But those who really make a fortune from this are only a handful. If an old lady wants to make a small amount of money from this, she can.
For those who came from that era, there is no shame in picking up rags. For example, Lao Er and the others picked up and ate discarded sweet potato peels when they were young. They know what it’s like to be hungry, what it’s like to be poor, and the matter of face, then
It's really not a big deal.
Lin Yutong frowned and said: "Mom, you probably don't know that the old couple who picked up rags must be locals. Otherwise, why would the police look for you instead of looking for others? You are the kind of blind people the police are looking for...
"
Blind flow?
Aunt Jin almost jumped up, "I'm just here to pick up some rags, why am I a gangster... blindly..."
To her, the difference between a blind streamer and a gangster is not very clear.
She has a son, the third, who is called a 'gangster', and she is particularly sensitive to this word.
Lin Yutong explained to her, "People who migrate from rural areas to cities in order to escape famine, seek refuge or make a living without stable employment and permanent residence are called blind inflows, or "blind flow" for short. You are moving from rural areas to make a living.
Migrating to the city, without a stable job or a permanent residence, why are you not a blind immigrant?"
He simply ignored his own place, which was also Aunt Jin’s home.
Aunt Jin felt relieved, "Oh! You're not a gangster! That's fine. What's wrong with blind flow? You're just making money."
Lin Yutong said again: "Then why do you think the police should take you to the police station?" Then she clapped her fingers and said, "In the early 1950s, a large number of rural people moved into cities every year due to poverty. In April 1953, the State Council issued
The "Instructions to Dissuade Peasants from Blindly Flowing into Cities" was issued, and the concept of "blind migration" was first proposed. After the autumn of 1956, the phenomenon of rural population outflow to big cities and key industrial construction areas developed to a very serious extent. At the end of the year, the State Council issued another "
"Instructions on Preventing the Blind Outflow of Population", which were supplemented and reissued in early 1957. In March 1959, when starvation had occurred on a large scale due to the prevalence of the ultra-left line, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council jointly issued
An "Emergency Notice on Stopping the Blind Outflow of Rural Labor Forces" was issued. All farmers who leave their hometowns without permission and "blindly flow" into the city are "blind migrants." This document has a tough tone. It not only wants to stop the flight of farmers, but also instructs
Provinces and cities will take in and repatriate farmers who "blindly flow" into cities and industrial mining areas..."
Aunt Jin looked at her fourth daughter-in-law's mouth and opened her mouth. She couldn't remember what she said, but she roughly understood the meaning, "...you mean this is the country and it's not about doing anything."
Things..."
That’s right! The current policy is like this. The country doesn’t allow it.
Aunt Jin's expression was a little solemn, wondering if she had broken the law.
In her mind, she must not do anything that is not allowed in this country. If she does it and does not listen to Chairman M, it is against the law.
The word "criminal" is something that Aunt Jin cannot touch in her heart. Her son has already violated the law and is in prison, so is there another mother who violates the law? Then people are not allowed to say that the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked?
They were acquaintances to begin with, and there was no shortage of common topics, so the two of them chatted quite well.
However, Aunt Jin is short-tempered and thinks that everything in the city is good. Apart from the price, she is most dissatisfied with the kitchen. Everything in the kitchen is good and clean enough, but one thing is the fire for cooking.
It's too small, I'm in a hurry. How can I cook with such a small pot? Who can eat if it's enough? In other words, three or five people in a family can make ends meet, but with more people, cooking can kill people. Also,
How many steamed buns can be steamed in one pot? It doesn’t count! No wonder the steamed buns are bought, this thing is more convenient to buy.
She then said, "I'll ask someone to bring it to you when I steam the steamed buns at home. I won't go into details, the steamed buns steamed at home are delicious."
Lin Yutong was worried. It's just winter. It won't grow hair on the balcony for the time being. What if it's summer? What can be put in the refrigerator now? You can't say that the refrigerator is open just to put the steamed buns, right?
She went in to answer the call: "We'll wait until we get to the county seat. We can do whatever we want when we get back. Maybe we'll still be in town..."
"Why are you still in town?" Aunt Jin was puzzled, "Then why are you going to school?"
The status in the town will definitely be different from that in the town before.
