Chapter 104: Food Distribution
Time passed by little by little. No wonder people say that they have to shed a layer of skin when harvesting crops. Twenty days later, the corn, peanuts, soybeans and other crops in the fields were basically harvested. Almost all the villagers gritted their teeth and persevered. They worked for less than 10 days to dry, thresh and peel all the crops. There was basically nothing to do in the fields.
After paying the public grain tax, you can just wait for the distribution of grain!
During the autumn harvest, the educated youth suffered the most. They had no experience and few of them had prepared work protection gloves. They just had to break corn with their bare hands. After a while, several big blisters appeared on their hands. They squeezed them and squeezed them again. Within half a month, everyone had a layer of calluses on their hands.
Lin Feifei and Xue Xingran had it relatively easy. Zheng Yu and Gu Xiuyuan helped with most of their work. They only had to carry large bamboo baskets and take the picked corn to the threshing ground.
However, the threshing ground was really far away. From carrying him on their backs at the beginning to lifting him up in the air later, their legs felt like they were filled with lead every day. Many times, Lin Feifei heard Xue Xingran crying quietly under the quilt at night.
While suffering from physical fatigue, you also have to worry about the mental fatigue over there.
Qi Xiaohui was like a ghost, appearing and disappearing at any time in the educated youth center. Sometimes she would bring two eggs, and sometimes some wild fruits, which made her and Zheng Yu very annoyed.
The key point is that this guy seemed to not understand what was said. The two of them told her clearly that they were a couple, and if she continued to harass him like this, she would be considered a hooligan. But what did Qi Xiaohui say?
"Zheng Zhiqing, Lin Zhiqing, I don't care whether you are real or fake. I didn't do anything excessive. I just came to care about you educated youth who went to the countryside. How can sending some wild fruits be considered hooliganism? Even if you are really together, you haven't gotten married yet, right?"
The quick-talking Lin Feifei was speechless for the first time. Indeed, Qi Xiaohui only gave away a few wild fruits in front of so many people, and she couldn't find any fault with it.
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On the day of grain distribution, Zhang Heping, as the team leader, and several production team leaders were reading out the names one by one in front. Zhang Shiye, as the accountant, and several scorers were counting the work points and money on the side. Aunt Cai was assigned to supervise the young men who were weighing the grain on the side.
The Zhang family had several strong laborers, with a total of several thousand work points. They were given 600 kilograms of coarse grains and 200 kilograms of fine grains. The rest, converted into money, totaled 121.3 yuan.
After receiving the money as the representative of the Zhang family, Xia Wanyang politely winked at Zhang Shiye and said, "Accountant Zhang, thank you!"
Zhang Shiye held his forehead with his hand helplessly and laughed. This little girl was really teasing him all the time!
One of the scorekeepers was called Wang Hao. He nudged Zhang Shiye with his shoulder and said, "Accountant Zhang, your wife is so polite to you!"
Zhang Shiye: "This is called husband-wife interest. What do you, a bachelor, know?"
Xia Wanyang came to Aunt Qiao with the money in her hand and held it in front of her like a treasure, "Mom, here's the money!"
Aunt Qiao took the money and touched Xia Wanyang's little face lovingly, "I'll make you something delicious when we get home later!"
The food was finally distributed to the educated youth, but they still owed food to the brigade, and after paying it back, it was still far from enough to eat. Even Sun Hongjun, Li Damao, Li Ermao and others who always got full work points could only barely maintain enough food and clothing.
What to do? They can only borrow grain from the brigade again. This is a vicious cycle, borrowing and repaying, repaying and borrowing again, unless they buy grain with money.
But except for Gu Xiuyuan, Zheng Yu, Xue Xingran and others who have relatively good families, most of the rest of the people still need to support their families.
The educated youth were like eggplants hit by frost. Apart from calluses on their hands and faces as black as Bao Zheng's from being tanned, all they had was a little bit of pitiful food under their feet.
Lin Long frowned as he looked at the less than 200 kilograms of coarse grains at his feet and sighed. These could only last him more than three months. Finally, he made a decision. He would marry Sun Erya. At least he wouldn't have to worry about not having enough food. But he absolutely could not get a marriage certificate. In case he had the chance to return to the city in the future, no one would know that he had been married in the countryside unless Lin Feifei told him!
Zhang Shijing was also very excited. The autumn harvest was finally over. All he had to do was work half a day every day until winter. He would have most of the year free until April next year, and he could continue to go to the town to make money. The most important thing was that Aunt Qiao had agreed to propose to He Hua after the autumn harvest.
After the food was distributed, everyone prepared to go up the mountain in groups of three or five to pick some wild fruits and fungi before it got cold. The mushrooms could be dried and eaten in the winter. The mountains of the Dongfanghong Brigade were not high, but the resources there were still very rich.
Xia Wanyang asked Lin Feifei and Xue Xingran to go together. Zhang Shiye had been following her since morning. "Wife, just let me go with you. I have to protect you!"
Xia Wanyang pushed him and said, "Zhang Shiye, if you have nothing to do, go and play with your elder brother, the third brother or Zhou Su. Why are you following us girls when we go out? What are you protecting by stepping on a mushroom?"
Zhang Shiye looked like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water, "No, there are snakes in the mountains. Aren't you afraid?"
Xia Wanyang chuckled, and the next second she waved her hand, and three snakes appeared under Zhang Shiye's feet. He was so scared that he screamed and jumped back several steps.
Xia Wanyang laughed loudly, and with a wave of his hand, the snake retracted into space again. "You are still protecting me! Look how scared you are!"
Zhang Shiye's face turned red with shame. It was the first time he was so embarrassed in front of Xia Wanyang. "Xia Wanyang, are you brave enough?" He rushed towards her and started tickling her. The two were just making a fuss when Lin Feifei, Xue Xingran, Gu Xiuyuan and Zheng Yu knocked on the door.
Xia Wanyang straightened the clothes he had taken off and snorted, "You hooligan!"
When she came out with her small backpack on her back, she was startled by the large group of people at the door. "What are you doing..."
Lin Feifei rolled her eyes, "Zheng Yu said there are snakes on the mountain, so they went to protect us!"
Zhang Shiye came out and burst out laughing, "That's right, there are snakes on the mountain, let's go together!"
The group chatted and laughed as they climbed up the mountain, and they happened to run into Sun Erya and Lin Long. When Sun Erya saw them, she immediately pulled them behind her like a fighting cock, protecting them like a chick, "Xia Wanyang, Lin Feifei, what are you doing here? Are you following us?"
Xia Wanyang was so angry that she laughed, "Who are you, big sister? This mountain is your private property. Everyone can come here, right?"
Lin Long looked at Xia Wanyang. This woman would make his heart beat fast whenever he saw her. She was still so dazzling standing in the crowd.
Zhang Shiye pulled Xia Wanyang behind him and asked with a dark face, "You don't want your eyes anymore?"
Lin Long was startled, and instantly retracted his gaze and hid behind Sun Erya.
Lin Feifei sneered, "You are the only one who treats such a coward as a treasure. You really have to hold on to him. It would be best if you two were tied together forever. Don't separate and cause harm to others. Go away and stop bothering us!"
This episode did not affect the mood of the few people at all. When they went down the mountain, everyone's backs were full.
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