Chapter 206 Conference, quantitative reduction

Chapter 206 Conference, quantitative reduction

Chapter 206 Conference, quantitative 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, please don't eat yet. I bought two roast ducks and I don't know how to clean them. Please help me clean them and we can eat together."

"Ah! Are we going to your house to eat again?"

To be honest, Liao Kai felt a little embarrassed because he had eaten at Li Jia's house too many times.

He also wanted to invite Li Jiayi's family to dinner, but he had nothing good to offer.

Besides, even if there are good things, they can’t be better than those in Li Jia’s family!
"Alright, Uncle Liao, hurry up! The roast duck won't taste good if it gets cold."

"Okay, I'll be there soon, you go back first."

"Ok!"

Time passed quickly, and in the blink of an eye it was mid-August. That evening, Li Jiayi came back from outside on his tricycle.

I found that there was no one at home, even my eldest sister, second sister and cousin were not at home.

But the door was not locked, so he came in through the back door. Just when he was wondering where his family had gone, he heard a buzzing sound coming from the middle courtyard.

Li Jiayi hurriedly went out from the Moon Gate to take a look. It turned out that everyone was having a meeting in the Intermediate Court, and the Street Office was there to hold the meeting.

It seems like it's something very important. You know, my parents never attend the meetings in the hospital.

Not to mention my two sisters, but they are here today, so this meeting must be very important.

And it is mandatory to participate.

Soon Li Jiayi saw Liao Kai and hurried over to sit down next to him.

"Uncle Liao, what's going on?"

"Ga-One is back?"

"Ok!"

"The subdistrict office has notified us that we need to reduce the quota."

"Reduce the quantity?" Li Jiayi asked in surprise.

But this is not right! Shouldn’t we wait until after the autumn harvest to reduce the quantitative analysis?

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 we can see what the autumn harvest will be like.

There had been no rain, and most of the crops had died of drought. The only reason the crops survived was because the people had been irrigating the fields by diving.

But even so, the crops that had not yet died from drought were not growing well due to lack of water.

Although it cannot be said that the harvest was completely gone, it was not much different. I guess it should be similar across the country.

The above should also be decided.

Liao Kai said with a frown.

"How much should the ration be reduced?"

"Thirty percent."

"Hiss!" Li Jiayi took a breath and said, "This is too much!"

This is 30%! Take Li Aimin as an example. His previous ration was 42 kg. If he loses 30%, he will only have a little over 29 catties.

On average, she lost less than one kilogram a day, and Ye Xin originally weighed only 36 kilograms, but after losing weight, she only weighed 25 kilograms.

Also, there are three siblings in their group, and the ration was already very small. If this is reduced by another 30%, it will be pitifully small.

Especially him and his second sister, because they were not even twelve years old, they could only be considered children, while his eldest sister was a little better.

Fortunately, their family does not expect to live on a rationed basis, otherwise they might really not have enough to eat.

At this time, someone from the subdistrict office said, "Okay, there is one last thing. Starting next month, the entire capital will no longer use grain books. Grain coupons will be issued according to the ration. From now on, grain stations will only accept coupons and not books."

This is similar to what Li Jiayi remembered. In 1959, the grain supply to residents of the imperial capital was changed from vouchers to tickets.

Anyone who had a formal household registration in the imperial capital (the so-called "people who ate commercial grain") was issued food coupons on a monthly basis.

Grain coupons are divided into miscellaneous grain coupons, coarse grain coupons, flour coupons, rice coupons, etc.

The reason for this is also for the good of the people.

If the grain book is lost, someone else can use it to buy grain.

If you lose your food grain certificate, you won't be able to buy food for at least two months, even if you get a replacement right away.

If it were any other time, it wouldn’t matter if I couldn’t buy food for two months. At most, I could spend money to buy some food in the Pigeon Market.

But in the current situation, if we can’t buy food for two months, it would be life-threatening.

But food coupons are different. They are issued monthly and it is more convenient to buy food directly with the coupons.

The most important thing is that if the food on the food card is not purchased in the same month, it will expire and become invalid.

As for food coupons, they are valid for at least one month, and some are even valid for several months.

However, this lasted only a few years, and in the second half of 1962, the grain allowance was restored.

To be honest, Li Jiayi couldn't even imagine what tomorrow's pigeon market would be like.

Before today, miscellaneous grain tickets in Gezi City only cost five cents per pound, coarse grain tickets cost ten cents per pound, and flour tickets and rice tickets, also known as fine grain tickets, cost twenty cents per pound.

It is estimated that the price may double tomorrow, or even higher.

"Alas, there is not enough food to begin with, 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, right?"

"Uh!"

Liao Kai was stunned for a moment, then he remembered that Li Jiayi had asked him to stock up on food before, and he had stocked up a lot.

