My 1978 Hotel

Chapter 41: Crackdown on speculation, militia patrols, county-wide wanted notice
"uncle."

"Come on, Mingliang."

Li Feng called Han Mingliang, Han Mingcong and others over and whispered something to them.

Beat up Han Minggui first and then isolate him. This is a simple thing. In order to get the candy, Han Mingliang and his group of guys wanted to beat Han Minggui to death right now.

Especially since Han Mingliang patted his chest and promised that if anyone bullied Daya, Erya would beat them to death. "You are such good children. Two White Rabbit candies each."

"Thank you, uncle."

Han Mingliang and the others took it happily.

"Go ahead and play hard. There's plenty of candy at my uncle's house."

Han Wangshi is not easy to deal with herself. This old woman will never listen to reason with you. She sits on the ground, kicks her legs and claps her hands, makes a scene and calls for ghosts, and spews feces from her mouth.

Damn it, Li Feng really didn’t have any good solution. At most, he could sneak to her door at night and throw feces water on it.

Besides, brigade cadres like Han Fuguo and Han Futian don't want to get involved in these trivial matters, and this old woman is even more fearless.

But now, looking at Han Mingliang and the other little brats going out, hehe, since I can't do anything to an old woman like you, I might as well beat your grandson.

Little bastard, beat him up for a month or so. It would be fine if the old woman is obedient, but if she keeps throwing tantrums and talking nonsense, don't blame Li Feng for beating her to death.

"Dong dong dong."

"coming."

"An Jun, come in and sit down."

Li Feng opened the door and saw Han Anjun, thinking to himself, it was a good thing that Han Mingliang and the others were not blocked, otherwise it would have damaged his image somewhat.

"I won't sit down anymore."

Han Anjun smiled and took out twenty-five yuan and handed it to Li Feng. "Take a few."

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

Li Feng took it and glanced at it. Two big unity, a few for a tractor. "What do you order? Really, you even made a special trip."

"Haha, that's what I should do."

Han Anjun smiled. "Okay, I'll go back first."

"I'll give it to you."

"no, I'm fine."

Watching Han Anjun leave, Li Feng counted the banknotes in his hand. Twenty-five yuan. Nowadays, it is not easy for a person to earn this much money just by working for a year. But if you say it is difficult, you can easily earn it by doing some trading.

No wonder they're all thinking about speculation. Li Feng stuffed twenty-five yuan into his pocket. "I'm afraid I'll have to pay for my food with this twenty-five yuan, so I'll have at most ten or eight yuan left." It can't be helped. Who made me eat the big bones twice?

When Li Feng returned to the house, he saw that all the dishes had been cleared away. He was about to go to bed, but Wu Tong and Qin Yue started making a fuss.

"Want some hot water to wash your hair and take a bath?"

Goodness, not only do I need to take a bath and wash my hair, I also need hot water. I have to boil a lot of water in that broken pot at home to get enough hot water for a bath. What else can I use to wash? I don’t even have a wooden basin. “Why don’t I just go wash in the stream in front of the door?”

"There are too many people over there, so it's not convenient. I'll let you watch over the creek. Can you guys watch me while I wash?"

Li Feng said that it was impossible to boil water. There was not much firewood at home. Besides, the pot was broken. Even if he boiled ten or eight pots, it would not be enough to wash his hair. How many pots would he need to boil to take a bath? It was a joke.

"Bathing outdoors?"

Wu Tong and Qin Yue found this unbelievable. "No, we'd be so embarrassed if they took pictures of us."

"What are you filming?"

Li Feng rolled his eyes. What era is this? I don't know. Only spies and secret agents would take secret photos these days. "Hurry up, Daya, take the two sisters to take a bath."

"Bring the soap."

This time I specially brought two bars of soap, so I don't have to take a bath in mud. If Wu Tong and Qin Yue are still not satisfied, then I will have no choice.

"Is there really no other way?"

"Yes, just keep doing it for a few days and then go back to wash it." Li Feng said with a smile.

"OK then."

Wu Tong and Qin Yue finally chose to go to the stream to wash, which was better than not washing at all. These days did not seem to be so good, and the two could not help but compare themselves in their hearts.

"Oh, I have to go to work tomorrow, so I should wash up early and go to bed early."

"Are we going to work too?"

Wu Tong and Qin Yue hadn't really considered this. Li Feng thought the two girls hadn't even read the contract. "You'll work at least three days." This was an easy production team experience tour. You only had to work three days out of five, and there was no need to learn any agricultural skills.

This is so easy. Pulling weeds, carrying water, and tying sorghum stalks are all simple tasks, especially for girls who don't have to do heavy physical work such as carrying grain, transporting manure, and plowing the fields.

"Ah, I still have to do farm work."

"If that doesn't work out, let me take you guys. Don't worry, it's not a big job. We just harvested the sorghum, so now it's just some small jobs."

"That's good."

The two of them breathed a sigh of relief, but Li Feng was still thinking too much. The next day, he found Han Fuguo and told him about Wu Tong and Qin Yue working, offering them 1.5 yuan a day. After much effort, Han Fuguo agreed and he went to weed the cornfield with his wife Li Hongying.

But they didn't expect that this guy would stop letting them do the weeding work after a while and instead assigned Wang Lihong to fetch water. However, she couldn't do it after just a few trips.

"Carrying water to water the corn seedlings?"

