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Every day, he eats sweet potato porridge, with very little rice, and Ruihe's stomach is empty after every meal. He can really endure it. The rice planting period was the busiest and most tiring. He didn't dare to take more sweet potatoes because he saw that his sister-in-law didn't like him to take more sweet potatoes. Until this day, Li Dashui heard his stomach growling again and was surprised: "There are only three people in your family now, and your sister-in-law is also very capable. The three of them have enough work points. How can you be so hungry?"

Ruihe was very embarrassed: "Maybe I am growing up and I am hungry quickly."

Li Dashui frowned and asked: "Did your sister-in-law bully you?"

Ruihe's heart skipped a beat after hearing Li Dashui's words, and asked cautiously: "Why do you say that? My sister-in-law...didn't bully me."

"Don't hide it from me! I still know who she is? As your neighbor, who doesn't know she is mean? She looks very virtuous, but who doesn't know that she gave your mother porridge that year, without a grain of rice? And once she threw away your mother's bowl? Xiaoshan, don't learn to endure like your aunt, or you will starve yourself!"

This is the first time I heard about the original body's mother, but I didn't expect that she had such a relationship with the original body's sister-in-law? Porridge? He said tentatively: "My mother, she didn't die because of this."

Li Dashui snorted: "It must be related. Have you forgotten how thin your aunt was when she died? Her skin was sticking to her bones. Yes! I know! You want to say that there was really nothing to eat due to the drought that year, and you don't believe that your sister-in-law swept your mother's bowl and didn't let her eat. I am your friend, not your family. In fact, your sister-in-law can't bully me no matter what. Xiaoshan, I still remember that when I was six years old, you kept pulling me, otherwise I would have drowned. I just said a few words like this. If you listen, you listen. If you don't listen, I can't do anything." He patted Ruihe's shoulder, "Come to my house after dinner tonight. I'll leave you roasted sweet potatoes."

Ruihe listened to a lot of old stories, and he really couldn't connect Li Dashui's words with his sister-in-law. Although his sister-in-law... did give him a little face, but he didn't scold him or beat him, so he thought she was a good person. Alas, it's useless to think so much. She is Zhang Xiaoshan's sister-in-law, and he is Xu Ruihe.

He said to Li Dashui gratefully: "No, don't worry, my family has food, and we will definitely have enough tonight."

Li Dashui didn't quite believe it, and finally sighed and advised earnestly: "Don't always think that you are eating for free, you are sixteen! We are young, and the team leader will only give us eight work points at most. You also work six or seven points every day, and once before you made eight points. The food you earn is enough for you to eat. When your aunt was still there, there were also work points, so how could it be eating for free? Now you eat the food you earn yourself. If your sister-in-law says something to you, just fight back and don't give her too much face."

Li Dashui's words opened a window for Ruihe, and Ruihe's eyes lit up! He had only seen the production team distribute the freshly dug sweet potatoes a while ago, and thought that only those were earned by himself. No matter how thin the sweet potato porridge was, there was rice in it. He didn't know that the original owner also had a share of the rice, so how could he dare to pick and choose food?

It turns out that the original owner used to be very hardworking and had food distributed every year!

He couldn't help but smile, and suddenly felt confident.

He nodded seriously: "Thank you for caring about me so much, I will see to it."

Li Dashui smiled with satisfaction, "Then I'll wait for your news."

The next day, Li Dashui pulled Ruihe to ask him how he "saw to it" last night. Ruihe smiled: "I took two more steamed sweet potatoes last night!"

"... No, no more?"

Ruihe looked at him in confusion: "Do you want anything else? I ate so much last night, my sister-in-law glared at me several times and I pretended not to see it." At this point, he showed a proud expression of successful resistance, "I earned the sweet potatoes myself, so I'm not afraid of her. Later, my brother asked her if her eyes were uncomfortable, and she didn't dare to glare at me."

Li Dashui: "..."

Seeing his good friend showing an expression of "my brother is so good", Li Dashui wanted to call a thunderbolt to split the silly boy's head, see if there was any old cotton wool inside, and then burn it so that the boy could be smarter.

"Your brother just loves to be a good person." Li Dashui rolled his eyes. Seeing his friend looking at him in confusion, he tapped his friend's forehead in annoyance. "Forget it, I won't say anything. You are very good like this. Eat more when you are hungry and don't treat yourself badly."

"Yeah!"

Ruihe felt that his life was better. Although he had some heartburn from eating too many sweet potatoes, the feeling of fullness was real, and the number of times he woke up from hunger at night to drink well water decreased. As he got more used to this world, Ruihe's psychological pressure began to ease, and his mentality tended to be easy-going. With enough sleep and satisfied appetite, his body began to develop significantly. Two months later, he had grown a full ten centimeters compared to when he came, and his physique became more symmetrical from thin, and his cheeks began to have flesh.

One day, Li Dashui and Ruihe talked about the village bamboo factory to expand production, so they wanted to recruit workers!

"I heard that they work on a piecework basis. For every bamboo basket they make, they get 30 cents or 4 cents. If they make three, they get one dollar! My mother said that the factory has three people in a group, and they split the wages equally according to how many baskets they make in a day. So each person can get 80 cents, or even one dollar a day!"

