Watches are definitely a luxury item in this era.

For those who have the conditions, if they get married, they can barely buy a domestic watch worth tens of dollars, which is already very affordable. Even if you wear a 100,000 yuan diamond ring when you get married in the future, others will not feel envious, but now a watch worth tens of yuan will definitely make you look good.

The watch Lin Yun painted was only twenty or thirty yuan, and it was given to her by my aunt after wearing it, as a gift for going to the countryside.

After going to the countryside, the farm work was heavy, and Lin Yunhua was reluctant to wear that watch, so he kept it away. As a result, last year, when the family was away, the youngest son of the old family, Tang Jinwu, he ransacked the box and took the watch that Lin Yunhua had drawn. The block watch was pulled out.

The elder sister-in-law Bai Xiumei put it on when she saw it. Lin Yunhua asked, and Bai Xiumei said that her brother was getting married, so she borrowed the wearer, and there was no time to return it.

Lin Yun has a thin skin and a weak temper. She asked the sister-in-law twice but didn't give it back, so she was embarrassed to ask for it again.

When the matter of the watch was mentioned, Bai Xiumei said directly: "Why are you in a hurry, it's just a watch, it's all worn by relatives. My sister is going on a blind date these two days, so I'll lend her to wear it for a few days."

Yun Hua smiled, "Sister-in-law is right, a watch is really nothing, but I think my sister-in-law's family really needs this watch, so how about it, I'll sell this watch to sister-in-law at half price. I bought it for 38 yuan , sister-in-law just give me 19 yuan."

"That broken watch of yours is worth 38 yuan! You are stealing money!" Bai Xiumei almost jumped up.

"I'll give you a 50% discount, not 38, just 19 yuan." Yun Hua said, "It's okay if sister-in-law has no money. When the family is separated the day after tomorrow, it will be directly deducted from your big house account."

"How dare you! Anyone who cares about your broken watch will return it to you tomorrow!"

"Then I'll wait."

Bai Xiumei was so angry that she went back to her room cursing.

Yun Hua chuckled, and when she turned around, she saw her second sister-in-law, Chen Ying, looking at her with a little worry in her eyes.

"Third siblings, you really want to separate, what will you do after the separation?" Chen Ying asked in a low voice.

Yun Hua sighed, "Second sister-in-law, you don't want to separate?"

Chen Ying kept a dull face and said nothing.

Yun Hua said: "Are you willing to live like this all the time? Second brother and you are the most capable in our family, and your family Jin Yuan and Jin Zhou are also honest and willing children, and your family Zao Zao. Second sister-in-law is not I said, Jin Yuan, Jin Zhou didn't even go to elementary school, and they will be blind from now on. You can bear to see them digging food in the fields all day like you. Zao Zao should go to elementary school at the age of Zao Zao."

"There is no money at home..." Chen Ying took a gourd ladle to scoop water, with a bitter expression on his face.

Yun Hua said: "Now the tuition fee for elementary school is only one yuan, is it much? How much does Jinwen spend on pens, notebooks, schoolbags, and other expenses every year? And my baby sister-in-law Yuhong goes to high school in the county, one month In addition to food, how many dollars do you need to spend, but the three dollars that Jin Yuan, Jin Zhou and Zao Zao went to school are missing?"

"Mother said that Jin Yuan Jin Zhou is not material to study..."

"How do you know if you don't learn? Who is born to learn, who knows everything from birth, so what is there to learn? Besides, even if your children don't go to school, you won't have a good time at home. The most hard work is the hardest. The most tiring, the worst food and the least spending." Yun Hua said, "I don't care if you and the second brother are willing to work hard, but you should see how your children are living."

Chen Ying's face was very ugly. She couldn't help but look at her daughter Tang Zao who was burning the fire. Not to mention her sallow and emaciated face, the clothes on her body were changed with her clothes, patch after patch, and her little hands were unbelievably rough.

"Zaozao, do you want to go to school?" Yun Hua asked.

Tang Zao hesitated, looked at his mother, lowered his head, and did not answer.

Chen Ying gritted her teeth: "Jaozao, tell me, do you want to go to school?"

"...Think." The little girl said in a low voice, "I want to be as learned as my aunt, and I also want to be a teacher..."

In 1976, that trend has weakened a lot.

The school has resumed classes a long time ago. Although the college entrance examination has not resumed, the school that should be attended is still in progress. The thought of the flower planters for thousands of years is that reading is the first. I will not talk about those who have no conditions. But if there are conditions, they will definitely let their children go. read.