Even if there was no rationing, it would be enough for him to eat for half a year. It was a pity that he didn't stockpile more.

"Did you know this a long time ago?" Liao Kai asked in a low voice.

"What do I know? I only know that after a severe flood there will be a severe drought. I heard that many places suffered from floods in the past few years." Li Jiayi was right. Many places have been flooded in recent years, especially in Dayu Province.

"All right!"

Although there was no major flood in the imperial capital, there was a severe snowstorm last year, which can be considered a disaster!

The people from the subdistrict office left, but the more than 100 people in the Intermediate Court were completely silent.

But some are happy while others are sad! Only a few are happy, and these few have a particularly good relationship with Li Jiayi.

For example, Aunt Cheng’s family, Aunt Xu’s family, and Uncle Sun’s family.

They all received Li Jiayi's reminder to stock up more food at home.

Although they were very regretful before, their trust in Li Jiayi made them listen to what he said. They didn't expect the surprise to come so suddenly.

"Let's go, Uncle Liao, why are you still here?" Li Jiayi said as he stood up.

"Yes, go home."

"Son, you're back? Have you eaten?" Ye Xin also saw Li Jiayi and hurried over to ask.

"not yet."

"Then mom will go back and cook."

"Ok!"

At this moment, Li Jiayi felt someone was looking at him and quickly turned around to look.

It turned out to be Aunt Cheng and her family, and they all smiled and nodded to Li Jia.

Li Jiayi also smiled back without saying anything.

It’s enough for everyone to understand what’s going on. There’s no need to say it out loud, and it can’t be said out loud.

When Li Jiayi got home, he pulled his mother, who was about to go to the kitchen to cook, and said, "Mom, please cook a little worse next time."

"Mom knows what to do, don't worry! Go back to the house and get some rest."

"it is good."

Dinner is still very rich. Even if I want to lose weight, I don’t care about one or two days.

Just reduce it slowly later.

Silent all night.

After breakfast the next morning, Li Jiayi went to the courtyard, drove the tricycle in, and came into the house.

I took out some peanuts and melon seeds first, and then added water to the wooden barrel.

Then Li Jiayi came to the west room and took out two bags of cornmeal from the space, a total of 100 kilograms, and 20 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 was to let the little black fat guy know that getting food is not that easy.

About half an hour later, the little black fat man came over and gave yesterday's money to Li Jiayi first.

Just when the fat man was about to go to the east room, Li Jiayi called him and said, "Go to the west room first."

"Go to the west room?" asked the little black fat man in confusion.

Although he didn't understand what was going on, the little black fat man still went to the west room as Li Jiayi said.

But when he came out of the house, I was so excited that I almost jumped up.

"Li Jiayi, are the cornmeal and flour prepared for me?"

"You're right. One hundred kilograms of cornmeal and twenty kilograms of flour."

"Li Jiayi, how much is it in total? I'll give it to you tomorrow."

"You can do the math yourself. Cornmeal is 20 cents a pound, and white flour is 40 cents. Don't forget to give me the money tomorrow."

"Yeah, don't worry, I'll bring the money to you tomorrow."

It’s a pity that the little black fat man doesn’t know the situation in Pigeon City now, otherwise he would not want these white flour and cornmeal no matter what.

Because the price Li Jiayi gave was too low.

Not to mention the money to buy food, I guess at this price, you can’t even buy a ticket!

After chatting with the little black fat man for a while, Li Jiayi drove the tricycle out of the yard.

He didn't plan to sell juice today, but to go to the pigeon market.

People like him have to pay attention to market changes at all times.

Otherwise, how can he make money? How can he make more money?

Of course, since he was going to Pigeon City, he couldn't just make a single trip, so he planned to sell some pork today.

Soon Li Jiayi arrived at the pigeon market outside Deshengmen. After arriving here, he did not start selling directly, but locked the tricycle.

Then he took Ah Sheng around the pigeon market.

Soon Li Jiayi came to an old man, squatted down and asked, "How much do you sell your chicken for?"

"Three dollars each."

"Ugh!" Li Jiayi was stunned and said, "Old man, you are selling it too high."

You should know that it only costs one dollar to buy a chicken at the vegetable market. Although no ticket is required at the pigeon market, a chicken only costs one dollar and fifty cents at most. Now it has doubled.

"That's still high! If I hadn't run out of food, I wouldn't have been willing to sell it!"

"Ok."

Li Jiayi never thought about buying it because he just wanted to inquire about the current market conditions.

Looking around the entire pigeon market, Li Jiayi discovered that overnight, the prices of many things had more than doubled.

For example, the coarse grain coupons used to cost only 10 cents per pound, but now they are only 25 cents per pound.

　PS: Please give me a monthly ticket and recommendation ticket! Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)