Ruihe opened his mouth and widened his eyes like Li Dashui, and asked in a low voice: "One dollar?" After Li Dashui nodded excitedly, Ruihe also felt his heart burning. He asked carefully: "How much can you buy with one dollar here?" In his hometown, one dollar can buy a load of rice or five big fat chickens! I wonder if one dollar here is different from one dollar...

Li Dashui counted excitedly for Ruihe: "You can buy 100 fruit candies! You can also buy one and a half pounds of pork!" He clapped his hands vigorously, "Oh, and you can also buy 600 firecrackers!"

"Then, what about rice? How much rice can you buy?"

Li Dashui calculated and was a little uncertain: "Six pounds or seven pounds? I heard from my mother a few days ago that the rice in the grain station is 1.142 cents per pound."

Ruihe secretly calculated and found that one dollar here is indeed different from dollars. But it was also good, he could buy a pound and a half of pork, he wanted to eat meat so much, he used to work in the house for ten days or half a month and he could eat a little bit of oil residue, when it was a festival, the owner of the house would offer sacrifices, then there would be a lot of meat, the housekeeper would not be harsh on them, each person could get two big pieces of fat meat. That was the happiest time for him and his sister.

"With so much money, it's hard to get into the factory, right?" There must be many people scrambling for such a good job, Ruihe calmed down immediately.

Li Dashui nodded: "It's not easy to get in. The recruitment is very strict! You need to know how to weave bamboo baskets and bread bowls. The factory in our village undertakes these two kinds of work."

Ruihe was even more discouraged: "But I can't weave bamboo baskets and bread bowls. By the way, what is a bread bowl?"

"Bread is a kind of bun made by foreigners. The supply and marketing cooperative in the town sells that kind of bread! It smells very fragrant! Bread bowls are used to put that kind of bread, a bit like a washbasin."

Li Dashui has a childish temper. When talking about playing and eating, the topic can go off the topic by a hundred or eighty miles. Ruihe hurriedly asked: "Then what are you going to do? You always say you heard it, who did you hear it from?"

"My mother! My mother asked me to apply for the job. Anyway, the work points I made are not very useful."

According to the customary rules of the village, those under the age of 20 generally cannot be counted as full work points. Eight points are the most, and the others are three, four, five or six points. Li Dashui is the youngest son with older brothers and sisters. Although he can't be called lazy, he is not hardworking and has no fighting spirit. Now it's good enough to remember four or five points a day. His mother thought it would be better to let him go to the factory to earn some money. Anyway, there were many people in the family and the work points were sufficient, so his work points were not needed.

With more working money at home, it would be convenient to buy things on weekdays. The second son and the eldest daughter were both of marriageable age, and the family had already started to save cloth coupons, sugar coupons, etc., but if there was no money, even if there were coupons, they could not buy anything.

Hearing Li Dashui say this, Ruihe was really envious. It was great to have a mother, and he missed his mother too. At that time, he was seven years old, and his mother was doing embroidery work, and the candlelight shone on her eyebrows and eyes, which was very gentle. His mother's voice was also very gentle: "Ahe, after I hand in these jobs, I will send you to school tomorrow, and learn some principles from books."

At that time, he only held his three-year-old sister and coaxed her, and he was unwilling to go to school: "I have to take care of my sister, chop wood, and help my father open a stall, so I don't have time to go to school."

Ruihe suddenly thought of his mother, and his eyes were sore.

Li Dashui suddenly stopped talking, tilted his head carefully to look at Ruihe, patted his forehead in annoyance, and then put his arm around Ruihe's shoulders: "I told you this because I wanted you to sign up."

"But I can't weave."

"I can't either! So my mother has hired someone to teach me, and you can learn with me when the time comes."

It turned out that Li Dashui's mother was really smart. Since she planned to let her son work in the factory, she had to let the child learn what he should learn. As soon as she heard about the factory's recruitment, she immediately found a master for Li Dashui. That master was an old man in the factory called Brother Yong, who happened to be a relative of Li Dashui's mother. Li Dashui should call him his cousin.

Li Dashui said that his mother gave Brother Yong ten kilograms of sweet potatoes and a two-liang sugar ticket as a gift, and Mingyong agreed to teach Li Dashui. He taught for five nights, and the factory started recruiting five days later.

"Start learning tonight. Come to my house after dinner and we'll go together."

Ruihe was very touched, but he was a little worried that if he went to the factory, he would not have work points, and the team would not give him food. What would he do?

Li Dashui said, "Did you forget? Even if you don't have cents, you can still get food every year."

It turns out that now the big collective is important, and people who don't work and don't have cents can also get 108 kilograms of food every year. Ruihe didn't know this, and he almost couldn't hide the surprise on his face when he heard it for the first time.

There are such good things? This place is really good. As long as you work hard, you can have food to eat, and if you don't work, you can still get food.

"I almost forgot, I remember it." He quickly fooled around and kept the news in his heart. 108 kilograms of rice a year may seem small, but when he makes money, he can buy food by himself. There are gains and losses, he understands this truth.

He quickly made up his mind: "Then I will go to learn with you!"

At this time, he didn't know that you can't buy rice with money.