Chapter 1511: Prosperity 2
Wang Cuilan asked what was good news, Cheng Baoguo smiled and said, "Didn't the second brother and his grandchildren come back last month? The other day, the second brother and Comrade Zhengguo took Xibao to pay homage to Master Shan. Guess what happened?"
"What happened? Stop talking nonsense and tell me." Didn't they say it was good news?
Cheng Baoguo smiled, "Last year, the hill near Master Shan collapsed due to heavy rain. Xibao was tired and took a break with the second brother and Comrade Zhengguo. He took the small shovel he carried with him to shovel the motherwort around him, saying that it can clear heat and detoxify and can be used as medicine. It had just rained a little, and the land was soft. The shovel went deeper into the soil and brought up a large piece of soil. Guess what happened?"
"Just say it if you have something to say, don't make me guess!" Wang Cuilan was eager to know what happened, and her voice was full of complaints.
Cheng Baoguo stopped talking and said, "I heard from Comrade Zhengguo that the shovel hit something hard with a bang, making a sound that only iron tools would make when they collided. At that time, we thought that there might be scrap iron shells or something like that buried underneath, which could be sold to the scrap yard, so we let Xibao dig, and he ended up digging out a tin box."
Wang Cuilan was stunned and asked, "What's in the box?"
As everyone knows, Xibao is lucky, so the things in the box must be extraordinary.
"A box of gold!" Cheng Baoguo replied.
"What? Gold?"
"Yes."
Wang Cuilan opened her mouth immediately. A box of gold? What's the concept? Even a box of gold is worth a lot of money. After all, gold is small and heavy. One tael of gold is about the size of a fingertip, and a ten-tael large yellow croaker is about the same size as an index finger.
Cheng Baoguo didn't even need to think about it. His wife must be very surprised now. She smiled and said, "It's really gold, the quality is very good, and it's a gold ingot. I heard from my second brother that it should have been minted by the government in the late Qing Dynasty. Comrade Zhengguo and my second brother discussed it and brought Xibao to me directly to hand it over to the country."
"You don't give me some rewards?" Wang Cuilan asked this question because there was a precedent. In the early years, there were also old farmers who found gold nuggets and handed them over to the country, and the country gave rewards.
Compared with the gold nuggets, the value of a box of gold is much greater.
"Why didn't you give it?" Cheng Baoguo immediately sought benefits for his brother's family and held a meeting with the cadres of the municipal party committee, because a box of gold weighed a full 108 kilograms. According to the current bank gold purchase price, not to mention more than 8 yuan, just 8 yuan per gram, this amount of gold must be worth more than 400,000 yuan. As for the historical significance, it is worthless at this time and not worth mentioning.
Faced with such value, who can calm down? At that time, the municipal party committee was excited, and several old cadres almost couldn't breathe.
Gold was discovered by Xi Bao, and Lu's father was his grandfather, and Wang Zhengguo was his uncle, and neither of them wanted to take credit for it. So Cheng Baoguo asked Xi Bao on behalf of everyone if he wanted anything, and they would give him a certain reward on behalf of the country.
"Can you give our brigade a tractor?" Xi Bao answered at that time.
Whether with his parents or with his grandfather and grandmother, Xi Bao did not stay at home all the time. He often went around with the elders in the family to gain knowledge. He saw the tractor in the People's Commune in the suburbs of Beijing. At that time, the car pulled a lot of people and things, rumbling, and it was enough for one person to drive it, without any effort.
Xi Bao then continued: "My father and mother said that agriculture will gradually develop into mechanization. I think that with a tractor, the burden of grandparents and uncles can be reduced. Tractors are most convenient for farming and transportation!"