Era: Start as a buyer

Chapter 44 Looking for Answers



Residents living in the town are notified one by one, while those in the village are notified directly by the entire village.

I am telling everyone that all the iron pots at home must be handed over to support the large-scale steelmaking. Starting from July 2nd, people here in town go to designated canteens to eat. They also supervise each other. In the future, if no one has a pot, and if the chimney smokes, the pot will be confiscated directly. If you voluntarily hand it over in a few days, you will be given a sum of money for scrap metal. If it is discovered and confiscated, you will lose everything.

In addition, the fields and vegetable fields will all be collectivized in the future. The harvest in the first half of this year is still considered personal, but the harvested grain will not be distributed to individuals. The money will be calculated and paid to you based on the price of the unified grain purchase. Of course, the grain harvested from now to November must be deducted before the unified grain purchase is calculated.

Anyway, it’s just to inform. If you don’t understand something, you can ask.

If Luo Chengneng has any opinions, I checked it on my mobile phone in the future time and space. This policy has been implemented for more than 20 years, so it must have its reasonableness. What's more, his bit of land was originally cultivated by other people with the help of each other. On the yielding land, they would give him half of the harvest after deducting the grain. He just picked it up for free.

But thinking about it this way, the food in the canteen is not free. The food commune this season has to deduct the rations first. Since rations have been deducted, what circumstances led to the cancellation of the collective canteen after just one year? I have to go to the future time and use my mobile phone to check it out. I found out that this collective canteen only lasted for one year and was canceled. The introduction was general and I didn't find out the specific reasons.

In fact, Luo Cheng doesn't need to care too much about things in the town, because he will go to work in the city in the future. I plan to find out the specific reason, it's just out of curiosity, and after all, I know some people in the town, so I can help them deal with it when the time comes.

The clerk basically informed me and left. There were many people to notify, and we couldn't waste too much time at one house. After the waiter left, Zhao Qian happened to finish working in the kitchen. The rice was already cooked and needed to be simmered for a while before it could be eaten.

During the meal, Luo Cheng told Zhao Qian that he would come back tomorrow and take a brother to see her father. According to what Accountant Zhao said, Accountant Zhao had actually arranged for Luo Cheng to be a ranger a few days ago, while her daughter went to assess the brigade accountant and so on. Now that it has been put into operation, the favor must have been sold. It should not be difficult for Accountant Zhao to replace him as a mountain ranger.

It's hard for Zhao Qian to say anything about such a thing. This is a matter between men.

After the meal, Luo Cheng took a rest, mainly to avoid the hottest time, before going to Chen Laizi's house. He asked Chen Laizi to come over to his side tomorrow morning, but on the way there, Luo Chengcheng guessed that Chen Laizi might not be at home at this time, so he could just say hello to his family.

But the trip was so far, and Chen Lezi also lived at the foot of the mountain, so Luo Cheng resisted his rifle and set off with a box of ammunition. He was going to take a walk to the edge of the mountain. There were many birds in the forest now, but the birds had little meat and were too small. He felt that if he hit them, they would not be worth the cost of bullets.

But Luo Cheng just wanted to get addicted, shoot a few shots and then come back.

When Luo Cheng went to Chen Laizi's house with a rifle on his shoulder, he was not at home as expected. He told his family that he had something important to do with him. He was told to look for him in the town tomorrow morning, and then Luo Cheng went up the mountain.

When looking for prey in the mountains, it is best to go to a place with water. Generally, where there is water, there are more animals. But more is more, and the animals on the ground are very alert. Even if Luo Cheng walks along the water source, many small animals may sense that they are far away and leave. There were quite a few birds on the trees, and they flew above Luo Cheng from time to time.

I wanted to try my luck at encountering a small or medium-sized animal, but I didn't find anything after wandering around for a long time. I felt that early morning or evening was the best time to hunt, but I didn’t go down the mountain empty-handed. I found a bird that looked a bit meaty in size. I was not willing to waste bullets. I took aim for a long time, and one shot captured my heart. I couldn't name this bird, but I weighed it in my hands and felt the weight was enough.

If the bird is killed, it should be disposed of immediately when it is hot. If it is not to be eaten on the same day, it is best to clean it, cut it into pieces and put it in the water, and then find a way to hang it above the water surface of the water tank. The cool air above the water makes food less likely to spoil. If you want to keep it longer, just grill it and smoke it for a few more days.

Luo Cheng brought the bird home, which was another surprise for Zhao Qian. In the past, even in her parents' house, it was difficult to eat meat at home. Of course, Luo Cheng didn't tell Zhao Qian that in the past, this bird didn't have much meat, and it would have been traded for food on the black market. Rabbits and mice are eaten directly after being caught.

The day passed quickly, and Luo Cheng naturally did not let Zhao Qian go at night, even though she told Luo Cheng that walking during the day was actually a little uncomfortable. Luo Cheng also felt sorry for Zhao Qian. From the beginning, he said that he would just rub it outside~~~and then~ (the question is, is there any man who can really do it).

~~

"This damn thing isn't used to it anymore."

When Luo Cheng woke up, he was in the future time and space again. It had only been a day. When he woke up, he found that his wife was not around, and he actually missed the feeling of having a woman hug him as soon as he woke up.

Looking for the mobile phone next to the bedside, Luo Cheng needed to carefully check what caused the collective cafeteria to fail to last for a year.

According to him, if land and rural collectivization can last for more than 20 years, it must mean that it is better than individual grain farming now. This is better than an individual, which means that food production must have increased as planned.

Grain production increased, but the collective canteen only lasted for one year. Luo Cheng's education and experience could not understand this problem, but in the future time and space, wouldn't it be possible to check history on mobile phones, and it would not be easy to understand.

With targeted search, Luo Cheng quickly found the answer he wanted. There is a lot of information, both intuitive and objective.

First of all, millions of canteens have been built across the country to achieve equality in eating, and everyone eats and drinks the same. But in some mountainous areas, there are not many people in a village, and households are far apart. It takes a long time to walk to the canteen for a meal, and some are reluctant to leave because they are hungry again after walking back.

Regarding the latter statement, Luo Cheng disagreed with it at first, joking that it was still far from enough to eat. You have to know that everyone works hard all day long just for the sake of food. Isn’t walking even harder than farming?

But after reading a lot of other information later, I found that they were vaguely involved in another incident.

For example, in the public canteen, everyone ate happily and full at the beginning. But this is based on a bumper grain harvest, and everyone actually eats the grain they grow themselves. Collective grain planting is indeed more rational. After all, many people do not have production tools. Not to mention whether they have cattle to plow the land, even hoes and shovels may not be available to everyone.

However, after the establishment of the commune, everyone worked hard collectively, but the grain production was still reduced, and there were even no harvests in many places. This has nothing to do with whether everyone is industrious or not, or whether they have the tools. Instead, there was a natural disaster. The information searched on the mobile phone showed that in Luo Cheng's time, drought had already occurred in some areas of the Northeast and production had been reduced.


Tip: You can use left, right, A and D keyboard keys to browse between chapters.