Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife

Chapter 268 - 268 0268 Dividing Food and Money 2_1

?Chapter 268: Chapter 0268: Dividing Food and Money 2_1 Chapter 268: Chapter 0268: Dividing Food and Money 2_1 Although her household was full of women and children, Feng Qingxue was taken aback by their annual income of over twenty Chinese dollars.

What surprised her even more was the presence of a ‘hanging family’ within their production team.

A ‘hanging family’ is one with little labor power, earning few work points that, when finally converted, fall short of grain money. They either have to dig into their own pockets and buy work points from Production Team Three, essentially purchasing food, or they rack up a debt with the team when collecting their grain allocations. Some families accumulate debt year after year, stuck in a perpetual state of indebtedness, colloquially referred to as ‘perpetual hangers’. This is a tremendous source of shame among their neighbors.

Families like Lu’s that could save money were known as ‘successful hangers.’
As Wanglou’s seventh team offers high labor value, in theory, any hardworking person would not end up as a ‘hanging household’. Yet ironically, that single ‘hanging family’ only had one woman capable of working. The elderly parents were chronically bedridden, the husband suffered from back and leg pain and couldn’t work, and their four young children were completely dependent, leading their family to insufficient work points.