Impoverished life

 Impoverished life when life is really quite bitter, very few new clothes, and generally children are picking up the older children's clothes, empty tube to wear pants, no pants stringing clothes line ( underwear) is. can not afford socks to barefoot wearing a homemade cloth shoes, wore out can not bear to throw, but also to plastic or rubber soles cut it down and do keep a good shoe. because they do not wash regularly , who is also Health and lice (a human parasite, and now can not see out). summer is to get the river to wash clothes, looking for stones in the river, mat washboard to wash clothes on the washboard on beat with a wooden club, laundry, when many people, filtered gray water washing, because this water is alkaline,cheap UGG boots, you can not soap, the soap was a four cents, had to buy them by the supply license.
food is a single, summer Fortunately, the garden also produced a number of vegetables, the winter is only cabbage, potatoes and these kind of pickles. usually eat rice must be picked up off the table and eat, the staple food all year round corn-based, small ballast porridge, porridge large ballast, large ballast sub-cooked rice , corn pancake (unleavened dough and live side have) frequently appear in small Kang Table, occasionally eat a small meal of rice and sorghum, rice, even better food out. At that time, a dime a pound of soy sauce, salt is also a cents a pound, two or three per month supply of oil only, usually simply can not find rice and flour, let alone what the diversity of food, only the production team horse number (stable) in the horse or cattle dead, one points to the meat. mother a lot of cornmeal pancake steamed in normal times, into the basket hanging on the beam in the outer room, my sister and hungry to play, go to enough of a down, break apart the points to eat, eat enough to play again, if there is sugar beet boiled starch syrup, dip to eat with cornmeal pancake that is very fragrant.
is the new year, is not particularly good to eat, two pounds for frozen pears, a half orange half pounds of sugar, at most, and then there are several frozen persimmon (at two cents a pound), team points flour, then cut point of less meat, dumplings, dinner, midnight to one-year-old so long. flower boy to guns, the old man to the top of the new felt hat, one dollar to do a lot of money to the children new clothes, while the adults are not willing to buy anything, not to mention the old man's hat.
family raised chickens, eggs, and usually save all down, so keep to guests to eat. often came only grandfather, he came, my mother for block of tofu, the fried egg, and then spend a few cents a loaded twenty-two wine,bailey UGG boots, generally when the two dishes, except summer, when the vegetables down to get the four dishes. is this food, I often look forward to Grandpa can always come to my house, because only the grandfather came, the food at home can improve the look, I can eat white flour baked in the cake, although I do not eat much . At that time I really understand the rules, and other guests had finished, I can serve a meal, even on half a sheet cake to eat and very contented.
that time did not present so many shops, a brigade (now The township government in the past, said the commune, known as the brigade administrative villages) only one supply and marketing cooperatives,UGG boots cheap, selling some daily necessities. matches two cents a box, money box of eight hubs smoke, to street (the city) can be five cents under the Dayton restaurant (now hotel), starting a buy cloth cloth votes, many of the goods are bought by the supply permits,UGG boots clearance, and some small villages are not even the supply and marketing cooperatives. Popsicles five cents one-third of the money (was not ice cream), usually eat less, some children took eggs for that is the way also could not get a few a year. mother sometimes took to the streets, round-trip walk is about sixteen miles, give us back a bit tasty. spend two money to buy two packets of jelly beans hair, my sister and one of a package, or the money to buy one-eighth of scones, two cents a of cannabis rarely seen fruit. I remember back when If you buy a fruit, are is the kind of slightly bad point, and then come back with a knife to eat rotten place to dispose of. the luxury of time there will be rice, sugar, persimmon cake, if he can have a start is not willing to eat, that is, when one can eat eat a long time, wished he could eat for a while. peacetime hair is not willing to spend money, my hair was too long to cut generally uncle. I remember one time the mother took me to the streets, passing the barber shop to see my hair long, and may want to point my hair haircut cool it to line up to buy a number, can I see every one of those barber wearing white clothes, and hospital doctors about, so scared I started to run, do not cut the head and say, no way, the mother had to invoice the grounds Threepenny retreated.