Chapter 595: Dead National Day
Chapter 595: Dead National Day
The three-day National Day holiday has come to the last day in the blink of an eye.
It could have been a perfect experience, but something went wrong in the black market and many people lost both their money and property.
I spent the money but didn't buy any food, and now I have to watch "others" take away my food. Where can I seek justice?
"Sigh~" Everyone sighed and lay on the bed weakly, not wanting to do anything.
The National Day benefits have been distributed, which consist of just a few kilograms of grain and 3 taels of pork coupons, nothing else.
Everyone is dissatisfied with this year's benefits.
"This year's benefits are worse than before. What good are these two?"
"Okay, stop talking. It's better to have something than nothing. I heard that some small factories don't have any benefits this year. We have these, which is good enough."
"Well, yes, it's better than nothing."
The 3 taels of pork coupons given as a gift, plus the 1 tael of pork coupons given every ten days, were all eaten up on the first day of National Day. Now no one has any new dishes at home.
"Ah~"
"Don't sigh, it's annoying to hear. Don't lie in bed all day. If you have nothing to do, give me a hand."
"If you don't want to work, go out and bask in the sun. Don't be moaning here, doing nothing and making so much noise."
Listening to their wives' nagging, the men went out to bask in the sun like zombies.
People gathered in twos and threes to bask in the sun.
"What are you going to do later?"
"What else can you do? Just stay home."
"There's a movie playing at the steel mill. I'll go watch it after dinner."
"There are no movies to watch in the daytime. They are only shown at night."
"Then stay in the yard."
People gathered in twos and threes to bask in the sun.
"A bunch of lazy bums!" His wife looked at them and was in a bad mood, preferring to sit instead of work.
Losing both money and money is something that would make anyone unhappy.
Especially the Jia family.
The Jia family paid the most money, directly spending half of their family fortune.
"Dongxu, what should we do? The food we have at home is not enough to eat." Qin Huairu looked at Jia Dongxu who was still lying on the bed.
Now we only have about 50 kilograms of food at home, which is not much. But with 5 mouths at home, a lot of food will be consumed in a day.
These 50 kilograms of food will not last more than a month. If we don’t find a solution sooner or later, we will starve to death.
"Oh~" Jia Dongxu sighed. He didn't want to say anything and just wanted to be quiet.
Jia Zhang was also anxious: "Dongxu, don't be silent, we have to find a way."
Originally, 70 or 80 kilograms of food were enough for her to eat for two months, but after coming here and paying off the food debts, only a dozen kilograms were left.
Jia Dongxu got impatient and shouted, "Stop arguing, what can I do? What's the point of you asking me?"
"The money is gone, the food is not available, and the people have been captured. I am not a god, and I cannot conjure up food. I don't know what to do even if you ask me. Can't you two figure out a solution on your own?"
Jia Dongxu felt overwhelmed after hearing this. How could he bear all the pressure on himself?
"This, this." Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu looked at each other. They were both housewives, so there was nothing they could do.
"If I had known, I would not have come back. I would rather suffer in the countryside than starve."
Jia Zhang muttered to herself, lying on the bed with a dejected look on her face, not wanting to care about anything.
"I don't care. Anyway, I have brought the food back, and I can't be left without food." Jia Zhang said unreasonably.
Hearing this, Qin Huairu was furious. You are the one who eats the most in the whole family. Banggeng and Xiaodang need to grow, and Dongxu also needs to eat enough.
After all this, I am the clown? I can't even get enough food for my whole family.
I'm pregnant, so why can't I eat enough?
"Mom, how can you say that?"
"Why can't I say that? I worked so hard in the countryside and brought back food, but you still want to starve me."
"I don't care. If you let me starve, I might as well go back to my hometown. It doesn't matter if it's a bit hard. Just give me back the food I brought."
"Mom, you still have the nerve to say that. If you hadn't taken the food away from home for a day, our family wouldn't have owed everyone food. How can you say that?"
"It's you. It's not my fault!" Jia Zhang was unreasonable again.
"Stop arguing!" Jia Dongxu shouted.
Qin Huairu insisted: "I don't care. If there is no food at home, I don't think it's necessary to give birth to the baby in my belly. I'll take the money and go to the hospital to have an abortion!"
"no!"
"no!"
Jia Dongxu and Jia Zhang were so frightened that they stood up immediately.
"You can't abort the child!"
"I'm going to abort it! Why should I give birth to a child when I can't even eat enough? I'm going to die in my stomach anyway, so I might as well die early and be reborn sooner!"
"No!" they both said in unison.
Jia Dongxu looked at Jia Zhangshi and said, "Mom, don't eat too much. You are old and it is difficult to digest if you eat too much."
Jia Zhang wanted to refute, but she didn't know where to start.
"Whatever you say is what it is."
"Huai Ru, do you think this is okay?"
"Hmph!" Qin Huairu crossed her arms over her chest, not wanting to stand any longer, and lay back on the bed.
