Chapter 13 Rationing
The eldest uncle's plan to marry his daughter has been temporarily suspended, and at least any plans will be discussed after returning from the eldest brother-in-law's house.
Bringing stools and chopsticks to eat was a common occurrence in rural areas in those days. In the city, only some wealthy families pay attention to the 36-legged saying. That is, one table, eight stools.
Ordinary people, especially in the countryside, really don't have many tables, chairs and benches at this time. Not to mention the guests, many of them have a lot of people, and they don't have enough tables.
Let bring a stool, which is basically the main thing is for people to sit, and the aunt's family also has several babies, so it is impossible to bring a stool to go. At most, bring one or two, and everyone else can stand or squat while they eat.
And the sister-in-law Luo Hong's family has a slightly better life than the aunt's family. Because the person in her family is the eldest son in the family, she has her parents to help her. But in the same way, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and this so-called good is also relative. My uncle's parents had siblings, and so did my uncle himself.
If you have food at home, at most, you will only rely on yourself first. But just like Luo Chengjia, the rations in this autumn haven't come down yet, and they are discussing whether to help others at that time.
Because I earn a lot of centimeters, but I can barely starve to death, but I want to help out, and I can only drink thin food during the New Year. If you want to eat a bowl of dry rice during the New Year, it is all a luxury.
And to say that the sister-in-law is better than the aunt's family, that also refers to the fact that after the grain is distributed, during this time period, there is not much difference between the sister-in-law and the aunt's family, at most there are a little more sweet potatoes, and they are also thin and thicker to drink every day.
When Luo Bing arrived at his sister-in-law's house, his uncle had already gone out to work, and the grain could no longer be planted, but there was still something else to grow in the field. The sister-in-law Luo Hong is at home, mainly because the baby in the family is also small, and the sister-in-law's family has three babies, two women and one boy. There needs to be someone left in the house to take care of it.
After Luo Bing informed his sister-in-law, he didn't drink the water, so he got half a white radish and went back after gnawing on it.
Luo Cheng was not idle after breakfast at home, and there was not much water in the water tank at home. Because of the drought, there is no water in the wells in some parts of the town. And those who can hit the water, the water is also relatively muddy. After beating it out, it is best to let it sit for a while to filter out some of the dirt and the like at the bottom of the bottom, and then pour the water into the tank.
Fortunately, it has to be filtered before it can be poured into the tank, otherwise Luo Cheng's physical strength will be exposed again. At the well there is a common bucket tied with a rope, neither big nor small. When you come to fetch water, you can bring your own wooden buckets, and you don't need to bring a rope to fetch water. Of course, not every wellhead has such a common use, and some places still have to bring their own ropes. It's just that Luo Cheng doesn't need it where they go to fetch water.
Without a plastic bucket, a wooden barrel is not small. Luo Cheng, his sister and his father all went, because there were many people, so they chose two people to pick a wooden barrel to save some effort.
In the past, one person would come back with a flat pole and two buckets of water. It's definitely hard work, but people don't feel anything in these years.
Luo Cheng and Luo Xiaoyu picked a bucket together, and his father and Luo Shishi picked a bucket together. In this way, Luo Cheng felt tired when he got the water back, but Luo Xiaoyu and Luo Shishi were like no one. Luo Cheng can only pretend that he can do it.
This is also to filter the water, put it in and pour it into the tank. Otherwise, Father Rowan would definitely take them to fetch water again.
But grandma spoke, how can this work be done by the eldest grandson, the eldest grandson will be a person who will participate in work and eat commercial food in the future. Isn't this work always done by the little grandson Luo Bing, at least these two buckets of water can be handled for now, and when Luo Bing comes back, after buying food, let him go and fetch water.
Hearing his grandmother's words, Luo Cheng sighed in his heart.
"It's all grandsons, Luo Cheng is treated as a grandson, but Luo Bing is really used as a grandson."
However, grandma was not completely eccentric, and left two cakes for Luo Bing, and the others only ate one. The two younger sisters were also regarded as Luo Cheng's light, and he was reluctant to eat the bread he took at first, so they ate one and a half cakes.
And when it comes to Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrives. Luo Bing was also very excited when he thought about going to buy food at home today, and when he went to pass his uncle and aunt, he didn't delay any time on the way.
The water in the bucket was left for about ten minutes before it was poured into the water tank, and Luo Bing just came back.
"Here, your eldest brother bought it, eat it, and you will have the strength to resist the food later."
As soon as Luo Bing returned, his father threw two cakes to him. This kid is the best at home, the most eating, and has a lot of strength.
But in this era, I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse. It is good to have strength, but being able to eat too much also means that it is easy to get hungry, and in a famine year, it is not easy to feed.
"Dad, big brother, have you eaten?"
"I've eaten it all, and I'll leave it for you, so I'll wait for you to come back and eat it to buy food."
"Let's go, this flatbread can be eaten while walking."
Luo Bing said happily as he took a big bite of the flatbread, which was really fragrant. In fact, his father Luo Wen also tasted this flatbread very fragrant, and Luo Cheng thought that he was not eating the flatbread in the morning in the wrong way, and he felt that it was so difficult to swallow how to eat it.
More than half a catty of flatbread, Luo Bing took a bite, a small half was gone, and he swallowed it without chewing a few bites in his mouth. If this is in the future life, to do eating and broadcasting, there will definitely be traffic.
I brought a few cloth bags, because there are many kinds of grain. To be honest, they haven't used the national food stamps to buy food. Even if it's a local food stamp, farmers generally don't have it, because they usually don't have a way to get food stamps or anything like that.
However, although the local food stamps have not been used much, they have heard of it. Local food stamps are divided into coarse grains and fine grains, like urban residents, that is, those who eat commercial grains, all have grain capital. There is a ration every month, and you can directly use the grain book to buy grain, or you can use the grain book to get food stamps.
And the number of people in the city is not very large, and it is related to many factors. Those who work in heavy industrial units will also be given more rations, and some units will have ration subsidies. Some leaders will naturally have a higher quantitative level than ordinary people, but even if there is a difference, it will not be much different.
In the past two years, due to famine, the quota in the cities has basically been adjusted and declined. There are standards for men and women, students, and children.
But even for people in the city, there is not necessarily enough to eat. Some families have children and elderly people, and they rely entirely on their rations to get enough to eat. A person is only about 30 pounds.
In this era when there is no oil and water, not to mention the amount of one pound of grain a day, even if it is a pound of food, those who can eat are a little underfed.
Therefore, the ration is generally based on the overall ration of fine grains, and the ration of one pound of fine grains can buy three catties of coarse grains. However, there are also divisions of coarse and fine grains, and it is not that you can buy all coarse grains casually if you have a ration, or buy all fine grains.