Chapter 263 After All, Boys Are Preferred over Girls

If in future generations you can use your mobile phone to take videos of dinner scenes and upload them, they will definitely become popular. Two pots of rice are not enough.

The rice is still the same as last time. It is cooked first, put in a basin and then continues to cook. A bowl of rice was brought up for everyone to serve themselves. Although everyone consciously followed the rhythm of the army and would not eat one or two more bowls, this rice is not like the sweet potato porridge last time. If you serve too much, it will overflow.

The rice can be compacted and stacked higher, so there is almost no one that is not full. Even if you put it in a basin, it won't be able to withstand how many times everyone holds it.

Fortunately, Luo Cheng likes to eat crispy rice. When cooking on this stove, he can get a layer of crispy rice after a while. When everyone saw that Luo Cheng liked to eat crispy rice, no one tried to compete with him, which did not make Luo Cheng hungry.

The people sitting in the living room were still men, and the aunt and aunt were eating in the kitchen. One chicken, more than twenty people, each person will only lose one or two pieces at most. As long as the chicken bones are not too hard, they will not be spit out.

After the meal, Luo Cheng asked Zheng Xue and Gao Ru to wash up early and then go to the cooperative to live in later. If Luo Cheng hadn't brought them here, in fact, Luo Cheng drove a business car, and he could just lie on the sofa in the car for a few days, and lying in the car, he could also look at the night view outside the window.

One of the beds in the cooperative belongs to my family, and I don’t know where my father borrowed the other. This matter was arranged after I mentioned it to my father in the morning, but it is only for this year. Next year, the town will have to approve a land to build a house. Even if you can only live there during the Chinese New Year, it's okay, or you can demolish the current house and build a two- or three-story building. Let others be jealous when others are jealous. As a director of an automobile factory, he earns nearly 200 yuan a month. It is quite possible for him to build a building with his own money.

The cooperative in the town was originally a forestry warehouse, and the rooms were relatively large. On this cold day, the rooms were very cold. Luo Cheng did have two beds and cotton padding. After all, there were so many cotton stubs, and he added more later. As for Qin Ru's pregnancy, Xiaoyu and the others gave her a small quilt made from their shabby cotton-padded jackets.

It was originally arranged that Zheng Xue and Gao Ru would live in the same room, and Luo Cheng would be in a separate room. But their quilts were thin and it was too cold. Luo Cheng not only brought quilts in the car, but also brought a brazier and charcoal. So the two of them moved the bed to Luo Cheng's room. There was a brazier, the temperature of the room was OK, and it wasn't cold even with a thinner quilt.

You can live in a room, but Zheng Xue is a little too private. There is a urinal and a urinal outside the house. Those who are older have to get dressed and go outside the cooperative, which is only a few dozen meters away.

And Zheng Xue likes to relieve herself before going to bed, so that's okay. Could it be that Luo Cheng would become so bad that he would start to have wild dreams when he heard the sound of urinating at the door? But Zheng Xue actually took off her bra wrap before going to bed. Although she was wearing clothes, when she went to relieve herself, there was something indescribable.

This~~ made Luo Cheng quickly turn over and sleep facing the wall. He wasn't too lusty, but his thoughts were wandering.

Thinking about a few months ago, the world had not changed and I was just a loser in a technical school. As for a girlfriend, we talked about it, but it was before I went to technical school, but we broke up not long after we talked. The reason was to get back together with my ex-boyfriend. But when they broke up, they broke up. When they broke up, his girlfriend even said "murderous and heartbreaking" words to Luo Cheng.

He said that he was actually willing to be Luo Cheng's girlfriend, but it was actually a coincidence that he caught her. She just broke up not long ago and wanted to be taken care of by herself. She blamed Luo Cheng for not living up to expectations. If Luo Cheng was bolder and wanted to have sex, she wouldn't care. But it doesn't work now. If she wants to get back together, it won't be easy.

Before the world changed, Luo Cheng thought about his bad luck with women, which was really terrible. Thinking about it now, if it weren't for Luo Chengchui, this woman would be really lucky. He still remembers that when he first went to the repair shop to report, when he asked for directions on the roadside, an aunt would introduce someone to him.

