Cold!

Li Weidong instinctively stretched out his hand to the side.

Flat?

A stirring spirit that woke him up from his dream.

Cold air was pouring in from the windows of the dilapidated bedroom, and the walls of the cramped bedroom were covered with old newspapers, and the headline could be faintly seen in the early morning light outside: Tighten the waistband of your trousers and stride forward.

Now it is 1962, and the location is the courtyard full of love in the film and television drama, which is the place where the mellow Qin widow lives.

Although the current difficult period has basically passed, and there is no longer such a shortage of things in the market, it is still the norm to not have enough to eat, whether in the city or in the countryside.

Many people's belts are about to break because of this.

It's just that compared to the countryside, life in the city is much better.

At this time, as long as you are a city hukou and have food at home, even if you are lame and unemployed, you can easily find a beautiful yellow flower girl in the nearby countryside.

And there is no need for a house, a car, a bride price of three gold, and a coarse grain of ten catties and eight catties.

The countryside and the city are like a high dam.

Not long after the original owner was born, his mother died of illness, and his father left him in the countryside to be taken care of by his grandparents.

In 1955, when the household registration was determined, the household registration was directly settled in the rural areas in accordance with the principle of locality.

It wasn't until some time ago that my grandfather passed away and I lived in the city with my grandmother.

On the first night of the original owner's arrival, he had a fight with his eldest brother, his head was broken, and he died in the middle of the night, cheapening Li Weidong, who was born in 87 years and has the same name and surname.

Now in this family, Li's father has absolute authority, as the deputy director of the newspaper (deputy section level), he gets a salary of 18 civil servants, 87.5 yuan per month.

To be honest, this salary is already very high, after all, at the moment, a pound of rich and strong powder is only two cents, and a pound of pork is six cents.

But the problem is that at this moment, money alone is not enough.

You've got to have food stamps.

You have to use food stamps + money to go to the restaurant, and you have to use food stamps + money to buy food.

And where did the food stamps come from?

For example, urban residents, i.e., non-agricultural households, are subject to a planned rationing system.

Adult women who participate in the work are 28 pounds per month, and men are slightly more, basically about 32 pounds.

And fine grains only account for a very small part, and the rest are coarse grains such as stick noodles, dried sweet potatoes, sorghum, and millet.

If there are a few people in your family's food book, they will give you how many food stamps they have, and record them in the food book, and you can only buy those fixed amounts of food every month.

If you don't have food, just take the food stamps, and people won't sell them to you at all.

However, state-run hotels do not need to bring food books.

Therefore, some wealthy families go to the black market at the end of each month to secretly buy some food stamps, and then go to the restaurant, which is also a kind of helplessness.

Li's father died of his wife back then, threw away Li Weidong, who was still breastfeeding, and married a big girl again, and later gave birth to a son and a daughter, that is, Li Weibin and Li Xueru, who are now twelve and ten years old respectively.

And Li Weidong also has a big brother named Li Weimin, five years older than him, he was fortunate not to be thrown into the countryside, now he is twenty-three years old, he has no formal job, he is idle all day long, and he has just started a family for less than half a year.

The sister-in-law is also a rural hukou, and although she married into the city, there is no indicator of 'turning agriculture into non-farming', so it is impossible to change to an urban hukou, and she will not be able to eat rations.

Even if your child is registered with the mother.

Now, with Li Weidong and his grandmother, there are eight people in this family.

But there were only five people registered in the food book.

Eight people eat the food index of five people, and the contradiction is immediately highlighted.

On the contrary, it is a place to live, which is actually quite good.

The Li family lives in the front yard of the large courtyard, with two main houses facing north and south, and an ear room, which adds up to more than 50 square meters.

Because of the arrival of Li Weidong and his grandmother, the main house on the east side was separated, and his grandmother and sister Li Xueru lived on the kang inside.

The one-meter-two small bed outside belongs to Li Weidong and his younger brother Li Weibin.

Li's father and Li Weidong's stepmother moved to a separate room at the back of the living room.

As for the separate ear room, it was given to the eldest brother and sister-in-law who had just gotten married.

Li Weidong sat up from the bed, touched his flat belly, his stomach was like a fire, and he complained about how useless the porridge with few millet grains and the big fist of the nest were last night.

In this era, people don't have much oil and water in their stomachs, like young people who work hard, and they are idle when they eat two catties of grain at a meal.

At this time, he missed the big fish and meat that he had been tired of eating in his previous life.

It has been a few days since he crossed over, and he has just begun to fantasize about lying flat life, far away.

"Second brother, why are you arresting me?"

Next to him, the little brother who was sleeping on a quilt muttered sleepily.

"It's okay, I just dreamed of eating meat buns."

Li Weidong glanced at the little brother who snatched most of the quilt and said casually.

"Meat buns?"

Li Weibin immediately stopped sleepy, and his saliva was about to flow out.

"Want to eat?" Li Weidong asked.

To be honest, the original owner didn't have much affection for this half-brother, even hatred.

On the contrary, Li Weidong, who had just crossed over, had a good sense of him.

After all, when he just woke up, the other party served him medicine and stuffed his nest again.

"Of course I thought about it, but just counting on our dad to earn money alone, how can he afford to eat meat."

Li Weibin sighed like a little adult, as if he was full of worries about the current situation of this family.

His mother was injured when she gave birth to her sister Li Xueru, so that her health has not been very good for many years, and the child was still young before, so she didn't go out to work, and she has been busy at home.

It stands to reason that the eldest brother Li Weimin is twenty-three years old, and he should have made money to support his family and reduce the burden on the family as soon as possible, but he is also an unconscious master, Li's father has found him several jobs, and every time he fights with others, he doesn't learn better.

A small half of the money earned by Li's father was used to compensate others.

originally thought that after getting married, he would always be able to understand something, but Father Li's hard work was obviously in vain.

In order to supplement the family, Li Weibin's mother would secretly take the meat tickets and non-staple food tickets issued by Li's father's unit to the black market every month to exchange them for food.

is already struggling, and now there are more Li Weidong and grandma, which is undoubtedly worse.

"When I go to work and make money, please eat meat buns." Li Weidong promised.

As a modern person, Li Weidong naturally has no shortage of ideas to make money, but combined with the current background of the times, he still let him temporarily press down on his restless heart.

If you feel that you can't starve to death if you have hands and feet, you can only say that you are too naïve.

The world is so big like the one in the future, I want to go and see it, and then I can go around wandering around with a travel fee, working all the way to support myself, which is not feasible at the moment.

To stay in a hotel by train, you must have a letter of introduction from the group or unit.

Working in a factory?

I'm sorry, there are no private enterprises these days, the workers in the factory are iron rice bowls, and temporary workers can break their heads, you are from the countryside, who wants you?

As for moving bricks on the construction site, I'm sorry, but the people who can do the construction site are all construction companies, state-owned units, and there are no contractors.

Washing dishes in a restaurant?

You're wonderful.

Even if you want to ask for food on the street, you will be taken to the street police station to check your bottom first.

And then there will be beggar leaders waiting to teach you the rules.

It's really hard to live at the moment.

"If only I had a game farm that I played all my life." Li Weidong thought innocently.

As soon as the thought fell, an illusory picture appeared in his mind.