Wear It with Space - Chapter 9

At the time of the New Year, Shen Ling just pasted the matchbox for a month, earning a total of more than ten yuan. In addition to the one catty meat ticket, the half catty oil ticket, the two to two sugar ticket, and the 35 foot cloth ticket issued, it is already possible to have a relatively prosperous year.

Only when he went out to buy meat with a meat ticket, Shen Ling almost used all his best to go to the cafeteria to eat in high school, and then he made a way out of the crowd and bought a pound of lean meat.

On the night of New Year’s Eve, Shen Ling used cabbage and lean meat as fillings and wrapped 50 dumplings.

After the dumplings were served, Shen Ling took a bite, and his mouth was full of the delicious smell of pork. Zheng Hao also shouted that it was delicious.

Untimely, Shen Ling remembered that in the past, every Chinese New Year, his mother would always cook a large table of good dishes, and then the dinner from the first to the fifteenth day would always be dumplings with various fillings. It’s just that Shen Ling always feels that those dishes contain too much oil and dumplings are filled with too much meat.

Now it’s good, everyone only has two taels of oil a month. As for pork, you can only eat it during the Chinese New Year.

“Grandma, when will we be able to eat dumplings every day?” Zheng Hao was struggling to eat and asked Shen Ling with a full burp.

Shen Ling smiled and said, “When you grow up to the height of your grandma, you will be able to eat dumplings all at once at home.”

After the Spring Festival, the earth began to rejuvenate.

In two or three months of work, the apricot tree Chen Yun planted in the yard spit out flower buds, and many weed shoots grew on the corners of the yard.

When the spring is full, Zheng Hao refuses to play in the yard anymore, he insists on yelling to go to the outskirts of spring. When Shen Ling persuaded him to exercise, he had promised that as long as he did gymnastics ten times a day, he would take him out for outing in spring.

Shen Ling naturally did what he said. The two grandparents quickly chose a sunny day and took the bus to Yanqing Mountain in the outskirts.

Tourism at this time was still underdeveloped, and Yanqing Mountain itself was not a place of historical interest, so there were basically no tourists, but from time to time two or three and a half girls or boys digging wild vegetables on the mountain.

At this time, the middle school has closed classes, and half of the girls and boys can already be worth half of the labor force. The adults go down to earn work points, and the rest of the family’s work falls on them.

Shen Ling felt that now that he took the responsibility of raising Zheng Hao, he should not only care about his health, but also cultivate his life skills. Although his life will be on the right track again in five or six years, he should also know about the hardships of life and the hard work.

When Zheng Hao was tired from playing, Shen Ling took him to sit on the grass and began to recognize some edible wild vegetables. The following afternoon, Zheng Hao followed Shen Ling and recognized the gray ash, shepherd’s purse, dandelion, and purslane.

When he returned home, Zheng Hao ate half a bowl of rice more than usual with dishes made from wild vegetables. In the end, he still clamored that he would go to the mountain to dig wild vegetables in a few days.

Shen Ling promised him that when he could recognize a hundred new characters, he would take him to Yanqing Mountain.

Shen Ling didn’t say this to make him read, but the last time she was digging wild vegetables in Yanqing Mountain, she accidentally saw a hare on the mountain. In the era of lack of meat and oil, Shen Ling wanted to strengthen Zheng Hao’s nutrition, so she had no choice but to use these wild animals.

But before she could think of a way, Zheng Hao had recognized a hundred new words.

When the two arrived at Yanqing Mountain this time, Shen Ling suddenly noticed that there were a few more adults on the mountain, and they were still holding a local dog in their hands. Shen Ling understood that it was not only him who dare to love, but the people in these suburbs also got the idea of ​​the hare.

Shen Ling took Zheng Hao to dig wild vegetables nearby. From time to time, he heard the screams and barking of a few of them, and the whole Yanqing Mountain immediately became lively.

When the sun went to the sky, those people appeared in Shen Ling’s sight with a few hares.

Shen Ling looked at the hares, and finally couldn’t help but stopped the others and offered to use money to buy the hares in their hands.

Those few people went up the mountain to catch rabbits to improve the food at home, and now they heard that some people want to buy them, two people immediately asked: “Then how much do you pay?”

Shen Ling said, “How about one dollar?”

Finally, after some bargaining, Shen Ling bought two hares for three yuan, and one of the remaining three asked: “Do you have a cloth ticket in your hand? I will give you this hare if you have the cloth ticket. “

The person next to him said: “Gen, what do you want to do with the ticket? Your family is nothing but a happy event.”

The man called Genzi said: “The child’s mother is going to visit relatives next month, and wants to pull a few feet of cloth to make a dress. But I have been unable to get all the cloth tickets.” He looked at Shen Ling, “This big sister, I don’t know you Do you have any tickets in hand? If you have, let alone this hare, it’s ten, I will try to get it for you.”

Shen Ling’s heart moved, and she couldn’t help but smile and said: “I have the ticket, but two or three hares are enough. If you have fine grain in your hand, I can change it with you.”

Genzi thought for a while: “Okay, but you have to give me a few days of grace.”

Shen Ling smiled and said: “This is easy to handle. Five days later, we will come here and pay the votes and food.”

