Brigade Headquarters. Warehouse!
"Comrade Zhang Meiliang, there are seven people in your family, four of whom participate in labor, and have a total of 4976 work points. Do you have any objection to the team's statistics?"
"Captain, I have no objection!"
"Okay, now share the food with your family!"
Then Wang Ping continued: "There are 7 people in your family, which can be divided into 1,750 kilograms of grain per head, 350 kilograms of wheat, 350 kilograms of oatmeal, 175 kilograms of millet, 560 kilograms of corn, and 490 kilograms of potatoes. Soybeans, oilseeds, and vegetables are not counted! "
"Your family's work points are converted into 497.6 workers. Each worker can be divided into 2 kilograms of grain, and the total is 995 kilograms and 2 taels. According to the principle of half thickness and half thickness, it can be divided into 497 kilograms and six taels of wheat, oatmeal, millet, corn, and potatoes. 497 pounds and six taels!”
After hearing what Wang Ping said was similar to what he had calculated at home, Zhang Meiliang called his wife and two older children, and happily took his bags to the side to distribute the food.
Seeing the plump grains of wheat, oatmeal, and yellow millet being put into Zhang Meiliang's pockets, the other members of the commune, the educated youth, who were waiting for their share of the grain, all looked envious.
On the other side, Zhou Yang looked at the scene in front of him with mixed feelings in his heart!
Compared with the grain produced by the production team, the villagers received too little.
Even though the grain output in Yunshan County is generally not high this year, the entire Babaoliang Village still produced about 750,000 kilograms of coarse and fine grain.
After excluding 70,000 to 80,000 jins of seeds, there is still a surplus of 670,000 to 80,000 jins.
If calculated based on the total population of 421 people in the village, on average each person can receive more than 1,600 kilograms.
But what is the actual situation?
Take the family of commune member Zhang Meiliang who just received grain. The family of seven received a total of more than 2,700 kilograms of grain.
This amount is really not that much. On average, each person weighs about 400 kilograms.
This is a person's ration for a year, just over a pound per day.
If you calculate it carefully, it’s not even a pound!
After all, neither wheat nor oats can be eaten directly. They need to be ground into flour. In this process, a lot of wheat bran is produced, which is usually inedible.
In this era when there are not many vegetables, non-staple foods, and oil and water, one pound of grain a day can only ensure that you are full, but it is far from meeting the standard of eating well.
And this level is still much lower than last year.
But even so, the members did not complain at all.
I have to say that the people of this era are the best and the most honest!
Think about it, this country can soar into the sky and be proud of the world in the future, which is inseparable from the dedication and dedication of these simple people.
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Under the auspices of Li Fengnian and others, members of each household received food, and then happily took it home.
While distributing the food, Li Fengnian also asked the team members to set up a stove in the backyard of the brigade headquarters, and then cooked a big pot of rice.
After all, today is a festive day, so just think of it as celebrating the harvest.
If previous years were put aside, after today, the entire production team would be idle.
It won't get busy again until March or April next year. Usually this meal can be regarded as the end of the busy half of this year.
However, this year it is obviously impossible to be idle after the autumn harvest like in previous years.
Whether it is pig farms, feed mills, bone meal mills, or various construction projects in the village, a lot of manpower is required.
If nothing else, the vast majority of members will be busy until next spring.
Most of the work points for the fourth team are recorded by Zhou Yang. Every once in a while, he will summarize the work points of the members.
Therefore, when Tan Shiqing took over, he also followed his method.
Normally you don't see much of it, but now you can see the efficiency when you divide the food.
While the fifth team was still busy summarizing the work points of the members, the fourth team had already divided up more than a dozen households.
Amidst the laughter, it was soon the turn of Zhou Yang’s family!
After calling Zhou Yang's name, Wang Ping said loudly: "Comrade Zhou Yang, there are three members of your family, two of whom participated in labor, and accumulated a total of 2218 points..."
Before he finished speaking, Zhou Yang said with a smile: "Captain Wang, I have no objection to these, just tell me how much food my family can get!"
Hearing Zhou Yang's words, the surrounding members burst into laughter.
In fact, everyone, like Zhou Yang, is most concerned about how much food they can get.
Wang Ping smiled and said: "Your family can get 750 kilograms of grain per head, of which wheat...your family's work points can be converted into 443 kilograms and six taels..."
After checking that everything was correct, Zhou Yang and Li Youwei went to the wheat warehouse to distribute the grain under the watchful eyes of the members.
Since his family doesn't have much food, it only adds up to more than 1,100 kilograms.
In addition, coarse and fine grains are divided separately, that is, fine grains are divided first, and then coarse grains.
So Zhou Yang didn't borrow the production team's mule and carriage!
After all, everyone has to share the food today, and there is simply not enough food from the mules and carriages, so it should be left to those commune members who have more food to share.
Anyway, I only have this much food at home, so I can transport it back with a borrowed bicycle.
Soon, more than 400 kilograms of fine grains were distributed and placed in five big bags.
Zhou Yang asked Li Youwei to hold the bicycle while he, with the help of several commune members, put all the large bags of food on the bicycle.
I have to say that the 28 big sticks of this era are indeed strong enough.
There were three large bags placed on the back seat behind the car, and two bags were placed on the rack under the frame. The weight of more than 400 kilograms did not weigh the bicycle down.
After tying it up with rope, Zhou Yang pushed the bicycle and carried it home.
After transporting the fine grains, the couple went to the warehouse behind to distribute the coarse grains.
It was already 12 noon when the more than 600 kilograms of corn and potatoes were transported home.
Although they were tired, both of them were very happy.
In fact, it's not just Zhou Yang and Li Youwei who are happy today, everyone in the village is happy.
After all, after working hard for a year, we can finally see the harvest. Who can not be happy?
After resting at home for a while, I put the grains in the tank again to avoid being rattled by rats.
After doing this, Zhou Yang and his wife took their lunch boxes and chopsticks and went straight to the brigade headquarters.
You know, today the brigade headquarters is giving fried cakes to everyone!
This thing is a good thing that you can't usually eat. After all, fried cakes require oil. With the quota of less than ten kilograms of oil per year for ordinary families, how can they dare to make extravagant fried cakes?
When Zhou Yang and Li Youwei arrived at the brigade headquarters, they were surprised to see many ragged men in the brigade headquarters.
Upon closer inspection, it turned out that those strong laborers who had gone to Baofeng Reservoir to participate in collective labor had returned.
The construction of Baofeng Reservoir started in mid-to-late August. Unexpectedly, it took two and a half months.
During this period, although the number of people sent by the village to the reservoir changed three times, the number remained at 60 and never decreased.
Even during the autumn harvest, Babaoliang Village never thought of pulling back the people on the reservoir.
It is precisely because so many strong laborers have been transferred away that the village is extremely short of manpower during this autumn harvest.
If Zhou Yang hadn't asked Lin Yi to build a threshing machine, which greatly improved labor efficiency, a lot of grain might have rotted in the ground.
Some time ago, I heard that the reservoir had begun to fill with water, and many people speculated that the project was about to be completed.
Unexpectedly, the villagers who participated in labor returned so soon.
The food was just distributed and the families were reunited. Babaoliang Village instantly became lively today. Everyone was happier and more prosperous than during the New Year!
(Wall paintings)
(Furnishings in the homes of ordinary members)
