Chapter 53: The Troublemaker in the 1980s 23 A big mess...
Zhou Shian used two more packets of figs that day and heard some new news from his sister.
"What did you say? Relatives from my hometown are here and they're staying at our house?" Zhou Shian keenly sensed that something was wrong.
"Hmm." Zhou Shiwei took the snack and immediately opened it and ate it: "Brother, don't come back yet. There's no room at home."
Zhou Shiwei stuffed the fig into his mouth and chewed it. It was so delicious!
Zhou Shi'an was so angry that his face turned green. "Shi Wei, explain to me clearly, what do you mean? What do you mean I shouldn't go back yet? There's no room for me."
He had no concept of not having enough space to live. What did it mean to have no space? Couldn't he and Shi Wei live at grandma's house?
Zhou Shiwei swallowed the fig: "Uncle, aunt and sister Xiaoxia are all living in your room, you have no room left."
In fact, when the brother and sister were young, they lived in the same room in the staff dormitory. However, the housing conditions were limited at that time, and the two children did not ask for their own room.
Now Zhou Shiwei is not happy about it. She has her own pink little room and she doesn't want to sleep in the same room with her brother!
Since her brother has no room and likes to live at grandma's house, she thinks it would be better for her brother to live with grandpa and grandma.
Zhou Shi'an couldn't bear to hear this. It was one thing for him not to go back, but it was another thing for someone else to live in the house.
He was so angry that his eyes turned red on the spot. After returning home that day, Zhou Shian made a huge fuss at his grandmother's house.
"I want to go home! I want to go home today! I don't care, I want to go home now, right now, right now!"
Li Suzhen never thought that her grandson, who had always been close to her, would suddenly make a fuss and ask to go home for some reason today.
"My dear grandson, grandma loves you. Can't you just live here? Do you want a lollipop? Grandma will take you to buy one. Or you can eat ice cream. Didn't you say last time that you wanted to eat a snowman? Grandma will take you to buy a snowman."
Li Suzhen tried to coax him until her mouth was dry, but nothing she said worked today. Zhou Shian refused to go home no matter what she said.
Zhou Tingyue has been too lazy to get involved with his grandson's recent troubles. He had already advised Li Suzhen that his grandson is old now, and the third brother and his wife have also mentioned letting their grandson go back. It is time to have a good talk with Zhou Shian about this matter and send the child back as soon as possible.
But Li Suzhen refused to listen. Every time she tried to persuade him, she always had a new excuse. Now, Shi An quit and wanted to go home.
Zhou Tingyue gloated and added fuel to the fire: "It's not a good idea for you to move back now. Your uncle and aunt are living at home with your cousin. Wouldn't it cause trouble for your parents if you go back?"
Zhou Shian couldn't bear to hear this, and he burst into tears when he heard his grandfather say this.
Zhou Shian regretted it so much that his intestines turned green. He should have stayed when his parents moved last time. Now, his room is not his own anymore. It has been given to his uncle's family.
Grandma tried her best to persuade him and assured him that his uncle's family was just staying at his house temporarily, and that once his aunt passed the exam and got a job at the factory, she would be allocated a family room and could move out of his house.
Zhou Shian cried all night before Li Suzhen finally agreed: "Wait until your uncle and his family move out, then you can go back and live there."
She was extremely reluctant to part with her eldest grandson. Her son and daughter-in-law had both mentioned it before, but she had refused to agree. However, her grandson was making such a fuss, she had no choice but to agree for the time being.
A few days later, Zhou Shengmo also heard from his mother about the big fuss his son had made. He didn't react much, but there was a hint of mockery in his eyes.
"Your wife's eldest brother and his family of three are all living in your house. This isn't a good idea. How long will they stay? Is there a definite answer?"
Although Zhou Shian had not been as noisy as he was that day, he still brought up the matter every day. Li Suzhen was so annoyed that she went to ask her third son about it.
"People come here to take the factory entrance examination, so there is no certainty. They must wait for the test results to come out, and they can only move out after they are assigned a house after entering the factory." Zhou Shengmo said calmly.
Li Suzhen's expression changed slightly. "Stay that long? That's not good. They can just find a house somewhere else. It would be inconvenient for you to stay at your house."
Zhou Shengmo: "It's not inconvenient at all. My brother-in-law lives at home, so I'm busy helping him modify the wheelchair. I've also gotten a few wheelchair modification jobs recently, so it's good to have something to do. Xiaoxia also plays with Shiwei, and the two girls are getting along very well now."
Li Suzhen favored her grandson and was surprised to hear this: "I have no objection to Shi An living with me, but don't you miss your son?"
Zhou Shengmo raised his eyebrows slightly: "Why do you miss him? He deserves a beating. He should be glad that I don't miss him, otherwise I would beat him up first."
Li Suzhen: “…”
This son looks gentle when he mentions his granddaughter, but frowns when he mentions his son. I really don’t know if he has taken the wrong medicine.
However, after talking to her son, Li Suzhen suddenly heard a key piece of information: "So you and Shen Qian's eldest brother modified the wheelchair together, can you get a share of the money?"
Zhou Shengmo nodded. "I didn't want it at first, but my brother-in-law said that as long as I put in the work, he would give me a share of the money according to the proportion of my work. I recently got 300 yuan, and it only took about a week or two."
Not many people know about electric wheelchairs nowadays, but Li Suzhen suddenly felt much better knowing that her son could make money from this.
My son is not as disabled as others say. He is not a useless person after being injured.
He can move freely, do housework and go out, and now he can even make money by modifying wheelchairs with his brain.
