"Thank you, Zhuzi. I don't know what I would do without you!"
Qin Huairu realized that her goal had been achieved, so she pretended to be pitiful and expressed her gratitude to Sha Zhu.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's not a big deal."
Sha Zhu quickly waved his hands. He had just taken advantage of someone else and was feeling guilty, so he didn't dare say anything else to Qin Huairu.
Now each person can buy a pound of noodles a month, and Sha Zhu gave all of it to Qin Huairu.
"You're back?"
Jia Zhang had her big face pressed against the window of her house. When she saw Qin Huairu coming back with something, she hurried downstairs to see what good stuff she could find.
"The standard noodles that Shazhu brought."
Qin Huairu handed the bag of noodles to Jia Zhang.
"snort."
Jia Zhang was greedy and she didn't look happy when she saw Qin Huairu bringing things back.
........
"Come on, it's time for a meeting!"
Just when Jia Zhang was disliked Qin Huairu, a shout from Liu Haizhong suddenly came from the yard.
"What's going on?"
While eating, Lin Tian and Wang Bingbing also heard Liu Haizhong shouting outside. In the past, Liu Guangtian was the one who notified people of meetings.
"Go take a look, and come back to eat later."
"That's fine, let's go." Wang Bingbing put down her bowl and chopsticks and followed Lin Tian out.
Liu Haizhong happened to be here calling people to a meeting. Seeing Lin Tian, he hurriedly said, "Xiao Lin, hurry up and walk a few steps. The meeting will start soon."
"Got it." Lin Tian responded.
Xu Damao also came over at this time and said, "What's going on? Why is Liu Haizhong so active?"
Lin Tian smiled and said, "I don't know what happened, but I guess it must be a leader from the street."
While the two were talking, they arrived at the Intermediate Court. Sure enough, Director Wang from the Street Office and several staff members were waiting in the Intermediate Court.
Xu Damao muttered softly: "Brother, you are so right."
Thanks to Liu Haizhong going door to door urging people to come, people gathered quickly.
"Please be quiet. Director Wang is here and has something important to say." Liu Haizhong shouted in front of the crowd.
In fact, Liu Haizhong's move was unnecessary. When everyone saw Director Wang was there, no one said anything. It was just that people were used to Liu Haizhong's behavior, so no one said anything.
"Good evening, neighbors. Sorry to bother you guys. I came here today because I have something to tell you."
"According to our superiors...this year's grain production in various regions..."
"Our street office has notified us that starting from next month, everyone's food ration will be reduced by 10%, and half of the food will be offset with sweet potatoes or something like that."
Director Wang said to everyone with a serious expression.
As soon as the words fell, everyone exploded.
"What? We're going to reduce the ration? And half of it is substitute food? How can we be full?"
"Director Wang, you are not talking nonsense, are you?" The speaker was Jia Zhang.
Director Wang was almost pissed off by this. How could this be a joke? Director Wang said with a dark face, "I just received the notice as well. We all need to get through this together. We need to believe that this won't last long."
But Director Wang's words of encouragement were not very convincing.
"Director Wang, do we also have to reduce our rations?" Wang Er shouted. Wang Er was quite concerned about this issue. There were old and young people at home, and he himself was doing heavy physical labor. How could he bear not having enough to eat?
"I said, this time everyone is the same, everyone will have a 10% reduction, but it's not without any benefits. We will give more substitute food." Director Wang replied.
"What's the use of that?"
"Of course, eating that stuff every day won't kill you anyway."
Director Wang was also very shocked when he received the notice, but the current situation was beyond Director Wang's expectations. She had deliberately chosen a large hospital with good conditions to announce it first, for fear of causing trouble.
"Director Wang, don't worry, I will definitely support your work. I, Liu Haizhong, absolutely support the country..."
Just when everyone was talking about it and wanted to resist this matter, Liu Haizhong felt that the time had come to show himself, so he took the initiative to stand up and speak.
"Okay, not bad."
Director Wang finally heard someone in this hospital who supported his work.
After observing everyone's reactions for a while, Director Wang said a few more words to comfort them and prepared to leave.
Director Wang felt that as long as there was no trouble here, it was fine. Complaining was normal. Even if one's food ration was reduced, one would still complain.
"Director Wang, Director Wang, let me go with you. This is a big deal." Liu Haizhong suddenly had an idea and followed Director Wang's team.
"Oh, by the way, I remember you are the captain of our street's joint defense team, right?" Director Wang suddenly remembered that he was the one who recommended Liu Haizhong, the joint defense team leader.
"Oh, yes, yes, yes." Liu Haizhong agreed.
When Director Wang saw that someone was willing to get involved in this kind of thing, an idea suddenly occurred to him, and he said, "Captain Liu, do you remember what I just announced?"
Liu Haizhong quickly replied: "I remember."
There are only a few sentences in total, only a fool would not be able to remember them.
"Then, go call two members of the joint defense team to go with you, and you will be responsible for notifying the courtyards 40-50 over there." Director Wang said.
"Yes." Liu Haizhong was immediately excited. He didn't expect that just by thinking about getting closer to the leader, he would be valued all of a sudden.
"Remember, don't cause any trouble. Explain it to everyone." Director Wang instructed Liu Haizhong before leaving.
Director Wang wasn't actually too worried about any trouble. Almost everyone had a certain psychological expectation of the current food situation. It wasn't like people were going to starve to death, so nothing would happen. The worst that could happen was a beating.
But there is no benefit in doing this kind of work, and you will only get scolded. Now that someone has come forward to share the burden, Director Wang is very happy for it.
After Liu Haizhong happily followed Director Wang away, the courtyard became even more lively, with everyone talking about this matter.
Because once this policy is implemented, not to mention ordinary working-class families, even Lin Tian would be greatly affected if he did not have space.
"Okay, okay, let me say a few words. Since this matter has been decided, we can't change it." Yi Zhonghai saw that everyone was in chaos and took the initiative to stand up and appease everyone.
"There are many families in need in our hospital. They are the most affected by this. This policy will be implemented in a few days, and the Chinese New Year is coming soon. I hope we can help each other and help more families in need in our hospital."
As soon as Yi Zhonghai spoke, Lin Tian knew what he was going to do. It was nothing more than laying the groundwork for helping the Jia family. He said it in advance so that he would have something to say at the next meeting.
There were many knowledgeable people in the courtyard, and as soon as Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, everyone turned their attention to the Jia family.
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