Siheyuan: Don't mess with me, I just want to be a free fish

Chapter 1
cold!
Li Weidong instinctively stretched his hand to the side.

flat?

A shock woke him up from his dream.

The windows that have been in disrepair are constantly seeping cold air in. In the cramped bedroom, the walls are covered with old newspapers. With the light from the morning polish outside, you can still vaguely see the title on it: Tighten your belt, big step forward.

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

Although the current difficult period has basically passed, and things on the market are no longer in short supply, it is still the norm to not have enough to eat, no matter in the city or in the countryside.

Many people's belts are almost snapped because of this.

It's just that life in the city is much easier than in the countryside.

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

And there is no need for a house or car, three gold gifts, just a few catties of coarse grain.

The countryside and the city seem to have built a high dam.

Not long after the original owner was born, his mother died of illness, and his father threw him to the countryside to be looked after by his grandparents.

When the household registration was determined in 1955, according to the local principle, the household registration was directly placed in the rural areas.

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

On the first night when the original owner came, he had a fight with his elder brother, his head was broken, and he died in the middle of the night, which made it easier for the later generation Li Weidong who was born in 87 and had the same name and surname.

Now in this family, Li's father has absolute authority. As the deputy director of the newspaper (deputy department level), he is paid 18 yuan a month as a civil servant at the 87.5th level.

To be honest, this salary is already very high. After all, at present, a catty of Fuqiang powder is only [-] cents, and a catty of pork is [-] cents.

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

You have to have food stamps.

You have to use food stamps + money to eat out, and you have to use food stamps + money to buy food.

And where did the food stamps come from?

Taking urban residents, that is, non-agricultural household registration as an example, a planned rationing system is implemented.

Adult women participating in the work weigh 28 catties per month, and men's are slightly more, basically around 32 catties.

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

There are several people in your family's food book, and how many food stamps will be issued to you, and recorded in the food book, and you can only buy the quota of food every month.

If you don't have a food book, just take the food stamps, and they won't sell it to you at all.

However, state-run restaurants do not need to bring grain books.

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

Father Li died of his wife back then, threw away Li Weidong who was still breastfeeding, and then married another older girl, and later gave birth to a son and a daughter, namely Li Weibin and Li Xueru, who are now 12 and [-] years old respectively.

And Li Weidong also has an elder brother named Li Weimin, who is five years older than him. Fortunately, he was not thrown into the countryside. He is now 23 years old, has no formal job, and is idle all day long. He just got married less than half a year ago.

My sister-in-law also has a rural hukou. Although she married into the city, there is no indicator of 'converting from agricultural to non-agricultural'.

Even if your child is registered with the mother.

Now, including Li Weidong and grandma, there are eight people in this family.

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

Eight people eat the food quota of five people, and the contradiction immediately becomes apparent.

On the contrary, the place to live is actually pretty good.

The Li family lives in the front yard of the Dazayuan. There are two main rooms facing south and one side room, which add up to more than 50 square meters.

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

The 1.2-meter small bed outside belongs to Li Weidong and his younger brother Li Weibin.

Li's father and Li Weidong's stepmother moved into a separate room behind the living room.

As for the separate side room, it was given to the newly married eldest brother and sister-in-law.

Li Weidong sat up from the bed and touched his flat stomach, which was like a fire, all complaining how useless the porridge with few millet grains and the fist-sized buns were last night.

In this day and age, people don't have much oil in their stomachs, and they are young and strong like coolies, and it's easy to eat two catties of grain at a meal.

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

It has been several days since he traveled here, and the life he had just begun to fantasize about lying flat is far away.

"Second brother, why are you arresting me?"

Next to him, the little brother who was squeezed into a bed and muttered sleepily.

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

Li Weidong glanced at the younger brother who had robbed most of the quilt, and said casually.

"Meat buns?"

Li Weibin immediately felt relieved, and his saliva almost flowed 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 just crossed over, has a good sense of him.

After all, when he just woke up, the other party brought him medicine and stuffed buns again.

"Of course I thought about it, but if we only expect my dad to earn money by himself, how can he afford meat?"

Li Weibin sighed like an adult, as if he was worried about the current situation of the family.

His mother was injured when giving birth to his younger sister, Li Xueru, so that her health has not been very good these years. In addition, the child was still young, so she didn't go out to work, and has been busy at home.

It stands to reason that the eldest brother Li Weimin is 23. He should have made money to support the family and reduce the burden on the family. However, he is an uneasy master. Li's father asked him to find several jobs for him. Every time he fought with others, he didn't learn. good.

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

Originally, I thought that after marriage, I would always be able to understand something, but Father Li's painstaking efforts were obviously in vain.

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

Already struggling, now that Li Weidong and grandma are added, it will undoubtedly make things worse.

"When I make money at work, I'll treat you to meat buns." Li Weidong promised.

As a modern person, Li Weidong naturally has no shortage of ideas for making money, but considering the current background of the times, let him temporarily suppress his restless heart.

If you think that you can't die of hunger if you have hands and feet, you can only say that you are too naive.

The world is so big like the later generations, I want to see it, and then wander around with my travel expenses, working all the way to support myself, it is simply not feasible right now.

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

Work in a factory?
Sorry, there are no private enterprises these days. The workers in the factory have iron rice bowls. Temporary workers can break their heads. You are from a rural area. Who wants you?
As for moving bricks at the construction site, I'm sorry, those who are capable at the construction site are also construction companies, serious state-owned units, and there are no contractors.

Restaurant washing dishes?

You are so beautiful.

Even if you want to beg for food on the street, you will be turned over to the street police station to check your details first.

Then there will be beggar chiefs waiting to teach you the rules.

It's really hard to live right now.

"It would be nice to have a game farm that I played in my previous life." Li Weidong thought innocently.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the idea came to his mind, an illusory picture appeared in his mind.

(End of this chapter)