Chapter 12 Lin Chen

"Sun Taohua, what's wrong with my grades? I didn't study hard before. If I start studying hard now, I'm sure I can at least get into high school. And are you familiar with Lin Chen?" Shen Ruoqing was speechless. How shameless was Sun Taohua to vent her anger on him? Was it necessary?

"Okay, we are not that close. I have something to do today and don't want to bother with you. You should go away." She was not in a hurry to deal with Sun Taohua at the moment. There were two fat rabbits in her vegetable basket and she was afraid that Sun Taohua would find out.

“Ruoqing, Ruoqing!”

Ignoring Sun Taohua's shouting, Shen Ruoqing quickly walked back home. Just kidding, no one should disturb her from eating meat now.

"Shen Ruoqing!"

Sun Taohua was a little flustered, as if the things she had always controlled were getting further and further away from her. What happened to Shen Ruoqing? Why was she different from before? Without Shen Ruoqing's selfless dedication, what could she use to win the favor of Brother Chen? When she got home, Shen Ruoqing took out the two rabbits, and Shen Xue, Shen Yun, and Shen Yue all rushed to watch.

"Aunt, you caught this again, you are so awesome!"

"This little rabbit is so cute."

"Aunt, can I keep it?"

Shen Yue said, who can refuse this furry little animal?

"Daya, you can't even feed yourself, and you still want to raise rabbits? I think you have nothing to do!" Old Mrs. Ji scolded as she picked up two rabbits.

Shen Yue's eyes suddenly turned red and she looked at Shen Ruoqing.

Shen Ruoqing didn't expect that her niece wanted to raise rabbits. "Daya, if you want to raise rabbits, you can go catch one yourself. I caught these just to improve our family's food. Everyone has a share. You can't stop everyone from eating meat just because you like it."

"Aunt! I didn't expect you to be such a cold-blooded person!" Shen Yue stomped her feet and ran into the house crying.

"Sister Daya..." Shen Yun and Shen Xue didn't know what to say. Although they also thought the little rabbit was cute, in this day and age, the meat in the mouth is definitely more important. Why is Sister Daya so ignorant at this time?

"You ignorant thing!" Old Lady Ji spat, then turned and looked at Shen Ruoqing with a smile: "Use one to stew, and let the other one air-dry."

"Mom, why don't you give one of these rabbits to Fourth Brother? He's having a hard time these days."

With a look of pain on her face, Old Mrs. Ji weighed the two fat rabbits in her hands and chose the smaller one: "Okay, this way your fourth sister-in-law won't always say that we are going to beg for money. My sweet boy is the most kind-hearted. There will be a car going to the city tomorrow, so we can deliver it there." The reason why Old Mrs. Ji was willing to send a rabbit was because of the five kilograms of flour.

Han didn't know how to skin the rabbit, so Shen Xiangnan and Shen Xiangxi did it. Shen Xiangxi had learned the skinning technique from a hunter in the village a long time ago, so the rabbit skin was relatively intact.

"If I had two more rabbit skins, I could make a piece of clothing for my little sister. This rabbit skin can only make a pair of gloves."

The food I bought last time included potatoes, so I’ll make a potato stew with rabbit meat.

During the Great Steel Production Campaign a few years ago, the production team took away all the iron pots in our homes.

The current pot at home is an aluminum pot that Shen Xiangbei got from the county hardware factory through his connections at the beginning of this year. The one behind the stove is still a ceramic pot.

The pot was very big, and Han put a lot of potatoes in it for fear that there wouldn't be enough.

"My goodness, if I eat like this every day, wouldn't I be better off than the landlords?" Shen Xiangnan sighed. In this era, food is scarce, and meat is even more difficult to come by. I didn't expect to eat meat yesterday and eat meat again today. What a good life!

Today's main dish is acorn noodles.

According to Old Lady Ji, the good days cannot be lived in one day, otherwise they will have to starve before the summer harvest. However, the cornmeal mixed with white flour was made for Shen Ruoqing. Because Wang was pregnant, she ate sorghum porridge. In this era, cornmeal was originally a coarse grain, but now it is classified as a fine grain.

Everyone has been watching Shen Ruoqing's behavior of eating alone for a long time, and apart from Wang's few sour words, there has been no big fuss.

"Mom, didn't we buy so much food? Why are we still eating acorn noodles today?"

"Half of the coarse grains have been replaced with acorn flour. Mom said that only by eating this way can we last until the summer harvest." Mrs. Du was a little jealous, but there was nothing she could do. After all, Mrs. Wang had given birth to two grandsons for the Shen family, and she was pregnant with another one. She had only given birth to two girls, and she really had no status in the family.

Shen Ruoqing sighed in her heart. It was all because of poverty. She had money and food in her hands, but she didn't dare to take them out! She felt guilty every time she secretly cooked for herself. She could only occasionally take out some pheasants and rabbits to improve the food. She had to think of a way to take out the things openly.

However, eating acorn flour can prevent anemia, so let your family members eat some. I can’t eat it anyway, so there is no requirement to eat the same thing as their family members.

"I think this year's summer harvest will be very difficult." After dinner, Shen Xiangdong sighed. The harvest in the fields has been declining in the past two years of drought, mainly because the river that irrigates the fields seems to be almost dry. With water shortages, how much can we expect from the fields? "That's why we have to eat more carefully. We don't know if the summer harvest can last until the autumn harvest." Old Lady Ji also works, but because she is old, she usually works half a day, and only four centimeters a day.

"No way?" Shen Xiangnan was a little bit unbelievable. He was still counting on Xia Shou to let his two children continue their studies.

Because of the difficult times, many children in every household stopped going to school to help their families earn work points. The Shen family was no exception. Except for Shen Ruoqing who was still in junior high school, the other children temporarily dropped out of school.

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"We should prepare early and just get through this year. Maybe the situation will be better in the second half of the year?"

Shen Ruoqing knew that this year would not be the last year, and next year would be even harder to endure. She couldn't tell anyone about this at the moment.

"Mom, let me deliver the rabbit to my fourth brother by myself tomorrow."

"I'd better go with you." Old Mrs. Ji was worried about Shen Ruoqing going to the county town alone.

"One more person will cost more for the fare, and don't you still have to go to work, Mom? One day less of work means one day less of work points. It's not like I haven't been to the county town before, so there's nothing to worry about." Shen Ruoqing thought to herself that she had to go to the black market again, at least to earn the space money first. It would be difficult to go if Old Lady Ji was around.

Old Mrs. Ji thought about it again and again, but in the end she couldn't bear to give up that little bit of space, so she finally agreed.

In the afternoon, Shen Ruoqing was digging wild vegetables when a male voice suddenly rang out.

"Ruoqing, I heard from others that you hit your head some time ago? Are you okay now?"

Shen Ruoqing looked up. The sun was shining brightly. She squinted at the person who came. It took her a while to see clearly that the person was Lin Chen.

"Can't you see the bandage on my head? Why are you asking such nonsense?"

(End of this chapter)