Yangcheng people jokingly call it "body card", only the non-agricultural population with grain capital, do not worry about eating, in contrast, rural people without food capital, life is very embarrassing, for a long time after this, grain is like an "identity card", is a "identity" symbol.

It can be seen that the importance of grain is called "the root of life" in the folk joke. Eating imperial food is not just lip service, how many people have paid a lot of price for it.

At the same time as getting the grain book, Lin Xiyan's family also held the first major family meeting of the family on the grain book.

After dinner on Sunday night, they cleaned up the table of the Eight Immortals and sat down.

Lin Xiyan sat on the main seat of the Eight Immortals Table and looked at the two of them, and pointed to the grain books and various bills on the Eight Immortals Table Ground, "This is our lifeblood from now on, you can't lose anything you can't lose them, otherwise you won't even be able to eat, and you won't have to wear clothes." ”

"Uncle!" Zhou Guangming said in a low voice, "Our family has saved a lot." ”

"Little fool, there will be a day when it will be eaten, and it will not be a cornucopia, inexhaustible. Lin Xiyan looked at him amusedly and said.

"I know, I just want to say that my mother and aunt were prescient. Zhou Guangming looked at the two of them with little stars in his eyes.

"Prescient, huh?" Lin Xiyan's gaze fell on Hua Banzhi, which was obscure.

"See what I'm doing?" Hua Banzhi raised his chin slightly and raised his eyebrows to look at him, "I'm hungry and afraid, I have food at home, and I don't panic, so I can only say that I am fighting crookedly." He looked at him and said, "I just have to admire you, you guessed so accurately!"

"Each of the above policies has its own intentions, especially those related to people's livelihood. It's not that hard to analyze. Lin Xiyan said slowly.

"I can't see it. Zhou Guangming blinked his innocent eyes and said.

"Be more obedient to the chatterbox, read more newspapers, and the editorials on it, and when you accumulate to a certain extent, quantitative changes cause qualitative changes, and you will analyze them. Lin Xiyan looked at him and said seriously, "Look hard." ”

"What is called quantitative change causing qualitative change? Zhou Guangming asked.

"That ......," Hua Banzhi reminded the two of them, "is our family meeting still going on?"

"Get down to business. Lin Xiyan looked at her and hurriedly said, "Now let's talk about the biggest one, how many catties of our food stamps are for a family of three, what about me! Thirty-four catties of grain a month, a thirty-pound grain for branches, and a thirty-pound grain for branches, we are bright and young, fifteen catties a month." It adds up to seventy-nine pounds of grain. ”

"That's a lot! It's enough for us to eat! I still have half a pound of grain a day!" Zhou Guangming said after calculation.

"Fool, this grain is simply not enough for you to eat. Hua Banzhi looked at him and shook his head slightly.

"Why? I think I don't eat much! I don't eat much food. Zhou Guangming looked at her and asked puzzled.

"That's because we have a lot of oil and water. Lin Xiyan looked at him and explained, "In the future, all the dim sum in this teahouse has to be bought with food stamps, and you have bought dim sum, how can you buy rice and noodles." If you eat meat, you have to have a meat ticket, and that little bit of meat every month is not enough for us to eat dumplings!" said solemnly, "Please remember that this is a month's amount, which means that these tickets are gone, and you must wait until the next month." ”

"Huh?" Zhou Guangming's face fell suddenly, "How are you going to live these days! It's hard to go from luxury to frugality!"

"And now there are no rice stores, all of them are state-run grain stores, and the rice is a third-grade rice, with poor quality, yellowing, and special crushing, without the slightest fragrance of rice. Hua Banzhi watched him continue to fight, holding the plate and said, "Let's see! This is the rice I bought from the grain store." ”

For example, industrial workers can get up to 40 catties of rice per month, while unemployed residents generally only have 27 catties of rice.

However, the general population is reluctant to increase the burden on the state to receive relief. In addition, there is a trend of thought that receiving relief is to discredit the government, and in the most extreme cases, it is to be detained.

"It's like broken rice, and pigs don't eat it. Lin Xiyan blurted out.

"Don't go out and say that. Hua Banzhi looked at Lin Xiyan seriously and said, looked at the light and said, "Don't go out to learn to speak." ”

"But my aunt is right! Zhou Guangming pouted in disgust.

"You have to get used to it, who knows how long this time the food policy will last. When you're hungry, you probably won't have any opinions. Hua Banzhi looked at their stinky faces, and looked like they couldn't help it, "Okay! ”

"There will be a day when it will be eaten sooner or later. Zhou Guangming pouted and said unhappily.

"Don't complain, those who don't have the same as us are going to eat from now on. Hua Banzhi reminded him.

"Oh!" Zhou Guangming nodded.

"The staple food here is rice, so the flour ration is very small, and it is not rich and strong flour, so I guess the taste is not to be considered. Hua Banzhi paused and said, "The monthly supply of peanut oil per person is half a catty, and the peanut oil for our family of three is only one catty and two taels, and there are so many bottles of Moutai, so we have to eat it for a month." His eyes fell on Lin Xiyan and said, "In the future, you can't put so much oil in stir-frying." ”

"It's a bit difficult. Lin Xiyan scratched his head and said, "It's too much to pour with a bottle." ”

"Then use the spoon we eat to measure a little, and when we stir-fry, we will take a spoonful. Hua Banzhi picked up the porcelain spoon he usually used and said.

"That's pretty much the same as boiling water. Lin Xiyan swallowed his saliva and said.

"That's the amount of a meal. Hua Banzhi looked at him and reminded again.

"Wait, you mean that no matter how many dishes you fry, it's just a spoonful of oil for one meal. Lin Xiyan pointed to the porcelain spoon and said.

"Hmm!" Hua Banzhi nodded heavily.

"After that, steaming, stewing, and boiling in water, we can no longer enjoy braised pork and ......braised fish," Zhou Guangming said with a flat mouth.

"Yes!" Hua Banzhi said as she looked at the two of them, "you have to adapt as soon as possible." ”

"It's going to be the New Year soon, it won't be so miserable for the New Year!" Lin Xiyan couldn't help but say.

"Of course, during the New Year's holidays, we will subsidize a little meat, oil and so on. Hua Banzhi looked at them and said, "But that's a drop in the bucket, not enough to support us for the whole year." ”

Lin Xiyan raised his eyebrows and pondered, this can't be done, just relying on these days issued by the state, this day can't be lived.

"In addition, there are tofu tickets, cloth tickets, briquette tickets, dim sum tickets, match tickets, cigarette tickets......" Hua Banzhi pointed with his hands folded.

Hearing this, Lin Xiyan raised his head and looked at her and said, "The cigarette ticket and match ticket, give it to me, I will exchange the old smoking gun for a sugar ticket and buy brown sugar." ”