Chapter 005: Cheat Online
The rice has been steamed, and the rich aroma of sweet potato rice fills the entire kitchen.
The sunlight shines in through the gap, forming a beam of light that falls directly into the iron pot.
In rural areas, people usually prepare the day's meals in the morning. Wen Jiajia followed the local customs and planned to do the same. There were no gas stoves or induction cookers in the 1970s.
Let’s stir-fry the vegetables first. There is no meat at home, and Wen Jiajia can’t cook any meat, so she can only stir-fry some bok choy.
The Chinese cabbages at this time were extremely sweet, crisp and tender, completely different from the Chinese cabbages grown in greenhouses decades later. Wen Jiajia felt that she had to cherish them while she ate them, because after finishing this batch of vegetables, she was afraid that she would not be able to eat them as she pleased.
Because——she doesn’t know how to grow vegetables.
Oh no, to be exact, she probably wouldn't grow vegetables in this era, because growing vegetables in this era requires watering with farmyard manure, which she is incapable of accepting.
Her willingness to go to the toilet was the biggest concession she made.
After cooking the vegetables, I cooked a bowl of soup.
Cabbage and egg soup. The highlight is that she uses rice soup as the base soup.
The rice soup is thick, the cabbage is crisp and tender, and the eggs are cooked into flocculent. Add a little salt and some rural rice wine, and the fragrant cabbage and egg soup is ready.
The two girls waited for a long time. Compared with yesterday, they were bolder today. They helped distribute the dishes and washed their hands first.
Wen Jiajia: "Let's start eating!"
As for brushing teeth... the two girls didn't have toothbrushes, so Wen Jiajia told them to rub their teeth with salt instead of brushing their teeth, so the two girls' facial features were wrinkled from the saltiness.
Wen Jiajia started eating first, and only after seeing her start did Wen Chun and Wen Xuan pick up their spoons.
Wen Chun carefully scooped up the soup, blew on it twice, and then slowly took a sip.
Her eyes lit up and she thought the soup made by her aunt was more delicious than that made by her grandmother.
The soup is white and thick, and every spoonful contains slippery eggs and crispy chopped cabbage.
Seeing that the two sisters liked to drink soup, Wen Jiajia simply poured some soup into their bowls, stirred them, and paired them with dried radishes made by the original owner's mother. Sure enough, the two sisters ate more happily.
Normally, you have to go to work after dinner.
But the problem came. Wen Jiajia's household registration had not been transferred to Fuyang Brigade and was hung on the street. As for Wen Chun and Wen Xuan, there was no job they could do in the brigade.
In other words, the three of them are temporarily "unemployed vagrants".
So what to do today?
Wen Jiajia was just thinking about it when a voice came from outside the house: "Is Jiajia home?"
"Here, here!" She quickly put the bowl into the basin and ran quickly to the main room.
"Why isn't your door open at this time?" The person who spoke was Fang Liuyu, the women's director of the team.
After thinking for a while, he said, "But there are only you and two children at home, so it's better to keep the door closed at ordinary times."
Wen Jiajia opened the heavy door and asked, "Auntie, what can I do for you?"
Fang Liuyu said, "I want to ask when your household registration will be transferred back. The autumn harvest is coming soon. Once your household registration is transferred back, you can record work points and share rations. The team has discussed it and will give you an extra portion of per capita rations this year."
As soon as the term "head grain" was mentioned, Wen Jiajia felt somewhat familiar. After thinking about it carefully, she remembered that the original owner had such a thing in her memory, and she had also heard the old people talk about it when she was shooting videos in the countryside in her previous life.
At that time, the work point system was implemented in the countryside, and the per capita rations were to ensure that no one in the team died of hunger.
Sixty percent of labor was for labor and fourty percent for work was the grain distribution policy at that time.
After selling the patriotic grain, six-tenths of the remaining grain was distributed to every member of the team, including little kids like Wen Chun and Wen Xuan who couldn't do anything.
But there are no people like Wen Jiajia who just moved back to the team when the autumn harvest is almost here. That is to say, seeing how pitiful her family was, the team decided to help her out.
The prerequisite is that her household registration is in the village.
