sailing in that era

This man is Peng Baili's father.

He is very young now, in his 30s, with a height of more than 1.7 meters, Zhou Zheng's facial features, and small eyes that often smile, he is really charming.

Peng Baili said in a little surprise.

"Dad, are you done with the work in the ditch?"

His father stroked his head directly, and looked at his ankle, "It's still early, didn't I hear that your foot was injured, please take a leave to come back and have a look."

"Didn't you tell your mother yet?"

"Oh, today she helped Tang Sanbo's family dig potatoes!"

Yes, my mother borrowed a usury loan of 50 yuan from Tang Sanbo’s house, with a monthly interest of [-] yuan. If the loan cannot be repaid within a month, the principal of the next month will be the interest plus the principal of the previous month, which belongs to The profit-making kind.

This is because my mother promised that if she couldn't pay it back by then, she would sell the pigs directly to pay off the debt, otherwise she really wouldn't be able to borrow it.

Even usury loans are not easy to borrow these days, and people are worried that you will not be able to pay them back.

In addition, some people borrow money, and you are not bad.

After hearing Peng Baili's words, his father was silent for a while. Although he didn't care about the specific situation of the family, he still knew about it.

But it is absolutely impossible to ask him to borrow money.

Peng Baili knew that his father was lazy, he liked to eat good food, and he liked to play. If he had time to play cards, this day would be his favorite.

Seeing that his father was a little silent, Peng Baili said without words.

"Dad, when will you get paid for the work in the ditch?"

"Salary? Even living expenses are exhausted, I think it's enough!"

"Boss, I just don't want to go when I come back this time. The work is too tiring, and I don't know if the salary will be paid. I think the two months I worked before are probably for nothing."

……

Listening to his father's words, Peng Baili nodded subconsciously.

My father's current job is to build a hydropower station. There is a river passing by in their village, and the water volume is relatively large, so the village plans to build a small hydropower station.

The villagers are a good source of labor.

At the beginning of the construction, I heard that the wages were not bad, so many people participated in the construction.

The hardware facilities such as ditches and dams were all built by the villagers, and they were all made of stone walls. The hardships involved can be imagined.

It will take another year for this small power station to be completed, and it will be put into use immediately, and their home and even the whole village will be electrified at that time.

This power station has been put into use since then, and even after the rural power here was connected to the grid in 2018, the power station still provides electricity.

But what I want to say is that after the villagers finished their work, they basically didn't get paid. It is said that they were swallowed up by the leaders above.

In the end, this matter was left alone, so that some people got paid, so...

However, he knew that his family didn't get a penny.

Peng Baili knew that his father was a person who didn't want to endure hardships. When he came back this time in Yuanshikong, he went to work for more than a month every other day or two, and then he never went again.

I can't stand my mother's nagging if I go to work again this time. After all, theoretically, I can get a salary of 1 yuan a day!

This is a big temptation for the family.

Knowing the follow-up situation, Peng Baili didn't want his father to do this kind of work anymore, because he didn't have money!

"Dad, since I feel that I can't get the money, I won't go, and the work at home is too busy. Come with us and dig the yams in the field first."

The father was a little surprised when he heard his words, and pinched his face unconsciously, looking at his childish face, he felt that his cub seemed to be a little more sensible.

"Well, you're right!"

"It's just that your mother's test is a bit difficult, hehe!"

Father rubbed his hands in embarrassment. In fact, he was very impatient to listen to his mother's nagging at home, especially when his mother talked about the situation at home.

Peng Baili patted his chest and promised that he would do the job of helping his mother.

"Second brother...Second brother, Xiao Weier is really a rambunctious ghost, and he didn't accept the pigweed that lost to us."

"I told you not to bet with him, but you just didn't listen. You see, you just cut a little bit today."

When it was getting dark, Peng Baili heard the voices of his two younger brothers, they were coming back from cutting pigweed.

"Ah, it smells so good! Brother, why do you make bacon at home!?"

As soon as the third child walked into the house, he smelled an extreme fragrance. He hurriedly ran to the stove, and saw pieces of meat cooking in the iron pot.

His eyes widened, and he swallowed unconsciously.

The second child who came in after that was also staring intently.

The father looked at the two people entering the room and said quickly.

"The two boys are back, wash your hands quickly, dinner will be served later."

"Uh, Dad, you're back!"

"Okay, Dad!"

The two hurried to wash their hands.

Peng Baili looked at it and found it very interesting. Today, my father made the last cut of bacon in the family last year. My father is more particular about food, and the dishes he cooks are also more delicious.

Next, while eating, he felt a long-lost sense of satisfaction.

