Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

At the beginning of 1995, Sijiucheng was immersed in a sad atmosphere.

And there are a lot of elderly people passing away this year. First of all, Grandma Li passed away this year, and Mrs. Jia Zhang died two years before Grandma Li died.

Jia Zhang suffered from coronary heart disease and died miserably, mainly because she had no money for treatment, so she waited to die in the hospital. At that time, Qin Huairu was also very poor and asked Yi Zhonghai to borrow money, but Yi Zhonghai Qin Huairu was swept out of the door.

Banggeng was arrested in 1991, which was quite tragic. Just after Banggeng thought he was fine, who knew that Grandma Liu, who was discharged from the hospital, called the police and said that her family heirloom had been stolen. Then the security guard came over and asked what kind of family heirloom it was. As soon as Grandma Liu described it, everyone immediately knew that this family heirloom was the bronze tripod that had just been found?

In this way, the security officer began to narrow the scope of the search. It took less than half a month to lock Banggeng. Banggeng suddenly got 10,000 yuan and suddenly began to spend extravagantly, so everything fell into place.

After that, the security guards directly arrested Banggeng. Banggeng was also a bachelor. He was accused of stealing and selling small cauldrons, and was sentenced to twenty years in prison. At first, Banggeng thought it was nothing serious, but who knew , this time it was twenty years, Bangge was dumbfounded.

However, at that time, it was useless for Banggeng to repent. After twenty years in prison, Banggeng was not unjust at all.

After Banggen was imprisoned, Qin Huairu cried so hard that her eyes almost went blind, but Yi Zhonghai was happy and harmonious. Two years later, Jia Zhang died, and another year later, news came from outside that it was Liu Haizhong. He died, and died miserably. He was crushed to death by steel falling from a crane while he was working, and everything was smashed to pieces.

He couldn't even pretend, but after Liu Haizhong died, he got a sum of money for his family. In the end, the second aunt used the money to repay her family's previous debts. After paying off, the second aunt also died. Yes, you must know that according to the plot, the second aunt died early, but this time she died behind the bangs, which is really surprising.

Yi Zhonghai died last year. His death was very miserable. He must have been frozen to death. It was extremely cold in Sijiu City last year. There was no coal to burn in Yi Zhonghai's home, so Yi Zhonghai froze to death. .

After his death, the street burned Yi Zhonghai, and no one knew where his ashes were buried.

Qin Huairu did not die. She left the courtyard directly and went to Banggan's prison. She grew some vegetables and lived a life. Her children were her destiny in this life.

Grandma Li passed away peacefully and was finally buried in Qibao Mountain. Many people came to see her off that day. After Grandma Li left, the courtyard house in Nanluogu Lane officially faced demolition.

Just after the demolition, a group of security guards came and took down Li Chaoqun. It turned out that the so-called supernatural incident on the No. 375 bus was caused by him. His purpose was to create panic. Li Chaoqun was very tough in the end. , cursed for a while and was taken away, as if the final sentence was to eat peanuts.

Finally, He Yuzhu left the courtyard with his family. When he left, he was very reluctant to leave, but there is no such thing as a feast that never ends. He Yuzhu still has a broader life. Now He Yuzhu's system has been fully unlocked, and he can live every day. A large amount of resources were produced, and these resources were sent to all parts of the country by He Yuzhu. Everyone knew that He Yuzhu was a good person.

At the same time, He Yuzhu also got involved in Bitcoin, Shuangma, Internet, e-commerce and other industries. Soon, He Yuzhu’s business empire began to grow. At that time, He Yuzhu chose to leave China and go to On a small island.

This is not the best ending, it is a helpless choice.

After the 21st century, the He family was completely lost in the years. There were many giants, but there was no news about the He family. Only on a small island in the Caribbean, a young man was lying on a deck chair. Enjoy the sunshine!

This small island has everything you need, and the young man lives a life like an emperor. This young man is He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu looked at the sea in front of him, but recalled all the things in the past. Although He Yuzhu has nothing now, he only thinks about the food, clothing, housing and transportation back then.

When He Yuzhu was thirteen years old, suddenly a whole set of agricultural products including grain, oil, cotton, cotton cloth, etc. were unified, and the people's clothing and food were controlled.

A certain number of cloth coupons are issued to the people on an annual basis, which can be used to purchase fabrics, clothes, mosquito nets, bed sheets, and even socks, including all products containing cotton yarn.

Under normal circumstances, each person, regardless of size, lives up to one foot and two feet per year. Some years it's less, it doesn't matter. I heard people say that at least one year is only one foot seven inches (one foot eight inches).

