Siheyuan: Don't mess with me, I just want to be a casual fish

Chapter 1 It’s so hard to live

cold!

Li Weidong instinctively stretched his hand to the side.

flat?

A jolt woke him up from his dream.

The windows that have been in disrepair are constantly letting in cold wind. In the cramped bedroom, the walls are covered with old newspapers. With the light polished outside in the early morning, you can still vaguely see the title on them: Tighten your waistband, big shoes.

Look forward.

It is now 1962, and the location is the romantic courtyard house in movies and TV dramas, where the mellow Widow Qin lives.

Although the current difficult period has basically passed and there is no longer such a shortage of things on the market, whether in cities or rural areas, not having enough to eat is still the norm.

Many people's belts are almost broken because of this.

It's just that life in the city is much easier than in the countryside.

At this time, as long as you have a registered residence in the city and have a household income, even a lame and unemployed person can easily find a beautiful yellow-flowered girl in the nearby countryside.

And you don’t need a house, a car, or a three-gold gift, just a ten-pound or eight-pound meal.

However, state-owned hotels do not need to bring food books.

I originally thought that after getting married, I would always understand something, but Father Li's efforts were obviously in vain.

"Want to eat?" Li Weidong asked.

The one-meter-two small bed outside belongs to Li Weidong and his younger brother Li Weibin.

"When I make money at work, I'll treat you to meat buns." Li Weidong promised.

After all, when he first woke up, the other party brought him medicine and stuffed his cornstarch.

Work in a factory?

Sorry, there are no private enterprises these days. Workers in factories are guaranteed jobs, and even temporary workers can break their heads. You come from a rural area, who wants you?

As for moving bricks on the construction site, I'm sorry, the people who can do the work on the construction site are all construction companies, serious state-owned units, and there are no contractors.

Now, Li's father has absolute authority in this family. As the deputy director of the newspaper (deputy section level), he earns the salary of an 18th-level civil servant, 87.5 yuan per month.

What you think is so beautiful.

"It's okay, I just dreamed of eating meat buns."

The Li family lives in the front yard of a large courtyard. There are two main rooms facing north and south, and a side room, which adds up to more than 50 square meters.

The world in later generations is so big. I want to see it and then travel around with money for travel expenses, working all the way to support myself. It is simply not feasible at the moment.

To stay in a hotel by train, you must have a letter of introduction from the collective or unit.

It stands to reason that the eldest brother Li Weimin is already twenty-three years old. He should have made money to support the family and reduce the burden on the family. However, he is a careless boss. Li's father found him several jobs through connections. Every time, he would fight with others.

Learn something good.

In this era, people don't have much fat in their stomachs. They are like young men who work hard and can eat two kilograms of grain in one meal.

Eight people eat the food quota for five people, and the contradiction immediately became apparent.

Now, including Li Weidong and grandma, there are eight people in this family.

We were already in a tight situation, and now the addition of Li Weidong and grandma has undoubtedly made it worse.

A working adult woman weighs 28 pounds per month, while a male weighs slightly more, basically around 32 pounds.

Li's father and Li Weidong's stepmother moved into a separate room behind the living room.

Li Weibin sighed like a young adult, as if he was worried about the current situation of the family.

On the contrary, Li Weidong, who had just traveled through time, had a good sense of him.

When the household registration was determined in 1955, the household registration was directly settled in rural areas according to the local principle.

"Second brother, why are you arresting me?"

Li Weidong glanced at the younger brother who had snatched most of the quilt away, and said casually.

At this time, he missed the big fish and meat that he was tired of in his previous life.

As a modern person, Li Weidong naturally has no shortage of ideas to make money, but given the current background, he still needs to temporarily suppress his restless heart.

As for the separate wing room, it was given to the newly married eldest brother and sister-in-law.

Li Weidong sat up from the bed and touched his flat stomach. His stomach was burning, complaining about how useless the porridge with few millet grains and the fist-sized buns last night were.

If you think you can't starve to death even if you have arms and legs, I can only say that you are too naive.

Even your children are registered with their mother.

To be honest, the original owner didn't have much affection for this half-brother, and he even had hatred.

Li Weibin immediately stopped feeling sleepy, and his saliva almost flowed out.

But there are only five people registered in the food book.

To be honest, this salary is already very high. After all, a pound of Fuqiang noodles only costs 20 cents, and a pound of pork costs 60 cents.

It has been several days since he traveled back in time, and the peaceful life he had just begun to dream about is nowhere in sight.

A high dam has been built between the countryside and the city.

"Of course I have, but if we only expect our dad to make money, how can we afford meat?"

Next to him, the boy who was sleeping on the same bed muttered sleepily.

If you don’t have a food book and just go with food stamps, they won’t sell it to you at all.

And Li Weidong also has an elder brother named Li Weimin, who is five years older than him. He was lucky enough not to be thrown into the countryside back then. Now he is twenty-three years old, has no formal job, and is idle all day long. He just got married less than half a year ago.

Even if you want to beg for food on the street, you will be taken to the street police station and your background will be checked first.

His mother was injured when she gave birth to her sister Li Xueru, so her health has not been very good these years. In addition, when the child was still young, she did not go out to work and was always busy at home.

When Li's father's wife died, he threw away Li Weidong, who was still nursing, and then married another older girl. Later, he gave birth to a son and a daughter, namely Li Weibin and Li Xueru, who are now twelve and ten years old respectively.

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On the first night when the original owner came, he had a fight with his eldest brother, his head was broken, and he died in the middle of the night. This was an advantage to Li Weidong, who was born in 1987 and had the same name.

Taking urban residents, that is, non-agricultural residents, as an example, the planned rationing system is implemented.

Washing dishes in a hotel?

It wasn't until my grandfather passed away some time ago that he and his grandmother moved into the city.

Therefore, some wealthy families have no choice but to secretly buy some food stamps on the black market at the end of each month and then go out to restaurants.

In order to support the family, Li Weibin's mother would secretly take the meat stamps and food stamps issued by Li's father's work to the black market every month and exchange them for food.

Because of the arrival of Li Weidong and his grandma, the main room on the east side was separated, and his grandma and his sister Li Xueru lived on the kang inside.

Less than half of the money Li's father earned was used to compensate others.

And fine grains only account for a very small part, and the rest are coarse grains such as corn noodles, dried sweet potatoes, sorghum, and millet.

How many people are in your family's food book, how many food stamps will be issued to you, and recorded in the food book, and you can only buy the fixed amount of food every month.

And where did the food stamps come from?

You need to use food stamps + money to go out to restaurants, and you need to use food stamps + money to buy food.

But the problem is, at this moment, just having money is not enough.

My sister-in-law also has a rural household registration. Although she married into the city, there is currently no "agricultural to non-agricultural to non-agriculture" quota, so it is impossible to transfer to an urban household registration, and she cannot eat rations.

On the contrary, the place where I live is actually pretty good.

You must have food stamps.

Not long after the original owner was born, his mother died of illness, and his father left him in the countryside to be looked after by his grandparents.

"Meat bun?"

Then there will be a beggar leader waiting to teach you the rules.

It is really difficult to live nowadays.

"It would be great if I could have a game farm that I could play for the rest of my life." Li Weidong thought innocently.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished his thoughts, an illusory picture appeared in his mind.

(End of chapter)