Chapter 3 Wholehearted Dependence
Everyone is living like this, as long as your family has meat to eat, then you can't make those hungry villagers red-eyed, and when the time comes, whether they will do anything is difficult to say.
Fortunately, the location of their house is a little more than a little away, and the nearest person next to them is more than ten meters away, as long as they are careful, when cooking and eating, the doors and windows are tightly closed, but no one can find out that their family has eaten meat.
Song Lan also told his younger brothers and sisters not to speak out.
The children had lived through the terrible famine years, but they also knew to be careful.
At this time, when they heard Song Lan's advice again, they all nodded their heads busily and obediently closed their mouths.
The place where the Song family is located is a small mountain village called Huzhuang in Guancheng, Guangdong Province.
Their dialects are Cantonese and Hakka.
In the future, Guancheng will rely on its excellent geographical location and development advantages to become a world-famous new first-tier city with a population of more than 10 million, and its development prospects are limitless.
But in the sixties, it was as poor and backward as the rest of the country.
Song's father and Song's mother are not natives of Huzhuang.
They are outsiders who came here from other places more than ten years ago.
The father of the original owner was killed by an accident falling off a cliff when he went up the mountain to collect medicine in 1960.
The original owner's mother was overly sad and sick, and in the famine year of 1961, she would rather be starved to death than eat another bite in order not to drag down the children, in order to give the children more to eat.
The successive deaths of parents have also hit the children hard.
Several young children also pinned all their hopes on the eldest sister of the original owner.
It's a pity that the original owner only lasted a year longer than her mother, and starved to death just a week ago.
And in this era that has just experienced three years of difficult times, the situation of being unclothed and hungry like the original owner's house is not one or two, but countless families.
This was the norm in the early sixties.
If it weren't for Song Lan taking over the body of the original owner and having the super mall she carried with her, I'm afraid her five skinny younger brothers and sisters wouldn't have lived long.
Song Lan's current home is only two adobe houses.
A room is divided into a kitchen, bathroom and master room, and Song Lan lives in the master room with the youngest sixth sister.
The other room is divided into two small halves, half of which houses the second brother, third brother and fifth brother, and the other half is where the fourth sister Song Yu lives alone.
When Song Lan was busy working outside, several children were not idle at home.
The twelve-year-old second brother Song Wentao and the third brother Song Wuluo can go to work in the brigade, earn some work, and come back at the end of the year in exchange for food.
Song Yu, the fourth sister, who is nine years old, stays at home to wash clothes and cook.
The two six-year-old guys will also help Song Yu light the fire and collect firewood.
Before Song Lan came back, the fourth sister Song Yu had thoughtfully boiled a large pot of boiling water for her, and when Song Lan and her brothers came back, they could take a shower directly.
Song Lan, who had been running outside for a day, was also sweating profusely.
She asked her fourth sister Song Yu to cook the rice first, and she quickly stewed the ribs and potatoes herself, and then carried a bucket full of warm water and went into the simple small bathroom to take a shower.
After taking a shower, Song Lan changed into a wide cotton shirt that matched this era, as well as black wide-legged pants, which made him feel comfortable.
These clothes were all taken out of the carry-on mall.
The original owner's clothes are already very worn, and there are many patches, unless he needs to disguise, Song Lan will wear old clothes, usually at home, Song Lan wants to be comfortable, so naturally he will not wear these old clothes again.
Even in this era, she can't enjoy life openly, but at least, she has to take her younger siblings to live a life where they are comfortably dressed, eat happily, and sleep peacefully.
She changed into new clothes herself, and of course she did not forget to change a few of her younger siblings into new clothes.
She found two clothes for each of them that were more in line with the era.
The three younger brothers are all in army green suits.
This army green dress has always been very popular with boys, both in the sixties and in the future.
For the clothes of the two younger sisters, Song Lan chose a small white floral shirt with black or blue pants.
Although the color of these clothes and pants is similar to that of this era, the modern style and fit are much better than the current ones.
The genes of the Song family's parents are very good, their children are all good-looking, and after changing into new clothes, all the children are eye-catching, even Song Lan feels pleasing to the eye when he looks at them.
When she brought out these new clothes for them, her clever brother and sister also asked her, where did these clothes come from?
Song Lan also made a special excuse, saying that she saved a big cadre in the city, and these clothes and food were given to her by the big cadre out of gratitude.
The big cadre also found her a temporary job in the city, and she will go to work in the city in the future.
It's a bloody reason, but it's very useful, and they all believe it.
Under Song Lan's deliberate publicity, the people in the village soon knew about it.
After Cheng Aiguo, the village party secretary, heard about this, he also came to her house to care about it.
After getting Song Lan's affirmation and confirmation, he also smiled and said: "Ah Lan, this is your blessing and your luck, you have to cherish it and work hard, don't live up to the noble people's love for you, if you have the opportunity in the future, you can also help to promote the people in our village." ”
Song Lan also responded obediently: "I will, thank you Uncle Cheng." ”
With the two good excuses of noble people helping her and working in the city, if Song Lan comes up with some good things in the future, the village party secretary and other villagers will definitely not doubt her again.
They will definitely make up for it automatically, and her good things must have been given by nobles.
Song Lan also knew in his heart that this excuse could not be used for a long time, and it could not withstand the investigation of people with intentions, otherwise it would be a goof sooner or later.
If she wants to change the status quo and don't want to live this kind of hard life with her back to the loess, she has to go out to find an opportunity, find a real job in the city, and take a few younger siblings out together.
These days, in addition to secretly selling things in the city, she just wants to make some friends with a way out and find a new way out for herself and her younger siblings.
But this week, she didn't find a suitable opportunity.
Song Lan could only sigh.
In this era, there are really too many rules and constraints.
She is used to the high-tech freedom of modern life, but she always hits a wall during the week, feeling that she has no skills, but she can't find room to play.
The aggrieved life in the sixties made her angry.
And this kind of aggrieved life is definitely not what she wants!
She wants to find an opportunity to change her current life situation as soon as possible!