"Does the family have enough money to start a business?" Fang Chen suddenly asked.

As if calling a break, Liu Xiuying's endless chatter stopped abruptly. Looking at Fang Chen's serious questioning expression, her face suddenly turned red.

After a few seconds, he said with some embarrassment: "It's not enough to treat you with the little money I have at home. I still owe the hospital twenty yuan."

Fang Chen rubbed his nose, this was already expected.

"That's not right, the money is for your medical treatment..."

Liu Xiuying couldn't help but murmured to herself.

After understanding, Liu Xiuying glared at Fang Chen fiercely, "If I hadn't treated your little bastard, how could my family have spent all their money! You still have the nerve to laugh!"

"Next time you dare to climb that high, watch your skin carefully!" Liu Xiuying raised her hand.

After all, I couldn't bear to slap him.

Sighing lightly, Liu Xiuying continued: "The efficiency of the factory this year is not good, and only 70% of the salary is paid. At the hospital, it doesn't matter if it is a cold or a fever. You have a broken bone. The material

No matter what the cost, you will have to pay for it.”

Seventy percent salary?

An idea flashed in Fang Chen's mind.

So, this year is 1990, I am fourteen years old and a freshman in high school.

Fang Chen also wants to know what year and month it is today as soon as he opens his eyes, but unfortunately his family is so poor that they don’t even have a calendar. For his parents, a few yuan of calendar is enough to buy a book or type a calendar.

There is a calendar for mahjong circles at work anyway, so why keep a copy at home and waste money.

The first calendar he had at home after he was ten years old was given to him after he went to the bank to save money after work and was fooled by the lobby manager into financial management.

After being reborn, he didn’t even have a calendar at home. He was probably the poorest reborn person in history.

Since the reform and opening up, large state-owned factories have finally prospered again, and their wages are higher than civil servants. Many factory workers have returned from serving as soldiers, but they have not been hired by the government and have to let the factory arrange their jobs. This situation

It probably lasted until about 1993 or 1994, and then it went into decline and never came back.

Affected by last year's turmoil, 1990 was the only year in the past few years that factories did not operate enough and wages were paid at a rate of 60 to 70 percent.

At this time, state-owned and collective enterprises were a behemoth. Many state-owned factories had almost all social functions. In addition to crematoriums, they had everything from kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, high schools, vocational high schools, hospitals, guest houses, gymnasiums, libraries, etc.

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The entire enterprise is like a small closed society, and even jobs are hereditary.

According to company regulations, employees' medical expenses are fully reimbursed, but Fang Chen and others do not enjoy such treatment.

However, there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. When taking your children to see a doctor for registration, just write their names as their parents. They are all from the same factory anyway. You can’t look up when you look down. The materials are also public and the favors are your own. There is no need to offend others for this.

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However, the splints, bandages and wound medicine that Fang Chen needed to use were a little sensitive. If his superiors inspected them, they would think that the subordinate units were concealing work-related injuries, so they would have to pay for them.

"Okay, this is not something you, a child, have to worry about. I will just go to the union tomorrow to borrow some mutual aid money."

When he heard the three words "mutual aid fund", Fang Chen's expression was dazed. He was indeed familiar with this word.

Mutual aid fund is a form of mutual aid between employees in a branch factory or workshop. Each person pays ten yuan to the labor union. If he suddenly needs money in any month, he can go to the labor union to borrow it and pay it back when wages are paid.

To the union.

In Fang Chen's memory, it seemed that the family was always short of fifty yuan. After borrowing it last month, he had to pay it back as soon as his salary was paid this month. But by the end of the month, he couldn't get rid of the problem and had to borrow the fifty yuan from the labor union.

It goes on like this over and over again, as if the fifty yuan is always missing. Without this fifty yuan, life would be impossible.

Although my father is considered second-tier and his salary is low, he is a dual-income earner after all. It is really hard for two-income earners to live like this. Even if other families are single-earners, with only one person earning a salary, their life is better than his family.

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At the end of the day, mom and dad are still the two who run the house.

"Can you pay it back?" Fang Chen asked.

Liu Xiuying's face turned red again, "No big deal... No big deal... I just won't play cards this month."

"I still have two hundred yuan in my piggy bank. Let's take it at home and use it first."

