Cold!
Li Weidong instinctively reached aside.
Flat?
A thrill woke him from his dream.
The cold wind is seeping into the dilapidated window. In the cramped bedroom, the wall is covered with old newspapers. By the light polished in the morning outside, you can vaguely see the above title: tighten your belt and stride forward.
Now it is 1962, and the location is the quadrangle full of love in the film and television drama, where the mellow widow Qin lives.
Although the current difficult period has basically passed and there is no longer a shortage of goods on the market, it is still normal for people in cities and rural areas not to have enough to eat.
Many people's waistbands have been cut off because of this.
But compared with the countryside, life in the city is much better.
At this time, as long as you are a registered permanent resident in the city and have food in your family, even the lame jobless vagrant can easily find a beautiful yellow flower girl in the nearby countryside.
What's more, we don't need any houses and cars, three gold betrothal gifts, and just give us ten jin and eight jin of coarse grain.
The countryside and the city seem to have built a high dam.
Shortly after the original owner was born, his mother died of illness. His father left him in the countryside for his grandparents to take care of him.
In 1955, the household registration committee decided to directly put the household registration in the countryside according to the local principle.
Not until a while ago, my grandfather died, did I live in the city with my grandmother.
The first night when the original owner came here, he had a fight with his brother. His head was broken and he died in the middle of the night. It was cheaper for Li Weidong, who was born 87 years later and had the same name and surname.
Now in this family, Li Fu has absolute authority. As the deputy director (deputy section level) of the newspaper, he gets the salary of Grade 18 civil servants, 87.5 yuan per month.
To tell the truth, this salary is already very high. After all, at present, one jin of rich and powerful powder is only 20 cents, and one jin of pork is 60 cents.
But the problem is, at this moment, money alone is not enough.
You must have food stamps.
You have to use food stamps+money to go out, and you have to use food stamps+money to buy food.
Where did the food stamps come from?
Taking urban residents, that is, non-agricultural hukou, for example, the planned rationing system is implemented.
Adult female workers weigh 28 kg per month, while male workers weigh about 32 kg.
And fine grains only account for a small part, and the rest are coarse grains such as stick noodles, dried sweet potatoes, sorghum and millet.
How many people in your food book will be given you food stamps and recorded in the food book, so you can only buy those rations every month.
If you don't have the food cost, just take the food coupon and they won't sell it to you at all.
However, state-owned hotels do not need to carry food costs.
So some wealthy families go to the black market to buy food stamps secretly at the end of each month, and then go to restaurants, which is also a kind of helplessness.
Li's father, who died his wife, threw Li Weidong away while he was still nursing, and then married a big girl. Later, he gave birth to a son and a daughter, Li Weibin and Li Xueru, who are now 12 and 10 years old respectively.
Li Weidong also has a brother named Li Weimin, who is five years older than him. He was lucky not to be left in the countryside in those years. Now he is 23 years old. He has no formal work and idles all day. He has just married less than half a year ago.
The sister-in-law is also a rural hukou. Although she married to the city, there is no indicator of "changing from rural to non-agricultural" at present, so it is impossible to change to a urban hukou, so she cannot eat the ration.
Even your children are registered with their mothers.
Now, with Li Weidong and Grandma, there are eight people in this family.
But only five people were registered in the grain book.
When eight people eat the food index of five people, the contradiction is immediately highlighted.
On the contrary, it's a good place to live.
The Li family lives in the front yard of the compound, with two main rooms facing south and one side room, which adds up to more than 50 square meters.
Because of the arrival of Li Weidong and his grandma, the main house on the east side was separated. Grandma and sister Li Xueru lived on the kang.
The one meter and two meter bed outside belongs to Li Weidong and his younger brother Li Weibin.
Li's father and Li Weidong's stepmother moved to a separate room behind the living room.
As for the separate ear room, it was given to the newly married eldest brother and sister-in-law.
Li Weidong sat up from the bed and touched his flat stomach. His stomach was like fire. He complained about how useless the porridge with few grains of rice and the big fist was last night.
In this era, people don't have much oil and water in their stomachs. They are like young coolies. It's easy to eat two jin of grain at a time.
At this time, he missed the big fish and big meat he had been fed up with in his previous life.
It has been several days since he passed through, and he has just begun to fantasize about a flat life, which is far away.
"Second brother, why do you arrest me?"
Next to him, the younger brother, who was crammed into a bed, murmured sleepily.
"Nothing. I just dreamed about eating meat buns."
Li Weidong took a look at his younger brother who robbed most of the quilt and said casually.
"Meat buns?"
Li Weibin soon stopped drooling.
"Want to eat?" Li Weidong asked.
To tell the truth, the original Lord did not have much feelings or even hatred for his half brother.
On the contrary, Li Weidong, who has just passed through, has a good sense of him.
After all, when he just woke up, the other side was taking medicine for him, and it was a stuffed pot.
"Of course, but I can't afford to eat meat if I only expect my father to earn money alone."
Li Weibin sighed as a small adult, as if full of worry about the current situation of the family.
His mother was injured when she gave birth to her younger sister Li Xueru, so that she has not been in good health for years. In addition, the child was still young before, so she didn't go out to work and kept busy at home.
Li Weimin, the eldest brother, is 23 years old. He should have earned money to support his family and lighten the burden on his family. But he is also a restless owner. Li's father entrusted his relationship to find him several jobs. Every time he fights with others, he doesn't learn well.
Less than half of the money earned by Li Fu was used to compensate others.
I thought I would always know something after getting married, but father Li's painstaking efforts were obviously in vain.
In order to help the family, Li Weibin's parents will secretly take the meat ticket and non-staple food ticket issued by Li's father's unit to the black market to change into food every month.
I was already in financial straits, but now there are more Li Weidong and Grandma, which will undoubtedly make things worse.
"When I get to work and make money, please eat meat buns." Li Weidong promised.
As a modern man, Li Weidong is certainly not short of the idea of making money, but in combination with the current background of the times, he still temporarily suppressed his restless heart.
If you feel that you can't die of hunger if you have hands and feet, you can only say that you are too naive.
The world is so big like that of later generations. I want to go and see it, and then go wandering around with a travel fee to work all the way to support myself. At present, it simply doesn't work.
If you want to stay by train, you must have a letter of introduction issued by a group or unit.
Working in the factory?
Sorry, there is no private enterprise these days. The workers in the factory are iron rice bowls. Temporary workers can break their heads. You come from the countryside. Who wants you?
As for moving bricks on the construction site, I'm sorry. The competent construction companies are also construction companies. There are no contractors in the serious state-owned units.
Hotel dishwashing?
What you think is beautiful.
Even if you want to beg on the street, you will be taken to the street police station. Check your background first.
Then there will be beggars waiting to teach you rules.
At the moment, it is really difficult to live.
"If only I could have a game farm that I played in my previous life," Li Weidong thought innocently.
However, as soon as the idea fell, an unreal picture appeared in his mind.
