Chapter 95 From 1977 to

Chapter 95 From 1977 to

She couldn't sing in the factory, but after returning home, Wen Jiajia still sang very well.

That evening, Wen Jiajia spent a huge amount of money to buy some beef bones, and Hao Qingying bought some spices, preparing to go home and make braised beef bones.

Hao Qingying said, "I heard the news that you became the deputy director at the pharmaceutical factory. It seems that it was right for you to transfer to the medical field. From now on, I will call you Director Wen."

Wen Jiajia smiled and said, "Don't say that. It's embarrassing. Just call me what you want to call me. To be honest, I never thought I could be promoted to deputy director before this. It's just that I took advantage of the expansion of our hospital."

"Otherwise, how do they say that when the time comes, heaven and earth will work together? Besides, you are capable enough. Otherwise, even if you are lucky, it will be difficult to get promoted." Hao Qingying shook her head and handed the spices to her.

Wen Jiajia took the spices and said with emotion: "Since Master He left, it's not very convenient for me to buy things."

Wuyuanlou has opened for business. Master He has successfully entered the place he had always dreamed of. Now, he doesn’t even do his private business.

Of course, this is probably also because the market is squeezed.

After the red armbands disappeared, the business in the black market became more and more bold.

But Wen Jiajia still didn't dare to get involved lightly, because the college entrance examination at that time also required political review.

Who will conduct the political review? The party organization of the institution, factory, mine or commune where the candidate works is responsible for the political review.

For example, if Wen Jiajia passes the exam, the Medical Party will conduct a political review on her. If she is caught in the black market, the factory will have to pick her up, and there is no guarantee that there will be problems with the political review.

Of course, the probability of a problem is not high. After all, they are all from the same factory. If it is not a serious matter, they can let it go. But what if it happens? Wen Jiajia doesn't dare to take the risk.

Speaking of this, Hao Qingying asked: "When are you free? How about we go to Wuyuanlou for a meal?"

Wen Jiajia perked up: "Is it expensive inside?"

Hao Qingying showed a painful expression: "It's quite expensive. I heard from my uncle that a meal here is equivalent to three meals in a state-owned hotel."

Wen Jiajia felt her pocket and said awkwardly, "Let's go after the Chinese New Year, in the spring. I've been collecting food and meat coupons for the New Year."

"Okay! Then let's go again in March or April." Hao Qingying waved and watched Wen Jiajia leave.

Wen Jiajia returned home and told her about the promotion.

Wei Dai was not at home, and her aunt was very happy for her.

Zhong Huisheng said, "You are now an official, right? People should have a career. It doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman. Only if you can make money can you speak with your head held high."

Wen Jiajia put the beef bone on the stove with a smile: "I am still a small official, but it is true that I make more money than before."

She is kind of looking forward to getting her salary at the end of the month.

The beef bones need to be stewed for a long time, and there is no time to eat them today, which makes Wen Xuan salivate. She wishes she could cook them now and get up to eat them at ten or eleven o'clock in the evening.

The two sisters are on winter vacation and have been a bit free recently. Since they have nothing to do the next day, they just stay up late.

However, Wen Jiajia couldn't bear to see them being so idle, so after they played without any worries for a few more days, Wen Jiajia would give them some exercises to do.

It gets dark early in winter, and it is already pitch black outside by the time we have dinner.

We drank fish head and tofu soup in the evening. The fish head weighed two kilograms, and the soup was thick and white, like milk powder.

Because the two sisters have been eating grilled sweet potatoes and chestnuts by the stove all the time recently and they feel a little irritated, so I didn’t make hot and sour food, but just cooked the original soup.

The soup is rich in flavor and drinking a bowl of it in winter will make you feel relaxed and comfortable.

Zhong Huisheng even said with emotion: "I have recovered a lot since coming to your place."

Otherwise, why do people say "Jiangnan is the best"? Even if you can't eat meat very often, you can be more diligent and eat fish more often than in other places.

Fish feeds people. In the past, in winter, Zhong Huisheng always felt very heavy, with severe soreness in his waist and legs, and often had cramps at night. However, last year, it got much better, and this year, there has been no cramps at all.

Although Jia Jia took her to see a Chinese doctor for some reason, the more important reason was probably that her nutrition was up to par.