Nowadays, it is fixed that if undergraduates are willing to go to the countryside, then they will at least be minor subjects. If they are admitted, they must be at least regular subjects.
This is a huge difference from my previous status. It is considered a cadre status.
The bureau chiefs and bureau chiefs in the county are all at the official level.
It is estimated that the possibility of returning to the town directly is not high. The feed mill and pig farm are doing very well now, and the interest relationships involved must have changed. Then certainly not everyone wants to go back home.
Therefore, 99% of the time when I go back, I will be in the county town. Different levels will naturally give different treatment. There will also be some changes in things like the house. Both of them know these things clearly. But the matter has not been settled and they cannot tell Aunt Jin.
She is not as good as Qing Ning in some aspects. Qing Ning knows very well what words can be said to others and what words cannot be said to others at all.
Lin Yutong had no choice but to say: "It's just an internship. There is still one year before graduation."
Aunt Jin didn't understand, so she nodded as if she understood, and stopped asking any more questions.
When Qing Ning came back, she was so happy to see her baby, "You know when the baby comes, I won't go to school anymore. I asked my dad to ask for leave for me." She threw down her schoolbag and ran out to call Yan Yan from the next building: "Today, I won't go to school."
My baby is here, so we can’t do our homework together.”
Then the fat boy stuck his head out of the window upstairs and said, "I know, I'll ask you to go to school tomorrow morning..."
Qing Ning didn't respond, she just came in, hugging her waist and not knowing how to be intimate. Her little mouth was chattering non-stop. From everyone in the family to Heizi who was looking at the fruits in the orchard, she was...
He greeted her carefully, then hummed and pestered her, "Let's stay here for a while longer. When I'm on summer vacation, I'll go back with grandma..."
Aunt Jin's heart melted after hearing this, but her attitude was still firm, "...It won't work! Can't stay in the city?"
Why can't you stay?
Qing Ning almost blurted out her rebuttal after listening to her mother's words. What's the point of blind abortion? Can we really not ask the country people to go to the city? Let's visit the relatives' head office. Where can it be so inhumane?
But then I thought about it, these words are not something she can know?
Who could have said that?
It must be my mother.
You can't tear down my mother's stage.
Gao Jie, the former child, also said that her grandma had three quarrels with her mother just two days after she came from the northern suburbs.
Alas! It seems that my mother doesn’t necessarily want to see her grandma either.
But when she continued talking to her grandma, Qingning finally understood. It was really not her mother's fault. Grandma actually wanted to pick up rags.
She was shocked, "My parents didn't give you enough money?"
Otherwise, why would you think of doing this so much?
She stomped back to her room, took out her piggy bank and gave it to her, "Take it home, there's a lot of money in it..." All the New Year's money is here. There are parents, mom, and colleagues.
They were given to me by my classmates and their teachers. They were given by relatives of the Lin family. My parents and the little old lady also gave them to me. It was a lot of money. She didn't even spend it, and she saved everything she couldn't spend.
Lin Yutong knew that his daughter had a small Qian in her money jar.
Of course Aunt Jin wouldn't take it, "You keep it for yourself to buy candy, grandma doesn't want it."
Thinking about it, this seems really unreliable.
Aunt Jin was sent away the next day, but Qingning felt that her grandmother was pitiful. If she had no other choice, why would she think of picking up rags?
Because the Fourth Master called the Second Son and asked him to pick him up at the county station. Everyone thought that Aunt Jin had been called away by the Fourth Son. Even the Second Son and his wife felt the same way. They still asked.
: "It would be nice for you to make a phone call. Mom is so uneasy when she is alone."
The old lady is very capable, so there is nothing to worry about.
Naturally, I came home with big and small bags. I don’t know how the fourth daughter-in-law prepared them. She prepared them all in one night. She brought many kinds of rare and rare things with her. This one came and that one came at home. Take out the things.
Very face-saving.
This one said: "Sister-in-law, you are so lucky, why don't you stay longer?"
Aunt Jin had something to say: "Don't mention it, we can't stay in that city." She exaggeratedly talked about the various 'disadvantages' in the city, such as living upstairs and being trapped in the room.
