Chapter 193

Deling reform through labor farm.

Jing Cuncheng put on all his clothes, wrapped in the quilt, still shivering.

Zhang Jun, who is opposite the room, is even more unbearable. His face is white and curled up. The shaking wooden bed is ringing.

Jingcuncheng kowtowed his teeth and said with a smile, "Lao Zhang, you are a cowhide king. What else do you say about staying in the snow for three days and three nights? Now you have a house and a quilt. You can't stand it."

With 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 retort to come and wanted to speak to keep out the cold.

However, the expected rebuttal did not come.

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

"Lao Zhang?"

"Lao Zhang!" Jing Cuncheng gave a loud cry, which woke the other two people up.

Jing Cuncheng got out of bed wrapped in a quilt and touched Zhang Jun's forehead. His face changed and he said in a deep voice, "I have a fever."

"Any more coal cakes? Set the fire on and get some hot water. " Guo Wei, a roommate, said as he went to the earthen stove in the middle of the room.

The furnace has been cold for a long time, and the walls are cold. Under the stove were some kindling wood and a gray black coal cake.

"There's only one piece left." Guo Wei sighed, found the match, ready to light the fire, and asked, "who has money?"

"I have one more thing. I can buy two coal cakes." Cheng Yu, the last person in the room, was an intellectual. He was thin and small. He took out a small change from his shoe. Then he looked up out of the window and said, "before evening, three coal cakes went out in the middle of the night."

"If you can't, you have to. I'll ask the guard for two more." Jing Cuncheng covers Zhang Jun with his quilt and puts on his broken 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. We'll run and you'll catch the fire."

"Go and come back quickly. You'd better get some medicine." Cheng Yu wrapped up the quilt impolitely and said, "pay attention to safety."

Jing Cuncheng and Guo Wei didn't say a word. They opened the door and trotted to the guard against the cold wind.

The reform through labor farm is located in the Qaidam Basin, which is more than 100 kilometers away from the nearest town. It takes a whole day to drive, and it has to climb over a mountain more than 3000 meters high. The conditions are extremely harsh. In such a place, there is no need for prison like iron doors and iron windows. As long as there are only two cars on the farm, anyone who wants to run is free. Just running out of the farm can be very tiring. If you walk along the road, you don't have to wait for a suitable place to live, one day and one night will pass, and you can't find anyone on the farm, so you can call, The surrounding villages and towns are leisurely prepared with roadblocks and militia. If you are lucky, you will have a chance to save the escaped guy.

The guard of the farm is very loose, but the material management is very strict. In January, when the temperature is below zero at night, the fuel still can not be fully rationed, especially when the mountain is snowed, the coal cake provided by the farm will be reduced.

If you want more coal cakes, you have to pay for them. At the beginning of coming to the farm, many people are able to come up with money. Even if they don't have it, they have savings at home and always try to send some.

However, now that they have been detained for a longer time, there are few people who still have money. Cheng Yu still has a little change, which he saved from his meal money.

Holding the money, Jing Cuncheng and Guo Wei knock on the guard's room and feel warm.

The cast iron stove in the room is burning hot.

"Lao Zhang has a fever. Let's get some coal cakes." Jing Cuncheng holds Guo Wei so that he won't be too hot tempered.

Sitting in front of the stove, Tao Feng was strong, but he was impatient. He said, "you've sent out all the coal cakes this week. If you don't have enough, you'll go to the field department to pay for them."

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

Tao Feng didn't care: "there's no way. I'm not in the field. "

"Help me, little comrade."

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

"It's not good to die." "Lao Zhang is very hot now. Give him some medicine, drink some hot water and warm him up, and he will be saved," Jing Cuncheng said. If you die because of a few cents, if you don't tell me the trouble, his family will come to make trouble when they hear about it. "

"Why should a reactionary make trouble?" Tao Feng is a tough man.

With a smile, Jing Cuncheng said, "doesn't the people's daily stop talking about this? A lot of people have been rehabilitated. Lao Zhang didn't rehabilitate. There may be some problems with him. But it's also your task to let him live until he rehabilitates or when a new order comes down. Well, I have some money here. Would you please hand it over to the field department tomorrow for us and give us some coal cakes for help today? "Tao Feng looked down at the ticket, put it in his pocket, poked it under the stove with his feet, and said, "there are no coal cakes. You can take as many as you can."

Guo Wei angry way: "these which enough."

"It doesn't matter if it's not enough." Jing Cuncheng grabbed him and said with a smile to Tao Feng, "discipline me. If you have cold medicine, give me two more. Send the Buddha to the West."

There is no shortage of ordinary medicine in the reform through labor farms. The fuel is because the mountains are high and the roads are far away, so it's much easier to carry the medicine.

Of course, drugs also cost money. Tao Feng didn't want to give them, but he gave them to Jing Cuncheng.

There used to be a lot of people in Deling Laogai farm. In fact, all kinds of judicial organs in Qinghai once held 25% of the prisoners in the country, but in recent years, many people have been released one after another.

At the beginning, the cadres on the farm were even worried, for fear that the released ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^.

Now a few years later, what they are worried about has not happened, fewer and fewer people leave the farm, and the guards have relapsed, gradually showing signs of treating the rest of them as ordinary criminals.

However, * * * * and criminal are different after all, and Jing Cuncheng's words are reasonable. So Tao Feng gave the medicine, so as not to cause trouble.

After morning exercises the next day, Jing Cuncheng went back to his room and continued to take care of Lao Zhang.

Other people on the farm also heard that you collected two dustpans of small coal to make the house warm.

But that's all you can do.

Jing Cuncheng and Cheng Yu kept on using watery towels to cool Lao Zhang's physics. By noon, they were a little better. But whether it was due to the sun or the busy work of the two people was unclear.

