Chapter 79 Buying Catfish
On January 14, Long Jianhua and Pan Wenhua went out to deliver goods in northern Hunan Province. When they got on the bus, Pan Wenhua became excited. The place they went this time had to pass by the lake and could catch wild ducks.
Long Jianhua shook his head, "Brother Wenhua, that's the main place for rice production. I'll buy rice first this time."
Pan Wenhua turned his head and looked at him, "Don't tell me that your family has finished eating so many rice. Each of you has a fixed quota, and I have bought less than 100 kilograms for your family."
Long Jianhua smiled bitterly, "Brother Jianhua, I have to eat half a kilogram of rice every meal. How much do you want each month? Besides, the rice you bought is for two months, and it will be reduced by half after sharing it. Of course, there are indeed many grains, corn and dried sweet potato rice, but if you have rice, who will eat that?"
Pan Wenhua was depressed and said in a silence, "Okay, our main purpose this time is rice."
Instead, he said excitedly, "You said that we are so big and have so many lands, why don't we have enough food?"
Long Jianhua was not easy to respond, so he thought for a while and said, "If the rice in the country is hybrid rice, it can basically double, and there will be no shortage of food at that time. Whether it will be successful or not, the harvest of Team Ninth this year can be seen."
Pan Wenhua immediately asked, "Then produce more hybrid rice seeds."
Long Jianhua felt a little nervous. Seed production does not mean that you can produce as much as you want, it takes time.
In this situation, everyone is not very motivated; if they are not short of money, they will probably delay digging herbs.
To truly solve the problem of eating, we need to wait until all the production is in the household in 1983. At that time, people were more motivated, hybrid rice seeds could be fully supplied, and there were many varieties of fertilizers and a relatively sufficient amount to solve them.
He laughed and said, "You can only eat rice in one bite. This seed has just been researched for less than two years. People are exploring experience. Stay in Haiqiong every day and study rice for three seasons a year. Do you think it's easy for them? Such a big country, it's impossible to step too fast, otherwise it will hurt the eggs."
After unloading the goods at the destination, the two drove out and went straight into a village in the suburbs.
As soon as I entered the village, I saw a farmer coming out and waving at the vehicle.
Pan Wenhua laughed and said, "It's time to save a lot of time."
As a sports car outside, he knows what this means.
The man waved his hand, indicating that he had something to sell at home.
Long Jianhua drove the car near his house, Pan Wenhua pushed open the car door and asked, "Brother, what do you have here? How to sell it?"
The man walked to the front of the car with a cigarette pole, "This season, there are so many things. What do you want to buy?"
Long Jianhua turned his head and looked at him, "Rice and meat, you can carry other good things."
The man squirted a few cigarettes, "There is no pork, but there are beef, rabbits, wild ducks, fish, and rice."
Long Jianhua smiled in his heart.
Hoho, there are still a lot of things.
Pan Wenhua shook his head, "I won't buy rabbits and wild ducks, there are still some at home. How big is the fish? Are there more than ten kilograms? Hands-free for less than ten kilograms."
During the period when he was not out of the car, he asked two fishing experts in the unit how to make bait, found the raw materials and made it at home, and then went around the river with Long Jianhua.
In total, I took action five times. Except for the first time I only harvested about ten kilograms, the other four times were about a hundred kilograms, all three or four kilograms of carp or grass carp.
However, the two were frozen to a great extent. Someone saw them standing in the river to catch fish and said that they "want to eat but not to live."
Long Jianhua told him that if you eat fish, you have to eat more than eight kilograms, and those with less than twenty kilograms are delicious in every part.
It seems that he remembered this sentence.
Long Jianhua got out of the car, "Anyway, I have to buy rice, so let's go and have a look."
When he came to his house, he asked a large piece of fresh beef from the inner room, which cost about twenty kilograms of rice, and the price was 50 cents. Then, he opened a wooden cabinet next to it, which contained more than one hundred kilograms of rice, and the price was 18 cents.
Pan Wenhua muttered, "They are all 15 cents, but you want 18 cents, which is too expensive."
Long Jianhua asked, "Where is the fish? What kind of fish is it? How big is it?"
The man laughed and said, "A catfish is only 6 pounds alive, not ten pounds, so I didn't take it out. 30 cents per pound, you can go in and take a look."
Long Jianhua walked to the inner room and saw a catfish about two feet long, jumping around in a large wooden basin, smacking his lips. He poked his fingers and it shook its tail.
There is also a large wooden basin next to it, with six silver carp and three grass carp inside, all three or four pounds.
He was not interested in silver carp and grass carp, but only in catfish; there were few thorns on catfish, and it was also carnivorous fish, which tasted good.
I turned around and walked out of the inner room and was about to talk, but I saw three more people in my sixties, an old comrade in my twenties and two young men, both with serious expressions.
At this time, Pan Wenhua also looked nervous, while the man stood there with a look of earth.
Seeing Long Jianhua come out, Pan Wenhua glanced at him timidly and said carefully, "This comrade said we were wrong."
Long Jianhua looked at the three of them, took out a brown-red work permit from his pocket, and then quickly opened it.
He had closed it as they squinted.
"Comrade, who do you think speculation?"
The three of them were also confused and hadn't seen it clearly yet. They closed it so quickly. But this is an authentic work permit, so you can't read it again, right?
He immediately said carefully, "Comrade, I just doubt it. This Mo Daonan, I have been staring at him for a long time."
Long Jianhua came to the front of the three of them, pulled a small stool and sat down, and said lightly, "Comrade, your theoretical level still needs to be improved. This is not possible to do work like this. Comrade Daonan sells his own extra things, how could it be wrong? Let's buy some things to eat at home, so why can't it be possible?"
"In the February 1972 instructions, several measures were clearly pointed out: the first one was..."
"You may think Comrade Mo Daonan is engaged in commercial activities, but in fact it is not. He just sold the things he couldn't finish at home and did not buy things to set up stalls on the street. This is allowed. As for the two of us, you are very wrong. We bought them back to eat for ourselves and there will be no more business. Why don't you go with us to take a look?"
The three of them were confused, Pan Wenhua and Mo Daonan were even more confused.
They didn't expect Long Jianhua to speak out one by one, and it seemed quite well-founded.
Obviously, the old comrade and the two people he brought were first shocked by the work permit, and then were stunned by the several measures he had handed out. After sitting awkwardly for a few minutes, he stumbled a few more words, and then quickly left Mo Daonan's home.
Chapter completed!