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"Ah!..." Qin Jingru opened her mouth wide and said in shock: "How can a family like that survive?"

"What's there to worry about?" Qin Huairu said with a smile, "I've lived for decades and I've gotten through it like this!"

"Tsk!..." Qin Jingru curled her lips in disdain, "People like that have to sleep on top of each other at night, right?

If this is how we live, we might as well go back to the countryside!

In the countryside, no matter how difficult it is, there is no place to sleep."

"Jingru!...You are wrong." Qin Huairu pursed her lips and said, "No one is stupid!

Why do people prefer to suffer in the city rather than go to the countryside? Isn’t it because the city is better than the countryside?

Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s talk about food!

In the city, no matter how bad the situation was, we didn't feel hungry.

Take our family for example...

There are six people in our family, and only your brother-in-law has the city quota.

Although he worked in a steel rolling mill and had a higher ration of 45 kilograms a month, it was still not enough for the six of us.

But look, are we starving?

No matter how bad the conditions were, at most our family just had worse food to eat, but it wasn’t like… there were times when we couldn’t eat.”

Having said that, she glanced at Qin Jingru with a little pride.

"Jingru, the years have not been very good in the past two or three years."

"Don't tell me...you've never been hungry in the countryside?"

"The Qin family brigade is still good."

"Because it's not too far from the Forbidden City, no matter how bad the situation is, people won't starve to death."

"At most, I'll just go hungry for a few meals."

"I heard from your brother-in-law..."

"In places a little further away from the city, people have started to starve to death in the past few months."

"Several of his co-workers had relatives who starved to death."

"Ah!..." Qin Jingru couldn't believe it, "Sister, is this really true?

Before, Uncle Dashan held a meeting with everyone and talked about this matter.

He said...

Outside the territory of Sijiu City, there were villages where people starved to death.

I thought he was trying to scare us!"

"Break?...Tsk!..." Qin Huairu said with a smile: "Uncle Dashan is probably making a big fuss, and you're even saying it's an understatement!

Your brother-in-law said...

Now, people are coming to the city of Sijiu to escape in waves, and the government is unable to make arrangements for them even if it wants to.

At most, we would give them a bowl of porridge a day to prevent them from starving to death.

No matter how old a bachelor is in the city, as long as he is willing to eat, he can marry a virgin girl from the street."

Having said that, she pointed in the direction of Sha Zhu's house again.

"The person who lives opposite our house is the cook in your brother-in-law's factory."

"That man is not only ugly, but also old-fashioned."

"She's only twenty-four or twenty-five, but she looks like she's almost forty."

"Over the years, he has been on dozens of blind dates, but none of them worked out."

"Just a few days ago, a woman was brought back from outside."

"Although the woman is a widow with two children, she is not very old, only in her early twenties, and she is pretty."

At this point, Qin Huairu hesitated for a moment before adding, "Anyway!... She's much prettier than me."

"Hiss!..." Qin Jingru took a breath.

Why would she, a country girl, dare to come to the city alone and ask Qin Huairu to introduce her to a guy?

It's all because of her outstanding looks.

But no matter how confident she is, she knows in her heart...

There is actually some gap between me and my cousin, Qin Huairu.

Even if my cousin is pregnant!

But as long as the two people stand together, most men's eyes will unconsciously glance at Qin Huairu.

Compared with her cousin, Qin Huairu, her only advantage is that she is a little younger.

Now, I heard...

Opposite my cousin's house, there is a woman who is more beautiful than my cousin, and she was just casually brought back from outside.

What's even more exaggerated is that the current market situation in the city is actually...

As long as you give Stuttering food, you can bring home a virgin girl.

This completely shattered Qin Jingru's confidence.

After she hesitated for a moment, she said hesitantly, "Sister!...Well!...If there is no one better than Wang Caigou, then someone who is slightly worse than him will also be fine!"

Qin Huairu smiled bitterly and shook her head, saying: "Jingru, you think too simply.

In fact, city men don’t like us country women at all.”

"Why?" Qin Jingru said indignantly, "Girls in the city don't have anything more than us."

"Jingru, don't be unconvinced!" Qin Huairu said, "Girls in the city really have one more thing than us country girls!"

"What?" Qin Jingru asked in surprise.

"A household registration in the old city!" Qin Huairu responded and then let out a long sigh, with a helpless expression on her face.

"With a city hukou, not only can you get the city's food ration, but your children will also have a city hukou and eat the city's food ration."

"But if we don't have the permanent residence in the city, it will be like our family..."

"The whole family, young and old, depends on Dongxu for food!"

"Jingru, I'm not going to hide it from you!"

"Every month, we have to go out and buy food, otherwise everyone in the family will go hungry."

"This is only in the Forty-Nine City. Even in a year of great disaster, there are ways to get food."

"If we were in another place, one or two of our family would have starved to death long ago."

Having said that, she sighed heavily again.

"If both of us have a permanent residence in Beijing, even if Dongxu is the only one working, our life will be much more comfortable."

"At least, it will be like other places, with some meat and fish every now and then."

Qin Huairu's words shattered the only remaining fantasy in Qin Jingru's heart.

Her eyes were red, and she choked up a little: "Sister, why? Just because of a poor household registration, we country women..."

Before she could finish her complaint, Qin Huairu waved her hand and interrupted her.

"Jingru, don't say these useless things."

"This is the situation now!"

"For the men in Beijing, a woman without a Beijing hukou is a huge burden!"

"Only if your family is well-off and you don't have to worry about food and clothing, you can afford to marry a country girl!"

"But a family like that..."

"It wouldn't be difficult to find a pretty, educated, and employed girl from the city."

"Why would they choose a country girl like us?"

Having said that, she pointed into the house again.

"Jingru, you have seen our family conditions."

"The whole family sleeps on one kang!"

"Besides, there is a man named your brother-in-law at home."

"It's not only inconvenient for an unmarried girl like you to spend the night here, but it's also bad for your reputation."

"You should go back quickly while it's still early!"