Chapter 002: The Wen Family Situation

Chapter 002: The Wen Family Situation

During special periods, the mourning hall is only open for one day.

The main reason is that the weather has been extremely hot recently and an infectious disease has appeared in the neighboring county. It is impossible for the team to agree to keep so many bodies in the team for six or seven days.

Cremation has been vigorously promoted in recent years, so the commune drove a tractor early the next morning and took the body directly to the county town for cremation.

Many elderly people in the village expressed envy, saying: "I don't know if we will be lucky enough to be transported away by a tractor when we die."

Wen Jiajia: …

She cried so hard that her face was broken and she dared not say anything.

As the Wen family members were carried away, the funeral band that was playing gongs and drums immediately quieted down.

Wen Jiajia took the original owner's two nieces and put them on a donkey cart, following the tractor. After arriving at the county town, they came to the crematorium. The bodies were being cremated inside, and the two children were crying outside.

What about her?

Just cry silently.

First, the original owner left home when she was young, so it is not like they have any deep feelings for each other. Even if it were the original owner, it would probably be difficult for her to cry like crazy.

Second, Wen Jiajia always believed that several members of the Wen family had repeated her fate and went to live in another world with the passage of time and space.

The crying sound gradually subsided, and the two nieces who were kneeling on the ground were picked up by Comrade Fang Liuyu, the women's director of the team, who was afraid that the two children would hurt their knees.

Wen Jiajia naturally had to kneel down.

It was not until the sun set and hung in the sky like a salty egg yolk that she stood up with trembling legs.

She took her two adopted nieces and got on a donkey cart, holding a few clay pots in her arms, and drove towards the Fuyang Brigade in the sunset.

The captain secretly said that several members of the Wen family had died unexpectedly, so these jars had to be kept at home for worship, and a good day had to be secretly calculated before they could be buried.

night.

Wen Jiajia, who had been busy since she came here, was finally able to take a break and take care of her legs that were almost broken from kneeling and her broken waist.

“What a sin—”

She sat on a bench at the door of the main room, her back against the door frame, her face filled with a look of despair.

Wen Jiajia was very angry.

She had tried many times just now and found that she had neither space nor system. This is the standard configuration for time travel!

How is this different from sentencing her to suspended death sentence?

Not to mention going out to work, she is tired enough doing housework.

But all in all, Wen Jiajia was still very happy to be able to come back to life. After all, it was a great bargain for her that the death sentence was changed to a life imprisonment.

She is a hardworking person. When she found out that she had no external tools to rely on, she immediately started to think of one, two, three ways to survive.

But if you think about it carefully, they are all castles in the air. The limitations of the times make it impossible for her to put any way of survival into practice.

For example, as a member of the rural team, the only way to make money is to share the money with the team at the end of the year.

As for the black market that often appears in period novels?

Don't be silly, they open in the early morning. Anyway, the local black market opens in the early morning.

Wen Jiajia also found out from reading the original owner's memory that people without connections would not know where it was. Because ordinary people dared not get involved in the black market, even her adoptive parents had never been there.

It seems that we really have to rely on the savings of the Wen family.

She stood up, looked at the pitch-black door, walked forward, closed and locked the door, and then went back to her room.

Because the Wen family is an outsider, their geographical location in the team is not good.

It is located at the entrance of the village and also at the mountain pass.

Normally, any slight movement at home cannot be hidden from anyone, and one must always be on guard against wild boars and wolves in the mountains behind.

However, due to continuous winter hunting over the past decade, the danger of wild boars and wolves has gradually disappeared, and the Wen family can now settle down here with peace of mind.

Three years ago, several mud houses hastily built after fleeing famine were demolished and this fairly decent house was built.

The house is surrounded by a wall made of yellow mud. It is not very high, but it can protect against good people but not bad people. Wen Jiajia felt a little scared living there.

I guess no one would bother their house recently.

But after a few months, a year or two, she, a family with two children, became a soft persimmon.

