Chapter 162 - 164: Partner_1
The team took it very seriously and immediately assigned someone to question.
Liu Er also made a written record, and when he left, Li Qiao gave him some subsidiary food tickets that the team had just issued.
Oil gluten, dried bean curd sticks, and vermicelli, each three market pounds.
Liu Er dodged Li Qiao’s hand: "How can I take this? You take it home and eat it yourself."
Li Qiao: "My family has some." Back when the results had first been released, officials from the county had visited her home, seen the cooking area made of a shed, lifted the rice bin lid, and there was only a bit of cornflour.
How could the Top Scholar go without meals?
They immediately arranged to send supplies.
The villagers watched as bags of rice and flour were delivered to her home, their eyes red with envy. Yu Feng, in particular, spoke ironically, saying her family used ration cards from the supply and marketing cooperative to do small business, so they weren’t short of money or grain.
Because they knew the officials were coming, they had hidden all the good stuff in advance.
In actuality, the rice and flour at home had just run out, and it was impossible to procure grain tickets on short notice, so they bought cornflour, which didn’t require a ticket. Before that, the family had been drinking corn mash for two days straight.
As for the woven goods business, the grandmother had given the aunts a break because there were too many guests at home, and they got in the way sitting at the doorway; it wasn’t an intentional show.