After returning to Fululi, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan did not enter the Hong family's door directly.
Instead, he first went to Chen Liquan's house in the West Courtyard to get Quanzi's mother's bankbook, went to the bank, and took out all the money. Then he added the four hundred yuan given by "Zou Toad" and one yuan from You San's "share of money".
One hundred yuan, rounded up to a round number. Then they returned to Hong's house with the money and things.
As for the gold watch, Hong Yanwu felt that it would only cost about a hundred or so yuan to sell, so he persuaded Chen Liquan to keep it first. At this moment, all the property they had was what was left of You San's "share of money".
More than eighty yuan.
After all, he is such an old man, and his body cannot always be clean. He also considered that he had to go out for business, which would inevitably require some social expenses. So Hong Yanwu did not hand over the small amount of money, but added it to the sum of five.
Chen Liquan "chopped" these "leaves" in half.
As for those tickets that also came from You San, because the origin could not be explained clearly, they naturally could not be handed over to his family, and had to be left in his own hands for the time being.
Just like that, at about six o'clock in the evening, Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan happily walked into the main room of the Hong family with a thick stack of large dumplings and a flat jadeite bag wrapped in yellow silk.
But they were full of joy. Unexpectedly, as soon as they opened the door and before they had time to take out their things, Wang Yunlin came over to greet them.
Wang Yunlin didn't look to see if Hong Yanwu had come back with Bian Fang, but looked at her son's face. She looked hard and didn't seem to believe that it was Hong Yanwu's face. It seemed that it was very impossible for her son to return home.
It seems like an incredible thing.
At this moment, Hong Yanwu's emotions of returning home were completely gone. His heart was extremely sour. Without saying anything else, he knew that his mother had been worried about him all afternoon.
"Mom, I got the things back. Take a look..."
Sure enough, the moment she saw Hong Yanwu take out the Huang Lingzi package, Wang Yunlin not only didn't look happy at all, but became even more frightened.
"You...really...did you hurt anyone? Did something happen?" Wang Yunlin did not go to pick up the package, but asked anxiously while closing the door in a hurry.
"Aunt Hong (in the old days, women took their husband's surname, so people of Wang Yunlin's generation were often called by their husband's surname), don't worry, I went with Xiao Wu, and there were no sequelae. Xiao Wu's affairs will be taken care of today.
It must be quite beautiful..."
In the end, Chen Liquan took over the conversation, and then told Wang Yunlin everything that happened today.
Chen Liquan is a well-known honest man in the whole alley. Unlike Hong Yanwu, who always lies when he opens his mouth, he gets nervous and stutters when he lies. So after seeing his frank description, Wang Yunlin still believed him.
After hearing that Zou Shuncai had fallen into such a desperate situation, Wang Yunlin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and her eyes when she looked at her son changed from worry and fear to relief and joy.
That night, not only was Wang Yunlin extremely touched and grateful for the one thousand yuan raised in the name of Chen Liquan, but also being able to see the lost and recovered ancestral objects again made Wang Yunlin cry with joy.
And because Wang Yunlin repeatedly stroked the jade square and was reluctant to let go for a long time, Hong Yanwu was curious and asked about it, only to find out that the jade square was the only thing his grandmother left to his mother.
This inevitably makes him feel extremely pitiful for his mother, because although there is hope for the cost of his father's treatment, once this thing is sold, it is very likely that his mother will never see this object again in her lifetime.
For the first time, Hong Yanwu felt a mixed sadness. From the bottom of his heart, he really hated his own incompetence. If possible, he really hoped that he could find other ways to raise money for his father's medical treatment so that he could make this thing
Always stay with your mother.
Just like that, looking at his mother who was alone in the memory of the past under the lamp, and listening to his father's screams caused by pain, he also fell into a daze in an extremely contradictory mood...
Monday, March 24, 1977.
This is the third day after Hong Yanwu came back.
Wang Yunlin used a public phone to ask for leave from the factory early in the morning. She would take Bian Fang to various places today to inquire about prices. Chen Liquan, on the other hand, took the meals left by Wang Yunlin in a lunch box and went to work as usual.
