The Eldest Sister is Like a Stepmother [60’s]

Xiao Yu looked at the sweet potato, white steamed bun, shredded potato, and shredded radish soup on the table: “My daughter-in-law is amazing.” His heart was a little touched. For the first time, a woman other than grandma and mother specially washed the soup for him, This is his wife.

Lin Yiyi said: “That’s necessary, come and try it.”

Jin-Woo: “Okay.”

Lin Yiyi ate half a sweet potato, drank a small bowl of shredded radish soup, a few chopsticks and shredded potatoes, fed Lin Wudi and ate half a white steamed bun, and the remaining half a sweet potato and half a white steamed bun went into Xiao Yu’s house. Stomach, but the rest of the white bun, Jin-Woo, didn’t move. He is very restrained. The food they eat now is much better than the food in the countryside, so he will not eat with an open stomach.

Lin Yiyi pointed to the white steamed bun: “There’s more.”

Jin Yu: “I’m full.” I’m really full, mainly because there is a lot of shredded radish soup, and the soup is easy to eat.

Lin Yiyi: “Then leave this to you to clean up. The steamed buns will be left for breakfast tomorrow.”

Jin-Woo: “Okay.”

Lin Yiyi clapped her hands: “Great, men who can do housework are the most attractive. Brother, don’t you think?”

Brother Lin, who didn’t know what his sister was talking about, said, “Yes…”

Jin-Woo: “…” Why does he think his daughter-in-law is avoiding housework?

Modern people know how to maintain health. Although this age doesn’t pay attention to it, but after a meal, you can live to ninety-nine, so walking is still necessary. Lin Yiyi led the fifth brother Lin to walk in the yard, and Jin Yu took a **** to prepare the yard: “This season happens to be planting tomatoes and cauliflower, but the weather is hot, so build a pergola at that time. By November, tomatoes and cauliflower can be eaten. “In 60 years, there was no private land, which is one of the reasons for the shortage of food in the countryside. If there were private land, the situation would be better.

In July of 1962, the state proposed to implement the policy on private land.

Lin Yiyi: “Okay, my brother Yu is really amazing.”

Jin-Woo: “…”

Two pieces of land, small, about 2 square meters each, are located in the left and right corners of the courtyard gate. The ground was tidy, and the family took a shower and went to bed.

Jin Yu entered the room after taking a shower, it was already a little late, it was almost ten o’clock, at least later than usual. He saw that Lin Yiyi had half closed his eyes and was about to fall asleep. Jin Yu went to bed and rubbed her: “Thank you for today.”

Lin Yiyi knew what he was thanking: “We are husband and wife.”

Jin Yu chuckled: “Yes, we are husband and wife.”

Lin Yiyi: “I want a clock, otherwise I forget the time when I write the manuscript, and I don’t even know what time it is to cook.”

Jin-Woo: “Okay.”

Lin Yiyi: “Also, I have an appointment with the director’s wife tomorrow morning. Should I be scruples when I chat with her?”

Jin-Woo: “No, I have no conflict of interest with the director.”

Lin Yiyi: “That’s good. By the way, I chatted with Grandma Wang next door for a while today. We made an appointment to go shopping after dinner the day after tomorrow. I don’t know if it was a black market or something. If I went and was discovered, Does it affect your work?”

Jin Yu: “In this situation, the relevant departments will not control the black market. The government knows about the black market, but everyone is short of food, so the black market can be regarded as a way at present, so the black market is still safe now. But it is safe. It’s the same thing, some things are different on the surface and in the dark, and the black market still can’t be said on the surface.” In fact, he also planned to go to the black market to buy some food for his family, but he just took over this position recently, and he was very busy. He was going to wait until he had time to inquire about this.

Lin Yiyi: “I understand.”

the next day

For breakfast, I made white steamed buns last night. There were 13 white steamed buns in total. Xiao Yu ate 3, Lin Yiyi ate 1, and there were 9 left. Brother Lin drank her and his rice porridge.

After breakfast, Jin-woo went to the police station. Not long after Xiao Yu left, Cui Ping came and brought a pound of soybeans: “One-by-one, I have 1 pound of soybeans here, and then you can give me 4 pounds of bean sprouts.”

