It’s No Use Calling Me Mom

After taking over the work of Miao's father, Peng Dayuan officially took up the post after a three-month apprenticeship, and the wedding of the two caught up with the good time.

The Railway Bureau built a new family courtyard on the west side of the railway station on Sizhan Road. As a married official worker in the unit, the couple can distinguish a small courtyard and a There are three main rooms and two unconventional small courtyards in the east wing.

With the new house divided by the unit, Peng Dayuan finally moved out of his parents' woolen mill, which was only 67 square meters but housed 12 people, and moved to a spacious new home.

The hungry little baby didn't want to eat the corn mush and cried all day long. In addition to a five- or six-year-old boy who was very naughty, the family was either crying from a baby or shouting from a child. Peng Dayuan was very annoying. I applied for a bed in the staff dormitory of my unit, and moved to my unit under the pretext of being busy with work.

Peng Dayuan, who lives in the unit, is no longer at home to eat, and naturally he refuses to give money to the family. Miao Qingqing humbly chased after the unit, Peng Dayuan reluctantly agreed to give Miao Qingqing a minimum living guarantee for face food money.

Children under the age of 18 are 18 pounds, children between the ages of 8 and 12 are 12 pounds, and children under the age of eight are not provided with food. The idea of ​​rationing and supplying food is only based on the grain book, which is to ensure that people will not die of starvation, and it is absolutely impossible to eat enough.

As a regular railway worker, Peng Dayuan, in addition to his salary, has a grain subsidy of 1 jin 2 taels for every day he works. .

Although the canteen of the unit often supplies eggs and meat, the employees are still accustomed to taking food stamps home. Everyone knows that if you expect to be full of food, you can also take the food stamps. Those who buy grain from the grain station can take it home to help subsidize the livelihood of their family members. However, those with a large number of people in the family expect that these subsidies will not be enough, and they will spend high prices on the black market to buy grain.

Peng Dayuan only eats at home occasionally. It is said that there is a supply of 54 catties in the monthly food book. Miao Qingqing and two children are barely enough to eat, but Peng Dayuan and his grandparents and parents can't stand it. My younger brother and sister need to be supported. Peng Dayuan's mother, every night on the 18th of every month, will come to Miao Qingqing here with a scale and weigh 20 catties of food, not a tael of it.

34 kilograms of grain, one big, two small and three people eat, Rao is Miao Qingqing saves and saves, or breaks every month, whenever the family breaks, the boy will go to the unit to find his father , followed his dad to eat and drink in the unit. At this time, Peng Dayuan was willing to take his son with him. After all, he was his own son, so he couldn't watch him starve, right? As for Miao Qingqing's mother and daughter, they are not his wife and daughter. Even if they starve to death, what does it have to do with him?

Every day on the 18th to buy food, Peng Dayuan will take his son home, one is to give Miao Qingqing money to buy food, and the other is to send his son back to Miao Qingqing, the child is too noisy Yes, he is also very annoying to carry.

Peng Dayuan was unwilling to bear the living expenses of Miao Qingqing and Er Niu, but he was not polite when he summoned Miao Qingqing. He contributed money and Miao Qingqing's strength. He sent Miao Qingqing to his grandmother to serve the old man, showing him the most filial piety.

Poor Miao Qingqing has to go hungry every month, and her daily life is extremely difficult. Peng Dayuan is only responsible for her food. In addition to food, she also needs oil, salt, sauce and vinegar to live, and buy match soap. briquettes, which don't need money? And Peng Dayuan was unwilling to bear these things, Miao Qingqing had to earn them all by himself.

How to earn? Break the head to grab the temporary workers assigned by the street office.

What do you do to sweep the streets, remove garbage outside the city, transport sand and gravel into the city, go to the towel factory to wind the thread, go to the printing factory to cut paper, Miao Qingqing has done everything, these jobs The most common job she does is to glue cardboard boxes in a match factory. This job is good if she stays at home. After all, she has two children with her, and many people who go out are not allowed to take children. Can't do it.

Now Wang Qingqing has taken over Miao Qingqing's body, thinking of looking for a job, Wang Qingqing's head is very big, now is the end of 1972, in this unfortunate era, all businesses are state-run, small Traders and hawkers are all capitalist tails that need to be cut off. It's no fun to be caught. Parade, criticize, fight, detention, one-stop service without negotiation, and go out to do business by yourself is absolutely unfeasible.

Wang Qingqing did not count on the temporary work of the original mainstay. Those jobs were hard and tiring, and the pay was low. The opportunities were extremely rare. Want to follow the old path of the original owner and be a cheap labor force for a lifetime? If you want to make money, you have to figure it out for yourself.

What can I do? Wang Qingqing frowned and sighed. Now, no one wants to hire people to work under the hat of "landlords and old wealth, oppressing the class and masses". This work is really hard to find!

Wang Qingqing thought about it for a long time and then pulled out Lenin from the bottom of the original main pressure box and put it on his body. The table was ironed with hot water in an enamel tea jar and hung up. She decided to try her luck in this outfit tomorrow.

In the early morning of the next day, Wang Qingqing led Er Niu to the front of the nursery in Tiexi District. Standing motionless in front of the nursery school caught the attention of many parents who came to drop off their children.

At this time, the nursery was not like the kindergartens of the later generations that only recruited children over three years old. The function of the nursery opened by the unit was "child care". As long as it was an employee of the unit, the child reached six Female workers who work close to the nursery can also take time off to come to the nursery to feed their children.

Pay five yuan a month, and the child can have a lunch in the nursery. Because of the unit subsidy, the quality of this lunch is quite good, and it is better than most families, let alone two A dual-earner family with both working children is a single worker who does not have a heavy burden at home. They are willing to send their children in when they are older. Miao Qingqing's stepson, Nudan, wants to go to the nursery very much, because Peng Dayuan doesn't want to pay him the five dollars.

