Chapter 29: The Apple That Crossed the River Smuggling!(Ask for Collection, Ask for Recommendation)

(I'm on my birthday today, so I'm only going to change one chapter, and I'm not going to have a night out, I'm going to rest for my birthday!!) )

"Are you six or four?" Jia Lei asked.

"No, you and the sixth child of the Su family, we and the fourth of the other two families, you go back and help me bring a message to the boy of the Su family and ask him if he is doing it!"

"Why are you giving us so high?" asked Jia Lei in surprise.

"I'm not as calculating as Su Yixing, you must know that selling things to Maozi is ten times more expensive than the border trade zone, and we can earn four times more than forty percent, and sixty percent sounds like a lot, but it is a lot of money to open the gate, apples are not like socks and gloves that do not take up space, and Maozi is limited in weight! Ordinary people will not bring apples at all, and bringing other things in the past can sell a lot more money than apples. Look at how many of those dumpers at the gate are selling fruits!" said Jia Sanye.

The people in the village knew that apples could be sold at a high price, but because they could not pass the threshold, in previous years, they could only sell them at the domestic market price for only 1 yuan per kilogram.

This is the reason why fruits are sold at a high price in the Soviet Union, and there are at least dozens of pairs of socks and gloves for the same pound, but apples are at most three, and this thing is afraid of touching and difficult to preserve. It's never been a favorite cargo.

"We did it! But it's changed to Sanqi, I heard Su Er's cousin say that there are still many checkpoints along the way, I'm afraid that after passing a checkpoint, you will have to peel off a layer of skin!" Jia Lei looked at the mountains of apples and gritted his teeth.

Even if there is no chemical fertilizer and bulking agent to fertilize the land in the northeast, there are at least 60,000 or 70,000 kilograms of apples in a mountain.

Even if they are sold for only ten rubles, these apples can be sold for six or seven hundred thousand rubles!

People die for money, birds die for food!

****

The next day, the border trade zone

"What are you talking about? You said that the third master wants me to help your village sell apples?" asked Su Renfeng in disbelief.

"That's right, it's selling apples!" Jia Lei nodded and said.

"It's okay with that, you let them send it over, and I'll pull it over and help him sell it." Su Renfeng said indifferently.

"I can't pull it! There are too many apples. Jia Lei whispered.

"There are too many apples, how many?" asked Su Renfeng.

"One ......" Jia Lei stretched out a finger.

"A thousand pounds! Then my car really can't fit it, so I'll send these apples to Mr. Amy first, and when I come back, I'll help the third master pull the apples over and sell them." Su Renfeng thought for a while and said.

"No! more than that. Jia Lei said expectantly.

"Is there 10,000 catties? How can I get so many apples, the Russian GIs at the pass who rely on Natasha's brother's relationship will not detain my car, but my small truck will have to run at least seven or eight times if I want to pull 10,000 catties of apples, it is too conspicuous. Su Renfeng shook his head and said.

"It's not 10,000 catties, it's more than that!" Jia Lei lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Su Renfeng and said.

"You...... Tell me how many apples there are!" Su Renfeng asked frantically.

"A mountain! There is a mountain of apples. Jia Lei finally told Su Renfeng the truth.

"Yishan apples, are you talking about the apple orchard in Gangyao Village?" asked Su Renfeng in disbelief.

"Yes, it's our village's apple orchard. Jia Lei whispered.

"You're so bold that you've broken through the sky, that mountain of apples is at least sixty or seventy thousand kilograms, how can you let me get through the customs! Are you blind when the patrols on both sides of the pass are blind? Do you know how troublesome it is to go through the formalities now, and it will take a month to complete the formalities one by one, and then the weather will be minus 30 degrees Celsius, and the apples will freeze to death!" Su Renfeng said frantically.

"I can't do this thing, you go back to the third master!" Su Renfeng said.

"Don't! Do you know how many molecules the third master gave us? Sanqi Kai, the third master said that after the apples were sold to Maozi, they only took 30 percent, and the remaining 70 percent were ours! Even if there were only 60,000 kilograms of apples and 10 rubles a kilogram, we would be able to earn 420,000 rubles on this trip!" Jia Lei hurriedly said.

"420,000 rubles! This is ......," Su Renfeng hesitated.

****

"It's 420,000 rubles for a trip, why are you still hesitating, of course you have to do it!" Natasha looked at Su Renfeng and said, knowing that his parents' life savings were only 100,000 rubles.

"But I can't transport so many apples, and even if they do, I won't have a place to sell them!" Su Renfeng said.

"Don't worry about this, let's find a way to transport the apples first! You must know that the bureaucratic class in the Soviet Union is close to 7 million people, but it is only a few tens of thousands of kilograms of apples, and there will definitely be no left. Natasha said indifferently that the Soviet Union was extremely short of fruits, even 600,000 catties were not enough to sell.

