At fifty cents a catty, the stuff was quite heavy, and the people of the Shangjiang Production Brigade were practically ecstatic.
Each household didn’t receive much, and even those with kin elsewhere or daughters married into other families dared not breathe a word of it, terrified that this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to strike it rich might slip through their fingers.
Over in Yancheng, Shao Lizhong placed a personal call to discuss two matters: first, the procurement of Jiangzhuxing, and second, an invitation for Xu Qinghuan to travel to Yancheng to perform a surgery.
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