With two more property certificates, Yu Yin was temporarily satisfied!
My second brother-in-law rushed home excitedly with his property certificate, eager to show it to his wife. This was the first property they owned as a couple, a property they had worked hard for together!
Yu Yin and her family only mentioned buying the house to their grandparents once, and didn't tell anyone else. Keeping a low profile is the best policy.
The Lunar New Year is almost here, and there's no time to clean these two houses now. I'll have to wait until after the New Year to hire someone to clean them, just to change the locks.
1978 has passed just like that. This year's New Year was still spent with Yu Yin's family, including her grandparents and the rest of their family of six. It was a warm and lively occasion, with happy smiles on everyone's faces.
It felt like only a few days after the Lunar New Year that school started again, and Yu Yin's family was once again busy going to and from school.
Before the start of the school year, Yu Yin received a letter from her younger brother, Yu Kang. He was going to take the college entrance examination this year, and his results were not ideal, but he should be able to get into a junior college.
In the letter, Yu Kang expressed his desire to apply to a university in Shanghai, as he wanted to be closer to his second sister and missed Ping An and the others. He asked his second sister and brother-in-law for advice on which universities in Shanghai would be suitable for him, and he also sent his academic transcript.
Yu Yin hadn't seen Yu Kang for several years. Since her father was demobilized and returned to his hometown, she hadn't seen him at all, only exchanging occasional letters.
Yu Yin didn't know why Yu Kang so strongly wanted to take the exam in Shanghai. Wanting to be closer to them was one reason, but it probably wasn't the main reason.
Whatever the reason, it was his own choice, and Yu Yin would not stop him.
Lu Shurui spent several days compiling the key points and outlines for the college entrance examination over the past two years, something he was quite good at. Based on Yu Kang's grades, Lu Shurui also listed several schools that Yu Kang could get into for his reference.
Yu Yin wrote a long letter, explaining the pros and cons of coming to Shanghai, and let Yu Kang make his own choice. He was a seventeen-year-old young man now, and he had to make his own choice about the path he would take in the future.
The letter and documents have been sent out; now it's up to Yu Kang to make his own choice.
In February, Yu Yin received a letter from A Xiang.
In her letter, Ah Xiang said that due to the strike by educated youth and some changes in government power, several routes for transporting Yunnan's specialty products to other regions had been interrupted.
Now, the specialty products of their Dai village and several surrounding minority villages have no market.
Yu Yin knew that Ah Xiang was just chatting with her casually and didn't mean anything by it, but Yu Yin still had some thoughts.
The country is now carrying out domestic reforms and opening up to the outside world. Although it has only just begun, Yu Yin knows that reform and opening up is a trend and an inevitable trend.
She thought of the two-story house she had just bought, and the local specialties Ah Xiang had mentioned. Could she also take advantage of the reform and opening-up policy to do something?
Yu Yuyin never intended to use her prophetic abilities to do anything earth-shattering, nor did she dream of becoming the richest person in the future. She simply came to this era, an era that was said to be full of gold, and she couldn't leave empty-handed.
Yu Yin, like many characters in time-travel novels, went to buy stamps, specifically those featuring the phrase "the whole country is red." She had never collected stamps and didn't know which stamps were valuable; she just knew that the novels always mentioned the phrase "the whole country is red."
However, whether it was because she lacked good fortune or for some other reason, Yu Yin did not find the stamp.
I asked at several post offices, but eventually gave up.
Yu Yin's idea is still just an idea; right now, her main focus is on studying.
The return of educated youth to the city seemed to happen overnight.
The sounds of arguments from families in the alleyways, the gaunt, emaciated crowds with their families on the streets, and the occasional weeping that drifts through the night...
All of this tells people that the educated youth have returned to the city, back to their long-lost homes. But is there still a place for them in these homes? Is there still a bed for them?
Yu Yin knew that most parents were happy for their children to return home, but reality was also cruel.
The house is only so big. Other children have gotten married and had children, taking up most of the space. So where do the children who come back from afar live? This is a problem that gives many parents a headache, but it is also a reality that they have to face.
To say nothing of other places, Aunt Huang's family next door has encountered the same problem.
The house was already small, with only a few rooms. The two younger sons got married and had children, and there was also a young daughter in school, so the living space was already cramped.
When the eldest son came back this time, he brought back his wife, whom he married in the countryside, and their three children, as well as his eldest daughter who had never married.
Where would these extra people live? It was a real headache for Aunt Huang. The children were alright, though; they could squeeze in and sleep.
But what about the adults?
These past few days, Yu Yin has seen people carrying building materials in and out of Aunt Huang's yard. Are they going to build temporary housing in the yard?
"Auntie, are you building a house?"
“Xiaoyu, our eldest son and his family came back, and our eldest daughter came back too. There was just not enough room at home. We found someone to get some old bricks and tiles. Our eldest son is good at repairing houses, so we built two temporary rooms in the yard.”
Although Aunt Huang spoke with a smile, Yu Yin could see the sorrow on her face.
The challenges faced by educated youth returning to the cities were not only housing, but also employment, household registration, and children's schooling...
Yu Yin still admired Aunt Huang's son. According to the policy, male educated youth who returned to the city after marriage were not allowed to bring their spouses and children, while female educated youth could bring their children but not their spouses.
This is what was depicted in many TV dramas at the time: many educated youth chose to divorce and abandon their children in order to return to the city.
Yu Yin didn't know how Aunt Huang's son had managed to bring back not only his children but also his wife. However, it seemed that apart from him, no one else could register their household registration, so they wouldn't receive any grain rations, and going to school would also be a problem.
Yu Yin had seen the three children. The eldest looked to be about five or six years old, and the two younger ones were twins, about two or three years old.
Yu Yin understood why Aunt Huang was worried; with so many mouths to feed, feeding them was a problem.
Aunt Huang's eldest daughter looks to be in her early thirties, but she's actually only twenty-five or twenty-six. She's suffered a lot during her years in Yunnan Province.
The only saving grace was that there was no numbness or despair on her face, and her eyes still held a light. She was a special girl; otherwise, she wouldn't have remained unmarried for so many years just to return to the city.
For a while, everyone in the alley was talking about the educated youth returning to the city.
Some got married locally and couldn't come back, some returned on their own after getting divorced, some were couples from different cities and lived apart after returning to the city, and some brought their families back with them...
This topic comes up everywhere we go.
There are more and more arguments at home over various things, so the argumentative neighbors next door don't seem so noticeable anymore, because everyone is arguing, and they don't stand out at all.
The office for former educated youth was the busiest place, as those returning to the city desperately needed jobs. However, there weren't enough positions available in the city, so they could only wait. Especially those without connections—they had no choice but to wait!
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