqing to take it back, but he held the candy tightly in his hands.
Wang Guoqing glared at the accountant and deliberately lowered his voice to ask, "Do you want to make money?"
The secretary's heart skipped a beat and he coughed hurriedly: "Guoqing, you must have been confused in your sleep, what nonsense are you talking about?"
"No, I haven't slept yet. Really, I'm telling the truth. I called you here to discuss this matter." Wang Guoqing said seriously.
"You want to make a mistake? This is no joke. For the sake of old friends, we all treat you as a nightmare. Go, go, go back to sleep. I won't punish you if you have a candy." The secretary stood up and walked outside.
Wang Guoqing hurriedly grabbed the secretary: "Uncle, please listen to me before you leave, really. Can you bear to watch the members starve to death?" The secretary hesitated and stood there, not knowing whether to leave or not. Team leader Wang Guoqing was his nephew, and he couldn't bear to see him make mistakes and not stop him. But when he heard the last sentence, he became conflicted.
"Secretary, just sit down and listen. No matter what the captain said tonight, the three of us have kept it to ourselves." The accountant said solemnly.
The secretary sat back in his seat and said with a stern face, "Go ahead and tell me. I think you are crazy because you are poor. You dare to think of such a thing. Let me make it clear in advance. No matter what, you are not allowed to tell anyone about what happened tonight. You will forget everything once you leave this door."
Wang Guoqing was very grateful to the secretary for protecting him, but for the sake of the lives of the whole village, he still had to speak up.
"This is what happened..." Wang Guoqing recounted what Ziyi and Yike had said tonight. He poured out everything Ziyi and Yike had said like pouring beans. After he finished, he looked at the secretary and the accountant with sparkling eyes, waiting to see their excited reactions.
secretary:! ! ! !
Accounting:? ? ? ?
Wang Guoqing:? ? ? ?
The scene fell silent for a moment. Finally, it was the secretary who broke the awkward silence. He took the backpack from Wang Guoqing's hand, examined it carefully inside and out, and even tried it on his back.
The secretary said cautiously: "The method is good, and it should be able to make money, but if the news leaks out, it will be no joke."
The accountant looked at the secretary and the team leader. He knew that the uncle and nephew just wanted a guarantee from him because he was an outsider.
The accountant's surname is Chen, and his given name is Chenpizi. He is 30 years old and has a common surname in the village besides Wang.
Accountant Chen Pizi's family is large, with five brothers and two sisters, and he is the fourth child. Although there were many strong laborers in the family, he and his brothers spent all the family's money to marry wives, and there were also a bunch of little ones who needed to be fed. There are only a few grains left at home now, and we will run out of food in about half a month. If this backpack can really make money, then the adults and children in the family will not go hungry.
"Secretary, team leader, as the saying goes, 'The timid die of starvation, and the bold die of gluttony.' We would rather die of gluttony than starve to death. Besides, even if we die of gluttony, it's just the three of us, which is better than the whole family starving. So I think we can give it a try." Accountant Chen Pizi was the first to express his opinion.
"Good! Very courageous!" praised Captain Wang Guoqing.
The secretary deliberately said angrily: "What? You want to say that your uncle has no courage? Provoke me? Humph! If I don't agree, it will be useless even if you provoke me. But seeing those children eagerly watching the crops in the fields mature, if I can really make some money for them to exchange for some food, let's take the risk."
"Uncle, accountant, Ziyi said that as long as we are not caught at the transaction site, nothing will happen. Even if the news leaks out and no one admits it, no one can do anything to us without evidence." Seeing that everyone agreed, team leader Wang Guoqing told everyone the solutions to the possible consequences that might occur later that Ziyi had mentioned.
"Young people are formidable!" the secretary exclaimed. "Ziyi is a good young man, and he thinks very comprehensively. According to his method, it is indeed not easy to cause trouble. The trading time is irregular, and only one transaction is made each time. As long as everyone does not trade together, we really can't catch the culprit in the act, and it is safe. Good! Good! It's decided. We will hold a member meeting tomorrow morning and let all members agree to keep it confidential first, and then we will tell them what to do."
Team leader Wang Guoqing added: "Each production team leader must sign a letter of guarantee. Otherwise, if they want to replace us, they will use this matter to inform the higher-ups, which will be troublesome. So we asked them to sign a joint decision agreement with us and have the secretary keep it. This will be safer. As long as the members have enough food to eat, they don't care whether the higher-ups approve it or not. I'm afraid that in order to make money, they will not tell anyone. We just want the men to explain it clearly to their wives and not tell their families."
Accountant Chen Pizi also added: "What the team leader said just now about deducting work points if they take the cloth but don't make any use of it is a bit inappropriate. What if they report it to the higher-ups? We can't give a reason to deduct work points. We can't tell them that they took the cloth to make bags and didn't pay for it. So I think we can ask them to borrow money from the team with work points, and then use the money to buy cloth from Ziyi's family. All the account books that use work points to borrow money must be re-written, and we can't let the higher-ups find out which work points were used."
"Okay, the accountant is worthy of being an accountant, he is always meticulous in his work. Then how about calling the production team leaders of each team now? Let's deal with the matter tonight, and we can start tomorrow." Team leader Wang Guoqing said.
"You are still so impatient even at the age of 40." The secretary knocked on the table and said, "But what you said makes some sense. Many families have already run out of food. Eating wild vegetable porridge every day will make them weak. The sooner we make money, the sooner we can exchange it for food. So let's go and call them separately, and call the director of women's affairs as well."
This night is destined to be a sleepless night...
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