Reborn in 1940 and survived until the new century

At least I can eat cheap food.”

"That's right, finally I don't have to eat wild vegetables. I feel like vomiting when I see wild vegetables now."

"Me too."

In fact, it's not just them, but also their own family members.

But the family upstairs would curse at me from time to time. I can't expect a good life if I live on the same floor with them. It's starting again.

"We've only had a few days of good life, and you're already starting to be picky?

Eat it if you want, or not. If you don’t want to eat it, forget it. Do you really think cooking for me is not tiring?”

"mother……"

"Shut up, do you think your salary is high?

With so many mouths to feed at home, shouldn’t we be frugal?

Look at them, they are all grown up, and it won’t be long before they get married. Won’t it cost money?”

"this?"

I didn't hear what came after that, but I knew that although the Qin family went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy vegetables from time to time, they mostly ate wild vegetables.

They were arguing over eating wild vegetables.

In fact, there is no other way. There is only one worker in the whole family. Even if we want to improve the living conditions of our family, we don’t have the ability to do so.

After hearing this, I didn’t know what to say. In this era, families like mine who only have three children are a minority.

Like the Qin family upstairs, seven children are not too many. If they hadn’t lived such a hard life in recent years, I’m afraid they would have had more children.

But even so, there is only one worker in the family, and not to mention the low salary, even if it were higher, it might not be enough to support him.

Fortunately, in this era, adults don’t raise children as meticulously as they would at home.

As for the fact that there is only one worker in their family, no one else has the right to speak.

After all, there is only one worker in the family, and there are more than just their family. If others can survive, why can't they?

If other people don’t have a job, can’t they still take on temporary jobs?

Either they would go to the street to get matchboxes to make paste, or they would sew gloves. Even if they earned little, it was enough to feed the family.

At least you can earn more than ten or twenty dollars a month just by pasting matchboxes!

There are so many people in Lao Qin's family that he doesn't need any help from others.

I don’t know what others think, but we will never be taken advantage of.

And shortly after that, new regulations were introduced by the higher authorities for all urban residents aged 70 and above.

Within the monthly food ration per person, one can purchase 5 kilograms of flour with the coarse grain coupons. Isn't this equivalent to special treatment for the elderly?

In fact, although it seems to be for the elderly, only they themselves know who will end up eating the food.

But Old Madam Qin is not in this range, because she is not old enough yet.

I heard her talking about this to other people downstairs many times.

“Why can’t the higher-ups lower the standards?”

"This matter was decided by the leaders above, and we ordinary people have no say in it."

"That's right. No matter how much you sigh here, it's useless."

"Isn't this just a thought?"

"Then think about it!

No matter what you think, it’s useless.”

"That's not it."

Not everyone speaks to her in a nice tone, especially those of her age, who are even more rude.

But every time she got bullied outside, you could always hear her cursing at home.

But everyone pretended not to know. As long as no one was scolded in person, most people would not do anything to her.

Who made everyone talk about neighbors?

They still have some respect for their reputation, otherwise they would have started quarreling a long time ago.

The Dragon Boat Festival came quickly. This year, the supply and marketing cooperatives supplied much more rice dumplings than last year.

You can buy different kinds of rice dumplings without a ticket, including those with small dates, red bean paste, ham, bacon, fresh meat, etc.

Moreover, the retail price of glutinous rice and red date rice dumplings is only four cents each.

Other kinds of rice dumplings are just a little more expensive, but as long as you have money, you can buy any kind of rice dumplings.

For this reason, we bought a lot this year, at least five of each variety, so that the whole family can try them.

The three children were very happy to see the rice dumplings they brought back, but they still asked with some concern.

"Mom, are you not going to celebrate?"

"Yes?

Mom, why did you buy so many rice dumplings? "

"Mom, are these all from our family?"

"Whose question should I answer first?"

"Big brother asked the question first, so you should answer it first!"

"Okay, how do I put it?

Mom doesn’t want to buy so many rice dumplings?

But the truth is, the supply and marketing cooperatives supplied more rice dumplings this year than last year.

And the varieties are different, so I was thinking of buying some and letting our whole family try them.

But since we bought so many zongzi this year, we won’t make zongzi separately this year.”

"That's fine. There are so many dumplings, it's okay if we don't make any."

"Yes."

"So when do we eat Zongzi?"

"How about cooking five rice dumplings every morning for breakfast in these few days?"

"sure, no problem."

"Yes, we have no problem."

"You want to eat it?"

"Okay, go study quickly and don't block me from cooking."

"Yes."

In fact, not only did we buy a lot of rice dumplings, but our neighbors also bought a lot.

Even if you don't say it, you can smell the smell of the cooked rice dumplings.

However, there are still people who are reluctant to sell, or will not buy so much.

Not long after I got back from work, my little girl came back alone and said to me.

"Mom, mom, let me tell you, Sister Fangfang just asked me to go home and get her some rice dumplings!"

"So you're back?"

"Um!

I didn’t want to play with her, so I came back first.”

"Then have you told your elder brother and younger brother that you are going home first?"

“I told them to go home.”

"That's great, do you still want to go out and play?"

"I want to go out and play, but now Sister Fangfang will definitely be waiting for me to give her some rice dumplings to eat, so I'd better not go out!"

"That's fine too. Wait until mom finishes cooking and then I'll go downstairs with you to play."

"it is good."

At this time, I don’t care about that person or whether he is still waiting for my daughter to give her rice dumplings.

There are only five rice dumplings left at home, enough for breakfast tomorrow. How can I possibly give them to others?

Besides, don’t we buy zongzi with money?

Why don’t you consider this when you ask someone for food?

After finishing dinner, she went downstairs to play with her little daughter. Seeing the boy from the Qin family also playing downstairs, she said to him.

"Jianjun, your child is about eleven or twelve years old this year, right?"

"What's wrong?

Auntie, I am eleven years old this year, what can I do for you? "

"There is something, but I don't know whether I should tell you."