Accountant Li Mancang held a pen, scribbling and calculating. "The grain hasn't been sold yet, and part of the account balance was spent on buying parts for the harvester and the thresher as our investment share. There isn't much left now, only one or two hundred yuan in total."
He added, "At the end of the year, the production team will definitely still need to distribute dividends to the members. If the money can't be recovered by then, it's going to be a real headache."
The production team members relied entirely on the year-end distribution to support their large families. If there were no money to distribute, the tenures of these production team cadres would effectively be over, and they might even face public criticism.
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