"I immediately called my brother and asked him to come over and talk about it. Natasha said.

****

In the middle of the night, the wind was high, and you could see five fingers when you stretched out your hand.

A patrol near the boundary river carefully shone a flashlight on the grass on the bank of the river to prevent smugglers from hiding inside.

"It's okay, come here!" someone in the cornfield by the river took a flashlight in the direction of the village, three long and one short!

There was a sound of sooting in the cornfield, and then someone led the carriage from the direction of the village.

In the bright moonlight, seven wagons lined up at once, and out of the cornfields behind them came hundreds of young men and women, who carried either on their backs or two on their backs, and put them on the wagons, which they had hidden in the cornfields during the day, and then pulled them by the wagons through the pre-cut barbed wire fence to the boundary river.

After using a flashlight and making a code signal on the other side, someone immediately set up a pontoon bridge on the other side of the boundary river for the carriage to pass.

"Hurry up, we only have 20 minutes!" the third master rushed with a cigarette bag and pot, and he just wanted to smoke a bag of cigarettes as usual and quickly extinguished the match. How obvious the light of the fire in the dark night must be to be discovered!

The men and women of Gangyao Village immediately sped up, the corn field was more than fifty meters away from the boundary river, and the carriage was pulled up to 1,000 catties at a time, and they had to unload the truck quickly when they arrived at the opposite side!

Fortunately, they were not alone, as soon as the carriage arrived on the opposite side, a company of soldiers helped them unload the cart, and it was unloaded in only 5 minutes, and the carriage hurried to run again, so they sent 20,000 catties of apples in 20 minutes.

"When the time comes, hide!" said a Russian officer, looking at his watch.

The villagers quickly hid back in the cornfield, and the Russian side quickly took back the pontoon bridge, and seven or eight minutes later, another patrol of Chinese soldiers slowly walked over from here!

The night was still long! The same thing had happened four more times before the villagers returned home.

****

In general, there is a half-hour gap between patrols, which seems like a lot of time!

Don't forget that the patrol is not only on the Chinese side, the patrol time of the Soviet Union and the Chinese patrol are just complementary, that is, there is a patrol within 15 minutes!

But today, the Soviet patrols have been bought, and instead of catching the smugglers, they took the initiative to drive the pontoon bridge and let the smuggled goods pull things from the bridge through horse-drawn carts.

And the car that Mao Ziguo is responsible for pulling apples here is also a military truck provided by them!

****

"Did the Chinese people of Kebul really agree to give us 20% of this shipment?" asked the head of Mao Ziguo's border guard, looking at the four truckloads full of apples.

"Yes, Commander! The owner of this batch of apples promised to share 20% of the income with our group, and the owners of the apples were my brother-in-law and his relatives, who lived in the town of Sanchakou, a few kilometers away from the Jiehe. It's so close, they won't dare to deceive us!" said Natasha's brother, standing behind his chief.

"That's right, the village of the people on the other side is within the range of our guns, and they absolutely don't dare to play tricks! And they still have hostages in our hands, right?" said the head of the border guard regiment, glancing at Jia Lei and Su Renfeng, who were carefully checking the numbers.

"Yes, I told their village chief! My brother-in-law and the village chief's grandson will go with us. They are temporarily held hostage to us!", said the commander of the Kesbull battalion.

Because Jia Lei didn't know Russian, he couldn't hear what Natasha's brother and his chief were saying

If Jia Lei understood the words of the head of the regiment, he would definitely shout that he was wronged, although he was indeed the grandson of the third master, but he was not his own grandson, what if the third master didn't want hostages and just money?

There are more than 20 grandsons of the third master, and his old man's grandson is not worth anything at all!

"That's fine, let's hurry back and pull things back! Save yourself a moment when the Huaxia patrols will find out!" the regiment commander finished speaking, and the four large trucks started their engines at the same time, and the roaring sound of the engines was heard far away in the silent night.

****

"What happened on the other side?Why did Maozi suddenly move his troops to the boundary river?" the Huaxia patrols were attracted by the lights of the trucks and the sound of engines.

"I don't know! We should report it to the top right away. The captain of the patrol said, and then he personally trotted all the way to the station.

"You said that several large trucks of Maozi's army suddenly came to the boundary river?" asked the head of the Huaxia regiment.

"Yes, sir!" replied the patrol leader.

"Did they make any moves to approach the Boundary River?" asked the regimental commander.

"No! We didn't find these trucks at first, they must have been camouflaged! By the time we found them, they had already left the Jiehe River and were returning to the Soviet Union, and they turned on their lights and removed the camouflage. The patrol leader said.

