Chapter 74: The Captain is Really a Good Captain

There is no way. Although the Jiang family is large, except for Jiang He, a strong laborer who can earn full work points, the other men are basically workers.

Even so, the food distributed to the Jiang family was enough for the family to eat for a year. After all, the women in the family were not vegetarians and could get full work points every day, not to mention Captain Jiang.

Grain was gradually distributed to the educated youth, and when it was Shi Luo's turn, there were only a few people left.

Shi Luo took four or five centimeters every day and still liked to ask for leave. Jiang Jianguo looked at his own record and shook his head.

"Your idea is just right. A cent is enough to cover the grain. You don't have a cent in cash. How are you going to get the grain?"

Shi Luo asked innocently, "Captain, can I ask for all the fine grains?"

I think you are dreaming of shit. The captain was about to curse when he saw his son pushing a cart next to Shi Luo. He suddenly remembered that Shi Luo was now his son-in-law.

He quickly swallowed his words and said, "No, I can only change it to 50%."

There wasn’t much fine grain left after it was handed over to the government, but fortunately the people in the brigade preferred coarse grain.

Brigades with larger populations are more willing to exchange for coarse grains. One pound of fine grains can be exchanged for five pounds of coarse grains. Only by exchanging all for coarse grains can they get more food. Moreover, the fine grains will be gone once they are eaten, so coarse grains can fill people up a little more.

Shi Luo thought for a moment and said, "Then I want 100 kilograms of rice, 80 kilograms of flour, and the rest for cornmeal."

Jiang Jianguo said coldly, "No, corn is worth two for one. You can only exchange it for 160 kilograms of cornmeal, which is 80 kilograms of grain in 360 miles."

Shi Luo: "Then exchange the rest for sorghum flour."

Jiang Jianguo: "This can only be exchanged for 160 kilograms at most. The rest you can only exchange for potatoes and sweet potatoes."

Shi Luo nodded, "Okay, then I'll exchange the remaining portion for potatoes and sweet potatoes, half and half."

"Okay, then, one hundred kilograms of rice, eighty kilograms of flour, one hundred and sixty kilograms each of cornmeal and sorghum flour, and fifty kilograms each of potatoes and sweet potatoes."

Jiang Jianguo took note and asked others who came to help to weigh and pack the grain.

After Shi Luo came Xu Qianjin.

Jiang Jianguo looked at Xu Qianjin's centimeters and gritted his teeth and said, "You have the same centimeters as Shi Luo, only enough to cover food, no extra. How do you plan to change it?"

Without even thinking, Xu Qianjin said, "Same as Shi Luo."

Jiang Jianguo felt like he was about to be pissed off by these two people who had no ambition. He waved his hand and said, "Go ahead, line up and weigh the food."

Shi Luo was loading food onto the cart. When he looked up, he saw Jiang Jianguo taking deep breaths. He poked Jiang Hao with some worry and asked in a low voice,

"Is your father sick? I've seen people with asthma before, and they couldn't breathe just like him.

Why don't you take him to the hospital after the food is distributed and he's done with his work?

The brigade's infirmary can only treat minor injuries and illnesses, so it's better to go to the county hospital for treatment."

Who is Jiang Hao? He has been fighting wits and courage with his father for 19 years. When he saw Jiang Jianguo like this, he knew that he was angry. But it was not easy to say this to Shi Luo.

After thinking for a moment, he organized his words and said, "Oh, no, my father saw that the brigade had a good harvest and every household received a lot of food. We won't have to go hungry next year. He was so happy that he acted like this."

Shi Luoxin nodded in agreement.

"I just saw him not this excited when your family was distributing food. He only started to get excited when the whole brigade was almost done distributing food. The brigade leader is such a good leader. He always cares about everyone in the brigade."

Jiang Hao nodded perfunctorily after seeing that the food was packed, "Let's go back quickly. I didn't eat breakfast this morning and I'm starving."

When Shi Luo heard this, he didn't think much about it and followed Jiang Hao back to the Youth League Home happily.

Zhao Xiuxiu looked at Jiang Hao helping Shi Luo transport food with a dissatisfied look on her face. "Sister-in-law, what do you think Fifth Brother means by this? He never helped us distribute food in all these years, but now he's quite active in helping that educated youth."

"That's right, we only have one cart for transporting grain. Where did he get this one? If he could borrow it, why didn't he help his family?"

Li Qian curled her lips and continued

“I really can’t tell the inside from the outside.”

Liu Cuihua glanced at her two daughters-in-law who were not very knowledgeable.

"My son, I don't even care about myself, why do I need you to talk here? Did you two transport the food for the house? It was my second and third sons who did it."

Jiang Lin was on vacation today, so he came here to help his family transport food.

The more Liu Cuihua thought about it, the more unhappy she became. "Since you two are so clear about the inside and outside, why don't you stay here? There are just two bags of food left. You two can each carry one bag back to me.

You keep staring at your brother-in-law all day long. I think you guys are just idle. Hurry up and stop wasting time and carry some food for me."

Li Qian and Zhao Xiuxiu were shocked by the old lady's sudden outburst. Although they were dissatisfied, they still timidly carried a bag of grain home.

In fact, the two bags were not very heavy, only about 70 or 80 kilograms each. They could not be loaded on the cart just now. Jiang Jianguo said that he would take them back after distributing the grain, so they were left.

Liu Cuihua stayed here just to look after the two bags of grain.

Zhao Xiuxiu and Li Qian stayed here just to watch the fun, but they didn't get to watch it and had to work. They were so angry now.