Yang Xiaole pushed the cart back from outside.

There was a hemp bag strapped to the car.

When I came in, I untied the sack and went straight home.

"Xiaole, what are you doing here? It can't be another sack of fish, right? Or is it a dish?"

Aunt Wang stood at the door, saw his movements, and asked curiously.

Yang Xiaole looked back and said with a smile: "Yes, my master gave me some more dishes!" ”

"Oh~~"

Aunt Wang sighed lightly and looked at it curiously.

It's a pity that nothing can be seen inside the sack.

This guy can get food from outside in three days.

Seeing this, Yang Xiaole said hello and went in.

Daddy Yang Guangzhi hasn't gone to work yet, and he's sitting in the hall drinking tea and smoking.

Seeing him come in, he wondered: "What are you doing here?" ”

"Isn't there no food at home, I got some more from Master."

Yang Xiaole took out something as he spoke.

While talking, the eldest sister took Xizi and Xiaoli out of the house and immediately gathered together.

The eldest sister watched him dig out his things and asked, "If you come a little later, we will leave and go outside to dig wild vegetables." ”

"I'm coming back early today, I'll be over in a while."

Yang Xiaole responded, took out the radish from it and handed it to the eldest sister: "Sister, this radish is put away, don't put it outside and lose it when the time comes, it's not clear, there is still a little spring spinach, let's fry it at noon." ”

Yang Guangzhi smoked a cigarette and just glanced at it.

Other people's families basically eat mustard now, so Yang Xiaole can get some food back if he has nothing to do.

It's late March now, and it's close to April.

Even if you don't eat the cabbage harvested in the autumn here in Kyoto, it's almost rotten.

At this time, the dishes were all transported from other places, and the amount was pitiful.

The spring spinach and bitter wheat vegetables planted in February are now small seedlings, but these are a little outrageously expensive, two or three cents a catty, and few ordinary families can afford to buy them.

While Yang Xiaole was busy, he asked, "Dad, when will the matter of the restaurant be notified?" When is it closed? How do you arrange the three of you? ”

Half a month ago, the restaurant received a notice that the restaurant may be temporarily closed because there is no food and vegetables.

It is said that there are still meetings in the city, and many stores will be closed, leaving some stores with high profits or particularly large traffic.

It is mainly concentrated in the shops along the main road.

Yang Guangzhi also shook his head worriedly: "I don't know!" If it was closed, it would have been streamlined now, and it would have been impossible for me to be assigned a job over there. ”

Yang Xiaole bowed his head lightly and said indifferently: "Dad, don't worry, it's not the last time yet!" It's really not good, you just cook at home, you've been watching the restaurant for so long, you haven't eaten pork and haven't seen a pig run, so you cook for us at home. ”

What are you bothering about!

With him, he can't run back.

There are many ways.

Not to mention anything else, the house on Qiao Yan's side alone is enough for their family to survive this hurdle safely.

It's a big deal to transfer the house.

As for other methods, there will be no less, but he doesn't want to be so aggressive.

Hearing this, Yang Guangzhi's head darkened.

And the eldest sister was also snickering there.

The eldest sister said while cleaning up: "There are still some elm money and willow sprouts picked yesterday, and this dish will be eaten tomorrow." ”

This little spinach will not go bad if it is left there for a few days.

It's a little wilty at best.

"Guangzhi, you have a letter!"

In the midst of his thoughts, Aunt Wang's shouting came from the door.

Hearing this, Yang Guangzhi hurriedly responded.

"Hey, here we are."

Then he muttered and walked outside: "Who is the letter?" ”

Yang Xiaole and a few people didn't look at it after looking at it, and they were smiling and dividing the dishes there!

The eldest sister looked at him and smiled: "Hey, Xiaole, Jiang Yan will come over in a while, and we will go to the suburbs to dig together." ”

"Oh, she's coming?"

"Yes, there are no vegetables now, so she will dig some shepherd's cabbage or something!"

The eldest sister finished cleaning up the spinach and carried the radish into the house to store it.

"Xiaole, see what your second uncle said?"

In the middle of his thoughts, Yang Guangzhi came out from outside and handed it to him.

Yang Xiaole took it with a smile and teased: "Dad, you, it's time to transform and transform." I know so many words that I can't even read the letter. You see how serious my mother is, she goes to class every day. ”

The second uncle, naturally, is Yang Qingwu.

"Bastard, your skin is itchy, don't you, do you want me to whip you?"

Yang Guangzhi couldn't hold his face, and shouted at him.

Yang Xiaole ignored him, tore open the envelope and opened it to take a look.

"Huh! Is it faith inside? ”

There was no letter in it, but another letter, and I looked at it curiously.

"Wang Shuisheng?"

Yang Xiaole silently muttered his name, and then immediately reacted.

said to Yang Guangzhi: "Dad, this is a letter from the second uncle!" ”

Mother Wang Qiuju didn't fall from the sky, so she naturally has parents.

