Hard times have room

Chapter 1 Space
The setting sun leaves long shadows, the red glow of the sunset hangs on the sky, and the breeze blows, bringing a burst of coolness.

On the back mountain of Shanghe Village, a half-year-old child carried Xihui on his back, dressed in patched clothes and waved a small shovel in his hand. After entering the basket beside him, in a short while, the small basket was filled with wild vegetables.

As the sun went down and it was getting dark, Pauline pressed her hand on the basket and carefully picked up the raspberries wrapped in leaves that had been set aside. After putting it away, she took the shovel and turned around and went home with the basket on her back.

Wang Baolin, formerly known as Wang Baoling, was an ordinary girl in the 21st century. However, her parents divorced when she was young. As a small drag on the road to remarriage, Baoling was thrown to the care of her grandmother in the country at a young age. After graduating from junior high school, her only relative grandmother passed away due to illness. , reluctantly read until the end of the second year of high school examination and took the diploma, then hurried south to work to support himself.

After working diligently for five years, I finally got a promotion and a salary increase. I was going to eat a good meal in the dormitory at night to treat myself. As soon as I opened my eyes, I found that I was a newborn baby again before the liberation. It was still in the era of war and chaos. The situation, no big heart can't bear it.

The fact that Pauline was able to accept the fact that she was reborn and traveled so quickly had a lot to do with the golden finger "space - her single dormitory" given to her by God, which gave her a great sense of security.

The processing factory where Paulin works provides free board and lodging, but the electricity bill for the dormitory is a bit expensive. Baolin chose a single room with a small area for one person. The dormitory is not big, about ten square meters. The table and the mini fridge on the cupboard were a bit crowded.

This space does not rely on anything else as a carrier. Outsiders can't see it or touch it, but Pauline can see the whole space with a thought The soul unintentionally binds this space.

The things inside are moved with her mind, just like a bed that Pauline thinks can't be moved in reality. In this space, she can make the bed move according to her own thoughts. In the space, in addition to non-living things, time is still. , nothing else special.

There are not many things in the space, a mattress, two sets of four pieces, an air-conditioning quilt, a thin quilt weighing three pounds, two pairs of sandals, three pairs of cloth shoes, four pairs of sports shoes, three or four sets of summer and autumn clothes, and a down jacket. A large cotton-padded coat, which is still reluctant to throw away, a black gray old suitcase, two plastic buckets and a plastic basin, a box of 30 packs of toilet paper purchased online, 500g per pound of breakfast oatmeal fruit flakes 4 buckets , two buckets of instant noodles, three kilograms of bulk rice, 2 kilograms of bulk flour, two packs of ham sausage, one kilogram of pork, one plate of eggs, one box of pure milk, a dormitory mini iron pot, and a two-pound seedless mini ice cream Watermelon, ice cream, ice water and some jelly in the refrigerator, as well as some daily necessities such as tableware, toothpaste, toothpaste, toothbrush, knife, kitchen knife, nail clipper, lighter, etc., and temporarily scrapped items such as mobile phones and computers.

Over the years, Pauline has rarely used things in the space, such as toilet paper, clothes, plastic, etc., which are not available outside. If you use it, it is a safety hazard, so for so many years, the toilet is only used. Leaves, really, it's a habit. Tenacious and enormous power.

Eleven years have passed, and the clothes and shoes buckets brought by the space, which are not available outside, have basically been collected in good condition, never used, and there is no big mistake if you are careful.

Basically, everything that can be eaten inside has been eaten up, and only a pound of raw pork is left, and even the rice and flour are eaten raw, because I am really hungry at ordinary times!
However, there are both in and out. There are more than a dozen bundles of neatly piled dried vegetables on the table where there is space for free things. There are dried wild vegetables, dried sweet potato leaves, etc., and the variety is rich.

There are also three plastic bags on top of the dried wild vegetables, which contain the dried mushrooms and fungus that Pauline picked up in the back mountain.

These things are usually left in a hidden place to dry by Pauline, and the amount is very small at a time, so that it is hidden and unattractive, so not many have been saved over the years, and Pauline usually prefers to pack fresh.

Of course, Baolin's bed is full of freshly peeled bamboo shoots, because there are several bamboo hills in Shanghe Village, there are many bamboos, and the fresh bamboo shoots taste good.

And to dry the bamboo shoots with water, Pauline does not have the conditions, so she can only pack fresh bamboo shoots.

Of course, the hundreds of kilograms of fresh spring bamboo shoots on the bed are all Baolin's stock for many years. Usually, Baolin has a lot of things to do on her own holiday.

The mushrooms on the fresh bamboo shoots were deliberately left by Paulin when she picked up the mushrooms by herself. They were relatively precious or fresh and delicious mushrooms, such as cockroach mushrooms, pine mushrooms and straw mushrooms.

After all, these mushrooms were dried and sold to the purchasing station. Paulin felt that it was a waste.

People are selfish, and Pauline is no exception. Pauline is willing to use space to help her family improve their lives, but she is not willing to put herself in it.

These dried vegetables are bundled with green vines and grasses. Of course, mushrooms and fungus are packed and stacked in plastic bags. More than ten bundles of dried vegetables, 2 bags of mushrooms and 2 bags of fungus are stacked on the space table in turn, which still looks very good. is considerable.

