Chapter 231 Extra Chapter 09: The Red Flag

The Jin family never expected that before they had even finished arguing with Jin Junwei, Jin's second uncle would come and scold them.

Uncle Jin is usually an honest man who only knows how to bury himself in work. He is not as cunning as his older brother. Otherwise, his older brother would not have taken advantage of his soft-hearted and honest nature and sent Jin Junwei back to his hometown to be raised by him.

He just wanted to see what his nephew's fiancée looked like.

Unexpectedly, after finally asking his way to the Five Star Automobile Factory, he was told by the factory's gatekeeper that his nephew's relationship with that woman had broken up with their marriage!

After finding out the reason, he went straight to the boiler factory to find his older brother. When they first met, he thought there might be a misunderstanding. However, his older brother wanted him to help persuade Junwei to use the matter of Junwei becoming a live-in son-in-law as a bargaining chip, preferably to get a job for his nephew.

Uncle Jin couldn't hold back and started cursing loudly right there in the boiler factory.

The boiler factory is in a good location, with the factory area and the staff quarters close together.

There was a fight and disturbance at the factory gate, and it soon reached the staff quarters.

After finishing their work in the family compound, those who had nothing else to do came over to watch the excitement.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be about the Jin family again.

The factory leaders quickly came out and took the people into the office to help mediate. Everyone thought that the Jin family's matter should be resolved soon.

Unexpectedly, for half a month, the boiler factory workers and their families witnessed the Jin family's lively activities every day.

Without his letter of introduction, Jin Junwei couldn't stay in the city any longer. But that wasn't a big problem; no sooner had he returned to the village brigade than his second uncle went to the brigade leader to get another letter of introduction.

If Uncle Jin hadn't had to work in the fields to earn work points and couldn't come to the city often, the Jin family would have had to deal with one more person.

Zhou Hongqi was in a bad mood, and he worked with more force.

Fortunately, the workers at their car factory were also quite gossipy, and they did a lot of inquiries about the Jin family at the boiler factory. When they found out, they would tell their colleagues about it.

This saved her the trouble of asking around at the boiler factory.

The factory's women's director genuinely believed that she and Jin Junwei had broken up, and happily introduced her to male colleagues.

But after being rejected several times, the women's director understood her thoughts.

The women's director could only tell the person who came to her for help with the front axle wiring: "The factory is rushing to meet production targets lately, and the welding workshop is busy. Xiao Zhou works in the workshop every day, how could she have time for blind dates?"

"Oh dear, it's not that I'm complaining about your conditions. It's just that Xiao Zhou really doesn't have time!"

The women's director thought to herself: "Xiao Zhou has already seen someone as handsome as Xiao Jin. If she were to choose someone else, there's no way she would be happy!"

If you can eat refined grains, who would want to eat coarse grains that hurt their throat?

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Zhou Hongqi was getting restless, wondering if the person he had finally won over was going to run away.

“If they won’t let me go, then I have to go to their house and get all the money and tickets I’ve spent back.”

It's a waste of her time. We'll sneakily put that family in sacks another day.

Su Gong thought to himself: Should I go to their door to ask for money or to take the person back? If I go to their door and arrest the person, that family will cause even more trouble later.

Foreman Su didn't even look up, annoyed that she was walking around and making people dizzy, so he kicked her out.

Zhou Hongqi sighed after being kicked out of his home by his master.

My mood became even more depressed when I saw someone moving into the new family compound.

If she had successfully obtained her marriage certificate recently, given her circumstances, she would have been among the first in line for housing allocation, and should be able to move into her new apartment in the new family compound by now.

It's so hard to find an empty room in the new family compound. I don't even know if she and Junwei will still be able to get a room here after they get their marriage certificate.

It would be great if I were assigned to this area, close to my mentor, so we could visit each other more often.

The next day at work, the head of the housing management department ran into her and said, "Xiao Zhou, it's not that I didn't want to save a house for you, but someone got married before you, so they're ahead in the queue for housing allocation."

Zhou Hongqi understood, of course, that she wasn't an unreasonable person.

However, she wasn't depressed for long; good news came right away.

The boiler factory leaders, seeing Jin Junwei causing trouble, were worried about the negative impact. But Jin Junwei wasn't a worker at the factory, so they couldn't do anything about him. They could only turn to the Jin family father and son who worked at the factory, asking their direct supervisor to talk to them and do some ideological work.

The Jin family was also fed up with Jin Junwei's antics and hadn't been able to live a good life during this time. Their desire to use his marriage as a bargaining chip had largely given up.

"Since you insist on becoming a live-in son-in-law, there's nothing we can do if we disagree. Here's what we'll do: have Xiao Zhou give you two hundred yuan, and from now on..."

"I'm not worth two hundred yuan!" Jin Junwei said angrily. "Seventy yuan is what Sister Hongqi said, and we'll even give you ten yuan more as interest. What more could you want? I haven't eaten a single bite of your food."

Two hundred yuan! How much grain and cloth would that buy?

Why don't they just rob it?

The Jin family was also furious. Every time he came to the city, their house was like a locust swarm. Anything that wasn't locked up was eaten and used by him. How could he say he didn't eat a single bite?

When the first attempt to reach an agreement failed, Jin Junwei turned and headed towards the more crowded areas of the family compound, smiling as he asked everyone he met, "My parents said that whoever wants me to be their son-in-law has to give them two hundred yuan. Auntie, do you need a son-in-law? I can't do heavy work, but I'm good at washing clothes and cooking..."

"Oh, no problem, no problem." The families of the boiler factory workers avoided him like the plague, and even pulled their daughters away from him.

Whenever the second son of the Jin family came to the city, the young women and wives in the family compound couldn't help but stare at him. Fortunately, the women would only look, and once they heard that he had a rural household registration, they all gave up the idea of ​​dating him.

