There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

The two mother and daughter chatted for a while, discussing how to make overalls, and gestured to each other. Until Ping An woke up, after Zhou Jiao had fed her son, she looked at her watch and it was almost time for dinner, and looked at her worriedly.

Mom, are you hungry? Didn't you buy some snacks? Eat some first. Do you want to eat with me later? There are a lot of people in the main room, and you are not used to it. I will tell my mother-in-law later.

Lin Lishan shook her head, In a few days, that's it. See how your mother-in-law arranges, I guess she will let me eat in the room with you. If you say so, it will be bad if there is a misunderstanding.

After finishing talking, Zhang's mother brought her eldest daughter-in-law Huang Cuilan in with food, and she said embarrassedly when she saw Lin Lishan: Big sister, I'm not being polite to you, just let you stay with Jiaojiao in the room. Eat. You look at her, her appetite is too small, let her eat more.

I will start building the house tomorrow, and I will be busy preparing meals. Those villagers who come to help will have a meal at our house. People come and go, you will be clean even if you eat here. Otherwise, someone will come and pull you to say a few words, and you won't be able to eat. It just so happens that I don't have time to take care of Jiaojiao, so I don't worry if you stay with her.

Lin Lishan nodded after hearing this, and took the food, Sister, this is the best way, we two mother and daughter just have dinner and chat together. Tomorrow I will help in the kitchen, if you need anything, please call me.

Seeing Lin Lishan take the bowl, Zhou's mother quickly put the table on the kang, took the basket that Huang Cuilan was carrying, brought out the three dishes inside, and placed soup and two large bowls of rice.

No, the work in the kitchen. There are enough people for the three of us and my two sisters-in-law tomorrow. If I am too busy, I will call you and not be polite to you. Jiaojiao, let you go first these few days. Mother takes care of you, I'm afraid I'll get dizzy from work.

Zhou Jiao nodded, and said to Huang Cuilan apologetically, Sister-in-law, you have worked hard. We built a yard for us to live in, and Xiaowu and I didn't do anything, and you and elder brother are busy. Think about me I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, you and your wife don't help us a lot. You are a family, don't pay attention to those things, and take care of your body with peace of mind. If you take care of yourself well, you can feel at ease when your grandma returns home.

Lin Lishan looked at the food, Sister, if you treat me as your own family, don't prepare so much next time. There are too many dishes, and our mother and daughter can't eat so much. It's a waste. From now on, I will follow your meals. No need to cook it separately. Just separate Jiaojiao’s confinement meal, saving you from having to cook it separately three times.”

Zhang's mother laughed: Jiaojiao's food is separated, you are the same as us, you don't have any other preparations. If you are busy tomorrow, I will cook less, you can eat. Go get it yourself after eating, I will not treat you politely.

As he spoke, he shook his hand and pulled everyone away.

Zhou Jiao looked at the food and knew that it was specially made for her mother. She didn't say anything, if her mother were to eat the buns, she would cry along with her. She absolutely didn't want to see those buns.

Lin Lishan ate, telling her to eat more, and if she couldn't eat, she had to work hard.

Jiaojiao, what does your mother-in-law's family usually eat? This is meat and chicken. They must not have these. I guess the meat is in these two bowls.

Zhou Jiao drank the soup, put it down quickly after listening to it, put her head against the window, listened to the movement outside, moved to the side, approached her mother, and whispered: Hehe, Mom, you can tell by the look on my face. The conditions in the surrounding villages are considered good. Now they are all distributed fine grains, and go to the city to replace them with coarse grains. Even if they change to coarse grains, most people have two meals a day, one of which is vegetable porridge.

Their family eats three meals a day, and they are well-off in the surrounding villages. In the morning, corn dregs porridge is added to Wowotou, vegetable porridge is added to Wowotou at noon, and a few vegetables are added to sweet potato rice in the evening.

Coarse grain powder, water and wild vegetables are kneaded into a ball in the Wowotou, and that's it. Many people envy Zhang's family that they can eat enough.

Xiao Wu said that his family's Wowotou can be changed in a year, but the Wowotou is still a Wowotou. The buns are so throat-stretching that you have to stretch your neck to swallow them, or you will get stuck.

Hehe, you said that everyone eats like this, what do you do? Although I ate less at Zhou's house, I didn't have this kind of steamed bread. They all ate wild vegetable porridge and sweet potato rice with grandma, and they were all soft. Most of the time, I eat in the school cafeteria with Xiao Wu, and he also takes me to restaurants to eat from time to time.

It was only when I got married that I discovered that there are still people with stuffed throats in this world. I don’t have any rations, I can’t eat enough and I’m too embarrassed to say so, so I just eat less, anyway, Xiao Wu and my mother-in-law will secretly cook for me. My mother-in-law is pretty good. She secretly boiled two eggs and hid them in our house. Sometimes when the family members went to work, they secretly hid the buns and put them in our house, so they always said that I was a cat’s appetite.

Zhou Jiao ate a mouthful of rice, and then said: Xiao Wu and I couldn't take it anymore, so we bought rice. Let her mother cook red dates and white rice porridge for me to drink while pregnant, and let the whole family drink it together. I hope I don't have to eat corn dregs every day. Wowotou, stuck, took a sip of corn dregs porridge, and then really stuck.

