Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 164 After weighing, dump it into the pond

According to Luo Cheng's arrangement, at least there are still people working in the brigade in every other household. If everyone really shouted to help him, the whole family would be out of touch with the team. Luo Cheng felt that this was not a problem. If I can't handle this in the future and go back to work in the production team, there may be trouble again.

The matter was settled in this way anyway, and Luo Cheng could tell that his parents were a little dissatisfied with his arrangement. Without even mentioning it, I can think of something. It should be that I haven't arranged all the arrangements for myself. Luo Lan is already married and has arranged for two. There are also outsiders Ergouzi and his wife who have made arrangements.

This family only arranged for two people, and it was not like Luo Cheng didn't know their situation. I used to make a living by hunting, but now I have to work in the fields with the production team. I am really not used to it.

Moreover, the food in the collective cafeteria is completely incomparable to that in Luo Cheng. Even if Luo Yan tells everyone that it will be impossible to eat refined grains in Luo Cheng in the future, it doesn't matter if everyone eats coarse grains. At least they can eat more.

But in front of everyone, Luo Cheng's parents were not easy to talk to.

Anyway, everything has been agreed, everyone should eat and drink. Except for those who stayed to make dumplings this afternoon, others had to go fishing for eels.

In the two days since Luo Cheng was away, everyone's wages for eel fishing will be settled tonight. Luo Cheng brought a bag of flour, a fifty-pound bag. He disposed of the bag when he got up in the morning and went to find Hei Niu. I also brought some salt, cabbage, and a pound of meat.

If you deliberately bring only one pound of meat, it will be good if it tastes meaty. Everyone can enjoy the dumplings stuffed with cabbage.

Accountant Zhao heard about making dumplings here because Luo Cheng became the deputy leader of the purchasing department in the factory. He also quickly congratulated him, although he knew very well that becoming the deputy team leader would be in vain if he did not advance to the clerk level. Maybe being a deputy team leader is also a kind of qualification. Even if you no longer work in the machinery factory and are transferred to another factory, you can still be said to have been a team leader.

Being the deputy team leader will at least be helpful for future promotions. And Luo Cheng didn't hide it from everyone. As long as the things assigned by the factory superiors are done well next month, his clerk level will be raised one level.

And this matter actually has something to do with the eels and loaches he is getting now. He is purchasing eels and loaches for the poultry factory. When the time comes, the machinery factory will buy some chickens, ducks, eggs and so on. That is not a matter of words.

After everyone heard this, they all hoped that Luo Cheng would do better in the factory. Only if he does well can he help everyone better.

After dinner, because he got up early to go to the black market, Luo Cheng took a nap at home at noon. It was Deputy Captain Liu who woke him up. Now the rice transplanters don't have to dig out the eels. They can just catch them after they step on them. It's very fast.

The captain also told the rice transplanters to keep an eye on eels, so the eel-catching team formed at noon had already begun to harvest a large amount in the afternoon. There are also soft-shell turtles, and you can carry a lot of them in one basket anyway.

At Luo Cheng's house, after all the wooden basins were filled with eels, the rest could only be poured into the pond. Accountant Zhao arranged for Zhao Qian's eldest brother and daughter-in-law to go to the pond to be responsible for the weighing process. After weighing, they poured the water directly into the pond.

As for the operation of collecting eels and loaches from water ponds, the team members who came to deliver the goods were surprised to see it. You catch it from the field, weigh it, and dump it into the pond, and that's the deal done.

Because I said I also wanted soft-shell turtles, every time someone brought a basket of eels over, there would always be one or two in there. Beside the pond, except for a few small trees, there was no place to block the sun.

Luo Cheng also looked at the pond for a while, and planned to ask the town commune to organize manpower to temporarily build a wooden house beside the pond. The pond is enclosed and the branches of the balustrade are planted densely so that the soft-shelled turtles cannot easily crawl away.

Although the eel and loach cost a penny per catty, the quantity is so large that a few meals is enough to earn a clerk a year's salary. Luo Cheng felt that the commune should be responsible for building wooden houses and ballas. There are also carpenters in the town. If you have enough people to build a wooden house, you can build it in one day.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Hei Niu's group also arrived. Everyone's trousers and body were covered in mud, and Luo Cheng also arranged for them to hand over to the pond. When they saw that they had finally caught several baskets of eels and loaches in a day, weighed them and dumped them directly into the pond, they were also stunned.

