Li Qingyue said that the Li family is living a miserable life now. When she went there in the morning, the family was preparing to go out to work and earn work points. You know, they have not worked for many years and are supported by their daughters.
Li's father and mother cried poor to Qingyue, saying that the family had no money at all and was almost starving. They had to borrow some coarse grains from the villagers and use their work points to offset the cost at the end of the year.
Of course Qingyue ignored them and just said that her family was also very poor and asked them not to count on her.
Mother Li also asked her whether Qinghuan's leg injury had healed, fearing that Qinghuan was up to some bad idea again.
Li Debao has been tanned like a coal ball after working for nearly a month. His face, which used to be quite presentable, has now become extremely ugly.
The whole family complained constantly, but there was nothing they could do. There was no money left at home for them to squander. If they didn't work hard, they wouldn't even have enough to eat, let alone find a wife for Li Debao.
In the past, they had three meals a day, without missing a single meal, and they could also have a meal of fine grains.
Now it has become two meals a day, which are not enough to fill me up and are all coarse grains.
After hearing this, the three sisters felt nothing. Their lives at home were even worse than this before.
Li Qingyun reviewed the memories of his original body. He had never had a day off. He was constantly busy, like a top. He had to work even when he was sick, like a slave in the old society.
From now on, all the sisters should be like Qingyue. They should give her the annual festival gifts as they should, just as a way of repaying her for giving birth to them. But it is impossible for her to suck blood like a leech again.
In the afternoon, Li Qingyun divided the steamed bean buns into packages of six and ten and gave them as holiday gifts to neighbors and acquaintances. She gave more to acquaintances.
A lot of different kinds of food were given away and received back. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, everyone will make some delicious food that they don’t usually make.
Sister Qiuju gave me red date steamed cakes, Aunt Jiang gave me fried sugar cakes, Aunt Gao gave me red bean cakes, and Mother Gu sent me a basket of scallion steamed buns.
So there were a lot of uneaten noodles at home.
What made people laugh and cry was Erniu. He didn't know how to make these pastries, and he felt uneasy about accepting her holiday gift, so he directly carried a large basket of red pine cones to her house.
There was a young wife in the village who lived in the same village as her parents' home. She also had to go back in the afternoon to give a festival gift. She gave two sticky rice dumplings to someone and asked her to take her festival gift back to her parents' home. The person readily agreed because of the two solid sticky rice dumplings.
The holiday gift she gave to her parents was six sticky rice dumplings, a bag of pecans she picked herself, and a portion for Qinghuan.
She didn't want to see their family at all now. She thought that they had spent a lot of money to deal with Li Debao's mistress, otherwise they wouldn't have fallen so far as to go to work to earn food. They deserved it.
After delivering the holiday gifts, the three of them began to deal with the pile of red pine cones.
Qingyun and Qinghuan were not very good at dealing with these things. They had never picked pine cones when they picked mountain products before, and they sisters had too many chores to do and had no time to collect these snacks that could not fill their stomachs.
Gu Tingzhou knew what to do with it. He used to be an expert at picking pine cones. After the autumn harvest, pine nuts and other mountain products could be taken to the commune to exchange for money to buy daily necessities.
There is a natural difference in strength between men and women, which is an insurmountable gap.
Pine cones grow on the crowns of pine trees. To pick them, one needs to climb a pine tree more than ten meters high with bare hands without any safety measures. Moreover, not all pine cones have pine nuts and are edible.
For example, the basket of red pine cones that Erniu carried on his back are edible. They can usually only be picked in deeper mountains. I don’t know how hard he worked to pick these pine cones.
Gu Tingzhou collected the pine cones together, then found a mallet and hit them hard, and the pine nuts were separated out bit by bit.
This step is very laborious and requires a lot of strength to separate the pine nuts from the pine cones.
Finally, Qingyun and Qinghuan used a sieve to separate the pine nuts from the wood chips. The ones that leaked through were the pine nuts. After repeating this several times, they could get clean pine nuts.
A basket of pine cones weighs about 100 pounds, and a total of 25 pounds of pine nuts are produced.
Li Qingyun treasured these pine nuts and put them in a cool and ventilated place to dry. When she was bored at home in winter, she would fry them and crack them for fun.
You should know that pine nuts are very rare in later generations, often selling for dozens or even hundreds of yuan per pound.
These 25 kilograms of pine nuts would be worth several thousand yuan in the future.
Now she is guarding the treasure mountain in vain, but unfortunately she does not have the ability to climb trees to pick pine cones.
But then she thought again, she couldn't fight, but Erniu could. Besides earning centimeters every day, he went to the mountains to pick red pine cones. Pine nuts were rare and sold at a higher price than other mountain products. He could use the money to buy supplies for the winter.
For poor families, the long winter is very difficult to endure. They have to prepare firewood, food, clothes, etc. for the winter in advance.
She decided to buy some pine nuts from Erniu, fry them at home and eat them as snacks in the winter. She loved pine nuts the most, but unfortunately she could only buy some occasionally to satisfy her craving before, but now she can eat as much as she wants.
Seeing how much she treasured these pine nuts, Gu Tingzhou knew that she would definitely like them. He thought to himself that after his leg was completely healed, he would definitely go up the mountain to pick more pine cones for her.
Li family
When Li's mother got home from work in the evening, she received a holiday gift brought back by her eldest daughter.
Six solid sticky rice dumplings and a bag of pecans.
Smelling the sweet aroma, Li Debao grabbed a cold bean bun and stuffed it into his mouth without thinking.
"You didn't even wash your hands, they're all covered in mud. I'm going to heat up these bean buns for you two."
Mother Li heated up the bean curd and cooked some porridge made from mixed grains, which was considered a meal. The family sat at the dining table, and Father Li and Li Debao ate the delicious bean curd and porridge.
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