When he returned home, Shen Ling found out the cloth ticket issued during the Chinese New Year. This cloth ticket has an expiration date and will be invalidated after one year. She used to wear clothes without fabrics, and Zheng Hao was still young and didn’t use much fabric. It is better to exchange the remaining cloth tickets for fine grain.

Five days later, Shen Ling exchanged a seventeen-foot cloth ticket for ten kilograms of white flour.

In the summer, Shen Ling exchanged some fresh vegetables for some pastry tickets and biscuits tickets that were not used at home. These vegetables can be stored in the space for winter consumption.

In autumn, Shen Ling took Zheng Hao to Yanqing Mountain to pick persimmons and knock walnuts. Both exercised and stored food for the winter, killing two birds with one stone.

Time flies and the end of the year is up, and the family needs to buy winter cabbage and radishes, briquettes for heating, everything costs money. Shen Ling’s money from the matchbox for a year was almost spent. She was thinking about some way to get the money, and Chen Yun’s daughter wrote a letter.

The letter first expressed her longing for Chen Yun and Zheng Hao, and then wrote about how difficult the conditions for their decentralization were. Finally, she hoped that Chen Yun could help them with dozens of dollars and let them have a relatively better winter.

Naturally, this money has to be remitted too.

Shen Ling took 60 yuan from the original savings and mailed it to Chen Yun’s daughter, and calculated silently in his heart. There are still more than 400 yuan in the family, and he can only earn more than 100 yuan per year by sticking matchboxes. money.

If it saves some use, it should be able to support four to five years. However, in order to improve Zheng Hao’s health, I wanted to eat better and subsidized Chen Yun’s daughter. This way, I felt a little stretched.

I have to find another job myself.

But in this era, she can’t do a small business, otherwise she will cook some food or get some fresh vegetables to sell in winter.

After thinking and thinking, Shen Ling didn’t think of a good way, so he could only go one step at a time.

One day, Mrs. Xu came to visit, but it was not An Rui who led by her side, but a boy of two or three years old. It turned out that after An Rui went to elementary school this year, Mrs. Xu was lonely at home. She was introduced to a family to look after children. This relieved her loneliness and made money.

Shen Ling was heartbroken. After Mrs. Xu left, he thought about it. Although Zheng Hao is not yet at the age of elementary school, he is not naughty on weekdays, and he can bring such a child at home. You should know that the income of 30 yuan a month with children is more than that of sticking matchboxes.

After Shen Ling thought about it, he went to find Mrs. Xu and said his plan. Mrs. Xu owed Shen Ling a lot of favor, so she was naturally willing to help.

So a few days later, there was a two-year-old girl named Nana in Shen Ling’s house. Nana is a particularly quiet and shy child, as long as she is fed and drunk, she can play with a toy for an afternoon.

Shen Ling originally thought that when Nana came, she wouldn’t be able to paste the matchbox during the day. However, this child is very obedient and doesn’t like to go out, even Zheng Hao can take her.

Shen Ling is as good to her as Zheng Hao because of her sensibility and ability to do two tasks a day. She now has surplus money in her hand, and her daily meals are almost the same. Sometimes there are fruits and snacks after the meal. When Zheng Hao did gymnastics, Shen Ling also asked her to do a few simple movements.

After Nana stayed at her house for more than two months, her face was ruddy, but she was not fat.

However, her changes were not as good as Zheng Hao. For the past year, Shen Ling allowed him to eat well and sleep well, and he continued to exercise every day. The whole person was obviously taller and he was full of vigor.

The system 25 recently reminded Zheng Hao’s health value to have reached 65. As long as this standard continues, his health value will reach 80 within two years.

When people are busy, time passes very fast.

One year later, Zheng Hao’s health value finally reached 80.

Shen Ling immediately felt relieved. After sending Zheng Hao to elementary school, she quit her job as a matchbox.

Zheng Hao was a little uncomfortable when he first entered school, but soon he had a playmate.

On Sunday, he brought two playmates to the house as a guest. Shen Ling took out some snacks he made to entertain them, and left them for a good lunch at noon. Soon Zheng Hao built self-confidence in front of the two friends.

At this time, the situation was not as tense as in previous years, and Zheng Hao was not alone in the school as a rightist’s son and daughter, so later on, there were more and more classmates playing with Zheng Hao, and Shen Ling gradually relieved his heart.

She didn’t want her hard-earned child to be bullied in school. Of course, the most important thing was that after Zheng Hao’s psychological problems, the health value she so easily raised to him would also be affected.

When Zheng Hao was in the second grade, Nana was also at the age of kindergarten.

Shen Ling sent Nana away, a lot of time was spared. At this time, there was only one year away from the task, and the savings at home were enough to support two or three years, so Shen Ling stopped looking for a job to do it.

In her spare time, she uses the remaining money or unused cloth tickets to exchange some wild animals or vegetables from the farmers in the suburbs.

The two quick-wearing experiences gave her some experience, no matter what time, there is always no harm in preparing more food.

When the Gang of Four was crushed, Zheng Hao was in the third grade. Shen Ling sent him out for the last time. Seeing his figure disappearing into the distance, the familiar voice of the system rang in his mind.

System 25: “Zheng Hao’s health value has reached ninety, and the task is completed, he can earn one hundred points.”