When we arrived at the production team, the wheelbarrow was placed directly on the threshing ground in front of the canteen, where many people were threshing grain.
There were people everywhere, and Qian Shulan couldn't find a chance to get out of the space even if she wanted to.
After Wang Shouren arrived here, all these people treated him as a guest.
Just as the third and fourth brothers said, the food here is very good. We eat rice for three meals a day.
Qian Shulan watched Wang Shouren go to the fields to work with others.
The sun was scorching at noon, and when I came back to eat, I was pulled by others to do some ideological activities.
They sat under two sturdy trees next to the cafeteria, each holding a large bowl piled with juicy vegetables.
Everyone's face was filled with happy smiles. To be honest, it was the first time that Qian Shulan saw such a smile on someone's face in the one and a half years since she came into this world.
Even if she sometimes cooked meat dishes for her family, they would just smile happily, and their smiles were more of surprise rather than pure happiness.
"Brother Wang, I suggest you stay in our production team. It's so nice here. We have rice for every meal and meat every day."
"Yes, wait a year or so, then you can bring your wife and children back from your hometown and let them live a good life."
"Yeah, this is better than eating sweet potatoes every day in your village."
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Qian Shulan felt that these tunes were so strange. She thought about them for a long time in her mind and then slapped her thigh!
If Wang Shouren's gender were changed, it would definitely be the case of trafficking decent women.
Trafficking in women is the last resort for bachelors who cannot afford to marry.
But there is a reason why these people kidnap and sell gay men. The land here is very vast and there are no machines or equipment, so it is still maintained in the old social era, and basically people and animals are still used to work together to cultivate the land.
There is a lot of land and few people, so we have to go out and recruit people.
This is much better than the outside world. At least here people can really eat enough. Because it is surrounded by mountains, it is not difficult to raise some poultry. The villagers live a life without worries about food and clothing.
Unfortunately, the person they were facing was Wang Shouren, a stubborn man. In his heart, eating well and dressing warmly were important, but no matter how important they were, they were not as important as his son and mother.
So no matter how much they talked until they were dry-mouthed, they could not get Wang Shouren to give in.
Everyone agreed that he was a fool and stopped trying to persuade him.
At night, when all the villagers put their tools back into the warehouse and dragged their tired bodies back to their homes, Wang Shouren was also taken back home by Lao Si.
Qian Shulan saw that it was completely dark outside and there was no one in the threshing ground, so she came out of the space to stretch her muscles. Thanks to the function of the space, she would not be hungry in the space, but after coming out, she found that she was starving.
Qian Shulan quickly took out the fried cicada monkeys from the space and ate them. Paired with white flour buns, they tasted delicious.
Just standing in the threshing ground, she was secretly thinking about how to bring Wang Shouren back.
On the way to the village, they had to walk a long distance on the mountain road, where tigers roamed. Of course, it was no problem for her to walk alone, but she brought Wang Shouren with her, and she couldn't bring him into the space, right
This is not the most important thing. At worst, she can just knock Wang Shouren out and put him into the space and take him back.
But the key is that she can't remember the way. She has only walked the mountain road for three or four hours once. It's full of twists and turns, and if you're not careful, you can end up in another city. She can't take the risk.
So Qian Shulan decided to wait for the big brother that the man mentioned to come back.
After thinking it through, Qian Shulan decided to go see Wang Shouren first to check on his situation. She didn't know if he would run away when others were not prepared.
This place is indeed surrounded by mountains, and he was unconscious when he came here, so he didn't know the way at all. Would he really be stupid enough to run away
She had heard the location of the fourth brother's house from the villagers working in the threshing ground before.
Before she could walk over, she saw Wang Shouren coming out of the fourth room, hunched over.
Qian Shulan lay down beside the haystack, covering her face. Is this man really her son
If someone wanted to lock you up, would they not even lock the door
Qian Shulan was about to show up to stop him, but she heard Lao Si shout from the yard, "Where are you going?"
Wang Shouren was so frightened that his face turned pale instantly. He shouted inside, "I need to pee."
"The toilet is at the right corner of the main room. It's not there if you go outside."
Wang Shouren sighed, drooped his body, and could only turn around and go back.
Seeing his frustrated look, Qian Shulan burst into laughter in the space.
Although this person is quite stupid, he is sometimes really cute.
Qian Shulan did not enter the yard, but stayed outside the fourth brother's house, hiding in the space and watching Wang Shouren's movements.
She found that Wang Shouren had no other advantages. He was neither smart nor cunning, and he certainly could not lie.
But he had one advantage, which was his perseverance. He tried to escape from this door more than a dozen times that night, but every time he walked out of the yard, he heard Lao Si shouting behind him, "Wang Shouren, where are you going?"
