It was no wonder Bai Chenggang was thinking this way. The sweet potatoes and potatoes piled in the field were staple foods, but the cabbages and radishes were winter vegetables. Depending on their situation, each family would be short of something.
Take Changqing's house, for example. His eldest sister had already pickled all the cabbages they grew at home, so for this distribution of winter vegetables from the production team, they would definitely prefer to get mostly Chinese cabbage.
After receiving their share, they would have to find a family that had grown fewer radishes that year, or one that simply preferred radishes, to arrange a trade. The same logic applied to everything else.
The production team handled the initial, uniform distribution, but it didn't prohibit families from trading amongst themselves afterward. If not now, when would be the time to decide? This time, he wanted to trade his potatoes for sweet potatoes.
