Era: My backyard is the garbage dump of the universe

Chapter 44 Something happened?
Under the eaves.

The puppy is still barking.

But nothing happened.

This made Liu Qingsong curious.

I quickly looked in the direction of the puppy's barking.

In this direction there is only the honey pomelo tree where fertilizer was buried before.

As for other things, it seems that they don’t exist at all.

"What's going on?" Liu Qingsong was a little confused. In order to stop the puppy from barking, he quickly reached out and picked him up.

Strange to say.

After he picked up the puppy.

He immediately became obedient and stopped barking.

This made Liu Qingsong laugh and cry, and he was a little confused about what the little milk dog meant.

Seeing that the little puppy was very affectionate to him, he snuggled into his arms, closed his eyes and fell asleep, so he carried him into the kitchen.

In the kitchen, the wood stove had been lit by Liu Lijuan. After seeing the puppy in Liu Qingsong's arms, she said, "Don't worry about this puppy. Maybe it's a stranger passing by our house, or a wild animal."

"That's right." Liu Qingsong put the puppy in the corner of the door, and then helped to cook.

Seeing that there was no one else in the kitchen, Liu Lijuan hesitated for a moment and asked Liu Qingsong softly, "We have some money now. After paying back Aunt Wang, we still have a lot left. Do you think we can take some of it out and go to the market tomorrow to buy some chickens and ducks to feed?"

"If possible, I would also like to buy a piglet to raise."

"When the time comes, we can raise them and sell them, and then we can pay off all the money we owe to our uncles all at once."

"Of course!" Liu Qingsong replied immediately after hearing this.

Although the Huaishu Production Team implemented the large collective policy in the 1970s, the authorities still strongly encouraged peasant families to raise poultry and livestock such as chickens, ducks, rabbits, and pigs.

Villagers are also allowed to trade privately.

Otherwise.

People living in rural areas simply cannot survive.

After all, in addition to clothing and food, other supplies, such as matches, kerosene, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea, all require money to buy.

Before his parents were arrested, they relied on raising pigs, chickens and ducks, or hunting and selling game to support their family's daily expenses.

This is not nonsense, but something I have experienced personally.

He remembered that as long as his parents sold agricultural products, such as a pound of eggs, to the supply and marketing cooperative, in addition to paying the purchase price, they would also get a certain number of cloth coupons and sugar coupons.

If you sell a pig to a food station, you can get some meat coupons and grain coupons based on the weight of the pig.

These meat and grain coupons can be exchanged for money and given to those in need.

In short, raising pigs, chickens and ducks is not illegal, and the relevant departments have also issued a strict regulation to encourage pig farming.

This regulation is that the commune or brigade cannot limit each household to raising only one pig, nor can it interfere with the raising and slaughtering of pigs. It must take into account both collective and individual interests.

However, most of the pigs slaughtered were definitely sold to supply and marketing cooperatives and food stations, and they were even reluctant to keep some during the Chinese New Year.

As for the reason, it was obviously to exchange for rations and other daily necessities.

After all, there were many brothers and sisters in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as many natural disasters, and everyone was short of food.

Speaking of food shortage, we have to mention the distribution of rations.

Rations are generally distributed in three portions.

One of them is the basic food ration, which has nothing to do with whether your family participates in labor. Both adults and children must be given a certain proportion, but this proportion is very small and is not enough to fill you up.

The second ration is work point rations. The more work a member does, the more work points he gets, and the more work point rations he gets.

The third part is to look at the amount of fertilizer handed over to the production team. This fertilizer is not urea, ammonium carbonate and phosphate fertilizer, but pig manure, dog feces, grass ash, manure water, etc.

In other words, the more fertilizer you pay.

The higher the score, the more rations you will get.

This is why children as young as Yaomei and Xiao Nuomi had to go out to pick up dog poop to earn work points, just to get more food rations.

These food ration shares are actually the income from the villagers' labor for one year and can be bought and sold freely.