If you want to live here for a long time, you still have to find a way to make the wall higher.

Fuyang Brigade belongs to Jinbu Commune, and Jinbu Commune belongs to Gaoyang County, Qingcheng City.

Qingcheng City is located in the south of the motherland. It is a mountain city with many mountains and rivers. Gaoyang County is no exception.

Therefore, most of the local houses are made of wood, equipped with fire walls, patios and attics, and have no disadvantages except for the risk of fire.

However, there were no neighbors near her house, and everyone looked down on this place, so there was no need to build a firewall when building the house.

The Wen family has a patio with two large water tanks on both sides to collect rainwater when it rains.

At this point, Wen Jiajia had to complain. The Wen family had no water, so every day they had to go to the team to fetch well water, or go to the river to fetch river water.

Because the Wen family lived in the lower reaches of the river and the laundry pavilion in the village was built in the middle reaches, the Wen family usually drew water from the well.

You can reach the main room by passing through the small passage next to the patio.

There is a □□ hanging on the wall in the middle of the main room, and there are four doors on both sides, two on each side.

The two doors near the patio are room doors. The one on the left is the room of the original owner's parents, and the one on the right is the room of the original owner's eldest sister and brother-in-law.

Wen's parents had three daughters. The eldest daughter married an orphan from the neighboring county.

The second daughter has thick eyebrows and big eyes, and has a heroic air. She is recognized as a beautiful girl in the team.

Wen's parents originally wanted to marry her off to a commune, but they never expected that she would fall in love with an educated youth.

Wen Erjie had a stubborn personality, and the old couple in the Wen family could not persuade her, so they agreed to let her live with the educated youth and live in their home.

Otherwise, why do they say that if you don’t understand the law, you are likely to suffer losses?

After Wen's second sister and the educated youth got married, they did not get a marriage certificate. Two years ago, the educated youth found a way back to the city, left without a word, and never came back. The Wen family was completely dumbfounded.

Go look for it, you won’t find it anywhere.

If I don’t look for it, I’ll feel suffocated and unwilling.

In the end, she was still holding back on her anger, and she was so upset that her second sister fell seriously ill. After she recovered, she focused on earning work points, and changed her mind from being obsessed with love to being obsessed with career, ignoring everything else.

Where is the second sister Wen's room at home? It's in the attic on the second floor.

There is a staircase on the right, and after going upstairs is a terrace, where clothes are usually dried. At this moment, there are various dried vegetables on the terrace, all of which are dried by the Wen family. No one has taken care of it in the past two days.

Wen Jiajia originally wanted to harvest today, but when she looked up at the clear sky, she decided to harvest tomorrow.

It will probably be dry tomorrow if it is exposed to the sun for another day. It is too troublesome to move it to the sun tomorrow after collecting it today. She is very tired now.

There is a door on the left side of the terrace. Push the door open and you will find the attic.

The attic is divided into inner and outer parts. The outer room is used to store various dried goods, such as dried vegetables, dried fungus and various herbs.

The inner room is Sister Wen's room.

As for the two children, Wen Chun, the daughter of eldest sister Wen, usually sleeps with Wen's parents, while Wen Xuan, the daughter of second sister Wen, sleeps in the attic with second sister Wen.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan were both in the attic at the moment. The two little girls were unfamiliar with their cheap aunt, and were huddled together for warmth like two frightened kittens.

Wen Jiajia didn't care. She was indeed reborn in the body of the original owner, but that didn't mean she had to be a mother to two children. She believed that even if the original owner came back, she wouldn't do this.

But she couldn't just let it go.

She was now living in someone else's house, and would be eating food earned by the Wen family for a long time to come. She was too embarrassed to ignore these two little girls who were barely three years old.

"Gurgle!" My stomach rumbled at an inopportune moment.

Wen Jiajia slapped her head in frustration, touched her stomach, and went downstairs to cook while the moonlight was bright.

