FSC [QT] Chapter 71.2

“That’s right. Let’s wait for Doctor Wang to come back and change your medicine, then we can send you back.”

Several people present were somewhat worried about Ye Wu, but they also felt that the Kuang family was in chaos right now, and Ye Wu, as Kuang Aijun’s wife, was the one who should be in charge.

Therefore, they had no intention of stopping Ye Wu’s request to go home immediately.

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When Ah Wu returned home, she first washed the faces of the two children who had just cried like big cats. Then, she put the children on the kang bed, surrounded them with a circle of quilts and pillows, and told the two children not to climb out of bed.

“Mom!”

“Mom!”

It was said that the children had short memories, but these two children still remembered that their mother disappeared last night. They would call out ‘Mom’ every once in a while while playing. When Ah Wu responded, the two children would giggle.

Ah Wu’s originally depressed mood was cheered up a lot because of these two children.

She opened the small box where ‘Ye Wu’ had been hiding money. She had hidden the box on the beam of the house and it was locked. It was something she brought as a dowry.

With a sound ‘click’, Ah Wu opened the lock with the key hanging around her neck. There were a lot of banknotes and tickets stored inside.

Kuang Aijun’s subsidy was not low. He was supported by the army for food, clothing, housing, and transportation. The first thing he did after receiving his monthly allowance was to send it all back to his hometown.

When ‘Ye Wu’ first got married, Kuang Aijun’s monthly allowance was 18 yuan. In the year he died, it had risen to 23 yuan.

In the first year, because the family had not yet been separated, Kuang Aijun’s salary had to be turned in.

At the beginning of the third year, the Kuang family was separated. Except for the five yuan of filial piety given to the old couple every month, the rest was the private property of her small family.

Ah Wu counted and found that a total of 518.27 yuan had been saved over the years.

The original owner managed the family well. Except for buying snacks and clothes for the children, there were almost no large expenses.

The money saved alone was enough for Ah Wu to support her for a long time.

The expenses in the countryside were not high. The food rations were divided into 40% and 60% according to the number of people and work points, so the mother and her two children would not starve to death.

The few places where they spent money might be the price difference of exchanging fine grains because most of the rations per person were coarse grains. But it was difficult for children’s stomachs to digest such coarse food, so she had to exchange it for some white flour or finely ground corn flour.

In addition, there was the cost of the children’s education when they grew up and the cost of their future marriage.

In addition to these deposits, there were also some scattered tickets in the box, such as more than ten kilograms of national rice tickets and more than five kilograms of flour tickets.

These were all exchanged by Kuang Aijun from his teammates. Perhaps he also took into consideration that the children had reached the age to start eating normally.

As for the remaining cloth tickets, oil tickets, sugar tickets, soybean tickets, and other tickets, the quantity was not large. But in the countryside where there was a shortage of tickets, taking out these things was already very enviable.

After seeing these things, Ah Wu felt relieved.

After thinking carefully, she realized that except for the loss of her man and the subsequent steady flow of allowances, life was not as difficult as she had imagined.

Of course, this was also thanks to ‘Ye Wu’’s thrifty housekeeping. If she hadn’t been reluctant to spend money on herself, now that Kuang Aijun was gone, the life of the mother and the two children would be miserable.

After counting these valuable financial items, Ah Wu put them back in their original places and then went to the cellar to count the food.

There were still more than ten kilograms of rice, more than fifty kilograms of dried sweet potatoes and sweet potato flour, more than twenty kilograms of coarsely ground corn flour, a large bag of bran, two jars of pickles, and some fresh vegetables planted on the two acres of private land in the yard.

In more than two months, it will be time to distribute grain at the end of the year. According to the appetite of the mother and the two children, this amount of food was more than enough to last until then.

In addition to these, Ah Wu also found a lot of dried wild vegetables and some kudzu root powder in the kitchen. These were picked by the original owner in the mountains during the slack season.

These dried wild vegetables might not look good, but after being blanched in hot water, they could be eaten by mixing with other vegetables, used to make soup, or stir-frying. They were all good dishes to go with rice.

The most important thing was that they were free. When there was a shortage of food, this was a life-saving thing.

‘Ye Wu’ was really a very hardworking woman. Perhaps she was frightened by the famine in previous years, she was always keen on hoarding things.

Her accumulation brought great convenience to Ah Wu’s life in the future.

Ah Wu was a little flustered when she suddenly appeared in such a backward and barren era. But when she saw the abundant reserves and the positive attitude toward the life of ‘Ye Wu’ in her memory, Ah Wu felt that perhaps everything was not as terrible as she imagined.

“Mom! Mom! Woo, woo!”

The two children in the room were playing happily. When they turned around, they saw that their mother, who was originally in the room, was gone. They immediately slapped the kang bed and shouted anxiously.

When Ah Wu entered the room, she saw two children who couldn’t get up because they were too thickly dressed. They were lying on their backs like turtles, with their fat little feet in the air and waving their little white hands.

She would live well in place of Ye Wu and live well with her two children.

 

 

 

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