As for Hong Yanwu, he also had his own business to do, which was to go to the Fifth Division of the Public Security Bureau to inquire about how to transfer his registered residence from Chadian to Beijing.
The Fifth Division of the Beijing Public Security Bureau, also called the Labor Reform Office, was the predecessor of the later Beijing Labor Reform Bureau.
At that time, someone once joked that among the "directors" in our country, there was no one like the director of the "Fifth Division of the Beijing Public Security Bureau".
This is because during this period, the total number of people under the jurisdiction of the labor reform office, including reform through labor, reeducation through labor, employment, cadres, and employees, was more than 100,000.
How come there are so many people?
It was also because the policy of reeducation through labor at that time was "only in, no out." The public security organs were not only responsible for arresting people and supervising reeducation through labor, but were also responsible for arranging work for "reeducation through labor" after release.
That era was the time when employed people were most dissatisfied with the "employment policy." Because there were more and more prisoners who had completed their sentences and expired correctional officers over the years, almost all of them stayed in the labor reform units for employment.
The small Public Security Bureau No. 5 can be said to be carrying a heavy burden. As the number of "employed people" increases, the "indigestion" of the Public Security Bureau No. 5 becomes more serious, and the treatment of these personnel becomes worse and worse.
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For example, in the early years when Chadian implemented the "employment policy", employed people were still called "employed workers" and could join the trade union. Those who did outstanding work were also given the opportunity to go to Beidaihe to recuperate, and their wages were generally more than 40 yuan.
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Therefore, most people are relatively stable, either bringing their children over, or finding a partner to start a family in the countryside.
But this kind of good life did not last long. Within a few years, "employed workers" were renamed "employed people". Not only were the trade unions abolished, but the wages of newly employed people were generally only 30 yuan, and those with low wages could only get 25 yuan.
Yuan.
Especially after the "movement", "employed people" became the targets of the dictatorship again. They were not allowed to go out during annual vacations. They were only given seven days of personal leave a year to go home to visit relatives, and they had to be escorted with guns when they transferred. At this point
, "employed people" are those who "have food but no use, have use but no food."
Therefore, at the end of the "movement", when the high pressure gradually eased, many escapes occurred among "employed people".
Some people go to the border areas to work as long-term workers, and some people go to the coal mines to work in the coal mines. More people who are unwilling to endure hardship, like Hong Yanwu at the beginning, "float" outside and live by various evil ways.
Once these people were arrested and entered the study class, when they explained their motives for escaping, they all spoke of the difficulties of finding employment and said that as long as they could solve the problem of food and clothing, they would not run away.
But in fact, without policies, no one in the entire public security bureau can solve these problems. Therefore, for those who have committed new crimes that are not serious, the final treatment often has to be dealt with by the correctional cadres who have difficulty in explaining themselves.
Let it go.
In this way, the employed people continued to escape, were arrested, then released, and then escaped again, which became a vicious circle. This was probably one of the more important reasons that contributed to the chaos of social security at that time.
The change in the situation began with the collapse of the four-member gang. As some veteran public security cadres who were affected by the attack gradually recovered, the higher authorities had already begun to think about changing the bad situation. So in the year when Hong Yanwu returned home, the Fifth Public Security Bureau
It has begun to gradually open up the gate, allowing some employed people with practical difficulties to move back to their hukou first.
It should be said that this is good governance, which is a good thing for the country and ordinary people. However, we should also understand that the specific difficulties faced at that time, the chronic problems caused by so many years, and the problems of so many people, cannot be solved at once.
Realistic.
So when Hong Yanwu came to the reception room of the Fifth Division of the Public Security Bureau, what he saw was an extremely chaotic scene.
The five reception rooms were crowded and packed with people. They were all "educated" family members who came to ask for household registration. And most of these people were old men and women with white hair.
Few old people in those days were literate, and the chaos of vying for bus seats and queuing became common in society. Therefore, these people did not know how to line up in an orderly manner, nor did they know how to speak softly.
