Deling Labor Reform Farm.

Jing Cuncheng put on all his clothes, wrapped in a quilt, and was still trembling.

Zhang Jun, opposite the same room, was even more unbearable. His face turned pale and curled up, and the shaking wooden bed was ringing.

Jing Cuncheng knelt his teeth and said with a smile: "Old Zhang, you cowhide king, are you saying that you are ambushing in the snow for three days and three nights without moving your nest. Now you have a house and a quilt, and you can't stand it."

After saying that, Jing Cuncheng twisted his body, hoping that his back would be a little warmer. At the same time, he was waiting for the familiar rebuttal to come, wanting to use his words to keep the cold.

However, the expected rebuttal did not come.

Zhang Jun closed his eyes tightly, and his body was still shaking violently.

"Old Zhang?"

"Old Zhang!" Jing Cuncheng shouted, awakening the other two people.

Jing Cuncheng got out of bed wrapped in a quilt. When he touched Zhang Jun’s forehead, his face changed and he said in a deep voice: “I’m having a fever.”

"Do you still have coal cakes? Boil the fire and get some hot water." Guo Wei, who was in the same room, said as he went to the earthen stove in the middle of the house.

The stove has been cold for a long time, and the walls are cold. Below the stove are some firewood and a piece of gray-black coal cake.

"Only one piece left." Guo Wei sighed, found the matches, prepared to light the fire, and asked, "Who has the money?"

"I have a little more, can I buy two coal cakes." Cheng Yu, the last man in the room, was an intellectual, thin and small. He took out a bill from his shoes, then looked up at the window and said, "It's not until evening, and the three coal cakes will be destroyed in the middle of the night."

"It's okay if it doesn't work. I'll ask for two more pieces to guard." Jing Cuncheng covered Zhang Jun's quilt and put on torn cotton shoes.

"I'll go with you." Guo Wei rubbed his face, handed his quilt to Cheng Yu, and said, "Don't freeze you too, let's go, you can get the fire."

"Go and go back quickly, it's best to get some medicine." Cheng Yu wrapped the quilt in a polite way and said, "Be careful."

Jing Cuncheng and Guo Wei didn't say anything, opened the door, and ran to the guard against the cold wind.

The labor reform farm is located in the Qaidam Basin, more than 100 kilometers away from the nearest town. It takes a whole day to drive and cross a mountain that is more than 3,000 meters high. The conditions are extremely harsh. In such a place, there is no need for prison-like iron doors and windows. As long as you look at the farm, there are only two cars, whoever wants to run will be casual. Just running out of the farm can be exhausted. If you walk along the road, you will not wait for a suitable place to survive and pass a day and night. If you call the farm, you can't find anyone. Then call out the surrounding villages and towns leisurely prepare the roadblocks and militia teams. If you are lucky, you will have a chance to rescue the escaped guy.

The farm is very loose, but the material management is very strict. In January when the temperature reaches below zero at night, the fuel is still not fully rationed, especially when the mountain is blocked with heavy snow, the farm provides less coal cakes.

If you want more coal cakes, you have to pay for them yourself. At the beginning of your arrival at the farm, many people can take out the money. Even if they don’t have them, they have savings at home and will always find ways to send some.

However, now they have been detained for a longer time, and there are almost no people who still have money. Cheng Yu still has a little money left, which he saved from the money he has made.

Jing Cuncheng and Guo Wei held the money and knocked on the guard's room, and suddenly felt warm all over.

The cast iron stove in the room was burning hot.

"Old Zhang has a fever, let's get a few coal cakes." Jing Cuncheng grabbed Guo Wei to prevent him from being too irritable.

Tao Feng, who was sitting in front of the stove, was strong, but his face was full of impatientness, and said, "You have sent all the coal cakes this week. If there is not enough, go to the farm department to pay the money."

"It's so late, there's no one in the venue." Jing Cuncheng said with his head down.

Tao Feng said indifferently: "There is nothing to do. I am not from the field department."

"Help help, comrade."

