The old days(30)

Fan Shula didn't like the marriage, so she never thought that she would directly benefit Yao Hong.

Yao Hong and Lin Xiaoxing are middle school classmates, and they are about the same age. Xiaoxing's children can be sent to daycare, but she is not married yet. Not to mention married, she doesn't even have a partner.

Lin Yutong had also heard other people talk about this girl.

Speaking of which, it was not easy for her.

No matter when people ask, this girl always says: "Looking at the model couple of Metal Worker and Section Chief Lin, I feel that the recommendations they introduce are not very reliable. No, the benchmark is set too high.

It’s not enough for most people.”

She said this half-jokingly, but in fact, her family's conditions did not allow it.

Her parents are ordinary residents, and her mother seems to work in a labor protection sewing factory run by the street. That kind of work is based on piecework, where the workers in the factory produce work clothes. If you are quick with your hands and feet, you can earn

There are more. But unfortunately, her mother is not a lazy person. After all, she has been pampered for half her life. If you think about it, you know that the life of the Yao family before liberation should be considered good, otherwise it would not be possible.

It was enough for a girl to go to a church middle school. I heard people say that the Yao family used to have a shop at home, which dealt in goods from the north and the south. Before liberation, the business was difficult to do. The money paid for the goods on credit was too much for people to use for wiping their buttocks at that time.

Hard gold yuan coupons are used for the checkout. The payment for the goods here cannot be collected, and the goods purchased from others over there are not paid yet. On the one hand, I want to use gold yuan coupons to pay for myself, but the other side that requires me to check out insists on only accepting silver dollars.

By cutting both ends in this way and giving the goods from home together with the shop to others, this can be regarded as repaying the debt.

His father was very angry. He said that when he came home from the shop, he fell into a ditch for some reason and fell into a ditch. He froze all night before being found and fished out. He fell seriously ill when he came home.

, I continued to buy all the medicine I had at home. But just like that, my body was not doing well, and the root cause of the disease was still found. I had some kind of lung disease, and I gasped when I saw the wind. I couldn't do anything anymore.

She also has a younger brother.

Without a shop, there is no source of livelihood. The only advantage is that when dividing the area, urban civilians were classified, and those who have shops are small business owners.

As a commoner, she successfully found her current job and became the country's iron rice bowl. But her family couldn't just leave it alone. Every time someone introduced someone to her, her mother would cry: "...I paid for your education back then.

The confession has been made, but now your wings are stiff and you are about to fly away. If you leave me, your father and your brother behind, you might as well starve to death."

Her mother is just that kind of person. She feels that if her daughter gets married, she won't be able to subsidize her parents' family. She wants to wait until her son grows up before letting her daughter go.

One year of waiting and one year of delay made this girl grow older.

This girl was a bit arrogant two years ago. Although she still likes to gossip now, comparisons and the like are completely gone. Life is like this, it can smooth out all the edges and corners of a person.

Lin Yutong only heard about it when the marriage was finalized.

A colleague in the department said that getting married was a big event and she should express her gratitude. It happened that people all over the country started to use cloth tickets, and it was hard to buy cloth outside. She simply gave Yao Hong a few feet of red foreign cloth, enough material to make a coat.

Made a congratulatory gift, handed the things over, said congratulations, and asked when the wedding would be.

This gift was a bit expensive, and Yao Hong kept saying, "Why is this good? It's too expensive to accept."

Lin Yutong pushed it over: "I bought it before the cloth tickets were issued. It didn't cost much."

"It didn't cost much" is a polite comment. But it's true that Section Chief Lin's salary is high and there are subsidies from outside.

She took it and said, "The date is set for National Day."

Yo! That's pretty tight.

Just as he was talking, Yu Youguang came in, holding a newspaper in his hand, "Come on, come on! It's study time." He pushed the newspaper to Yao Hong, "Little Yao will read to us today, all sit down.

, listen carefully.”

This first part has been distributed since the draft was announced, asking everyone to read and listen to it first, and then soliciting everyone’s opinions. It has been four months now.

Every time after reciting, Yu Youguang would say: "If you have any suggestions, you can give them any comments and suggestions. Let me know and I will summarize them and submit them..."

Not only in factories, but also with residents, and even in the fields, everyone's suggestions and opinions must be listened to extensively.

Everyone listens, and after listening, they solemnly say: "No objection."

In this way, this study lesson is completed.

It feels like sitting in the office says it’s a day’s work, but it’s really just half a day.

It's the kind that has many political tasks, many meetings and trainings, many official documents and reports, many organizations, and many part-time jobs for activists.

For example, Lin Yutong can finish her job early, but she still has to read reports at various study meetings. She also has to report her thoughts to the organization regularly, and she also works part-time as a women's director in the factory.

This kind of part-time job does not give you a penny more in salary. That is to say, when benefits are paid, the Women's Federation will keep a share for itself, and the Finance Department will also have its own share. This is the advantage. But there are many things to do, and time is not divided.

I came over here. When a couple fights, they have to take care of it. When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarrel, they have to take care of it. When someone's family is in trouble, they have to take care of it. The whole thing is like a mother-in-law and a mother-in-law.

