Golden Color Xiangjiang: A Young Man's Dream in a Siheyuan

During this period of time, Zhou Jin's life has remained the same as before, not much different from before.

However, at work, the impact of natural disasters gradually emerged, and Zhou Jin's buyers were no longer able to complete their tasks according to the weekly plan.

Zhou Jin felt helpless in this situation. Facing the natural disaster, even with the system, he was still very insignificant, and he could not take out supplies from his own space to help them complete the task.

So, he could only comfort them and tell them not to worry too much, that this was caused by climate change and they just needed to do their best.

Recently, Zhou Jin has frequently visited the countryside to inspect the grain situation. He has not only visited the purchasing area he is responsible for, but has also visited all the villages around the entire Sijiu City.

However, what we saw and heard was not optimistic.

The sand-blowing phenomenon in the spring of this year in Sijiu City seems to be more serious than ever before. The sky is gray for more than ten days a month. When the wind blows, it is difficult to see people's figures a few meters away.

If you are unlucky enough to encounter windy weather when you go out, you will become a "dirt man" when you return, with your nose, mouth and even ears filled with yellow soil!

The drought is worse than last year. Since the beginning of spring, it has hardly rained in the city. Zhou Jin knows that the hard times have finally come!

I don’t know what the situation is like in other places, whether it will be better.

It is difficult to find such non-staple foods as meat, eggs and milk on the market nowadays. In large units like steel mills, you rarely see meat in the canteens.

Thanks to the efforts of the factory leaders and the purchasing department, we are still able to ensure that the workers have enough meals every day during this period. However, it is hard to say what will happen in the future. By then, it may be difficult to even get enough to eat, not to mention that the production task of the steel rolling mill has increased this year. By then, the factory leaders may be so anxious that they can't even sleep.

During this period, Zhou Jin was called to the factory leader's office almost every week. It was either Director Yang or Deputy Director Li. They all said the same thing, which was to ask Zhou Jin to do everything possible to get supplies.

This is not the fault of the two factory directors. After all, Deputy Director Li is in charge of logistics, and he is responsible for anything that happens here. If something happens in the factory due to shortage of materials, he will be implicated no matter how powerful his background is.

Director Yang is the top leader of the steel rolling mill and is responsible for everything in the factory. In addition, he is mainly responsible for production. Once the workers' productivity is reduced due to material shortages, affecting the production tasks for the whole year, he will bear the main responsibility.

However, Zhou Jin felt that now was not the right time. One reason was that the output of the current planting space could not fill the vacancy left by the steel mill.

Secondly, it is for insurance purposes. Once you take out the supplies easily, the factory leaders will think that it is very simple for them to purchase supplies, and they will definitely increase their appetite. If there is any mistake in the process, it will not be worth the loss.

So after careful consideration, Zhou Jin decided to wait until after the autumn harvest. Only after obtaining the unanimous consent and guarantee from the factory leaders would he increase the supply of materials to the steel rolling mill. Only in this way could he maximize his own value.

After all, unplanned materials were against the rules in this planned economy era. What if, after a natural disaster, the higher-ups turned against the unplanned materials? I had the guarantee of the factory leaders, so at least my life would not be in danger.

Time soon came to the second half of the year, the situation became increasingly difficult, and food coupons became something everyone dreamed of. One pound of 3-city food coupons were sold for 4 yuan on the black market, one pound of national food coupons were 5 yuan, and one pound of -city flour coupons were directly speculated to yuan!

During this period, Zhou Jin gradually increased the supply of materials to the steel rolling mill, but the quantity was not large. Several factory directors still talked to Zhou Jin from time to time. Although they knew it would not have much effect, there was no other way today but to put pressure on Zhou Jin, the actual person in charge.

Zhou Jin only said that he would try his best to purchase supplies. These people were really stingy. They only wanted to let the horse run but didn't want to give it more grass. Every time they called him, they put pressure on him but never talked about benefits. The generous Deputy Director Li was busy opening up new purchasing channels and had no time to pay attention to Zhou Jin.

