"Master, now I know why you persuaded me so much back then." Li Guofang's voice sounded like crying and laughing, "I should be like Brother Chunlai and find a local partner and settle into a home in the county. I can live there.
It's so smooth. I thought I wouldn't regret it before, but now I know that I regret it."
"Then what are your plans?" Lin Yutong asked.
"My brother called me here because he wanted me to come and have a look in person. He told me to give up." Li Guofang looked at Lin Yutong and begged, "Master, I want to go to Ge Hongbing and ask him for an honest word in person. That's good.
Either way, there should be an explanation."
Ge Hongbing's home was in the family courtyard of a metal processing factory. The conditions at home looked similar to those of the Lin family. When Lin Yutong and Fourth Master brought Li Guofang over, Ge Hongbing was sitting under the earthquake-proof shelter in the yard reading a book.
The earthquake-proof shed is a plastic shed supported by a few wooden sticks. Inside is a temporary wooden board with a simple quilt on it. Obviously, Ge Hongbing lives here at night. He is wrapped in a thick cotton jacket and wearing a hat.
, stomping his feet.
"Guofang?" Ge Hongbing stood up, very surprised. Then when he saw Lin Yutong and Fourth Master, he looked embarrassed for a moment, "Didn't I tell you to stay at home well?"
Li Guofang looked around, "Do you live here?"
Ge Hongbing nodded, "Where is the child? Didn't I leave you money?"
"Why did you leave without saying goodbye?" Li Guofang said without mentioning the child, just looking at Ge Hongbing.
Ge Hongbing pointed to the earthquake-proof shelter at the back, "I'll take you and your children to live here? When I go to school, will you and your children live here? What to eat? What to drink? If I can do anything..."
"I'm just asking you, why did you leave without saying goodbye?" Li Guofang looked at Ge Hongbing stubbornly, "Are you not planning to go back again?"
"I don't know." Ge Hongbing looked at Li Guofang with a very candid look. "After graduating from college, I can't say where I will be assigned or where I will go. I will send money to you and your children on time in the future." He said.
He wiped his face, but his eye circles were red, "How about our idiot?"
Li Guofang looked at Ge Hongbing and shed tears, "That's because you are thinking of not wanting me and Mao Dan anymore."
Ge Hongbing shook his head: "I told you, I will take care of you."
Li Guofang smiled sarcastically, "I understand." She stretched out her hand to wipe away her tears, then glanced at the shadow flashing behind the curtain in the room, "We didn't get our marriage certificate at the beginning. If I hadn't found it,
No one knows that you were married in your hometown, right? But, Ge Hongbing, I’m telling you today. I don’t have anything else, but I still have some integrity. From now on, Mao Dan is my only child, with you.
It doesn't matter at all. I don't want your money. I can raise the child. From now on, we have nothing to do with each other."
After saying that, he turned around and said, "Master, let's go."
Lin Yutong glanced into the room again before responding. He pulled Fourth Master back. This Ge Hongbing's family really... refused to even come out to show their faces.
Ge Hongbing caught up and grabbed Li Guofang, "Guofang, I didn't mean that."
Li Guofang opened him up and said, "I am from the countryside, but I am not stupid."
Li Guofang didn't cry until she reached the small courtyard. Yin Wei came to help Li Guofang take care of the child for a while. Now she came back from the meeting and looked at Lin Yutong, "How are you doing?"
Lin Yutong shook his head.
"What are your plans for the future?" Lin Yutong turned around and asked.
Li Guofang held back her tears, "My eldest brother wants to ask me to go back. But if I go back like this, my brother and my sister-in-law will not be able to hold their heads up in the village." As he said that, he raised his eyes and looked at Lin Yutong, "I want to rent a place here with Master.
The accommodation is to set up a shed in this yard for me and my children to live in. I will pay for the rent. I saw it when I came here. Even if they sell some tea eggs at the entrance of the train station, they can support me and my children.
I go to the surrounding villages to collect eggs, and then come back to cook them and sell them. I can make one or two yuan a day. I sell melon seeds in front of the cinema, and I make a lot of money. My family is very well-behaved, and I carry the child on my back.
, no need to delay anything."
"My sister-in-law said that this woman can live without a man." She looked at Lin Yutong with a bit of stubbornness.
Before Lin Yutong could speak, Yinwei cried first. She had also stayed in Kuoshan Tun, "Back then, if it weren't for the help of Captain Li, the Party Secretary Wu, I wouldn't have been able to settle in Kuoshan Tun or leave Kuoshan Tun and become a recommended worker and peasant.
Military student." She looked at Fourth Master, "I have to help her. She wants to go back to the Northeast, and she can't go back now. The child is only a little old, and if something happens on the way... I can't explain it. Just treat it as coming to our house.
It doesn't matter if you're visiting relatives and staying for a year and a half."
