Liu Haizhong sat at his dining table, picked up the "water scrambled eggs" with his chopsticks. Under the living conditions without oil, he could only scramble the eggs with water. This method can highlight the fishy smell of the eggs.
"Master, don't just eat! Guangqi's matter hasn't been settled yet!"
"belch……"
"You won't really let him go to the countryside, will you?"
Liu Guangqi didn't get an accurate answer from his father, and he lost his appetite with chopsticks in his hand. The remaining two boys kept using their chopsticks and slurping away with bowls in their hands.
"This Wang Jianping really doesn't give me any face! He just delayed it for a few days. He didn't ask about my status in the steel rolling mill! Bang!"
Liu Haizhong smashed the chopsticks in his hand on the table, picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
"You two still have the nerve to eat? Your eldest brother is going to the countryside. Get out of here!"
Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu put down their bowls and ran out.
"There is only one move in front of you."
"What's the trick, Dad!"
Liu Haizhong lowered his eyes slightly, looked at the vegetable soup on the plate and said, "Go to the machinery factory."
"Isn't this great! There are more than 2,000 people in the machinery factory. It's not small, it's not small."
The second aunt asked with a drooping face: "The one in Changping?"
"Um."
"Dad, is this machinery factory a military factory?"
"No, the heavy industry machinery factory is the military factory. You don't count."
"Then I admit it! As long as you don't go to the countryside, you can do whatever you want!"
"Master, can't you go to your factory and ask if anyone can get a job? After all, Guangqi has a junior high school diploma."
"If the steel rolling mill can keep him, why should I abandon this matter?"
"But this isn't..."
"Boss!"
"Hey, dad, tell me. I'm listening."
"After you go to the factory, you should be more obedient and do more things. If you have some sense, I will find a master to take care of you."
"Oh, my dad! No wonder you are the leader of the hospital. You have made arrangements for all my affairs!"
"Learn more from your master and go to his home more. Your master is a technician, and he is completely different from a worker. Remember, go to his home more. After a year and a half, I will stabilize.
I’ll tell you about your marriage with your mother.”
"Dad, don't worry, I promise to do as you say!"
Liu Haizhong picked up the wine bottle, shook it, and said, "Go to the supply and marketing cooperative outside the yard and ask. If they still sell wine, buy back 1 jin. Our family is celebrating today!"
"good!"
Liu Guangqi took the bottle, opened the door and ran away.
"Master, is this the only way?"
"Let's just take it one step at a time. After all, Lao Wang is just a daughter, and she won't treat our family ill."
The second aunt wiped her tears twice, sniffed and complained: "Isn't this selling my son?"
"What did you say! It's impossible!"
Liu Haizhong also felt a little overwhelmed, so he opened the door and stood in the backyard to get some air.
Liu Guangqi ran to the front yard with the wine bottle and almost hit someone when passing Zhou's house.
"Watch carefully! If you can't catch a rabbit, you won't be able to do it safely."
"I'm so happy today that I don't want to talk to you!"
He Yuyu snorted and raised his hand to knock on the glass of Zhou Wenzhong's bedroom.
"Bang bang...Zhou Wenzhong!"
Zhou Wenzhong, who was drawing a route map in the house, heard someone calling his name, walked to the window and opened it a crack.
"He Yuyu? What do you want from me?"
"Why don't you invite me to sit in the house?"
Zhou Wenzhong pointed to the crack in the window and said, "You happen to be as thin as a bamboo stick. Come in through the crack in the window!"
He Yuyu bent down and picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at it. Zhou Wenzhong dodged.
"Hey, hey, I can't hit him. Your brother is so angry that he has white hairs growing in his nose."
"Have you ever talked to your sister like this?"
"I said you haven't even graduated from junior high school. What kind of brother are you here to blindly recognize? If you have something to do, talk about it! If you have nothing to do, go home and stay!"
He Yuyu frowned, raised his nose and smelled the smell in the air.
"Where are your roasted peanuts? I can smell them!"
"What a stupid nose. Well, I'm leaving soon anyway, so I don't want to argue with you about this."
