Yang Dongxu actually does not agree with selling Chinese cabbage now. It has just entered the twelfth lunar month and there is still some time before the New Year. The Chinese cabbage can be taken back to the house and covered with hay so that it won't go bad. It will definitely be more profitable to keep it until the Chinese New Year and then send it to the city.
Grandpa Yang Dongxu has no confidence in making money selling vegetables. Although the land is barren, I don’t know if it was because he was planting Chinese cabbage for the first time. He harvested nearly 4,000 kilograms of Chinese cabbage from two acres of land. This made Grandpa Yang Dongxu very happy and very sad.
So now I start selling vegetables non-stop, for fear that so many cabbages will be squeezed into the market and cannot be sold at the end of the year. In fact, Yang Dongxu really wanted to say, let alone this small amount of Chinese cabbage. Even at the end of the twelfth lunar month when the New Year's goods are abundant in later generations, these Chinese cabbages can be sold by adding a zero after the total weight.
One or two pills are standard for a family. One pill is at least five or six kilograms. If two pills are ten kilograms, Yangjiacun can consume about 5,000 kilograms. Four thousand kilograms of cabbage is a piece of shit. If you carry it to the city, it won't even cause blisters.
It's a pity that no one listened to what he said as a little kid. Seeing his grandfather and father selling vegetables so actively and happily, he didn't cause any more trouble for them. Just be happy, it's not like you were too poor to take the blame last year, and now you don't care about the three melons and two dates.
Walking into Mr. Zhou's house, Zhou Yiren was reading a letter. The first secretary with whom he had spoken had been transferred back to Yanjing at the end of October, so it was no longer as easy as before for the two of them to meet and they had to communicate.
Of course, the letter was not delivered by the postman. The service attitude of the post office is still as speechless as in later generations when people were almost squeezed and could not survive. Not to mention that the current officials are all uncles, and the employees of state-owned enterprises are at least ordinary people. The age of Big Daddy.
Nowadays, the postman usually delivers letters to the school, and then the teacher arranges to read the letters in that village and let the students bring them back after school.
Or send it directly to the town. If someone from your village goes to the town to do the work, the postman will know and say hello, and you can pick it up yourself. I just left the letter at the post office without being greeted. Anyway, when someone sends you a letter, you must be the one who is anxious, not him. If you are anxious, you will definitely ask.
When he saw Yang Dongxu coming in, Zhou Yiren did not put down the letter in his hand, but pouted at the newspaper next to him. A stack of the latest newspapers lay beside it, brought back with the letters.
Now Zhou Yiren is no longer a reform-through-labor member who almost died in the cowshed two years ago, but a great intellectual respected by Yangjia Village. Of course, it would be better if he could build a relationship with the district commissioner through him.
Zhou Yiren naturally sees these things in his eyes and is as kind to people as ever. He just smiles and says nothing when it comes to excessive demands. Those who make demands can only blush and lower their heads and stop talking. People now are much more shameless than people in the future. .
After rejecting several parents who came to visit with gifts, Zhou Yiren slowly became quiet. From time to time, he would selectively accept chicken, fish, meat and eggs from villagers, and then give some gifts in return. When the water is clear, there will be no fish. Although he is a great intellectual, he is not an old-fashioned person. This is still true. got it.
After browsing through the newspaper, there was nothing too surprising. Although judging from some policy reports in newspapers, the country has begun to encourage small businesses, hawkers, and small handicraftsmen, and even a contract for joint venture woolen mills between WLMQ, Hong Kong, and RB has been approved and signed.
However, the large-scale strife that swept through the entire society in the chaotic era still left people with lingering fears. Even with the encouragement of the state, the people were still afraid of another chaos, so they were waiting and watching. The big wave of comprehensive economic development in the past year or two has not yet been launched. .
In Yang Dongxu's impression, it was only around the 1990s that it became popular for people in Yangjiacun to go out to work. In other words, the policies that were encouraged ten years ago did not spread to rural areas until ten years later.
It can be seen that the impact of those ten years is not only the superficial waste of ten years, but also the loss of intangible things is even greater. You must know the mass production after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The people under the Great Leap Forward country encountered ghosts and demons and gods.
"What do you think of the free market?" Zhou Yiren folded the letter he had read and stuffed it into the envelope and asked, looking up. What he said was not Chinese, but Russian.
After Yang Dongxu memorized a thick Russian book of Marxism-Leninism from cover to cover, Zhou Yiren no longer tested his ability to write and recite Russian, but began to practice speaking with him.
"I don't have any opinion. The effect is better than expected, but the progress is still slow." Yang Dongxu shook his head while speaking in Russian.
Nowadays, people, especially farmers, are blindly following. When they see someone around them making money, they will follow suit to see if they can make money.
If you are smart, you sell cabbage and I sell eggs. It is also the nature of the Chinese people to grow cabbages and sell them all without thinking. There is a classic joke in later generations.
There was a gas station next to the foreign highway that was very profitable, so other people started to open a supermarket next to it, which was also very profitable, and then someone opened a restaurant next to it, which was also doing good business. Gradually, the desolate surrounding area became filled with gas stations. Stand prosperous.
In China, it is very profitable to open a gas station next to the highway, so others also opened a gas station opposite you, and then someone opened two gas stations on your left and right, and slowly... everyone together Drink the northwest wind.