But I happened to see the eel-catching team members from this town bring a basket of eels. After weighing them, they didn’t need to give any instructions. Just pour it into the pond and the person will be gone.

Luo Cheng arranged for Zhao Qian's sister-in-law to be responsible for his statistical work, and the town also arranged for an accountant to check the quantities with his sister-in-law.

Luo Cheng directly paid Heiniu and the others according to the quantity this time, and asked them to contact other nearby towns as soon as possible. There are about a dozen towns near the county. If they don't contact them quickly, the cooperation mentioned this morning will be cancelled.

Hei Niu and the others saw that the commune here in Longjin Town had directly organized people to catch eels. Although they didn't see the chickens, ducks and eggs that Luo Cheng mentioned, they had no doubts at all. Moreover, a catty of eels and loaches cost only a penny, but they caught hundreds of catties today. Luo Cheng also gave them a few dollars directly according to the price.

Real money and silver, seeing is believing, if they didn't give it a try, Hei Niu and the others would be embarrassed to see Luo Cheng. Tell Luo Cheng directly that one person will be left to guard their black market around eight o'clock tomorrow, and the others will disperse directly to various towns to contact the people in the commune.

Luo Cheng also told Hei Niu and others that in exchange for chickens, ducks, eggs, etc., they could also give some shares to other communes. Luo Cheng's own commune gave him 30% of the acquisition share in exchange for chickens, ducks and eggs. If the commune hears this, it is guaranteed to be particularly active. If we negotiate that day, maybe someone will be organized to fish for it that day.

In addition, Luo Cheng is implementing this kind of exchange cooperation in Longjin Town. If other towns come to cooperate, it is impossible not to know that part of the purchase money can be used to buy back chickens, ducks and eggs. It is better for everyone to unify the conditions for acquisition, so that the commune will be more active and everyone will be relaxed.

Hei Niu nodded. Luo Cheng did this in his own town. If they went to negotiate, they would only give money but not chickens, ducks and eggs. It is indeed easy to be exposed, and chickens, ducks and eggs are used to offset part of the purchase price. This is said to be collected by the urban poultry factory, which basically saves a lot of money.

Right now, Hei Niu told Luo Cheng that he was helping the poultry factory purchase eels and loaches. Hei Niu and the others had no doubt at all. One is that you can buy chickens, ducks and eggs in exchange. Where can you get these things these days? In addition, if the poultry factory is not collecting these things, I really can’t think of anyone who would collect such things.

After Heiniu and the others left, Luo Cheng gave his sister-in-law the watch to use first. It gets dark very late now, even if it's six or seven o'clock, it's still quite bright. So I told my sister-in-law that someone would send eels and loaches again, and told them that they would finish work at 5:30.

After Luo Cheng returned home, there was another lively group of people at home. There are a lot of these wrapped dumplings not only in the kitchen, but also on the tables and stools in the front room. The wrapper of this dumpling is also thick, and the thicker the wrapper, the more flour there is. Everyone can eat several bowls of the dumpling wrapper alone.

Let’s not talk about whether the dumplings are delicious or not. The lively atmosphere is just like the Chinese New Year. Even the last time I ate steamed buns and pork head meat, it didn’t have the same atmosphere.

Luo Cheng brought a pot over. Even if there are dozens of pots in one pot, one person may only have a few, so he has to cook several pots. Those who add water, those who light the fire, those who put the dumplings in, and those who fish out the dumplings all have their own division of labor. Anyway, the dumplings cannot be stopped in the pot.

If you cook it slowly, the dumplings will become lumpy after being taken out for a long time. But even if it is lumpy, no one will care.

This time we eat dumplings because Luo Cheng, in the name of being the team leader, lets everyone eat dumplings. As for the first bowl of dumplings, you can't use the chopsticks first according to seniority. Luo Cheng has to eat the first one first.

Luo Cheng looked at everyone, wondering if such a day would happen in the next few years. At least everyone's yearning for the future was still good.

"The first one I have to eat is something with meat. If I eat the meat, I can also try my best to give you some soup. Okay, I don't have anything to say. Let's eat dumplings today."