Everyone was very calm and waited in line outside. Some people even received their number plates at the back. They figured out that they could still find time to go home and do some housework and then come back and continue queuing. Everyone was happy and all. Kudos, the atmosphere is particularly good.
What's even more terrible is that the efficiency of this work is extremely high.
In less than two hours, the relief food had been distributed.
The villagers who received the relief food were very happy. They carried the food to their homes like ants moving. The adults had smiles on their faces, and the children ran behind them.
Ms. Liu came up to Yang Ruoqing and said excitedly: "Qing'er, I can guarantee that every household will be eating delicious rice tonight!"
Yang Ruoqing smiled and said, "It's the Chinese New Year today. It's appropriate to have a delicious meal of white rice tonight all year long."
This time, the relief food is distributed according to head. Adults, regardless of gender, and those over the age of fifteen are given ten kilograms of rice and five kilograms of wheat flour per person. The amount is half for the elderly and children.
In this era of freedom of reproduction, every household has an average of three or four children.
So based on an average family of five, a family can get forty pounds of rice and twenty pounds of wheat flour.
Please note that this is not rice and wheat grains, but rations that can be directly put into the pot after being polished. It is a real pound.
A family of five or six people can survive for two to three months on these rations as long as they are not extravagant and wasteful.
Coupled with the second rice harvest in summer, even if there are floods in summer, everyone can still survive the drought for several months after next spring. It will be fine when the wheat matures at the end of April.
Therefore, if so much food is distributed, everyone will be happy and not panic. People will not starve to death, and they will not go out to beg for food.
"Qing'er, will you give Yang Huasheng's share?"
Seeing that the food distribution was coming to an end, Mrs. Liu couldn't help but ask Yang Ruoqing in a low voice.
Yang Ruoqing glanced around, "I paid special attention earlier and didn't see Mrs. Huasheng coming at all."
Mrs. Liu snorted, "Does she still have the nerve to come here? Last time she stole the Huang family's money to buy new year's goods. After we exposed it, she was so frightened that she ran away. She will definitely not dare to come back now!"
Seeing Yang Ruoqing lost in thought, Mrs. Liu licked her lips and said, "Let me see, we can just eat her food. The two of them, including her son Yang Yongbing, have thirty kilograms of rations. For such a big man, , let’s hack her family and forget it!”
Yang Ruoqing pondered for a moment and then slowly spoke:
"Yang Huasheng's ten kilograms of rations were confiscated because he had previously stolen from the village and caused losses to the people in the village. The ten kilograms will be divided equally and given to the families who were stolen."
They are Lao Jiangtou, a widowed old lady from the south of the village, the Heifeng family, and the Yang Huazhong family.
Ms. Liu nodded, "There's nothing wrong with that. No matter who she gives it to, she can't give it to herself. A thief steals things from the village and still wants relief food? What a beautiful idea!"
Yang Ruoqing then added: "As for Mrs. Huasheng's share, I will also keep it and send it back to Uncle Huamao and Aunt Huang."
Mrs. Huasheng stole six taels of silver from the Huang family to buy new year's goods. When she found it, she only had more than five taels, but Mrs. Huasheng spent hundreds of pennies on it.
Mrs. Huasheng ran away when the incident came to light, and there was nothing valuable at home that could offset the hundreds of pennies that were spent.
Yang Huazhong took the initiative and planned to give Mrs. Huasheng's two vegetable gardens to the Huang family as compensation, but the Huang family was not happy.
So Mr. Huang should be happy with the compensation of ten pounds of rice.
Ms. Liu touched her palms, her eyes flashing: "Okay, okay, Mrs. Huasheng's share must be deducted, otherwise she really thinks she can pat her butt and walk away after stealing other people's things. Hum, we have to let her know how to run away." Come on, a monk can’t escape from the temple!”
"Then, who will we compensate Yang Yongbing for after we take out his share? And in what name?" Ms. Liu asked again.
Yang Ruoqing looked at Mrs. Liu, who was gearing up, her face full of excitement, ready to make a move...
Yang Ruoqing couldn't help laughing, "Fourth Aunt, it seems that Yang Yongbing has not done anything bad to harm the interests of other people in the village, so we can't deduct his share."
"Ah? Can't dunk it?" Mrs. Liu was disappointed, but as she rolled her eyes she added, "Let's use our brains and arrange a hat for him to put on. If we dunk it again, what else will he dare to say?"
Yang Ruoqing shook her head decisively, "There are things you can and can't do in everything. No matter how she cries and begs if she makes a mistake in the future, I will not be soft-hearted. If she doesn't make a mistake, we can't be black people's rations. Punish evil and promote good. Principle The problem cannot be messed up.”
Ms. Liu slumped her shoulders and sighed, "Hey, okay, okay, then let him keep it!"
However, thinking that it could have been divided into thirty kilograms and finally turned into ten kilograms, Liu couldn't help but feel happy again when she imagined Mrs. Huasheng's wonderful expression when she learned the result.
"By the way, it's the New Year's Eve today. Yang Huasheng is in prison and can't get out. The mother and son are hiding and not going back to the village. Hey, it's really unlucky to be the ancestor of their room. The other ancestors can all have sacrifices. , his ancestors are going hungry this year, just because of this unsatisfactory descendant..."
Yang Ruoqing did not echo Liu's sigh, because the food was almost distributed. Dazhi and the others were talking to some village elders over there, and Yang Ruoqing had to go over and say a few words.
Mrs. Liu said: "Qing'er, go and do your work, I'll look around again."
Yang Ruoqing nodded and ignored Liu's wandering.
Mrs. Liu walked around. Now that the food has been distributed, most of the people in the yard have dispersed.
Mrs. Liu felt bored, so she thought of two places to go. One was Yang Huasheng's house. She wanted to see if Mrs. Huasheng or Yang Yongbing had sneaked back to celebrate the New Year.
After all, celebrating the New Year, you have to go back to your own home to celebrate the New Year. Otherwise, where can I take you in to celebrate the New Year?
Mother’s family?
Haha, that’s even more impossible. A married girl is just water thrown out. Even if your parents feel sorry for you and want to take her in, you still have to ask your parents-in-law’s brother-in-law, or your brother’s sister-in-law.
So Mr. Liu planned to go to Yang Huasheng's first stop for a wander.
The second stop was to go to Lao Wang's house. Today, Tianma Liang Dabai drove the carriage back to the village with Yang Huamei and Hongmei.
The third brother and the fourth brother who went to the county to look for Xiao Hei hadn't come back yet, so Ms. Liu wanted to go to Yang Huamei's place to see what was going on right now.
However, when Mrs. Liu just walked out of the yard, Kang Xiaozi came over.
"Mom, where are you going?"
"I just finished my work and plan to go to your aunt's house." Ms. Liu said.
When Kang Xiaozi came up, he grabbed Ms. Liu's arm and said, "Mom, let's go to my aunt's house later. Let's go home. We will prepare to go to the mountains to worship our ancestors soon."
Mrs. Liu shook off Kang Xiaozi's arm: "Going to worship ancestors is a matter for you and Tiedan, young and old men like you. It has nothing to do with me, so don't drag me."