When the third brother was eating, he put a piece of meat in the bowl and stared at the double-cooked bacon on the plate while eating.

Pieces of fat meat were fed into his mouth, and Peng Baili was touched for a moment by the way he enjoyed it.

The family is so poor!

As far as eating meat is concerned, the family usually doesn't even think about it.

Only when important guests come, or during festivals, will they cook meat extravagantly.

In fact, frying vegetables with vegetable oil is also a better daily meal.

For two-thirds of the year, I am actually a vegetarian.

He still remembered that there was really no food in the house, and the corn was still raw and half-cooked.

Mother brought new bread and made rice porridge.

Several consecutive meals of porridge made him seem to be starving all the time.

The main thing is porridge, and I am not hungry at all.

As soon as I ate porridge, ran and jumped, and went to the toilet to pee once, I started to feel hungry again.

Peng Baili put a piece of meat in his mouth, and it also felt very fragrant. This young taste bud is really sensitive.

These days there is no MSG, chicken essence, vinegar and soy sauce to enhance the taste, and there are no other miscellaneous spices.

When cooking, there is only salt and chili, but this aroma will not be felt when the seasoning is complete.

When my mother came home at night, she first complained to her father. She originally reserved the meat to entertain the important relatives who came to the family, but she just nagged a few words.

In the evening, the family of five sat around the stove and set up a dragon gate array (in fact, they communicated with each other), and a sense of warmth spread in their hearts.

Although the current life is very monotonous, the family spends a lot of time together, they can open their hearts to each other, and they can hear the teachings of their father and mother from time to time.

There are also two younger brothers who carry beautiful ideal declarations in their innocence.

Everything is so beautiful.

Peng Baili had a smile on his face unconsciously, it would be better if his family was not so poor.

He has been thinking about how to find some income for his family for the past few days, but after thinking for a long time, he still found nothing.

His home is a small mountain village under Xiongji County, Tongbei City, Southwest Province. There is really nothing to ask for here.

The land at home is all dry land, and it is impossible to catch rice field eels from a certain boss for the first pot of gold.

Also, this is a hilly area, so it is impossible to have a pristine mountain forest and patches of wild medicinal materials waiting for you to pick up treasures.

There is nothing special here either.

It's really hard to make some money.

Unless it's going out directly to do some small business.

But he is still just a 12-year-old kid!

Although my mother agreed with my father not to repair the power station at night, she couldn't hide the disappointment on her face.

Since she got married to her father, she has been busy every day, and the crops in the field have not been underserved, but she borrows food and usury every year to survive, and she doesn't know how long this kind of life will last.

"Oh, we don't know when our family will come out?"

The father heard the mother's lament, and did not speak, but teased the younger brother, and the two laughed from time to time.

Hearing this, Peng Baili said, "Mom, why don't you let Dad do some small business?"

As soon as his father heard his words, he said quickly: "You can have this. You don't know. I heard that people who pull coal make a lot of money. Don't we have horses in our family? As long as I buy another carriage, I can make money pulling coal." .”

After hearing this, my mother hesitated and said, "This can make money? It costs a lot of money to buy a carriage!"

"It doesn't cost much, at most 50 yuan, and I can ask a craftsman to make it."

"But, this coal is worthless!"

"You are a woman's opinion. This coal is worthless, but every family can still get rid of it."

……

Peng Baili rejected his father's words in his heart. Their county has nothing but coal, and many villagers can dig coal at any place.

Therefore, many people would rather dig coal and burn it by themselves than buy coal. Besides, the price is really low, which seems to be only a few cents per catty.

Specially buying coal with a horse-drawn cart means that you can only earn a hard-earned money. If you are unlucky, you can't even earn working hours.

"Dad, let's forget about pulling coal!"

Seeing his father's suspicious gaze, he continued, "Actually, you only need to fry melon seeds or sell chestnuts."

He knew that a melon seed king appeared just this year!

Don't look down on this thing, its realization stage is a huge profit.

"You kid, you don't know, it's very risky to sell this thing, if you are caught as a speculator, what will you do?"

Father shook his head immediately after hearing Peng Baili's words. Selling sunflower seeds had to be ostentatiously sold on the street, and he had an inexplicable fear of places with many strangers.

Peng Baili was a little speechless when he heard his father's words. He couldn't understand his father very well. Although he was a little smart, he was still a little smart.

You must know that his father was a restless person. In fact, two years later in the original time and space, he began to travel to the south, just to work as a migrant worker in an uncle's national construction site.

The name seemed to be something like Twenty Bureau. He didn't want to do hard work, so he did a job in a cooking class.

There is not much money, but the small life is not bad.