"Grandpa, do you think my brother is some high-ranking official? You even asked my cousin to join the army just by talking. You are so imaginative, why don't you think of including my brother Jianjun?" Tian Tian complained.
She found out what was wrong with her grandparents? The eldest aunt and the second aunt were their daughters, and her mother was adopted by them!
Moreover, this matter was clearly not mentioned much last year, and we had already agreed to let it go. Why am I starting to make arrangements again this year to send her elder brother Wu Jianjun to the military camp?
What Tian Tian didn't know was that her aunt had already started looking for a wife for Wu Jianjun. However, the process of finding a wife was not as smooth as she had imagined. Originally, her aunt didn't want to find a very good girl, but just wanted to find an honest, down-to-earth and capable girl. Wu Jianjun was not the kind of person who wanted to show off, so it would be enough for the two of them to live a down-to-earth life together.
But I didn't expect that it would be so difficult to find something with such conditions.
The Wu family is well-known for their difficulties in the brigade.
There is an old lady in the family who is bedridden and can hardly do any heavy work. The men in the family are not good at earning money. There are also many younger brothers and sisters, and they all want money.
Lin Meishuang herself is capable and able to endure hardships, but the family cannot be supported by a woman alone. Although the current conditions are a bit poor, as long as they can live a down-to-earth life, it is also good.
But no family would say that they would deliberately marry their daughter to a family with worse conditions when they could obviously marry her to someone with better conditions.
This resulted in that most of the girls in their team had no intention of dating Wu Jianjun. Girls from teams farther away had originally planned to date Wu Jianjun, but after visiting Wu's house, they gave up the idea. This resulted in Wu Jianjun having been dating for a year but still had no response.
Lin Meishuang was getting a little anxious. Wu Dejun was about to turn 23, and most people of his age would have children of at least two or three years old, but Wu Dejun still had no wife. She had blisters on her mouth that never went away.
Although Mrs. Wu was seriously ill, she was very clear-headed and knew that she was partly responsible for Wu Dejun's inability to find a wife. Although she didn't say it, she felt bad in her heart and was also anxious.
Her health was not good to begin with, and this emergency made it even worse. As a result, Lin Meishuang had to worry about Wu Dejun's marriage, take care of the old lady, and pay extra money to buy medicine for Mrs. Wu.
In addition, Wu Juan was married, and there was no one to help Lin Meishuang with the housework. She had to do all the work at home and outside by herself. Every day, Lin Meishuang had to cover her eyes from the moment she opened them to the moment she closed them. Her waist was so tired that she couldn't even straighten her back. As a result, her life went downhill again, and no one came to visit her anymore.
The reason they brought up the old matter again was that the whole family was really worried, fearing that Wu Jianjun would become an old bachelor.
Lin Meiyu was in the kitchen listening to Lin Meishuang talking about her family's life during this period, and she felt sorry for her elder sister. She sighed and said, "You have had a really hard time these years. If Tian Yuan can help me with this matter, I will definitely let him help. But the problem is that Tian Yuan is just an ordinary soldier, and he really can't take care of this kind of thing."
In fact, no one in the Lin family knew that Tian Yuan was now in college, and only Tian Ligang and his family in the brigade knew about it. Tian Lisong did not tell any of the remaining relatives.
The main reason was that Tian Yuan went to university at a very bad time, because the quota for workers, peasants and soldiers to attend university had just been released last year. If others knew about it, they would definitely think that the Tian family had reserved one of the quota. Even if Tian Yuan explained that he had won the quota through an exam, how many people would believe him?
Rather than causing an uproar in the brigade, it would be better to keep the matter secret. Anyway, when Tian Yuan graduates, he will go directly to the army, so it can be as if he had never gone to college.
"I don't have to get Jianjun into the army. I just thought that Tian Yuan must know a lot of people in the army. Can you find a way to get Jianjun a job in the county? It doesn't have to be a very good job, just let him work hard, anything is fine."
Although this idea is not as exaggerated as asking Wu Jianjun to join the army, to be honest, it is also quite difficult.
Lin Meiyu said with some embarrassment: "It's not easy to find a job in the county. You need a city hukou, and you need money and connections. Although Tian Yuan has many comrades in the army, most of them are civilians. He has only been in the army for a few years, so how can he recognize such a high-ranking official? And even if there is a connection to help you find a job, you still need money to buy a job."
You can't ask Lin Meiyu's family to help pay for the job. A job would pay at least a thousand yuan, and Lin Meiyu couldn't even think about that much money.
Lin Meishuang was silent when she heard Lin Meiyu's words. How could she not know how difficult it was to find a job in the county? No matter how she asked Lin Meiyu, she just wanted to try. Now she heard Lin Meiyu's refusal, which was also within her tolerance.
"How much does it cost to find a job in the county town?" Lin Meishuang thought about the increasingly older Wu Jianjun, and finally asked after gritting her teeth.
"At least six or seven hundred yuan." Lin Meiyu said.
Lin Meishuang was completely silent now. Now their family couldn't even take out ten yuan, let alone six or seven hundred yuan. It could be said that Lin Meishuang had never earned so much money in her life.
"In fact, you don't have to go to the county town to work. Jobs like accountant, scorekeeper, and broadcaster in our brigade are actually quite good. And sometimes the commune will look for people. Won't they also look from the surrounding brigades? You can let Wu Jianjun try there. There are quite a few opportunities there." Lin Meiyu advised.
For example, ordinary positions in their brigade would be filled by people from the same brigade. Important positions in the commune were transferred from above. However, some insignificant jobs would be filled by people from surrounding brigades. Although they did not earn as much as workers in the county town, they could still earn a few yuan a month. In fact, they could earn more than working in the fields over the whole year. These were the jobs that everyone wanted to get into.
"Alas!" Lin Meishuang sighed, "Jianjun can't read a single word, who would want him?"
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