After three days of rest, the villagers came to their senses.

At five o'clock in the morning of the fourth day, from the brigade headquarters, there was a "dang...... When".

Today we will start paying the public rations.

The village chief, the secretary, and the accountant worked together to make every effort to collect the grain, and the accountant followed the bookkeeping, and the secretary had to go to the grain station in the county town to wait for the total.

Of course, the villagers will not be idle, there are five horse-drawn carts in the village, eight ox carts, 13 people are selected from the village who can drive the car, 13 people are followed by the car, and 40 young people are selected from the villagers, leaving ten people to load the cart, and 30 people go to places where the mountain road is not easy to walk, such as uphill and muddy places, and five people stay in each place to wait for the cart.

This year's grain task is one bag per mu of wheat and soybeans, and two bags of corn per mu.

The villagers pay the most soybeans, and the wheat is better to sell and eat noodles. Corn is also easier to sell than soybeans, and each family does not grow much, so they are generally kept for their own food.

The task food is not paid for nothing, and the state will also give money, but it will be cheaper than selling it yourself, and it will generally be five cents less than the normal market price.

Uncle Zhou of the village chief, led a group of young people, door-to-door collection of food, every villager will take out a book, the book records the number of workers in his family this year, in addition to the normal work, the extra work will be deducted from each person 20 pounds of food do not need to be handed in, as long as you take out the book and the brigade can remember the account can be matched, it will immediately settle the account for you.

There were too few horse-drawn carts in the village, and the ox carts were too slow, so Aunt Guo and Zhou Shujie's family were ranked last.

When they received the last four of them, the grain had already been harvested for half a month.

The first two families have already finished harvesting, and it is the turn of Aunt Guo's house to reconcile the accounts and pay the public grain this afternoon.

After that, it's time to go to Zhou Shujie's house.

Zhou Shujie didn't go out for the first few days, and made a thin padded jacket for each of the two children at home, which was a little longer and a little bigger. As soon as you wear it, you can go under the buttocks, so that you don't need to wear cotton pants underneath, just wear an open crotch pants that are changed with a thread coat, and you have to hold a quilt outside, if you wear too much inside, you will feel uncomfortable.

After lunch, both the child and the mother-in-law took a nap.

Zhou Shujie stood in the courtyard and heard Aunt Guo'er's courtyard, which was very lively, so he went out to see what her family was doing.

As soon as I went out, I saw it from our house to the door of Aunt Guo's house. Even the horse-drawn carts were in the ox carts, and there were seven or eight cars lined up at a time, and I was a little surprised when I first saw it, how could so many carts be used?

One person has 12 acres of land, one bag of one acre of land, Aunt Guo's family has a total of 12 people, the youngest son of the third brother's family has no land, and the others have 12 acres, each person has to pay 12 bags of grain, that is, 11×12=132 bags of grain, and then deduct the extra 2 bags of grain from his family, a total of 130 bags of grain, which have to be soybeans and wheat, if you want to pay corn, it will be more.

Aunt Guo'er's family did not plant corn in the land this year, but planted some in their own small garden. They are all planted wheat and soybeans, and this year's soybean and wheat yields are very good.

I heard that the poor families in the village have made up for the grain they owed last year.

Zhou Shujie stood outside the gate and watched the excitement for a while.

Looking at their week after week, carrying it, remembering to remember, and telling jokes. Talking and laughing, it seems that the 180 pounds they carry on their shoulders are all cotton, and they are all smiling, walking like flying.

The eight cars parked at the gate were all full. There were still a few bags left unloaded, so I evened them out on each car, and when I saw that I had finished filling Guo's sister-in-law and Guo's second sister-in-law, I took two kettles and a stack of rice bowls. poured a bowl of water for everyone, and Uncle Guo beckoned everyone to drink some water and sweat.

When the village chief's uncle and uncle saw that there was no car outside the gate, they could only wait for the carriage to come back and then go to Zhou Shujie's house, so they sat in the courtyard of Uncle Guo's house, drinking water, pulling skins, and talking about the mountains.

It was only half an hour, and the two wagons that had gone to deliver the grain at noon rushed back.

As soon as Zhou Shujie saw that the carriage was back, he hurried home, and when he got home, he opened the door and the warehouse door, and waited for someone to come to load the grain.

Uncle and they came in later, Zhou Shujie's family has few people and few people, and the public grain is paid very quickly, because it is a military family, and there is no need to remember how many jobs or anything, so it will be loaded in a while.

Zhou Shujie's family has a total of 36 acres of land and needs to pay 36 bags of grain.

Zhou Shujie had already thought about it and decided to hand over 32 bags of soybeans and 4 bags of wheat.

Because Zhou Shujie's family was the last one, after loading the car, the village chief's uncle and the uncle, who would be the secretary, took the book that recorded the grain accounts of each family, and went to Qianshan County with the car to calculate the money at the grain purchasing station.

When everyone was gone, Zhou Shujie stood at the door of the warehouse and looked inside, and saw that the warehouse was spacious this time, and the soybeans that had just been pulled back for two days were all pulled away.

Today at Aunt Guo'er's house, listening to their chat, she also said that this year's grain prices are quite high, and the grain price at the purchasing station is two cents, and what individuals sell privately can be sold for two cents and five cents.

Zhou Shujie thought in his heart, soybeans for only two cents and a pound can make the people so happy. They may never have imagined that with the development of the country, the highest price of soybeans reached three yuan per catty in 2008. Now if you tell them that soybeans will be sold for three yuan and 1 catty one day, they will definitely not believe it, thinking that you are talking nonsense.

In the evening, Zhou Shujie was sitting at the table with her mother-in-law for dinner, when she heard a shout of a new notice from the village.

"All the villagers pay attention, tomorrow morning I will go to the brigade headquarters to collect the money, and after receiving the money, I will pay the underground fee directly, and each family can only go to one person, and send one to understand. This passage was shouted n times in the village, from east to west.

Hearing this, Zhou Shujie was still a little surprised! The money was returned so quickly!

This night, the villagers were all excited for a long time before falling asleep, and they all rubbed their fists and palms, waiting for tomorrow to receive the money!

After breakfast one by one, they all listened to when he would be able to pay the money!

At half past six, there was a knocking sound of "dang" and "dang" from the brigade headquarters, and the villagers, who had already prepared at home, walked briskly towards the brigade headquarters.

This year, according to the order of grain collection, one by one stepped forward to receive the grain money from the village chief and the accountant, and then went to the secretary next to him to pay this year's floor fee.

Zhou Shujie's family was the last one, and when it was their turn, they took over the 1,350 yuan from the uncle, and went to the secretary to pay the 20 yuan per mu of the underground fee, and there was still 630 yuan left in his hand after teaching.