The Beginning of Siheyuan: The Pig Killer of Qinjia Village

Time flies and it is early December.

Starting from the beginning of November, Chang Wei organized young people from various villages to go to the streets of Sijiu City, shouting and raising flags to sell goods for charity, in order to raise funds for the volunteer soldiers to buy airplanes. All the wicker woven products were sold at 1.5 yuan each.

The propaganda of the government and activists is really effective.

Chang Wei deliberately sells patriotic sentiments at high prices. Although the price of rattan weaving is half higher than the market price, it is so popular that the demand cannot meet the supply.

Tian Zao brought a group of orphans here, and they were weaving with rattan, and they were selling like hot cakes. The ones they made every day were not enough to sell.

After a month of hot selling, all the rattan around the village was sold out, and the vigorous rattan weaving campaign organized by Chang Wei and involving 27 villages came to an end.

The result was quite unexpected, or rather, very gratifying.

During this one and a half months, the villagers managed to weave more than 100,000 wicker products. The great man said that there is strength in numbers.

After finally counting the money raised plus voluntary donations from villagers in various villages, a total of more than 150,000 yuan was enough to directly buy an airplane, which was something that had never been imagined before.

The road was paved for Qin Huairu, so of course she should be the one to show up, and of course she should be the one to reap the benefits.

Chang Wei asked Qin Huairu to bring 27 village heads to the city's Anti-US Aid Korea General Assembly to submit the report with the same caliber. In this case, how could the government not use Qin Huairu's mobilization ability and performance? If nothing unexpected happened, the director of the street office would not be able to escape.

If others ask why Chang Wei is the one running, it's not that simple, he just followed his wife's instructions. Do you have to tell outsiders about what the couple is doing behind their backs?

And it also let Qin Huairu show her face, with a big belly on the cold street selling bramble weaving for charity...

The final result was that a fighter jet code-named Ru 27th Village took off from the Volunteer Air Force.

Comrade Qin Huairu was received by the government and the leaders of the Association for Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea. Mr. Zhou even called the municipal government to praise her...

On Tian Zao's side, with the joint efforts of the neighbors, they raised more than 8,000 yuan and handed it over to Li Hongying.

Li Hongying was extremely excited to see so much money. Before, Tian Zao told her that he would mobilize the neighbors to weave wicker baskets and sell them for money to buy a plane, but she didn't take it seriously. Unexpectedly, he gave her such a big surprise and sold them for 8,000 yuan.

"Xiao Zao, I'm going to ask my superiors for credit for you."

Tian Zao shook her head quickly, not taking any credit. "No, Sister Hongying, this is not just my work. It was the uncles and aunts in the neighborhood who helped to compile it day and night for free. So this is not the work of one person, but the neighbors' collective love for the volunteers. And this idea was not mine, it was told to me by the person behind the fighter jet code-named Ru 27th Village Heli on the banner in front of the Association for Resisting U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea..."

Li Hongying praised. "Xiao Zao, no matter what, you are great. These days of study have not been in vain. Mobilizing the masses is the most important task for us to develop street activists and grassroots organizations in the future. You have done a great job. I will go to the neighbors to express my gratitude and celebrate their success."

"Really, Sister Hongying, you have to praise us more."

"Of course. By the way, is the man you are talking about Qin Huairu's husband?"

"Yes, it was him. He gave Qin Huairu and me the idea."

"Okay, I understand. Comrade Qin Huairu has such a patriotic activist in her family, and she is so smart. I have to talk to Qin Huairu and try to get her husband to join the organization as well."

"Well, Sister Hongying, I am the chief martial arts instructor of the Ministry of Public Security, but I am the treasure of the Ministry of Public Security and I am already a member of the organization."

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The north wind was howling and snowflakes were flying. In a blink of an eye, it was mid-January 1952, and there was still more than a week to the Chinese New Year.

More than two months, in such a long time, did not make any waves.

After the plane donation campaign, Chang Wei found that he could not get any luck related to the country, but he could get some luck related to the people.

