"Everyone is like this now, otherwise I would be sweating while working in the morning."

Qin Huairu had just finished washing her face and poured washing water into the sink. She saw Li Xuewu coming from the backyard holding Li Shu and said hello.

Li Shu found it strange to see every household setting up a small stove in the yard to cook and cook.

Even Li Xuewu couldn't help but look at it a few more times and came up with Qin Huairu's explanation.

"I still have to say that Guodong has a good heart!"

Qin Huairu explained: "Who would be willing to make this iron bucket for a coal stove? He helped cut the paint bucket that was coming to the construction site just right."

As she introduced it, Li Xuewu knew what this thing was after just one glance.

In later generations, vendors used iron buckets to set up stoves, filled them with cement, and then dug holes in one side to make flues, which was very convenient.

A piece of briquettes or briquettes is enough to prepare breakfast for a family.

"Good guy, this courtyard is full of sour, sweet, bitter, spicy and salty, and all kinds of flavors -"

Li Xuewu smiled and nodded and said, "I don't think you need to eat. I'll be full after just walking around once."

"Isn't that really like drinking from the northwest wind?"

Mrs. Jia Zhang smiled and took a big spoonful of fried pickles and called to Li Xuewu: "You two have just gotten up? I saw Dr. Gu carrying the child there early in the morning."

"It's rare that I have nothing to do on the weekend, so I slept in."

Li Xuewu looked at his daughter in his arms and said with a smile: "I didn't sleep at all last night. I insisted on following me in the sleeping room. I didn't get up in the morning."

Li Shu also knew that her father was talking about her, so she felt embarrassed now.

"Hey - look, you're still embarrassed."

Qin Huairu teased her, then greeted Li Shu with a smile and said, "Let's eat this with Auntie in the morning. Auntie will boil the eggs."

"No, I want to eat with my brother."

Li Shu hugged her father's neck and avoided Qin Huairu's hand, but her eyes were still curiously looking at the morning in the courtyard.

It's time, as soon as April is over, the weather will be hot.

You can fool around with the lunch meal no matter what you want. After all, the sun is shining brightly at noon and the courtyard is also hot.

Just take one bite of the leftovers from the morning and you won’t feel full.

Another thing, those who eat at home at noon are mostly the elderly or children.

Without production, there will not be enough distribution of daily necessities.

But you can’t mess around with two meals in the morning and one in the evening. Those who go to work and those who get off work have to eat at home.

It seems that it was okay for a service cadre like Qin Huairu. Before, no matter how difficult her family was, she had to ensure that she had enough to eat.

The same goes for other working-class families. If the earner doesn't have enough to eat, can he still earn the money back?

If the money to support the family cannot be earned, the whole family will starve to death.

Therefore, it is very common that as long as the family is not in special difficulties, the food in the morning and evening will be very good.

Don’t even say that you’re going to stir-fry three or two, that’s unrealistic, but at least the calories are there.

Coming from the backyard, Li Xuewu saw that every family was setting up a stove in the courtyard. As he walked by, he could tell that the quality of the food this year was higher than last year.

You have to say that after the launch of the Great Study Movement, it has had a certain impact on people's lives. This is inevitable, but that is generally speaking.

There are several hundred million people in total, not the people who live in the capital and have employees at home.

Although everyone's wages have not increased, the market supply level has improved, and the tickets that used to be held in hand are sometimes empty.

It is a situation where you are issued a certain kind of ticket, but it is extremely difficult for you to buy this kind of thing.

After entering May, the first crop of greenhouse vegetables began to be supplied, which greatly eased the tension in people's vegetable baskets during the lean period.

Furthermore, the industrial economy is developing and advancing in a positive direction. Although the completion of industrial indicators in the first quarter is not as high as last year, it is still overfulfilled.

Qin Huairu now wants to invite Li Shu to her house for breakfast and boiled eggs, which she did not dare to say before.

Not only did her family not have such conditions before, but she couldn't even pick out eggs.

In 1965, the year Li Xuewu came back, it was very difficult to buy eggs for Li Shu to supplement her nutrition.

You can’t say there aren’t any on the market, but by the time you go there, the stalls will have already sold out.

