Chapter 67 Government Rations
At dawn the next day, the director of the neighborhood committee of our building held a loudspeaker to play an important news in a loop, that is, in two days, the city government of D will start distributing disaster relief food to every citizen of city D, and he must go to the designated place to collect it with his household registration book. Each person is given 3 catties of rice or white flour per week. Half the food for children under the age of 15. She walked around each building for a whole day. Make sure every household knows the news.
Dad Jiang sighed when he heard the news, Mother Jiang looked at Dad Jiang who was sighing, and asked puzzledly: "It's a good thing that the government sends out food, it solves the urgent needs of many people, why are you still sighing?" ”
"I know it's a good thing, at least to give hope to those who don't have food at home. We can't be too chaotic in D City. However, we are not only locals in D City, there are so many people working in other places, can people watch our people in D City receive food, and they are hungry? There must be troublemakers. Jiang's father thought that the problem was more comprehensive and far-reaching, and he could already predict that the part of the migrant workers who stayed in D City and could not go home would definitely feel unfair, and there would always be some people who wanted to make trouble.
"This D city government is too, if you want to distribute all the food, you have to get the household registration book, our country's 50* nationalities are one family, isn't it splitting?" Jiang's mother listened to Jiang's father's analysis, and it was not worth it for those migrant workers. In various industries in city D, most of the dirtiest and most tiring work is done by people, and when it is time to enjoy benefits, they say that they are not their own people and do not give them out, which makes anyone who listens to it feel chilled.
"Don't talk nonsense, you don't want to think about how many people there are in our D city, each person sends 3 catties of rice a week, how much rice does it need this week, how much rice can we store in the grain depot of D city, maybe this rice can't be sent a few times."
No matter how we guessed, the time for the first payout had arrived.
The food distribution point in our community is in the square in the middle of the community, and it is said that every Monday there will be military personnel escorting food over. On January 5, 2015, the official start of payout.
It was past six o'clock in the morning on January 5th, and it was still dark. Most of the people in our building have their noodle pockets or big shopping bags. Smear came to the square early and waited, standing trembling in the cold wind, the food truck had not yet arrived, and the square was already overcrowded.
Some people were right in the square and started complaining, "It's fucking cold, it's going to be -40 degrees Celsius, fuck." The cotton clothes sold now are not up to par, I just came out of the house and felt cold from head to toe, the quality of this torn down jacket is too inferior, and it is almost the same as not wearing it. After speaking, he turned his head to look at the entrance of the community, "Can this gc* still do something?" What time is it, no one has come, how long have we been waiting here? Then several people agreed with him, and everyone questioned the efficiency of the government.
The director of the neighborhood committee also heard a lot of such complaints, so he used the loudspeaker in his hand to tell the residents that the food distribution was according to the building number, and it was useless for everyone to come so early. It's too cold. The older ones and the children should go home first, and before the food is delivered, they will let people go downstairs and shout through the loudspeaker. As long as you pay attention to the horn notification, you will definitely not be able to fall behind.
However, the director of the neighborhood committee has said several times, and no one has returned, and at this time, everyone is not leaving, and they would rather be frozen than receive food as soon as possible, which can be seen from the people's desire for food now.
It wasn't until eight o'clock in the morning, when it was dawn, that I saw a snowplow followed by a large truck pulling a large cart of grain, slowly entering the square, followed by an army-green jeep. When the big truck finally came to a stop, eight soldiers in military uniforms and with real guns and ammunition in their hands walked out.
The director of the neighborhood committee hurriedly stepped forward to communicate with them, and they set off to transport grain at 5 o'clock in the morning, and the snow on the road was too thick, and the grain trucks were all following the snow plow trucks to stop and go, and they had only arrived now. Finally, at 8:45 a.m., the payout officially began.
When the food was first distributed, the scene was very chaotic, it was too cold, everyone wanted to get the food early, so that they could go home early, so they swarmed forward, and heard the crowd for a while, "Oh, who the fuck stepped on my feet?" After a while, it came out, "Don't squeeze, don't squeeze, I'm going to squeeze people to death." "Wait, so on.
