60s: I have a store

Chapter 66 Leave the Cigarette Box to Me
Teacher Wang knew Zhou Yimin well. He knew that if one person was well fed, the whole family would not be hungry. Besides, he worked as a purchasing agent, so he really did not need that little bit of food.

"Take it! It's a gift from a student."

"Good!" Teacher Wang said happily.

Especially when Zhou Yimin admitted that he was his student, he was very proud of this.

From now on, no one can say that he was just bragging unilaterally.

When he got home, he put the bottle of peanut oil on the table and showed it off to his family: "Look, my student Yimin gave it to me."

"Oh! It's peanut oil, Boss. Yimin is really a good student. He still remembers you." Teacher Wang's wife picked up the bottle of oil, full of joy.

She had a good impression of Zhou Yimin from the next courtyard, who had come to her house for dinner. At that time, Zhou Yimin was still in elementary school, and his life was not as difficult as it is now in the past two or three years.

Recently, Yimin was reported in the newspaper. Not only were the people in the courtyard next door promoting it, but the street office was also making a big fuss about it. Who didn’t know about it?

"After all, I have taught him for three years. Keep the oil safe and don't let rats steal it," said Teacher Wang.

His wife and children were speechless.

Given the situation in their home, even if a mouse comes, it will have to leave crying.

Since the past two years, the whole nation has been eradicating the four pests, and rats rarely appear anymore.

The four pests refer to sparrows, rats, flies and mosquitoes.

Starting in 1958, the campaign to eradicate the four pests was carried out with great fanfare. The entire nation was mobilized and everyone took part in the campaign, leaving sparrows without a way to fly, rats without a way to enter the ground, and mosquitoes and flies without offspring.

From cadres to farmers, from the elderly in their sixties and seventies to children as young as three, everyone has developed the awareness of eliminating the four pests.

They also held a special "Eradication of the Four Pests" oath-taking rally, established a "General Command Center", and used radio propaganda vehicles to drive through the streets carrying dead sparrows and rats to mobilize the enthusiasm of the masses.

Newspapers, radio, and cartoons were all about eliminating the four pests, and writers created poems, songs, and quick-paced songs about it.

Children and adults gathered together to dig out rat holes. After catching the rats, some people stuffed peppercorns into the rats' butts to prevent the spread of bacteria and diseases, and then strung the tails together to sell.

The next day, Zhou Yimin bought out the items in the daily special offer area in seconds. Today it was 100 kilograms of peanuts and 100 kilograms of bananas.

Let’s not talk about peanuts.

Bananas are tropical fruits, and it is difficult for people in the north to eat them. Now that transportation and logistics are underdeveloped, it is a bit difficult to exchange goods between the north and the south, especially those that do not last long, such as fruits.

Therefore, some crops in the south are rare in the north.

Zhou Yimin bought three large cans of pagoda candies, enough for all the children in the village to have two, 1000 kilograms of potatoes, 800 kilograms of sorghum, and 800 kilograms of corn.

In addition, we also plan to give the school 30 kilograms of peanut oil.

Just consider it as the number of stamps on that box.

In the eyes of later generations, it is so dark that there is no limit to it.

But in today's world, if we can exchange it for so many things, we should be grateful!

Zhou Yimin drove a tricycle out of the factory and borrowed another one. He put the sacks of sorghum and corn on one of the tricycles, and the potatoes and peanut oil on the other tricycle.

"You have nothing to do? Come with me to Zhoujiazhuang." Zhou Yimin called Luo Dapeng's able-bodied man.

Luo Dapeng didn't waste any words and nodded: "Let's go!"

I went to the black market last night and earned more than three dollars.

Recently, he smokes better cigarettes than his father, and even his elder brother comes to smoke for free. His elder brother is more or less envious now. His younger brother smokes better cigarettes than him, has more pocket money than him, and has an easy and free job.

"Take it."

"Ah! It's a banana. Yimin, your friend is really powerful!" Luo Dapeng said in surprise.

He is not afraid of being laughed at. He has seen bananas in his life but has never eaten them.

This time, Zhou Yimin directly gave him five.

"Give it all to me?" Zhou Yimin nodded: "I'll keep Youde's share for him."

Luo Dapeng happily broke off two sticks and put them aside first, and took the other three home to share with his mother and the others. When he came back, he ate one himself and used the other to show off.

"Wait for me."

After saying that, he sneaked back home like a thief.

"Mom, look at what this is. You've never eaten it before, right?" He took out three bananas and gave them to his mother as if they were presenting a treasure.

His mother's eyes widened: "Dapeng, where are you from?"

"Then don't worry about it. Eat one yourself and don't feed them all to the guards." Dapeng reminded.

He brought the bananas back mainly for his parents, especially his mother. He was not very fond of his sister-in-law and nephew.

I’m afraid that I will feed all the delicious food to my grandson, and that’s not what he wants.

It would be a lie for Dapeng’s mother to say she wasn’t touched.

She loves her youngest son the most, but everyone says that Dapeng is the most ignorant and she spoiled him. Now, her youngest son is filial to her, which makes her feel relieved and happy.

All these years of pampering were not in vain.

"Okay, mom knows."

After her son left, she still only ate half of it, leaving half for Dapeng's father, and the remaining two were given to the guards.

Dapeng saw the thing behind the tricycle, but he didn't ask what it was. He rode on another tricycle and followed Zhou Yimin's pace, heading towards Zhoujiazhuang one after the other.

It seems like there are always people watching the wind near the entrance of Zhoujiazhuang village.

They will be the first to know when anyone enters the village.

Seeing two tricycles entering the village, led by Zhou Yimin, they understood that the food prepared for the school had arrived. Some people even envied the boys and girls going to school.

Who in the village doesn’t know that the food in the school cafeteria will be better than that in the village canteen in the future?

This was decided by Zhou Yimin, and no one in the village objected.

Who doesn't want their children to eat better? I'm not against it. I can't even raise my hands in support.

"Stop here and have a cigarette." Zhou Yimin took out a pack of Zhonghua cigarettes and threw one to Luo Dapeng.

Luo Dapeng was about to say that he also had cigarettes, but when he saw that it was a Zhonghua, he held back his words. Zhonghua! He had never smoked one.

"Don't throw away that box, remember to leave it for me." Dapeng made the request in a very cowardly manner.

Zhou Yimin rolled his eyes and simply threw the pack of Zhonghua cigarettes to him.

Luo Dapeng was so happy that he lost his mind. He counted the cigarettes and found that he had five left. He put the cigarette back and smoked the Daqianmen in his pocket.

The old branch secretary came with his men.

"The school kitchen has not been built yet. It will be placed in the village canteen's warehouse first. No one is allowed to touch it! If anyone dares to touch it, I will chop him into pieces." The old branch secretary warned seriously.

1000 kilograms of potatoes, 800 kilograms of sorghum, 800 kilograms of corn, and kilograms of peanut oil.

This amount of food is enough for the school to use for more than three months.

The food will definitely be better than what they eat in the village canteen, after all, there are only sweet potatoes and potatoes in the village canteen.

"Remember to put them separately, don't put them together." The captain also spoke.

"Secretary, these are pagoda candies for children to use to expel parasites. Please share them. It should be enough for all the children to have two pieces each." Zhou Yimin said, pointing to the three large cans of pagoda candies on the back of the tricycle.

"Okay! I'll divide it."

Everyone sighed in their hearts that Zhou Yimin really worried a lot about the children in the village.

(End of this chapter)