Zhao Qiaoniang and Ding Minxiu didn't know that the owner of this restaurant was Yu Xiangan. They fantasized that if they had participated in the lottery here, the bicycle might have been theirs. They felt regretful when they thought of this, but no matter how regretful they were, it was already in the past. There was no such good thing now, and they could only work honestly to earn money.
There is no way. If there were other options, the two of them would not choose to come here. After all, this is also a foreign land.
Every time Ding Minxiu thinks of home, she feels regretful.
How good a formal worker's job is is reflected at this time.
Temporary workers can be fired at will, why don’t you fire one of the regular workers and see how they do it?
Originally, she should have had a formal job, but something unexpected happened and it was discovered in advance, and was snatched away by Yu Xiangan. She didn't cherish it after it was snatched away, and even sold the job for money after she was admitted to university.
They couldn't find anyone even if they wanted to, and Ding Minxiu didn't want to look for him either.
Her life was okay, but compared to Yu Xiangan, it was instantly unbearable. She first went to Qincheng, then was admitted to university, and then was assigned a job.
Who doesn't say a good word?
When the news that she was admitted to university came out, even Zhou Boyang gave her a cold look.
Not to mention the mother-in-law.
In her opinion, if it weren't for her, her daughter-in-law would be a college student.
Her mother-in-law never had a good face towards her, she was used to it, but Zhou Boyang didn't do that before.
Does he regret it?
Ding Minxiu could only be more humble and work harder with her mother to prevent them from picking on her.
Later, Yu Xiangju actually passed the exam and was thinking about whether he could borrow some power from him, but in the end he was also messed up by Yu Qingshan.
He is still a student and has no salary, but his child's future is right in front of him.
Ding Minxiu herself couldn't pass the exam, but she hoped her son could.
But my son’s grades are not good. If he wants them to improve, he needs extra lessons, but extra lessons cost money.
For money, the two of them went south.
If they knew that this shop that was packed with customers belonged to Yu Xiangan, Ding Minxiu would probably be so angry that she would get internal injuries.
Why, is she going to be under my control for the rest of her life?
…
After Yu Qingshan returned, he worked more seriously. His daughter owed so much debt, he could help in some way. If he could solve it himself, that would be the best. If not, could he just stand by and do nothing?
Whenever he felt depressed, he would go to his father-in-law's house, his eldest son's house, or go back to his hometown to sit for a while.
Now everyone’s life is becoming more hopeful.
Even his second brother-in-law started doing other things after retiring. This man was used to being busy and couldn't sit idle. He was not afraid of other people's criticisms. He rented a house and started a small business selling breakfast. The scale of this business may not seem large, but it can really make money.
There is also Sheng Song, who used to work in a recycling station and no one thought highly of him. However, he figured out a skill in repairing and splicing things, and now he has opened a stall to help others fix broken electrical appliances.
Nowadays, more and more families have the four major items, so his business is booming.
After all, it's all about business. He really has no prejudice against doing business, but it is indeed risky to quit that good job that is hard to find even with a lantern to do business. His brother-in-law is retired, and as for Sheng Song, his business at the recycling station doesn't look very good. If they were in his daughter's position, they might not make the current choice.
Moreover, the daughter is still burdened with the boss's debts. Although it is an honor to be a factory director, it is only a bright surface, with debts all over the inside.
Qin Qiang and Yang Cuizhen retired early and no longer have to work. Their children are filial and cook and take care of the children at home. They live a happy life. When life is happy, people age slowly. It seems that this old couple still have many years to live. Zhang Chahua from the Red Star Brigade is in good health too. She has always been in good health. She was chosen because of her physique.
Her family was really poor. When she married into the Yu family, she didn't accept a single penny as a betrothal gift. She just took five kilograms of sweet potato flour.
We have gotten through those difficult days, and now we can see that life is getting better and better.
On the day off, Yu Qingshan went to buy a few pounds of flour and two pounds of meat, and got on the bus back to the Red Star Brigade.
In the past, rice and flour were such precious good things that we could not eat them except during festivals. Now we eat them often at home. Pork was precious, but now we can buy it once or twice a month.
Now there are no restrictions on the number of pigs, chickens, ducks and geese that a family can raise. They have the manpower and can raise as many as they want.
There is no need to be so stingy about eggs as before. Zhang Chahua now raises a dozen chickens. Every day, the children in the family dig wild vegetables and catch small insects from outside, and catch small fish and shrimps from rivers and streams to feed the chickens. Now they can eat eggs every day, and the children have become stronger and have meat on their bodies. Before, they were just skin and bones.
I never dared to imagine such a good day.
This is common prosperity, right?
Yu Qingshan thought about the country's policies, which must be right, otherwise where would such a life come from?
