Affection for Sidaogou during the Famine

Grandma Liu: "Zhao Zhao, please give in and sew for Grandma Liu as well. My thread has just run out."

Then he said to Mrs. Guo: "A pair of glasses costs about ten yuan. There are several workers in your family who earn money. You can just grit your teeth and buy it.

My family can't compare to that. The whole family depends on two people for food and drink, and we really don't have any extra money to buy them.

Sister-in-law, please buy it. I will try it on if you buy it. We can do needlework together. I can also borrow your light by sewing a needle, right? "

"Oh, is it so expensive to buy a pair of reading glasses? It's equivalent to half a month's salary for my son.

I won't buy it either. Ten bucks is enough for our family to spend for a month and a half. We are old and can't earn a penny, but I can't open my mouth to ask my children for so much money to buy glasses. "

"By the way, I heard that Li Guaizi's wife's family in the next yard suffered a disaster and the harvest was bad this year, so she brought her whole family to seek refuge with them.

Do you know about this? Do you think we are all right here? There won't be a food shortage, right? "

"Hey! Stop scaring yourself. This is a new society. If a disaster really strikes, don't we still have the government? The government will not ignore us ordinary people.

Our country is so big that there are droughts and floods, and there are also areas where the weather is just right, neither drought nor flooding. The country is now implementing unified purchase and sale, and will allocate grain, so we ordinary people don't have to worry about it.

I heard that Li Guaizi's yard is next to ours, and it has been noisy every day these days.

I can't blame Li Guaizi for getting angry. Who wouldn't get angry? We say that we have a grain fund, but we have a fixed grain supply based on population!

It’s just enough to fill one’s stomach to begin with, and with five or six more people coming, what will so many mouths feed?

Fortunately, there are cabbages and radishes available. If you spend a little more money, you can still have a full stomach.

You said that with so many people feeding them, no matter how cheap the cabbage and radishes are, you still have to spend money to buy them. In my opinion, Li Guaizi's family can't last more than a month or two.

The weather is getting colder. How are more than a dozen people going to sleep in the two rooms of his family? They have to pile up one on top of the other, and there isn't enough bedding. Life is going to be tough in the future!"

Several old men who were playing chess nearby also pricked up their ears to listen, and then someone said, "That relative isn't a good person either.

I have also heard that they did suffer a disaster, but the production was severely reduced and not to the point of a total crop loss.

The food distributed is less than in previous years, the family has a private plot of land, and there is no shortage of wild vegetables in the countryside. How come we can't survive until the beginning of next spring?

They just didn't have good intentions and thought they were eating at Li Guaizi's house! This was to save food for their own family by living and eating at Li Guaizi's house for a winter!

Just wait and see! If we continue to do things this way, this family of relatives will definitely end up with enemies and even break off relations!"

"This Li Guaizi's wife is really confused. Food is life now!

If she doesn't want to starve her parents and brothers, she has to starve her own man and children. If she wants to have the best of both worlds, where can she find such a good thing?

Besides, her sisters are already grown up, and they look dull, but they are quite cunning. They look at people with hooks in their eyes, and I think they will become a foreigner sooner or later.

Li Guaizi's wife is inviting a wolf into the house!

At noon, I saw Li Guaizi's eldest son carrying a schoolbag out of town. It seemed that he didn't go to school. I don't know where he went. "

Uncle Guan replied with a smile: "That child is a smart one, he is the only one in his family who is smart enough.

If I'm not mistaken, they must have gone to Mentougou to ask for help! Just wait and see, there will be something exciting going on in their house tomorrow morning at the latest!"

"Yes, the old lady of Li Guaizi's family is not a good person. Ordinary people can't deal with her. She needs to have brains and means. Tsk tsk, if she shows up, Li Guaizi's wife will also be skinned alive!"

Old Madam Liu curled her lips and said, "You guys, just blow it for others!

What kind of brains and tricks can that old lady have? Wasn't she just a maid in some high-ranking official's house before liberation?

It is said that one should marry a virtuous wife, but look at the wife she married for Li Guaizi. She is pretentious all day long. She only has a good face but can't do anything. She just cries when she opens her mouth.

In the old society, she would be the material for a concubine! Which mother-in-law with brains and means would like such a daughter-in-law?

If you ask me, she is just blind! If it were me, I would pinch half of my eyeballs and look down on such a daughter-in-law.

Look! She can’t support the family, and she is a burden to her grandchildren. When she is old, she still has to take care of the household for her! "

Uncle Guan and the other old men looked at each other and couldn't help laughing. This old woman looked down on others who were nannies!

How could an ordinary person become the nanny of this wealthy family without some skills?

Without some sense of propriety, how could one get along well with the master? Moreover, every old maid is different from every other old maid.

Li Guaizi's mother was a nanny serving the eldest lady at that time. Not to mention the wages she received on a daily basis, the rewards alone were many times more than what the men who worked hard outside earned at that time!

Moreover, their food and accommodation are only slightly inferior to that of the host's. Although they may not have the most delicious food, at least they have chicken, duck, fish and meat all the time.

Otherwise, how could Li Guaizi's father, a stupid boy who farmed on the farm, raise seven children including brothers and sisters, and not a single one died in infancy?

Moreover, they were all married off and bought houses and land in their hometown. It is said that before liberation, when the high-ranking official fled, the old lady took advantage of the chaos to hide many good things.

Otherwise, everyone else would try to stay in the city, but Li Guaizi's mother would take her children and run to the countryside! This is a big deal!

People in the countryside might live a much more comfortable life than those city folks!

Han Zhaozhao had sharp eyes and had noticed the quarrels in the expressions of the old men. She knew that although the old men in the alley looked inconspicuous, they were just playing games under the trees every day.

These people are very smart!

There are very few things in the capital that can escape their eyes!

These old ladies should not be underestimated. They know everything that happens in the alley, big or small.

Han Zhaozhao was distracted when Grandma Liu asked her again: "Zhaozhao, your grandma has gone to work. How is your work going?

I left you alone at home, so if anything happens, just let me know. Fortunately, your grandmother didn’t bind her feet, or else she wouldn’t be able to go to work and life would be hard.”

Han Zhaozhao was stunned. How come the melon has reached his own home?

She smiled innocently: "My grandma said it's pretty good. Although it's not as clean as working in a restaurant, it's not too tiring.

Every day I lift and move things, weigh and unload goods. It's just that it's a bit busy during this period because a lot of things at the purchasing station were wet by the rain and need to be turned over and sorted.

My grandma is strong and capable! She said that it was thanks to the care of the organization that she had a job. At least she had a salary every month, and she had a place to buy food and salt in the future.

I will go to school next year, and I won’t have to worry about tuition fees! By the way, Grandpa Guan, are there any Chinese herbs that can be sold in the mountains near us? I want to dig some, no matter how much, and I can sell them to buy some soy sauce and salt!"

Han Zhaozhao didn't want the old people to pay too much attention to their family, so she changed the subject and asked about Chinese herbal medicine.

When Master Guan heard this, he laughed again: “Okay, you are a thoughtful girl!

This is a good idea, much better than those stupid boys who only eat and play. However, the valuable things are all in the mountains, you are so young, so forget it!

The Chinese herbal medicines available nearby are not valuable, and drug stores have special supply channels, so if you get a little, they won’t bother to buy it from you.

There are only a few Chinese herbal medicines that do not require soaking and are simple and easy to use, but the season is out of season now.

Wait until spring comes, and let Xiao Sanzi and the other boys take you to the mountains outside the city to catch scorpions and touch cicada shells. These two things are suitable for you kids to do."