Out of curiosity, I squeezed to the front with my second sister. After hearing the discussion, I realized that the person sitting on the ground crying was Widow Li.
Her husband was stoned to death for repairing canals in his early years. She did not remarry in these years, but lived with her son.
But her son was fed well by her and was too lazy to work. Even in his twenties, he no longer worked in the fields to earn work points, but wandered around all day long.
Therefore, this family has always relied on Widow Li to earn work points by herself, but no matter how powerful a woman is, she cannot earn enough work points to support two people, so every time it is time to distribute food, Widow Li will cry and say that her husband is because of giving A member of the team died while repairing a canal, so the team should take care of their orphans and widowed mother. No matter what, they had to share enough food for the mother and son for a year.
In the past, because Widow Li's son was still young, she said so and the team understood her family's difficulties, so they would distribute enough food to their family for a year.
But as Widow Li's son grew up, she still said the same thing when dividing food. Now not only did the captain disagree, but everyone also disagreed.
Why can they earn a year's worth of food by working hard in the fields for a year, while Widow Li's son can get a year's worth of food by not working all day long?
But regardless of the objections of the captain and everyone, Widow Li just sat on the ground and started crying and acting silly, saying that everyone wanted to starve her orphans and widowed mother to death.
Seeing that she was so shameless, everyone had no choice but to agree to share food with their family. In this way, Widow Li could get a year's worth of food every year.
This year Widow Li started to do her old tricks again, but the team leader was annoyed by her shameless behavior again and again, so this time she was determined not to give them more food, which is why the scene before her happened.
When the captain saw Widow Li sitting on the ground, crying louder and louder, and talking nonsense about how the people in the team bullied their orphans and widowed mothers, he said angrily: "Don't even think about getting more points in the team this year. I’ll give you food. In the past, I gave you more food because your son’s team was taking care of your family. But you are getting more and more extravagant. You think the food in your team is blown by the strong wind.
These grains are grown by the people in the team who have worked hard for a whole year. Why should we give more to your family? If you calculate the grain according to work points today, I will give it to you now. If you don’t want it, I will give it to you directly. It will be deducted from the food that has been distributed to you over the years. "
Everyone was overjoyed when they heard the captain's words, thinking that they could finally get rid of the blood-sucking Widow Li.
Widow Li became anxious when she heard the captain's words. She knew that it was impossible to get food by cheating today, so she did not intend to continue crying, but stood up directly.
She patted the dirt on her body and said: "Captain, since the team won't give me more food, can I borrow it? In addition to the food exchanged for work points, I will borrow some from the team. It will be enough for us, mother and son, for a year. Next year I will definitely let Dabao work in the fields and pay back all the borrowed grain."
When the captain and everyone heard what she said, they had no choice but to agree to her borrowing food. However, when the captain gave her the food, he said: "If you don't return the food next year, the team will not distribute food to you anymore. "
After hearing the captain's words, Widow Li nodded repeatedly and said she understood, but the authenticity of it remained to be scrutinized.
