Chapter 2: Three Cents
Every time Shen Wantang entered Shen Zhuyi's room, she couldn't help feeling jealous. Good-looking, the biggest room, the best furniture, the most fashionable clothes, even the man was the best. Why did all these belong to Shen Zhuyi!
In her previous life, she married a clerk with a city hukou who was envied by everyone. She thought that even if she was not as good as Chen Zhuyi, she was not inferior to him.
But who would have thought that her husband would be laid off and start drinking, leaving her five children hungry and hungry, so she had no choice but to find a job to support them.
But she knew nothing and could only do the dirtiest and most tiring work, watching the glamorous Chen Zhuyi on TV in a shabby restaurant.
God has mercy on her, and she is reborn!
This life, she'll be the wife of a scientist! She'll be on TV!
There was a look of pleasure in Shen Wantang's eyes.
"Cousin, Brother An Che came to see you this afternoon, but you were not there. He waited for you for a while and then left." As he spoke, Shen Wantang showed off his wrist.
"Look, cousin, this is a gift from Brother An Che. Does it look good?"
Chen Zhuyi's gaze fell on the red rope on his wrist.
"It's 30 cents a stick at the supply and marketing cooperative. What's so good about it?" After saying that, Chen Zhuyi walked to the custom-made dressing table, pulled out a box, and handed it to Chen Wantang.
It was filled with all kinds of hairpins and bracelets.
Chen Zhu looked helpless.
"Look, these are all gifts from An Che. I always tell him not to give me any more, but he insists on giving me more. He even says he'll give me more when we get married."
When saying this, Chen Zhuyi pretended to be shy.
"An Che said that he would get married when I was old enough. Come to think of it, my birthday is just a few days away."
Chen Wantang stared at the jewelry in the box. The red rope on her wrist seemed like a joke at the moment. When she heard what Chen Zhuyi said, her face twisted a little. Without saying anything, she turned and left the room.
Chen Zhu looked at Chen Wantang's back and a triumphant smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
Planning the plans for the next few days in his mind, Chen Zhuyi lay on the bed and slowly fell asleep.
The next morning, when Chen Zhu woke up, he found out that Chen Wantang had left early.
It seems that the sense of crisis is strong enough.
Chen Zhuyi finished her porridge slowly. Her second uncle went to work, and her second aunt took the children out to buy groceries and chat about gossip. She was the only one in the whole house.
Chen Zhu wiped his mouth, stood up and walked to his second uncle's room.
After searching for a while, I finally found a passbook and a pile of big unity notes inside the mattress.
The passbook was opened in her name by her parents when she was born. Every year on her birthday, they would deposit some money into it. Until her parents died when she was seven years old, the annual pension was also deposited into the passbook.
My second uncle took this passbook away and asked me to keep it for him.
When Chen Zhu opened it, her eyes widened when she saw the number on it.
One thousand one hundred yuan.
The money in the passbook was not touched. It was probably because my second uncle's family was afraid of being in trouble with their uncles and aunts and did not dare to touch it.
Chen Zhu put the passbook into his own space and turned his gaze to the pile of big unity.
If I'm not mistaken, that was the money my second uncle earned from selling scrap steel.
This money is illegal and she cannot touch it.
Chen Zhu stuffed the big unity back into the mattress, went out, glanced at the time, estimated it in his mind, and went out with the key.
At the school gate.
Ma Niannian stretched her head and looked around anxiously. When she saw Chen Zhuyi's figure, her eyes lit up and she immediately ran forward.
"You're finally here. I brought the price we agreed on, eight hundred dollars! You take me to sign and we'll do the deal on the spot!"
"good."
Chen Zhuyi found Ma Niannian on the afternoon of the first day after his rebirth.
Her family was well-off in the class. Her parents were both workers and favored her, so they talked to her about selling jobs.
The early 1970s was a time of craze for going to the countryside. Notices about going to the countryside were posted all over the streets and alleys, and every household in the county was required to have a young person over 18 years old go to the countryside.
The Shen family has the privilege to choose not to go because Shen Zhuyi is the child of a martyr, while the second uncle's family has a young son, and only Shen Wantang is the most suitable age.
In the previous life, in order to avoid going to the countryside, the second uncle's family knelt in front of Shen Zhuyi and begged her to give the job that was about to be assigned to her to Shen Wantang.
After ten years of mental oppression and moral kidnapping, and with her fiancé's persuasion, Chen Zhuyi agreed even though she was reluctant.
But now this job cannot be given to Shen Wantang, so Shen Zhuyi plans to sell it.
Chen Zhuyi is the child of a martyr, and everyone in the class knows that he will be assigned a job when he turns 18. Ma Niannian was worried about going to the countryside, and her family was planning to give her her mother's job if it really didn't work out. That's when Chen Zhuyi came to find her.
Eight hundred yuan is indeed not a small amount of money, but a regular employee of the supply and marketing cooperative earns a full twenty-eight yuan a month, and the investment can be recovered in two or three years. Besides, being a salesperson sounds very prestigious, and it will be easier for Ma Niannian to find a partner in the future.
The family members worked together to plan and scraped together eight hundred yuan and asked Ma Niannian to decide on it quickly.
The two of them came to the supply and marketing cooperative together. The promise they made to the Shen family before was just a verbal promise, and it would only be legally effective if it was signed and sealed.
After leaving the supply and marketing cooperative, Chen Zhuyi's small treasury had an additional 800 yuan.
After saying goodbye to Ma Niannian, Chen Zhu went to the military compound to find Wang Youwei again.
Wang Youwei took out a piece of paper with three addresses on it.
"Girl Yi Yi, these are the people I've selected from places with better economic conditions and people I know. There are only three of them. Pick one and go to the countryside."
This was one of the things Chen Zhuyi asked Wang Youwei to do yesterday. After all, it concerned his survival in the next few years.
One is on the black soil, one is on the island, and one is in the Central Plains.
Chen Zhu thought for a moment and pointed his finger at the address in the middle.
"Uncle Wang, I choose the island."
Knowing that Chen Zhu was determined to go to the countryside, Wang Youwei stopped trying to persuade him and nodded.
"Okay, I also wanted to persuade you to choose the island. That's the first time they recruited educated youth, so the living space will be less crowded. Since I've already made up my mind, I won't bother you. But we will help you buy things for going to the countryside, which can be regarded as helping on behalf of your parents." Wang Youwei's eyes were a little moist, and he changed the subject.
"We've found solid evidence against your second uncle. He'll be demoted to a farm for a minimum of five years, and he'll have a criminal record when he returns. As soon as you ask, I'll immediately report him to the police for arrest. And regarding your claim about Zhao Anche plagiarizing, I've already asked your Uncle Chen to investigate, but it's going to take a while, maybe a month. If it's true, he'll never be able to get into the official system again."
That's good.
In her previous life, she only discovered later that Zhao Anche was actually a brainless idiot, and all the papers he had written before were plagiarized from others.
"Okay, now we have to wait for Shen Wantang and Zhao Anche." Shen Zhu's eyebrows were curved, but there was a coldness in the depths of his eyes.
Over the next two days, as soon as Chen Zhu got the one thousand yuan from selling the house, he bought some things and put them into the space while observing what was happening on Chen Wantang's side.
Finally, on the afternoon of the fourth day, she caught him.
When Chen Zhu heard the "violent" noise next door, he quietly went downstairs and headed straight for the gathering place of the aunties at the entrance of the community, his tone anxious.
"Oh no! I just got home and heard my cousin gasping and yelling at the door. She might have fallen."
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