After half a month of tidying up and adapting, Anne and her children's life in the family home is on the right track.

Zhang Xiaoman and Zhang Yinsuo, two older children, were arranged by Zhang Dahai to go to the primary school of the Hongqi Production Brigade near the station.

Zhang Xiaoxue was sent to the army's own red education class, the children in the class are basically the children of the army, and the teachers are two or three military wives.

The primary school of the Red Flag Brigade was a little far away from the station, and the children could not come back to eat at noon, so they brought food to eat at school.

Yuhong's class took care of the meal at noon, and Zhang Xiaoxue didn't have to come back.

So, Anne had more time.

She made a strap from a piece of military canvas that Zhang Dahai took from the quartermaster department, and locked her youngest son Zhang Bao on her back, so that her hands were also freed.

Early that morning, after seeing off her three children, Anne took water, dry food, and salt, and carried her youngest son on her back to go to the mountains near the station.

"Ouch, Sister An, what are you doing here?"

The one who spoke was Cui Shengnan, a family member of the first company commander, that is, the military sister-in-law who had been a women's director in her hometown.

She felt that she was a fellow countryman with Anne, and she listened to her speak her hometown dialect all day long, which was very kind.

The most important thing is that Anne looks very clean and neat, but she will not dislike the somewhat sloppy Cui Shengnan.

In fact, Cui Shengnan also knows that the image of himself and his children is not very good, but this is also something that cannot be helped.

In these years, even a bar of soap costs a ticket, and when her youngest son is the most naughty, he washes his clothes eight times a day, and he can also make himself dirty.

And the child doesn't know what to do, and he will throw himself into his mother's arms just after touching a handful of ashes.

No matter how much Cui Shengnan pays attention, he is also soiled by his son from time to time.

Now the country is poor, the family is even poorer, everyone only has one or two clothes a season, and they don't want to change their clothes when they are dirty.

As for washing, hehe, washing clothes every day not only costs soap, it also costs clothes.

Clothes need cloth tickets, and everyone only has three feet of cloth a year, even if they save for a year, they may not be able to save enough clothes.

Wealthy workers can go to the black market to buy cloth tickets or exchange them with others.

But the poor family didn't have the spare money to buy cloth tickets, so they bought the kind of back-spinning cloth that didn't need tickets.

As the name suggests, the old clothes are hammered and re-woven into fabrics, because in the process of beating, the fibers of the fabric will be destroyed, so the back-spinning fabric is very unstrong, and with a little force, it will pull a big hole.

Such clothes will rot when washed.

Even if it is not a back-spun cloth, that kind of ordinary cotton cloth or home-spun homespun cloth, it cannot withstand frequent washing.

Not to mention fading, it is easy to wash.

Therefore, Cui Shengnan does not have that condition if he wants to be clean.

Although she knew these things in her heart, Cui Shengnan still felt aggrieved and ashamed every time she saw the disgusting eyes of the daughters-in-law of several families in the city, such as Instructor Xu and Political Commissar Liu.

It's still a good person, and he looks like a Lisuo person, but he won't look down on others.

"Go to the mountains to pick some medicine, and see if there is any game. Anne said with a smile.

"Herbs?"

Cui Shengnan's eyes lit up, and the gaze he looked at Anne became different, "What's the matter, girl, you, do you still know Chinese herbal medicine?"

In the eyes of ordinary people, Chinese medicine can also be regarded as a cultural person.

"Yes, I learned a little bit from my grandfather, and they were all country earthworks. ”

Anne said modestly, "I pick herbs, mainly in exchange for some money. The situation of our family, sister-in-law, you know, I don't have a job, my three children have to go to school, one child is still breastfeeding, and the family of six depends on the allowance from the sea. But that allowance—"

Anne deliberately said halfway, then shook her head with a wry smile and said no more.

Anne didn't say it, Cui Shengnan also knew that the third company commander Zhang Dahai's foolish filial piety was known to the entire independent battalion.

Tsk, he has been a soldier since before the liberation, and until now, Zhang Dahai has sent all his allowances to his mother.

is married, and his daughter-in-law can't touch it.

If it weren't for the fact that his wife and children followed the army this time, he needed to spend money everywhere, and it is estimated that Zhang Dahai would continue to supplement his hometown.

