Chapter 3: Qianjin Village, Victory Brigade
Now that Deng Minghao has graduated from high school, he has no idea where he will be assigned a job, and he has often been looked down upon by his parents and older brother and sister-in-law at home.
I came here to relax, but I didn't expect to meet Li Ruolan who was trying to commit suicide. I even lost my life trying to save Li Ruolan.
“The names Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao first appeared in the novel when the male and female protagonists were introduced to each other on a train going to the countryside.
So Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao probably wanted to get away from their families, so they signed up to go to the countryside. In that case, let's go and sign up to be educated youth in the countryside now."
In fact, as long as Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao got a marriage certificate, they would not have to go to the countryside. Li Ruolan could avoid the fate of being sold, and Deng Minghao could move out of his eldest brother and sister-in-law's house.
However, for a family of two like this, if they do not stay away from each other, they will definitely have constant troubles in the future, and it will be almost impossible for them to live their own lives. It would be easier to go to the countryside and escape far away.
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao did not waste any time. They went into the space to dry their clothes, and then went to the street office to sign up to go to the countryside.
The two discussed it and decided to go to the countryside in Northeast China. Although it was cold there, they only had to work for six months a year and could stay at home for the remaining six months to hibernate.
It's just right for people like them who don't really want to do farm work.
Deng Minghao gave the big brother in the Youth League Office a few cigarettes. These were from the original owner, Deng Minghao. The original Deng Minghao had to earn money for school since he was a child, and he had already figured out the ways to deal with these people.
Thanks to a few cigarettes, the two were successfully assigned to the same team and set off ten days later.
Li Ruolan took a look and found that it was indeed Qianjin Village and Shengli Brigade where the men and women were going to the countryside.
After receiving 135 yuan of resettlement allowance for educated youth and a receipt for the purchase of a train ticket, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao separated and returned to their respective homes.
According to memory, when I returned to Li's home, Li Ruolan's home was in the staff quarters behind the garment factory, and the house she was assigned had two bedrooms and a living room.
The tube-shaped building was narrow and small, but there were a lot of people living in it. As soon as Li Ruolan walked in, she smelled all kinds of strange odors, which almost made her vomit.
Her home is on the far right of the third floor. When Li Ruolan returned home, she found that no one was at home. Li Baozong must have gone to school, and Li Hongjun and Li's mother had gone to work and had not returned yet.
After Li Ruolan returned home, she took out all the money and tickets she had saved over the years, a total of 8.5 yuan. The tickets were pitifully few, only one ticket for soap and one for toilet paper.
No matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat. Put all these things in an orderly manner in the space.
It was already past five in the afternoon. Li Ruolan usually cooked all the meals for the family of four, and she didn't want to cause any trouble at this time.
There are only ten days left before she goes to the countryside. After hiding for these ten days, she won’t have to be afraid anymore.
After cooking, Li Ruolan first took two steamed buns and put them in the space. Li's mother never let the original Li Ruolan eat too much, and usually only gave her half a steamed bun and half a bowl of porridge for a meal.
Li Ruolan would never starve herself, and no one could let her starve.
Although this house has two bedrooms and a living room, the girl is grown up after all, so Li Hongjun separated one of the large rooms in the middle and let Li Ruolan and Li Baozong live in it.
Li Ruolan lay on the bed in her room, then entered the space and scooped a cup of spiritual spring water from the original owner's white porcelain teacup whose paint had peeled off and drank it.
Lingquan water does not have the legendary effect of cleansing the marrow as per the I Ching. It will only gradually improve physical fitness and make people stronger and stronger.
Although Li Ruolan's current body is young, she is extremely thin and weak due to not having enough food for a long time, and she also has little strength.
During these ten days, I must drink more spiritual spring water to change my physical condition, otherwise I will suffer a lot when I go to the countryside.
As soon as he finished drinking a cup of spiritual spring water, Deng Mingxuan entered the space with a very ugly expression on his face.
"What's wrong?" Li Ruolan asked curiously.
Deng Minghao scratched his head unhappily: "I was scolded as soon as I got home. My sister-in-law is pregnant, and there will be one more person in the family. She was very unhappy to see me.
They pointed at me and called me a freeloader. Deng Minghao's parents even helped his sister-in-law to scold me. I got so angry that I left home. "
Deng Minghao said this angrily as he went to get some fresh corn cobs and sweet potatoes, washed them, and started cooking them in a pot.
I don’t know how long Deng Minghao hasn’t eaten. He feels so hungry that he can eat a cow.
Then he went to get a few eggs, added chili peppers, and fried them into scrambled eggs. Li Ruolan took out the two steamed buns that she had hidden, and the two of them ate the meal together.
"Tomorrow, I will take some noodles and eggs out to sell. We are not short of money now. The resettlement allowance is more than 200 yuan, but we are short of tickets.
At this time, it is difficult to buy things without tickets, so I am going to exchange noodles and eggs for some. ” Deng Minghao said to Li Ruolan.
Li Ruolan nodded: "Of course you can, but I think it's best not to go to the black market. Speculation is strictly prohibited during this period.
For safety reasons, you can go to the steel plant’s staff quarters or to shops around the hospital to buy them, but it’s better not to go to the black market.
When I was reading the novel, I just felt that what was described in the book was so simple. As long as you have something on the black market, you can make money.
But now that we have traveled through time, we must treat this as a normal world. In order to live longer, we must follow the rules. "
Novels are just novels after all, and reality is always more cruel than novels.
Anyway, they can make money by selling to each store one by one, it just comes slowly, and they don’t mind this little time.
Deng Minghao nodded: "Don't worry, I have a way and I won't go to the black market." After saying that, Deng Minghao left the space.
Li Ruolan did not dare to stay in the space any longer. Thinking that Li Hongjun and the others would be back soon, she hurried out of the space. As soon as she walked out, she heard the door open.
Li Hongjun, Li's mother and Li Baozong came back together. After seeing the prepared food on the table, they all washed their hands and ate.
In order not to reveal her tracks, Li Ruolan also sat down, lowered her head and ate quietly without saying a word.
Suddenly, Li Baozong's nose moved, and he approached Li Ruolan: "Did you eat the eggs secretly? Why do I smell the fragrance of fried eggs with chili peppers on you?"
Upon hearing what Li Baozong said, Li's mother stood up suddenly, rushed to the kitchen in three or two steps, and went to check the number of eggs.
"I didn't. I just smelled someone's fried eggs on the way back. Maybe I brought some with me." Li Ruolan pretended to be the same as before, not daring to even raise her head, and said in a low voice.
Mother Li came back and sat down, saying, "You must have smelled it wrong. We have plenty of eggs."
Li Baozong threw his chopsticks down and shouted, "Mom, other families eat eggs, I want to eat eggs too, go fry some eggs for me!"
Facing her son's unreasonable behavior, Li's mother was not angry at all. She even nodded with a smile: "Okay, I'll go fry some eggs for you right away."
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