When I fled the famine, my mother's family was not together, and I married a chicken with a chicken, and my mother naturally followed my father's family.

I haven't been in touch for many years.

Before liberation, communications were largely cut off.

After the liberation, they had just been contacted, and there were several contacts, and they rarely contacted them again.

At this time, it was not like a train in later generations that could go wherever you wanted, and the price was not very high.

Train prices are very high at this time.

My family has been in the countryside and has no income, so I have never been back to this thousands of kilometers.

Moreover, there is no direct train to go to my hometown here, and only the 200-kilometer Xinyang Jingguang Line has a train to Kyoto.

Back and forth, it is impossible to pay more than 50 yuan for the light road.

The second uncle Wang Shuisheng's family is left in the family to live on the edge of the mountain.

Yang Guangzhi was also surprised when he heard this name: "Your second uncle? Take a look, he doesn't know if we change places, and the letter was sent to the village. ”

Hearing this, Yang Xiaole hurriedly opened the letter and looked at it.

After reading it, he hesitated: "Dad, let's hurry up and call my mother back, something big is wrong." ”

Yang Guangzhi frowned, "What do you say?" ”

Hearing this, Yang Xiaole said: "The second uncle left when he went to the county to repair the canal last winter, and before he died, let us let us help take care of their children." And ......, forget it, I'll go find my mother. Come back and talk about it! ”

Yang Guangzhi sighed when he heard this.

Then he hurriedly urged: "Okay, hurry up and find your mother back." ”

Yang Xiaole nodded and hurriedly went out.

I rode towards the grocery store.

The place is not far away, only two miles away.

When I came to the store, I saw that there were many people in the store, and most of them walked around the store and left.

Most of the people who don't want tickets are sold out.

If you want a ticket, as long as it's food, it's almost the same.

The old lady Wang Qiuju sat behind the counter selling eggs, holding the sweater thread, and knitting a sweater there!

It's not very busy now, and the old lady has also learned to knit sweaters with the people in the city.

Because on the counter, the eggs are no longer visible.

"Mother!"

Wang Qiuju looked up when she heard this, and when she saw that it was him, she asked with a curious smile, "Xiaole?" What are you doing here? Didn't you say digging up the shepherd's cabbage? ”

Yang Xiaole looked around and said directly; "Mother, hurry up and take a day off, something has happened. The second uncle is gone. ”

Hearing this, Wang Qiuju was stunned for a moment, "Why are you asking for leave?" Why is your second uncle gone? ”

But after saying that, she reacted and stood up suddenly: "Child, you ...... What are you talking about, don't scare me, why is your second uncle gone. ”

Yang Xiaole sighed: "There is a letter from my hometown, and the second uncle died last year when he repaired the canal." ”

If he was nearby, he would have been able to save people, but this was too far away, and now that he knew the news, he couldn't do anything.

Hearing this voice, Wang Qiuju was like being struck by lightning.

A butt sat on the bench.

After being stunned for a while, he threw the sweater aside, wiped his tears, and said to a woman next to him; "Sister Wang, the director will be here in a while, you can help me ask for a leave, I have to go back."

"Ah, oh, oh~ Okay, you go quickly, this is a big thing, don't be too sad."

The other party hurriedly agreed and comforted him.

Wang Qiuju didn't speak, wiped her tears, and went directly out of the grocery store.

Yang Xiaole hurriedly followed.

With her, he returned to the compound.

Back at home, Yang Guangzhi was smoking a stuffy cigarette there, and the three eldest sisters sat there quietly and didn't dare to speak.

"What's going on? How can the second child say that he will leave. ”

After Wang Qiuju came in, she wiped her tears and asked him.

Yang Guangzhi also sighed, pointed to the letter and said: "The letter said that when the canal was repaired, it was broken, and after coming back, I didn't get through it, and I left a few days ago." ”

"Then why did you write so late?"

Wang Qiuju cried while grabbing the letter and reading it.

After all, after studying for so long, unlike Yang Guangzhi, at least simple letters can still be understood.

After reading it, I cried there.

The sound sounded a little uncomfortable.

After crying for a while, Wang Qiuju came back to her senses and asked Yang Guangzhi: "Master, how do you get it?" I want to go back. The eldest brother left early, and there was only one second child left......"

At this point, she couldn't go on.

Choked up there.

Yang Guangzhi was also embarrassed for a while when he heard this.

After pondering for a while, he said: "In the past, our family had no money, but now that there is such a big thing, there is some money at home, so it's okay to go back, but ...... Don't mention the old relatives who are doing the things mentioned in the letter. How old is the child? Whoever can help helps. ”

After speaking, he said after a little entanglement; "There is another thing, this letter has been written for so long, I guess there is a problem with your sister-in-law."

When Wang Qiuju heard this, she gritted her teeth there.