Rao is like this, Zhang Dahai also sent half of the allowance back, leaving only thirteen yuan at home.

Thirteen bucks doesn't sound too little.

However, the problem is that Zhang Dahai is not a bachelor, he has a large family to support.

Fortunately, the troops can still grow some food by themselves, otherwise, Zhang Dahai's family would not even have enough to eat.

It's no wonder that when "Andani" moved to a new house, she didn't buy a decent piece of furniture, not because she didn't want to, but because she really didn't have any money.

It's been less than a month since she came, and "Andani" hurriedly went to the mountains to collect medicine, and she was still carrying a child on her back, alas, it was really bitter.

"Company Commander Zhang is really-" Cui Shengnan shook his head, his own man also sent money to his hometown, but he was by no means like Zhang Dahai who only cared about his father, mother, brother and sister, but did not care about the life or death of his wife and children.

However, the current mainstream thinking is to pay attention to dedication.

Zhang Dahai is completely in line with the current "trend"!

"Sister An, let me tell you, there are wild boars, wolves and other wild animals on the mountains around our station, and you are a woman with a child and enter the mountain, you must be careful. ”

Cui Shengnan was also not good at gossiping about Zhang Dahai, so he earnestly told the man to be careful.

In the face of Cui Shengnan's kindness, Anne was very grateful, "Thank you, sister-in-law, I am new here, thanks to your guidance and care." ”

"Ouch, Sister An, you're so polite, it's not a matter of words. ”

Cui Shengnan made Anne say this, and became more and more happy, and couldn't help but mention, "There is a purchasing station in the town thirty miles away, and it also collects prepared herbs, but the price may not be too high." Near the first hospital in the county, there are some family members of patients who are willing to exchange things for herbs. ”

Choi Seung-nam said it vaguely, but Anne understood.

Yo, this red-rooted women's director also knows about the black market in the county.

Anne's eyes flickered, and she nodded gratefully again, "Thank you, sister-in-law, if you don't say it, I really don't know." ”

Cui Shengnan looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Although the state doesn't care about those transactions now, we are military wives in the end, and we should pay more attention to our actions." ”

Anne nodded hurriedly.

It's '60, and the state doesn't have a full ban on private trade, but there is still speculation, and the boundaries are blurred.

Therefore, when ordinary people have a transaction in private, most of them do not mention "buying and selling", but in the name of exchange.

The public security will not take care of the grain and meat that the peasants cannot eat at home, or if they get the exchange bills in the suburbs.

But if the transactions are too frequent and the amount of money involved is too large, it is not easy to say.

Li Mei had just gotten off the night shift, and as soon as she entered the family home, she saw Anne and Cui Shengnan muttering there, and her brows immediately frowned.

Although Anne didn't make trouble for her as Li Mei imagined after her arrival, she still didn't like some of Anne's "faults" in the end.

For example, she speaks a scummy hometown dialect all day long, and obviously she has persuaded the other party to let her learn Mandarin hard, but the other party just doesn't listen.

Another example is that I often mingle with those vulgar and pungent rural military wives.

The East family and the West family are short, and they know right and wrong.

Although Li Mei didn't catch Anne gossiping behind her back, every time she saw her and Cui Shengnan getting together, Li Mei subconsciously felt that they were talking about their own military wives in the city.

Another example, "Andani" does not want to forge ahead. Li Mei knew that the Zhang family was in difficulty, so she introduced Anne to the town's carton factory to pick up odd jobs.

As a result, people still don't appreciate it, and they don't want to paste cartons at all.

Li Mei felt more and more that Anne was a mud that couldn't support the wall, and her perception of her became worse and worse.

"Sister-in-law, I'm back from work. ”

Li Mei was about to pretend not to see Anne, and turned straight home, not wanting to let Anne see her first.

Anne greeted politely.

Li Mei tugged at the corners of her mouth and smiled fakely, "Yes, I just got off work." Dani, where are you going?"

"Oh, I'm going to the mountains to pick some medicine and some game by the way. ”

Anne repeated what she had just said to Cui Shengnan.

Hearing the same words, Cui Shengnan and Li Mei's reactions were completely different.

Cui Shengnan was surprised with a little admiration, while Li Mei was completely unconvinced, and her dislike for Anne deepened in her heart-

This Andani, if she doesn't want to make progress, she actually started to play those tricks like a charlatan!