Siheyuan: When I became the control group of Qin Huairu

The next morning, Yang Hehua got up early and made breakfast.

We ate dumplings with leek and egg flavor as the filling.

Xiao Qian made these dumplings with her three children at home after dinner yesterday.

After the dumplings are cooked, first use lard and a little soy sauce as a base, add some salt, pour the original soup used to cook the dumplings on top, then scoop the dumplings into a bowl, and finally add some chopped green onions to garnish them.

Bowls of steaming dumplings were served on the table.

The dumplings were as big as the palms of Xiuxiu and Manman, and the two little girls could eat 9 each.

As for the Yang Hehua, Xiao Qian, Xiao Sheng and the other two ate about twenty or thirty of them.

Xiaobao was still young, so he ate two dumplings and half a bowl of millet porridge.

After eating the dumplings, Xiao Sheng took the initiative to clean up the dishes. He said to Yang Hehua, who was washing the faces of the three children, "Sister-in-law, I will go to chop firewood when I have time these days. You don't have to worry about the firewood problem. Just go to work."

He had just heard from his sister Xiao Qian that his sister-in-law Yang Hehua is now the head chef of the second canteen of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill and will be much busier than usual. He wanted to go find firewood yesterday but was unable to do so.

And as the man of the family, it should be him who goes out to find firewood.

Although his sister-in-law Yang Hehua had not made any arrangements, he still had to be alert and take the initiative to do it.

Hearing this, Yang Hehua turned her head to look at him and asked, "Okay, do you know where to chop wood?"

Before Xiao Sheng could answer, Xiao Qian, who was holding a basin of dirty clothes, answered first: "Sister-in-law, my brother knows that we were not registered in the old city before, and we didn't have coal and firewood tickets. So my brother would borrow a cart from an old man in our former courtyard, and take time to go to the mountains outside the city to collect firewood. Sometimes he would take me with him."

"Okay! Then little brother, be careful and try to go during the day. Don't go after dark. It's not safe outside now." Yang Hehua couldn't help but give a few instructions.

It's not that she is worrying too much. The country has been established for less than ten years and there are still many enemy spies and bandits hiding in the city.

Projectionists like Xu Damao who often go to the countryside rarely come back after dark.

Although there are people from the Industrial Security and Military Control Commission patrolling outside from time to time to check identities.

But some risk factors are still quite high.

Previously, a purchasing agent from the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill was robbed and lost his life when he went to the countryside to purchase goods.

Because of this, people in the hospital try not to go out after dark if they can.

The main reason is that I’m afraid of losing my life.

Xiao Sheng knew this, and he nodded: "Sister-in-law, I understand!"

Yang Hehua did not take on all the household chores, nor did she have to complete or solve everything herself.

After all, it's not her home alone, and everyone has their own responsibilities.

Life is inseparable from firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea.

Especially the first one, if it is missing, life will come to a standstill.

If you want to buy coal briquettes at the coal shop, you need to bring a shopping certificate.

The shopping voucher is a certificate for residents to purchase non-staple food and daily necessities.

Shopping certificates are issued by the Commercial Bureau based on the number of people indicated in the household registration booklet.

There are two types of shopping coupons: one is a family collective coupon, with the name of the head of the household and the number of family members written on the cover, commonly known as a big coupon. Each family is issued a shopping coupon to buy household daily necessities, such as noodle sauce, baking soda, matches, coal, etc.

Another type of shopping card is the resident personal shopping card, commonly known as the small card. The personal shopping card is issued to each person, one for each person. It is used to buy eggs, pork, soap and temporary personal daily necessities.

Coal is now the main fuel for life in urban areas.

Everything in the city is now subject to purchase limits, and the ration of coal is not distributed per head but per household.

煤是按大证上的人口数量供应。1——3口人每月供应170斤煤，10斤干柴，四口人以上的家庭每月供应210斤煤，20斤干柴。

It's still okay in summer and autumn, but in the windy and snowy winter, the coal is not enough every month, as every household relies on stoves for heating, in addition to cooking.

