Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 16 Those who live far away come early

The two big cakes that Luo Bing ate were really not for nothing, and the 150 kilograms of sweet potatoes were hard to resist and left. And his father, Luo Wen, also carried a hundred kilograms of stick noodles on his shoulders. He couldn’t hold back the smile on his face as he bought food and returned home.

Luo Cheng was not idle either. Several bags were filled with grain separately. The quantities were not large, but they could not be mixed up. Rice, flour, millet, soybeans and the like.

And these grains also cost a lot of money. Rice and flour were both 1.6 cents per catty and cost 1.6 cents. Sweet potatoes are cheap, a penny a pound, a hundred and fifty pounds, a dollar and a half. Coarse-grain stick noodles are five cents a pound, which costs five yuan. Then there are soybeans and millet, which are a few cents more expensive than stick noodles and cost more than one yuan.

The total cost was nearly ten yuan, which was a lot of money in rural areas. For those who have jobs in the city, most of them only earn twenty or thirty yuan a month.

This means that there are food stamps. If there are no food stamps, the food will cost dozens of yuan to buy.

On the way home, the three of them walked together and looked around. When they went out before, they didn’t expect to buy so much food. I think three people are safe enough, and now they have nearly three hundred kilograms of food on them.

Luo Wen and Luo Bing were afraid that they would encounter some hungry people who would risk their lives to grab food on the road. Luo Cheng was wearing a veteran’s uniform of the army and had little food in his hands. This was also done deliberately by his father, Luo Cheng. Even if one or two people who couldn’t survive were to rush out on the road, at least Luo Cheng would be free to deal with them.

In the eyes of his father Luo Wen and his younger brother Luo Bing, a retired soldier should be able to deal with several people by himself.

If Luo Cheng knew what his father was thinking, he would definitely laugh and cry. People in this world look weak, skinny, sallow and thin. But just now at the grain station, he saw a female employee, who looked like a man, carrying a bag of more than 100 kilograms of grain, but she just left without holding on. He felt that if they were to fight, he wouldn’t be able to beat a woman.

As for the farmers in the countryside, no matter how thin they are, there is no one who lacks strength. Even in a real fight, Luo Cheng felt like he couldn’t beat anyone. At most~~Luo Cheng thinks he can beat his two younger sisters at home.

The food is now safe. Adding sweet potatoes, it weighs more than 280 kilograms. One hundred catties of stick noodles, one hundred and fifty catties of sweet potatoes. At least you have to spend a lot of money to help your loved ones.

As for the rice, flour and some millet and soybeans that Luo Cheng wanted, the total amount was only thirty kilograms. Since there are so many stick noodles and sweet potatoes, it’s okay to have this to help. The flour can be saved for making dumplings during the New Year, and the millet is bought by Luo Cheng to make porridge to nourish his grandmother. As for rice, Luo Cheng wanted to eat some when he was greedy.

Because my mother and grandma knew they were going to buy food, they didn’t sit in the house, so they moved stools and sat at the door. They were all surprised when they saw the three of them coming back with big bags. Of course, the few small bags in Luo Cheng’s hands were not counted.

Both Luo Bing and his father Luo Wen sweated a lot, but after returning home, they were still talking and laughing, and they didn’t seem very tired. Luo Cheng only brought back thirty kilograms of stuff, but in fact he felt that it was already too much. The grain station is not close to home, and it takes close to twenty minutes if you walk quickly.

Let the young people of future generations carry thirty kilograms of stuff on their backs and walk for twenty minutes without stopping. People who don’t usually exercise are really overwhelmed.

As for Luo Bing and his father Luo Wen, he was convinced. He carried more than one hundred kilograms back like this. After coming back, I didn’t feel so tired.

How to divide such a large amount of food disrupted my parents’ plan. I originally thought that the amount of food stamps would determine how many kilograms of food I could buy. I didn’t expect that the national food stamps were so useful, and I could exchange them for whatever I wanted.

For this one hundred kilograms of coarse grain stick noodles, the two uncles and two aunts can both take ten kilograms back. My mother is also a little selfish. She has a fleshy heart and wants to help her parents. I plan to take twenty kilograms back with me, and some sweet potatoes too.

As for my mother Wang Ling’s brothers and sisters, they are Luo Cheng’s uncles and aunts. Then my mother can’t be like here, everyone is helping.

Mom was thinking that when the time came, the food would be sent to her parents, which would actually be sent to Luo Cheng’s uncle’s house. Then the food sent was for her parents. No matter how much her parents distributed and helped others, she couldn’t control that much.

It was planned here, and the sweet potato family was asked to take twenty kilograms back with them. If my mother brings more food to her parents’ family, there won’t be much food left at home. And it can’t be distributed so evenly. He still has a mother to support on his father’s side.

The food has been brought back. When the relatives come over later, there will be ten or twenty people, and they will also have to work on lunch.

Wash the sweet potatoes and cut them into cubes, make some cornmeal into some steamed buns, get some millet and rice and cook a big pot of porridge. Sweet potato rice porridge, cooked a little thicker, is considered very good these days. This still uses up a lot of food.

There were no clocks, and most people only had two meals at home, and some women and children might even have one meal a day. Therefore, the meal time is generally earlier than lunch in later generations, and there is no specific time. It all depends on weather and feeling.

But one thing is the same as in later generations, the closer you live, the later you go to visit, while the farther away you are, the earliest you come.

Those who live far away are afraid of delays, so they usually arrive a little more in advance. Those who live close by feel that there are only a few steps in total, so they are not in a hurry, but rather take their time.

My sister-in-law was the first to come, and she also brought some radish seedlings, which were perfect for cooking porridge.

For Luo Cheng, the sister-in-law was completely conjured out of thin air at this time, without any impression. After my sister-in-law arrived, it was Luo Bing and his two sisters who called me sister-in-law, and Luo Cheng followed suit.

But my sister-in-law has a completely different attitude towards Luo Cheng, who is very enthusiastic. Luo Cheng is the only one in the Luo family who has graduated from high school and served as a soldier. It used to be said that if he was promising, he would definitely become famous. But then he went to serve in the army for some reason after graduating from high school. He didn’t come back for a few years, so naturally there were fewer people talking about him.

But now that Luo Cheng is back, for my sister-in-law, that is the person who can support her in her family. Having a nephew like this will give me the confidence to speak to my husband’s family.

“Nariko, you are finally back. Your parents and we have been thinking about you these past few years. You, a soldier, look really good in your clothes, and you are really more delicate than some girls.”

Sister-in-law Luo Hong walked directly to Luo Cheng with her children and praised him, while her uncle naturally went to chat with Luo Cheng’s father.

She was very enthusiastic about her sister-in-law’s conversation, but because of Luo Cheng’s “unfamiliarity”, she really didn’t know how to talk. Fortunately, my sister-in-law came with her children, so Luo Cheng changed the subject directly.

“Sister-in-law, please wait a moment while I go to get something from the house.”

After dealing with his sister-in-law, Luo Cheng went back to the room. There was no one else in the room, so he didn’t need to pretend to touch the bag. A bag of melon seeds appeared directly in his hand.

The only thing that can be eaten in the system is this bag of melon seeds. The only thing that cannot be eaten is a washbasin. I also took out the flashlight and put it in the bag. Things that are taken out of the system cannot be put back.

Is this the same for everyone during the Chinese New Year? If you go to far away places, you will go early and arrive relatively early. As for the nearby place, plus having a mobile phone to check the time and make contact, it is basically a convenient place to go to eat. Being a guest has become a matter of simply eating, rather than reminiscing about old times.