Then he just said, "I'm going to pee," without even changing his excuse.
I guess he can't find any other reason, right
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Just as the third brother said, when everyone had finished harvesting and were enjoying the cool under the trees, someone shouted from a distance, "The eldest brother is back!"
So everyone gathered around to watch with joy on their faces.
Every time the boss comes back, he brings good things for them.
This time, the bearded man came with two other people.
One of them was a middle-aged man in gray clothes. He was very tall and thin, with a sallow complexion and messy hair. He looked like someone who had been traveling a long distance.
The other one is the young girl named Xiaoba.
The bearded man handed the sacks he brought to Xiao Ba and said, "Distribute the things we asked you to bring to each household last time. Tell them the price, and deduct it directly from their work points at the end of the year."
Xiao Ba agreed immediately.
Everyone else surrounded Xiao Ba.
The bearded man sat down under the tree, picked up a palm-leaf fan that someone had thrown on the ground, and started fanning himself.
From a distance, he saw the third brother running towards him quickly, pulling the rice stack. When he got close, he threw the rope and said to the bearded man with a cheeky smile, "Brother, you're back!"
The bearded man snorted at the third brother, "What about Wang Shouren?"
The third brother looked at the fourth brother, who quickly said, "He is working in the fields now, brother. He doesn't want to settle in our village."
The bearded man was a little surprised. He thought for a while and asked, "Are you sure he doesn't know the third brother?"
The fourth one shook his head and said with certainty, "I don't know him at all."
Qian Shulan, who had been hiding in the space, was a little surprised to hear this. What did this mean? Is this Lao San a celebrity? She thought of what Wang Shouren said when she first entered the village, "I will definitely not report you." Did these two people do anything illegal
She tilted her head and thought for a long time. This third brother lived a better life than the people in the city. He shouldn't steal or kill people. It was unlikely. Although he had a loud voice, he was not a bad person. His eyes were clear and he didn't look like a lecher. He shouldn't have committed rape.
So there is only one way left, reselling food. It is not impossible. This village has a natural barrier, so it lives a semi-secluded life. If the food grown is not eaten by the family, can't they go out to exchange for daily necessities
Moreover, they did not have commodity supply certificates for the city, and scalpers only sold necessary food coupons, cloth coupons and the like. If they wanted other things, such as straw paper, needles and thread, they could only exchange them with city dwellers.
While Qian Shulan was thinking, she suddenly heard the bearded man ask again, "The route into the village hasn't been exposed, right?"
"No."
The bearded man pondered for a moment, "Then let him go. We can't let others feel disappointed. Besides, a forced melon is not sweet. We are not the kind of people who force things. As long as he doesn't expose the third brother, let him go." He raised his chin, "Third brother, you should not go out these days. Fourth brother, you follow him for a few days. If he wants to call the police, just kill him and don't bring him back. If he doesn't call the police, let him go."
The two of them nodded in agreement immediately.
After discussing this, the bearded man remembered the guest he had brought with him. He slapped his forehead and said with a smile, "You said my brain, Lao Wu, please don't mind it!"
The man in gray had been sitting next to him and watching him handle things silently. He shook his head when he heard him say that. "You guys should discuss the important things. I'm fine."
The bearded man nodded and asked him, "How many kilograms of food do you want this time?"
"I want one thousand kilograms of rice. And five thousand kilograms of sweet potatoes."
The bearded man nodded, "You want a bit more this time."
The gray-clothed man took out a pack of cigarettes and handed them to the three people. Each of them took one. The man took out a box of matches, struck one, and lit them one by one. He put the matchbox back into his jacket pocket and took a deep puff. He smiled bitterly and shook his head, "There's nothing we can do! The drought in Heilongjiang is already too severe. They're all waiting for food to save their lives."
"Why did you go to Heilongjiang? Aren't you from Linyang Province?"
They were all grain dealers, and when they brought someone back to their old nest, they would definitely find out everything about his ancestors. So they knew the man's family background very well.
We are all people who are willing to take our heads off our belts. If we are caught, we will just be shot. There is no need to think about getting a reduction in sentence for meritorious service.
If you are in the same business and you frame others in order to gain merit, your family will not be taken care of by them. This is equivalent to harming your family. Therefore, people in this line of work all sign a life and death agreement. Once you die, others will take care of your family. Of course, in exchange, you must not betray others.
The gray-clothed man blew out a smoke ring and squinted his eyes. "You don't know, last year our Linyang Province had a strange thing. There was a talisman paper floating in the air, and it didn't fall off for three days and three nights. On the talisman paper were six words written: 'Great Steelmaking, Famine Appears'. So many people in Linyang Province believed in this talisman, and their food at home was very frugal and they were not willing to sell it. I had no choice but to come all the way to find you."