The little sister listened to what the two people said, and asked the eldest sister in a low voice: "Sister, what does it mean for the old relatives to be relatives?" ”

The eldest sister also shook her head: "I don't know, it seems to mean kissing and kissing." Let's talk about it from our hometown. ”

"Oh!!"

Hearing this, the little sister sighed softly.

Yang Xiaole naturally knew what it meant, and what the eldest sister meant was right.

The second uncle is one year younger than his mother, he got married late, and he gave birth to two daughters, the eldest got married, and the second uncle followed the second uncle.

As for the second aunt, when she gave birth to the second child, the sanitary conditions were too poor, and she died not long after the infection.

And the old relatives in the letter are actually getting a daughter-in-law for the eldest brother.

Cousins and cousins, in pairs.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, marriage between close relatives was no longer allowed, but in the countryside, this kind of thing is still a relatively common thing.

As for the uncle, it is not clear when he died.

Two sons and a daughter under his knees.

Now live with the boss.

Wang Qiuju thought about it there, but still said, "I'll go and inquire, how to go back." You brought me the national food stamps I prepared, and I used them just in time this time. ”

Yang Guangzhi bowed his head lightly and entered the back room with a cigarette in his mouth.

When Yang Xiaole heard this, he was surprised: "Dad, you still got national food stamps!" ”

National food stamps are actually very rare.

Because the food stamps of each province are used differently, the business trip can only be exchanged for the national food stamp.

And it's not as much as you want, it's based on each person's ration, go to the grain station to exchange, and reduce the amount of oil by 1:50 while subtracting the ration.

When traveling on business, some people can save some national food stamps, but the amount is very small, after all, people also have to eat and drink.

At that time, he asked his father to do it, but the other party didn't agree, but he didn't expect to get it in the end.

Wang Qiuju nodded: "Well, I asked your father to get it, if you mail the grain, it's too expensive, it costs two cents and five pounds, which is enough to buy more than a pound of food stamps, so I thought about getting some and sending it over, but I didn't expect it to ......."

Yang Xiaole nodded when he heard this.

Expensive indeed.

And the transportation of grain is very inconvenient.

As for the money, don't think about it, you must be ready to send it with the food stamps.

After waiting for a while, Yang Guangzhi took out the food stamps, "Here you go, there are only more than sixty catties in total, let Xiaole go and see the tickets in a while, the store is not very busy now, I'll go with you!" ”

Wang Qiuju thought about it and shook her head: "Don't go, there are only three people in this restaurant, if you leave, they can't be busy, and now they are still streamlining, our non-staple food store is not busy, the boss factory should be able to ask for leave, let the boss go with me, and talk to the boss later." ”

Yang Guangzhi hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded slightly.

"That's okay, the boss can go over for me."

That's how it was decided to go home to visit relatives.

Yang Xiaole's mind was spinning around quickly.

The eldest uncle's family is now the eldest aunt with the child, and the relationship between the two families is very poor, and the mother was close to the second uncle when she was a child.

This time, it is estimated that something will happen.

The biggest problem is how to settle the second uncle's remaining daughter, and the rest has nothing to do with it.

After all, when I come back in the future, we will be together for thousands of miles, and we may not be able to see each other once in a few years.

Trouble.

According to my mother's temper, I wouldn't really agree to take that girl over to my eldest brother as a daughter-in-law, right?

It's not impossible.

Because this custom was a normal thing in the countryside in the past.

Thinking of this, he still persuaded him: "Mother, you have passed, don't promise anything!" It's illegal to marry close relatives here! It is not allowed. ”

Wang Qiuju asked strangely, "What is this?" We've got a lot of this over there! ”

Really.

That's really the case!

However, it is not surprising that the propaganda is still not in place.

Thinking of this, he still said: "Mother, you can ask the neighborhood committee to know, do you think they allow it?" Moreover, children born of close relatives who are married will definitely not be admitted to college in the future. ”

Different times, different sayings.

He can only persuade through this.

Wang Qiuju hesitated for a moment: "Ah, it's really fake, won't you be admitted to college in the future?" ”

Yang Xiaole touched his forehead.

Is the point that you can't get into college?

This brain circuit!

"You can ask it yourself, you don't need to ask others, you go to the other side, ask Teacher Fang, ask the people in the compound, and you will know."

After Yang Xiaole finished speaking, he stood up: "I'll go and ask you if you have a ticket and how to go there." ”

After saying that, a few people were left and went directly outside.

As soon as I went out, I met a figure.

"Jiang Yan?"

The other party is Jiang Yan, and the other party is carrying a basket in his hand at this time.

"Xiaole, are you going out?? I'm coming to your sister!! ”

Yang Xiaole nodded when he heard this: "Well, I know, but ......, something happened at home, and I may not be able to go today!" ”

"Huh? What's wrong?? ”

"Nothing!! You go in first and talk to my sister, I still have something to do when I go out. ”

Jiang Yan sighed softly and watched him ride away.

(End of chapter)