Reborn in 1940 and survived until the new century

Even though there is a lot of food, it doesn’t matter if you can’t finish it tonight.

Anyway, the weather is not bad, so it will be fine if we leave it for a few days."

"That's true. Let's do this and have a prosperous New Year this year."

"That's right, let's spread the aroma of the food. I don't believe that the Qin family living upstairs can eat."

"It's really hard to say."

Our family did have a good New Year, but the same cannot be said for several of our neighbors.

Even though everyone prepared a rich meal on New Year's Eve, it was still a little lacking in quality.

At least there is fish, meat, and dumplings.

Although the Qin family had a large population and received a lot of meat coupons, every time at this time, the Qin family would secretly take at least part of the meat they bought to the black market and sell it.

Even though the leftover meat can provide a sumptuous New Year, we won’t eat it all at once.

The meat was divided into several parts early on. One part was reserved for making dumplings on New Year's Eve, one part was reserved for entertaining guests when my daughter returned to her parents' home on the second day of the New Year, and the remaining part was pickled and kept for later consumption.

As for other things, we have also prepared them, but not much.

Apart from the men in the family who can have a bite, shouldn’t the rest be saved for entertaining guests on the second day of the New Year?

If it weren't for the fragrance in the air, the Qin family would find it hard to swallow even the dumplings that they could only eat a few times a year.

It was because the food cooked by other people was so delicious that it overshadowed the dumplings stuffed with cabbage and pork.

At this time, adults may be able to control themselves, but children are still too young.

The Qin family's children wished they could take their own bowls and eat at other people's doorsteps.

At this time, no matter who is living in the house, everyone will close their doors. We are not fools. After being neighbors for so many years, who doesn’t know each other?

Especially this afternoon, after what Old Lady Qin did, even the dumbest person would not open the door at this time.

Even though there is no shortage of food this year, it is still better for our family to eat the meat.

Not long after, when the family finished their meal and were sitting there to rest, they heard voices talking upstairs.

"If you're not going to eat, what are you doing out there with the bowl?"

“What else can I do?

Milk, don’t you know?

Whose New Year's Eve is as chilly as ours?"

"That's right, let alone other good stuff, at least take out the explosive stuff as a token of your appreciation, right?

"These dumplings with cabbage and pork, where is the meat?"

"I put so much meat there, don't you know where it is?"

"You did release a lot, but didn't you take a look at how many people there are in our family?

Take for example the dumplings, other people use pure white flour, but what about us?

You have to count the cornmeal dumplings, just in case someone eats too much."

"you……"

"Am I wrong?"

"How come you talk to your grandma?"

"I didn't say anything wrong?"

"you?

Eat it if you like, or leave if you don’t like it, no one is stopping you.”

"Who said I won't eat it? Even if there is little meat, I still have my share."

"you……"

"Okay, let's eat quickly."

I heard the conversation at Lao Qin's house and said it there.

"It seems that their old lady really meant that this afternoon?"

"I can't be wrong."

Uncle Zhang and Aunt Zhang were also talking there.

"The Qin family is becoming less and less respectful!"

"Logically speaking, their family shouldn't be like that, right?"

"Not really, but they can't help it. Where do they take the things to every month?"

"You mean, they took the things they saved and sold them on the black market?"

"Yes, since I came back, I have seen people from their family enter the black market more than once."

"This, this is really..."

"What is it really?"

"what?

Shameless!

He pretends to have a hard time supporting his family in public, but does such immoral things in private.

Fortunately, when their family needed help, I always gave them the minimum, otherwise, I would have to go up and ask their family.

But Xiao Guo and Xing girl have never helped their family. Do you think they know what the Qin family did?"

"It shouldn't be. Otherwise, if they didn't tell anyone else, wouldn't they tell you?"

"Too."

"But I guess they should have roughly guessed what the Qin family did, but they just didn't encounter it, right?"

"may be!"

I was indeed wondering why the Qin family lived like this, then I heard Guo Huaian say.

"I guess they probably took most of the meat to the black market to exchange for money."

"this?

Is it worth it for just that little bit of meat?"

“Why isn’t it worth it?

At least the black market price is three times higher, so isn't it the same as not spending a penny and still being able to eat meat during the New Year?"

"Really? The Qin family is really good at scheming."

"That's right, otherwise how could they take advantage of others?"

"Fortunately, I don't like their family from the bottom of my heart."

"I don't like it either, but then again, we've lost face in front of the old lady of the Qin family today, so she's bound to say something behind our backs later.

Keep an eye on their children and don't let them have any contact with our children alone."

"Don't worry about that. I won't let our children play with their children. I'm afraid they will teach our children bad things."

"I'm afraid too. Fortunately, I don't go to the same school as their children, otherwise they would be very cunning."

"That's true."

It is indeed true. Children from many families in the staff compound go to the same school, and many of them have been schemed against by their own children.

Just after the Chinese New Year, when the adults went to work and the children at home didn’t go to school, and because the children were still young, they were reluctant to send them to kindergarten or find someone to take care of them, so they would lock the children at home.

The residents living on the first floor, especially the children who were locked at home, were often tricked into giving them food by the Qin family's children.

I only found out about this after I got home from get off work and asked my three children why the children on the first floor were beaten.

"That is to say, the Qin family's children were talking with them and begging for food behind the window. They were beaten only after their parents found out."

“Yes, they talked to us, but we all remembered that our parents told us not to play with the Qin brothers and sisters, so we ignored them.

And when we stopped talking to them, they went to find other people, and then asked people to bring them food, and then they got beaten up.”

"So that's it!"

But then he thought again and felt something was wrong. After Guo Huaian came back, he told him his doubts, and then he heard him say.