happy apocalypse

Chapter 135 The Village Chief Is A Capable Person
After planting all the land, Dad Jiang reminded us that the sheep pens and cowsheds at home have been finished, and let us buy the sheep and cattle back as soon as possible.

Jiang Zhi and I went to the county again and brought back a cart full of lambs and calves.Since the time ratio of our space to the outside world is 30:1, the outside world will only produce a batch of lambs every 6-7 days, and only produce a batch of calves every 12 days.

Every night, Jiang Zhi will slaughter a batch of raised animals in the space to control the number of animals in the space.

Now if you want to raise them, you can only bring the needed cattle and sheep back home in batches.And we don't plan to raise a lot of cattle, because the cattle are too edible, and our family is afraid that we can't afford them.

So our family kept 7 rams, 3 ewes, 2 bulls and 1 cow.In the future, the eldest sister and the second sister's family will also follow this example.

It is now June, and the temperature is over 20 degrees during the day, which is neither too cold nor too hot.The grass has grown tall on the mountain for more than a month, so every morning, I would bring my younger siblings to drive the cattle and sheep up the mountain to graze.

The children all brought small baskets, and when they were herding sheep, they dug up a basket of wild vegetables and chopped them for their chickens, ducks and geese when they returned home.They live a very fulfilling life every day.

Sometimes Weiwei and I, or Mama Jiang and Mama Qu, go up the mountain with the children, mainly to dig some wild vegetables, or dip them in sauce or fry them in oil, which are all delicious on the table.

When we were actively preparing and stockpiling supplies for the next disaster, the village was not calm anymore.

The villagers are very anxious these days, and they seem to be waiting impatiently, all because they went to the county to buy diesel.

Now the rice seedlings cultivated in many villages have grown to 3~4 leaves, and they can be transplanted into paddy fields, so everyone is busy to renovate the paddy fields.

Now plowing the land basically does not require labor and oxen. It is all mechanized. Because Tashan Village is a mountain village, it is relatively backward, so tractors have been used to plow the land.

If you want to plow the land with a tractor, you need to refuel the tractor. The village head said at the village committee meeting that you have to be responsible for the diesel oil if you borrow a tractor.At first everyone heard the news but didn't take it seriously, and thought that it could be bought at the gas station just like in previous years.

Some people have clever eyes, and have already asked us that the gas stations will not buy gas, but they don't believe it. They think that the government can't stop the gas stations. Wouldn't the traffic in the whole city of Y be paralyzed?

So early in the morning, everyone rode bicycles together as before, with oil drums tied behind them, and went to the gas station in the county to buy diesel, but returned empty-handed at noon.

Seeing them like this, many people who wanted to go and hadn't gone came forward to inquire.From their indignant complaints, I learned that the gas stations in the county are now out of gas, and only one gas station next to the county government is still refueling.

There were so many people when they went, the gas station was surrounded by three floors inside and three floors outside, and people from the village were scolded and stared at countless times, and finally squeezed to the front.It turned out that the gas station was surrounded by armed police with live ammunition (I guess it was to scare people, how dangerous it is to shoot at the gas station), and there was only one entrance for people to enter.There is already a long queue at this entrance, slowly moving in.Everyone also wanted to queue up in front of this entrance, but there were too many people, and it became a siege.

From the reserved entrance, a person came out after a while, either holding an oil drum with a happy face, or a face of resentment and dejection.

They asked the person who came out dejectedly what was going on, why they didn't buy any diesel, they didn't even bother to say anything, they just pointed to the gate of the gas station, and then disappeared quickly.

Only then did they see a notice posted on the gate of the gas station, which was posted by the government. It stated that the gas station is now closed to individuals, and that farmers who use oil for spring farming must have a letter of introduction issued by the village committee, and also write Ming, the price of buying oil, one liter of diesel oil for 5 catties of rice.Remind everyone to buy everything after preparing everything, for fear of delaying the spring plowing time of farmers.

In this way, about 10 liters of diesel oil is needed to plow 20 mu of land, which is 80 catties of rice, which is really expensive.

They asked those who lined up, and they said that many people waited outside the gas station in the middle of the night in order to buy diesel as soon as possible.

These people are all farmers from nearby villages and towns. They all wait for the weather to clear up and start raising rice seedlings, so they have to plow the land in the past few days and transplant the rice seedlings in a few days.

And at the end of the notice, there is a sentence "Diesel and gasoline are limited, pre-order as soon as possible."

It was this sentence that dispelled some people's hesitation, and they hurried back to the village to open a letter of introduction to get food, fearing that they would run out when they bought it.