Nowadays, most people in rural areas are sick, and the reason is simply "malnutrition".

Wen Jiajia picked up two chunks of fish and gave them to Wen Chun and Wen Xuan. She said, "You are so young and healthy. I would say that you are not old at your age. When cousin comes back, you will have to take care of his grandchildren."

Zhong Huisheng laughed: "His grandson... that's too far away. I just hope he can come back soon so that I can stay with him for a few more years. I don't dare to think that far ahead."

Wen Jiajia: "My cousin will be back soon. How many years has he been gone?"

"It's been exactly 12 years, a cycle." Zhong Huisheng's eyes sparkled with a hint of crystal.

Wen Jiajia: "Then he should be back soon. My cousin's wife is from here, so you don't have to worry about my cousin settling there. Besides, my cousin is thinking about you, and he sent you a big bag of naan and dried grapes a few days ago, asking you to take care of yourself."

Wen Xuan suddenly raised her hand, her eyes sparkling: "I love eating that big cake so much, I can eat half a cake for the whole morning."

Wen Jiajia was speechless: "Aren't the biscuits at home better than naan?"

Wen Xuan said seriously: "I have compared them carefully. Biscuits are delicious when you first put them in your mouth. But the more you chew naan, the more delicious it is. If I am only allowed to eat one bite of something, I am willing to eat biscuits. But if I am allowed to eat three bites, I will like naan even more."

“…”

Wen Jiajia felt that her daughter Wen Xuan might become a master of food, a gourmet in the future.

Zhong Huisheng was very happy that someone liked the things his son sent so much, so he said, "In the future, if you want to eat it, just go to the counter and get it. It won't make you get irritated, so you can eat a whole piece."

Wen Jiajia joked: "You will gain weight after the Chinese New Year. You are now six kilograms heavier than your sister. If you stand outside, people who don't know will think you are the sister."

There was laughter in the house, and Wei Dai also came back in the wind.

He was shivering with cold air, and the air he exhaled turned into white mist when he entered the house.

"Why did you come back so late today?" Wen Jiajia asked, putting the casserole containing fish soup on the stove next to her to heat it up. After they finished their meal, the soup had already become a little cold.

Wei Dai came out of the kitchen after washing his hands: "I'm helping Fang Hongjun move. Because the door of the house is not big enough, many of the furniture can only be disassembled and moved into the house before installation."

Wen Jiajia was stirring the fish in the clay pot with clean chopsticks. She was curious when she heard this: "Huh? When he told me that, I thought he would bring his wife here soon. Why did he wait until now?"

Wei Dai filled a bowl with rice and sat at the table. "His mother, Auntie Tian, ​​broke her leg accidentally on the third day after his wedding. Because of this, his wife, your friend, stayed at home for a while longer. She was supposed to be due in the second month, but when they heard that his wife was suspected to be pregnant, they waited until now to bring her here for safety reasons."

Wen Jiajia was surprised: "Is Auntie Tian okay? She is quite old. The older the elderly are, the more afraid they are of falling."

Auntie Tian is Tian Junxia, ​​and she is also the half-matchmaker between Wen Jiajia and Wei Dai.

Wei Dai shook his head: "Probably nothing will happen, otherwise the Red Army wouldn't be so happy."

Zhong Huisheng said: "Tian Junxia's family is very long-lived. Her mother lived a long life, and her grandmother lived even longer. She lived to be 90 years old. I once met her grandmother and talked to her a few times. It is said that her grandmother's mother, that is, her great-grandmother, is a centenarian. But I don't know if it is true or not."

Wen Jiajia exclaimed in amazement: "This is a longevity gene." And it's the kind that is stably inherited from the woman. She is so envious.

In this day and age, if you can live to 80 years old or above, you can be considered to have a long life.

But Auntie Tian'er's mother was indeed very strong and sometimes even went to work in the fields. People with quick hands and feet were better than some lazy people.

The fish soup was bubbling, it was already heated up, and the aroma was filling the air again.

Wei Dai took a clean bowl and drank a large bowl of soup first. He felt much better after the hot soup went into his stomach.

Wen Jiajia pushed several plates of food in front of him and said, "Eat them all. Don't leave any leftovers."

She really doesn't like leftovers, but it's common to eat leftovers nowadays, especially in winter, even green vegetables will be saved for the next day.

