The next morning, Lin Miaoyin woke up feeling very uncomfortable. The bed was made of straw with cotton quilt and old clothes on top. She felt so much pain all over her body and it was itchy.
In addition, the bed was very small and Meng Yuanzheng was tall, so the two of them had to sleep in the same bed, and it would creak every time they turned over, making it difficult to fall into a deep sleep.
She opened her eyes and saw that it was still gloomy outside. She didn't have to go to work today because it was raining, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to sleep so late.
Meng Yuanzheng didn't know when she got up. She found a coat to put on, put on her cloth shoes, took out a comb and went under the eaves.
There was no mirror in the house, and the original owner was not someone who knew how to dress up. Instead, Meng Yuanzheng had a shaving set brought from the city, which contained a razor blade and a mirror.
She didn't have to go to work today and was too lazy to braid her hair, so she just combed it and tied it up with a rubber band. She put the comb down and found her not-so-clean face towel.
This face washcloth is a little black and the fabric is very rough. In addition, she just saw that the original owner didn't even have basic skin care products. No wonder Meng Yuanzheng thinks she is unsophisticated.
But in that era, all country girls looked like this, and only the educated youth from the city would dress better.
Nowadays, materials are in short supply and you need a ticket to buy a bar of soap, let alone other rare items.
Fortunately, Meng Yuanzheng was a city dweller and was relatively clean. He also had soap at hand, so she secretly took his soap and used it to wash her face.
I entered the kitchen and lifted the lid of the pot, and to my surprise I found that there was half a pot of hot water at the bottom of the pot, with a bamboo steaming grid on top and two cooked sweet potatoes on it.
This is……
She frowned as she held the pot lid, wondering if this was the breakfast Meng Yuanzheng had left for her.
What about others? Yesterday, Lin's father said that Meng Yuanzheng could no longer go back to school to be a teacher, so he had to work in the fields. He didn't have to go to work today, so where did he go? Could he be going to look for Zhang Hui?
Zhang Hui is now locked up in the police station. The original novel says that although she was punished, her family had connections and they managed to get her out of jail. After she came out, she still stayed in the Niutouwan Brigade, but she could no longer be a teacher and was sent to feed pigs.
The person who replaced her was a member of a new group of educated youth, who was the heroine of the original work.
Seeing Meng Yuanzheng being attentive to the heroine and thinking of her own situation, she couldn't help but put all kinds of obstacles in the way of the heroine.
But her ending was very tragic. She was raped by a local ruffian. Because she was afraid of being embarrassed, she kept it a secret. In the end, she became pregnant and had to marry the rogue.
After the educated youth returned to the city, she was unable to leave and stayed here for the rest of her life.
Lin Miaoyin felt a little sad about Zhang Hui's fate. After all, in the original work, Zhang Hui didn't do anything against the law, and her ambiguity with Meng Yuanzheng was also initiated by Meng Yuanzheng.
Later, she could have returned to the city, but she chose to stay because she couldn't bear to leave her child.
In short, this is a cannon fodder that is even more miserable than Lin Miaoyin in the original text.
But thinking about it this way, Meng Yuanzheng should be anxious to cut off his relationship with Zhang Hui and would definitely not go looking for her.
And she was a little confused about what happened last night. Meng Yuanzheng said that he had forgotten what happened before?
This is not mentioned in the original work.
Could it be that because I traveled through a book, a butterfly effect occurred?
She picked out the sweet potatoes and put them in a bowl, hung up the bamboo steamer, scooped hot water to scrub the washcloth clean, and after washing up, she began to eat the sweet potatoes.
This sweet potato was not as sweet as the ones in later generations, but a white sweet potato. It tasted a bit hard, not sweet, and choking.
But in this era, food and clothing were still a problem. If she had not been the captain's daughter, the original owner and Meng Yuanzheng, two lazy people, would probably not even have any sweet potatoes to eat.
