The ups and downs of life in the Siheyuan

Since July has entered, Kyoto has been much hotter than in previous years.

Since last year, droughts of varying degrees have occurred in various places.

For the western region, which relies heavily on rain, that would be a disaster.

In addition, most of the land is managed by the old, weak, sick and disabled, and they are unable to carry water and fight drought.

In many places, harvests are poor or even impossible.

So starting from the end of 58, there was a severe famine across the country.

In 1959, Hebei and Heilongjiang suffered from severe spring drought. The spring drought affected the growth of wheat on 150 million hectares of Hebei Province, causing damage to 62 hectares, and another 20 hectares of cultivated land required watering for planting.

150 million hectares of cultivated land in Heilongjiang Province were affected by drought, which is rare in history.

There is generally little rain in the vast areas south of the middle and lower reaches of the Wei River and Yellow River, Nanling, and north of Wuyi Mountain. There has been no rain in Fujian and Guangdong for 60 days.

The drought affected 20 provinces and autonomous regions including Henan, Shandong, Sichuan, Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Heilongjiang, Shaanxi and Shanxi, accounting for 77.3% and 82.9% respectively.

Li Yuan's most intuitive feeling is that there are more people around him exchanging fine grains for coarse grains.

Some neighbors approached Li Yuan and begged him to help replace coarse grains.

He refused them all.

During this period, people become more sensitive.

He didn't dare to be watched, so he only kept the exchange with the Yan family and kept the original quantity.

Most of the people in the hospital have a difficult life, but they can still survive.

The only one who is having a harder time is the Sun family.

Therefore, Li Yuan would secretly send some cornmeal from time to time every month to ensure that no one in the Sun family would starve to death.

Because Zheng Xia has been staying at the machinery factory, cooking and doing laundry, her income has increased a lot.

Li Yuan helped buy some coarse grains, and life became easier than before.

His abilities were limited, and he could only see these few families, and he could only treat the others as invisible.

The weather was hot and there was a lack of food, so the atmosphere in the courtyard was much duller than before.

Some people's hearts are even hotter.

This week Yuan Jingjing went on a business trip to Tianjin. This Sunday, Li Yuan stayed at home and did not go to the library.

At noon, for unknown reasons, another quarrel broke out in the Jia family.

Jia Dongxu kept yelling at home, scolding his mother and his wife.

The last slap knocked the pregnant Qin Huairu to the ground.

Qin Huairu clutched her stomach and groaned in pain on the ground.

This frightened Mrs. Jia Zhang, who stood up and slapped her son for the first time.

He hurriedly went out to find someone.

In a flurry of excitement, Yi Zhonghai and several people took Qin Huairu to the nearest factory hospital on a truck.

Soon, good news came back that Qin Huairu and her daughter were safe.

Before dinner, the Jia family returned to the compound.

Jia Zhang's face was not very good, and she could barely cope with the congratulations from her neighbors.

Qin Huairu, who had just given birth, was sent home on a cart, wrapped in a blanket and a headscarf, with the tightly wrapped baby in her arms.

"Dongxu, no matter how difficult it is, you can't lose your mind. If you have difficulties, you can come to me and everyone for help. You can't vent your anger on your family."

Yi Zhonghai stayed at Jia's house and did not go home directly.

As a master, it is only natural to teach his disciples.

Jia Dongxu kept his head down and said nothing.

"Okay, you don't have to blame yourself. I'll go back first. Remember to speak up if you have any difficulties."

Soon, Yi Zhonghai directly delivered 5 kilograms of white noodles and 10 kilograms of stick noodles.

Jia Dongxu looked at his daughter-in-law, whose face turned yellow, and lowered his head without saying a word.

Mrs. Jia Zhang hurriedly took it and said, "Thank you so much, sir."

Qin Huairu's birth brought some happiness to the courtyard, and the neighbors all sent some gifts.

