Chapter 9: Eating well and wearing warm clothes have become important matters in life

After breakfast, Su Taotao decided to go to the cowshed to meet Teacher Cao and see what his attitude was.

Zhou Linglan said that they should wait until everyone went to work and there were fewer people. He had treated the cows of the production team before, and now the cows of the production team were under his care. He should herd the cows in the back mountain.

Su Taotao nodded: "Then I will take care of Chen Chen today, and I will also cook lunch and dinner."

Zhou Linglan almost asked, "Can you cook? Why don't you go to the county today?" Fortunately, she held back. Zhou Linglan was very pleased with Su Taotao's change. Anyway, there was only so much food at home, and she couldn't waste it. Let her do it.

When Chenchen heard it, he ran to hug his uncle's thighs with his short legs.

Su Taotao: "..."

Chenchen is not stupid. Although this mother has become easier to get along with and seems to like him a little, he is still safer with his uncle.

Fu Yuanhang smiled happily for a rare time. Finally, his love for this little guy was not in vain. He bent down to pick him up and rubbed his little head: "Chenchen, I'll take him to school."

Although Su Taotao really wanted to take him to school herself, she only pinched the little boy's face to remind him to miss his mother before saying goodbye to him.

Chenchen still had a helpless look on his face and did not avoid her hand in the end.

In the countryside these days, all adults in the family have to go to the fields to earn work points. Either the eldest child in the family carries the youngest child to school, or they simply don't go to school, but take care of their younger siblings at home and help with housework. Especially for girls, few of them go to school seriously.

In fact, Fu Yuanhang is still a half-grown child, only eleven years old this year, and is in the fourth grade of the commune primary school. Chenchen has been going to school with him since he turned one year old.

Su Taotao, who has read a lot of period literature, knows this, but the enlightenment stage of children is very important. She plans to let Chenchen adapt for a period of time first, and then teach him herself in the future. Those

who go to school go to school, those who go to work go to work, and Su Taotao, the only idle person, begins to count the supplies at home.

Zhou Linglan was hardworking and planted a lot of things in her family's private plot. She stockpiled a lot of coarse grains such as sweet potatoes, taro, potatoes, and cassava, but there was not much fine grains such as rice and flour. There was only a small corner of rice grains, and I don't know if there were 100 kilograms. The southerners mainly eat rice, so there was only a small bag of flour, and there were also various beans and a little bit of glutinous rice. She also found a small pot of peanut oil.

Su Taotao was really worried. It was just the beginning of spring. She didn't know if there were 50 kilograms of white rice after grinding the rice grains and removing the husks. The whole family would have to eat this little fine grain for half a year. No wonder Zhou Linglan and Fu Yuanhang were reluctant to eat it.

On the contrary, they had a lot of dried goods such as dried mushrooms, dried black fungus, dried bamboo shoots, dried bracken, etc. These wild organic ingredients were definitely good things that could not be bought even if you had money in the 21st century. However, in the 1970s, these were all "landlord dishes". Eating them alone was not as good as eating wild vegetables and fruits, because they needed to be stewed with a lot of oil and meat to taste good. Poor middle peasants like them simply could not "afford to eat" because they not only had no meat, but also only a small amount of oil for each household.

Their production team was considered good because they had a lot of fertile mountains and planted a lot of peanuts every year. Every household had some oil on their dining table.

Some production teams that don't have much mountain land and are reluctant to use fertile land to grow peanuts, especially those with many children, are reluctant to use oil when cooking. They just use a piece of gauze to apply a little oil all over the pot as oil.

Su Taotao remembered that in her previous life, in order to lose weight, she often rinsed the oil off the vegetables with boiling water before eating. The more she thought about it, the more she felt guilty.

It was half an hour after counting the supplies at home. Su Taotao thought that the only vegetable in the house that could be considered as meat was eggs. After she said that in the morning, Zhou Linglan took out all the eggs hidden under the bed.

Zhou Linglan had gone to the supply and marketing cooperative to change her eggs not long ago, and now she only has about ten cages. Even if the two hardworking old hens at home lay two eggs every day, and the four people in the family lay one egg each day, these ten eggs will not last for a few days. It's

so depressing. These days, having enough food and clothing has really become a major issue in life.

When it was almost time to go out, Su Taotao braided her hair into a big braid, changed into old gray clothes, and even got some dust from the bottom of the kitchen stove and smeared it on her face. In this way, no one could tell that she was naturally beautiful. At most, she would look a little whiter and more energetic than an ordinary village girl, so as not to be too eye-catching.

Su Taotao took the loan note and the photo with her and went out through the back door.

Coincidentally, when Su Taotao walked to the door of the cowshed, she saw a man leading a cow out.

"Excuse me, are you Comrade Cao Guohua?" Su Taotao asked.

Although his temples were gray, he was vigorous and energetic. The tall old man raised his head and looked at Su Taotao calmly: "Yes, who are you?"

Su Taotao secretly looked at him and couldn't help but admire him. He was worthy of being a soldier. Even if he fell into such a situation, the spirit of a soldier was still there.

"It's not convenient to talk here. Can we talk for a while?"

Cao Guohua looked into her clear eyes, nodded, and pointed to the back mountain: "Let's talk there."

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