Over fifty years old, without children, she cared for her aging parents. After seeing them to their end, and with a bit of savings in hand, a mysterious space suddenly appeared.
What was ther...
Although I have my own, after so many years, there have been some changes.
Another point is to make this set of books public so that I can read them regularly.
Putting everything else aside, it's almost 1975, and there are only three years left until the college entrance examination.
Looking at it this way, there seems to be plenty of time, but no matter what, I've been away from school for a long time.
Although I read books occasionally, I've mostly studied foreign languages and such. I haven't really looked at high school textbooks much. So, I'm planning to take advantage of teaching my child to learn some in advance.
Not long after the autumn harvest in 1974, when the grain was being distributed, some trouble arose in the brigade because of the fact that my family suddenly had two more children.
"Why should we agree?"
"that is!"
"Those two aren't from our brigade."
"Go to hell! Those two aren't from Xiangyang Brigade. You educated youth who came from outside the brigade to work in the countryside, are you people from our brigade?!"
"What a busybody! Mind your own business!"
"Exactly, what did those two kids do to offend you educated youth from the educated youth compound?"
"Exactly, putting everything else aside, their parents are soldiers! Their parents are protecting the country, so why don't they give their two kids rations when they're in our brigade?"
"That's right, now these two children are registered in our brigade, so they are people in our brigade."
Besides, aren't your household registrations also with the brigade? Didn't they allocate you rations?
So what if you're just envious of two kids? You have the nerve to do that. You're all seventeen, eighteen, or twenty-something years old, doing nothing productive all day but criticizing this and that. You're really something else!
"Say less! Otherwise, you might get dragged out and paraded through the streets one day."
"Go to hell! Whoever's afraid of him is a coward! My family has been poor farmers for eight generations, why are you arresting me!"
"that is"
That's right.
"Fellow villagers, although my two children are registered here, they don't eat much, so let's forget about their food rations!"
"No, Li Zhiqing, that won't do."
"that is"
"That's right. So what if we get rations? Putting everything else aside, Li Zhiqing has been working diligently ever since he came to this place, unlike the others who have so many trivial matters to deal with."
No matter what the brigade leader says, I agree to give the two children rations. In any case, this is something for both of them.
"that is"
"That's right, they're better than those who just eat and do no work."
"that is"
"Why should we? If that's the case, should we also transfer our family members' household registration here so we can receive food rations without working?"
"Go to hell! Who do you think you are?!"
"that is"
"You're really shameless. Who do you think you are to transfer your household registration to our brigade?"
"that is"
"Alright, everyone quiet down. It's about Ping An An, which refers to the two children in Li Zhiqing's family, registering their household registration in our brigade."
This is indeed true. Since their household registration is in our brigade, they are entitled to rations.
They not only received personal rations, but also subsidies for military family members.
As for those of you who have objections, you are welcome to report them to your superiors.
As for what happened in the end, I, the team leader, don't know.
However, I want to tell you all that none of the cadres in our brigade headquarters are afraid of being investigated by higher-ups!
I really didn't expect that you so-called educated youth who came to the countryside would have such low ideological awareness.
Putting everything else aside, these two children are children of soldiers. Their parents are not around, so our brigade should take care of them as much as possible. Even if we country folk have nothing to eat or drink, we should still take care of them.
And the education you people have received, not to mention anything else, is worse than that of us country bumpkins in our brigade.
He really is someone who's good for nothing and eats everything.
In this way, their family received rations for two more people, as well as subsidies for military family members.
Seeing the newly arrived group of educated youth, he was dazzled, but even so, he remained unafraid.
Even though the brigade leader said so, some people still wouldn't give up. Not long after, the "Revolutionary Committee" members, who hadn't been seen in the brigade for a long time, came again.
Unfortunately, the person leading the charge was someone we knew.
"I wonder why Comrade Wang came today!"
"It's been a long time since I saw Li Zhiqing!"
"It's been quite a while, what about today?"
“We received a report that your family not only had two extra people this year, but also received food rations for two extra people.”
"Oh, is that what it is? Comrade Wang, please wait a moment, I'll go inside and get the information on those two children."
"good"
"Comrade Wang, both of their children are children of military personnel."
"Captain, don't be nervous. We already inquired about this with the comrades at the children's level before we came. We're here today to investigate, otherwise people will think our 'Revolutionary Committee' has nothing better to do all day!"
"Comrade Wang, this is the information of two children. Their parents are both soldiers, and I happen to be the children's aunt."
Their parents were on a mission and couldn't take them with them, so they entrusted them to my care!
As you know, my wife works in the neighboring military region. Although she is now a company commander, she does not meet the requirements for accompanying her husband to the military.
Secondly, I was originally a sent-down youth, so there's no problem transferring their household registration to my name.
As for the food rations for these two children, we didn't plan to ask for them. However, the cadres and villagers of Xiangyang Brigade knew that the children's parents were soldiers and were on duty and unable to take care of the two children.
We are very grateful to our comrade for providing food for our child. As for others, whether they agree or have any opinions, we don't care.
But if this matter causes any trouble for the brigade cadres and villagers, I, Li Mianmian, am not afraid.
Even if we escalate this matter to the educated youth office or higher levels, it won't be a problem!
"The paperwork for both children is complete and there is no fraud."
"I don't know, which comrade reported it?"
"I know him, he's Wang Qiang, the new educated youth in your brigade."
"Comrade Wang, it's me, it's me..."
"Comrade Wang, please give the two children and the villagers of the brigade justice."
"By the way, Comrade Wang, I, Li Mianmian, am filing a formal complaint. These newly arrived educated youth not only don't work every day, but they run around everywhere, criticizing this person and that person. Not to mention anything else, they've already injured several people in the brigade."
"That's right, a few days ago, they insisted that my mother-in-law was some kind of feudal remnant."
"Go to hell! My mother-in-law just has bound feet, so how does that make her a feudal remnant? They want to parade her through the streets! Comrade Wang, my mother-in-law is over seventy years old, and because of them, she's still bedridden!"