Long years (4)

The little old lady was tossing and turning at night and couldn't sleep, so she simply sat up, lit the kerosene lamp, quietly opened the cabinet, took out the clothes she had cut earlier, and started sewing them. It was not that she was reluctant to find a tailor, and she couldn't afford the money.

One or two cents for tailoring, but the old lady may not have appreciated the craftsmanship. Almost all the old people who came here at that time were good at needlework. The old lady was seen outside with a man who was an official.

In the world, there was some fashionable cheongsam at that time. Just take a look at it and you can make a good one when you come back. Nowadays, all the styles are new, such as shirts, short-sleeved trousers, how difficult can it be? You can still cut it yourself.

I can do it myself. Ask her to tell her that in terms of good looks, the satin clothes in the past still looked good, and the girl looked like a girl when she wore them. Now in this new society, that outfit can no longer be used. But now

The material that was served was shown to the old lady, but it was not as good as the fine cotton. It looked cool when wearing it, but in fact it didn't absorb sweat at all, so it was just fashionable.

The little old lady is old and has a good eye for fashion.

I have secretly made two pieces of clothing for my granddaughter. She has made a pure white shirt, a white orchid shirt, a short-sleeved shirt, and a pair of wool blue cardigan pants. The tailoring has been done a long time ago.

, but I secretly take it out to do something when I have free time. Now I am in a hurry to put it on, so I sew the shirt first.

As for the shoes, I made a bundle and locked them in the cabinet. They are all made of cotton, with shallow toes and elasticated ones.

While my hands were busy with work, my mind was thinking about my granddaughter's marriage.

It’s not like no one has tried to persuade her. She said she wanted to find a son-in-law for Tong. Wasn’t it just so that one day she could have the child serve tea in front of her? But her thoughts at that time were different from her thoughts now.

It can't be compared. At that time, I thought more about myself, but now that my child has grown so big, I think more about my child.

Is it so easy to recruit a wife? In a production brigade, there are many families with many boys. Everyone thinks it is difficult to find a wife, but how many are willing to recruit their children? That means someone will poke their backs.

. What does that mean? It means that the parents are incompetent, and they will be sorry for the ancestors of the family. When the son-in-law goes out and walks in front of people, he can't say anything, because there is a label on his body, which is called "not taking trouble."

.You said that a man who can't handle household chores at home, who would be willing to deal with you? This would be detrimental to the man's face. You said that if you asked the fourth child of the Jin family to recruit a wife, would the Jin family agree?

She will definitely agree! She also thought before that if she really couldn't convince this girl, then she would recruit a wife. An honest child is responsible for her duties, and that would be fine. But seeing how Jin Laosi is now, she doesn't want to take this path anymore. A capable man

Even if you were stuck at that time, what happens later? What about five or ten years from now? It’s still the children who are left with awkward holes in their hearts.

Besides, is this the way you want to attract a wife? The Jin family is just around the corner. How can you really not care about your parents and brothers?

The four or five sons-in-laws recruited in the brigade are all from other provinces. Why not find them from the village or nearby families? Don’t say that the man doesn’t want to recruit, even if he wants to, most people don’t dare to ask for them. Why? The family that recruits a bride for their daughter

, it must mean that the family has no son and no one to establish a family. People are also afraid. Do you think we can convince you to live with someone from a nearby family? Anyone who can recruit his son is not one of the four or five brothers in the family.

There were ten of them. If one family had a little quarrel, they would dare to knock on the door to support their son. Do you think this life can be lived? It’s not just a fool, but in the end it turned into a secret marriage.

.

The little old lady must have thought about these things in her heart, thinking about them over and over again.

Let’s talk about the bad things about the Jin family, first of all, they are poor. But then again, there are five sons in the family, and one daughter-in-law uses another daughter-in-law’s car to carry them home. How can the whole family live a life of stirring spoons in the same pot?

How many years, three years or five years?

After three years of holding on, there will be no room for living in that yard. It is an inevitable trend to separate the families and live separately. This separation... it is easy for a poor family to divide. If there is nothing to divide, it is estimated that each family will be able to live in another house.

Carrying debt is nothing but a trivial matter, and life will naturally get easier when the time comes.

Another one is having too many brothers. There are disadvantages to having too many brothers. This is from a short-term perspective. But in the long run, there are also many benefits. In rural areas, we stick together. No one dares to provoke a family with many brothers. If nothing happens, then it will be fine.

If something happens, it will be a piece of rope, so powerful!

Four old people, two old heads. Speaking of which, there are too many brothers, so it is impossible for one son to raise them. In such a sharing, the one with fewer brothers actually has an advantage. With the temperament of my granddaughter, she cannot bear the disadvantage.

. Just compare it to the Liu family. There is a son in the family who does not have parents and grandmother. There is also an eldest sister who is raising a child at home. If he really marries into the family, life will be easier?

The Jin family is better than the Liu family in this regard.

The mother-in-law of the Jin family, Big Can, is seen as fierce and fierce, but if she really wants to be reasonable and understand things, she has to be the Jin family. If she is really bad, no one will be willing to lend her anything.

Give it to their family. Not all affairs in this family are done by women. Of course, no one has any selfish motives. A little calculation is understandable. As for whether it is partial or not, who is this family?

They are all the same. The five fingers are not evenly aligned. If you really care about this, you will not be able to live a good life no matter who you marry into.

After all, people are not just living this life. As long as people have the ability and know how to feel cold and hot, they can live any life.

As for fearing that her children would not take care of her own affairs in the future, she shook her head. Those who have a conscience will remember whatever they do to you. If they are those who have no conscience, you will tie her to the waistband of your pants. You should still have no conscience.

There is no conscience. There are many people who live in that courtyard who don’t give their parents a bowl of rice when it’s time for dinner.

