Siheyuan: I earned foreign exchange in the heyday

Chapter 804 Speculation?

Zhou Jiafu was a farmer in Yanqing. His family was well-known in the production team and even the entire commune.

The reason is very simple. Zhou Jiafu's family is very fertile, as he is the eldest of this generation.

Zhou Jiafu has six younger brothers and one younger sister, and Zhou Jiafu's father has seven brothers.

This allowed Zhou Jiafu's family to act arrogantly in the village, and even the commune's leading cadres spoke in a soft voice when talking to the Zhou family.

There's no way, the Zhou family not only has good genes, but they are also united.

The Yanqing area is not far from Sijiu City. Due to geological reasons, it is mostly mountainous.

If it were in later times, the brothers would work together and having enough food and clothing would not be a problem.

But in this era, Yanqing is still relatively underdeveloped.

Even though the Zhou family seems to be very respectable outside, only their own family knows how well they are doing.

During this period, there were actually special forces belonging to various regions in the surrounding areas of Sijiu City.

For example, Pinggu's peaches, Huairou's chestnuts, Mentougou's Jingbai pears, and Yanqing's Guoguang apples.

Not only that, Yanqing is also listed as an off-season vegetable base by the city.

The automobile factory is wealthy, and from September to October every year, its buyers would take a truck to Yanqing to purchase Guoguang apples.

Zhou Jiafu is a fruit farmer, and every year he comes into contact with buyers from automobile factories.

Whenever I see the buyers taking out whole bags of Daqianmen, they give cigarettes to the fruit farmers one by one.

It is impossible for Zhou Jiafu not to be envious. He also saw that the cigarettes these buyers gave to each other were Peony cigarettes.

I don’t know when it started, but many people in the car factory carry two packs of cigarettes with them.

Zhou Jiafu was extremely envious. The secretary of their commune could not afford to smoke Mudan cigarettes, but the purchasing agents and truck drivers of these automobile factories were almost all Mudan cigarettes.

Zhou Jiafu hesitated for a long time, but finally decided to go up and start a conversation.

The result of the conversation made Zhou Jiafu even more envious of the lives of the workers in the automobile factory.

There are good salaries, subsidies from the factory, and various benefits during the holidays.

I go to the movies and watch performances by art troupes on weekends. We live in an apartment building with heating.

It's winter and it's snowing outside, but the house is the same as it is in summer.

Just picking out any of these would make Zhou Jiafu drool with envy. Isn't this the life Zhou Jiafu longs for?

Unfortunately, Zhou Jiafu was very disappointed when he learned that the Sijiucheng Automobile Factory was no longer recruiting workers.

But think about it, if they recruit workers from outside, I'm afraid no one in the entire city would be unwilling to work in the car factory.

Seeing Zhou Jiafu's distraught look, one of the buyers couldn't bear it.

Tell Zhou Jiafu a solution, that is, every household should have its own private plot of land.

There are so many people in Zhou Jiafu's family, so they must have a lot of private plots.

If you grow some vegetables in your own private plot and are not afraid of hard work, you can take them to the vegetable market in the automobile factory community and exchange them for some money.

The buyers left, taking Zhou Jiafu's restless heart with them.

In accordance with the "Regulations on the Work of Rural People's Communes" in September 1962.

Agricultural products from rural private plots can be taken to the market and sold without levying agricultural taxes or being counted in the unified purchase.

But in reality, under the influence of extreme left-wing ideas, farmers are restricted from selling agricultural products from their private plots.

Once discovered, there is no way to escape the charge of "speculation and profiteering".

Zhou Jiafu couldn't sleep for two consecutive nights at home, and he kept thinking about going to Sijiu City to sell vegetables.

There is no way out as the family is too poor. Zhou Jiafu is almost 28 years old now, but he doesn’t even have a partner.

28 sounds like he is still very young, but in this day and age, people of his age are already fathers of several children.

Not only that, even Zhou Jiafu’s parents had several members who hadn’t found wives.

"Dad, I plan to take the vegetables from our private plot to the city to sell."

When Mr. Zhou heard what Zhou Jiafu said, he was shocked and said quickly.

"Are you going to die? If the commune finds out, they'll accuse you of speculation and your life will be over."

"Isn't it just forced labor? What's the big deal? You still have to work, no matter where you work.

Can it be any worse than it is now? Look at me.

I am 28 years old, my family is so poor that I can’t even find a wife. When will this end?

Sijiu City is so far away from us that the purchasing agents from the automobile factories said that it would take them four or five hours to drive here.

Who would recognize me if I went to Sijiucheng? The leader of the production team was my grandfather. Wouldn't it be easy to get a letter of introduction? "

Father Zhou remained silent, just kept smoking his pipe, taking puffs one after another.

Father Zhou knew the situation at home very well. Not to mention his own son, even his younger brothers were not married yet.

However, in recent years the commune has been emphasizing that it is not allowed to sell the crops produced in private plots.

If we insist on going against the commune, we will probably be made an example of it.

"Dad, don't hesitate. Just don't let the commune know about this.

At the beginning, I was the only one trying out the waters, and I didn’t know if I could make any money.

First, please ask my grandfather to write me a letter of introduction, saying that I am a purchasing agent from the automobile factory and I want to buy vegetables from us.

I am only using this letter of introduction to deal with people in the old city who don't understand the situation. I will never show it to anyone from our commune.

We are so far away from the old city, I am afraid I will have to go out early in the morning every day.

I know all the militiamen in the commune, so we just need to follow their patrol routes.

This way, I can reach Sijiucheng just after daybreak. I will come back after selling the vegetables."

Seeing that his father still didn't speak, Zhou Jiafu immediately spoke.

"Dad, I'm almost 30, do you really want to watch me remain single?

If I get caught, it will be my own fault."

Seeing Zhou Jiafu's expression as if to say, "If you don't agree, I'll do it myself," Zhou's father sighed.

Thinking about his family's status in the production team, he thought that if he was really caught, he might be able to get the commune to let him off with his reputation.

I can't really let my boss be a bachelor for the rest of his life, right? So he gritted his teeth and said.

"Okay, if you want to give it a try, go ahead and do it. I'll try to keep it a secret for you from the production team. Whether you can succeed or not is up to you."

Hearing that his father agreed, Zhou Jiafu was overjoyed and hurriedly urged.

"Then I will set off tonight. Please ask my grandfather to give me a letter of introduction.

The sooner you make money, the sooner you can have grandchildren."

When he heard the words "hold his grandson", Dad Zhou was so excited that he got up and went to the production team.

Tonight, the sky was full of stars. Just in the early morning, Zhou Jiafu walked out of the house carrying a basket.

In the basket was about 100 kilograms of cabbage that had just been dug out from the family's private plot.

Zhou Jiafu has lived here all his life and has long memorized the routes of the nearby patrol teams.

Relying on his familiarity with the environment, Zhou Jiafu finally arrived at Sijiu City at dawn.