You need to raise your pet using a system [Era]

Chapter 66: Finally, it's time to distribute the grain.

Because of the theft, Zhao Zhongcai was still shaken and immediately called the village officials to discuss distributing the grain as soon as possible to avoid any unforeseen complications.

The sweet potatoes are almost harvested. The peanuts, sorghum, and various vegetables will be distributed after they are harvested.

"The most important thing now is to distribute the grain so that no one else will covet it!" Zhao Zhongcai was speechless.

His grain was stolen by villagers themselves, and recently, people from the neighboring brigade have been making fun of him whenever they run into him.

So now Zhao Zhongcai is only thinking that Niu Datou should be sentenced to a heavier sentence, an even heavier sentence.

Even though the Niu couple are causing trouble in town or back in the village every day, he completely ignores them.

Anyway, if things get really heated, the villagers will take matters into their own hands and deal with them.

Speaking of this, Zhao Zhongcai looked at Lu Yuanqing, who was engrossed in calculating accounts, and asked, "The Niu couple didn't bother you again, did they?"

Upon hearing this, Lu Yuanqing put down his pen, looked up, smiled, and said, "No! My uncle and the others chased them away, and they haven't come back since!"

Although Lu Yuanqing had initially guessed that, given the personalities of the Niu couple, they wouldn't let the matter rest after Niu Datou was sentenced to twenty years and immediately sent to a farm for reform.

But to his surprise, the Niu couple acted as if they had gone mad and tried to attack him.

At first, he thought it was just someone coming to his house every day to yell at him and disgust him.

Sure enough, the parents who raised someone like Niu Datou weren't exactly good people either.

"Hmph! They still have the nerve to cause trouble for you! It's only because Niu Datou was sentenced to twenty years of labor reform that you think the villagers would let him go if he stayed in the village!" Zhao Lide's tone was unfriendly, and his disgust for the Niu family was clearly written on his face.

How could he not be disgusted?

The villagers probably only have a rough guess about the amount of grain that has been collected.

However, these cadres already had a clear understanding of the specific number.

This year is a bumper harvest year. According to Lu Yuanqing's calculations, they can receive more than 400 jin of grain.

What does 400 jin (200 catties) mean?

The year that Shihua Village received a large share of grain, they only received 390 jin (145 catties) of grain.

This year, each person will also receive one pound of millet, which is a fine grain. It can not only be exchanged for five pounds of coarse grains, but also allow them to have a meal of rice.

If one person can get a pound, a family will get at least several pounds. It's like a dream come true.

However, this dream was almost ruined by Niu Datou and his friends.

Zhao Lide is a man of strong likes and dislikes; if he hates someone, he hates them. Right now, he hates the Niu family, and he doesn't give them a friendly look when they are mentioned.

"I heard that Gu's second son has sent Niu Aixiang back to her parents' home, and Tian Xiaoju is currently making a big fuss about finding a wife for Gu's second son!" Zhao Lide said gloatingly.

"Ha, Niu Aixiang goes back and makes a scene every day. If she had known this would happen, she wouldn't have done it in the first place!" Zhou Ping said with a look of disdain.

Even this time, the women's director was unwilling to help Niu Aixiang.

Everything else is insignificant compared to the collective.

The Niu family is blind; they produced a Niu Datou. The others not only feel ashamed, but they also cause chaos in the village every day.

Especially since they never went to work and would go to the town's police station to cause trouble every day, people specifically reminded Zhao Zhongcai, so Zhao Zhongcai could only endure his annoyance and keep them in check to prevent them from causing trouble in town again.

We've embarrassed ourselves in the whole town.

It has to be said that the couple's promotion was indispensable in making their village famous so quickly because of Niu Datou.

"What's the use of making a scene? I think Gu Lao Er is determined this time and doesn't want Niu Aixiang as his wife anymore," Xia Yongshou said with a sigh.

His family lived close to the Gu family. Gu Lao Er wanted to marry Niu Aixiang, but he had a long argument with Tian Xiaoju. He never expected it to end like this.

"Didn't you get a marriage certificate? You just dumped your wife like that?" Lu Yuanqing didn't even look up, his hands still busy, listening intently to their gossip.

Everyone says that the old lady at the village entrance is the real gossip enthusiast.

But now we see that even grown men enjoy gossiping; gossiping is indeed human nature.

"Ha, so this is a lesson! In the future, when the younger generation in the family gets married, we should still let them go to the county to get their marriage certificate. Don't think it's too much trouble to go to the county."

In the village, the wedding banquet is more important than the marriage certificate.

Once a wedding banquet is held, it's considered a marriage by everyone.

However, the law only recognizes marriage certificates.

"That's something we need to take seriously!" Lu Yuanqing said.