Lin Yiyi: “Okay, no problem, but Sister Ping, the soybean sprouts can’t stand it. In this weather, at most tomorrow, it will rot.”

Cui Ping: “Don’t worry, I’ll send it off. Let’s go, I’ll take you to get acquainted with the county seat.”

Lin Yiyi: “Hey, good.”

Because Lin Yiyi was still with Lin’s fifth brother, there were few places for them to go shopping. They went to the department store first, and Cui Ping also introduced the salesperson inside to Lin Yiyi, who was a salesperson who specialized in buying cloth. Then I went to the supply and marketing cooperative. Lin Yiyi, the supply and marketing cooperative in the county town, had never been there. Finally, it was the vegetable market. In the vegetable market, the purchase book was required to buy things. For example, vegetables, although tickets were not required, they were limited. But at this time, there is nothing in the market, and in times of famine, the vegetables are all robbed, because the supply is low, and another reason is that the market is owned by the government, and the price here will not be affected by the famine. And change is not a black market, one price per day.

After visiting these places, it should be noon.

I still eat steamed buns at noon, and there is only one dish, potatoes. But today is soy sauce roasted potatoes. Soy sauce roasted potatoes are one of the few dishes that Lin Yiyi knows best. Because there is no technical output, just pour soy sauce and sugar, then add water, and wait for the potatoes to soften. After the water in the pot is almost dry, it is ready to serve.

Lin Yiyi watched her mother make this method, but when her mother made it, she would put plums and garlic pickled in sweet and sour sauce. After the potatoes were baked, the taste was superb. Unfortunately, the conditions here are limited.

But even if the conditions are limited, when Jin Woo ate it at noon, he was very pleasantly surprised: “These potatoes are delicious.”

How can people in this era be willing to bake potatoes with sugar? So this is the first time for Jin Woo to eat this way.

Lin Yiyi said: “I heard what others said, if you like it, I will make it for you next time.”

Jin-Woo: “Okay.”

Two adults and one Lin Wudi, the main food is white steamed buns, and the dish is a plate of baked potatoes. Lin Yiyi baked two plates and another plate to eat at night. Even so, this guy is better than the Xiao family.

9 steamed buns, four less, only 5. In fact, if you make white steamed buns with a pound of flour, you can eat them for a day, which is quite cost-effective.

In the evening, Jin Yu got off work a little late, and when he came back, he was carrying a clock, looking a little old.

Lin Yiyi: “Where did you get the clock?”

Jin-Woo: “Didn’t you say yesterday that you want the clock to tell the time? I went to the junkyard to say hello in the morning before going to get off work, and they brought it to me when I got off work. Originally it was broken, but it was repaired there. The junkyard knows I’m in a hurry, I don’t have time to paint, what do you think of this? We’ll paint it if you like.”

This is a wall clock. It can be used as a desk clock or a grandfather clock. This kind of clock can be bought by rich people in this era. However, this clock is very old. It’s a pendulum that rattles on the hour. If counted according to the current 1960 years, it has been nearly 360 years since the introduction of wall clocks into my country.

Lin Yiyi: “The junkyard really has everything.”

Jin Yu: “They are also collecting junk in private. Some people don’t want junk, but they can sell it to the junk station. Like this clock, it’s been too long. When the junk station collects it, they will look at it and see if it can be repaired. If they can, they will accept it, some of them are privately accepted, and some are collected on behalf of the junkyard.”

Lin Yiyi: “Is there anything else like this? How much did you buy it for?”

Jin-Woo stretched out five fingers.

Lin Yiyi: “5 hairs?”

Jin Yu flicked her forehead: “What are you thinking, five yuan, I haven’t given the money yet, I’ll take it when I go to work tomorrow, and you have to give me five yuan.”

Lin Yiyi patted his hand: “The wall clock will ring, you have to turn off the sound, or you will be woken up when you fall asleep at night.”

Jin-Woo: “Yeah.”