Zhou Wenzhong turned around and walked to the coal stove, grabbing 7 or 8 peanuts and a baked potato.
"Give."
He Yuyu put the peanuts in his pocket and warmed his hands with baked potatoes.
"If it's okay, I'll close the window."
"Wait a minute!"
"Come on, tell me, it's just a little warm. What's going on?"
"For the sake of giving me these things, let me tell you a secret. Do you know who signed you up to go to the countryside?"
"My dad."
He Yuyu stared and asked, "How did you know?"
"What's wrong with you?"
"Give Xiaosi his whistle back."
Without thinking, Zhou Wenzhong opened the drawer and took out the iron whistle from the space. He grabbed the wool and handed it to He Yuyu.
"Give the whistle back to Xiaosi's family, and give them a few instructions. Don't let the child run around with the whistle in his mouth. If he trips and falls, it will cause serious trouble if it is not kept intact."
After saying that, he closed the window.
"Boom! Boom!"
"what happened again?"
He Yuyu said angrily: "You can't wait for me to finish what I said! There are two last things. For the sake of you giving me these things, I have two good friends, one is on a farm in Zhangjiakou,
A farm in Chengde. I will write you two letters and take them with you. If you are assigned to a farm near them, you can take care of each other when you get to the educated youth center."
"No need."
"I said you are so boring! By the way, one last thing, I am really older than you. You went to school earlier and graduated from junior high school at the age of 15. I am 16 this year and have only entered the second grade of junior high school."
"Oh. I'm not interested in knowing this."
Zhou Wenzhong closed the window, and He Yuyu was so angry that he stomped his feet outside.
"It's boring. Just interrupt my train of thought."
Zhou Wenzhong picked up the pen again and drew a map of North China on the paper. There was a thick pencil line drawn from the capital all the way to the south.
Passing through Fangshan District, Zhuozhou City, Gaobeidian City, Dingxing County, Xushui District, Baoding, Anguo City... I painted through the entire Shijiazhuang, and then continued painting downwards.
He held a cigarette in his mouth and muttered: "That's bullshit, I'm not going to jump in line! Whoever wants to go can go!"
"call……"
Zhou Wenzhong flicked the ashes from his cigarette and counted the approximate distance with his fingers.
"I pretend to be a deaf-mute refugee during the day and walk around the clock. I already have 8 pairs of cloth shoes stored in the space. Assuming I walk 50 miles a day, it won't take long to successfully get rid of this bullshit courtyard. I'll buy some food tomorrow and make it."
Take the steamed buns with you to eat on the road. Hehe..."
Zhou Wenzhong drew the route map, checked it twice carefully, and then stored it in the space. He picked up the wine glass and took a sip.
"Ha...if it weren't for the fact that the various halls of the Forbidden City are too high, I would have to clean the Forbidden City no matter what!"
He pulled out a brick from the ground with his left hand, and in his right hand he took the iron nail knife pressed by the rail and polished it repeatedly. Finally, he scraped the scraper blade with his finger. He felt unsatisfied, so he started working on the bottom of the porcelain bowl again.
Yan Bugui's home was about to explode. Liu Guangqi hid under their window with a wine bottle and listened for a while, then walked back to his home with a bad smile on his face.
"Lao Yan, what are your rules? Do you want to imitate the Zhou family, which is the opposite of the Zhou family? Ignore the boss?"
Yan Bugui took out a handkerchief and wiped his glasses, then looked at Yan Jiecheng.
"There are two ways. The first is to go to the countryside with the large army. The second..."
Before he finished speaking, Yan Jiecheng gave the answer: "I choose the second option! Dad!"
"The second option is to go to work in a farm implement factory."
Yan Jiecheng covered his face with his hands and rubbed them vigorously. Yan Bugui did not interrupt his thinking.
The farm tool factory has a total of more than 400 employees. It is the lowest, most famous, and worst factory in Beijing. The factory does not even have any "high-tech" machinery and equipment, and relies entirely on workers to assemble wooden farm tools by hand.
