Xiao Yuehua didn't care at all, "That's enough, he doesn't eat much."
"That's true, you alone can almost feed him for two meals."
"Let me take a look." Su Qingci snatched the sheet.
"3400 work points equals 173.63 yuan? Holy crap, that's a lot?"
Su Qingci was a little surprised. She earned 2 mao (0.2 yuan) a day with four work points, but she didn't expect Xiao Yuehua's family to earn 173.
"400 jin of sweet potatoes will be deducted from 21.7 yuan, 200 jin of rice will be deducted from 26 yuan, 300 jin of corn kernels will be deducted from 27.2 yuan, and soybeans will be deducted from 6.9 yuan."
Su Qingci secretly calculated the unit price and was taken aback.
"Why are the prices of soybeans and rice almost the same now?"
"Isn't rice a refined grain? After discounts, it's only a little over 1.3 yuan per unit. Are soybeans about the same price now?"
Xiao Yuehua glanced at Su Qingci with disdain, "You've never managed a household before, have you? Although rice is a fine grain, soybeans are also a good thing."
"Tofu, soy milk, soy sauce, what doesn't contain beans?"
“You can’t buy these things even if you want to in the city. Every year at the end of the year, city people come to the countryside in groups to exchange them.”
"Beans are even more popular than rice at the end of the year!"
Su Qingci nodded and continued looking at the list in her hand, "And there's also the deduction of 33.7 yuan for the grain loan?"
"After all these miscellaneous deductions, you're left with 46.3 yuan?"
“Wow, Little Flower, you even make money. Unlike me and Song Jingzhou, we only got a bag of rice and had to give the team an extra ten yuan.”
"However, given your appetite..."
"This little bit of food you have should only last you two for about six months, right?"
Su Qingci's words made sense. Although there were 400 jin of sweet potatoes, they could not be stored for a long time, and most of them would be made into dried sweet potatoes.
This greatly reduces the moisture content; you'd be lucky to get 200 jin of dried sweet potatoes from 400 jin of sweet potatoes.
200 jin of rice, after being hulled, is only 150 jin of rice, but the corn kernels are real.
So, the grain we actually received was less than 700 jin (350 catties).
In these days of scarcity, a strong adult can't possibly eat their fill with just one pound of grain a day.
Moreover, Xiao Yuehua has a larger appetite than the average person.
If they were to eat their fill every meal, this amount of food would only last the couple a little over six months.
"You're sacrificing food just to save money?"
Su Qingci shook her head. After a year of hard work, farmers indeed had little left over.
Xiao Yuehua and Feng Jianjun are already considered very capable, but after eating their fill, there's not much money left. And after deducting daily expenses, tsk tsk tsk...
"I was wondering why you still had more than 46 yuan left in your account. If you distributed that much grain for the whole year, you'd be lucky to avoid debt!"
Xiao Yuehua smiled sheepishly, "Qingci, you're so smart."
"What I've prepared is probably enough for the two of us to eat for eight months."
"What about the remaining four months?"
Xiao Yuehua glanced around with her mouse-like eyes and said in a low voice, "Go to my mother's house to move."
Su Qingci was stunned. "No way?"
Xiao Yuehua's eyes widened. "Why can't we go and move it?"
“Before I married Jianjun, I still had more than a thousand work points at my parents’ home, which would be worth more than 50 yuan. I can forget about asking for the money back; my dad Xiao Long and Xiao Jian would definitely not agree to give it to me.”
“If they don’t agree, the captain and the accountant won’t give it to me either.”
"Then I'll set aside my own money. I'm due to give birth next year, so I need to have some cash on hand."
"The security team's salaries for the past two months have all gone towards paying off your debts. After settling your accounts this year, we won't have a single penny left."
"Once I've run out of food and finished giving birth, I won't be afraid of fighting anymore. If my dad and the others don't move more food for me, I'll secretly go back and chop down the granary door."
Xiao Yuehua calculated that once the 46 yuan in the account was distributed, all the employees in the town would be promoted to permanent positions because of their good performance in the county last time, and they would be able to bring back more than 21 yuan a month.
If one person could stay at home to earn enough to feed two people, she and Feng Jianjun would be more frugal.
I'll be able to save 200 yuan next year, and then I can buy myself a big purchase.
She could almost see the bicycle beckoning to her.
Xiao Yuehua smiled so much that her beady eyes narrowed. "This is just like what that teacher said, life is full of sunshine."
Su Qingci reminded her, "Little Flower, have you forgotten something?"
Xiao Yuehua was startled and instantly became alert.
"What have I forgotten this time? I've paid off all my money, and I even tore up the IOU myself."
"Don't even think about trying to trick me."
That's not what I was talking about.
"What else have I forgotten?"
"Although you worked at your parents' house for the first half of the year, you also ate there..."
"Don't talk nonsense. I'm eating the work points I earned last year."
"Look at the grain I'm being distributed now, isn't it all for next year's consumption?"
"What about what you ate last year?"
"That's what I earned the year before last."
Su Qingci choked, realizing there might be some truth to it...
But the food you ate when you married Feng Jianjun in the second half of the year was prepaid by the team, and you still have to pay off more than 300,000 yuan in debt.
What terrible things did Xiao Quangui and Xiao Sanying do to give birth to such a talented person as Xiao Yuehua?
Thinking about the fish distribution that morning, Su Qingci asked curiously, "Did you get your fish?"
“I didn’t take it, but Jianjun’s share from the educated youth settlement has already been returned.”
"I'll go get the fish from my parents' home after they've prepared it."
"You don't know, my sister-in-law is an expert at making cured and smoked fish."
"The smoked fish doesn't even need to be cooked; you can just tear it off and the aroma will make your tongue tingle."
Looking at Xiao Yuehua's excited face, Su Qingci finally understood a principle.
As long as you have no morals, no manners, and no bottom line, you can enjoy a blissful, immoral life.
There's a reason why Xiao Yuehua lives such a comfortable life.
"Qingci, lend a hand."
"There are so many, how can I help you? My girlfriend doesn't even let me do any work, how can I carry such heavy things for you?"
As she spoke, Su Qingci tugged at the large sack of sweet potatoes, "With my small frame, this sack could crush me."
Xiao Yuehua looked at the dozen or so large sacks placed against the wall, her eyes quickly searching for something in the crowd.
The grain distribution is progressing quickly, and it's almost time for the Xiao family to weigh their grain.
Xiao Yuehua subconsciously looked towards the alleyway ahead, and sure enough, at the end of the path, Xiao Juxiang was pulling a cart and walking with unsteady steps towards them.
"Got it, Qingci. You keep an eye on things for me. I've found free labor."
Xiao Yuehua greeted them and then ran towards Xiao Juxiang.
As Xiao Juxiang saw the older woman running towards her, she instantly became alert and subconsciously took two steps back while dragging her cart.
"What...what are you planning to do now?"
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