Chapter 359: Donating Food
Gu Cheng's injuries were more serious except for those on his arms and shoulders.
The rest of the injuries were just superficial ones. They were almost healed after two days of rest and I could walk again.
It's still snowing these two days.
If someone hadn't swept the snow, the road would have been impassable.
The troops have been helping the villagers fight the disaster these days, and the situation on the island is not optimistic.
In addition to the collapse of houses, there are also problems with food and supplies to keep warm.
You need a ticket to buy anything these days, not to mention whether the villagers on the island have money.
There was definitely a shortage of grain coupons and cloth coupons. Without coupons, you couldn’t buy food, cotton, or cloth.
Not everyone has the courage to go to the black market to exchange things.
Therefore, many people on the island were short of food and cotton clothes.
Liu Yinyin had heard from Aunt Wang that some poor families only had one or two cotton-padded clothes at home, which could only be worn by people who needed to go out for something.
In fact, when I was in Liujia Village, there were families like this in the village.
There was no other way. To buy cotton at the supply and marketing cooperative, you needed coupons, but to buy it on the black market, you didn’t need coupons and the price was much higher. Not everyone could afford it.
As soon as she got home, Zheng Qiangwei came to talk to Liu Yinyin about something.
"Just now, the wife of Brigade Commander Wei came to see me and said that the villagers on the island had suffered a disaster and asked the people in the family compound to donate things to them, such as food, cloth, cotton, coal, etc."
In short, we will try our best to help the villagers on the island get through this difficult period.
Although Liu Yinyin had conflicts with Jiang Yuan, it cannot be denied that donating supplies to the villagers was an impeccable practice.
Zheng Qiangwei also sympathized with the villagers affected by the disaster: "I am going to donate 10 kilograms of flour, 20 kilograms of cornmeal, and 2 kilograms of cotton."
Zheng Qiangwei's family was well off, and when winter came, she stockpiled a lot of supplies, including both fine and coarse grains.
However, she didn’t know what the situation would be like in the future, so Zheng Qiangwei didn’t dare to donate too much food.
Liu Yinyin thought about it and said, "I'll do the same as you."
Thirty kilograms of grain, two kilograms of cotton...
Not too much, not too little, just right.
Zheng Qiangwei was delighted when she heard this, and they donated the same amount of things.
This way, other family members won't have anything to say.
By the evening, the snow had slowed down a bit.
Liu Yinyin was a little worried. She hadn't been to the supply and marketing cooperative for the past two days. The pork at home had been eaten up, and there was no fresh seafood.
The current situation on the island means that supply ships cannot come in, and fishermen cannot go out to sea to fish...
She had nowhere to go to buy anything.
It's really a bit of a headache.
Fortunately, there are two ducks at home.
Liu Yinyin knows how to raise chickens, but she is not good at raising ducks and geese. The ducks she bought became thinner after being raised for a few days.
It was originally bought to be eaten as meat, so there is no need to continue raising it.
That night, Liu Yinyin killed a duck.
Aunt Wang picked out a fat duck for her, each duck weighing about five or six kilograms.
After removing the hair and blood, there is still about four pounds, which is definitely not enough to eat in one meal.
Liu Yinyin divided the duck into three portions, ate one portion in the evening, and buried the other two in the snow to freeze them, and would take them out when needed.
Duck blood should not be wasted. The blood of ducks raised naturally is also a good thing.
In the evening, we had duck stewed with yam and duck blood fried with pickled radish.
The next day, Liu Yinyin went to work as usual.
Gu Cheng could look after Gu Yanyan at home, so Liu Yinyin didn't take him to work.
I haven't been to the supply and marketing cooperative for two days.
Liu Yinyin almost thought she had come to the wrong place. The supply and marketing cooperative was empty and there were very few things on the shelves.
No one comes to buy anything.
Aunt Wang was so bored that she was anxious: "The supply ship can't come in, and there is no supply during this period of time..."
If this continues, the supply and marketing cooperatives will have to close down.
Liu Yinyin asked, "Auntie, what's the situation in the village?"
I heard from Zheng Qiangwei yesterday that during this period, the troops were busy helping the villagers fight the disaster, and many people were injured.
The health center is running out of medicine.
Brigade Commander Wei has already applied for assistance from the Qingshi Military Region to allow them to transport the herbs.
Of course, we are not talking about the transportation of supplies by ship, but by helicopter.
Aunt Wang sighed: "Thanks to the troops who built shelters for the villagers and sent them food and cotton clothes, the villagers' situation is not too bad."
If there were no troops to help, the consequences would be disastrous.
Liu Yinyin thought for a moment and said, "Some time ago, people from my hometown sent me two or three hundred kilograms of cornmeal, and I still have about two hundred kilograms at home..."
I didn't dare donate more food because I was afraid that other people in the family compound would have some thoughts.
Other people certainly can't donate much food. What would others think if she donated hundreds of kilograms at once?
I secretly sold some to people in the village, hoping to be of some help.
Auntie Wang's eyes lit up: "Do you still have food to sell?"
Liu Yinyin explained: "I still have about 200 kilograms of cornmeal at home. I want to sell it to the villagers affected by the disaster. I won't charge them more. Just give me 30 cents for a kilogram of cornmeal."
If it's too expensive, the villagers won't be able to afford it. Three cents is very cheap.
Due to the natural disasters in the past few years, food prices have not yet completely dropped.
Liu Yinyin didn't ask for food coupons either, so anyone who wanted to buy one had the opportunity.
The disappointment in Aunt Wang's eyes flashed away, and then she smiled again: "I understand. I will find a reliable person to help you sell food to the families in the village who are about to run out of food."
One should not be too greedy. Compared with other families, her family has stored enough food.
Liu Yinyin added: "It would be best if there is a purchase limit. One family can only buy 20 kilograms of cornmeal at most."
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. This way, we can help more families.
"Okay!" Liu Yinyin was doing a good thing, so Aunt Wang would naturally not refuse.
Liu Yinyin spent a day at the supply and marketing cooperative. When it was almost time to get off work in the afternoon, it was still snowing outside.
It makes people feel sad.
Manager Jiang couldn't help it and informed everyone: "You don't have to come to work starting tomorrow. The supply and marketing cooperative will open again when the supply ship arrives."
There was no food available in the supply and marketing cooperative, so there was no point in keeping the door open, and it also saved the employees the trouble of commuting back and forth every day.
The road is not convenient either.
When I got home, Gu Cheng and Gu Yanyan were not at home, and I didn't know where they went.
The weather was cold, so Liu Yinyin didn't go out to look for anyone.
She went to the kitchen to take inventory of the supplies...
The rice and flour jars at home are almost full, each holding 50 kilograms.
There are two and a half bags of cornmeal, each bag weighs one hundred kilograms, and Liu Yinyin plans to sell two hundred kilograms.
There were still 150 kilograms of food left at home, which was enough for them to eat. She and Gu Cheng received food subsidies every month.
Even if the supply ship cannot come in temporarily.
One hundred and fifty kilograms of food...can sustain us for two or three months.
There were also a lot of food in the cabinet, including two packages of noodles, two packages of rice noodles, a package of yellow rice cake, about ten kilograms of millet, and forty to fifty kilograms of dried sweet potatoes.
There were also a lot of miscellaneous grains, including soybeans, red beans, sesame seeds, peanuts, etc., which added up to about 50 kilograms.