The weather is getting colder and colder, and the wild vegetables in the forest have been dug up, and by November the autumn harvest has already passed two or three months.

The peasants who rely on God to eat have sad faces one by one, and it has not rained all the time, even if they rely on manpower to water, the yield of the things grown in this field is not much.

Zhou Daniu, as the captain of the production team, has been worried about a few gray hairs, this year's indicators have come down, the public grain to be handed over has not changed at all, it is still the same as before, but the grain production has been reduced, and the output is still coarse grains such as potatoes and sweet potatoes.

For this reason, the villagers are even more frugal, and even the children are not allowed to run outside to play, so they sit and lie down at home, so as to reduce hunger.

This time, because of the weather, the production team pulled out the sweet potatoes planted with wheat seedlings, so the autumn harvest was also a month late.

Zhou Da Niu Su Jiancheng gathered everyone in the township to the grain drying field, and talked bitterly about the matter of going to deliver grain this time.

"Everyone also knows that this year since May has not rained a grain of rain, in September we pulled out wheat seedlings and planted potatoes and sweet potatoes, but the grain station harvests rice and grain, we use sweet potatoes and potatoes to pay the public grain, I estimate that we have to pay a lot, our remaining grain ......"

Before Zhou Daniu finished speaking, everyone understood what it meant.

The grain station generally collects grain, although potatoes and sweet potatoes are also harvested, but compared with millet, it is much more.

After all, potatoes and sweet potatoes are only three or four cents, while rice and millet are one or two cents, which means that they have to pay three or four times as many sweet potatoes and potatoes to offset the account of this rice and millet!

Although the team planted a lot more potatoes and sweet potatoes this time than before, the yield actually decreased.

After handing over the public grain, it is estimated that there will really not be much food left for everyone to distribute.

Many people are worried, and Su Jianwu is even more worried.

He and Zhang Xinghua have also taken a lot of leave these days, and the work is naturally not as high as that of other families, and the food that can be distributed is naturally less.

With just a few hundred catties of potatoes and sweet potatoes, can you really eat the next autumn harvest?

"Captain Zhou, what should we do? Otherwise, tell the people at the grain station, will we pay half of the public grain this year?

Someone raised his hand and proposed.

"Yes, let's pay half of it first, otherwise there is so much grain left over that we will be enough to eat until the next autumn harvest! My family of more than a dozen people, even if they eat potatoes every day, they will have to ask for a few thousand catties!"

"Captain Zhou, aren't you familiar with the people at the grain station, you can go and talk to them!"

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As soon as you say a word, everyone has said that this year's harvest is indeed not good, and if it is really handed over, there will definitely be the same situation as in previous years!

Everyone was so hungry that they didn't want to come back.

Captain Zhou smiled bitterly, "If I could pay half of it, I would have told you a long time ago, I told the people at the grain station before that this year's public grain will be paid later, and it is not easy to delay until now, my friend told me, we can also not pay the grain, as long as we pay the money according to the conversion of the parity grain, we will be treated as if we have eaten the grain for sale." ”

"Money, where did we get the money?"

The crowd began to speak.

In these years, there is no temporary job or anything for them to earn extra money, and they all rely on farming to make a living.

In the past, when the harvest was good, there was still surplus grain left after the public grain was paid, and the surplus grain could also be sold to the grain station, which collected the grain at the parity price, and the extra money would be distributed to each household according to the proportion of the work share.

At the end of the year, it is a lot for a family to save ten yuan, and most of them are difficult to save even five yuan.

After all, a few years ago, when people were dying of starvation, a production team relied on the public grain and refused to give it, so the group of people who collected the grain at the grain station rushed directly to the production team, not only pulled the production team leader out to criticize the streets, but even the houses of the members were demolished, and everything that could be taken away was snatched, and there was no emotion at all.

With this experience, they would rather go hungry than hand over the country's public grain first, otherwise they will not be able to please it!

"Why don't we pay half of the grain and half of the money?" Zhou Daniu said tentatively, "Is it okay for each family to pay according to the division of work?"

"My family doesn't have a dime, where can I pay the money!" A woman cried, "My man was overheaded by the cow of the production team, and he owes a lot of money to the production team just for treatment, and now he has to pay again, how can he afford it!"

"My family too, my youngest son has to drink medicine every day, and he also owes money to the production team, and the money for school is owed by the school, and there is no penny to pay!"

"If this kills us, woo woo......"

Quite a few women wiped tears from their eyes.

I worked hard in the fields all year round, but when it came time to harvest, I couldn't even pay the country's public grain, and I had to go hungry myself, what is the point of living!

The men also had red eyes, "Captain, is there any other way!

Zhou Daniu was also very uncomfortable in his heart, shaking his head and sighing.

Qiu Shan, the commander of the militia company, clenched his fists tightly and suddenly proposed, "Otherwise, let's go hunting in Huyaling, there are a lot of big things in there, and we can just catch a few wild boars to offset the money for public food." ”

"That's right! Go hunting in Huyaling! Don't they have guns in Qiu Shan!"

"What nonsense! There are only a few people who have been able to come out of Huyaling for so many years, and don't forget the lessons passed down by our ancestors, if I am bitten to death by a wild beast, I would rather starve to death. ”

"Phew, coward, if you don't go to us, if your family has money, you will take the money out to pay for the public grain!"

Qiu Shan's proposal made many young and middle-aged people's minds come alive.

On weekdays, the countrymen can also sell wild things to the grain station, although the price is not as high as in the black market, but it is also calculated according to the parity.

If you can really catch a few wild boars and bears blind or something, won't the problem of money be solved!?

Maybe they'll be able to buy some food from the grain station and come back, and they won't even have to go hungry!

The older generation of people disagree with this matter very much, after all, Huyaling is extremely dangerous, and the big guys living in it are not fuel-efficient lamps, this will kill people!

Everyone quarreled, Su Jianwu also wanted to go into Huyaling to hunt, and the children in the family had recently gained a little bit of meat, and he no longer wanted to see the children's hungry ribs.