The two of them immediately vacated their seats, fearing that they would upset Qin Huairu.
"Well~ Let me think of a solution myself." Jia Dongxu got up reluctantly, took some money and went out.
"Where can I buy food? Let's go and see."
Jia Dongxu went to the supply and marketing cooperative and asked the ticket scalpers outside about the situation.
When the ticket scalpers heard Jia Dongxu's question, they were so scared that they immediately moved away: "I don't know, I don't know, don't ask me about this."
Everyone was afraid that Jia Dongxu was a policeman and was here to get information.
After asking around and finding no one, Jia Dongxu went to the black market to look, but there were still not many people.
"It seems that I can only ask the people in the past?"
Immediately, Jia Dongxu went to find an old acquaintance from whom he had bought things before.
But later, with the help of Li Kailang and the storage of grain at home, Jia Dongxu never went to acquaintances to buy grain again.
bang bang~
"Who?"
"It's me, don't you remember me?"
squeak~
"It's you!" The old acquaintance remembered Jia Dongxu the moment he saw him: "Long time no see, why did you suddenly come to see me?"
"Hey, isn't it because I'm in trouble? I'm really at a loss and that's why I came to you. I'm sure you have a solution."
"Don't flatter me. Tell me what it is. It can't be about food, right?"
"Oh, you guessed it right."
"Hahaha~"
The old acquaintance laughed and suddenly his face changed: "There's no point in asking me for help if there's no food!"
"How could that be? You are so powerful, how could you be out of food?" Jia Dongxu said unwillingly.
"No matter how powerful I am, it's useless. You know what happened two days ago. Fortunately, I sold all my food to them and didn't go there to set up a stall."
"Otherwise you won't be able to see me today. You'll have to see me in prison."
Seeing the old acquaintance's serious face, Jia Dongxu couldn't help but trust him a little more. It seemed that the other party really had no food and his trip was in vain.
"That's fine, I won't bother you anymore. If anyone has food, please help me introduce it to someone else."
"That's fine, we are old acquaintances now."
After a few polite words, Jia Dongxu turned and left.
The old acquaintance looked at Jia Dongxu's back and said, "You want me to introduce you to someone else? You're dreaming! You haven't bought food from me for so long, and I'm going to leave some for you? Do you really think I'm a fool?"
"It just so happens that there are no people here, and no one is competing with me for the business. I'll wait until the hype has died down before selling it." The old acquaintance laughed.
"What a pity." Jia Dongxu shook his head.
In the past, he had food at home and was too lazy to look for this person. Compared to the fluctuations in food on the black market, the price of his food was fixed.
He didn't lower the price when the black market dropped it, and he also raised the price when the black market raised it. Although the price increase was not as big as the black market, it was not much cheaper. "Well, let's wait and see."
Jia Dongxu searched aimlessly.
the other side.
courtyard.
Bai Xiuwen and Cui Yuan met unexpectedly and went to find Li Kailang together.
Cui Yuan whispered, "Are you, Xiao Li, here for food?"
Bai Xiuwen nodded slightly: "You too?"
Cui Yuan nodded gently: "Why don't we go together?"
Bai Xiuwen nodded: "Okay."
Neither of them wanted to look for Li Kailang at first. Both families had a fixed amount of food and few people at home, which was much better than many families in the yard.
It doesn’t matter if they themselves are not full, but the elderly and children at home must be well fed.
The grain merchant was arrested, and after much deliberation they could only seek help from Li Kailang.
bang bang~
"Who?"
"It's me." They both said in unison.
When the two entered the house, they went straight to the point and wanted to buy food.
"What we mean is that you can just name a piece of land and we'll find someone to buy it. We won't bother you."
The two didn't want to trouble Li Kailang, nor did they want him to be talked about by others for helping them.
"Then we will help you bring the food back. Don't worry, we won't let you suffer any loss. We have money, and we will never tell anyone about this. Even our family won't tell anyone."
"If we were caught, we would never betray you. We got the food."
Look at the difference. When Yan Bugui came to him, he only thought about helping himself and the courtyard at the same time, without mentioning any help to him.
With both of them saying so, how could Li Kailang not want to help?
Li Kailang waved his hand: "You two don't have to worry about me. I have my own way to deal with this matter. You just need to prepare the money, and I will get you the food when the time comes."
"There's really no need to trouble you. We can do it on our own. Just tell us where to go and we'll do it ourselves."
"I told you that you can't buy food. They only care about people, not money. No matter how rich you are, they won't sell it to you."
"Okay, it's decided. You two just wait for a few days. When you return home, I'll get you some food."
"This..." The two looked at each other and said, "Thank you for troubling me again. We will pay you first and we will pay your share together."
Li Kailang waved his hand: "It's just a matter of convenience. As for the money, I don't need it. How can a driver like me be short of money?"
"That's it. You two go back and wait patiently for my news."
Seeing that they couldn't win over Li Kailang, the two could only accept the fact: "Okay, then I'll trouble you."