"Dad, if you go to work in a farm equipment factory, how much will it cost your family?"
Yan Bugui smiled when he heard this question and pushed up his glasses frame. Yan Jiecheng understood as soon as he saw this posture that his father was about to open his mouth!
"Jie Cheng, you also know the conditions of our family. They are incomparable to other people in the courtyard. Although my monthly salary plus subsidy is 40 yuan, everything at home and outside is counting on me alone.
You have to pay enough to eat. Not to mention that your younger brothers and sisters still have to go to school."
"Dad, don't worry, I'll give all my salary to my family."
"Eh? You can't say that. You have to make friends and maintain relationships at work. You also have to have human connections. For such an old person, can you not have some money with you?"
As soon as Yan Jiecheng smiled, he heard his father say: "The apprenticeship costs 18.5 yuan a month. Just pay 18 yuan to your family. Just keep 50 cents for yourself to buy some cigarettes."
"Dad! I just have it in my pocket..."
"This is only temporary. After you become a regular employee, your regular job will basically be 22.5 yuan per month. At that time, you will keep 2.5 yuan per month for yourself."
"Only 2.5 yuan? When I become a regular employee, it will be at least 2 years later."
"Explanation, your algorithm is wrong! In 2 years, your pocket money has changed from 5 cents to 2.5 yuan. It has increased five times! Do you think this is true? What's more, your factory's
I didn’t even include some of the subsidies for you! I didn’t even include your food expenses! Once you enter the factory, you become an adult and you have to stand up for yourself. What about the accommodation expenses? Do I care if you pay for them?"
Before Yan Jiecheng came to his senses, Yan Bugui continued to add, "It costs at least 800 yuan to get you a work quota."
"800 yuan! Why is it so expensive this year?"
"Sit down! I've said it many times, but I still can't keep my composure."
"Before I finished speaking, you interrupted me. This year's job quotas are very expensive! I heard that a job in Lao Yi's factory costs 1,000 yuan!
Everyone knows that you can survive by staying in the city, but who wants to go to the countryside? During your two years as an apprentice, you only paid 360 yuan to your family in total. A regular worker paid 20 yuan to your family every month. For two years,
It’s only 480 yuan.”
"Dad, the total amount of money is 840 yuan! Is that enough?"
"Enough? Together with your food expenses and accommodation expenses for the past four years, it's only 40 yuan? Is this a good thing? How about you introduce me to it?"
Yan Jiecheng lowered his head and said nothing.
"We are all a family, so why bother so clearly. Just do this for now. After you become a regular employee, your mother will still have to find a wife for you. If you can't get a room in the work, your mother and I will still have to marry each other.
I have to buy you a house! So can the accounts here be settled? Do you think about it? "
"Boss, please go back to the house first, close the door and think about it carefully. You are not young anymore. You should have a plan for your future. Let me know whether it succeeds or not tomorrow. I can also have a plan for others.
Reply: You don’t even know that there are dozens of people waiting to grab jobs in this farm tool factory!”
"knew."
Yan Jiecheng didn't have dinner for the first time in his life. He walked into the back room with his fingers on his legs as if he had lost his soul.
After the third aunt saw her son leaving, she moved the bench under her butt towards Yan Bugui.
"Lao Yan, are the agricultural tool factory's quotas so expensive?"
Yan Bugui glanced at her first, looked around the window, and whispered: "You lied to him, the farm tool factory's quota is 600 yuan. This year's price is indeed very expensive! Lao Yi and his factory have no quota at all. In September
They’re all full.”
"Just scare him! Sooner or later, you will scare him into trouble! I'm looking at where the eggs in your bag come from?"
"Shh! Keep your voice down, you want to summon the wolf! This was given to me by Lao Zhou from the opposite door."
"What can he ask you to do? It would be great if you don't ask him to buy things! After all, he is also an employee of a department store. Can you teach him some knowledge?"
"Women, don't pry into men's affairs!"
The third aunt raised her finger and pointed at Yan Bugui, picked up the uneaten stick noodle porridge on the dining table and put it into the chest of drawers.