Reborn in the red years, I am farming in space

Chapter 367 The Mysterious Grain Merchant

this day,
The members of the production team have been busy for a whole day, and the effect of killing the locusts is very remarkable.

In the field of the production team, the corn seedlings are covered with sticky green locust stumps.

Today, the results of eradicating the small locusts are brilliant.But there was no smile on the faces of all the members.

At this time they,
We already know: the scale of locusts today is actually not too large.This is just a prelude to a huge, natural disaster.

When the members of the commune dragged their exhausted bodies and returned home with a heavy heart.

Each of them was simple, and after drinking a bowl of paste, they fell into a deep sleep.

Everyone has been waving the brooms for a day, and the shoulders of many members are already red and swollen.

I no longer have any strength left in my body.

Even wanting to turn over has become an extremely difficult thing, just move a little.It hurts like hell
Efforts to eradicate locusts and reduce agricultural losses are important.

same,
Sending urgently needed food to those brigades that are more seriously short of food, this matter cannot be delayed any longer.

Wait until nightfall.

Tuo Shizhan and Tuo Haili's grandfather and grandson shared a bicycle and rushed straight to Wutong Brigade.

In the brigade office of Wutong Brigade.

A dim oil lamp on the desk was emitting a glimmer of firefly.And next to the oil lamp.But there is a brand new lantern.

It's just that although the lantern is bright, it consumes a lot of kerosene.

The cadres of the Wutong Brigade, who are used to simplicity, are unwilling to waste a single cent of collective property.

right now,

The branch secretary and the brigade leader sitting in the brigade headquarters just sat there and chatted.

There is no need to focus on finances, and there is no need to write documents at the desk, so they chose to only light this candle-like oil lamp.

"Hey, I said old man.I made an appointment with the grain merchant to come over at 8 o'clock tonight, do you think it is reliable? "

The branch secretary asked the team leader, "This sum of money is not a small amount. It basically wiped out all the family assets of our team.

If there is anything wrong, you and I will become the sinners of the whole brigade, and eventually be held accountable by the superiors, which is still a trivial matter.

I'm afraid it will delay the lives of the folks and folks. In that case, you and I will really have no redemption!Hey."

The team leader shook his head resolutely, "No, Luo Xuan personally came to discuss this with me the day before yesterday. No one else knows, so Luo Xuan can't believe it?"

The branch secretary nodded, "You told me about this, and I believed it at the time.

However, this matter is too important.

If this huge sum of money is lost, you and I will each die 50 times, which is not enough to make amends to the villagers. "

The team leader patted himself on the waist, and there was a box cannon pinned there, "Don't worry, Luo Xuan and I agreed at the time, when the grain merchant comes to the office, we will negotiate the price with him.

After the grain merchant counted the cash, he took the two of us to the place where the grain was stored.

At the same time, the captain of the militia will lead 7 nearly 200 strong young men and follow us 2 or 3 miles away. "

The team leader chuckled, "With Luo Xuan as security, there are so many people behind us.

In addition, you and I survived the hail of bullets back then, so what is there to be afraid of? "

Secretary smiles,

He nodded and said, "I'm thinking, it's impossible for Luo Xuan to lie to us.

They don't eat food for residents now, so they came to our place and contacted the grain merchants for us.Isn't it obvious that Luo Xuan wants to help our brigade! "

The team leader laughed, "Old man, today you led the crowd to kill the little locusts in the fields, but you are exhausted, right?
Hey~ haven't you heard?When the members of the Zhengxing brigade are exterminating insects, how can we work so hard!

Damn, in the past, Liao Xianming and the others dared to go to the credit union and borrow so much money.

Then let each production team raise countless chickens and ducks.

At that time, I was still thinking, what are they going to do?What kind of agricultural and sideline business was issued!
Can a sideline business be treated as a main business?Isn't it good to have more fertilizers and more crops?

Look now.The development idea of ​​the Zhengxing brigade is right!

In my opinion, this year's crops may be difficult to keep. "

The branch secretary nodded, "Yes, I'm afraid the crops in the field will suffer heavy losses this year.

But the Zhengxing brigade, they have 10,000+ chickens and ducks there, and the life of the members may not be so bad. "

The team leader chuckled: "They are Zhengxing team. Although they raise a lot of chickens and ducks, how can there be 10,000+ chickens?"

The branch secretary glared at him, "Do you care how many chickens and ducks they have? At least they can be sold to the meat joint factory for a fortune!
If there is another Luo Xuan to make a bridge among them, the Zhengxing Brigade will use the money to buy food and come back.How bad can the members of the commune be in the future? "

The party secretary said, take the money to buy food.

This matter, in practice, is actually not easy to do.

this period,

There are nothing more than three channels for purchasing grain: one is the public grain station.

