Ten minutes later, I finished reading the thin "Joint Notice on the Allocation of Funds for Urban Intellectual Youth to Go to the Countryside for Resettlement."
Mo Yutong handed the notice to Liao Qingyun, who was closest to him, and finally understood why there was only eight yuan of living allowance.
Although the resettlement fee was 480 yuan, it included special expenses of 6 yuan and 4 yuan retained by the provincial and municipal revolutionary committees respectively.
The 20 yuan retained by the County Revolutionary Committee was used for travel expenses, study materials expenses, and medical expenses for major illnesses.
The 200 yuan housing subsidy retained by the commune.
The 50 yuan retained by the brigade was used for the purchase of farm stoves and medical and health expenses.
In addition to the funds retained by governments at all levels, the remaining 200 yuan living allowance will not be paid to them in one lump sum.
The subsidy in the first year is 120 yuan, 8 yuan per month, and the rest is used as heating subsidy by the production team.
The total living allowance for the second and third years is 80 yuan, which will be adjusted by the county revolutionary committee and subsidized according to the degree of self-sufficiency.
Mo Yutong understood the meaning of the word "discretion". Unless the situation was so difficult that one could not even have enough food to eat or clothes to wear, then basically there was no choice.
However, because she was a female educated youth, the brigade would allocate an additional 50 cents per month for her health expenses from the retained funds.
"Mo Zhiqing, you, Liao Zhiqing and Lian Zhiqing are going to the countryside across provinces, so you can receive an extra 20 yuan for travel expenses." Ren Xiaohe pushed the "receipt list" in front of Mo Yutong again.
"Director Ren, then I will receive a total of 28.5 yuan, right?" After getting Ren Xiaohe's nod of confirmation, Mo Yutong immediately signed the roster.
"After signing, you can take your certificate of honor to the cashier to collect your money." Ren Xiaohe handed the roster to Liao Qingyun and others, and then said:
"For the next year, at the end of each month, you can go to the brigade's grain station with your voucher to collect your monthly grain and oil allowance, which includes 27 jin of coarse grain, 8 jin of fine grain, including 4 jin of rice, 4 jin of flour, 3 liang of vegetable oil, and half a jin of kerosene."
"The commune supply and marketing cooperative had a special counter set up by the Ministry of Commerce. Every educated youth who went to the countryside with a certificate could get a quilt of cotton wool, two catties of cotton, 23 feet of cotton cloth, and a single-person gauze mosquito net, free of charge."
Seeing that Ren Xiaohe had no intention of continuing, they hurriedly stood up and said goodbye. Mo Yutong had to go and collect her twenty-eight yuan and fifty cents.
Tian Xiaomei stood with her neck stiff and her hands behind her back from beginning to end, looking like "everyone is drunk but I am sober", which made Mo Yutong frown.
He left her behind and went to the finance office with Ma Xinguo, Liao Qingyun and Lian Haiguang.
After receiving the money from the cashier, Tian Xiaomei still hadn't come out. The four of them looked at each other for a few seconds and finally decided to finish their own business at the commune first before calling Tian Xiaomei.
Mo Yutong was going to the post office to mail a letter, while Ma Xinguo and the other two were planning to stroll around the commune. They all agreed to meet at the supply and marketing cooperative, and then they went their separate ways.
The post office was not far from the commune government, just a few minutes' walk away, and Mo Yutong arrived there quickly.
"Comrade, two eight-cent stamps, please." Mo Yutong put a two-cent note on the counter and said politely to the staff inside.
The staff member who was originally impatient immediately smiled brightly when he saw the sailor shirt and military bag worn by the pretty girl.
"Comrade, where do you want to send the letter?" A staff member in his early thirties asked curiously while tearing off the stamps.
"Beijing City and Hubei Province." Mo Yutong took the stamps, took out a wide piece of wood from the bottle of glue on the corner of the counter, scraped the back of the stamps, and pressed them on the upper right corner of the two letters.
"The capital!" The staff were amazed. No wonder she was so beautiful. It turned out she was an educated youth from Beijing!
"Is this letter sent to the army?" The staff was even more surprised. What is the army? It's a good place where you don't have to worry about food, clothes, or even finding a wife.
"Yes, the army." Mo Yutong understood that people of this era had a weaker sense of boundaries. It wasn't that they had bad intentions, but they generally had no sense of respect for privacy.
"It's an officer!" The staff member took the letter, picked up the postmark and stamped it hard on the edge of the stamp.
"Yeah." Sixth brother Mo Xinyao was specially recruited into the army at the age of fifteen, and was promoted to platoon leader at the age of eighteen. He is nineteen years old this year and seems to have become the deputy company commander.
Seeing that the staff member wanted to continue chatting, Mo Yutong hurriedly took out a note with a phone number from her bag and handed it to her, "I want to call the Beijing Meat Processing Plant."
"It's one dollar and one cent per minute, starting from the point of transfer." These days, fewer people make phone calls, and even fewer make long-distance calls. After going through so many transfers, the call may not be connected, so people would rather write letters than spend this money in vain.
"Okay, thank you!" Mo Yutong didn't care about the few dollars of phone bill. What she cared about was how to mention Li Ge's matter to her father in a tactful way.
"Wait, I'll give it to you when the call is connected." The staff member said as he walked to the table in the corner and opened a tin box with a key.
Inside the box was a well-protected rotary telephone. The staff quickly dialed the number, and then there was a long wait for the call to be transferred.
It wasn't until three minutes later that the meat processing plant's call was luckily connected. Mo Yutong quickly picked up the phone and asked excitedly, "Hello! Comrade, I'm Mo Yutong. Could you please ask Director Mo to answer the phone?"
"It's Yutong! Director Mo is not in the factory. He went to the food company for a meeting. He probably won't be back for a while. How about calling again tomorrow?" There was a familiar male voice on the phone. It was my father's secretary He Wenguang.
"Uncle He, please tell Dad to take care of his health. I'll make time to give him a call next month." Mo Yutong said politely.
She couldn't ask her father's secretary to tell him about Li Ge, so she could only wait until she had the chance to come to the commune in the future.
After paying more than four yuan for the phone bill, Mo Yutong walked out of the post office quickly with a hint of regret.
Looking at the sun that was gradually getting hotter above her head, she couldn't help but touch the straw hat on her head.
Fortunately, her boy was thoughtful enough to knit her a straw hat, but why didn't she knit it yesterday? Could it be that she wasn't familiar with him?
It was unfamiliar yesterday, but familiar today!
Thinking of that good morning kiss, that hug, and the boy she liked, Mo Yutong couldn't help but lower her eyes and smile slightly, her heart filled with joy.
So the few members of the cooperative on the street watched a pretty little girl skipping and running towards the supply and marketing cooperative not far away.
The flying braids were like two butterflies dancing in the air, filled with sparkling joy.
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