lcionline Chapter 552 A lot of worries
Chapter 552 A lot of worries
After the captain saw Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao off, he sat in the office thinking.
In the room two doors away, several other cadres of the brigade, plus four team leaders, were busy settling accounts.
The captain was originally a member of the accounting team, but the arrival of Zhou Mingxuan and Zhao Junhao required him to temporarily free himself to receive the two of them.
"Where's Lao Zhang? Why hasn't he come yet? Is he slacking off there?" Secretary Xu looked out the window and asked curiously.
Accountant Li said, "The captain is not talking to Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing, maybe he hasn't spoken yet."
"You haven't finished talking about that. I just saw Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing leave from the window. Lao Zhang must be slacking off," Secretary Xu retorted.
"Why did Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing come to see the captain? Could it be that they have signed a new order?
If this is really signed, where will we get vegetables? The surrounding production teams have no vegetables to sell."
"Aren't there two more?"
"Bah, those two production teams are short-sighted. I don't think they can sell their vegetables without our help."
"It's definitely not going to sell. I heard from my wife that her cousin got married to that production team.
Their village also sent educated youth to the town to sell vegetables, but they were unable to sell any, and they rejected our production team’s request to buy them. Now the members of the production team are making a fuss and looking for trouble with the brigade cadres.”
“Why are those educated youth in their village so useless?
The educated youth in our production team, not to mention Zhou and Zhao, all the other educated youth who participated in the production team had more or less harvested some fruits and sold some. But how come the educated youth in their production team didn’t sell a single one?”
“There are differences between people. For example, Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing, if you don’t mention others, the vegetables that other people sell wouldn’t even be a fraction of what they have.
We were able to make so much money this time, thanks to them."
"That's true. Our production team is really lucky. Last year, we had a capable educated youth named Liu, and this year we have educated youths like Zhou and Zhao.
If all the educated youth who went to the countryside had the same abilities as them, we would not mind if there were more of them and would definitely welcome them warmly. "
"That's not necessarily true. Our production team also had educated youth like Wang Lihua, Fang Dong, and Zheng Pengcheng, who almost killed many of our people.
I still hope that no more educated youth will be sent to our production team in the future. If there are three more of them, we will be scared to death."
"But then again, what did Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing come to see the captain about? How come everyone has left and the captain hasn't come yet?
It's not true that the captain is slacking off as Secretary Xu said."
As soon as he finished speaking, the captain happened to walk in and heard everything.
He glared at Secretary Xu fiercely, "Old Xu, you're saying bad things about me behind my back again. You're just being lazy."
Secretary Xu was not at all guilty after being caught. Instead, he said confidently, "You are not slacking off. Why didn't you come here for so long?"
"I was just distracted by something for a moment, so I didn't come over right away," the captain explained for himself.
"Tell me what you were thinking about that made you so lost in thought.
You're not thinking about why Sufen didn't let you sleep on the floor last night, right? "
Everyone in the room burst into laughter.
The captain glared at Secretary Xu and said, "You are already a grandfather, but you still don't know how to control your words."
"Captain, if it's not about this, then you should tell me what you are thinking about. You were so absorbed in what you were thinking that you forgot to come and settle the account.
We have to share money and food tomorrow, so there is no time to waste."
"Yes, Captain, please tell me what Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing said to you when they came over.
You haven't signed the bill again, are you worried about where to get those dishes?"
The captain sat back in his original seat, took a puff of his pipe, and spoke slowly, "Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing just came over and told me something important. I thought about it for a long time, but I really couldn't make up my mind.
Since you are all here, I will tell you about it and you can think about it carefully to see if it is feasible. "
"What's the matter that makes you so serious? Tell me quickly," Secretary Xu urged.
"Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing said that when they negotiate business with people, they don't tell them everything, but 80 to 90 percent of the people ask them if they have any meat to sell to them.
Just say that as long as there is meat, the price is negotiable.
They just suggested to me that our production team should start breeding business, raising chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, sheep, etc. Then, whether we sell eggs or meat, they are good things that everyone wants.
Basically, once the news is released, there is no need to worry about no one wanting it.”
After everyone listened to the captain's words, no one responded for a long time.
After a while, Secretary Xu spoke first and broke the deadlock.
"Now, except for our production team that relies on the mountain, everyone is short of meat. We also know that as long as there is meat, there will definitely be people who rush to grab it, but the problem is where will the food come from if we feed so many people.
Our production team couldn't raise the pigs properly. They ate a lot of food, but they just didn't grow meat. Could it be because the people who raised them didn't take good care of them? I'm afraid that's not the case.
We have two pigs at home, one is a mission pig and the other is our own.
As for food, we would rather starve ourselves than starve them, but they just won’t grow any meat, so what can we do? "
"Yes, Captain, it's not necessarily impossible to eat it.
The children in the family ran to the mountains every day, and they were fed with fresh grass, rice bran, corn cobs, straw and other things. After feeding for seven or eight months, the pigs still weighed less than 100 kilograms, which did not meet the requirements of the task pigs.
What's the point of feeding pigs like this?
You get sick easily and when you are sick you have to leave it to fate. You may die after taking care of yourself for several months. It is a thankless task.
Chickens, ducks, and geese are fine, as their eggs can be exchanged for money and their meat can also be sold for money, but they are prone to plague.
If we raise so many, and if just one gets sick, we might have to throw them all away, and we can't afford that." Accountant Li said.
"Yes, Captain, as long as they can grow meat easily and don't get sick easily, we will definitely raise them.
The worst that can happen is that we can let more children go into the mountains to cut grass for pigs, and leave the straw and corn cobs for them to eat instead of using them as firewood. We can just work harder ourselves and go up the mountain to chop firewood.
But the problem is, they just don’t grow flesh and are prone to plague.”
“Everyone knows that there is a meat shortage in the city, and everyone knows that raising livestock can bring huge profits, but the problem is that we really can’t afford it. If it dies halfway, we will lose all our money.
As for those mission pigs, if it is not stipulated by the higher-ups, no one is willing to raise them.
Anyway, we want to eat meat, so let's go for a run in the mountains behind. Although wild boars don't taste as good as domestic pigs, at least they are free.
As for the fact that the people in the city can’t eat meat, what does it have to do with us? If they have any good things, they don’t think about us.”
Listening to everyone talking at once, basically everyone was against it, no one agreed, the captain knew what was going on.
"Since everyone disagrees, I will talk to Zhou Zhiqing and Zhao Zhiqing and stop them from thinking this way."
"Captain, please tell them that these two are our gods of wealth and must not be offended.
Let us make our concerns clear to them.”
"I don't even need you to remind me of this."