Chapter 89 - Chapter 80: 7th-Month Scallions, 8th-Month Garlic, Autumn Planting

Grandpa also took the opportunity to explain to Captain Guan that their family's grain was nearly gone, and he wanted to apply to borrow some. The summer harvest had just been brought in, and although the public grain quota hadn't been submitted yet, Grandpa's situation was special. His family was classified as a household in hardship—composed of the old, the young, the sick, and the weak, with no able-bodied laborers. Captain Guan made an executive decision, allowing Grandpa to handle the paperwork with the treasurer and borrow two large burlap sacks of unprocessed rice from the production team's warehouse. It was about two hundred jin, which after milling would yield over a hundred jin of white rice—enough to last for quite a while.