A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 84 [084] Paying Public Grain 1
However, the above is just what she heard from her family and neighbors.

When it was time to pay the public food, I realized that the reality was even more cruel.

First of all, as I said before, military families enjoy a 50.00% reduction and exemption policy for the surplus of public grain, but when it is actually handed in, it is not as good as it seems on the surface.

Every year when it comes to paying public grain, it is considered a big thing for every household.

My brothers are all going to school at this time, and my father is also at work, so there are only my sister-in-law and their two little carrots left at home.

So she and her younger brother would sit in the big cart of the auntie and mother, and watch the two women pull hundreds of catties of grain to the grain station in the town.

In order to queue at the front, some people have to go before dawn, some go to the big grain station in the city, and some go to the grain station in the town below. No matter which grain station it is in front of, at this time, there are groups of people pulling shelf carts. old farmer.

My mother and my aunt were pulling the grain, and Zhuo Jian and I were sitting on the grain. We walked on the bumpy dirt road, looking at the surrounding fields that had changed from wheat fields to rice fields and corn fields. The two strenuous steps were not as happy as they had imagined, but rather heavy.

No wonder everyone is rushing to the city, facing the loess with their backs to the sky, working hard for a whole year, but also having to bear the risk of starvation. It’s really not done by humans. I think they were as delicate as flowers back then His skin and face, but after the beating of the days and the hardships of life, only the traces of the vicissitudes and hard work are left.

You know, in this era, the wheat is harvested manually with a sickle. You can’t wait until the wheat is fully ripe before harvesting, otherwise it will blow up the ground all at once, which is equivalent to half a year of dryness. Therefore, when farmers harvest, they will choose when the wheat is about to mature. Harvest when they are not mature, but the disadvantage of this is that they need to be dried repeatedly before delivering the public grain. No, from harvesting to now, they have experienced repeated drying for more than half a month.

Even so, when you arrive at the grain station, you may have to receive various food and card requirements.

Those who are in charge of the grain and weigh the grain at the grain station, those who wear uniforms and big caps, are very concerned about the dryness and wetness of the grain. They hold a metal fork braggingly, stop and go in the convoy of the grain delivery, casually Poke a hole in any cloth bag or sack.

Oh, by the way, there are no silk-cutting bags in this era, they are all sewn and woven from homemade coarse cloth and hemp.

After the hole is dirty, pull it out again, and some food will come out of the metal fork. They will look at it first to see if your food is clean, whether there is a lot of soil and stones, and then put it in their mouths and click twice to confirm The degree of dryness and humidity, and then divide the grain grade for you.

Grain also needs to be divided into three, six, and nine grades, which are second grade, third grade and fourth grade. What is second grade, third grade, and fourth grade? There are samples at the entrance of the grain store, and you can compare your own situation. , the worse the grade, the more public grain you pay.

Therefore, there are very few people who can pay the public food in one visit. They often stand in line for half a day or a day, and finally it is their turn, but because the food is unqualified, they will give you a poor grade of food. If you come, you need to make up for food, and if you don’t make up for food, you have to make up for money, anyway, you can’t run away.

Pulling back and forth, going back and forth for three or two days is common.

(End of this chapter)