Each one of them kept pushing in and out, and finally got in front of the receptionist. They started noisy loudly, regardless of whether the other party could hear him or not.
There were old men who wanted their sons to go home to take care of them, and old ladies who wanted their grandsons to go home and take care of them. There were also people who complained about their grievances and asked for their release and vindication. They were crying and shouting.
It was a mess and noisy, and several reception staff from the Fifth Branch were sweating and running around in a hurry. They tried their best to dissuade one person and comfort that one. In the end, they spent all their energy and time on maintaining order and could not hear anyone clearly.
What is said.
Hong Yanwu was simply dumbfounded. He never expected that this place would be so lively.
Because when he thought about it, in this era of limited information, the Fifth Public Security Bureau had just come up with this preliminary policy, and there were no large-scale specific management measures to be implemented. Even police officers like Zhang Baocheng didn't know much about it. There shouldn't be too many people.
Who knew this news? How could there be such a noisy scene?
In fact, this probably means that Hong Yanwu has left-wing ideas, and it is also because he has been away from this era for too long and does not understand some things.
These days, although ordinary people cannot watch TV, newspapers and radio are mostly full of political movement trends and critical drafts. But when it comes to the national economy and people's livelihood, after all, it is the category of news that ordinary people really care about.
For the sake of their own personal interests, people will never give up easily just because the serious media has not announced it. Therefore, some shrewd people often find ways to inquire about the latest gossip from relevant people behind the scenes.
Don’t underestimate the channels controlled by ordinary people. Most of them don’t have much ability, but who is not related by family ties? In addition, the composition of the cadres in power at that time was also mixed. Many of them were “rocket cadres” who came up from the bottom during special periods.
"These people have done everything before. So if there is any movement from the upper level, they will quickly come out from the "trail".
In fact, as soon as the policy of being able to transfer one's registered permanent residence from Da was loosened, relevant news began to spread from east to west, and the news soon became a storm in the city.
Some ordinary people even know about this matter earlier than the heads of the public security organs. Some people even have a grasp of the specific policy standards. Although there are many elements of speculation, it is surprising.
Don't believe it.
Because this was indeed the situation at that time. On many things, gossip was more accurate than official news. This is why even after the society stabilized, social rumors were still easy to spread for a long time and were easy to spread.
The main reason why people are deceived.
Anyway, in the face of such a chaotic scene, Hong Yanwu gave up. As soon as he saw it, he understood that there was no way to solve the problem here, so he had to squeeze out again and go home to make other plans.
The current Hong Yanwu has a good vision and knowledge. He has dealt with people in shopping malls and officialdom for many years. It is about connections and relationships. He knows well that official seals are not as good as private seals, and face is not as good as stamping.
So he quickly figured out the situation he was facing.
He believes that now that the "movement" is over, these people who were forced to leave Beijing for various reasons will think about moving their hukou back as long as they are alive.
But with so many people, even if the policy allows, it is impossible for them all to come back at once. There has to be a question of who comes first and who comes last.
Logically speaking, the government must give priority to solving the problems of these people who have had their unjust, false, and wrongly convicted cases redressed, and who have gone to the mountains and countryside. However, those who have completed their employment through labor reform or reeducation through labor are most likely to be wrong in the future.
Therefore, for these "employed people", even if there is the spirit of opening the gate, they can only do it step by step. Whoever can catch up with the first and second groups will definitely not rely on luck or performance, but on relationships.
, it depends on skill.
Based on his conditions, the only thing he can propose is that he has a seriously ill father, but there are other things that are more difficult than him, so there is little hope of getting the thing done with this extra point. If you really want to do this
If it's done, the best way is probably to find connections within the Public Security Bureau and go through the back door.
It's a pity that although he is proficient in giving gifts, he is now faced with the problem of "carrying a pig's head and can't find the temple gate." How can he get to know the heads of the Public Security Bureau?
Alas, it seems that we have to think about it in the long term. And we have to come up with a solution quickly.
Because he also knows that in seven or eight years, it will be popular for educated youth to return to the city. If it is really delayed until then, it will be even more difficult to do anything, let alone changing their household registration.