When the pigs were delivered last year, their father Li Deyou took them to eat mutton steamed buns. Li Wen, who was greedy, still hasn't forgotten it.

At that time, each person only had two pieces of meat and a little haggis, but the soup was really delicious! Eating such a bowl in the middle of winter made me feel warm all over, and I was not hungry all day long.

But after the New Year, Li Wen never saw anyone selling steamed buns again. Li Wen also specifically asked Uncle Wu at the restaurant.

Only then did I know that the year before the year was the time for meat delivery. There was not much fodder to feed the sheep in the winter. Some production teams would sell the unplanned sheep for money and grain. So there was only occasional mutton for sale before the year before, but not at other times.

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They are in the northwest region, near the Yellow River, which is rich in riverbank sheep. If you go further south and go to a big city, then don't think about it, it is difficult to eat mutton at all.

Of course, it is also difficult to eat fruits, vegetables and many specialties produced in the south in the north. In winter, we can only eat cabbage and radishes.

This is a regional characteristic of this era. Because transportation is underdeveloped, the cost of material exchange is very high.

So later the country proposed that to get rich, you must first build roads. Li Wen admired it. After all, even the county seat is now covered with gravel roads, and the roads outside the city are even worse, so there is no talk of development.

"Okay, I'm done inspecting my territory, go to bed!" Li Wen inspected the space warehouse before returning outside with satisfaction.

"It's another good night's sleep until I wake up naturally. It's so comfortable!" Li Wen woke up from his room in the morning, breathed in the air that was not polluted by the factory, and stretched his waist.

When he came to the county town recently, Li Wen completely let himself go. He counted money until his hands cramped, and slept until he woke up naturally. He completely realized his dream for future generations.

It was already past eight o'clock, and Li Wen didn't want to cook for himself anymore. He washed up in the yard and cut some pumpkin for the clucking hens.

After cleaning the yard, Li Wen walked out of the house with leisurely steps. He ate outside this morning.

When we came to the main street, there were no people going to work at this time. There were not many people on the street, there were just some idle people, women, old people and children shopping.

"Hello, comrade, what kind of steamed buns are available now?" Li Wen quickly walked to the breakfast stall and asked.

"Just call me aunt, but you call me gay! Your ideological consciousness is quite high." The salesperson in his forties said with a smile.

"Now the steamed buns are filled with pickled cabbage and tofu vermicelli, and all that's left is soy milk and corn dregs porridge." The woman opened the quilt covering the dustpan to show Li Wen.

"Bring me two sauerkraut and one tofu, and a bowl of soy milk for me to drink. Li Wen looked at the steamed buns with Erhe noodles. They were quite big and said directly.

"A total of two cents, twenty taels of food stamps!" The person collecting the money was a young woman in her early twenties, looking at Li Wen and said.

"Here's your ticket!"

Li Wen took out a handful of cents from his pocket, counted two cents and two taels of food stamps and handed them over.

Li Wen sat at the stall, took a bite of steamed buns, drank a sip of soy milk, and leisurely looked at the passers-by on the road.

There are no low-minded people on the road now. Most people go out with a clear purpose. They come and go in a hurry and do not wander around. Of course, there are also some wandering around, including unemployed young people, old people and children.

Employment is not particularly tight now, but it will take another five or six years. Everyone is busy with activities, and the production capacity of factories has also dropped significantly. Workers are seriously overburdened, and there is no recruitment at all.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the country became stable, the population began to explode, and the first generation of people fully came of age. Only then did people realize that there were too many people in the city and there were not so many jobs to arrange.

Moreover, there are some shortages of labor force in remote areas, so people go to the mountains and countryside.

"Brother, I'm hungry, can you give Erya a bite of your leftover buns?" Li Wen was leisurely looking at passers-by with half a bun, when suddenly a little girl's voice came from behind.

Li Wen turned around and saw a little girl of four or five years old who was no taller than the table.

