Chapter Twenty-Four: A Bag of Pig's Head

Right now, the price of buying a house is about the same as building a house.

Six or seven hundred yuan can buy six large tiled houses.

It costs six or seven hundred yuan to spend money on it.

Mainly because, at this time, land is not a commodity, and you can't buy it if you have money.

But if you have a way, you can apply for it, and you don't have to spend a penny.

To put it bluntly, it's the same as a rural homestead.

Last year, when Bai Ke and his parents visited County Magistrate Liu for the first time, he suggested that Bai Ce and Qin Yongmei build their own house.

During the Spring Festival, when a family of three went to pay New Year's greetings, County Magistrate Liu said again: If you want to build a house, I will find someone to grant you land.

Now, they have all reached this step, and Bai Ce and Qin Yongmei will certainly not hesitate any longer.

However, it takes half a year to build a house, so what's the matter now?

Da Lao Hei suggested: "Simply, your family of six will come to live in the public security bureau." Anyway, there are empty rooms in the game. ”

Bai Ce felt that it was inappropriate, and Qin Yongmei waved her hand again and again.

"How can this work? It's only been more than half a year since I joined the work, and it's just this kind of thing, isn't that a joke? ”

Ju Yinglun suggested that Bai Ce's family live in Dongshan, and he could help borrow a house in the village.

Bai Ce felt that Dongshan Commune was a bit far away, and it was a bit dangerous for the children to pass through the stone pit to and from school.

When the whole family couldn't make up their minds, Bai Ce's former colleague in the Materials Bureau, Lao Jiang, came to play at home, and when he heard the family's embarrassment, he immediately suggested: "It's warm, just live in an earthquake shed." ”

Bai Ce was suddenly embarrassed.

The heart said, "A family of six lives in an earthquake shed?"

Qin Yongmei didn't care: "As long as you can live and make a fire to cook, it's not bad, it's quite cool in summer." ”

"I can definitely live if I live. My earthquake shelter can accommodate four people. There is also a stove for cooking. Our neighbor also has several empty earthquake shelters, and you monkey cubs can live there. ”

Bai Ce sighed softly and did not say anything.

Bai Ke was also silent on the side.

In the previous life, the family had the experience of living in an earthquake shed, and it seems that they can't escape it in this life.

Moreover, he really misses the days when he lived in an earthquake shed in his last life.

After the 1976 Shantang earthquake, such a spectacle began to appear on the streets of many cities in the north - every household built an earthquake shed.

It wasn't until two or three years later that these earthquake sheds scattered all over the streets and alleys were demolished one after another.

Lao Jiang was a warm-hearted and anxious person, and seeing that Bai Ce didn't say anything, he hurriedly asked: "How is it?" Lao Bai, if you think it's okay, I'll arrange it for you." ”

Qin Yongmei hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry for you, big brother." ”

Bai Ce also nodded: "Then thank you." ”

Except for bedding, cooking utensils and other things, there is basically no furniture in the earthquake shed.

Therefore, the lacquered furniture brought by the Bai family from the south can only be temporarily placed in the public security bureau.

Anyway, there are empty houses there.

So, like the previous life, in the second week of April 1977, the six members of the Bai family began to live in an earthquake shed.

In the first few days of moving to the earthquake shed, there was a constant stream of people coming to visit, pointing fingers and talking about it.

In the previous life, Bai Ke felt very embarrassed and humiliated.

In this life, I don't care.

He knew in his heart that the reason why everyone was watching was not because they despised or looked down on him.

Because the current standard of living is very low, no one has the heart to look down on anyone.

They are more curious.

Among the six members of the Bai family, except for Qin Yongmei, the other five people are very different from the locals.

The vast majority of the locals of this period were flatheads.

And Bai Ce and his four sons and daughters are all duck eggs in front of him.

It's not a question of race, it's a matter of aesthetics.

During this period, the locals in the north were more likely to identify with the flat-headed aesthetic.

Many families let their children sleep on a hard kang or on a soybean pillow to flatten their heads.

