flstandardbreds Chapter 174 Human Food
Chapter 174 Human Food
This morning, the sun was shining brightly, as if it was also happy about the grain distribution by the Red Star Production Brigade.
Liu Jingxue finished her breakfast early, carried her load, and took a few bags of grain to the drying dam.
Along the way, she met many villagers, each of whom was carrying a backpack and a load on his shoulder.
Even some young children were carrying grain bags.
Everyone was smiling, and even the voices of people greeting each other were a little louder than usual.
When they arrived at the drying dam, the villagers, who usually liked to gather in groups of three or four, also lined up obediently.
The granary next to the drying dam is usually locked, but it was opened today.
All the educated youth at the educated youth point have arrived and are queuing there.
Seeing Liu Jingxue, Zhang Yingchun quickly waved to her to come over.
After Liu Jingxue walked over, Zhang Yingchun pulled her and asked her to stand in front of him.
"That's not good. I'd better go queue up at the back," Liu Jingxue refused.
Zhang Yingchun said, "It doesn't matter. You see there are no villagers behind us. They are all from our educated youth camp."
"No one has any objection, right?" Zhang Yingchun turned around and looked at the people queuing behind her.
The educated youths behind waved their hands to indicate that they had no objection.
"Liu Zhiqing, just stand there. We have no objection."
"Liu Zhiqing, I haven't thanked you for killing so many wild boars, so that we can share the pork and eat the butcher's dishes."
The educated youth thanked Liu Jingxue one by one.
Liu Jingxue kept saying "you're welcome" and quickly changed the subject, not wanting them to continue dwelling on the matter.
"Do you know what the work point standard is for the 70% of the head rations in our team?" Liu Jingxue asked.
Zheng Jianmin explained, "This is not fixed every year, it is calculated based on the work points and grain production of the year.
But generally the fluctuation is not big, only a few dozen work points."
"How much pound of ration was each person last year, and what was the standard of work points?" Liu Jingxue asked.
She wanted to have a rough estimate to see how much extra food she should buy.
Qin Fang replied, "The per capita ration is the same for both men and women, old and young. Last year, the per capita ration was 228 kilograms per person, and the work point standard was 350.
Of course, this work point standard only applies to people who are old enough to work in the fields and earn work points. Children or elderly people who are unable to work do not need to be subject to this standard. "
Hearing this, Zhang Yingchun smiled bitterly and said, "I only earned about 90 work points in total. If I were to follow last year's standards, how much would I have to pay?"
Tang Qiangjun had been selling vegetables these days and had not been attentive to Zhang Yingchun. When he heard her say this, he quickly replied,
“This is also easy to calculate, if you use last year’s standard, you are still 260 points short.
Last year, one work point in the team was worth 260 cents, and with 39 points, that meant yuan in compensation."
Zhang Yingchun didn't say anything when he heard this, but Feng Chunyan frowned.
“This is not right.
When buying grain at the grain station, sorghum flour is 7 cents, corn flour is 9 cents, millet is 13 cents, rice is 15 cents, and white flour is 18 cents.
Most of the grains distributed by the production team were coarse grains such as cornmeal, grits, sorghum rice, and brown rice, which cost only 0.11 yuan per pound at most.
228 kilograms of food, even if you buy it all with money, it would only cost 25 yuan.
Why is it that now there are more supplements?”
Feng Chunyan lowered her voice and said, "Is this production team trying to trick us educated youth?"
Hearing her say this, Zheng Jianmin quickly lowered his voice and blamed her, "Feng Zhiqing, don't talk nonsense. The production team has a unified standard and does not distinguish between educated youth and villagers."
He sighed and patiently explained, "Did you forget to go to the grain station to buy a ticket? In addition to money, you also need a ticket.
Try it if you only need money but no tickets. Even if you double the money, 50 yuan can buy 228 kilograms of grain at the grain station. "
He lowered his voice again and said, "Even if you go to the black market to buy food, without a ticket, you probably won't be able to buy food unless you double or triple the price.
If you are caught, you will have to go to labor camp or even be sent down to the countryside. Do you dare to take this risk? "
Feng Chunyan thought about it and felt that what Zheng Jianmin said made sense. Without tickets through formal channels these days, one could not get food even if he had money.
