The mountain road in Shiwei Township was too difficult to drive in, so trucks could not drive in. Cao Weidong asked Ao Liu to stop outside the mountain road and ran in to report the news.
Wei Hongxing has been looking forward to Cao Weidong's return.
Now that I saw Teacher Cao, who I had been missing so much, was back, and brought back 500 kilograms of coarse grains, I couldn’t close my mouth with laughter, and immediately set up the bullock cart to transport the grains.
In addition, he has no objection to the settlement plan of money plus coarse grains.
There are even some little surprises.
You must know that there is a general shortage of food at this time, especially in the countryside. In many cases, even if you have money, you cannot buy food.
"You little brats, run faster, we are going to transport food."
Wei Hongxing excitedly drove an ox cart, turning to cheer for the members behind him, while driving Cao Weidong out of the mountain road.
"It's not me who said, Captain Guard, the mountain road outside our production team should be repaired or flattened."
Cao Weidong's journey was bumpy.
Even though he was in good health, he felt nauseous.
Wei Hongxing blushed.
"Grandma, you have to have money to build mountain roads. I can give work points to the members who work hard, but the materials are lacking."
"And we have smoothed it before, but after a few rains, it became bumpy again. If we want to repair it, we can only repair it with gravel roads."
Cao Weidong smiled and said: "When this deal is completed, you will have money to build roads."
"That would be great."
Wei Hongxing's face is filled with longing.
When they arrived outside the mountain road and saw ten bags of coarse grains on the truck, Cao Weidong could clearly see Wei Hongxing growling in his throat.
"God, so much food, it's great..."
Wei Hongxing couldn't help but talk about it.
In fact, five hundred pounds of whole grains is not much.
But no matter how small the mosquitoes are, they are still meat. If these grains are divided, it will be enough for the members to eat a few full meals.
A group of people carried the food on their backs and loaded it onto the oxcart.
Cao Weidong greeted Nao Liu, agreed to pick him up in two days, and returned to the village together.
Upon arriving at the team, Wei Hongxing immediately held a meeting.
He didn't waste any time and asked the scorer to take the score book and divide the food with Liang Guanghe according to the amount of game each person contributed.
When everything was settled, there was a group of idiots in front of the small square who were holding food and money and giggling.
They thought to themselves, they didn't expect that game could really be exchanged for food and money, and they would be able to live a good year now.
The members who received less points also became jealous.
No, I want to hunt game seriously and earn work points.
The members are gearing up one by one and are ready to work hard.
But before everyone could get too happy, Cao Weidong poured a basin of cold water on everyone.
He announced the acquisition list.
First, animals that are too small must be released.
Second, we only accept specific animals, not other species.
The former is easier to understand.
As the saying goes, Chishan is the backing mountain. These villagers have had the tradition of closing the mountain and releasing wild animals since ancient times.
But what is the reason for the latter?
The members don’t understand.
It’s just that Teacher Cao is in charge of purchasing, so let’s do whatever Teacher Cao says.
Wei Hongxing couldn't figure it out either, so after the meeting he went to Cao Weidong full of doubts.
The purchase list published by Cao Weidong is actually a list of animals that were allowed to be eaten and those that were forbidden to be eaten in previous lives, because eating them indiscriminately will lead to disease.
The reason why he announced it now was because he wanted to set rules before large-scale purchases.
After explaining the general meaning, Wei Hongxing was full of praise.
"Teacher Cao deserves to be a cultural person, he knows a lot."
Cao Weidong smiled: "Let the members start hunting, I will only stay for two days this time."
Game is not easy to store, so it must be transported back quickly.
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After the mobilization meeting, a vigorous mountain hunting campaign began.
Because they had already had an experience, the members were fully prepared and gained more than last time.
On the first day, more than 100 kilograms of game were harvested.
Wei Hongxing vacated an empty adobe house to serve as a temporary warehouse. He asked the elderly and children who could not hunt to tie up the game with hemp rope and place them one by one in the warehouse.
This is also used to calculate work points.
It can be regarded as a benefit given to them by Weihongxing.
In the evening, Cao Weidong inspected the temporary warehouse and felt a little depressed.
Compared with the procurement targets he wants to complete, these are simply a drop in the bucket and not worth mentioning at all.
A sense of urgency suddenly arose in his heart.
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The next day, Cao Weidong originally planned to talk to Wei Hongxing and ask him to recommend several familiar production teams to develop agricultural and sideline products together.
Let’s make some money together.
However, Wei Hongxing took the initiative to come to the door and said that he would take him to the production team. It seemed that he wanted to meet someone.
Cao Weidong was pressed for time, and all he wanted to do was open up new channels, and he had no intention of going there.
But he couldn't resist Wei Hongxing's invitation and dragged him to the Daying Production Brigade.
The Daying production brigade is larger than the Shiwei Township production brigade, and functional buildings such as supply and marketing cooperatives, mailrooms, radio stations, and canteens can be seen.
The members are also neatly dressed, their clothes are starched and new, and there are very few patches.
Unlike Shiwei Township, the clothes of the commune members are all patched up.
Wei Hongxing pulled Cao Weidong into the commune canteen, and went into the small canteen in the back room with familiarity, and introduced the three middle-aged men who arrived at almost the same time.
"Teacher Cao, this is the brigade secretary Xiang Hongxin, this is the deputy secretary Ji Xingbang, and this is the old captain Wei Zhengqi. They are the leadership team of our production brigade."
Among these people, Xiang Hongxin is the leader.
He is about fifty years old, a little chubby, and always smiles when he sees him.
"Teacher Cao, you are really young and promising. I have heard about what you did at Xiaowei. You are really amazing."
"You're welcome, I'll do it casually, let's all win together."
Cao Weidong responded with a smile.
He didn't hesitate at all.
If you want to do business with the production brigade, you must have a good relationship with the brigade secretary.
Xiang Hongxin also seemed to be interested in making friends, and kept praising Cao Weidong: "He is really a capable person, and he is also very humble. It would be great if we had talents like you here, and I wouldn't have to worry so much."
Cao Weidong keenly caught the signal.
This is something I need help with.
However, he was a little hesitant, not sure whether he should make excuses or not.
After all, I already have enough tasks on my shoulders.
Just then, the food and drinks were served.
The production brigade is relatively affluent, with only two kinds of meat and three vegetables, and wine is the most common white wine.
At the wine table, the three brigade cadres took turns toasting.
Cao Weidong agreed one by one.
He has a good capacity for drinking. Even though he is like this, he is not drunk and is very clear-headed.
After three rounds of drinking.
Xiang Hongxin stated his purpose.
"Teacher Cao, to be honest, I came to you today because I have something to discuss with you, and I wanted to ask you to give us some advice."
Cao Weidong's heart trembled and he unconsciously concentrated his energy.