But in this day and age, being a woman is also a struggle. If this is the case in future generations, Luo Chengcai would have to be a sea king if he didn't get married. He could feel it. Not to mention Zheng Xue, there were actually many girls in the car factory who were interested in him. For example, Xu Haitang and Li Xiaotong pay attention to the distinction between men and women these days, and normal communication between men and women will keep a distance. If there is no persistence, it can be said that if a man proposes a sex partner, the chance of agreeing is generally very high.

After thinking about it, Luo Cheng fell asleep. When he woke up again, it would be New Year's Eve. On New Year's Eve, we don't have any guests. We just get together with our children and have a good meal. As for the goose that had been raised for a long time and brought back, it had been slaughtered yesterday and was waiting for Zheng Xue to stew it today.

Luo Cheng got out of bed at the urging of Zheng Xue and the others. He looked at his watch. It was past seven o'clock, but it looked very early outside in winter. All the toiletries were at home, so Luo Cheng had no choice but to get up and fold the quilt casually before taking them home from the cooperative.

New Year's Eve is actually quite boring. It’s all about chatting at home and preparing a good meal. Tomorrow will be the real Chinese New Year. There is no TV or mobile phone these days. Basically, the whole family talks about how to spend the next year. When the year is good, everyone has something to look forward to. When the year is bad, the New Year is also sad.

The hundreds of people sheltered in Longjin Town are considered a big family, and many people are discussing whether to return to their hometown next year. At least I have my own house back home, but here they are all temporary wooden sheds.

But what if I go back to my hometown? What kind of relief grain can I get from my hometown? When I go back, I have to plow the fields and plant the grain immediately. Grain planting and several months of rations had to wait for the relief to be distributed from above, and the relief food was basically pitiful, and it was considered good if it could survive.

If there really was food, when they fled in groups, the higher-ups would have given them food and left them alone. To be honest, no one would choose to flee even if they had a mouthful of food and were starving to death.

Almost no one here in Longjin Town wants to leave. When they go back, the fields are not their own, and they basically take everything they can bring from home with them. The land is collective, which kind of fields are not cultivated, and there has been a drought for three consecutive years. What if there is another drought next year? At least if there is a drought here, there will be no problem for people to drink water. As for the fields, if you work diligently to fetch water from distant reservoirs and rivers, you can get some harvest.

And it’s snowing here in Ngee Ann this year, which is a good sign. Because they were not well-informed, they did not know what was going on in their hometowns, but those who escaped and came back in previous years were still suffering from drought, and many regretted going back.

Here in Longjin Town, it's not like other places where people are detained. In other places, they just get some food to survive, and then in the spring, everyone will be sent back with great fanfare. If you don't go back, you can work with the locals to earn work points, but they will basically treat them differently. They do all dirty work and the work points may not be as much as others.

As for Longjin Town, especially the first brigade, everyone has been assigned to work from the beginning, even in winter. There is actually not much work to do in winter except clearing land, but clearing land does not require so many people. It is not that there are many people bad, but that there are no tools. They had done the work of clearing up wasteland, and the brigade did not give them less food.

Although it was just rice bran and soybean meal at the beginning, the grinding of the rice bran was not much worse than corn noodles. Soybean meal is actually a good thing. It has a lot of nutrients, but just a little will make you feel flatulent if you eat too much. But at least these two things are worth it. After working for a while, the brigade also gave them decent whole grains. They ate them with rice bran and soybean meal, and at least their stomachs would not be bloated.

Now, as the Chinese New Year is approaching, the brigade actually gives each of them some rice, and the vegetable is Chinese cabbage. It was impossible to share some meat with others in the town. But being able to have a meal of rice and cabbage during the Chinese New Year is really satisfying for people like them who are fleeing famine.

From history to the present, the requirements of the Chinese people have always been very simple. They are satisfied with having enough to eat and a roof to protect them from the wind and rain.

Most of the people sheltered in Longjin Town want to leave, but it is different for those outside Longjin Town. Young people can still bear it if they drink water every day, but if they are older or weak, they will die if they get sick.