Bai Ke and his four brothers were almost murdered.

Because Qin Yongmei is an unswerving flat-headed aesthete.

But when Bai Ke and the four brothers were at the age of moldable heads, Bai Ce was a big officer, and Qin Yongmei was a housewife, and they were young.

I don't have a chance to show my aesthetic taste.

Therefore, the four brothers of Baike escaped the catastrophe.

At this time, the southerners of the Liangjiang Valley had not yet begun to move around.

Not to mention the small cities in the north, even the big cities in the north are rare to see the weird heads of the south.

Therefore, at this time, I can see five southern weird people at once, and the neighbors are naturally running to tell each other and are amazed.

It's like a closed town in the later generations, where a bunch of foreigners suddenly come out, and everyone can't help but come to watch.

After three or four days, they were no longer surprised.

Because the weird head people also eat, drink,, and pee like them.

After the 80s of the last century, with the popularity of typhoons in Hong Kong, the aesthetic custom of flat-headed small towns in the north gradually disappeared.

After running forward, the duck eggs became commonplace.

The Baike family of six lives in two earthquake sheds.

Bai Ce, Qin Yongmei and Bai Ning lived in the earthquake shed of Lao Jiang's house.

There you can make a fire for cooking.

Bai Ke and his two older brothers lived in another earthquake shed with an eldest brother in Jiang's neighborhood.

This eldest brother is in his twenties and is extremely kind and kind.

He's busy all day, but no one knows what he does.

But the white guest knows his secret.

Bai Ke knew that this eldest brother was deliberately living with Bai Ke and his brothers.

He wanted to let the white guest and his brothers cover for themselves.

Because he's planning a shocking case.

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After the elder black recovered from his injury, he did not forget his comrades-in-arms and brothers who shared the hardships.

After a little free time, I got into the jeep and wanted to visit the head of the security unit at the woollen mill.

Qin Yongmei chased after her.

"Take me one. ”

Big Lao Hei smiled: "Let's go." ”

After coming to the woolen factory, Da Lao Hei and Qin Yongmei greeted the head of the stock for a while, and Qin Yongmei offered to borrow the head of the stock's bicycle.

Da Lao Hei was a little surprised: "Where are you going?" Let the driver drive you." ”

"Before I saw it, I went around the village. ”

The big old black and the chief looked at each other for a while.

The head of the unit suddenly realized: "Xiao Qin, this is to visit that old woman." ”

Qin Yongmei nodded.

Da Lao Hei couldn't help but sigh: "It's still a lesbian who thinks things thoughtfully." ”

The head of the unit also said: "Yes, it would be good if we also transferred a female comrade to the security unit." ”

"You have to fight for this matter yourself, Xiao Qin was also mentioned by me to the county magistrate Liu of the neighborhood many times, so I helped introduce him. ”

The head of the unit handed the bicycle key to Qin Yongmei.

Qin Yongmei waved her hand: "I'll be back in a while." ”

"Don't worry, we have to talk for a while. ”

Qin Yongmei rode away from the woolen mill and came to the village after a while.

In front of a dilapidated courtyard, Qin Yongmei stopped and shouted inside, "Grandma, are you at home?"

After a while, an old lady of sixty or seventy years old came over with a crutche.

Seeing Qin Yongmei's police uniform, the old lady suddenly looked a little ugly: "My grandson has been arrested by you, what else is there to ask?"

Qin Yongmei smiled: "Grandma, I came to see you for your grandson." ”

The old lady was overjoyed: "Really, my grandson has news? Come in, comrade." ”

Qin Yongmei helped the old lady into the house.

The old lady sighed: "My grandson has done bad things and caused trouble to the country." ”

"Your grandson has asked me to give you a message, so that you can take care of your health. He'll be remodeled and will be back in six or seven years. ”

The old lady suddenly came to her senses: "Okay, I must wait for him to come back." ”

Qin Yongmei took out a bag of oily things from her bag.

opened it and pointed: "This is what your grandson asked me to bring for you." ”

The old lady's eyes were moist.

It was a packet of pig's head.