After several meritorious deeds, although he was still a martial arts instructor, his rank was upgraded to a full-time official. He no longer had to go to the Ministry of Public Security every week, but only at irregular intervals, and only when notified of the need, mainly because Chang Wei was not keen on this.

Now, except for the fifteenth day of every month, I will stay in the Xiangjiang villa for a day or two, playing poker with Bai Ling and Bai Yuechang, and spending time with Xi Leyi.

The rest of the time, it basically became a relaxed and comfortable life with three points: going to the welfare home in the morning, the cannery in the afternoon, and returning home to a warm bed with his wife and children in the evening.

He is quite interested in the key welfare home and the cannery because they have good fortune behind them.

Huimin Pork Shop is now fully managed by Liu Qing and Qin Huaiyu.

They went to the butcher shop before five in the morning and closed at nine, just like standard office workers. As for the street activist Liu Qing was going to do, she only had to leave the shop at eight, so there was no time loss at all.

The pork sold in the shop is provided by the slaughterhouse inside the Victory Cannery. It is cut at the slaughterhouse and then delivered directly to the shop by the Ding brothers every morning.

The pig farm in Qinjia Village was handed over to Qin Huaiyong and his wife. With the cooperation of Qin Huaichun and his wife, plus several young people recruited from the village, they were able to handle it.

When villagers in each village want to sell pigs, they only need to lead the pigs to the village entrance every morning and wait for the Ding brothers to drive away. They no longer need to send the pigs to the Qinjia Village pig farm. It is very convenient.

The people of the whole country are progressing with the development of the country, and the villagers of Village 27 are progressing with Chang Wei.

Since the last time they worked together to weave baskets and donated an airplane, the current No. 27 Village has become a well-known collective model village around the city of Sijiu. When villagers go out and are known to be from No. 27 Village, others will look at them with eager admiration.

The government just happened to encourage according to the local product classification and gave corresponding benefits. Model villages of course had the best welfare. The 27 surrounding villages, including Qinjia Village, were classified as key breeding villages. Not only was the food cheaper, but the amount of grain handed in was also less. The most important thing for the villagers every day was to raise pigs like crazy and raise them well.

The Ding brothers, Daling, Xiaoling, Qin Huaifeng and Qin Huaiyi, who were pulled out of the pig farm, were sent by Chang Wei to study with Lao Huang for a while and then arranged to work at the Victory Cannery.

Qin Huaiyi from Qin Huaifeng is responsible for the production and management of the workers. Because he has only been learning for a short time, he is still in the process of learning and managing.

Da Ling and Xiao Ling temporarily became the legendary female security guards. They had a foundation in martial arts, and Chang Wei taught them the Youlong Baguazhang. Being a security guard was relatively leisurely, so they could spare time to practice more.

The Ding brothers took care of logistics, each with a small truck responsible for transportation in and out, and helped with slaughtering when they had time. (The extra small truck was sent by Lou Zhenhua from his inventory.)

The remaining sixty workers in the factory were all young men and women of good character selected by the village heads.

The factory manager also works part-time as the financial manager, and Chang Wei is in charge of everything. After all, he has to do the accounts of the Space Farm pigs every month.

In the early morning, snowflakes were floating in the sky.

On the playground of Shengli Welfare Home, Chang Wei led hundreds of children of all ages, shouting slogans and running to warm up.

"Exercise, improve your physique, serve the motherland, and achieve yourself..."

The children followed Chang Wei's slogans. Their faces were red from the cold, but no one fell behind. They all had light in their eyes and ran vigorously.

These children included the orphan group from Tianzao, the 17 orphans from various villages, and those sent by the government.

After running, Chang Wei encouraged the children while leading them to do some simple stretching exercises to prepare for the military boxing practice.

"Children, learning Kung Fu can not only strengthen your body, but also protect yourself, your relatives and friends. If you are ambitious, you can also defend your country. When you grow up, if you want to join the army to defend your country, I will recommend you to the best troops. If you want to be a worker to build the motherland, I can also recommend the factory with the best benefits..."

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