After half a month of sorting and adapting, Annie and the children's life in the family yard was on track.

Zhang Xiaoman and Zhang Yinsuo, two older children, were arranged by Zhang Dahai to go to the primary school of the Hongqi Production Brigade near the station.

Zhang Xiaoxue was sent to the Honghong class run by the army. The children in the class were basically all the children of the army, and the teachers were two or three military wives.

The Hongqi Brigade Primary School is a little far from the station, so the children couldn't come back for lunch, so they brought the meal to eat at school.

The Yuhong class is in charge of lunch, so Zhang Xiaoxue doesn’t have to come back.

So, Anne has more time.

She used a piece of military canvas that Zhang Dahai took from the military department as a strap and locked her youngest son Zhang Bao on her back, so that her hands were liberated.

Early that morning, after seeing off the three children, Annie took water, dry food and salt, carried her youngest son, and prepared to go to the deep mountains next to the station.

"Oh, Sister An, what are you doing?"

The person who spoke was Cui Shengnan, a member of the company commander, who was the military wife who had served as the women's director in her hometown.

She felt that Annie was a fellow villager, and she also listened to her hometown dialect all day long, which was very kind.

The most important thing is that Annie looks very clean and neatly, but she won't dislike the sloppy Cui Shengnan.

In fact, Cui Shengnan also knew that his image and the child were not very good, but there was nothing he could do about it.

These days, even a piece of soap is required to vote for. When her youngest son is the most naughty, he can make himself dirty even if he washes his clothes eight times a day.

Moreover, the child doesn't know how bad it is, and he will pounce on his mother's arms after touching the handful of dust.

Even if Cui Shengnan pays attention, he is dirty by his son from time to time.

Now the country is poor and the family is even poorer. Everyone only has one or two clothes per season. If they are dirty, they don’t even want to change clothes.

As for washing, haha, washing clothes every day not only costs soap, but also costs clothes.

Clothes require cloth tickets, but each person only needs three feet of cloth a year. Even if they save a year, they may not be able to save a piece of clothing.

Rich workers can go to the black market to buy cloth tickets or exchange them with others.

But poor families don’t have the spare money to buy cloth tickets, so they buy the kind of textile fabric that doesn’t have to be ticketed.

As the name suggests, the textile fabric is to hammer old clothes and re-weave them into fabric. Because the fabric fibers will be damaged during the pounding process, the textile fabric is very unsolid, and a little force will be used, a big hole will be pulled.

Such clothes will be broken if washed.

Even if it is not a back-woven fabric, ordinary cotton or home-style cloth can't stand the frequent washing.

Not only does fade, it is easy to wash.

Therefore, Cui Shengnan doesn’t have that condition if he wants to be clean.

Although she knew this in her heart, Cui Shengnan would still feel depressed and embarrassed whenever she saw the disgusting eyes of the daughters-in-law in the city of Instructor Xu, Political Commissar Liu and other families.

It’s better for Xiao An, who looks very smart, but he won’t look down on others.

"Go to the mountains to pick some medicine and see if there is no wild game." Annie said with a smile.

"College herbs?"

Cui Shengnan's eyes lit up, and his eyes looked at Annie differently, "What? Girl, do you still know Chinese herbal medicine?"

In the eyes of ordinary people, traditional Chinese medicine is also considered a cultural person.

"Yes, I learned a little from my grandfather, and it was all about the countryside recipes."

Anne said modestly, "I pick herbs, mainly because I want to exchange some money. My sister-in-law, you know that I don't have a job, three children have to go to school, one child still has breastfeeding, and the family of six depends on the allowance from the sea. But that allowance-"

Anne deliberately said halfway, then smiled bitterly and shook her head, stopping talking.

Not to mention Annie, Cui Shengnan also knew about the third company commander Zhang Dahai's filial piety, and the entire independent battalion knew about it.

Tsk tsk, since he was a soldier before liberation, until now, Zhang Dahai has sent all his allowances to his mother.

When he got married, his wife couldn't touch him.

If it weren't for the fact that my wife and children had to spend money everywhere this time, Zhang Dahai would probably continue to supplement his hometown.

