Old man Yang Zehua has been very busy lately!

He now lives in his son-in-law's house in the township every day, and the people who deal with him the most on weekdays are Luo Xianwen, secretary of the township party committee, and Yang Zejun, the director of the township fireworks and firecrackers factory.

Yang Jinjun gave the workers of the firecracker factory a long vacation, and all of them returned to their hometowns for the autumn harvest. But the rice in this field has been harvested, the millet has been dried and new rice has been harvested, and the factory has not been notified to go to work! When I went to the factory and asked, I said that it was temporarily suspended!

The newly built asphalt road has been pressed out of several large potholes by trucks coming and going from several factories, and now that the factories are suspended, the number of trucks entering and leaving this small town every day has not decreased, but increased!

The big trucks are basically driven to the factory of the firecracker factory. The workers who worked in it all knew that less than a year after the factory started, Director Yang made a lot of belly, and he didn't know what luck he had hit.

In fact, now Yang Zejun does not dare to produce firecrackers, because the cost of gunpowder is too high, and the money he made before is also the gunpowder obtained by Yang Zehua.

But, he is not worried!

Even the people of Shiqiao themselves are strange, now there is a local firecracker factory, but when you encounter a red and white celebration, you have to buy firecrackers, but it is much higher than when there was no factory before. Not only firecrackers, but now they are rising in demand, and everything sold in stores is in short supply.

The people of the stone bridge in the mountains did not notice it at first, because they were basically self-sufficient. But suddenly one day, they found that there were a lot of outsiders on the street, and the pork was bought as soon as it was put on the case, and even the salt on the street was carried to the house like buying fertilizer!

The farmers began to secretly rejoice for a while, and when they returned home, they desperately fattened the pigs, but when the pigs were fattened, they found that other things were rising faster than the price of pork! People are like crazy, they grab the goods when they see them, and even the black-and-white TV set in Shufen's house was bought by Guangwen in Chahe.

Guangwen is a smart man who found out about "inflation" in the newspaper. On the one hand, he bought enough daily necessities for his family and Shufen's family for a year, and on the other hand, he insisted that the two families would not be allowed to deposit their money in the zài bank.

Guangwen also wrote a letter to Nie Renhao, informing him of the current situation of Shiqiao and Chahe, analyzing the many problems that would arise if this continued, and building a government that could do its best to solve the urgent needs of the vast number of peasants and curb the rise in prices.

But now, the government has indeed stepped in, and things that can't be bought a few days ago have also appeared in the shop, but when asked, the price can scare people "pounce"!

Yang Zehua is not a village cadre, he started a small business on the street, and in the wooden houses on Shiqiao Street, there is oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, everything!

On this day, Yang Zehua got up early in the morning, but he did not go to the shop to open the door, but hurried to the old supply and marketing cooperative, which was where the firecracker factory was located.

"Zejun!" Yang Zehua opened the iron gate of the firecracker factory as usual and let the big trucks from other places drive in.

"Second Brother Hua, here!" Yang Zejun came out with a paper cigarette in his mouth, and gave one to the driver's master and Yang Zehua, and the words "no fireworks" written on the wall became an ornament.

Yang Zehua did not answer the cigarette and went over to lock the door. "Zejun, hurry up and call a few reliable people to ......"

"The goods have arrived again?" Yang Zejun snuffed out the paper cigarette and looked at the back of the car, "What's the empty car?" What do you do by shouting people? ”

"Move the contents of the warehouse, go quickly!"

"What's wrong? Second brother, there won't really be an accident, right? ”

"It's nothing! All the oil was towed away for the past two days......"

"Prices are coming down again?"

"I don't know, if you find someone, go quickly, you must be trustworthy!" Yang Zehua hurriedly opened the warehouse door, good guy, dozens of barrels of diesel and kerosene filled the warehouse to the brim!

