Therefore, although the old Zhou family is now in a state of fragmentation, there is only one Zhou Rong who is really not living as well as before.
Of course, this is from the perspective of outsiders. Maybe for Zhou Rong, being closer to Feng Huacheng in Guizhou is much happier than being thousands of miles apart from Feng Huacheng in Jichun.
After writing a letter to Zhou Zhigang, the second letter was written to Zhou Bingyi.
In addition to what ghostwriter Li Suhua wrote, Zhou Bingkun also added some personal items of his own.
The most important thing is to tell Zhou Bingyi clearly and emphatically how happy Zhou Rong is after Zhou Rongrun is married, and how much harm she has caused to her old parents.
As for how much Li Suhua misses Zhou Rong, she knits sweaters for Zhou Rong at home every day.
How worried Zhou Zhigang was about his daughter, and how humble Lao Zhou was in order to get news about Zhou Rong.
We can't talk more about this with Zhou Bingyi.
Zhou Bingkun knew that Zhou Rong was good at coaxing people, so when nothing happened, Zhou Bingyi would also give Zhou Rong eye drops.
Zhou Zhigang has no direct contact with Zhou Rong and will not send money to Zhou Rong.
Li Suhua's idea of sending money to Zhou Rong would be blocked by Zhou Bingkun.
Zhou Bingkun also didn't forget that Zhou Bingyi's monthly salary of thirty-two yuan could save ten yuan every month.
The only thing left is to guard against Zhou Bingyi, and then implement a comprehensive economic blockade on Zhou Rong.
If you can save ten yuan a month and do something bad, you will already have a partner, so why bother to fill Zhou Rong's big hole, so Zhou Bingkun kept reminding Zhou Bingyi to be nicer to Hao Dongmei.
The last letter was written to Zhou Rong. This Zhou Bingkun did not add any personal items of his own.
On the contrary, Zhou Bingkun also deleted his recent situation, not wanting to report anything about his situation to Zhou Rong.
According to Li Suhua, everything is fine at home, and let Zhou Rong concentrate on her thoughts outside and give her greetings. That's it.
"Mom, I have written the letter for you. Can you give me the money you have saved in the past few months?"
After writing the letter, Zhou Bingkun said to Li Suhua that three months are up. After a few days of salary payment, Zhou Bingkun can buy a bicycle.
She wrote another letter and was able to correspond with her husband and children. Li Suhua was in a good mood, and she was still in the mood to joke with Zhou Bingkun: "Why, my mother raised you so much, and also provided you with education, and asked you to help her write a few letters, 伱
Do you still want to make conditions with mom?"
"This is not a condition. This is just a request. If there were conditions, I would have mentioned them before writing the letter."
After Zhou Bingkun finished speaking, Li Suhua took out the small wooden box where old Zhou's family kept their money from the kang cabinet, and began to count the money: "Bingkun, you have only been paid for a few months, is it enough to buy a bicycle?"
"That's not enough. I'm not in a hurry to use the bicycle, so I borrowed some money from my coworkers first. I'll pay it back slowly when my wages are paid."
"On your salary of eighteen yuan a month, you still have to eat meat every three days. How much money can you save in a month? When can you pay back the money you borrowed?"
When it comes to eating better, Li Suhua will keep talking, while Zhou Bingkun always talks about it in one ear and out the other, pretending not to hear.
"I eat sticks, sweet potatoes and potatoes all day long. I work as a porter in a lumber factory and my body can't bear it. I'm already 17 and 18, and I'm not as tall as my brother. If I don't eat some meat to supplement my health, then
How can I do this? I will become a dwarf in the future. If I can't repay the loan, I can only blame you."
"The old Zhou family are all hard-working and simple people, how come they have such a prodigal thing like you?" Li Suhua said with half pampering and half blame.
After all the nagging, Li Suhua was never a strict mother. She still counted out sixty yuan and gave it to Zhou Bingkun.
"Yes, I don't think so either. I should go to the countryside and receive re-education. How could Zhou Rong take this opportunity away from me?"
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After his salary was paid, Zhou Bingkun bought a permanent 28-inch bumper from the supply and marketing cooperative in the district.
Now Zhou Bingkun is considered one of the most handsome boys on the streets.
Originally, Zhou Bingkun was envied by others because his house was much larger than other houses.
Among the new group of young people who joined the workforce this year, they were the first to buy bicycles.
In addition, now I am doing a technical job like an electrician, which is much more dignified than working hard in a moving class.
He is a very good young man in all aspects of optical printing.
It's just that even if Zhou Bingkun is very good in phototype films, apart from getting a few compliments from neighbors, he has no other use.
Having a good reputation has no effect on improving your reputation in the marriage and love market.
