Chapter 1411 [1410] Briquettes, rent a house

Time flies into the wheat harvest season. Compared with other people's busy families, their family only needs to feed three chickens and two pigs.

As long as you remember to water and weed the vegetable field, you basically don't have to worry about it, because there were no pesticides and fertilizers in this era, so most of the vegetables you planted were eaten by yourself, and half were destroyed by diseases and insect pests, and these vegetables didn't grow as well as they would in later generations.

Well, the crooked melons and cracked dates are not neat at all.

Their family feeds chickens, which need to look for grass everywhere. They usually go out to forage for food, and they will feed them a little bit when they get home. Only when they are full can they lay eggs. However, the frequency of laying eggs is not very high. If there is spiritual spring water,

At least three chickens can collect five or six eggs every day, but now there are only one or two, and sometimes there will be three. With so many people in the family, it is obviously not enough to eat!

The grass in front of and behind their house has long been removed, and there is no grass in the private plot. Even if it is clean, it cannot be guaranteed to be eroded by snails, caterpillars, wild cockles and other insects.

This year, my father harvested potatoes and sweet potatoes in the private plot. After harvesting the rapeseed and potatoes this month, he also ordered corn and planted sesame and cotton. There were not many, but they were all needed.

The vegetables at home, such as beans, tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, cucumbers, loofahs, bitter gourds, green onions, leeks and other vegetables are standard ingredients every summer, and you have to eat them even if you don’t want to.

Taking advantage of the wheat holiday these days, Ding Wei drove into the city alone to look for a house. She almost visited all the houses in the city. During the one-week wheat harvest holiday, she finally found a house worth ten yuan a month through unannounced visits.

Money, one hundred and twenty yuan a year plus a ten yuan deposit, a total of one hundred and thirty yuan for the house.

The house is not a building, nor a tube building, but a brick house in an alley. The tile house is not old but is new. There are three main rooms and a kitchen. There is no bathroom. You need to go to the public toilet in the alley.

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There is almost nothing in the house, it is bare, there is no yard, there are many neighbors around, and the people live very densely. Fortunately, the terrain here is higher, and there are no signs of leaks in the house. Ten yuan a month is not cheap, but this

Among the few large houses, it's pretty good.

So I had to make do with renting one room for my parents, one room for her and her sister, and the rest of the living room in the middle room. Then I went to the flea market to buy two iron bunk beds. After all, they all lived on campus.

, and don’t come back often, so I can only feel aggrieved first.

She found the house herself, and she negotiated with the landlord. When they were almost done, they asked her father to come over and have a look. Of course, there was another step in the process. They asked the legal aid of the radio station to help write a legally efficient contract.

, only after signing the contract did Ding Wei feel safe.

Otherwise, when the rain comes, they will refund the money if they say they will, and they will not rent anymore. Who will they ask to reason with? Where will they live?

So Ding Wei had been on guard against this for a long time. Fortunately, she also asked the landlord himself. If this house could be rented out, it must be because he couldn't find it for the time being. His work was transferred to L City, and his parents also followed him to take care of their children. No, this is home.

All emptied?

The landlord's original intention was to rent to support the family, because his family in L city only had single dormitories for the couple in their own units, and there was no separate house, so he could only rent a larger one and bring his parents over to help look after the children. This is something that will happen in the future.

The current situation of many families.

After the house was rented, when my father and brother rode to the workplace, they would bring the packages Ding Wei had packed there, which were mainly daily necessities and some summer clothes.

After going to see the house, the brothers unanimously decided to go home because there is also a shower in the kitchen. Except for the inconvenience of going to the toilet, everything else is more convenient than the school. Not to mention the school is dirty and messy. The key is that this person is also a mess.

Ding Jianping couldn't stand it a long time ago. Now the house is not too far from the school. It only takes 20 minutes by bike. You can go to school in the evening.

"If that's the case, our house is really worth renting. Let's not talk about how many high schools the fourth child can get into. Just the money you pay for living on campus at least proves that renting a house is still useful."

It doesn’t cost much to live on campus, but the food is expensive, which is not good. Rather than that, it’s better to go home and eat!

There is one hour of rest time each in the morning, afternoon and evening at school. It is enough to come and go and have a meal.

And it’s close to the city. Wouldn’t it be more convenient to make tofu and sell it in the morning?

The only inconvenience is that I have to buy briquettes. I used to burn firewood in my hometown, but in the city they have to burn briquettes. My father’s workplace also issued coal stamps, but I couldn’t use them before, so I exchanged them with my colleagues.

We also need to use briquettes at home, so naturally we can’t exchange them with others.

Coal stamps are collected by household based on the coal certificate. Each household has 50kg per month. One kilogram is two kilograms, and 50 kilograms is only one hundred kilograms. But under normal circumstances, each household needs three to four hundred kilograms a month.

If there are more people, there will be more. After calculation, one hundred kilograms is not enough to fit between the teeth!

The price of briquettes is not expensive. A piece of briquettes costs two cents. It costs about three or four yuan for cooking a day, and the cost is less than a dime.

