60s: I have a store

Chapter 190: Poliomyelitis Sugar Pills

It was another morning, and Zhou Yimin took the 1 yuan item first.

Today's is 100 kilograms of rice, 100 kilograms of olive oil, 100 kilograms of mangoes, and 100 boxes of polio pills.

Zhou Yimin was a little surprised.

There is nothing surprising about rice. It has been sold out for only 1 yuan less during this period.

Olive oil, later known as a healthy oil, is considered to be the most suitable oil for human nutrition. It has a history of thousands of years in Mediterranean countries and is known as "liquid gold" and "queen of vegetable oils" in the West.

However, Zhou Yimin is not interested in olive oil.

He prefers peanut oil as vegetable oil and lard as animal oil.

In later generations, some businessmen, in order to sell vegetable oil, promoted the idea that lard was unhealthy, etc., hoping that the Chinese would abandon the habit of eating lard that had lasted for thousands of years.

A lot of people actually believed it.

In the end, everyone found that vegetable oil was even less safe.

Mango, as a tropical fruit, is rarely seen in the north at this time, let alone eaten.

Zhou Yimin missed the sour mangoes from his previous life.

What really surprised him was the 100 boxes of polio pills.

A few years ago, a disease that had never been prevalent on a large scale - polio - broke out in our country.

If you get this disease, you will usually become paralyzed, or even die in severe cases, and the mortality rate is not low, mostly among children. This is the dreaded polio.

If Zhou Yimin remembers correctly, in 1960, which was this year, my country finally succeeded in independently developing the first liquid attenuated live polio vaccine.

Before this, only the Soviet Union and the United States had developed polio vaccines in the world.

However, although our country has developed a vaccine, this sugar pill has not yet been released.

Of course, he wanted to take it out for everyone to eat. As long as he didn't disclose the function of this thing, and distributed it to children as normal candy, no one would suspect anything.

After all, this is a preventive medicine, not a curative medicine. If people with polio take it, it won't cure them.

When it comes to polio sugar pills, many people may think of Leon Lai, one of the Four Heavenly Kings. In the 90s, he initiated the "Polio Elimination Plan" and purchased polio sugar pills for tens of millions of children in China.

Because of this incident, it is impossible to criticize him.

There are two stars in Hong Kong who cannot be criticized. He is one of them, and the other is Principal Gu who is passionate about building schools.

After breakfast, Zhou Yimin came to the school and handed dozens of sugar pills to Principal Zhou Zhigao, asking him to distribute them to the children and make sure that every child got one.

Zhou Zhigao didn't even ask the reason. How could Yimin harm them?

Then, Zhou Yimin gave some to the old branch secretary and asked him to give it to other children in the village who did not go to school.

The children in the village were very happy to have candy, and they ate it with great pleasure. Some children were reluctant to eat it and wanted to keep it, and only put it in their mouths after being criticized.

“Here’s what’s left.”

Zhou Yimin did not take it, but said to the old Party Secretary: "Secretary, leave it with you. In the future, if there are newborns in the village, let them eat one. I heard that it can prevent a certain disease."

Zhou Yimin did not say what the specific disease was.

When the old branch secretary heard this, he thought to himself that it was no wonder.

No wonder Yimin requires all children in the village to eat it. This is the reason! These children are really lucky.

He simply said, "Okay, leave it to me."

Today we have another truckload of rapeseed, which is even fuller than yesterday, at 7000 kilograms.

After picking, the villagers started weeding, watering and other tasks, and they were busy all the time. After all, they had a share of every dollar they earned. Everyone was very motivated.

The level of importance is comparable to that of wheat that is about to be harvested.

After picking the rapeseed, the wheat in the village will be ready for harvest. By then, the school will also give a few days off to let the children help.

Of course, we can't expect them to do heavy work, but picking up wheat ears is no problem at all.

The old branch secretary gave the money earned from the wild boar and yesterday's vegetable money to the team leader and asked him to go out and buy donkeys and cows. This was also Zhou Yimin's suggestion. If you want to improve labor efficiency, you can't rely on manpower alone.

With the help of cattle, donkeys and other livestock, the process is much faster.

Zhou Yimin told the old branch secretary and others that they must be willing to invest in the early stages.

To be honest, if Zhou Yimin hadn't suggested it, the old branch secretary and his colleagues would really be reluctant to pay.

If it weren't for the fact that there would be income later, the old branch secretary would not have agreed so easily. Spending money is fine, but taking out more than 2,000 yuan at once is simply a death sentence!

A donkey costs several hundred dollars.

More than 2,000 yuan can't buy many donkeys.

To put it bluntly, donkeys are much more valuable than people. You know, marrying a woman only costs a few yuan, 20 yuan at most. Especially in this difficult period, in order to reduce the burden on the family, even no money is needed.

"If there is none in the Red Star Commune, then go away." the old Party Secretary ordered.

"I know."

The team leader took the money and set off with two villagers.

After Zhou Yimin took the vegetables to the steel plant and collected the money, he did not return to Zhoujiazhuang immediately. Instead, he went to the street office first and took away a jar of honey.

"You always bring something with you every time you come. Why are you so polite?" Director Li scolded.

"This is honey collected by the villagers. I'll give some to Aunt Li for you to try."

Director Li sighed in her heart, ever since she recognized Zhou Yimin as her nephew, it seemed that her family had always been taking advantage of him. Yimin was such a real kid.

She took out a newspaper and gave it to Zhou Yimin: "Take a look."

The song was reported in the newspaper, and the entire article was praising the song.

Zhou Yimin was surprised: It became famous so quickly?

He has focused all his energy on the village in recent years and has not paid much attention to the affairs of the courtyard house.

"The cultural performance activities in our district are over?"

Zhou Yimin didn't pay attention to the street auditions. Unexpectedly, even the district performances were over. Time passed so quickly.

Director Li didn't know whether to laugh or cry. You don't even care about your own songs? She was really impressed. It's such a big thing, but you don't care at all!

"It ended yesterday. It was a great success. Our street became famous. I was just about to go to your courtyard to commend you!"

This time, not only their street will give rewards, but the district will also give rewards.

Afterwards, Director Li and Zhou Yimin went to the courtyard together. At this time, the residents of the courtyard were all smiling, just like during the Spring Festival.

The uncle and his friends have received news that the street committee will come to give rewards to the children today, so they are all waiting in the courtyard!
Everyone is proud of it.

"Where is Yimin? Dapeng, didn't you notify Yimin?" an old man asked Luo Dapeng.

Luo Dapeng looked embarrassed. He was so happy yesterday and drank too much that he forgot about it.

Everyone was speechless when they saw his expression. It turned out that he was just a good talker with no integrity!
Luo Dapeng's mother couldn't help but hit him a few times.

(End of this chapter)