Quick Wear: Men Farming and Women Weaving

Next door are two side rooms, with an area of ​​25 square meters, two rooms equal to 50 square meters, equivalent to a wing room. I plan to clean up one of the side rooms and give it to my eldest son to live in when he goes to school. The other room is divided into square meters for a bathroom, and the sewer is connected to the water supply, so it is convenient to take a shower and wash clothes. In winter, I don’t have to go outside and freeze.

The remaining ten square meters will be used directly as a storage room. The things in the original storage room will be moved here, so that an ear room can be expanded and more children can live in it in the future.

"Master, I want to build a cellar under the ten square meters of the storage room to store some food and valuables." Wu Cuiying knew that in a few years, Jia Dongxu of the Jia family would get married. The thief was a habitual criminal, and was taught to steal by his grandmother. In 60 years, the three-year disaster would begin again. I was afraid that Zhang and her grandson would steal.

Yi Zhonghai knew that a wealthy man should not show off his wealth, so every night after dinner he would take a shovel and start digging the soil. He would also ask him to pour the soil on the empty spaces in the two front rooms, and then use the prepared earth bricks to form a long shape and spread it out evenly, ready to plant some vegetables, peppers, onions and the like.

After two months of hard work, the cellar was finally built. It was 3 meters deep and 1 meter from the ground. The floor was paved with blue bricks and was 10 square meters. The surrounding walls were coated with waterproof cement, as was the roof. After a month of ventilation, it was finally dry. I put some extra food and everything I bought this year into the cellar and filled the shelves. I also made a special cabinet to store some important gold and silver items, as well as wages, which were packed in boxes and put in the cabinets according to their categories.

After having two daughters, Yi Zhonghai loved them very much. He asked someone to renovate the remaining ear room and specially found a bunk bed, making the 20-square-meter area look like a boudoir. Wu Cuiying also found light green gauze and made a mosquito net to spread vertically on it, which was very beautiful. All four sets of bedding were new. Yi Zhongtian built a desk and a wardrobe. Later, He Yushui saw it and envied it very much. She had such a beautiful room. She pestered He Daqing to redecorate her room. She had no choice but to ask Yi Zhonghai to help decorate the room and gave him enough money.

Many people moved back and forth in the courtyard, and the names of the people from the previous life matched.

At night, the couple was visiting their son and daughters and they were awakened by a sound of a window. They opened the door and found that it was He Daqing, who was cowering there in a wretched manner. When he saw the door open, he immediately hid inside. He pulled Yi Zhonghai to the living room and whispered, "Old Yi, I have to leave this time. The city is classifying family composition. It will probably be the turn of this area soon." His face was very ugly.

He Daqing was originally a chef, and he could cook Tan's dishes and all kinds of dishes. But his father was once caught by the police because he was good at cooking, and he cooked for them. He was afraid that if they found out, his bad background would affect his children. He planned to run away tomorrow morning and announce to the public that he had left with the widow. He also asked Lao Yi to take care of Yuzhu and his sister, and said that he would send money every month.

The next day, He Yuzhu felt as if the sky had fallen. His father ran away and didn't want them anymore.

The neighbors all heard that He Daqing had fallen in love with a white widow and went to another place. The gossip reached He Yuzhu's ears, and his sister kept crying for her father.

Wu Cuiying didn't know how to say it clearly, so she took He Yushui back to eat and slept with her two daughters.

Yi Zhonghai looked at He Yuzhu, who seemed to have lost his direction, and said that his father had arranged for him to work as a chef in the steel mill. If he cooked well, he would be promoted quickly. He also comforted him that he left for the sake of the two of them, and would come back after a few years when things were stable.

He Yuzhu's emotions gradually stabilized. He realized that there must be a hidden story, otherwise Yi Zhonghai would not have said that. He must know the hidden story but just didn't say it out loud.

Time passed slowly during these three years, and He Yuzhu received a letter every month during these three years.

In order to save money to support his family, Teacher Yan in the front yard also learned to grow vegetables in the yard. He fenced a piece of land in front of his house and dug a lot of soil outside the city. At the beginning, every family and yard started to grow vegetables. They didn’t have to sell vegetables every month, which saved a lot of money. Even the lazy Jia Zhang and Jia Dongxu got a lot of soil outside the city to grow vegetables. Especially in the last three years, the courtyard usually grew vegetables and basically survived the hard times.

Jia Dongxu is dating a girl from Qinjia Village in the countryside. Jia Zhang doesn't like Qin Huairu who looks like a vixen, but her son insists on her. Since she married into the courtyard, the Jia family has been bustling, and her son stands on his wife's side and doesn't listen to her. After Jia Dongxu goes to work, he torments Qin Huairu, and in front of outsiders, he puts on a face like a wicked mother-in-law bullying her daughter-in-law, and looks like a white lotus who doesn't want to cry. She works hard every day and has a good reputation in the courtyard.

Wu Cuiying clearly prohibited the children from contacting the Jia family, especially Qin Huairu, and told Yi Zhonghai to stay away from Jia Dongxu's family, lest the daughters learn Qin Huairu's behavior, which was not what a decent person should do.

"Did you hear me? Try to avoid her in the future. Big sister, watch your sisters and don't run around." Yi Zhonghai also attaches great importance to the education of his children. He had heard about the deeds of the Eight Great Hutongs before, and compared with Qin Huairu, they were exactly the same. He didn't want his daughter to be taught badly by this person.

Because of He Daqing's relationship, he also told He Yuzhu the reason in private and asked him to send his sister to the backyard.

He Yuzhu was very grateful for Yi Zhonghai's usual care, and he was also afraid that his sister would be infected and learn those things. That was not the way of decent children. He envied Jia Dongxu when he first saw Qin Huairu, but now he thought about marrying her home or not.

Qin Huairu felt very strange. Other neighbors had very good comments about her and said she was a good daughter-in-law. However, the families in the front and back yards usually avoided her, and the children would not meet her alone. When they met, they would just nod and leave. She never figured out what was going on.

Director Wang from the Street Office went to the courtyard to notify all residents to come to the front if there was anything to be notified.

After learning about this, urban residents were given a ration of food and food ration books were issued. Rural residents were not given a ration.

Some households have rural household registration, but they can't do anything about it. No matter how difficult it is, it's not as difficult as the Jia family. Only one person in the family of five has a quota. The daughter-in-law has a rural household registration, and the children follow their mother's household registration. Jia Zhang heard the noise and cried.

"And to inform you that in order to assist the work of the Street Office, you can elect three people to manage the courtyard."

The residents elected three relatively fair candidates, Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui. The first two had qualifications, and the latter was knowledgeable and a teacher.