Even so, Zhang Dahai sent half of the allowance back, leaving only thirteen yuan for his family.

Thirteen yuan doesn't sound too little.

But the problem is that Zhang Dahai is not a bachelor, he has a family to support.

Fortunately, the troops can grow their own food and clothing, otherwise Zhang Dahai's family would not even have enough food.

No wonder "Andani" didn't buy a decent piece of furniture when she moved to a new house. It's not that she didn't want to, but she really had no money.

Not a month after coming, "Andani" hurried to the mountains to collect herbs again, and she was carrying a child on her back. Oh, it was so hard.

"Captain Zhang is really-" Cui Shengnan shook his head. His man also sent money to his hometown, but he was not as concerned about his parents, brothers and sisters, but he didn't care about his wife and children's life or death like Zhang Dahai.

However, the mainstream idea now emphasizes dedication.

Zhang Dahai is completely in line with the current "trend"!

"My sister An, let me tell you, there are wild animals such as boars and wolves on the mountains around our station. You, a woman, and you, have children, enter the mountains. Be careful."

Cui Shengnan didn't want to talk about Zhang Dahai's gossip, so he kindly told the man to be careful.

Facing Cui Shengnan's kindness, Annie was very grateful, "Thank you sister-in-law, I'm a newcomer, thanks to your advice and care."

"Oh, Sister An, you are so polite. This is not a matter of one sentence."

Cui Shengnan asked Annie to say this and became more and more happy, and couldn't help but say, "There is a purchase station in the town thirty miles away, and it also collects prepared herbs, but the price may not be too high. Near the first hospital in the county, some patients' families are willing to exchange things for herbs."

Cui Shengnan said it in a vague way, but Annie understood it.

Oh, this well-established woman director actually knows the black market in the county.

Annie's eyes flashed and she nodded gratefully again, "Thank you, sister-in-law. If you don't say it, I really don't know."

Cui Shengnan looked around and whispered: "Although the country doesn't care about those transactions now, we are military wives after all, so we should pay attention to our actions."

Anne nodded quickly.

It is now 60 years, and the country has not completely restricted private transactions, but there is still a crime of speculation and the boundaries are very blurred.

Therefore, ordinary people have a private transaction, but most of them do not mention "buy or sell", but instead call it exchange.

The public security will not care about the food and meat that farmers cannot eat at home, and they can get exchange receipts in the suburbs.

But if the transactions are too frequent and the amount of money involved is too large, it is hard to say.

As soon as Li Mei got off the night shift, as soon as she entered the family yard, she saw Annie and Cui Shengnan muttering there, and her brows frowned.

Although Annie did not cause trouble for her as Li Mei imagined after she arrived, she still didn't like some of Annie's "problems".

For example, she spoke a dirt-scattered hometown dialect all day long, and she had obviously advised her to learn Mandarin well, but the other party just didn't listen.

For example, I often mingle with those vulgar and stingy rural military wives.

Parents and parents who are not good at the other side will know how to spread the word and wrong.

Although Li Mei did not catch Annie and talked about others behind her back, every time she saw her and Cui Shengnan get together, Li Mei subconsciously felt that they were talking about the sour words of their military wives in the city.

For example, "Andani" is not enterprising. Li Mei knew that the Zhang family was in trouble, so she introduced Annie to take on some work at the carton factory in the town. Although she was a little tired and didn't earn much money, it was an investment at least.

As a result, people are not grateful and are not willing to stuff the paper box at all.

Li Mei felt more and more that Annie was a mud that could not be supported by the wall, and her impression of her was getting worse and worse.

"Sister-in-law, I'm back from get off work."

Li Mei was about to pretend that she didn't see Annie, so she turned around and went home, but she didn't expect that Annie would see her first.

Anne greeted him politely.

Li Mei pulled the corner of her mouth and smiled falsely, "Yes, I just got off work. Dani, where are you going?"

"Oh, I'll go to the mountains to collect herbs and get some wild game."

Annie said what she said to Cui Shengnan just now.

After hearing the same words, Cui Shengnan and Li Mei's reactions were completely different.

Cui Shengnan was surprised and admired, while Li Mei was completely unbelievable, and her dislike for Anne was further deepened-
Chapter completed!