, it is not as good as your own yard. There is a vast world outside the door, which makes people feel comfortable. Living in a building is like living in a pigeon cage. It is suffocating and makes breathing difficult.
Conscience of heaven and earth! I live on the first floor. In addition to the balcony, the first floor also has a small area on both sides for gardens. The little old lady used to be an elegant person. Naturally, she sang whatever songs she went to.
Peonies are raised in the spring and chrysanthemums are raised in the autumn. There is no such thing as planting some garlic seedlings and some green onions, or some coriander and spinach. The two households on the first floor are connected, and the area is upwards of 300 square meters. Isn’t this house spacious?
Pigeon cage?
Haha! If you really want to live in Tongzilou, then you can’t go back and say it’s like a pigsty.
But everyone believes this. Because so many people have gone there, no one has been to Jin Laosi and Tong's home. You said that if the home can be lived in, who would spend unreasonable money to stay outside, right?
Therefore, when people talk about Fourth Master and Tong, they always say that they have a close relationship.
Aunt Jin is not stupid. There is no need to come back to tell her what kind of house her son lives in. Otherwise, this house will not be a family and it will really become a hotel. But she doesn’t know where that house came from. She doesn’t know that she can buy a house.
This concept, in her mind, meant that everything the godfather had was given by the government. She thought it was a house shared by the couple. If both couples could tolerate it, the house they shared would be larger.
In fact, most people have such a concept. Most residents in the city shake their heads when it comes to buying a house. Why waste that money? Can the work unit just ignore it? If you don’t have a house... that’s temporary.
The unit will find a way to solve it.
Therefore, everyone believed what Aunt Jin said. They all said that the fourth couple were really kind and had a sense of humanity.
Aunt Jin was satisfied, and then she talked about something else with a bit of show-off and a bit of disgust. What kind of food is too expensive? You dare to charge 20 cents for a few broken cucumbers. She doesn't know how people grow their watermelons.
It's all ripe now. It's so valuable that you can't even buy it for a pound or two cents.
Oh my god! Two cents per catty, ten pounds of watermelon, only two cents each.
I ignored the early ripening of watermelons and lamented the price instead.
Those who are thoughtful listen to the teachings, but those who are not cautious just listen to it as a joke.
After showing off for a few days, Aunt Jin's enthusiasm subsided. When she couldn't sleep alone at night, she tossed and turned again.
Three yuan a day, hundreds of yuan a month.
What is this concept?
The more I think about it, the more I can't sleep.
What to do?
Aunt Jin has something up her sleeve. Doesn’t it mean that staying in the city is considered a blind migration? Isn’t it enough if I don’t stay in the city?
Is it okay if I go in the morning and come back in the evening?
But where is the shuttle bus that is so accurate? From the town to the county seat, and then reverse from the county seat to the provincial capital, the delay is only half a day. The round trip is actually on the road.
If you can't get on the shuttle bus, that's okay.
Isn’t this a truck that pulls feed? There is no time for these trucks. They are always available in the morning, morning and evening. And they all have their own driving rules. Most of these trucks go outside the provincial capital and do not enter the city. So isn’t this just right?
?
So Aunt Jin disappeared. She got up in the middle of the night and left, only to come back after dark.
This is not a strange thing in rural areas. Some people go to distant places to help relatives or other work, and this also happens.
Besides, she left the town at four o'clock in the morning to wait for the bus, and then got off the bus outside the town at 1 o'clock in the evening when there was no one around. She rarely met anyone.
The second child was watering the ground one night, watering the orchard. He met his mother at a party, and when it was dark and she got up early, he couldn't help but ask: "Mom, what are you doing these days?"
"Go and see the third child." Aunt Jin said.
The second child laughed and said, "You are allowed to go in every day?" Who can believe this excuse?
Aunt Jin said angrily: "I can't sit on the roadside without asking me to come in? I'm close to my son. Maybe I can take a look at him from a distance when he comes out to take out the garbage."
This is really something my own mother can do.
Jin Laoer took out five yuan from his body and stuffed it into it, "Don't just eat cold steamed buns. If there are restaurants, just go to them..."
After being a son for so many years, he knew very well how stubborn his mother was. He didn't even think about persuading her, just go if you wanted to. That's right! The third child can come out at every turn, and a look from a distance can indeed be reassuring.