So what if it's just laundry and cooking? Who doesn't have someone in their family who can do laundry and cook? Only a fool would spend two hundred yuan to bring home a useless man.

People in the family compound would avoid Jin Junwei and gather together to chat, but whenever the Jin family was mentioned, they would all grimac.

Although they were unwilling to have a son-in-law like Jin Junwei, or rather, they didn't need to recruit a son-in-law at all, the Jin family was really shameless.

Some people even mocked him to his face, saying, "Old Jin, you two are really good at scheming."

The children sent away are raised by relatives for five yuan a year, and when they reach old age, they are resold for two hundred yuan, making a fortune.

Grandpa Jin went to work for a day, and when he came back, he found that his neighbors in the residential compound were looking at him strangely.

I asked a neighbor I usually get along with, and I found out that Jin Junwei had been going around the family compound saying that they were going to sell their son.

Faced with the contemptuous, disdainful, and mocking looks from his neighbors, Grandpa Jin got angry and said that he would sever his father-son relationship with Jin Junwei. Whether Jin Junwei remained a bachelor or became a live-in son-in-law was none of his business.

Upon hearing this, Jin Junwei's eyes lit up. He hurriedly ran to the car factory to find Zhou Hongqi and also called his hometown commune to ask someone to pass on a message to his second uncle.

Just one night later, before Grandpa Jin could change his mind, Zhou Hongqi arrived with the women's director and the union director from the automobile factory, and Uncle Jin also brought the old party secretary and the brigade leader from the brigade into the city, where they all gathered at the boiler factory.

In the presence of leaders from the automobile factory, boiler factory, and production brigade, Jin Junwei repaid the seventy yuan he owed to Grandpa and Grandma Jin, moved in with them, and the two families severed all ties thereafter.

The captain said a few fair words.

“According to the customs of our hometown, Junwei first went to live with his master’s family as a son, and then went to live with Jin Lao Er’s family as a son. Even if they are his biological parents, they have no right to ask him to take care of them in their old age. It doesn’t matter whether the relationship is broken or not. However, just in case, it’s better to make it clear in advance, so that they won’t deny it later.”

The leaders of both factories wanted to get things done as soon as possible, and they both nodded in agreement, saying, "That makes sense."

"Okay, then let's make a few copies of this guarantee and keep them on file so we have proof later."

Grandpa Jin pressed his fingerprint with a stern face.

Jin Junwei, however, felt completely relaxed.

In fact, he and Sister Hongqi didn't need their parents' consent to get their marriage certificate at all.

His household registration is in his hometown's production team. As long as the brigade leader gives him a letter of introduction, he can go and register for marriage.

But this way, if their parents want to cause trouble later, they'll still have the upper hand. After all, since ancient times, "filial piety" has always been the right thing to do.

He's not afraid of making a scene, but Sister Hongqi is a worker. What if he makes her lose her job?

He'll be the first to object to anyone who ruins his good days.

Now that's great, with a signed and fingerprinted "family division" guarantee, no matter who comes to make trouble later, it won't matter.

After Jin Junwei pressed his fingerprint, he quietly looked back at Zhou Hongqi and found that she was also looking at him. Both of them blushed instantly and looked away.

The Jin family received the seventy yuan, and without saying a word, they turned and left.

Zhou Hongqi thought that he should ask the two leaders from the factory to come along. It wasn't easy for his second uncle, the brigade leader, and the party secretary to come all the way to the city. He planned to treat them to a meal to express his gratitude.

The brigade leader looked up at the sun and said he had to hurry back to the brigade to work.

Uncle Jin suggested that since they had already taken leave, they should just go and get their marriage certificate today.

The brigade leader nodded, "Yes, yes, marriage is an important matter. The sooner you get your marriage certificate, the more at ease your second uncle will feel. Junwei will come back to the brigade to distribute wedding candy another day."

The two leaders from the car factory agreed, but they had to go back to the factory for business and wouldn't have time for a meal.

"By the way, Xiao Zhou, did you get a letter of introduction?"

"It's open, it's open."

Zhou Hongqi was happy, thankfully she had been carrying all the necessary documents for marriage registration with her during this time.

at last.

They split into three groups.

Some went back to the production brigade, some went back to the Five Star Automobile Factory, and some went to the marriage registration office.

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Zhou Hongqi stared at the stamp in the staff member's hand, but hesitated to stamp it. He then said, "Other people from our workshop who come to register also bring these materials."

The staff looked up at them again and finally stamped the document.

It's common for couples to be six years apart, but usually the man is older than the woman. It's extremely rare for the woman to be several years older than the man.

After receiving their marriage certificate, Zhou Hongqi and Jin Junwei both breathed a sigh of relief.

One of them thought that no male colleague in the factory was as good-looking as her boyfriend.

He thought to himself that he could finally enjoy the good life in the city.

The two couldn't help but grin.

"Oops, I've gone the wrong way." Zhou Hongqi realized he was on the wrong path as he walked, slapped his forehead, and laughed, "I'm so happy!"

"My mentor is away for training these days. When she comes back, we'll treat her and the others to a celebratory meal at a state-run restaurant... Oh, right, hurry up, while there's still time, I need to go to the housing management office to ask about the house."

Jin Junwei had been nodding the whole time, but now that he heard about the house, he immediately took off running to catch up with Sister Hongqi, who was striding along.

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Zhou Hongqi's cousin plans to send another telegram to ask him: How's your relationship going?

Two days after the telegram was sent, Zhou Hongqi's telegram was received.

Zhou Hongqi replied: We got our marriage certificate and were allocated a house.

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Plans can't keep up with changes; the business trip didn't go smoothly, so the extra update will be two days later.