Chapter 108
It was fine in the first two years, but in the past two years they have become more and more lazy.
It was the same in my previous life!
"The total amount of food for your family is 2,900 kilograms."
After Bai Xiuxiu finished speaking, the whole family looked unhappy. Two thousand nine hundred kilograms of food sounded like a lot, but for thirteen people, each person only had eighteen kilograms of food per month.
It would be fine if I didn't have to work, but how can I do physical work?
In other words, their family is lucky and has a good harvest this year.
If the harvest is bad, and they continue to be lazy, each person may not even have ten kilograms of food a month.
"This isn't right, Captain. Our family..." Wang Shoucheng thought it was outrageous. His family had not received such little food since the two years of hunger, not to mention the bumper harvest this year.
"What's wrong? How could I make a mistake in my calculations?" Accountant Wang was unhappy. He had been having a headache these past few days doing the calculations.
For fear of mistakes, the captain even sought help from two people who had gone to school with him. Do they still think there is a problem?
Don’t you know how much work you have done?
"Okay, Lao Wang, you are old, you know your family's situation very well. There are so many people waiting for food distribution behind you. When the ox cart comes back soon, you should hurry up and take the food and money and leave." The team leader Chen Zhuang really didn't want to listen to his family's bad debts.
He has all the work points books from the past few years.
If it weren't for the fact that his eldest son was capable and could take on the responsibility of supporting two others, the family would have starved long ago.
They are in the great north, next to a mountain rich in resources and a river full of fish.
While people in other villages were hungry and had to eat half-full, their village was able to save money, and even everyone could eat a full meal. This was already lucky.
With the way his family does things, if the years are bad, they will have to borrow food to eat!
Wang Shoucheng was filled with resentment, but he knew that it would be useless to continue making such a fuss, so he had no choice but to stand aside with his family and wait for the ox cart.
Zhou Jiaojiao never expected that her whole family was only half as many as Wang Qinghe and Bai Xiuxiu.
Fortunately, her husband is already a worker, otherwise she would have starved to death in the future.
When Wang Qinghe returned the ox cart, he saw the Wang family waiting there with sullen faces. He guessed what was going on. This year, the family was more lazy than in previous years. They were absent during working hours and had few work points when they got off work.
The only lucky thing is that it was a good year.
He carried the two children off the ox cart.
When Wang Shoucheng saw his eldest son coming back, he thought that the division of the family property must be advanced as soon as possible. He should also give him most of the eldest son's food, at least 800 kilograms.
As expected, we have to start with these two children.
It has to be done without anyone noticing, and then everyone will only know that he beat his parents.
They are right to tell him to get out without taking anything!
Wang Qinghe felt disgusted by Wang Shoucheng's eyes. They were probably planning something again.
So I took the child and moved away from them.
"You're back? I'm almost done with my side." Bai Xiu Xiu glanced at the Wang family, then looked at her two children who were almost asleep in her arms, and she was eager to separate as soon as possible.
If you have to take the two children away all the time like this, the children will get tired after a while.
The Wang family was loading the car, and Bai Xiuxiu was a little worried about them: "Leave the child to me, you go back and take care of it first."
Wang Qinghe also knew what she was afraid of, so he didn't delay, put the two children down, and went back first.
It took two hours before the grain was distributed.
The team leader was very satisfied with this year's harvest and was waiting for the commune meeting in two days. He was definitely the most glorious of all the team leaders.
"Oh, Xiaobai, go home later and help me call your fifth brother's wife to the brigade and have her make a self-criticism. What happened in the mountains before must never happen again. I must deal with her seriously, otherwise I won't be able to explain to Widow Xia."
The captain gave Bai Xiu Xiu instructions.
How could I not agree to this?
Bai Xiu Xiu agreed readily, packed up and took the two children home.
In the village, after everyone has distributed the grain, almost every household will cook a meal of white rice to celebrate the year's good harvest.
In two days, when the New Year pig is slaughtered, another batch of dumplings will be made.
They don't produce wheat here, so they can only use the money to buy flour.
It can be said that from then on until the New Year, the days were comfortable.
However, when Bai Xiu Xiu came back, the Wang family was very quiet. Not only the rice, but even the people were quieter than each other.
Zhao Cuihua was sitting at the door of her house sewing her torn clothes.
Seeing Bai Xiu Xiu coming back, I felt a surge of envy.
She was so upset. She and her husband were the ones with the most work points in the family! Now, each person in the family only had 18 kilograms of food per month, which was okay in winter. In the spring, when they worked, it was normal to eat 60 to 70 kilograms per month!
Then the whole family will have nothing to eat! This is still a good harvest, what if it is not a good harvest?
Zhao Cuihua was upset!
The old couple Zhao Guifen and Wang Shoucheng were in the house and had not come out. Zhou Jiaojiao was talking to Liu Xiaoe.
Several other people were working.
When she saw Bai Xiu Xiu coming back, the smile on Zhou Jiaojiao's face disappeared.
Bai Xiuxiu didn't care whether she liked her or not, and gave Zhou Jiaojiao a friendly smile: "Fifth brother's wife, the captain just said that you should make a self-examination as soon as possible."
These one sentence made Zhou Jiaojiao's hatred towards Bai Xiuxiu doubled.
"Sister-in-law, was it the captain who asked me to do this, or was it you who reminded him? I think you just can't stand seeing me do well. The day after tomorrow my husband will go to work in a factory. If I really go to make a self-criticism, what if I lose face?" Zhou Jiaojiao felt extremely aggrieved.
He questioned Bai Xiu Xiu in return.
It seemed as if Bai Xiu Xiu was making trouble for no reason.
"Yes, sister-in-law, why do you always have problems with the fifth son's wife?" Liu Xiao'e had just eaten the cake painted by Zhou Jiaojiao, and now she was trying to please her. So she followed Zhou Jiaojiao's instructions and asked Bai Xiuxiu in return.
Bai Xiuxiu saw Zhou Jiaojiao going crazy, and waited until they both finished talking before she started to mock him, "If you're afraid that he'll lose face, then don't do stupid things. You made a stupid mistake yourself, and you're blaming others? I think you're the one who doesn't want the best for him."
"Don't blame me." Zhou Jiaojiao was about to shed tears.
Bai Xiuxiu didn't care: "You can go or not. When the captain and Widow Xia come looking for you, don't say I didn't send a message. Oh, by the way, if Widow Xia makes trouble in your man's future factory, you won't just be embarrassed."
"What are you doing standing there, Fifth Brother's wife? Hurry up!" Zhao Guifen and Wang Shoucheng, who had been eavesdropping in the room, could no longer sit still. Zhao Guifen pushed open the door and yelled.
Zhou Jiaojiao bit her lip, then got up and left angrily.
Bai Xiuxiu returned to the house, which was filled with bags of food, leaving only a small space for her to step on.
"This is too troublesome. I'll put it in the storage space first. We'll take it out when we move." Bai Xiu Xiu said as she put the food into the storage space.
The storage space is thirty cubic meters in total, but it is still enough for these things.
After stuffing the food into the space, Bai Xiuxiu also harvested a batch of medicinal herbs. However, she and Wang Qinghe were not short of money now, and selling the herbs frequently would attract attention. Therefore, they simply stored them in the space first.
Waiting for Wang Qinghe to decide when to sell.
As the room became spacious again, Wang Qinghe was once again reminded of the reality before him: the bracelet on his wife's hand was the secret he needed to hide most now.