When the fourth master and Lin Yutong finished this semester, and the whole family came back with them, they learned that Aunt Jin "visited the third son every day".
The couple can't expose this peep show.
Aunt Jin was embarrassed at first, but when she came back in the evening, she told Fourth Master and Lin Yutong, "I really went to check on Third Brother. Don't worry, it won't be a blind drift."
The fourth master said to her: "Look at my dad, why can't you think about it all your life? People work hard and hard, but what do they end up with in the end? It's not just a graveyard. How can you live comfortably while you're alive? Don't despise that.
It's so embarrassing. It's not because I'm afraid that people will say something bad about us as children, but because I think you are so old and have so many sons. Why do you have to go through this hardship? My third brother's place, I send it to you every month
The money is enough for him. Why do you want so much money? You think my eldest brother and my fifth brother are having a hard time, and I think this is a way to get money. You ask them to go. But you spend it alone? Wait for you to do it.
If they don’t move, who will they rely on?”
This is not wrong either.
After all, I am only one person. If I include my two sons and two wives, I will make even more money this day.
She didn't say anything at the time, but the more she thought about it when she came back, the more it made sense.
That night, I called my son and daughter-in-law together for a family meeting.
The second child's face turned pale with anger, "Mom! Am I short of you to eat or to wear?"
Aunt Jin was speechless, but does a mother need to reason with her children? She immediately glared: "According to what you say, I should be an old loser, unable to do anything?"
This is nonsense.
That's obviously not what it means.
Jin Laoer couldn't say anything, and he was a little bit dumbfounded: "You are so biased that it's up to your armpits."
Regardless of the fierce reaction of the second child, Aunt Jin only said to the eldest and the fifth: "I am an old lady who has made two hundred in the past two months. Even if you two go out alone, you will not make more than me."
The children are small, and my wife is watching over them at home. If you two brothers go out, you will definitely be able to earn money to support your wife and children."
Ma Xiaoting immediately said: "Then I will ask my mother to come and look after the child for two days, and Lao Wu and I will go out with mom for two days. When we are familiar with it, we will ask Lao Wu to go."
Jin Mancheng squatted on the ground and held his head. Li Xianer pushed him and then he said: "We are workers in the farmland. I'm afraid our work unit won't let us..."
Fuck your mother!
You are a worker at a farm. Have you ever worked a day shift at a farm? How many people do you know at the farm?
Does it make you respectable to say that you are a worker?
Aunt Jin was so out of breath.
But there is no reason to hold down the cow's head if it doesn't drink water. Aunt Jin took Lao Wu and his wife there the next day, and they stayed there for three days. Ma Xiaoting said: "Mom! It's too hard outside, you can take care of the children at home."
Come on. I'll go with Lao Wu..."
Then the child was thrown away by the mother-in-law and she left.
Aunt Jin said: "This daughter-in-law from the fifth family is not good at anything but money."
If she is taking care of the children at home and earns money by herself, even if she goes there by herself, the money she earns belongs to her mother-in-law and has nothing to do with them. It is impossible to say who will end up in the pocket.
It's better to keep the money in your own hands more securely.
Aunt Jin hugged Qingxue, the fifth child, and said to herself that the second child thought it was hard to go out, but she didn’t know that the job of looking after the children was not any easier than outside.
But outside, I can at least make some money. At home, who cares about my children?
Once the fifth couple left, no one knew whether they had come back or not. Anyway, they were completely gone.
The work in the field was also abandoned, and Aunt Jin had no choice but to carry the child on her back to weed the field. When it was time to water the field, she asked her second son and fourth master to go there. It wasn't that Lin Yutong felt sorry for her man, but why should she?
Fourth Master goes to the county town every day, and the welfare provided by the county has been allocated to houses. He and Fourth Master are special talents who are willing to come back, and they have been allocated a small independent house with a small courtyard. There is not much space in the courtyard.
, less than 20 square meters. But after moving in, there is quite enough space for the entrance garden. If you want to live in it in time for autumn, you have to renovate it quickly. It is really busy.
And Yingzi was even more reluctant to ask his second brother to go there. The orchard in the beach was not enough for his men? Why should they ask his second brother to do it when they go out to make money?