Director Wang and her husband He Zhijun were also troubled by supplies during this period. They asked Zhou Jin for help in purchasing supplies twice, which finally solved their urgent problem.

Director Wang's son He Dong also found Zhou Jin through Director Wang and helped purchase supplies for the police station. Zhou Jin also provided He Dong's family with milk powder. As a result, Zhou Jin and Director Wang's family became very close.

Getting to know He Dong was like adding another helper to Zhou Jin. He was the deputy director of Jiaodaokou Police Station, and Courtyard No. 95 happened to be within the jurisdiction of their police station.

With this relationship, it would be much easier for Zhou Jin to deal with Yi Zhonghai and the others in the future. After all, Zhou Jin's case was basically a dispute in the courtyard, at most it was theft and fighting. It would not be worthwhile to find He Zhijun, so it would be just right to find He Dong.

Moreover, the two men were of similar age and both were retired soldiers. He Dong was very envious of Zhou Jin's excellent kung fu skills, so they would practice sparring with each other from time to time, and gradually their relationship became like that of brothers.

Since the food crisis began, Zhou Jin has started to deliver 30 kilograms of flour and 2 kilograms of pork to Uncle Pan Dong and Aunt Liu Fang every month.

Originally, both families were discussing what to do at home after the reduction in the quota. After all, both families have many children. Uncle Pan's family has four children, all of whom are teenagers. Although Uncle Pan's salary is not bad, he cannot afford these four boys.

Aunt Liu has three children, who are about the same age as Uncle Pan's. Moreover, Aunt Liu's family's income is not as high as Uncle Pan's, so facing the current problem is even more of a headache.

As a result, Zhou Jin directly sent so much food and pork to the two families. This was really a timely help and directly solved the food problem at home.

They all sighed that Zhou Jin was a really good kid. He knew how to repay kindness and had not forgotten the relationship between the two families. Now Zhou Jin had directly saved his family's lives.

On a weekend evening, Zhou Jin coaxed the little girl to sleep after playing with her all day, then tiptoed out of the bedroom, slowly closed the door, and went to the study.

Almost half a year had passed, and Zhou Jin was thinking about taking stock of the rewards he had received from signing in during the past six months, so he entered the system space with a conscious thought.

Through the monthly signing in the past few months, Zhou Jin has collected ten space fragments, which successfully upgraded the space area once, directly reaching one hundred acres, so Zhou Jin divided the space again.

The first is a ten-acre warehouse, a forty-acre farm, a thirty-acre ranch, a ten-acre freshwater fish farm and a ten-acre seawater farm.

The second is the sign-in skills. Not only do you gain proficiency in advanced driving skills and advanced firearms skills, but you also upgrade your primary fishing skills to intermediate fishing skills.

As for the other supplies and the Big Black Ten, Zhou Jin was too lazy to count them and just threw them into the space warehouse. Anyway, the warehouse had an automatic sorting function, so there was no need to worry about not finding them.

At this time, due to the widespread drought across the country, grain production in the winter and spring was greatly reduced, and the grain production reduction in the most important summer and autumn would be even more serious. Therefore, since the beginning of spring, the government has begun to control the influx of population into cities, and at the same time has begun to reduce the monthly food supply for urban residents.

Once these two policies were introduced, life became even more difficult for the lower-class residents who already had difficulties, especially families like Yan Bugui and Jia Dongxu who lived in the courtyard.

Although Yan Bugui's family all have city hukou, Yan Bugui is the only formal employee. He is reluctant to spend money to buy a work station for Yan Jiecheng, always wanting to get something for free. As a result, Yan Jiecheng can only do odd jobs in the cafeteria at the age of 20.

The rest were young boys like Yan Jiekuang and Yan Jiefang. There is an old saying that young boys eat their fathers to death. And there was also Yan Jiedi, so Yan Bugui's salary was not enough to feed his family.

But as a scholar after all, Yan Bugui's brain was more flexible than that of ordinary people. He took coarse grains to the countryside to exchange for sweet potatoes, one pound for four pounds, and finally the whole family could have enough food.