Although each household is supplied with an additional 300 kilograms of heating coal in winter, those heads of the household who know how to plan and devise plans will usually save some coal to use in the stove for heating in winter.

In summer and autumn, you can mobilize your family to go out to chop or buy firewood so that you can save coal and save it for burning in winter. After all, coal burns much longer than firewood.

After spending some time with the children, Yang Hehua saw that it was getting late, so she went out to work.

When I meet neighbors living in the courtyard houses along the way, I will also say hello.

The aunties who had gathered together early in the morning to wash clothes and gossip saw Yang Hehua go out to work, and they couldn't help but turn the gossip they were talking about to her.

"Oh my! Xiuxiu's mother is now a cook at the steel mill. She even walks differently now."

Aunt Li, who was driven away by Xiao Qian last time, was the first to speak.

Originally, she wanted to say something bad about Widow Lotus, but her husband worked in a steel mill, and Widow Lotus's sister Xiao Qian was also here. If the news got out, what would happen if Yang Hehua shook the spoon when serving food to her husband in the steel mill?

If the old man knew that it was because of his careless talk that he had no food to eat, a beating would be the least of his worries.

In the past, Yang Hehua was just a kitchen helper in the canteen and her abilities were not that great. But now that she has become a chef, and a chef with relatively good skills, things are different.

Because of this, Aunt Li also changed the way she addressed Yang Hehua.

After hearing what Aunt Li said, everyone present could tell that she was being jealous and couldn't help laughing: "Hehua is now a chef at the steel mill. Her salary has increased a lot, and her three children are well taken care of. There is someone at home to take care of them. Her life is getting better and better. She is naturally different from before."

The ladies standing by couldn't help but nod in agreement.

"Yeah! Xiuxiu's mother has finally made it!"

How could these old ladies not know that Yang Hehua had been taking care of three children alone for the past two years? It was really hard life and she even lost a lot of weight.

In other words, it has recovered a little bit these days.

"Life is hard before it's sweet. Xiuxiu's mother was so busy that she couldn't spare any time. She would come home from get off work at the steel mill to cook, and after putting the three children to sleep, she would do the housework and hygiene. Sometimes when I got up in the middle of the night, I would still see her washing clothes."

"That's right. Not only that, but even on Sundays, she doesn't take a break. She carries a basket on her back and goes to the suburbs to carry back baskets of firewood."

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Taking up this topic, except Xiao Qian, the other ladies sitting by the pool started chatting.

At the end of the conversation, they found that Yang Hehua's life was getting better and better.

These aunts, who had lived in the courtyard for several years before Yang Hehua came, saw Yang Hehua get married with their own eyes.

That year, not many people got married in the hospital.

The Jia family in the middle courtyard and the Xiao family in the front courtyard.

Since Yang Hehua and Qin Huairu were both young wives who married into the city from the countryside, they had talked about each other many times.

Qin Huairu was gorgeous, and Yang Hehua was pretty. At that time, Xiao Dong also had a good job and had not yet joined the army. Only they themselves knew what they were thinking, but on the surface they praised Yang Hehua more.

Qin Huairu was beautiful, had a big butt and was good at giving birth, but she was not very popular in the eyes of the middle-aged women.

The main reason is that her looks and figure are too attractive to men, and they can only call her a vixen in their hearts!

Later, after some time, they observed that Qin Huairu was an okay person. She was diligent, but the other ladies in the courtyard felt that she was unlucky as she had to meet Jia Zhang, the wicked mother-in-law who was lazy, greedy, and would beat and scold people at any time.

People in the hospital have said behind Qin Huairu's back more than once that she has a bad life.

Although Yang Hehua, who married into the Xiao family, did not have the help of her mother-in-law, she was able to take charge of the household. Her husband Xiao Dong was also a good person. He knew to buy facial cleansers for his wife, and would take the initiative to clean up the dishes after dinner when he got home. He even cooked for Yang Hehua during his rest time.

They said Yang Hehua was living a very good life and they were even jealous of her.