There is Room for Rebirth in the 1950’s

Life is not about romance, it is also about firewood, salt, rice and vinegar.

Every time it is approaching the beginning of winter.

In these days, the ban on horse-drawn carriages has been lifted on all streets and alleys.

Especially if a license plate with a big cabbage on a blue background is placed in front of the window of a big Jiefang truck, you can travel unimpeded on Chang'an Avenue.

The winter storage of Chinese cabbage is about to begin again.

Boss, I have to take leave to buy cabbage.

Zhou Jiao had no reason not to allow it, so she quickly let him go.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, we have also celebrated Double 11 in the past and buy, buy, buy, but now the crazy buying is a bunch of cabbage!

And you can still openly ask for leave from your unit or department!

In these ten days, all departments have to make way for people's livelihood issues.

Every morning, there are several large Jiefang trucks lined up in front of the grocery store, filled with cabbage wrapped in green cabbage.

There are two or three large scales placed next to the truck. There are dozens to hundreds of people queuing in front of the scales. Each person holds a non-staple food book in his hand and serves according to the book.

As for the employees of the non-staple food store, all of them were naturally dispatched. If there are not enough manpower, you have to ask nearby agencies to send cadres and ask senior students from the school to help.

Even in the streets and alleys all over the city, the uncles and aunts who get up early for morning exercises and walks happily carry or pull cabbage home in small carts.

Now there are greenhouses. After two years of development, urban residents can occasionally eat fresh vegetables even in the severe winter with heavy snowfall.

Fresh green vegetables, leeks, cucumbers, luffa, beans, and even tomatoes are not only expensive, but they still cannot replace the main dish.

These fresh vegetables, which are calculated at a few cents per catty, can only be used as condiments compared to Chinese cabbage, which is more than 2 cents and 3 cents per catty and only costs 1 cent and 6 cents per catty.

Chinese cabbage is good.

Cheap and good quality, easy to store, and can last all winter.

Stir-fried cabbage, boiled cabbage, vinegared cabbage, stir-fried pork slices with cabbage, braised tofu with cabbage, dumplings stuffed with cabbage and meat. It can also be used to pickle cabbage, and it can also be used to rinse mutton and vegetables.

As in previous years, Zhou Jiao's pace that had just slowed down began to become hurried again.

Although there are servants and aunts at home, there is also her elderly master.

As Uncle Hu and Aunt Hu get older, they are already struggling to carry out heavy tasks, such as buying briquettes and Chinese cabbage in the winter.

Several senior brothers also have families. After all, this is her master, and she should take care of him personally.

Fortunately, the old house has hired two veterans in the past two years, and the compound has its own logistics and notification attendants, which saves her a lot of labor.

She had just taken the time to finish making pickled cabbage for her master, but before she had time to take care of herself, the old man caught a cold and had diarrhea.

To be honest, this was her master's fault.

As he ages, he becomes more and more like a child. He is a greedy man who hides his knowledge from the elders and learns to chew popsicles like the baby in the alley.

He ran back to cook the mutton and finished the meal. Fortunately, Zhang Guoqing came to pick up his wife in the evening, otherwise Zhou Jiao would have been frightened to death by him.

Not five minutes after the meal, I saw that his face was getting paler and paler, and he rushed to the toilet extremely fast for a man of his age.

Zhang Guoqing finally waited for him to come back. As soon as he lay down, he started to show off. He refused to tell the truth and refused to take Western medicine. He stubbornly prescribed Chinese medicine.

Zhou Jiao, who knew her master's temper well, could only silently ask the old man to tell him the name of the medicine. She had learned medical skills in vain and met the most uncooperative patient in history.

After listening to several Chinese medicines, Zhou Jiao couldn't bear to complain when faced with the white hair of the guilty old man, and rushed to the pharmacy next door to grab some medicine first.

On the contrary, Zhang Guoqing noticed something and smiled angrily. He held the old man's hand in one hand and said, Come on, old man, you'd better live with me at home. It's not good for someone like you to be watched.

Nonsense! I just ate too much mutton and couldn't make up for it.

Yes, it's best to quit drinking too. As soon as Zhang Guoqing finished speaking, he saw him glaring anxiously and rolling up his body. He was so frightened that he quickly said, Okay, okay, okay, don't be impatient, I'll listen to you.

That's pretty much it.

Can you really not go to the hospital?

Humph, I am a doctor myself.

He who heals others cannot heal himself!

Zhang Guoqing had no intention of arguing with him, Yes, you are always a miracle doctor. How about we discuss something with you? Can we invite an aunt or a young man?

Doctor Hu looked outside and said, Shh, keep your voice down, don't let your Uncle Hu and his wife hear you. I'll just be more careful in the future.

Zhang Guoqing rolled his eyes at him angrily, You always have so many worries. How about moving to the old house? If you don't have freedom in the compound, you won't be able to live in the old house, right?

No, my old friends are all here. I'm tired and can't talk.

This is not okay, that is not okay, and he still closes his eyes and refuses to talk. This attitude made Zhang Guoqing so angry that he just wanted to curse in anger, glared at the old man, and had to tuck the quilt for him.

Just thinking about it made him feel sad for the old man. The reason why I was willing to go to the compound rather than the old house was not because I was afraid of causing trouble to his family before I left, but I was really thinking too much.

As his only disciple, how could Zhou Jiao not be his descendant?

He now understands very well why Uncle Hu and Aunt Hu continue to support their eldest nephew. They must also have this scruple.

After Zhou Jiao prepared the medicine and gave the old man some rest, Zhang Guoqing told Xiao Zhu to go back and give a message to his father-in-law and the others. He was really worried about leaving the old man here alone.

Who knows if I will have a high fever in the middle of the night!

The medicine still took effect. After a while, the old man looked much better and his diarrhea stopped. After struggling for more than half an hour, he finally started snoring.

Zhang Guoqing spread the bedding at the end of the kang, waved Uncle Hu and the two away, and asked Zhou Jiao to lie there to rest for a while. If something unexpected happened, she would have to give him an injection first!

Whether it was a shot of Western medicine or a shot of Chinese acupuncture, he believed in his wife.

I can not sleep.

It doesn't matter, the old man is blessed with good fortune. You can rest peacefully. Starting tomorrow, I will ask Xiao Wei and Xiao Chen to take turns taking care of the old man here during the day.

Are they busy enough? If we don't want to recruit another person, it would be better to stay here at night. I'm just worried about him getting up in the middle of the night and falling down.

Let Xiao Wei and Xiao Chen come first. I plan to observe them for a while. If there is no problem, they will still be of great use.

Zhou Jiao nodded knowingly. It's a pity that such a young man works as a guard in his house.

That night, the couple couldn't sleep. They stayed up until early in the morning. They were relieved when they saw the old man drinking a large bowl of white porridge and showing off in a lively manner.

This Rui is almost a grown-up, and the time they can spend with him is getting less and less.