dad in costume

After the two pigs were sold, Xiao Chengtu seemed to have lost something in his life. He asked Gu Xi, "Dad, when will we raise piglets?"

"No more." Gu Xi said.He planned to tidy up the pigsty and convert it into a bathroom, otherwise it would be uncomfortable to take a bath in the room sometimes.

"Oh." Xiao Chengtu was listless.

"Our chickens are still raised, and I will rely on you in the future." By August next year, the pigs I raised will become public property, and they can only be counted as work points, not worth any money at all.

"Well, I'll take good care of them."

"Li Aiguo...is Li Aiguo here?"

"Yes, who is it?"

"The postal service has your letter."

letter?Gu Xi received the letter and found that it was a postal remittance, and the remitter was Li Aizhong.Gu Xi remembered that Xiao Chengtu still had a monthly maintenance fee of 10 yuan.Since he came here, he has not received the remittance slip, and he has forgotten about it. Now he looked at the amount of the remittance slip, and it happened to be 9, 10, 11, 12, and the maintenance fee for four months was 40 yuan.What kind of pig does he raise? A pig is not worth as much as Xiao Chengtu.

"Father, you are smiling so happily, whose letter is it?" Xiao Chengtu asked.

This question made Gu Xi difficult.From a moral point of view, Li Aizhong owed this son a debt.But in terms of money, he gave 10 yuan a month in child support, and it seemed that he didn't owe anything.

However, he overlooked one point. If there is no food in the era, is 10 yuan worth the fart?Xiao Chengtu couldn't get by with 10 yuan.

"It was written by your uncle." Gu Xi said.

Uncle?Xiao Chengtu didn't remember it at first.It was only later that I gradually remembered who this uncle was, he was his biological father, and he... was not his father's son.

In an instant, tears flowed from Xiao Chengtu's eyes.He is so happy now, so happy that he has forgotten that he is not his father's son, he was only adopted to his father.

"Didn't Dad say that a man bleeds but doesn't cry?" Gu Xi wiped away the child's tears, "You can tell Dad if you have any unhappy things."

Because of malnutrition, Xiao Chengtu is thinner than children of the same age.Although I ate well every day for the past four months, including white rice, gnocchi, whole grains, meat, vegetables, and milk malt extract, the physical deficiencies cannot be made up overnight.But after these four months, Xiao Chengtu's face has become more fleshy, and it feels more fleshy to the touch, and his complexion is not as dark yellow as when Gu Xigang saw him.

"Father..." Xiao Chengtu choked up, rubbing his face against Gu Xi's arms.A child who is only six years old can't hide his thoughts, not to mention that Xiao Chengtu is so fragile at this moment.He grabbed Gu Xi's sleeve with his small hands, and exhausted all his courage to ask, "Father, will I still be your son in the future? Can I always be your son?"

Gu Xi smiled and hugged him into his arms: "Of course you have always been my son. I know you are afraid and uneasy, but son, you have to remember that you have been adopted to me, so you have always been my son. It's my son."

"Really?"

"When did Dad lie to you?"

Xiao Chengtu shook his head: "No."

"That's right. Dad will go to the city early tomorrow, and you will watch the house at home tomorrow. When you come back, Dad will make cakes for you."

"okay."

"Mr. Li." Li Goudan came, "Mr. Li, my family sells pigs today, and I want to make dumplings. My mother invites you to eat with me."

Selling pigs is equivalent to being rich.The pigs of Li Goudan's family are also quite fat. Before Li Maodan went to school, the two brothers fed them together, but later the two brothers had to eat half a big white rabbit milk candy, and later Li Goudan had to read, so He neglected his own pigs and fattened up Gu Xi's pigs.

But a pig also weighs about 140 catties and sold for 70 yuan.

"Okay, I'll be here later, you go back first." Gu Xi didn't refuse because of his wish.

When he went, Gu Xi brought two catties of thick rice with him.

The next day, the sixth day of the 12th lunar month, Gu Xi got up at two o'clock in the morning, ready to go shopping at the supply and marketing station.In the twelfth month of the lunar calendar, every household will stock up for the New Year, so the supply and marketing station has a lot of things and is very fresh, but the quantity is limited, so go early in the morning.

The four meat tickets given by Da Zhizhi are all monthly tickets, which will expire after January, and he has to use them up.

When it was 3 o'clock in the morning, Gu Xi thought he was early, and there were still aunts who were already queuing up.Seeing Gu Xi, an aunt said: "Young man, you wake up really early. It's rare to see such a hardworking young man like you."

"Yeah, where is the young man? Did you say kiss?"

"How old is the young man this year, oh, he looks so handsome."

Gu Xi smiled, but didn't answer.

At 06:30 in the morning, the line was already very long, but because Gu Xi went early, the things he wanted to buy were still available.He used Dazhizhi's four meat tickets to buy: 2 catties of beef and 8 catties of pork ribs.

With his 80 catties of food coupons, he bought all the rice.

The people next to him saw it and couldn't help but say, "This young man is really rich."

"It's food stamps and rice. It's food supply."

"I think it's a worker."

"You are handsome and a worker, so lucky."

