Chapter 369 Era - There is a time-traveling girl next door 20
After hearing what Li Dandan said, the old couple fell into deep thought.
After a while, Li Tiezhu slowly said, "Dandan is right. This is something we really need to think about carefully.
It seems that we can’t trust everything we read in the newspapers; we still have to see it with our own eyes.”
Zhao Jinhua also nodded: "Yes, after hearing what Dandan said, the high productivity thing does sound mysterious.
But we also need to support the policies from above; maybe there are some good ways to increase production that we don’t know about.”
Li Dandan continued, "Grandma and Grandma, I don't think we can just sit there and wait.
Otherwise, let's be careful first.
It doesn’t matter whether the grain yield outside is high or not, let’s secretly store some grain at home.
If the high yield was false, our whole family would not starve.
If that's true, the food won't go to waste. I can send it to my dad's workplace and even if I lose some money, I can sell it sooner or later."
After hearing this, the old couple both thought it was a good idea.
Food is life. If the high yield is real or fake, we don’t know what kind of chaos will happen once the existing food is eaten up. We should prepare early.
Li Tiezhu is a decisive and action-oriented person who takes action as soon as he says he will.
He immediately called Li Huaiyuan over and told him the seriousness of the matter with a serious face.
Although Li Huaiyuan felt that the high-yield grain reported in the newspaper was unlikely to be fake, he was not stupid. He thought it was always a good idea to have an extra layer of insurance, and it would make him feel more at ease.
The next day at work, Li Huaiyuan began to look for connections to buy food.
Although he works in a grain store, don't forget that the grain store is public and you need grain coupons to buy grain.
If you want to stock up on food, buying it at a food store won't work.
Li Tiezhu was not idle either. He borrowed a car from someone and drove to the next city.
Here, he is just a stranger and no one knows him.
He went straight to the black market and bought 1,000 kilograms of coarse grains and 500 kilograms of fine grains, which was just enough for one truck to take away.
This food is definitely enough to feed the family for more than a year.
If there is no oil or water in the stomach, people will eat more, otherwise they will always feel that the food in their stomach is digested quickly.
Li Tiezhu brought the food back home in the middle of the night.
Only when the food arrived at home did he feel at ease.
"This amount of food is enough to feed our family for more than a year, almost two years. Even if the news of the high yield is false, we don't have to be afraid."
Li Huaiyuan asked Li Tiezhu, "Dad, should I continue to buy food?"
Li Tiezhu glanced at Li Huaiyuan and said, "Of course we have to accept it!
If someone sells it to you, just take it without hesitation.
Now all grain is under collective management, and not much can be collected from outside.
The food we have now can only ensure that if something happens, our family members will not starve.
If something unexpected really happens, can you ignore your father-in-law and his family?
We have to help them at least.
Tomorrow, I will go talk to my in-laws. They should also store some food for themselves.
I also have to give the captain a reminder. As for whether they will store food, that's up to them.
If they hoard the grain you collected, you can just sell it to them.
If they don't stockpile it, we'll keep it for ourselves.
But if we really run out of food, we will have to pay for it.”
The old man is actually now 100% certain that there will be a food shortage in the future, but because he has no evidence, he is still speaking ambiguously.
He bought more so that when there was a food shortage, his family could make some extra money privately.
Although the old man is old, his brain is still active.
But he didn't know that the next few years would be years of natural disasters, and these grains could only guarantee basic food for his family for two years.
By the third year, it will be Li Dandan's turn to take action.
However, as long as the natural disaster begins, if Li Dandan reminds him again, the old man will definitely not consider selling food outside, but will be afraid that there will not be enough food at home.
None of those who have survived the war are simple. As long as no one holds them back, they can all figure this out.
The next day, Li Tiezhu took two bottles of shochu and a roast duck that Li Dandan bought in Kyoto and went to visit his in-laws.
The Yu family actually has roast duck as well. Li Dandan brought it over when she came back from vacation to visit her grandparents.
But Li Tiezhu said, "That's your gift to them. I brought this as a snack to go with my old friend when I went to have a drink. It's two different things."
Well, the old man can do whatever he wants, after all he is a very particular person.
Li Tiezhu returned from Yu's house in the afternoon. Without even entering the house, he went to the team leader's house.
Ever since he learned that there might be a food shortage, the old man has been busy all the time.
Fortunately, after returning from the team leader, Li Tiezhu never went anywhere again and just stayed at home during the winter.
Li Dandan could see that Li Tiezhu felt much more relaxed.
They are all from the same village, and Li Tiezhu couldn't bear to see the villagers starving, but he also has a family. If this matter were to be made public, his family would probably suffer.
Even Li Xu in the army was implicated.
But he couldn't bear to do nothing.
Although he couldn't guarantee that everyone would listen to him, at least he tried his best.
I don’t know what the team leader said to the heads of each family. Several men in the village went out for a few days and when they came back again.
The big canteen in the village has become a mere showpiece, and it only boils some hot water every day.
The brigade left a small amount of food, and when someone came to inspect, they would cook some porridge.
The remaining food was distributed to each household based on the number of people.
The team leader was not idle either. He ran directly to the county and said that the village had no food and was asking for relief food from the higher authorities.
In fact, this is a test.
We went there several times but didn't bring back any food, which further confirmed that there was a food shortage.
Now the villagers could no longer sit still. At night, they could always hear dogs barking in the village.
Li Dandan spread out her spiritual sense and saw that the villagers were moving things into their homes. These were people who were secretly stockpiling food.
But the most they could do was to stockpile enough for half a year to ensure that their families would not go hungry before the new food arrived.
Even if the villagers had a lot of money, it was impossible for them to use all the money they had to buy food.
Most people think that even if there is a food shortage, it will only last for a few months, so buying 200 to 300 kilograms will be enough.
No one expected that there would be natural disasters for several consecutive years.
Wu Xiaoyun next door knew what would happen next.
She was thinking about asking her family to stock up more food, but the Wu family was already tired of the jokes she had made in the county town in recent years.
She failed to snatch Wang Xiaomai’s job before, and later she started to pester a man.
The Wu family has lost all face in the past two years.
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