Generally, families use them according to different needs, living within their means, budgeting carefully, and making overall plans. Older people don't need to be particular about their clothes. Most of them don't buy new clothes, so they save cloth tickets for young people. There are several children in a family, and they always only buy new clothes for the eldest child. If the old clothes worn by the eldest brother are too small, they should be worn by the second eldest child; if the second eldest children's old clothes are too small, they should be worn by the third eldest child... When clothes are torn, they will not be discarded. It's a common thing, don't think it's strange.

Cotton coupons are issued in winter, which can be used to buy elastic cotton-filled cotton coats and cotton batting (quilt core). Only a few taels per person is not enough.

Department stores occasionally put out bits and pieces of fabric, ranging from one foot to two to three feet. They also put out large towels, small towels, and handkerchiefs on clearance, with free or reduced cloth tickets, and people lined up to buy them. Fragments of fabric can be used to make shoes, or put together to make underwear; large towels can be put together into a "towel quilt", which is considered a very "luxury" enjoyment; handkerchiefs can be used to make sleeveless crew-neck shirts, one for the front and one for the back. When worn on the body, it looks like there are two small pictures hanging on the front and back, which is weird.

Sometimes they also launch products such as woolen yarn and sneakers. It is rare that women can be happy for days when they encounter it. Some commodities are usually supplied by ticket - tickets are issued from time to time and "intermittently". For example, department stores may issue invoices for watches, bicycles, radios, and sewing machines when the goods arrive, but ordinary people are simply unable to care.

Food is rationed and divided into large and small portions.

The monthly supply standard for adults is mostly between twenty-five and a half kilograms and thirty-two and a half kilograms. Twenty-five and a half pounds for urban residents. Government cadres, teachers, etc. need a little more, like twenty-seven or eight kilograms.

There are more physical education teachers than other teachers because they have to lead students to run, jump, and play ball, which consumes more energy. There are more front-line workers, and more heavy manual workers, weighing more than 30 kilograms. Middle school students also weigh 28 to 30 pounds because they are growing and developing and are "the sun at eight or nine o'clock in the morning."

Children are divided into age groups and given different standards. When a child is born, go to the police station to apply for household registration with the birth certificate, and go to the grain station to apply for a grain and oil supply certificate. Grain and oil will be officially supplied the next month. Each person is required to pay four taels of vegetable oil per month.

Farmers in rural areas are called "agricultural households". Compared with urban "supplier households", they are "registered separately" and are destined to be unequal. Their rations are determined by the commune brigade. Each person has about three hundred kilograms of raw grain (i.e. rice) per year, and the final settlement is made in a lump sum during the "dividends" after autumn.

The ration standard is far lower than that of the urban population and is not enough for people engaged in manual labor. Families who are capable and calculating plan long-term and practice strict economy. They have a variety of melons, potatoes, beans and vegetables, and they can still have enough food and clothing.

Those who are incompetent are always struggling to make ends meet, and even have one meal but no next meal. Cash crop areas in rural areas, such as Huangtian Shijingkeng Tea Forest Team, do not produce grain, so their rations are purchased at grain stations; they are also issued a supply card different from that of urban households.

They are called "farmers". "Farmer households" are actually "half a grid" higher than "farm households", which gives them a little more protection. Therefore, farmers in Huangtian always find ways to move to the tea forest team.

All rice, flour, miscellaneous grains, including corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, dried potatoes...all products processed by them are supplied with food certificates or food stamps. But it’s not that the grain station supplies you with what you want; it’s that you have to buy whatever the grain station has.

Food stamps are charged for all pastries and snacks in food stores, as well as dry rice, porridge, steamed buns, fried dough sticks, vermicelli, steamed cakes, vermicelli, noodles, wontons, and dumplings in all restaurants.

When you go out to do errands, you can't survive without bringing enough food stamps. Even if you have money, you can't buy food. Shanghainese people are so "refined" that they actually issue "half a tael" of food stamps. It is said that a "half-liang" food stamp can buy a fried dough stick or a bowl of wontons. Wuhan people are "careless". It is said that a fried dough stick actually costs 2 taels of food stamps. How big should the fried dough stick be? How many people can afford it? Far less economical than Shanghainese.

During the holidays, meat stamps, fish stamps, egg stamps, pastry stamps, and candy stamps are given out... usually not available. Usually we don't sell it at all, or we sell it every now and then, or when we first open the door, it's sold out very quickly.