The same is true for the people in our village. After returning, everyone will stay at the village head's house, waiting for the village head to give a letter of introduction.Those who didn't enter the county today heard the news and came to find out the truth, and they also surrounded the village head's house, fearing that they would not be able to buy diesel if the letter of introduction was late.

But the village head said that this is a big deal and must be taken seriously, so he went to the village committee and found a big thick book that recorded the situation of the villagers. Hukou and food, after the letter of introduction is issued, you can go directly to the county.

After hearing this, everyone went home one after another to weigh the food, and then went to the village chief's office one by one to issue a letter of introduction, very orderly.

Fangfang and I came to see the fun, and we were surprised to see how high-quality the villagers were, so we asked: "Whoever said that rural people have no quality because they don't read enough? They didn't see the people in our mountain village. , this quality is much higher than that of the people in the city, and they all line up obediently, neither crowded nor crowded."

Fangfang quickly pulled me aside, and whispered to me: "Sister-in-law, keep your voice down, everyone is simmering with fire, don't add fuel to the fire."

I was very puzzled and asked: "I didn't do anything, I just praised them."

Fangfang looked up and looked around, but found no one paying attention to us, so she whispered to me: "You really think they entered the village chief's office one by one because of their high quality, please don't make jokes, they That is to go in one by one to give gifts to the village chief."

I opened my mouth in surprise after hearing this.

"Why do you think the village head opened the letter of introduction in the office instead of directly at home? Why did you ask everyone to go home to get food first? Running all over the village with big sacks was tiring and slow. Really? To save time for everyone? Come on, you know that the village head has no other hobbies, but drinking bars?" Fang Fang continued after seeing me nodding.

"Our village is small, and the villagers are relatively peaceful, so it is very rare to find the village head this year, so there are fewer people who give the village head wine.

The wife of the village head is also a formidable woman, she kept her money tight and never let him buy good wine, so he basically drank homemade liquor.

Brewing wine costs food, can his wife be willing to use her own food to make it?So every year the village chief will find such and such a thing to ask everyone to give him some food.

As soon as everyone heard what he said just now, they knew what he was thinking.When I go home to get food, I always take an extra [-]-[-] catties of food, go in and pour the food directly into the bag prepared by the village head. After all, this is not a glorious thing, so everyone goes in one by one. You can write a letter of introduction happily only if you give it almost, otherwise he will just flip through his big thick book, it will be him for an hour or two, can we rely on him. "Fang Fang explained to me as if she had come here.

After I heard it, I had to sigh, man, as long as he has a hobby, he can become the fuse of corruption in his political career.It's really corrupt for a small village head to use his power to make the villagers drink for him.

But I also have to admire the way that the village chief has this way. He can clearly explain this group of sturdy and strong villagers. After being the village chief for so many years, no one has reported him. I have to admit that this is also a kind of Ability.

The first person to open the letter of introduction rode to the county with a bag of grain on his bicycle.I guess if they don't go today, it's for nothing. They must not be able to buy it.

I looked down at the watch on my wrist. It was already 2 o'clock in the afternoon, and it would be around 3 o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived in the county. There were so many queues outside the gas station, and I didn't know what time the gas station staff were. After get off work, I guess I still have to return empty-handed.

I reported this situation to Jiang Zhi when I got home, and said: "I am very grateful that our family has the foresight to raise seedlings in advance, plow the land in advance, and buy diesel oil in advance. , can I go to give gifts to the village chief? Can I encourage his arrogance? This bad trend?"

Seeing what I said here, Jiang Zhi was filled with righteous indignation, and said with a half-smile: "Hey, you have such a sense of justice, who was it that went to the village chief's house with me to deliver wine two days ago?"

I thought about it, yes, Jiang Zhi and I went to the village chief’s house with two bottles of wine two days ago.My face was a little embarrassing, but I still argued: "This special situation needs to be handled specially."

After Jiang Zhi heard this, he chuckled, rubbed my head again with his big hands, and said, "Okay, you've been too comfortable these days, is it still a problem in the city? You forgot, Everything you do in the city depends on your relationship, finding people, and giving gifts. Otherwise, it will not go well or can’t be done, just like when we opened a vegetable store and went through relevant procedures, isn’t it like this. So you just Put your mind at ease and think about it the other way around. If we can use dozens of catties of rice a year to get rid of the village head, and prevent him from causing us problems, stumbling us, and not targeting us everywhere, what do you think? Isn't it a good deal."

I thought about it, and it was the truth. As long as I think about it the other way around, it doesn't seem so infuriating and unacceptable.Looking for someone to do something in the past was not something that could be solved by dozens of catties of food, so it was very cost-effective.

Maybe the villagers also have the same idea. The food is grown by themselves at home. Sending some free gifts to the village head every year will make the village head happy. Why not do it.

(End of this chapter)