In other words, Xiao An’s choice is also correct?
Seeing her second son coming over with something in hand, Zhang Chahua happily poured him a bowl of sugar water.
Her life is better now. In addition to eggs, she also receives other good things sent by her grandchildren every day. With these, her life is so good that her old sisters are very envious of her. It's because her children and grandchildren are successful and filial.
These children are all good people. They said that she is usually taken care of by her uncle and aunt, and since they live far away and cannot be with her, they sent some good things to her to nourish her health.
Needless to say, for her second son, as for her grandchildren, Xiang Yan gave her malted milk, Xiang Qing gave her local rice and local specialties, Xiao An gave her milk powder and dried meat, Man Wu gave her new clothes and biscuits, and Man Sheng gave her new shoes...
Because of her situation, when Zhang Chahua walks in the village now, people will take the initiative to greet her, get close to her, and build closer relationships with her.
What worries me now? Yes, I do.
One is the second son, he lives alone, what's the big deal? He is asked to live with the eldest grandson, but he doesn't want to. He eats at the factory and can't have a home-cooked meal at home. How can he enjoy life like this?
He is just stubborn and won't listen to advice.
The second ones are Manwu and Mansheng. They are not young anymore, but they are still unwilling to get married. Manwu should have thought it through, but he has no solution yet. As for Mansheng, he doesn't have this idea at all. Does he want to wait until he is 30 to get married?
The last one was about the newspaper search for relatives. There was no follow-up so far, and she felt a little uncomfortable. Could it be that the two of them had already...
So there is no way to get news about them?
If she went down like this and saw the old man, she would feel like she would disappoint him.
He has been thinking about this for most of his life, and if possible, Zhang Chahua still hopes to find clues about them.
After talking to Zhang Chahua for a while, Yu Qingshan went outside for a walk. Now their village has also undergone significant changes.
There are people taking good care of the fields on both sides. Since the fields were divided, everyone's enthusiasm has been beyond words. After having breakfast in the morning and going out, they can stay by the edge of the field and not go back until mealtime. If there is windy, rainy, or flooding, they will brave the rain in the middle of the night to check the condition of the rice in the fields.
When we were doing group work before, we didn’t have this enthusiasm. Every time, the team leader had to call on people so that they would be willing to move. Now it is different. They weed and fertilize on their own initiative and don’t think anything is troublesome, just to be able to harvest more at harvest time.
As they walked, they came to the house that Yu Xiangyan had built here. They went in and took a look around. Now that he had settled in the capital, the house was empty. When Yu Qingshan came back, he would come here to check the doors and windows. There were some bulky furniture and some sundries in it. It was not worth much, but it was not worthless either. If some worthless petty thieves took a fancy to it, it was not impossible.
This house was built not long ago, but now it is empty. It's a pity, just like the house that Xiao An and her son-in-law own. It is just left there empty. This house will easily become dilapidated if no one lives in it.
He turned around and came back. Zhang Chahua squatted on the ground cutting wild vegetables, cut them into small pieces, mixed them with shredded sweet potatoes, sweet potato seedlings, rice bran, etc., cooked them and fed them to the pigs, so that the pigs could grow faster.
There were three big fat pigs at home, and the pig food needed was a lot every day, so he took over this job.
Zhang Chahua picked up the broom and started sweeping the floor.
"Our pigs grow fast. By the end of the year, they will be big, fat pigs."
Now they don’t have to hand in the mission pigs, as all the pigs are theirs. During the Chinese New Year, they keep half of a pig for the New Year and sell the rest.
This is a considerable profit. If there are no workers at home to earn money, then the profit from raising pigs may be the largest profit of the year.
Children’s marriage, birth, aging, sickness and death all depend on it.
The importance of this pig is self-evident, but their family is not that serious yet.
Yu Qingbao works in a paper mill, which is now quite large. As a veteran, he can earn nearly 40 yuan a month.
My eldest nephew Yu Manchang now works in a brick factory, which belongs to their team. He doesn’t get that much money every month, but if converted into year-end income, his annual income is much higher than that of his father.
Now that everyone is not working, the work points are no longer converted, but instead it is converted into person points.
Except for some fixed expenses distributed to the employees and some necessary expenses, the profits generated by the brick factory will be distributed to every registered villager on a per capita basis. Families with many people will receive a considerable amount of money.
This makes it particularly easy and diligent to get married in their village. When they reach the age to get a marriage certificate, they will get it early. Then they can get money, have children early, and have a large family.
Seeing the pigs suffering from food shortage, Yu Qingshan sighed in his heart. He lived a leisurely and comfortable life in his hometown. He had planned to return to his hometown and live in his second son's house after he retired.
