By the time this summer is over, Fu Xiangdong and Fu Xiangnan will have turned their lives around.
Ning Jing had already taught the women in the village how to make calligraphy brushes, so she had already started picking and washing vegetables at the reservoir.
Fortunately, this work is easy to do in the summer. With Wang Guihua's help, Ning Jing can go home every afternoon to feed her two children.
When autumn came and it was time to harvest the rice, Ning Jing started feeding the two of them complementary foods.
Although raising chickens and ducks is no longer allowed, Fu Hongxing still has his purchase and sales book, and he can still buy some every month!
In addition, there are always a few other people in the village who secretly raise chickens and ducks. They don't sell them, but just barter with other things. Even if they are caught, they are all villagers. Why can't others barter with other things?
However, these kinds of things can't be made public.
Although the family is not as prosperous as before, the children are all very sensible and do not complain or say much.
Even if there are eggs at home, they are always given to the twins first.
The most obvious example is the twins, a boy and a girl. Hongwei and Xiuli consider themselves the uncle and aunt, so they resisted their cravings and insisted on saving the steamed eggs for their two nephews.
Ning Jing secretly told Fu Hongxing about this in private. Fu Hongxing was silent for a moment, and the next day he found a way to get a piece of pork belly.
The twins are already 4 years old, and their teeth are quite even.
My favorite dish is braised pork belly. When I see this piece of pork belly, I cheer with a loud "whoosh".
Because they knew that their two nephews didn't have any teeth yet and couldn't eat pork belly.
However, these days, if anyone smells a delicious aroma coming from their house, they'll be gossiped about for ages. If the pork belly is braised, the fragrance could probably travel for miles.
So, Ning Jing made boiled pork slices, thinly sliced, dipped in minced garlic and soy sauce. One small slice was enough to eat more than half a bowl of rice.
Watching the children wolf down their food, Ning Jing felt a deep sense of worry. How long would it take to get through this?
Compared to Ning Jing's family, who could occasionally enjoy boiled pork with garlic and soy sauce, almost every other family in Xishan Village ate coarse grains.
Even after the autumn harvest and the grain was handed over, and everyone received a fair amount of grain, no one ate as much as they wanted.
They almost always traded it for coarse grains or sold the surplus grains to get some money to buy household necessities.
Of course, many people simply hid their food.
The older generation always liked to hide some grain in the cellar.
To prevent food shortages during famine years.
Especially this year's notice, which forbade everyone from having side businesses, meant that the chickens and ducks at home were either sold or pickled and hidden away.
During festivals or when guests come, cutting off a small piece, about the size of a finger, and adding it to wild vegetables to infuse them with flavor makes for a delicious dish.
When the year turned over, in 1965, Tiedan Fu Hongguo was 15 years old.
He pursed his lips and went to find his eldest brother. Originally, he wanted to follow in his second sister's footsteps, but now it wasn't quite right.
So he decided to go to work at the factory.
Such a young man, a high school graduate, can't just stay in the village to farm.
Without telling Ning Jing, Fu Hongxing used his connections to get Fu Hongguo a job at a steel plant in Siping City.
Of course, he went to work in the steel mill's office as an accountant.
The steel plant in Siping City has more than 3,000 workers. Calculating wages and allowances for the workers every month is a real headache.
Although the finance department is always short-staffed, even if you have connections, it's difficult to get in without real ability.
The factory can't just waste money hiring a clay idol to worship while it does nothing!
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