Chapter 359 Continuous Meetings

"Mom, our family is already well off. Qin Huairu can bring back some food from her parents' home every autumn.

Although not much,

But it is much better than other neighbors in the courtyard.

Besides, Uncle He’s family has three chefs, and the family’s money is not enough to spend, so the things given by the Lou family are not very important.”

Jia Zhang knew that her son's words made sense.

But she still felt as unhappy as Xu Fugui and was just venting her anger.

Qin Huairu, who was standing by, heard the conversation between the mother and son of the Jia family, and knew that her mother-in-law was displeased with her for not being able to expand the Jia family and was taking her out on her, so she didn't say anything.

Not long after,
After the neighbors in the courtyard had packed up, they went out together to have breakfast.

He Yushui was chewing the steamed bread vigorously while sighing and saying to He Yuzhu,

"Brother, eating steamed bread every day, when will it end? I want to eat wontons and steamed buns with mutton soup."

Hearing this, He Yuzhu said with a smile,

"Why, now you don't mind that there's not enough filling in the wontons?

It's late! What were you doing earlier?

Now the government stipulates that we common people can only get 6 taels of pork per month. There are 9 people in my family, so we can only get 5 jin and 4 taels of meat coupons per month.
Now you need meat tickets to eat wontons at breakfast stalls outside.

This amount of meat coupons is not even enough to buy meat and make oil, where can I get meat coupons to buy wontons for you!"

Hearing this, He Yushui took a bitter bite of the steamed bread and began chewing it vigorously.

Seeing his daughter's greedy expression, He Daqing smiled and touched her head.
"If you want to eat wontons, it's easy. Ask your sister-in-law to go to the market and buy a pound of meat. Then you can make wontons tonight."

He Yushui was originally very happy when he heard his father talking about making wontons.
I was about to agree, but then I shook my head.

"Forget it, Dad. My brother just said that we have to cut the fat meat with these 5 jin of meat tickets to make oil.

If I cut a pound of meat to make wontons, I would have to eat grass for several days this month.
I can’t eat food without oil.”

Seeing that his daughter was quite sensible, He Daqing nodded with a smile, and did not say anything more about cutting meat and making wontons.
After breakfast,

He Yushui, Li Qingshan, and He Jianguo went to school with their schoolbags on their backs.
Lou Xiao'e and the deaf old lady took He Ying's hand and returned to the courtyard, while He Yuzhu and the other two went to work.

Fengze Garden morning meeting,
The first thing He Yuzhu mentioned was that he responded to the call of the State Council to plant sunflowers and castor beans.

"Comrades,

According to the document issued by the State Council, each of us should plant 5 to 10 sunflowers or castor beans.
But we don't have land in the city, so we can only plant it wherever there is space, in front of or behind the house, or even on the curb outside our Fengze Garden, or in the gaps between bricks.
Plant as much as you can.

After planting, you need to take care of it.

Don’t pull up the sunflowers and castor beans that others have planted on the road when you’re on your way to and from get off work.

If you are caught, you will be in big trouble.”

"Don't worry, Manager He. Daxia is in such a difficult situation right now. We ordinary people should actively respond to the call from above and carry out the task of self-help production.

Besides, we are not the kind of people who have bad hands. We will definitely not pluck those sunflowers and castor beans. If we see anyone doing this, we will actively report it and will not let anyone cause trouble."

……

Seeing everyone's positive attitude, He Yuzhu did not dwell too much on this matter.

The staff members of Fengzeyuan have all been strictly vetted and are loyal to the organization, so he naturally believes in the promises of his comrades.

Just at this time,
A few young chefs below asked about the crackdown on the black market last night, and then others began to join in, asking He Yuzhu to tell them what happened in detail last night.

Hearing them ask this, He Yuzhu thought for a moment and then said,
"To crack down on the black market, all we have to do is have our militia block the roads outside, and have the police station and the street office rush into the black market to catch the turtles in the jar. There's nothing much to say.

But speaking of the black market, I want to remind you here.
From now on, everyone should try to avoid or not go to the black market.
If I am caught by the subdistrict office or the police station and asked to pick someone up, I will not show any mercy.”

"Don't worry, Manager He. Fengze Garden is a place like ours. There's no need to take the risk of buying food on the black market."

Hearing this, He Yuzhu nodded and continued to knock.
"Let's put aside whether it's Fengzeyuan or not. As I said before, you can eat some of the food when it's cooking, but don't go overboard.
When you want to take advantage of someone, don't just grab one person and try to take advantage of him.

one more,
All the things in our Fengze Garden are public property.
I don't want anyone among us to embezzle. It's not a good thing to take advantage of others.

You all understand what I am saying.”

"understand!"

"Okay, in that case, let's get ready and start today's work."

After the meeting, the comrades went back to their daily work, while He Yuzhu returned to the office to deal with the things that had accumulated over the past two days.
Then I checked the account book with the system.
After finding no problem, we had lunch and went to the militia base.

Except for the training ground, the militia station was deserted at this time. Ma Yongqiu and several deputy captains who had stayed up all night last night were dozing off in the office.
Seeing He Yuzhu coming, they all ran to the faucet to wash their faces.

Then I came back to the meeting.

"Young people are different. We all stayed up late last night, and the middle-aged and elderly people like us couldn't even open our eyes, but Zhuzi was still full of energy."

"Hehe horse team,
We are all in our 30s and almost 40s, how can we compare with a young man like Zhuzi?
Zhuzi is only 23 years old this year. If he is not energetic, then wouldn't his previous years of military service be in vain?"

"You can't say that.

In the past, when we were fighting on the front lines, those leaders were also people in their thirties and forties. Once they were busy, they would not sleep for three or four days, but they were still full of energy.

I think we have been living in peace for too long and have become a little lazy.”

"That's not right.

Can leaders be ordinary people? Ordinary people don't have their vigorous energy.

But even so,
After fighting several big battles, they were all defeated!
I think it’s better to be young, because only when you are young you have so much energy and can recover so quickly.”

……

The comrades sat down at their seats while chatting, and then Ma Yongqiu began to talk about what happened last night.

"Enough of small talk, let's get down to business first.
During the raid on the black market last night, although our militia was only responsible for the outer perimeter security, I believe everyone has learned a lot about the situation. "

(End of this chapter)