Jiang Zhi and I were on the periphery of the crowd, and saw a parent leading a boy about 10 years old to squeeze forward with the flow of people, there were too many people, the boy didn't stand, he was squeezed to the ground, and the people behind him didn't see it, he was still moving forward, seeing that the big feet of the people behind him were about to step on his body.
I dragged Jiang Zhi and shouted, "Child." Jiang Zhi immediately forcibly squeezed over with his strong body, and dragged the child who fell to the ground up and lifted it to the outside of the crowd. These movements were done in the blink of an eye, and it was not until the child stood next to us that he reflected and cried in fright, and his father squeezed out of the crowd after a while and said thank you to us one by one. The others continued to squeeze forward as if they hadn't seen what was happening.
The soldiers saw that there was almost a stampede, and they should have expected this situation in advance, so they shouted to the crowd with loudspeakers to tell everyone not to crowd, but no one listened.
There was a very sturdy middle-aged woman, who squeezed to the front, put the grain bucket on her hands, and ignored the words of the soldiers. The soldier who looked like a head picked up his gun and fired a shot into the air, while the other soldiers aimed their guns at the middle-aged woman who was trying to grab food. This worked, and people finally quieted down.
The soldier stood on the jeep, held a bullhorn, and stressed to everyone the discipline to be observed in receiving food, and if there was any sabotage, the relief food would not be distributed if the circumstances were minor, and the punishment food would be shot on the spot if the circumstances were serious. Just now, the sturdy middle-aged woman became a monkey used by the soldiers to kill chickens and monkeys, and the punishment was that the relief food was not distributed to her this week.
The military leader ignored the middle-aged woman's crying at all, and directly called the director of the neighborhood committee to the front, and together with the comrades who distributed the food, he first checked the household registration, and the director of the neighborhood committee saw if it was from the family and whether it was the residents of the building who wanted to distribute it now. If it is not a household registration in this city, I'm sorry, I won't be paid; If it is not for any one in the household registration book to receive it, I am sorry that I will not be paid; If it weren't for the residents of the building that are being distributed now, I'm still sorry that the food will not be distributed.
Some people are interested in the conditions and methods of such distribution. Very dissatisfied. But people are watching with real guns in their hands, and there is really no one who is not open their eyes at this time, and they are muttering quietly when they complain.
The concentration of other soldiers is very good, just don't see it, and they also say that this is an order issued by the government, if you have any opinions. You can not receive food for the time being, and then come to receive food after you go to the city government to report and the leader gives you a special approval. As soon as everyone heard it, even those who wanted to find fault with it squinted. Although the food issued by the government is not enough for a family to eat for a week, it is better than nothing, and with this food, you can't starve to death.
Most of the people living in our building are people from the city, and those who can rent a house here are also relatively capable, and they found various ways to leave as early as soon after the heavy snowfall.
Because no one is looking for trouble. Therefore, the distribution of food in our community was relatively smooth.
Everyone lined up according to the building number, which building they went to. The residents of which building came forward to receive it. The director of the neighborhood committee and a soldier first checked the household registration book and confirmed the number of the residential building. You can go forward and receive food. This process did not waste long, because the director of the neighborhood committee knows the residents of our community very well.
When they arrived in front of the soldiers who received the grain, they saw clearly how many people were and how much grain should be sent, so they took a three-catty container and pulled it in the big iron bucket containing the grain, which was three catties, and there was a one-and-a-half-catty container next to it, so the speed of receiving the grain was very fast.
It took 70 minutes for one building to be distributed, and four military personnel distributed it together, and there were a total of 26 buildings in our community. It's all over the day.
The director of the neighborhood committee allocated a time period for these buildings to receive food in the future according to the time we received food today, as long as we came to the square 10 minutes in advance next time, everyone in the province had to freeze in the square.
Our building was the last one in the morning, around 11 o'clock.