Unless you have special circumstances, you can only buy it with tickets and special documents.

Only two years later, the market situation has changed a lot.

Now you have to go to the market to find eggs. I can’t say you can find them everywhere, but as long as you get up early and line up early, you can definitely buy them.

Eggs are just a microcosm of the rich and prosperous living market, and other foods including meat and vegetables are also constantly improving their supply levels.

Wages remain unchanged, prices remain unchanged, and supply increases, the virtual value of goods decreases.

To put it bluntly, eggs are just for eating.

It is needed because of its nutritional value.

But when supplies are in short supply, this nutritional value is infinitely magnified, and eggs are hard to find.

When prices return to their true nature, look back at the egg. If you don't eat it, wouldn't you be alive?

This kind of influence on trends and fluctuations in market value can easily tell the current economic development situation.

You want to say that Li Xuewu just got up late in the morning and wandered around with nothing to do when he came out of the house. He was just thinking about it, just watching how everyone behaved during breakfast.

Knowledge is needed to understand everything in the world. Li Xuewu is not a local cadre. He cares about the livelihood of his neighbors. The food basket does not care about people's livelihood and economy.

Within the scope of the planned economic system, the industrial economy is an important link.

This courtyard is considered a small society, with all kinds of people there.

Cadres, workers, temporary workers.

The elderly, children, young and old.

It is these cadres and workers who are divided into workers from the Red Star Factory and workers from other factories.

Li Xuewu wanted to see what the living standards of the workers at the Red Star Factory were like, and then compare the living standards of other workers in other factories.

The Hongxing Factory has a special department that will investigate this, and the local statistics department also compiles reports.

But what you hear with your ears is false, and what you see with your eyes is true.

Reading this kind of data while sitting behind a desk is completely different from reading it while walking around the masses and employees.

"Hey - Sister-in-law Qi, what you had in the morning was quite good!"

Li Xuewu carried his daughter through the third gate and saw his seventh daughter-in-law making breakfast outside the gate.

Bangzha porridge, fried cabbage, and a pot of soybean curd.

Of course these are not hard dishes, nor should Li Xuewu praise them for their good food.

Looking further into the pot, there are yellowish white steamed buns and three salted duck eggs stacked on the steam curtain.

The white-flour steamed buns are of course white. The yellow color is not because Li Xuewu was dazzled by it, but because it is mixed with stick noodles.

Drink something thin, eat something dry, one cold, one hot, and salted duck eggs.

"You're laughing at me, right—"

Lao Qi was sitting in the cloister of the Sanmen Courtyard, with a small dining table in front of him and a circle of children around the table.

He greeted Li Xuewu with a smile and said, "How can this food still impress you?"

"Qi Bo, Qi Niang——"

Li Shu's little mouth is so sweet, especially after she and the old lady played in this courtyard for a long time.

When people from the Northeast take care of their children, their last advice when going out is: "Tell someone when you see them, don't act like a mute."

I don't care, they all say this. If you take your children out and the children don't call someone, it will be a shame for the adults.

To be honest, Li Xuewu is not as good as his daughter in this courtyard.

When Lao Qi and Lao Qi's daughter-in-law heard this call, they immediately beamed with joy and felt very proud.

The seventh daughter-in-law reached out and grabbed a piece of the steamed bun that had just been taken out of the pot and gave it to Li Shu.

Li Shu was sensible, so she just declined and said she didn't want it, but she would be too embarrassed to do it to the seventh daughter-in-law.

"Qiniang gave it to you, take it and eat it."

"Thank you Qiniang——"

Li Xuewu saw his daughter holding a steamed bun in her hand and looking at him, so he smiled and nodded, teaching her how to say thank you.

Li Shu followed her father's words, looked at the seventh daughter-in-law and said, "Thank you Qiniang——!"

"Hey - why are you thanking me for this!" The old seventh daughter-in-law said with a smile: "Try Qiniang's craftsmanship, and give it to Qiniang after it tastes good."

"You bastard, why don't you know how to call someone?"

Seeing Li Xuewu teaching the children, listening to Li Shu's initiative to call others to be well-behaved, and then looking at the children in his own family, each of them fighting for food, Lao Qi felt that he was losing face.
To be continued...