Guangzipian is a famous slum area in Jichun City, a place where all the girls in Jichun are unwilling to marry.
Even Guang Zi Pian's own girls, most of them are not willing to marry Guang Zi Pian.
Even if you want to, you can't do it. The girls here are all crooked melons and cracked jujubes. They have regular facial features and can be regarded as a flower.
So when it comes to finding a partner, Zhou Bingkun may not be able to hope for a blind date.
After getting a bicycle and making it easier to move around, Zhou Bingkun increased the frequency of going to the cinema entrance to see Zheng's family for purchases.
The weather is getting hotter too, so Li Suhua is invited to eat popsicles together.
Because most of the time, Aunt Zheng is selling candied haws and popsicles alone.
After all, Zheng Juan needs to be more flexible with her hands and feet, and she has to do various handicrafts at home to earn money to support her family.
Because Zheng Juan was unwilling to go to the countryside, her food ration was cancelled.
I have to spend several extra dollars every month to buy food stamps or go to the black market to buy high-priced food.
The Zheng family's life is much more difficult than before. They need to make more money, so they naturally become more busy.
I don’t see Zheng Juan very often, but the relationship between Zhou Bingkun and Aunt Zheng is very good.
If you have a good relationship with Aunt Zheng, you will at least be able to understand the situation of the Zheng family well enough.
With the current income and expenses, the Zheng family can still support it.
In a short period of time, Zheng Juan will not have any thoughts of getting married because she wants to reduce the burden on her family.
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"System, sign in."
"Congratulations to the host for getting: one yuan in cash and one pound of peach cake."
After Zhou Bingkun got up, he signed in first, had sex for nothing, and was in a happy mood all day long.
Then get up and do a few sets of boxing, do some exercise, wash up, eat, and then go to work.
For Zhou Bingkun, life in the late 1960s and early 1970s was a little less entertaining, but in other aspects, Zhou Bingkun still liked it.
Others are also very positive and very satisfied, because many of these people survived the hard days before liberation. In comparison, life is getting better year by year now, and they are all very satisfied.
This kind of slow-paced life will still feel quite comfortable once you get used to it.
These uneventful days passed quickly, and three years passed quickly.
The time came to the autumn of 1972. Autumn didn’t last long in the Northeast. It was only the end of October, and there had already been several heavy snowfalls.
The temperature has already been minus ten degrees Celsius, which is quite suitable for winter now.
In the past three years, not much happened to Lao Zhou's family.
But there were not many changes. In three years, the old Zhou family also bought all the "three turns and one ring."
The old Zhou family has truly been transformed into a high-class family.
The money nominally spent was Zhou Zhigang's money, but Zhou Bingkun would not take advantage of it. Twenty yuan a month, a total of 600 yuan for the past thirty months, Zhou Bingkun helped Li Suhua save.
During the past year, Zhou Bingkun did not ask Li Suhua for money, and Li Suhua did not mention sending money to Zhou Rong.
Because Zhou Rong was already married, without asking Zhou Zhigang or Li Suhua, Zhou Rong made her own decision and married herself to Feng Huacheng.
Li Suhua was angry with Zhou Rong at first, and then realized from Zhou Rong's incident that brothers Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Bingkun had also reached the age of marriage.
With the instinct of an old mother, Li Suhua knew how to save money for the marriage of brothers Zhou Bingyi and Zhou Bingkun.
Zhou Zhigang has not been back to Northeast China to visit relatives due to the tight schedule of the third-line project.
During the Spring Festival last year, Zhou Bingyi brought a lot of specialties, such as fungus, mushrooms, hazelnuts and so on.
I came back to Jichun once, and my favorite eldest son went home to visit relatives, which also relieved Li Suhua's pain of missing his relatives.
"Bang bang bang, Auntie, Auntie Zheng."
Zhou Bingkun came to Zheng's house in Taiping Hutong, knocked on the door, and shouted.
"Brother Bingkun, why are you here?" The person who opened the door for Zhou Bingkun was Zheng Juan's younger brother Zheng Guangming.
Because of invisible reasons, Aunt Zheng named the child Guangming, which shows her blessing and expectation for the child.
"I haven't seen Aunt Zheng setting up a stall in front of the cinema for several days. I came over to see if something happened to your family?"
Zheng Guangming said depressedly: "My mother is sick?"
"What's wrong with you? Let me go in and see my aunt."
Being sick was like hitting Zhou Bingkun's gun, so Zhou Bingkun was ready to go in and show Aunt Zheng.
"My mother had a fever and went to the health center to get medicine. She still didn't feel better after taking medicine for two days."
At this time, Zheng Juan also came out and heard Zhou Bingkun's question and reply.
"Cough cough cough... cough cough cough." At this time, there was a coughing sound from the back room.
