"This, this is not what I did." Chang Xia looked at the faucet in her hand, put it aside, stammered, and ran out.

"Auntie, your faucet is broken, what should I do?" Qian Xiaomei looked at the broken faucet, standing there at a loss and asking.

"What else can we do? It's broken anyway. You'd better get some water quickly. We can talk about it after the water is connected." Mother Lu looked at the water pipe that was running and hurriedly took out an empty jar from the side to connect it to the water pipe.

"Yes, yes, let's get some water first, and we'll talk about the faucet later." Qian Xiaomei came to her senses after hearing this, and took a rice bowl from the side, and began to collect water from the basins and pour them into the water tank.

"Then you go ahead and do your work. We'll go home first." Mother Lu looked at the busy man, turned around and called the old man and went home.

"Mom and Dad, where have you been?" Lu Qingyan woke up when she heard the door close. She went downstairs and saw that no one was in her mother's room. She knew that the two elders had gone out. Now that she saw the two elders come back, she walked out of the room and asked

"We just heard a quarrel in my younger sister's room. Your father and I thought we lived next door to each other, so we went to take a look." Mother Lu walked into the room and sat on a stool and said

"Who would go to her house to quarrel on a rainy day?" Lu Qingyan asked in surprise.

"Who else could it be? The one who came to our house and asked us to move." Mother Lu stood up, helped her daughter up and walked her into the house, saying, "She lives on the third floor, and there are many people coming to get water, so she picked the easy ones to bully."

"Oh, then you guys should go to bed soon." Lu Qingyan was not a very curious person. After listening to her mother's words, she told them to go back to bed.

Mother Lu went back to her room, changed her clothes, talked to the old man for a few words, and went to bed.

When Chang Xia returned home, she saw that the water was still running, so she hurried forward to get some water, forgetting all the unpleasantness that had just occurred.

The next day, Lu Qingyan was awakened by a knock on the door. Before she could get up to open the door, Lu's mother ran out to open the door with her shoes in her hand.

"Auntie, I'm from the logistics department. Today, a group of military dependents have arrived. We are going to the city to pick them up, so I came to ask if you have anything to bring back. We will buy it for you when we come back." A tall young man in a raincoat asked hurriedly after the door opened.

"Then wait for me for a moment. I'll go get the money." Upon hearing this, Mother Lu turned around and went into the house to get the money.

At this time, Lu Qingyan had already walked out, holding the money and the remaining five kilograms of food coupons in her hand. The other coupons were used to buy things when they came, and now these were kept for emergencies.

Looking at the situation now, don’t keep it. Just buy whatever you can.

"Comrade, I have five catties of food coupons and 20 yuan. Please buy me some food to resist hunger. If you can buy some vegetables, please bring some for me. I'm pregnant. If I don't eat some vegetables, it's not good for my health." Lu Qingyan looked at the people outside and said with an embarrassed look on her face.

"It's okay, it's okay. It's our duty as the logistics department to serve the wives of soldiers. I'll make a note of it for you, sister-in-law. I have to go to someone else's house, so I'll leave first." The young man put away the notebook in his hand, turned around and went to Qian Xiaomei's house to ask

"My daughter, why did you buy so many things? We still have a lot of food at home." When Lu's mother saw that everyone had left, she stepped forward to close the door and said in a low voice

"Mom, didn't you hear that another group of military dependents came today?" Lu Qingyan turned around and sat on the stool, saying thoughtfully.

"I heard you. Come if you want." Mother Lu said nonchalantly.

"Mom, with more people around, there will be more gossip. No one except our family knows that we have food, so I thought of asking someone to help buy some food to resist hunger, which can be considered as covering up the problem." Lu Qingyan didn't want others to have no food to eat in the future while her family could still eat enough, which would make others jealous after smelling the food.

You know, when people are in desperate situations, they will do anything.

"Oh, I understand." Mother Lu finally realized what her daughter said. It's fine if the weather is sunny, but if it's not, something is going to happen. So her daughter's trick is really good.

"Mom, if anyone comes to visit or borrow something during this period, we can just stand at the door and tell them to come in." Lu Qingyan said, and before her mother asked, she said:

"Don't you see that even though this is just one building, there are so many houses?

Take our house for example. Look how spacious it is, with a toilet and a kitchen. But it’s different for Qian Xiaomei next door. Her house doesn’t even have a balcony, let alone a toilet or a kitchen.

There are dozens of houses like this on the four floors, so there must be many more rooms like this. So when new people come to visit us, don't let them in, I'm afraid they will get jealous."

"Okay, I know. If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have remembered it. My daughter has really grown up." Mother Lu nodded, touched her daughter's head with a look of satisfaction, and said with a smile.

"Yes, you are going to be a grandmother soon, so I have to be more careful, right?" Lu Qingyan was unable to sleep last night, and suddenly thought of what she had thought of when she saw Qian Xiaomei's house yesterday.

Originally she thought that every household was the same as his, but after visiting Qian Xiaomei's house yesterday, she suddenly remembered that this was the 1970s.

It would be impossible to get such a good house without a certain position, so it was pure luck for his family to get such a spacious house.

But her family is lucky, while there are unlucky ones. It’s okay at the beginning, but I’m afraid that over time, some people will become unsatisfied and jealous and start to target your family.

According to the current situation, once you are targeted and reported, your reputation will be affected even if nothing happens.

So her family must keep a low profile, reduce their presence, and not let others notice her family.

"Mom will go cook. Before those people come, I will fry some meat for you. When they come, you have to be careful when frying meat." Mother Lu thought everything about this house was good, except that when she cooked something delicious, other people could smell it.

"Okay, let's have a good meal today, and be careful tomorrow and beyond." Lu Qingyan nodded and smiled.

It was warm and cozy here, but on the other side, the Gu family members were all standing at the door, looking worriedly at the heavy rain outside.

"Old man, the rain never stops. We won't be able to grow crops in the fields this year." Lin Dacui thought that half of the summer was already over. After the rain stopped and there were a few more days, the summer would be over. What crops could be grown in the fields?

Even if they planted it, after deducting the amount they handed in, how many kilograms would their family get? This really makes people anxious.

“It’s okay. No matter how difficult it is, it’s not as difficult as those years.” Old man Gu thought that he had raised several children with such difficulty, married them and had children, so how could the difficulties now be any more difficult?

"Boss, we are running out of food. You have to think of a solution." Liu Xiaocao looked at the heavy rain outside and felt regretful. If she had known that her mother would come to borrow food two days ago, she would not have lent it to her.

She originally thought that since the weather was good, she would be able to get a lot of grain in the fall, so she decided to borrow it. However, she never expected that it would rain heavily just two days after she borrowed the grain.

"What the hell…"