However, the above is just what she heard based on what her family said and what neighbors said.

When I actually handed over the public grain, I realized that the reality was even more cruel.

First of all, it has been said before that military families enjoy a policy of reducing or exempting 50% of the surplus food, but when they actually go to pay, they were not as good as they were on the surface.

Every year when I hand over the public grain, it is a big deal for every household.

The brothers were all going to school at this time and my father also went to work, leaving only the sisters-in-law and the two little carrot heads at home.

So she and her brother would sit on the big cart of the eldest uncle and his mother, watching the two women pull hundreds of kilograms of grain towards the grain station in the town.

In order to queule in front of the line, some people have to go even in the early morning before dawn. Some people go to the city's big grain station, and some are at the town's grain station. No matter which grain station it is, there are old farmers pulling carts in groups at this time.

My mother and my uncle pulled the grain, and Zhuojian and I sat on the grain. We walked on the bumpy dirt road, watching the surrounding wheat fields turned into rice fields and corn fields facing the slightly stuffy wind, and watching the slightly tiring steps of the sisters-in-law, I was not as happy as I imagined, but a little heavy.

No wonder everyone rushed to the city with their heads. The farm work that faced the loess and backs were facing the sky, and had to bear the risk of hunger for a whole year was really not done by humans. I remember that they had the same delicate skin and face as flowers back then, but after the hardships of life, there were only traces of time left by vicissitudes and hard work.

You should know that in this era, people use sickles to cut wheat manually. You can't wait until the wheat is ripe before cutting it, otherwise it will be fried in the fields all at once, which means it will be in vain for half a year. Therefore, when farmers harvest, they will choose to harvest when they are about to mature but not mature. However, the disadvantage of this is that they need to be dried repeatedly before handing over the public grain. This is because they have been drying repeatedly since harvesting.

Even so, when you arrive at the grain station, you may still have to be given various food and cash.

Those who are in the grain station who are both good at food, wearing uniforms and big caps care about the wetness and dryness of the grain. They are proudly holding a metal fork, stopping and stopping in the convoy where the public grain is handed over, poking holes in any cloth bag or sack.

Oh, by the way, there are no silk bags in this era, they are all sewn and woven by their own coarse cloth and coarse hemp.

After the hole is pulled out, some food will be brought out from the metal fork. They first check to see if your food is clean and whether there are too many soil and stones. Then put it in your mouth and bang it twice to confirm the degree of dryness and wetness, and then divide the grain level for you.

Grain also needs to be divided into three, six or nine grades, two or three grades, and four grades. There are models at the entrance of the grain store. Compared with your own situation, the worse the grade, the more public grain you will pay.

Therefore, there are very few families who can go to one time to pay the public grain. They often queue for half a day or a day. It is finally your turn, but they divide the grain of different grades into you because the grain is not up to standard. In this way, you have to replenish the grain. If you don’t replenish the grain, you have to replenish the money. Anyway, you can’t escape.
Chapter completed!