"Even if we found out earlier, it wouldn't work, as long as they didn't cross the border, let alone a few trucks, or even a few tanks they drove over, we wouldn't do anything. At most, send a diplomatic letter asking about the purpose!" said the staff officer.

Of course, if there are really a few Soviet tanks running near the boundary river, then the tanks of the Huaxia Kingdom will also go for a walk near the boundary river!

If it's just a truck, don't be too nervous!

After all, the Soviets are moving in their own place, and as long as they do not cross the border, the border guards must not meddle in the internal affairs of the Soviets.

****

Early the next morning, the patrol found footprints and wheels outside the cornfield, and followed the footprints and wheels all the way to the village.

"You ask us what we went to the boundary river yesterday to harvest corn, recently corn has become a matter of course everyone has to harvest, and if we don't harvest it, it will rain. Third Master Jia said with a cigarette pouch and pot in his mouth.

"Why aren't there so many footprints during the day?" asked the person who came to investigate.

"The weather is too hot during the day, everyone doesn't like to move, and it is cool to work at night! Yesterday the moon was good, and you could see everything you were doing. Third Master Jia said with a cigarette pouch and pot.

Anyway, he had already ordered it, no matter who asked, he said that he was going to harvest corn, and it didn't matter if he believed it or not!

The villagers sold apples to Maozi, but did they respond to the country's call to earn foreign exchange through exports?

****

"The investigation has made it clear that it was the nearby villagers who sold the fruit from the orchard to the other side!" the scout reported back.

"This ...... Are you going to arrest someone?" someone asked.

"Who are you arresting? Are you arresting the common people? That's the young and strong people of a village, who will take care of the rest of the old, young, sick and disabled?" The regiment commander asked angrily, and these ordinary people beat the idea of not being held accountable by the law.

"But they smuggled. Someone else said.

"You said they were smuggling! Did you see that? Did you catch them? If you don't catch anyone on the spot, who will admit the stolen goods! Anyway, you will only receive apples once a year, and you will sell them! You will treat them as exporting to earn foreign exchange. The head of the regiment said helplessly.

The smuggling of border people has never stopped for hundreds of years, and generally speaking, as long as the item is not contraband, both sides can only turn a blind eye!

Is it possible to arrest all the border people, and where will the garrison go to buy vegetables, food, and daily necessities?

"You all give me a bright spot!, don't let people mess around next time!" said the regimental commander angrily.

****

In fact, when the Soviet Union collapsed in the 90s, the attitude towards smuggling has always been to turn a blind eye!

Otherwise, how did those planes, tanks, guns and production lines be transported, and the contraband could not pass the customs openly, of course, they were smuggled in by various methods.

Compared with these things, it is really not a big deal for border people to sell some apples!

****

"How are you going to sell these apples?" asked Su Renfeng.

"I'm going to sell it to Mr. Amy Volga, we worked together once before, he is very interested in the fruit from China and is willing to buy it for 15 roubles a pound, I can go and ask him. "Su Renfeng.

"Amy Volga, I heard that he sold a batch of fruit on the black market in Vladivostok the other day for 22 roubles per catty, which I bought from you. The head of the regiment looked at Su Renfeng and said.

"Yes, but I'm worried that Mr. Amy will be able to eat so many apples! After all, there are 83,000 kilograms of apples this time. Su Renfeng said worriedly.

"Why Amy Volga, wouldn't we make more money if we shipped the apples to Vladivostok and sold them ourselves?" asked the regimental commander suddenly.

"But I can't get there, because there are many checkpoints along the way to get the apples to Vladivostok. Only someone like Mr. Amy could get things there, or they would be confiscated by the police and soldiers on the road. Even if it is shipped to Vladivostok, I can't find that many buyers!" Su Renfeng said.

"Just because you can't do it doesn't mean we can't, and since Amy Volga can transport apples to Vladivostok, I'll be able to! The regimental commander glanced at the other soldiers in the room and said that the other officers discussed it and thought it was a good idea.

"We can help you get the apples to Vladivostok and sell them, but we have to pay more?" said the regimental commander.

"What did he say?" Jia Lei asked anxiously, and Su Renfeng translated it for him.

"Add money...... How much?" Su Renfeng asked after thinking about it.

After all, you didn't do anything, and we did the transportation and finding buyers? Do you ask the owner of the apple to agree?" said the head of the group, pointing to Jia Lei and Su Renfeng.

Su Renfeng had no choice but to discuss it with Jia Lei, after all, these apples were all from their village.

"! I want to say no, can they agree, and if you sell it yourself, the price can be doubled, and the remaining thirty percent of the money will be more than the original fifty percent!" Jia Lei replied.