Li Suzhen suddenly felt that there was no need for her to keep her grandson in her hands, as she still had her son to rely on.
"Okay, since you have your own plans, Mom will help you take care of the child for a while. Don't rush to ask your eldest uncle and his family to move out. Wait until things are settled before talking about it."
After Li Suzhen figured it out, she realized that her son's current situation was all thanks to her capable daughter-in-law. Why should she feel awkward about it?
After the matter of her eldest brother's family is settled, Shi An should indeed return to her parents.
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Originally, thanks to her relationship with Wang Qisi, the head of the personnel department, Liu Guilan's entry into the factory and taking the exam was just a formality.
But Liu Guilan herself attached great importance to this exam and did not want to fall behind others and be looked down upon.
So I spent the whole day at home studying academic subjects and learned a lot from my sister and brother-in-law.
In the end, she successfully passed the recruitment examination of Textile Factory No. 2 and became a formal employee of the Textile Factory No. 2.
Liu Guilan's academic scores in the entrance exam just passed the passing line, but her professional skills scores were quite high. When she took the sewing machine test, the master craftsman asked her one more question when he saw that she used the pile embroidery technique.
This question is not a big deal, it turns out that Liu Guilan can also do hand embroidery.
Originally, the factory did not have dedicated embroiderers, but the leader had previously attended a meeting and heard that a document had been issued from the province, stating that they would vigorously cultivate manual embroidery, reportedly to prepare for future overseas orders.
After a quick inspection, the old master found that Liu Guilan's embroidery skills were quite good. She must have learned it through special training and practiced it since she was a child.
It is much more difficult to train a professional embroiderer than an ordinary textile worker. The old master was very happy and quickly reported the situation.
When Wang Qisi saw that the person reported by his subordinates as someone who needed to be trained was actually the eldest sister-in-law of the third daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, he was happy to make special arrangements. He arranged a family room for Liu Guilan and let the three of them move in first.
Housing conditions are quite tight these days, and we can only be allocated a smaller family room with two rooms and no living room. However, Wang Qisi also said, "Move in and settle down first, and get your daughter's school registration done. I will keep an eye out for you later. If a suitable and better house becomes available, I will give it to you first."
In this way, taking the opportunity of renovating the Wang family's house, Shen Jianguo and Liu Guilan were finally able to settle down in Rongcheng. Shen Caixia could also go to a school for children of children of the locals, at least to junior high school. In the future, she could take the high school entrance exam together with the children in the provincial capital, and she would not have to go back to her hometown to take the exam.
On the day of moving, Liu Guilan kept holding Shen Qian's hand: "Sister, if it weren't for you... I wouldn't dare to think that I would be here today."
Her voice was choked with sobs, and she couldn't utter a single extra word. If it weren't for her sister-in-law's help, her family would have fallen into trouble long ago. Shen Jianguo would probably still have that batch of goods in his hands. If his career in the provincial capital didn't go well, he might just go home.
But Shen Jianguo's previous job had already failed, so what good development could he have if he returned home? He would just go to the fields to farm like before.
She also had her own unspeakable difficulties: her mother-in-law’s harassment forced her to have a second child. But how could she possibly have a second child under the current circumstances?
She believed that Caixia was her only daughter in this life and would be good to her, but her mother-in-law did not like Caixia and was even reluctant to let her go to school.
Now, in just a few months, her life has changed dramatically. She and Shen Jianguo have moved to the provincial capital, and even their daughter has come with them. They have a house, she has a job and can make money, and she no longer has to worry about the faces of her parents-in-law.
The master craftsmen in the factory also praised her embroidery skills, which made Liu Guilan feel an unprecedented sense of accomplishment.
Shen Qian quickly said, "Sister-in-law, you and my brother are really great. I just helped a little. I heard that your embroidery skills have caused a sensation in the factory. My brother also helped Zhou Shengmo modify his electric wheelchair. Recently, someone came to us and wanted to buy an electric wheelchair. If you weren't so capable, how much help could I have given you?"
Liu Guilan was in tears and wanted to say some words of thanks, but Shen Qian smiled and said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to say anything. When you are free in the future, help Shi Wei make a few beautiful little skirts."
Liu Guilan: "That's easy, I'll do it right away!"
After resolving the issue of his brother and sister-in-law coming to the provincial capital, Shen Qian finally felt relieved.
Now my brother and sister-in-law have a good relationship. They have both moved to the provincial capital. Even my little nephew has successfully enrolled in the elementary school for children of employees. The family of three should be able to live smoothly in the future.
In this case, the incident in the original book where the sister-in-law divorced her brother and remarried and gave birth to the male protagonist Long Aotian should not have happened.
After solving this major hidden danger, Shen Qian finally relaxed.
When Zhou Shian heard that his uncle's family had moved away, he started making a big fuss at his grandmother's house, refusing to eat or drink and making a scene without stopping. Li Suzhen had no choice but to send Zhou Shian back to the third brother's house that same day.
"Forget it, forget it. I can't take care of this grandson anymore. You two should take care of him yourselves."
Li Suzhen angrily handed Shi An to Zhou Shengmo.
Zhou Shengmo took his son with amusement, but his face was still serious. He did not hold him in his arms, but let him stand upright in front of him.
It has to be said that Zhou Shian was still a little scared in front of his father who was a soldier. He originally had a playful and smiling look on his face, but when he saw Zhou Shengmo, his face tensed up, the smile disappeared instantly, and he put his hands behind his back, as if waiting to be scolded.
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