Hearing him speak so seriously, the third brother laughed out loud. He slapped his thigh and said, "Fifth brother, you are amazing! In this era, you can still say such far-fetched things. I think you should write a play. It will definitely be better than those model plays."
The man in gray smiled bitterly and shook his head, and said nothing more. Believe it or not, it doesn't matter at all. He is not one of those young boys who likes to argue with others about right and wrong.
Qian Shulan was hiding in the space, but she felt that the man looked familiar.
She thought about it for a long time, and suddenly slapped her thigh! Wasn't this man the middleman from whom she had bought grain
The most profound impression she had was that he was extremely vigilant.
Now suddenly seeing him changed into this honest and gentle image, she didn't recognize him at all.
Thinking back to what they just said, it turns out that these people are middlemen.
So can she join in
After all, she has so much food.
But how can she get in touch with them
She couldn't just come out now, otherwise people would treat her as a sitting duck.
But when she got to the city, she couldn't just go up to someone and say, "Hey, man, I want to join you in the black market."
I guess people think she's crazy, and maybe they'll kill her to protect themselves.
So how could she reveal that she had food and wanted to hang out with them
She stayed in the city these days, and because she was unfamiliar with the place, she didn't exchange for many silver dollars. There were even fewer decent jades and ceramics. So this also led to her not collecting much spiritual power.
So she could only pin her hopes on these locals. After all, these people were much more familiar with the situation in Guangzhou than she was.
She sat cross-legged in the space, holding her chin with one hand, looking at the man in gray. He seemed to be the breakthrough point to break everything.
Soon, Qian Shulan saw the bearded man moving their team's new grain production from the warehouse.
All the carts in the team were pulled over to help transport the food, a total of more than a dozen carts. "With so much food, you are transporting it to Heilongjiang. It's such a long journey. Is it safe?"
The man in gray waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I have already made connections. This time the goods will also be transported back to Heilongjiang with the grain station's truck."
As soon as Guangdong's rice is ripe, it is shipped to major cities and stationed troops across the country.
The man in gray had many connections and had already made arrangements. He took someone else's car to carry the food back, and of course he had to give the driver some benefits.
The third brother gave the gray-clothed man a thumbs-up in admiration, "Fifth brother, you are really a capable person!"
This is simply private goods being transported on a public bus. There is no chance of it being seized.
The man in gray smiled modestly and said something very meaningful, "Everyone has weaknesses. As long as you find the weakness, there is nothing you can't open up."
More than a dozen carts were used to transport the goods there, and Wang Shouren was also taken along.
He was still unconscious as before.
Although he probably couldn't recognize the way he came, what if the other party had a good memory? Wouldn't they be in trouble? !
This time the third brother did not go along, but the fourth brother, the eighth brother and the bearded man went along.
Qian Shulan was still hiding in the space.
She could now use her spiritual power freely and could command the ring to move in the direction she specified. She first attached the ring to the wheelbarrow.
Later, she wanted to know more about the two men, so she sealed the ring on the clothes of the man in gray and followed the two men.
Gradually, she got to know the man in gray and learned that he had traveled to many places.
In addition to Heilongjiang, the areas across the country where no grain was harvested this year include northern Hebei, most of Inner Mongolia, southern Liaoning, central Jilin, and the Weihe River and the area south of the lower reaches of the Yellow River - the Nanling Mountains.
The areas most affected by the drought were south of the lower reaches of the Wei River and the Yellow River. Unfortunately, the man in gray had no connections there, so he could only run north.
"Maybe I can sell all the grain in Hebei, and I might come back again by then. Big brother, please save some for me."
The bearded man patted his shoulder and laughed, "Okay, I'd like to congratulate you on your victory and hope you return triumphantly soon."
When they reached the foot of the mountain, there was a truck parked on the avenue. The man in gray greeted them and waved his hand.
Then the group loaded the food onto the truck.
After getting in the car, the gray-clothed man said to the bearded man, "I'm going back to the city first. We'll leave the day after tomorrow. I have to go back and prepare."
"OK!"
The empty carts returned along the same route.
Only Lao Si was left pushing the wheelbarrow, and he and Bearded Man and Xiao Ba continued walking towards the county town.
Qian Shulan first followed the man in gray, but later found that he was about to leave the team.
She took a hair from his shoulder when no one was paying attention.
Then he moved the ring back onto the unicycle.
The author has something to say: Actually, I just want the heroine to not sell the food herself, but find a professional to help her sell it. Then she can go home and continue to farm. . .
As for the eldest brother being stupid? Has he never been smart? He has always been a country boy. Even though he worked in the city for the fourth brother, he was just a porter and had no experience.