The village accountant took out a bunch of keys tied to his waistband and opened the warehouse door behind him.
The villagers involuntarily surged forward. Seeing the overwhelming crowd, Tan Dingguo stood on a bench and shouted, "Line up properly! Anyone who doesn't line up properly can go home!"
Upon hearing the shout, the crowd that had been pushing forward immediately stopped, then retreated in an orderly fashion and lined up in their original positions.
However, everyone's eyes were filled with anticipation.
With anticipation in their eyes, the village chief called for help and had the grain brought out of the warehouse.
The current food ration is calculated on a 4:6 ratio per person, meaning that everyone, regardless of age, receives 18 jin of grain per month. Of this, 7.2 jin is for human consumption and is not included in the price, while the remaining 10.8 jin must be purchased from the production team.
The work points are calculated by subtracting electricity and fertilizer expenses from the sum of a portion of the income from the sale of grain and income from sideline businesses, and then dividing by the total work points.
The public grain and a portion of the rations were handed over to the state free of charge. The only grain that could be converted into cash was the surplus grain sold to the state and a portion of the rations distributed to the commune members.
The grain reported by Xishan Village was already at the bottom of the list, and the grain produced was barely enough for the villagers to make ends meet. There was no surplus grain to sell to the state.
They mainly rely on the money from selling pigs at the end of the year as a side business to earn some extra income.
In other production teams, many lazy people, even after working for more than a year, still had to pay out of pocket to the production team and were in debt.
Ning Jing's family can only be considered one adult; everyone else is considered a child.
That means a family of seven, with four people per person, would receive 50.4 jin of grain per month, and a total of 604.8 jin of grain per year.
The remaining 907.2 jin of grain belonging to Lao Liu need to be purchased from the production team using work points.
If they had to buy grain with their own money, only Ning Jing and Xiu Hua in their family could earn work points.
Over the course of a year, she can earn about 110, while Xiuhua earns about 80.
In total, it's only 190 yuan. After deducting 120 yuan for the grain, I can only get a maximum of 70 yuan.
This 70 yuan is needed to buy various necessities for daily use.
However, these 1512 jin of paddy rice can only yield a little over 1000 jin of rice.
Most importantly, after the village handed over its grain tax, there simply wasn't enough fine grain left for everyone.
So, basically, each family would receive a couple hundred catties of rice, and the rest of the grain would be replaced with coarse grains, such as corn grits, sweet potatoes, taro, potatoes, and soybeans.
This small amount of refined grains is simply not enough for the families of able-bodied men.
However, for Ning Jing's family, which consists almost entirely of children, they were still able to make ends meet.
Moreover, many people basically exchanged their rice for coarse grains at the brigade headquarters.
This is what Ning Jing's family used to be like.
Unfortunately, after the original owner replaced the refined grains with coarse grains, even the coarse grains couldn't be preserved.
He was almost entirely tricked and coaxed by his uncle and aunt's family.
They also forbade Xiuhua and her younger siblings from causing trouble for their uncle's family.
From the original owner's perspective, she was a woman raising a child in the village.
My husband went to join the army, so there's no adult male in the house, and my parents-in-law are no longer here.
If anyone bullies them, at least their uncle's family can stand up for them.
Moreover, my aunt said nice things, that she was just helping to keep it safe.
When Hongxing returns, he will send the money and grain to their family.
The money and tickets that Hongxing sent back over the years were also directly confiscated by my uncle's family.
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