Quick travel to save a miserable life

No one in the family is idle. Lin Hui's job seems easy, but in fact it is not easy at all. Don't forget, she is still a pregnant woman who is four months pregnant.

In addition, she also took on the task of cooking and boiling water for the whole family.

When they were placed in Liangjiaji, each of them was given five days' rations, a total of two kilograms. After these five days, they had to go to the place arranged by the government to work. If they work, they will have food to eat. If they don't work, they will have food. I can only stay hungry.

The rice is actually broken rice, and it has turned gray. I don’t know which year it is old rice, but even this makes people who have almost no food available are very happy.

Children under ten years old do not have rations, so the total rations for the Zhang family are ten kilograms, but there are eight people eating in the family.

Five adults, three children, and ten kilograms of rice are not enough to survive for five days.

Fortunately, there was some red skin left over from earlier, which was mixed together and cooked to make it thinner, but it was enough to keep the stomach full.

Because the time given to build the house was only five days, the time was very tight. During the day, I mixed mud to make bricks, and at night, I found and weaved branches. I was so busy that I couldn't go to bed until very late. There was almost no free time.

Because each nest cannot be built too big, the family has to live in separate rooms. Mr. Zhang Shitou and his wife live in one room, Zhang Dazhu and his wife and their two children live in one room, and Lin Hui and her daughter live in one room.

In fact, it is not necessarily true that they are separated. They are just separate at the bottom, with different entrances, separated by earthen walls, but the top still shares the same roof.

Lin Hui was happiest to be separated from them. Even if it was just a small shack, she was extremely excited.

On the road these days, the whole family would lie under the shed together every night without any privacy. I was really fed up.

Five days passed in the blink of an eye. With the continuous work of the family, the underground parts of the three underground houses were dug and the roofs were almost braided. However, because the adobe bricks had not dried, they could not be built yet. top.

Until then, we have to continue living under the shed. Fortunately, it's not cold yet, so living in the open air is okay.

Once the five days are up, all the adults get to work.

Because the main output of Fuliang County is porcelain, there are hundreds of kilns throughout the county, and there are many steps to firing porcelain. Starting from quarrying and subdividing it, all the processes add up to sixty or seventy. Therefore, It is not that difficult to accommodate more than a thousand people.

However, because these foreign refugees do not understand technology, they cannot do sophisticated work and can only do the simplest and roughest work.

Zhang Shitou and his son were assigned the job of transporting ore from the mountain to the shed down the mountain.

As for Zhang Shen and Shen Xiuhua, one was assigned to burn the glaze, and the other was assigned to step on the mud.

Glazing involves heating and calcining limestone and then melting water to form hydrated lime, which is then burned into glaze ash using wolfberry grass as fuel. There is so much smoke during the firing that the smoker can hardly open his eyes, but he cannot leave and has to watch from the side, which is not an easy job.

Stepping on clay means stepping on the clay regularly from the outside in to make it dry and wet, and pile it up layer by layer. This step needs to be done barefoot, and it also consumes a lot of energy.

In short, these outsiders do the hardest and most tiring work, but the pay is very low. ''

In addition to providing two meals a day, each person can get three to six cents per day if he can complete the task, depending on the type of work. But if the task cannot be completed, not to mention the money, even the meals, will be lost. was cut.

Because Lin Hui was a pregnant woman, the village assigned her what others considered an easy job, which was to help in the large kitchen.

This is the best job in the eyes of women. Not only do you do two jobs a day, but the most important thing is that the people in the kitchen will never be short of food, and they can also take care of the children.

Although half-grown children like Dayong and Xiaoyong did not have any specific work arranged, they could collect firewood from the kiln and pay two cents per bundle. As long as they could carry it on their backs, they could get cash.

Young men like them, if they are lucky, can cut three or four bundles a day and send them to the firewood collection place to convert them into money to supplement their family income.

But a little girl like Cui Ya can only stay with her mother.

Fortunately, Lin Hui went to the kitchen to do some work, which was done indoors, out of the wind and rain, and her children would not suffer from following her.

Early on the sixth day, everyone started to work.

Lin Hui took Cui Ya and inquired all the way to the big kitchen.

There were already five women working inside. After Lin Hui revealed her identity, a sister-in-law who seemed to be the leader said: "Amitabha, we finally have someone for us. We are all busy."

She immediately asked Lin Hui what she knew, and Lin Hui said that she knew home-cooked meals and pasta, so she was assigned to make noodles.

Today I am eating steamed buns, so I have to make some noodles.

It is not pure wheat noodles, but a kind of flour mixed with wheat, beans and other grains. After being scalded with hot water, it is shaped into a nest shape and steamed in a pot.

This kind of hot noodles is not too strenuous to make and easy to make, and since their kitchen has to cook for two hundred people, they really don't have the time to work hard, so it's almost enough.

As the saying goes, three women make a show, and now with Lin Hui, there are six women in this big kitchen, and the excitement can be imagined.

Although everyone's hands are busy, their mouths are not idle. It's just that the east has parents and the west has shortcomings. They want to be lively and don't work too deserted.

While Lin Hui was working, Cui Ya sat quietly on a small bench nearby. She first questioned Lin Hui's sister-in-law, whom others called her Sister-in-law Zhou. Seeing that Cui Ya was well-behaved, she handed over a freshly baked steamed bun. , let the little girl hold it.

Cui Ya did not reach out to take it, but looked up at Lin Hui: "Mother?"

Lin Hui glanced at Sister-in-law Zhou, nodded with a smile, and then Cui Ya took the steamed bun and started eating.

Sister-in-law Zhou couldn't help but praise: "This girl is so sensible!"

Among the five women, Sister-in-law Zhou is the youngest. Most of the other women are in their forties and above, so they are called aunties, but Sister-in-law Zhou is in charge of this kitchen, and her ability is evident.

Older women also have sharp eyes. Not long after Lin Hui arrived, they could tell that she was a pregnant woman and that she had something in her belly.

However, they also saw the white cloth strip on Lin Hui's head, so they couldn't help but ask curiously.

After asking, I found out that her husband had died less than a month ago and the child in her belly was only four months old. A group of middle-aged and elderly women couldn't help but sigh with emotion and feel a little more pity for her.

After working hard for a long time, it was finally time for lunch, and the workers were all lining up to get their meals.

There are three tables at the door of the kitchen, which are used for rice bowls. Lin Hui is standing in front of a large ceramic basin, responsible for distributing steamed bread to the team in front of her.