Second Marriage in the 1970s

It's not that Liu Xiuyun cares about it, because the big guys' lives are too difficult.

In the past ten years or so, the nationwide rural areas have been engaged in the "Agricultural Learning from Dazhai" campaign. In the rural areas, every farmer is a member of the community and has to participate in labor to earn work points.

The specific work points are determined by each production team. One working day counts as ten work points. The work points approved by each person in different genders and ages are different every day.

This is an era of wasteful development, with barren land, low productivity, and a large population. After the brigade receives the grain, it must be handed over. After the handover, the remaining grain can be distributed according to the work points approved by each member.

Young wives like Liu Xiuyun can’t do the heavy work. Six or seven work points a day and six cents a work point. This is still Daewoo Village’s backing draught. In addition to food, there are some mountain products, fish, shrimp, water chestnut, etc. that can be taken every year. The supply and marketing cooperatives exchanged money for the sake of money.

The most important point is that the rations will be deducted from the work points settled at the end of the year, and the rest will go to each person. Therefore, every household passes tightly. Not to mention eating eggs and meat, you can eat enough. It's not easy.

The three reed chickens in the family have three eggs a day. The Dong family's conditions are pretty good, and they don't want to sell the eggs for money. In addition to the confinement daughter-in-law and young children, the family can also occasionally eat eggs and beat the teeth.

But the Dong family opened a dozen mouths and three eggs a day was definitely not enough. Liu Xiuyun remembered that the last time she ate eggs was a month ago.

She also knew that in the past few days after her sister-in-law was rescued from jumping into the river, her mother-in-law had secretly rectified a lot of food for Dong Jiahui. Eggs, white noodles, and brown sugar were about to catch up with the confinement treatment.

Even though Liu Xiuyun had thoughts in her heart, she was not stupid. It was impossible to show it in front of a family member. At most, she would go back to the room and talk to her husband, so she didn't look much different from usual.

Speaking of Dong’s three daughter-in-laws, they are all good in character. The eldest daughter-in-law Zhou Yindi and the third daughter-in-law Zhao Lijuan were older sisters when they were in their natal family, and they were temperamental and conceited, while Liu Xiuyun was neither big nor small in her natal family. Yes, the middle child is most easily neglected by her parents. In addition, her natal family conditions are not very good. When she was a child, she lived hard, starved, and suffered holes. Therefore, she was more focused on gains and losses, and cared more about what to eat and wear.

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After getting well, Dong Jiahui helps with housework at home every day, washing clothes, cooking, feeding chickens, and tidying up vegetable plots.

That day, the second nephew came home with a blue nose and a swollen face. There was a big cut on his clothes, and the cotton inside was falling out. Liu Xiuyun was so angry at first sight. This jacket was newly made for the Chinese New Year, and I didn’t wear one until I was full of it. For many months, he was ruined like this by a hammer!

She took a rolling pin from the kitchen with a dark face, and chased him with a hammer to beat him.

"You stinky boy, you were born to collect debts. If you don't be beaten in one day, you will get itchy, right? See if I don't break your legs!"

The hammer is seven years old, at the age that people hate dogs. How could it be possible to stand obediently and wait for his mother to beat someone. He ran faster on two legs than a rabbit, and ran out from the far door in a blink of an eye, and gave it back to him before he left. Mom made a face.

Liu Xiuyun patted her chest and panted, and pointed at the hammer and said fiercely, "You smelly kid, wait for me. If you have the ability, don't come back today. When you come back, let your dad smoke you."

"This hole is too big, I'm afraid it won't look good when sewn."

If the clothes are torn, you can find another piece of cloth and apply a patch. If you pull such a big hole, it is not a straight line, which is equivalent to pulling off a small piece of cloth.

A few of the clothes that I took off with a hammer looked around and said it was difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, I still have to sew it, but it's a pity that this new dress is not easy to get a piece of cloth these years.

Not to mention that each person only has a cloth ticket of one foot and five feet per year. This cloth ticket is only enough for adults to sew a set of underwear, while children can sew a set of clothes. You can wear long sleeves in spring, summer, autumn and winter. , Wear short sleeves in summer and padded jackets in winter. What can this five-foot-long cloth do?

In addition to cloth tickets, it also costs money to buy cloth. The Dong family only made a new cotton coat for each of the six children this New Year, and none of the adults in the family were willing to add clothes.

I thought that the spring will start soon after the New Year, and the cotton-padded clothes should be put away at most for another two or three months. As long as the clothes are not torn or damaged, they can continue to be worn next year.

Even if there is a body that is too small to wear, it can be transferred to the younger siblings below, and it is not wasteful at all.