His house in the county town will remain empty for now, and he will make plans after his youngest son finds a job.
When he returned to his hometown, he had his mother, brothers, and nephews. He could also get a piece of land to grow vegetables and raise chickens.
You can imagine how leisurely his life is. If he misses his children, he will go back to the county town to see his eldest son and grandson.
That is to say, I can see this one son at any time, and the other children have all become successful and are working outside.
They have their own sky.
Now it seems that his plan is not as fast as the changes.
Even if he can't help his little daughter with anything after retirement, he has his own place there, and his little daughter won't be gossiped about by others.
There are those people with bad hearts who like to think the worst of others.
At his age, he can retire early, but compared to the boss, he is still a little short of maturity, so he should wait a little longer...
Lin Chuanbai is talking on the phone with Yu Xiangan.
While Yu Xiangan was busy, Lin Chuanbai was not idle either.
Some results have been produced gradually. Although these are just gadgets, these daily gadgets are very common in life. If they are developed, they can make a lot of money.
He talked about some of the things he had done during this period, and then mentioned the missing person notice.
"Someone wrote to ask about it. My second brother and I have checked it out, and the other party is not the person we are looking for. It's all for nothing."
Yu Xiangan: "I've also had time to be happy here, take your time."
Lin Chuanbai hummed: "Your classmate, Liu Mingyue came to eat, and gave two children gifts. When she saw me, she asked me when you would be back? You were gone for so long."
Yu Xiangan laughed: "It's not like I didn't leave her my phone number. Okay, I got it. I'll find some time to call her in the next two days."
She wants to achieve something before she can go meet her old friends.
Otherwise, she would be embarrassed to show up because she didn't behave properly.
As he spoke, Yu Xiangan lowered his voice and said, "I will definitely go back before the New Year. Please wait for me."
Lin Chuanbai smiled over there: "Okay, I'll wait for you."
At the end of 1983, the Special Administrative Region unexpectedly received a reply.
It was information from Yu Changyou's third brother, Yu Changkai. For some unknown reason, he had gone to Hong Kong, married and had children there. Now the person he saw in the newspaper was his second son.
This third uncle passed away when he was in his fifties, and it has been more than ten years now.
It cannot be said that his life in Hong Kong was too bad. It was difficult at the beginning, but he eventually had a house and a job.
After he arrived in Hong Kong, he opened a massage parlor with his wife. This was his wife's family skill, and with this skill they settled down there and had two sons and two daughters.
Now he has passed away, but Third Grandma is still alive, and the children have all settled down there, getting married and having children.
Yu Yegui is the third among his siblings, with an older brother, an older sister and a younger sister.
He saw the newspaper when he came here with a client to do business, and then he contacted Yu Mansheng. Before that, he worked in the UK.
This person is the uncle of Yu Mansheng and Yu Xiangan. In fact, they are closely related by blood. Moreover, his name, which means "fallen leaves return to their roots", shows the thoughts of the person who named him.
Yu Yegui sighed: "My name was given by my father. He wanted to go back to his hometown."
Yu Xiangan looked at him carefully. He was wearing a suit, tie and glasses. He looked gentle and seemed to be an educated intellectual. He was a lawyer.
It is difficult to enter this industry without sufficient academic qualifications.
As for appearance, he seems to be somewhat similar to my grandfather.
Yu Yegui: "My father once said that he wanted to be buried in his hometown after he passed away. He wanted to come back when he was sick before, but as you know, he didn't make it back then. Later, he put the matter aside for the time being. It was a coincidence that I came back this time. I was thinking about whether I could find out if there is anyone left in my father's hometown. If there is, I will tell the old man when the time comes. If he can really hear it, I will put my mind at ease."
As long as one is a human being, there is no one who does not trace his or her roots, to know who his or her mother is, who his or her father is, where their hometown is, and who his or her relatives are.
Yu Yegui: "When my father first came to Hong Kong, he was still very young and had no identity document, so it was difficult for him to earn a living. Later, he met my mother, who came earlier and had a hard time. The two of them supported each other. My mother learned the skill of massage from my maternal family and relied on this family skill to gain a foothold in Hong Kong."
Just by listening, you can tell how difficult it was back then.
"I heard from them that life was very hard in the past, but it gradually got better. However, because he suffered so much in his early years, my father got old and had many health problems. He often went to the hospital. I was with him at that time. He often talked about his hometown. He had two older brothers and an older sister, and a younger brother and a younger sister..."
He told the address of the Red Star Brigade and the names of his grandparents, that is, the great-grandparents of Yu Xiangan and Yu Mansheng. He also told where the four brothers went to make a living and who they worked for. All of these matched.
This can't be fake, right?