After dinner, Lin Yiyi started to polish the wall clock, and Jin Yu started to sow. With this wall clock, Lin Yiyi’s mood improved several times. She wiped off the alarm clock and put it on the dowry cabinet in the room. Going to see Jin Woo farming again: “How do you plan to build this pergola?”

Jin Yu: “The pergola can be built with three sides and a roof. Now, there is no need to build the two sides. It is the fence of the yard. One side is made of wood, and the other side is made of wood.”

Lin Yiyi: “I have to go to the countryside to find wood and planks.”

Jin-Woo: “No, there is a junk station, and the wooden board is covered with a door panel, and the door panel is perfect.”

Lin Yiyi: “It seems to be possible. If you don’t grow vegetables, this pergola can still be used, and you can put waste.”

Jin-Woo: “Yeah.”

The next day, when Xiao Yu went to work, Lin Yiyi gave him 20 yuan. Before going to work, Xiao Yu went to the waste station and told them about the door panel, and asked them to deliver it directly to his house after get off work. . The people at the junkyard are already familiar with Jin Yu. The new deputy chief of the public security bureau is a powerful person, so the people at the junkyard are very willing to befriend him.

Today, with the wall clock, Lin Yiyi has nothing to worry about when writing the manuscript. While letting the fifth brother Lin play in the room, he writes the manuscript, checking the time and the fifth brother from time to time. But I don’t need to cook rice today, because I burned enough sweet potato rice porridge in the morning to cook one meal for three days. In fact, there are only these things at home, and there is nothing to do, and Lin Yiyi is only so good at cooking… But eating sweet potato and rice porridge for three meals is not like clear soup in the countryside. Lin Yiyi cooks a thicker one.

Jin Woo is the kind of person who is not picky about what he eats, he eats whatever you do. He hasn’t eaten from the cafeteria of the Public Security Bureau recently, nor has he brought food from the cafeteria of the Public Security Bureau. Because his family came that day, he paid all the food for the month in advance. He still paid his colleagues’ food first, and then returned it to others day by day. . The public security bureau canteens do not need tickets to eat and buy vegetables, but they do require money, but there are regulations for daily food and vegetables.

At dinner time, people from the junkyard came pulling carts with planks and some wood on them.

After dinner, Jin Yu started to make a pergola and brought the baby. Grandma Wang took Lin Yiyi to buy vegetables. On the way, Grandma Wang said: “One by one, your man is really handsome, such a man must be old, now there are so many women in Hu Meizi, and your man has a good job, but you have to be careful of being hooked. go.”

Lin Yiyi: “…” This grandma Wang is not only enthusiastic, but very gossip. She will know a little about anyone in the family’s courtyard. She has no scheming, but her mouth is too fast. Lin Yiyi thought about it, next time she goes shopping, she will not be with Grandma Wang, lest something go wrong in the future, so she should recognize her way today.

Grandma Wang said a lot of gossip along the way, but she didn’t stop. She took Lin Yiyi to an alley and knocked on the door. A voice came from inside: “Who is it?”

Grandma Wang: “Nephew, your aunt, I’m here.”

Lin Yiyi: “Grandma Wang, is this really your nephew’s house?”

Grandma Wang: “How can you, this is a greeting.”

After a while, someone came to open the door. It was a middle-aged man. When he saw Grandma Wang, he was very enthusiastic: “Little aunt, why are you here? It’s a big night. Let’s spend the night at home tonight. My dad still misses you.”

Grandma Wang: “It won’t last any more. My family was in trouble and I borrowed money from you. This time I will give it back to you.”

Lin Yiyi: “…”

Grandma Wang and the middle-aged man entered the house while chatting.

Lin Yiyi saw that she had entered a man’s room, and she hesitated for a moment.

Grandma Wang said: “Come in, he still has the universe in this room.” After speaking, he pulled Lin Yiyi into the room, and then the man closed the door. As the man closed the door, Lin Yiyi’s heart also lifted.

The man said: “My surname is Wang. Everyone calls me Brother Wang, and some call me my nephew, depending on age, depending on the age of the lesbian, just call me Brother Wang.” There is also a wooden board. The wooden board is pulled out, and there is actually a passage. It turns out that there is a basement below. Oh, people in this era called the basement cellar.

