In 1959, what's wrong with me pedaling a tricycle?

National Day is always a lively occasion, but Wang Xingguo and his colleagues, who rarely get a day off, didn't go out to join in the festivities.

They took small red flags and stuck them in place at the entrance. Everyone does this on National Day, which adds to the festive atmosphere.

Happy times always pass quickly, and in the blink of an eye, the National Day holiday was over, after all, it was only one day.

The next afternoon, Wang Xingguo went to the night market and brought back some chicken and duck eggs, live fish and other goods.

Gan Ping returned, cursing and swearing. It was the first time Wang Xingguo had ever seen this man so angry, so he quickly asked, "Old Gan, what happened? Why are you so angry?"

Gan Ping cursed, "Damn it, don't even mention it! I'm furious. They want us to buy back the gold, but they won't give us any more supplies. What are we supposed to do? Are we supposed to kick down the door and rob them?"

Wang Xingguo laughed and said, "Calm down. It's just that your request to increase supplies wasn't approved by the higher-ups."

Gan Ping nodded and said, "Not only was it not approved, but they said there aren't any qualified pigs available, so they can't purchase any for slaughter. They even told us to increase our recycling efforts, saying there's a severe shortage of gold to buy strategic materials. But we don't have anything! This is putting us in a difficult position. If we have meat, they say we can exchange it for supplies; if we don't have meat, are we supposed to exchange it for our own?"

Wang Xingguo comforted him, "Calm down. As long as you don't give up, there's always a way. Let's think about it and see how to solve this problem."

Actually, this matter is not as difficult to resolve as Gan Ping thought!

Because Wang Xingguo told him, "Old Gan, it doesn't matter if there aren't any pigs that meet the standards for slaughter. We can ask the leaders for some quotas for purchasing pigs that don't meet the standards but can still be slaughtered, and then we can buy those pigs."

Gan Ping was stunned when he heard this. He thought about it for a moment and the more he thought about it, the more feasible it seemed!

Since the company says there are no pigs that meet the standards for slaughter, why not just calculate the number of substandard pigs as if they met the standards for slaughter?

Gan Ping thought it over and over and found it feasible. He immediately grabbed Wang Xingguo and wanted to go with him to discuss the matter with the leaders of the district commerce bureau.

It's actually quite simple. The night market just pays the food company under the district's commerce bureau based on the weight of the pigs that meet the standards!

Director Yang and the others were a little stunned after hearing what Wang Xingguo said.

However, this was easy to understand. The group quickly figured it out, held a short meeting, and decided to agree to it.

That same day, the food company approved a purchase quota of twenty pigs for Gan Ping, and Wang Xingguo also received a purchase quota of twenty pigs.

All they need to do is take the certificate to the countryside to buy live pigs. No matter how big the pig is, as long as the payment is settled with the food company based on 130 jin (65 catties), the pig is considered a "compliant pig".

For every quota a commune submitted, the task of purchasing one pig was reduced, thus completely solving the problem of not having qualified pigs.

The task of purchasing pigs has always had a weight requirement, and now the food company has a solution to this problem.

Because the pigs they are tasked with purchasing are also supplied to various units, there is now a way to ensure that no matter whether the pig weighs 80 or 90 jin, you pay according to the standard for pigs. We have completed our purchasing task, and the farmers have also completed their purchasing tasks. The units just have to spend more money and receive less pork.

This is a last resort; otherwise, if farmers don't have enough grain to fatten up pigs, no one will be able to complete this year's procurement targets.

Wang Xingguo's shady move led the food company down a crooked path.

However, he didn't care about any of that. He demanded that Gan Ping's quota be used entirely for the Gaobeidian Production Brigade. Although the pigs in Gaobeidian were now only about 90 jin (45 kg), Gan Ping readily accepted the request.

Wang Xingguo and Gan Ping drove a truck to Gaobeidian and completed the purchase of forty pigs for the village in one go. This would save the clansmen a lot of feed, giving them enough pig feed to feed the remaining pigs, so they wouldn't have to squeeze grain from their mouths to fatten them up.

Wang Changshun's worried face finally broke into a smile, and he patted Wang Xingguo's shoulder repeatedly, saying happily, "Well done, Xingguo, you're really smart. Our Wang family is counting on you to be the clan leader from now on!"

Wang Xingguo chuckled and said, "Alright, I'm not interested in the clan leader. Twenty-first Master, this time it's only a purchase order for forty pigs. How many more pigs do we have to purchase?"

Wang Changshun explained, "We used to assign 150 pigs for procurement here, but now, due to reduced grain production, it has been reduced to 100. After deducting these 40 pigs, we still have 60 pigs left for procurement."

Wang Xingguo nodded and said, "After these forty pigs are sold, I will continue to apply for quotas. Anyway, these pigs are only fed pig feed, and we can't use the clansmen's rations to fatten them up. I don't care how many pounds they gain, we are desperately short of meat right now, and I don't want to see the clansmen suffer from malnutrition."

The other clansmen in charge all wore joyful smiles. It was good to have a capable person in the clan; the purchasing task that had been troubling them so much was easily solved in Wang Xingguo's hands.

If the purchase quota is not completed, it will be recorded in next year's account. As long as the purchase quota is not completed, they will not be eligible to receive the reward.

Rural people are different from urban people. Urban people receive a fixed number of yards of cloth coupons every year, while rural people can only receive cloth, cotton, and other material rewards by completing their assigned purchase quotas and handing in any additional goods.

Once the goods arrived at the production brigade, they needed to be distributed according to work points. So, in order to complete the purchase quota, the rural people were forced to squeeze food out of their own mouths to accomplish this top priority.

Don't think that failing to complete the sales target is no big deal; that's just wishful thinking.

Wang Changshun hesitated for a moment before saying, "Xingguo, you should also take care of Wang Siying's side. They're having a tough time right now..."

Wang Xingguo nodded and said, "I understand. I will take care of them next time I have the chance."

After bringing the pigs back to the night market, Wang Xingguo arranged for six pigs to be slaughtered first, and the rest to be kept in a pen.

These days, getting some vegetable scraps to feed pigs isn't difficult; it just costs a little money, but it's not a big problem.

After the pigs were slaughtered, one set of offal was used to supplement the night market, two sets of offal were sent to the municipal bureau, one set to the district bureau, one set to the public security sub-bureau, and one set to the street office!

We won't sell any pork for money; anyone who wants it can exchange it for gold!

The news that pigs were being slaughtered and sold at the night market was spread by Niu Ye, and that night a large number of people flocked to the night market to buy pork.

One small yellow croaker can be exchanged for ten pounds of pork. Whether it's jewelry or gold bars, as long as it's pure gold, it can be exchanged for fresh pork at a certain ratio!

That evening, not a single pound of pork from the six pigs was left; it was all exchanged!