Chapter 7: Three Battles, Three Wins

Today's breakfast was the same as yesterday's, but there was a large bowl of fresh milk in front of Su He. It was steaming, so it must have been freshly cooked.

Mother Gu handed over a spoon and said, "Xiao He, I put some sugar in it. It should taste good. Try it."

"It's sweet." Su He took a sip.

She quite likes drinking milk. When she was young, she was in poor health, so her mother ordered milk for her. She has been used to drinking it since she was young, and she can drink it even without boiling it or adding sugar.

She could even drink the milk that had just been squeezed out and had cow hair in it.

Seeing her daughter-in-law drinking so happily, Gu's mother was also happy. She said,

"Your father has made arrangements with the team. From now on, one pound of fresh milk will be delivered every morning, and mother will cook it for you."

Su He, "Thank you, Mom."

Maybe it's because they are from Mongolian province, but there are a lot of cattle and sheep in their village. Not counting private ones, there are more than 50 cows raised by the team, and several hundred sheep.

In addition to the production team, villagers also raised horses privately, but not many, with a maximum of two horses or two cows per family.

The book says that in that era ordinary people were not allowed to raise livestock privately, and even the number of chickens was limited. This is actually not entirely true.

It is true that large livestock such as cattle and horses are not allowed to be raised, but they can be raised secretly and sold before their tails are cut off. Besides, the superiors generally will not come down to cut their tails.

Even if they were coming, they would notify us in advance.

Anyway, farmers raise one or two cows and horses to increase their own extra income. When the cow gives birth, they can sell the milk to make some money. When the calves grow up, they can also make some money by selling them.

As for chickens, ducks, dogs and pigs, I don't know about other provinces, but they don't have them in Meng Province. You can raise them as you like. The country encourages people to raise more, but you can't buy and sell them privately. Chickens and ducks must be sold to supply and marketing cooperatives, and the same goes for eggs.

As for the pigs you raise, if you decide to kill them, half of them must be handed over to the brigade commune.

The same applies to vegetables from private plots, which can only be sold to supply and marketing cooperatives and cannot be sold privately.

But their times were not like later generations. People were not well fed, so they kept so many chickens and ducks. What did they feed them?

So her mother-in-law didn't raise many chickens, just a dozen or so.

For breakfast today, Su He drank a big bowl of milk, ate a cornmeal pancake, and two boiled eggs. She didn't drink the porridge. She drank the milk and couldn't drink the porridge.

"Xiao He, how about fried pork head for dinner?" asked Mrs. Gu.

Su He wanted to say that since we had been eating meat for two days in a row, why not make something else? But after thinking about it, she couldn't help but put meat in today, so she said, "Okay, Mom, you decide, I'll eat whatever you cook."

Gu's mother liked to listen to Su He talk, "Yeah, good."

He then said, "Drive slowly on the road."

"Well, I'm leaving, Mom."

Mr. Li is already waiting at the door.

After picking up Su He, Master Li's carriage stopped at the door of Lao Gu's house again. Su He had a bad premonition, and heard Master Li shouting twice into the yard, and Wu Sanfeng came out twisting her hips.

When she saw Su He, Wu Sanfeng's face instantly fell. She still remembered what happened yesterday!

Sitting on the back of the carriage, he said in a strange tone, "Why didn't my sister-in-law ride a bicycle today but took a carriage instead?"

Su He smiled and said, "My legs hurt from riding a bicycle, so I took a horse carriage instead."

Wu Sanfeng didn't know how to respond to this. She had reason to suspect that Su He was showing off to her, showing off that his family had a bicycle while they didn't.

She had never heard of anyone saying that riding a bicycle hurts the legs, and she had never ridden one before...

Wu Sanfeng stopped talking and Su He was too lazy to pay attention to her.

In the Gu family, except for Gu Jianhua's three sisters, the cousins ​​are not his biological relatives. Why do I say that? Because Gu Jianhua's second uncle and Gu's father are not born of the same mother.

