Qin Huairu was in a very good mood along the way.
One reason was that she was getting closer to home, and the other reason was of course that Jia Dongsheng had her in his heart. Even when he bought a gift for Qin Jingru, he brought one for her.
This made Qin Huairu feel more and more that her choice was not wrong.
I chatted and laughed with Qin Huairu along the way and walked a little slower. By the time we arrived at Qinjiagou, it was already around eight o'clock.
The reason why we came so early this time was to allow Qin Huairu to stay at home for a while longer. After all, it is really not easy to come back nowadays, even if the journey is only more than two hours.
"Dongsheng, Qinjiagou is just ahead."
Qin Huairu was beaming with joy. She hadn't been home for a long time and was looking forward to it very much.
"Sister-in-law, how far is Jingru's home from yours?" Jia Dongsheng asked while riding his bike and looking at Qinjiagou in front of him.
“Not far.”
Qin Huairu said, "My father has three brothers, he is the eldest, Jingru's father is my third uncle, we all live on the same street, three or four houses apart."
"oh."
Nodding, Jia Dongsheng followed Qin Huairu's instructions and walked into Qinjiagou.
Qinjiagou is located on the edge of the mountains. It takes only ten minutes to get to the mountain. It can be said that it depends on the mountain for its livelihood. In normal years, it is definitely a good place.
But during the famine years, things were not so good.
After all, it is too close to the mountains, and the nearby land is also mountainous. Normally, the crops grown there are just enough for the villagers of Qinjiagou to be self-sufficient. Add in some mountain products, and they can definitely live a good life.
But in years of famine, people could not get enough to eat.
After all, mountain products are not enough to fill people’s stomachs, and they are not easy to sell outside during famine years.
This is also the reason why Qin Huairu's father, the deputy head of the brigade, cannot support his family. It is not only because of his strong principles, but also because of the geographical location.
Jia Dongsheng's eyes flashed. He was thinking about something. This place is close to the mountains, so there should be a lot of mountain products. It should be relatively easy to purchase some mountain products before leaving.
But this is not the main point. Jia Dongsheng feels that it would be good if he could ask the Qin family to help raise some chickens, ducks and geese.
As for the idea that there is no food for humans, how can there be food to feed animals? This is not true.
As for raising big animals like pigs and cows, we definitely cannot afford it, but chickens, ducks and geese eat less, and they can all eat grass, so if we raise a few and mix them with a little bran, we can raise them.
As for bran, it is much easier to buy than grain.
Jia Dongsheng had an idea in mind, but whether it could be carried out depended on the character of Qin Huairu's parents and Qin Jingru's parents.
From the brief contact before, Jia Dongsheng felt that both Aunt Qin and Qin's father and mother had relatively good personalities. However, that was their personality when they were getting along with each other, not their personality when they were doing things. These were two different things.
When you come into contact with many people in your daily life, you can feel that they are good and down-to-earth people.
But when you work together, you will find that they have some shortcomings, such as hesitation, indecision, and hesitation. Such people can't get anything done.
"Dongsheng, this is my home. Three houses ahead is Jingru's home."
Qin Huairu got out of the car, holding the child, and asked, "Should we go to my house first, or go to Jingru's first?"
This is what she asked, but Qin Huairu's eyes had already betrayed her. She really wanted to go home first.
"Now that we're there, of course we'll go to your house first!" Jia Dongsheng said with a smile.
"Okay, I'll go open the door."
Hearing Jia Dongsheng's words, Qin Huairu immediately carried the child and walked towards the front door of her home: "I'll go open the door for you, you push the car in."
"Okay."
Jia Dongsheng nodded, pushed the cart, and followed Qin Huairu.
Although it is called a gate, the courtyard gate is actually made of wood. However, it is quite large and has double doors, so it is easy to push a tricycle in.
While pushing the cart, Jia Dongsheng was thinking. Since entering Qinjiagou, he found something very strange, that is, there was not a single pedestrian on the road in Qinjiagou.
This is a very strange thing.
Qinjiagou is very large, otherwise it would not have become the Qinjiagou Commune, a small team established to manage more than a dozen villages. As he walked along, Jia Dongsheng estimated that there were at least three or four hundred households in Qinjiagou.
In this era when even the Jia family is willing to have children, there must be at least a population of more than a thousand people.
But in Qinjiagou, a place with more than a thousand people, there wasn't a single pedestrian on the road. Isn't that weird?
If he didn't know that this was real society, not a fantasy world, Jia Dongsheng would have thought that the entire Qinjiagou was shrouded in ghosts and turned into a haunted place.
After entering the yard, I found that it was not very big. There was a well and a cart. There was also a chicken coop and a doghouse in the corner, but there were neither chickens nor dogs inside.
It can be seen that Qin Huairu's family is indeed having a hard time.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back."
Seeing that Jia Dongsheng had entered the yard, Qin Huairu could no longer suppress her excitement. She immediately hugged Huaihua and walked towards the house, shouting as she walked quickly.
"Who is it?"
A woman's voice came from the room. Jia Dongsheng knew it was Qin Huairu's mother, Aunt Qin.
"Mom, it's me, Huairu."
Qin Huairu opened the door and walked into the house. Jia Dongsheng followed her, carrying a bag of corn flour from the car, and entered the house together.
"Huai Ru, why did you come back with the child?"
Aunt Qin's voice was a little weak, and then she said, "Were you driven back by your in-laws?"
It's no wonder that Aunt Qin thinks so. During the famine years, several married girls in Qinjiagou were driven back by their in-laws.
The reason is very simple: I can’t afford it anymore.
As for whether he will take her back when the times get better, that depends on the situation at that time. Maybe he will take her back, or maybe he will marry another one.
It’s a good year and there’s no shortage of daughters-in-law.
"Mom, what are you talking about? Today is Sunday. The factory is closed. I came back to see you and my dad."
Qin Huairu retorted angrily, then said, "Mom, where's my dad?"
"Your father went to the brigade to discuss going into the mountains to hunt wild boars."
Aunt Qin sighed and said, "We're in a difficult situation in Qinjiagou right now. We don't have much to eat, so let's see if we can hunt a wild boar and bring it back to the city to exchange for some food."
"Ah, is our Qinjiagou so difficult?" Qin Huairu said in disbelief.
During these days, Jia Dongsheng didn't bring food home every day, but he did give Qin Huairu something good to eat every now and then, so she didn't feel the hardship of the famine years.
"That's right. We have the food your brother-in-law sent us. If we eat a little less every day, we can still hold on. Some families are almost out of food."
Aunt Qin continued, "Haven't you seen how few people are on the streets of Qinjiagou? They're all just lying around at home, cutting down on exercise and starving."
Jia Dongsheng, who had just walked into the house, understood why Qinjiagou was so strange after hearing this. There was no one in the village of thousands of people. It turned out that they were all lying at home.
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