How to describe it! She is very thin, really thin. Her arms are like matchsticks, her hair is withered and yellow, and her face is yellowish and white. She doesn't look like a little girl, but like a little old lady.

But the thing about the little girl that touched Li Wen's heart the most was her big eyes. The big black eyes were very clear. Looking at the buns in Li Wen's hand, her eyes were full of desire for life.

Spring has just begun, and the weather is still relatively cold on the April morning. This little girl was wearing a single coat with holes everywhere, and seemed to have no pants, and a pair of straw sandals on her feet.

This deeply touched Li Wen's heart. The last time he helped Song Jie and his sister, it was mainly because of their tenacity that influenced him.

This time it was bitter, really bitter! The little girl's tattered clothes and withered hair touched Li Wen's heartstrings.

"Come on, your name is Erya, right? Brother, I will hold you and sit down." Li Wen pulled the stool away, picked up the little girl and put her on the stool.

He handed the remaining half of the bun to the little girl and asked her to eat it quickly. This was broken by Li Wen, not just biting the rest.

While the little girl was eating steamed buns, Li Wen came to the breakfast stall.

"Auntie, this sister, do you know this little girl?" Li Wen pointed at the little girl who was devouring her food.

"We know her, but why don't she know her? Speaking of which, this little girl also had a hard life. Her father died in an accident, leaving behind a wife and three daughters."

"Because my daughter-in-law came here to escape famine and had a rural registered permanent residence. Her mother-in-law disliked the fact that she didn't leave any descendants for her dead son, so she kicked out the mother and daughter."

Because Juanzi was fleeing famine and still had a rural registered permanent residence. Therefore, the children followed their mother and also had rural registered permanent residence, and they had nowhere to go.

"Ah! How can a mother survive with several children and no food source?"

"Doesn't the subdistrict office not care? The child's father died due to an accident before his death, and the unit does not compensate him or assign him a job?" Li Wen asked several questions in succession.

"You kid, you still have a compassionate heart!" The woman at the breakfast stall looked at Li Wen's expression and praised him.

“Every family has a hard-to-recite sutra!”

"The child's father died due to his own operating error. The company compensated very little, and the job gave him a temporary worker's quota. The child's grandmother also took the job and gave it to his youngest son."

"The sub-district office finally coordinated with Juanzi's mother-in-law and secured six yuan a month in alimony for Juanzi and her daughter, which is considered to be enough to compensate for their work."

"Because Juanzi has a rural registered permanent residence and her husband passed away, she really couldn't settle down. In the end, the county even made a special approval."

"According to the treatment of poor people, Juanzi was given a food book and found a house. This gave the mother and daughter a place to stay."

"The rent is six yuan a month, and the rent is three yuan. In recent months, the third child, Xiaoya, has been sick and has spent a lot of money. The family must be suffering from famine."

"Erya must have been very hungry these past few days, so she came to the door of the hotel to beg for food. We are a public institution, so we can't give it privately. Our family is not rich, so we can only give our children some soy milk before closing the stall."

"It's difficult!" the saleswoman sighed after finishing speaking.

"Auntie, bring me nine more buns and a bowl of soy milk. I'll get one bun and wrap the remaining eight for me. I'll take them away." Li Wen handed over 50 cents and half a catty of food stamps and said.

"Young man, are you going to help Erya? Thank you so much. You are a good person!" the salesperson asked with a smile when she heard that Li Wen wanted so many buns.

"Yes, fifty cents and half a catty of food stamps are my breakfast money for a few days. Now that I have met him, I must help him." Li Wen said softly.

"Young man, who are you?" Several salesmen in front of the breakfast stall gave Li Wen a thumbs up.

"Erya, do the buns taste good?" Li Wen asked as he sat down at the table with the buns and soy milk.

"It's so delicious. I ate steamed buns when my father was here!" The little girl said and lowered her head.
Chapter completed!