He recalled news reports from that era, where many educated youth, because they hadn't obtained marriage certificates, would abandon their wives and children in the countryside after returning to the city and remarry.

The women and children who were abandoned will live their entire lives living on rumors spread by others.

He would definitely remind others if a similar situation occurred in Shihua Village in the future.

……

As soon as the news of distributing grain came, the villagers rushed over.

Lu Yuanqing has been the busiest and most exhausted person lately.

He was clearly an accountant, but Zhao Zhongcai discovered that he was very good at math and insisted on having him help count work points.

Before each distribution of grain in the village, people would first obtain a work record book from the work recorder and start calculating the total work points for each family.

In addition, due to the change in the distribution system this year, the villagers are much more enthusiastic about working, fewer people are taking leave, and fewer are slacking off.

In this way, the number of work points becomes quite significant.

Lu Yuanqing helped with the statistics, and he also had to calculate the specific food rations for each person in the village.

There is no specific standard for how much a work point is worth; it varies from year to year.

This year, Shihua Village had a good harvest. By dividing the team's total income by the team's total work points, we can find out how much each work point is worth.

"How's it going? Have you calculated the work points for this year?" Zhao Zhongcai had been extremely busy these past few days, but he knew that Lu Yuanqing had an even heavier workload.

If Zhao Zhongcai hadn't made him not work but still given him full work points, he really wouldn't have wanted to do this lousy job.

"I've figured it out!" Lu Yuanqing rubbed his tired eyes; he hadn't had a proper rest in the past few days.

"One work point is worth two and a half cents."

So little!

A strong laborer can earn full work points every day; ten work points are worth 26 cents.

However, it can buy two eggs, nearly a pound of salt, a bowl of clear soup noodles, and a small bag of fifteen fruit candies. Although the amount of money is small, the purchasing power is still quite good.

"Not bad!" Zhao Zhongcai's face beamed with joy.

It gets better year by year.

How much grain is left to be distributed? Zhao Lide has been waiting for the grain to be distributed for a long time.

Lu Yuanqing looked at his situation and thought for a moment, "One more thing, if you're in a hurry, this afternoon; if not, tomorrow morning."

Hurry, hurry, hurry!

If it weren't for helping him with the work points, he would have already gotten it done.

"Wow, that's great! This year, the villagers in our village will also receive 400 jin of grain. I remember the highest amount distributed nationwide was only 450 jin! I really hope we can have that day too, or even more!"

It has to be said that this year's harvest has made Zhao Zhongcai a little arrogant.

Lu Yuanqing was a very honest boy. When he saw Zhao Zhongcai daydreaming, he immediately interrupted him, "Uncle Zhao, you're overthinking it. The reason people can get so much grain is not just because of the annual harvest."

"Moreover, all the grain in our village was distributed to the villagers this time, and the production brigade didn't keep much. So, we don't have any extra grain to sell to the government for money, and the villagers didn't get any money either. Hopefully, once the peanuts are harvested and sold, we can buy enough to buy next year's good seeds!"

Generally, the production brigade would keep a portion of the grain to sell to the government, so that they could exchange it for money. Some of the money could be used to buy seeds for the following year, and some could be supplied to families who wanted to exchange grain for some money.

As for this year, in order to make everyone more clearly feel the benefits of the change in the distribution system, we plan to distribute all the grain to the villagers and only keep the grain that is later collected to sell to the government.

When the time comes, villagers who need money can take their grain to the town's grain station to sell; this is the only legal way to make money.

Zhao Zhongcai fell silent, then reached out to pat him on the head.

Can't you let the brat have a moment of happiness?

He was already very satisfied, considering that the team had no money in its accounts and couldn't afford to receive so much grain before.

But Lu Yuanqing clearly told him that their village was still very poor, and he was happy too soon!

The raised hand ultimately did not land on Lu Yuanqing's head.

He's been incredibly busy lately, he even has dark circles under his eyes. Zhao Zhongcai felt a pang of shame, slowly withdrew his hand, and decided to wait for another opportunity.

Lu Yuanqing shattered Zhao Zhongcai's daydream and continued with his work. He took the man a piece of paper with the amount of grain each family member could receive listed on it and chased him away.

Zhao Lide was still waiting for this order to distribute the grain with his men!

I don't know how other villages distribute the grain, but in their village, they calculate the exact amount each family will receive. The deputy team leader then leads the people to distribute the grain first, and then piles it up at the entrance of the warehouse. When the time for distributing the grain is announced, the villagers come to confirm. After confirming that there are no problems, they carry their own grain home.

Lu Yuanqing had to calculate the per capita grain rations, then add the work points grain rations, and make a total.

After all, the weight of an adult is different from that of a child.

That afternoon, the warehouse was surrounded by smiling villagers!