Era: Life's Big Winner

Chapter 9 The Magical Effects of Space Acceleration
On the way home, He Wenhui was full of worries.

When they were almost at Suxiang Hutong, she finally couldn't help asking:
"Hongchang, if we move to Nanluoguxiang, what will happen to my mother and my younger brothers and sisters?"

Then he quickly explained: "It's not that I don't want to go with you, it's just..."

"Don't worry! The earth will still rotate without anyone." Liu Hongchang simply parked his bicycle on the side of the road.

After lighting a cigarette, he continued, "Wenyuan and Wentao are not young anymore. You should learn to let go and let them grow up."

"No, no, no! No way!" He Wenhui became anxious in an instant.

"In that case, wouldn't it be in vain that I gave up the opportunity to go to college for them last year?"

Liu Hongchang smiled and said, "Don't be anxious. We are not moving away immediately. We will take it step by step and let go slowly."

"Let go slowly? How do you mean slowly?" He Wenhui frowned and said, "I'm worried when you say that."

After Liu Hongchang pondered for a moment, he slowly told his plan.

"Is this... reliable?" He Wenhui pursed her lips, feeling very nervous.

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After returning home.

Liu Hongchang and He Wenhui did not rest, but immediately went out with the fruit candies they had prepared earlier.

The two of them had to go to the second state-owned canteen and the garment factory respectively to distribute wedding candies to their colleagues and leaders.

At the back door of the cafeteria, He Wenhui jumped off her bicycle and said with a sigh: "We met in the cafeteria."

Last year, she just received the university admission letter and wanted to invite her teachers and classmates to a banquet, so she came to the state-owned canteen to reserve the banquet.

That's how the two of them met, and then a series of things happened. Thinking about it now, she can say that all the hard work has paid off.

Liu Hongchang glanced at her calmly, and said indignantly for the original owner: "I'm the one who paid the price. Last night..."

"I was wrong! Let's not bring up the past. I'm yours now, what else can I do?" He Wenhui said resentfully.

Liu Hongchang chuckled and said, "With what I've paid, I can marry ten wives."

"I know you have paid a lot, and I will spend my whole life to repay you." He Wenhui said affectionately.

After thinking for a while, he gritted his teeth and said, "At worst, I'll risk it all and give you eight or ten children. You'll be so happy!"

"You have such a vicious heart! How dare you punish me like this!" Liu Hongchang pretended to be horrified.

"Pfft!" He Wenhui couldn't help laughing, rolled her eyes at him and said, "You're taking advantage of me!"

The two chatted and laughed and went to the kitchen.

When they saw Liu Hongchang and his wife coming, everyone gathered around them with smiles on their faces, wishing them the best of luck.

In the canteen director's office, Director Yao Guofa heard the noise and came over to join in the fun.

Liu Hongchang and He Wenhui happily distributed cigarettes and candies to everyone.

After a while of arguing, Liu Hongchang said to He Wenhui, "Wait for me at the door. I want to talk to Director Yao about something."

"Well, be quick, don't delay too long, we are in a hurry to go to the garment factory!" He Wenhui nodded and reminded.

After she left, Liu Hongchang came to the director's office and smiled at Director Yao:
"Old Yao, please give me a letter of introduction. I want to go to the countryside tomorrow."

It's not a good idea to leave the space idle all the time, so he wants to take advantage of the free time tomorrow to go to the countryside to look around.

The original owner often took private jobs and often went to the countryside in the name of purchasing for the canteen, which did not arouse any suspicion.

"What's wrong? Aren't you at home with your new wife?" Director Yao said with a smile.

He was quite efficient and did not refuse. He immediately took a letter of introduction from the drawer, filled it out, and signed and stamped it.

These days, a letter of introduction is proof of identity. If you want to go out and do something, you can't take a single step without a letter of introduction.

A letter of introduction is the only document that people can use to visit relatives, study, conduct research, or purchase car (ship, plane) tickets.

It is a token of communication between units, between superiors and subordinates, between departments, between urban and rural areas, and between the military and civilians.

Without a letter of introduction, you cannot enter any government agency or school, and even accommodation will not be arranged for you.

