Rebirth 1958: My Home is in Nanluoguxiang

There are five children in the Chang family. Chang Zhengyang is the eldest, born in 1940. He just turned 18 yesterday. He is a senior high school student and will take the college entrance examination next month.

By the way, Chang Baichuan had asked Chang Zhengyang yesterday if he wanted to return to his ancestral home and change his surname back to Zhang, but Chang Zhengyang flatly refused.

Are you kidding? He has been called Chang Zhengyang in both of his lives and he is used to this name. Why should he change his surname?

When alive, you are a member of the Chang family; when dead, you are a ghost of the Chang family!

The second child in the Chang family is a girl named Chang Wanyue, born in 1946. She is the girl who brought the cloth bag to Chang Zhengyang before. She is twelve years old this year, in the sixth grade of elementary school, and will go to junior high school in the fall.

Next, the third and fourth are twin brothers. The third is Chang Zhengming and the fourth is Chang Zhenghe. The two brothers were born in 1950, are eight years old this year, and are in the second grade of primary school.

The fifth child is called Chang Wanzhu, nicknamed Zhuzhu. He was born in 1955 and is only three years old this year.

At this moment, Chang Zhengyang was holding the little girl, and the two of them were putting their foreheads against each other, engaging in an unconventional bullfighting competition.

"Ah, I lost!"

Chang Zhengyang pretended to have no strength, tilted his head back, and loudly admitted defeat to the little girl.

"Haha, I win, I win..."

The little girl danced excitedly and twisted around in Chang Zhengyang's arms. Chang Zhengyang shook his head and put clothes on her with a doting look on his face.

After the little girl put on her little shoes, she swung her short legs, ran out of the house and rushed into the west wing. Soon, there was a commotion. It turned out that the two brothers Chang Zhengming and Chang Zhenghe were woken up by the little girl and walked out of the house with complaints on their faces.

As for beating the little girl?

Hey, if they dare to make their sister cry, the iron fist of big brother Chang Zhengyang will make them know what it means to feel pain deep in the bone!

After the two brothers brushed their teeth and washed their faces, the family of seven sat around the kitchen table and began to eat breakfast.

Breakfast consisted of cornmeal porridge, steamed buns made of two-grain flour, a plate of stir-fried cabbage, and a plate of pickles.

Chang Zhengyang picked up the pickles and took a bite of the steamed bun. Fortunately, she was not picky about food, so she found it tasty.

The breakfast of Lao Chang's family is considered the best in the alley. Most families in the alley eat steamed corn bread for breakfast. Due to the poor craftsmanship in that era, the grains of corn flour are very large and it is very choking to eat. Anyway, anyone who has eaten it knows the answer!

Before the 1980s, the average agricultural yield per mu in China was only 300 kilograms, which was only enough for human consumption. There was no excess grain to make feed for livestock, resulting in insufficient supply of non-staple foods such as meat, eggs and milk in the first 30 years after the founding of the People's Republic of China.

To give you the most direct data, at that time, every Chinese citizen did not even have the money to consume meat, eggs and milk annually.

This is the annual average, not the daily average in the 1990s or even after the millennium!

Compared to other families in the alley, the Chang family not only eats steamed buns in the morning, but also has some meat in their lunch and dinner dishes.

As for the source of the meat, some of it was hunted by Chang Zhengyang in the mountains, and most of it was sent by his grandfather.

The Guo family was a family of bodyguards, and they had always kept the family martial arts. In addition, Guojiazhuang was located at the foot of Yulong Mountain. As the saying goes, "live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water." Wild boars were rampant in Yulong Mountain, and hunters from Guojiazhuang often went into the mountains to hunt, including Chang Zhengyang's grandfather and uncle.

It’s just that the old man has grown old in recent years and rarely goes into the mountains.

After the family had a lively breakfast and washed the dishes, Chang Zhengyang put on his backpack and prepared to go to school.

All of them, brothers and sisters, went to school at the steel rolling mill's children's school. As for why they chose to study there, the reason was very simple: the school was close to home, only two miles away.

"Zhengyang, keep an eye on Zhengming and the others. I'm going to work."

Guo Huiying pushed her bicycle outside and told Chang Zhengyang to keep an eye on the brothers Chang Zhengming and Chang Zhenghe on the way to school. There was no other way, as the two brothers were too naughty, the kind of people who would go crazy if they weren't disciplined. If you weren't careful, these two naughty guys would definitely cause you trouble.

As for the second daughter, Chang Wanyue, she has a quiet and elegant temperament. Guo Huiying has always been very confident in her eldest daughter.

"Don't worry, mom. Just ride slowly on the road."

Chang Zhengyang watched his mother leave, thoughts surging in his mind.

He is a genuine college student who studied painting. He is proficient in detailed painting of flowers and birds, and has a good foundation in small freehand painting. He belongs to the school of court painting.

A girl was studying painting in college in the 1930s, which shows how much Guo Quanlin doted on his daughter.

Guo Huiying is now a lecturer at the China Academy of Fine Arts, receiving an 89th-level salary, which is yuan per month.

Nowadays, university teachers’ salaries are very high. There are four levels: professor, associate professor, lecturer and assistant.

The corresponding salary for university lecturers is in two grades, from level 18 to level 17. As for associate professors and above, they are already at the top of the pyramid in this era.

Taking professors as an example, they are divided into four levels, with level one professor being the highest, earning 345 yuan per month. This shows how much the country values ​​senior intellectuals.

Chang Zhengyang was somewhat worried that in another eight years the storm would start and intellectuals like his mother, who were clearly petty bourgeois, would definitely be affected.

There is also the background of my grandfather's family. Although they were not landlords, they were just rich peasants. The problem is that my second uncle was a mid-level officer on Principal Jiang's side. He is now in Taiwan Island. When the time comes, he will definitely be used by someone with ulterior motives to make a fuss!

What a trouble!

Chang Zhengyang called out to Chang Zhengming and the others to follow quickly, and the brothers and sisters prepared to go to school.

As for the little girl, she was carrying a small basket filled with small wooden toys made for her by Chang Baichuan, and went to the alley to play with her friends.

As for whether she would be abducted, people can't even get enough food to eat these days, so only a crazy person would buy a child. As the saying goes, there would be no killing without buying and selling, and without a buyer's market, there would naturally be no seller's market.

If a family doesn't have a son, just say the word and someone will bring a boy a few months old to you that afternoon to be adopted by you.

There was no other way. Food rations were tight and there were no entertainment activities. All they did was make babies at night. It was normal for a couple to have four or five children, and it was not uncommon for them to have seven or eight.

Chang Zhengyang still remembers that he secretly asked his father two years ago why the old man next door didn’t adopt one?

He clearly remembered that Chang Baichuan's expression at that time was very subtle.

Finally, he became anxious after being questioned by Chang Zhengyang and just said: Stay away from Yi Zhonghai in the future, and just treat what that guy says as fart.

There is no need to worry about the little girl's safety in the alleys. There are many retired old men playing chess under the trees in the alleys, and there are also middle-aged women who don't work gathered together, gossiping about other people's affairs while sewing shoe soles.

The Chaoyang Aunties are known as the fourth largest intelligence agency in the world. Even if you are a mosquito fleeing from the south to the north, you cannot escape their sharp eyes!

In a word, the uncles and aunts in Yanjing Hutong have always been full of sense of justice. They are not afraid of trouble, nor are they afraid of causing trouble!