Reborn before the famine, kicking away the scumbag's family and living a carefree life.

56. Grain Distribution

“Su Jinru: It doesn’t matter if it’s delivered a day earlier or later, but you’ll have to stay up late again tonight.”

"There's no other way. Many people are starving and on the verge of death. The sooner we distribute the food, the sooner we can save a few lives."

Sure enough, because they had a lot of militiamen with them, although there were many onlookers along the way, no one dared to rob them.

An hour later, they arrived at the township government, where the villagers of Daben Township had already gathered. Many people were overjoyed to see the grain transport team arrive, and some were even wiping away tears of excitement.

The so-called township government is located at the entrance of Daben Village, in an ordinary courtyard.

The news of the successful purchase of grain spread rapidly to Daben Village and Xiaoben Village as soon as Jin Gui received Su Jinru's call.

At this point, almost everyone from both villages arrived.

The scene was spectacular, with a huge crowd.

Looking at the bustling crowd from afar, Su Jinru said to Jingui, "Brother Jingui, I have to go home. The two children have been at home all day."

"Alright, go ahead! I'll come find you again tomorrow."

Su Jinru avoided the crowd and left.

Jin Gui then strode up and directed everyone to move the rice into the township government compound.

Someone had already brought over a large steelyard.

More than fifty militiamen blocked the onlookers outside the township government building.

Only the production team leaders and their accountants were allowed in, along with a few people to help move the grain.

With so many villagers waiting outside to receive their share of grain to cook porridge, Jin Gui didn't waste any more words. He directly addressed the people in each production team: "This time we bought 5,800 jin of rice, and also 2,800 jin of potatoes and sweet potatoes. The rice will be divided equally among your eleven production teams, with each team receiving 436 jin of rice, so you can resume your collective canteens. The other sweet potatoes and potatoes will also be distributed to you, but this grain is intended for planting as seeds."

Everyone was even more excited when they heard this. Although there were only a little over 400 kilograms of rice, enough to make porridge and barely last for a little over a month, something was better than nothing. People were starving to death, so they had to take care of the immediate situation first! More importantly, there were still some sweet potatoes and potatoes that could be planted. As farmers, having seeds and being able to plant them meant that the land wouldn't be left idle, which meant there was hope. Isn't that what people live for?

"We'll start distributing the grain now. We're very lucky this time. During this period of soaring grain prices, we were able to get the lowest price, 50 cents a pound. 436 pounds is 218 yuan. Everyone get your money ready. They brought so much rice to help us out of this emergency. They're not making a single penny and are even losing money on the transportation. We can't pay on credit. It's cash on delivery."

A production team leader held up the money and said, "Our production team has brought the money. Let us weigh the grain first!"

The other production team leader also took out his money.

“Our production team brought some too, so we’ll distribute them to them first.”

Everyone eagerly said, "We brought ours too, please give them to us first."

Jin Gui waved his hand.

"I see that all the production teams have brought their money. To be fair, let's start with the first production team. The others don't need to worry, they all have it, it's the same for everyone."

Everyone worked together quickly and divided the rice into eleven portions. The twelfth production team, which received the rice last, not only did not receive less, but actually received four more jin (2 catties).

The rice that Su Jinru sold was exactly the correct weight.

Next, they were divided into sweet potatoes and potatoes.

The third production team did not participate in the distribution of rice because they had already bought a thousand catties of rice. However, the team leader, Sanbao, also came to watch the excitement.

However, the coarse grains were allocated to the third production team because they were distributed as seeds, not as food, so each production team received some.

All production teams in Daben Township grow sweet potatoes and potatoes.

Each production team was allocated 225 jin of miscellaneous grain seeds.

Jin Gui repeatedly instructed that these sweet potatoes and potatoes were the team's seeds and should not be eaten.

If any production team eats all the coarse grains, not only will the team leader be removed from his post, but that production team will also be barred from receiving any assistance or favors from the township government in the future.

Moreover, once these crops are planted, people must be sent to guard them day and night to prevent anyone from digging up the seeds and eating them.

Seeds also need to be purchased by each production team.

3 cents a pound, 225 pounds, that's 67.5 yuan.

The third production team had previously spent four hundred yuan on rice, but fortunately they still had one hundred yuan left, enough to buy seeds.

After a chaotic and fussy process that lasted for more than an hour, the grain was finally distributed to the various production teams.

They immediately took the grain they had bought to their respective communal canteens, cooked the rice into porridge, and distributed a bowl of porridge to everyone.

That night, everyone in Daben Village and Xiaoben Village was immersed in the joy of escaping death.

A bowl of porridge every day, at least they can survive.

With the planting of sweet potatoes and potatoes, they have hope for future food supplies.

Many people volunteered to take on the responsibility of protecting food.

To prevent people from other towns from stealing their grain, each production team increased the number of militia members and applied to the county government for more firearms and ammunition.

The county government currently has no food aid, but it still has some firearms and ammunition. After discussion, in order to protect the grain in Daben Township, they provided Daben Township with a batch of firearms and ammunition, but stipulated that it was not allowed to fire guns indiscriminately.

As a last resort, they had no choice but to fire warning shots into the sky.

Firearms and ammunition can only serve as a deterrent; they cannot harm people.

In Daben Township, communal canteens were restored in every production team, and the people in the third production team were finally able to relax.

After all, compared to before, their food had become the target of everyone's hatred, so guarding this little bit of food every day was a nerve-wracking experience.

Now, at least in Daben Township, the situation of too many wolves and too little meat has been reversed, and everyone has some food, temporarily relieving the risk of starvation.

Nowadays, when people go to the communal canteen for meals, there are no longer crowds of onlookers from other production teams. No one is anymore trembling with fear that their rice porridge will be stolen.

But then, the number of beggars in the village suddenly increased.

Furthermore, there was an incident where beggars broke into the canteen and stole porridge. Since then, militiamen have been stationed at the village entrance to guard the area and prevent outsiders from entering the village.

Jin Gui gave Su Jinru the 3,740 yuan from the grain sale and asked her to pass it on to the contact person.

Su Jinru put all the money into her personal space.

With the previous four hundred yuan, Su Jinru now has a huge sum of over four thousand yuan.

This sum of money is equivalent to tens of millions of dollars in later generations.

With food and wealth, her parents alive and well, and her relatives healthy, Su Jinru felt that her life couldn't be better.