Li Xu was stunned. "Ask about me? Who asked?"
"One of the people who exchanged food before must have known about your family producing the receipts as proof."
Li Xu breathed a sigh of relief. "If you know, then you know. Did he tell me what he wanted to do with me?"
From the moment he took out the bill proof, he was prepared to be exposed.
But I didn't expect that no one would ask about him until now.
"What else can we do besides food?"
"Does he have anything else to exchange?"
Liu Gang shook his head. "He either wants to exchange for food or to find out if you can still get food this year."
Li Xu scratched his head. "Why is he asking this?"
"Get ready. It's already the end of May. Have you noticed that it hasn't rained since April?"
"We discovered it, which means the drought is still severe today."
"Do you know how serious this is?"
Li Xu shook his head.
"Most of the rivers in our county have now dried up."
Li Xu was shocked. "No way?"
"Really? I just found out about this, too. Many people in the city rely on their rural relatives and friends for support. With this incident, the rural folks can't help them anymore, so he came to ask around, hoping to find out if you can get food this year and make friends with you."
There is a thing in rural areas now called returned grain.
Due to various reasons that led to excessive purchases, coupled with factors such as natural disasters, some production teams did not have enough food after completing their tasks. Therefore, during the lean period of the following year, the state would sell the grain purchased by the granary back to the farmers. This is called returning the grain.
The price of returned grain is generally slightly higher than the local purchase price, while some are the same.
However, it was a considerable expense for farmers at that time, and many farmers could not afford to buy the returned grain.
So some smart people would find a relative who is a farmer in the countryside, pay the money, and then the relative would buy it.
When the time comes, just give him some help, no need for money.
As for farmers, they have a minimum food ration standard.
That is to say, if you are 200 kilograms short of this standard, you can buy 200 kilograms of food to make up for it.
The farmer thought, since they were all relatives, and they wouldn't suffer any loss, he just had to hold on until the grain distribution in November.
So we will help out to some extent.
But now most of the rivers have dried up and farmers dare not provide aid.
If the river remains like this or worse next month, the county's grain harvest this year will be basically ruined.
Then they won’t get much food by the end of November.
This means that they will have to eat these returned grains until the next year when the returned grains come in again...
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