I can't say this clearly, because their family just ate like this, and they all ate with relish, and they were all very happy. It's hard for the two of us to speak out. It's a good thing you came and brought back those rice and flour, otherwise I would really die.

Xiaowu ran to the county seat at five o'clock in the morning on the second day after Ping'an was born, and asked someone to buy two pig's trotters and two black-bone chickens, and asked her mother to quickly stew them for me. As a result, my mother-in-law said to keep it and eat it slowly, one pig's trotter can be eaten for a day. As for the black-bone chicken, Xiao Wu asked her to cook one for the children in the family, and stewed another black-bone chicken. But she disagreed, saying what do children eat. They are all eaten by the confinement, and the family can eat enough, so there is no need to burn them.

Even if I have money, I dare not buy it. If I buy too much, it will cost too much money. If I buy too little, there will be no place to burn it. It's a good thing you're here, otherwise I really wouldn't be able to live. We are all ready to buy a stove, stew game every day, and secretly sprinkle rice on the stove.

Xiao Wu said that he was eating and crying, but he didn't dare to say it. Because the family has always eaten this way, even Xizi and the others eat it this way. He was away from school and went to the cafeteria to eat with rations. If you really say it, you have no conscience, and his father and mother will be sad.

Lin Lishan laughed happily, listening to her talk while eating.

Zhou Jiao went on to say, Why is Xiao Wu the best chef at Hexian Restaurant? He caught the pheasant and hare in the past and asked him to cook it. After it was cooked, he brought some to me secretly. If there is no meat ticket, he can only go to the restaurant If you are familiar with it, you will do more.

Didn't you say I'm thin now? That's why you didn't see me thinner before. In winter, when the heavy snow and wind blow, I dare not go out. Really, the wind blows me to run, I don't even have to walk, just keep pushing. Ha ha, so I never go out in winter if there is no important thing to do.

Before I got married, I had no money on hand. Everyone calls me Golden Baby, but I really have no money. Just rely on Xiaowu to take me to eat some supplements. Married here, I have money in my hands, but the damn bills have been tossed out again, no food stamps, no meat stamps, money is useless, especially without food stamps, you can't go to restaurants. But at least I ate wild game and grew strong.

You have brought so many things with you this time, food is the most precious thing. There is no money. Now that you don't go to the countryside, you don't even know that there is a shortage of food. The same is true in the county town, where the food supply will only make you 80% full, and it is still planned that the whole family will be 80% full at night with porridge in the morning. Where did you buy this food? Is there no shortage of food in the capital?

Lin Lishan drank the soup, sighed, and shook her head, There is also a shortage of food, but we will not be short. What if the soldiers don't have food. I should have brought more.

Zhou Jiao smiled, Don't bring food next time. We will have a way to buy food next time. The Chinese New Year is coming soon, and there will be large and small markets. Those who have fine grains in the countryside will also sell them. We will buy them secretly. If you order more, save it and eat slowly. If it is more expensive, it will be more expensive.

Mom, you really haven't seen those poor people, how poor are they? For example, when winter comes, one-third of the people in Zhangjia Village don’t have cotton-padded jackets, so what should we do? Girls just wear jackets, shivering to do housework, and men take turns wearing cotton jackets to go out. There are still many families that still use straw as quilts, which is why the most dead people are in winter, and the poverty is so sad. So, we are living a good life now, and we should be happy and happy.

Lin Lishan nodded, You should feel happy. I looked around, and in some places they eat porridge. They only eat dry food on New Year's Eve.

Mom, go get some food quickly. If I eat this bowl, it will be very good.

Lin Lishan shook her head, I can't eat anymore, there's only so much I usually have. I'll clean up after you finish eating. Does your grandpa have enough to eat? None of them go to work.

Zhou Jiao glanced at her mother angrily, You forgot that grandma and grandma have monthly wages and subsidies, and they have food for themselves. Even if they raise a group of people in the long house, they can still eat enough. There was no food before. Tickets can be bought with money. When there are food stamps, wild vegetables are also added, and the food is comparable to that of people in the county.

But they don't behave well, eating like robbery, rushing to eat, and talking loudly, drooling all over the place, talking about them is really off-putting. When I got back to Zhou's house, there was nothing to eat. After leaving, I started a small stove, and everyone ate so tall and strong, that Huang Zhaodi was as fat as two of you, and I couldn't believe that his family didn't eat.

Hehe, you're so fat. I wasn't fat before. It's pretty good-looking. Time really makes people old. Eat up, I'll pack it up and send it over. You lean on it first, don't lie down. Said pack it up and put it away Put it in the basket.

After a while, Lin Lishan came in, and Zhou Jiao stared at her mother closely to see that no one was following her, winked and pouted outward. Lin Lishan rolled her eyes, watched her make faces, covered her mouth and laughed.

There is only your sister-in-law in the kitchen. They are all eating. I didn't enter the main room. The kitchen smells of sweet potatoes. It should be sweet potato rice at night. Give us all the white rice, and they eat sweet potato rice. Their children are well educated, and they are not trouble.

Zhou Jiao nodded, Their children are well-educated, and they never touch things when they come to my house. If you give them candy, you know that you will take it back to your younger siblings to eat, and the younger ones will also know to take it home when they see the candy. Their brothers eat.

Lin Lishan went to the kitchen to fetch hot water and brought it to the room. After the two of them washed up, they turned on the radio and lay down on the kang to chat.