Wen Jiajia didn't know whether the concept that long-stored vegetables are prone to produce nitrite had been proposed, so it was not easy for her to bring this up to explain to Wei Dai and the others. She could only try to finish all the vegetables the day before.

Wei Dai quickly poured the dishes and soup into his rice bowl. He had a big appetite, so these dishes were nothing to him.

night.

Wen Jiajia filled several hand warmers with hot water, gave one to her cousin, and put another in her room. Her cousin was very afraid of cold, so she had to refill the hand warmers with hot water in the early morning when they became cold.

Give two more to Wen Chun and Wen Xuan.

The two sisters used to sleep together sometimes, but now they never sleep together anymore. They both prefer to sleep alone.

Maybe it's because they are with each other day and night, which makes them a little bored.

Take the last two to your room.

First put the hand warmer on Wen Xiaomei’s bed to warm up the quilt, and then put it on your own bed.

Wen Xiaomei has been grinding her teeth a lot recently, so Wen Jiajia decided to wean her off because of this.

However, even without breast milk, she still has goat milk, cow milk, milk powder and complementary food to survive, so she doesn't really miss breast milk.

The little girl was crawling on the bed at this moment, and when she climbed onto her father's lap, she lay there giggling. Her saliva was dripping from her laughter, and her father quickly wiped her clean with a towel.

Wen Jiajia touched her underwear and smelled it again: "Fortunately, there is no sour smell. Let's take a shower when the weather gets hotter."

Wei Dai retorted: "How can such a young child have any sour smell?"

"..." Wen Jiajia didn't want to argue with him. In Wei Dai's eyes, his daughter was perfect.

Wen Xiaomei played for a long time before she felt sleepy. When she fell asleep, Wen Jiajia was still reading. This was the most comfortable time of the day.

I was half sitting on the bed, wrapped in a blanket and covered with a quilt, with a hand warmer at my feet, but I still felt a little sleepy.

"Oh!" Wen Jiajia almost fell asleep again and wanted to pinch herself. "A comfortable environment really makes people relax their vigilance."

Wei Dai stood up and poured her a glass of water: "Don't push yourself too hard. I think even if you can recover, it will be next year."

The next year he refers to here is 1978.

"Probably next summer, which means you still have a year and a half."

Wen Jiajia snorted softly, with an expression that said "How do you mortals know that I have opened the eyes of God?" She turned over and continued reading, muttering to herself, and decided that she had to memorize this passage thoroughly no matter what.

The next day.

Today was a rest day, so Wen Jiajia personally stewed the beef bones.

The beef bones were very large, so Wen Jiajia asked Wei Dai to chop them into small pieces with an axe, then blanch them in water and stew them in the pot.

The smell soon wafted out. The aroma of the beef was so overbearing that it could be carried by the cold wind to the house farthest from her home in Beishan.

Wen Jiajia took a deep breath, went to drink the soup, then nodded with great satisfaction.

Not bad, not bad, it seems to taste better than what she made in her previous life.

I cooked from morning till noon, the sun occasionally appeared and then hid behind the dark clouds. Although it was noon, the temperature was not high.

Finally, most of the pot of beef bones was cooked through.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan smelled the fragrance before they got home, and were already waiting by the stove.

The two sisters would go back to eat beef every now and then. Although they had eaten many delicious foods, they still could not resist the aroma of beef bones. They would wait by the stove, waiting for the pot to be boiled, as if they had just eaten the meat two years ago.

Wen Jiajia suddenly smiled and asked, "Do you two still remember our hometown?"

It's been a few years since I left home, and the two girls have grown up a lot. I'm afraid they have forgotten most of it.

Wen Xuan has an average memory and indeed doesn't remember much.

But Wenchun still remembered that she nodded and said, "I like the eel porridge made by my aunt."

She still has some regrets: "I used to eat eels at home, but now I don't eat them much."

Wei Dai came back from outside with a few fish in his hands: "That's because we have real fish to eat now, so we naturally won't eat more eels. Eels have no meat and are not worth eating. They are not as good as shrimps. But if you want to eat them, your uncle-in-law will catch them for you next year."

Wen Chun smiled and said, "It will be available in May. Uncle, you must catch it for me in May."

"Okay." Wei Dai put a few fish in the kitchen and said to Wen Jiajia, "Leave some fire for a while, I'll steam a fish."