Therefore, during the Chinese New Year, many beggars appeared in Longjin Town. They are all people who are unwilling to be sent back next year, and who are unwilling to be taken in by other towns. If young people eat so little thin food every day, they will be fine if they don't get sick, but they won't be able to bear it if they get sick. And if you are in poor health, you will easily get sick. It's better to try your luck here. It is said that the people sheltered here can at least have something to eat. It’s just that during the Chinese New Year, everyone is not working anymore. I can only see if I can stutter.

Not to mention, here in Longjin Town, you can actually get something, even if it's just some rice bran and the like. But during the day, they begged for a little bit here, and at night they were taken back to the place where they were kept. The rice bran was ground up and eaten with clear, almost bottomless rice soup. At least I wasn't as hungry anymore.

As for the uncle's house, they invited the matchmaker here early this morning and also served a bowl of sugar water for everyone to drink. The Liu family can't wait until after the new year. They have to give them an explanation. If they can't agree, they can find someone else.

The uncle called the matchmaker this time not to agree to the Liu family's conditions, but he also didn't want to turn the matter away. After all, the second son has taken a fancy to this family, so it would be great if he could succeed.

After returning home last night, Luo Qiang was very happy, thinking that his matter was done. Not only can he marry a wife, but he and his wife will both work to earn wages in the future. At least he will become the most promising one in their family. But as soon as uncle Luo Wu came home, he summoned all his family members and directly told what his eldest nephew Luo Cheng had said. The uncle's idea is that the two job quotas will directly go to the eldest son and the second son, and it is impossible to give the job to a girl from the Liu family.

The uncle is the head of the family at home, and he basically has the final say. But the matter between Luo Qiang and the girl from the Liu family is not necessarily over. At least Luo Qiang has a job. He is a bit short in appearance, but if he has a job, it is not difficult to find a pretty girl in the town these days.

This is the purpose of the uncle inviting the matchmaker to come over. The sugar water is not free. He needs the help of the matchmaker to go to Liu's house, even if Luo Qiang will have to work in the cooperative in the next year. As for the woman, she couldn't arrange a job, but Luo Qiang went to work and earned 19.5 yuan a month. It would be even more amazing if he became a regular employee in a few years and could eat commercial food. Let the Liu family consider it. If their daughter is married, she won't suffer much.

If they don't agree, just ask the matchmaker to introduce another one. Thinking that both his sons would be able to go to work next year, uncle Luo Wendu told the matchmaker generously that if the introduction was successful, he would be given five kilograms of grain.

This made the matchmaker extremely happy. Since Luo Qiang would have a job, she did not believe that Luo Wu would lie to him. After all, he is Luo Cheng's biological uncle, so his words are still credible. If you have a job, you will be a bit shorter, but it is still easy to find a girl who can get by in the town. If the Liu family became the best, but not, she felt that the five kilograms of food was settled.

But the one who really had an unhappy year was my aunt's family, even the biological father was patriarchal. Uncle Wang Lin directly planned to reject the marriage in the county. Before, he felt that he could compare favorably with the in-laws in the county, but now it seems that exchanging two job quotas for one in-laws in the county is not cost-effective at all.

The eldest uncle directly told the eldest aunt that the reason for throwing water at his married daughter was not because he didn't want to be good to her. But this is work. A job in a rural area is enough to change the fate of a family. This is given to their daughter and future son-in-law. What can the Wang family get out of it? Moreover, their family has four children. Why does Wang Yue want to get married when she is only sixteen years old? It's because there are too many children in the family and she is not very young, so she wants to reduce the burden.

It wouldn't be a big deal if they had to work on their own and raise a few half-year-old boys. So not only is there a spot they have to go to work. Even if Yueyue followed Luo Cheng to work in the city, he would have to send at least ten yuan back every month. And two years later, when Wang Yue's brother grows up, her job will have to be given up.

When the eldest uncle said this, the eldest aunt Luo Juan almost turned against her. How could anyone treat their daughter like this? But when I think about it carefully, my husband is actually not rude this time. He is right to consider his daughter. However, when they grow old, they will still have to rely on their son to support them. Now the two sons are still young and may not fight, but they have grown up. What would they think in the future if they knew that they actually had the opportunity to work and didn't have to dig in the fields for food?

