Early in the morning on April 15th, Li Xianglu and her grandfather took their household registration, grain booklet, and subsidiary food supply book to the county city; today was the day to collect grain and food tickets.
Li Xianglu had already read her own grain booklet several times. The supply of grain was twenty-one jin: flour, cornmeal, dried sweet potatoes in a ratio of 7:2:1, chicken eggs five taels, meat two taels, with even less oil, salt, soy sauce, and vinegar—overall not much, but she estimated it was barely enough to scrape by for one person for a month.
However, her grandfather's supply was much more than her own; first of all, the grain was a high quota of forty-three jin, and it was all fine grain. Seven taels of meat, seven taels of chicken eggs, and even quotas for peanut candy snacks—all these she did not have.
They went in the production team's mule cart, but the brigade's cart could only reach Jigu Commune, so they had to transfer to a public bus there.
