The Siheyuan started with the young He Yuzhu

Chapter 208 Qin Jingru

"Okay." Qin Huairu thought for a while, then nodded and agreed, she was indeed too hot to die.As soon as she lit the stove, she felt as if she had entered a purgatory.

The temperature is at least 40 degrees!If they burn oil in a pot together, the temperature will soar.

"Come here, drink some beer with the master." He Yuzhu drank a big sip of beer, calmed down his burning heart, and handed the cup to Qin Huairu.

Although Qin Huairu doesn't drink much, this beer is not authentic beer. He Yuzhu uses pineapple as raw material, squeezes, filters, and concentrates the improved version of pineapple beer. It not only tastes sweet, but also especially relieves heat.

When Qin Huairu drank it for the first time, she fell in love with this pineapple beer, which is the same color as beer.The light beer flavor and strong pineapple sweetness are just like drinking pineapple juice, but the difference is that drinking too much pineapple juice tends to be sweet and greasy, but pineapple beer is not greasy.

"It's getting hotter and hotter today." Qin Huairu immediately felt refreshed after taking a big sip, like a person who was exposed to the sun in the desert and suddenly drank a bottle of iced soda. Bravo.Even the hot wind blowing seems to make people cool down a lot.

"Yeah, it's getting hotter and hotter." He Yuzhu looked at the newspaper in his hand, his brows gradually became serious.Others only know that there were constant natural disasters in those years. In fact, before that, the domestic food was already in short supply due to the drought.This is why, since September last year, the food stamp system has been implemented and the production of alcoholic beverages has been restricted.

A catty of good wine with 65 degrees requires almost three catties of grain.And three catties of grain is enough for a family of five to eat for a day or two.

"Boom!" While reading the newspaper about the lack of rainfall in the north and the drought in some areas, someone knocked on the door suddenly.

"Who is it?" Qin Huairu immediately put down the pineapple beer and walked over quickly.As soon as the door was opened, Qin Jingru appeared with a disheveled face, and there were two people standing behind him, a man and a woman, both of whom seemed to be seventeen or eighteen years old.

"Sister!" Qin Jingru had a sore nose and almost cried.

"Jingru! Why are you here?!" Seeing her cousin, Qin Huairu was astonished, and then looked at the man and woman behind her, but she didn't recognize them.Qin Jingru touched the tears in the corner of his eyes, and asked, "Sister, stop talking, do you have any money?"

"Yes, yes." Knowing that something was wrong, Qin Huairu quickly took out the grocery money that He Yuzhu gave her in his pocket.

At this time, He Yuzhu also stood up from the rocking chair, walked over, saw a few people at the door, and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Perhaps it was He Yuzhu's white shirt, with an imposing look on his face, the girl among the man and woman said quickly: "Hello, comrade, we are the conductor at the bus station. This little girl said she was going home because she didn't have enough money after getting on the bus." Come to get the money, we will come with us personally.”

"Not enough money?" Glancing at Qin Jingru, she saw that she was like a child who made a mistake, with her head lowered, snuggling behind Qin Huairu.

Seeing this scene, he knew that Qin Jingru must be trying to evade the fare, so he was caught and brought over to ask for money.

Taking the money from Qin Huairu, he said, "I'm sorry, comrades, the children at home are ignorant and make you tired, how much is the ticket?"

"Five cents!"

"Here you are." He Yuzhu counted, counted out one five and handed it to the other party.

"Comrade, it's fifty cents!" the girl said in surprise. "I know, this one dollar is for the two of you to run errands. It's a hot day, please take her back, and buy a bottle of soda or popsicles on the way to relieve the heat."

"This..." Hearing this, the girl was a little moved. Little girls are greedy.

Now that it's summer, the two of them have walked about one or two kilometers all the way, and they are already sweating profusely. It's not bad to buy a bottle of soda or popsicles.

He Yuzhu saw that the young couple was a little hesitant, so he gave another step: "Okay, you two, if it weren't for you, I don't know what would happen to our girl, so you just take this little money, it's my reward." A heart."

The two looked at each other, and the girl hesitantly stretched out her hand to take the money, and said, "Then thank you, comrade."

"You're welcome, we should say thank you." He Yuzhu sent the two away with a smile, and then closed the door.On the other side, seeing that the outsiders had left, Qin Huairu looked at Qin Jingru with a straight face and said, "Qin Jingru! What's the matter with you? How dare you come to the city alone! Come here, why are you still evading the fare!"

"Sister!" Seeing her sister getting angry, Qin Jingru quickly ran behind He Yuzhu and said bitterly, "I don't want to evade the fare, but I really don't have any money with me."

"Out of money? When you left, didn't I give you ten yuan, telling you to be careful with it? It was spent so quickly?"

Years ago, Qin Huairu gave her cousin ten yuan and brought a lot of New Year's goods for her to take home.

It stands to reason that it has been six or seven months, and it is normal to spend ten yuan.When my hometown in the countryside is no better than in the city, I rely on farming for food and drink, and I go to the city to go to the market on weekdays, or there are peddlers who go to the countryside.

Otherwise, it is generally not worth the money.This is why Qin Huairu is very angry.

"Sister, I didn't waste this money. I bought food for my family." Qin Jingru said hastily.

Qin Huairu was shocked and said: "Buy food? What's going on? No food at home?"

"It's gone, there are only a few seeds left for next year's spring plowing, which are inedible." Qin Jingru said bitterly: "Sister, you don't know that the river in our Qinjia Village is almost dry today, even though it has flowed a few times. There was a thunderstorm, but it was not enough for irrigation, and the commune in the village now organizes people to fetch water from the reservoir ten miles away every day."

"We still have our second uncle and third uncle's family. Because the fields are relatively far away, we don't get much water, and the harvest is not good. We don't have much food for the family now that we have removed the seeds for next year's cultivation."

"Besides, over the matter of carrying water from the reservoir, our village is fighting with the neighbors!"

"Ah? Why didn't you come to the city and tell me earlier!" Qin Huairu's face changed drastically. The river in Qinjia Village is a small river. In normal years, when there is enough rain, the river does not stop.But once the drought comes, the river will dry up.

Originally, Qin Huairu knew this matter very well before, but after being in the city for more than a year, she gradually forgot about it.When Qin Jingru said this, he suddenly remembered.

"I also want to come earlier, but my father and my third uncle won't let me." The third uncle is Qin Huairu's father.

"Oh, you girl!" Qin Huairu looked helpless. "Okay, Huairu, don't be in a hurry, if you don't have enough food at home, I'll get some back for you in a few days."

He Yuzhu was worrying about how to finish the food in the courtyard behind the restaurant, and when he heard that Qin Huairu's family was short of food, he immediately thought of bringing more food back.

Don't let the grain get moldy after being stored for a long time, it would be too wasteful if a mouse was born.

(End of this chapter)