Chapter 69 Sixties Chronicle 29
My aunt and her family live in the northwest corner of the fishing village. Most of the houses here are old earthen brick houses. The thatched roofs do not keep warm at all. It leaks everywhere on rainy days and is drafty in the cold winter. There is no difference between sleeping inside and outside.
I didn't expect the conditions here to be much different from those on a farm.
Feng Wu opened the suitcase, which was filled with the things she brought with her. Li Shuyi wanted to laugh as she watched her niece take out the things as if by magic.
The spoiled little girl from the past has grown up to be able to take care of others.
"Aunt, please sit down. I'll make you a cup of brown sugar ginger tea." It's so cold at the seaside, and it's more likely for women to get sick.
"Okay, thank you Sifeng for your hard work today." Li Shuyi leaned against the wall of the kang and took a long breath. After stopping his busy work, his body's stress response made him even more tired.
When Feng Wu came into the room with the brown sugar ginger tea, Li Shuyi had already fallen asleep leaning against the wall.
Without waking up the sleeping Li Shuyi, Feng Wu added some more firewood into the pit to ensure that the kang was always warm.
The living conditions in the fishing village are poor, and Fengwu's vacation time is limited, so she can't stay here for long. Fortunately, she has found her aunt and others, and she can send them some things, money and tickets frequently in the future.
Those who were sent down to the local areas did not receive any salary. They worked every day to earn a few work points to make ends meet. They ate poorly and worked hard. How could their health be good?
The small house was short of everything. Apart from the things Feng Wu openly took out, there were almost no daily necessities in the house.
Even the pottery jar used for cooking was one with a hole in it.
After leaving a note for Li Shuyi, Feng Wu went out for a walk.
Feng Wu got the captain's address from a child with a few candies, and then he carried the gift and the person on his back and knocked on the captain's door.
The captain's wife was a typical S Province woman, warm and cheerful. Feng Wu was willing to make friends with her, and the two of them soon became like sisters.
Feng Wu did not do anything extra, just hoping that the elder sister could talk to the captain about it. She did not ask for the best treatment, but just wanted to find a relatively easy job.
As for the low work points, Feng Wu thought it was not a big deal. With her monthly allowance, life would not be too difficult.
Besides, I have two cousins at home, how can I let my mother starve?
As a reward, Feng Wu secretly gave him a bicycle ticket. At that time, if a family had a bicycle, it would be a proud thing for the whole commune.
Sister Hongying, the captain's wife, could not refuse this thank you gift. With her husband's salary and the allowance sent back by her son, she was really not short of money. The only thing she needed was a bicycle ticket.
However, the country is in short supply of all kinds of materials. Not to mention a town, even a city can only have a few bicycle tickets. Something that so many people want is not something that the captain of a fishing village will get.
After wasting some time at the captain's house, when he returned to the adobe house, Li Shuyi had already woken up and was standing at the door looking around anxiously. When he saw Feng Wu's familiar figure, the anxiety on his face immediately turned into a smile.
"It's cold outside. Why don't you stay home? Are you hungry? It's already past noon. I'll go cook and we'll have something delicious soon." I touched my niece's hand and found it was warm, which made me feel relieved.
As I recall, my aunt was a good cook, and I especially loved the Beijing mixed noodles made by her.
The original body could eat a large bowl every time.
Feng Wu quickly ran into the room and pulled out a bag of Fuqiang noodles and a piece of frozen pork belly from another bundle. "Auntie, let's eat mixed bean curd noodles! I haven't tasted your cooking in almost a year."
"Why did you bring so much stuff with you, kid? Keep it for yourself. Your two brothers and I won't let you down! Besides, it must be hard for a girl like you to carry such heavy luggage all the way here!"
Feng Wu chuckled and said, "Hehe, don't worry, Auntie. I have a way to get these things. Just think of it as a gift from your niece."
Besides, even if she had flour and pork, she couldn't make authentic mixed noodles!
She also wanted to bring some mixed sauces back to the farm so that her uncle and his family could taste her aunt's cooking, which would make her uncle feel better.
Oh! I was so busy that I almost forgot, "Auntie, wait a minute, I have a big surprise for you."
Feng Wu entered the room and, using the cover of the luggage bag, took out a letter from his uncle Song Jingyi from the cave.
As soon as Li Shuyi saw the familiar handwriting on the cover, tears began to flow uncontrollably. Feng Wu left the space to her aunt, and she went to the temporary stove built beside the courtyard wall to prepare the ingredients for making mixed noodles.
The simple processing of ingredients is similar to the processing of medicinal materials when refining medicine. The unwanted parts are discarded and the edible parts are left. Feng Wu finds this operation not difficult.
But she felt that controlling the heat and locking the delicious flavors of the ingredients together was a highly difficult adventure.
It's completely different from alchemy.
After the ingredients were processed and the fire in the stove was burning vigorously, Li Shuyi left the room with red and swollen eyes. Looking at his niece busy in front of the stove, he hugged her distressedly and said: "Sifeng, you have suffered so much. You ran all the way to such a cold place. How can you be so pitiful!"
How could she not feel heartbroken when a little girl of seventeen or eighteen went to a farm with harsh conditions all by herself and shouldered the heavy burden of taking care of her relatives?
Although the husband couldn't explain it in detail in the letter, he could empathize with the child and know how much he had suffered!
Feng Wu couldn't tell Li Shuyi about his cheating words, so he could only laugh it off, "Aunt, if you care about me, just make me more delicious food. We will be envious of your cooking over there."
"Hey, you greedy cat, I'll make some more later so you can have a full meal today."
After eating the delicious mixed noodles in her original memory, when the whistle sounded for the afternoon work, Feng Wu also followed suit, tied a headscarf on her head, and followed her aunt to go to work.
When meeting acquaintances on the road, Li Shuyi would introduce them enthusiastically. Everyone was very envious of Li Shuyi. They did not expect that even for people like them who were demoted under the "five black categories", their families would still come from thousands of miles away to visit them.
This rare warmth is exactly what those who have been abandoned by their families lack.
Sometimes, life is just like this! When someone at home is always thinking about you, no matter how far you go, you won’t be worried.
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