The ups and downs of life in the Siheyuan

After experiencing the hardships in life, Li Yuan (he will no longer use his name in the future) has strong enough ability to adapt to the environment. In his previous life, he originally found a research institute after graduation, but when he registered, he was told that the places were full.

Knowing the world, he took 5000 yuan in compensation to find a high school friend, and worked as a waiter at a bar in the bar street, part-time as a bartender.

So when he came to this world, he didn't complain about everything, but instead wanted to thank the gods and Buddhas in the sky. How lucky he was to have a second life.

Li Yuan lay in bed blankly, wrapping the quilt tightly. Although a sour smell kept rushing into his nose, at least it could keep him warm.

He kept searching through his memories, and when he learned that he still had a fortune of 750 yuan, he curled his lips in disgust at first. When he thought about the prices and wages of this era, he felt complacent again.

Thinking of the past after work, I kept poking at Yahuazi, secretly complaining about what kind of weirdo my predecessor was. In order to avoid being sucked by blood, he actually adopted such childish methods.

Fortunately, although his performance in the unit is not outstanding, he is still positive enough and his popularity is acceptable.

Make peace with it as it comes, and since you can't change it, just live your best life in this fiery era. If you are lucky enough to see a great man, it will be like smoke rising from your ancestral grave.

Thinking of this, he was a little confused. Is this ancestral tomb belonging to Li Yuan or from another world?

He didn't struggle for long, and soon understood that in this life, he would carry their wishes and live a good life.

He calculated silently in his mind, wanting to see his monthly expenses.

30% of fine grains is 9.6 pounds of white flour, which costs 1.56 cents per pound, or yuan.

70% of the coarse grains are 22.4 kilograms of corn crumbs, which cost 9 cents per kilogram and the purchase price is 2 yuan. In order to eat enough, Li Yuan only buys 15 kilograms of corn mash every month and replaces the rest with sweet potatoes.

In this way, the cost of buying food for a month is 3.56 yuan, leaving more than 14 yuan.

This 14 yuan is not enough to save much. I usually go to the ghost market, buy some bills, buy a chicken, and buy some wine, and there is not much left.

Therefore, he was often scolded by several uncles, who blamed him for not knowing how to live a good life.

This is the original owner's method, "I'm so busy myself, so you don't have to worry about it."

The foresighted Street Director Wang directly grabbed the 600 yuan pension for his parents and said he would pay it to him when he reaches adulthood.

As she aged, she did not dare to give money to Li Yuan. One is that he is afraid that he will suddenly get a lot of money, squander it every day, and not learn well.

Second, understand that it is inevitable that a 16-year-old scholar with a lot of money will be spied on.

For future generations who know how to deal with the world, Li Yuan would not take it, and it would be a big trouble to get it back.

The last time Director Wang was called to the office to ask for his opinion, he directly said that he would use it when he gets a wife, so now the money is still in Director Wang's hands.

If you find it incredible, you can watch some period movies.

In Xu Hua's novel "To Live", Xu Fugui's family only cooked a small pot of porridge, but the whole village came to 'beg for food'.

Everyone finds it incredible, but this is exactly the life of ordinary people in this difficult period of time.

In the memory of the original owner, the people in the city were fine and had food supplies. Rural areas are relatively miserable.

In difficult times, bark and grass roots are not enough to eat, so Guanyin soil is also a delicacy for some people.

Nowadays, people in the city don't have enough to eat, and their wages are low. Most people have elderly people and relatives in their hometowns. If they just take care of them, there will be nothing left at home.

In the past, Li Yuan spent almost nothing except food.

The people in the courtyard are unable to uncover the pot, and the old man comes to you with his children to beg for help. What should you do?

If someone's child is sick and hospitalized, and begs you, what will you do?

In the past, Li Yuan was a person who didn't know how to refuse, and he couldn't bear it when someone praised him.

After many times, he felt unfair, and he also found that no one who lent him money wanted to pay back the money. Since there is nothing left, I might as well spend it myself.

So now Li Yuan's reputation is that he doesn't smoke, whoring, or gamble. His only problem is that he is greedy and doesn't know how to save money.

So my reputation is not bad outside, but I think that as long as I find a wife and she will take care of her, I can probably learn well and live a good life.

Besides, the courtyard owed him some twenty-eight cents, so everyone had to save some face in front of outsiders.

In this way, if you pay a little attention every month, you can save some.

As for marrying a wife, the original owner never cared about it. Nowadays, there are a lot of unemployed young people in the city.

A formal worker is always popular everywhere. The worst he can do is imitate Jia Dongxu and marry a country girl.

She is beautiful and obedient, can work, can serve others, and can have children, so her life should not be too beautiful.

Looking through these memories, Li Yuan sneered at the naivety of the original owner.

What kind of day is it now? If you marry a country girl who has no food supply, the children you give birth to in the future will have the same household registration as the mother.

If there are three or five children born at that time and there is no food supply, and they go to the ghost market to exchange for food at a high price, they will not be able to eat themselves to death.

Think about the third uncle, there are 6 people in the family, he is the only one working, and his current salary is 41.5 yuan. Even if everyone has supplies, the third uncle has achieved the nickname of King of Sting.

Looking at it, Jia Dongxu's family, Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu all have rural household registration. There is no supply. There are only four people in the family, and they are having an extremely difficult time every month.

Every time he goes to the ghost market, Li Yuan often meets Jia Dongxu. Although everyone is wearing a face covering, he has been playing with his friend since childhood and you can tell who it is just by looking at his back.

When the two parties met, they both pretended not to know each other tacitly and passed by each other, each busy with his or her own business.

Jia Dongxu was also a handsome guy before. Although his body was not strong, he was still strong, but now he always feels weak.

Xu Damao often teased him secretly for drinking too much, but Li Yuan thought he was malnourished.

Food is tight now and everyone is short of food, so food stamps are hard currency. Therefore, the lowest exchange price in the ghost market is 5 cents per kilogram of food stamps, and it is not something you can get if you want it.

Don't think that the ghost market is a place outside the law. With many years of experience in ghost market trading, Li Yuan has long discovered the tricks of the ghost market.

It was a market for ordinary people to exchange various daily necessities. There was no interaction, but there were public servants watching inside.

If you're just trading excess grain that's no problem. But once it is discovered that you are a repeat offender and you have a stable supply of goods, if the quantity is small, they will generally ignore you.

Once something happens or the amount is large, they will be arrested quickly, and the crime of buying and selling cannot be escaped.

Those who resell bills are the targets of key crackdowns.

The original owner was a cautious person, and the amount of each transaction was not large. When he saw something was wrong, he dropped his things and ran away.

Generally speaking, the public doesn't bother to care about people like him unless you have to get into the other person's pocket.

Li Yuan trembled and got out of bed, looking outside. It was bright and bright, and it was not suitable to go to the work now.

I had no choice but to take the cotton-padded clothes and put them on.

"Oh my god," Li Yuan was so excited that he almost threw his cotton-padded clothes away.

It was so cold that the entire cotton-padded jacket looked like it had just been taken out of the cold storage. He was used to living in the south. This was his first time encountering such a huge contrast, which made it hard for him to accept it.