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

After returning home, Li Xiuping slept soundly. She wouldn't have woken up if Wang Xingguo hadn't opened the door and entered the room after washing up.

Li Xiuping sat up and said happily to Wang Xingguo, "Xingguo, the baby rolled over today, and it kept me fussing for a while."

Wang Xingguo smiled upon hearing this, gently resting his head on Li Xiuping's stomach and listening to the sounds inside.

He told Li Xiuping, "Your due date is in a month, so I need to arrange for Mom to stay home and take care of you."

Li Xiuping shook her head and said, "No need. There are so many people here now, my aunts and sisters-in-law are with me every day, so don't worry. By the way, you said we need the leaders to help name our child, when are we going to ask them?"

Wang Xingguo did indeed plan to ask a high-ranking leader to name his child, because the leader would remain stable until the 1990s when he would retire from his front-line position due to illness.

Therefore, having one's boss name one's child is the greatest blessing a father can secure for his child's future.

He laughed and said, "Let's wait until the baby is born. I reckon the leader won't agree to name the child according to the generational naming conventions. He's an old revolutionary and doesn't like these clan-related things. We'll give the child two names then, one according to the generational naming conventions for the family genealogy, and the one the leader chooses for the child's official status."

Li Xiuping patted her belly and said happily, "Our child is a lucky one. When I heard you say that such a high-ranking leader would name the child, I knew that our child would definitely be successful in the future."

Yes, Wang Xingguo couldn't help but want to secure a future for his child. After all, what father doesn't want his child to be successful?

As for the gender of the child, Wang Xingguo didn't care, as long as it was his own child.

The couple chatted for a while before turning off the lights and going to rest.

At 6:00 AM on November 5th, the night market will be closed for five days, and all staff will be supporting the winter vegetable storage campaign.

There's a saying that goes, "If you don't harvest vegetables before the start of winter, you'll surely suffer the consequences." In 1960, the start of winter was November 7th. Cabbage shouldn't be harvested too early, as early harvesting will cause the cabbage hearts to become loose and less resistant to storage. It's necessary to harvest in a concentrated rush close to the start of winter.

Because the start of winter is later than usual, there isn't much time left to harvest vegetables, and they also need to be transported back to the city for residents to buy.

Therefore, the Autumn Vegetable Command Center established by the Municipal Bureau of Commerce mobilized 100,000 cadres, workers, and students to go to the countryside every day to help with the harvesting of Chinese cabbage, and urban-rural joint transportation was fully launched.

All units also put aside all their work to fully support the harvesting of autumn vegetables.

They tallied the number of residents in their compound, as well as the number of people moving in next, and then reported the required quantity of winter vegetables. Two trucks from the night market were then responsible for leading their own people to the countryside to harvest autumn vegetables and transport them back.

So two trucks brought two trips of people to Dongba Commune, where everyone started to collect tools to cut cabbages.

Young and able-bodied men were responsible for chopping the cabbages, while the elderly, women, and children were responsible for moving the cabbages to the roadside to be weighed and loaded onto trucks.

Wang Xingguo was smoking with a production team leader from the commune, chatting about wanting more cabbage, radishes, and potatoes.

That's fine, because after the vegetables from their village are handed over, there are still some left over. Wang Xingguo buys them to pickle sauerkraut and radishes, and also stores some for use at the night market.

The night market wasn't short of money; the purchase price for first-grade Chinese cabbage was only 1.2 cents per pound. Wang Xingguo directly bought Chinese cabbage at 4 cents per pound, potatoes at 6 cents per pound, green onions at 6 cents per pound, and radishes at 4 cents per pound.

It looks like a very low price, right?

In reality, the purchase price of these things never exceeded two cents per kilogram.

So the production team leader was very happy and said that all the surplus winter vegetables in his production team should be sold to Wang Xingguo first.

After loading the truck with cabbages, Wang Xingguo drove them back to Courtyard No. 15, which was the courtyard number assigned by the Housing Management Bureau. It was Courtyard No. 15 in Xiawazi Hutong.

Those who stayed behind to wait for the trucks to unload began to get busy. They unloaded the trucks, then weighed, registered, and collected money. This money needed to be handed over to the city vegetable company, which would then give the money to the commune, and the commune would then give it to the production team.

This is the original procedure, but this year, because the start of winter was late, the harvest time was short, so we mobilized capable units to organize manpower to help with the harvest.

In just one day, they harvested and transported all the winter vegetables needed for the compound. The next day, Gan Ping led a team to help other production teams with the harvest, while Wang Xingguo took seven or eight clansmen to purchase the surplus winter vegetables.

Wang Xingguo never complains about having too much of vegetables like scallions and potatoes.

With food shortages, eating more potatoes can reduce food consumption, while scallions can improve the monotonous taste of winter-stored vegetables, which consist only of cabbage and radishes.

I bought two truckloads of Chinese cabbage, one and a half truckloads of radishes, and one truckload of green onions, which means I've bought all the winter vegetables I need from the night market.

Wang Xingguo drove a cartload of his clansmen back to Gaobeidian, and then helped them harvest Chinese cabbages.

This area is a vegetable growing base, so they need more manpower to rush the harvest. There are workers, students, and even soldiers from the city everywhere.

The neighborhood committee also mobilized the masses, and everyone actively participated in the winter vegetable storage campaign.

Organize at least 100,000 people every day, and that's 500,000 people in five days!

The mobilization and organization capabilities of the new China amazed and even instilled great fear in foreign friends in Beijing.

Who would dare to provoke a dragon with such terrifying mobilization power?

Just like those years in modern society, the enormous mobilization power and the cohesion of the entire nation united as one directly made the whole world change its mind.

Five days passed in this way, and the harvest was basically completed. What remained was the transfer and sales work. Factories and units throughout Beijing took turns giving employees a day off to go home and help purchase vegetables for winter storage, thus completing the winter storage work.

Wang Xingguo has been exhausted these past few days. He can slack off in other areas, but he can't neglect the affairs of his clan.

So these past few days I've been loading trucks and delivering vegetables, and I haven't been home to rest for days.

However, it was all worth it. After the outer withered and rotten leaves of a first-grade Chinese cabbage rotted, it would only weigh about six or seven pounds after ten pounds. A second-grade cabbage would only weigh four or five pounds. A third-grade cabbage, which is suitable for pickling, would weigh about three pounds. On average, each cabbage would only weigh about four pounds.

So a cabbage can sell for an average of four or five cents, and there are about 1,500 or 1,600 cabbages per mu (unit of land area), which is about 50 or 60 yuan per mu.

This is very important to the village, although the money will be distributed according to work points after deducting various costs, expenses, and other fees.

However, for the production team responsible for growing vegetables, their most stable source of income is these winter-stored vegetables.

However, Wang Changshun was very happy because Wang Xingguo had allocated sixty pig purchase quotas to them this year, and also gave twenty pig purchase quotas to Wang Siying's side, so their pressure was greatly reduced and they no longer had to worry about pig purchases.