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There are a total of 152 households in Houling Village. The elderly in each household have bought at least 1,000 kilograms of grain from outside, and everyone was smart enough not to buy it from the nearby villages.

They all tacitly ran to places dozens or hundreds of miles away from home to buy food secretly. Even some people from other villages who believed the words of their married daughters secretly hoarded a lot of food.

So during this period, Liu Xiulan secretly transported 5000 kilograms of grain home and stored it in the cellar of her room. It was only then that the three children in the family realized that there was such a secret cellar in their mother's room.

However, these daughters-in-law did not know that they were informed by Liu Xiulan and went back to her parents' home to remind her family to store up food. Liu Xiulan repeatedly reminded the children at home that the food here was the family's foundation so that they would not go hungry in the future.

He told them that another 2,000 kilograms of grain would be brought back tomorrow and placed in the newly built cellar in the utility room outside, and that he was the only one who had the key there. As for the cellar in the kitchen that was previously visible, it was full of grain distributed by the team after the autumn harvest.

After the autumn harvest, the villagers were busy storing food. Winter came before they knew it. Liu Xiulan also went to Xinjiang Province and Northwest China this year. Although the harvest was not as much as in previous years, it was not a small amount either.

Liu Xiulan decided not to sell any more pigs after selling these 30 New Year pigs for the time being. Although Mr. Zhao Si felt it was a pity, there was nothing he could do. However, their friendship still existed, so he told Liu Xiulan that he would buy any goods she had in the future.

This time the payment for the goods was NT$7000. Liu Xiulan exchanged various national bills for NT$ and received NT$ in cash. After going home and counting the money, she found that she already had NT$ with the payment for the goods this time.

She is now a wealthy woman.

Soon in 58 the era of the big pot meal began. That year the crops in the fields began to decline, but the grain output reported nationwide was very high. However, Houling Village still reported as much as it could.

In the winter of 59, Houling Village disbanded the big pot meal ahead of schedule on the grounds that there was not enough food in the warehouse to maintain the big pot meal. There was a drought that year and the harvest from the fields was even worse than in previous years.

If we only rely on the food from the fields, let alone having enough to eat, it would be good enough if we don't starve to death.

So at this time everyone was very grateful to the team leader and the branch secretary for their wise decision, which allowed every household in Houling Village to prepare life-saving food in advance.

Qianling Village is the closest to Houling Village. When there was movement in Houling Village before, many people secretly learned from Houling Village to store food, so many people also had some food at home.

However, this amount of food was definitely not enough to cope with the three-year famine, so everyone had to try to save as much as possible, eating a small amount of food with tree bark, wild vegetables and grass roots for each meal.

Liu Xiulan's eldest daughter-in-law Xie Xiaolan and her family were also very grateful to Liu Xiulan. Not only did she remind them to store food early, but she also sent them 1000 kilograms of food later so that the whole family would not starve to death in those difficult times.

They saw the situation of many families in the village and realized that the big pot meal could not be sustained for long. With the example of Houling Village, many other villages followed suit and cancelled this unfair and food-wasting practice in advance.

In the winter of 59, Liu Xiulan agreed to help Mr. Zhao get some pork this year. So this winter, Liu Xiulan sold him 1.5 piglets weighing about 10 kilograms at a price of 300 yuan per kilogram, and received 5000 yuan.

Liu Xiulan also asked Mr. Zhao Si to buy two jobs for his second son and daughter. Because the eldest son was not good at studying and did not have a high academic qualification, and he was also a bit dull and did not want to work in a factory, he volunteered to farm at home.

Mr. Zhao Si was also very supportive. Within a few days, he got her a job as a salesperson in a supply and marketing cooperative and a job in a textile factory. The two jobs cost Liu Xiulan 800 yuan.

After completing the formalities, Zhou An started working at the textile factory at the end of October, and Zhou Lian also started working at the supply and marketing cooperative. Liu Xiulan also rented a small courtyard in the city for the brother and sister so that they could live in the city and rest.

Liu Xiulan was also worried that the boss would feel it was unfair, so she also gave Zhou Ping 500 yuan. She would give him the money regardless of whether he wanted to work or not.

So the news that the two children of the Zhou family became workers quickly spread throughout Houling Village. They were the first workers from Houling Village.

So every day when Liu Xiulan went out, she would be greeted by various old ladies.

Time passed, and soon it was the New Year of 59. Liu Xiulan made 30 kilograms of bacon this year, and also brought back 15 kilograms of pork belly to freeze in the snow.

Xie Xiaohong is a very sensible daughter-in-law. Since she married Zhou Ping, she has always been well-behaved and filial. She gets along very well with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law at home, and she also more or less knows that her mother-in-law is a capable person.

In this age where people could starve to death, Xie Xiaohong was very grateful to God for letting her marry into the Zhou family. Not only was her mother-in-law not abusive, but her sister-in-law and brother-in-law were also easy to get along with.

My mother-in-law also took the initiative to help her own family so that they would not go hungry like other people. After she got married, she could manage her own small family, but it was assumed that her husband would take care of her in her old age. My mother-in-law also said that she planned to separate the family after my brother-in-law got married.

Seeing that New Year’s Eve was approaching the day after tomorrow, Liu Xiulan asked her daughter-in-law to call her eldest son over.

Liu Xiulan: "Boss, go to your father-in-law's place with your wife tomorrow and bring back two pounds of frozen pork belly. The New Year is coming soon, so give him the New Year gift I prepared."

Xie Xiaohong: "Mom, save the meat for my sister-in-law and her family to eat when they come back. Your New Year gifts are already generous enough, they don't need so much."

Zhou Ping: "Mom, I understand. Xiaohong and I will go back to visit my parents-in-law tomorrow and I will definitely bring the things you prepared with me."

Liu Xiulan: "Xiaohong, you are a good child. Don't worry. This is at least a token of my love."

Liu Xiulan knew that it was her mother-in-law who was helping her family. She was not an ignorant person. She knew that her mother-in-law was capable and could get a lot of rare goods outside. Whenever her family asked her about it, she would say that it was her sister-in-law who brought it back from the supply and marketing cooperative.

From this, Liu Xiulan realized that her eldest daughter-in-law was actually very smart and not the type to give heavily to her parents, so many things at home were not hidden from her.

Xie Xiaohong: "Thank you, mother. It will be the 30th the day after tomorrow. Pingzi and I will definitely come back early tomorrow. My sister-in-law likes the egg pancakes I make the most."

Liu Xiulan smiled: "You, don't spoil her every day."

So the next morning the young couple went back to her parents' home together. In the afternoon, Zhou An and Zhou Lian, who were working in the county, also came back.

At the dinner table in the evening, Zhou An told the news that he had a girlfriend.

Zhou An: "Mom, I've been dating someone for almost two months, and her family lives in the city."

Liu Xiulan was stunned. Wow, this guy had already settled his marriage without even waiting for her to bother him?

Liu Xiulan: "What does her family do? What's her name?"

Zhou An: "Her name is Li Mei. Her father is the workshop director of the steel plant, and her mother is the director of the publicity department of our textile factory."

Liu Xiulan: "Does that girl have bad taste?"

Zhou An was stunned and asked in confusion: "Mom, what do you mean?"

Zhou Lian, who was standing next to him, couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Second brother, what mother means is that the girl has poor taste, how could she like you?"

Everyone at the table couldn't help laughing. Liu Xiulan saw that they had almost finished laughing, so she asked, "Do the girl's parents know?"

Zhou An blushed: "I see, they asked me to come back and talk to you about the marriage proposal."