However, if there is no quota for the grain in the grain station, there is no instruction from the superior.

It's no use holding money!

He could only stand outside the grain station, jumping his feet anxiously.

The second channel is the so-called 'frog market'.

But the stock of grain in that market is extremely limited, and the price is frighteningly high.

As an individual, if there is a family short of 10 to 8 catties of food, you can go to the frog market to try your luck.

But a village as big as the Wutong Brigade, with about 2000 people.

Want to purchase a sufficient amount of food from the frog market?
That is simply a fairy tale, a fool's dream.

The last one is to find the legendary and mysterious big grain merchant.

But to find the mysterious big grain merchant.

Currently,

The only channel for the cadres of the Wutong Brigade is through Luo Xuan as an intermediary.

So as to catch up with the big grain merchant.

The team leader sighed, "The last time I had a meeting in the commune, the cadres of Xiaolaojun's brigade were there.

According to them, the scale of composting by Xiaolaojun's brigade this year is probably the largest in the whole commune. "

"In their mountains, there are many green plants, dead branches and leaves. This is only one aspect."

The team leader shook his head and said: "But I heard from the cadres of Xiaolaojun's brigade that the members of the production teams at that time still didn't understand and didn't cooperate much with the matter of fertilization.

At that time, Luo Xuan still took out a sum of money, pheasants and hares, as rewards for 'retting activists'.

This made all the members work in full swing!This is how the farmyard manure of Xiaolaojun's brigade is piled up like a mountain today. "

"Luo Xuan is a lucky star!"

The branch secretary smiled and said, "It's a pity, why can't there be such a capable person in our brigade?

Otherwise, the life of the members of our Wutong Brigade may be the same as that of the Zhengxing Brigade, and they can live a little more moist. "

"Oh, old chap! It's not just you and me who think like that.

Whenever you go to the commune and meet other brigade cadres.

Look at them, don't they all hope that such a lucky star can be born in their own territory? "

The team leader was full of emotions: "There are even other team cadres who say that as long as Luo Xuan is willing to transfer his household registration to their production team.

In the production team, he will definitely be given special care. "

The branch secretary gave a wry smile, "Luo Xuan, now he is eating food for residents. How could he transfer his food relationship to the countryside?
Moreover, even if he wants to go back to the countryside.

Luo Xuan is in the Zhengxing Brigade, with so many acquaintances, relatives and friends, how could he settle in another production team? "

"Yes, we all know that this is impossible."

The captain smiled and said, "Big guy, it's just talking, have you ever thought about mouth addiction!"

The branch secretary and team leader of the Wutong brigade were chatting in the office while waiting for the mysterious grain merchant to come to their door.

Soon,
I only heard the crisp sound of bicycle bells outside the courtyard of the brigade headquarters.

"coming!"

The old branch secretary and the team leader pulled out the box cannon from their waists at the same time.

Shuang Shuang carefully checked the bullets in the chamber, and then carefully closed the safety box on the cannon.

This kind of old-fashioned box gun, due to its long service life, the rifling wire inside the barrel is about to be rubbed flat.

In particular, some accessories between the insurance and the trigger are also severely worn.

therefore,

The old branch secretary and the team leader didn't dare to be careless, so they could only carefully close the insurance firmly first.

to avoid fire.

It is of course important to protect the safety of collective property.

But don't mistakenly injure this food merchant who is related to the whole brigade, nearly 2000 folks and folks, who are concerned about food safety.

Also very important!

If something unexpected happened, there would be no next time.

By the time,
Even if the team leader has a big bag of money, he doesn't know where to buy food.
"How many banknotes do you have prepared?"

outside the house,
A very strange voice came, with a strong foreign accent, "The coarse and fine grains are limited to 1 catties each; the sweet potato is the largest, and we can give you 2 catties."

The branch secretary and the captain looked at each other.

My heart was suddenly ecstatic!

The captain trembled and said, "What's the price of these grains?"

“红薯1毛5，玉米7毛9，大米9毛3。”

The grain merchant stood in the shadows outside the courtyard, but did not come in.

He only heard him say, "I brought 2 catties of sweet potatoes this time, and about 1 catties of corn and rice each. Add up the money on hand and count the corresponding amounts.

No matter how much you buy or how little you buy, you have to take all this batch of grain with you, not a single grain is left behind!

If you don't have enough money for the time being, I will definitely come to collect the balance in half a month.

In the meantime, hurry up and make up for it.

I haven't weighed this batch of grain carefully, so I can only say roughly these figures.

After you take it back, go through the scale slowly again!If there are places where the quantity is not enough, wait until the next time you buy food, and then refund more and make up for less. "

The team leader was stunned: the price offered by the grain merchant is much higher than the price of rations listed in the residents' food books.

