Chapter 5

Early in the morning, Yang Xiaoyun finished her breakfast, saw off her husband, and came to the back of the house.There is a large courtyard behind her house, and there are seven or eight families living in it.In the past, it was said that it was the yard of the landlord’s house. After the landlord was defeated, the government allocated these houses to the poor peasants.Basically, each household can be allocated 3 or 4 houses, but there is no way to compare with the courtyard house of Ning Youwei's family.

When I came to the door of Aunt Dai's house, Aunt Dai was washing dishes in the kitchen.Yang Xiaoyun walked to the door of the kitchen and shouted with a smile: "Aunt Dai!"

I saw a woman in her 30s turned around. She was dressed in navy blue, fat and fat, and she couldn't see her figure at all.Aunt Dai's skin is sallow, and few women in this age have ruddy complexions.Even Ning Youwei's family, who has better family conditions, can only improve the food occasionally.

"Hey, so it's Xiaoyun! Do you have anything to do with your aunt?" In the countryside, most of the speeches are straightforward, without twists and turns.

"Aunt Dai, do you have any chicks at home?" Yang Xiaoyun stepped into the kitchen and asked.

"Xiaoyun, do you want to raise chickens? Why didn't you ask your aunt earlier? April and May are the season for hatching chickens, and now there are no more chickens. But my aunt's chickens are more, so I can share them with you. A few chicks." Aunt Dai was doing her work swiftly while answering Yang Xiaoyun's question.

"Thank you so much, Aunt Dai. I'll buy five chicks from you!" Yang Xiaoyun didn't plan to raise more, just a few hens, and they could lay eggs.

"You don't have to be polite to Auntie about what to buy. You and Youwei are the only two people in your family. If there is something you don't understand, you can ask Auntie. Although Auntie is not very capable, she still knows a lot of things." Aunt Dai said, holding the bowl Putting the chopsticks into the cupboard, he wiped his hands with the apron, and was about to catch chickens for Yang Xiaoyun.

Walking behind Aunt Dai, Yang Xiaoyun said silently: 009, please check Aunt Dai.

"Okay, host, please wait for a minute." 1 responded immediately.

After a while, 009's answer came in his mind. "Her body is fine, but she is malnourished and her fertility is normal." 009 knew which part Yang Xiaoyun wanted to care about, so he added it specifically.

Yang Xiaoyun fell into thinking after hearing 009's words.It seems that it's not Aunt Dai's problem, then it's Uncle Dai who has fertility problems.However, it shouldn't be serious, after all, they have already given birth to two children.

"Xiaoyun, look, are the five chickens caught for you enough?" Aunt Dai quickly brought five chickens out of a basket.

"That's enough, Aunt Dai. This is a dime, don't refuse, or I won't dare to take the chicken home." Yang Xiaoyun stuffed the dime into Aunt Dai's hand, and before she could react, he held the chicken Turn around and leave.

"Hey, you are..." Aunt Dai looked at the money in her hand, but in the end she still didn't catch up.

Yang Xiaoyun sighed in his heart, the money now is really too valuable, unlike in the future, a hundred yuan can't buy a few things.Rice now only costs 4 cents a catty, but before Yang Xiaoyun died, ordinary rice cost 3 yuan a catty.

However, there is no money at this time.If Ning Youwei didn't work in the government department and would be paid 20 yuan a month, it would be impossible for their family to have more than [-] yuan in savings.

Ning Youwei's salary seems to be a lot, but in fact, after buying rice, noodles, oil and some necessary daily necessities, there is not much left.Especially when they got married, they spent a lot of money. In order not to wrong her, Ning Youwei gave her parents a gift money of 50 yuan, which was equivalent to his salary for more than two months without eating or drinking.

The countryside in 1956 was really poor, and any household with a little spare money would be a rich household.Therefore, money was extremely valuable at the time.Aunt Dai carefully put away the dime Yang Xiaoyun gave her, and sighed in her heart: Ning Youwei is a good boy and married a good wife.Even if the elders in the family passed away early, these two children are also pitiful.

Today is still harvesting wheat, because this year's harvest is still good, so the captain always smiles wherever he goes.At this time, most people are still hardworking. After all, the harvest of wheat is related to the rations of every household, so everyone is full of energy.

Yang Xiaoyun was still gleaning wheat with a group of teenagers, and she took this matter very seriously.Only those who have been hungry know how precious food is.

In the afternoon, the sun became more violent, and several adults also fainted in the field.People at this time are basically malnourished, and some families don't have enough to eat, so their bodies are generally not very healthy.According to 009's instructions, Yang Xiaoyun found some herbs in the field, crushed them and put them in the mouths of the heatstroke victims, and they all recovered.

Therefore, Yang Xiaoyun gained another 4 points of energy, and now she has a total of 5 points of energy.Yang Xiaoyun also suggested to the captain to use wild chrysanthemum and honeysuckle to boil water for everyone to drink. The weather is too hot, and people sweat a lot. Drinking this water can not only quench their thirst, but also relieve heat.

With a big wave of his hand, the captain asked Yang Xiaoyun to go home immediately to boil water and bring it to the field, and asked Dai Chunmei and other half-grown children to help Yang Xiaoyun.