Chen Ying looked at her daughter, feeling sad.

As Yun Hua said, the second room does the most work at home. Although it is not as good as Tang Jianqing, the third room, the second room has always earned the most work points, and the second room does the most work at home. Even the second room The children are the hardest and most able to work. But the second room is also the most non-existent. If there is work, the second room will do it, and if there are good things, the second room has to stand aside.

"Zaozao! When the family is separated, Mom will let you go to school with your brothers!"

"Really!" Tang Zao's eyes lit up instantly, "Mom, I promise to study hard, and I'll mow the grass and pick up cow dung after school, and I won't spend any extra money!"

Dinner is a pot of sweet potato rice, a large amount of sweet potato, a small amount of cornmeal, boiled in a large pot, and then a few vegetable pancakes, sorghum noodles and corn bread, is a family meal.

Yun Hua could still eat the sweet potato rice, but the sorghum corn bread was so thick that she couldn't swallow it even after breaking it up and soaking it.

But even with such a meal, you can't be full, because you don't have to work at night, so why eat so much? This is the current situation in rural areas.

The Tang family is still good, three meals a day, even if the last meal is less, many people eat two meals a day.

Sleeping at night is a big problem.

Fortunately, the two brats knew that they had to wash their hands, face and feet before going to bed. This was also a habit that Lin Yunhua had cultivated for them, and they were always laughed at for this.

It is normal to not pay attention to hygiene in rural areas these days, but it is rare to pay attention to hygiene.

Yun Hua asked the two children to take off their clothes, and she took them out to wash them. It was windy outside in summer, and they dried overnight.

But the two boys refused and insisted on washing it by themselves.

"Mom, I'll do the laundry myself." Doudou said, "If you don't want mom to do the laundry, mom won't leave."

This is still afraid of her leaving.

Yun Hua felt sour.

"Mom won't leave. If she wants to leave, she will take the two of you with her. She will never leave you behind," Yun Hua said.

This word has been believed, but Dudu is obviously not so easy to believe.

In the past, Lin Yunhua was bullied and always cried in private. She thought that the child could not understand, so she often hugged the child and cried, saying that she wanted to go back to the city instead of staying in the countryside and so on.

But in fact, children are the most sensitive. They have been able to listen to adults since they were two or three years old.

Lin Yunhua really wanted to go back to the city, which had caused a great psychological shadow on the children, which couldn't be removed for a while.

"Mom will wash with you. We'll clean up and go to town tomorrow."

"Going into the city?" Doudou and Dudu were very surprised.

"right."

The next morning, Yun Hua got up at five o'clock.

There is nothing in the kitchen now. After she split the cabinet yesterday, after eating more than a dozen eggs and noodles, the old lady took all the leftovers into her own room, and it was impossible for her to go to the old lady's room to pick thing.

Niang San went out so hungry.

Along the way, listen to whose stomach can sing better.

It takes four or five miles from the village to the commune, and then you can take a car to the county seat at the commune. The journey is about sixty or seventy miles. The fare is ten cents for adults and five cents for children. That’s it. Many people don’t even pay this fare Willing to spend, after all, it is too difficult for rural people to earn money.

If you don't do business these days, you will be reported as speculative, and you will have no way to make money. You can save a penny. Besides, it is common for rural people to run dozens of miles on two legs. .

It was also the first time for Doudou and Dudu to take a bus, and it was very fresh.

There are not many people on the bus now, and Doudou and Dudu have seats. If there are more people on the bus later, their children will have to stand, even if they have bought half-price tickets.

The two little guys were so excited that Yun Hua felt sad for a while.

I have never experienced this era, I only heard it from other people's mouths, and the feeling is completely different from my own experience.

It's really too bitter.

Looking at the two little guys, Yun Hua didn't know whether she should pray for herself to go back quickly, leave this world quickly, and return to her own world...

In her world, her husband and children are still waiting for her.

But what if she can never go back?

What if she never saw Bao Siqing again?

Yun Hua's tears suddenly fell.

The emotions that were pent up in my heart exploded in an instant.

"Mom, what's wrong with you." DouDou was startled.

Dudu also looked at Yun Hua nervously.

Yun Hua quickly wiped away her tears, and said with a smile, "I'm fine, it's just..."

"Mom, do you miss Dad?" Doudou whispered.

Yun Hua was startled.

Doudou said again: "Mom, my brother and I will be filial to you from now on."