Just symbolic. Pork was not expensive, at first it was only four cents per catty, and later it was sold to seventy cents per catty. People who want to buy meat always get up early and queue up. In winter, they wrap themselves up in cotton coats and wait on the street. At dawn, the door opened, and the meat seller came, so people were crowded, eager to try, and shouted together: "Come one by one, don't jump in line!"

The pork ran out quickly and was said to be sold out. The people who lined up behind me but had to go back empty-handed were unwilling, dissatisfied, and kept cursing. So the butcher who was standing next to the meat table with his chest and back exposed and arrogant became unhappy. He threw the butcher knife in his hand on the meat table with a "bang" and shouted: "You scold me again, you scold me again? I will tear your mouth off if you scold me again." !" - "I'm going to scold you! Where did the meat go?" - "Where did the meat go? I ate it! I ate a pig by myself! How about it? If you have the ability, you can jump into the sky, if you have the ability, you can Scold the boss!"

At one time, the food company also used its brains to find a way to cut the pork into 2-2-5-cent portions and serve them in small braided plates. Each person who queued up to buy was only allowed to buy one portion. More people can buy meat, but they only have two to five dollars. And in the end, there were still people who couldn’t buy it.

He Yuzhu smiled faintly at this time. At that time, he was actually living a very nourishing life.

Housing is not good either. There are two situations in housing in Sijiu City: one is that the ancestors had houses, but there were not many houses, only enough for one family to live.

Therefore, the living conditions must not be very good. The old houses are narrow, damp, and dark, and families of ten or eight are crowded together. This kind of private property is not allowed to be too much, and once it is too much, it will be "confiscated".

The houses are also dark and damp, and also narrow and closed; they have steep and narrow stairs; some only have a skylight to let in a ray of light.

Three generations of a family live in a room of more than ten square meters, eating, drinking and having sex.

Everyone, old and young, went to the public toilets in the lanes. Each household has its own toilet or spittoon, which is used to hold feces and urine. When it is full, it is taken to the toilet and emptied. Therefore, every morning is the busiest time for public toilets, with men, women, old and young crowded together.

Those who are shuffling their shoes and carrying their trousers; those who are coughing and panting, those who are smoking low-quality cigarettes and unable to speak clearly; those who are supporting the old and the young, shouting and screaming...it is a sight to see in the market.

Most of the households do not have separate kitchens. Instead, there are several stoves concentrated in one large room, which are evenly distributed in every corner. They are often equipped with water tanks, cupboards, firewood, and pots, bowls, basins, and spoons. In the early days, firewood was burned, then briquettes were burned, and the use of gas was a matter of later liberalization. Three households, five households, or even ten households, eight households crowded into one space to cook and cook, clinking and bumping, making it noisy and lively.

You can see at a glance what your family eats is good and what my family eats is bad. If everyone gets along harmoniously, they can also help each other and share their needs. Burn delicious food and share some with everyone to try to be more accommodating and enhance friendship. If I lend you a liter of rice today, I will return it to you with a full liter of rice the next day; speak softly, and be harmonious.

Going out is either by bicycle or on foot. Fortunately, there are buses in Sijiucheng, but in other places, such as small counties, there was no bridge over the river at that time, and cars had to take a ferry to leave the city.

There is an iron ferry boat, square in shape, commonly known as the "Iron Turtle". The car drove to the ferry, and workers on both sides of the bank pulled it with ropes. The ferry slowly reached the other side like a turtle swimming in the water. The road is paved with gravel and is in extremely poor condition with lots of potholes; it is impassable on days of heavy flooding. It takes at least half a day to travel to Wuhu, and the Yangmaogeng section is particularly messy and accidents often occur.

You need to take a ferry to cross the Yangtze River. This ferry is more advanced, maneuverable, and much larger, and can ferry several cars at the same time.

At that time, passengers must get off the bus and stand on the ferry. The ferry was very slow, drifting like a beetle in the vast river. Therefore, there are always long lines of vehicles waiting for ferries on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, with no end in sight. After the ferry, you must have lunch at a small restaurant nearby, which is designated by the transportation company. The food is poor, expensive, and just enough to satisfy your hunger. The road is all gravel and difficult to navigate. The car is like an elderly patient, humming to Hefei, often when the sun is setting and night is approaching.

He Yuzhu thought of this and looked at his current life. I don’t know why, but He Yuzhu misses the life at that time even more. People are really strange and strange creatures, but I don’t know why, He Yuzhu still wants to go back to the past. To that courtyard house in the 1960s. (End of chapter)