Chapter 278 It’s really nothing

Chapter 278 It’s really nothing

Chapter 278 It’s really nothing

As far as Li Jiayi remembers, it was more than a year after the famine ended that the meat processing plant began to supply pork.

And the supply is not very large. It’s not that there are not enough pigs, but starting from 1963, the Russians have been demanding debts, and the country has to repay the Russians, and this repayment will take three years.

It was basically a seamless connection. The three-year difficult period had just ended here, and the Russians came to demand debts.

After paying off the debt, it was already 1966 again, and the common people still had no good life!
What’s more, the Russians were particularly bad. Since we had no money to pay back, we could only use supplies to pay off the debt.

But we have to follow their standards, and if it doesn't meet the standards, we won't accept it. Apples must be ringed, and neither too big nor too small will be accepted. Pork must be fat, and neither too fat nor too thin will be accepted.

Anyway, it's all kinds of difficulties.

“Not only can we not raise many, but it’s time to pay back the debt.”

"Pay off debt? Pay off what debt?" Liao Kai asked.

"Uh!" Li Jia was stunned for a moment and asked, "You don't know?"

"What do I know?"

"Okay!" Seeing Liao Kai's expression, it seemed that he really didn't know. Li Jiayi could only explain: "Our country borrowed a lot of money from the Russians, and we will pay it back soon."

"Ah! No way! Aren't the Russians supporting us?" Liao Kai asked in disbelief.

"Who told you it was support? Do you know how much a Russian engineer would be paid if he stayed in our country for a month?"

"Give me back the money?"

"Of course we have to pay them, and we pay a lot. The salary of a lowest-level engineer is more than 500 yuan, while our own engineers of the same level only make a little over 100 yuan."

"Is this true? These Russians came to support us and asked us for money?"

"What do you think? And this is just the salary. They also have to pay 13.5 yuan per person per day for food, 7.5 yuan for transportation, and 75 cents for entertainment."

"Damn, this is too much! Just these things cost more than twenty dollars a day, and what is this entertainment fee?"

"It's the money you need to read books and newspapers. It's called entertainment expenses."

"Damn it, these old Russians even need money to read books and newspapers!" Liao Kai said with clenched fists.

"How normal! This doesn't even include medical expenses! These Russians really care about this. Whether they see a doctor or not, they have to pay them, and they have to pay every month."

Liao Kai looked at Li Jiayi and asked, "That's not right! Why are you paying me if I don't see a doctor?"

"You don't understand this! You have to pay even if you don't see a doctor. You have to pay for one day's medical expenses for every day they work here. What if they get sick in the future?"

"Get treatment if you're sick! Isn't it free for them to see a doctor here?"

"But what if they don't get sick here, but get sick after they go back?"

Hearing what Li Jiayi said, Liao Kai blurted out: "Getting sick in their country has nothing to do with us."

"Why doesn't it matter? He used to work here!"

"Isn't this unreasonable?"

Li Jiayi spread his hands and said, "That's right, it's so unreasonable. So, a low-level engineer can get more than 1,000 yuan a month, which is about three times more than Mao Zedong's salary. Just imagine it."

And how much was Chairman Mao's salary? Six hundred and twenty-two yuan a month, which was the highest salary at that time.

"Damn, these old Russians are nothing." Liao Kai cursed.

In fact, in later generations, many people also believed that the Russians came to support construction.

Li Jiayi also thought so at the beginning, and once argued with others about this.

He searched on the Internet and found that it was not the case and that the support had to be repaid.

Moreover, the Russians are paid very high salaries here. Experts of the same level earn more than ten times as much as we do.

At that time, the Russians had a total of 20,000 experts here, and when they withdrew, none of them wanted to leave.

Why don't you want to leave? Because the salary is high and the benefits are good!

"Plus one, are you saying that we are going to start paying off our debts right away?"

"About the same! I estimate it will start in about half a year at the latest."

"Alas! That means we still won't have a good life for a few days."

"Don't worry, it's just that supplies are a little tight. There will be no further reductions in the future. The meat supply may decrease in the next few years."

"Just don't reduce the quantity. As for reducing the amount of meat, there won't be much even if you don't reduce it!"

"Yes."

"In this case, let's not get the food for now. We still have several dozen kilograms at home, which is enough for us to eat for a while."

"Ok!"

Food is still very expensive now, because the less we have during this period of lean season, the harder life will be for everyone.

White flour now costs four or five yuan per pound. In a month or two, the price of white flour may become the same as before the difficult times, at more than ten cents per pound.

If that’s the case, who would buy food at this time?

Although Liao Kai could get food from Li Jiayi for free, it was precisely because it was free that he couldn't take it.

Food is expensive now! If he doesn't want it, he can sell it to others and get a lot more money.

Li Jiayi's selling of food was a secret to others, but to Liao Kai, it was not a secret at all.

Don’t forget, it was Liao Kai who introduced Uncle Wu to Li Jiayi.

