Daily life of female supporting actresses in the 1970s

Everyone followed Lin Shaoyang out. Before leaving, Zhao Weidong gave all the tickets that everyone had collected to Jiang Yanqiu.

When Jiang Yanqiu closed the shop, he counted and found that there were 9.5 industrial coupons.

Now you need industrial coupons to buy everything, including shampoo, soap, oil lamps, ready-made clothes, wool yarn, bicycles, sewing machines, etc.

In the city, a salary of 20 yuan can only buy one industrial coupon, and in the countryside, there are only a few in a year.

Jiang Yanqiu wanted the industrial coupons mainly to buy some wool to knit sweaters. It was too cold here in winter. The original owner brought cotton clothes but no wool.

Hats, cotton shoes and other items also require industrial coupons.

She also wanted to buy some farm tools, and she felt embarrassed to always borrow farm tools from the village to do personal things.

When it was time to go to work in the afternoon, Lin Shaoyang instructed the new educated youth to go to the brigade headquarters to borrow food and then go to work.

The wheat harvest will start in two days, so we didn't have to work today. However, there was a storm last night, and a lot of corn and sorghum seedlings fell over. Everyone had to check every field and prop up any that fell over.

The task was not big, but all those who went to work had to go to and leave work at the time set by the village.

The new educated youth ran to the brigade to borrow food, but the brigade leader, Village Chief Zhao, and Accountant Li were all out on business and were not in the brigade headquarters.

The custodian told them bluntly that there was no food in the village and asked them to find a way out themselves.

In fact, Village Chief Zhao took Lin Xiaomei’s words to heart!

Although their village was not rich, every time there were educated youth coming, even though they had not received the resettlement fee, their village would always give the new educated youth an advance payment of food.

Lin Xiaomei's words sounded as if they had treated the educated youth badly.

In front of so many people, he, the village chief, lost face once or twice and couldn't even save himself!

But Qiao Lei came to finish him off. Doesn’t he, the village chief, have any dignity?

After all, he was the top leader in the village. Not only did the two girls not give him face, they also pressed his face to the ground and rubbed it hard.

But today, I held back because I asked Lin Shaoyang for help.

After I came back, I became angrier and angrier, so I told the team leader and the accountant about it.

The two men were also very angry. They had never treated the educated youth unfairly in terms of food, but their reputation was ruined in this way.

This made them look like bullies bullying the educated youth, and all three of them felt unhappy.

The three people behind them discussed it and asked the custodian not to rush to give food to the new educated youth.

Then they each found an excuse to leave, leaving the new educated youth aside. Every grievance has its perpetrator, and every debt has its culprit.

If the new educated youth knew that it was because of Lin Xiaomei and Qiao Lei that they had no food rations, they would definitely not be nice to them in the future.

In the afternoon, the educated youth finished inspecting the corn fields in their area of ​​responsibility. There was not much work to do in the fields, so the team leader let them go home before 5:30.

After they came back, the new educated youth were all in the yard. When they saw Lin Shaoyang coming, they told him what had happened.

Before Lin Shaoyang could say anything, Lin Xiaomei rushed in and said, "The autumn harvest is almost here. How could the village have any food to lend you? Many families in the village have not run out of food. If they had any, they would definitely give it to the people in their own village first. How could they lend it to outsiders like us?"

No one paid any attention to her. The old educated youth all knew her temper, and the new educated youth were a little disgusted with her because of what happened at noon.

Lin Shaoyang remained silent. This was the first time he had encountered such a situation in the five years since he came here, during the flood of 1969. During those two years, food was in short supply, and the village did not lend any food to the new educated youth.

He also knew that the village had a bumper harvest last year and had left a lot of food for emergencies. Some villagers were definitely short of food, but it was impossible that the village was without food.

After a while, he said, "I'll go ask the village chief about the situation when he comes back."

Lin Xiaomei said with disdain, "It would be useless for you to go. They've already arranged for food. Instead of going to the village chief, you might as well borrow some from Jiang Yanqiu and return it to her after the wheat harvest."

When Lin Shaoyang heard this, he said angrily: "Lin Xiaomei, are you okay? Jiang Yanqiu has only been here for more than a month, where does she get the food?"

When Qiao Lei heard this, she secretly thought to herself that this guy was really stupid. It was too late to stop him.

Lin Xiaomei had already said before her: "She just bought me 150 kilograms of corn kernels a while ago, I probably can't finish it."

Before Lin Shaoyang could speak, Zhao Lanlan angrily asked, "Lin Xiaomei, we both have the same amount of food. I can't even eat enough, so why do you still have food to sell?"

Liu Yuanda's expression wasn't very good either. He then asked, "Yes, the two of us male educated youth have 180 kilograms more corn than you do. We eat the same amount, and it's not enough either. Where do you get so much food to sell?"

Everyone's food rations are distributed according to the standard of 30 kilograms per month. The first-class strong laborers are given 45 kilograms. If they don't have enough to eat, where will they get the food to sell?

As for the grain in their private plots, the four of them divided it up equally and sold it.

Although Lin Xiaomei was also awarded first-class work points, she kept 30 kilograms of extra work points every month to sell, just like Zhao Lanlan.

The two men gained 15 kilograms more each month and usually ate half a pancake more than the female educated youth.

Their food was all stored in the kitchen, and it wasn't locked. If Lin Xiaomei took some every day, it wouldn't be impossible for the three of them to take more than 100 kilograms a year.

Qiao Lei secretly sighed in her heart, this little cannon fodder is just a little cannon fodder, always causing trouble for himself.

Now she is selling grain to Jiang Yanqiu, and the origin of this is difficult to explain.

Everyone has the same amount of food, and it is locked in the kitchen. Others don’t have enough to eat, but you still have so much. Who wouldn’t think too much?

If you say that you buy grain from the villagers and sell it, that would be a crime of speculation.

However, Qiao Lei was also surprised that Jiang Yanqiu was quite smart. She did nothing but spent some money to buy expensive food.

Let Lin Xiaomei dig a hole for herself, then jump in and bury herself.

You are greedy for small gains and jealous of others, and you implicate yourself in this matter. You can't blame others.

It seems that she can't take advantage of Lin Xiaomei anymore, for fear that she will be implicated in the future.

Lin Xiaomei also came to her senses, her face pale. After a long while, she said, "I took it to sell to the villagers."

Zhao Lanlan wanted to say something else, but Lin Shaoyang quickly interrupted her, saying, "Okay, let's talk about this later. Let's talk about the new educated youth first."

His first reaction was that Lin Xiaomei's grain was collected from the village and sold on the black market.

He and Liu Yuanda also often went to the black market to sell things and met Lin Xiaomei.

Except for Zhao Lanlan, the four people before them all ran to the black market.

He was not very clear about the situation of the other educated youth who came in the previous batch, but he knew that Gu Qingqing and Gu Qingshi also often went to the black market.

If this gets out in public, it will be of no benefit to the people at the educated youth site.

In the past, the educated youth lived far away and it was fine, but now three of them live locally and we have no idea what the situation is.

If people knew about the speculation and profiteering at the educated youth sites, it would not be impossible to report them for trying to achieve performance goals or taking benefits.

So it’s better to talk about this in private.

Liu Yuanda also came to his senses and stopped talking.

Zhao Lanlan glared at Lin Shaoyang angrily, but said nothing.