The situation of the Jia family is more troublesome. There are three adults and two children in the Jia family, but only Jia Dongxu has a city household registration and has a city ration of food.

As for Jia Zhang, she has always had a rural household registration. When the country was just liberated, the land was distributed, but she was greedy for the rural land and was unwilling to change her household registration to an urban household registration. In the past few years, her brothers from her hometown sent her a lot of food and local specialties every year, so she lived a very comfortable life before, and her figure was almost the same as in the drama.

In the current planned economy, there is no quota for rural household registration. Jia Zhang certainly does not want to return to the countryside to work. The trend now is for the countryside to be collectivized and the land to be collectively managed.

Fortunately, Jia Zhang had already gone in, and by the time she came out, the food crisis was almost over. In this way, Zhou Jin still helped Jia Zhang.

When Qin Huairu first married into the Jia family, she mentioned that she wanted to move her household registration to the city, but Jia Zhang disagreed. One reason was that she wanted Qin Huairu to be like her and rent the land to other relatives so that she could get some grain and local specialties from the countryside.

Secondly, she was worried that once Qin Huairu became a city resident, she would not be easy to control. She hoped to use the household registration issue to completely control Qin Huairu and make her work like a slave.

If anything goes wrong, she can use this to threaten Qin Huairu. After all, Qin Huairu has finally married into the city, and she will definitely not return to the countryside in such a disgrace.

Before, relying on the ration of Jia Dongxu and the two children, and relying on Jia Zhang's shamelessness and Bang Geng's petty theft, plus the support of Yi Zhonghai and donations from the compound two or three times a year, life was quite comfortable.

But now the food crisis has begun to emerge and the rural areas have been hit. Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu have not received any food and local specialties from the rural areas since the second half of last year.

Now everyone's food ration is suddenly reduced and the influx of population into the city is controlled, which means that the Jia family's good days are suddenly over.

Moreover, his family members had long been spoiled by the lunch boxes that Sha Zhu brought back. Due to food shortages during this period, there were no leftovers in the big pots in the factory, and the leaders did not dare to prepare their own meals. As a result, Sha Zhu had not brought back a lunch box for a month or two.

As soon as the national policy came out, everyone in the Jia family panicked. The money of the Jia family was originally in the hands of Jia Zhang, but Jia Zhang was a Pi Xiu, who only took in money and never spent it, and regarded money as more important than life.

But later, Jia Zhang was sentenced to three years in prison for fraudulent donations, and all the money in the family was found out. In addition to the compensation paid to everyone, the Jia family was left with nearly 600 yuan.

Without the suppression of Jia Zhangshi and with a huge sum of money in his hands, Jia Dongxu spent money without restraint. He bought several new clothes for everyone in the family, even the clothes for Xiaodang before he was six years old.

In addition, the food in the Jia family has also improved visibly. Of course, they did not show it in front of outsiders, but the faces of everyone in the Jia family seemed to be getting better and better.

Moreover, Jia Dongxu is a person who indulges in eating, drinking, whoring and gambling. With such a large sum of money in his hands, how could he resist going to those places to fool around?

In Jia Dongxu's opinion, even if his family really had no money left, as long as Yi Zhonghai was still there, he would not ignore him. That was why Jia Dongxu dared to spend money so lavishly.

Moreover, if the money is not spent, it will return to Jia Zhang's hands when his mother comes out, and he will not be able to use a penny then. It is better to enjoy it now.

What Jia Dongxu never expected was that when he had very little money left, the government introduced these two policies, which directly put the Jia family's life in crisis. If they did not seek help, they might not be able to survive.

Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu discussed it and both agreed that they could only ask Yi Zhonghai for help. They thought that either Yi Zhonghai would give them money to support them, or they would hold a meeting of the entire hospital to donate money to themselves as they had done before.

After making the decision, Jia Dongxu brought Qin Huairu to Yi Zhonghai's house and asked Banggeng to look after Xiaodang at home.