059: The Doorway to Pay Public Food

Xia Xiaolan still didn't know that she had escaped another disturbance from the Xia family.

Xia Dajun really came to ask the mother and daughter for food, and he would definitely not get any benefits. Of course, it is always good to have less trouble once, how precious Xia Xiaolan's time is, how can it be wasted on irrelevant people.

Thanks to the fact that the Xia family has their own calculus in their hearts, and their strength cannot be used in one place, they have not been able to harass Xia Xiaolan's life often.

The notices for handing over the public rations were sent to each household. Xia Xiaolan and her aunt, Li Fengmei, went to the grain station in the village to hand in the public rations. This was a very novel experience for Xia Xiaolan, an experience she had never experienced in her previous life.

The rice should be sun-dried the most, without gravel or other impurities. Only the grains that are plump and golden without any shriveled grains are qualified public grains.

Public grains are paid several times a year. After the rice is harvested, the rice, as well as the previous wheat and rapeseed, are paid to the state for free, which is used to replace the agricultural tax. The public grain may not completely replace the tax, and the insufficient part has to be paid. In the past, the production team paid the public grain and the agricultural tax uniformly.

"I don't have to pay taxes now, and I'll collect and withdraw money instead."

Liu Fen went to collect the eels, and Xia Xiaolan and her aunt packed millet together. These rice grains are all sun-dried and sifted, not to mention shriveled millet, not even a small scum.

Li Fengmei said that she was going to pay "withdrawal funds" this year, and Xia Xiaolan was stunned.

In the countryside of the 1980s, she did not understand many fields. She doesn't know how to farm, and she doesn't know how hard it was to live in the countryside in the 1980s. Not only is farming hard work, but the seemingly small kilograms of grain put a lot of pressure on farmers... The technology of hybrid rice broke through in the 1970s, and southern Henan Province began to demonstrate planting in 1976, and it has not yet been obtained. large-scale promotion.

Anyway, in this part of Anqing County, farmers grow conventional rice.

Hybrid rice can yield over 1,000 catties per mu, and the best-per-mu yield of conventional rice is about 700 to 800 catties.

After the rice is hulled and peeled, 100 catties of rice are less than 70 catties. A family of three has about five mu of land, not all of which can be grown for rice, poor sloping land, and poor fields that do not produce food. If you don't sell grain, how can farmers have money? I can't keep the money from selling grains, such as pesticides, seeds, fertilizers, and what Li Fengmei said "withdrawal and retained money."

The full name of withdrawal and retention is 'coordinated withdrawal and retention', which is two parts of money.

Five overall planning refers to the overall planning of five items by townships: education surcharge, family planning fee, militia training fee, civil administration special care fee, and private transportation fee. The village retains three items: provident fund, public welfare fund, and management fee. The provident fund is not the housing provident fund of later generations, but is used for the construction of farmland and water conservancy, plant afforestation, and the purchase and production of fixed materials; the public welfare fund is used to support the five-guarantee households, subsidize the extremely poor households, cooperative medical care and other welfare undertakings; the management fee is used for the remuneration of village cadres and Manage expenses.

Li Fengmei definitely didn't know about this, and everyone in the village would do what they asked for.

Xia Xiaolan is even more unclear. She was worried about starvation for the first two days after her rebirth. Afterwards, the business was doing well. Xia Xiaolan had never experienced the real rural poverty.

There are several bags of carefully selected Huang Cancan's rice. Xia Xiaolan refuses to review at home. Li Fengmei and Liu Fen are not willing to let her go out these days.

Li Fengmei was also afraid that she would be suffocated, so she agreed to Xia Xiaolan to go with her.

Not to mention that it is convenient to have a bicycle. A bicycle with 28 bars can carry hundreds of kilograms of grain. Halfway through, I met the food delivery team from Chen Wangda's family, and Chen Qing's mother called out to Xia Xiaolan and Li Fengmei:

"Let's go together, there is a companion on the way."

Li Fengmei was very happy and called her sister-in-law.

Xia Xiaolan is obediently called Auntie. She likes all the people in Qijing Village. Of course, these people gossip behind their backs, but they are not the kind of people who want to kill people with malice. They are also the villages below Anqing County, Qijing Village. It's very different from the atmosphere of Dahe Village... Xia Xiaolan feels that it has something to do with Chen Wangda being the mayor of Qijing Village.