How could an outsider know so many details?
Yu Xiangan and Yu Mansheng were both happy to hear this.
There is finally news.
I just told him about what happened in my hometown.
They said they were Yu Changyou's grandchildren. The old man also passed away. Before he died, he was worried about his two missing brothers and sisters, so they put an advertisement in the newspaper to look for them.
Yu Mansheng talked about the Red Star Brigade in more detail. Yu Yegui listened and connected it with the memory of his father's hometown.
That should be it. He also found it magical that someone was already looking for them before he even went there. From what he had heard from his father before, life was very difficult in his hometown. His parents died early, and his eldest brother was still a boy at the time. They had to go out to make a living. Fortunately, they were lucky enough to find jobs and support themselves. But in the end, his father was implicated, and fortunately he was smart and escaped.
He thought that even if there were still relatives there, they were not living well. But now he heard that the family was very prosperous and their descendants were living well. Just looking at the clothes these two people were dressed, he could tell that they were decent people. Besides, putting an advertisement in the newspaper to look for someone was not a big deal for a while, but it would be a considerable expense in the long run.
He was curious about their occupations, and after asking he found out that they lived a pretty good life. Many of his great-grandfather's family members were college graduates. Even in Hong Kong, college graduates are not that common.
He has the highest academic qualifications among his brothers and sisters and became a lawyer. His eldest brother inherited his mother's craft and took her surname. He inherited the massage parlor and now the massage business is doing well. His eldest sister married a policeman and is now a housewife. His younger sister married a teacher and he is an accountant in the factory.
He felt happy when he heard this. Even though they didn't grow up together, they were related by blood after all. If his father were still alive, he would be very happy to know this. He would also be comforted to know that his father's older brothers were always thinking about him.
Yu Yegui thought that, logically speaking, this relative would not run away, as his great grandmother and second grandfather were still alive, and they should take the initiative to visit these two people.
Also, his father once said that fallen leaves return to their roots, so he should find some time to go there and take a look to confirm whether this thing is feasible.
Then choose a good day and bring dad's ashes back.
Now that the information on both sides matched, the possibility of error was very small. Next, Yu Yegui proposed that he would go back to Hong Kong to get the photos, and then go to the Red Star Brigade. This way, there would be no mistakes.
His father took some photos when he was young and still has them preserved.
Yu Yegui left. Yu Xiangan and Yu Mansheng looked at each other and both felt amazed.
I never thought that I would find the real culprit this time, but... "It's a pity that Third Grandpa passed away early."
Yu Mansheng sighed, "Grandma would definitely be very happy if grandpa were still alive." If he knew the news about his third brother, he would be able to leave with more peace of mind.
Yu Xiangan shook his head: "Who would have thought it would be in Hong Kong."
I didn't expect this result. They are not near the sea, so why did my third uncle go to Hong Kong?
Could it be that my aunt has also gone abroad, so the domestic newspapers are of no use?
But it is said that the family that took her in as a child bride was of average financial condition, only slightly better off. They took her in as a child bride because she was pretty and their son wanted to play with her. In those days, it was very difficult and unlikely to go abroad without connections and background.
Then Yu Mansheng thought of a question, "We are going to meet, if this happens, how are you going to explain it when we go back?"
Yu Xiangan's occupation was just vaguely mentioned, but he is stationed here permanently, so sooner or later he will know what she is doing. Maybe he will go back and ask about it now and find out the details. If he lets it slip when he goes back, that would be a great scene.
Yu Xiangan: "..."
He relaxed his scalp to avoid being too tense, "…It's okay, my dad knows, he should have helped me prepare, even if they know my current grades, it's okay."
She has been here for almost a year, and now he has six branches. Due to equipment problems in the factory, the workers work in three shifts and almost non-stop every day. Doesn't this show that business is good now?
Why is it said that this is the best time to do business?
Because at that time many markets were already there, unlike later generations, you didn’t have to spend too much time and effort to get a stunning effect.
Her house is also under construction. By then, she will have a house and property here. Wouldn’t she feel at ease?
Yu Mansheng nodded: "Sister Xiaoan, please remember to explain it clearly to your brother. I didn't hide it on purpose."
Yu Xiangan: "I've said it before, don't worry, my dad knows."
Hong Kong, Yu Xiangan's eyes flashed. Coincidentally, she was planning to buy a few houses in Hong Kong. Now is a period of low housing prices in Hong Kong. The housing prices will rise next year. When she resells them at that time, it will be easy to double the price.
Especially some good houses in central locations, if they are not sold in a short period of time and remain there, the price will change every year.
Because of this matter, she also got to know a few people from Hong Kong. Maybe she could find out about the situation of her third uncle's family through them.
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