Chapter 13: Borrowing Food (1)
"Uncle, I want to ask you something. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info "Shen Yunfang is finally full, and it's time to ask something serious.
Shen Yeqing put down the small wine cup and looked at his niece, "What's the matter?"
Shen Yunfang was a little embarrassed, "It's not a big deal, I just want to ask, how can I get some cotton and cloth, you also know that my mother is not here now, she has never told me what to do before, I am a little blind by myself." ”
She said this is true, at home when she found that there was no thick padded jacket at home, she searched for her own memory, there is really no memory about these aspects, she used to be at home, her mother did not let her contact these at all, so now she is alone, is completely unknown. For a rural baby, her mother's way of raising children is also quite strange.
As for Shen Feiyang, she knew that in this era, people in the city had to use tickets to buy cloth or cotton, otherwise they couldn't buy things with money, but she really didn't know how to get these things in the countryside.
Aunt Shen listened to Shen Yunfang's question, her back straightened, she glanced at Shen Yeqing a little nervously, saw the eyes he looked at, quickly squeezed out a smile, and said with a smile: "Oh, look at me, I am so busy every day, I have forgotten this matter in this busy work, and I am all to blame." ”
Shen Yunfang didn't understand the meaning of her words.
Aunt Shen put her hands on the kang, moved her buttocks into the kang, retreated to the kang cabinet, reached out to open the door of the kang cabinet, dug inside, took out a dusty handkerchief, and then opened it layer by layer very carefully.
"Some of the tickets issued by our team a while ago, your uncle gave me all your family and asked me to send them to you, but as soon as I was busy, I forgot about it, and you only remembered when you asked me today. It just saves trouble and gives it to you directly. Aunt Shen said with a smile.
Everyone present heard Aunt Shen's insincerity, and also saw how reluctant her outstretched hand was, and their eyes couldn't take their eyes off the ticket in the handkerchief.
At this time, the money is easy to use, this kind of ticket is better than money, and these can also be exchanged for money if they are brought to the city.
Uncle Shen doesn't look down on the stinginess of his wife, you say that he is a production captain, and he gets more tickets every year than others, but this old woman is just not satisfied, and even the things of other orphans and widows are deducted, really. He snatched the handkerchief from the old woman's handkerchief.
Shen Yunfang's hand that was about to stretch out retracted again, it was for me, why was it cut off again.
Uncle Shen was kind, he looked through a few tickets inside, frowned and said, "What about the tickets you borrowed from her third aunt last year, why haven't you paid them back after a year." ”
Aunt Shen is about to cry, is this person a family with herself, why can't she tell the difference between inside and out, "Hehe, that's not a show or a small thing, I want to make a decent dress for the child, and wear it out decently, I can't borrow it everywhere, thinking that her third aunt has a small family, and she can't use it so much, so I'll borrow it first." Hey, these children are all debts! In the past few years, I have demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, and I have barely paid off everything outside, I don't think that her third aunt is my own family, and I will slowly pay it back, who knows...... Look at it. Aunt Shen slapped her face and said that she didn't expect it either.
What I didn't say was that I didn't expect her to die when she said she would.
Uncle Shen can be regarded as knowing his wife, he didn't listen to her, his three brothers and sisters are gone, so the tickets he borrowed should be returned to his niece as soon as possible, how can they, who have all the beards and tails, take advantage of an orphan girl, not to mention that this orphan girl is still his niece.
"Okay, I understand what you mean, it's not easy for Yun Fang to be alone, you hurry up and return everything you owe to her third aunt to Yun Fang, and you are not afraid that her third aunt will come to you at night. His last sentence was very quiet, and Aunt Shen next to him heard it.
Although feudal superstition is being cracked down on now, rural women at this time still believe in karma. Just saw that Aunt Shen shivered, her eyes rolled in fear, and she wanted to see if there was really something unclean staring at her.
"Look at what you said, when will I be the greedy and cheap person, okay, I won't pay it back from the old Qiu family first, but I can come with Yunfang first. Aunt Shen said, took out a handkerchief from the kang cabinet again, and then turned her back, took out a few from it and stuffed it into Uncle Shen's hand, meaning that he would give it to Shen Yunfang together.
This time, Uncle Shen was not checking, and directly handed the handkerchief in his hand to Shen Yunfang.
"Yunfang, although we are not in the city, but if you want to buy cloth cotton or something, you still need a ticket, our village will issue a unified ticket once a year, all of which are unified standards, one pound of cotton per person per year, eight feet of cloth. ”
Shen Yunfang stretched out his hand and took the few bills handed to him by his uncle.
"And when your brother Zhiwen got married, the tickets in your mother's hand were not enough, so I borrowed some from your mother, and now that your mother is gone, it is the same to pay you back. Your family is left with you, and from now on you will be an adult, so you have to manage these things yourself, if there is anything you don't understand in the future, just ask your aunt directly. "Uncle Shen is really loving, if his niece can live his own small life, he, as an uncle, will not have to worry about it.
Shen Yunfang didn't take the handkerchief and didn't click it, and directly stuffed it into his pocket, blocking the hot eyes of the two cousins-in-law.
"Uncle, look at what you said, it's all a family, what to borrow or not, cousin has an urgent need, then take it first, we don't have to be so clear. "Who wouldn't say beautiful words, although she didn't become a master, but a few polite words, and they would still praise each other.
Uncle Shen is very satisfied that his niece can understand the general situation so well, the family should be like this, whoever has difficulty helping the handle, won't the matter be over.
After that, Aunt Shen seemed to be trying to hide the unnaturalness just now, and after eating, she took her girl back to the house and asked her daughter-in-law to clean up the table, while she pulled Shen Yunfang and said something close to herself.
It's basically nothing more than "What's the firewood in your house, is it enough to burn in winter, if you can't do it yourself, you must squeak, and let Brother Zhijie and Brother Zhiwen go up the mountain to carry you twice." "Have you finished harvesting all the sweet potatoes in your family's own field, if you don't have them, let your two brothers help you." "Wait.
It was also from her concerned questioning that Shen Yunfang knew that although Gaijiatun was not rich, until now, as long as he was not too lazy, basically every family could eat enough.
Because the rations of the people in the village are in addition to the unified distribution of grain by the production team at the end of the year, every family has a large piece of self-reserved land in the village, and the villagers are basically planted with grain in their own fields based on their desire for food, either corn or sweet potatoes, and they can also collect hundreds of catties of grain in a year.
Therefore, although it is not good to eat in Gaijiatun, as long as you work hard to eat, you can still do it.
Then why does Shen Yunfang only have that little bit of food at home? The main reason is that the original owner and her mother are not capable people, there is no labor force at home, and they are disadvantaged when they farm the land.
In addition, Shen Yunfang's wife is not a serious person, so the self-reserved land is really not good, basically just sowing seeds, and then waiting for the harvest after the autumn, of course, in the end, there must be less food than their family.
Shen Yunfang's wife basically gave up her face to borrow from her relatives before her family ran out of food, and then returned it when it was time to distribute the food, and borrowed it again if she didn't have enough food in the coming year. It's just like this, and I've lived all these years, but I'm getting poorer and poorer.
Since Shen Yunfang's mother left, Shen Yunfang weighed it, and she couldn't afford to pay back her relatives' food, so she didn't dare to borrow it.
Shen Yunfang listened to the words of the eldest mother, and secretly felt a little embarrassed for the original owner's cheekiness and lack of knowledge, and then immediately realized that in order to fill his stomach, he had to continue the cheekiness of the original owner.