On the fourteenth day of the lunar month, Zhou Hongxiang, the eldest daughter of the Zhou family, came back from the county seat, and brought her 16-year-old eldest son Qian Gang and 7-year-old eldest daughter Qian Yan.

Suilin County is 30 kilometers away from Sanjiatun, and there was no long-distance bus at that time, and Zhou Hongxiang did not borrow a bicycle, so the mother walked for more than six hours. Qian Yan couldn't walk halfway, she was carried by Zhou Hongxiang and Qian Gang in turn, and when she arrived at Zhou's house, her feet were already frozen, and Mrs. Zhou rubbed her with snow for a long time before she regained consciousness, and then she howled in pain, and she couldn't stop coaxing.

Zhou Wanwan looked at her red and swollen feet and took a cool breath. It may hurt a lot! And the hardest thing was the recurrence of each winter and spring in the future, bruising and swelling, bleeding and water, and unspeakably miserable.

But Zhou Wanwan didn't have the idea of helping at all, she hadn't avenged the revenge in her previous life, and she still helped them? How can it be! The Qian family is a pack of wolves, and now they have helped her, and they can turn around and eat your meat before she recovers.

Zhou Chunfa was begged by Zhou Hongxiang to go to the town hospital to find a familiar doctor Cui to get chilblain cream. I hope Dr. Cui can think of a way for the sake of acquaintances.

Qian Yan was so painful that she couldn't stop crying, and Mrs. Zhou scraped off the frost flowers on the window to rub her feet according to the local method handed down by the old man. In fact, the older generation also said that soaking your feet in water with frozen eggplant seedlings or chili seedlings will have a better effect on treating chilblains. But this day is dry, and this year's eggplant and pepper seedlings have not emerged, so how can there be seedlings.

Qian Yan finally got tired of crying, and sobbed as she chewed on the sweet potato given by Mrs. Zhou. Zhou Hongxiang had the heart to say that he was going to do business this time, it turned out that they got the news that the countryside was going to distribute relief food.

It is said that this news is quite reliable and has spread in Suilin County. Moreover, one of Zhou Hongxiang's neighbors is the cousin of Zhao Gengxing, a janitor of the county government, and he said that the news is true, the first batch of relief grain has been transported to the county, and several trains of wagons are placed in the warehouse in Chengguan.

It will be sent to the township immediately, and it will be distributed to the farmers in the next three to five days.

According to the eldest brother, there was indeed a relief grain in the winter of 61, although the quality of the food was very poor, and the amount was not much, but it really solved the urgent needs of many people, and many families who had been cut off relied on this relief food to survive and survive this cold winter.

Zhou Wanwan observed the three of Zhou Hongxiang's mother, the cotton clothes adorned with patches, none of the relatives who came out to leave had a blouse, the two children were yellow and thin, Zhou Hongxiang had a swollen face, how could she not see it, but it was estimated that it was not much better. It can be seen that their lives are also extremely difficult.

In fact, until the mid-eighties, Zhou Hongxiang's family wanted the Zhou family to help them live. Zhou Hongxiang is the third child of Mrs. Zhou, after Zhou Chunfa and Zhou Chunxi, her husband's name is Qian Shouyi, who is invoiced at the registration office of the county hospital, and now the monthly salary should be 27 yuan 5, and he has been receiving it for almost 20 years, and it has only grown to 36 yuan at the end of the seventies, and the whole family relies on his salary, without any other income.

Four children, the eldest son Qian Gang is 16 years old this year, and Zhou Wanwan may not be as tall as 13-year-old Zhou Yanggao. The second son Qian Tie is 11 years old, the eldest daughter Qian Yan is 7 years old, and the youngest son Qian Lei is 4 years old. The four children's hukou are all in Sanjiatun Zhou's house with Zhou Hongxiang, and they can't eat cheap grain, they can only eat black market grain, and they have to buy it at several times the price of cheap grain. If Zhou Hongxiangniang and the five of them completely rely on eating black market grain, Qian Shouyi's monthly salary will not be enough to buy food. Fortunately, Zhou Hongxiang has a mother who is wholeheartedly good to her and governs the family with an iron fist, and the team distributes food every year. But Mrs. Zhou strongly advocated using the Zhou family's work to give their mother a few grains, and some people dared to oppose it, so they splashed and rolled and hung themselves and jumped into the well, and in the end, their mother's grain was in hand, and the Zhou family's annual work was only enough to exchange food, and basically couldn't share the money.

A few years ago, when there was no disaster, the food taken from the Zhou family could cover half of their mother's rations, and they could barely get by. In the past few years, Zhou Hongxiang's family has become more and more sad about the life of Zhou Hongxiang's family, and they can't afford to buy grain on the black market, sometimes it even rises to more than ten times the price of affordable grain, and Qian Shouyi's salary is not enough to do anything. I don't know how they have come over the past few years.

It is estimated that she is really hungry this time, and as soon as she heard the news, Zhou Hongxiang took the child back to her parents' house regardless of the cold winter.

Although Zhou Hongxiang's family has to rely on the help of the Zhou family to get by, they have an absolutely extraordinary status in the Zhou family. The Zhou family's grain, vegetables, and all the good things that can be obtained must be given to Zhou Hongxiang's family first. As long as Zhou Hongxiang comes back, the family will inevitably take out all the delicious food to entertain without reservation. Zhou Wanwan remembered that Mrs. Zhou once embezzled Zhou Jun's marriage money in order to buy a really good shirt for Qian Tie, and the money was borrowed by Zhou Chunfa, which caused Zhou Junwan to get married for a year, and the woman's family almost regretted the marriage. As for embezzling Zhou Wanwan's tuition fees for Qian Yan's schooling, selling all the old hens in the family in order to get married to Qian Gang, so that the Zhou family couldn't even use boxes of matches for several months, the list goes on.

