Siheyuan: I Raised Ten Thousand Wild Boars

Spinning Workshop 2

When the female workers saw Li Guohua coming in, they all started to giggle.

Since his first day at work, this guy has been coming to the workshop every day for no reason, and everyone knows him.

After taking a few quick steps, I finally arrived in front of the young girl's machine. She was standing with a woman who was in her thirties.

"Guohua is here?"

This is the young worker’s master, Sister Yu.

"Yes, it's all right, come and take a look at the machine!"

Facing the elder sister's smile, Li Guohua was a little embarrassed. She is at work, and you come here every day to stroll around.

"Yunxia, ​​I'll go ask someone to move the spindles over first. Please wait for me for a moment!" Sister Yu said to the young worker.

The young worker is Zhao Yunxia, ​​18 years old, from Zhaojia Village in the north of Beijing. Both her parents are farmers, and she has two younger brothers and a younger sister.

Because he had learned from an old scholar in the village when he was a child and could read and write, he was recommended by the commune to work in the textile factory.

"Li Guohua, I heard that you caught a big wild boar. Is that true?" The young female worker asked with eyes wide open and a face full of joy.

When Li Guohua dragged the wild boar to the gate, the textile factory caused a sensation, and then some people with ulterior motives started to spread the news everywhere.

Although it was working hours and Zhao Yunxia could not go out, her co-workers who were pulling yarn told her about this happy event.

"Of course I did. I felt so bad when I saw my fellow workers getting thinner and thinner due to production tasks! I thought I had to do my part! So I went into the mountains yesterday, and after squatting all night, I finally caught that stupid pig!"

Li Guohua pretended to glance at the young female worker's figure casually and made a sarcastic comment.

After more than half a month of getting along, Zhao Yunxia also realized that Li Guohua was not a bad person. With Li Guohua feeding her from time to time, their relationship quickly warmed up.

"Huh, you're just bragging. How did you catch such a big wild boar?" Zhao Yunxia obviously didn't believe him.

Wild boars were not rare at this time and could be seen frequently in the countryside. They often came down the mountain in groups to harm crops, causing headaches for every commune. Every year during the slack season, the commune would organize people to go into the mountains with guns to hunt wild boars.

But even so, people are often injured by wild boars. How could Zhao Yunxia believe Li Guohua's claim that he caught it alone?

"How did you catch it? Of course you knocked it down with one punch. In ancient times, Wu Song killed a tiger, and now Li Guohua kills a wild boar. It makes sense!"

Seeing Zhao Yunxia's face full of disbelief, Li Guohua wanted to tease her.

"Hmph, you're talking nonsense. I'm not going to pay any attention to you!" Seeing that he was unwilling to talk, Zhao Yunxia immediately used her ultimate move.

At this time, Sister Yu also came in with a few people, and Li Guohua knew that she was going to get busy again.

"Here, don't let anyone else see it, and remember to give one to your master!"

Li Guohua stuffed two tickets into Zhao Yunxia's hand, then turned and left.

"Ah! Bad guy!"

Zhao Yunxia looked down and almost cried out, it turned out to be two meat tickets, and quickly stuffed them into her pocket. Looking at Li Guohua's back, her eyes were filled with happiness.

Zhao Yunxia loves to eat meat. This was told to Li Guohua by Sister Yu, the young female worker's master.

But she is still an apprentice, and her monthly salary is only 18 yuan. After deducting food and drink, she also wants to support her family, so she has no money to eat meat.

Li Guohua shot a big wild boar today, and the factory is going to eat the meat tomorrow, but it is impossible for so many people in the factory to all get a share.

The Logistics Department was just preparing the meat tickets, which will be distributed to various departments and workshops in due course.

Li Guohua shamelessly got two from Zheng Aimin and sent them to the young female worker. If Han Wenlong knew about this, he would definitely say that he had no humanity for the opposite sex.

After coming out of the spinning workshop, Li Guohua saw that it was still early, so he decided to ride his bike home.

As I was wandering along, when I passed Guandong store, I saw many people setting up stalls on the roadside to sell things.

The Guandong store is one of the 35 free markets in the suburbs of Beijing. It mainly sells vegetables, chicken, duck, fish, eggs and other non-staple foods. Its main sales targets are the surrounding workers and urban residents.

In addition to supply and marketing cooperatives and professional companies selling products here, there are also farmers and vendors selling their agricultural products on the roadside.

Although individuals are not allowed to do business now, economic adjustments are still necessary. The superiors have said that farmers cannot be condemned with one blow.

比如京西矿区的坨里集市每月逢双日有集，东郊区的东坝、孙河两个集市每月3日、7日、10日有集。长辛店旧厂每年腊月24日、27日、29日有三天集。

That is, after natural disasters, the superiors began to strictly manage the allocation of materials. But at that time, even if you had money, you couldn't buy anything on the street.

Of course, farmers can bring their own agricultural products to the market to sell, but the quantity must not be too large, otherwise there will definitely be a problem. Who has so much to sell? Is it stealing from the brigade? Is it fleecing socialism? They must explain clearly.

There is another advantage of buying things in the free market. Although you still need tickets, it is cheaper than the supply and marketing cooperatives. Some even do not require tickets and can directly barter.

In addition, private grain trading and bill trading are also illegal and are subject to crackdowns. Most of them are done secretly, and if they are not caught by the red armbands, then they are fine.

Otherwise, with the monthly ration of the Jia family and so many children in the third uncle's family, how could they have enough to eat? They only managed to survive by spending money to buy private grains or exchanging their refined grains for coarse grains.

Li Guohua actually didn't have anything to buy, but when he saw someone selling garlic, ginger and the like, he bought some to see if he could grow the seeds himself.

When he was returning to the city and passing through Chaoyang Gate, he stopped again because he saw several people carrying bricks.

These are not the bricks sold by merchants, but bricks directly removed from the city walls.

The tower of Chaoyang Gate was demolished a long time ago. The place they are reclaiming now seems to have been the watchtower. It has been demolished almost completely, with only some ruins and foundations left.

Only then did Li Guohua remember that these old city walls and gate towers had been lost in the past few years.

In 57, someone proposed a general construction plan for the capital, which proposed demolishing the old towers and walls. But later, opposition voices emerged and the Ministry of Culture called a halt to the plan.

I don’t know what happened later, but the opposition voices disappeared and the demolition started again this year.

Anyone who wants to renovate their house, or build a pigpen or cowshed in the countryside, will come here to get bricks. It's amazing.

What a waste of resources!

The gate tower was covered with glazed tiles, the two upper beams were made of nanmu, and the outer shell was made of red pine. Now no one knows where all of them have gone.

By the way, I heard that when the tower was demolished, silver ingots were dug out from under the pillars of the tower. I wonder if there are any under the arrow tower. Li Guohua searched everywhere with confidence, but found nothing.

If this news is released, everyone must know about it. Even if they don't know, as long as they find it in one place, the demolition units in other places will also check carefully, so there is no way they will get their turn.

Li Guohua shook his head with a wry smile.

Forget it. If I can't get nanmu and silver ingots, some bricks would be good. Looking around, there were not many people around at noon. Li Guohua began to tinker secretly along the ruins.

Hey! Don't say this thing is worthless, but it is useful! Whether it is for renovating the courtyard house in the future or for other purposes, it can be used.