【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

There are corridors on three sides of the house. From four or five in the morning to after midnight, there are people coming and going. It is really noisy.

The adults' scolding, the children's crying, the vendors' hawking, and the actors' laughter...

The laughter, anger and scolding in the world form a unique little world.

Yun Xi slept until dawn. She touched her forehead and found she had a low fever. She got up and went to the toilet. The autumn did not affect the stench in the toilet. She quickly entered the space, took some antipyretics, and treated her wound again before coming out.

"Who?"

Yun Xi turned her head and looked outside the toilet, and it seemed like a figure flashed by.

"Host, it's the landlord's old man. He wanted to peek at you going to the toilet, but was scared away by a cat."

Yun Xi frowned, feeling disgusted. "This is so shameless! We can't live in this place anymore."

When I got home, I passed by my eldest son sleeping under the eaves, snoring loudly. It was normal. This kid went out every day to find work. Since he couldn't find a proper job, he had to do physical work, so he was naturally tired.

I went into the house and found the original owner's luggage and counted it. The legal tender, customs gold coupons and military notes could buy about 500 kilograms of rice in total, which was not much. Now the Shanghai market mainly uses legal tender, and the others are not used much, so they have to be spent quickly. Fortunately, the original owner's father-in-law was a down-to-earth and capable person, and he left behind a lot of silver dollars and gold and silver. The old man did not believe in paper money, but only in real gold and silver. Now it seems that the old man was very far-sighted. Gold in troubled times, jewelry in prosperous times, the old man was right.

Those silver coins and gold and silver cannot be moved for the time being, as they are the hope for the family's rise.

There is actually not much food at home. We eat corn porridge every day. People who eat it will turn into yellow corn. So my daughter-in-law got up early in the morning to make corn porridge.

With prices soaring, eating vegetables has become a luxury.

The eldest grandson Dadao said hesitantly that he had not been able to defecate for several days.

"Grandma, please go down and buy some fruits and vegetables. People can't live without vegetables." Yun Xi made the decision.

As for going to the wild to collect firewood and dig wild vegetables, forget it. Not to mention the danger of guns and cannons, you can't even compete with the locals. They have experience and work in groups. Living in Shanghai, even a needle and a piece of firewood costs money.

Money, money, where does it come from?

"Okay, thanks grandma."

The two children showed joy for the first time in many days, and the depressing atmosphere in the home was relieved a lot.

"Mom, are you really buying vegetables? Buy some leeks. I want to eat the leek boxes from my hometown." The eldest son Axe said as he took out a French coin and handed it over.

This is what the eldest son earned in three days. He was lucky and earned enough to earn one dollar.

Yun Xi took it skillfully and put it in her pocket. "Then eat leeks. It's no big deal."

Erdao rolled his eyes and said, "Grandma, I'm out of pencils."

Yun Xi saw through his little plan at once and advised him earnestly, "Come back and practice calligraphy on the ground first. Your family doesn't have the money to buy you stationery right now. You can find a job after a while."

Now only the eldest son is working in the family, and his income is unstable. The family is at risk of falling apart at any time. Let's find a way to make money first.

The original owner was a good person who would occasionally secretly help disaster victims along the way. This character couldn't be said to be good or bad. The key point was that he helped others when he had nothing to eat, which was really foolish of him.

If Yun Xi hadn't come, this family would have been torn apart by the original owner's unscrupulous "doing good deeds".

"Mom, how much did you spend on buying millet?"

So, the second daughter-in-law spoke tentatively to see if her mother-in-law had any old problem.

Yun Xi felt a sudden heart attack. The original owner gave the five dollars that was meant for buying millet for his granddaughter to a pair of poor siblings. The siblings had no parents and were very pitiful.

But! The Qian family is also pitiful!

In the original timeline, the original owner was shot and couldn't buy millet. After returning, she used the money to treat her illness. The family couldn't take care of their little granddaughter. The second daughter-in-law had no milk, so they fed her corn porridge every day. The little granddaughter couldn't absorb it and starved to death...

"I spent two dollars and have three dollars left. Don't worry, I met many beggars and ignored them. My family is struggling to make a living, so how can I have money to give to others?"

The second daughter-in-law breathed a sigh of relief, but didn't know whether she believed it or not, so she didn't say anything else.

