Chapter 2096: Can’t Buy Food
"Dad, when will we start distributing the grain?" Liu Ermei asked Liu Pingjiang when she came to him.
"It will probably take a while. The captain hasn't arrived yet."
"Didn't the loudspeaker announce that food would be distributed at nine o'clock? It should be about time now."
"The captain should be here soon."
"All right."
More than ten minutes later, Liu Ermei saw the team leader and seven or eight people walk into the threshing ground. She knew that the grain was about to be distributed, so she stood up straight immediately.
When the captain walked up to the platform, he signaled everyone to be quiet with his hand, then he explained the matters concerning grain distribution clearly and ordered people to open the warehouse to distribute the grain.
Seeing that this year's food distribution was still done by calling people's names just like last year, Lu Xiaoxiao knew that she would definitely not get any food in the morning, so she did not join the crowd, but stood behind a tree.
The wind today was quite strong and it made her face hurt a little.
When Liu Ermei saw Lu Xiaoxiao hiding behind a tree, she walked over to Lu Xiaoxiao and said to her, "Xiaoxiao, why are you hiding here?"
"It's not my turn to collect food this morning, so I came here to hide from the wind. Don't you think the wind hurts your face?"
"I don't feel anything. Maybe I'm just too thick-skinned."
After hearing what Liu Ermei said, Lu Xiaoxiao didn't know what to say, so she just laughed awkwardly twice.
More than two hours later, Lu Xiaoxiao heard the accountant call Liu Pingjiang's name, so she said to Liu Ermei, "Second sister, it's your family's turn to collect food, go quickly."
"good."
After Liu Ermei left, Lu Xiaoxiao took out a small Bluetooth headset from the space, quickly put it into her ears, and then pressed the hat down to completely cover the Bluetooth headset.
After putting on the Bluetooth headset, Lu Xiaoxiao reached into her pocket and turned on the music. Only then did she feel that time was not so unbearable.
More than an hour later, Lu Xiaoxiao saw Liu Ermei walking towards her. She quickly reached into her pocket to turn off the music, then took the Bluetooth headphones off her ears and put them away in the space.
After doing all this, Liu Ermei just came to her.
So she asked Liu Ermei, "Second sister, have you sent all the food back home?"
"They have all been sent back home, but my mom is the only one who earns a cent in my family, so the food we got was not much, and it was all gone very quickly."
After hearing what Liu Ermei said, Lu Xiaoxiao nodded, and then she asked Liu Ermei: "Ermei, has your family bought food?"
"No."
"Why not buy? Don't you have a lot of food at home? If you don't buy food, what will your family eat next year?"
"My family wanted to buy food, but the village wouldn't sell it because the grain production was lower this year and there was only enough to share, so the village ruled that they wouldn't sell food this year."
"So what will your family do next year?"
"We'll take it one step at a time. But even if we don't buy food, my family won't starve to death. At most, we'll just have less to eat."
When Lu Xiaoxiao heard what Liu Ermei said, she thought of yam. No wonder Liu Ermei was not in a hurry. This is probably what is meant by "if you have enough food in hand, you won't be panicked."
"Second sister, you should go home and eat first. It will probably be the afternoon before it's my turn to distribute food." Lu Xiaoxiao said to Liu Ermei after checking the time.
"I've already eaten. Not only am I a foodie, I also brought you two steamed buns." After Liu Ermei finished speaking, she took out an oil-paper bag from her cotton-padded jacket pocket and handed it to Lu Xiaoxiao.
(End of this chapter)
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