Rebirth begins with the waste wood returning home

Chapter 91 Exchange Money
It happened to be dark when the few people returned to Shi'ao Village, so they didn't attract too many people's attention.

Only Shi Laiwang and Shi Daniu's family knew about Jiang Decai's running away. Since these two families were close to the Jiang family, they would naturally not let it out.

As for how many people in the village he hadn't seen in a few days, when asked, Shi Laiwang only said that he had gone to the town to help people work.

The Jiang family had high-ranking relatives in the town, so people in the village naturally knew about it, and it did not arouse much suspicion.

That night, the lights in Jiang's yard stayed on for a long time before going out.

The next day, the Jiang family returned to their daily routine, and everyone began to prepare for the summer harvest.

Because of last year's bumper harvest, the faces of the people in Shi'ao Village are now full of joy. Although they are happy about the bumper harvest of wheat, they are not as excited as last year. The summer harvest is proceeding steadily.

The Jiang family also planted large watermelons and melons this year.

This kind of thing was not very uncommon in rural areas in the early years, but the situation in the past few years was unstable and there was not enough food to eat. Who would have the leisure to waste energy and fields to grow those fruits?

When the Jiang family started planting this year, several families followed suit, such as the Changsheng family and the Daniu family. These two are die-hard fans of the Jiang family. They will grow whatever the Jiang family grows.

There are also village chief Liu Mulin's family and several others.

However, the land that everyone chose was generally newly mined land, and the fertile land was not willing to be used.

Because they were planted relatively early, after the wheat harvest, some watermelons had already appeared on the red soil and were almost ripe.

It was too hot, so Jiang Defu simply picked a few and put them in the well water. After dinner, he cut one into pieces. It was cool and sweet, which was called delicious.

When other families in the village saw their watermelons, they were all envious, and some began to plant late watermelons.

Many late watermelons are planted after the wheat harvest and will mature in autumn.

Shi Daniu's family has opened up a lot of wasteland. Jiang Defu said that he was most active when planting watermelons. The Jiang family delayed planting for a week because of digging a well, but his family planted it early.

Now his watermelons are much riper.

Aunt Shi was reluctant to eat. She only ate some melons that were not in good quality or had cracks, and asked Shi Daniu to drive the others to the town to sell them.

Nowadays, there is a shortage of supplies, and the luxurious fruits and melons that have not been seen in the town for several years are all sold out in one fell swoop.

However, Shi Daniu did not sell money directly, but used the traditional rural transaction method of exchanging watermelons for grain.

When Shi Daniu came back with half a cart of grain, the envious looks in the village couldn't be forgotten!
"Daniu, your watermelon is really booming, it's more cost-effective than growing food!"

“This young man, Daniel, is really capable!”

"That's right, has Daniel found a partner? My niece..."

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Jiang Defu didn't care much about the situation in the village, just those trivial things. He never liked to pay attention to these.

In the past two days, he picked a bag of good watermelons and brought them to the town.

Xiao Zeng and Cong Wei used to live in the backyard of the Zhengfu compound, but it was an office space and was a bit messy.

Cong Wei was feeling unwell and needed some retreat, so he moved to a nearby yard.

Jiang Defu did not go to the compound this time, but went directly to their residence.

The yard is not big, only the yard of three houses, and an aunt helps the two of them cook and clean.

"Secretary Cong is on a business trip again?"

Jiang Defu went there on the weekend he chose.

Today's government staff do not adopt a weekend system. Most of them take one day off a week. If necessary, they can even take two days off a month at most.

Now that the overall situation has been settled, it is gradually time to take a break.

"Secretary Cong has returned to his hometown. His uncle in his hometown is sick. He goes back to visit relatives and needs to stay for a few days. I still have work here, so I will come back first and pick up Secretary Cong in a few days."

Xiao Zeng smiled.Help Jiang Defu lift the watermelon off the car.

"Oops! I was wondering if you could grow watermelons. A few days ago, a watermelon seller came to town and said it was from a nearby village. I thought about buying one for Secretary Cong to try, but I went there. Listen, Said it was sold out and left..."

Xiao Zeng was very excited when he saw the watermelon in the bag.

"What do you want to buy this time? I'll accompany you to the streets to help."

After the two finished eating and chatted for a while, Xiao Zeng asked casually.

Shi'ao Village is quite far away from the town. Many villagers only visit the town once every few months, usually to sell some things and buy some necessary supplies.

Such as salt, oil, matches, diesel (mainly used as oil lamps) and other necessary items.

Jiang Defu would buy a lot of things every time he came here, and Xiao Zeng would go with him several times when he had nothing to do.

The age difference between the two is not much, and Xiao Zeng's family is out of town. Because they often communicate with each other, they feel like good brothers.

"I have everything at home, I don't need anything, but I need to change some things, and I really need your help!"

Jiang Defu smiled.

"What are you talking about? I have nothing to do today. I will sacrifice my life to accompany you, the gentleman, and spend the whole day with you!"

Xiao Zeng patted his chest and said.

"I want to change some money."

"Exchange some money?"

Xiao Zeng was surprised.

Rural people exchange food, salt, and oil, but when did they start to exchange money?
Not many people change money these days!
why?Of course there is no money!
Jiang Defu suddenly asked about changing money, which really shocked Xiao Zeng.

"Well, let's change money. Some of the money I have is in large denominations, so it's not very convenient for me to buy things. Is it convenient for you to change it?"

Jiang Defu said as he took out several fifty and one hundred banknotes from his bag.

"You...why do you have so much money?"

Xiao Zeng was a little speechless, why did this product cost so much and in such a large denomination?

Xiao Zeng used to follow Cong Wei in many places where there were bullets and bullets, so he naturally saw a lot of large denominations, especially in non-liberated areas. At that time, 1 yuan and [-] yuan were very common.

It's just that there are very few such denominations here, especially in the hands of ordinary people in the countryside. With today's prices, many large denominations are difficult to spend. This has also caused the circulation of banknotes to be poor. Many people have already followed this problem. reaction.

"Well, when I came back, our team gave me some money, maybe it was a subsidy to recuperate when I returned home."

Jiang Defu said without seeming to care.

"This thing was not very valuable at the beginning. At that time, hundreds of thousands could buy a bag of grain, and many people didn't care about it!"

Xiao Zeng sighed.

In the early days, they all worked in non-liberated areas. At that time, prices were inflated and it was necessary to use a lot of large-denomination coins to buy things. Money was really like waste paper.

Jiang Defu had so much in his hands. It was probably because their leaders thought the money was worthless and gave him more.

However, these 50 or [-] yuan are easy to say, but it is not easy to spend the large denominations nowadays. After all, there are not so many supplies, and many things are in limited supply, so you can't just buy them if you want to.

"Can I have some change for this money?"

As for the denominations of 5 and [-] yuan, Jiang Defu doesn’t want to spend it so much for the time being. It’s hard to spend it, and at worst, it will be kept as a collection in the future.

Now he wants to exchange some of the one hundred and fifty ones.

(End of this chapter)