After all, Paulin usually has to dig up wild vegetables to eat, so when she cooks by herself, Paulin will definitely add more wild vegetables in to make the porridge thicker, so she doesn't have much stock.

Of course, there are not many serious grains in the space. After all, it is difficult to obtain serious grains. Who doesn't pay attention to food rations.In addition, as a child, I occasionally secretly add a meal to myself and my parents, which consumes a lot.

After so many years, I have only saved a few sweet potatoes. There are more than 200 small sweet potatoes of about 70 pounds. This is how I used my own sweet potato vines to plant them in a remote and hidden place in the back mountain. Don't ask why I have saved so many for so many years. Sweet potatoes are still so small, and I will cry if I ask more questions. Is it easy to secretly grow some sweet potatoes that can be received in the ditch all these years?

The Daqingling bordering behind the back mountain of Shanghe Village is a high mountain. It is said that there are poisonous worms, wild wolves and wild boars inside. But this year they are 11 years old. In November and February, they should be able to follow the hunting and gathering team into the rich and rich space and treasures of Daqingling.

Time is a flowing material space, and space is a solidified material time.A long time ago, Pauline discovered that although people can't enter the space, the things in the space will not rot and deteriorate, as if time is frozen.

In this life, Baolin's family is a big family. Her father, Wang Jiandang, is the second child in the family, and her mother, Su Hongying, is an orphan who came to Shanghe Village. She loves Pauline like her eyes, which is one of the reasons why Pauline accepts her new life so quickly. Her parents in this life are a big surprise and luck for Pauline's new life.

Paulin's grandmother, Mrs. Wang, and her grandfather, Mrs. Wang, gave birth to five sons and one daughter. However, due to the war and famine, only three sons and one daughter survived. They are the uncle Wang Jianguo, her father Wang Jiandang, the third uncle Wang Jianjun, and the aunt Wang Ying.

This is not bad. After all, in those days, it was not easy to raise four children safely and safely. At that time, when people were starving, freezing, lacking clothes, and lacking medicine, adults were likely to have a fever because of a cold. This kind of minor illness can't survive, let alone children with weak immune systems.

Pauline, who was on the edge of the back mountain, walked to the main road in only two or three minutes. The Wang family lived at the end of the village near the back mountain, but it took only three minutes to walk from the main road to the trail, and they arrived home in half a minute.

Wang's courtyard is surrounded by a bamboo fence, not high, only 1.2 meters three, which is almost the same as Pauline's current eyebrows.

The house in the yard is made of mud bricks and straw. It is more than ten years old. Fortunately, the family has a lot of strong labor, and the straw is replaced every year.

A few years ago, life was better, and a layer of oiled paper was spread among the straws, so that it would not sometimes rain heavily outside and light rain in some places inside.

The house that was relatively spacious more than ten years ago has become more and more crowded as the Wang family has more and more children. When the next generation of men in the family gets married, the house should not be able to live there anymore.

In the middle is the main house, in front is the living room for dining and entertaining guests, and in the back is the grandmother’s room. The two rooms on the left side of the main house are the two rooms in the front room where the uncle and aunt live, and two beds in the back room are separated by bamboo mats made by ourselves. When they opened, they were used as rooms for boys and girls in the family. The front room on the right side was the room of the third uncle and the third aunt, and the back room was the room of Pauline's parents.

In this way, the house with front and rear houses is easy to build, and there are many rooms.

A firewood house and toilet were built with mud-brick thatch two meters apart from the house on the left, and a small kitchen was built next to the house on the right. three or four meters away.

Mrs. Wang is a diligent and agile person. She used to raise two pigs and a dozen or twenty chickens every year, and the income was good.

But now in 58, people are scratching their braids and cutting their tails everywhere. On the bright side, they should be cautious. Now the pigsty is piled with wood, and the chicken sty only raises two big fat chickens that lay eggs.

Next to the pig sty in the back house is the private vegetable garden enclosed by the family.

One part of the land is planted with beans and the other part of peanuts. These are all used for oil extraction. The oil and water throughout the year depend on the two parts of the land and the fat pork for the New Year.

The remaining one-third of the land is planted with sweet potatoes, which have high yields and are easy to fill up. Sweet potato vines can also be eaten as vegetables.

Everyone in the brigade has a fixed grain every year, 360 catties of coarse and fine grains for adults, 10 catties for 14-280 years old, and 10 catties for under 160 years old. These days, there is no oil or water in the stomach, and the country works hard and hard, but not both men and women Is it a big belly!
If you don't have enough food, why don't you just try to grow sweet potatoes at home to fill your stomach?

Of course, in addition to the enclosed private plot, the corners and the like will not be spared. The ground is turned over and planted with onion, ginger, garlic and pepper, and the back house fence is planted with vines such as pumpkin, loofah, wax gourd, cucumber, gourd and so on. vegetable.

These vegetables, pumpkins and winter melons are old and harvested in autumn and winter. They can be put into the next spring. A large pumpkin and some dried wild vegetables are enough for the whole family to eat for a day. These are all food that can fill the stomach.

Loofah, cucumber, gourd and gourd can be eaten as vegetables when they are fresh. When they are old, they can be used to wash dishes and scoop water. They are very useful. In the village, which household should leave them what.

(End of this chapter)