Lin Yiyi looked a little surprised.

This cellar is not big, only about four square meters. There is not much space for three or four people to stand. However, the cellar is very clean. The lattices made of wooden boards are a bit like modern lattice cabinets. In this way, there are several lattices in a vertical row, and more things can be stored.

Moreover, there are quite a lot of kinds of things here, of course, not to say that there are really many kinds, but to the conditions of this era, there are too many things.

Lin Yiyi looked at it and couldn’t help but feel a little joy: “How is this dish sold? This egg, radish, lotus root, and oil are also available? What’s the price?”

Brother Wang said, “Eggs and oil just came today. You are lucky enough to meet them.”

Grandma Wang said: “I came here because I knew there was stock today.” When Grandma Wang came to buy something a few days ago, Brother Wang said it, so she remembered it.

Brother Wang said: “This egg costs 6 yuan a pound without a ticket, other vegetables are 2 yuan a pound, and oil is 15 yuan a pound.”

Lin Yiyi was stunned. The egg supply and marketing agency was 60 cents a pound, which was ten times more. Vegetables usually only cost 5 cents a pound, but now they sell for 2 yuan. Who can eat this? Ordinary workers can afford 5 catties of eggs for one month’s wages. Oil is not a necessity, and the supply and marketing cooperative is only 5 yuan a pound, so here it is only 15 yuan a pound. Therefore, the expensive ones are food, vegetables and other things that can fill the stomach.

Brother Wang said: “Little girl, the world is at this price now. In the past few years, eggs were at most 1 yuan and 5 kilograms, but who is called a famine?”

Lin Yiyi: “I understand.” When the famine came, many people in the county did not starve to death, but they used up their savings for several years. However, what Brother Wang bought was expensive, and what he received was also expensive.

Lin Yiyi: “Give me two catties of eggs, two catties of lotus root, three radishes, three catties of oil, and two catties of cabbage.” I can’t hold any more.

Grandma Wang was stunned: “One by one, you are really willing.”

Lin Yiyi: “My man works hard and needs to make up for it.” She calculated that except for the durable radishes, other types of food should be eaten for a day, so except for eggs, they will be eaten for three or four days. After three or four days, she will eat another There are plans.

Brother Wang: “A total of 75.”

Grandma Wang also buys a lot of things, because the 6 people in their family eat, but all she buys is vegetables, and she can save oil by not buying oil.

After buying, the two left.

This alley is very safe. Everyone has contact with Brother Wang. Especially in this year, they have all bought things from Brother Wang, so everyone hopes that Brother Wang will be well.

Therefore, Grandma Wang and Lin Yiyi are actually quite safe.

When the two returned home, it was just after seven o’clock.

Brother Lin squatted aside and watched Jin Yu busy, and when Lin Yiyi came back, he rushed over like a small cannonball: “Sister…”

Lin Yiyi took a few steps back after being hit by him because he was carrying something on his back.

Jin Yu hurriedly dropped the things and went to carry the basket: “It’s so heavy? Are your shoulders okay?”

Lin Yiyi: “It hurts a bit.” In front of men, women don’t have to pretend to be strong when they should be soft.

Jin Yu: “I’ll take a look.” Said, pulling Lin Yiyi to the room.

Brother Lin who was fed dog food… hurried to keep up.

Xiao Yu pulled down Lin Yiyi’s clothes, only to see two red lines on her shoulders: “Next time I buy things, I will buy so many sexes at once.” After saying that, he went to the drawer and took out the red oil, “Hold it up. Come on, I’ll give you a rub.”

Lin Yiyi: “Don’t rub it now, wait until I take a shower, or I’ll wash it off later.”

Jin-Woo: “Okay.”

Lin Yiyi: “But I don’t take a bath now, I still want to go to that brother Wang’s place. When I went with Grandma Wang before, I wanted to ask something, but in front of Grandma Wang, I didn’t want to ask, so as not to let her talk Don’t worry, spread the word.”

Jin-woo raised his eyebrows.