Wang Qingqing led Er Niu to stand outside the gate of the nursery until more than ten o'clock. Basically, those who could come to breastfeed had fed a batch of milk before she led Er Niu home. At noon, mother and daughter After the two finished drinking, she led Er Niu to stand guard at the door of the nursery school.

Someone took the initiative to talk to her this time, and a young woman asked her with a smile: "Comrade, I think you seem familiar, have we met somewhere?"

"I think your face is familiar." Wang Qingqing smiled brightly: "Let's live in the same district? I'm No. 1, fifth row, South Second District."

"Oh, oh, no wonder!" The young woman who chatted with Wang Qingqing combed her hair very neatly: "I said it looks familiar, I live at No. 7, 3rd row, South District 1."

"Serious is not far away." Wang Qingqing then smiled: "Comrade, what is your last name?"

"My surname is Zhao, Zhao Xiaoyan." The young woman tied the bag she was carrying to the handlebar of the bicycle: "I think you were here in the morning, what are you doing? Do you want me to help? What do you call someone?"

"No, no, no." Wang Qingqing explained very quickly: "My name is Miao Qingqing, I came here to see, just want to send my daughter to the nursery, but my daughter can't be herself. When I go to the toilet, I heard people say that aunties who pee their pants are not welcome, and I don’t know if it’s true, so I want to come and see.”

Wang Qingqing's words made the young woman find her bosom friend, she stopped her movements and complained to Wang Qingqing: "You are right, the teacher doesn't want to see you, my unit is leaving I can come to feed the baby three times a day, and I have never seen my aunt hug our baby, but all those who can be hugged and coaxed by the teacher are those who are clean and have no smell on their bodies, those dirty dolls, If you cry to death, your aunt won't even bring her a hug."

"Wang Qingqing felt the same way: "Just because the clothes are dirty and the urine is dirty, the child's voice is hoarse, and the aunt doesn't even take it to hug it. How distressed do you think a parent should be?"

"That's not right!" Zhao Xiaoyan sighed: "There are only so many cotton cotton tickets for a year, I want to make a few more cotton pants for my children, but I can't save enough material, I have a few days ago. After work, I removed and washed the two cotton pants for my child. Now I can't urinate anymore. Bringing a diaper to my baby doesn't help. He lies on his hands and feet all night long. On the cotton trousers, now his cotton trousers are hard after drying, and my aunt just thought that our children's urine smells so bad."

"It's impossible for people like you to go to work, how can you unpack and wash your children every day." Wang Qingqing first expressed her understanding of Zhao Xiaoyan's busyness, and then said enthusiastically: "So what, Speaking of which, we don't live too far, if you're a neighbor, why don't you take out your child's cotton trousers and give them to me, and I'll take them to your house after you unpack and wash them?"

"Then why are you so embarrassed?" Zhao Xiaoyan was a little moved. She was not good at sewing, she made a pair of cotton pants for her child for a full day. .

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"Then I will thank you first." Wang Qingqing's positive attitude made Zhao Xiaoyan very happy, she took out a piece of fruit candy from her pocket and stuffed it into Er Niu's hand: "Niu, take it and eat it ." Then he turned to Wang Qingqing and said, "Then I go in and get it?"

"Come on, I'll wait for you." Wang Qingqing waved at her.

Zhao Xiaoyan quickly turned back to the nursery and brought a pair of sturdy cotton trousers, Wang Qingqing took it and rolled it up and held it in her hand: "It's not that my old king is selling melons and boasting, my Needlework is really good, look at my clothes."

Wang Qingqing showed Zhao Xiaoyan the Lenin costume she had modified overnight: "I made it myself."

"Wow! You still have such good craftsmanship?" Zhao Xiaoyan looked around and Wang Qingqing widened her eyes in disbelief: "This dress really fits well."

"That's it." Wang Qingqing said proudly: "I have been interested in this since I was a child, and I can help my grandma with needlework at the age of five." This is not a lie, Miao Qingqing will indeed help her grandmother who suffers from presbyopia to thread a needle (thread into the eye of the needle) at the age of five.

"Then you are too powerful." Zhao Xiaoyan repeatedly looked at Wang Qingqing's Lenin costume: "I am clumsy, and it is very hard to do needlework."

"Then you can come to me if you have any work that you can't do in the future." Wang Qingqing led Zhao Xiaoyan to her house to find out: "I think I'm quite attached to you, you can just take care of anything in the future. come find me."

"That's a good feeling." Zhao Xiaoyan saw Wang Qingqing open the door and entered the house, and then stepped on the bicycle and waved to Wang Qingqing: "I'll go to work first, don't worry about the cotton pants. Do."

"How can that be possible?" Wang Qingqing shook his head: "The baby is still waiting to be worn, I'm slowly making the baby and I haven't replaced it, I'll make it for you at night, you Live at No. 7, 3rd row, South District 1, right?"

"Hey, yes, thank you very much, Sister Miao." Zhao Xiaoyan quickly thanked you.

"You're welcome, let's make a friend." Wang Qingqing urged her with a smile: "Go to work quickly, don't delay."

"Okay, then I'll go first, see you Miao sister." Zhao Xiaoyan got on the bicycle and left, and Wang Qingqing hurriedly began to remove and wash the children's cotton pants. She didn't have soap, so she took the plant ash she saved Soak in water, clarified, soak the fabric in it and rub it hard, rinse it with water, wring it dry, and bake it slowly on the stove.

When the cotton trousers were sewn, the sky was slightly dark, and it was mealtime. Wang Qingqing smiled slightly and pulled up Erniu who was playing with the fruit candy in her hand repeatedly: "Let's go, mother bring You go to dinner."