Although Gu Zhao became an engineer this time, he was still just a young boy in front of these big guys and still needed a teacher to guide him. After all, most of their classes in school were theoretical and there were relatively few practical contents.
Gu Zhao’s teacher is a big shot who has studied abroad.
It would not be good for them if other people knew about these things, so Gu Zhao did not say anything.
"What we learn in high school is different from what we learn in college. The knowledge learned in high school cannot support the work of an engineer!" Gu Zhao said with a smile.
When Lin Meixia heard this, she immediately felt that this was too far away from her. Her two children would start school in the fall, and their academic performance was average. If they worked hard, they might be able to get into high school, but it would be impossible for them to go to college, let alone become engineers.
Lin Meixia took a look at her two silly sons and sighed. All the good children belong to other people's families, and her own sons might not be so lucky.
Lin Meixia stopped thinking about it and started to ask Gu Zhao about other things. Even her eldest uncle and second uncle, who had never come before, became friendly and kept talking to Gu Zhao.
Tian Tian has no opinion about her two aunts. It is normal for them to have their own little thoughts, but the two aunts still treat Lin Meiyu as their younger sister. Tian Tian can understand those little thoughts.
After having a family and children, you always have to consider and plan for them.
But Tian Tian had no feelings for these two uncles. Although they were relatives, she could only see them once a year and could not even talk to them. How could she have any feelings for them? It was her aunt who supported her and worked on the autumn harvest.
Tian Tian even felt a little disgusted towards her uncle, Boss Wu.
For so many years, it can be said that her aunt has been the only one supporting the family.
Her aunt's family was poor and she had many children. Over the years, she had four sons in total. Each son had to find a wife, which was a considerable expense. In order to get all her sons married, her aunt worked day and night.
Not to mention spring planting and autumn harvest, Lin Meishuang did more than many adult men. After spring planting and autumn harvest, there were other places to help. For example, the Linjia Brigade went to the lake to catch fish every winter in recent years, and then sold them to the supply and marketing cooperative. Lin Meishuang also went to the river with them in the middle of winter and never complained about the hardship or tiredness.
As a woman, she could even follow the logging team of the forest farm to the mountains to cut wood, which Tian Tian could not even imagine.
Although Boss Wu never shirked his work in spring planting and autumn harvest, he would just leave it alone as long as there was no work in the brigade. When he had nothing to do, he would exchange the grain from his home for two taels of wine. He would do nothing but drink at home.
Tian Tian didn't know about Lin Meishuang's affairs at first, or maybe her mother really felt sorry for her elder sister. When she was preparing things yesterday, she took a lot of things and wanted to subsidize Lin Meishuang. As soon as she arrived, Lin Meiyu took Lin Meishuang to the east room to talk.
Tian Tian was also quite shocked when she saw Lin Meishuang this time. Lin Meishuang was only three years older than Lin Meiyu and was only 47 years old now, but she looked more than ten years older. Her face was full of wrinkles, her hand joints had become thick and covered with cracks, and even her back had become hunched. She looked no different from Grandma Lin.
Tian Tian sighed inwardly. She had just found wives for her two sons, and Lin Meishuang had become like this. She still had two sons.
Moreover, the eldest and second son's wives are both pregnant now, and they can't do much housework. Soon there will be another mouth to feed. Now the third son is also about to reach the age to find a wife, and the house now is too small to accommodate him, so he has to build a new one. Gu Shuang is worried about Lin Meishuang.
If possible, Tian Tian also wanted to think of a small business for Lin Meishuang, but now it is not like what is written in the novel, where she can buy more vegetables, make more noodles, and set up a small stall in the county town to sell breakfast. Whether selling wontons or noodles, she can make a lot of money.
But the key point is that you still need tickets to buy everything. You need to set up a pot and light a fire when you go to the county town. Lin Meishuang lives far away from the county town, so how to get the pot and firewood there is a problem.
Wontons require meat, and you can’t buy meat without meat coupons, so this is the first thing that is ruled out.
You said that another option is to sell noodles, but you don’t have flour coupons and you can’t even eat white flour once a year, so how can you sell noodles?
For example, although Shen Lingling was setting up a stall to sell chestnuts, she had saccharin coupons and put saccharin in the chestnuts, making them fragrant and sweet when cooked, so other people were willing to buy them.
If Lin Meishuang were asked to sell chestnuts, she wouldn't even be able to get saccharin tickets, and the chestnuts she cooked wouldn't be as delicious as those sold by Shen Lingling. How could she compete with others?
Tian Tian was thinking in her mind, is there anything that can be bought without spending money or coupons? Chestnut is one of them. She can steam some chestnut cakes and sell them in the county town. Roasted lamb casserole is also fine. There are also acorns. She can make acorn jelly. However, Tian Tian doesn't know how to make jelly with acorns.
Tian Tian looked around the room and saw that everyone was happily chatting with Gu Zhao, so she decided not to stay in the room and went to look for Lin Meiyu and Lin Meishuang.
In the west room, Lin Meishuang was crying with Lin Meiyu. Lin Meishuang had a hard life these years, and she didn't think that there was anything wrong with it. After all, she was paying for her own sons. Although it was a little harder and more tiring, she was very relieved to see that her first two sons had married and the young couples were getting along well.
Although her life was worse than her two younger sisters, Lin Meishuang did complain in her heart, but complaining was useless for her. It couldn't help her earn more money, nor could it help her son get married. Over time, Lin Meishuang accepted her fate.
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