Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home.

Chapter 8 Relief and a Bag of Peanuts

These days, many tickets have geographical restrictions, including provincial tickets, city tickets, and even tickets in a certain area.The national food stamps are the best food stamps, they can be used anywhere, and many people who go to other places are even willing to exchange such tickets at a high price.

Even if it is to buy food, the national food stamps can even buy more food in previous years.But now that there is a shortage of food in the whole country, using national food stamps to buy food, at most let you choose some food with better quality, which is impossible in terms of weight.

Hearing Luo Cheng's words, my mother's eyes brightened obviously.In rural areas, when the harvest is good, it is difficult to save much money throughout the year.And if you have money, you can't buy anything in the supply and marketing cooperatives. In fact, everything is in short supply in the country now. The food is due to the drought, and the shortage has become worse in the past two years.

In this era, in order to suppress prices, it is not something you can buy with money, basically everything needs a receipt.Therefore, rural people basically rely on the land for food throughout the year. Even if they earn a centimeter, they get some money, and they also buy some daily necessities for the New Year.

Luo Cheng has food stamps, which means he can buy food.Maybe there is nothing to worry about this winter, but my mother thinks about it, her son can't have a few hundred catties of food stamps, and the family has food, so why don't they care about those relatives.

My mother, Wang Ling, also has her natal family. It is impossible for her family to have a stuttering food. She can just watch her relatives starve to death.This day~~difficult.

"Chengzi, how many food stamps do you have?"

56 and a half catties, which is calculated based on two months' rations, and the amount distributed in different places is different.In the past two years, the amount of food issued has also decreased. In the past, more than 60 catties of food stamps could be issued to veterans.Not to mention veterans, even some leaders, their rations are also decreasing.Many leaders have money but no food, and they have to send someone to secretly go to Pigeon City to get some food.

Not only food stamps, but also oil stamps, and cloth stamps, not many, enough for Luo Cheng to make a suit of clothes.There is nothing else, but there is a letter of introduction from the army, you can go to the local street to report, and under normal circumstances, you can arrange work.At least it can be prioritized, and it is also the responsibility of the street office to prioritize jobs for veterans.

Luo Cheng told his mother and grandmother all the things he got after retiring from the army, and both of them were overjoyed at first, but people these days are simple, and when they have food, they will think of other people.So the face is full of sorrow.

It is now November, and next month the brigade will distribute some food, but everyone knows that the harvest this autumn will not be much.With Luo Cheng's 56 and a half catties of grain, if he didn't give it to others and drank a little less every day, he would definitely be able to survive this year.But people can't be so selfish, no family has any difficulties, they all help each other out.

My mother proposed to take care of relatives, but as a grandma, although she loves her grandson.But Luo Cheng's uncle and aunt are also her own sons and daughters, and they all echoed from time to time, letting Luo Cheng understand some principles of life.

"Grandma, look at what you said, isn't it just a few dozen catties of grain, it's up to you."

Before Luo Cheng said anything, his mother and grandma seemed to be afraid that he would not want to. They kept talking about him not coming back from the army in the past few years, so his uncle and aunt were kind to the family. Aunt or something.

When talking about uncle and aunt, grandma's expression changed obviously, but she didn't say anything after all.Uncle and aunt are both surnamed Luo and belong to their own family. Uncle and aunt are outsiders to the Luo family after all.It belongs to my mother Wang Ling's natal family. If it was in the past, the family conditions were good, and my mother's family was really in trouble, so I would help.

But when is it now, one bite is really life.Luo Cheng has about fifty catties of food, do you know what it means in this day and age, many families with daughters, if they can't live on, they will ask someone to find someone to marry in the city, the dowry may be eight catties Ten catties of grain, and it's not fine grain.

As for marrying someone, it is no different from selling a daughter.Because the poor in the countryside don't do marriages anymore, and there are a few who still have enough food at home to marry a wife.It's just as difficult in the city, but somewhat better than in the countryside.But for those young people living in the city, it is easy to marry a wife, and there is no need to marry a rural person.

