Chapter 23 Hardships and Subsidies
The reason why Wang Lin didn't insist anymore was because the family hadn't cooked yet. If the meal was ready, she would stay with Director Jin until he finished eating.
In any case, after people have helped me so much, it makes no sense not to let them have a meal.
After Wang Lin sent Director Jin out, the eldest sister Fang Shuhua came over, pinched Fangyuan's face and said with a smile: "Wait, eldest sister will cook for you."
"Sister, let me help you!"
"No, let's go play with your third sister! The eldest sister can be alone."
"Okay!" Fangyuan nodded helplessly.
Although he did not consider himself a child, Fang Shuhua regarded him as one.
Fang Shuhua's cooking is very simple, but maybe it's because of the radius! She didn't make cakes at night, but made steamed cakes.
Although this makes no difference to Fangyuan, for an ordinary family the difference is huge.
Sweet potato flour and corn flour are used to make pancakes, while white flour and corn flour are used to make cakes. These are two completely different concepts.
Of course, in addition to steamed cakes and sweet potatoes, we also made polenta. It can be said that this meal is already very luxurious. If Fangyuan hadn't come to the house for the first time today, he would never have eaten like this.
"Come on, little brother, have another piece of hair cake." Seeing Fangyuan stop after eating two pieces of hair cake, Fang Shuhua quickly handed him another piece.
"Sister, I'm full, you can eat."
Fangyuan has had two meals here, but there are no vegetables in both meals, not even fried cabbage or fried radish.
Of course, if spicy pimples are considered a dish, there is still one thing, which is a small plate of spicy pimple sticks. This thing is so salty that you can eat a piece of steamed cake with one spicy pimple stick.
In fact, spicy pimples can be made very delicious. For example, the pickles eaten at breakfast shops in later generations are made from spicy pimples.
But in this era, what everyone is pursuing is not the taste, but the ability to go with the meal, which means that it is salty enough.
It’s so easy to make the kind of pickles you’ll find in later generations! First, you need a variety of seasonings, and then use sesame oil-rich chili oil.
Not to mention all kinds of seasonings, sesame oil is not available in this house. Even peanut oil is only a small amount.
"Then you have another bowl of porridge."
"Sister, I've already had a bowl, and I really can't drink anymore." Fangyuan rubbed (reader's) belly and said.
"I said, eldest sister, why do you want others to eat if they don't eat it?" said the second sister Fang Shuli.
Hearing what Fang Shuli said, the eldest sister Fang Shuhua glared at her. She originally wanted to say something to her, but she glanced at Fangyuan and did not say anything.
She didn't understand, wouldn't it be nice to have a younger brother at home? Why does the second sister not seem to like it at all!
"If he doesn't eat it, I'll eat it." After Fang Shuli said that, she picked up the piece of steamed cake from the basin and took a bite.
This made Fangyuan shake his head. It wasn't that he didn't want to eat, but because the eldest sister hadn't eaten yet, he wanted to give the piece of cake to the eldest sister.
But now that the second sister Fang Shuli has eaten her, Fangyuan is really speechless and blames the second sister for being ignorant.
But he also knew that even if he had any thoughts, he couldn't say them out at this time, otherwise the second sister would dislike him even more.
If it were an outsider, Fangyuan would not only speak out, but would probably take action, but the second sister is not an outsider, he will be a member of the family from now on.
"Second sister, the eldest sister hasn't eaten yet!"
If Fangyuan doesn’t say it, someone else will! No, the third sister Fang Shuqi looked at Fang Shuli and said.
"It doesn't matter, let your second sister eat it! You have studied for a day and need to supplement your nutrition. There is still so much porridge. Sister, just drink the porridge."
After finishing the meal, Fangyuan was going to wash the dishes, but the eldest sister stopped her and said, "Don't move. Let your third sister take you in to rest. Let the eldest sister come."
"It's okay, sister, I can wash it."
Hearing what Fangyuan said, the eldest sister rubbed his head and said, "Eldest sister knows that you can wash, but you are too young now. I will help eldest sister when you grow up."
"Uh! Okay!" What else could Fangyuan say.
But what the eldest sister said is right! He is too young now, so he can’t help the eldest sister.
When resting at night, Fangyuan slept between the eldest sister and the third sister, and the eldest sister slept on the far side, just to make it easier to take care of them.
Fangyuan arrived in a hurry and didn't have time to prepare a bed for him, so he had to sleep on the kang with everyone else first.
The imperial capital is still relatively cold, and housing is relatively tight. Basically, the whole family lives on the same kang, which is warmer.
Because he went to bed early, Fangyuan couldn't sleep, so he asked: "Sister, are you a formal employee of the supply and marketing cooperative?"
"Not yet, I can only be regarded as an apprentice now."
"Apprenticeship? Isn't the salary very low?"
Although Fangyuan didn't know much about wages in this era, he had read some books about this era in later generations and still knew that apprentices' wages were relatively low.
"It's not a lot, it's ten yuan a month! Add to that my mother's twenty-six yuan a month, it's thirty-six yuan."
