She looked around some more, but couldn't find anything else of value. So she gathered up a stack of old newspapers and a small pile of table and chair legs, and asked the old man to weigh them and calculate the price.
"The newspaper costs eight cents, the wood five cents, and the total cost for both is thirteen cents."
Lin Qingyan took out 15 cents and gave it to the old man: "Grandpa, I don't have any change, keep the change." The remaining two cents were considered payment for taking the other things.
Actually, she wanted to give more, but she was afraid it would arouse the old man's suspicion.
After all, these things are really worthless in this day and age, and she can't measure their current value by their future prices.
Seeing that she was wearing new clothes and spoke generously, the old man didn't stand on ceremony with her. He took the money, put it in his pocket, waved his hand, and let her leave with her things.
Lin Qingyan carried the newspaper and firewood for a short distance before entering an alley. Taking advantage of the absence of others, she stored the items in her spatial storage.
When it was time to eat, she went into the state-run restaurant.
As soon as she entered, she looked around and saw that Director Qin was sitting at a table at the very back, with a middle-aged couple and a round-faced girl who looked about seventeen or eighteen years old sitting next to him.
The middle-aged couple and the little girl must be the family of Director Qin's younger brother.
When Director Qin saw Lin Qingyan come in, he waved to her and said, "Comrade Lin, over here."
"Okay, Uncle Qin."
This isn't a pharmaceutical factory, so she doesn't need to call him the factory manager anymore.
Lin Qingyan walked over and found an empty seat to sit down.
As soon as she sat down, the middle-aged woman next to her cast a grateful glance at her.
"Young comrade, thank you so much for offering this job to my daughter Fangfang. Fangfang is our only daughter, and we're worried that she'll suffer in the countryside. But jobs are so hard to find these days. Thank you so much."
The woman's eyes reddened as she spoke, showing how much she cherished her daughter.
"Daughter, don't worry, we will give you every penny of the money for the job transfer. In addition, I have prepared some coupons for you to use to buy supplies for the rural areas."
After saying that, the woman took out five hundred yuan and a stack of tickets from her bag and handed them to Lin Qingyan.
Lin Qingyan took the coupons and counted them: fifty large unity coupons, not one missing, plus five jin of cotton coupons, three jin of food coupons, two soap coupons, two towel coupons, and five industrial coupons.
Factory Director Qin said, "Comrade Lin, you told me you needed money to exchange for ration coupons, and I've gotten you the coupons. You won't need to buy grain when you go to the countryside; I got you different kinds of coupons. Take a look."
He took out a stack of tickets from his pocket and handed them to Lin Qingyan.
Lin Qingyan took the coupons and checked them. There were 20 feet of cloth coupons, 10 jin of cotton coupons, 5 jin of salt coupons, 20 match coupons, 5 jin of sugar coupons, 20 jin of egg coupons, and 5 industrial coupons. She put them away in her pocket.
"Thank you, Uncle Qin. How much are these tickets?"
Factory Director Qin smiled and said, "Just give me eighty yuan."
These days, tickets are hard to come by, and eighty yuan for so many is really not much. Lin Qingyan quickly took out eight ten-yuan bills and handed them to him.
Qin Fangfang grabbed Lin Qingyan's hand: "Sister." But as soon as she said "sister," she saw that Lin Qingyan was thin and small, and looked even younger than her, so she swallowed the word back down.
Lin Qingyan smiled and said, "I'm only eighteen."
"I'm seventeen, so you're still the older sister." Round-faced girls all have sweet smiles, and Qin Fangfang was no exception: "Sister, let's be friends from now on. My name is Qin Fangfang."
“Okay, Fangfang, my name is Lin Qingyan.”
"Sister Qingyan."
Lin Qingyan didn't mind having another friend, even though she was going to the countryside. She thought, "We might meet again someday."
The meal was, of course, paid for by the Qin family. After the meal, Qin Fangfang talked with Lin Qingyan for a while before they parted ways.
The state-run restaurant was only 200 meters away from the pharmaceutical factory's residential compound, and Lin Qingyan wanted to go back and rest first.
When she walked into the courtyard, she saw Old Mrs. Zhang sitting on the veranda under the shade of a tree, fanning herself with a palm leaf fan. Since she wanted to ask the elderly people here some questions, and Old Mrs. Zhang was someone she trusted, she walked over to her.
"Girl, you just got back from going out?" Grandma Zhang said with a smile when she saw her.
"Well, I'm about to leave. I went out for a walk and took a good look around." She sat down next to Grandma Zhang. "Grandma, I want to ask you some questions about my mother. I was very young when she passed away, and there are many things I don't know about her. Could you tell me?"
Because the mother passed away early, the few remaining memories in the original owner's mind have become increasingly blurred over the years.
As for her mother's early life, she knew nothing about it.
The Lin family never mentioned her mother to the original owner. Lin Heping said that seeing her mother's photos would make him sad, so he took away and destroyed all of her mother's photos.
Grandma Zhang knew Lin Heping and Fang Huilan's nature and would never tell Lin Qingyan anything that was detrimental to them.
“Qingyan, speaking of your mother, she wasn’t originally from here. She came from another place, but she lost her memory when she arrived. She didn’t even know where her hometown was or what her original name was.”
The people in the compound took pity on her and took turns taking her in for a period of time. Later, they discovered that she had profound medical knowledge, so they introduced her to the factory and she got a job in the drug research laboratory.
I don't know how, but she met your father, and they got married quickly. Your mother was very smart and capable, but... sigh." Old Mrs. Zhang didn't say "misjudged people," and continued, "After your mother passed away, the good things she left behind were probably all taken by your stepmother."
Lin Qingyan received new information: no wonder the original owner didn't have a maternal family here; it turned out her mother wasn't from here.
And those beasts took so much advantage of her mother. She doesn't know how much her mother left behind when she died; it's probably all gone by those people long ago.
However, even if it's gone, we must get it back from the wicked.
"Grandma, thank you for telling me so much."
"It's nothing, I just can't stand them. You're all grown up now, you should know these things."
Most importantly, Lin Qingyan is no longer the pitiful girl who could be bullied and manipulated by the Lin family. She believes that this young girl can get justice for herself and her mother.
"Thank you, Grandma."
When Lin Qingyan returned home, Fang Huilan and Lin Guanghui were both sitting in the living room. Lin Guanghui usually liked to wander around and was often away from home all day. The fact that he was staying at home this time must be because of her work.
As soon as Fang Huilan saw her, she quickly asked, "Qingyan, have you finished your onboarding? This afternoon, let's go to the factory together as a trio and transfer your work to Guanghui."
"Where's the money?" Lin Qingyan asked. "I've said before that I won't give my job to anyone for free. If you want to work, you'd better have the money ready first."
"Qingyan, how much do you want?"
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