There was another incident when we received food for the first time in our building, that is, Zhang Musen's grain from the Zhang family upstairs in my house, and the soldiers did not give it. said that they had already gone in to eat the public food, and the family could no longer receive it. The Zhang family didn't dare to play scoundrels with soldiers with food in their hands and guns in their hands, so they spread this anger on our family.
The two women of the old Zhang family should have been slapped by me, and they were a little afraid of me, and they didn't dare to run rampant in front of us, and they all lowered their heads and walked away when they saw me. After they couldn't play tricks, they changed their strategy, kept shuttling through the crowd, and described the evil forms of our family to everyone, and scolded us behind our backs for being rich and unkind, scolding us for being black-hearted and cold-blooded, scolding us for being unforgiving, scolding us for forcing people to death, and so on. As a result, many people who do not know the truth look at us with a complex view of fear mixed with contempt.
Jiang Zhi and I muttered quietly, we can't be rumored to be murderers after we finish distributing food today.
Actually, I really don't mind moving my hands a few times, it's like I've already opened the vows, and when I see them there, my hands are a little itchy, and I want to slap them a few more times. But I think I'm a lady, a woman with quality, culture and connotation, and I can't change myself because of a rotten person like them, so I keep saying to myself, as long as they don't go too far, I can endure it, and if they don't just have to be bad, I don't mind making an exception again, after all, it's still very cool to beat them up like a shrew. But they also knew our bottom line, and when they saw the impatience in my eyes, they withdrew from their hearts.
Other neighbors are also very unaccustomed to their behavior, everyone now knows what Zhang Musen did, and they all say that rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest, how can he Zhang Musen be a neighbor Huo Huo? They all said that he deserved it when he went to prison, and now Zhang Musen's food can't be received, and it has nothing to do with our family, and they have accused them of not distinguishing between right and wrong.
The two of them saw that this did not help us, and it also caused public anger, and they did not know which master had instructed them, so they changed their strategy against us.
He knocked on the door of our house several times a day, and when he opened the door, he didn't scold us, but cried, saying that there was one less laborer in the family, and no one was going to collect food, and no one was digging snow, and the house would not be able to open the pot; said that Aunt Zhang and her family thought about what their son thought, but they couldn't sleep at night, their mental state was extremely bad, and they needed nutrients to make up for it; said that the children miss their uncles, and those who are on fire can't eat, etc.
I originally opened the door to them just to see what tricks they played, but now I can't listen to it anymore, isn't this a toad that doesn't bite people.
He said, "If there is really no one for you to get food, we will help you bring it back, because we have a large family, and the little food we have received is not enough to eat." Besides, the two men left in your family are all dead people, and they don't do anything all day long, just eat at home and wait for death.
Aunt Zhang and her husband don't miss their son, it just so happens that we pass by the D City Prison when we come back from the truck to deliver food every Monday, if people have heard the heroic deeds of your family, they should be moved by the drama of your family's deep love between mother and son, you can let Aunt Zhang and her wife try to take a ride.
If people don't agree, you really can't do anything, then we will sacrifice again, you go to my house to steal again, we can send them in, but I don't know if your family can be locked in a cell in prison at that time, I don't know if your family can be locked in a cell in prison at that time, I don't know if they can come out safely after watching their son up close, but I think even if they can't come out, Aunt Zhang should be very happy, after all, she can accompany her baby son and sleep at night.
As for the child who thinks that his uncle can't eat, then he doesn't need to eat. There are so many children outside who can't eat, so there is no need to waste food on her. With such a parent education, the child will grow up to be a father and scold his mother. ”
Now that I've torn my face, I won't be polite to them, and I'm not their parents, so it's useless to cry to me.
Later, our family also analyzed the Zhang family's practices and analyzed what their purpose was.
We all think that they may feel that people are already like this, and Zhang Musen will not be able to come back if they continue to scold, so it is better to see if they can make us feel guilty and get some benefits from here.
We thought that this is who is behind them doing off-the-field guidance, this is for fear that the world will not be chaotic, he did play a role in instigating, this person's purpose and intentions are too sinister. (To be continued.) )
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