A pleasant life in a courtyard

Chapter 1
Parallel time and space, autumn of 1962.

This was the time when get off work and school were over. Li Xiang was walking on the way home despite his height of 185, which was rare in this era, and he couldn't help but attract a lot of attention from the crowd.

His thin figure was covered by a large gray tunic, like a human-shaped bamboo pole dangling in the clothes. Fortunately, his face was still handsome, with the vigor of a young man.

Entering the courtyard, I saw Yan Bugui in the front yard, taking care of his pots of flowers and plants.

Li Xiang said hello politely: "Hello, third uncle."

Yan Bugui responded enthusiastically: "Hey, the eldest son of the Li family is back."

Smiling at him, Li Xiang continued walking towards the courtyard without stopping.

Yan Bugui stood there, his eyes falling on the bulging schoolbag Li Xiang was carrying. He wanted to shout out of habit to take advantage, but he opened and closed his mouth several times, but in the end no sound came out.

Forget it, this kid is now a phoenix egg in this area. He is a college student at Beijing University. Favors should not be used for such petty gains. When he grows up, he will ask for help. Only then will he be able to fulfill the neighborly mutual assistance in the past. camaraderie.

Thinking of this, Yan Bugui hummed a tune happily, picked up the broken kettle on the ground and started watering the flowers.

Li Xiang greeted him all the way back to the backyard. In the simple shed set up outside the house, his 14-year-old sister Li Xia was skillfully kneading noodles and preparing to make steamed buns later.

Taking a closer look, it turned out to be coarse grains again.

He frowned and said, "Didn't I tell you to eat less whole grains? Mom does heavy physical work, and you and my little brother are also growing, so we both need to supplement our nutrition. Eating like this all the time is not good for your health."

Before the eldest sister could express her joy at having her eldest brother come home, she was told something.

She had always been well-behaved and knew what was good and what was wrong. She knew her eldest brother cared about them, so she spoke more urgently.

She explained to him softly: "Mom won't let me, saying that famine is still a little bit worse. If I tighten my belt this month, it will be completely eliminated."

With this word again, the strong figure flashed in Li Xiang's mind, and he motioned to his eldest sister to stop what she was doing and follow him into the house.

On the way back to the house, he and his eldest sister emphasized again: "I have an allowance, and my mother has been promoted to a first-class worker. Our family's life will only get better and better, and we no longer have to dig around like before."

At this point, Li Xia nodded obediently, but she couldn't help but retort to her eldest brother at the last sentence: "No need to dig in, there are plenty of corn crumbs now, it's not like before where you could only drink thin paste and starve your stomach." .”

Li Xiang felt helpless and funny about her rebuttal. He would be satisfied just eating some whole grain steamed buns. People in this era are really simple and cute.

The Li family's house is not that big. The whole house is about 20 square meters. It is divided into three rooms. The outer room is a place for dining and entertaining guests. There is a table and four stools. When Dad Li was still alive, , the whole family couldn't sit apart when eating, and the younger brother Li Ming could only sit on the adults' laps.

The room in the middle has only enough space for a bed, and is considered a room for the two brothers. Li Xiang lives on campus now and does not live at home usually. He only comes back during holidays. The younger brother spends most of the time in this room alone.

The innermost room is the couple's room. Apart from a bed, there are only two old camphor wood boxes placed in the corner. These are the dowry of Li's mother Zheng Cuiping.

The whole house cannot be said to be bare, but it can also be said to be in tatters. When life is bad, even the objects decay faster than other people's homes.Li Xiang unloaded his satchel and put it on the table. He first took out a lunch box from the bag. As soon as the lid was opened, the tangy fragrance reached the eldest sister's nose.

She looked at the dishes in the lunch box and shouted in surprise: "Pork and cabbage stewed vermicelli."

"Shh, keep your voice down, you're going to attract the neighbors here."

The eldest sister quickly covered her mouth, but her eyes were bright as she stared at the lunch box. No wonder she was so excited. The last time she ate meat was during the Chinese New Year. The usual meat tickets were used to pay off the debt to her mother. Only the meat tickets during the New Year could be used. Stay and make some dumplings to satisfy your family’s cravings.

Li Xiang smiled and looked at the eldest sister's rare greedy look, thinking that no matter how sensible she usually behaves, this is only a 14-year-old child. How can any child not be greedy?

Then he took out a bottle of sesame oil and a pound of white flour from his bag, and told his eldest sister: "Put more oil in the cooking later. Don't be like mom and pour two drops every time. Even a little bit of oil will be in the dishes." Can’t see.”

Reluctantly moving her eyes away from the lunch box, the eldest sister responded obediently: "I know."

Taking the sesame oil and white noodles in her hands, she thought for a moment, then put the white noodles in the box in the back room, then took the sesame oil and walked out, ready to continue cooking dinner.

Watching his eldest sister enter the kitchen, Li Xiang picked up the satchel that still had some leftovers, and pretended to dig through it twice. The satchel deflated quickly, and when he came out, he only had two white rabbits in his hand. toffee.

Thinking of the half-pound white rabbit that I would get from the system check-in in the morning, I was so excited that I put it all in my bag. Now that I calm down, it is not appropriate to think about it.

This candy BJ is currently not for sale. It is a specialty of Shanghai. If you take out too much, you will not be able to explain it inside and outside. Li Ma is the first to break the casserole and ask the truth. He has no money, no power, and no power. Where did the Sanwu people get these?

Just thinking about it makes my head feel big. Fortunately, I didn't take it all out when my head got hot. Otherwise, I would be asking for trouble, and I wouldn't be able to explain clearly.

The reason for the two pills was easy to find. They said they were brought over from Shanghai by classmates in the same dormitory, and they gave two pills to everyone.

Looking at the toffee in his hand, Li Xiang's thoughts were distracted for a moment. It had been almost three years since he came to this special era. This stingy sign-in system finally gave way to the day when he insisted on signing in and gave out good things.

When he first came here, he found that he was equipped with a gold finger for time travel. His confused and helpless mood was quickly broken by this ecstasy. Before time traveling, he had read a lot of Internet books from the past. The protagonists in those books all relied on gold fingers to travel through time. Your fingers make your life go smoothly, and you are the chosen one, so there is no need for your own life to be bad.

This is the truth, but unfortunately there is not much truth to say in this world. Soon this joy was reversed.

Li Xiang discovered that his sign-in system was actually a Grandet. Can you imagine that the reward for signing in would be a grain of rice? ! !
Of course, it is not just rice, there are many kinds of items, but they are just a drop of sesame oil, a gram of flour, and a millimeter of cloth. . . . . .

After checking in for three consecutive months and collecting more than 90 kinds of "microorganisms" that were difficult to see with the naked eye, Li Xiang desperately planned to abandon this useless system.

He had no intention of wishing for anything else. His only thought was to have enough water every day.

It turns out that being hungry can really kill you.

And this example is happening right before our eyes.

(End of this chapter)