Chapter 10 Feeding the Chickens

Han Mingxiu took the cloth bag, opened it, and saw a stack of large and small bills, including banknotes, cloth notes and oil notes. The largest denomination in the banknotes was ten yuan, and the total was twenty-two yuan and seventy-three cents. , it was the ones she issued today, as well as eight-foot cloth tickets and three-jin oil tickets.

In this era, the state has a certain quota for the supply of cloth grain and oil that the people consume every year. For example, soybean oil, a citizen only has three kilograms of soybean oil a year, that is to say, a person can eat up to three taels of soybean oil a month.

This little oil is not enough to eat for three days in modern times, but in this difficult era, it is not bad to eat three taels of soybean oil a month. For a little girl like Han Mingxiu, let alone three taels a month, Not even three drops, she hadn't eaten a drop of oil for half a year!

The cloth ticket is only given eight feet per person every year. Eight feet of cloth is only enough for an adult to make a suit of clothes. Farmers work in the fields three seasons a year, which is very expensive for clothes. Eight feet of cloth is not enough at all. Put on.

Therefore, everyone has to carry forward the new three years, the old three years, and the arduous and simple style of sewing and mending for another three years. All of them wear patched clothes. Some people can wear one piece of clothing for decades. What is the color of the original clothes?

However, fortunately everyone is like this, and no one is laughing at anyone.

The cloth ticket can not only buy cloth to make clothes, but also can be used to buy cotton. One foot of cloth ticket can buy a pound of cotton and ready-to-wear.

After Shen Ruolan got the cloth ticket, her first thought was to buy a few feet of white cloth and a few pounds of fine cotton.

In my memory, the original owner had already menstruated. During the menstrual period, he used a menstrual belt to cope with it. The so-called menstrual belt is a cotton cloth sewn similar to a sanitary napkin, but wrapped in a normal sanitary napkin. It is cotton, and the menstrual belt is packed with burnt straw ashes. The sanitary napkin is disposable. When the menstrual belt is used up, the straw ashes inside are thrown away, washed and dried, and then used next month.

Han Mingxiu can't stand this. She wants to buy a few feet of white cotton cloth and make disposable sanitary napkins with white cotton cloth and white cotton. Although it sounds a bit wasteful, there is no way. She really can't accept the repeated use of straw ash wrapped in it. Menstrual belt!

Xiuwa, look, your uncle brought back all your things. If someone talks to your wife in the village later, you have to help your uncle, but you can't let them be so blind and slaughter them!

Seeing that Han Mingxiu had counted everything, Han Zhide put forward his request in a timely manner.

Han Mingxiu was originally quite strange, what did the captain say? How could I let a person like Uncle who gave up his life and wealth obediently send her money, food and tickets back?

Now that she heard the second uncle say this, she understood a little bit.

Probably because the second uncle was afraid that their family's reputation for bullying the orphan daughter and niece would affect the big brother's marriage to a daughter-in-law, so he reluctantly returned the things!

The big brother is nineteen years old, and he is at the age of marrying a daughter-in-law. Now the second uncle and the second aunt are looking for a good girl for him to help him marry a daughter-in-law. I think he is afraid that the family will get a bad reputation and the good girl will not After entering the door of his house, he reluctantly returned the things back!

However, after thinking about it again, I think it is unlikely. The things that the second uncle returned were not three yuan or five yuan. These old money and food stamps were worth seventy or eighty yuan at least, so just rushed It's impossible for their family to make such a big sacrifice for their fame?

After thinking about it for a long time, she didn't want to understand what was going on, so she didn't bother to think about it. Anyway, the things came back, and she just took them as soon as they were good. As for why they would return the things to her, just take it It's up to the captain.

Don't worry, second uncle, if I hear someone making irresponsible remarks, I will definitely explain it to them, and I must not let them bury you! Han Mingxiu put the money and tickets in his pocket, happily assured Han Zhide.

Han Zhide looked sadly at the bundle of money and tickets that went into his niece's pocket, turned his eyes away, and said resentfully, That's right, you said that the people in our village are really true, our old Han family. What's the matter, they are following their hearts? This is a must-have, just chewing your tongue...

When he said these words, Han Zhide didn't mention how much he hated in his heart. If he didn't make them blind, could he return the money and food stamps? Even if it is only two months back, he is not at ease. The money is still in his pocket, and the food is kept in his own house. If you put it here, who knows if she will spend money indiscriminately or not? Will you be able to eat food?

The more he thought about it, the more troubled he became, especially when he saw bags of grain placed under the wall of his niece's house, he wanted to jump up and pick them all back, so he just couldn't see it or was upset, stood up and said , I have something to do at home, I'll go back first.

Let's go, don't worry about watching those things here!

Out of politeness, Han Mingxiu sent him to the door, and Han Zhide instructed before going out, Your mother told you not to spend money indiscriminately, nor to eat with refined grains, if you tell her to find you If she will live in chaos and harm things, they will be left with her.

I know second uncle!

Han Mingxiu agreed without a smile. But she said in her heart, shameless, she owns the money and food, she can spend whatever she wants, eat whatever she wants, it's none of their business? What are they doing to eat, why should they care how she lives, why don't they go to heaven?

When Han Zhide left, Han Mingxiu spat lightly at his back and went back to the house.

She has to feed the chicken first. This chicken has been brought here all morning, and it has not eaten yet. She is so hungry that she is still hungry. She plans to raise this chicken so that she can lay eggs for her.

After returning to the house, she took out a cabbage from the space, took off two wilted cabbage leaves, put them on the cutting board and chopped them up, and put them in a large bowl with a hole in the mouth. I was going to use this bowl as a chicken food bowl in the future, and sprinkled a small handful of sorghum rice on the chopped vegetable leaves.

After she's finished, this guy makes her feel bad. People can't eat anything these days. They even give food to chickens. It's so extravagant T_T.

However, distressed and distressed, she also understands the reason why she can't get rid of the wolf if she can't give up her child. If she wants the chicken to lay eggs for her, she has to raise and fatten the chicken well, otherwise the chicken can barely survive on its own, how can she give it to her? Does she lay eggs?

After feeding the chickens, she carried the chickens to the chicken coop in the back garden. There was a chicken coop at home. In the past, my parents raised one or two chickens every year and kept them for the New Year to kill and eat.

In order to prevent the chickens from flying out, she also specially beat the chickens' arms (in northern dialect, it means to cut off the long feathers on the wings of the chickens), so that everything is safe!