It was cold!
Li Weidong instinctively reached out his hand to the side.
Flat?
A jolt jolted him awake from his dream.
Cold wind was constantly seeping in through the dilapidated windows. In the cramped bedroom, the walls were covered with old newspapers. With the help of the light from the early morning outside, one could vaguely make out the title: He tightened his belt and strode forward.
It was now 1962, and the location was the courtyard that was full of love in the movie, the place where the round widow Qin lived.
Although the difficult period had basically passed and the market was no longer in short supply, it was still normal for people in both the city and the countryside to not have enough to eat.
Many people's belts were about to snap because of this.
However, compared to the countryside, life in the city was much better.
At this time, as long as you were registered in the city and had food at home, even a crippled unemployed person could easily find a beautiful virgin in the nearby countryside.
Moreover, he didn't need a house or a car. He just needed to give him five kilograms of coarse grain.
The countryside and the city seemed to have built a high dam.
Not long after the Host was born, his mother died of illness. His father threw him to the countryside and asked his grandparents to take care of him.
In 1955, when the household registration was determined, according to the local principle, the household registration was directly placed in the countryside.
It was only when his grandfather passed away that he moved into the city with his grandmother.
On the first night of the Host's arrival, she had a fight with her elder brother. Her head was smashed and she died in the middle of the night. It was all thanks to Li Weidong, who was born in 1987 and had the same name.
In this family, Mr. Li had absolute authority. As the deputy director of the newspaper office, he received a salary of 87.5 yuan a month as a civil servant.
To be honest, this salary was already very high. After all, a catty of rich and strong powder was only 20 cents, and a catty of pork was 60 cents.
However, the problem was that money was not enough.
You have to have food stamps.
To eat in a restaurant, one had to use food stamps money. To buy food, one had to use food stamps money.
Where did the food stamps come from?
For example, urban residents, which were non-agricultural households, implemented a planned rationing system.
Female adults who worked weighed 28 pounds a month, while men weighed slightly more, about 32 pounds.
Moreover, fine grains only accounted for a small portion. The rest were coarse grains such as rice flour, dried sweet potatoes, broomcorn, and millet.
The number of people in your family's grain book would be given to you, and it would be recorded in the grain book. You could only buy that quota of grain every month.
If you didn't have any food capital and only brought food stamps, they wouldn't sell it to you at all.
On the other hand, state-owned restaurants did not need to bring food.
Therefore, some wealthy families would go to the black market to secretly buy some food stamps at the end of each month and then go to a restaurant. It was a kind of helplessness.
Father Li's wife had passed away and abandoned Li Weidong, who was still nursing his mother's milk. He then married another woman and later gave birth to a son and a daughter. They were Li Weibin and Li Xueru, who were now 12 and 10 years old respectively.
Li Weidong also had an older brother named Li Weimin, who was five years older than him. He was lucky enough not to be thrown to the countryside back then. Now, he was twenty-three years old and did not have a formal job. He just got married less than half a year ago.
Sister-in-law was also a rural household register. Although she married into the city, there was no quota for 'conversion from farming to non-farming' at the moment. It was impossible for her to convert to urban household registration, so she could not eat rations.
Even if it's your child, it's still registered with your mother.
Now, including Li Weidong and Grandma, there were eight people in the family.
However, there were only five people registered in the food book.
Eight people were eating the food quota for five people, and the contradiction immediately became apparent.
On the contrary, the place they were staying in was actually not bad.
The Li family lived in the front yard of the complex. There were two main houses facing south and a wing, which added up to about 50 square meters.
Because of Li Weidong and Grandma's arrival, the main house on the east side was separated. Grandma and her sister, Li Xueru, lived on the kang inside.
The 1.2-meter bed outside belonged to Li Weidong and his underling, Li Weibin.
Mr. Li and Li Weidong's stepmother moved into a separate room behind the living room.
As for the private room, it was given to his eldest brother and sister-in-law who had just gotten married.
Li Weidong sat up on the bed and touched his flat stomach. His stomach felt like it was on fire. He complained about how useless the porridge and fist-sized cornbread were last night.
In this era, people didn't have much money in their stomachs. For example, young and strong people who worked hard could easily eat two catties of grain for a meal.
At this moment, he missed the big fish and meat that he was already sick of in his previous life.
It had been a few days since he had transmigrated. He had just begun to fantasize about living a flat life, but it was still far away.
"Second Brother, why did you grab me?"
Beside him, the underling who was sleeping on the same bed mumbled with sleepy eyes.
"I'm fine. I just dreamed of eating meat buns.”
Li Weidong glanced at his underling who had snatched half of the blanket and said casually.
"Bun-Hit-Dog?"
Li Weibin was no longer sleepy, and his saliva was about to flow out.
"Do you want to eat?" Li Weidong asked.
To be honest, the Host did not have much feelings for her half-brother. In fact, she even hated him.
On the contrary, Li Weidong, who had just transmigrated, had a good impression of him.
After all, when he had just woken up, the other party had brought him medicine and stuffed him with cornbread.
"Of course I want to, but if we only rely on our dad to earn money, how can we afford to eat meat?”
Li Weibin sighed like an adult, as if he was worried about the current situation of the family.
His mother had been injured when she gave birth to her sister, Li Xueru, so her health had not been good all these years. In addition, the child was still young before, so she did not go out to work and had been busy at home.
Logically speaking, his eldest brother, Li Weimin, was already twenty-three years old. He should have been earning money to support the family and reduce the burden on the family. However, he was a troublesome person. Father Li used his connections to find him several jobs. Every time, he would fight with others and not learn from them.
Half of the money that Mr. Li earned was used to compensate them.
He had thought that he would be able to understand something after getting married, but Mr. Li's painstaking efforts were clearly in vain.
In order to supplement the family, Li Weibin's biological mother would secretly exchange the meat and food coupons given by Li Weibin's father's unit to the black market for food every month.
They were already short of money, and now Li Weidong and Grandma were added to the mix.
"When I start working and earn money, I'll treat you to meat buns.”Li Weidong promised.
As a modern man, Li Weidong naturally had plenty of ideas to make money, but considering the current era, he temporarily suppressed his restless heart.
If you think that you won't starve to death just because you have hands and feet, you can only say that you're too naive.
"The world in the future is so big. I want to go and take a look. Then, I'll take the money to wander around and work to support myself. It's impossible now.
To stay in a hotel by train, one had to have a recommendation letter from a group or unit.
Work in the factory?
Sorry, there were no private enterprises these days. The workers in the factory had an iron rice bowl. Even temporary workers could break their heads. Who would want a farmer like you?
As for moving bricks at the construction site, sorry, only construction companies were capable of doing so. It was a proper state-owned unit, and there were no contractor.
Washing dishes in a restaurant?
You wish.
Even if you wanted to beg on the streets, you would be sent to the police station to check your background first.
Then, there would be a beggar leader waiting to teach you the rules.
At the moment, it was really difficult to live.
"It would be great if I could have a game farm like the one I played in my previous life.”Li Weidong thought naively.
Who knew that just as this thought fell, an illusory image appeared in his mind.
"Ding, do you wish to bind to the virtual reality game Gege Farm?”
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