Wen Jiajia was surprised: "Where did the yellow turtle come from?"

"Yellow turtle? We call it yellow croaker at home." Wei Dai scooped some hot water into the basin, put his hand in the hot water, and said comfortably: "I bought it outside. I don't know how it was caught. It's surprising that I can catch yellow croaker in this weather."

Wen Jiajia counted and found that there were eight!

A few decades later, most yellow turtles are farmed. She has never eaten yellow turtles that grow naturally in lakes and rivers like this one, so they must be very fresh.

Wen Jiajia said: "I think this fish should be braised or cooked in soup to be delicious."

Wei Dai said, "Leave one for steaming, and the rest can be cooked into soup or stewed. Steam it for my little sister. The doctor said that children need to eat more fish and shrimp."

Wen Jiajia nodded, thinking that she should cook the yellow turtle into soup, as she already had braised beef bones today.

The lunch was quite rich.

Put the braised beef bones in a pot, put the yellow turtle soup in a bowl, and finally use sugar to make a cold tomato salad, and lunch is ready.

The tomatoes were grown by my cousin in the house. Wen Jiajia and Wei Dai had been unable to grow tomatoes in the past few years, and could only grow some easy-to-grow leafy vegetables. Who would have thought that my cousin could grow them right away.

It seems that talent is very important when it comes to farming.

Braised beef bones basically need to be chewed with hands, as they are difficult to hold with chopsticks anyway.

She stewed the beef until it was very soft, and the flavors of the seasonings and spices had completely permeated into the beef. When you take a bite, the meat and the tendons near the bones go into your mouth. It is fragrant and spicy, but not dry... Wen Jiajia's eyes narrowed.

I haven't eaten such delicious food for a long time.

Wen Chun and Wen Xuan ate so much that the juice ran all over their faces and they didn't even bother to wipe it off. My cousin even threw the iron rule of not eating too much meat to the back of her mind and ate three pieces of beef bones in a row.

Wen Jiajia was the most stable one. After chewing a bone, she scooped herself a bowl of soup with a fish in it.

The yellow turtle is fried in oil first and then poured into boiling water, so that the soup will become white and fragrant.

After Wen Jiajia took a sip, she felt that wild yellow turtles were much fresher than farmed ones.

It is natural freshness, not the freshness added by MSG. This kind of ingredient can only be eaten at this time.

Even wild yellow turtles will not be as delicious as they are now in a few decades. There is no way around it, the water quality has deteriorated a lot.

When she had almost finished eating, Wei Dai also helped his daughter finish the fish.

Every time when eating meat, Wen Xiaomei is the happiest. Compared with various vegetable and fruit purees, she obviously likes meat very much.

Wen Jiajia sometimes said, "Who knows, she might be an even better eater than her second sister in the future."

But think about it, it's impossible, no child can love to eat more or eat better than Wen Xuan.

The end of the year has passed quickly and another year has passed.

Wen Jiajia is a very busy deputy director. Not only does she have to deal with more and more things, but she also has to attend more and more meetings.

It is said that there will be two more differences next year.

One time they went to the provincial capital, and the other time they didn’t mention it yet. Wen Jiajia guessed that they were probably going to Hai City.

There is no other way. I have to enter the machine again.

At the year-end meeting, Director Shen made a tough statement, saying that the factory would have to expand to 1,200 people next year, directly aiming for a factory with 1,000 employees. This would be a huge challenge for everyone in the factory.

Wen Jiajia guessed that next year would be busy, but she didn't expect it to be so busy.

The end of the year... This time it's the real end of the year, she only has a holiday on New Year's Eve.

Wen Jiajia received her first salary after being promoted to deputy director. She was quite happy, because after all, how could she not be happy when she received cash?

But there is a very practical problem, she actually has no time to spend money! This is really surprising.

Wen Jiajia originally wanted to go shopping before the New Year, but now it seems better to go home directly.

It was dark, so dark that I had to turn on a light to see the road clearly.

Fortunately, the factory recently recruited some people from the military village nearby, so Wen Jiajia was not very scared to have several people working together, otherwise she would not dare to work overtime.

"Hey, when can we get a house?"

Some people passing by the construction site outside the city expressed their feelings.

