A few days passed like this.
Since that day, Zhou Suisui planned to teach his two children to read.
Every morning, the eldest and second child have to study at home. I start teaching them from the simplest pinyin and Arabic numerals.
They wrote the manuscript while writing Zhou Sui Sui.
In the afternoon, Zhou Suisui didn't restrict them and let them go out to play.
However, Zhou Suisui has also noticed in the past few days that the two children, the eldest and the second, are really good at studying.
Whatever we teach them every year, the eldest and second child can remember it very quickly, if not instantly.
Even if they were tested again the next day on what they learned from the previous day, they would still be able to remember it.
In less than half a month, the eldest and second child had basically memorized all the pinyin.
He can even do addition and subtraction within ten.
This is very rare for a five-year-old child.
Although both of them are very talented, Zhou Suisui does not intend to force their growth.
It is now 1966, and there are still 12 years before the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1978. According to calculations, the eldest and second children should be able to catch up.
(I don’t know in which year the college entrance examination was resumed. Please don’t criticize me for making this up. Just read it for fun.)
There is no rush in learning, take your time and lay a solid foundation.
This kind of leisurely life is so wonderful. Every day I just take care of the baby, who is a very sensible baby, and cook delicious food. There is nothing else to do.
But recently, Zhou Suisui has something in his mind that needs to be accomplished.
It's about building a house.
The house they live in now was built when they separated from their family shortly after they got married.
Although it has only been there for a few years, it is a mud house after all. Zhou Suisui doesn't like mud houses at all. She wants a brick house.
First of all, going to the toilet is a very urgent matter. In the summer, the smell from the toilet has made Zhou Suisui unable to eat several times.
The bathing area was also very simple, with only a small shed with a large water bag on top.
In the summer, if you fill it with water and expose it to the sun for a day, the water will become warm enough for bathing.
But it doesn’t work in winter. In the original owner’s memory, he just had to wipe himself in the house in winter.
Zhou Suisui can't stand this. She will go crazy if she is not allowed to take a bath in winter.
So building a house is an urgent matter.
But I have no money.
There are plenty of supplies in Zhou Suisui's space, but she doesn't have the courage to go to the black market.
Being caught is no joke, the situation outside is very tense.
Gu Jingheng is a soldier, and if he is caught, he will be implicated. Zhou Suisui doesn't want to take this risk.
As for the allowance that Gu Jingheng sent every month, it was about fifty yuan, which was probably almost his entire salary.
I have to give the two elders of the Gu family five yuan every month, which is sixty yuan a year.
Forty-five dollars left is not a small amount.
But it is still far from enough to build the ideal brick house of Suisui.
As I was thinking, there was a knock on the door.
Zhou Suisui opened the door and found it was the postman pushing a bicycle.
"Is this Zhou Suisui's family?"
"yes."
"Here are your letters, two in total." The postman handed the letters to Zhou Suisui.
"I'm leaving first."
"Thank you, take care."
Zhou Suisui looked at the two letters. One was sent from the army, probably Gu Jingheng's allowance. The date had come.
The other letter was sent from a newspaper in Beijing. Zhou Suisui opened the letter sent by Gu Jingheng first. It was indeed a remittance slip for the allowance, and a letter from Gu Jingheng.
To be brief, I wish you all the best and don’t worry.
Zhou Suisui curled his lips and said, "Who misses him? He's just being sentimental."
Then she opened another letter and found it was also a remittance slip and a letter.
Zhou Suisui saw in the letter that the newspaper was very satisfied with her manuscript and it had already been published in the newspaper with very good response.
And I hope Zhou Suisui can continue to provide high-quality manuscripts.
As for the remuneration, it is paid according to the number of words. Since Zhou Suisui's manuscript is of very high quality, I pay him 15 yuan per thousand words. Normally, we cannot pay such a high price.
The manuscript Zhou Suisui sent over last time had 8,000 words, so the amount on the remittance slip was 120 yuan.
Zhou Suisui is very satisfied with the remuneration, which is already very high.
Well, now I am no longer a millet bug, and modern Zhou Suisui also has his own job in the 1960s.
Writing articles is a perfect job for me as I can take care of my children and make money at the same time.
And because Zhou Suisui's manuscript was particularly good, there were also some bills attached to the letter, such as meat and sugar coupons, which were all nationally valid coupons. It was really heartwarming and thoughtful.
In the era of shopping with tickets, receipts were indispensable, and Gu Jingheng also sent some tickets.
Zhou Suisui decided to go to the county town tomorrow to withdraw the money, send out his latest manuscript, and by the way, use Youzi to take out some things from the space.
Before, because I was not sure whether my manuscript would be used, I never sent it out again, so I accumulated a lot of it during this period of time.
Zhou Suisui looked at these manuscripts and thought happily, these are not just paper, these are all banknotes.
Now I earn much more than Gu Jingheng, so I can eat whatever I want in the future and no one else should interfere.
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After dinner in the evening, Zhou Suisui brought his three children to Gu's house.
"Mom and Dad, I'm going to the county town tomorrow. Jing Heng's allowance has arrived, and I have to go get it and buy some things."
"Okay, go ahead. Leave the children with me. Don't worry, what happened last time won't happen again. If they don't behave, I'll skin them alive!" said Gu's mother.
Zhou Suisui nodded and said, "Okay, mother. I'll bring their rations here tomorrow."
"Oh, by the way, Mom and Dad are here, I have something to tell you."
When Gu's father and mother heard this, they immediately became nervous, thinking that it was something serious.
Zhou Suisui looked at the old couple's nervous expressions and laughed, "Mom and Dad, don't be so nervous. This is not a bad thing, it's a good thing."
"What good news?" Mother Gu couldn't wait any longer.
Zhou Sui Sui took out the remittance slip from the newspaper from his pocket and said, "Dad and Mom, take a look."
Gu's mother couldn't read, but Gu's father could.
As the only son in the family, Gu's father went to school for a few years.
"Why is there so much money from the third brother's family? The third brother's allowance shouldn't be that much, right?"
"This is not Jingheng's allowance. I wrote a manuscript some time ago and tried to submit it to a newspaper. I didn't expect that I was lucky enough to be selected, and the newspaper will also accept my manuscripts on a long-term basis. This is the royalties for my previous manuscript. From now on, our family will have an income besides Jingheng." Zhou Suisui explained with a smile.
The purpose of the annual celebration is to let the two elders know that they are making money and will continue to make money.
This will save you from being criticized in the future if you eat and dress well.
After telling the two elders, they can also help to speak out if there is any gossip outside.
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