Rebirth of Siheyuan: Starting from escaping famine in 42

Time flies, and a year has passed inadvertently, and it is the summer of 1960.

This year was a very difficult year. Many people who fled famine from other places came to Sijiucheng, and many children of these refugees became orphans.

This also caused a lot of trouble to the street office, and public security became a bit chaotic.

To this end, the government and the street office came up with many ideas. Since the north is vast and sparsely populated, many people fleeing famine were organized to go to the northeast.

Orphans are sent to orphanages. If the family does not have children, the street office will visit the family and ask these childless families to adopt the orphans, but there are still many orphans who have not been taken away.

Among the people who fled famine in the old city, there were many single young women. The street office would also actively organize large-scale blind date parties to help these single young women find a home.

There are quite a few who are attracted to each other. After all, you can marry a young woman who has fled from famine without giving any dowry, so the single young men in the city are very enthusiastic.

As the population increased, it became increasingly difficult to buy food in the city. A good family had two liquid meals and one dry meal a day.

Families in poverty would eat half-dry food for one meal and liquid food for the other.

People who don’t have enough to eat are so hungry that they look pale and thin, as if they will be blown away by a strong wind.

Li Qingfeng had a lot of food in his space. Every ten days or half a month, he would secretly go out to the street office, the orphanage, and the relief station. He put a lot of food in one place, most of which were coarse grains.

Li Qingfeng didn't dare put too much fine grain in, for fear that speculators would appear and embezzle the grain or sell it for profit.

Li Qingfeng from the Pigeon Market also put a lot of coarse grains in the market, but he did not ask Zhao, Qian, Sun and Li to raise the price too much, only a few cents more than the grain store.

In this way, many people will be able to buy food and there will be no scene of people starving to death.

Thanks to the help of his eldest brother Li Qingfeng, Li Qingshan and Qin Huairu would have some food left at the end of every month, and the couple would send the remaining food back to her parents' home.

Xu Damao's sons are now running around, and his wife Qin Xueru is pregnant again, so they can't save much food every month, but if they accumulate, they will be sent back to her mother's home in the countryside.

The younger brothers or older brothers of Qin Huairu and Qin Xueru have already married in the city and have been allocated houses, so they no longer need help from the elderly in the family.

Therefore, in Qinjia Village, only Qin Desheng and Qin Dezhuo's families lived a little better than others and did not go hungry.

Most of the families in the courtyard were doing OK, except for Zhang from the Jia family, who only came in but never went out. She was lazy and ate more than a strong man at home.

Banggeng is a young boy with a big appetite and eats a lot, while Xiaodang is still young and doesn't eat much. Jia Dongxu's wife is pregnant with another child now, and there is even less food at home.

Although the Jia family now has no fixed grain supply except for Jia Zhang, who has a rural household registration, they still have to buy food on the black market.

But there was no way so many people could eat it, and two of them had big appetites.

Jia Dongxu is so hungry that he has no energy to go to work.

Jia Dongxu was getting his meal that day when He Yuzhu said with a smile, "Brother Dongxu, it's a good thing that your sister-in-law is pregnant again. More children means more blessings, right?"

But Jia Dongxu couldn't be happy. Although he was a mama's boy, he was still very nice to the people in the courtyard. He smiled bitterly and said, "Shazhu, there is not enough food to eat. How can it be a good thing?"

It's not easy for anyone these days, so as for asking neighbors to help our family, we are not stupid. For the sake of neighborliness, there is nothing wrong in helping out within our ability.

But the principle of helping in emergencies rather than helping the poor is clear.

Now that Yi Zhonghai's family has their own children, they no longer favor their family.

Moreover, Sha Zhu has a wife and children, and he is becoming more and more shrewd. He can understand what Jia Dongxu means. He is not stupid! He doesn't have enough wives and children at home, so how can he help the Jia family!

In this era, everyone has the idea that having more children means more blessings. If a family has few children, they cannot win a fight. Moreover, if there are many brothers and sisters, they can help each other. Moreover, there is strength in numbers, and life will definitely get better and better.

He Yuzhu had no choice but to persuade Jia Dongxu from this aspect. As He Yuzhu spoke, Jia Dongxu gradually became optimistic.

Jia Dongxu thought, yes, having more children in the family does have its benefits.

After Jia Dongxu figured it out, he quickly finished his meal and walked back to the workshop to continue working with a happy pace.

He Yuzhu looked at Jia Dongxu going away, thinking that others could not help him in the long run, only he could help himself, so he should work hard, young man.

When it was almost time to get off work in the afternoon, an accident occurred in Jia Dongxu's workshop.

One of Yi Zhonghai's apprentices came to the canteen kitchen and found He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu said in surprise: "Did Jia Dongxu have an accident? Wasn't he fine during the meal?"

A rolling mill in the workshop broke down, causing a screw inside to break out and hit Jia Dongxu's leg.

Jia Dongxu was really unlucky. Several workers around him were fine, but he was the only one who got into trouble.

"Jia Dongxu's leg was hit by a screw and he bled a lot. We don't know if the bone is damaged. He has been sent to the hospital."

When He Yuzhu heard that it was only a leg injury, he waved his hand and let Yi Zhonghai's apprentice go.

"I understand, you go and do your work first!"

After the worker left, He Yuzhu lit a cigarette and sat on a chair, thinking to himself that the Jia family was now in even greater trouble. He didn't know how Jia Zhang would react when she knew that Jia Dongxu was in trouble.

After finishing a cigarette, He Yuzhu walked slowly towards the hospital with his hands behind his back.

When He Yuzhu arrived at the hospital, Jia Dongxu was still receiving treatment in the emergency room!

A large group of people gathered at the door of the emergency room, including the factory's deputy director and workshop director.

The eldest uncle Yi Zhonghai, the eldest aunt, Jia Zhang, and the newly pregnant Zhang Cuifen.

He Yuzhu walked up to Yi Zhonghai and asked softly, "Uncle, Brother Dongxu..."

Yi Zhonghai said in a deep voice: "Dongxu was unlucky, he just hit his leg, he should be fine."

At the same time, Jia Zhang and Zhang Cuifen were also worried. After all, Jia Dongxu was the pillar of the family. If Jia Dongxu was gone, it would be like the sky falling for them.

After a while, Xu Damao and the neighbors in the courtyard came to the hospital to show their concern.

After a while, when the door of the emergency room opened and the doctor came out, a group of people surrounded him and asked questions.

"Doctor, how is Jia Dongxu?"

The doctor shook his head and sighed, "We have tried our best. Jia Dongxu will not be able to use force on his injured leg in the future, but he will have no problem walking normally."

Hearing this, both the factory leaders and the residents of the courtyards where Yi Zhonghai and He Yu lived all breathed a sigh of relief.

Only Jia Zhang sat on the ground, slapping her thighs with her hands, shouting and yelling, "Her son has become disabled. What should she do?" She looked several years older.

Jia Dongxu's wife Zhang Cuifen also breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the person was okay, it was fine. Some of the soldiers who returned from the war had lame legs, but they were still able to live their lives.