"Listen to your grandma and make do with it for now." Axe was foolishly filial and would only support his mother unconditionally. Upon hearing this, he changed the subject and shouted outside the house: "Come back tonight to eat leek dumplings and study hard."

Erdao followed his brother disappointedly.

Tan's name was Tan Xiaojiao, which means small feet. Unfortunately, her feet grew thick and big, which was not what she wanted.

Before long, Xiao Jiao said tentatively, "Mom, I'll be out of confinement in a few days. It's not a good idea to stay at home all the time. How can I get through the winter if I don't make money?"

"Well, I've thought about it. There's no rush for this. Take care of your health first. I'll go see if I can buy some cheap fish and shrimp and make some soup with them."

"Mother, the wound on your body..."

Xiaojiao hesitated.

Yun Xi waved her hand to indicate that she was fine. How could she find a chance to take medicine and change her bandages if she didn't go out?

At that time, the outside of Shanghai was in chaos. Women who went out to work were really in danger of losing their jobs, unless they could enter the concession. Alas, it was so ironic that they had to rely on others for protection to be safe on their own land.

"Host, are you sure an old lady can make money in this era?"

"I said I was making money, not earning it. After going through so many eras, I've long lost my obsession with making money."

She has cheats, wouldn't it be a waste if she doesn't use them?

Yun Xi went out carrying a cloth bag. Her eldest son could only earn more than 20 yuan a month, which was not even enough to make ends meet. In the Shanghai stock market, the lower-class people had to earn about 30 yuan a month to barely make ends meet. More than 100 or 200 yuan was considered middle class, but with rising prices, ordinary people had a hard time.

This is also why the Qian family has not eaten vegetables for three months. The relatives who helped them rent a house paid for three months of rent, but starting from this month they have to pay the rent themselves, which is ten yuan a month.

With a heavy heart, Yun Xi, who had only drunk a bowl of corn porridge, kept walking outside. She went to the vegetable market and looked around. She bought a bunch of leeks, a bunch of green vegetables, ten eggs, two pounds of miscellaneous fish and shrimp, half a pound of lean meat and two pounds of wild oranges. These alone cost her the equivalent of ten yuan in French currency. However, she used the other two kinds of money to go to the grain store and buy one hundred pounds of corn and five pounds of flour, and spent all the money.

The original owner was a housewife and was very strong, so she carried the child back home easily. When she got home, the wound on her leg was soaked in blood and she was in great pain.

"Let's cook the fish and shrimp into soup for dinner. You can make yourself some lean meat and egg soup to nourish yourself. I'll prepare the stuffing. We'll have leek and egg stuffing dumplings and seafood soup in the evening." Yun Xi glanced at her little granddaughter. She was dark, thin and small, like a little black cat. She still needed milk to drink.

"Mom, let's eat together. How can I eat alone?" Xiao Jiao said sensibly, "This must have cost a lot of money. It's better to save some money."

"You should take care of yourself first and get your milk flowing, otherwise what will happen to your little girl?" Yun Xi said, "As for making money, it's too turbulent outside. You should find a way to get into the concession first before you talk about work."

What kind of jobs are available these days? Without education or skills, the best you can do is set up a stall. You'll also have to deal with gangs, big and small. If you don't run fast enough in a fight, you'll die. Even setting up a stall requires paying protection fees, not to mention the extreme dangers for women working alone.

Life is hard. In these troubled times, my family lives worse than even Camel Xiangzi. At least others can make money by pulling a rickshaw, but I don’t have a rickshaw.

Xiao Jiao didn't eat alone in the end. The two of them finished a serving of steamed eggs with lean meat. There was no salt in it, and the taste was very light and very nourishing to the stomach.

I made more than twenty leek dumplings in the evening and ate them all in one meal. After eating, each of us drank a bowl of seafood soup. It was so comfortable, and it felt like living a life of drinking and enjoying life.

"Grandma, it would be great if we could eat so well every day." Dadao sighed and hummed comfortably while lying on the bed.

Speaking of this, Axe felt a little uncomfortable. He was a grown man who couldn't support his family. He didn't find any work when he went out today, and he was beaten several times for carrying a bag. Fortunately, he didn't return empty-handed.