Born by stepmother.

Therefore, Gu's father and his second brother did not have a very good relationship in private, it was just average, and they even had a life-and-death fight.

But now that you are grandfathers, just keep up the appearance.

After picking up Wu Sanfeng, Master Li picked up two more middle-aged women, and then rushed to the village entrance while whipping his whip.

Su He didn't know the two ladies, so she nodded politely and greeted them. She didn't know the ladies, but the ladies knew her.

One of the round-faced ladies asked, "Teacher Su, you didn't ride a bike today?"

Su He said the same thing, "My legs hurt a little, so I took the carriage."

Wu Sanfeng: Does her leg really hurt?

After hearing what Su He said, the ladies thought that the wives in the city were too hypocritical. They had leg pain after riding a bicycle, but they used to walk to the county and they didn't complain about pain even after walking for two hours.

But they didn't say it out loud, because they thought that her husband was in the army and she was working in the city, so who knows what she might need help with in the future.

Wu Sanfeng, however, was still angry from yesterday, so she said, "Oh, sister-in-law, you are being too hypocritical. Riding a bike hurts my legs, so it must be painful to walk!"

"We can't act like the capitalist lady!"

Su He sighed as he said this, and reached out to wipe the powder off her face. "Look at the powder on your face, it's so thick, and you even put some red on your lips."

"And you're wearing a white shirt!"

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, sister-in-law, you don't look like a working class person at all, but more like a capitalist lady!"

"Hey, sister-in-law, we are working people, we can't act like capitalist ladies! You should use less powder in the future!"

Wu Sanfeng was stunned when Su He picked up the powder on her face. She actually wiped off the powder she put on with her hand! She wiped it off!

Wu Sanfeng's face is distorted!

Su He was still blabbering, "Besides, sister-in-law, you have dark skin, it won't look good if you put on so much powder, it won't look natural, and you only put it on your face and not your neck, so in the end your neck and face are two different colors, it looks weird."

Su He thought that Wu Sanfeng didn't wash his neck regularly, so his neck was so dark.

The two ladies were watching the two sisters-in-law quarreling with each other, but after hearing this, they also spoke up, "Teacher Su is right, Sanfeng, you have dark skin, and it really doesn't look good if you put on too much powder."

"If you want to put powder on, put it on your neck too next time."

Neck also wipe

Wu Sanfeng was reluctant to do so. She only applied the powder she bought a few times a year and not often.

Su He was smiling when she spoke, and Wu Sanfeng wanted to get angry but couldn't find an excuse. She could only say, "Yes, we country people work in the fields every day, exposed to the wind and sun, so our skin is dark, unlike you city people..."

Anger transfer method?

Su He didn't answer. She said, "Second sister-in-law, you can't say that. We are all working people. What's the difference? Take my dad for example. He doesn't have time to sleep at night. He has to go to the slaughterhouse to kill pigs in the early morning. It's so hard."

"Besides, we can rest in the countryside in the winter and have enough food. In the city, we have to work 365 days a year. And in the city, even a scallion or a head of garlic has to be bought with money!"

"You don't need it in the countryside, you have it at home."

Su He's words helped the two ladies find a sense of balance. Yes, everything in the city requires money and tickets, and if you don't work you won't have anything to eat. But it's not like that in the countryside, at least they don't have to spend money to buy vegetables and firewood.

"That's right, we have our own vegetables and don't have to spend money to buy them."

The two ladies nodded.

Wu Sanfeng felt something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what it was.

At this time, Su He moved to Wu Sanfeng's side and whispered, "Sister-in-law, I know a recipe for whitening your skin. Do you want to know?"

"What recipe?" Wu Sanfeng's eyes lit up.

Su He whispered, "Mix yellow mud with urine, then apply it on your face. Wash it off after about half an hour, and your skin will become white!"

"The urine must be from a boy!"