Compared with this part-time job, Lin Yutong prefers the job outside.

Those being trained now are all drawn from the banking system. They have some foundations in themselves.

As for her, she hung a big abacus on the blackboard. In front of the students below, each person put a small abacus. They spent half a day cracking and scratching there. It only lasted four or five days a month, but the subsidy was enough.

Lin Yutong's current salary is half of that.

Before the National Day, I have been working here for a month.

This is the second time I have received welfare in a month. The first time was during the Mid-Autumn Festival before, when I received five kilograms of welfare food stamps, two kilograms of welfare meat stamps, half a kilogram of welfare oil coupons, half a kilogram of welfare sugar stamps, and moon cakes.

The supply ticket is two kilograms.

This National Day, there are no mooncake tickets, but they are replaced by one-foot-long cloth tickets.

This kind of ticket has an expiration date and will become invalid upon expiration.

So after getting off work at four o'clock, Lin Yutong went to the designated place to receive all kinds of benefits at five o'clock.

Bringing the two portions from the factory, Lin Yutong can get three portions by himself. Add in the Fourth Master's, and during a festival, the food distributed from the welfare alone will be seventy or eighty kilograms.

Guilan was jealous: "...it's a shame that we don't celebrate festivals every day. If we celebrated festivals every day, your family would be richer than a landlord."

But every time before a festival, Lin Yutong would still send a few kilograms of fine grain to his hometown as a token of appreciation. He would not dare to give more than that.

In fact, life in rural areas may not be much worse. A family can grow some food on their own land and raise pigs and chickens. Although it is a unified purchase, how many eggs and chickens you are willing to sell is your family's business.

Just like Li Yuefen, she raises more than a dozen chickens at home and collects at least five or six eggs a day.

Just leave half of it for your children to eat, and you can still save two or three a day.

As soon as I came out of the chicken coop that day, I saw the postman riding his bicycle outside and shouting: "Is Li Yuefen's home? Is Li Yuefen at home?"

"Here!" She quickly wiped her hands on her apron and went out. Liu Lingdang stopped at the door and looked over: "Is it my brother-in-law who has sent something again?"

The postman nodded with a smile and said to Li Yuefen: "My aunt has raised a filial son. This is the second time this month. He weighs four or five pounds."

Li Yuefen smiled unnaturally: "Four or five pounds, is enough for what?"

The postman stopped laughing and said, "Auntie, my job is very physical. I only need about thirty kilograms of grain a month, and the fine grains in it are only about ten kilograms in total. You mailed it twice this month, and it's still ten kilograms."

It’s a pound. This is what your son saved from his own mouth. If there is one-third less food, he may be hungry. Why is it too little for you? You are going too far.

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People nowadays tend to speak fairly.

As a result of the shouting, many people gathered around to take a look. This person said something and that person said something about Li Yuefen.

Liu Lingdang hurriedly said: "Mom, give those eggs you saved to Liao Da's uncle and his aunt and ask someone to take them over..."

"That's what I want to keep in exchange for money." Li Yuefen shouted.

Liu Lingdang said with some intention: "My brother-in-law sends money back every month. You are not short of money to spend..."

Li Yuefen slapped Liu Lingdang on the face: "What's the matter with you! When will it be your turn to be the leader of this family?"

Then he carried the food and walked directly in.

Many people said: "Your mother-in-law was never like this before."

Of course it's not like this anymore. In the past, I had a capable son. I felt that I had someone to rely on and that my life was not so hard or tiring, so I was naturally willing to understand the truth. Now, that son has brought in a wife, although she has not lost her support.

, but from the heart, I still feel unsettled.

After all, I still feel that my father-in-law is unreliable, and neither is my third child.

The little hope in my heart was placed on Liao Da again.

As for Liao Da, she understood it clearly.

She just doesn't want to understand it when it comes to other people.

She beat her daughter-in-law in public, on the premise that she was not at fault. She may have felt that she didn't handle it well at the time, so Li Yuefen went out the next day and told the villagers: "It's not that I'm biased, what can I do if I'm not biased?"

.Now that you have a stepmother, you have a stepfather. Now the only one you can rely on is his fourth uncle..." Bah bah bah. People who don't know may think that Liu Lingdang has done something to call her mother-in-law like this.

Be on guard.

Liu Lingdang was so angry that she couldn't even defend herself.

How to do it?

In the evening, I was blowing pillows with the third child: "...didn't you hear what they said? The food he sent back was because his fourth uncle saved his own rations. But who did he send it back to eat? His parents couldn't bear to part with it.

, it’s not just a pimple. I sent sweet potatoes last year, and seeing the belly of my younger siblings, I’m afraid they may have some. Now I have a baby. There’s not even a letter there. Every time I send something or money, there’s not even a few words.

Do you think his fourth uncle can know what’s going on at home? Can he feel at ease if he knows? But that’s his parents, there’s nothing he can do about it. My parents can feel at ease, but we can’t. We are the parents of Lump, and our children have benefited.

We can’t pretend to be stupid. We have to express our feelings..."
To be continued...