Chapter 1544: Can You Let Me Finish?
It has to be said, Xiangjiang people have a misunderstanding about the mainland, thinking that rural areas are places where people can't get enough food or clothing, always wearing headscarves and patched clothes.
Little do they know, the worst times in the mainland were during the three years of disaster in the sixties. Besides that, life wasn't as they imagined.
Because the countryside was a collective system, even if villagers had ten or eight children, the production team would distribute food. Adults received four hundred jin of grain, and children received three hundred jin, plus there were work points salary and lots of miscellaneous grains, ensuring there was enough to raise children.
However, teenagers eat a lot, and families with many children often find that fine grains are not enough. Since they eat little meat, they consume more grain, with rural folks having an average daily consumption of one jin and two taels of rice.
