"Yuxian, why are you like this?" Shulan felt isolated and said angrily.
"Childish!" Qin Yuxian couldn't stand her pretentious look and was too lazy to pay attention to her.
Qin Yulin was happy to see it happen. He was relieved to see that Qin Yuxian did not make any mistakes in this matter. He also hoped that Qin Yuxian would stay away from Shulan and Jiang Beichuan!
A few people came to the brigade headquarters chatting and laughing. Captain Chen, the brigade accountant, and the cashier were already waiting there.
"Captain Chen! We are here to get our rations!" Su Nian said with a smile when he saw Captain Chen.
"Come in! Accountant Lin and the others are waiting!" Captain Chen glanced at the educated youth at the door and said with a smile.
"The rations we distributed this time are 270 kilograms, 250 kilograms of coarse grains, 10 kilograms of fine grains, 10 kilograms of refined grains, including 20 kilograms of coarse corn stubble, 10 kilograms of fine cornmeal, 170 kilograms of sweet potatoes, 60 kilograms of millet, 5 kilograms of rice, and 5 kilograms of flour!
In addition, I will give you 30 kilograms of radishes. After the team harvests the cabbages, I will give each of you another 30 kilograms!
These rations are for you to eat until next summer's harvest. You must be frugal and budget carefully.
Don't let the famine start in the spring. The production team has no food to lend you! Our village has no surplus food!" Captain Chen said seriously.
The accountant and the cashier stood aside with stern faces and did not say a word.
No matter who has worked hard for a whole year, he would not feel happy if someone came to distribute his food rations directly.
These educated youth arrived in late autumn. The production team had harvested the crops and planted winter wheat in the fields. The radishes had been harvested and the cabbages were about to be harvested. There was basically no farm work left in the fields.
These educated youth came with nothing to do but just distributed everyone's food rations. It can be said that none of the members were happy about it, and they all disliked these educated youth!
"Captain Chen, how can this little food be enough? Aren't we all allocated 340 or 360 kilograms of rations?" Shu Lan asked hurriedly, relying on the little knowledge she had.
"Haha! Then why don't you go to the production team where you can get 360 kilograms of rations? Why come to our remote place?" Captain Chen said with a sneer.
Who doesn't know that the rich production teams received more food? Do you even need to tell me that?
Shulan was almost choked to death by Captain Chen's words. She was not stupid, so she naturally understood that it was not because the production team was poor, but because Captain Chen felt that he envied the rich production team because they had more food!
"Captain Chen! I want to exchange fine grains for coarse grains. Is that okay with you?" Su Nian asked with a smile.
She has no shortage of fine food, the key is to pretend.
"According to the market price, coarse grains are 0.9 cents per jin, and fine grains are 0.17 cents. One jin of fine grains cannot be exchanged for two jins of coarse grains. If you exchange with our production team, we will exchange it for two jins.
The same goes for the rest of you. If you want to exchange for coarse grains, then we can exchange them at the rate of one kilogram of fine grains for two kilograms of coarse grains!" Captain Chen softened his tone when he saw that it was Su Nian.
There are not many young people who are good at budgeting. If they can plan for themselves, they can cause less trouble to the production team.
"I've changed them all! I just changed it to 20 kilograms of millet!" Su Nian said quickly.
Drinking millet porridge in winter is nutritious, healthy, and good for the stomach. You can also make porridge with pumpkin or sweet potato and drink it every day without getting tired of it!
"I'll change too!"
"And me!"
Qin Yuxian and Sun Yanyan saw that Su Nian had switched to coarse grains. They calculated that it would be difficult to eat enough food until next summer harvest. Now was not the time to enjoy themselves, so they also switched.
"Let me change too!" Qin Yulin said after seeing this.
Among the eight new educated youth, only four including Su Nian exchanged for coarse grains, while the other four did not.
Shulan curled her lips secretly. Who would eat coarse grains if they have fine grains?
"Captain Chen, if I exchange coarse grains for fine grains, that would be two pounds for one pound, right?" Shu Lan spoke at this time.
"Huh? You want to change to fine grains?" Captain Chen asked in surprise.
"I have a bad stomach. Eating coarse grains for a long time will make me sick. Besides, I can't finish so many coarse grains by myself! I'll just switch to some fine grains!" Shu Lan said with a smile.
If she wanted to exchange for fine grains, she would not have the opportunity to do so in the future except now when the production team had just harvested the grain. There was no other place to exchange for it except on the black market. Shulan wanted to take the opportunity to exchange for more fine grains to eat.
"Haha! Who doesn't want to eat fine grains? Even if you want to exchange them, we don't have much fine grains for you! At most, we can exchange ten kilograms of refined grains for you at a ratio of 1 to 2. It's okay to exchange coarse grains for some fine grains like cornmeal!
You should think carefully now. From now on, you are not allowed to bother the production team with food rations! You have a bad stomach, so you can exchange it for more millet. It will nourish your stomach and save you food rations! What do you think?
"No, I want to exchange for more flour and rice!" Shu Lan said with a smile.
When Song Lai Di heard that she could exchange it for an extra ten kilograms of fine grain, she was overjoyed.
In the past, I never had the chance to eat refined grains at home. Now that I can freely dispose of my food, it’s time for me to enjoy myself.
"Captain Chen, I'll also exchange for more fine rations!"
"And me!"
"Let me change too!" The remaining four of them all changed to more refined food, which was in stark contrast to Su Nian and the others.
In this way, Su Nian and his friends each had an extra 20 kilograms of millet.
Jiang Beichuan and his team exchanged 20 kilograms of coarse grains for 5 kilograms of rice and 5 kilograms of white flour at a ratio of 1 to 2, and exchanged 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes for 70 kilograms of fine cornmeal. The accountant and cashier were so angry that their faces turned pale.
"Once you sign this, you can go to the warehouse to collect food!" Accountant Lin took a stack of small notes and handed them out to them one by one.
It simply stated the amount of food rations they received, and if they didn't save money and couldn't eat until next summer's harvest, they would have to go to the commune to buy commercial grain themselves, and the production team would not be responsible.
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