Of course, in addition to the income from food rations.

The villagers’ actual income mainly comes from three aspects.

One is the distribution income of the production team based on work points and actual scores.

The second is obtained through private plots.

The third is the income from family farming.

If there are commune-brigade enterprises, villagers can also get a portion of cash income dividends by working in the commune-brigade enterprises.

In other words, there are huge differences between communes.

Sometimes the production teams could not be compared due to geographical differences. For example, the Huangyu production team where Liu Qingsong married had abundant oil tea resources, which was incomparable to the Huajiao production team.

However, Huajiao Production Brigade is suitable for breeding.

Especially the Huaishu production team.

Maybe it’s because of the geographical location, the chickens, ducks and pigs raised there taste much better than those in other brigades.

This is why Liu Lijuan, who had some spare money, suddenly suggested going to the market to buy chickens, ducklings and piglets to raise.

Because it fits, and she will.

Of course, raising chickens and ducks was also legal in the seven or eight years.

But the quantity cannot be too much.

If there are too many, some people with ulterior motives will accuse you of speculating.

Speaking of reselling, it is actually a policy to strictly investigate people who have no legitimate jobs, or other people who act as middlemen, buying from villagers at low prices and then reselling at high prices.

But later it was taken advantage of by some people.

It changed in the end.

For example, the current Huaishu production team.

The situation was in chaos because of Wang Xiaohe and Zhong Xinbing.

If villagers want to sell a chicken or duck, or exchange agricultural products for daily necessities, they must get their consent, otherwise they will be accused of speculating.

Although many villagers appealed.

But there was pressure from above, including Wang Wuyi, deputy director of the commune.

In the end, nothing will be done and Wang Xiaohe and Zhong Xinbing will retaliate against them.

Under such circumstances, over time no one dared to go against Wang Xiaohe and Zhong Xinbing. If anyone wanted to sell chickens, ducks or other things, they would do it secretly.

Of course, Wang Xiaohe and Zhong Xinbing also know their own limitations.

Know that some things cannot be overdone.

So even if it hits.

Sometimes I turn a blind eye.

Otherwise, I'm afraid that the villagers in the Huaishu Production Team would have rebelled by now.

Back to the point, Liu Lijuan was so happy when she saw Liu Qingsong agreed to let her go to the market to buy chickens, ducks, and piglets to raise at home: "Then I will go to the market early tomorrow morning to buy them, and Qingsong, you stay at home to take care of Xiao Nuomi and Yaomei."

"Okay." Liu Qingsong agreed.

Seeing that the fourth and fifth children had returned from school, the siblings stopped chatting and instead quickened the pace of preparing the dishes.

……

Finished dinner.

Because my second sister was washing clothes in the backyard.

So Liu Qingsong did not enter the Wanjie garbage dump to clean up the garbage again, but supervised the fourth and fifth children to do their homework under the pine oil lamp in the main room.

But don't know why.

The little puppy always barks at the pomelo tree and navel orange tree under the eaves.

Liu Qingsong wanted to go out and take a look, but when he saw that it was pitch black outside and there was not even a star, he didn't bother to pay any more attention.

Silent all night.

Soon it was seven o'clock the next morning.

Liu Qingsong got up and washed.

I was just about to go to the vegetable garden to pick some onions.

Suddenly, the next second, he was stunned.

After coming to his senses, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

The reason for this is that the originally green pomelo fruits on the pomelo tree with raindrops on them have all turned yellow.

And that's not even the point.

The point is that the pomelo was the size of a fist yesterday.

At this time, the big ones were as big as basketballs, and the small ones were as big as shot puts.

Liu Qingsong realized that this was not a dream, and walked towards the pomelo tree in horror.

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　Thanks to Danwang Huixiang Xiaofeng for the reward of 100 starting coins, and thanks to Yuanqiyuanmieyuanziyuan for the reward of 100 starting coins. Thank you very much, and thank you all for your monthly tickets and recommendation tickets.

　　
　
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