Zhou Yang saw a truck full of sacks pulled in the back of the tractor, which were all used to hold public grain.
At Li Fengnian's greeting, several young men immediately stepped forward and unloaded the sacks from the car.
Later, Zhang Genwang and Wang Ping each took the sacks and began to fill them with grain.
When "handing over public grains", the grains handed over by the north and the south are different.
The south is mainly rice cultivation, and what they pay for is rice.
In the north, wheat cultivation is the main area, and wheat is what is harvested.
More importantly, no matter what kind of grain is grown, whether it is corn, potatoes, flax, or beans, when the public grain is paid, it can only be wheat.
Only when wheat is really not enough, oats will be allowed to be substituted. Other grain communes will not be harvested.
While the members were loading food, Zhou Yang immediately walked towards his father-in-law and asked, "Dad, do you want to start paying today?"
"Well, our production team has a lot of public food, so we should start early and finish early!" Li Fengnian said.
"Are there many production teams in the commune that pay public grain?"
Li Fengnian sighed and said, "Not too much. Director Qi said during today's meeting that there are more than 240 production teams in the entire commune's 12 production brigades, and about half of them have applied for public grain arrears."
"This year's harvest is indeed not very good. If you owe it, you owe it to me!" Zhou Yang said.
"Well, once the public food arrears begin, we will have to tighten our belts for the next few years!" Li Fengnian said.
"There's nothing we can do about it. Let's focus on the present first. We can't let the members go hungry after working hard for a year!"
Li Fengnian sighed, and then said: "Let's not mention this. The commune has agreed to our application for halving the love food, but I hope that if our brigade has surplus food, we can support other brigade!"
Zhou Yang frowned and said, "How about support?"
"It's similar to love food, sold to other production teams who are short of food at a fair price!"
Then Li Fengnian said again: "The commune is also considering the overall situation. We hope that everyone in the entire commune will have food to eat!"
Zhou Yang smiled bitterly: "What's the difference between this and selling to the country?"
"Yes, I can show you more favors!" Li Fengnian said helplessly.
Zhou Yang shook his head and said, "What's the use!"
"It's indeed useless, but it's not mandatory. Let's discuss it then!"
"Well, by the way, Dad, Teacher Qin told me today that the black pigs in the pig farm are ready for slaughter!" Zhou Yang said.
"Good thing, then I'll go talk to the supply and marketing cooperative?"
"If you don't sell to the supply and marketing cooperative, let Fourth Brother contact the meat factory!" Zhou Yang said.
"Why a meat factory?"
Zhou Yang immediately said: "First of all, it's because the supply and marketing cooperative only accepts whole pigs, and they have the final say on how much they pay. We definitely can't beat them! But the meat joint factory can kill the pigs and then weigh the meat. Children and old men are not deceived. Who can You can’t take advantage of anyone!”
"Secondly, we have a large number of pig farms. In addition to these dozens of black pigs, those Landrace pigs will be ready for slaughter in two months. Let's use these black pigs to take the lead!"
Li Fengnian nodded and said: "You are very thoughtful, I will let the fourth child and his father-in-law discuss it!"
"Um!"
"Someone will have to watch when you hand over the official rations later. Genwang and Wang Ping have no education and can't settle the accounts. You and Liang Feng can follow!" Li Fengnian said.
"Okay! It just so happens that I also have to go to the commune to open a letter of introduction!"
Li Fengnian immediately asked: "Why are you opening a letter of introduction? Are you going out again?"
Zhou Yang nodded and said, "Dad, I have to go to the capital in a few days. I plan to take Xiaowei and Bao'er with me this time!"
"Why take them there?"
"Xiaowei hasn't been anywhere in the past few years. It just so happened that Mr. Liu and Mr. Wang from the capital asked me to go back and give some lectures to the medical school. I was welcomed by someone, so I took their mother and daughter to the capital to gain some knowledge!"
"But Xiaowei is still pregnant. Would it be possible to go out so far away..."
"Don't worry, I will prepare some sleeper tickets for them. Besides, Xiaowei is not pregnant for a long time, so there is nothing wrong with being careful!" Zhou Yang said.
"Well, be careful!"
"Um!"
.......
Since it took some time to load the grain, Zhou Yang did not stay at the granary for long.
He first returned to the office and translated the manuscript for a while. When it was almost twelve o'clock, he packed up his satchel and walked home.
At home, Li Youwei is preparing to cook.
Seeing Zhou Yang push the door open and come in, he immediately asked: "Can we have braised vegetables and steamed buns for lunch, and can I heat some mutton for you?"
Zhou Yang smiled and said, "You take a rest, I'll make lunch!"
"I'll do it, you've been busy all morning..."
Before Li Youwei could finish speaking, Zhou Yang pulled her into the room and asked her to sit down.
Zhou Yang had already heard from his mother yesterday that Li Youwei had severe morning sickness. Not only did she have no appetite for eating, she also often retched while cooking.
So his mother told Zhou Yang that if he had time, he should cook for her.
Even without his mother's advice, Zhou Yang would definitely do this.
Pregnancy itself is a hard job for a woman. As a husband, how can I not take more care of her?
Thinking that Li Youwei was not interested in greasy meat during this period, Zhou Yang decided to fry some appetizing vegetables, which might make her eat more.
At that moment, Zhou Yang returned to the kitchen and started to get busy.
He first took a big cabbage from the drying room, and then brought back a big radish.
Then he started washing rice. He knew that Li Youwei liked rice and didn't like steamed buns very much.
Li Youwei stayed in the room for a while, then came out again, leaning on the door frame and watching Zhou Yang busy in the kitchen.
In less than an hour, Zhou Yang had lunch ready.
Vinegar cabbage, scrambled eggs, mutton and radish soup, and a plate of pickled radish cut into strips. The main dish is white rice!
A combination of meat and vegetables, full of color, flavor, and the fact that this meal was cooked by her own man, with his full love, Li Youwei couldn't help but have an appetite.
After finishing the meal, Zhou Yang washed the dishes and chopsticks, then found the two people's household registration books, marriage certificates and other documents, and then rushed to the brigade headquarters.
At this time, the public rations at the brigade headquarters were almost full.
In addition to the tractor brought back by my father-in-law, there were also more than a dozen mules and carriages from the production team.
When Zhou Yang came over, his father-in-law and several captains were directing the members to load the cars.
After seeing Zhou Yang coming, Li Fengnian immediately waved to him, and when Zhou Yang arrived, he said: "Accountant Liang is in charge of the fifth team, and you are in charge of the fourth team. You must keep an eye on it, and don't let others coax you! "
Zhou Yang immediately said: "Dad, don't worry, I will keep an eye on those people in the commune!"
Then Li Fengnian took out several written certificates from his pocket and handed them to Zhou Yang.
At the same time, he said: "Give this to Comrade Hu Rui from the commune. He is responsible for opening letters of introduction. Tell him that you are my son-in-law, and he will not block you!"
"OK!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Wang Ping came over and said it was ready.
Afterwards, Zhou Yang and Liang Feng rushed to the Unity Commune with their motorcade - to hand over the public rations!
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(rural old-fashioned kitchen)
(room furnishings)