Don't underestimate this per capita ration. Although it is not enough to feed people in a year of good weather and good harvest, it can definitely ensure that people will not die of hunger.
Wen Jiajia originally thought about keeping her city hukou so that it would be easier to find a job in the future. But now that she knew that she could still get per capita food, she decided to transfer her hukou back, because food was what she needed most.
If she really relied on Wen Chun and Wen Xuan's head of food, her family would starve to death within two months.
Although there is food left by the Wen family this year, Wen Jiajia is a person who gets anxious when her phone battery is less than 50%! She knows how wasteful she is at farming and how difficult it is to find a job as a worker in this era. So before she can save enough food for her and her nephew for two years, Wen Jiajia is determined to put food collection first.
Wen Jiajia said hurriedly: "I will go to the county to transfer my household registration the day after tomorrow. It can be done in one day."
Fang Liuyu whispered, "Don't your parents have to be buried the day after tomorrow? The captain asked his mother-in-law to help choose a location. It's in Taohuaao. If you go from your home, you can get there in more than half an hour."
Wen Jiajia slapped her head and almost forgot about it: "Okay, then I'll go to the county town the day after tomorrow."
Fang Liuyu said: "Just get familiar with our team today. If you have any difficulties, just let me know. Your parents are good people and get along well with everyone in the team."
This is the truth, the Wen couple are really good people.
Wen Jiajia nodded: "I understand."
After Fang Liuyu finished her message, she didn't stay long. She looked at the two sisters Wen Chun and Wen Xuan and left.
Wen Jiajia had been planning to walk around the team today, so she put the old clothes she had taken off last night in a bucket, closed the door, and took Bangchui and her two children to the center of the village.
The Wen family’s house was indeed quite remote. After walking out of the door, I had to walk about 200 meters before I saw another house.
There is an open space between the two, probably the vacant residential land of the team.
The number of people in the team increased year by year, and the housing land was also very tight. Such a piece of land had to be divided among at least four families.
The family's surname was Chen. Like the Wen family, they were also immigrants who fled here many years ago to escape famine.
The Wen family is not from here. They fled here when they got married. Father Wen is the only son in the family. His parents died on the way to escape the famine. But Mother Wen is not. Her hometown is in He Province, which is far away.
There were no mobile phones back then and transportation was not convenient, so the two families had lost contact for a long time. In fact, they were just familiar strangers.
Although the Chen family, like the Wen family, were also outsiders, the difference was that their family was prosperous and had many branches. Their sons and daughters had established a large network of relationships in the local area through marriage, and they lived a much better life than the Wen family.
Aunt Chen's name is Zhang Xiuli. She is in her 50s but still very healthy. She is hanging clothes in the yard.
Seeing the three nephews and nieces of the Wen family outside the door, he hurriedly called out through the gate: "Your name is Jia Jia, right? Where are you going?"
Zhang Xiuli did not let the three people in to sit down, because the Wen family had just finished the funeral and it had not been seven days, and generally no one would be willing to let them into their home.
Wen Jiajia said, "Hello, auntie. I'm going to do some laundry. Also, I'm not familiar with our village, so I'd like to take this opportunity to walk around the village."
Zhang Xiuli smiled and said, "Okay, then you go first."
As he said this, he stared at Wen Jiajia for several times, which made Wen Jiajia feel uneasy. She almost couldn't help but look back while walking.
Looking at Wen Jiajia's leaving back, Zhang Xiuli looked her up and down for several seconds before going into the yard to continue hanging clothes.
What was she thinking? She thought that the third child of the Wen family was not ashamed to have grown up in the city. He looked like the educated youth who had just gone to the countryside in the educated youth courtyard. His palm-sized face was so white that it was dazzling under the sun.
My youngest son was proud of such a girl. He used to follow the female educated youth around, doing work for her and delivering eggs to her. When this educated youth got dark, he set his sights on the newly arrived educated youth who were still fair and tender. It was only recently that a big incident of educated youth jumping into the river in the neighboring county, which made the educated youth office and the commune furious, that he finally calmed down a little.
It is said that no one knows a child better than his mother. Zhang Xiuli felt that her youngest son was likely to like the third child of the Wen family.
If the Wen family were still alive... then this marriage would be good. After all, the Wen family are all honest and capable people. The men can get 10 work points, and even the women can get 8 centimeters.
