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Chapter 202: Paying Public Food

He was afraid that Su Yue would leave him and leave his life. He was afraid that Su Yue would not be seen. It seemed that his past and present life with Su Yue had gone through in an instant. He knew that Su Yue was the person he wanted.

Just let him be selfish. Just give him a few months. If Su Yue still can't accept leaving him at that time, he will let her go. Su Yue is too beautiful, and he can't bear to hurt such a beautiful person.

Su Yue.

Wei Heng closed his eyes to cover the bloodshot eyes and clenched his fists. The bitterness in his heart was about to overwhelm him. No matter how difficult or difficult the task was, he faced it calmly and solved it one by one, but emotionally he was like a young boy.

I lose my bearings in front of the person I like.

Su Yue didn't notice Wei Heng's depressed and hesitant mood, so she bandaged the wound and threw him a few books before going out.

After several days of harvesting, drying, crushing and threshing with stone rollers, the village cadres shouted over the loudspeaker to hand over public grain. The output of Su Yue's five acres of land was almost 1,000 kilograms of rice, which was really very low.

One acre of land requires more than 100 kilograms of public grain. Her family pays about 600 kilograms for five acres of land. The remaining land is less than 1,000 kilograms. Not only does she have to pay public grain, but she also has to pay the tax.

Therefore, some villagers may not have enough food left over to feed their family for a year after paying in the public food allowance, and they need to mix it with sweet potato flour and cornmeal to ensure they don't go hungry.

The same is true if the harvest is halved in the event of a natural disaster. Standards are standards. Public rations must not be reduced at all. Just live with your belt tight for the rest of the day.

Su Yue prepared the food early and just used a cart to pull her alone. Ma Lanfang told her that it might take a day, because there is only one food station in the town for more than a dozen villages, and thousands of farmers have to move in just a few days.

The public rations were turned in every day, so I often went there for one day, leaving early in the morning and coming back in the afternoon.

She might not be able to come back at noon, so she cooked her lunch in the morning and warmed it in a pot. At noon, Wei Heng could heat it up and eat it.

Before they reached the gathering place, the sound of quarreling could be heard in the distance. Su Yue knew who was quarreling without looking at the person and just by listening to the sound. Yes, Wang Cuihua and Li Guihua, enemies of more than ten years.

Su Yue listened for a while and understood. It turned out that it was because of the issue of paying public grain. In order to not fall behind in paying public grain and be criticized, the villagers raised funds to buy a tractor, which was the same tractor that Su Yue borrowed to sell watermelons.

Every household has to pay public grain, but the tractor can only load a few thousand kilograms of grain in one trip. After the villagers held a meeting to discuss, they decided to use the tractor in turns.

Whoever's grain bags have their own labels marked so that no one suffers any loss. This time, among the villagers who lined up were Wang Cuihua and Li Guihua, because the two families lived next to each other.

It was everyone else's turn to make no mistakes every year, but at the critical moment when they had to pay the public rations, Wang Cuihua and Li Guihua made trouble again.

They got into a quarrel over whether to put the food at the bottom or at the top. Both Li Guihua and Wang Cuihua wanted to put it at the top, which would be the most convenient when handing over the public food. The two were still unwilling to quarrel and started to fight again. When Su Yue came, the two of them were in the middle of the fight.

When the fight is in full swing, no one gives in to anyone.

Su Yue watched with relish, it was a break from the boring life, and she hated both women. She wanted to see who would win and who would lose. Of course, she would be happy whoever won.

Unfortunately, the next development did not go as Su Yue expected. Wei Jianguo came and delayed the delivery of public grain. Wei Jianguo's face turned pale and he directly canceled Wang Cuihua and Li Guihua's right to use the tractor next time.

No matter how unwilling they were, they couldn't do it, because the time was wasted and the people in the village were full of complaints against them. They all agreed to Wei Jianguo's proposal. Now, both Wang Cuihua and Li Guihua were wilting.

"Third daughter-in-law, third daughter-in-law, come here quickly." Ma Lanfang shouted from the opposite side, and Feng Su and Li Xiaohua were standing next to them, both of whom went to help.

Su Yue pulled several hundred kilograms of grain over and said, "Auntie."

"When the public rations are handed over to the town, you will line up behind me and don't fall behind, okay? By the way, have you made arrangements at home? You won't be able to come back at noon." Ma Lanfang warned carefully.

"It's been arranged. Leave the lunch meal warm in the pot, and Wei Heng will fill up the fire twice."

Although she didn't understand why she had to follow Ma Lanfang so as not to fall behind, Su Yue didn't ask any more questions. She didn't understand the secrets of handing over public rations. Anyway, she just listened to Ma Lanfang and just nodded to answer Ma Lanfang's questions.

After getting everything ready, we set off. The people we met along the way were all people hauling grain to the town. Tractors, ox carts, and donkey carts all carried loads of grain. The fairly spacious dirt road was full of bustling villagers.

There are those who use push carts like Su Yue, with adults and children behind to help push them, those who use bicycles, and those who carry burdens, those who carry them on their shoulders, those who hold cloth baskets in their arms, as long as there are containers that can hold things.

They are all used to hold grain.

It wasn't until they arrived in the town that Su Yue really realized what Ma Lanfang said about not getting back one day. He looked at his watch and saw that it was only about seven o'clock. They had arrived quite early. There were already several long queues outside the grain station.

, the kind that can’t be seen to the end.

Su Yue smacked her tongue. With so many people, the queue alone would last for several hours. She also saw Wang Cuihua and Li Guihua staring at each other fiercely.

The food for the two of them was pulled by a tractor and was at the front. She could see it, but they couldn't see her because the distance was too far.

Su Yue waited. Fortunately, she could chat with Ma Lanfang, Feng Su and the others to pass the time. While chatting, she looked at the other people who paid the public food. Su Yue could see far away and could clearly see how the public food was paid.

The staff at the grain station were very selfless, and the villagers who handed over the public grain were full of flattery, handing out cigarettes and picking up soda. They just hoped that the staff would not hold them too tightly so that they could hand over the public grain safely.

The staff remained unmoved. They held a long hollow metal tube in their hands and inserted it into the bottom or middle of the grain bag. When they pulled it out, a little rice would come out of the tube.

The staff took a look at it or chewed it in their mouths. With many years of experience, they could tell if it did not meet the requirements. If it was not dried enough to contain enough moisture, or if it was not processed cleanly, they would throw it back and receive criticism.

Su Yue saw that some people with unqualified grain found an open space around the grain station to dry the grain on the spot, sifted the grain, and when the moisture became drier, it would not meet the weight requirement, so they hurried home to get more.

After waiting for a while, the team moved forward a little. Su Yue waited for several hours, and she felt sleepy. Alas, she got up too early in the morning to hand over the public rations early.
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