Wu Tong and Qin Yue were not qualified to do this kind of work. Not to mention carrying water, they didn't even know the corn seedlings. They couldn't even hold a fully empty bucket steadily, and a half-full bucket would be fatal.

"Quit."

Wu Tongnima threw the bucket away and asked, "Why should I carry water? I won't."

"I don't carry water either." Qin Yue's bucket was less than one-fifth full of water, but he still couldn't carry it. This guy is worse than a child.

The two of them started arguing, and Daya quickly ran to find Li Feng.

"Carrying water?"

"Isn't it weeding?"

Li Feng remembered telling Han Anmin's wife Wang Lihong.

"My two sisters didn't know corn seedlings, so they dug up the weeds and the seedlings."

"Ok."

What else could Li Feng say? Who would dare to ask them to weed? "How could I have forgotten?"

"Hey, let's go and take a look."

When they got there, they saw that the two had already thrown away the buckets. No matter what Wang Lihong said, they refused to do it.

"You are here."

Wang Lihong gave a wry smile. "What's wrong with your two cousins? It's fine if they don't recognize the seedlings, but you're asking them to fetch water. Well, the water others fetch can water a dozen or twenty seedlings, but your cousins can barely water two."

“Now they’re still throwing buckets.”

Wang Lihong said, "How can you do this job? I suggest you take it home and stop causing trouble."

My goodness! Wang Lihong was almost mad. First, she dug up dozens of corn seedlings. This guy had no choice but to let them try to fetch water. Well, they fetched two buckets of water at a time, but now they still refused to do it and threw the bucket and made a scene.

I have never seen anything like this before. Wang Lihong thought to herself that if she really married these two girls, she would be unlucky for the rest of her life.

This made Li Feng speechless. Alas, now he couldn't even survive for half a day.

"How can this be done?"

At lunch, Li Feng, Gao Ju, Gao Cheng, and Li Muchen sighed as they watched Wu Tong and Qin Yue eat their meals. "Isn't this going to work?"

"If we don't do it, I'm afraid we won't be able to go back."

There's no other way. I'm going on a production team experience tour, which requires me to do farm work for at least three days, and I have to work full time. This job is actually quite easy, as I don't need to learn any skills, and I only have to work for three days.

"Ugh."

"I shouldn't have brought them here in the morning."

In fact, Li Muchen had good intentions. Not having to work could help alleviate his depression. He wanted to help Wu Tong and Qin Yue, but he never expected that they were both pretending to be depressed. Now, he almost made them depressed by bringing them here.

Oh my god, what should I do? I can’t just drag it out.

"I'll see if I can talk to Uncle Fuguo this afternoon."

Li Feng said, "Brother, please take care of them when the time comes."

"Weed out the weeds and bundle up the stalks of dry food."

This job is easier, Li Muchen nodded. There was no other way. He brought it here, so he had to solve it. But Wu Tong and Qin Yue said they didn't want to go to the fields anymore. Their shoulders hurt from weeding and carrying water in the morning, and they said they wouldn't go in the afternoon.

"It's so hot under the sun, and I don't have any sunscreen. I won't go out to the fields no matter what."

"Exactly. Look, I'm already tanned after just this morning."

Although the two of them didn't do much work in the morning, they did go to the fields and got quite sunburned. This guy is fine. No matter how much he tried to persuade him, he just refused to work. Li Feng was helpless. "Let's get to work first."

Damn, he brought two little fairies here. What do you want to do? Go back and try to persuade them.

"Ding bell."

"what?"

"An Jun, what's the matter?"

Unexpectedly, he met Han Anjun who was returning to the dam when he went to work. Li Feng thought that this must be an important matter, otherwise why would he come again when he just came back yesterday?

"It's no big deal."

Han Anjun said with a smile. "The county held a meeting. Speculation and profiteering have been rampant lately, and they've asked each commune to organize militias to patrol the nights and crack down on those who engage in profiteering."

"Ah, crackdown on speculation?"

Li Feng thought to himself that it couldn't be done by just a few of them. The amount of money involved in reselling Dacron shirts and skirts was not small. Li Feng was a little panicked.

"No."

Han Anjun said with a smile. "The county leaders will come to inspect our work in a few days. I need to have a good talk with my dad and Uncle Fuqiang. The county is taking this work very seriously this time."

“It’s something we should pay attention to.”

"Speculators are too rampant. They must be shot for ten minutes," Li Feng said with a smile, which amused Han Anjun. "It's not that serious. We should focus on education and supplement it with punishment. Only stubborn individuals involved in large amounts of money will be subject to capital punishment."

That's the end of it. Li Feng and the others were involved in at least more than 250 yuan. It's not unfair for them to be shot. Damn, I'm afraid the county has already put them on record. Brother, Wu Tong, and Qin Yue are all too good-looking. It's hard to hide it.

As long as people from the county come, we will be doomed. Li Feng was speechless about this matter.

"Ah, so serious?"

Gao Ju and Gao Cheng, Li Muchen was really surprised after hearing what Li Feng said.

"Alas, we made too much noise."

A batch of more than ten shirts and several skirts, this is definitely a shocking case in a small county. "What should we do?"

"Go back and tell Wu Tong, Qin Yue and the others that they must go to work."

What if I don't go to work? If I delay going back, the county will come and arrest and shoot everyone. If I die here, I can't go back. Li Feng will be unlucky if he returns to the modern era. If several people disappear at once, do you think the police will come after him?

(End of this chapter)