Today was not as exaggerated as last time. I only caught three or four fish weighing four or five kilograms and then stopped.
No one at home has been eating at home recently, so I caught too much fish and couldn’t handle it.
I went home, put the fish in the tank and planned to go back.
Leave a bottle of fish bait soaked in spiritual spring water, so that Jiang's father or nephew can catch two fish when they have time.
After giving instructions to Jiang's mother and saying goodbye to several sisters-in-law, Jiang Mengxue went back.
The harvest is officially over around the Mid-Autumn Festival in November.
The crops in the fields have been harvested and the public grain tax has been paid.
The next step is for the team to distribute the food among themselves.
But it has to go through accounting statistics.
Only when there is enough left for the collective can it be distributed to everyone below.
Every family is preparing firewood and vegetables for the winter.
That’s all there is to a year, the same every year.
Gu Zhenjiang took a family's coal ticket and bought a lot of coal.
The cabbage and radish tickets were useless and were exchanged for people in need.
They lived in the countryside and had more than enough cabbage and radishes to eat in their own garden.
This year, Li Cuiying also dried a lot of vegetables.
There are Jiang Mengxue’s favorite dried long beans.
It is best used to stew pork ribs.
During this period of time, Jiang Mengxue had some free time, so she went to help Gu Tengfeng settle the accounts.
The work points of everyone in the team haven’t been calculated yet.
There is also a total amount of food, and a portion of it must be reserved as reserve food for the team.
In case of food shortage in the future due to natural disasters or other reasons, these reserve grains will play a key role.
On the day of food distribution, everyone came early with their own food bags and lined up to wait for their share.
Food was distributed according to production teams.
Gu Tengfeng had already arranged the grain distribution standards, and the people below just had to distribute them according to his records.
Li Cuiying and her friends were not registered in the brigade, so they had no food, not even the most basic rations.
However, Jiang Mengxue worked in a health center, and the brigade did not pay her a salary, but instead settled her wages based on work points.
She could earn about twenty work points every day, and at the end of the year she could ask for food or money.
Jiang Mengxue discussed it with her uncle and aunt, and finally received 380 kilograms of coarse grains, 40 kilograms of fine grains, and 80 yuan.
Others don't have as much as she does.
This year each person was only allocated 400 kilograms of food.
Compared with previous years, it is simply unbearable. The reduction in production is only one of the reasons. Another reason is that the proportion of public grain paid this year is higher than in previous years.
Don't think that so-called grains are finely processed.
In fact, the food you receive is unhusked.
Even corn kernels are classified as fine grains.
This also includes dried sweet potatoes.
The sweet potatoes are cut into slices and dried as soon as they are dug out.
If you want fresh sweet potatoes, you can replace them with whole grains.
One pound of coarse grains can be exchanged for five pounds of fresh sweet potatoes.
Many people are still willing to make the change, and they can use it to make dried sweet potatoes or sweet potato flour.
Jiang Mengxue was the first in line to receive food.
No one had any objection to this, and those who packed her food even packed good food with full grains.
Jiang Mengxue thanked him and took the food home with Gu Zhenjiang on bicycles.
Along the way, I heard many people complaining about this year's grain harvest.
There is also the food and money they will receive at the end of this year.
"Every year is getting worse. After distributing the grain, my family of six only got about 30 yuan this year."
"You have several children in your family. My family has more laborers, so it's okay. But we only got about 200 yuan, which is far less than in previous years."
"You should be content, the lame second family in the west is once again in a state of poverty this year.
Those work points were not enough to share food among his family.
I didn’t get a dime and even owed the team money.”
The so-called upside-down households are those whose work points for a year are not enough to exchange for the most basic food rations.
If work points were converted into money, ten work points would be worth fifty cents.
So 300 kilograms of grain would cost 30 yuan at 10 cents.
If your annual work points are less than 30 yuan, it is not enough to exchange for the most basic rations.
But the per capita rations are calculated based on the population.
Even if you don't have money, the brigade has to give you the food, but if you want to exchange it for more food, you still need work points and money.
When they distribute food, they insist on doing 70% of the work.
Those who do not have enough work points can only receive the most basic food rations.
Those with enough work points are called Shungua households and can receive the full amount of 380 kilograms.
In previous years, if the team had enough food, they could spend extra money to buy more food.
But this year it won’t work because food is already in short supply.
Gu Tengfeng spun the dial until it was almost smoking before he finally calculated everyone's food.
There was also enough food reserve left, which made him very embarrassed.
After the food was distributed, a month had passed since Jiang Mengxue last went to the city.
I had originally agreed with Guan Hongqi and the others to trade again in a month.
But because she didn't have time to go home during the autumn harvest, Jiang Mengxue planned to go again in the next two days.
There was nothing to do at home that day, so Jiang Meng set out on his bike early in the morning.
This time she not only wanted to trade with Guan Hongqi, but also wanted to go to the county to see if there was any opportunity.
There shouldn't be too much food shortage in the city during this period.
The supply of food may be temporarily stopped, but nutritious foods such as meat and eggs will definitely be in short supply at all times.
After riding a bike all the way to the county, Jiang Mengxue found a secluded place to change her clothes and put on makeup.
When the weather gets cold, wear a headscarf and it will be difficult for others to tell your identity.
I parked my car in a special parking lot in the county town and gave the old man five cents. He would help watch the car.
Carrying a basket of 30 kilograms of pork, he found a small alley in the black market.
This place is not small, and even in the entire small county, the scope of this black market is not small.
Jiang Mengxue didn't want to cooperate with a small force with only a few people.
The amount she paid was not small, but she had no connections, and if she got caught, she would have no place to cry.
It is easier to cooperate with such capable people. She only needs to make concessions on price, which will save her a lot of trouble later.
Jiang Mengxue was noticed as soon as she walked into the alley.
It wasn't that her outfit was particularly eye-catching, nor was there anything special about the things she brought.
But as long as you come in here, no matter who you are, people from the black market are hiding at every corner.
As long as there are suspicious people, these people will immediately notify everyone to run away.
So when trading here, as long as you abide by their rules, you don’t have to worry about safety issues.
Jiang Mengxue found a corner and put out her things.
As soon as he was released, people gathered around him.
Jiang Mengxue sells it at the current price: 1.9 yuan if you have a ticket, and 2.4 yuan if you don’t have a ticket.
But I didn’t expect that everyone would rush to buy all the meat as if they had found a great bargain.
She was a little confused. Could it be that because she hadn't had her period for a month, the prices of things on the black market had gone up again?
He walked up to a young man who was obviously on the lookout and handed him fifty cents.
"Comrade, I want to know who is the person in charge of this black market. I have a business deal to discuss with him."
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