The original plan was good, and the new clothes were about to be patched in an instant. It is no wonder that Liu Xiuyun's face is black.

Just as Liu Xiuyun frowned at a loss, Dong Jiahui smiled and walked over.

"Second Sister-in-law, let me try it."

"you?"

Liu Xiuyun looked at Dong Jiahui suspiciously, and looked at each other with two wives.

"Can you make it up?"

Liu Xiuyun didn't believe it. When she married into Dong's house, Dong Jiahui was still a cardamom girl, and she was not very talkative. Until Dong Jiahui married into Lu's house at the age of eighteen, she never revealed her talent in needlework.

"There should be no problem. If my sister-in-law believes me, let me try."

Liu Xiuyun handed the clothes suspiciously to Dong Jiahui. After handing them out, he was worried and confessed, "If you can't do it, don't do it. The big deal is that I will spend money to find a tailor in town."

Don't spoil your clothes.

"I know, sister-in-law, don't worry."

Dong Jiahui was not angry when she heard Liu Xiuyun's illocutionary meaning. Since she had spoken, she naturally had full confidence.

Her grandmother is from Suzhou. It is said that she was also a very famous family in Suzhou. She fled to the countryside and fled to the countryside. She married her grandfather. Her grandmother has excellent Su embroidery craftsmanship. She taught Dong Jiahui this skill. Although her craftsmanship is not as good as that of grandmother, it is certainly no problem to make up a dress.

Dong Jiahui took the clothes of the hammer and returned to the room. This room was originally a utility room where the house was piled up. After Dong Jiahui came back, Chen Guixiang asked the family to clean it up and made a bed board for her to make a small bed.

Such a room is simply incomparable to the place where she used to live. Her parents are both Kochi, the upper-middle class in the family, and she is the only child in the family. It can be said that she was spoiled by her family since she was a child.

But no matter what kind of environment people are in, they must learn to adapt to the environment. The living environment of this era is like this. It is already great happiness to have a bed to sleep and a place to shelter from the wind and rain.

Threading the needle and threading, the technique was fast and exquisite, and it took less than ten minutes before and after that, when Dong Jiahui came out with the clothes, everyone was shocked.

"Hey? I really can't see it, Jiahui, when did you have this craft?"

Not only was the hole sewn, but there was no trace of it. If you didn't know where it was broken in advance, you wouldn't be able to find it if you looked for it carefully.

"I can't talk about any craftsmanship, I just thought about it when I was okay."

Dong Jiahui changed the subject lightly. Fortunately, the Dong family didn't think much about it. They all thought that this was what she learned after marrying the Lu family.

"This craft is more than enough to be a tailor."

Craftsmen are popular these days. There are tailors at the cloth sales counter of the supply and marketing agency. They can help make clothes and sew and repair. According to everyone, this is the effect of sending this piece of clothing to the tailor. It's not necessarily better than Dong Jiahui's.

"Jiahui, your ability to sew clothes has improved very quickly. I remember that you couldn't make up your socks before."

The third sister-in-law Zhao Lijuan spoke quickly, and she knew what was wrong when she said this, so she hurried to see Dong Jiahui's expression, for fear of irritating her.

Sewing and mending are delicate work, and practice makes perfect. Dong Jiahui sews a button before getting married, but the buttons are not sewn neatly. Now the craftsmanship is so good, why does it make progress so fast?

"It's okay, it's over, I'm not sad at all."

Seeing everyone's cautious eyes, Dong Jiahui smiled and expressed her attitude, but everyone did not believe that she was really not sad, only when she was laughing in a strong face.

Chen Guixiang rolled her eyes, she wanted to shed tears when she thought of the suffering of her daughter in Lu's house.

"Okay, now that the clothes have been patched up, let's have dinner."

Tucked at the corner of his eye, Chen Guixiang greeted everyone for a meal. The simple corn gnocchi soup, which was mixed with pickles, was very salty and appetizing. Even the smallest Xiaoman ate a small bowl.

"Where's the hammer, it's dark and you won't come back?"

Dong Aimin drank two large bowls of pimple soup and found out that his eldest son Hammer was not at home.

"What the **** is he doing, are you afraid that he is hungry?"

Because the clothes were patched up, Liu Xiuyun's anger had already disappeared for the most part, but the hammer was always naughty, and the basket full of mistakes he did, even his mother didn't have much patience.

"There is a bowl of soup left in the kitchen, and I will tell him when he comes back."

Chen Guixiang knocked on the table and confessed that every meal in the family is counted. A few people eat, roughly how much each person eats, to ensure that no one will be hungry. Even if he is not at home when eating, he can’t miss his bite. Rice, no one has surplus food these years, where can I go to fill my stomach if I don’t come back to eat?