Lin Yutong said, "Just spend one yuan and find someone to help water the ground."
What's wrong with a couple who earn five or six yuan a day when they go out and spend some money to hire someone to water the ground?
Jin Laoer didn't know about this, so he was sent away by Yingzi. When his mother-in-law asked, Yingzi said: "As soon as you finish watering over there, I will come back and water the ground here."
Can this watering ground be mopped?
Isn't this a drought?
It delays the time and affects the harvest.
Aunt Jin felt very unhappy. Before she had a wife, the brothers lived on the same kang, and there was no separation between them. But now that she has a wife, the separation is very clear. In the past, the brothers lived together.
Together, we work together to achieve the same goal. Now, we are all going about our own lives, without caring about the lives of others.
My mother is not dead yet, but my sons are all like this. So what will happen to these sons after I die?
The more I think about it, the more uncomfortable I feel. Why is it like this?
I held my child and chatted with other people of the same age in the village. The most common thing I talked about while sitting together was bad things about my wife.
This one said: "She is evil-minded and very lazy. The stupid boy in my family who instigated her only listens to her."
The one said: "It's all the same. When you talk about my children, whoever didn't tell the truth in the past, now look at it, even my mother treats her words as farts, and her daughter-in-law's farts are treated as an edict."
After summarizing and summarizing, I only came to one conclusion.
That is, the wife is the one who gets into trouble. It’s not the daughter-in-law who is bad but who is bad.
People also say Aunt Jin.
Some said: "You don't know how to enjoy happiness. Look at the daughter-in-law of your second son's family, how kind she is!"
Some added: "I used to be kind, but now I'm doing business and I'm cunning. She only cares about herself and doesn't think about her mother-in-law's difficulties."
Someone else said: "Tong is pretty good."
Those who objected said: "I only care about her breasts. If you want to be really filial, why don't you take her mother-in-law over to enjoy the blessing?"
Okay! After all, this wife is not a good one.
Most of these old ladies speak without shying away from their children. As for the children, at the age of seven or eight, they are already able to imitate them back and forth.
When Lin Yutong came back, she was told by Qing Ning more than once, "So and so said something bad about you again."
Back in the village, this was the only bad thing. The children actually learned from these gossipy parents.
The mother and daughter were talking here, and a quarrel broke out in the alley.
why?
It's really a child's imitation that causes trouble.
The quarrel was between Rendong and her mother-in-law. Rendong complained at home that the money her mother-in-law had kept was used to buy a coffin. Her child was so sick, but her parents-in-law did not get a penny out of it.
This was meant for Liu Cheng, but he did not shy away from his two daughters. As for Yan'er, she grew up with her grandmother. The child must not have thought so much about who she was close to, and naturally talked about everything.
She told her grandma everything. She said this unintentionally. Of course the old lady was angry, so she said, "Your mother is nothing." She gave birth to two children, both of them had problems. She just lacked
It's virtuous.
It would be fine if the grandparents and grandchildren talked about it, but it happened that Min'er was only one year younger than Yan'er. Then she came back and learned Yan'er's lesson from her mother again, and by the way, she also scolded her grandma for her mother.
The child learned exactly what he said. The child knew what was good and what was wrong with his ears. Others said it was fine. My grandma said that of course the child was not happy. When she came back and told her mother, she still had some emotions.
The nature of the complaint.
Then the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were suffocating in their hearts.
The grandmother also saw how pitiful her eldest granddaughter was, so she left her child in the old house to rest for a few days.
But here, Yan'er is waiting for cooking. The family is really busy. Lonicera scolded Min'er and told Min'er who went to call someone: "Just tell your sister, if you don't come back, you will never come back."
return."
How many of the children will be able to tell whether the words are true or false, and how many of them will know what to say and what not to say, and what to say. If you don’t know, this will cause trouble.
I went there with a face, and said in front of her face: "...Mom said if you don't go back, you will never go back!"
Of course Yan'er was scared and kept holding her breast. The old lady was also angry. Why didn't you say this when you didn't care and left the child to me? Now I am a grandmother.
If you keep the child for a few days, you will lose face. Are you trying to shame the child? Are you slapping my mother-in-law in the face?