Some give away 1 catty of stick noodles, some give away an egg, and some give away a piece of meat stamp, all in all.

This is the custom in the compound. When someone gives birth to a child, they express their feelings and send blessings.

The Jia family just calmed down, and the Liu family in the backyard was in trouble again.

Years later, the eldest son of the Liu family kept postponing his marriage because of house issues.

Liu Haizhong had the same idea when he saw Li Yuan's renovation of the house.

We plan to change the east wing into two rooms with upper and lower floors.

One room is for the eldest brother to get married, and the other room can accommodate the couple and Guangtian and Guangfu if they squeeze in together.

When the eldest son gets a new house, the two younger sons will move there.

He had just finished discussing the cost of the renovation with Master Su, but before he could discuss it with Li Yuan, he discussed using the renovation plan.

Guangqi secretly obtained the certificate with his wife and lived in an unused room in his wife's house.

Fortunately, it's not the son-in-law who comes to visit, otherwise he would really piss his bangs off.

In anger, he gave up on house renovation.

I just called a few uncles to my house and had a meal, which was regarded as witnessing Guangqi's wedding.

Since this incident, Liu Haizhong's anger at home has been a bit uncontrollable.

Today is the day when Guangtian’s high school entrance examination results are released.

During dinner, I could only hear Guangqi's howling coming from the Liu family.

Guangfu hid aside without any persuasion, and was pulled over by Liu Haizhong to beat him together.

In the end, Yi Zhonghai couldn't stand it anymore and stepped in to stop it.

This beating seemed to have been building up for a long time.

Guangfu was a cunning boy who screamed when he was beaten. Guangtian only screamed when the beating hurt.

So the next day, Guangtian couldn't get down to the ground at all.

There was a lot of commotion in the courtyard, but Li Yuan's place was calm as usual.

On his way home from work that day, Li Yuan passed by an abandoned yard and heard miserable meows.

In his previous life, Li Yuan, who had a cat at home, couldn't bear it and stopped the car.

Following the sound, I found the kitten in the corner of a half-collapsed room.

I saw a skinny civet cat lying on the ground, motionless.

A smaller tabby cat circled around the cat lying on the ground, meowing pitifully.

Judging by its size, the kitten is estimated to be 2 or 3 months old, and the cat on the ground should be its mother.

He probably died of illness and starvation because he couldn't find food.

Li Yuan was about to go up to see the situation, but the kitten suddenly jumped away and escaped into the pile of debris behind.

He touched the big cat on the ground, his body already stiff.

Turning around and looking at the debris pile, the kitten was hiding inside and didn't dare to come out.

Li Yuan dropped some dried meat, and the kitten was obviously very hungry.

He just looked at Li Yuan warily.

"Little kitten, your mother is dead. Come with me and I will give you food."

The kitten was indifferent and still looked at Li Yuan warily.

Judging from the kitten's appearance, it may have been hurt by humans in the past.

Li Yuan didn't force it, thinking about bringing him something to eat every day so that he could get used to it gradually.

He took out the shovel from the space, dug a hole under the tree in the yard, and buried its mother.

During the whole process, the kitten stood on the pile of debris and looked at this place.

I thought about it several times but didn't dare.

Li Yuan tried to approach it again, and it ran into the debris again.

Li Yuan had to give up temporarily.

The next day, Li Yuan came over specially, but the dried meat was gone and the kitten was gone.

Li Yuan looked around, but there was no sign of the kitten. Regretfully worried that something might happen to the kitten.

Two days later, a similar tabby cat squatted on his wood pile.

Li Yuan stared at it for a few times and was sure it was the one in the broken house.

It actually came here.

Whether it was by chance or specially sought out, he didn't know.

However, he attributed this to fate.

It was squatting on it, staring at Li Yuan with its big eyes.

When Li Yuan approached, he immediately jumped to the ground and did not leave.

He smiled and quietly dropped a bit of dried meat on the ground behind the wood. Turn around and go back to the house.