The next morning, Huo Changlan got up very early.
They headed straight for the commune.
She walked very fast; she had already decided what she wanted to buy.
She'd been wanting steamed buns and sponge cake for a long time.
Today I can finally eat it.
She went directly to a state-run restaurant and bought a few steamed buns.
They even complained and grumbled about how expensive it was.
I went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought two jin of chicken cakes and one jin of glutinous rice strips.
They took their things and went back.
She went home without even having dinner, left her things at home, and took two pieces of steamed egg custard and a steamed bun to the fields.
She's late today.
The captain looked at her menacingly: "Huo Changlan, where have you been? Don't you know it's harvest time right now!"
"You dare to be late again! You're punished by having to harvest ten jin of wheat today."
Huo Changlan chuckled and said that after taking two bites of the sponge cake, it was absolutely delicious!
She paid no heed to the captain's reprimand.
Since he's her older brother, she can't just not let her go home if she can't finish her work, right?
"Big brother, I'm going to buy something."
After saying that, he proudly took out his steamed buns and sponge cake.
The captain's teeth itched with rage.
That Huo Changlan really doesn't know how to stop.
I just got the money yesterday, and I'm going to buy food today!
You'd think she was so hungry she sold her daughter.
"Get to work, stop showing off."
The captain left after saying those words.
His heart ached whenever he saw Huo Changlan.
With money, Huo Changlan no longer needed to work.
Work for a while, then rest for a while.
The captain ignored her.
Do whatever you want, anyway there are no work points, no food, might as well starve to death!
Li Xiangyun stayed at home taking care of her children. Since she had nothing else to do, she made some mung bean soup.
It's already been put in the well to chill.
The two children were sleeping, so she and Yun Ningyan went to the field to deliver mung bean soup.
Yun Ningyan brought out mung bean soup and made sure each member of the Huo family had a bowl.
She secretly added a lot of spiritual spring water to the soup.
Huo Changgen drank a bowl of mung bean soup and muttered to himself.
"I work every day and I don't feel tired. I feel like I have inexhaustible energy."
"It wasn't like this two years ago. The wheat harvest was exhausting every day!"
Yun Ningyan and Huo Junshan chuckled to themselves.
Li Xiangyun also laughed and said, "Now we eat better. Before, there was nothing to eat and no money to buy meat, so of course we felt tired."
Huo Changlan touched his head and nodded, agreeing with the logic.
However, Li Xiangyun was very curious, as she also felt that the old man's white hair seemed to have decreased considerably.
"Third brother, do you think your father has fewer gray hairs?"
"He used to have a full head of white hair, but now from a distance he looks like an old man with black hair."
Huo Junshan nodded, spouting nonsense with a straight face.
"It's probably because I'm eating well now, in a good mood, and doing less work."
In fact, Li Xiangyun has also changed a lot, the biggest change being in her face.
My face used to have many freckles and spots, but now there are none at all.
It's still clean and white.
He has almost no gray hair and looks very young.
They just rarely look in the mirror, so they don't know it.
Huo Changgen rested for a while, then went back to work.
Yun Ningyan looked at the wheat in the field; most of the wheat had already been harvested.
Some people are already threshing wheat in the field.
Children can earn a few work points a day by picking wheat in the fields.
Yun Ningyan saw Zhang Hongmei again; she was still carrying her child on her back and diligently cutting wheat with a sickle.
She walked over and saw that there was still a little bit of mung bean soup left.
It was poured out.
"Sister Hongmei, everyone in our family has already had a drink, please have some."
Zhang Hongmei twitched her lips and smiled.
"No need, it would be a waste for me to drink it, you guys drink it!"
Yun Ningyan looked at the child on her back, her eyes sunken.
Her arms and little hands were exposed, with no flesh at all.
He was asleep, and his breathing was very weak.
I wonder how many days it's been since my child has eaten?
"Sister Hongmei, is the child sick? He doesn't seem very energetic. Should we go see a doctor?"
Zhang Hongmei said with a wry smile, "She's just hungry. It's alright, I'll feed her something in a bit!"
Yun Ningyan also noticed something. When Zhang Hongmei stood up, she saw her slightly protruding belly.
"Sister Hongmei, are you pregnant again?"
Zhang Hongmei nodded: "They said that as long as I give birth to a son, they will treat my daughter well."
"Why!"
Yun Ningyan sighed; she felt sorrowful.
I feel sorry for Zhang Hongmei, and for the millions of women in this era who are tormented by their families.
But she felt a deep sense of powerlessness; she couldn't save Zhang Hongmei.
The once warm and cheerful older sister now looks like she's almost forty years old.
Very old.
Yun Ningyan looked at the child and took out two pieces of steamed egg cake from her pocket.
"Sister Hongmei, why don't you feed the child?"
She turned and walked away.
Why would you have a son with a family like that?
Is it worth it?
Is it worth it?
Huo Junshan looked at Yun Ningyan, who had a displeased expression.
He asked, "What's wrong?"
Yun Ningyan was unhappy: "I think Zhang Hongmei's daughter is dying; she can't even open her eyes."
"She just lay there softly on her back, so thin you could see her bones."
"Moreover, she is foolish enough to want to have a son, and she is already pregnant."
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