Not long after, Yang Zejun found five big men, and Yang Zehua ordered more than a dozen barrels of oil to be loaded into the car. The driver handed over a wad of money and walked away!

"Zejun, there is still a car coming at night, don't wander around, just wait here, don't let people know what this is!"

"Okay, second brother, the price is ......"

"Don't ask the price, don't worry, I won't lose a cent as much as I should give you!"

"Hey, that's good......"

As soon as Yang Zehua left, Yang Zejun called Yang Zejian and took a large plastic pot to evenly oil from each iron bucket......

As soon as the morning dawned, Yang Zehua opened the door of the shop on time, the big wooden barrel was filled with salt, and the "salt shovel" made of pig front blades was placed on the noodles, and a scale was hung above, and "3 cents / catty" was written on the side! You know, a month ago, the price of salt was 8 cents per catty!

Not only does it have salt, but there are matches, kerosene, straw paper, etc. in Yang Zehua's shop, which are not available in other stores, and the price is naturally expensive!

"Second uncle, morning!" It happened to be a weekend, Shufen and Guangwen went to the street today to buy some fertilizer, and as soon as they arrived, they saw Yang Zehua smiling.

"Shufen, Guangwen, come and sit down, why are you inviting the second uncle to drink wine?" Yang Zehua greeted the two children warmly.

"It's still early, second uncle, ah, the salt is sold for 3 cents?" Shufen exclaimed.

Yang Zehua shook his head and said, "No way, the purchase price is too high!" ”

Guangwen, who was carrying a back clip (a tool for carrying things), smiled at Yang Zehua: "Second uncle, isn't this salt set by the state?" It shouldn't be that high, right? ”

Yang Zehua's face sank, "You doll, the state price also allows merchants to raise prices......

"But didn't you just post an article a few days ago, stipulating the proportion of floating......" Guangwen was a little unconvinced, but was pulled by Shufen.

"He's talking nonsense, second uncle, you're busy, let's go buy some fertilizer!" Shufen laughed.

Guangwen followed Shufen's footsteps, "Shufen, your second uncle ......"

"Be quiet! We don't lack salt, so why should we offend people? ”

"But the price is ridiculously high, think about it, sell a few catties of grain to get a catty of salt, this is still for the people to live?"

"Okay, okay, you write another letter to County Magistrate Nie, we can't solve these problems, let's go, the price of fertilizer will increase in a while!"

It really made Shufen right, and the price of fertilizer has also risen!

The supply and marketing cooperatives moved to the side of the township government, and now they are the only ones who can buy fertilizers. People who bought fertilizer lined up in a long line, and some people may not have enough money, shook their heads and scolded their mothers and left!

"Shufen!" Shuhua, who came out of the township government, saw her cousin and greeted her from afar.

"Sister Shuhua!" Shufen asked Guangwen to line up and chatted with Shuhua herself, "So early? Going grocery shopping? ”

"Well, it's been a long time since I've seen you on the street, have you got the marriage decided?"

"No! Sister, you're getting more and more beautiful! Shufen praised while looking at her cousin's belly, and she didn't know why, all these years, my cousin has not conceived a child!

"Don't look at it, no!" Shuhua was a little frustrated, "Hey, I don't know why, I haven't been able to get pregnant, I went to the county to check, and said that we are both fine!" ”

"Don't worry, sister, you're still young! How good it is now, the second uncle is also coming to the street! ”

"Don't talk about it, He Pan had a fight with him last night......"

"Ho...... Doctor, and second uncle? He's so bold? ”

With tears in her eyes, Shuhua pulled Shufen to a corner where no one was around, and said: "I don't know how to say it, anyway, my heart is in a mess, He Pan said that my father will have something to do sooner or later, do you say that you have said that about your father?" He went to the countryside last night and didn't come back! My dad scolded me in the morning! Hey......"

"What did the second uncle do? Dr. Ho ......"

"There are a lot of people here, let's go to the house and talk about it......" (To be continued.) )