happy apocalypse

Chapter 154 The farmers are starving to death, who will plant the land next year

After this Yuan Quan said a lot of words to mobilize everyone, he bowed deeply to the people in Tashan Village before sitting on the chair again.

The village chief took the lead in applauding after he finished speaking, "Okay, what you said is great, the people in our Tashan Village will definitely respond to the call of the country and actively hand over food."

I can't understand the way the village chief flatters me. It's this time, why is he still such an official fan?But Yuan Quan's words did move some people, especially those passionate young people, so after the village chief finished speaking, a young man was the first to come out with a big sack to pay the food.

But the delivery process was not smooth.

After the first young man weighed all the grain and was about to load it into the truck, Yuan Quan yelled, "Wait a minute."

A few workers nearby put the sacks they had carried back on the ground. Yuan Quan stood up from the chair again, walked to the sacks, grabbed a handful of rice, looked at them, and said, "It seems that everyone is a real person. Ah, all the new rice is used to deliver the grain, but we must conscientiously implement and implement the national document. The document issued by the state says that the 200 catties of grain harvested this time refer to the grain that does not need to be reprocessed. The rice you handed over needs to be processed twice, and the husk needs to be removed before it can be eaten, so the rice handed over must be converted into rice.

One hundred catties of rice yields more than 70 catties of rice. Let’s count it as 80 catties. The country will suffer a little. If you pay rice, you will have to pay 285 catties of rice per mu. Those who line up behind will do it themselves. How many catties! "

After hearing his words, the villagers around who were preparing to hand over the grain, the enthusiasm that had just been aroused was completely extinguished as if someone had poured a basin of cold water.

This meant that there was more food to be paid, and there was a small commotion in the crowd, and the passionate young man who paid the food first was also dumbfounded.His family has 8 mu of paddy fields, and the rice that was to be handed in just now is 1600 catties. If it is more, he will have to hand in another 680 catties of rice.This is a year's ration for two people.His family's harvest this year was not good, and now they have to remove half of the grain, so how will the seven members of their family live next year.

Several families in the crowd have harvested more than 300 catties of rice per mu this year. According to this calculation, the leftover rice of their own family is less than 100 catties per mu, and the pounded rice is less than 80 catties. How can this be enough for a large family? yes.

The village chief saw the commotion among the villagers, so he hurried out to appease the villagers, "What's the matter, big guy? The people from the government are right. They collect the food, so let's pay the food. Didn't I tell you yesterday? Well, now is the most difficult time for the country. There are many ordinary people in the cities who have no food to eat, so the country will collect our food and then go to help those who need help more. , everyone stretches out their hands to help those who are still in desperate situation, maybe it is the few catties of food you handed over, which saved several lives.”

"Village chief, it's not that we don't have love and don't support the government's work, but you have to see how much grain we have collected. We have harvested less than 400 catties of rice per mu, and they will take away nearly 300 catties with just one mouth. , and then we have to keep the seeds for next year, the rest is not enough for us to eat. We want to save more people, but we can’t starve ourselves to death, so whoever will plant the land next year, who Give food to the country." It was Zhang Fanyu who spoke, and his family's harvest this year was not good.

"That's right, it still keeps people alive. After half a year of hard work on the land, I only harvested more than 400 catties of rice per mu. When your upper and lower lips touch, you want to take half of the grain. Let us live, this is trying to force our family to death."

"That's right, that's right, the village chief, you said at the beginning that you would hand over 200 catties of rice. We thought, if these grains can really save a few people, we have done a good deed. Everyone's heart grows from flesh. If we have that Ability, I definitely can’t bear to watch others starve to death. Half of this food is handed over and the other half is left. This is barely enough for a year’s rations. It’s fine to plant, but if we really need to pay 285 catties per mu, then we really can’t even drink porridge.”

What the villagers said was the most honest. If the government confiscated another 300 catties per mu, then the villagers really didn’t have much left. If the family has a large population, their own rations for this year will not be enough.

The village chief was also in a dilemma. He also knew that it would be difficult for the villagers to hand over so much food. He had a small conversation with Yuan Quan, and Yuan Quan shook his head in a seemingly embarrassed way.

Finally Yuan Quan stood up and said, "Everyone, I know it's embarrassing for everyone to pay so much food, but that's what the country stipulates, and I can't do anything about it. But we can think of other ways. In fact, the country doesn't require you to pay this year. These are used for disaster relief, as long as they can be eaten, so everyone can take out the old grain left over from previous years and hand it over."

He thinks that he has already thought of everyone, as long as it is food, there is no need to pay new food.

The people below don't think so.

