Siheyuan: Fighting against the beasts under the pressure of the system

"Dongxu, our family is out of food. We have no food left. I don't know where my mother's money is hidden. I don't have any money at all."

Jia Dongxu lowered his head slightly and spoke dully.

"I know. I told the master today. You can go to his house later. The master agreed to lend us 10 kilograms of corn flour. With this food, it will be enough for us to close the door at noon."

Little Banggeng was drinking cornmeal porridge. He didn't dare to make a noise at this time because his loving grandmother was not around. If he made a noise, his father would slap him in the face.

Grandma was away for the past two days, and the little terrier finally understood what it meant to be beaten. Now he has learned to read the signs a little.

After a while, Banggeng finished his meal and went out to play.

After seeing Banggeng go out, Jia Dongxu smiled. Seeing Jia Dongxu's smile, Qin Huairu was a little at a loss. Why was Dongxu so happy?

"Let me tell you, my master Yi Zhonghai has made me very happy these past few days."

"After this incident, the master was met with all kinds of cold stares and ridicule in the factory, and several of his fellow apprentices severed ties with him."

Hearing this, Qin Huairu immediately became worried.

"Dongxu, your master's problem won't affect you, right? If it does, you should think of a way to deal with it."

"Don't worry, you don't know that it's easy to add icing on the cake, but it's hard to help someone in need. Now is the time when my master Yi Zhonghai is in trouble. I can't leave him easily at this time."

"You have to know that if it weren't for Master's family taking care of us from time to time, our family would have been unable to survive long ago."

"My mother, Jia Zhang, is a Pi Xiu who only takes in but never gives out."

"Well, it's also my fault that I was young and ignorant at the time. I was soft-hearted when I changed my household registration that year. I listened to my mother and didn't transfer your household registration."

"If you and mom's household registration were transferred, our family would be able to eat commercial grain, and our life wouldn't be so hard."

"Hey, Huairu, you've had a hard time these days."

"Brother Dongxu, life is not hard. I have never regretted following you."

Qin Huairu was moved when she heard this and tears welled up in her eyes.

Qin Huairu has been very calculating since she was a child. She grew up in Qinjiazhuang in the suburbs and dreamed of living a life in the city.

Because if you marry into the city, you can have enough food to eat and live a good life, you don’t have to work day and night, and you don’t have to go out to the fields to make a living.

Qin Huairu dreams of living in the city.

Qin Huairu has no shortage of this capital, as she has been very pretty since she was a child.

When she turned 16, she was as beautiful as a flower and famous in the surrounding area. Countless matchmakers came to her house to help Qin Huairu find a partner.

Qin Huairu had longed for city life since she was a child, and after discussing with her honest parents, she put forward her conditions.

"The person I want to marry must be from the city. I don't want to look for a partner in the countryside. I rejected a lot of people in those years."

This disappointed many country matchmakers.

Qin Huairu knew the importance of maintaining a good reputation from a young age. She was very beautiful and hardworking. She was a very outstanding girl in the surrounding area.

But it was not easy to find a partner in the city in those days.

The matchmaker helped introduce a lot of people.

"Either they are missing arms or legs, or they are at least a generation older than Qin Huairu. They are all ugly and misshapen."

In a blink of an eye, she was already 18 years old. Qin Huairu was a little anxious at that time and was about to decide to marry someone.

Unexpectedly, Jia Zhang from the next village heard the letter and came home.

Jia Zhang was also worried about her son Jia Dongxu.

My family's financial situation is neither good nor bad. I have put a lot of thought into this over the past few years. I have asked many matchmakers to help me find a partner, and I have gone on many blind dates in the city, but I have never found the right person.

After Jia Dongxu entered the factory, his standards became higher and he required girls to be pretty.

"That's the only rule for marriage."

Jia Zhang tried her best to persuade Jia Dongxu to change his mind, but to no avail. No beautiful girl in the city would look for someone like him from the Jia family.

The Jia family's conditions were lower-middle class in the city. Later, Jia Zhang was left with no other options. Unable to find a pretty girl in the city, she had to return to the countryside to look for one.

After some inquiries, he found Qin Huairu caught his eye, but Jia Zhang was not a fool. She knew that marrying a rural girl in those days would be a real pain.

After returning, I told Jia Dongxu by counting on my fingers.

But after Jia Dongxu met Qin Huairu.

"I was immediately moved. No matter what Jia Zhang said, she would not listen. I had no choice but to agree to this marriage."

After marriage, Jia Dongxu was very satisfied with Qin Huairu. Qin Huairu was willing to marry into the city and find such a partner.

No working in the fields day and night, just washing and scrubbing every day, this is the life Qin Huairu wants.

Although her mother-in-law was a bit mean and aggressive, Qin Huairu had always been hardworking and willing to do her best in order to live in the city and not be driven back.

No matter what, she is just wiping away tears, and the main character is a weak woman who is filial to her mother-in-law.

Jia Zhang was even more satisfied to see Qin Huairu like this. She didn't have to work every day and could enjoy the life of a rich landlord. She would wake up laughing in her dreams.

In fact, the Jia family has an opportunity to change their fate.

"During the first national census in 1955, the division of urban and rural household registration was also being prepared. At that time, Jia Zhangshi and Qin Huairu both had land in the countryside. If they could change their household registration to urban, the whole family would be able to eat commercial grain, and grain would be rationed."

However, Jia Zhang was short-sighted and did not make such calculations. She thought that having land in the countryside was a good thing. When the time came, she could entrust the land to others to cultivate, and she would be able to harvest a lot of grain every year.

Not only the Jia family, but many families in the city at that time had the same idea as Jia Zhang, and they all wanted to own a piece of land in the countryside.

They all want to take advantage, that's it. "Take advantage of small things and suffer big losses"

The street office visited Jia Zhang several times but failed to change her mind, so they gave both Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu rural household registration.

Since Qin Huairu had a rural hukou, all her children would take her mother's surname and become rural hukou. This division directly caused the Jia Zhang family's living standards to plummet. "

That's how good life was for more than half a year.

1955年8月5日，国务院全体会议第17次会议通过了《市镇粮食定量供应暂行办法》，并于8月25日公布实施。

September 1955, 9. “The Ministry of Food issued the “Interim Measures for the Printing and Use of Rational Supply Certificates for Town Food”, which implemented the supply of food based on the quota per person and with tickets (certificates).

On September 1955, 9, the Ministry of Food officially issued the first set of five types of "National General Food Coupons of the Ministry of Food of the People's Republic of China".

Subsequently, provinces, cities, and autonomous regions across the country also issued local food coupons that were only used in their respective regions.

From then on, various food coupons flooded into people's lives, opening the curtain of China's "coupon economy".