After some pleasantries, the two left.
As soon as he came out, he was instantly stared at by everyone.
"Look, maybe Li Kailang will help them. We have to keep an eye on them. Maybe we can get a piece of the pie."
"That's right. It was because Third Master saw it last time that we were able to buy food from Li Kailang."
"I think we should divide the work? Let's divide the work and keep an eye on them, maybe we can succeed."
All of a sudden, several people made up their minds to start keeping an eye on the two of them from today on.
Li Kailang didn't expect that the two of them would find him first, which saved him the trouble of looking for them.
"I wonder if Master and Senior Brother are short of food at home?"
Although the masters picked up some bargains while driving some time ago, there was not much food left.
"Why think so much? Just ask and you'll know."
Immediately, Li Kailang went to find Zhang Fen first.
As soon as I left the hospital, I saw only a few people walking outside. This was not what National Day should be like.
Without paying much attention, Li Kailang went straight to Zhang Fen's house.
"Do you have a way to get food? How did you do it? I only managed to get 20 kilograms of food a few days ago. How did you do it? Please teach me."
Zhang Fen looked at Li Kailang expectantly and even grabbed Li Kailang's hand.
"Oh~" Li Kailang shook it off in disgust: "It's all in the past, what's the point of me telling you? Just tell me whether you want it or not? How much do you want?"
Zhang Fen nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, yes. The more the better. Who would complain about not having enough food?"
"My father and my father-in-law both need food. How can we not get 1,800 kilograms of it? Do you have any?"
"What are you talking about? You want so much food, do you want to harm Xiao Li?" Yu Xuewei on the side slapped Zhang Fen directly.
Zhang Fen realized that what he said was a bit too much. How could anyone get so much food so easily?
"Yes, yes, I said the wrong thing. A hundred or eighty kilograms is enough."
After saying that, Zhang Fen slapped his lips a few times.
Li Kailang waved his hand: "One thousand eight hundred kilograms is not much, I can get it, you just wait for news, I will bring the food over in a while."
"Xiao Li, you are the best, I admire you!" Zhang Fen gave a thumbs up.
Yu Xuewei slapped him again: "Xiao Li, don't force yourself. A hundred or eighty kilograms is enough. The two of us can't eat much."
As she said this, Yu Xuewei nervously clenched the corner of her clothes. She was also very tempted by the 1,800 kilograms of grain.
With so much food, not only can his small family have enough food to eat, but he can also send some to his parents-in-law and father-in-law.
"Don't worry, there's no need to force this. Just wait for my news. I'll go talk to Master."
After saying that, Li Kailang waved and left, heading straight for his master Zhang Jinwu's house, where Lu Wenjiang happened to be.
"Master, Master's Wife, Senior Brother."
"You're becoming more cheerful." Master's wife Han Xiaohui responded with a smile.
"What's the matter? Is there not enough food at home? Master's wife has some, you can take some."
Li Kailang waved his hand: "No, I am not short of food. I have a way to get food. I wonder if Master, Master's Wife, and Brother want it?"
It’s similar to what I said to Zhang Fen.
"How can you get so much food? If so much food is discovered, it will be troublesome!" Zhang Jinwu said seriously.
Lu Wenjiang and Han Xiaohui also looked at Li Kailang worriedly.
"Cheerful, we can't take risks. We'd rather not have food than get into trouble with you."
"Don't worry, it's safe."
Immediately, Li Kailang gave the reason he had thought of long ago.
"In the village I'm in charge of, the registrar has already made an agreement with the village chief. They plan to conceal the grain from the report."
"Well, if I don't agree to it, they won't be able to do anything. They promised to give me a batch of food as a favor."
"I just agreed because food is so expensive now and I don't want to waste it. Don't worry, this is a secret and no one knows about it except you."
Li Kailang just said this set of numbering arguments.
The three of them nodded unconsciously. As long as the registrar, the village chief, and the driver worked together to conceal the grain, they would definitely not be discovered.
Seeing that the three of them believed his words, Li Kailang nodded, and the matter was let go.
Han Xiaohui was still worried: "Kang Kai, will this make you take risks? What if they don't recognize it?"
"It's not risky at all. If they don't admit it, I will say they are threatening me. After all, I didn't take any food."
Li Kailang came up with another set of remarks, which completely dispelled the worries of the three people.
"Okay, don't worry about the food. I'll put the food in the furniture and send it to you in a few days when the storm has died down."
Li Kailang planned to transport it with furniture, which would be safer: "Pretend that the furniture is broken in the next two days and take it to my house."
"Okay, it's up to you."
After saying this, Li Kailang left and waited for them to deliver the food so that he could find a chance to load the food in and be done with it.
"Go hang out in the black market and see if you can find anyone."
Li Kailang has not yet finished meddling in the matter of buying grain on the black market, and now he wants to find someone to sell it.
Unfortunately, it is not easy to find someone. After walking around two or three times, I still returned empty-handed.
(End of this chapter)