However, this kind of blind obedience is not necessarily bad. For example, the current blind obedience is good. When they saw Yang Dongxu's family making money, the people in Yangjia Village started to move. When they saw the people in Yangjia Village making money, the people in the surrounding villages started to move.
The material base is extremely scarce now, so there won’t be any runs or price wars. Everyone can make money by taking care of their own little thing. This will play a role in promoting the market in the town and even the city. The effects are all positive.
That's why Yang Dongxu said that the effect was better than imagined. But the progress was a little slow, because the real small businessmen and hawkers, commonly known as second-hand traders, did not appear. Farmers sell their own things, and few people buy other people's things and sell them to the city to earn the price difference.
Even the aquatic products sold by Yang Dongxu's family in the summer are not even considered fair trade, although their family seems to make a little more than other families. But that's just because the supply and marketing cooperative has a large channel. If they set up their own stalls to sell like other villagers, they would lose money not counting the value of their labor force.
Yang Dongxu didn't want some black-hearted second-hand dealer to appear, but he wanted to guide him appropriately. After all, farmers are not real businessmen. Only when there are more small businessmen and hawkers can market liquidity accelerate, because the economic driving force unleashed by profit-seeking businessmen is immeasurable.
It is a pity that in this era, a single accusation of speculation has killed all the businessmen in their buds. Except for a few adventures that cannot be uncovered, although people's lives are more convenient and free than before, this level is still limited.
"What do you think of the newly established special zone?" Zhou Yiren said after thinking for a while.
"I have never been to the Special Economic Zone, nor have I seen the development of the Special Economic Zone, so I don't have any opinions." Yang Dongxu grinned with an innocent smile.
Zhou Yiren glanced at Yang Dongxu and shook his head helplessly.
Sometimes Zhou Yiren would feel that the child in front of him, who was less than seven years old, was like a wise man about the same age as himself, with a profound understanding of the development of this era.
It's a pity that the little kid in front of me is as slippery as a loach. He is extremely shrewd in small things. When it comes to big things, he will pretend to be confused and never interfere.
For example, he is very concerned about the affairs of Wuli Zhen and Yangjiacun, and is willing to see Yangjiacun and the surrounding villages live a good life.
But if he rises to Chengwang District, he will start to be secretive. If he rises to Wan Province, he will pretend to be confused. If he rises to the national level, he will simply keep silent. Zhou Yiren thought of various ways to do this, but he couldn't change Yang Dongxu's lazy temperament.
A sparrow can be fed without opening its mouth, but it will spit it out after you feed it. How can you keep it alive?
"Today's homework is doubled." Zhou Yiren took off his reading glasses and wiped them with the corner of his clothes. He took the newspaper and started reading it. Then deal with Yang Dongxu. This is one of the few punishment methods he can use every time he encounters Yang Dongxu pretending to be stupid. .
Yang Dongxu, who had become accustomed to it, said nothing. With an innocent expression on his face, he picked up a Russian poetry collection and started reading with his tongue knotted.
In fact, Yang Dongxu didn't want to cheat and wanted to do something. But when Zhou Yiren's eyes became brighter and brighter, the matters discussed with him became bigger and more serious. He suddenly realized that he had gone too far.
It's a good explanation that you are smart and have strong learning ability. You have a good brain so that you can draw inferences about other cases when encountering problems. But what you said and the opinions you gave were better than those of leaders at the municipal, provincial, and even national levels. This is abnormal.
Although Yang Dongxu was sure that Zhou Yiren would not harm him, others could not guarantee it. Because Zhou Yiren always wanted to do something for this country and the people because of his scholarly temperament, he suddenly caught Yang Dongxu as if he had found a treasure. He understood.
However, if a tree is beautiful in the forest, it will be destroyed by the wind, and if it is taller than the shore, it will be turbulent. He must restrain his sharpness and not be too outstanding. Chen Weimin came over to talk to him more than once, instead of talking to Zhou Yiren.
Of course Yang Dongxu understands this truth, and Zhou Yiren naturally understands it too. So although he was anxious, he only used this method to punish Yang Dongxu. Instead of forcing anything, he even helped Chen Weimin with many things, so that Chen Weimin no longer looked at Yang Dongxu like he was looking at a monster.
After concentrating on completing today's lessons, Yang Dongxu ran to the threshing floor and went crazy with a group of little kids after coming out of Zhou Yiren's house.
This is one of Yang Dongxu's cover-up methods to curb his sharpness. In the past nearly a year, he has been too independent and his wife is too well-behaved. Although it gives his parents face, he has become "someone else's child" in the words of the neighbor's parents. But obviously this is not the result he wants.
So when a wall of a classroom in the school collapsed, classes could not be held and the children were given a break. Yang Dongxu also let himself go, regardless of whether he can regain the happiness of childhood.
It's not fun to have dad slap your butt a few times every day if you're not naughty or mischievous. Today I'm either going to beat this kid, or I'm going to bring a group of kids to beat that kid tomorrow.
The bastard's character prevented him from becoming someone else's child in the eyes of his neighbors. The villagers who were originally paying attention to his strange behavior gradually began to call him a bastard.
Even Zhou Yiren wondered whether he had been too harsh before. Although the child in front of him was very smart, observant of many things and had a sensitive sense of smell, he was only a child after all. How could he be a wise man. Therefore, although he still discussed some things with Yang Dongxu, he no longer sat upright as before, became more and more casual, and began to think more and more by himself.
