Daily life of female supporting actresses in the 1970s

They, the new educated youth, did not have enough work points, but they were allocated the same amount of food, but they had to pay extra money.

In addition to paying back the food owed, even though Jiang Yanqiu had previously exchanged a lot of mushrooms and black fungus for work points, he also had to give the village 7.65 yuan in compensation.

Not to mention others!

The four old educated youth all received dividends, and they received quite a bit.

Lin Shaoyang got 69 yuan, Liu Yuanda got 66 yuan, Zhao Lanlan got 42 yuan, and Lin Xiaomei got 27 yuan.

Lin Xiaomei had previously received first-class work points, but after being grouped, she received second-class work points, and later she and Qiao Lei often took leave together.

This time she asked for first-class work points of food, so she was only given twenty-seven pieces.

Although Zhao Lanlan only received second-class work points, she never asked for leave and even picked a lot of mushrooms and took them to the brigade to exchange for work points.

Let’s not talk about Liu Yuanda and Lin Shaoyang. Normally, they would get at least one work point. After the autumn harvest, they could get more than 20 work points every day. The female educated youth really couldn’t compare to them.

In addition to food, there are also benefits.

Each person received two and a half kilograms of brown sugar tickets, two and a half kilograms of ordinary sugar tickets, three industrial tickets, five kilograms of soybean oil tickets, and two kilograms of cotton tickets.

The Han people had ten feet of cloth coupons, and ethnic minorities had fourteen feet of cloth coupons because ethnic minorities had to wear long clothes.

Because Jiang Yanqiu was a member of a minority ethnic group, she was given four more feet of cloth coupons.

After the food was distributed, several male educated youth borrowed a cart to pull it.

Qiao Lei asked curiously, "Does every brigade here distribute food in this way?"

The welfare here is no worse than that in the city.

Lin Xiaomei smiled and replied, "You're overthinking it. In our village, other places only give out 100 kilograms of corn and a few kilograms of wheat for the New Year. The rest is dried sweet potatoes or potatoes. Some places use fresh sweet potatoes or potatoes instead."

Qiao Lei asked again, "Our village is divided like this, don't the higher-ups care?"

Lin Xiaomei said with a smile, "Can they help me? The team leader said, 'Without food, how can we have the energy to farm?' One year, the commune came to collect food by force, and the next year, the team leader only planted half of the land. When asked, he said he didn't have enough to eat and didn't have the energy to work. The people in the commune saw that he was serious, so they sent more food overnight."

When everyone thought about the captain's temper, they felt that it was not without benefits.

However, he probably could only be a team leader at best in this life.

He has offended all the leaders above him.

After the grain was delivered, everyone in the village came to the educated youth's site to exchange it for cloth coupons, cotton coupons and sugar coupons.

Even though everyone gets a lot, it’s not that much. Many people get married at the end of the year, so these tickets are in great demand.

Jiang Yanqiu had wanted to make a new cotton-padded jacket for Xiao Xuehua, but she hadn't returned to the educated youth center yet. Except for the brown sugar money and soybean oil coupons, everything else had been exchanged by Aunt Yang.

Aunt Yang's niece from her husband's family is getting married, and she, as her aunt, has to make a quilt as a dowry.

As for the sugar tickets and industrial coupons, they were exchanged for her niece, and Jiang Yanqiu was given a total of five kilograms of peanuts.

In addition to Aunt Yang, there were many other people who came to the educated youth point to exchange tickets. Whether they were marrying a daughter or a wife, they all wanted to buy something for their own children that was more decent than that for other children.

Xu Yan and her friends not only exchanged the money distributed by the village, but also exchanged a lot of their own savings, because people all exchanged them for fine grains.

Zhao Lanlan did not touch her own food rations, but used the tickets and money to exchange for 20 kilograms of wheat, 10 kilograms of soybeans, and 80 kilograms of corn in the village and sent them back home.

To distribute the food, Jiang Yanqiu took out more than ten pounds of sprouted wheat from the space and continued to sprout it to make malt sugar. He also took out ten pounds of dry wheat and put it into the space.

All other grains are good, the only bad thing is soybeans.

The good ones were picked out for seeds and handed in, and the rest were cracked, worm-eaten, and not full.