Halfway through his meal, he heard a noise outside the yard and saw Meng Yuanzheng coming in carrying a bamboo ladder and some things.
He was dressed differently today. He used to be very frivolous, wearing a shirt with leather shoes and a slicked-back hair. But today he wore old clothes and straw sandals, like an ordinary country man.
Lin Miaoyin was stunned, watching him put down the bamboo ladder and lean it against the wall, then squatted down and stirred something in the bucket.
Then he pulled some dry straw and said to her, "Miaoyin, help me hold the ladder."
Lin Miaoyin walked over doubtfully, holding onto the stairs with her hands and resting her feet against the foot of the stairs to prevent herself from slipping.
"You want to fix the roof?" she asked.
"It's going to rain these few days, and the house will be very damp if it's not repaired." As he spoke, he took off his coat and put it on the bench, revealing his arms, which were not strong but very white and tender, and climbed onto the roof.
Lin Miaoyin was already attracted by his fair skin, and thought that he was indeed a city dweller, much better than the original owner, who had been doing farm work since childhood.
"Please hand me the straw and bucket." Meng Yuanzheng said to her while squatting on the roof. She quickly gave him the straw and looked at the bucket, which contained mud and tools for pasting walls.
As he handed it to him, he asked, "Where did you find the ladder and these things?"
"I borrowed it from the secretary."
Meng Yuanzheng took the stuff, carefully spread it on the leaking surface, then smeared the mud on it to cover the gap, and also smeared other places around that were suspected of leaking.
Lin Miaoyin watched him working from below and was amazed at how capable this man was at his work.
"You didn't know how to do anything before. When you first came to the brigade, the educated youth in your room said that you were crying in the middle of the night. How come you can even repair the house now?"
She scoffed unceremoniously.
At that time, there was an educated youth who shared the same room with Meng Yuanzheng and was a big mouth. He spread the news that Meng Yuanzheng was crying in the middle of the night because he fell while carrying manure. Meng Yuanzheng even started fighting with him. Of course, how could a weak scholar like him beat a male educated youth who had been working in the countryside for several years? He was beaten so badly that his nose and face were swollen and he had to wear a hat when he went out.
Meng Yuanzheng's tone didn't change much, as if he had really forgotten about these things, and he said, "This job is not difficult."
He handed the bucket to Lin Miaoyin, climbed down the stairs, and went to return the bucket to the branch secretary.
"Hey wait," she called out.
Meng Yuanzheng turned around and looked at her in confusion. She asked, "Don't you have a watch? I want to see what time it is now."
"You can read watches?" He frowned.
It seems that the original owner really doesn’t understand quartz watches.
"My father taught me this. I won't show it to you." She pretended to be disappointed.
Meng Yuanzheng no longer doubted it, nor did he ask any more questions. "It's in my drawer."
He carried the stairs and walked away. Lin Miaoyin went into the house and found a watch in his drawer.
The watch was very heavy and silver in color. She couldn't recognize what brand it was, but it was well made and probably not cheap.
The hands showed that it was a little after ten in the morning. She put the watch back and thought about what to eat for lunch.
What to eat is a big problem. Nowadays, supplies are in short supply and you need tickets to buy everything. There are only a few each year, and once they are used up, they are gone. When she was a child, she heard the older generation talk about the black market, but the black market is called the black market, so it is naturally difficult to find. And if you are discovered, it is speculation and profiteering, with serious consequences.
Last night at the Lin family's we had sweet potato porridge, stir-fried meat with pickled vegetables, and eggplant and beans fried with just a little bit of oil. This was considered a good meal in the brigade. Although each person only had one piece of meat, it was much better than the meal for the seven or eight children in that poor family who had to eat wild vegetable roots.
But as a modern person, she is used to eating rice and meat every day. Now she feels that it is more painful for her to get used to the eating habits of this era than to adapt to the life without mobile phones and computers.
No, she must find a way to get meat to eat!
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