60s: I have a store

Chapter 321: Grain Storage
The children were happily queuing up, waiting for the women to measure their heights.

This makes those children who have not reached the school age very envious. Every time they see their older brothers and sisters getting new clothes at school, they all want to grow up quickly and go to school.

Nowadays, many rural families feel that reading so many books is useless. Studying now is not like in later generations, where there is compulsory education and basically you just need to pay some book fees.

Although it is said that graduating from a technical secondary school or university will guarantee you a job, how many people can pass the exam? It is quite difficult to get into a technical secondary school nowadays.

Not to mention getting into university, which is even more difficult.

Getting into university nowadays is a matter of honor for the family.

Zhou Yimin was very happy to see a group of children with big smiles on their faces. He immediately found the old branch secretary and planned to bring over 10,000 kilograms of coarse grains purchased by the village, but he had to wait until the evening.

"Old Party branch secretary, after those outsiders leave tonight, I will have people bring in the grain. Bring more people with you and move the grain into the cellar as soon as possible." Zhou Yimin went straight to the point.

After hearing what Zhou Yimin said, the old branch secretary smiled with satisfaction: "Okay, I will call most of the villagers to help when the time comes."

They will only feel at ease if the grain is stored in the warehouse as soon as possible.

I was really scared by last year.

As long as there is food, there is no need to worry. In addition to human consumption, we also raise chickens and the like! Although we don’t feed them all with food, we still need to feed them a little.

Therefore, if there is a shortage of food, the whole village will be worried.

The food reserved for this year's autumn harvest is definitely not enough, so they also planted some autumn corn and other crops on the riverbed, which will be harvested in about a month.

By then, there will be another 10,000 to 20,000 kilograms of grain stored. If it is just for human consumption, it will be no problem to hold on until the next year's harvest.

The old branch secretary began to arrange people to check the cellar that had been dug earlier. If there were no problems, tonight's food would be moved into the cellar.

We found Zhou Xucai and three other people, a total of four people.

The four people arrived at the cellar that had been dug before the village, and the first thing they did was to check the ventilation.

Before using the cellar, you must ventilate it to ensure that the oxygen content in the cellar is sufficient to avoid suffocation due to lack of oxygen. You can use a lit candle or oil lamp to test the oxygen content in the cellar. If the candle or oil lamp does not go out within 30 minutes, it means that the oxygen content can maintain breathing.

Before entering the cellar, someone must be on guard and use ropes to tie the person's armpits on both sides. If you feel dizzy, vertigo, panic or difficulty breathing, you should immediately signal the people on the ground to pull you out of the cellar.

After the cellar is used, it should be closed in time to prevent others from entering by mistake.

Before, some children were tricked into a cellar. If the cellar door was closed from the outside, it could not be opened from the inside. Unless someone was called to open the cellar door, the children would be trapped inside forever.

After some inspection, Zhou Xucai and his team did not find any problems with the cellar.

"Secretary, the cellar is fine."

The old branch secretary nodded to show that he understood, and he had other things to do.

As the Chinese New Year approaches, there are still many things to do in the village. Fortunately, the reservoir is about to be repaired, and it is estimated that in a few days, the generator can be installed in the power station next to the dam.

By then, Zhoujiazhuang will have access to electricity, and this is funded and built by Zhoujiazhuang alone, so there is no need to pay for electricity, which is also good news.

It is said that the electricity charges in the city now adopt the "package light system", that is, the electricity charges are calculated based on the number of light bulbs used by the user.

A 15-watt light bulb costs 0.15 yuan per month, and a 25-watt light bulb costs 0.25 yuan per month. Electricity workers only need to count the light bulbs to calculate the electricity bill.

From this we can see that at that time, ordinary households did not have any electrical appliances, basically just a light bulb.

It was not like later times where the electricity bill was based on the amount of electricity used. Soon it was evening, and after the villagers of Zhoujiazhuang had finished their dinner, they waited until all the people from Shuangtian Village had left before they started to act.

Zhoujiazhuang is now an iron barrel, but we can't stand outsiders living in the village, so we still have to be careful.

At about seven o'clock, Zhou Yimin came to find the old branch secretary and said, "It's time to move now."

"Okay, I'll organize people now." The old branch secretary said immediately.

The villagers of Zhoujiazhuang received a notice from the old branch secretary, and except for some old people and children, the entire village of Zhoujiazhuang was mobilized.

This is a matter concerning everyone’s food, and we cannot be careless in the slightest.

In fact, Zhou Yimin didn't need to notify everyone because they saw the car entering the village.

Everyone was excited when they saw the cart full of food. With so much food, they wouldn't have to worry about going hungry next year.

Although they were very tired after a busy day, they immediately became energetic after seeing the food. If they were moving food, they could keep moving without taking a break.

"If all this food were given to me, I would never have to worry about food in my life." Zhou Xu sighed.

Another person retorted: "You are dreaming. These are the food for the village, not just for you."

Everyone was talking about it, and the old branch secretary saw this and quickly interrupted them: "Stop arguing, and start moving quickly."

"Captain, you take the village security team to guard here. We can't let anything happen to the grain." The old branch secretary added.

The team leader quickly made a promise: "Old Party Secretary, don't worry, no one dares to tamper with these grains."

After getting the assurance from the team leader, the old branch secretary felt at ease and led the villagers to move the grain to the cellar.

Such a large amount of food cannot be transported in one go. It will have to be transported in at least several times.

The main reason is that the cellar is not on the roadside and the car cannot be pulled over. Otherwise, it would not be so troublesome.

In fact, Zhou Yimin suggested taking over the road.

But everyone is reluctant to give up the farmland.

Farmers are all like this, land is everyone's lifeblood, and not even a bit of it can be wasted, even if the land does not belong to them personally.

After more than half an hour of moving, the old branch secretary and his men finally stored the grain in the cellar.

Fortunately, no accidents happened along the way.

The old Party secretary also knew that the villagers had worked hard, so he said: "Everyone has worked hard, and the village canteen will give everyone extra meals tomorrow."

The villagers were very happy to hear that there would be extra meals. The extra meals in Zhoujiazhuang usually include meat.

Most of the five or six hundred kilograms of pork were made into bacon and stored, but the villagers could still taste the meat from time to time.

This kind of food is even better than that of ordinary workers in the city. Ordinary workers in the city may not be able to eat meat once a month, so the food in Zhoujiazhuang is considered very good.

Compared with other villages, Zhoujiazhuang is even more like a paradise.

(End of this chapter)