Zhou Wenbing interjected, "The village still takes good care of its villagers and educated youth.
In addition to the work point standard for per capita rations, after being converted into money, it is indeed more than the per capita rations obtained by points. If you are short of food, you can buy low-priced food in the village without a ticket."
Liu Jingxue was worried that the educated youth would have complaints about the production team and that conflicts would arise in the future, ruining her peaceful life. She quickly explained,
“In fact, if you think about it a little, you will understand why the work points for each person’s rations are more than the actual amount of food they receive.
After all, the work point standard only applies to people who are able to work, but there are many elderly people and children in the production team who cannot go to the fields.
Didn't the production team give them any food and let them starve to death? This is against national policy.
The government wants to ensure that the elderly have a place to rely on and the young have a place to take care of, so that people won’t starve to death like in the old society, and that’s why they set the per capita grain allowance.”
“We are all educated youth who went to the countryside and have been to school, so our ideological awareness is definitely higher than that of the villagers.
Even those villagers who care about trivial matters have no objection to giving some food to the elderly and children who have nothing to do with them.
As the successors of the new era, we are even less likely to have any objections."
Zheng Jianmin quickly took over Liu Jingxue's words and said, "Yes, we came here to work in the countryside, and our household registration is here, so we are a collective.
The villagers built a youth education camp for us and let us live there for free.
The produce, game and firewood from the mountains are all provided free of charge as long as we are diligent enough to go into the mountains.
You can try it. If you are not a villager of this village, even if you are from Linshan Town, you can go into the mountains to buy goods and see if they catch you.
The production team treated us no differently than other villagers, and we were even more tolerant.
After all, the villagers are still forced to go to work, but we are not forced to work during the non-autumn harvest period.
If the villagers' work points do not meet the per capita grain standard, they still need to be compensated.
We can't just enjoy the benefits given to us by others without giving anything in return.
There is no such beauty in the world."
The old educated youths all said, "Zheng Zhiqing, Liu Zhiqing, you don't need to tell us, we already understood.
It’s just that the newly arrived educated youth haven’t thought it through yet, so you just need to talk to them.”
Chen Guoqing and Zhang Pingan quickly said, "After what Zheng Zhiqing and Liu Zhiqing said, we also understand it. We have no objection."
“I just didn’t understand it for a moment.
After listening to your explanation, I understand and I have no problem with it." Feng Chunyan immediately shook her head, indicating that she did not dare to have any opinions.
Liu Jingxue reassured them, “In fact, 350 work points is not a lot.
The reason we suffered the loss was that the timing was so unfortunate.
The five of us only worked for twenty days.
But even so, Yingchun, who had the least work points, had 90 work points.
In the Northeast, there is work from April to October, which is about 4 months.
On average, you only need to earn 50 work points per month.
There are 30 days in a month, so even if you cut grass for pigs, you can get 2 work points a day. As long as you work at least a little, you can get 350 work points."
When everyone heard this, they all laughed.
Zhang Yingchun also smiled and said, "After hearing what Xiaoxue said, these 350 work points are not that much.
Even if I have the most useless stuff, I can still get it together in a year, and I can even have plenty of time to be lazy and not work."
Feng Chunyan smiled bitterly, "If I work from beginning to end, I won't worry about not getting enough work points.
It’s just that I’ve only been working for 20 days, so I’m still a long way from the standard work points.
It's a bit tight to have to pay so much money all at once."
After hearing what she said, except for a very few people, all the other educated youth understood.
Feng Chunyan had talked about her situation before, and Liu Jingxue felt very sympathetic towards her plight.
After thinking for a while, Liu Jingxue said, "Don't worry, we have only been here for a few days, the team leaders must know about it, and it is unlikely that we can collect all the work points.
They will definitely make arrangements.
I’ll ask later.”
Hearing Liu Jingxue say this, Feng Chunyan said gratefully, "Xiaoxue, thank you so much.
With your work points, you must have met the requirement. We'd like to trouble you to inquire on our behalf."
"Don't be so polite. It's fate that we came here together. I will definitely help if I can."