Chapter 192: Complaints

Chapter 192: Complaints

Chapter 192: Complaints
"Uncle Liao, you can't eat this ice. It's made from saltpeter and is poisonous."

"Ah! Is this thing poisonous?" Liao Kai asked in surprise.

"Uncle Liao, as long as you don't eat it, there's no problem. It's not harmful to people."

Hearing Li Jiayi say this, Liao Kai breathed a sigh of relief and said, "That's good."

In fact, there is no problem even if you eat this ice. At most you will get diarrhea. After all, this is ice frozen from lake water.

The lake water is very clean now. Of course, this is outside the city, and the place where Li Jiayi got the ice is outside the city.

When the weather is warm, Li Jiayi has seen people drinking directly from their hands! I wonder if there are any parasites.

Then everyone ate melon seeds and chatted, and because there was ice, there was no need to sit around the fan.

We chatted until nine o'clock and then got ready to go to bed. Liao Kai took away a fan and then came over to bring a piece of ice.

This was given to him by Li Jiayi. Of the remaining five pieces of ice, two were placed in his parents' rooms, two were placed in his eldest sister's and second sister's rooms, and Li Jiayi pretended to move one piece upstairs.

Of course, he also took a fan up there.

Now that we have fans and ice, this summer should be very comfortable.

After returning to the room, Li Jiayi locked the door from the inside and entered the space.

Of course, the same thing went with the piece of ice he brought up. It was of no use at all and it was a waste to leave it outside.

Although there is a lot of ice and one or two pieces are nothing, it is better not to waste it.

After entering the space, I first did the work that had to be done every day, and also harvested a lot of fruits and food.

Then Li Jiayi got a tree from the back mountain and started to process the tree.

Mainly dehydration.

Yes, Li Jiayi was planning to make a few recliners, but he had no other choice.

If he only made one, he probably wouldn't have any share. Not to mention his parents, even his second sister would have nothing to do with him.

So it’s better to make a few more so that there won’t be any fights when the time comes. It’s best if each family member gets one.

Anyway, it is very simple for him. It takes about the same amount of time to do one more or one less.

Half an hour later, five lounge chairs were ready. Li Jiayi lay on one to try them out and found them to be really comfortable.

This kind of tumbler recliner is very common in later generations. It's a pity that there is no way to make it perpetually moving, otherwise it would be more comfortable.

Although it is not perpetual motion, it can be considered semi-perpetual motion. In his previous life, Li Jiayi wanted to buy a perpetual motion recliner, but he couldn't find it after going to many places.

Some said they were perpetual motion, but they were all electric. Later I bought a semi-perpetual motion one.

What is semi-perpetual motion? It is a recliner made in combination with the human body, which will achieve a perpetual motion effect with human breathing.

But the amplitude is not very big, just a slight shake, but it is already good enough.

At least you don’t have to shake it yourself. Although the shaking is not big, it is quite comfortable.

Also, although this thing is only semi-perpetual motion, if there is no one on it, it will shake for at least three minutes before stopping.

It can be imagined that this semi-perpetual motion machine is also a very successful one.

In order to buy this rocking chair, Li Jiayi spent a lot of time researching! Fortunately, he did some research, otherwise he would not be able to make it now.

Even using the power of space won't work.

Unless the rocking chair has been in the space all the time, which is impossible, it will only enter the space when it goes to bed at night.

After making the rocking chair, Li Jiayi washed up, took a shower, and then went back to the room to sleep.

Silent all night.

Early the next morning, Li Jiayi came out of the space. Because the little black fat man and others were coming to his house today, Li Jiayi came early.

I get up at 5:30 to practice boxing, then take a shower.

It's only seven o'clock now, half an hour earlier than usual.

The main thing is that boxing takes about an hour, but washing and taking a shower doesn't take much time.

"Hey! Son, why did you get up so early today?" Ye Xin, who was cooking in the kitchen, asked when she saw Li Jiayi coming into the yard.

"I woke up early today, so I got up early."

"That's it!"

"By the way, Mom, will it be cooler at night with the fan?"

Hearing her son's question, Ye Xin said, "How can it be cooler? It's a little colder. I took out the thin quilts at night."

"Ah! No!"

"Of course not. The wind is getting colder and colder. It's getting a bit chilly. If you don't believe me, ask your dad!"

Li Aimin was making a fire. When he heard that he was being asked, he nodded and said, "That's right, son. It's really cold in the second half of the night."

Li Jiayi scratched his head and said, "Okay, put an ice cube in the evening next time, and when the weather gets hotter than it is now, put another one in."

"Uh-huh!"

The temperature in today's weather is only 33 or 34 degrees, which is far from being really hot.

You know, when it's hottest in the imperial capital, the temperature can reach 38 or 39 degrees!
And this is just the temperature in the air, because the roads are now paved with concrete.