Moreover, the family's expenses are really high. Unlike the eldest brother Luo Wen's family, at least the son and daughter are grown up, and they can go to the fields to earn work points even if they don't have a job. But in their family, the half-grown boy worked in the fields, and his hands and feet were skinned, but he didn't get half as many work points as others.

Like my aunt, I actually also have the idea of ​​​​preferring boys over girls. This is caused by the general environment. Who makes us have to rely on our sons when we grow old. Thoughts are subtle, and even the aunt herself may not be aware that her preference for sons over daughters is quite serious. For example, her nephews may value her more than her own daughter.

One day, the nephew will not be able to find a wife, and it will come to the point of exchanging each other, that is, exchanging his daughter for his daughter-in-law. Maybe I can ask my aunt, and she will really consider this issue. Moreover, when the aunt was at Luo Cheng's house, her attitude towards Luo Cheng and Bingzi was completely different from her attitude towards Xiao Yu and Shishi.

When talking to Luo Cheng and the others, they basically use a tone of respect, but when talking to Xiao Yu and the others, it is the tone of the elders' instructions.

On this New Year's Eve, my aunt's aunt was personally trying to persuade Wang Yue to listen to her parents for the sake of her family. Moreover, when she gets married in the future, this is her natal family. If her two younger brothers both have jobs in the future, whoever she marries will not be able to support her. For example, Xiaoyu and Shishi from her uncle's family, who would not take a fancy to them when they get married in the future. Luo Cheng and Bingzi are both their natal brothers. If anyone bullies Xiaoyu and the others in the future, they won't be beaten.

And Wang Yue is also a simple little country girl. She is only sixteen years old. She says she is sensible, but in fact she only knows so much. If you really want to understand, maybe she herself has been brainwashed by the times and thinks that her mother is right. She has two younger brothers at home. She is a girl and she cannot compete with her younger brothers. And they went to work in the city. Xiaoyu and the others said that they only needed to pay five yuan to their cousin and there was nothing else to worry about.

As for the salary, it depends on what you do when you get it. Easy work is only 18.5 yuan, and men's moving work is 19.5 yuan. In this case, apart from five yuan, there are still thirteen or four yuan left. When the time comes, I can give ten yuan to my family, and I can still save a few yuan. It feels wonderful just thinking about it. Besides, I was only sixteen, so it didn't matter if I married two years later.

Wang Lin, the eldest uncle, was so excited that he jumped up when he saw that his wife and daughter had completed their ideological work. Although the other job quota was for his daughter-in-law Luo Juan to do it, after all, it was the job arranged by her nephew, so he was really embarrassed to suggest that he go to work again. But the money my daughter-in-law earns is not nearly the same as my own, and my daughter still has to pay ten yuan every month.

On this New Year's Eve, my eldest uncle really wants to tell his younger brothers and sisters about this, so that their Wang family will live a good life in the future.

As for the other relatives of Luo Cheng's family, they basically talked about this work last night and today, but they were not as talkative as the uncle and aunt's family.

Only Luo Chengjia, on New Year's Eve this year, only pays attention to food and drink. We ate goose at noon, and both my father and the soldiers drank white wine. In the evening, we prepare to make dumplings, hoping that everyone will stay together like this in the future.

Moreover, tomorrow is the first day of the Lunar New Year, and I am going to pay New Year greetings. Luo Wen is the eldest son of the Luo family, and grandma still lives here. Tomorrow, many relatives will come here to pay New Year's greetings. Luo Cheng couldn't control the others. As for grandma, Luo Cheng had already prepared a lot of change, which were all banknotes, including cents and dimes, and she also gave some one piece at a time.

Grandma thought it was a joke when she saw the piece. Everyone has had no money in the past two years, and rural towns now don’t give out lucky money for New Year greetings. Even if life is better, just give the child one or two cents, but there is no one to give.

And Luo Cheng said, if you give it to the younger ones, they will also pay you New Year greetings tomorrow. However, no matter how old Luo Cheng and the others are, they are all your grandchildren, and your biological grandchildren must give you a piece.

When grandma heard what Luo Cheng said, she collected the money with a smile and said with a smile, grandma has no money. If she has money, she will leave it to my grandson.