Seventy-year-old book: The villain Zaizai’s best mother

Every year after the wheat harvest and the autumn harvest are the times when each production team pays public grain. During those days, there are long lines of motorcades from the main road to the concrete floor in front of the grain management station.

The sun was scorching the earth fiercely in the sky. The old farmers who paid the public grain were all tanned, with handkerchiefs hanging around their necks that smelled of sweat, and their scalps were all oily from the sun.

In order to deliver the public grain that day, they set out before dawn. The wheat was packed in various bamboo baskets and large bamboo baskets, and the wooden carts were either hitched to animals or pulled by humans.

Even if you arrive early, you may not be able to deliver the public grain to the grain management office smoothly. You have to wait first. The staff will not open the door before 08:30, and they will not go to work even one minute early.

When the staff opened the door, three or four clerks lazily came out, carrying scales, accounting books, and testing tools. There were one or two staff members who looked impatient and shouted at the members who were handing in public rations, telling them to be quiet, to line up, and to stop asking random questions.

Captain Gu and several young men drove three livestock carts, pulling loads of wheat.

In previous years, he was very nervous because if the clerk said it was stuck, it would be stuck. During the inspection, if the wheat was not dry, you had to pull it back. If you didn't want to pull it back, you would dry it in the open space next to it until they said it was qualified before it could be put into storage.

Accountant Liu said that he should express his intention to the clerk, so that they would not deliberately jam it, and he could give it as long as it was almost the same, but Captain Gu refused.

Captain Gu feels that the production team pays public grain for free. Logically speaking, clerks should actively serve the production team, so why are they putting on airs? If the public grain cannot be collected, they will not be allowed to eat melons? Accountant Liu said that if they force you to pay, then your team's public grain quota will not be met, and they will not give you fertilizers, pesticides, seeds and other quotas.

Gu Dazhu, Captain Gu's eldest son, looked at a clerk coming and quickly reminded Captain Gu, "Dad, Fatty is here."

The fat man's name is Liu Feitong. In this era when the average person is thin, he is so fat and has big ears, which shows that he eats a lot more food.

Liu Feitong walked around, and the captain of the production team came up to greet him, handed him a cigarette, and quietly stuffed something into his pocket while he was lighting the fire, which was a sign of goodwill.

Liu Feitong stretched out his hand and pinched it. When he knew how much it was, he smiled happily, stepped forward to grab a few grains of wheat, put one in his mouth, bit it, and nodded, "Yes, not bad."

Upon seeing this, other captains also asked him to check theirs.

Liu Feitong strolled over to Captain Gu and waited for Captain Gu to mean something.

Captain Gu smoked his pipe without saying anything.

Liu Feitong curled his lips and his eyes turned contemptuous. The old man was not well-informed at all. He glanced around and scolded, "Why are you driving the animals here? This is not allowed. People here pay public grain, and there are people who want to dry the grain here. You are driving the animals here, and you are shitting again." It’s peeing again, it’s unhygienic!”

He shouted to Captain Gu to unload the animals, and no animals were allowed to pass in front.

Captain Gu pointed angrily at the overly concerned captain, "Aren't they also driving animals?"

Liu Feitong: "I brought a dung bag."

Animal manure is fertilizer, and no one is willing to leave it outside to be picked up by others.

Captain Gu: "Can his feces bag hold urine?"

Liu Fei choked up, "They have to take it off too, and you have to take it off even more."

Captain Gu didn't do anything against it, so he just asked his men to unload the animals and just pull over this road.

He asked Dazhu to lead a few animals to drink water and feed them. They brought their own fodder.

Liu Feitong stretched out his hand to grab a handful of wheat from the big basket and tasted one, "Ah, bah, you came to hand over the public grain before it was dried. How can you do this?" He pointed at Captain Gu, "You guys are so stupid. Don’t dry anything inside, go back and dry it before coming back.”

Captain Gu immediately became angry, "We specially dried them in the sun, and when you bite them, they will crackle. I guarantee that the ones you said are qualified will not be drier than ours."

Liu Feitong stared at his shrewd little eyes and said, "Don't shout. This is a matter of policy and rules. What I say doesn't count, and what you say doesn't count."

Captain Gu: "Isn't that what you said? Why do you think it's okay to just say what you said?"

Liu Feitong was choked by him. This old man was strangely capable of making arguments.

He was making a noise here, and Zhang Danping happened to be riding a bicycle. She had to go to the Revolutionary Committee to do something, so she stopped by to say hello to the Gujialing production team.

Zhang Danping has been to Xia Mingshuang's house several times. Xia Mingshuang also asked her to help buy fertilizers and pesticides for Captain Gu, so she knew them all.

When she saw this, she rode over and greeted Captain Gu with a smile, "Uncle, where are the public rations?"

Captain Gu was originally sullen, but when he saw Zhang Danping, he didn't take it back so quickly, "Hey, Manager Zhang, you are busy."

Zhang Danping laughed and then waited for Liu Feitong, "Da Liu, what's going on?"

When Liu Feitong saw Zhang Danping coming, he immediately smiled and showed his attentiveness. At the age when he was looking for a partner, he had already fallen in love with Zhang Danping, but it was a pity that Zhang Danping was not interested in him.

Although she didn't say it explicitly, she disliked him for being fat, snobbish, and having dirty hands and a dirty mouth. In short, she disliked him in various ways.

Liu Feitong said: "It's okay, I'm checking the public rations. Pingping, are you looking for the director?"

Zhang Danping: "Yes, I want to talk to my uncle about something." Then she said to Captain Gu: "Uncle, don't worry, your production team completes its tasks conscientiously every time, and the Revolutionary Committee praises us. We Sister Mingshuang also said that Captain Gu is a serious and hard-working captain, he is serious about harvesting wheat, drying it and handing over public grain."

Captain Gu felt embarrassed after being praised like this by her, and scratched his head, "It's nothing, it's nothing, it's all what we should do."

Captain Gu felt very happy, knowing that Xia Mingshuang spoke hard for the team. It seemed that this time the public rations were stable.

Zhang Danping smiled, said goodbye, and then rode to the Grain Management Office.

As soon as she left, Liu Feitong smiled at Captain Gu and said, "Hey, Captain Gu is relevant, it's a big deal. Okay, you've passed the test."

Captain Gu was not grateful to him either. This was the power of relationships and the face of Xia Mingshuang, Zhang Danping and her uncle.

Hey, when did you stop being impatient and just follow the rules?

Several production teams in the team were judged to be unqualified by Liu Feitong and another clerk. They had no choice but to go to the square to dry their grains.

Captain Gu went over to chat for a few words and quietly tasted their wheat grains. The other clerk made a reasonable judgment and found that two production teams had indeed not dried them in the sun, so he came over in a hurry to hand them over.

He said: "Brother, the public grain should be dried in the sun. If it is not dried, it will be stored in the warehouse and moldy and sprout. In that case, not only will this truck be lost, but also a warehouse will be lost."

The captain also looked ashamed, "Who says it's not the case? We are also anxious."