Farmers do not have food stamps and can only eat the food distributed by the production team. If the production team did not distribute rice that year and only distributed some sweet potatoes and taro, the farmers who wanted to eat rice would have to take the money to the black market to exchange for food stamps.
.
A pound of food stamps costs about 30 cents. In other words, although a pound of rice only costs 16 cents, with the 30 cents of food stamps, a pound of rice is equivalent to 46 cents.
It is illegal to exchange for food stamps on the black market. No one dares to exchange for more than one or two kilograms at most.
However, compared with big cities, the food stamp transactions in small towns are relatively unsupervised, and most farmers go to the black market to exchange for food stamps.
"A pound of food stamps is only 30 cents. How about you give Gouzi Daddy a dollar and ask Gouzi Daddy to bring you two kilograms of rice?" Zhang Guilan asked with a smile.
Zhao Fengzhu was furious, "Am I crazy? I can't eat more than two kilograms of rice for one dollar."
A baby as small as Jinbao can eat five kilograms of rice cooked into porridge every three to five months, which can last for two months.
They have a family of four and can only eat four or five meals without saving two kilograms of rice.
In short, spending one yuan to buy two kilograms of rice is very, very uneconomical. Even if they are greedy for rice, most farmers are not willing to spend money to buy it.
Most farmers who go to the black market to exchange food stamps to buy rice do so to find wives for their sons.
In rural areas, you can marry a wife for about four yuan, and send your child to a town school for two years for one yuan...
"The remaining four dollars in my family are for Jiangen and Jungen to use for their future wives," Zhao Fengzhu said.
Her mother-in-law was amused by her, "How old are Jiangen and Jungen? I see, in ten years you won't be able to get a wife for just four yuan."
"Anyway, I won't use this money anymore."
Zhao Fengzhu looked at Yao Hua and said, "Hua Hua, can you let my second son go to the supply and marketing cooperative with you? Earn 20 cents to buy some needlework so that I can mend the children's clothes."
Her mother-in-law said: "You spent so much money when you built your house, now you know how to save money?"
"Mom, please stop talking about building a house. I regret it so much that my intestines are green."
After Zhao Fengzhu finished speaking, she couldn't help but grab Yao Hua's hand, "I'm begging you as my second aunt."
Yao Hua withdrew his hand and said, "Let's wait until Uncle Su comes back in the evening. Maybe he will be too busy with work tomorrow and won't want to go at all."
"He will definitely be willing to go! How long has it been since the production team was paid? I don't know if Xiaomeng will not even be able to eat sweet potatoes after becoming the captain of the production team, and working in the production team will be in vain."
Li Xiu'e frowned displeased. After hearing what the second daughter-in-law said, did she think Xiao Meng was incompetent?
I wanted to be angry at first, but I thought about it and thought, forget it, she is too old to argue.
She also wants to live longer, to live for more than twenty years. If she cares too much about her daughter-in-law, how can she wait until Jinbao and Huahua grow up and get married?
Li Xiu'e held the cute little Jinbao in her arms, thinking that after Jinbao got married, she would have to take care of Jinbao's children.
Thinking of these things in the future, she felt particularly happy, and she didn't want to pay more attention to other messy things at home.
In the evening, as soon as Su Erzhuang came back, his wife pulled him aside and asked him to go shopping with Hua Hua at the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow.
"What? Go to the supply and marketing cooperative?"
"Yes, I have already negotiated the price. If you go with him, he will give you two cents."
Su Erzhuang frowned and said: "What's going on with you, Fengzhu? How can you ask Huahua for money? He is such a young child, but you are his elder..."
Hearing that he was angry, Zhao Fengzhu hurriedly explained, "I didn't ask him to give me the money, it was Hua Hua who wanted to give me the money. At first, he said he would give me fifty cents. I thought fifty cents was too much, so I just said two cents."
"
After hearing what his wife said, the expression on Su Erzhuang's face softened a little.
Seemingly thinking of something, he sighed, "Hey, I want to go with him, but I can't. The wheat harvest is coming soon. After turning in the public grain, I will probably have to pay dividends. Tomorrow I have to recalculate all the work points of the members.
To avoid making mistakes.”
"Dividends?" Zhao Fengzhu was surprised, "Didn't it mean that if the wheat doesn't grow well, it might not be enough to pay the public grain? How can we still pay dividends?"
"After Xiaomeng's renovation during this period, it has grown quite well. It looks like it should be enough to be handed over, but I don't know how much is left and how much it will cost."
Zhao Fengzhu thought that after Su Xiaomeng became the captain, the harvest would definitely be worse, but she didn't expect...
Just when she was slightly shocked, Su Daqiang walked into the yard.
His wife had already told him what happened at home in the afternoon and asked him to talk to his second brother quickly. He would accompany Yao Hua to the supply and marketing cooperative.
"Second brother, Gou Zi Niang said that Hua Hua wants to go shopping at the supply and marketing cooperative tomorrow. It just so happens that I am also going to buy a few feet of fabric for Jin Bao, and some tooth powder and matches..."
Before Su Daqiang finished speaking, Su Erzhuang said happily: "Fengzhu was telling me about this just now. I was worried that I didn't have time to accompany Hua Hua."
He stepped forward and continued: "Brother, if you accompany Hua Hua to the supply and marketing cooperative, I will feel at ease."
Zhao Fengzhu gritted her teeth and stamped her feet again, "Er Zhuang, can't you just finish your account in two days? Do you have to do it tomorrow?"
"Didn't I tell you? The wheat will be harvested soon, and it will be weighed at that time. There are different things to do every day. This period happens to be my busiest time."
Before the two of them could continue to quarrel, Su Daqiang patted his second brother on the shoulder and said, "Be busy and don't worry. Leave Hua Hua's affairs to me. He asked me to accompany him to town from the beginning."
Su Erzhuang's expression was confused for a moment and he didn't understand what his elder brother said, but he soon understood.
Fengzhu must have heard that Huahua was willing to pay, so she asked him to accompany Huahua...
Alas! He has nothing to say to his wife, and he will not be surprised by anything she does now.
Zhao Fengzhu rolled her eyes.
Determined that Er Zhuang would not be able to earn the two cents, her focus shifted to another thing at the moment.
"Brother, you just said you wanted to buy cloth for Jinbao? Did I hear you correctly?" she asked Su Daqiang.
"That's right, there are still a lot of useless cloth tickets at home. Originally, Gouziniang said that she would save the eggs to buy cloth for Jinbao to make summer clothes."
Zhao Fengzhu couldn't figure out why her sister-in-law was so generous to Jin Bao?
It’s okay to just give Jinbao eggs to eat every two days. Now I’m talking about using eggs to exchange cloth for Jinbao to make clothes. How many eggs does it cost to make one foot of cloth? Besides, one foot of cloth is not enough...
How many children as old as Jinbao in the village have clothes to wear?
"Your hen only lays an egg in two days. How can you have so many eggs to replace the cloth?"
When it came to eggs, Su Daqiang couldn't help but smile on his face, "I used to lay one egg every two days, but recently I've laid two or three eggs a day, and sometimes I've laid four eggs."
As he was about to say something more, a cough suddenly sounded from behind him. It was his wife's voice.
"Stop chatting, I have to take Hua Hua to the town tomorrow. Finish your meal quickly and go to bed early tonight."
As Zhang Guilan said this, she pulled her husband away and squeezed him hard as she left.