But compared to the current food market in the frog market, it is much lower.

therefore,

Generally speaking, the grain prices offered by grain merchants are actually very cheap.

only,
What puzzled the team leader and party secretary was: food is so expensive now, and the other party can't measure it, just relying on rough estimates?
To know,
Nowadays, anyone who is carrying 10 catties of grain will walk on the road Shi Shiran.

To put it more seriously: it is possible that his little life may not be saved
right now,

For such a large amount of grain transaction, how dare this grain merchant sell it by "roughly estimating" the amount of grain? ? !

If the estimation is even a little bit wrong, the disparity can easily be huge!
hiss~
The captain and the branch secretary looked at each other: how much food does the other party have in hand?
How dare you be so careless? !

This batch of food was actually spun in the space and packed in sacks.

Then roughly estimated how much grain is in each bag.Then according to the total number of sacks, roughly estimate the total weight.

For such a large quantity, Luo Xuan had to take it to the scale slowly by himself.

Shouldn't you be exhausted?

During this period, the cadres in the brigade were very upright.

So according to Luo Xuan's idea, after letting them buy it back, let these cadres organize their own members to weigh it.

Anyway,

When the Wutong Brigade buys back grain, they need to enter the account, and the weight of the grain needs to be accurate to half a catty, or even two taels.

Otherwise, they will not be able to make accounts in the finance department.

Luo Xuan was not worried that the cadres of the brigade would deliberately blackmail his money.

As for the mysterious grain merchant outside the door, he didn't seem to worry about the cadres of Wutong Brigade at all.

Will default on his grain purchases.

His tone was indifferent, but his attitude implied a warning, "I hope you can keep your word, otherwise, there will be absolutely no next time.

Those militiamen you ambushed behind the haystacks and under the cols are actually meaningless.

With that effort, why not catch more locusts!

In my collar hides a strong poison.As long as you make any changes, I will bite down, and within 10 seconds, you will only get one corpse.have you understood? "

Both the captain and the branch secretary didn't take the implicit warning words from the grain merchant to heart.

I didn't have a bad idea in the first place.

There is no ghost in my heart, so where is the fear?

It's just that the captain and party secretary heard that the other party had brought 4 catties of grain! !
The two couldn't help but burst into ecstasy
Mother, that father!

See what the other party is doing?Openings are in units of ten thousand catties!
When members of the commune usually talk about grain, they always talk about tens of catties or hundreds of catties.

But as the cadres in the production brigade, the branch secretary and the brigade leader, when talking about the food they want to raise with other brigade cadres.

That is also in units of ten thousand catties.

As a production brigade, the actual gap is of course in units of ten thousand catties.

But everyone thinks: With the current market situation, where to go?

To be able to buy a thousand kilograms of grain, or at most three or two thousand catties of grain, is already topping the sky!

If you want to buy this little food for emergency, everyone is worried that you can't find a way!
Negotiate a price.

The team leader and party secretary turned around and entered the office, took out the public funds and counted them carefully.

Then lock the remaining money into a very strong cabinet.

Only then did he leave the office with the food purchase money in hand, and hand over the money to the other party.

Tuo Shizhan dropped the cigarette he had just lit, and took the money they handed him.

In the dark, there is no way to count.

Fortunately, during this period, there were no counterfeit coins, so Tuo Shizhan was not worried about anything.

Tuo Shizhan squeezed the money, and said, "I want a few more, the travel certificate issued by your brigade."

The captain was taken aback, "What do you want this thing for?"

In the darkness, Tuo Shizhan glared at him.

Regardless of whether the other party can see it or not, "I will come to your brigade again in the future. If you encounter militiamen from your brigade in the middle of the night, if you want to trouble me.

Am I looking for you to save me?Or am I trying to escape on my own? "

The captain thought about it, and felt that what the other party said was also reasonable.

So he went back to the office again, preparing to issue a few certificates for him.

The voice of Tuo Shizhan came from behind: "How to open this paper certificate and which places should be left blank, don't I need to remind you?"

The captain nodded, then stepped into the office.

Food for this transaction:

Among them are 2 catties of sweet potatoes, which is 3000 yuan.

1 catties of corn should cost 7900 yuan.

And 1 catties of rice cost 9300 yuan.

All in all, the Wutong Brigade paid the grain merchant 20200 yuan.

During this period, there were no hundred-yuan bills, and 1 yuan was a pile.

Tuo Shizhan collected 2 large lumps of money and put it into the satchel he carried; then put the 200 yuan change into his coat pocket.

I reached out and pressed it, and felt that the money would not fall out.

Only then did the team leader and branch secretary go to the place where the food was placed in advance.

(End of this chapter)