"Who is a comrade with you?" Tao Feng stood up suddenly and looked down at Jing Cuncheng.

"It's not good if a person dies." Jing Cuncheng understood it and said, "Old Zhang is burning now. Give some medicine, drink some hot water, and warm it up, and the person will be saved. If he dies because of a few cents, don't you bother, his family will come to make trouble if he hears it."

"Why should a reactionary person make trouble?" Tao Feng looked fierce and cowardly.

Jing Cuncheng laughed and said, "Didn't the People's Daily stop talking about this? Many people have also been rehabilitated. Lao Zhang has not rehabilitated it. Maybe he has his problems. However, letting him wait for rehabilitation or wait for a new order to come down is also your task. I have some money here. Please hand it over to the venue department tomorrow. Today, I will be fine?"

Tao Feng looked down at the hair ticket, put it in his pocket, and used his feet to push it under the stove, saying, "There are no coal cakes. You can take as much as you can."

Guo Wei said angrily: "What's enough."

"It doesn't matter if it's not enough." Jing Cuncheng grabbed him and smiled at Tao Feng and said, "Disciple, give me two more cold medicines and send them to the West."

Labor reform farms are not short of ordinary medicines. The fuel is because the mountains are high and the roads are far away, so it is easier to carry more medicines.

Of course, medicines also cost money. Tao Feng was unwilling to give them to them, but when he thought of what Jing Cuncheng said before, he squeezed two for him.

Deling Lao Gai Farm originally detained many people. In fact, various judicial organs in Qinghai once detained 25% of the country's prisoners, but over the years, many people have been released one after another.

At the beginning, the cadres on the farm were even worried, fearing that the let-before **** would gain power again and find revenge.

Now that a few years have passed, what they are worried about has not happened, and fewer and fewer people leave the farm. The guards are resurfacing and gradually treat the remaining ******* as a sign of ordinary criminals.

However, **** and criminals are different after all, and Jing Cuncheng's words are reasonable. Tao Feng then gave the medicine to avoid the disaster.

After the morning exercise the next day, Jing Cuncheng returned to the room and continued to take care of Lao Zhang.

Others on the farm also heard that you collected two dustpans of coal from me one by one so that they could burn the house a little warmer.

But there is only so much everyone can do.

Jing Cuncheng and Cheng Yu kept using water-dipped towels to cool down Lao Zhang physically. It was only a little better at noon, but it was hard to tell whether it was the sun's credit or the result of their busyness.

"The burn has not yet subsided." Cheng Yu poured some hot water into the basin and said with a sad face: "The coal is about to be used up again, and the heat will be turned off in the afternoon. If you use it like this, you will have no use in the evening."

"I'll ask everyone for some more." Guo Wei went out as soon as he heard this.

Cheng Yu shook his head, looked at the closed door, and said helplessly: "The landlord's family has no surplus food either."

"You should say that the right-wing families have no surplus food," Jing Cuncheng said rubbing his hands.

Cheng Yu straightened his waist and smiled bitterly: "Are you still in the mood to tell jokes?"

"It's useless to cry with a sad face. Just take as much as you can." Jing Cuncheng said calmly: "It's a day to live."

The conversation in the room ended there.

One hour later, Guo Wei frowned and filled the dustpan with half of the coal, saying, "I took out all the things I can do in the afternoon, that's all."

Cheng Yu and Jing Cuncheng didn't say anything. The three of them sat around the stove and changed Zhang Jun's towel from time to time, each thinking about their own things.

In the afternoon, the power of the sun became weaker and weaker, but the temperature of the stove did not increase.

Zhang Jun was still sleeping, and the three of them were wrapped in quilts one after another, and there was no better way.

Bang bang.

The knock on the door shocked three people instantly.

"who?"

"Mr. Jing is here? I am Tao Feng, and I brought the doctor." Tao Feng knocked on the door again.

Jing Cuncheng opened the door in surprise, saw Tao Feng, and asked, "Why is the discipline coming?"

