Chapter 31: First day at the farm, poor eating and sleeping
Luo Weian sighed, swallowed the barnyard millet porridge in his mouth with difficulty, and advised: "We are here to reform, it's good enough that we can eat, just bear with it."
"Working like an ox or a horse every day and not even getting enough to eat would make a strong man collapse."
Huang Jinxiang ate very quickly and finished most of the porridge in the lunch box. He was reluctant to finish the rest and cursed his mother after taking a small bite. It was obvious that he was already full of resentment after only three days at the farm.
Luo Weian didn't dare to persuade him anymore. He was assigned to the clinic and didn't have to do physical work. If he continued to persuade him, it would be like talking without any pain in the waist.
"Bah, this is not food for humans, even pig food is not this rough."
Old Mrs. Luo took a sip, but it was so rough that it scratched her throat. She swallowed it with difficulty. She really couldn't eat any more.
"We're still relatively lucky here. We have mountains and water, and we can get enough water. Other places don't have water at all. We only get two potatoes a day, and we have to work like horses and oxen."
Huang Jinxiang lowered his voice and said that although it had only been three days, he had already found out a lot of information.
Old Mrs. Luo's face suddenly fell and her brows were furrowed. She felt that this shabby place was not a good place either. She just wanted to go back to Shanghai. Even if she had to eat coarse grains and vegetables, it was better than drinking barnyard millet porridge here.
After washing her hands, Luo Xinxin walked to the table to eat. She glanced at the porridge in the lunch box and really had no appetite.
Old Mrs. Luo was right this time. Pig feed is better than this. At least it contains vegetables and rice, and every now and then it can be mixed with oily manure.
"Drink, now that we're here, we might as well make the best of it. We'll get used to this kind of life sooner or later. Maybe we'll have to spend the rest of our lives here."
Luo Weian took another sip and chewed it carefully. Surprisingly, it tasted a bit sweet and tasted pretty good.
"I won't stay here forever. I'll go back to Shanghai sooner or later."
Huang Jinxiang looked disapproving. He planned to ask for help from his connections in a while. Based on his twenty years of experience in using backdoors, he knew that there were no connections in this world that could not be used, as long as the necessary things were in place.
"Your family owns the farm? Can you come back whenever you want?"
Luo Xinxin retorted and continued drinking her porridge.
Huang Jinxiang looked a little embarrassed and wanted to curse, but Luo Xinxin had something on him, so he didn't dare to do so. He said awkwardly, "Everything depends on human effort. We can always make it happen by using some connections."
Old Lady Luo's eyes lit up, and she hurriedly said, "Brother Huang, if you find any connections, please tell us. We're all from Shanghai, so we should help each other, right?"
"I know, I remember."
Huang Jinxiang laughed it off and got away with it.
But he was thinking, how could he possibly tell others about the relationship he had finally found out?
This old woman is so stupid!
Luo Xinxin ate half of the porridge and couldn't drink any more. She put the lunch box aside and asked, "Can we cook for ourselves here?"
"Sure, when I get a holiday, I plan to go to the market and buy some pots and pans, and get some coal so I can cook for myself."
Huang Jinxiang had gathered very comprehensive information. He found out that there was a market ten miles north of the farm, as well as a post office and a supply and marketing cooperative. The market was held every three days, and nearby farmers would bring some local specialties to sell.
"Where can I buy coal?" Luo Xinxin asked.
She couldn't finish the crappy food in the cafeteria, so she had to start cooking quickly.
"The coal store is twenty miles away. You need to borrow Ma Quan'er's carriage to get there. Just give him one dollar for the errand."
Huang Jinxiang is indeed a gossiper. He even knows where Ma Quaner lives and that there will be a market the day after tomorrow. Luo Xinxin has noted it all down.
"Let's go buy it together when the time comes. It'll be much cheaper if we buy more."
He said again.
"OK."
Luo Xinxin agreed.
Huang Jinxiang mentioned Sun Erniang's family again, "Be careful, this family is full of bandits, even the mine field chief doesn't dare to mess with them, be careful they might stab you in the back."
"Who is this family? Why are they so arrogant?"
Luo Weian frowned, feeling a little uneasy.
Huang Jinxiang snorted disdainfully and said, "The man was sent down from the capital. He brought his mother with him. His mother was in her forties or fifties at the time, but she looked only in her twenties or thirties. She was very beautiful, and she was said to be a favored concubine. After liberation, she fell on hard times, and the mother and daughter were sent down here."
"When they arrived, the mother and daughter brought a lot of money with them, but they weren't the type to work. They spent all their money after a few years. Yin Jingwei's mother died of an illness, and he lived a life worse than a beggar. Luckily, he married Sun Erniang, otherwise he would have starved to death long ago."
