Chapter 165: Food Distribution Farce (Part 2)

Out of curiosity, Lu Xiaoxiao squeezed to the front with her second sister. When she heard everyone's discussion, she realized that the person sitting on the ground crying was Widow Li.

Widow Li's husband was killed by a stone while repairing a canal in his early years. She has not remarried over the years, but has lived with her son.

But her son was raised by her to be lazy and gluttonous. Even in his twenties, he never went to the fields to earn work points, but instead wandered around all day long.

So this family has always relied on Widow Li to earn work points. However, no matter how capable a woman is, she cannot earn enough work points to support two people. So every time when it was time to distribute rations, Widow Li would cry and make a fuss, saying that her husband died while repairing a canal for the team, so the team should take care of them, an orphan and a widow, and at least give them enough food for a year.

In the past, because Widow Li's son was still young, the team understood her family's difficulties and gave them enough food to last for a year.

However, as Widow Li's son grew up, she still used the same excuse when distributing food. Now not only the captain disagreed, but everyone else disagreed as well.

Why do they have to work hard in the fields all year to earn work points to get a year's food rations, while Widow Li's son can get a year's food rations without doing any work all day?

However, regardless of the captain's and everyone else's opposition, Widow Li just sat on the ground and started crying and making a scene, saying that everyone wanted to starve them, an orphan and a widow, to death.

Seeing how shameless she was, everyone had no choice but to agree to distribute food to their family. In this way, Widow Li was able to get a year's worth of food every year.

This year, Widow Li started to use the same old tricks again, but the captain was annoyed by her shameless behavior again and again, so this time he was determined not to give more food to their family, which led to the scene before us.

Seeing Widow Li sitting on the ground crying louder and louder, and talking nonsense about how the people in the team bullied them, he said angrily, "Don't even think about the team giving you more food this year. We gave you more food because your son took care of your family, but you are getting more and more demanding. You think the food in the team is blown by the wind.

These grains were grown by the team members after working hard for a whole year. Why should they be given more to your family? If you want to calculate the grain according to your work points, you can get it now. If not, your work points will be directly deducted from the extra grain distributed to you in recent years."

Everyone was delighted to hear the captain's words, thinking that they could finally get rid of this blood-sucking worm, Widow Li.

But when Widow Li heard what the captain said, she became anxious. She knew that it was impossible to get food by cheating today, so she didn't plan to continue crying, but stood up directly.

She patted the dirt off her body and said, "Captain, since the team won't give me more food, can I borrow some? In addition to the food I get in exchange for work points, I will borrow some more from the team, enough for my son and I to eat for a year. Next year, I will definitely let Dabao work in the fields and pay back all the borrowed food."

After hearing what she said, the captain and the others had no choice but to agree to her borrowing the food. However, when the captain gave her the food, he said, "If you don't pay the food back next year, the team will not give you any more food."

After hearing the captain's words, Widow Li nodded repeatedly and said she understood, but how much of the truth in it remained to be verified.

(End of this chapter)