"Let me go in and take a look." Zhou Bingkun followed Zheng Juan into the Zheng family's house and saw Aunt Zheng, wrapped in two quilts and lying on the kang.
Zhou Bingkun touched Aunt Zheng's forehead, checked her pulse, and initially determined that Aunt Zheng had pneumonia: "Aunt Zheng's illness is quite serious and she needs to be sent to the hospital."
Even if Zhou Bingkun judged it, Aunt Zheng still needed to go to the hospital when there was no Chinese or Western medicine.
Besides, even if Zhou Bingkun has a good relationship with the Zheng family now, the Zheng family will not listen to Zhou Bingkun, an electrician, when he gets sick.
"My mother's illness has not recovered. We also want to send her to the hospital for medical treatment. Once we can borrow money from our neighbors, we will send her to the hospital."
Zheng Guangming is a child who is really sensible enough at the age of seven or eight. He has dark eyes and a bright heart. He knew that Zheng Juan would be embarrassed to speak, so he said it before Zheng Juan opened her mouth.
"Then there's no need to find anyone else. Medical treatment is important, and I have money with me. Zheng Juan, help me clean up. I'll go outside and call a tricycle."
Zhou Bingkun rode his bicycle out of Taiping Hutong and hailed a tricycle.
Then a tricycle pulled Aunt Zheng and Guangming, and Zhou Bingkun rode a bicycle to drive Zheng Juan to the hospital.
After some diagnosis and treatment, it was determined that Aunt Zheng had pneumonia, and because of her old age, weak body, and serious condition, she needed to be hospitalized for treatment.
"Bingkun, I'm really troubling you. You have to contribute money and effort. We will pay you back as soon as we earn the money for medical treatment."
Aunt Zheng hung water in the ward and after settling in, Zheng Juan said to Zhou Bingkun.
"Don't talk about this. I don't need to use my money in a hurry. You should take good care of my aunt first and let her take good care of her health. After all, my health is more important."
Zhou Bingkun looked at Zheng Juan with burning eyes and said, making Zheng Juan's face turn red.
The two have been in contact for three years. Although they don't meet much, they don't make their relationship explicit.
But Zhou Bingkun is so special to the Zheng family, Zheng Juan naturally knows what Zhou Bingkun means.
"Bingkun, I don't even have a household registration. With your conditions, I can definitely find a better one."
"I've decided on you. I'm not going to look for anyone better, and I've never met anyone better. When my wife gets better this time, I'll ask a matchmaker to come to your house to propose marriage."
In the Northeast, it is not popular to talk about partners.
Today's timing is good. Zhou Bingkun has also reached the age of marriage, so he took advantage of the opportunity and made it clear to Zheng Juan.
If Zhou Bingkun did not marry Zheng Juan and let such a beautiful woman like Zheng Juan marry someone else, Zhou Bingkun would not be willing to do so.
Zheng Juan's face remained red for a long time, and she waited until she calmed down before saying, "Then I'll tell you directly, even if I get married in the future, I can't ignore Mom and Guangming."
"If you really leave Aunt Zheng and Guangming alone, I won't marry you. I don't just like you because you are beautiful, I also want to marry you because you are filial and kind."
We had dinner with the Zheng family in the hospital. Aunt Zheng was suspended from the water and her fever subsided before Zhou Bingkun left the hospital.
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"Bingkun, why did you come back so late today? Have you eaten?"
Zhou Bingkun came home a little too late, it was already past nine o'clock, so Li Suhua naturally wanted to ask a few questions.
"Something happened. I went to deal with it. I've had dinner." Zhou Bingkun sat down on the edge of the Kang and chatted with Li Suhua. This is also an old tradition between mother and son.
"If you have something to do after get off work, you don't know how to find someone to send a message to your mother. Why don't you tell me first? You haven't come home so late. My mother is so anxious at home." Li Suhua complained.
Zhou Bingkun went to the cinema first after get off work today, and then went to Taiping Hutong. He met Aunt Zheng who was sick and her condition was urgent. He didn't bother to go home to explain it, which was indeed a bit ignored.
"Mom, don't be anxious yet. I'll tell you something and you won't be anxious."
"What are you going to say?" Li Suhua said noncommittally.
"I'm getting married."
"What?" Li Suhua was also sitting on the edge of the Kang, but she stood up in surprise.
Zhou Bingkun said word for word: "I said I want to get married."
"Who are you going to marry?" Li Suhua was still very excited.
"Of course he is my partner, otherwise who would I marry?"
"When do you want to get married?"
"As soon as possible, have the wedding before winter."
Li Suhua firmly denied: "No, your father is not at home. How could you decide such a big thing on your own without his consent?"