After thinking about it all night, I finished my work and made a decision in my heart.

When Lin Yutong got up early in the morning, he was stuffed with ten dollars by the little old lady, "Call the fourth child and take you to the county seat. See if there are any sandals and buy you a pair."

I really don’t need any sandals. The town is very respectable compared to other villages, but there are still dirt roads everywhere. On sunny days, there is a few inches of dirt, and on rainy days, there is a foot of mud. Wearing sandals in such a place is imaginable.

How dirty would your feet be if you wore shoes like that? The cloth shoes made of mille-layer soles are very good. If they get dirty, you can still wear them after washing them.

With this thought in her mind, although she really didn't want to buy any sandals, being able to go out with the Fourth Master openly and honestly was something she could only wish for. She accepted the money to appease the little old lady. She didn't really want to spend her money.

go.

The key thing is that this is the decision made by the little old lady. It seems that the old lady agrees with the matter between herself and the Fourth Master.

The Fourth Master came over early in the morning to fetch water. Lin Yutong went out and asked him, "...are you free?"

Definitely available.

Nowadays, when working in a production team, not all workers are idlers. It is common for people to work for two hours and take an hour's rest. If there is something wrong, tell them, and they will not go if they don't go to work. As for those who say that their work points will be deducted

During the busy farming season, I took on more errands and made up for it.

The little old lady simply didn't ask the fourth master to go back for dinner. She stayed at home and had breakfast. She even baked white flour pancakes and boiled eggs for a delicious meal. Then she generously sent the two children to the door.

He shouted loudly to be careful on the road and come back early.

Aunt Jin stirred the gruel in the pot and listened to the sounds outside. She felt happy and worried at the same time. The boss's affairs might have to put aside all the marriage affairs below.

But he is a sensible person after all. After breakfast, he quickly invited Aunt Song, who lived across the door, and asked her to go to Old Mrs. Qi's house. It was regarded as a matchmaker, and she had to support the girl's family. I told everyone that the two families were ready to negotiate.

My dear, it is one thing to guard against people gossiping, and it is also an attitude that a man should have. As for making it official, everyone knows that there are still three brothers whose marriages have not been decided, so the formal procedure must be postponed.

This is something Lin Yutong and Fourth Master don't know.

The two of them were in a dilemma at the moment. What was the dilemma for? It was such a big commune, and there was only one bus to the county seat at seven in the morning. The two of them walked out of the alley for a while, then turned to the animal husbandry station and took a look.

Well, I ended up missing the bus.

What to do?

In addition to a broken jeep in the commune, there are walking tractors in each production brigade.

Even the cadres can't get on that Jeep thing, let alone other people.

Then there are walking tractors, which are owned by every production brigade, and they are the public property of the brigade. But you have to catch up with someone who is going to the county town, so you can just pick it up on the way. But if you can't catch up, do you want someone to send it to you specially? Beautiful

You got it!

Come on! Either walk or ride a bike.

After all, the fourth master borrowed a bicycle from a friend of his third brother.

After riding for an hour and a half on a bumpy dirt road, my head and face were covered in dirt, and then I finally arrived.

In the county town of this period, one street almost ended.

But when they arrived at the county seat, the two of them were dumbfounded. What were they doing here?

Going back to buy something? How to explain the money?

The most I can do is eat something delicious secretly.

What might be delicious? A meal of white flour dumplings in a state-owned restaurant is considered a good meal.

While eating, Fourth Master told Lin Yutong everything about going to the animal husbandry station, "I fooled people at that time. You can't fool people without background..."

Lin Yutong nodded understandingly. He had no background but had real abilities. He knew how to work and could handle things. Leaders really couldn't live without people like this. But how many of the people below have real abilities?

It is said that he went to a training class, but the training class also depends on which industry he is in.

For example, those who learn to drive a tractor, it is not difficult to learn it in a few months. There are also those who drive a bulldozer, these are all in the same category.

But isn’t it a joke to say that you can learn everything you want to do after studying veterinary medicine for only three months and two months? If you can remember what medicines are used for common diseases, and then learn how to inject livestock, that’s pretty good. What else do you think?

If there are more, then it would be too simple to think about it.

Just like the eldest brother of the Jin family, Jin Mancheng. At that time, old man Jin spent a lot of effort to find people to trust people and send him to school. After he learned it, he learned how to give injections and give medicine, and then he came back to work in the breeding farm.

What's the use?

On the contrary, Jin Manchuan, the second eldest son of the Jin family, didn't have anything to do with not being transferred to school. He could talk to everyone from the master to the students who were learning to drive at that time. Not only did he learn it secretly, he also included the third eldest child in the family at that time.

The fourth child also learned how to drive. He also learned how to repair. Whenever there was something in the team, whether it was a car job or something, they would always call them brothers. This respect was all earned by themselves.

What happened next was nothing in Fourth Master's eyes, and it was even less of a thing in Lin Yutong's eyes.

After saying that, he put it aside and Lin Yutong asked the Fourth Master about his own affairs, "If you really keep doing it with your face turned to the earth and your back to the sky..."

The fourth master looked around and saw that everyone was looking this way intentionally or unintentionally, so he gave Lin Yutong a look, the two of them paid the bill and walked out.

Outside, if a man and a woman get too close, even if they are a legal couple, they will always attract attention.

The two of them had nowhere to go, so they had no choice but to walk forward on the road.

There were more people on the road, and no one paid attention to what they said. The fourth master said: "I originally planned to work as a temporary worker in the commune's motor factory for a period of time to see if I could find an opportunity..."

Lin Yutong knew that this factory was a state-owned factory. At this period, the state-owned factories had become overstaffed and overstaffed. Many people with connections and connections arranged their children in it. For such a small factory, just
To be continued...