Shu Miao ignored his last sentence and asked again, "Where can I pay it?"
"Is there any need to ask? It must be going to the commune!" Shu Zili shook his head and replied subconsciously.
It was not until he heard a strange sound of "click" that he turned around belatedly.
I saw that the branch in my cousin's hand, which was as thick as her arm, had been broken into two pieces...
He was frightened for a moment and quickly put on a flattering smile, "Don't worry, don't worry, look at my memory, I'll explain it to you right away."
After calming down his heart, which was pounding with energy, he slowly began his long speech.
Shu Miao gave a rough summary.
Public grain refers to the grain grown on collective land, which must be handed over to the state free of charge according to the current legal ratio.
Shu Miao automatically translated it into an alternative form of "taxation".
Of course, this is also thanks to the director's mother's nagging mouth.
Because whenever a kind-hearted person donates money to the welfare home, a portion of the tax must be deducted before the money can actually be deposited into the welfare home’s account.
Every time this happened, the mother in the yard would complain bitterly for several days before she could stop.
After listening to it many times, Shu Miao roughly understood what taxation meant.
But Zili's subsequent extended topic completely stunned her.
Oh my God, did she hear it right?
As an adult, my aunt only gets 260 kilograms of food for the whole year!
Even if the food was distributed according to the ratio of six people to four workers, it would only be a little over 400 kilograms of food.
This is based on the fact that the Shu family has no strong labor force and is given special care policies!
But don’t forget that the food these days is not processed refined rice or flour, but millet with shells and unshelled corn cobs!
What does 400 kilograms of grain mean?
Just her half-grown child, even if she saves some food, still eats more than a pound of food a day...
Suddenly she felt that the hunger she had suffered before was not in vain, because there really was nothing to eat!
Otherwise, I wouldn’t only eat two meals a day, and every meal would be sweet potatoes…
Shu Zili rarely saw such a dramatic change of emotions on her face and found it very amusing.
His eyes rolled around and he immediately had an idea.
"Alas~"
He pretended to frown and sigh deeply, then patted her shoulder like a little adult.
"We are a pretty good brigade. We are close to water and mountains. If we really don't have enough food, we can go up the mountain and look for food. We won't starve.
You don’t know that in the Qianweigou Brigade on the other side of the mountain, because the paddy field area is not enough, the annual public grain is replaced by coarse grains, and throughout the year even coarse grains have to be saved!
Our brigade was relatively lucky because we had a lot of paddy fields. At least 50 kilograms of millet was distributed in the rations, and occasionally we could even have porridge with rice.
As he was talking, Shu Zili couldn't help but think of the fragrant rice, and he just felt craving for it.
But seeing his cousin staring at him with confused eyes, he quickly cleared his throat and patiently explained to her the miserable comparisons of other brigades.
Of course, we will also mention which brigade is doing well.
Basically, they are showing off the Yanhe Brigade, which is one of the brigades in the vicinity that lives a relatively good life.
Shu Miao carefully extracted useful information from his mumbling.
We can draw a conclusion that only the teams that can eat rice can be said to have a good life.
At the same time, she also discovered a terrible problem, that is, the white rice she was accustomed to eating in the welfare home had become an alternative "luxury" during this period!
Aren’t the requirements so low?
This is magical!
In this case, she would have to take better care of the rice in the field in the space.
She has even planned to plant rice in the entire space next season.
Then I can find an opportunity to sell it for money, and I will definitely be able to save enough money for school!
However, she still had to find a way to go to the "commune" to find out the specific situation.
Otherwise, she would be completely in the dark and wouldn't even know which way the market door faced, so what was the point of thinking about it?
Of course, school matters cannot be delayed.
Thinking of this, Shu Miao looked at the person who was bragging to his team, and wanted to find a chance to interject something.
Who knew that after a while, he was still talking one sentence after another without stopping. Shu Miao could no longer bear it and interrupted him.
"I want to visit the commune."
Shu Zili was still a little unsatisfied after being suddenly interrupted. When he came to his senses, he waved his hands to refuse what she said.
"That won't work. The commune is so far away, you can't walk there."
"I can run in the mountains all day long, so why can't I walk?" Shu Miao expressed his dissatisfaction.
If you think about it carefully, this guy's physical strength is not as good as mine. How can he be so sure that I can't get there?
Looking at the meaning conveyed in his cousin's eyes, he scratched his head a little embarrassedly, but still spoke again with certainty.
"Our brigade is too remote. It takes an hour to walk to Yue'erwan Brigade, where there's a school. How can we possibly get to the commune?"
To be honest, Shu Miao was really scared when she heard that she had to walk for an hour to go to school.
She also caught a point of incongruity.
Since even going to the brigade with the primary school takes an hour, then going to the commune farther away without any means of transportation doesn't that just mean...
"You haven't been to the commune either, have you?" Shu Miao stared at him with his black and white eyes, the suspicion in his eyes was self-evident.
Shu Zili's face became irritated by her stare, and his eyes began to wander left and right.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading!
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
