After Secretary Ye left, a group of people who had been standing outside the door eavesdropping crowded into Su's house.
"Director Su, are you really leaving?" Everyone asked, "Why did you suddenly decide to move the whole family to the countryside?"
"Yes, yes, then where is Luohu Village? Is it far from Jinghai City?"
They seemed to be very concerned about the situation of the Su family. They asked each other endless questions. In fact, they were staring at the brown paper bag in Su Jianmin's hand, trying to see whether the bag was really filled with food.
Nine hundred dollars.
One of them stopped beating around the bush and asked, "Director Su, are you and Secretary Ye just acting to deceive us?"
"Lied to you?" Su Jianmin asked funnyly, "What did you lie to?"
He took a step back and distanced himself from the crowd before continuing: "I will move out within this week. You will know in a week whether I lied to you or not."
Everyone was talking about it, and they were all surprised that Su Jianmin would move his family to the countryside.
"Um, Director Su, can you show us the money in your bag? Is it really nine hundred?"
Su Jianmin showed the money in the bag, "I received nine hundred yuan anyway, and I counted all the money just now... Okay, don't continue to surround my house, I am no longer the director of your factory.
I have no obligation to answer your questions."
"What, oh, Su Factory... Master Su, now that you are no longer the director of our factory, who should we go to to sign up? I think my son is young and strong and stays at home every day with nothing to do, so why not go
Exercise in the countryside.
He is sixteen years old this year and has not been admitted to high school, so he still has a subsidy of two hundred and fifty yuan, right?"
After one of the people asked, before Su Jianmin could answer, the other person immediately grabbed the conversation and asked loudly: "Master Su, I would like to ask if the price of the subsidy for men going to the countryside is the same as that for women going to the countryside? I want to send my two daughters to the countryside."
They all go to the countryside."
After she finished speaking, some people around her laughed, with a hint of ridicule in their tone, "Hey! Sister-in-law Wang, didn't you say that you want your daughters to marry city dwellers and not let them go to the countryside until they die, lest they be raped by the rural people?
"
"People in the city are useless! Now as long as they answer the call to go to the countryside, each person will receive a subsidy of 250 yuan, which is a full 500 yuan for two people. Whose son can give me such a large betrothal gift?"
The woman's voice was sharp, "Let alone five hundred, there's no one who can give me fifty yuan!"
After listening to her words, everyone else felt that it made sense. Daughters were just thrown away anyway, and they were going to get married. If they were to receive a bride price of ten yuan for marriage, why not let them go to the countryside, even if they married in the countryside?
If you don't come back, it won't be a loss.
Su Jianmin was disgusted by these remarks. His daughter was so considerate, but why did it completely change the taste in their mouths? It was like doing business. Anyone who is willing to pay more money can send his daughter to wherever he wants...
"If you want to discuss it, go back to your home to discuss it," Su Jianmin said after the guests, "I have to pack my things."
"Oh, Master Su, you haven't answered our questions yet. Now that our factory has no director, who should we ask?"
Everyone occupied the Su family's living room and asked endless questions.
Suddenly, a man shouted, "Snake!"
When the others listened, they discovered that a flower snake crawled in from the window.
The timid one screamed in fright and ran out. Seeing this, everyone else also fled the Su family.
Su Jianmin hurriedly picked up the broom placed behind the door and was thinking of driving the snake away when the snake suddenly disappeared out of thin air.
"Jinbao?" He guessed it was the work of his daughter and looked out the door.
"Hehe, dad found out!"
Jinbao hugged her father's neck and kissed him.
Su Jianmin smiled happily, "When did you come back? Why didn't you have dinner at your Aunt Yang's place?"
"I came back a long time ago," Bai Lu said at the side, "but I saw a large group of people in the house, and Jin Bao and I couldn't get in at all."
After saying this, she added: "Xue Lan is busy with work, how can she have time to cook for us?"
"How did she react when she heard that we were leaving Jinghai City?"
"How else can you react? You can't bear to let us go." Bai Lu walked into the house and closed the door, "Hey, I'm actually more worried about Hua Hua now. He would be very sad if he knew that Jin Bao was leaving. Xue Lan didn't say no.
Know how to tell him..."
Su Jianmin said: "Children with bigger butts will soon forget."
"What the hell is that? Besides, you don't know what Hua Hua's memory is like? Things he has seen once are as unforgettable as if they were frozen in a camera. How can he forget Jin Bao?"
"I know he has a good memory. Hey, I also hope he will be more open-minded."
Seeing a hint of worry in his daughter's eyes, Su Jianmin touched her head and said, "Jin Bao, you can write a lot now. When we live in a new place, you can chat with Hua Hua, right?"
wrong?"
"Hmm..." Nodding slightly, Jin Bao thought to herself, now she can only hope that Yao Hua won't be too sad, hey.
What she didn't expect was that that night, she was already getting ready to go to bed when there was a rapid knock on the door.
"Who is it?" Su Jianmin, who had been packing his things all night, yawned tiredly and said to the door, "If you want to ask me about the rural subsidy, I can only say that I don't know. I am no longer a factory worker.
It’s too late, you can ask someone else.”
There was silence outside the door for a moment. Just when Su Jianmin thought that the person who knocked on the door had left and was about to go back to his bedroom, a familiar boy's voice suddenly said: "Uncle Su, it's me, Yao Hua..."
"Ah? Hua Hua?"
Su Jianmin opened the door and saw that the person standing outside was indeed Yao Hua.
He was surprised, "Why is it you? How did you come in so late? The iron gate of the yard has been locked long ago."
"I crawled in," Yao Hua said, "Uncle Su, do you really want to take Jinbao to live in the countryside? Why? Why do you want to take Jinbao so far away? How will Jinbao study in the countryside?
"
"This... is because," Su Jianmin didn't know how to explain, "I, that..."
Yao Hua's eyes were red, "You can't take Jin Bao away! I won't let you take Jin Bao away, Jin Bao can't leave..."
In the bedroom, Jin Bao heard that the person talking outside was Yao Hua and ran out of the room anxiously.
Her soft voice was full of surprise, "Brother Hua Hua?"
As soon as he saw Jin Bao, Yao Hua ran to her anxiously, held her hand tightly, and said in an excited and urgent tone: "Jin Bao, don't go to the countryside with your father. You stay. You can come to live with me, okay?"
?”
Jinbao shook his head and apologized: "Brother Huahua, I'm sorry, I can't live at your house. I want to live with my parents and brothers. If you miss me in the future, just write me a letter, and I will too."
I am writing to you..."
"I don't want to write letters, I want to see you, see you every day." Yao Hua's voice was choked with sobs, and he could no longer hold back his tears.
Even though he knew that Jin Bao couldn't stay in Jinghai City for him, he still wanted to beg her to stay.
He finally managed to return to Jinghai City, but she was leaving again...