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

84. Grain Distribution

The car drove away.

Su Jinru also went back. Jin Gui was worried about her walking alone at night and offered to take her, but she refused.

The public housing unit was less than 500 meters from her home, and she had a dagger on her.

She also got used to the night.

Jin Gui instructed everyone to sleep in the public quarters while guarding the grain.

Before leaving home in the morning, Su Jinru had left her two children with her parents. Since the children were already asleep, she didn't disturb them and went home to sleep alone.

The next morning, Su Jinru heard that Li Meili had starved to death.

She starved to death yesterday afternoon. Because she died in her own home, she was luckier than Qi Zhenglin, as she was not dismembered.

She lived more than a month longer than Qi Zhenglin, and seven months longer than in her previous life.

If she had held on for two more days, she might never have starved to death again in her life, but unfortunately she couldn't hold on.

Yesterday, Qi Zhengyang waited outside Su Jinru's house for a long time, but Su Jinru didn't come out to fetch water, and he couldn't hear the child's voice either.

No one answered the door when I knocked.

Later, Liu Yulan came out when she heard the knocking and scolded him for disturbing her daughter even though he had already divorced and remarried. She asked if he wanted to ruin her daughter's reputation.

Liu Yulan scolded, "You may not care about your reputation, but we do! Get out of here! Don't ruin my daughter's name."

In her past life, Liu Yulan always greeted her son-in-law with a smile.

The current attitude is so terrible, the contrast is too great, and Qi Zhengyang simply cannot accept it.

However, he considered himself a cultured and well-mannered person and couldn't bring himself to argue with her. He was also afraid that if others saw him, they would criticize him for coming to knock on his ex-wife's door after the divorce, and he wouldn't be able to explain himself. So he could only slink back home.

Qi Zhengyang walked home dejectedly. When he got to the door, he saw his nephew An Hua coming to him crying, saying that his mother seemed to be dying.

Qi Zhengyang stumbled to his elder brother's house, where Li Meili was already stiff and had passed away long ago.

Qi Zhengyang instructed his two nephews to wrap Li Meili in straw mats, and with great effort, he led several equally weak and hungry children to hastily bury Li Meili on the mountain behind the village.

Looking at the six children left behind by his elder brother and sister-in-law, Qi Zhengyang felt a chill run down his spine and was under immense pressure.

According to Du Mei, he himself is barely able to take care of himself, so how can he support these six children?

In his past life, Su Jinru bore all of this for him. Now, relying on Du Mei to take care of these children seems a bit impossible to him.

In her previous life, after her elder brother and sister-in-law starved to death, Su Jinru took the initiative to combine the two houses into one.

Now, he has finally brought up the idea of ​​bringing his six children to live with him, and Du Mei has become furious, saying that she won't stop him from making trouble for himself, but he shouldn't involve her.

Qi Zhengyang was so worried that he couldn't sleep all night.

The next morning, the village cadres of the third production team went door-to-door to check and record how many people were left in each household.

After the registration was completed, I told them some exciting news.

At nine o'clock in the evening, you were to go to the public housing to distribute grain, carrying baskets. You were warned not to let the news out, to go quietly, and to go home quietly to hide the grain. If people from other production teams found out, they would steal your grain, and you would only be able to wait to starve to death.

Everyone has witnessed the desperate scene of starving people looting crops from the fields, heard stories of people killing those who had food in their homes, and experienced the starvation of those around them. Now that they have finally obtained a little bit of life-saving food, they naturally wouldn't seek death by spreading the news everywhere.

In the evening, the members of the third production team came to the public housing early to distribute grain.

It was supposed to be nine o'clock, but people started arriving at the public housing at seven o'clock when it was still dark. The village officials had anticipated this situation and had been waiting for a long time. As long as they came, they would be given ten jin of food per person, based on the number of people registered during the day.

When I woke up in the morning, I was still worried about when I would starve to death, but in the afternoon I heard the news that food would be distributed.

Many people came with skepticism, just to give it a try, but they didn't expect to actually receive food, including good things like sweet potatoes and potatoes.

More importantly, it can be distributed equally to individuals regardless of age.

Happiness came unexpectedly, something they never dreamed of.

Those who received the grain quickly carried it back home. They had been starving for a long time and were even on the verge of death. The grain they received was a lifesaver.

The village officials were worried that some people, having been hungry for a long time, might overeat and die from bloating once they suddenly had some food. They repeatedly reminded them that this was a month's worth of food, and they had to eat it sparingly, and not to eat too much at once, or they would die from overeating.

Most people have experienced hunger and know that food is hard-won, so they will naturally plan for the long term and eat sparingly.

However, there was one family that failed to properly store their food. Their twelve-year-old son got up in the middle of the night to steal sweet potatoes. Because he had been hungry for so long, his stomach had lost the ability to feel full, so he ate without restraint. He ate too much and then drank some cold water, which caused him to die from overeating.

Du Mei initially disagreed with taking care of her brother-in-law's six children, but when she heard that the team was distributing grain according to households, she immediately agreed.

After all, her brother-in-law's family had six children, so they had more households and received more grain. How could she possibly pass up such an opportunity to benefit?

So that evening, Du Mei collected all the grain she received.

Of course, to appease the group of children who were watching eagerly, Du Mei cooked some sweet potatoes. She sliced ​​the sweet potatoes with a kitchen knife, and each person ate two slices. After distributing the sweet potatoes to each person, she sent them off to bed.

The next day, upon hearing that a family's child had died from overeating, Du Mei said to Qi Zhengyang, "Look, I told you the children were ignorant and didn't know how to plan and save. If I hadn't collected all this food, your brother's children probably would have overeaten and died too."

Qi Zhengyang was also terrified. After all, a child is a child. Without adult supervision, who knows what he might do?

The next morning, the team knocked on doors from house to house, calling people to go to work.

The team distributed food the night before, so there will probably be food from now on!

In order to earn more work points and more food, everyone who could get up went to the public housing to gather and wait for job assignments.

We heard that today's job was to build a wall. Although we didn't know what building a wall meant (the team leader said not to ask too many questions, just do what you are told), when we arrived at the edge of the fields and heard that we were going to enclose the fields with a high wall, everyone had a general idea of ​​what it meant.

I haven't worked in a long time. Compared to enduring hunger, the hardship of working is nothing.

Thinking that they would have work to do and might not go hungry again brought them some comfort, and they worked hard without hesitation.