But now it probably can’t be called a construction site, but should be called pharmaceutical glass dormitory, meaning the dormitory of pharmaceutical factories and medical glass factories.

Strangely enough, the chemical plant had no share in the dormitory building. Its share all went into the hands of Yi Bo. No one knew how Director Shen did it.

As a result, Wen Jiajia doesn't dare to go to the chemical industry recently. People from the chemical industry glare at people from the medical field when they see them.

However, as a vested interest, Yi Glass is indeed very happy. There are suddenly two more buildings in the factory, and I don’t know how many people they can accommodate.

Director Gao even came to ask Wen Jiajia if she wanted to apply, but Wen Jiajia refused. She was about to leave her job, so there was no need for her to join in the fun.

However, Fang Hongjun took advantage of this opportunity to get a larger house.

He was originally allocated 45 square meters, but now he has 78 square meters. Wen Jiajia went to see Chen Qianyue a few days ago. Chen Qianyue was very happy about this and said, "It's bigger than my parents' house."

She actually went back home before the blind date, and she said there was no place for her to step at home at that time.

She felt very cramped. Her room had become the room of her two nephews, and there was no trace of her. Even the table she had asked her father to build for her when she was a child was gone, because the room was too narrow and the table would take up space if two people lived there.

That's okay. With housing shortages, there's no way we can just reserve the house for her.

But what made her most sad was her family's alienation, politeness and unfamiliarity towards her... and their attitude and words, asking her openly and secretly when she would be back.

She only stayed at home for two days, and after two days she couldn't help but buy a ticket back to Fuyang.

In fact, most educated youth had to face this situation. Even family ties needed to be maintained by meeting each other frequently.

Because of this incident, Chen Qianyue completely gave up the idea of ​​going home and decided to settle down in Fuyang.

Who would have thought that after so many twists and turns she would end up back in the city? Now she felt that life was so wonderful and she no longer thought about those messy things.

Wen Jiajia returned home and put her newly-earned salary into an iron box. This was her starting fund for the next few years.

Then the New Year's Eve dinner began.

The New Year’s Eve dinner was as sumptuous as last year. Wen Jiajia ate until her belly was full. Even if she didn’t want to celebrate the new year, she had to celebrate it.

This year, no one dared to set off big firecrackers, only children were playing with small firecrackers.

Wen Jiajia and Wei Dai were sitting in the living room, one reciting a lesson and the other carving peach charms.

The Xie family next door has a chime clock. When 12 o'clock arrived, the first day of the Lunar New Year in 1977, the chime clock rang, indicating that even though it was dark at this moment, the new year had begun.

The new year begins with everything new.

"It's been 77 years." Wen Jiajia put down the book and muttered to herself. She had been waiting for this year for a long time.

Wei Dai stood up and went outside to hang the peach charms for blessing and warding off misfortune on the door, praying that everything would go well for the family in the coming year.

Wen Jiajia, who was so tired that she didn't have a holiday until New Year's Eve, wanted to lie paralyzed in bed on New Year's Day.

However, the first day of the new year is crucial. No matter how tired you are, you must appear full of energy.

It was a nice day, with bright sunshine and a suitable temperature, so the family went out for a walk.

After a day's stroll, Wen Jiajia refused to get up on the second day of the Chinese New Year and rested in bed the whole day. She also spent the third day of the Chinese New Year at home.

On the fourth day of the New Year, I returned to the factory to work.

The days after the New Year were like the accelerator was on, they didn’t seem to pass very quickly and in the blink of an eye it was the Lantern Festival.

After the Lantern Festival, the New Year is over.

During these ten days, Wen Jiajia went out early and came back late every day, busy with exchanges with the Yun Provincial Medical Glass Factory.

The two companies have a lot of overlap in their products, which provides them with a lot of topics to discuss.

Due to the long distance, the sales areas do not overlap, so the two factories are relatively harmonious at the moment.

However, Wen Jiajia thought that once the market was liberalized and transportation became more convenient, the two medical glass factories would probably fight to the death for orders.

As the actual person in charge of organizing this exchange meeting, Wen Jiajia ran around so much that her legs were exhausted. She also arranged accommodation and meals, and she was only able to take a break at the end of the month.

But she was still nervous because the exchange meeting had begun and she had to keep an eye on it. This was the first time she was assigned to take charge of a major task after assuming her new position and no accidents could happen.

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