We have been neighbors for so many years, we know each other well, and it will be convenient for us to visit each other when the time comes.
But now it is no longer possible, Wen Lao San is under great pressure. Both children have to be raised by her aunt, and whoever marries her will have to take on this hot potato, and he has to take on two children.
She sighed, thinking that she had to quickly arrange a marriage for her youngest son. In the eyes of the villagers, it was okay to follow the educated youth, but if you flirt with the girls in the village, you will be criticized by the villagers.
Laundry kiosk.
It was half past nine and there was no one in the laundry booth, so Wen Jiajia was very lucky to have the booth all to herself.
It was easy to wash clothes here because the riverbanks were smooth and cemented. But you had to bend over and squat when washing clothes. Wen Jiajia felt backache and numbness in her legs within ten minutes.
She is indeed not suited to housework.
Wen Jiajia used a mallet to hit the clothes "bang bang bang", venting all the frustration of the past two days on the clothes.
You know what, the effect is quite good.
The bad mood was released and the dirty clothes were dried.
Families without soap or brushes can only wash clothes with their hands and a pestle.
While she was washing clothes, the two girls stayed beside her and played with small fish.
The river water is clear and clean at this time, and there are many miscellaneous fish, crabs and even loaches in the river.
Speaking of which, now is the season to eat loaches and eels. She had caught some when she was shooting a video, so Wen Jiajia wanted to catch them.
As I was thinking, the clothes were washed.
"Go home!" she said to the two children.
Wen Jiajia stood up with the help of a wooden pillar, thinking that there was no point in wandering around the village. She just wanted to go home and lie down.
When I got home, I hung the clothes in the backyard.
The sunshine in the front and back yards of the house was very bright. Wen Jiajia didn't want to climb the stairs, so she quietly took a break.
As a result, in the afternoon, a few chickens started pecking at each other, raising a cloud of dust. Wen Jiajia looked at her clothes covered with dust, and her heart suddenly died halfway.
Rubbing my sore and swollen arm, I thought: Being lazy really does bring good fortune.
There was no other choice but to take the clothes to the sink in the vegetable garden to wash them again, and then hang them on the terrace.
The dried vegetables on the terrace could be collected, so she put them in the attic room. Then she found that there was still half a bag of rice cakes in the attic.
What is Kueh Pie? It is a food similar to potato chips. But potato chips are made of potatoes, while Kueh Pie is made of rice.
Rice is made into rice cake, which is then cut into rice slices. The rice slices can be stored for a long time after being dried. When you want to eat them, just put them in sand or salt and fry them until they expand.
However, this is a luxury that can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year, and Wen Jiajia has no plans to finish making it now.
She also found a few iron blocks in the corner. The iron blocks were blocked by the wooden barrel and could not be found unless the barrel was moved away.
Wen Jiajia took a closer look and found a lock, a knife with several notches missing, several nails, a plane, and a sickle that was so rusted that it was about to break.
This was left over from the time when the Wen family was smelting steel. The original owner had not been adopted at that time, so he had this memory.
Father Wen was smelting steel in the commune at the time. Seeing that the commune had not made any progress in several months, he secretly brought back the things he had paid.
But he didn't dare show these things to others, so he could only hide them secretly in the attic for fear that they would be searched.
Later, the commune's steel-smelting team suddenly conducted a major inspection because the commune's iron was suddenly hundreds of pounds short. Only then did Father Wen realize that there were other people doing the same thing as him.
But Old Man Wen was timid and never dared to take these things out again, until he was discovered by Wen Jiajia.
Wen Jiajia muttered to herself, "If I take these things to a scrap recycling station, maybe I can exchange them for a few cents."
As he said this, he picked up the notched knife and looked at it, thinking that maybe he could keep it and use it in the vegetable garden to chop vegetables.
I took out these iron tools one by one, and planned to find an opportunity to sell them at a scrap collection station.
[Ding, do you want to synthesize?]
Just as Wen Jiajia picked up the last few nails, an electronic voice suddenly came from her mind.
She burst into tears and said she couldn't keep being so unlucky.
The long-awaited cheat code for "Shan Shan" is finally online.
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