So she pulled Yan'er and said, "Let's go! Go find your mother. I still don't believe it. Who dares not to want you?"
Then the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law started having sex.
The mother-in-law is just looking for trouble. When they met, she slapped her daughter-in-law without saying a word and said, "You don't have any regard for an old man's bastard!"
Lonicera was stunned by the beating, but she still knew better than to attack her mother-in-law. But she couldn't get out of her anger, so she slapped Yan'er on the face and said, "I'll tell you, an immature white-eyed wolf, to go out and learn your tongue.
tell tales."
This is amazing!
Even though you hit the child, the old lady really felt that it was aimed at her face.
Immediately she couldn't let go of the matter anymore. She sat down on the ground and started to cry. While crying, she wiped her nose and tears. From how she gave birth to Liu Cheng, how she worked hard to raise her son, how she married him, how she didn't dislike him.
The daughter-in-law cannot give birth to a child, so how can she support the adoption and raise the adopted child as her own granddaughter... He also said that Lonicera has no conscience. She is said to be cruel and threw away all the daughters she gave birth to. How did she object to it in the first place?
Yes, how did the daughter-in-law persist? In the end, she concluded, cats and dogs know how to protect their cubs, why doesn’t she know it alone? What is this? This is worse than a pig or a dog!
With so many people around, what can Lonicera say?
She was indeed at fault.
How can I defend myself? I can only say: "I can do this alone? It's all my fault? Your son is not wrong. I am an animal? What is your son? He is also an animal! You gave birth to an animal.
What is it again?”
This is to say that my mother-in-law is also an animal.
Is this okay?
The old lady jumped up and said, "I can't live anymore! I can't live anymore! Liu Cheng... are you going to call your wife and your mother like that?"
Liu Cheng was carrying someone's bags outside when he was called back.
How to deal with this matter?
Simple! Regardless of right or wrong, just beat the wife in front of her mother and the matter will be over.
This is what Liu Chenggong did! A man who was overwhelmed by the reality of life didn't want to know who was right or wrong, he just wanted to get this matter over with.
Without saying a word, he went over and picked up Honeysuckle like a chicken, and received a slap in the face.
A tooth in Lonicera's mouth flew out immediately, and there was blood in the mouth.
But the old lady said nothing. Liu Cheng couldn't stop. Otherwise, he would be too embarrassed to go out tomorrow. Beating his wife is not a big deal, but if someone says that he is not filial to his mother because he protects his wife, then he will be stabbed in the back.
.
If it didn't work, it did it again. This time it was obviously lighter.
But Ling Dong, who was stunned, also reacted. He was willing to sit back and slap him, "You have no conscience, you hit me for your mother? Why don't you go with your mother..."
Lin Yutong covered Qingning's ears to stop her from listening.
There is nothing nice to say to each other! What's more, these shrews in the village dare to say anything.
Originally, Liu Cheng's hand strength was weak, but his words were too vicious and disgusting. He threw Lonicera to the ground and kicked him.
Those who originally wanted to intervene to break up the fight were unable to do so.
No matter what the human heart is, there is a bottom line. This Lonicera's mouth is too bad.
The old lady was so angry that she fell down. Then her mouth was crooked, her eyes were squinted, and saliva was flowing down the corners of her mouth.
"Milk!" Yan'er shouted, crying and rushing towards her.
Liu Cheng was startled: "Mom!" He didn't bother to fight honeysuckle anymore. He hurried over and hugged the old lady and ran away.
Yan'er wanted to follow, but Liu Cheng turned around and kicked her: "I should have strangled you to death when I brought you back!" This dead girl didn't cause the incident.
Qingping returned to her home silently. She listened to Qingning's words and didn't let Yan'er know that she had seen her in embarrassment.
Qingning frowned, raised her head and asked her mother: "Can't Yan'er go back to her own home?"
How uncomfortable would it be for her biological parents to know that she was suffering here again?
So the two sisters asked people around and around to find out where Yan'er's biological parents were. This matter was really not a secret, especially after this incident happened, more people were talking about it. Even more people were talking about Yan'er's life experience.
There is no need to inquire, just wearing your ears is enough.
After asking around, the two sisters got together and planned to write an anonymous letter...