My courtyard shelter

October 17, Monday, Xiang Xin's first day back to work.

In the office, Xu Dong took the gift from Xiang Xin and asked with a smile:

"It's wrapped so tightly, what's inside?"

"Two silver bracelets, don't you have two daughters, one for each of them?" Xiang Xin said politely.

Xu Dong opened the package and saw two exotic bracelets in front of him. Even at the current silver price, they were not expensive gifts.

However, they are very suitable as souvenirs.

"The bracelets are very beautiful. I thank you on behalf of our eldest and second sons." Xu Dong thanked with a smile.

Xiang Xin waved his hand, "It's just a small gift. The silver price in Jinglong is so cheap that it's not worth much."

Next, Xu Dong asked about the current situation in southern Xinjiang, and Xiang Xin didn't hide anything and told him everything he knew.

"It's a pity that Xiao Wang left, otherwise he could go to Jinglong to marry a wife." Xu Dong sighed.

Xiang Xin blushed slightly, and said angrily: "Brother Xu, how can you also have such a dirty...bad idea? This is taking advantage of someone's misfortune and disrespecting women..."

"Okay, I'm just talking, but you're still taking it seriously. Are you worried that He Jian can't control himself?" Xu Dong teased.

Xiang Xin's face flushed, and he turned around and took people out for patrol.

...

Turning his eyes back to the courtyard, Xu Ma was looking for the household registration book in the bedroom.

Just a few days ago, the Daxia Congress officially passed the "National Food Quantification Bill", which caused a sensation across the country.

This bill further clarified the principle of unified purchase and sale of grain in terms of policy, and established the basic national policy of quantitative supply according to registered population.

In short, in the future, the production and sale of grain will be 100% monopolized by the state, which is a bit similar to the tobacco monopoly system.

For a time, many people exclaimed that the era of food stamps is coming back again!

Of course, according to the current level of technology, food stamps are impossible to come back.

After all, the management methods are too extensive, and they are replaced by a more advanced food card system.

The so-called grain card is roughly the same as the grain coupon in terms of function, and both are used as a voucher for purchasing grain.

It is a chip card issued by the National Bureau of Statistics on behalf of the four major state-owned banks.

In theory, one card is required for each household.

Every month, week, or even every day, the Statistics Bureau will use big data technology and combine the national grain reserves to uniformly allocate food rations to all families.

Compared with food coupons, food cards can accurately determine the age of each person, thereby establishing the food ration standard for each household, and are more flexible and avoid a one-size-fits-all approach.

For example, Xu Dong's family has seven people, but there are five children, three of whom are still infants.

This is a special family.

Therefore, big data will definitely reduce the amount of food rations, but it will also increase the proportion of refined grains accordingly, which can be said to have both advantages and disadvantages.

At this time, Yang Lina came in with her household registration book: "Mom, have you found it here?"

"Found it."

Xu's mother held up the household registration book and said, "When people get old, their memory is not good. It took a long time to find it."

"Then let's set off quickly. There will definitely be a lot of people later."

Today is the first day of applying for a grain card.

I don't know where the news came from, saying that the earlier the card number of the food ration card is, the more advantages it will have when distributing food rations, so Yang Lina and her mother-in-law are so anxious.

"Go, go, don't forget the milk bottle."

Xu's father and mother are independent households, and the family needs to apply for two food ration cards. Yang Lina and Xu's mother need to go in person. Considering that there is no one to take care of the triplets, they can only take them together.

The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took the triplets and took a taxi to a nearby bank. There was already a long queue in front of the bank door.

"Lao Zhang, this way." Lao Qian from the square dance troupe waved.

Xu's mother replied: "Well, Lao Qian, you came quite early!"

"Good morning, Aunt Qian!" Yang Lina also nodded to the other party.

Xu's mother held Dabao in her left hand and Erbao in her right hand, and Yang Lina held Xiaobao, and the few of them walked to the end of the line.

"It's not too early, just ten minutes earlier than you."

"Dabao, Erbao, this is your grandmother Qian, say hello to grandma."

"Grandma... Hello!" Dabao shouted loudly.

Dabao is the most lively of the triplets. He usually listens to Xu Ma and is not afraid of people.

Lao Qian looked at the triplets with envy: "It's only been a month since I last saw them, and Dabao and the others have grown so big. Look at them, they are so white and tender, so cute."

"Children grow up fast." Xu Ma smiled.

Yang Lina took out a parasol and let the three little guys stand under the umbrella, and applied sunscreen.

On the other side, Xu Ma and Lao Qian talked about the food card.

"Lao Zhang, your family is going to suffer a big loss this time."

Xu Ma's face tightened, and she asked quickly: "Why?"

"I heard that food will be distributed according to age in the future. Your triplets are too young. Together, they can only get a dozen pounds at most every month." Lao Qian said regretfully.

"Alas, there is nothing we can do about it. If there is less food, it doesn't matter. It's enough to eat."

Mrs. Xu sighed, but she was not disappointed. Her family had sufficient food reserves, so a little less food would not have much impact.

Old Qian comforted her, "That's true. You have a good attitude. My wife has been running to Panjiayuan every day these days, but she didn't buy much food. She caught a cold."

"Is it serious?" Mrs. Xu asked with concern.

"Fortunately, it's just a minor cold. I'll probably be fine after taking medicine for two days."

"It's fine. By the way, what's the price of food now in Panjiayuan?" Xu's mother asked curiously.

Lao Qian lowered his head and replied softly: "Rice costs more than 130 yuan per catty, flour costs more than 100 yuan per catty, and the cheapest corn costs more than 80 yuan."

"So expensive?"

Xu's mother was shocked. She had not paid attention to the price of food on the market for a long time.

"It's still expensive. Nowadays, even if you have money, you can't buy food. Fortunately, Lao Sun warned me early, and with the two bags of rice I bought from you, our family finally managed to stock up on several hundred kilograms of rice." Lao Qian said happily.

"Someday, find an opportunity to invite Lao Sun out and let's get together again." Xu Ma suggested.

"Okay, Lao Zhang, how much rice does your family have?"

Xu's mother shook her head: "There wasn't much rice left in the store at the beginning, only more than three hundred kilograms, maybe not as much as yours!"

"Almost, almost the same!" Lao Sun said awkwardly. Speaking of it, he had taken a great advantage from Lao Zhang's family.

After queuing for more than half an hour, the food card was finally processed. Yang Lina looked at the food card in her hand and felt that it was not much different from an ordinary bank card.

The front of the card is printed with the national emblem, country name, issuing unit, and a series of card numbers.

There are some precautions printed on the back of the card, such as the function, scope of use, loss reporting instructions, service hotline, and official website address of the food card.

There is also a warning text at the bottom, to the effect that stealing someone else's food card is a serious crime and starts in ten years.

In addition, it should be noted that every time you "swipe the card", you need to enter a password or fingerprint authentication.

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