Dressed Like a Cute Little Lucky Bag Chapter 247

Chapter 247 Bitten by a Rat 1

  Sanni took it for granted. Her sister was a fairy, so of course she couldn't do any work.

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  After dinner, when I went to work in the fields, I saw that every household had lost the joy of yesterday's grain distribution and were now sighing.

  Among all the communes under the towns, the three neighboring communes had the best harvests, so many relatives came to borrow grain, which put them in a very difficult situation.

  If I don't lend it, it's a matter of face and favor. But if I lend it to this family, there will be another one coming. With such a hassle, it will be easy for my own family to run out of food.

  Moreover, several families could not bear the pressure and lent out a lot of their grain.

  Zhao Mancang looked at them with a frown, fearing that they would be soft-hearted and lend out all their food.

  So we went to the commune dam for a meeting after lunch.

  He stood on the stage, holding a loudspeaker and speaking seriously, "I called everyone here today mainly to talk about borrowing grain. I know that some of you have already lent out a lot of grain. This spirit of mutual help is worth learning from. But I want to remind everyone today that the extent of grain damage this year is not as serious as you think."

  After hearing his last sentence, the members who were originally worried immediately pricked up their ears and wanted to listen carefully to what the situation was like in other communes.

  The relatives who came to borrow grain complained that the harvest in their commune was bad and people were starving to death, but they didn't know exactly why it was so bad, so they didn't know whether to lend the grain or not.

  If it is really life-saving grain, not lending it would be like watching someone die without help!

  Zhao Mancang paused and continued, "After all, the damage this time is serious. Only the communes under the two towns next door have harvested half of last year's harvest. As long as we pay less public grain this year, we can still eat half full every meal and not starve to death. What's more important is that we have only harvested the first crop so far, and the second crop will be harvested soon. Although the output is not as good as the first crop, there is still a lot of grain. I tell you all this today, hoping that you can consider it carefully according to your own situation before deciding whether to lend grain or not."

  Upon hearing this, everyone in the commune showed expressions of relief on their faces.

  Yes, at that time, all they could think about was the few grains they had in stock and the relatives who came to borrow grain from time to time. They were all afraid of hunger because of the hard times in the past, so they were very scared when the grain production decreased, and they all panicked.

  That's why we tried every possible way to store food.

  But they forgot that this year can actually be considered a bumper year, and even if they only had half of the harvest, they could still barely survive.

  There are more than ten mouths to feed at home. If we really lend out the food, those who go hungry will become our family members.

  Moreover, the grain production was not high these days. Even in a good year, the normal amount of grain distributed to each family was barely enough to feed so many mouths in the family.

  If they lend it out, they don’t know when they can get it all back.

  So after this meeting, most of the families who had been hesitating about whether to lend grain out decided not to lend it.

  Only two families were persuaded by their relatives to lend out some of the money.

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  At night, after finally making it to midnight, Chen Jiandang couldn't wait to ask, "Mom, are we going to dig a rat hole tonight?"

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