"Didn't you say that Lao Zhang is sick today? I'll go back and think about it. You can't just do that, so I bring a doctor to see you. Dr. Kang, look?" Tao Feng said, giving up his position to the doctor he brought.

There is only one doctor in the labor camp. He ignores prisoners on weekdays, but at this time he is a little special. He has a smile on his face and sits beside Lao Zhang and starts to take his pulse.

After a while, the doctor even opened the medical kit, took out a set of infusion devices and liquids in large glass bottles, and said, "It's a bit dehydrated and the fever is quite serious. Replenish the fluid first and reduce the fever."

"The room is too cold. Even if people who are not sick, they will catch a cold. If they get sick, it will be even more difficult to cure." Jing Cuncheng said with a frown.

Tao Feng immediately said: "I have someone go to get coal, and I will burn it for you immediately."

"Are a coal truck coming?" Guo Wei asked stupidly.

Cheng Yu smiled and said, "Something must have been coming, but it may not be a coal truck. Tao Jianshe, if there is any good thing, just share it with us, don't hide it alone."

Guo Wei's eyes froze: "Is someone rehabilitated?"

Cheng Yu and Jing Cuncheng also looked at Tao Feng tightly. In the labor reform farm, what people most look forward to is to rehabilitate and go home.

Jianshe smiled awkwardly and said, "I can't send the rehabilitation notice. I just answered a call and received a letter. Mr. Jing's brother-in-law is coming in two days."

"Is Xiao Wu here?" Jing Cuncheng then said in confusion: "Xiao Wu has been here before, but Tao Jianshe did not knock on the door before."

"Mr. Jing, don't squeeze me. You used to be a big shot, and you will be a big shot in the future. I, Tao Feng, are a little shot. If you want to, just look at me. If you don't want to, just think I'm a sparrow. It's not a problem for you." Tao Feng smiled and lifted the kettle on the stove, poured water into the cups of the three of them, and handed the letter from his arms to Jing Cuncheng.

The letter was from Kaifeng, and it was obvious that it had been checked. Jing Cuncheng opened it and scanned it, and said in confusion: "I just said I wanted to come and have a look, but I didn't say anything special."

"I also sent the money and the department has saved it for you. You know, the large amount of remittance must be deposited from the department."

"I know, so we won't run away with money on us. How much did Xiao Wu send?"

"1,000 yuan, and there are 1,000 yuan foreign exchange coupons." Tao Feng smiled humbly. Foreign exchange coupons must be exchanged with real foreign exchange, and at the official exchange rate.

The official exchange rate in 1983 was 1.97, which is the way 1 US dollar was exchanged for 2 yuan. The black market exchange rate during the same period was almost 1 to 8, and when it was amazing, it was 1 to 10.

In other words, foreign exchange coupons with a unit of 1,000 yuan need to be exchanged for US$500, while US$500 can actually be exchanged for RMB 4,000 to RMB 5,000.

Because of the cheating exchange rate, not only Chinese and overseas Chinese who returned to China, but also foreigners who came to China, they would find ways to exchange privately in the seafarers club or the back alleys of the People's Bank of China. Some shipping companies that often travel to China's coastal areas and even directly explain the exchange rate and exchange method in the seafarers' manual.

Of course, according to the rules, foreigners cannot use RMB or US dollars in China, and they must be exchanged for foreign exchange coupons for use. However, there are countermeasures and policies below. If foreigners take RMB to shop, ordinary people will not refuse. Even officials rarely enforce such laws.

However, the implementation of labor reform farms is perfect. Like in cities, most labor reform farms use RMB to make notes. If you want to buy extra meat, you need meat tickets. If you want to buy extra coal, you need coal tickets. If you want to eat more, you need food tickets. You also have to be national food tickets.

There is no restriction on using foreign exchange coupons. You can buy as much as you want. Anyway, it is exchanged for foreign exchange, and the country will not suffer any losses. It can be said that foreign exchange coupons are a privileged existence to China.

In labor reform farms, many veteran cadres are in poor health, so their families can only find ways to buy foreign exchange coupons so that they can buy food and clothing more easily or buy medicines.
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