Fortunately, under the command of 009, Yang Xiaoyun found many wild chrysanthemums and honeysuckle on the nearby field ridges.Instructing these children to pick the two kinds of flowers, Yang Xiaoyun went home and boiled a pot of boiling water in a large pot.As soon as the water was poured into the pot and the fire was lit, Dai Chunmei returned with the group of boys.

Putting these flowers directly into the pot, Yang Xiaoyun arranged for Dai Chunmei to light the fire, and went to find two large buckets, washed them and put them aside for later use.After working so hard, Yang Xiaoyun was already sweating profusely.After finally sitting down and resting for a while, I remembered that I and these children could not carry the water to relieve the heat, so I arranged for another child to tell the captain to ask someone to carry the boiled water.

The busy people outside expressed their gratitude to Yang Xiaoyun after drinking the heat-relieving water made by Yang Xiaoyun.Except for Li Yanzi, she gulped down the heat-relieving water while speaking ill of Yang Xiaoyun.

"You thank her for what she has done. You see, we all face the loess and our backs are turned red, but she stays at home well. It's just burning fire and boiling water. What a blessing! Different people have different fates!" Li Yanzi After finishing speaking, he let out a bah.

Some people were also incited by Li Yanzi's words, thinking why Yang Xiaoyun didn't go to work in the fields, and now it's the busy season of farming, but why she does things at home without basking in the sun and relaxing.

No matter what other people think, Yang Xiaoyun suddenly had an inspiration.If she can work in the medical point in the village, she can not only earn energy points, but also make money.

At this time, each village has a medical point, in fact, there is only one doctor, who is responsible for the treatment of some simple diseases of the people in the whole village.Rural people don't go to the doctor for minor illnesses, such as catching a cold and not taking medicine directly, and procrastinating.The only time I go to see a doctor is when I'm sick.

How to enter the medical point to work, this is a problem.Yang Xiaoyun thought for a long time, but couldn't come up with a solution, so he had to wait for Ning Youwei to discuss it with him when he came back from get off work.

The farmers working in the fields, no one fainted anymore because of the heat-relieving water brewed by Yang Xiaoyun.Therefore, the captain gave Yang Xiaoyun a credit in his heart.

It's almost dark today.Yang Xiaoyun went to the fields to glean wheat ears when the sun was out.When Ning Youwei returned home, he obviously found that there was less firewood in the firewood room.Because Ning Youwei is always cooking at home, Ning Youwei still knows how much firewood there is in the house.

Ning Youwei didn't know until Yang Xiaoyun came back from work. In the afternoon, Yang Xiaoyun boiled the heat for the people in the production team.He kept praising Yang Xiaoyun for being smart.

Dinner was sweet potato porridge made by Ning Youwei. They said it was porridge, but in fact there were two handfuls of rice in the sweet potato soup.Ning Youwei cooked some vegetables, and the meal was settled in this way.The life of eating pork belly every day, in 1956, probably even the chief's family could not do it.

Yang Xiaoyun still ate with gusto, perhaps because of her pregnancy, Yang Xiaoyun's appetite got better and better. She ate two full bowls of sweet potato porridge at night.The eating bowl was bigger than her face, which showed how good Yang Xiaoyun's appetite was.

Because there is very little oil and meat at this time, people are very able to eat.If it is calculated by rice, an adult man can eat at least one catty of rice per meal, and a woman like Yang Xiaoyun can eat half a catty of rice per meal.It is a pity that there is not so much rice for everyone to eat, so everyone can only eat half full with miscellaneous grains.

During dinner, Yang Xiaoyun told Ning Youwei what he thought about the afternoon.Ning Youwei agreed, but he didn't know how to let Yang Xiaoyun enter the medical point in a legitimate way.

He didn't know that Yang Xiaoyun was in the medical system, he just hoped that Yang Xiaoyun would go to the medical center to help and do what he could, but he didn't hear that the medical center wanted to recruit people!Ning Youwei was a little distressed, and planned to go to the health department to inquire about the situation when he went to work tomorrow.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Ning Youwei walked into the office the next day, he heard their section chief talking happily.

"Section Chief, why are you so happy? What are you talking about?" Ning Youwei put down his briefcase and asked.

"Good news! The higher authorities are particularly concerned about the medical situation in rural areas, so they issued special instructions to care for the people, expand the scale of medical centers in each village, and increase the allocation of medical centers in each village. Isn't this a great thing? ?” The section chief said beamingly.

It's great now, someone will give you a pillow as soon as you dozed off!Of course, there are some things that cannot be said to the section chief.Ning Youwei felt that he could finally let go of his worries a little bit.

Going home at night, Ning Youwei couldn't wait to tell Yang Xiaoyun the good news, and Yang Xiaoyun was also very excited.Although I don't know if I will be able to work in a medical point in the end, but having a chance is better than nothing.

Ning Youwei thought, the end of the month is coming soon.The new month's salary is about to come down, should I give some gifts to the village chief?What can I give you?Ning Youwei hasn't made up his mind yet.

(End of this chapter)

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