After drinking tea and chatting for a while, it was getting late, so Liao Kai and Xu Wenwen took the little girl home.

My eldest cousin also went back to Yard No. 15 to rest alone. He only ate here and did not live here.

Back upstairs, Li Jiayi locked the door from the inside and entered the space directly.

The space is still the same as before, but what is grown is no longer primarily high-yield.

Apart from growing some feed from time to time, the main crops are rice and wheat.

Even the vegetable garden mainly grows some popular vegetables. Over the past three years, everything else has changed a lot, but the tea tree in the yard has not changed at all.

The size is still the same as before, or maybe it has grown, but the growth is not noticeable at all.

It may take decades or even hundreds of years before there are obvious discoveries.

But it doesn't matter, because the tea produced is enough for him to use. Now there are nearly 200 kilograms of tea in the space.

These are all saved up from time to time. Although many people drink this tea, it is really delicious!

Li Jiayi is so good at drinking tea that he always drinks a handful every time, but five or six kilograms a year is enough.

As for someone like Li Aimin who is more frugal, he can't even finish two kilograms in a year. Of course, that's also because sometimes he drinks at home.

So over the years, Li Jiayi was able to store so much spiritual tea in his space.

This is a magical tea! It is worth a fortune. If it is not his own, Li Jiayi will not give it to him at all.

Let’s not talk about anything else, just take Liao Kai as an example. He only produces one kilogram at most every year, but Liao Kai is smart!

He only drinks his own tea when he is at work, and after get off work he goes to Li Jia's house to drink tea.

After collecting today's spiritual tea, Li Jiayi came to the orchard. The types of fruit trees had not increased, but the number had increased a lot.

After harvesting the ripe fruits, Li Jiayi went to the back mountain again.

More than three years have passed outside, but it has been more than a hundred years here, so there are many hundred-year-old ginseng and hundred-year-old Polygonum multiflorum.

If this thing were available sixty years later, it would be hard to find one, but at this time, it is still not very valuable.

Of course, the entire back mountain does not only have these ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum that are over a hundred years old, there are also many other years.

And the most numerous are these other years, ranging from ninety-nine years below a hundred years to one year.

Every year these ginsengs will bloom and bear fruit, and the fruits will fall to the ground, and there will be new ginsengs.

The same goes for those with Polygonum multiflorum.

After looking at these ginseng and Polygonum multiflorum, Li Jiayi put some mature Ganoderma lucidum and saffron into the static space.

Yes, there are a lot of medicinal herbs on the back mountain now, and they are all relatively rare.

Even Li Jiayi brought back some Cordyceps sinensis from Tong Ren Tang, of course, the live kind.

Nowadays, as long as you have money, you can buy almost everything you want, although you can’t say you can have everything you want.

Of course, this is when there is a channel. For example, if he buys medicinal materials, then the pharmacy is the channel.

He also wanted some fruits from the south, but unfortunately he couldn't get them because there was no channel!

The supply and marketing cooperative did have some fruits for sale, but they were all sent from the head office.

After collecting the herbs, Li Jiayi returned to the courtyard, washed up, and then took a bath before going to rest.

Silent all night.

At around five o'clock the next morning, Li Jiayi got up from bed, went to the yard and started practicing boxing.

His boxing skills are now very advanced and he can perform the Taizu Changquan twelve times.

He is twice as strong as his master, but unfortunately he is not yet an adult and cannot reach that level of strength.

Yes, he is quite strong now, even stronger than an adult, but this is also because he is physically strong.

Without reaching adulthood, the body is not fully developed and there is no way to use its full strength.

After boxing, Li Jiayi was sweating profusely! He quickly drank some spiritual spring water to replenish his energy.

Then I washed up, took a shower, changed my clothes, and came out of the space.

"Good morning, brother Jiayi."

"Good morning, why did you get up so early?" Li Jiayi asked, touching his cousin's head.

"I got up when I woke up."

"Yeah! Not bad, early to bed and early to rise makes you healthy."

"Uh-huh!"

"Go wash up!"

"Okay, Brother Jiayi."

"Add them together?"

"Yes, sis."

My eldest sister gets up very early every day, even if she doesn’t go to school, she gets up to find something to do and help with the housework.

Only my second sister is lazy, and it’s even more so now that she doesn’t have to go to school. She won’t get up until the sun goes down.

Li Jiayi had just come out of the house when he saw his eldest cousin coming in from the front door.

"Big brother."

"plus one."

"Cheng Qian is here? Has he washed up?" Ye Xin came out of the kitchen at this time and asked when she saw him.

"Auntie, I'm done washing up."

"Then hurry into the house and prepare to eat."

Today is not Sunday, so we still have to go to work, and Li Jiayi also has to go to school.

Even my second sister probably won’t be able to enjoy her life for long. Once the quantitative recovery is restored, school will definitely reopen.

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

　　
　
(End of this chapter)