The old man watched as his grandson and granddaughter got on the cart, and then waited until his grandmother got on before slowly leading the oxcart toward the threshing ground.
His five goddaughters had already disappeared and gone to the front of the line to reserve their spots.
Wang Zhenhua and his group ran faster, so they were at the front of the line.
Xu Meijuan and Li Dazhuang, along with the accountant, calculated the work points and the grain that Wang Zhenhua's family could receive.
"Sister Zhenhua, your family has so many work points! Now you won't have to worry about work points for the whole year."
Wang Zhenhua chuckled when he heard this.
"That's good, that's good, now I can rest assured."
Li Xiuxiu, who was standing to the side, also spoke up.
"Captain, Sister Meijuan, our female educated youth's grain should also be counted towards Wei Mo's family's share."
Upon hearing this, Xu Meijuan looked over, and the captain slowly spoke up.
"Okay, then I'll include yours in the total."
Wang Ling, Yu Juan, and others nodded in agreement.
"Captain, we should include all of ours together and count them as Wei Mo's family's."
"Yes, we all live together and have been eating food from Sister Wang's house lately, so of course we should count it as living together."
After calculating the grain, the brigade leader led Wei Mo's family to the granary to retrieve the grain.
Li Xiuxiu carried the heavy sacks of grain onto the oxcart, one by one. Since there were still no men in the family, she still had to do this kind of heavy work.
The old man jumped off the oxcart as well, intending to carry the grain, but Li Xiuxiu refused.
"Uncle Yu, please sit here and rest. I'll take care of it. You're getting on in years, so please don't hurt yourself."
Seeing Li Xiuxiu carrying the sack with such ease, the old man had no choice but to slowly agree.
"Alright then, take it easy, we're not in a rush, don't tire yourself out."
Li Xiuxiu nodded to the old man.
"Then, Uncle Yu, I'll go back to carrying the grain."
After carrying more than ten bags, the old man led the oxcart back home. Li Xiuxiu continued to carry the grain, after all, it was a year's worth of food, and those dozen bags were not enough.
Wei Mo followed the old man back home, helped unload the grain onto the ground, and then sat on the grain sacks with his two older sisters, symbolically looking at the grain. The old man quickly gave him some instructions.
"You guys keep an eye on things here, I'm going back to get another one."
Wei Xiaomin chattered on and on.
"Don't worry, sir, we will definitely not leave, and no one can steal our grain."
Seeing Wei Xiaomin's obedient appearance, Wei Mo smiled and said to the old man,
"Grandpa, go ahead, we won't leave."
The old man nodded, then led the oxcart to continue transporting grain to the brigade. Wang Ling and the others helped by stuffing the sacks into the grain, while Wang Zhenhua and Grandma Yu watched the scales.
The family worked together seamlessly and quickly loaded all the grain. After tallying the work points, everyone waited there for the old man to return.
Villagers nearby kept talking to them.
"Zhenhua, your family has a really good amount of grain this year. Looks like you've earned a lot of work points."
How could Wang Zhenhua possibly say more about such a thing? He could only address the crowd.
"It's alright, it's alright. The main thing is that my family has six more people now, so we naturally need more food, otherwise we'll go hungry again this year."
"Fortunately, we had other food income this year, otherwise we might not have been able to survive next year."
Hearing Wang Zhenhua's words, the villagers nodded in agreement and then said...
"Yes, yes, if we didn't have the food we could get from fishing, we probably wouldn't have had a good year."
"But with fishing, we don't even need vegetables at home anymore. We just need to use the fishing work points to exchange for food, and that's almost enough to eat. We have to thank your Wei Mo for this."
The villagers nearby also chimed in.
"Yes, yes, Sister Wang, we really have to thank your Wei Mo. Otherwise, with so many children in my family, what would we do?"
"If it weren't for Wei Mo, we might be able to support several people."
The villagers kept praising Wei Mo to Wang Zhenhua, and Wang Zhenhua nodded and smiled in response.
The village's income this year is indeed good. Not only have we received more work points, but we've also received more grain. I estimate we won't have to go hungry next year, and at least we'll be able to eat our fill.
As the old man arrived with the oxcart, the family helped Li Xiuxiu load all the grain onto the cart before heading home.
As soon as they arrived home, Wei Xiaomin ran over and called out to the old man.
"Grandpa, Grandpa, look how good I am! I didn't run away. I kept an eye on the grain and didn't lose a single grain."
The old man stopped the oxcart, patted Wei Xiaomin's little head, and said to her...
"Yes, my second granddaughter is the best-behaved."
Then everyone unloaded the grain from the cart onto the ground. Li Xiuxiu carried the grain to the small warehouse in the house, one trip after another. The others helped out, carrying two bags at a time.
After the grain was all carried away, Grandma Yu said with a smile,
"Hey, with so much grain, our family will definitely have no problem with food next year."
She laughed heartily, and others, hearing Grandma Yu's words, echoed her sentiments.
"Yes, godmother."
However, they didn't realize that their family had never been eating the distributed grains, but rather the fine grains that Wei Mo had provided.
As for the grain, Wei Mo was still a little worried about what to do with it.
After all, Wei Mo couldn't stand eating corn porridge and other coarse grains every day.
Thinking of this, Wei Mo couldn't help but speak.
"Mom, Grandma, Grandpa, how about we exchange our grain with the villagers for some fine grain? Otherwise, we won't be able to finish our grain. If we keep it all accumulating, it will just get moldy. It's better to eat some better-tasting fine grain."
Everyone was stunned when they heard Wei Mo's words. The village did have fine grains, but not many were distributed, and everyone wanted them, so they were distributed equally.
However, you can also trade coarse grains for refined grains from others, as long as the other party agrees, although the ratio is an issue.
Wang Zhenhua nodded, thinking of his son's abilities.
"all right!"
However, the old man disagreed, saying,
"How can that be? We won't panic if we have grain. What if we run out of so much refined grain?"
Hearing the old man's disagreement, Wei Mo had no choice but to step forward and comfort him, saying...
"Grandpa, Grandpa, those big bits of corn are making my throat sore. We have a lot of these at home, how are we supposed to eat them?"
Hearing Wei Mo's words and the echoes of his other goddaughters, the old man frowned, unsure of what to do.
Grandma Yu spoke up from the side.
"Just listen to my eldest grandson. When has my eldest grandson ever been wrong?"
The old man thought about it and agreed. Indeed, his eldest grandson's decisions were always very correct. So, he thought, "Why don't we..." The old man began to speak.
"Alright then, let's exchange them all for refined grains. I'll go find someone to exchange them in a bit."
Wei Mo, Qian Manman, and the others smiled. After all, they were used to eating refined grains, and it was okay to eat coarse grains occasionally, but who would like to eat them all the time?
Within a few days, the old man replaced all the coarse grains in the house with refined grains. Not only was the family happy, but the villagers who exchanged the grains were even happier. After all, everyone likes to hoard grains, and seeing a full load of coarse grains made them even more delighted.
The villagers' catches are gradually decreasing due to the colder weather, and the temperature is getting closer and closer to zero. The river will soon freeze over, making fishing a problem.
After thinking it over, the captain decided to go to Wei Mo's house to ask him how to handle the situation.
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