Rebirth He Yuzhu stays away from troubles

As the Spring Festival holiday comes to an end, people begin to pick themselves up and return to work and study. The hustle and bustle of the streets gradually fades away, leaving only the occasional sound of firecrackers still telling the lingering echo of the festival.

What everyone doesn't know is that the country was about to face a three-year difficult period. After entering the 1960s, it would face a blockade by the two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. In such a scarce and extremely difficult environment, with only limited resources, in order to ensure that more people could survive, they could only rely on the ticket system to overcome the difficulties.

Under such circumstances, the purchasing department of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill has been exploring for nearly two months. Although the purchasing staff are facing difficulties in purchasing various materials, they have effectively guaranteed the production and living consumption of the steel rolling mill through various means and channels.

Faced with the reality of a single and scarce food supply, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill canteen has become more and more satisfied with the taste of the meals provided by the canteen thanks to the excellent cooking skills of the canteen owner He Yuzhu, who provides ingredients and recipes with "color, fragrance and taste". The only drawback is that the supply of meat and oil is becoming less and less.

With the completion of the transformation of public-private partnership, a solid foundation was laid for the planned economy of unified purchase and marketing. The coupons implemented included: grain coupons, oil coupons, cloth coupons, meat coupons, sugar coupons, bean product coupons, soap coupons, cotton coupons, vinegar coupons, soy sauce coupons, train tickets, manure coupons, haircut coupons, marriage subsidy coupons, death subsidy coupons, childbirth subsidy coupons, etc.

This system was indeed a constraint and restriction for people with higher incomes at the time, because currency was not the only means of purchase, so even if they had money, it would not help. The "ticket system" was as fair as possible for ordinary people.

In such an era, the lives of the people living in the courtyard house at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang were not affected much, because their salary was just enough to support the life and expenses of a family, and there was not much left after a month. Moreover, even if there were many people in the family, as long as the household registration was in the city, everyone had a fixed amount and receipts to guarantee.

But for the Jia family in the courtyard, the impact was very great. In order to occupy some land in the countryside and get some food rations at the end of each year, Jia Zhang's household registration was kept in the countryside when the People's Republic of China was first established; Qin Huairu was originally from the suburbs of Beijing, and she married into the Jia family in order to find a man with a city household registration and a stable job.

In this way, Jia Dongxu alone had to use his rations and bills to support his family of three. Fortunately, the Jia family still had some savings, so they could buy some expensive grain on the black market. In addition, Yi Zhonghai would give them some corn flour from time to time. Although the Jia family was in a difficult situation, they were still able to hold on.

In March, Liang Ladi, who was nearly ten months pregnant, applied for maternity leave from the Red Star Kindergarten after finishing her work, relying on her maternal foresight into future life.

The next day, after He Yuzhu and Liang Ladi finished breakfast, Liang Ladi felt something in her stomach. He Yuzhu hurried to the backyard and asked Liu Haizhong to help him apply for maternity leave.

He Yuzhu accompanied Liang Ladi to the hospital. Under normal circumstances, the delivery room is a multi-person room with 4 to 5 beds, but fortunately: there was a double room in the delivery room that day, and He Yuzhu and his wife completed the formalities and moved in.

At around 3 o'clock in the afternoon of the second day, Liang Ladi began to respond. He Yuzhu hurriedly called a nurse, and accompanied by hospital staff and him, Liang Ladi was sent to the delivery room.

4pm, 5pm...time passed by minute by minute, and He Yuzhu waited anxiously outside the delivery room. To be honest: at this moment, what He Yuzhu was most worried about was not whether the baby would be a boy or a girl, but Liang Ladi's safety.

Night was about to fall, and at around 6 o'clock in the evening, the sound of "wa, wa, wa..." came from the delivery room. When He Yuzhu entered the delivery room, he looked at the haggard and weak Liang Ladi, and his heart was filled with gratitude and reluctance to Liang Ladi.

