Restarting life by going to the countryside to support medical work

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What should I do if I can’t find a wife in the city?
Easy! Moyali's mother asked someone from the countryside to introduce him to a man.

There are many people who want to marry in the city.

In fact, Fan Chunmei already had a boyfriend in her village at that time, but the boy's family was similar to hers, both were extremely poor, so her parents certainly didn't agree.

He said that he disagreed because it was for her own good, but then he sold her to the matchmaker from Mo Jiatuo for twenty dollars.

The reason why the matchmaker could come directly to her home was because the matchmaker had known Fan Chunmei's mother before.

Twenty yuan was not an astronomical figure in that era, but it was also a considerable amount of money, especially for rural areas. Even if all the people in the Fan family who could earn work points were added together and worked hard all year round, they would not be able to earn that much money after deducting the cost of food and drink.

Some things are impossible to think about in detail. If Fan Chunmei had not married into the Mo family, but instead got together with the young man from the same village whom she had dated, she would definitely not be able to move her household registration into the city, and she would not be able to eat commercial grain, let alone have a job.

Then her life must still be very difficult now.

Because it is like this now and for a long time to come, life in the countryside cannot catch up with that in the city.

From this perspective, her parents' forced marriage of her to the Mo family was actually for her own good.

But Fan Chunmei obviously doesn't think so. She has been married for nearly three years and has never returned to her parents' home. However, she sends five yuan home every month as a way of showing filial piety to her parents.

Li Yancheng had no idea what happened before, but her father and her older brother came in person last week.

Her family members didn't know from whom, but Fan Chunmei's husband and mother-in-law were both dead. Not only did she take over her husband's job, she also received a considerable amount of pension from her mother-in-law's unit when she was dead.

The father and son came here with their eyes on the money. Not only that, they even wanted her current job, and wanted her to transfer the job to her older brother.

How could Fan Chunmei agree to this?

As a result, there was a lot of noise in her house at that time, and her father was about to hit her. Fortunately, he was stopped by Lao Zhao and Jin Zhihai who heard the noise and rushed over.

And after Jin Zhihai's intimidation, her father and her older brother reluctantly left Yard No. 20.

But just by looking at the expressions of her father and her older brother when they left, you could tell that this matter was definitely not over.

Sigh... I don't know how this woman will deal with her family in the future.

After parking the car under the eaves and entering the house, Li Yancheng took out the still hot lunch box and two steamed buns from the warehouse.

The lunch box contains stewed pork chop. I don’t know when it was bought. It comes out the same way it went in from the warehouse.

At first, when he ate these things that he took out of the warehouse and had bought for who knows how many days, he felt a little uncomfortable because he always felt that they were not fresh.

Now I'm used to it, and it tastes delicious.

Stewed pig's intestines is a traditional snack of the Manchu and Han people. It actually contains pig offal, mainly pig intestines, stomach, heart, lungs, and then various seasonings. It is very delicious.

In his memory, the original owner liked to eat this thing, so that day after get off work, when he passed by a restaurant the original owner used to eat at, he bought it back and tried it, and it felt really good.

So I buy one today and one tomorrow and store them in the warehouse so I can take them out and eat them whenever I want.

This way of buying is quite convenient, the only downside is that this kind of cooked food takes up too much space in the lunch box.

While humming a little tune, I picked up a piece of pig heart from the lunch box and put it in my mouth, then took a bite of the steamed bun. How comfortable it was.

……

At around two o'clock in the morning, Li Yancheng walked out of the house wrapped tightly like a thief, picked up the bicycle under the eaves, and tiptoed out of the yard.

After coming out, he closed the door again, got on his bike and rode quickly towards the entrance of the alley in the east. Twenty minutes later, he appeared at the ghost market outside Chongwenmen.

This ghost market is much bigger than the one near Yongdingmen. It’s a bit of an exaggeration to say that it’s packed with people, but there are no fewer people than at the vegetable market in the morning.

Everything is for sale here, even old items that cannot be seen in public are occasionally sold here.

I don’t know what’s going on, but since the Chinese New Year this year, fewer and fewer people in the market are directly exchanging coarse grains for fine grains. Instead, more people are selling food coupons, which has caused the price of food coupons to drop sharply compared to the time before the New Year.

At the current market price, local food coupons can be bought for one yuan per pound, while the national food coupons are sold for two yuan.

The prices of other special tickets have not dropped much.

As soon as Li Yancheng entered the market, he met a middle-aged man who looked like a cadre selling cloth and cotton coupons there.

These two kinds of tickets are actually rare in the market. Every household issues them according to the number of people per head every year. Although the number of tickets issued individually is not much, if there are many people in the family, it is not a problem to pool them together to make a set of clothes.

Nowadays, few ordinary families make new clothes every year. They just mend them for three years, so it is enough to just save more.

The middle-aged man had quite a few tickets of the two kinds in his hand, and it seemed that he had saved them for quite some time. He must have encountered some difficulties at home and was in urgent need of money, otherwise he would not have taken them out to sell like this.

Many people asked, but they all shook their heads and left when they heard the price. Seeing that there were few people around him, Li Yancheng finally went over.

No wonder everyone just asked and left. This man had 23 grams of cloth coupons and 5 kilograms of cotton coupons. He didn't sell them individually, but sold them in a package for 20 yuan, which was indeed a bit expensive.

If you buy with tickets at the supply and marketing cooperative, you can buy four feet of cotton cloth for one dollar. Other cloths such as polyester, twill, khaki, corduroy, poplin, etc. are a little more expensive. As for cotton, it costs 60 cents per pound.

Li Yancheng wanted both of these things. He had been planning to make a new quilt this year by taking apart, washing and restitching the old one.

But twenty...

"Can it be cheaper?"

"Can you take them all?"

With the help of the little light from the flashlight, the middle-aged man raised his head and glanced at Li Yancheng.

"want to"

"At most, it will be 50 cents less."

!!!

What’s the difference between having less and having nothing?

Li Yancheng really wanted to roll his eyes at him.

He bought the cloth coupons intending to continue his business of making clothes. Last time, he had already cut the cloth and was just waiting for the sewing machine to come back to sew it. However, he ended up having the cloth coupons wasted by the two Qian brothers and had no way to keep them. He was so angry that he even ate one less steamed bun that day.

Of course, they paid every penny of the compensation they were owed.

He was planning to continue making it, but he had no cloth coupons. He went to the ghost market two nights ago but couldn't find anyone selling cloth coupons. Today he finally found one, but it was so expensive.

Li Yancheng hesitated for a while with some toothache, but finally bought them all for 19 yuan.

(End of this chapter)