Chapter 236 Killing the New Year Pig and Distributing Food 2
After the pork was distributed, the next step was to distribute grain. Everyone lined up in an orderly manner. Gu Jiandong was called by Shen Erzhu to distribute the grain. He carried bags of grain out of the granary.
This year's harvest is pretty good. In order to encourage everyone to work harder next year, Shen Erzhu discussed with other cadres and decided that this year, each member of the team will be able to get an extra pound of wheat.
Each household can get an extra pound of wheat, which is a lot, as there are quite a few people in their team.
As soon as the words came out, everyone applauded, praising their team leader for his good leadership and the cadres in the team for their hard work.
Shen Erzhu smiled and spoke for half an hour with a loudspeaker. The general meaning of his speech was that everyone should work together next year to increase production and strive to get into the advanced brigade.
As the saying goes, if a brigade does not want to be advanced, it is not a good brigade. Shen Erzhu has been conscientiously leading everyone to engage in production, just to get the title of advanced brigade.
Not only he wanted to get it, everyone wanted to get it too. There were many benefits to being named an advanced brigade. Not only were the work points valuable, but also the title of an advanced brigade would bring many benefits.
It is easy for the sons and daughters in the family to get married. Once they say that their brigade is an advanced brigade, others will look up to them.
So everyone responded very positively to what Shen Erzhu said.
"Next spring, we will work hard to produce!"
"Next spring, we will work hard to produce!"
"Next spring, we will work hard to produce!"
Their voices were really loud. Shen Shuyu stood in the crowd, listening to everyone's loud and vigorous voices, and felt her ears buzzing.
What can Shen Shuyu do? Just join in the shouting of slogans.
The current grain output is not as high per mu as in later generations.
With the current production, after paying the public grain tax, we can only say that we will not starve to death, but we can't even think of having enough to eat, unless we eat this meal and don't need to eat the next one.
Thinking of the grain output, Shen Shuyu began to think.
Nowadays, there are very few families that split up their families. Most of the time, the parents do not split up their families. The whole family stays together and eats from the same pot.
When distributing food, the whole family would go out, and there was no need to push a cart. Everyone in the family, young and old, could carry a bag of food back home.
But when it was Shen Shuyu's turn, it was already twelve o'clock in the afternoon.
Shen Chunling divorced and returned home to live. She received full work points for a woman every day. With more work, she earned a lot more work points.
In addition to food, you can also get ten yuan.
Everyone in the big house was a strong laborer and did not slack off at all. In addition to food, they were given 26 yuan.
The second room received 23 yuan, while the third room received less. Only Uncle Shen and Liu Pandi worked.
Even if they were capable, one person could not do the work of three people, and they only got 17 yuan.
Liu Pandi held the seventeen yuan in her hand and felt exhausted. After the division of the family property, she worked very hard and did not slack off at all, but only got seventeen yuan.
When the baby is born next year, there will be one more mouth to feed, and Liu Pan will probably have to work hard.
In the past, the work points of the whole family were calculated together. In addition to food, they could also get 70 or 80 yuan, which she thought was a lot at that time.
Once the family is divided, not only can we not be lazy at work, but we also have less money.
How can she live like this? She was hesitant and whispered that she wanted to live with her parents-in-law. Uncle Shen didn't want to pay attention to her.
Even though the family has been divided, she still said this, "Okay, let's wait ten years. After ten years, I will talk to my parents and let them live with us."
Liu Pan choked up. She was talking about now. Ten years from now, maybe his parents would not be able to work anymore and would have to wait for their son and daughter-in-law to take care of them.
The man said this to ask the third room to serve the parents-in-law. Liu Pandi glared at him and said, "I just said it casually. Don't take it to heart."
Uncle Shen: "Don't you want to live with your parents anymore?"
"I don't want to do it anymore. I don't want to do it anymore. We have divided the family property, but now we are eating together. This is not fair to the first and second wives."
What was she thinking? She wanted to eat with her parents-in-law now because she thought they could help her, but the man asked her what she would want after ten years.
Zhang Cuicui couldn't help laughing when she heard this. It seems that the third brother can control his wife.
Zhang Cuicui was quite content with the money she got. Although it was not much, she could still make a living if she lived frugally.
With food and money, life is so much happier than during the famine years. At least no one will starve to death now, and we can occasionally eat meat and have candy.
Li Caixia is also satisfied. The money is in her own hands. She will work hard next year and save money year by year, and their second house will also have some assets.
Since Gu Jiandong went to the countryside, he has earned full work points every day. In addition to food, he also received three yuan.
Not long after he went to the countryside, he was able to get three yuan, which was considered the best.
After receiving the food, the educated youth did not return to the dormitory. Seeing that they were given so much food and money, the other educated youth were very envious.
Forget about sharing the money, it’s lucky they don’t even have to put any money into it.
Among the educated youth who came with Gu Jiandong, two female educated youth and one male educated youth had to pay money to the brigade.
Because they did not have enough work points, they had to pay back the food they had previously borrowed on credit.
In fact, if Shen Shuyu's family spent money carefully and ate sparingly, the food they were allocated would be enough for them to eat without having to spend money to buy food.
But Old Man and Old Lady Shen wanted their eldest granddaughter to eat well and have enough, so they still had to buy food.
After the food was distributed, Old Mrs. Shen spent some money to buy 100 kilograms of sweet potatoes, 50 kilograms of potatoes, 100 kilograms of corn, and 50 kilograms of wheat.
Not only Old Lady Shen bought grain, but Second Grandma Shen also bought some. She has a daughter who married into the city and has a job, and they eat commercial grain.
But commercial grain is in fixed amounts and quantities. There are several children in the family who need to eat, so the commercial grain is not enough. Not only do you need grain coupons to buy grain at the grain station, but the price is also not cheap.
My mother's family is from the countryside, so every year when grain is distributed, Second Grandma Shen's daughter would ask her mother to buy some coarse grains.
Few villagers buy food; they work every day and earn just enough to eat.
Most of the people who bought food were educated youth, but they didn't buy much. Fifty kilograms was the most they could buy.
They wanted to buy more, but they didn't have that much money.
There was a male educated youth who wanted to borrow money from Gu Jiandong. Gu Jiandong was very stingy with outsiders.
What's more, this man has a shifty look in his eyes and even threw a coquettish glance at Shen Shuyu. Why would he borrow money? It was considered good-tempered of her not to strike back.
"No loan."
He said he would not lend the money, so Bai Luobo rushed over and pushed down the male educated youth who asked for money.
After pushing the person down, it rolled its eyes and twisted its butt at the educated youth.