Huang Jinxiang sounded a little envious, but not much.
After all, Sun Erniang's appearance...it was really hard for him to eat her, so he decided not to eat this gigolo.
"What's it called? What's withered?"
Luo Xinxin's focus was rather clear, and she only heard the man's name throughout the whole process.
"Yin means cloudy day, Jing means capital, Wei means great, he has a very bad heart, you'd better be careful of his revenge." Huang Jinxiang reminded again.
Luo Xinxin's mouth twitched. This name... is indeed unique.
No wonder he looks like a woman. His thing is wilted, how can he be a man?
"I don't care, just be careful."
Luo Xinxin turned around and reminded the two elders.
Luo Weian felt even worse. He had just arrived at the farm and had gotten into trouble with the local bully. His future life would be difficult!
Old Mrs. Luo was now focused on the bad food and didn't react at all.
"No, it makes my throat hurt."
Old Mrs. Luo still had most of her lunch box of porridge left and didn't want to eat a single bite.
"If you don't want to eat it, can you give it to me?"
Huang Jinxiang hasn't eaten enough yet and still has to work in the afternoon.
"You eat it."
Old Mrs. Luo poured both bowls of porridge to him.
"Thank you, thank you!"
Huang Jinxiang thanked him repeatedly and scraped the porridge off the wall of the lunch box with a spoon, so as not to waste anything.
Looking at his humble and pitiful appearance, Luo Weian felt very uncomfortable.
The manager of a department store is considered a respectable person in Shanghai, but here he looks like a beggar, alas!
Huang Jinxiang gulped down the porridge in a few mouthfuls, licked it clean, burped contentedly, and then went back to take a nap.
Luo Xinxin took out half a bag of biscuits from her luggage bag, which she brought from Shanghai. She put them on the table for the two elders to eat.
"Xinxin, you don't want to eat?"
After eating a biscuit, Old Mrs. Luo felt much better in her stomach. Seeing that Luo Xinxin didn't eat it, she asked.
"You guys eat."
Luo Xinxin was not interested in the cookies, so she turned around and left. She wanted to find a place where no one was around to eat something good.
Luo Weian thought that she was afraid that there were not enough biscuits and was deliberately not eating them. He was very touched and only ate two pieces and stopped her. He also stopped her from eating any more.
"Leave some for Xinxin, she'll have endless food!"
Luo Weian's tone was a bit harsh. If he didn't stop her, his wife would finish the whole bag of biscuits. It was too selfish.
Old Mrs. Luo had a sullen expression on her face and rolled her eyes at Luo Weian.
Luo Xinxin found a secluded place and bought two meat buns, a beef pie and a pound of grapes in the mall, and ate them all.
She checked her points and found that she had gained about fifty points, which were the rewards for teaching Sun Erniang's family a lesson. It was quite a lot of rewards.
[Sun Erniang and her family were doing evil on the farm, and the host educated them, which was very positive and proactive]
The system explains aloud.
Luo Xinxin also bought ten each of the Power Card, Hundred Steps Shooting Arrow Card, and People Recognition Card, keeping them for emergencies.
I cleaned the place in the afternoon, went to the canteen to get some millet porridge for a meal, and lit the oil lamp in the evening.
It was called an oil lamp, but it was actually just a broken bowl with half a bowl of kerosene and a piece of cotton thread placed in it. The light was as small as a bean, and the shadow of a person was magnified when cast on the wall, making it look particularly exaggerated, like a shadow play.
There is no electricity on the farm, only one telephone in the manager's office, which is used to communicate with the outside world.
"Turn off the lights quickly. This amount of kerosene will last until the beginning of next month, when kerosene coupons are issued."
Luo Weian was worried that there was not enough kerosene, so he kept urging them to come.
"puff"
Luo Xinxin blew hard, and the bean-sized light flickered a few times and then went out.
The three of them, grandparents and grandchildren, slept on a very large kang. Luo Xinxin slept at the end of the kang, while Luo Weian and his wife slept at the head of the kang, and there was room for three more people to sleep in the middle.
But an hour passed and neither of them fell asleep.
The kang was too hard and it hurt their backs.
"No, I need to use a quilt. My waist is about to break."
Old Mrs. Luo got up and took off the quilt in the moonlight. Fortunately, they brought two quilts and a blanket. After putting them in place, they fell asleep quickly.
The next day's breakfast was still barnyard millet porridge. Luo Xinxin didn't drink a single sip and gave it all to Luo Weian and his wife.
She went straight to the security department to report, and ate five large meat buns and two cucumbers on the way, filling her stomach.
"Report, I'm Luo Xinxin."
Several men sitting in the office were chatting and laughing, but when they heard her voice, they immediately stopped and looked up.
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