Chapter 2: Compensation
Aunt Zhong looked disdainful and said, "I never agreed to my son dating you. And you two haven't got a marriage certificate yet. You don't need to contact each other anymore."
She took out a handful of money and stuffed it into her hand with a look of great distress: "Go back, my house has no room for you." There must have been more than 30 yuan in it, which she had originally saved for a red envelope tomorrow.
Now in order to get rid of this person, I have no choice but to let her off.
If a girl is thin-skinned and rejected by her mother-in-law, she may be so devastated that she may jump into the Huangpu River.
But Chu Hong was thick-skinned and made it a point to ask for more compensation for mental damage.
She firmly pushed away the money handed to her by Aunt Zhong and said with red eyes: "It's a new society now, Aunt, don't try to break us up."
She likes money, but she doesn't care about this little bit of money.
"Don't use money to insult the love between us."
If she were given a large sum of money, she wouldn't mind the verbal insults.
"It doesn't matter if you don't acknowledge me. Brother Guobing and I have held a banquet in the village, and even the commune cadres have come. I will go to your street office, the factory's labor union, and the director of women's affairs."
"I just don't believe you can cover the sky with one hand."
Anyway, he acted like a dead pig that was not afraid of boiling water.
No, it should be that he would rather die than surrender in order to save his marriage.
She cried again and said, "I should have listened to my uncle and not let Guo Bing go to college."
"We won't go to this university anymore. I want to take him back!"
She didn't know if her crying and making a fuss could scare people. If it didn't work, she would wait until the workers got off work and then go to the gate of the apartment building and hang herself in a show that would attract everyone's attention.
The reason why I don't take the last step now is that I'm afraid that this old lady will take advantage of my trick and pretend to hang herself, and she will put in more effort to actually hang herself.
Aunt Zhong originally wanted to drive the people away because she felt that young girls from the country were thin-skinned, timid and easy to bully.
Now that he heard that she was going to make a big fuss, he was really panicked, afraid that everything would be ruined, so he could only change his words to fool her: "It's us who let you down, and it's also Guobing's fault that he accidentally went to the wrong toilet. If I don't marry that girl, I will be convicted of hooliganism, and that will be fatal."
For the sake of her family's wealth and glory, Aunt Zhong was willing to sacrifice herself and knelt down in front of her: "My Guobing didn't want to marry her either, but he felt that he had let you down. If we hadn't kept a close eye on him, he would have almost committed suicide."
"Good girl, I know you are a good comrade, please don't ruin him, okay?"
"When he becomes successful, he will divorce this lesbian and come back to you..."
The most important thing now is to marry Yao Zhenfang. That way, even if Xiaohong comes to make trouble again, Yao Zhenfang can send her away herself.
Now that saying nice things doesn't cost money, she could only praise Chu Hong against her conscience.
Chu Hong was also very depressed, she almost couldn't help asking: Do I look like someone who would take back a scumbag?
With all that nonsense, why don't you get down to business?
She choked up and reminded him in a roundabout way: "How can he be worthy of me? You made my Song family lose all their wealth. How can I have the face to go back? I might as well die..."
It is absolutely impossible to die.
What’s important is money! ! !
Aunt Zhong was afraid that her crying would be heard by people outside, and she was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot. After hearing that she had lost both her money and her life, she could only spend money to avoid disaster: "The second son cannot go with you, but we can compensate you."
The average monthly salary of an ordinary worker at the Shanghai Tractor Factory is only 33.5 yuan, which is enough to support a family.
"I'll give you two hundred dollars as a dowry, enough for you to have a grand wedding."
Nowadays, when poor families get married, they give a dowry of twenty or thirty yuan, and the woman gets married with just a blanket.
When ordinary people get married, they have a bed, a wardrobe, a table and chairs, making a piece of furniture with thirty-six legs.
Wealthier families would add a watch, a sewing machine, or a bicycle.
When the leaders’ children get married, those who are particular will prepare three turns and one ring, as well as furniture with seventy-two legs.
Therefore, Aunt Zhong felt that she was willing to spend 200 yuan, which was half a year's salary for an ordinary worker, to buy a bicycle, which was definitely generous enough.
Chu Hong silently multiplied the compensation by five in her heart, and showed a look of disgust: "You are sending away beggars. My father spent hundreds of dollars and used a lot of connections to get a place in the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University."
"This position was originally prepared for me, but I gave it to Brother Bing!"
This is also misleading. The original owner did take the exam, but unfortunately his results were not good.
After several years of literacy education in the countryside, most people can recognize a few words, but if they want to go to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, they not only need a recommendation from the team, but also have to take an exam.
Finally, the leaders will consider the test scores and family background and only those who are suitable can be admitted to the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University.
There are also eighteen brigades affiliated to the town’s commune.
Each brigade is composed of seven or eight teams at most, and four or five teams at least.
The total number of educated youth and high school students was nearly two thousand.
The number of admitted students was even smaller, only ten.
However, some of the educated youth were of inappropriate background, and some had low cultural levels.
When the results came out, Zhong Guobing ranked 13th.
However, several of the ten female educated youth either had a partner or were married to someone in the team. The men's families were afraid that they would never come back, so they used the excuses of being sick or having children to not allow them to go to college.
Now it was Zhong Guobing's turn.
In order to make his son-in-law feel grateful, Song Youliang deliberately said that he had bought this quota with several hundred dollars.
Chu Hong took the opportunity to ask for money: "Don't think I don't know. College students also have living allowances. When my brother Bing graduates from college, there will be companies vying for him. If he can't be a cadre, he can be a small leader. The minimum salary is fifty yuan."
When Aunt Zhong heard her calling him "brother" all the time, the intimacy gave her goosebumps.
Then I thought about how my second son did say when he came back that the university place was prepared by his father-in-law for his daughter, and Xiaohong gave the place to him because she felt sorry for him because he was not used to doing farm work.
Aunt Zhong simply sat down on the ground, hugged her calves and cried softly: "It's all Guobing's fault for being blind and going to the women's restroom."
"If that lesbian hadn't forced me to marry him, we wouldn't have to be the bad guys."
"You don't want to see a national soldier being convicted of hooliganism, do you?"
"There are only about 300 yuan in my family. I'll give it all to you..."
In fact, the family had nearly 600 yuan in savings, but some of that money was promised to buy a bicycle for the eldest daughter-in-law who had just married into the family.
I didn’t buy one when I got married because my family didn’t have a bicycle ticket.
Bicycle tickets are in short supply now, and they are all hoping to get a bicycle ticket from Yao Zhenfang after she comes in.
Chu Hong's eyes were red too: "I can't bear to see Bingge get into trouble, but you can't treat me too hard. You have to at least give me a thousand yuan, and industrial coupons, bicycle coupons, cloth coupons, meat coupons, and grain coupons."
As far as she could remember, there were only two bicycles in the brigade, and they were public property.
The food at home was not good, so with a bicycle, she could ride to the state-owned restaurant in town to have a meal.
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