In the past, when there was enough to eat, many people in the city were willing to buy some fine grains to eat. For example, flour and rice, flour can be used to make dumplings, noodles and the like. But generally, you can only buy three or four percent of fine grains, and the rest will be converted into coarse grains for you.

A ticket of ten catties of fine grain can be exchanged for thirty catties of coarse grain. In this case, a person's ration is about 30 catties, and most of them receive coarse grains, which can be about 60 or 70 catties of grain.

In such a situation, there are children and elderly people at home, and if it is not for the urban hukou, they can barely survive.

But now there is a famine, the ration is less, and there are not enough people in the city to eat. Therefore, they all want to take fine grains on top of coarse grains, and it doesn't matter whether they eat well or not, the premise is that they must have enough to eat first.

But the food stamps are different across the country, and there is no quantitative saying about this. If it was in the past, if you had a national food stamp, you would definitely be able to buy whatever grain you wanted, and it would be given to you in proportion. But now that they all want to buy coarse grains, the Luo family, who have not bought much grain, actually has no bottom in their hearts.

I don't know what kind of grain Luo Cheng can buy with more than 50 catties of grain.

This means that Luo Cheng is not really a person of this era, if he is a person of this era, he will not actually think about how to buy volume.

If Luo Cheng is not discharged from the army, but still in the army, especially in the logistics procurement department of the army. In fact, you can also come into contact with a kind of food stamp, military food stamps, also called military food stamps.

In fact, there is no restriction on coarse grain and fine grain stamps, and according to the proportion of the market, you can buy as much as you want. However, there are geographical restrictions on military food stamps, so Luo Cheng was discharged from the army and issued national food stamps.

Anyone who has used the national food stamps knows that there are no restrictions on those who use this kind of stamps to buy grain. Even if it is a famine year, you can buy coarse grain if you want to buy coarse grain, and buy fine grain if you want to buy fine grain.

You know, the department that can find the national food stamps is not an ordinary department. Let's put it this way, in Longyang Town, even if it is a government official, without a special reason, he will definitely not receive a national food stamp.

The location of the grain station is close to the main road to Nghe An, which is more convenient for traffic. There is a special warehouse, and ordinary people can't enter.

If you want to buy or sell grain here, there are several houses with external nutrition.

Also because of the famine, there are now more people guarding the grain station. People in the towns and villages come here to buy grain, mainly because they don't have food stamps. When I bought grain, I basically bought it all at once. I don't come here very often.

As soon as Luo Cheng arrived here with his father and younger brother, he was questioned. It's all in town, and as soon as Rowan reports the name of the brigade, people roughly know what the place is. After learning that it was to buy grain, the people in the grain station also specially asked the accountant to come over.

"What kind of food do you want to buy, it's all national food stamps, and your son is a veteran, so he has a discharge certificate."

Because it was mainly his father Rowan who was negotiating, the people at the grain station were also surprised when they saw that they were taking out the national food stamps. This food stamp is rare in the township, but the people in the grain station know how to do it, and know that this food stamp is common throughout the country, which is equivalent to adding value.

According to reason, those who can buy grain with national food stamps do not need to check Luo Cheng's discharge certificate at all. If you use the national grain stamps to buy grain and not sell it, it will be the same as if the merchants in later generations did not accept the renminbi, and that would be a mistake.

However, the people in the grain station asked like this, not because they didn't sell grain, but because they were simple people these days, since the other party was from the town, they also knew about their father's brigade. If you use the national food stamps, you have to take care of them.

"Comrade, this is my discharge card, you can check it."

The discharge certificate Luo Cheng has always carried with him, and everyone doesn't even have an ID card these days, and most people have to have a letter of introduction when they go out. Those who have a unit should bring a work permit, and veterans also have a discharge permit, and it is also very easy to go out.

"Comrade, let's say it first, you have a national food stamp, if you use it, you won't be able to return it then."

For Luo Cheng, the people in the grain station glanced at him directly, and he spoke more politely.

Explain it to Luo Cheng like this, I am also afraid that he will feel that he will lose, and don't exchange ordinary food stamps for it when the time comes. This grain station receives national food stamps, but it will not always be placed here, and it will basically be handed over on the same day.

"Understood."

Without hesitation, Luo Cheng nodded and replied, what else can you do if you don't take out this food stamp to buy grain. It is impossible for me to go to other places to do anything, although I usually buy food or something, and I still need food stamps. But this is not a famine year, and the family and those relatives need this food.

However, Luo Cheng also left a few catties of food stamps, and took out a total of fifty catties of food stamps. For the rest, Luo Cheng kept it for backup, even if he bought some vegetarian buns for his grandmother every day.

Seeing that Luo Cheng did not hesitate, the people in the grain station were not polite. After receiving Luo Cheng's food stamps, he also told him directly that he would take care of him a little better than ordinary food stamps, after all, Luo Cheng was a veteran and had served the country. Properly cared for, it's nothing.

In fact, it is also implying that Luo Cheng is dead, and people are alive. He will not go to the public account for this food stamp, and if he wants to issue a bill, he can only buy it according to the face value. But you don't need bills, at least you can buy them according to the amount of sixty catties.

That is to say, if the national grain stamps are collected by the grain station, they will be exchanged and handed over with the normal 60 catties of provincial food stamps or regional food stamps.

Faced with such a thing, Luo Cheng and they must have chosen not to have bills. Anyway, the food can be handed, and the grain station also lets them pick at will.

If you are buying fine grains, rice and flour, you can buy sixty catties. If you want coarse grains, you can buy 180 catties. There are even sweet potatoes in the grain station, which cannot be called grain, and one pound of coarse grain can be exchanged for five pounds of sweet potatoes.

However, there is a limit to changing sweet potatoes, otherwise those who eat commercial grains will change sweet potatoes in large quantities this year. Sweet potatoes are like this, if you change them more, others won't be able to change them. Therefore, if you change sweet potatoes, with the grain book, you can exchange five catties of coarse grains for sweet potatoes, that is, five catties of coarse grains for twenty-five catties of sweet potatoes.

But Luo Cheng uses national food stamps, and he doesn't eat commercial grain now, so he has no food capital. And the grain station is the same, after all, this is the grain station in the town, and it is really rare to receive a national food stamp once a year.

So in the end, it is the grain station that makes the decision in private, if you want to change the sweet potato, you can also change it, but you can't change it all, after all, you have to consider other people. Luo Cheng's fifty catties of national grain stamps If he buys all the sweet potatoes, he can buy 900 catties.

The Luo family really doesn't worry about starving to death this year, but if they eat sweet potatoes every day, Luo Cheng feels that he will get tired of eating them. It's okay if the grain station refuses to give all the sweet potatoes.

The grain station is willing to give Luo Cheng a hundred and fifty catties of sweet potatoes, according to the amount of one catty of grain stamps three catties of coarse grains, one catty of coarse grains and five catties of sweet potatoes to convert, one hundred and fifty catties, that is, ten catties of fine grain stamps.

As for coarse grains, there are a lot of them, sorghum flour, cornmeal (cob flour), soybean millet and the like. Luo Cheng wanted to buy rice, he couldn't get used to eating any pasta, but his father Luo Wen wanted to buy all the stick noodles, and he could buy 150 catties. Buy some soybeans at most. Everyone else buys stick noodles, so that they can better help their younger siblings.

In the end, my father still respected Luo Cheng's opinion, and asked for five catties of rice and five catties of white flour, and the others mainly bought stick noodles, millet and soybeans.

And the three bags brought can't hold such a large amount at all, but fortunately, there are hemp rope bags to sell in the grain station, this bag is big, and one bag can weigh hundreds of catties.