Liang Ladi saw He Yuzhu coming in. Although she was still very weak and looked a little haggard, there was pride in her eyes when she looked at He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu looked at her tenderly. Their child was lying in the stroller beside her.

The baby closed his eyes and looked like he was asleep. His chubby little face had some wrinkles, his skin was purple-red and slightly pink, and his little feet were like lotus roots, not even as big as his palms, so small and exquisite... He Yuzhu was stunned.

Liang Ladi looked at He Yuzhu proudly and said to him with a proud tone: "I gave birth to a son for you."

At this moment, He Yuzhu didn't know how to express his happiness. He Yuzhu said softly, "Ladi, thank you for your hard work. Are you hungry? What do you want to eat?"

Liang Ladi looked at He Yuzhu weakly: "I just want to eat some white porridge."

He Yuzhu quickly ran out of the hospital and went to find some porridge for Liang Ladi.

Because it was a natural birth, she could only stay in the hospital for three days. After He Yuzhu completed the discharge procedures, he and Liang Ladi took her home.

Soon everyone knew that Ladi had given birth to a son, and the women of relatives and friends came to visit. As more and more people came to visit Liang Ladi and her son, the family had more and more malted milk, milk powder coupons, and food coupons. Some, like Liu Haizhong, simply brought a piece of meat weighing several kilograms. Many people also brought eggs, such as the third uncle Yan Fugui's family. As a result, the kitchen had about dozens of kilograms of meat and 10 to 20 kilograms of eggs.

Although my mother-in-law took care of me during the confinement period, and my father-in-law helped me, He Yuzhu didn't want to do anything during those days. He just wanted to stay quietly with Liang Ladi and her son. Just lying beside them, he felt so safe and happy... The world and life are so wonderful and beautiful!

Because newborns always feed about 3 times a night, this causes everyone to be sleep deprived and very tired. One afternoon, Ladi and her son fell asleep at home, my mother-in-law was also taking a nap, and my father-in-law should have gone out for a walk.

The aunties and grandmas in the courtyard were busy or taking a nap in the afternoon, and the courtyard seemed quiet. At this time, a short and fat figure entered the He family's kitchen. She was carrying two large pieces of meat. Seeing that no one noticed her, she quickly ran back to the Jia family.

Jia Zhang was in the He family's kitchen and saw so much meat piled in a large wooden basin. She thought that since there was so much meat, no one would notice if she took two pieces, so she just picked two large pieces with more fat and left.

When Jia Zhang returned home, she was eager to sell the stolen goods, so she just stewed two large pieces of meat with water, salt and cooking wine. Although she was not a good cook, the meat of that era was all in its original state. After the meat was cooked, the aroma of the meat made her eat a large bowl of it directly, and she put the remaining large bowl of meat in the cupboard.

After satisfying her internal organs, Jia Zhang took a nap contentedly.

The He family has recently welcomed a new member, and everyone has become accustomed to the aroma of food and rich meat wafting from the central courtyard from time to time.

Qin Huairu, who was seven months pregnant, had indeed eaten less recently because the baby was pressing on her stomach, but she was also easily hungry. She came to the Jia family's kitchen, smelled the aroma of meat, and saw the meat in the cupboard.

Seeing people coming and going to the He family to send gifts to the pregnant woman, she thought that the meat in the house was sent by someone who saw that there was a pregnant woman in the Jia family. She took it for granted and started eating the meat. Maybe she had eaten too much steamed bread and cornmeal porridge, so she couldn't stop after eating a big piece of fat meat, and ate many pieces in a row.

After eating the meat, she felt more satisfied and happy than ever before. She sat down to drink some water and then did some needlework.

Suddenly, Qin Huairu felt a stomachache and needed to go to the toilet. She went back and forth, in and out of the public toilet outside the courtyard several times. The more she pulled, the harder it was to defecate, but her stomach still hurt.

Qin Huairu slowly felt that there was brown liquid flowing out of her lower body...