Chapter 8 1980 is here "What are you looking at?" ...
"What are you looking at?"
"No, nothing..." Ouyang Yuan hurriedly folded the newspaper in his hand, not knowing where to put his hands.
Li Daohua sat on a stool and opened the newspaper in her hand. Her family had recently started subscribing to newspapers, and the postman came to deliver newspapers every day.
"By the way, didn't you say that the manuscript hasn't been finished yet? Let's write the manuscript first."
Li Daohua glanced at Ouyang Yuan, who looked flustered. "You don't think I'll be angry or upset when I see the comments they wrote, do you?"
He really thought so, and it has been quite lively in the newspapers recently.
"Tsk, what a short-sighted bunch of people. Do they know what marketing is, what market economy is, and what it means to create value without value?"
Ouyang Yuan thought to himself, yes, that's it, this is his wife, she always belittles others when she opens her mouth and slaps them in the face when she raises her hand.
Of course, after the evolution, you rarely hear her swearing like before about shit, piss and fart. Now she uses all kinds of high-end words.
"No, they can't just scold me. I have to let them know that I'm not someone you can mess with!"
After saying that, Li Daohua put the manuscript paper on the table, picked up the pen and started writing.
"No, no, no!" These people are not like Huang Laidi. If they are scolded, they will really scold back in the newspaper.
"Tsk, what do you know? The more you keep silent, the more others will think you are guilty and easy to mess with, and the more they will keep nagging you. Good people are often bullied, and evil people will be punished by evil people. Everything has its consequences, and this is their retribution!"
At this point, Li Daohua slammed the table heavily and said decisively: "It's me!"
He couldn't stop it, he couldn't stop it at all. Ouyang Yuan could only pray silently at home for those people who criticized Li Daohua.
Pray that they are younger, pray that they are healthy, pray that they don’t like reading newspapers, in short, just don’t let any problems come to you due to being angry.
"Arrogance from the Old School"
Let the facts speak, let the future speak
One article is not enough to make me feel angry. I need to write two articles. The first article is about their outdated thinking. The country has been advocating reform and opening up. Why do they still stick to the old ideas? What is their motivation?
The second article says that without investigation, there is no right to speak. Whoever makes the claim must provide evidence. If you say that what she wrote is wrong, then you should produce actual evidence to prove that what she wrote is wrong, instead of just talking nonsense.
These two articles were written very crudely. If they were not credited as the author of "Li Yaomei's Laid-off Experience", newspapers might not be willing to publish them.
But who made her the author of "Li Yaomei's Laid-off Experience"? Here comes the author's response.
"She is shameless and unreasonable!" Dong Yu, a writer who wrote an article criticizing Li Yaomei, was so angry that his beard was shaking.
He wrote the article based on his own ability, so why should he be asked to produce evidence? He has criticized so many people, why didn't others ask him to produce evidence?
After the two articles were published one after the other, those who criticized Li Daohua became even more excited. Although the monologue was very enjoyable, the duet was also good.
In contrast, Li Daohua eats well and sleeps well, and she doesn't care about these critical articles.
Back then, marketing accounts were very popular. If you were afraid of being scolded, then why would you create a marketing account? You would just forget about it and go to bed.
If you run a marketing account, you must be prepared to be scolded. There are only a few people scolding her right now.
Not to mention that these people were shameless in their insults, even if they were shameless, it would not matter to Li Daohua.
Newspaper reports of this era will be difficult to trace in the future, and there won’t even be a cyber criminal record. What’s there to be afraid of? Just do it.
As the Chinese New Year approached, the school distributed benefits to its staff, including all kinds of food and daily necessities.
The benefits of university are still very good. In this era, teaching is a very noble and respected profession.
The New Year holiday is long now, and children have been looking forward to it since very early in the morning. In the staff buildings and on the streets, there are groups of children everywhere.
There aren't many varieties of small firecrackers, but the children are all very happy. Some even take a few off the long firecrackers at home and set them off.
The sound of firecrackers can be heard on the streets every day.
At that time, Li Daohua seldom went out. When she was a child, children from the same village threw firecrackers at her neck.
Although it was taken out in time and did not explode directly on her neck but in the air, the explosion so close still left a shadow on her.
But it's still okay to watch from a distance, especially the fireworks, they are so beautiful.
Unfortunately, few people set off fireworks nowadays. Fireworks are not cheap and most families cannot afford them.
Li Daohua has a bad reputation in the staff building, and many parents warn their children not to get close to Li Daohua, or they may be scolded or beaten.
Li Daohua didn't care. It was fine if these kids didn't come to her house. She didn't have to worry about them keeping things at home.
In this era, unless both spouses are working, life is very tight. There are many children in the family, and those with two children are a minority, with three or four being the most common.
For a family like the original one where there is only one child, and a girl at that, it would not be an exaggeration to say that one in a million is the right choice.
If the original body had not insisted on marrying Ouyang Yuan, Li Sanzhu would have been planning to find a live-in son-in-law.