Lin Yiyi said: “He has a lot of things, but the price is expensive. If we keep buying and eating, my manuscript fee plus your salary may not be enough. I want to ask him whether he accepts soybean sprouts and mung bean sprouts. You’ve seen it too, the bean sprouts I made are great, right?” She did the math, and it cost 75 yuan for this trip today, and she took all the 90 yuan with her scattered money, and it’s almost gone, this money is not spent Now, she still wants to save a lot of money before the turbulent period of 1966, but now, the famine has used up the money, so what is there to save?

Jin Yu: “Okay, let’s go and have a look.” Actually, he didn’t encourage Lin Yiyi to grow bean sprouts to do business, but he wanted to see if the place was safe or not.

Lin Yiyi: “This basket belongs to Brother Wang. I took a basket when I went, but I can’t fit it. Now that it’s over, we’ll return the basket to others.”

Jin-Woo: “Okay.”

Lin Yiyi: “I’ll be there later. You wait for me at the door. It’s not good for a police officer to enter that kind of place.”

Jin-Woo: “Okay.”

15 minutes later, Lin Yiyi took Xiao Yu to the alley, Lin Yiyi asked him to wait outside and knocked on the door by himself.

Brother Wang: “Who?”

Lin Yiyi: “Uncle Wang, it’s me. My grandma said that something was pulled down when she came just now. She was waiting for me on the road. I ran back to get it.”

Brother Wang: “…Yes, yes, my aunt’s basket is pulled down.” Brother Wang opened the door, looked at Lin Yiyi who was smiling at the door, and immediately invited her in, “Girl, you’re here again, and you don’t have to do this to carry a basket. Are you in a hurry?” He said, and gave her the basket.

Lin Yiyi stopped filing lawsuits and asked directly, “Brother Wang, do you receive the goods here?”

When Brother Wang heard it, his eyes lit up: “You take everything, what do you have? I’ll give you an estimate.”

Lin Yiyi: “Soy bean sprouts and mung bean sprouts.” She only knows this.

Brother Wang listened for a while: “This kind of soybean and mung bean germination is a technical work, I have never received the goods, but my vegetables are 2 yuan a pound, and I will tell you the current price. 5 yuan, if you have it, I will charge 1 yuan 5.”

Lin Yiyi: “I can grow bean sprouts, but my family has limited soy and mung beans. Do you have any?”

Brother Wang said: “It’s really there, a lot. Mung beans can also sprout? Mung beans are also a dessert material here, mung bean soup, mung bean cakes, so most people won’t buy them. If you want, I’ll give you 5 yuan a pound. You. The price of mung bean and soybean is the same as that of grain. Now rice is only five yuan a pound. Although mung bean is a dessert material, it can also fill the stomach like rice. “

Lin Yiyi did the math. A pound of mung beans is a little less than 10 pounds of bean sprouts. It can be sold for 15 yuan, and the cost is only 5 yuan. She answered: “How many mung beans and soybeans do you have?”

Brother Wang: “Mung beans are 40 pounds, right? Soy beans are 60 pounds.”

Lin Yiyi: “I want it all, but I don’t have any money with me. Three nights later, I’ll send you the bean sprouts. I’ll count the money later, okay?”

Brother Wang: “Okay.”

Lin Yiyi said again: “I’ll bring back 2 catties of winter melon, and then give me 2 catties each of salt, soy sauce, and rice vinegar.” So, the original 90 is now only 5 yuan, and the rest is 2500 for Jin Yu. Deposit and her money order. Salt is usually 1 cents 2, soy sauce is usually 1 cents and 4 cents, and rice vinegar is usually 1 cents and 1 cents.

the next day

Breakfast is sweet potato and egg custard. One egg is beaten into two small bowls. Lin Yiyi and Lin Wudi put together one bowl. Finish. She really couldn’t finish it, so it was just right for her and Fifth Brother Lin to make a bowl.

After eating a good meal, Lin Yiyi sprouted the remaining two catties of mung beans. After it was done, she took Lin Wudi to the bookstore.

Librarian: “Hello, what book are you looking for?”

Lin Yiyi: “Hello, is there a recipe here? It’s about how to make various dishes. It’s like this. The old man in my family is not healthy and nothing tastes good. I want to learn a few dishes according to the recipe.”