"How can there be old grain? In the past, the grain produced every year was enough for the family's rations for a year, and the rest was sold. Last year, there was no grain to sell, and it was because there was no grain to sell. In the past two years, our old It's a drought, and less than half of the grain is produced, which is enough for our family, so now there is not much old grain at home." Said an old man squatting on the ground.

His words resonated with everyone present.

This time, the work of handing over the food was interrupted again, no one was taking the food to hand in, and the young man who handed in the first one also carried all the food back to the corner.

The village chief had no choice but to come out to do work for the villagers and let the villagers support the country's work.The villagers shook their heads vigorously, saying that it is okay to hand over grain to the country to save people, but they don't have so much rice to hand over, so they can't starve themselves to death no matter what, so go and get someone else.

The village chief mobilized for a long time, but no one came out to pay the food.Yuan Quan was a little anxious, and couldn't sit still on the chair. He was probably afraid that the food would not be harvested today, so he urged the village chief to find a way.

The village chief stood in the yard and smoked a bag of dry tobacco. After thinking for a while, he walked up to Jiang Zhi and said, "Jiang Zhi, take the lead. This year your family has grown a lot of land, and the grain you harvested is also big." Inevitably, your family should have enough food."

I can tell that the village chief has something to say.

The arable land recorded by all the villagers in our village is the paddy fields of each family. The other dry fields reclaimed are all private actions. Without the land certificate, it is illegal. So from the beginning, the village head did not mention it. For this matter, I also hope that everyone can pay less food.

Speaking to Jiang Zhi now, he may think that our family has reclaimed the most wasteland this year and produced a lot of food, so I want our family to take the lead. If someone pays first, it will be easier for the villagers behind.

Jiang Zhi also understood the meaning of his words, and said openly: "Okay, our family will pay first. But we don't have enough food. It is prepared according to 200 catties of rice per mu of land. Wait, I will go home and wait." go get it."

After finishing speaking, Jiang Zhi greeted Li Cheng and Li Shanqing, pushed up the tricycle, and prepared to go home to fetch food.

Yuan Quan and the village chief breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Jiang Zhi agreed so happily. This first step has been taken, and the rest will be easier.But watching Jiang Zhi push away the grain bag on the tricycle again, he hurriedly got up.

"Hey, hey, you don't have to take those grains, you just go home and get what you don't have enough." The village chief shouted behind Jiang Zhi.

We ignored him and came out of the village committee compound pushing tricycles in a row.

In fact, I also don't understand Jiang Zhi's intention of doing this. Don't these grains have to be pushed back after a while?He followed and asked, "Why did you push these grains back?"

"Didn't you say that you only need to pay 200 catties of grain? Then we won't pay the rice. It's too troublesome for them to harvest it and have to shell it. Our family grows more than just rice." Jiang Zhi replied to me pushing a tricycle .

Our family has planted a lot of sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn on the newly opened wasteland this year, and the yields are all good.Among them, sweet potatoes are the best. Although adults and children in our family love to eat them, we can’t eat that much, so it’s okay to use sweet potatoes instead of rice.

But I thought of another question, "Jiang, do you want to pay food for our newly opened land?" Our family has 26 mu of land. Everyone knows this, and we can't hide it if we want to. live.

"I guess you don't need to pay. Our village is not the only one that has dry land. Basically, every family has a little bit, but not as much as ours. They are all reclaimed by themselves. In the past, the officials did not check the people's land. Don't worry about it, now a fool would say that other people's homes have dry fields, so wouldn't they also sell their own homes?

And even if it is handed over to us, we are not afraid. At most, we can hand over some sweet potatoes and potatoes, our family can't finish eating them. "

"If I can't finish eating, I'm not willing to give it to them. They say it nicely, they collect the food and go to the disaster relief, but I doubt how much of the food can actually be delivered to the victims, and it's not all in the pockets of those corrupt officials. Yes. We put a lot of effort in planting these lands, and we must not take advantage of them.” I am a small-scale farmer, and when I think about giving the food I have worked so hard to grow to others, I feel distressed.

Seeing how preoccupied I was, Jiang Zhi smiled and said, "Okay, we'll hand over the 10 mu of paddy fields, and we won't hand over the newly opened land. My wife is right, even if we can't finish it, we won't give it to them. Those are the fruits of my daughter-in-law's hard work."

When I heard that Jiang Zhi was teasing me, but I was still very happy.

When they got home, they greeted Li Cheng and Li Shanqing to go to the cellar to carry 2000 catties of sweet potatoes, put them on the tricycle, and then returned to the village committee.

(End of this chapter)