That is, some older people in the city, or those with physical problems, or those who are really ugly.Only such people, in this day and age, can easily marry a daughter-in-law by saving a bite of food.

After discussing that tomorrow he would follow his father and take his younger brother Luo Bing to the grain station in the town to buy grain, Luo Cheng really wanted to lie down.This body doesn't know how to adapt to this suddenly changing era. Walking a few miles and carrying a little thing makes my legs feel tired.

Going back to the room, it is the same as the room where my parents and grandma lived. There are two bed boards separated by a wooden board in the middle.From now on, the two younger sisters will sleep on the bed between the inner partitions, and Luo Cheng will sleep on the outer bed.As for how the other younger brother, Luo Bing, lives, there is a firewood house opposite, Luo Cheng just didn't notice it at first, it was also a house he added.

Luo Bing lives in the firewood house, if you ask why he didn't sleep in this room.That is, even if they are brothers and sisters, they still take into account the differences between men and women.Ask why Luo Cheng can sleep in the room again, there is no difference between men and women.Hehe~~, Luo Cheng is the eldest son, he will be the head of the family in the future, if he really wants to sleep in the woodshed, then he will send the two little girls to sleep in the woodshed.

When Luo Bing was asked to live in the firewood house at the beginning, the parents' argument was that they should let the two younger sisters and women live in such a house.Luo Bing is a big boy, with rough skin and thick flesh, what's wrong with sleeping in a woodshed.Moreover, the two younger sisters live in the room, and in terms of the number of people, they also have to take care of their own daughter.

Now that Luo Cheng is here, in this era, the eldest brother is like a father, so there is nothing to worry about.Some families live in more difficult conditions, but Luo Cheng's family's conditions are not bad.

As soon as I entered the house, although the house was dilapidated, it was still clean inside.Of course, it can also be regarded as the feeling of being destitute.There is nothing, a little cleaning will make it feel very tidy.

Two younger sisters, Luo Xiaoyu is a little over 15 years old, and Luo Shishi is 14 years old.It can be seen from the age that Shishi should have been conceived by his mother more than half a year after Luo Xiaoyu was born.

The younger sister is very enthusiastic, but Luo Cheng is embarrassed. Before the world changed, he was the only child.Although I used to think about what it would be like if I had brothers and sisters, but my parents once said that he was enough to worry about, and the others were even more unthinkable, but now not only have two younger sisters, but also one who doesn’t know where. Crazy brother.

Nowadays, many people basically stay at home and don't go anywhere, just to save energy.As for studying, except for the schools in the city, it is still going on as usual.The schools in the townships have basically stopped, and the schools will not reopen until this stage is passed.

Very embarrassing, very embarrassing.Luo Cheng lay on the made bed.The two younger sisters are very energetic, asking about things in the army, asking all kinds of questions.Luo Cheng never really joined the army, so he told them some nonsense stories he had seen in TV dramas.

Mostly they were asking, Luo Cheng was making up answers, and then lying down, his eyelids were a little bit hard to open.Reluctantly cheering up, I took out a bag of peanuts from the backpack, half a catty in weight.I handed it over to Luo Xiaoyu, but I couldn't resist, so I went to bed first.There is no meeting ceremony, so I can only pack snacks and peanuts for them to eat.

"Sister, are these peanuts edible? I~ I want to try one."

"My brother gave it to us. It should be edible, but my parents will definitely not let us eat it like this. I haven't eaten peanuts for a long time. I used to eat some peanuts during the Chinese New Year when I was a child. I dare not think about it in the past two years. think."

Luo Shishi looked eagerly at the peanut in her elder sister Luo Xiaoyu's hand, with that longing look, needless to say, she knew what she was thinking.Luo Xiaoyu also wanted to eat it, but how could he just eat such a precious thing for no reason.

The elder brother Luo Cheng next to him had already fallen asleep, and the two little girls were also talking in a low voice, for fear of waking him up.

(End of this chapter)