When it is hottest, the road surface temperature can reach 50 or 60 degrees, which is enough to bake eggs.

At this time, the eldest sister also got up and seemed to have finished washing up.

"Sister, is it cold at night?"

"Cold? Not cold!"

"Huh!" Li Jiayi looked at his parents in confusion.

"Jia Qi, aren't you and Jia Lin cold when you sleep at night?" Ye Xin asked.

"It's not cold! It's just quite cool."

"What's going on?" Li Aimin asked puzzledly.

But Li Jiayi soon understood what was going on. The eldest and second sisters were young!

Being young means being energetic, in other words, being full of energy and fire.

Although Li Aimin and Ye Xin are only in their thirties, they no longer have the kind of firepower that children have.

Let's put it this way! If it was Li Jiayi, he would not feel cold at all, because he has more energy.

"Okay, no matter what, let's put one less piece of ice in our room at night."

"Understood, Dad."

Li Jiayi turned around and looked at her eldest sister and asked, "Isn't the second sister up yet?"

"Well! I can't shout." The eldest sister smiled.

I am also helpless about my second sister Li Jiayi. Not to mention him, even my mother is helpless.

When there was no ice and fan, I couldn't wake up in the morning. Now that the room is so comfortable, it must be even harder to wake up.

"Forget it, let her sleep! She doesn't have to go to school now anyway, so let her eat when she wakes up."

"That's all it can do."

Twenty minutes later, Ye Xin prepared the meal. Seeing that Li Jialin had not gotten up yet, she did not call her and just asked her to eat.

Today's breakfast was okay. Although there was no meat, it was definitely nutritious enough. There were not only scrambled eggs with tomatoes, but also a lot of boiled eggs.

The main reason is that my parents have to bring a few children with them to work, and there’s no other way because the food in the factory is not good nowadays.

Not only are there no meat dishes, but even the staple foods have been reduced a lot.

He had already known this from Liao Kai.

For example, we used to steam more than ten steamed buns in the morning, but now we only steam four or five.

However, the quantity of steamed corn bread has increased a lot compared to before, and there is now a limit that you can only buy two white flour steamed buns at a time.

Even for steamed corn bread, men are given three and women are given two, and the car blocker can buy one more.

There is no other way! Although the food shortage has not yet affected ordinary residents, it has already affected factories.

And Li Jiayi knew that the impact would soon reach ordinary residents.

I guess the higher-ups are probably holding a meeting to discuss this at this time.

You know, the country has spent a lot of money on this in the past three years!
We even used our limited foreign exchange to purchase food from abroad, otherwise the problem would be even more serious.

There are 700 to 800 million people in the country, and many places have no harvest. If there is no relief food allocated by the state, one can imagine what the consequences will be.

It’s not so bad in the city. Although most people don’t have enough to eat, at least they can survive.

But even so, from the second half of 1961 to the first half of 1962, the price of a pound of food coupons in the imperial capital could be sold for four or five yuan on the black market.

This is the imperial capital! If it's like this here, let alone other places, it's terrifying just to think about it.

Many people worked hard for more than ten years, but the money they saved was not enough to buy a few dozen kilograms of food coupons.

"Mom and Dad, how about I bring you lunch at noon? Don't eat at the factory."

"No, you can't bring us food. Besides, if others can eat, why can't we?"

"But I heard from Uncle Liao that the food in the cafeteria is getting worse and worse."

"Your uncle Liao is right, but didn't your father and I bring eggs? Besides, with your uncle Liao here, your father and I can still make some money."

Li Aimin also said at this time: "Son! It's just a lunch, it doesn't matter if you eat less. Even if the food is bad, it can't be as bad as when I was in the army!"

"Ah! This..."

Yes! Both my father and mother have been through hard times, and have experienced all kinds of hardships!
"Okay, I got it. I'll contact the hunters later and try to send a few more wild boars to the woolen mill."

"That's fine. The workers in the factory have been complaining about the lack of meat for some time." Ye Xin nodded.

Ye Xin is in the Propaganda Department, so she must know more.

"Okay, I got it. I'll take some time to go there in the next two days."

"Uh-huh!"

This is just the beginning! They are already complaining. Remember, the three-year difficult period has not even started yet!

What should I do after I start? I don’t have enough to eat at the factory now, but I can eat more when I go home.

If they don't have enough to eat at home and they still can't eat enough at the factory, they will be even more troublesome.

However, Chinese people have a good quality, which is that they face difficulties together.

When that time really comes, no one will say anything, because everyone knows that there is nothing that can be done about it.

The reason why they are complaining now is that the workers think it is the factory leaders' fault, or that the factory leaders have withheld their food.

After dinner, my parents left carrying the net bags containing lunch boxes. There were two eggs in each person’s lunch box.

With this, it’s no problem for my parents to eat less at noon.

　PS: Please give me a monthly ticket and recommendation ticket! Thank you!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)