Chapter 206 Conference, ration reduction
Of course, there is also a bottle of Erguotou.
"Jiayi, why are you here?" Liao Kai asked when he saw it was Li Jiayi.
"Uncle Liao, don't eat it yet. I bought two roast ducks and I don't know how to clean them up. Please help clean them up and eat together."
"Ah! I went to your house to eat again. Huh?”
To be honest, Liao Kai was a little embarrassed because he had eaten at Li Jia's family too many times.
He also wanted to treat Li Jiayi and his family to dinner, but he didn’t have anything good to entertain them.
Besides, even if there are good things, they can still be as good as those from Li Jia’s family!
"Okay, Uncle Liao, hurry up! The roast duck won't taste good after a while as it cools down."
"Okay, I'll go over right now, you go back first."< br>
"Yeah!"
Time flew by, and it was mid-August in a blink of an eye. That night Li Jiayi came back from outside driving a tricycle.
I found that no one was at home, not even the eldest sister, second sister and cousin were at home.
But the door of the house was not locked. He came in through the back door. Just when he was thinking about where everyone in the family was going, he heard a buzzing sound coming from the middle courtyard.
Li Jiayi quickly went out from the Moon Gate and took a look. It turned out that they were all having a meeting in the Intermediate Courtyard, and it was held by the street office.
It seems that there is something very important. You must know that my parents never attend the meetings in the courtyard.
Not to mention my two sisters, but they are here today, so this meeting must be particularly important.
And it is a must to participate.
Soon Li Jiayi saw Liao Kai and quickly walked over and sat down next to Liao Kai.
"Uncle Liao, what's going on?"
"Jiayi is back?"
"Yeah!"
"The street office came to inform that the ration will be reduced."
"Reduce the ration?" Li Jiayi was surprised ask.
But this is wrong! If we want to reduce quantitative analysis, shouldn’t we wait until after the autumn harvest?
But Li Jiayi soon felt relieved. In fact, it didn't matter whether there was an autumn harvest or not, it had become a foregone conclusion.
Now you can see what the autumn harvest will look like.
It has not rained, and most of the crops have died of drought. A small number of crops have not died of drought because the people have been diving for irrigation.
But even so, these crops that have not yet died of drought are not growing very well due to lack of water.
Although it cannot be said to be a perfect harvest, it is not too different. It is estimated that it should be similar across the country.
It should have been settled above.
"Well!" Liao Kai said with a frown.
"How much reduction in ration?"
"Thirty percent."
"Hiss!" Li Jiayi took a breath and said: "This reduction There are too many!”
This is thirty percent! Take Li Aimin as an example. His previous ration was 42 pounds. If he loses 30%, he will only have a little over 29 pounds left.
On average, it is less than one kilogram a day, and Ye Xin, who originally only had thirty-six kilograms, only had twenty-five kilograms left after losing weight.
There are also three siblings. Their rations are already extremely small. If they are reduced by 30%, it will be pitifully small.
Especially him and the second sister, because they are still under twelve years old, they can only be regarded as children. The eldest sister is a little better.
Fortunately, their family does not expect to live on rations, otherwise they might not be able to eat.
At this time, I heard the person from the sub-district office say: "Okay, there is one last thing, that is, starting from next month, the entire imperial capital will no longer use food books, and all food stamps will be distributed according to quotas. From now on, the food stations will only "Recognize the vote but not the original."
This is similar to what Li Jiayi remembered. In 1959, the residents of the imperial capital were provided with food based on vouchers instead of vouchers.
Everyone who has an official household registration in the emperor (the so-called "commercial grain eater") is issued food stamps on a monthly basis.
Food stamps are divided into miscellaneous grain stamps, coarse grain stamps, white flour stamps and rice stamps, etc.
The reason for this is also for the benefit of the people.
Because if the grain book is lost, others can buy grain if they get it.
If you lose your food book, you will not be able to buy food for at least two months, even if you replace it at that time.
If it were any other time, it wouldn't matter if I couldn't buy food for two months. At worst, I would spend money to buy some food at the pigeon market.
But in this situation, if we can’t buy food for two months, it will be really fatal.
But food stamps are different. They are issued on a monthly basis. It is more convenient to buy food directly with the food stamps.
The most important thing is that if the food in the food book is not purchased that month, it will expire and become invalid.
As for food stamps, they are valid for at least one month, and some food stamps are even valid for several months.
But this only lasted a few years. In the second half of 1962, the grain book was resumed.
To be honest, Li Jiayi couldn’t even imagine what the pigeon market would be like tomorrow.
Before today, grain stamps in Pigeon Market cost only five cents per pound, coarse grain stamps cost ten cents per pound, and white flour stamps and rice stamps, also known as fine grain stamps, cost two cents per pound. .
It is estimated that the price may double tomorrow, or even be higher.
"Alas, there was not enough food to eat in the first place, and it will be even less in the future." Liao Kai said with a sigh.
"Uncle Liao, this doesn't seem to have anything to do with you, does it?"