She still has the habit from her previous life of cooking and eating after six o'clock.

The doors on both sides of the main room lead to the kitchen. I enter the kitchen in the dark, light the kerosene lamp on the stove, and then start cooking.

Lighting a fire was a piece of cake for her, as she used to be a rural food blogger, and Wen Jiajia lit the fire quickly.

As she lit the fire, she glanced at the torches and wood and nodded.

Well, there is a bamboo basket of pine torches. It seems that I won’t have to worry about running out of pine torches for starting a fire in the next six months.

As for firewood, it was piled more than one meter high next to the stove, neatly laid out, so she didn't need to move any more for the time being.

There is firewood in other places in the house. There are two small utility rooms on the right side of the patio, and the stairs are sandwiched between the utility rooms and the rooms.

There was a lot of firewood and bamboo piled in the two utility rooms, enough for her to use until the beginning of next spring.

After the fire was lit, water was added to the pot. Wen Jiajia took out the key and went to the room of the original owner's parents to get food.

The wooden door creaked open and Wen Jiajia walked in holding a kerosene lamp. The dim light could not illuminate the entire room. She searched for a while before she found the food on the lower shelf of the cabinet in the room.

"How long will this last?" she muttered to herself.

There was half a bag of flour, two pieces of rice cakes, and more than ten pounds of rice in the cupboard.

However, this was not all the food in the house. There were also a lot of sweet potatoes and various grains in the room of the original owner's eldest sister.

Wen Jiajia thought about it, took a piece of rice cake, opened the upper door of the cupboard, and took out two eggs.

There was a bamboo basin full of eggs in the cupboard, about 30 eggs in total.

The eggs are naturally laid by the chickens at home. We have five chickens at home, four hens and one rooster. We can lay one to two eggs every day.

But at that time, eggs were precious and had to be saved to be sold to recycling stations, or saved to be exchanged for other things at the market. I simply couldn't bear to eat them.

Now it's Wen Jiajia's turn... She eats and drinks as she pleases, she doesn't have to worry about her debts, and she doesn't need a few eggs.

The water in the pot was almost boiled away. Wen Jiajia scooped the boiling water into a wooden basin. After the water at the bottom of the pot boiled dry, she poured oil into the pot.

The wooden house was leaking badly. The evening breeze blew in gusts, bringing waves of coolness and making the kerosene lamp flicker.

“Sizzle——”

The snow-white pork fat melted in the pot, and its overbearing aroma immediately made Wen Jiajia drool.

She is really not greedy, it's the original owner's body that is greedy.

Wen Jiajia swallowed, quickly beat two eggs into the pot, fried them and added the cabbage.

She picked the cabbages when she was walking around the vegetable garden in the evening. The young cabbages were only half a month old and were very crisp and tender. Even when boiled in water, they had a sweet taste.

After the bok choy is wilted, pour the fan-shaped rice cake slices into the pot and stir-fry quickly over high heat for one minute.

The local area is a rice-producing area, and most of the food is rice products, and rice cake is one of the commonly eaten rice products.

At that time, rice cakes were mostly made into 20-centimeter-long cylindrical shapes. A piece of rice cake, combined with eggs and vegetables, was cooked into rice cake soup, which was enough to feed the original owner's adoptive parents and their entire family, not to mention her current family of three, one adult and two children, who had small appetites.

When the rice cake is almost done, you can pour the water you just scooped into the wooden basin back into the pot.

There was another sizzling sound, and oily liquid floated on the slightly white soup. After a while, bubbles began to bubble up again.

Rice cake slices are easy to go bad. Boil them in water for two minutes, then add salt and serve.

"It's time to eat!" Wen Jiajia looked up and shouted.

The wooden house is not soundproof, and the attic is just above the kitchen, so any movement can be heard.

Just like now, she can hear the clacking sounds of the two children walking, very fast.

Hey! He was so scared of her, but he was eating very enthusiastically.

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