Sister-in-law Chen seemed to care about Xia Xiaolan, and asked her about her studies along the way.

Xia Xiaolan got full marks in both tests of English. This subject is Chen Qing's weak subject. Chen Wangda remembered Xia Xiaolan's help for their mother and daughter, so she offered to help Chen Qing make up the class:

"If Auntie is relieved, I will make up for his English when Brother Chen Qing is on vacation."

Today's college entrance examination English is not difficult, even if the later college entrance examination, mastering a vocabulary of more than 3000, is almost the same. But the candidates of later generations were accumulated from elementary school, junior high school, and high school. Before Xia Xiaolan was reborn, there were various apps that used fragmented time to memorize words. What was 3,000 words?

It is too difficult for candidates in 1983, or candidates in remote areas.

No matter how bad the Chinese grades are, in the face of the familiar mother tongue, you can always get a part of the score. There is no foundation in English, and the first few years of the resumption of the college entrance examination are not included in the results of the college entrance examination. It is very sudden for the candidates, and the teachers do not know how to teach systematically.

There is no efficient mnemonic at all by rote memorization.

Vowels and consonants?

I can't read the words when I see them, so how can I distinguish between vowels and consonants.

English is not only a stumbling block for Chen Qing's college entrance examination, but also for other candidates... I just want to find a teacher to open a small stove, and I must be able to find a teacher! Even if Chen Wangda knew people in the county, he couldn't find such a way. He was only the head of the village, not the head of the county.

No one knows how Xia Xiaolan learned English, but she got full marks in the two exams, which means she learned well.

Chen Qingma was full of joy and pulled Xia Xiaolan

Neither want to let go. Chen Qing's grades are not bad. If you can improve your English scores, next year's college entrance examination will be more stable——

"Xiaolan, you will be behind Auntie when you hand in the food."

Xia Xiaolan couldn't understand her aunt's expression, Li Fengmei smiled happily, just lined up, is it so important?

When it was time to hand over the public rations, Xia Xiaolan realized the benefits of being in Chen Wangda's house.

There was a long queue outside the grain station, and the Chen family who handed in the grain did not cut the line, just waiting for a chat on the road outside the grain station. There was a lot of people in the grain station, and the leaders of the township led the village chiefs of each village to check the grain one by one.

According to Xia Xiaolan's thinking, isn't it just weighing according to the list, leaving the grain after the inspection, and completing a household?

She is so naive!

The delivery of public rations was not so smooth at all.

When it was the turn to line up, the people at the grain station had to take a hollow iron pipe and put it into the sack, and pull it out to bring out the grain for inspection. Wheat in southern Henan Province matures in June. At the end of June, wheat was delivered to the grain station once, and this time it was rice.

The iron pipe brought out some rice, and the person at the grain station looked down in the palm of his hand:

"Unqualified."

The person who paid the grain laughed and said good things.

Third-class grains are considered qualified, but the grades of grains are low, and the amount of kilograms to be paid is more. The evaluation criteria are in the hands of the inspectors of the grain station.

It was almost noon, and finally it was the Chen family's turn.

When the people at the grain station saw Sister Chen, their expressions were still serious, but they rated her rice as "first-class".

Xia Xiaolan couldn't see the difference between rice and rice, and the people around were definitely not convinced, but no one reasoned with the people at the grain station, and there were whispers:

"Chen's family in Qijing Village."

"Chen Wang..."

"Shh, don't talk."

Chen Wangda didn't need to come over at all, the old man accompanied the leaders of the village. When it was his turn, the people at the grain station automatically rated it as "first-class". Xia Xiaolan also saw the way, and people established a reputation. The prestige of the old man was there, and the people at the grain station didn't dare to cheat.

The inspection of the Chen family's public food was very fast, and it soon arrived at Li Fengmei's house. The rice that Li Fengmei and Xia Xiaolan weighed at home, each bag weighed 100 kilograms, but only less than 80 kilograms on the scale at the grain station—Li Fengmei’s face was not good-looking, and she didn’t say anything.

Xia Xiaolan had already seen the tricks, can she come out and expose it? Not all workplace fights are positive energy, and Xia Xiaolan knows that little devils are difficult to deal with.

"This is my home too."

Sister-in-law Chen casually added a sentence.

The people at the grain station looked at the grain receipt list. The head of the household was named Liu, and it was not related to 'Chen' Bazhuzi. How could it be a family?