"Uh!"
Liao Kai was stunned for a moment, and then he remembered, Li Jiayi When I asked him to stock up on food before, he stocked up a lot.
Even without a ration, it was enough for him to eat for more than half a year, but it was a pity that he didn't stock up on more.
"Have you known this for a long time?" Liao Kai asked in a low voice.
"What do I know? I only know that after a flood there will be a drought. I heard that floods occurred in many places in the past few years." Li Jiayi is right, many places have experienced floods in recent years. Everything was flooded, especially the Yu province.
“Okay!”
Although there were no major floods in the Imperial Capital, a severe snowstorm last year could still be considered a disaster!
The people from the street office left, but the more than 100 people in the middle courtyard were silent.
But some people are happy and some are sad! Only a few families were happy, and these families all had a particularly good relationship with Li Jiayi.
For example, Aunt Cheng’s family, Aunt Xu’s family and Uncle Sun’s family.
They were all reminded by Li Jiayi to store more food at home.
Although they were very sorry before, their trust in Li Jiayi made them listen to Li Jiayi's words. They did not expect the surprise to come so suddenly.
"Let's go, Uncle Liao, what are you still doing here?" Li Jiayi stood up and said.
"Yes, go home."
"Son, are you back? Have you eaten?" Ye Xin also saw Li Jiayi and hurriedly came over to ask.
“Not yet.”
"Then mom will go back and cook."
"Yeah!"
At this moment, Li Jia felt someone looking at him and quickly turned his head to look over.
It turned out to be Aunt Cheng and her family, and they all smiled and nodded to Li Jia.
Li Jiayi also smiled back and said nothing.
As long as everyone understands what's going on, there's no need to say it out loud, and you can't say it out loud.
After returning home, Li Jiayi took his mother who was about to go to the kitchen to cook and said: "Mom, I will be a little bit worse at cooking in the future."
"Mom knows what to do, you Don’t worry! Go back to the house and take a rest.”
“Okay.”
The dinner is still very rich. Even if it is to be reduced, I don’t care about it for two days.
Just reduce it slowly from now on.
No words for a night.
After dinner the next morning, Li Jiayi went to the small courtyard, drove the tricycle in, and Li Jiayi came to the house.
Let’s take out some peanuts and melon seeds first, and then add water to the barrel.
Then Li Jiayi came to the West House and took out two bags of cornmeal from the space, totaling one hundred kilograms, and another twenty kilograms of white flour.
Yes, this is the food he promised to get for the little black fat man.
The reason why it took so long to take it out is to let the little fat man know that getting food is not that easy.
About half an hour later, the fat little black man came over and gave Li Jiayi the money from yesterday.
Just when the fat man was about to go to the east room, Li Jiayi called him and said, "You go to the west room first."
"Go to the west room?" The little black fat man didn't know. So ask.
Although he didn't understand what was going on, the fat little black man still went to the West Room as Li Jiayi said.
But when he came out of the house, he almost jumped up with excitement.
"Li Jiayi, are the cornmeal and white flour prepared for me?"
"You are right, one hundred catties of cornmeal and twenty catties of white flour."
"Li Jiayi, how much is the total? I will give it to you tomorrow."
"You do the math yourself. Corn flour costs two cents per pound, and white flour costs four cents. Don't forget to give me the money tomorrow."
"Yeah, don't worry, I will bring the money to you tomorrow."
It’s a pity that the little fat man doesn’t know about the situation in Pigeon Market, otherwise he wouldn’t want these white flour and cornmeal no matter what.
Because the price given by Li Jiayi is too low.
Not to mention the cost of buying food, I guess you can’t even buy a ticket at this price!
After chatting with the fat little black man for a while, Li Jiayi drove a tricycle out of the courtyard.
Today he did not plan to sell juice, but to go to the pigeon market.
People like him must always pay attention to changes in the market.
How else would he make money! How to make more money.
Of course, since he was going to Pigeon Market, he couldn't just make a trip, so he planned to sell some pork today.
Soon Li Jiayi came to the pigeon market outside Deshengmen. After arriving here, he did not start selling directly, but locked the tricycle.
Then he took Asheng around the Pigeon City.
Soon Li Jiayi came to an old man, squatted down and asked: "How do you sell this chicken?"
"Three yuan a piece."
"Uh!" Li Jia was stunned and said, "Old man, your price is too high."
You must know that it only costs one yuan to buy a chicken at the vegetable market. Although the pigeon market does not require a ticket, the maximum price for a chicken is only one yuan and five. Now it has doubled.
"This is still high! If there wasn't anything to feed, I would still be reluctant to sell it!"
"Okay."
Li Jiayi didn't even think about it. He didn't think of buying it because he was just inquiring about the current market conditions.
Turn around the entire pigeon market, Li Jiayi discovered that overnight, the prices of many things more than doubled from before.
For example, coarse grain stamps used to cost only ten cents per pound, but now! Just two and a half cents a pound.
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(End of this chapter)