"Mom, do you think Mu Tou is still alive?"

In this rare warm moment, Xiao Jiao thought of her husband. After they got separated, she asked for directions all the way to Shanghai. Her husband clearly knew the destination, but there was no news for three months, and her heart had grown cold.

Yun Xi asked the system, "Is the second brother still alive?"

System: "He's alive, rescued by the Hong Army. Your wooden son has shown some enthusiasm and joined the Hong Army to fight the war. The letter he wrote is on the way."

Yun Xi understood what was going on and said calmly, "Don't worry, my second son's wife. He's a lucky guy and will definitely survive. Let's go to my cousin's house more often. Maybe we'll get some news one day."

The original owner's cousin was actually her biological aunt. Speaking of which, this involved some scandalous things about the elders. The relationships among the older generation were so complicated that she only figured it out after she grew up. After her grandmother gave birth to her mother, her grandmother's sister was never happy. It was unknown whether it was intentional or unintentional. Because the grandmother and her sister looked alike, the grandmother's brother-in-law made a mistake that night...

In this way, my grandmother gave birth to my aunt after ten months of pregnancy. My grandfather wanted to abandon the child as soon as it was born. My grandmother's sister took my aunt away and raised her. She also stole half of the cloth dyeing recipe from her mother-in-law's house and gave it to my grandmother. My grandmother relied on the recipe to gain a foothold again. My grandfather never mentioned this matter again, but just moved with my grandmother and my mother. No one in the unfamiliar place knew that he was cuckolded.

As for this matter, the original owner didn't think much about it, but Yun Xi started a conspiracy theory, because the original owner's grandmother's sister, that is, the original owner's aunt, was infertile all her life. It is hard to say that this matter was not planned by her. Now everything has changed, and many years have passed, and there is no way to trace it.

The original owner's mother was a son-in-law and gave birth to the original owner and his two younger brothers. They lived in Shandong Province. The original owner married far away in Henan Province. The original owner's aunt was also a son-in-law and gave birth to a son, who is her cousin Zhang Shengde, whom she has come to live with now.

I originally wanted to escape to Shandong Province, but later heard that the situation there was not good, so I came to Shanghai. My aunt is still alive and was sent to Hong Kong by my cousin to live in her old age. My cousin's business had problems, and Hong Kong should be a way out. The arrangements there are very good, more thorough than my own preparations.

When my family moved to Shanghai, a letter from my mother's family arrived a few days earlier. Shandong Province was also affected, and my mother's family moved to the southeast of Shandong Province. The second letter arrived last month, which contained the current detailed address of my mother's family. In addition to my mother's family, my daughter was also there, having moved with her parents.

She gave birth to three sons and two daughters in her life. One son and one daughter died young, leaving behind her eldest son, second son and a little daughter. Her eldest daughter-in-law died of amniotic fluid embolism when giving birth to her third granddaughter, and both mother and daughter were not left alive. The little daughter went back to her parents' home with her once, fell in love with a young man, and married into her parents' family.

After learning that they were safe, the letter also asked the original owner and his family to go over. The original owner had not made a decision yet. Yun Xi thought about it and felt that it would not be bad to live there after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

The Qian family that the original owner married into was a landlord, and her parents' family ran a cloth dyeing workshop. They were a perfect match, and her parents' family and her aunt's family did the same business. The difference was that her aunt's family had a bigger business, even expanding to Shanghai, while her parents' family only opened two cloth dyeing workshops.

One must always be prepared for danger. His family background was not a good thing in the 1970s and 1980s. He had to either go to Hong Kong, or farm quietly or do small business. Of course, before that, he had to drive the Japanese out first. Yun Xi had already figured out how to help Hongjun.

The most urgent task is to solve the accommodation problem at home.

The next morning, Yun Xi found the hidden silver coins and went to look for her cousin. After thinking about it, she decided not to touch her dowry. Her cousin lived in the French Concession. The environment was much better. As she walked along, she could clearly feel that the road was smoother, the environment was cleaner, and the security was better. It seemed like two different worlds compared to the outside world.

After being stopped and questioned, he was allowed in. Not long after he left, he stopped in front of a two-story building and rang the doorbell. "Cousin, sister-in-law, are you home? I came to see you."