However, besides these things, after winter set in, Chen Enpeng and Chen Junjie were taken away by their superiors, or so it could be said. Moreover, Uncle Zhou recommended them to join the army.
"Really?"
"yes?"
"Mianmian, what were you thinking? With your skills, wouldn't all the officers in the army be fighting over you?"
"Even if I said I didn't want to go, I'm not old enough to go."
"That's true."
"What will happen to your belongings after you leave? What about the food?"
"Send the things home."
"What's the situation at home now?"
"It's not a big problem. Although my activities are restricted, I'll just consider it an early retirement."
"Is there enough food at home?"
"That's the main reason I came to see you today."
"What is it?"
"I'll be joining the army in a few days and won't be back for a while. We don't plan to exchange the work points we earned in the production team for money; we still need grain, just like last year. I'll trouble you to send some grain back to our two families from time to time."
"That's all?"
"That's all?"
"It's no big deal. What kind of food are you planning to send back? The checks in the city are really strict right now."
"We've discussed this privately, and we don't want refined grains, just coarse grains and sweet potatoes. We'll need your help to slice the fresh sweet potatoes, dry them, grind them into flour, and send them back."
"It's no trouble at all, it won't take much effort. Just leave your address later."
"This was written a long time ago, that's why I brought it," he said, handing it to himself.
"What about the money you'll get for the work points you earned this year, and the money for the herbs you collected?"
"Could you please send this to us at home later?"
"I'm afraid that won't work."
"What's wrong"
"Although it's not a lot of money, it's not like it's only been a year or two."
"Then what should we do?"
"Here's what we'll do! When I go to the post office later, I'll deposit it in the bank for you and send you the deposit slip. And it'll be sent to you, not to your family, otherwise it might cause trouble later."
"Then why don't we just leave the stuff at home? After all, we've bought quite a few things here, and what if they investigate again if we send them back?"
"Why don't you just sell it?"
"How to sell it, and who to sell it to?"
"Next door."
"I must say, this is a good idea."
"While you're at it, take care of the houses you're living in too. After all, you paid for the wall yourself when it was built."
"That's really true."
Will this work?
"Go ask the captain."
"good"
"Then we'll move the grain over here later."
"Sure, but we need to be clear about the accounts, even between brothers."
"Can"
"By the way, how many people are left in your family?"
"Only my parents are at home; the rest of them are in other places."
"So, will the grain be sent to Jinshi?"
"What's wrong, Mianmian?"
“If you give it to your parents, they won’t say much, they’ll just sigh that their children have grown up. But for your brothers and sisters, that’s family affection. They will remember your kindness. Besides, nowadays every family is struggling to get enough to eat, so sending them food is an immense favor.”
"I'll give you the addresses of the other family members later."
"Okay, but before that, you should each write a letter to them to let them know and ask them to send a letter back. Then you can send one back to them from your side. Otherwise, it would be bad if it got lost."
Oh, and also, tell them roughly how much grain they have in total, and how much you can send them. Just so nothing goes wrong; that would be bad for everyone.
"Okay, you've thought of everything."
"Another thing we can tell them is that if they run out of food in the future and their families really don't have enough to eat, they can write here and we'll see if we can secretly buy some food from the brigade and send it to them."
"good"
"Also, tell them that if anyone asks, they should say it's a family member, and whatever they do, don't let it slip."
"Don't worry about that."
"Since you plan to send sweet potato flour later, then take all your current grain to the brigade and exchange it privately!"
"Mianmian, how about we switch? We don't have much refined grain anyway."
"Can"
"What will you do with the grain you produced before the Lunar New Year?"
"We'll ask the team leader later if we can get them out earlier. We just need the sweet potatoes, it shouldn't be a problem."
"Can"
"By the way, Mianmian, can you put so many sweet potatoes here?"
"No problem, I'm free right now, so I can take my time sunbathing during the midday sun."
"Then I'll have to trouble you."
"You're too kind to say that."
After they left, I quickly went to the cellar to check and took out the sweet potatoes that I hadn't had time to slice and dry, which I had stored in my storage space.
Fortunately, I didn't buy too much when the grain was distributed not long ago, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to put it away.
This year, besides needing 50 jin of wheat, 300 jin of corn, and 750 jin of sweet potatoes for my own food needs...
I worked for 190 days, including 70 days of busy farming season with 12 work points per day, and the rest with 8 work points per day, for a total of 1800 work points.
They asked for 1000 work points worth of sweet potatoes, which is 1500 jin of sweet potatoes. The total amount of sweet potatoes was 2250 jin. Adding the half-fen of land planted in the yard, it was enough for them.
Chen Enpeng and his companion wanted the same number of sweet potatoes as he did.
One pound of coarse grains can be exchanged for five pounds of sweet potatoes, which means that he has to give Chen Enpeng at least 1,150 pounds of sweet potatoes. After deducting what he has eaten recently, it should be at least 1,000 pounds.
The amount for two people is about 2000 jin, which is almost enough.
But if you calculate it this way, the grain you get from earning work points next year probably won't be enough to eat.
If they didn't use the wheat and corn, they would only have 100 jin of wheat and 600 jin of corn on the cob. It seems like a lot, but after removing the bran from the wheat, it would only be 80 jin, and the 100 jin of corn on the cob would only be 10-85 jin. Even if we take 80 jin, it would only be 480 jin. After removing the husk, it would only be less than 450 jin of cornmeal.
Adding this to what I recently received, the wheat flour yielded 120 jin (60 catties), and the cornmeal yielded approximately 670 jin (335 catties).
There are still 800 work points to be earned, which requires 150 jin of corn, 50 jin of sorghum, 50 jin of various beans, and 90 jin of wheat.
Based on this calculation, my grain supply for next year will only be a little over 800 jin of corn, a little over 190 jin of wheat, 50 jin of sorghum, and 50 jin of beans, totaling less than 1200 jin of grain.
There wasn't enough food for me to eat, but luckily I had a space where I could receive a portion of food every month.
Another point is that I'm currently in the stage of growing taller, and speaking of which, I've already grown to 1.6 meters.
But when the busy farming season arrives, you can't just eat cornmeal or steamed buns made from a mixture of cornmeal and wheat flour. It would be quite conspicuous to eat that in front of others. But there's no need to worry about that.
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