The fourth master thought for a while and said to Li Guofang: "Your master and I will get busy right away. It's definitely not possible for an old man and three children to be taken care of by the eldest sister alone. If you are willing, you can come to my house to help.
I also cook and help my eldest sister. I will take care of food and housing, and I will give you 30 yuan a month. You can see if it works. In the capital, there is no household registration, and the country does not allow individuals to sell things for the time being. How do you make money?
, not yet. In the future, I can’t say for sure.”
Lin Yutong thought about it, that's it. She was worried and couldn't take care of it. Isn't this a ready-made manpower? Moreover, this girl's character was impeccable and she knew everything.
The Fourth Master said again, "I'll give you a message about your work in the county. If you want to go back then, you can still go back. Do you think it's okay?"
Li Guofang agreed without saying a word, "Okay! I can watch the children cook. Just don't worry, master."
In the courtyard, opposite the kitchen is a utility room. In fact, there is nothing in it.
"This is where city people live. It's so warm." Li Guofang was very satisfied with this place.
The house was heated. After tidying it up, a wooden bed and a set of bedding were set up. Although the tables, chairs and benches were all old, the family could scrape together what she could use.
Lin Yutong packed up a bag of his child's old clothes and bedding and sent them over. He also took two bags of milk powder and two bags of wheat flour. "If the milk is not enough, remember to feed the child. When he is older, he will be weaned."
, order milk for the child. Don’t talk to me outside.”
Not to mention the initial friendship, I just thought that when she would take care of my children in the future, I would have to be nice to her. Money and things are all trivial matters.
If you treat other people's children better and she takes care of your children, you will be more dedicated.
People's hearts may not be able to change their hearts, but if you don't treat others sincerely first, why should they treat you sincerely?
Li Guofang sniffed, "I know, Master. I want to let them know that I can live a good life without him."
Lin Yutong smiled, "If you are ambitious, you can definitely do it. When the policies are improved and the children are older, the ways to make money you mentioned will really work."
Li Guofang smiled, "Then I'll wait."
The family didn't think there was anything wrong with this arrangement. The old man had suffered, and Yin Kun had stayed in the countryside for many years. Guo Yonghong and Li Guofang were still fellow villagers.
No one thinks what's wrong with the rural people? The two sides get along quite well.
Yin Kun also felt that Li Guofang was ambitious, "Girl, if you have the courage to think about making money in a new way, you can't go wrong." He gave Li Guofang an idea, "You ask your family to get some local products, such as fungus mushrooms.
, everything is fine. I guarantee you can earn seventy or eighty yuan from a sack of this stuff. As long as the items arrive, you don’t have to go out. I’ll wrap them up for you, brother." This stuff is in short supply. Someone has to collect it in pieces in the Northeast.
, but it’s definitely not possible without a local snake. After all, it’s not allowed. But Li Guofang is different. Her brother is still the captain of the brigade. Just collecting the villages and towns around their village sporadically can make a lot of money.
"Really?" Li Guofang was surprised. "This is not worth taking seriously! I will send a telegram later."
Lin Yutong doesn't care about them. At this time, you have to be willing to use your brain to make money, and you can find money no matter what.
Having Li Guofang in the family immediately made it much easier. Children who grew up in rural areas have a sense of life. They got up early in the morning and made breakfast for the whole family.
Yinwei stared at the child, while Li Guofang washed the child's diapers, washed clothes, and tidied up the house inside and outside.
It was the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, which was also the end of February in the Gregorian calendar. Lin Yutong and Fourth Master went to register with all their expenses.
Signing up at this time is really just signing up. There is no tuition fee. At most, the students need to transfer their household registration and have a relationship with food and oil.
There is a subsidy of twenty-four yuan per person every month.
It is equivalent to the salary received by apprentices in the factory. There is definitely no problem in supporting yourself.
But what is more confusing is that current students must live on campus.
Therefore, Lin Yutong and Fourth Master could only be a weekend couple. Fourth Master's brows could kill mosquitoes. The key was that they couldn't bear to leave the child. Although they brought the bedding, they just wanted a place to rest at noon.
The two told their teacher about their family situation, and the response they received was, "At least they have to live on campus for their freshman year."
Lin Yutong turned around and whispered: "No matter what, we have to go home at noon every day." Otherwise, the children will not be used to it.
The fourth master responded and sent Lin Yutong to the girls' dormitory first. There were already people in the dormitory at this time.
There are four canopy beds, the upper floor is full, and there are two empty beds below. One is next to the door, and the other is next to the window.
The school dormitories at this time did not have heating. Neither of these was a good location.
An elder sister in her thirties... saw Lin Yutong standing at the door and said, "Come in quickly."
This must be a classmate. There is a child standing next to her, who looks about seven or eight years old.
"The children are coming with you too?" Lin Yutong poked his head in and saw that there was a family of three inside. There was nothing inconvenient about the dormitory, so he asked the fourth master to come in.