It is now the year 1960, and the average salary in the imperial capital is thirty-seven yuan. Although Wang Lin is a formal employee, her salary is not high, and at most it is equivalent to a second-level worker.
Although everyone is a formal employee, they are also divided into three, six or nine grades. The salary of a third-level worker is about 30 yuan, a fourth-level worker is 33 yuan, and a fifth-level worker is 36 yuan.
When you reach the sixth level, the salary goes up to a higher level, 42.5 yuan, for the seventh level it is 50, and the most powerful one is the eighth level, 63 yuan a month.
However, there are very few eighth-level workers. Let alone eighth-level workers, even seventh-level workers are not very many. There are only a few in one workshop.
Level 4, Level 5, and Level 6 are the most common, and this is true for any factory.
Wang Lin used to be just an ordinary housewife. After entering the factory, although she worked hard, due to her age, she is now only a second-level worker.
In addition to these, there are first-level workers, those who have just become formal employees, and of course their wages are the lowest, only sixteen yuan a month.
There are also apprentices like eldest sister who only get ten yuan a month as salary, but even so, I don’t know how many people want to do it.
Maybe it's because of the family members of the martyrs in the army! This position in the supply and marketing cooperative was also given to the eldest sister. You must know that the supply and marketing cooperative is state-owned, and they will not give you any face at all from the woolen mill.
Therefore, although the eldest sister works in the woolen mill supply and marketing cooperative, she is not an employee of the woolen mill, but belongs to the supply and marketing cooperative.
The next morning, the eldest sister got up early to cook. For breakfast, she made pancakes instead of steamed cakes. Also, if you eat steamed cakes every day, what would you do with that little white flour?
In addition to pancakes, there are also sweet potatoes and polenta, and the dish is spicy pimple strips.
After finishing the meal, the eldest sister cleaned up the bowls and washed them, then packed two sweet potatoes in a lunch box and went to work.
Fangyuan knew that these two sweet potatoes were the eldest sister's lunch. The supply and marketing cooperative was not a woolen factory. There were only three people in the supply and marketing cooperative, so there was no canteen at all.
But I can’t go home at noon, so I can only bring food with me. As for what to bring, it depends on each family’s situation.
The family situation of this family can only be considered to be below average compared to the families of woolen mills, so they don’t have anything good to bring with them.
Don’t you even want to buy vegetables? You know vegetables are very cheap, just like cabbage! A cabbage only costs two cents.
Of course, the reason why I am reluctant to buy it is probably because of the food stamps. Many families are like this. It’s not that they don’t have money to buy, but that they don’t have the tickets.
Fangyuan does have food coupons, and they are price coupons that do not require spending money anymore, but he has no way to take them out yet.
Because he didn't know how to explain the origin of these food tickets, he planned to wait for a while before explaining. By then, Fangyuan would be able to find a hundred reasons.
Not long after the eldest sister left, my mother Wang Lin also came back. Maybe she came back a little early because of something else.
"Mom, are you back?" Fangyuan saw Wang Lin coming back and ran over quickly.
"Flattery." Second sister Fang Shuli muttered.
"Mom!" Third sister Fang Shuqi also ran over like Fangyuan.
Wang Lin touched Fangyuan's face, smiled at him, then raised her head and looked at her second sister Fang Shuli and third sister Fang Shuqi and asked, "Why haven't you two gone to school yet?"
"Get ready to leave now."
"Hurry up, don't be late."
After the second sister and the third sister left with their schoolbags, my mother knelt down and said to Yuan Yuan: "Let's go, I will register my household registration for you."
"Yeah!" Fang Yuan nodded.
The two of them went to the police station first and registered Fangyuan's household registration. This was very simple and took only ten minutes to complete.
Then Director Jin took them to the civil affairs department of Qinghe Commune.
This is the relationship between the implementation of Fangyuan, that is, the relationship between commodity grain household registration. With this relationship, Fangyuan’s future rations will be in the grain book.
This is a bit troublesome to do. To be honest, it’s not troublesome at first, but let’s not mention the efficiency of the staff here.
It's a very simple thing, and it took more than an hour to complete.
Then there was the subsidy. Wang Lin did not receive the subsidy all at once, but only received one month's food stamps and one month's money.
This subsidized food stamp does not require spending any money. It is a direct subsidy of food, so the food stamp says price coupon food stamp.
The reason why I only received it for one month was because Wang Lin was afraid that it would be eaten after I took it back. It would be better to receive it month by month.
I received a pound of oil because I don’t have much oil at home and I just don’t need to buy oil.
I also received cloth stamps. Wang Lin is going to make some clothes for Fangyuan. Cloth stamps are the same as food stamps, they are also price coupons.
After receiving these things, Fangyuan and the others went out from here. When they got outside, Director Jin said: "Sister-in-law, I won't see you off. I have to go back to work."
"Well! Go back quickly, I'll take you a long time."
"Sister-in-law, what you said is that this is also my job, so it is not a delay." After Director Jin finished speaking, he lowered his head and said to Yuan Yuan: "Fang Yuan, uncle went to work."
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