"Huh? Selling blood?"

When Zhang's mother heard those two words, she couldn't help but shudder.

She's someone who's afraid of injections, and now they're asking her to sell her blood? That's just too cruel.

"I don't want to go..." Zhang's mother said hesitantly.

Mr. Zhang gave her a cold glance: "Think about your precious son before you decide whether or not you want to sell your blood."

The moment Zhang Zude was mentioned, Zhang's mother instantly wilted like a frostbitten eggplant, becoming completely sullen.

"Alright then." She sighed, crawled into bed, and prepared to get some rest in preparation for selling blood tomorrow.

The next morning, as Hu Dahai and Bao Yuanshan pushed a cart full of fish toward Hangzhou, they passed through Bake County and saw Mr. and Mrs. Zhang standing in front of an underground blood donation station, frantically drinking water.

These days, there are still many underground blood donation centers like this. When many poor families are struggling to get enough to eat, they think about selling their blood to earn a meal for their families.

These underground blood banks don't treat blood sellers like human beings at all. All the equipment is not sterilized. They might not even change the equipment after drawing blood from one person, and will immediately draw blood from the next person.

Therefore, at this time, many people contracted strange diseases, such as AIDS, and some strange blood-borne infectious diseases and liver diseases, because of selling blood.

However, many people still resort to selling their blood when they are desperate. But compared to starving to death, many people would still choose to be a sick person who can eat their fill.

Seeing this, Hu Dahai shook his head. This family could actually live a good life, but unfortunately they were stuck with such an ignorant son. Of course, they couldn't blame anyone else but Zhang's mother, who didn't know how to educate him and only knew how to spoil him.

However, since Zhang's parents are selling their blood, it means they are trying to help Zhang Yuzhen. In that case, Zhang Yuzhen should value her family even more, and Hu Guanbao will be even more pitiful.

Thinking of this, Hu Dahai smiled. Now, when he thought of Hu Guanbao, his heart was numb; he could basically say he felt nothing.

Last night, Hu Dahai and Bao Yuanshan improved Bao Yuanshan's cart, turning it into a four-wheeled cart, making it easier to push.

Today, they had two handcarts. One handcart was loaded with fish, eels, and other items collected from the Qunyi Brigade, while the other handcart was empty and was going to collect fish from the Fengsheng Brigade.

At the food factory, Zhang Zhaoxing's first few batches of products had already been distributed and sold, and sales were excellent, so their customers' orders increased dramatically. At the same time, their demand for fish and snails also increased.

Fortunately, with the fish from Fengsheng Brigade, Hu Dahai was able to barely keep up with Zhang Zhaoxing's needs. Otherwise, Hu Dahai would have had to watch helplessly as the food factory had to source fish from other places.

At the same time, Hu Dahai also told Chen Wen to raise some snails in his fishpond, since he would buy them all at a price of two and a half cents.

"Comrade Dahai." When Chen Wen saw Hu Dahai today, he pulled Hu Dahai aside and took out two wild turtles from his bucket.

“These two wild turtles were caught by our brigade. Everyone remembers your kindness, which has brought our Fengsheng brigade such a large income every day. So they asked me to give you these turtles to help you recover.”

Now, the Fengsheng Brigade earns a collective income of 180 to 190 yuan a day from fish and snails. Because the entire Fengsheng Brigade is located in a remote area and has a small population, with only about 150 households in the whole village, each household can earn about one yuan a day. How could they not be grateful to Hu Dahai?

Hu Dahai looked at the two fresh black-backed wild turtles and felt even more favorably toward the people of Fengsheng Brigade. Although he was doing business with them and making money off them, they were still so grateful to him.

"I'll buy this turtle. Sell it to me for ten yuan. I don't want it for free," Hu Dahai said, weighing the turtle in his hand.

Chen Wen's eyes were a little red. He looked at Hu Dahai and said, "Comrade Dahai, you are really different from the other businessmen."

“Other businessmen only care about profits, but you also care about us ordinary people.”

Hu Dahai chuckled and said, "The way you're talking makes me sound like I'm something special. I'm just an ordinary person from the bottom of society."

"However," Hu Dahai said, seeing that Chen Wen genuinely wanted to lead the people of Fengsheng Brigade to prosperity and was a conscientious and good brigade leader, coupled with the simple and honest folk customs of the people of Fengsheng Brigade, it was hard for anyone to dislike them. So Hu Dahai turned his head and instructed, "I hope you can expand the scale of your fishponds, especially to raise some fish that grow very fast. I think I will need more fish later."

"Also, it would be best if you could build a better road in and out of Fengsheng Brigade. When the scale gets bigger, we will need to drive in and out, so you won't have to pick and choose like this every day."

Chen Wen nodded repeatedly: "Okay, okay, okay, we are indeed planning to use all the money we've earned in the last few days to buy cement and sand, and prepare to pave a cement road to connect to the national highway."

Several days passed, and the entire Fengsheng Brigade was working feverishly, reclaiming new fish ponds, buying fish fry, and building cement roads.

This immediately drew envy from the neighboring brigades, who assumed that the township was providing special support to Fengsheng Brigade.

So they all immediately went to the township government to ask the township head for subsidies. In particular, the head of the Lingdong brigade, who was also Du Wu's father, was in charge.

After all, both Lingdong Brigade and Fengsheng Brigade primarily focus on fish farming. Currently, Lingdong Brigade's fish farming is only mediocre; they struggle to even maintain a balance between income and expenditure, let alone expand their fishponds or build roads. However, Fengsheng Brigade can engage in such large-scale development.

Without comparison, there's no harm done. After all, in the past, the Lingdong Brigade looked down on the Fengsheng Brigade, feeling that the Fengsheng Brigade was far inferior to them. Now, the situation has changed; the people of the Fengsheng Brigade are actually doing better than them, even able to build their own cement village roads. How could the people of the Lingdong Brigade not be anxious?

However, when they arrived in Yiqian Township, they learned from the township head that Yiqian Township had not allocated a single penny to Fengsheng Brigade. In order to convince everyone, the township's finance department staff laid bare the township's financial situation to everyone. Now, let alone asking Yiqian Township to subsidize any brigade, their own township's finances are very tight.

However, instead of feeling relieved upon receiving this result, the villagers felt even more heavy-hearted.

Since the funding wasn't from the township government, it meant that Fengsheng Brigade had raised the money or secured investment on its own. This made it seem as if the brigade leader of Fengsheng Brigade was very capable, while the brigade leaders of the other villages were incompetent.

So these brigade leaders all sent people to Fengsheng Brigade to find out how they got their money. Did the people of Fengsheng Brigade bypass the township and go to the county to get money, or did they find some way to make money?

In particular, the brigade leader of Lingdong Brigade issued a strict order overnight: if the real reason why Fengsheng Brigade was rich was not found, none of the brigade's cadres should come back.

Amidst the tense anticipation of each brigade, everyone soon received the news that they had returned from the Fengsheng Brigade.

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