The conspiracy of the courtyard

Chapter 18 A rough life experience

Lu Zixuan answered affirmatively

[It’s expensive to eat. Cornmeal will be very expensive in the future.

Because industrial technology is better in the future, the high-nutrition ones can be extracted, and the rest can be made into industrial products or animal feed.

When we have everything ready, I will teach you some cooking methods used by people from other places, which will definitely make your food better. 】

"Actually, Mom doesn't care what I eat. I want to make money. Just like you said, only with money can I have the confidence and the courage to live on.

This era is indeed a bit harsh on women. We have always been taught the Three Obediences and Four Virtues.

Women generally don't go out, and those who go out to work to earn money do so when they have no one to rely on. So when you told me you wanted to do business, I was really scared, and I was also afraid that your father would find out. " Chen Ping said.

Lu Zixuan agreed: "You are right. Every era has different rules and social and cultural backgrounds. I did take it for granted in the past, but there is one thing that will never change, and that is that the strong are respected.

If you have time, you can read some books on bookkeeping or accounting and find a job so that you can be financially independent. I really don't want you to waste your life and depend on anyone.

Chen Ping said with great satisfaction: "Well, Mom knows, I am actually very happy to be able to live like this. As long as I can hear your voice, I feel like I have the whole world.

I don’t think about anything every day, I just want to stay with you all the time. I think I’m quite selfish.

Sometimes I want you to grow up and become a big tree, so that everyone can know how great you are. But I also don’t want you to grow up because I want to hold you forever and hold your whole world.

Am I a psychopath? Haha."

Lu Zixuan boasts

How could that be? You are feeling insecure, which is also a kind of anxiety that everyone has.

Mom, you don't have to think too much. You are so beautiful, so gentle, so considerate, so understanding, so resolute and courageous, so...

You see, you are so outstanding, but I am afraid that you will despise me, so I help you with advice, because I am afraid that you will abandon me one day. 】

Chen Ping cleared her gloom and said, "How could that be? If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have known that I had so many advantages. Although I know you are just trying to coax me, I am just happy.

Son, how come you are so good at coaxing people? No, I have to hide you to prevent you from being seduced away by others. Haha… After eating and drinking, let’s go shopping.”

[Let’s go. The king asked me to patrol the mountains, so I’ll go around the world…]

Listening to her son's beautiful singing, Chen Ping closed the door and walked out of the yard happily.

Lu Zixuan suggested: "Mom, let's go shopping first, write down what we want to buy, and then find a donkey cart or a cart to pull it. You don't have to hold me and carry things at the same time."

Chen Ping had no objection: "Okay, I'll listen to my son."

Lu Zixuan pointed and said, "Mom, there is a cloth shop over here. Let's go take a look. I'll teach you how to make a set of comfortable underwear and a baby carrier. It will be convenient for you to hold or carry the baby. You don't need outerwear because you don't want to show off your wealth."

Chen Ping felt relieved. "Oh, my son is so considerate. But forget about the underwear. It's quite comfortable now. The suspenders you mentioned are interesting. We can try them."

As they talked, the mother and daughter walked into the cloth shop and took a look around. There were so many varieties of cloth for sale, including cotton cloth of various colors such as black, gray, white, red, brown, blue, green, pink, and seven or eight kinds of floral cloth. In short, there were many styles and the prices were attractive.

After choosing the fabric and asking the price, and after being brainwashed by Lu Zixuan, Chen Ping selected two feet of black burlap and three feet of blue cotton, spending a total of 4 yuan.

Lu Zixuan kept urging Chen Ping to buy cheongsam material, which made Chen Ping laugh and cry. She was so scared that she picked up the packaged cloth and turned away, not daring to look at it again.

After leaving the cloth shop, Chen Ping said angrily, "Master, what are our conditions? We still have cheongsams? Only the rich and powerful can afford them. We ordinary people only wear coarse linen clothes, and we still have a few cheongsams. Are you crazy?"

This alone is enough for the two of us to eat for more than a month. I will never take you to such high-end stores to buy things again. It makes me so nervous.

Young Master, I don’t even dare to eat well now, and you want me to dress well. When you grow up, I will dare to wear anything good you buy for me. If you don’t believe me, try it?"

Lu Zixuan looked frustrated: "Okay, okay, I'll listen to you. I just think those cheongsams will look really good on you. They are absolutely amazing."

Wearing a braid is the style of the Republic of China, perming it into big waves is the queen style, leaving a student hairstyle is the campus season, and wearing a bun is the head of the house style...

Wow, mom, you are so adaptable. I have to learn photography so that I can capture every beautiful moment for you.

Chen Ping was a little embarrassed: "Son, stop talking. If you keep talking, Mom's face will turn red. Son, is Mom really that pretty?"

[Mom, I'm serious. It's only now that all the glory has been imprisoned by the times. Otherwise, with your stunning beauty, if you can't charm everyone, I lose.

If it weren't for the unrest everywhere, I would definitely let you go south and become a big star. What a pity.

Come, my poor mother, let me hug you and feel sorry for you. Lu Zixuan thought a little sadly.

Chen Ping looked at her son in confusion and asked, "Poor? Who? Me? I'm well fed and well clothed, what's there to be pitied about? You don't know how Mom lived her life before.

Eat enough? I dare not even dream of it. Anyway, I was just shopping, nothing to do, I can tell you about it, in case you can speak later and say something shocking.

Actually, I remember what happened in the past, but I just don’t want to tell others.”

Chen Ping began to tell her own story:

"When I was a kid, it was really hard. I can remember things from a very early age. My hometown is in Henan Province, which is much poorer than here. There has been constant war since I was born.

I don’t know if I can live to see tomorrow. My parents make money by working as helpers and doing odd jobs.”

“It’s impossible to farm, because the land belongs to the rich, and during the busy farming season, we need to find people to help with farming and harvesting.

During the off-season, their own tenants can’t even use up all the food, so people like us can’t afford it.”

"There are houses in the village, but no one dares to live there. There are bandits and soldiers everywhere. They come eight times a day just to look for food."

"Do you know where they hid the food back then? In the manure pits. They dug cellars under the manure pits. There was food there."

"Those of us who had no food had to run back and forth, and lived a life of displacement every day. At that time, there were no Japanese soldiers, only troops and bandits."

"My father was drafted when he was working as a helper for others. Now I can't even remember what he looked like. I was less than two years old at that time."

"I followed my mother and worked for other people. At that time, I was paid one dollar for washing 50 pieces of clothes for rich people. I bought food and carried it with me. When I ran out of food, I went to find rich people.

Washing clothes is not an easy job. You have to go to the river first to wash yourself and your clothes clean because people are afraid that you have lice on your body. And they will only give you the clothes if there is no obvious disease on your body.

It's okay in the summer, but it's unbearable in the winter, so we usually go hungry in the winter. There is really nothing. We can either endure it or watch a rich man's wedding and say a few nice words to get some food from him.

I am alive today because I am sweet-mouthed. It was okay in the spring, with elm seeds and green grass, which helped me get by. I lived a peaceful life for a few years."