STEPMOM OF MY CHILDREN AND MY SECOND WIFE

chapter 5 care about life

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

In the past ten years or so, the nationwide rural areas have been engaged in the "Agricultural Learning " 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 wonen 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,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-laws and young children, the family can also occasionally eat eggs and meat.

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 Jia ..... 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 are sisters  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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so she care about good life... but she can't ridicule  her sister-in-law....

After getting well, Dong Jia 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, but now it's ruined  like this...

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. How could it be possible to stand obediently and wait for his mother to beat him. He ran faster on two legs than a rabbit, and ran out from the far door in a blink of an eye,

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 teach 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 she took off  (hammer's  clothes ) looked around and said it was difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, she 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.

can be 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.