Liu Xiuying raised her eyebrows and felt a little moved, but after thinking about it, her face suddenly drooped, "This is the new year's money your father gave you. It will be used when you go to college. I don't want to take advantage of your father."

"It's okay, just don't tell my father. The family will take care of things first, and you can just return it to me when the time comes. God doesn't know what to do."

"Okay! You are such a good son. Mom will go to the street and buy big bone soup for you, so you can make up for it!"

Liu Xiuying agreed immediately, her eyebrows were full of joy, her expression was in high spirits, and she couldn't wait to walk towards the piglet, just like a female butcher sharpening her knife.

The genes of my grandfather's pig butcher have been revived in my mother's body.

Fang Chen sighed quietly. Although he said that, he knew in his heart that there was a high probability that the money would not be returned.

When something like money enters the hands of his parents, it is like water melting into the desert. It goes in and out, and it is even hard to explain why it disappears.

He just didn't want to let this money-poor atmosphere envelope his family again, so he just thought it was a waste of money to eliminate the disaster.

Regarding this, when he was a boy, he had been angry, resentful, and even hated how he was born in such a family. But later, when he also had a son, as the saying goes, if you don't raise children, you will not know the kindness of your parents, and then watch them grow older.

My body slowly felt relieved.

They are just the kind of people they are, with such personalities and habits, there is nothing they can do about it.

They always have their own way of living, and children cannot give up until they are forced to shed all their blood and sweat.

But fortunately, I have the opportunity to change everything.

Let these bad things no longer affect you. The journey of the reborn person should be the stars and the sea, and these are just small bumps in life, or even just waves.

Fang Chen finally understood why the reborn people were so impatient to change their current lives. It was because this terrible life was like eating shit.

It is human nature not to eat shit!

night.

Fang Aiguo came back with empty hands. When he saw the fragrant bone soup on the table and the dazzling array of dishes around him, his eyes widened and he swallowed involuntarily.

"Where did you get the money?" Fang Aiguo asked.

"I……"

As soon as Liu Xiuying stood up, Fang Chen bumped her with his leg.

Liu Xiuying came to her senses, glared at Fang Aiguo, and said angrily: "I borrowed mutual aid funds from the trade union."

Fang Chen was not afraid that these words would spread from his father to his grandfather, but he was afraid that his father would be frightened and frightened all day long, and he would be restless and unwilling to eat. A simple person would not know so many secrets.

"oh."

Fang Aiguo didn't doubt him, so he went straight to the kitchen to get a pair of bowls and chopsticks, and sat down.

Fang Chen looked helpless. He knew that his father never cared about where the family's money came from or whether he could pay it back. Anyway, he just didn't want him to go out to borrow money and lose face.

“It smells so good!”

Fang Aiguo picked up a stick bone, wiped off all the meat on it, and then knocked on the bone to suck out the marrow, letting out a tsk-tsk sound of admiration.

Liu Xiuying rolled her eyes at Fang Aiguo, took out 20 yuan from her pocket and slapped it on the table. She said with pride, "With this money, you can buy Yu Hua's "Eighteen Years Old" and Lu Yao's.

Let’s go to “Ordinary World”.”

"Okay, I've been thinking about these two books for a long time. Wife, you are so kind!"

Not caring that Liu Xiuying couldn't even get the title of the book right, Fang Aiguo hurriedly put the money into his pocket and sighed in admiration from the bottom of his heart.

In front of money, this is not important.

"As long as you know, don't you dare yell at me again!"

"I don't dare anymore, I was wrong."

Looking at the happy parents in front of him, raising their eyebrows and raising eyebrows, Fang Chen rolled his eyes helplessly. Although this scene had been expected by him, why did he feel so heartbroken.

He actually used his money to make his father bow down, and looking at my mother's attitude, I'm afraid she really hasn't considered paying back the money.

After force-feeding Fang Chen a wave of dog food, Liu Xiuying seemed to suddenly notice Fang Chen's presence, "After eating, go to bed early. You have to go to school tomorrow to get your results. If you don't do well, watch your skin carefully!"

Fang Chen responded, never taking his mother's threats seriously, because firstly, his mother had never really hit him since he was a child, and secondly, he had never failed an exam.
Chapter completed!