None of the educated youth knew how to make soybean paste, and it was not cost-effective to use these bad soybeans to press oil, so they could only exchange them for tofu and tofu skin, or stew them directly.

Many people in the village can make tofu and tofu skin, but one pound of soybeans can be exchanged for one pound of firm tofu, and two pounds of soybeans can be exchanged for one pound of wet tofu skin.

Jiang Yanqiu didn't think it was a good deal. When she was a child in her previous life, most of the tofu, tofu pudding, and bean curd skin that her family ate were made at home.

She had been helping out since she was young and knew how to do it, so she suggested to the male educated youth that they grind the soy milk while she made the tofu, which was divided according to the ratio of soybeans.

Wang Haiyang and Liu Yuanda both agreed after hearing this. Although they were not short of money, they couldn't be so foolish as to be taken advantage of.

One pound of beans can make two pounds of tofu. If their beans are not good, then at least one pound and eight ounces can be made if not two pounds.

Plus, there’s nothing to do in winter, so grinding soy milk is considered exercise.

Lin Shaoyang expressed his doubt: "Can you really do it?"

Jiang Yanqiu rolled her eyes at him and said, "You don't have to participate."

Finally, everyone decided to make five pounds each to try it out. If it works, they will make more after the New Year.

The female educated youth said they were not willing to contribute, so they each took more soybeans and divided them equally later.

Lin Xiaomei and Qiao Lei did not participate. They took it to exchange with the village chief. Wang Lanhua also knows how to make tofu, which can also enhance their relationship.

There were only eight people left, except Jiang Yu who went back to visit his relatives.

Several male educated youth did not ask the female educated youth to provide more soybeans, so they asked them to help Jiang Yanqiu. The subsequent work was no easier than grinding soy milk.

Gu Qingqing and Xu Yan asked Zhao Lanlan for help, and they paid for a stone mill and a set of tools for making tofu.

The stone mill is placed in Lin Shaoyang's yard, so there is no need to queue up at the village office.

Forty kilograms of soybeans is really a lot. I soaked the beans the night before.

The three male educated youth took turns grinding soy milk early in the morning. Lin Shaoyang, the wounded soldier, picked up Xiao Xuehua and looked at her here and there.

While waiting for the tofu order, he picked up a jar of soy milk and drank it while staring at Jiang Yanqiu, looking even more nervous than Jiang Yanqiu.

Only after the first plate of tofu was pressed onto the stone box did he feel at ease to pick up Xiao Xuehua and carry her back to their house.

Although there were quite a lot of bad beans, we still managed to make nearly 70 kilograms of firm tofu, 10 kilograms of tender tofu, and 6 kilograms of tofu skin.

Jiang Yanqiu also got a bag of tofu dregs to feed the chickens.

For dinner, everyone ate all the soft tofu as if it were tofu pudding, and even finished Jiang Yanqiu's can of kimchi.

As for the old tofu, it was divided directly after it was made the next day.

Jiang Yanqiu stewed a pot of carp and tofu soup and a bowl of Mapo tofu, and made the rest into frozen tofu to eat slowly.

After the malt grew, Jiang Yanqiu made malt sugar with all the remaining old corn.

No wonder old people often say that if you have a skill, you won’t be afraid of going hungry!

As soon as the sweet smell of malt sugar wafted out, the educated youth site was surrounded by children.

The grain had just been distributed, and the villagers were reluctant to let their own children suffer, nor were they embarrassed to let their children eat Jiang Yanqiu's food for free.

Before Jiang Yanqiu had finished cooking the malt sugar, people came with grain to exchange for sugar.

According to the rules here, three pounds of corn can be exchanged for one pound of malt sugar.

This made Jiang Yanqiu feel embarrassed, as if she was robbing the villagers of their livelihood.

Most people exchanged a pound or half a pound at a time. Soon, more than ten pounds were exchanged. Jiang Yanqiu refused to exchange the remaining ones. She wanted to keep them for herself and didn't want to do it again.

Jiang Yanqiu made sesame candies in several flavors, including peanuts, walnuts, pine nuts, and hazelnuts.

The educated youth came to exchange again. Even Zhao Lanlan was exchanged a lot.

She used her treasured candy wrappers to cut the sesame candy into smaller pieces, and wrapped them one by one, neatly arranging them like the candies sold in the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Needless to say, it must be sent home again.