Siheyuan: Since 1962

Chapter 5 Going to the countryside
After coming to this world, Zhou Weimin has actually been very confused. He feels that he is out of tune with this world and is carefully calculating every step he takes.

After having the space, the first thing he thought of was that he would not have to worry about being noticed by the people in the yard when he ate meat.

But now, he suddenly figured it out. Living his own life well and making the lives of those around him better, isn't this better than focusing his energy on dealing with the schemes of everyone in the yard?

In the future, you need to focus your energy on work, and there will naturally be less messy things.

As long as you are strong enough, the people around you will naturally be good people, even bad people will become good people!

Because Hong Sihai was screening from the farthest commune and working his way toward the nearest, the journey seemed particularly long.

The journey was nearly 80 kilometers, and it took the two of them nearly ten hours to pass through many difficult riding sections.

It was not until late in the evening that the two men arrived at Baima Commune, exhausted.

A few children who were catching insects at the entrance of the village saw the two people and immediately ran into the village shouting happily.

"The projectionist is coming! The projectionist is coming!"

Hearing the child's cry, the commune cadres who were waiting in the house at the entrance of the village immediately came out with a smile.

Showing movies in the village was a big deal these days. People from surrounding villages would even walk over ten miles just to see a movie.

"Projectionist Hong, thank you for your trouble. As usual, let's eat first."

Zhao Dahe walked up to the two men with a smile on his face, and the two young men behind him took the handlebars and helped push the cart.

Showing a movie was a big event in the village, and everyone in the commune was looking forward to it. Many people from other villages would set out at noon and walk more than ten miles just to watch this evening movie.

Treat the projectionist well so that you can concentrate on watching a movie at night, otherwise the movie will definitely be without a black screen and snowy spots.

"It's not hard. That's what we projectionists do. We spread correct ideas and raise everyone's consciousness. President Zhao, this is Comrade Zhou Weimin, a purchaser from our factory. He came with me this time to help the village collect some mountain products so that everyone can have some money to supplement their household expenses."

Hong Sihai waved his hand, spoke out his correct thoughts, and did not forget to introduce Zhou Weimin to everyone.

"So you are the purchasing officer. Welcome. A lot of animals that are destroying food crops have come down from the mountains recently. We have caught them all. We were thinking of going to the city to ask if there are any factories that need them. You have arrived just in time."

Zhao Dahe stretched out his hand and shook hands with Zhou Weimin, appearing particularly enthusiastic. At the same time, he did not forget to ask the militia captain to notify everyone to take out all the hidden mountain products.

He was really happy. After projectionist Hong had said hello, he asked the people in the commune to collect all the mountain products they had found and wait for the buyers from the steel mill to come and purchase them.

Although he was sure that projectionist Hong would not make any mistakes, he felt uneasy until he came. He was afraid that a good thing would turn into a bad one and that everyone would have wasted so much time raising those mountain products.

Now that people are here, he can finally get a good night's sleep.

"President Zhao, you are too polite. I came late and made everyone wait anxiously. I will come to the commune more often to purchase goods in the future, so that the brothers in the commune can suffer less losses."

Zhou Weimin spoke with some apology in his voice. He knew in his heart that if Hong Sihai had not helped to make the arrangements, the mountain products in the commune would not have been kept for him.

In this era of material scarcity, these mountain products are in great demand.

The commune cadres who were following behind the few people all had a look of joy in their eyes after hearing this.

Although mountain products are easy to sell, with buyers coming to the village from time to time to buy them, and if that doesn't work, you can take the risk and sell them on the black market in the city, but in the end you have to find a safe way to sell them.

The president was right. The person that Hong the projectionist brought must be right. Isn't it true that once Zhou the purchaser came, half of the work was done? If we treat him well in the future, it will definitely give the commune more ways out.

"President Zhao, the elm tree at the entrance of our village has finally grown leaves this year."

At this moment, Hong Sihai suddenly stopped, looked up at the elm tree at the entrance of the village, and sighed.

"Yes, it has finally grown, and the days are finally over."

Zhao Dahe also looked at the elm tree with emotion. This tree saved the lives of many people in the village.

During those three years, the leaves of this tree did not stay safely on the trunk like they do this year, but instead went into the stomachs of many people in the village.

This year, I can finally make this old tree grow leaves.

But the emotion only lasted for a moment.

Soon, Hong Sihai and Zhou Weimin, surrounded by the crowd, walked into a house not far from the village entrance.

As soon as I entered the door, I saw a table full of steaming delicious dishes. There were two skinny little guys in the inner room. They lifted a corner of the door curtain, poked their heads out and looked eagerly at the dishes on the table.

But as soon as they entered the door, the two little guys immediately retracted their heads.

Zhao Dahe pulled out a bench for the two of them and said to Zhou Weimin apologetically, "Purchaser Zhou, these are the two boys from Baoxia's family. Her family has had a hard time, and these two boys must have smelled the food and got greedy. When Baoxia is done with her work, she will take them to the next room. I'm sorry to have embarrassed you."

Every time a projectionist came, he would eat at the homes of several poor families in the village, and the leftover food would be left for them so that they could have a good meal.

Today it was Ning Baoxia's family's turn, but they didn't expect that the two boys in his family were secretly smelling the scent and were caught red-handed.

If no explanation is given, and buyer Zhou is upset, which may affect the purchase later, Ning Baoxia's family will have a more difficult life in the future.

"Oh, no, no, the kids are hungry so we can eat some together. We can't finish all the food on this table."

Zhou Weimin waved his hand, but his eyes unconsciously drifted towards the door curtain.

During the past few days since he traveled through time, he hasn't felt too much about the difficulties of this era. It's just that supplies are in short supply and many things are hard to buy.

Although the children in the yard were not as white and plump as children in later generations, they were all full of energy and not as thin as imagined.

But after arriving at Baima Commune, he truly felt what difficulty was.

Compared with these children in the village, the lives of the children in the yard are much better.

There were several children catching insects at the entrance of the village, all of them were very skinny.

The two children of Ning Baoxia's family are already skin and bones. I'm afraid they have been living a life of hunger and starvation.

This had an extremely huge impact on Zhou Weimin, who came from a later generation. He felt inexplicably reluctant.

However, he also knew that this was a common phenomenon nowadays and that he would be unable to help and would only cause himself more trouble.

(End of this chapter)