"The fever hasn't gone down yet." Cheng Yu poured some hot water into the basin and said with a worried face: "the coal is about to run out again. I have to turn off the fire in the afternoon. If I use it again, I won't use it at night."

"I'll ask you for more points." Guo Wei went out as soon as he heard it.

Cheng Yu shook his head, looked at the closed door and said helplessly, "the landlord doesn't have any food left."

"You should say that there is no surplus food at home." Jing Cuncheng said.

Cheng Yu straightened up and said with a bitter smile, "are you still in the mood to tell jokes?"

"It's no use crying. Ask as much as you can." Jing Cuncheng said calmly, "if you can live one day, you can count one day."

That's the end of the conversation in the room.

When he was a child, Guo Wei came back with a frown. Half of the coal was loaded in the dustpan, and he said, "all that can be taken out in the afternoon, that's all."

Cheng Yu and Jing Cuncheng didn't speak. They sat around the stove, changing a towel for Zhang Jun from time to time, thinking of their own.

In the afternoon, the power of the sun became weaker and weaker, but the temperature of the furnace did not rise.

Zhang Jun is still sleepy, three people wrapped up the quilt one after another, there is no better way.

Bang bang.

The knock on the door startled three people.

"Who?"

"Is Mr. Jing in? I'm Tao Feng. I've brought the doctor. " Tao Feng knocked on the door again.

Jing Cuncheng opened the door in surprise, saw Tao Feng and asked, "what's the matter with discipline?"

"Today, you didn't say that Lao Zhang was ill. I went back to ponder that it couldn't be like this, so I brought a doctor to see him. See, Dr. Kang? " Tao Feng said and gave up his position to the doctor.

There is only one doctor in the reform through labor farm. He is indifferent to the prisoners on weekdays. At this time, he is somewhat special. With a smile on his face, he sits beside Lao Zhang and begins to feel his pulse.

After a while, the doctor opened the medical bag, took out a group of infusion devices and large glass bottles of liquid, said: "a little dehydration, fever is also more serious, first rehydration and fever."

"It's too cold in the room. Even people who are not ill have to catch a cold. It's even harder to get well when they are ill." Jing Cuncheng frowned and said.

Tao Feng immediately said, "I'll send someone to get the coal. I'll burn it for you right away."

"Here comes the coal truck?" Guo Wei asked stupidly.

Cheng Yu said with a smile, "something must have come, but it's not necessarily a coal truck. Tao Guanjiao, if you have any good things, just share them with us. Don't hide them alone. "

Guo Wei's eyes congealed: "has someone vindicated?"

Cheng Yu and Jing Cuncheng also look closely at Tao Feng. In the reform through labor farm, people are most looking forward to going home.Tao Guanjiao laughed awkwardly and said, "I can't send the notice of rehabilitation. I just received a phone call and a letter. Mr. Jing's brother-in-law is coming in two days. "

"Here comes Xiao Wu?" Jing Cuncheng then asked: "Xiao Wu has been here before, but Tao Guanjiao didn't knock on the door before."

"Mr. Jing, don't run on me. You used to be a big man, and you will be a big man. Tao Feng is a small man. If you like, just look at me. If you don't want to, just think I'm a sparrow. It's not your business to chirp." With a smile, Tao Feng picked up the kettle on the stove, poured water into their cups, and handed the letter to Jing Cuncheng.

The letter was opened. He had already checked it. Jing Cuncheng opened it and scanned it. He was puzzled and said, "I said I would come and have a look. I didn't say anything special."

"I also sent the money, and the Department saved it for you. As you know, a large amount of remittance must be deposited in the field department. "

"I know, so that we don't run away with money. How much did Xiaowu send?"

"1000 yuan, plus 1000 yuan of foreign exchange certificates." Tao Feng smiles humbly. Foreign exchange certificates should be exchanged with real foreign exchange and the official exchange rate.

83 The official exchange rate for 2001 is 1. 97, that is, the exchange rate of 1 US dollar to 2 RMB yuan. In the same period, the black market exchange rate was almost 1:8, and it was 1:10 when it was severe.

That is to say, a unit of 1000 yuan of foreign exchange certificates needs to be converted into 500 US dollars, and 500 US dollars can actually be converted into 4000 to 5000 RMB yuan.

Because of kengdai's exchange rate, not only Chinese and overseas Chinese who return to China, but also foreigners who come to China will try to do private exchange in seamen's clubs or the back alleys of the people's Bank of China. Some shipping companies often go to China's coastal areas, and even directly explain the exchange rate and exchange methods in seamen's manuals.

Of course, according to the rules, foreigners in China can't use RMB, US dollars and other foreign exchange. They must use foreign exchange certificates instead. However, there are countermeasures and policies. Ordinary people will not refuse foreigners to go to shops with RMB. Even officials rarely enforce such laws.

However, the implementation of reform through labor farms is to the letter. Just like in cities, in reform through labor farms, most of the things in RMB need bills. 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 need national food tickets.

There is no restriction on the use of foreign exchange certificates. You can buy as many as you want. Anyway, foreign exchange is used for foreign exchange, and the country will not suffer losses. It can be said that foreign exchange certificates are a kind of privilege for China.

In the reform through labor farm, many old cadres are in poor health, so their families can only try to buy foreign exchange vouchers, so that they can easily buy food, clothing or medicine.

However, most of the foreign exchange coupons sent to Deling farm are 30 or 50 yuan, while few of them are more than 100 yuan.

The one-time foreign exchange certificate of 1000 yuan can't help but make the farm think wildly.

It's Jing Cuncheng himself. He thinks about it.

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