Chapter 75 Quantitative Reduction
After spending a day with his wife at home, He Yuzhu had to go to work the next day.
Since the two of them didn't go to bed until midnight last night, Song Jinfeng was still sleeping after He Yuzhu got up in the morning. Yu Yu didn’t go to school today and was still sleeping in.
He Yuzhu walked out of the room gently and went to the kitchen to prepare breakfast for Song Jinfeng and Yuyu.
After He Yuzhu had eaten, he left a note on the living room table, telling them that he had left breakfast for them in the kitchen.
He Yuzhu rode his bicycle to the cafeteria and grabbed a few candies for everyone he saw and gave them wedding candies. Everyone who received the candy also said, "Congratulations."
For several days, He Yuzhu smiled at work and felt happy in his heart.
This year's weather has been dry and grain production has been reduced. Public grain collection fell short of expectations. The government decided to reduce supply.
As soon as He Yuzhu arrived at the cafeteria that day, Director Zhao came to announce the meeting.
Everyone gathered in the restaurant and chattered about the content of the meeting.
Director Zhao walked into the restaurant and stood at the door: "Everyone, please be quiet. We are getting ready for a meeting."
When everyone heard Director Zhao's shout, they all became quiet and looked at Director Zhao at the door.
Director Zhao saw that everyone had calmed down and said, "I received a notice from my superiors that starting from next month, the quota will be reduced by 10%."
As soon as Director Zhao finished speaking, there was a roar and everyone in the cafeteria started to make a fuss.
"Director, because we have reduced the fine grains and increased the coarse grains, everyone had objections to our canteen. Now we have reduced the food by 10%."
Director Zhao: "Quiet, everyone be quiet. Listen to me."
After Director Zhao shouted many times, everyone became quiet.
"I know everyone has been wronged recently, but we still have to stick to our posts and ensure the food in the bureau so that everyone is well fed."
"Director, it has been reduced by 10%. How can we make up for this gap?"
Director Zhao said with a headache: "Isn't this a call for everyone to brainstorm? Just like the purchase of sparrows before, can everyone think of a way? The leader said that as long as we get food, the bureau will purchase it at market prices."
"Okay, let's all go back and think of a solution. The meeting is over."
He Yuzhu knew that this was just the beginning, and he would continue to reduce the ration. But Director Zhao finally said that the bureau would purchase food at market prices, so He Yuzhu could sell some fish and game to the bureau to test the situation.
When he went home at night and had dinner, Song Jinfeng also brought back the news that the ration would be reduced.
Rainwater: "Then let's eat less and leave some for tomorrow morning."
He Yuzhu: "No need to save food, brother can make you full."
Song Jinfeng: "Zhuzi, the situation is not optimistic. Our family has to find a way to get some food to save. Let's go to the black market at night."
He Yuzhu: "It's not good for you, a street cadre, to go to the black market. I can go there myself. Besides, we have food at home."
Song Jinfeng: "Where is it? Why didn't I see it?"
He Yuzhu: "Come with me. I'll take you to see it."
Rainwater: "Brother, I'm going too."
He Yuzhu: "Okay, come with me."
He Yuzhu took Song Jinfeng and Yuyu to the abandoned yard next door.
Song Jinfeng looked at the dilapidated and collapsed house: "Does this yard also belong to our house?"
Yu Yu: "Yes, sister-in-law, my brother bought two yards. We only live in one."
He Yuzhu: "This courtyard has collapsed over time. Since no one can live in it, it has not been repaired."
Song Jinfeng works in the street office, so she naturally knows why the house is not repaired.
He Yuzhu took them to the west wing and opened the entrance to the basement. This basement was previously sealed by He Yuzhu. This year, in order to deal with the Master's Wife and others asking about food, the basement was opened again and filled with food.
Song Jinfeng and Yuyu followed He Yuzhu down to the basement and saw the piles of food inside.
He Yuzhu: "Don't worry now. This food is enough for us."
Yuyu: "Brother, you are so awesome. Now I don't have to worry about not having enough to eat."
He Yuzhu hugged Song Jinfeng and said, "No matter what happens in the future, this food will be enough for us to eat for a long time. If the food shortage is serious, you can also send some to those uncles and aunts."
Song Jinfeng: "You did it all, why don't I use it to help people?"
He Yuzhu: "What's yours and mine. We are husband and wife, we don't distinguish between each other. What's mine is yours."
Song Jinfeng: "Well, thank you."
"Okay, it's boring down there, let's go out." After saying this, He Yuzhu led Song Jinfeng and Yuyu out of the basement and restored the entrance.
Back home, He Yuzhu told Yu Yu: "Yu Yu, don't tell others when you go out that we have food at home, do you understand?"
Rainwater: "I'm not stupid, I won't tell others."
He Yuzhu: "Also, don't tell others what you eat at home. If someone asks, just tell them about the Erhe noodles, steamed buns and pickles."
Rainwater: "Yeah, I understand."
Song Jinfeng: "Okay, Yu Yu is so smart, he won't tell others."
Seeing the food piled in the basement, Yu Yu and Song Jinfeng no longer worried about the reduction in rations in the future. They had an appetite and ate a little more than usual.
In the next few days, the aunts from the neighborhood committee began to go door-to-door to inform them about the reduced rations. Song Jinfeng also started to get busy.
As the saying goes, a young man will eat me to death. Some families with too many children did not have enough food to eat, but now the food supply has been reduced by 10%. Not enough to eat. I can only take the fine grains I received and go to the black market to exchange them for coarse grains. It can only guarantee that you will not die of hunger.
The neighborhood committee is also mobilizing all those whose registered residence is not in Sijiu City to return to their place of residence. Many people with registered residence in rural areas have no choice but to return to the countryside because they don't have enough food to eat.
After the ration was reduced, the waterside in Sijiucheng was full of people, all coming to fish.
Compared with trap hunting or hunting in the mountains, fishing is the easiest.
Use a fishing hook made of a sewing needle, a random bamboo pole, and tie it with the thread explained in the section, and a simple fishing rod is ready. Hang up the dug earthworms and go fishing by the river or lake.
On this day, He Yuzhu brought two large buckets containing
More than 30 fish came to the city bureau cafeteria to look for Director Zhao.
He Yuzhu: "Director, I caught a few fish. Do we want them in the canteen?"
Director Zhao: "If you want it, why don't you want it? Now, as long as it's food, I want it."
Director Zhao asked He Yuzhu to take the fish to the kitchen. After weighing, the money was settled to He Yuzhu on the spot.
Director Zhao: "Everyone has seen that as long as you bring food, our canteen will charge you the price."
Others in the cafeteria saw He Yuzhu selling fish and getting a lot of money. I also thought about going fishing after get off work and selling it to the canteen. Even if you don’t catch much in the rain column, you can still subsidize your family income.
