Moreover, since they made more money from selling public grain, they would get more money this year, and they could have a prosperous winter.
Except for children and the elderly, the rest of the people left in the village were women. They all followed the food delivery team and were sent to the village entrance before returning home one after another.
Tian Tian and Shen Lingling also followed the crowd back.
Tian Lisong and his crew were gone for three days, and they returned with an empty cart three days later.
The other people who delivered grain had gone home, leaving only a few village cadres in the brigade office discussing the distribution of grain and money tomorrow.
After delivering the public grain, the remaining grain must be deducted from the grain for the five-guarantee households, and the best seed grain must be selected. The grain for cattle feed must also be deducted, and then the war reserve grain will be deducted. The remaining grain will be distributed to each household in a 30:70 ratio.
The amount of grain that each family is entitled to has to be calculated again and again, for fear that there might be any mistakes. When it comes to grain, it is more important than anything else in everyone's eyes.
These had actually been calculated before the grain was delivered, but just in case, Tian Lisong and his team stayed behind to check them again.
Seeing Tian Lisong and several other cadres of the brigade busy with work, Tian Lilin went home first.
As soon as he entered the house, the entire Tian family surrounded him immediately.
"Dad! You're back!" Tian Baobao jumped up and screamed.
"Are you tired from delivering food? Come into the house and lie down for a while. Mother has made you some spinach and egg soup. You can drink it when you wake up." Chen Guihua said.
"Second brother, why hasn't your eldest brother come back?"
Seeing the people in the family chattering around Tian Lilin, but no one asked the main point, Old Lady Tian's face darkened and she asked in a calm voice, "When will the food distribution start?"
The house suddenly became quiet. Chen Guihua didn't let Tian Lilin go to rest, and Lin Meiyu didn't ask about Tian Lisong's situation.
Even Tian Baobao didn't pester Tian Lilin with questions.
The whole family looked at Tian Lilin, waiting for him to say when to distribute the food.
These days, food is more important than anything else.
Tian Lilin didn't find them strange, and replied as usual: "My brother is at the brigade headquarters now, and he is counting the amount of food to be distributed to each household. He needs to weigh it again. If everything goes well, the food should be distributed tomorrow."
"That's fine!" Old Mrs. Tian felt relieved after hearing this. Knowing Tian Lisong's character, she knew that even if he had to stay up late tonight, he would weigh all the food and then distribute it to everyone tomorrow.
"Come inside and lie down. I'll make you some soup!"
The Tian family had long run out of dry food, and they had been drinking vegetable soups these days, such as cabbage soup, spinach soup, shredded potato soup, and eggplant soup.
Tian Tian was also forced to try many kinds of soup, which opened the door to a new world for her.
In the hands of Old Lady Tian, everything can be made into soup.
Their family was not the only one in their brigade who had run out of food. The work points they earned were considered high in the brigade. Not to mention the two strong laborers, Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin, just the two women, Lin Meiyu and Chen Guihua, earned eight or nine work points a day.
Both Tian Lisong and Tian Lilin can get full work points. In addition, Tian Lisong also has a job as an accountant, so he can basically earn a full work point every day throughout the year.
Although Old Lady Tian asked Tian Lisong to exchange the work points he earned as an accountant for money every year, they were all family after all, so Tian Lisong still took out half of his work points to exchange for food for everyone to eat, and exchanged the remaining half for money for himself.
Moreover, Tian Tian’s elder brother was serving in the army and did not have to eat the family’s food, but he could also send some money and tickets home.
Therefore, Tian Tian's family lives at the top of the pyramid in the entire Changhe Brigade.
It’s just that their family is very low-key, and people in the team don’t think they are special.
"Sister-in-law, you and my second brother go into the house. I will take care of the work outside. I will call you when it's time for dinner." Lin Meiyu said.
After not seeing each other for three days, the couple must have something to talk about. Anyway, there is nothing to do now and she can handle it on her own.
It doesn’t take long to make the soup, and Mrs. Tian finished it quickly.
She specially ordered two servings of soup, and asked Tian Tian to deliver Tian Lisong's portion.
Tian Tian gave the soup to Tian Lisong, and when she came back she saw Old Lady Tian and the others rummaging around in the house, clearing out the space in the lower room to store the food.
In fact, Tian Tian felt a little lazy after this trip and wanted to go back to the house to lie down for a while. However, she saw the youngest child, Tian Zhuo, helping Old Lady Tian carry things. She felt embarrassed to rest and ran over to help.
The lower house is mainly used to store grains such as wheat, sorghum and soybeans.
Once the grain arrives, we certainly can’t eat it all at once, and we can’t just grind a year’s worth of wheat and leave it there. We have to grind it right when we need to eat it.
All the food, including the bags, were placed in a large vat, which was then covered with a lid and pressed down with stones to prevent rats from getting in. When it was time to eat, food could be taken directly from the vat.
There is a corn house above the lower house. Corn is the main food here, and the most distributed grain is corn. They definitely cannot keep all the corn in the jar or in the house.
A corn shed was built above the lower house, which was ventilated on all sides, and the corn could be kept there for a year without going bad.
There are two cornhouses in Tian Tian's house. The one above the lower house is bigger.
The other corn house was completely elevated, supported by wood at the four corners, and was about two meters above the ground.
There was usually firewood stored there, and a small swing was tied there for them to play with.
However, every time Tian Tian sat on the swing, it would creak. She was always afraid of pulling the swing down, so she didn't dare to play on it.
Usually, Tian Baobao and Tian Zhuo play there.
"Grandma! Can so many jars be filled with grain?" Tian Tian asked as she looked at the large jars placed in a circle along the wall in the lower room.
"Yes, they can. Not all of these jars are used to store grain. This big jar is used to store frozen pears, frozen tofu and the like in the winter. This jar is used to store pork when the meat is distributed. This one is used to store dumplings, wontons and sticky rice dumplings made during the New Year." Old Mrs. Tian pointed at the jars at the door.
“Don’t be fooled by the size of this tank. When winter comes, it will be full in just a few days.” Old Mrs. Tian is very confident in the strength of her family.
She has lived in the Tian family for half her life, and except for the two years of famine, their jar has basically never been empty.
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