"Yes, Captain." Hu Haifeng, who was walking in front, answered.
After hearing Hu Haifeng's answer, the captain nodded and called out to the room, "Tietou, come with me to the granary."
Zhuang Tietou, who was in the room, heard the captain's call and quickly responded, "Here I come."
Then, Lin Yizhen and others saw a thin and short old man wearing black-framed glasses walking out of the house.
He had gray hair but looked very energetic. He was wearing a Zhongshan suit that was washed white and had several patches on it.
There was an old black leather bag tucked under his arm.
When he saw Lin Yizhen and others, he nodded to them as a greeting.
Then, he followed the captain with his bag.
When Lin Yizhen and the others saw the captain and his companions leaving, they hurriedly followed them.
When they arrived at the granary in Lizhuang Village, the team leader asked the person in charge of guarding the grain to open the granary.
The educated youth who followed the team leader into the granary were surprised to see the empty granary.
There was no food in such a big granary.
So where does their food subsidy come from?
Before the young educated youth could come to their senses, they saw the person who opened the door go to a small room inside and carry out two bags of food.
He placed it in front of the captain and said, "Captain, this is all the food left in the granary."
The captain nodded without saying anything. He picked up a few empty snakeskin bags next to him and put the food in one of the bags into five bags.
Then, have someone weigh it and an accountant record it.
The person who keeps the accounts is the old man named Tietou. It turns out that he is the accountant of Lizhuang Village.
It was only at this time that Lin Yizhen found out that the accountant named Tietou always had a briefcase full of account books under his arm.
The subsidized grain they receive this time will also be recorded in the account book.
The ration subsidy for the educated youth was only ten kilograms of coarse grains per person, and what the team leader just poured out was sorghum rice.
The other half is sweet potatoes, which can be weighed directly.
After weighing, just put it directly on the sorghum rice, so you don’t have to take another bag to put it in.
These bags are useful. After they deliver the food, they have to return the bags.
Hu Haifeng and his companions looked at the small amount of food in front of them in silence.
What I was thinking was: How can this amount of food last for a month?
Lin Yizhen knew how much food there was. The original owner had the same amount of food when she came here in her previous life.
This was the subsidy given to educated youth sent to the countryside, so naturally it couldn't be much. But it didn't specify whether it was coarse grain or fine grain, and some places distributed fine grain.
Lizhuang Village is a poor village. The land here is not very good and the grain production has not increased.
In order to ensure that the villagers have enough food to eat, the team leader and other village cadres had no choice but to increase the area of coarse grain cultivation.
In this way, at least we can harvest more food.
Lin Yizhen and her group of educated youth arrived at an unfortunate time, during the lean period. They were lucky to have some food to distribute, so naturally they didn't care about the quality.
When the team leader saw that the educated youth in front of him did not move any grain, he knew that they thought the food was not good enough.
But he had no choice. Sorghum and sweet potatoes were the best growing crops in their village, so naturally they planted more of them.
When he learned that his village would send educated youth, he started preparing food.
The villagers were also hungry at home. They were all eyeing the food and trying every possible way to borrow it back!
If it weren't for the captain's prestige, I guess all this food wouldn't have been preserved.
Now that it has been assigned to these educated youth, the team leader can finally put his mind at ease.
So the team leader said to the others, "Take it back! If you don't have enough food, go to the mountains and pick some wild vegetables and fruits to mix with your food. You can distribute the food after the autumn harvest."
By the way, after you take the food back, please return the bags. We’ll need them during the autumn harvest.”
Knowing that the team leader had good intentions and fearing that the other educated youth might misunderstand, Lin Yizhen quickly replied, "Yes, we will take advantage of the fact that we don't have to work these few days to go to the mountains and pick some more wild fruits and vegetables.
As for the bags, we will return them after we send the food back."
When the others saw Lin Yizhen speak, they also agreed.
As for going up the mountain to pick wild fruits and dig wild vegetables, Qian Xiaoman would not go.
Her family was not short of money, and she had plenty of money and notes on her, as well as a lot of snacks. If food was really not enough, she would spend money to buy food.
If there was no food in the village, she would go to the town to buy it, since the state-owned restaurants were open every day anyway.
It’s just that Lizhuang Village is too far from the town, making it inconvenient to travel back and forth.
Well! Then she can ask the old man to take her there and she can pay more for the fare.
After figuring it out, Qian Xiaoman also picked up the food, threw it on his back and left.
Seeing Lin Yizhen and Qian Xiaoman leave, the remaining three people had no choice but to leave with their own food.
This food is definitely not enough to eat, and it is not realistic to dig wild vegetables.
Because they don't know wild vegetables at all, and they don't know many wild fruits. Don't pick any poisonous wild fruits and eat them, otherwise it will be more trouble than it is worth.
Oh! Let's take the food back first!
Be frugal when eating if it’s really not enough.
I'll see if I can exchange some other things with the villagers, but I don't know if I can get anything?
Lin Yizhen carried the food back to Ahuapo's house and gave the food to Ahuapo.
He said to her, "Ahua Po, I'll give you this food first. Later I'll go hunting in the mountains and dig up some wild vegetables to bring to you. You should be able to eat until the autumn harvest."
Ahua Po took the food that Lin Yizhen gave her.
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