Dudu didn't speak, but he looked at Yun Hua firmly.

The children knew very well in their hearts that their father was no longer there. The people in the village looked at them with sympathy.

A child without a father in the village is very pitiful and will be bullied by everyone.

Goudan had no father since he was a child, and his mother remarried. He lived with his grandparents and uncles, and all the children in the village could bully him.

What Tang Jinwu of the uncle's family likes to do most is to let Goudan slip under his crotch. In order to avoid being beaten, Goudan often drills Goudan's crotch.

Last time Tang Jinwu urinated on Goudan, Goudan didn't dare to cry.

Thinking of such a day, Doudou is also afraid, he doesn't want to become like a dog.

He, Dudu and Mom!

But my mother never quarreled with others, let alone fight with others. He and Dudu were bullied, so my mother would take them to other people's homes to ask for an explanation. Instead, he scolded his mother too.

Doudou became worried again.

But DouDou suddenly remembered that my mother seemed different. Yesterday my mother dared to take an ax to break grandma's cabinet, but my mother was most afraid of grandma!

Now my mother is still taking them into the city, does that mean that my mother has also become more powerful?

DouDou thought a lot in his little mind.

Yun Hua stroked the two little guys, "There are no big men in our family, so you two should grow up to be big men quickly, and help mother support our home, okay?"

"Okay!" The two little guys said in unison, "We protect Mom!"

...

The old-fashioned bus smelled bad, the road was bad, the car was rickety, Yun Hua was motion sick, and the two little guys were pale.

After getting out of the car, the three mother and son retched on the side of the road, but they didn't eat anything in the morning, and they couldn't vomit.

"Mom, it's a good thing we didn't eat, otherwise we would have vomited." DouDou said.

Dudu pouted and nodded seriously.

Yun Hua laughed: "It's because you haven't eaten that you're more likely to get motion sickness. This time in a hurry, next time you go to the back mountain to pick some orange leaves and take them with you, you won't get motion sickness easily."

"Mom, where are we going now?" Doudou asked.

Yun Hua said, "Go find something to eat first."

Private businesses are not allowed these days, and public cafeterias need food stamps, so even if you have money, you can't buy anything.

But now it is 76 years, and many aspects have loosened a lot.

In the past few years, the black market was very strict, but it has been loosened a lot in the past two years, and it is not too difficult to find the black market.

Yun Hua had done criminal investigation anyway, so it was too easy for her to find the black market.

Buying and selling things in private is easy to be labeled as speculation, so the black market pays attention to speed.

Buyers and sellers are faster.

"Dudou Doudou, the two of you stand here waiting for mom. Mom will be back soon. Remember, no matter what happens, you must never leave a step or go with anyone. If someone wants to drag you, just Shout out for traffickers, call out for child abduction, remember?"

"Remember!" DouDou and DuDu agreed straightforwardly.

Yun Hua hurried to the alley.

Seeing the unfamiliar face, the people in the black market became vigilant almost immediately.

Yun Hua didn't explain much, and asked someone, "The kids are hungry and want to buy something to eat."

The man didn't speak, and pointed forward.

Yun Hua walked forward and saw someone carrying a backpack dangling vigilantly.

"What do you have to eat?" Yun Hua asked.

"5 points for meat buns, 2 points for eggs, 2 points for white buns, and 5 points for sugar gyro."

Sugar gyro is a pastry made by wrapping white sugar with hot noodles, kneading it into a round cake shape and then frying it. Get a meat bun.

"5 meat buns, 5 eggs, and 5 sugar tops." Yun Hua took out 80 cents directly.

The sister-in-law who sold the things was taken aback, and quickly wrapped the things in newspaper and handed them to Yun Hua.

Ink-printed newspaper used to wrap food...

There was no way for Yun Hua to dislike her, so she secretly reminded herself that the next time she went out, she should remember to bring a clean cloth pocket or something, after all, there were no convenient bags to use now.

After buying something good, Yun Hua left immediately. The two little guys must be starving.

Sure enough, as soon as she went out, she saw Doudou looking around, looking anxiously and eagerly. Although Dudu looked calm, his eyes still revealed his emotions. The moment he saw Yun Hua, he His eyes lit up.

As soon as he walked up to the two little guys with his things in his arms, Doudou's nose was already raised: "Mom, it smells so good!"

What a dog nose.

Yun Hua took the two little guys to a shady place, and the mother and son ate the dust on the road.

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