Even if you want to beg, you need a letter of introduction.

This is not a joke. When there is famine in a certain place, someone will write a letter of introduction for begging, which says:

"An old man named Wang from our village is here to beg for food from you. Please give me more dry food and less liquid food. Best regards!" The letter of introduction is a piece of paper smaller than 16K, with the stub on the left, accounting for about one-fifth of the paper.

The main body of the letter of introduction occupies four fifths of the right side.

It lists the name, date, item, and introduction signal code.

The stub has the same content as the main text, but the "space" is compressed, especially in the "Matters" column.

The official seal is stamped in two places.

One is stamped on the dotted line between the stub and the main text, called a saddle stamp, and the other is stamped below the main text.

Liu Hongchang put away the letter of introduction and said with a smile: "Thank you, Lao Yao. I'll get busy now!"

Coming out of the office and passing by the warehouse, he saw that there was no one inside. He paused, curled the corners of his mouth slightly, and walked in.

"It's really a case of searching for something everywhere but finding it without any effort. The supplies are more complete than I imagined." Liu Hongchang was secretly excited.

The warehouse is very large, and most of the area is filled with grains such as rice, flour and cornmeal.

There are also some separated areas where oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, condiments and other ingredients are placed.

There are many ingredients placed on the shelves against the wall, most of which can be grown directly in the space.

For example, Sichuan pepper, pepper, chili, garlic, ginger, star anise, fennel, cumin, white cardamom, grass fruit, etc.

Since he was growing the crops for his own consumption and didn't need too much yield, Liu Hongchang chose a wide variety of varieties.

A total of nearly twenty ingredients were selected and concentratedly planted on one acre of land.

After time accelerated, the harvest was completed in an instant and all transferred to the space warehouse for storage.

"No wonder acceleration has special properties!" Liu Hongchang was full of praise, envious of the time acceleration function.

Without this function, ginger would take half a year to mature, and star anise and white cardamom would take several years to harvest.

Then, Liu Hongchang repaid the borrowed seeds one by one, paying back exactly how much he borrowed and not taking advantage of the public.

Those that need to be dried can be dried with one click in the processing plant and then returned. The whole process is completed silently.

After the time was accelerated for that acre of land, the blue light curtain disappeared, and the square piece of land seemed to have been bitten off.

There were only a few star anise trees, white cardamom trees, etc. left on the land. Liu Hongchang immediately planted some more to make up the full one acre of land.

Three months later, those that have not matured for long can have another harvest.

Then, Liu Hongchang turned around to check the food stored in the canteen warehouse.

The grains stored here are divided into processed and unprocessed. The processed ones include flour, rice, cornmeal and so on.

Only those that have not been processed can be planted.

For example, for the four crops of rice, wheat, corn and soybeans, Liu Hongchang first planted one acre of each.

Time accelerated the harvest, and we got 350 kilograms of rice, 270 kilograms of wheat, 230 kilograms of corn, and 120 kilograms of soybeans.

The first three types of grains are urgently needed, and soybeans can be used to extract oil. They are all hard currencies and are more useful than money.

Not only do they have food for themselves, but they can also go to the countryside to exchange for livestock kids.

Like corn, sweet potatoes and the like, and in the future we can also raise pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, etc.

Then, Liu Hongchang planted half an acre of potatoes and half an acre of sweet potatoes, and obtained 3500 kilograms of potatoes and 3500 sweet potatoes.

Liu Hongchang also stored the vines, straw, etc. produced during the planting process and after harvesting of crops.

These are good things to use for feeding livestock and poultry in the future.

"This will accelerate the time of using up six acres of land. It's not sustainable!" Liu Hongchang thought to himself.

Then, he found a lot of vegetable seeds in the warehouse, which were needed for the canteen to open up wasteland and plant crops during working days.

Nowadays, almost every unit has a vegetable garden, and Sunday is not a holiday but a day for voluntary labor.

In addition to cleaning, pest control and disinfection, vegetable fields will also be opened up to grow vegetables or crops.

It is spring now, so the canteen has prepared a lot of vegetable seeds, which will be planted one after another when the weather gets warmer.

(End of this chapter)