Transmigrating to Book 50, others hoard rice, I hoard money

Chapter 268: Everyone is responsible for eliminating the "four evils"

After Zhou Rong got off work, Erwa and Nini voluntarily handed over the 5 yuan in their hands.

To commend them for their honesty, Zhou Rong gave each of them 2 cents as a reward.

Da Wa liked to buy books and some equipment, and do various physics and chemistry experiments at home. Zhou Rong no longer confiscated his pocket money, and occasionally gave him a dozen or twenty yuan to support him in buying what he needed.

After Zhou's mother moved to the meat processing factory, she no longer strictly controlled the money on Zhou Jiaguang. She felt that the atmosphere in Zhou Rong's home was a good training ground, and if Zhou Jiaguang did not learn to be "smart", he would not be able to keep a penny.

Rather than being cheated by others when you grow up, it is better to give the money to your grandchildren...

When Zhou's mother came to deliver food rations, the children tacitly agreed not to mention the New Year's money.

Zhou's mother didn't ask. She believed that with Zhou Rong watching over them, the children wouldn't dare to be too willful.

Not to mention children, even adults, few dared to act rashly in front of "Leopard Rong".

After all, I can't beat him, I can't talk him down, and I can't beat him with tricks. There is no better choice than to obey...

Zhou Gui didn't want others to argue about her courtesy, so before the Lantern Festival, she asked Shen Bohang to take gifts and visit all the relatives of the Zhou family in Jiangcheng.

Only through comparison can we make judgments. The behavior of Zhou Rong and Zhou Gui as married women further highlights the improper conduct of Zhou Fang and Zhou Yulan, who are not worthy of close friendship.

Everyone had their own thoughts, including their brothers, who all felt that Zhou Fang and Zhou Yulan were not worthy of being their sisters and planned to cut off contact with them...

After the first month of the year, everyone's work and study became more intense.

As early as January, the State Council issued the "Instructions on Eliminating the Four Pests and Promoting Hygiene."

The "Instructions" proposed to complete the task of eliminating flies, mosquitoes, rats, and sparrows (later "sparrows" were changed to "bedbugs") within 10 years or less, so that our people can transform from weak to strong, and from backward to advanced.

After the directive was issued, a campaign to eliminate the "four pests" was launched across the country, with each grass-roots unit conducting an inspection and evaluation every week, and each major unit conducting an inspection and evaluation every month, as well as an annual inspection and evaluation.

In order to change the city's health situation, the Jiangcheng Municipal Government held a mobilization meeting in mid-January for more than 1 cadres to participate in the Winter Patriotic Health Campaign.

The people of the city were mobilized to launch a sanitation campaign centered on combating the four pests (rats, sparrows, flies, and mosquitoes) and eliminating two diseases (schistosomiasis and filariasis). After the meeting, a sanitation boom swept the entire city.

Because it was cold at the time, it was difficult to find the four pests. Everyone's core task was to maintain hygiene in their homes and units, and at the same time sprinkle "666" powder, pesticides, etc. into various puddles to kill germs.

As the temperature gets higher day by day, rats, mosquitoes, and flies appear one after another, and sparrows also become active in people's vision.

In order to win this battle, adults, children, the elderly, women and children were all mobilized to slap mosquitoes, catch sparrows, catch mice and kill flies.

Banners that read “Mobilize the masses, unify actions, men, women, old and young, all show their talents” and “Eliminate rats, birds, mosquitoes, flies, harmful goblins and evil spirits” can be seen everywhere on the streets.

Someone even made up a nursery rhyme: "Flies and mosquitoes spread diseases, and mice and sparrows steal food. Six hundred million people will join forces to eliminate them all!"

Everyone has the responsibility to eliminate the "four pests", and the results of eliminating the "four pests" must be reported in categories every day. Sparrows are counted by the number of them, mice are counted by the number of their tails, and flies and mosquitoes must be reported realistically.

Rats steal food and spread viruses, making them the top four pests.

The task was issued by the higher-ups, and no matter whether one was an official in an office, a worker, a citizen, or a student, everyone had to hand in a rat tail and 20 flies every day when going to work or school.

There was no requirement for specific numbers of mosquitoes and sparrows for the time being, so everyone focused on the rats and flies that needed to complete the task.

Everyone dug rat holes, poured water into them, smoked them with fire, and chased the rats while shouting and screaming.

Because only the rat tail was handed in for the task, the rat body was thrown everywhere, and the stench attracted more flies and maggots...

There are rewards for killing rats. Killing a rat can be exchanged for a box of matches, or three tails can be exchanged for a bookmark.

Many primary school students are unable to catch mice, so their parents have to do it for them. They prepare a mouse tail for their children every day and take it to school to hand in the task.

Zhou Rong hated mice the most and was afraid of them. Asking her to catch mice and chopping off their tails was almost like killing her.

What's more, she has to hand in tasks every day and also help Nini prepare. Oh, she also has to prepare the things under Xu Man's name.

Wang Chengnan is busy with work and has no time to catch mice.

Xu Man felt sick just looking at mice, let alone catching them and cutting off their tails. The task of catching mice in her family fell on Chen Zhan Ning.

Chen Zhan Ning doesn’t catch mice every day. Sometimes, in order to complete the task, he will spend money to buy tails from those who are good at catching mice.

But everyone has tasks, and often you can’t buy them even if you spend money.

Wang Chengnan is a man of upright ideas. Xu Man dare not complain to him and can only grumble to Zhou Rong, saying that the world is a little abnormal and that everyone seems crazy.

Zhou Rong: "...Just say this to me, don't tell anyone else, otherwise people will take it too far and it will be bad for you and your brother-in-law."

Xu Man: "I know, that's why I didn't even tell Chengnan. When do you think this mission will be completed?

I have never worried about anything since I was a child, but now I am so worried about paying for rat tails and flies that I can't even eat. How did the world become like this?"

Zhou Rong: "...My son is very good at catching mice. If there are any extra ones, I will do your job for you."

Xu Man: "Okay, thank you."

In order to complete the task quickly, Zhou Rong asked Zhou Jiaguang, Da Wa and Er Wa to catch the mice, cut off their tails and then give her one.

Zhou Rong took the mouse tail into the space to copy it. She thought it would go smoothly, but when the system gave the quotation, many question marks appeared.

Xiao Shuai said that this was an unidentified object and there was no reference data, and asked Zhou Rong what was placed on the replica table.

Zhou Rong said: "Rat tail."

Xiao Shuai: "???!!! Is this a new food invented by you humans?"

Zhou Rong: "...This is not food, it's a toy. It's very cheap. If you don't have a reference price, just calculate it as 10 for 1 cent."

Xiao Shuai: "...I've upgraded. Don't try to deceive me. There are no such cheap toys in your world. I'll ask my superiors for permission."

Soon, the Space-Time Bureau responded that a rat tail was 10 yuan, and that there was a rural market where people were buying rat tails, and the price was 10 yuan per piece.

Zhou Rong said that the price was fake and it must be a trick thought up by the people selling rat poison.

But the people from the Space-Time Bureau didn't listen to her explanation. If she wanted to successfully copy it, she would have to pay 10 yuan for each mouse tail.

Zhou Rong endured the pain and copied 100 items, intending to hand in the tasks for this period first...