Chapter 2

Her space was born with her.

The space is infinite, time is still, and things come out the same as they were when they were put in. The only difference is that there is a one-cubic black box.

The black box can only hold food-related items and can replicate the same food every 24 hours.

The copied food cannot be put into the black box. Only the food in the real world can be put into the black box for copying.

In her previous life, she used her space to do overseas purchasing and had her first starting capital before graduating from university…

Knowing that she had copied the space and traveled together, she did not think about breaking up with Zhou Ze’an. There would be turmoil in the future, and with a military husband to cover her, she would not be too conspicuous in her life.

After she and Zhou Ze’an confirmed their relationship, the man received a temporary mission and rushed to the army. Before leaving, he arranged her affairs and found out the cause of the fire.

It’s my uncle.

Not only were my uncle’s family forced to return the pension, but they also gave her two hundred yuan in compensation for the loss of her home after the arson.

Despite this, my uncle was still arrested by the police.

What awaits my uncle is farm treatment.

Her sister-in-law came to the captain’s house to cause trouble.

It was fine if they hid for a day or two, but after a long time, except for the team leader who was in charge of his duties, everyone else in the team leader’s family disliked the mother and her two children.

Qiao Yu naturally knew this, so after she recovered, she brought her two children to the Zhou family.

The Zhou family was very warm to her.

Zhou’s mother was a widow and gave birth to only two sons, Zhou Zeguo and Zhou Ze’an.

Zhou Zeguo got married early and had a son and a daughter.

She could probably understand Zhou’s wife’s enthusiasm for her, after all, Zhou Ze’an was a soldier. Having a brother-in-law in the army would be good for the family and the children’s future.

But Zhou’s mother was also enthusiastic about her…

She was puzzled.

She is a married woman with two children. Even if her body is innocent, this is not right, right?

In Qiao Yu’s mind, Zhou Ze’an’s hidden illness was further confirmed.

In this way, she would feel more at ease to temporarily leave the two children to Zhou’s mother’s care.

She has a secret and cannot always carry her two children with her. Before leaving with the army, she must buy some things and bring them into the space.

Dawei has been feeling a little uneasy these days. When he learned that his stepmother had entrusted him to a stranger, his eyes turned red and he grabbed her clothes tightly and refused to let go.

Seems worried that she’d abandon them.

Qiao Yu took a deep breath, then pulled him to a secluded corner of the courtyard and whispered, “Dawei, with the pension and compensation your aunt has paid back, I have to go to the town to see if there is any high-priced grain. I can’t just follow the army without bringing anything, right?

You and… your father have been kind to me. I am not an ungrateful stepmother. I will not abandon you. If you are worried…”

Qiao Yu counted out two hundred yuan from the three hundred and handed it over. “Here, one hundred yuan is the pension that the production team fought for your father, and two hundred yuan is the compensation given by your aunt. I’ll keep this one hundred yuan to buy food in town, and you can keep the other two hundred yuan.

If I really never come back, you and your brother will have enough money to live on.”

“Mom, that’s not what I meant…”

Seeing that the other party was so anxious that his eyes turned red, but he didn’t know how to express himself, Qiao Yu rubbed his hair and said, “When I come back, if the Zhou family bullies you, you can tell me secretly. Before the marriage report is issued, I can take you to live alone.”

Dawei was taught to be sensible by his late husband. He was naughty at times, but he could listen to the truth. He gritted his teeth and agreed.

Only then did Qiao Yu leave with about a hundred yuan in his pocket.

Marrying Zhou Ze’an is the best outcome. If his family is difficult to get along with, she can live alone with her children. After all, she has space in her hands and no shortage of men.

However, not now.

She greeted Zhou’s mother and had a boiled egg stuffed into her waist pocket.

Zhou’s mother said, “Ayu, eat slowly on the way.”

“this……”

“I have been taking care of the hens at home. I can still decide to give you a few eggs. Your sister-in-law won’t object.”

Not many families can eat eggs during a famine.

Compared with other people in the team, the Zhou family members did look more energetic, but they were still thin.

Qiao Yu: “Okay, then I’ll thank my mother first.”

Hearing her calling her mother, Zhou’s mother finally smiled, “Ayu, you are going to join the army, just live a good life with the youngest, you don’t need to worry about us, your eldest uncle is the accountant of the team, and your eldest sister-in-law is also an elementary school teacher. I can still work without you sending money back every month. If you really want to wait for retirement, we can talk about it then.”

Qiao Yu also felt deeply moved, feeling sorry for the love of parents in the world.

The old mother is worried about her youngest son who suffers from impotence.

Qiao Yu promised: “Don’t worry, mother. I will take good care of the children, take good care of… Brother Ze’an, and manage this family well.”

Mother Zhou’s smile deepened, her old face wrinkled into wrinkles, “Yeah, yeah, I feel relieved when you say that. I know you are a good child. You were diligent before you got married, and you never thought of abandoning the two children after your ex-husband left. You and the youngest in our family are both responsible. Good people will be rewarded. Just hold on a little longer, and when the children grow up, it will be time for you to enjoy your life.”

Qiao Yu let it go in one ear and out the other.

She didn’t expect other people’s children to support her in her old age. She had to rely on herself for everything.

Boiled eggs placed into copy space, waiting for eggs to lay tomorrow.

It takes several hours to walk to the town. Fortunately, I ran into

I gave a few cents and got a ride on the team’s ox cart.

Arriving in the town, she wrapped her face tightly with the gray headscarf borrowed from Zhou’s mother and then headed towards the black market.

The reason why the black market was not severely suppressed in small places during the famine was that it wanted to give ordinary people a way out.

At the same time, there is no way to control the exorbitant prices in the black market.

For example, she finally found rice with husks, but the other party asked for ten yuan per pound!

Why don’t you go and rob it!

Before, the price of black-market rice was 1 yuan per pound, and that was for husked rice! Now the price has increased many times!

Even though she resisted in her heart, when she saw other buyers discovering the food and gathering around, she quickly asked for a pound.

After walking around three times and finding no other food, she had to give up and go to the supply and marketing cooperative to have a look.

Without a ticket, she could only buy matches and salt, which did not require a ticket.

She put the salt into the black box in the space and carried a pound of husk rice to visit other places.

In 1960, when everything required a ticket, there really wasn’t much for her to choose from. She might as well wait until she joined the army, got her marriage report, and then ask Zhou Ze’an for money and tickets.

On the way back, I caught the ox cart and my feet didn’t suffer much.

Seeing that she came back before the sun set, Zhou’s mother asked in surprise, “You came back so soon?”

Qiao Yu: “We just happened to run into the opposite bullock cart. Mother, I will leave in a few days. This is the rice I bought. Please help fry it and grind it into powder. Dawei, Xiaoyong and I can brew it and eat it on the train.

I will take half a catty with me and leave the other half for you and sister-in-law. I feel bad for eating your food while I am living here these few days.”

Not only to the Zhou family, but she also left ten yuan to the family of the team leader of the production team where her late husband worked.

The ten dollars includes the cost of buying medicine, seeing a doctor, eating food for a few days and renting a place to stay.

Food is expensive these days.

Even if the food was hard to swallow, she didn’t want to owe anyone a favor, not to mention that now that she had the copy space in her hands, she would never lack food in the future.