The closer it gets to the Chinese New Year, the busier the building becomes, with people beating their children, people buying New Year goods...
Li Daohua and her friends were also frying New Year's goods. Ouyang Yuan asked a friend to get some peanuts and some sand, and then they could fry the peanuts in a big pot.
"It's cooked, right?" Li Daohua asked.
Ouyang Yuan understood what he meant and picked up a peanut for her to taste using the piece of wood used to stir the food.
They have tasted this kind of peanuts no less than five times since they started frying them.
“It seems to be ok.” Li Daohua opened the peanut shell and gently rubbed the red peanut skin inside with her hands, separating it directly from the peanut kernel. The peanut kernel showed a slightly burnt yellow color.
Li Daohua ate one and let Ouyang Yuan try the other one.
"Okay, get ready to serve."
Use a sieve to sift out the sand, and what remains are fried peanuts that can be eaten directly, which are must-haves for the Chinese New Year. Now you have sugar and fried peanuts.
In addition to frying peanuts, the pork they bought also had to be cooked in advance because there was no refrigerator and the temperature would drop above zero degrees when the sun was shining brightly during the day.
Frying the pork in advance and storing it will make it less likely to go bad and can be kept longer. When eating, you can just fry it with other side dishes.
On the Spring Festival, Li Daohua and her husband cooked four dishes. The greedy kids next door ignored their parents' warnings and squatted at the door of Li Daohua's house with eager eyes.
In 1979, there was not even a Spring Festival Gala. Of course, even if there was a Spring Festival Gala, Li Daohua and his friends would have no TV to watch. After dinner and reading for a while, the two went to bed early as usual.
With the sound of firecrackers outside the window, 1980 officially arrived.
After the first day of the Chinese New Year, people visit relatives, and there are more outsiders in the building at this time.
Li Daohua and Ouyang Yuan have few relatives to visit. Li Daohua's relatives are all in her hometown in Henan Province. Her family has been poor peasants for three generations, and she has few relatives in Peking. All of them live in the mountains.
Ouyang Yuan doesn't have many relatives on his mother's side, and he doesn't want to leave even though he has relatives on his father's side.
"Daohua, a friend of mine might come over in a couple of days..." In the evening, Ouyang Yuan discussed with Li Daohua.
"Come if you want."
"I want to invite him to eat at my home."
"Okay, it's not me who will suffer anyway."
Before Li Daohua traveled through time, there was a cafeteria at school and takeout after work, so she rarely had the time or opportunity to cook.
Her two best dishes are scrambled eggs with tomatoes and hot pot base with potatoes and chicken nuggets.
Ouyang Yuan cooks most of the time at home. He also goes to the library to look for recipes and cooks according to them. The food he makes is quite delicious.
Li Daohua has also tried it, and the finished product... can only be said to be up to her standard, neither salty nor bland, and has no taste at all.
"By the way, how many people are there?" Their house is not big, and if there are many people, it would be better to go out to eat, although eating out requires depending on other people's opinions.
"Just one, but he might bring his wife and children, so that would be three people."
Three people, plus the two of them, is not too many, and there is still enough room to sit at home.
"Then you have to give the children red envelopes."
Ouyang Yuan was stunned for a moment: "No need... I don't know, this is the first time I see his child during the Chinese New Year."
Nonsense, before, both of them were in the countryside, tens of thousands of miles apart, and he didn't even know that the other had married and had children. He only found out after he came back this time.
After he came back, Guo Weimin took the initiative to contact him. It was also from Guo Weimin that he learned that his father was divorced. Later, when he went to confront his father, Guo Weimin also brought a group of people over to help.
The two were classmates before going to the countryside. Guo Weimin was the oldest in the class and Ouyang Yuan was the youngest. Guo Weimin had always taken good care of him when they were in school.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that he is my half-brother.
"You have to give me some. After all, they have helped you so much. You are also the child's uncle. How much do you give me?"
Ouyang Yuan was stunned again. Both of them were novices and knew nothing. There was no elder around to give them advice.
"Wrap a piece?" Li Daohua asked.
"Is it too much?" One dollar is not a small amount. When they went to the countryside, they had to work for a long time for one dollar. Even now, one dollar is two or three days' salary for many people.
"50 cents?"
"OK."
There is no need to buy red envelopes at this time. If you have the money for buying red envelopes, you might as well save it and give it directly to your children.
When you are ready to leave, just give the money to the child. As for whether the child can keep it themselves, that is not something they can control.
In this day and age, fifty cents has considerable purchasing power. You can buy paper and pens for children for just a few cents.
On the fifth day of the New Year, Guo Weimin came with his wife and children, both of them carrying a bag of apples and peanuts.
Their child, Guo Feng, is a chubby boy. He always smiles when he sees people and calls them whatever his parents tell him to.
"Happy New Year, Uncle and Auntie!"
"Happy New Year! Come in, are you cold? Come, have some candy."
Li Daohua's house is very tidy, and there are more newspapers and magazines in the house than before. It is obvious that she comes from a scholarly family.
“Good boy…”
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