What is bought home is loose coal. After people buy the loose coal home in terms of "catties" and "baskets", they add loess to it to make coal for use.

In the fourth quarter of every year, you must bring your old certificate, household registration book, and grain book to apply for a coal purchase certificate for the next year. When purchasing coal, residents must go to the designated coal store with the certificate and queue up to pick up coal.

The end of each year is the time to receive coal stamps. A hundred pounds of coal stamps can be exchanged for ten eggs from farmers. Coal stamps are also real valuable currency coupons.

The order of receiving coal stamps is also led by the unit, neighborhood committee, household registration, and coal card based on the name and number of people. Once you have received the ticket, you can buy coal briquettes in the future.

In the past, his briquettes book would be given to colleagues if needed. Now he wants to use it himself and certainly cannot lend it to others.

What to do if the briquettes are not enough?

"Don't skimp on cooking, just use what you need. If that doesn't work, we'll just buy high-priced coal, briquettes that cost five cents a piece (we don't have honeycomb briquettes yet), the ones made by other people, and that saves us the trouble!"

"Dad, isn't it hard to buy these coal cakes? Every household is nervous!"

"I also know a few people who sell tofu. It should be OK. I'll go back later and ask, if five points doesn't work, just seven points. If you have money, are you afraid that you can't buy it?"

Ding Wei thought about it carefully and it seemed to make sense.

After the wheat harvest season, they moved things into the city like ants moving. When someone asked, my father happily told them.

"The factory has allocated a house. The children will go to school in the county town in the future, and it will be convenient to travel around."

They didn't mention renting or buying a house at all, because no one thought well of them. Although this couldn't be hidden for a long time, at least it was low-key now.

During the weekend, my father borrowed a tractor and moved all the large items in the house at once.

In my father's own words: "Let's move. We have to move sooner or later anyway. We'll move to the rental house first, and then move the house down to the new house. This will save us all the twists and turns in the process."

By the time she went on summer vacation at the end of June, the house was almost empty, leaving only a few small items for daily use, making do with the necessities for living at home.

Raising chickens and pigs is not allowed in the city, so Dad saves trouble and sells the pigs directly to the production team. After all, one of them is a task pig. The production team is reluctant to kill it before the end of the year. The total of the two pigs is only 200

It weighed about 70 kilograms, and was purchased at a price of 90 cents per kilogram. In the end, I got about 230 yuan, because some random fees had to be deducted.

The chicken is an old hen and is still alive. It can be sold on the black market for two yuan per catty. The three chickens weigh only twelve catties in total and cost twenty-five yuan.

After the poultry and livestock are taken care of, it is enough to come back from time to time to see the crops on the private land. Dad also has to come back to collect the vegetables in front of and behind the house, because he needs to buy vegetables in the city, so he will go back and forth diligently in the future.

After the wheat harvest in June, there was more rain. When Ding Wei moved, she would also remind her second aunt and third aunt to raise things at home as high as possible to prevent heavy rains this summer. Once it rains continuously,

It will cause flood disasters. On the radio and through the loudspeakers of the production team, they are often reminded to pay attention to this year's flood prevention work.

This was something we would experience every year after the flood that year, but no one would take it seriously until the rainy season.

No, since July has just entered, rain has taken up most of the days, and there are rarely sunny days. Fortunately, the rain is not heavy. Although it brings inconvenience to everyone's travels, no one takes it seriously.

It was not uncommon for Ding Wei to get first place in the final exam. Knowing that she would go to the city to enter school in the fall, the teacher was still reluctant to part with her.

My little brother took the primary school graduation exam and got into the No. 2 Middle School. This was the best exam he could do within his ability. He had been playing for so many years and being able to get into the No. 2 Middle School was better than what he had done in the countryside, so in the town.

Overall, it's pretty good.

After all, the second aunt knew about Ding Cailian's part-time job and she called her out and scolded her when she was in school.

"How old are you to go to the first grade of junior high school? Isn't it embarrassing? You have too much money and you have nowhere to spend it, right? Your brother goes to school to find a wife, what can you do if you go to school?"

The second aunt stood at the gate of the school. She didn't save any face for her sister. She asked her to drop out of school. Her sister didn't argue with her during the final exams in the past few days. She agreed obediently. When the final exam results came out, she counted down from the class.

She has progressed to a middle school student, and even her teacher praised her for her rapid progress. According to this progress, as long as she studies hard during the two months of summer vacation, it will not be a problem to rank among the best in the second grade of junior high school.

With the teacher's encouragement, Ding Cailian became more confident and turned a deaf ear to her second aunt's words. She couldn't keep an eye on her anyway. Her monthly salary was also brought home through her uncle. As long as she didn't get along with her

She has no control over what she does when they meet.

Ding Wei was surprised by Sister Baozi's sudden change, but Grandma Wang revealed the secret: "Compared with going home to be a peasant woman and finding someone to marry as a bride price, it is obviously more useful to study. She just wanted to understand, but you don't have to

No matter how high you look at her, she still doesn't dare to confront your aunt, just take it one step at a time!"
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