In the winter of June 1.
evening!
In the suburbs of Beijing, Xinlin Commune, the first production brigade and the sixth team.
A thatched house with a fenced yard.
There were five people sitting at the shabby and dark Eight Immortals Table.
These people are wearing worn cotton padded jackets with patches on them, which are very similar to the clothes of beggars of the Beggars' Sect. Occasionally, there are holes showing the cotton wadding with black hair and straw inside.
The shoes on the feet are either tattered cotton shoes or straw sandals.
The color of the clothes has faded and turned white.
At the top was a middle-aged woman, and at the bottom were two teenagers and two children.
There is only a bowl of soy sauce on the table.
In the black pottery bowl held by several people, the corn residue in it can almost be counted.
At the bottom of the left hand is a boy of about 14 or 15 years old, who is expressionless, drinking the porridge with little water.
Dip the head of chopsticks in a bit of sauce and eat up the porridge in a few mouthfuls.
Then he looked at the woman in the head position and said faintly; "Sun Xiuhe, this family must score points. We need to move out."
As soon as the words came out, a 17-year-old boy sitting opposite slapped his chopsticks on the table and shouted, "Wang Qingsong, how can you talk? Can you call your mother's name directly? You've learned to eat dogs, haven't you?"
Wang Qingsong looked at each other and sneered.
Look at the tangled woman next to him, and he said lightly: "If I don't divide my family, I will take wheat to live in the county. It's the same whether I divide it or not."
Of course, Sun Xiuhe is not his own mother.
Six years ago, my mother died of dystocia when she gave birth to her sister.
Two years later, his father found a widow with children, Sun Xiuhe,
Sun Xiuhe came here to try his best. He brought a boy with him and gave birth to another boy.
It's good not to mention the days, at least it's OK.
As a result, my father didn't come back half a year ago when he went out to repair the canal.
The loss of a labor force is a huge blow to a family.
It would be better if it was normal.
But these are difficult times.
Natural disasters for several years in a row have caused an extreme shortage of food. Each person has only about three or two grains a day.
Three liang is the size of a fist.
This grain can't be satisfied even after a meal.
Not to mention one day.
The reason why he was angry about splitting up his family was not because he didn't have enough to eat, because the situation was the same not only in his family, but also in the whole production team, the whole commune and other places.
None of them went anywhere.
Only the city is better.
He was angry that he went to school in the county town and could not come back at ordinary times. His sister, Mai, had been nurtured into a "fat man" by several people.
If he really gets fat, he will be grateful to others instead of proposing separation.
This fat is not really fat, but puffiness caused by lack of nutrition.
The originally emaciated cheeks are puffy as if they had been beaten. Because of the puffiness, the eyes have narrowed into a line.
The lower leg is a deep nest, which can not be recovered for a while.
This is unacceptable to him.
Sun Xiuhe looked at Wang Qingsong and said helplessly, "Qingsong, you don't know the situation at this time of year. Every family is short of food. What do you want me to do? Don't you think Pingping and An'an are both hungry?"
Wang Qingsong looked at the young man who had just lost his temper on hearing the words, and a little baby who was less than four years old sitting beside him.
With a sneer, he asked, "Can't even eat enough? Yes, I know that. But why are the wheat puffy and the two of them fine? Tell me, Sun Xiuhe, where is your conscience? Did the dog eat you? This family must score."
When it comes to the end, it is almost shouted out.
If there is no ghost, he has read all these years for nothing.
The reason why the other party doesn't separate is not because of how good the relationship between the two people is.
It is entirely because he is a middle school student.
Because someone once said, "No matter how hard it is, you can't be poor in children, and no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education."
So he is a middle school student, and because he is a boy, a month is 32 kg.
Although there are many substitutes made of wheat bran, bean cakes, wild vegetables and corncob.
But this is also a lot.
As for meat, eggs and soybeans, it is unnecessary to think about them.
Meat and eggs on the market, including soybeans, are now listed as health products and will not be put on the market.
There used to be a fixed number of city dwellers, but now there are none.
In other words, ordinary people can no longer buy these things.
Only those with serious edema go to the hospital to get a certificate, and can get about one kilogram of soybeans for treatment in a month.
What's the use of a pound?
"Wang Qingsong, no big or small, you want to be beaten, don't you? I can't beat you to death."
When Wang Ping saw that my mother was scolded, he immediately began to hit people.
Wang Qingsong stood up with a cold face and said, "You should try. When my elder brother and second brother are vegetarian? I just don't want to argue with you."
He is neither brother nor sister.
He also has two brothers.
Speaking of these two brothers, they are also lucky.
In 55 years, before the formation of the urban-rural dual structure, they became urban people. At that time, it was very convenient to go to the city. Unlike now, there is also a letter of introduction or certificate issued by the production team, otherwise you can't go out of the commune.
Even if I go out, I can't do anything in the city without a city hukou.
No account, no job, no money.
Without a household registration, there is no ration. Without a ration, there is no food ticket, and you cannot buy food.
Anyway, without a hukou, it's hard to move in the city.
After the formation of the urban-rural dual structure, it is very difficult to work in cities.
Let alone ordinary workers, even a temporary position is very rare.
To work in cities and become a great working class is the dream of every rural person today.
As for the second child, he was lucky. After the formation of the urban-rural dual structure, it was very difficult to enter the city.
But three years ago, when the city recruited workers, the eldest brother paid for the operation, and went to the city to work as a worker, but still a regular worker.
As a result, he was favored by a very rich man and married his daughter to him.
The reason why she married her daughter to him was because her second brother, Genzheng Miaohong, was very young.
But he and his sister Mai missed the chance to go to the city because they were still young.
In these years, I can go to school by myself, and my family lives fairly well, because the elder brother and the second brother help me, otherwise I can't live.
As for the reason why he didn't divide his family after his father's death and endured humiliation in this family, it was also because he had thought about the decision he made for a long time.
Because he and his sister have to go to school.
Although the elder brother and the second brother are city people now, they have no ability to bring themselves and their younger sister to the city.
Originally, he wanted to endure it. When he got to the technical secondary school, he would be relaxed.
But the other side doesn't give him a chance!
