After the house was purchased and the specific handover was completed.
The food in Ding Yun's truck reduced by a small portion, approximately three thousand catties.
This was not a miscalculation. Although the house was worth fifteen thousand catties of grain, the grain mentioned here referred to ordinary grain. If better quality grain was used, the price would fluctuate upwards, let alone trading with cured meat.
One catty of cured meat could be exchanged for five catties of grain.
Zhu Rong and the others felt that glutinous rice bricks were impossible to buy anywhere now, and that well-preserved, air-dried glutinous rice bricks wouldn't cause death even after more than ten years. In comparison, cured meat couldn't be a staple food. Therefore, Ding Yun naturally followed their wishes and directly used cured meat for the transaction.
She had over fourteen thousand catties of cured meat on her vehicle.
Three thousand catties was nothing, a mere drop in the bucket.
Next, of course, was driving the truck home to pick up her family. It was then that Ding Yun realized what kind of life her parents were living: a life almost comparable to that of a slum.
The alleyways were narrow and muddy, lined with makeshift shelters.
The path in between was so narrow that three people could barely walk side-by-side.
Let alone a truck.
The truck could not enter at all, so it had to be stopped far away. Dozens of people hired from the employment hall were asked to guard the truck, while Ding Yun and her parents walked home from the truck.
Within five minutes, they stopped in front of a shelter that looked somewhat cleaner than the surrounding ones, and saw her aunt, who was stirring a pot of mush.
"Big Brother, this, this is Xiao Yun, right?
Good heavens, it's really wonderful. As I said, if anyone were to spend grain to offer a reward to find you, who else could it be but your own daughter? Come, come, quickly come inside.
It's truly wonderful that you're alright. Your father and mother were so worried about you. Uh, please wait a moment, I'll go inside and tidy up first. Big Brother, Sister-in-law, you take care of Xiao Yun and help me look after the pot."
Upon seeing Ding Yun, Zhu Juan's face first lit up with joy and happiness. Then, as if suddenly remembering something, she quickly put down the pot she was cooking, called out,
And hurried to go inside to tidy things up.
"Oh, Xiao Juan, don't rush, don't be flustered. You want to go inside and put away that black and white photo of Xiao Yun, don't you? It's alright, it's alright. We've already told Xiao Yun. There's not much to avoid these days."
Zhu Rong, seeing the direction his sister turned, knew that she most likely intended to go into their room to put away the black and white photo they had specially prepared to worship and remember their daughter, whom they thought was dead, to avoid any misunderstanding or discomfort.
After all, anyone seeing their own obituary photo while alive would probably feel a sense of unease and get goosebumps.
"Oh, so you've already discussed it.
It's good that Xiao Yun doesn't mind. Then you two go in yourselves. Let's tidy up the storage room and divide up the rooms to make space for Xiao Yun to live."
Since the father and daughter had already talked it over.
Then she naturally didn't need to get involved.
So, Zhu Juan quickly turned back to the pot, stirring the mush while continuing to speak.
Ding Yun, afraid that her parents would keep making small talk and waste time, immediately said, "Aunt, I bought a house outside.
It's three to four hundred square meters. We've come back to take you, Uncle, and cousin to live there. Hurry and pack up. Leave the mush in the pot for now, hurry and pack, we're leaving immediately.
Oh, right, where are Uncle and Cousin?
Are they home?
If they're home, have them help too..."
"What?"
Needless to say, Zhu Juan's first reaction was disbelief. However, Ding Yun didn't need to explain further. Her parents naturally took over the task of explaining, pulling Zhu Juan aside and briefly telling her the situation.
And stating that in this current era,
It was better for everyone to live together.
After Zhu Juan understood the situation, she was also very happy. However, her son and husband were still out working and hadn't returned. Even Zhu Rong had taken an afternoon off after seeing the reward to go find Ding Yun.
So, she couldn't call her husband and son over to help move today. They would have to do the packing with the four of them first. If her husband and son returned from work and they hadn't finished, then they would all work together. If they were done, they would leave immediately.
An hour later.
The original owner's uncle and cousin returned from work.
By then, they had already packed everything at home, and most of it had been moved to the truck. So, as soon as the two of them returned, Ding Yun and the others pulled them along without any explanation and left.
While walking, they explained the specific situation.
At the same time, Ding Yun also learned from them where they worked. In order to earn more money, they all worked at the Sunflower Planting Base. Of course, it was called the Sunflower Planting Base, but in reality, they no longer planted sunflowers there. They had all switched to planting high-yield potatoes.
The main staple crop at the base was now potatoes, as potatoes had the highest yield and starch content. Planting one mu of potatoes could support more people than planting one mu of rice or wheat.
Was this the time to consider taste and nutrition?
Obviously not. As long as they could survive. So planting potatoes had become the mainstream of the current world.
Only in a few places with very few people originally, where there were no people within dozens of miles, or in mountainous areas with very few people on the mountains, were there places to grow other grains, fruits, and vegetables for occasional consumption.
For places like theirs, with a large population and limited planting area, if they didn't plant potatoes, they'd be blowing in the wind.
They not only planted potatoes in the fields but also cultivated many hydroponic and soilless potatoes. They had four to five layers on one mu of land, and only then did they manage to barely support the people in the base, with basically no one starving to death.
This also helped stabilize the order of the base.
All order and stability were built on the premise of no one starving to death, or at least very few people starving to death. If the base had no food supply and a large number of people starved to death, no matter how capable the leader of the base was, they could not maintain stable order.
The most basic stability must be built on the premise of not starving to death. When the granaries are full, people know honor and shame.
It was precisely because cultivation was of utmost importance and the foundation of the entire base's stability that all those who participated in the Sunflower Planting Base work had quite good salaries.
As long as there was one adult working there,
The normal income would definitely be enough to support one or two more people.
The original owner's parents, along with the aunt's family, a total of five people, had three people working. The remaining two also tried their best to find odd jobs whenever possible.
Therefore, their lives were relatively passable.
It was just that they had been saving money, thinking of saving some grain for their cousin to see if they could find him a wife, which made their food and drink appear somewhat lacking.