He stared blankly at the sky, blue sky and white clouds, fresh air.
In winter, this is a rare good weather.
Every household in the courtyard took out their bedding and clothes to dry.
He could hear Xu Mu and the second aunt chatting in the courtyard.
Zheng Ai Min sighed in his heart, he couldn't go back.
However, he was still not used to this era.
Although everyone in this era was full of energy, fighting spirit, and passion, materials were scarce, and there wasn't much entertainment.
It's no exaggeration to say that even watching a movie is very rare.
For people in the countryside, to watch a movie, they can happily walk for more than ten miles, people from all over the countryside get together, it's more lively than the New Year.
Now, Zheng Ai Min is an infant, let alone milk powder, even malted milk extract is not available.
It's good to have a mouthful of rice porridge, it's really heartbreaking.
But life goes on.
Speaking of which, compared to freezing to death outside, being adopted by Zheng Da Ma can be considered lucky.
Therefore, Zheng Ai Min was also very grateful to Zheng Da Ma in his heart.
Suddenly, he heard more movement in the courtyard outside, he listened carefully, and it turned out to be Wang, the director of the street office, coming to the courtyard.
Knowing that Yi Zhong Hai and his wife had divorced, Yi Zhong Hai had a job and a decent salary, and didn't need to worry, but Zheng Da Ma was different.
Although Zheng Da Ma now had a sum of money, she couldn't just eat away her savings, she still needed a job.
However, it's not easy to get a decent job in this era.
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"Director Wang, thank you so much." Zheng Da Ma said her thanks.
The street office provided assistance to Zheng Da Ma.
It's not about arranging a job or giving her a monthly allowance, but giving her more odd jobs.
It's nothing more than sewing and mending, or making matchboxes, Zheng Da Ma can do it all.
Next, Zheng Da Ma went to the street office, when she came back, she was holding a lot of things that needed to be sewn.
Middle courtyard, Jia family.
Jia Zhang Shi was sitting at the door of the house making shoe soles, seeing that Zheng Da Ma had taken on a lot of odd jobs from the street office, she felt a little unbalanced.
Now, the Jia family is the only one in the courtyard with a sewing machine, in Jia Zhang Shi's opinion, the street office's sewing and mending work should be given to the Jia family.
Even if Zheng Da Ma's needlework is better, can it compare to a sewing machine?
Speaking of which, the Jia family is still very glamorous now.
What does it mean to have a sewing machine now?
Besides, many people in the courtyard know that Jia Zhang Shi has a gold ring!
As for Jia Dong Xu marrying a country girl, it's nothing.
Nowadays, the difference between the city and the countryside is not big.
Many people even think that rural household registration is better! Otherwise, Jia Zhang Shi wouldn't have kept her rural household registration, she also asked Qin Huai Ru to keep hers.
The child's household registration follows the mother, so Bang Geng's household registration follows Qin Huai Ru, and it's currently a rural household registration.
Qin Huai Ru herself doesn't think there's anything wrong with rural household registration, otherwise she could completely go against her mother-in-law's wishes and transfer her own household registration to the city.
You know, it's easy to transfer a rural household registration to the city now, but it's not easy to transfer a city household registration to the countryside.
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After taking on a lot of sewing and mending odd jobs from the street office, Zheng Da Ma got busy.
With the street office's care, Zheng Da Ma was able to take on more odd jobs, and the money she earned each month could support herself and Zheng Ai Min, no problem.
But to improve the diet, or buy a new piece of clothing, or for social interactions, relying on odd jobs is not enough.
However, Zheng Da Ma was also open-minded, if she didn't have money, she would tighten her belt, she wouldn't starve to death.
Difficulties are only temporary, just work hard to overcome them.
It has to be said that Zheng Da Ma had a good attitude.
Besides, as long as Zheng Da Ma lives in this courtyard, there will always be people who will help her a little.
The third aunt, who was usually stingy, sent a steamed bun today.
Xu Mu even sent a two-he-mian bun.
Of course, everyone is having a hard time now, and they won't help too much.
Speaking of which, the Jia family is currently in good condition, but they didn't help at all.
In the room, Zheng Da Ma was holding a needle and thread, wearing a thimble.
After watching for a while, Zheng Ai Min had to admit that Zheng Da Ma's needlework was very good, not much worse than a sewing machine.
There shouldn't be many people in the courtyard with such needlework.
With good needlework, it's easier to make a living.
Busy with sewing and mending, as well as taking care of Zheng Ai Min, Zheng Da Ma didn't have much time to take care of the old lady.
The old lady didn't say anything, but she must have had opinions in her heart.
If this continues, I'm afraid the old lady will soon be unhappy with Zheng Da Ma bringing a child to live with her!
Zheng Ai Min also hoped to move out.
After all, this is 'A Yard Full of Chickens'.
But speaking of which, would moving to another courtyard be better? It's not necessarily.
Just take Nanluoguxiang, 95, No. 95 Courtyard is 'A Yard Full of Chickens', are the other courtyards 'A Yard Full of Love'?
Maybe they're not even as good as this courtyard!
Of course, moving to another courtyard might be better than this one.
However, this is not something that the current Zheng Ai Min can decide.
Zheng Ai Min's needlework is both fast and good, it only took 2.5 hours to finish all the odd jobs he took from the street office.
This can earn a few thousand yuan.
That's a few cents three years later.
It seems like a small amount, but the prices in this era are also cheap!
A few cents can buy a lot of things!
Nowadays, if you have money, you can buy things, the premise is that you can buy them.
Because of the shortage of materials, it's not strange to have money and not be able to buy things.
For example, to buy some eggs, you have to line up outside the vegetable market before dawn, but you may not be able to buy them.
Also, to buy some pork, because there is less fatty meat, it can cause a fight.
The odd jobs were finished, and Zheng Da Ma sent them to the street office.
Coming out of the street office, touching the extra few thousand yuan in her pocket, Zheng Da Ma also had a smile on her face.
Tomorrow, the street office will have a lot of matchboxes to make.
If she can earn a few thousand yuan every day, she can earn more than 100,000 yuan a month!
Her and Zheng Ai Min's monthly food expenses, 50,000 yuan is enough, but this only guarantees that the child eats his fill, she doesn't eat her fill.
To make sure both the adult and child eat their fill every day, 100,000 yuan a month might not be enough.
In the past when she lived with Yi Zhong Hai, they couldn't eat their fill every day either.
Now it's different from before, she plans to eat less in the future and still save some money each month.
When the child grows up, he will be able to eat a lot.
"First Aunt." He Yu Shui just got out of school and met Zheng Da Ma at the entrance of the courtyard.
"I'm not First Aunt anymore, call me Zheng Da Ma in the future." Zheng Da Ma smiled and touched He Yu Shui's little head.
Zheng Da Ma liked He Yu Shui very much, after He Da Qing ran away, she took care of He Yu Shui a lot.
And He Yu Shui was also close to Zheng Da Ma.
Running into the courtyard, He Yu Shui threw her little schoolbag into the house, then followed Zheng Da Ma to the backyard.
Seeing Zheng Ai Min, He Yu Shui thought he was getting cuter and cuter, she couldn't help but pinch Zheng Ai Min's little face.
If it weren't for the people around, He Yu Shui might have secretly taken a bite.
He Yu Shui didn't notice that Zheng Ai Min was looking at her with 'disgust'.
Zheng Ai Min couldn't stand this rough He Yu Shui.
Suddenly, Zheng Ai Min felt like he was going to poop, so he cried out a few times.
"Are you hungry? I'll go call Qin Jie." He Yu Shui said and ran to the middle courtyard.
Zheng Ai Min:…