She Only Cares About Cultivation

That evening, An Yi brought wine and the pastries she had wrapped in oiled paper to see the village chief, oh, now he’s the captain of their Liujiatun production team.

Of course, An Yi couldn’t just bring up the food issue directly, she just said: "Captain Liu, isn’t the New Year coming soon? I’m here to wish you an early Happy New Year."

It’s the twentieth of December, only three days until Xiao Nian. After Xiao Nian, every household will get busy, but their family’s food is still not sorted, can you believe it?

"Hey, Xiao’an, you’re finally back, I was thinking if you didn’t come back, that food would have celebrated the New Year at my house!"

Seeing the things she brought in her hand, the couple was all smiles, very happy, and personally went out to greet her.

Oh, this captain is waiting for her to come proactively, to get some benefits before distributing the food?

An Yi chuckled coldly, really cunning!

She didn’t come back, so they could delay giving her food, fine, but what about Qiuxia and Caihua? Aren’t they at home, why aren’t they getting theirs either?

Do they not see these two girls as people worthy of equal treatment?

The more she thought about it, the angrier she got, but she didn’t show it on her face and still smilingly asked.

"I saw the sweet potatoes and substitute food distributed at home. So, how much grain can we get?"

"Oh, besides your basic ration, there’s half a kilogram, totaling less than five hundred jin, with less than a hundred of those counted as substitute food and sweet potatoes. One jin of grain can be exchanged for five jin of sweet potatoes or substitute food, so what I sent you is five hundred jin, and the remaining four hundred jin includes corn, wheat, rice, buckwheat, soybeans, totaling four hundred jin."

"And for your An Ran, An Ran gets five taels a day, 180 jin of grain a year, the child is small and doesn’t eat substitute food, so it’s calculated as grain. Also, since you voluntarily surrendered two acres, it’s only fair to give you some deserved benefits, so your family’s fine grain this year is... 580 jin, let’s round it up to 600!"

An Yi raised an eyebrow; she had forgotten about their little one.

With this calculation, it seemed reasonable, but though they said six hundred jin, it was all with husks, not peeled or threshed, if it were clean grain, it would need to be reduced by seventy to eighty jin, ending up with about five hundred jin, which means the mother and daughter get a bit over a jin of grain a day, not enough to be full, but they won’t starve.

She nodded to this, thanked them, and asked about the sisters’: "For both of them, it’s easy to calculate, 88 jin converted to 440 jin of sweet potatoes and substitute food, in the remaining two hundred jin of grain, it’s distributed like yours, when will you come to collect it, it’s stored in the warehouse!"

Getting the answer she wanted, An Yi was very satisfied.

"Then shall we come at nine o’clock tomorrow morning to collect the grain?"

"Sure, I’ll have the accountant come with me to weigh it for you then."

She didn’t bother to figure out how much more grain her extra half a kilogram would yield, but since they said they’d calculate it as five hundred jin, there was no need to be too picky.

Five hundred jin is five hundred jin, even if it’s shelled five hundred, it’s better than nothing, right?

Everyone gets substitute food, that’s not something the captain can change.

The grain returned to her family’s cellar by ten o’clock the next morning, and the sisters’ portion was also delivered, it just didn’t feel safe to leave it on the other side.

The three people’s grain totaled 1000 jin, substitute food and sweet potatoes less than 1780 jin, that’s their four people’s rations for next year.

"Not bad, we can have a full year this year, just, weren’t you both at home when the grain was distributed? Why did you only get some sweet potatoes and substitute food, was the captain waiting for me to come back on purpose?"

Caihua pouted: "It’s certainly for the goodies you had, purposely stuck here, we asked at the time, they directly said our family members weren’t all here, wait till everyone is back to calculate."

An Yi laughed: "Isn’t that good? Listen, they’ve already considered the four of us as one family, alright, be content, at least we get thirty jin each month without working, in the city, it’s divided according to age group, though, but when you convert it, it’s about the same, we have unprocessed grain, they get processed ones,"

The newborns get three jin a month (fine grain), increase by two jin each year, capped at twenty-one jin, with a certificate from the middle school increasing to 25 jin, high school to 31 jin, one more jin than township officials, thinking of this, An Yi promptly said.

"Well, I forgot about the pastry, didn’t you two get into middle school? According to reason, the grain should be increased by a jin for you, any certificates issued?"