Although there is little rice these days, it is not that there is no rice. The main reason is that a catty of rice is not edible and the price is expensive, so everyone is reluctant to buy it.Gu Xi came early and found out that there was rice today, so he bought it all in one go.

If you don’t buy it now, why don’t you wait until the three-year famine?

It took 12 yuan and 2 cents, and it was comfortable.

Da Zhizhi's household is only 58, and it seems that the family really needs a man who can make money.

Gu Xi was thinking about when he would go to the city next time. Since he came to the supply and marketing station today and wanted to withdraw money, he might as well go to Li Ximei's house, which happened to be Sunday again.

When Gu Xi went, although the Gao family still welcomed him warmly, they still had sorrow on their faces.Gu Xi couldn't help asking: "What's wrong? Something happened at home?"

"There is a big conflict between the trade union of our textile factory and the factory department. Now the two departments are in trouble, and then the workshop suffers. It probably means that the temporary workers on a piece basis are wasting resources in the factory. This is the work of the workshop. Now the workshop takes With the money from the factory, outsiders like temporary workers are hired to work...so the temporary workers were dismissed, and my father and your sister were dismissed two days ago."

In other words, the income of 5 to 7 yuan was lost a month.

From now on, the burden of the family will fall on Gao Liang.

However, their family still has a monthly supply of 130 catties of grain.

When it comes to supplying food, Gu Xi thought about it, and reminded him: "Brother-in-law, it's better not to exchange food for vegetables in the future. If you want to exchange food, you have to exchange it for cheaper food."

"What's wrong?" Gao Liang was taken aback.

"This year's harvest in the countryside is not as good as last year's. I estimate that next year's harvest will be even worse. Once the harvest in the countryside is poor, it means that the country's grain will be less. Is there a lot?"

"You mean, the food supply will decrease in the future?" Gao Liang was also a smart person, so he thought about it, "Isn't it?"

"I don't know if it will be, I'm just guessing. Isn't our place very close to the army? I made friends with a few officers and they gave me information. But this is just internal news in the country and cannot be disclosed. Once If it is revealed, we will all... go to jail is a trivial matter, and may be shot."

As soon as Gu Xi said that, the Gao family's heart tightened.In this era, state-level secrets are very important. When Gu Xi was frightened, they would not say anything even if they gritted their teeth.

"I've figured it out, thank you, Patriotic, for reminding me."

Knowing that they were short of vegetables, Gu Xi left behind 20 eggs, 5 cucumbers, and 5 kiwis and left.

On December 12th of the lunar calendar, Lijiacun Primary School is on holiday.

The little fat man that Da Zhizhi came to pick up today was still carrying a bag.

Fatty is on vacation, and school is over early, Da Zhizhi came back after training, and it was already six o'clock in Lijia Village.So the little fat man was taken to Gu Xi's house again.

"Did I bring my clothes?" The fat man asked hurriedly as soon as Fan Xuezhi arrived.

"En." Fan Xuezhi responded and gave him the bag.

The little fat man took his bag and stared at Fan Xuezhi again: "You still have a bag here."

"That's mine." Fan Xuezhi said.

"Are you going to live at the teacher's house too?" The little fat man looked unwilling.

"En." Fan Xuezhi responded more forcefully, and quietly corrected in his heart: If this is not my daughter-in-law's house, do you think you can live there often?

"You always use me as an excuse to eat and live for nothing at Mr. Li's place. You are such an adult, and you can eat so much, so shameless." The little fat man said with a serious face.

Gu Xi who was cooking in the kitchen was stunned.

Fan Xuezhi snorted coldly: "I paid the ration, but you didn't pay anything, and you are even more shameless."

In an instant, the little fat man was blocked and speechless.Then he took his own bag and ran into Xiao Chengtu's room, then quickly ran to the second floor bed to pick up his clothes.

Xiao Chengtu's bunk bed has become his nest, and Xiao Chengtu is used to it, and the little fat man is not polite, but the two of them have a good relationship like a mother-born brother.

Fan Xuezhi also proudly took his bag into Gu Xi's room.

Dinner is very rich: Braised beef in brown sauce, scrambled eggs with cucumber, stir-fried winter melon, cabbage simmered in vinegar

When going to bed, Fan Xuezhi took out 34 tickets for Great Unity, 2 tickets for meat, 2 ticket for industry, and [-] tickets for food from his pocket.

Gu Xi happily allowed him to kiss him for one more minute.

The next day, Fan Xuezhi took Xiao Chengtu and Xiao Fatty up the mountain.As a principal whose school was already on vacation, Gu Xi was very free.When he was empty, he wanted to dump things, so under 444's guidance, Gu Xi came up with the idea of ​​sweet potatoes.

Sweet potatoes can be made into dried sweet potatoes. Although dried sweet potatoes are chewy, they are a bit tiring to bite, so Gu Xi decided to make sweet potato chips.The so-called sweet potato chips are:

1. Wash and peel the sweet potatoes, then slice, each slice is about 2 cm thick, and then wash to remove debris and starch.

2. Dry the sweet potato slices in the sun, fry them with coarse sand or deep-fry them.