It can be said that Zhou Hongxiang's status in the Zhou family is absolutely superior, if Mrs. Zhou is the queen of the Zhou family, then Zhou Hongxiang is the princess of the Zhou family, and she is also a princess of the level of Princess Taiping.

However, the family that relied on the Zhou family to support them looked down on the Zhou family. Just because they are "rural people", in the eyes of the Qian family, they have to be inferior, and they have to be squeezed by them as a matter of course, and at the same time look down on them. And the strangest thing is that in the eyes of most Zhou family members, this is taken for granted, just because they are "city people" and are the daughters of Mrs. Zhou.

On the pyramid of the Zhou family, the spire position that should have belonged to Mrs. Zhou and Old Man Zhou was willingly given to the "city people" Zhou Hongxiang family, and the old man and his wife Zhou Hongying were ranked on the second floor, and the third layer was the Zhou Chunfa family that might have greater development in the future, and the bottom was the remaining three sons and daughters-in-law.

Now, Zhou Hongxiang is here, and all the people and things in the Zhou family have to revolve around them. Zhou Chunfa was sent out to look for medicine and didn't come back, Li Guizhi and Zhou Ping's mother and daughter went to cook, today's meal was extraordinarily rich, Mrs. Zhou took out four small bowls of cornmeal from the cabinet, usually the Zhou family only has one and a half bowls of dinner, and it is estimated that there is less breakfast.

But don't think that these four bowls of cornmeal are all for everyone to eat, Mrs. Zhou had already said when she told Li Guizhi to cook, "...... Give Hongxiang their mother-in-law a single to make some. "Zhou Wanwan is very familiar with Mrs. Zhou's command. In her previous life, as long as Zhou Hongxiang's family came to Zhou's house, Mrs. Zhou would take out more rice and tell the Qian family to "make a little bit alone". So, when eating, the Qian family ate white rice, and the Zhou family ate corn ballast or millet mixed with a little rice "two rice". Moreover, no one can touch the rice that the Qian family eats alone, and even the two- and three-year-old children of Zhou Chunlai and Zhou Fu's families can only watch from the side.

Wang Fengying, Mrs. Zhou, and Zhou Hongying surrounded Zhou Hongxiang in the middle, Mrs. Zhou gave up the best position next to the brazier to Zhou Hongxiang, Zhou Hongying sat next to the eldest sister on the kang, holding Qian Yan in her arms, and Qian Tie was also pulled down by Mrs. Zhou to warm up in the kang. The family gathered around a few people in the city to ask questions, which was very lively.

"Auntie, have you seen the county magistrate? The county magistrate sits in a car, right? Is it the same as sending Chief Shen back to our tunzi? Zhou Jun asked as he sniffled his rhubarb snot.

"I touched the county magistrate's car when it stopped in front of your uncle's hospital! Your uncle's doctor Liang from their hospital was also picked up by the county magistrate's car to treat people. That Doctor Liang is Chief Shen's eldest daughter-in-law, you can tell me, how long is the family, each one is more capable than the other. Zhou Hongxiang said that she was excited, and waved her hand in a dashing manner, as if she was the one who was in the car.

"Eldest sister, has the county magistrate seen Chairman *?" Zhou Hongxiang asked.

"*The chairman is something that ordinary people say they can meet?" Obviously, Zhou Hongxiang didn't dare to talk nonsense about this matter, but she was able to save face for herself in other aspects, "But the county magistrate is not an ordinary person, and the people who drove him were all cultural people with pens pinned to their pockets!" ”

The whole family let out a cry of admiration with envy.

"Auntie, can the county magistrate drive eat and supply food?" Zhou Juan is still thinking about more practical problems.

"Not really! People who sweep the floor for the county magistrate eat the supply of food! Zhou Hongxiang said with certainty.

"Eldest sister, I'll study hard and sweep the floor for the county magistrate in the future, do you think it's okay?" Zhou Hongying asked.

"Okay! When the time comes, let's go to Kong Datou on the wall next door to find his uncle, and his uncle is connected with Zhao Gengxin, who is guarding the county magistrate, and the relationship is good......"

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Zhou Hongxiang sat cross-legged on Zhou's kang, holding her head high, talking highly, a large piece of new frostbite on her puffy face was red, swollen and stiff, making her changing expression look very unnatural. However, this did not affect Zhou Hongxiang's interest at all, she had two unnatural flushes on her cheekbones, and the savior looked down at the people of the Zhou family who were sitting around her.

Zhou Chen hugged Zhou Wanwan and was excluded from the small circle of Kangtou, and listened silently. There is yearning and envy in his eyes.

Zhou Wanwan didn't want his little second brother to be affected by the fake excitement, grabbed his hand, and wanted to play a game of breaking his fingers with him.

Zhou Chen came back to his senses and patiently coaxed his sister to play. Zhou Wanwan used both hands and feet, and even used her mouth, gnawed on Zhou Chen's saliva, and did not straighten Zhou Chen's fingers, frowning in frustration. Zhou Chen looked at his sister's angry little appearance, and winked at her with a smile, "Come on!" ”

Zhou Wanwan also learned Zhou Chen's blinking, her ability to control facial expressions was poor, her eyes didn't blink well, but her facial features twitched.

Zhou Chen looked at his sister's little grinning toothless mouth and squeezing her eyebrows, and sneered, lying on her small bag and twitching her shoulders.

Zhou Wanwan, who successfully entertained the second brother, felt a sense of accomplishment and laughed along.