Siheyuan: There are seven fairies in my house, I am so busy

Although the Lou family is not having a good time now and is not as good as before, that is not in terms of material things. The Lou family has no shortage of money. If they really care about money, Yi Zhonghai is far from being their match.

Even Lou Xiao'e's personal wealth is not comparable to that of a working man like Yi Zhonghai. Moreover, both Lou Xiao'e and Xu Damao have city household registration and food rations, so the slight food gap will not have much impact on them.

Counting down, we have Liu Haizhong's family. Although he earns a lot and everyone in his family has food rations, there are more people in his family. In addition, Liu Haizhong does heavy physical work and needs to eat more, so their family is worse off than Yi Zhonghai's.

Counting further down, we reach Sha Zhu's home. Originally, Sha Zhu was living quite well in the compound, no worse than Xu Damao.

However, Sha Zhu's burden has indeed increased a lot after getting married, and now he has a child, which means that he is supporting a family of four with just his salary.

Although Old Mrs. Long eats with his family, she has her own food rations and government subsidies, so Sha Zhu doesn't have to pay for her. Because she is old and eats less, she can actually give Sha Zhu some help with food.

So Sha Zhu was still able to cope, but his family was just at the passing line.

Apart from these few families, the rest are all poor families. Now that the food rations have been reduced, they are all going hungry.

Take Yan Fugui's family for example, his family is in a very difficult situation. The Yan family has too many people, and he earns very little and has no gray income, so it will be difficult for them in the future.

Now that food prices have skyrocketed, if the Yan family wants to make up for the food gap, the money they need to spend is more than Yan Fugui's salary can afford.

Fortunately, Yan Fugui was good at calculating and replaced fine grains with coarse grains, and coarse grains with sweet potatoes. Also, his family members were able to endure hardships and could tolerate eating worse. As long as they could have food to eat, the Yan family could still make do with their lives.

The Jia family was indeed about to face a huge crisis, and the one who was complaining and crying the loudest in the courtyard just now was Jia Zhang.

Although what Jia Zhang just cried about was indeed true and everyone in the compound knew about his family's situation, it did not arouse widespread sympathy from the people in the compound this time.

Because his family had made preparations in advance, they had lived well in the past few months. Many people went to his house to borrow food, but they were all driven away by Jia Zhang without any mercy, which angered many people. So now no matter how loudly she cried, no one responded.

"What Lao Yi said is right, we really need to increase revenue and cut costs.

We have to continue digging wild vegetables. I also know that there are not many wild vegetables outside the city now, but they are constantly growing. We will dig as many as we can, and we also have to add edible tree bark, grass roots, etc.

Some of us know these things, while others don’t, so we need to learn about them carefully. I suggest that we hold meetings every few days in the future to learn about the experience of finding edible things.”

Liu Haizhong stood up and gave his suggestions. What he said was right. Although many people in the compound had come from hard times, there were also many people who did not know what edible wild vegetables, grass roots, tree bark, etc. were.

Communicating with each other every few days can really improve your efficiency in finding edible things.

"What Lao Liu and Lao Yi said are both correct. My suggestion is that we should start saving food from today, from now on.

People who work need to have some physical strength, so they should eat first, and the others should eat as little as possible, as long as they don’t starve to death.”

Yan Fugui also expressed his opinion, and he was still very ruthless when it came to saving money.

After the three uncles finished speaking, other people also said something, but in the end there was no better solution, and the meeting was hastily dispersed with heavy hearts.

Times are tough, and ultimately every family will have to rely on their own abilities to get through this difficult period.

After returning home, each family began to discuss how they should deal with such a dilemma.

Among them, the atmosphere in the Jia family was the most solemn.

"Mom, Huairu, how much food do we have left?"

After Jia Dongxu returned home, he immediately began to ask how much food his family had left.

"We still have about 50 kilograms of food at home. With the rations from Dongxu, we can last for about a month. Even if we save some, it can only extend it by about four or five days at most."

Qin Huairu is very clear about the amount of food in her family. She cooks every day, so she is more aware of the daily food consumption at home.

“This is really fatal!

Once we finish eating this food, we will have a huge deficit next month. Not to mention 50 kilograms per month, even if we only have 40 kilograms, it will cost a lot of money."

Jia Zhang was worried.

"It is true. The price of food has gone crazy. Coarse grains cost more than 8 cents, and sweet potatoes cost only cents.

Moreover, sweet potatoes are not easy to get now. People didn’t like to eat sweet potatoes before, but now, in order to have food to eat, they value sweet potatoes more.

With my salary, I can only buy about 30 kilograms of coarse grains after necessary expenses. I can buy more sweet potatoes, but they are really hard to buy now."

Jia Dongxu was responsible for getting food from outside, mainly from the black market, so he was very clear about the price of food.

"That is to say, even if we follow the lowest standard, our family can only make do for more than a month. Now the autumn grain production has been confirmed to be reduced, and it will take more than half a year before the summer grain comes in next year.

Dongxu, do you think the price of food will continue to rise? "

Jia Zhang is indeed a little scared now. Everything else is fine, but not having food is not okay. It will kill people!

"It will definitely go up. Food is becoming less and less, but more and more people need food. Food prices will definitely go up. I don't know how high it will go."

Jia Dongxu felt very guilty inside. As a grown man, he couldn't support his family and let them starve. This situation made all his efforts seem like a joke.

"I'm afraid that the price of food will rise to an unacceptable level. I still remember that there were many famines before liberation, and each time the price of food would increase by 10 or even dozens of times.

Although things are different now than they were before, no one can predict what will happen.”

Jia Zhang recalled the memories of several famines before liberation. The painful lessons were deeply engraved in her mind and she could not bear to look back.

"Dongxu, what should we do?

It’s okay for us adults, but Banggeng and Xiaodang are still so young, nothing can happen to them, especially since Banggeng is the lifeblood of our family.”

Qin Huairu's eyes were filled with tears. This time she was not acting but was really crying. She valued Banggeng'er as much as Jia Zhangshi did. After all, Banggeng'er was her flesh and blood.