The first interaction between Lin Guoqing and Ye Juncai was the road to the provincial capital, and he also helped to buy a car.
After buying the tricycle, they actually had no contact, but he forgot about the other person before he finished using it. During the holidays, he would go to the bicycle factory to give the other person some local specialties from home.
Whether it was rice cakes, rapeseed oil, or the most common poultry eggs in his family, sometimes there were also dried bamboo shoots dried by Liang Shengdi, and once he even brought a chicken.
Ye Juncai must have been pushing it away at first, wondering how he could possibly take Lin Guoqing's things, but Lin Guoqing thought he could. We're all brothers, so isn't it normal to visit relatives and friends? Unless you don't consider me a brother anymore.
Later, perhaps when Ye Juncai brought the things home, his family gave him an idea. In exchange for gifts, they would also give Lin Guoqing some specialties from the city.
It is true that city dwellers have money, but supplies are in short supply these days. Even if city dwellers have money and tickets, they may still be faced with empty shelves when they walk into a supply and marketing cooperative and be unable to buy anything.
And these rural people, with a bunch of local specialties, what they lack most is money.
So the two families reciprocated each other's kindness and the relationship became stable.
As for Lao Shi, he did suffer from depression at first. After all, every day when he returned home and opened the door, the house was empty and there was no one around. He felt like a walking corpse even when he ate or slept.
In the first year, Lin Guoqing asked him to come over to his house to celebrate the New Year together. He agreed, but in the end he didn't come. Lin Guoqing rode his tricycle and took his family to the city to visit him.
As soon as I entered the steel plant's family compound, I said I was looking for Lao Shi, and everyone was very enthusiastic to give me directions.
"That, that, that... Hey, you're Shi Zhiqiang's... Oh, friends? Hello friends! Hello friends! Go quickly! This kid hasn't gone out all day during New Year's, he's almost suffocating! Since you're friends, why not take him out for a walk more often to cheer him up..."
Old Shi sat at his dining table for a long time, unable to recover from the shock. When had there ever been so many people at home? It was so noisy that he was almost deaf.
"Uncle Shi, what is this?"
"...a flush toilet."
"Wow~ Then you don't even have to empty the toilet~"
"Uncle Shi, Uncle Shi, is this a real flower or a fake one?"
"…Plastic flowers, fake ones."
"Wow~ That's amazing~"
"Uncle Shi, Uncle Shi, is this a radio?"
"Um……"
"Ahhh, it's moving, it's ringing!"
"Uncle Shi..."
Uncle Shi: What was he planning to do? Oh, where's the rope for hanging? It seems Guoqing's third child took it and started skipping...
...It's so noisy and annoying, I don't have time to be depressed...
After the Chinese New Year, the factory was even more proactive than he was in arranging blind dates for him, saying that they must find him a wife and start a family as soon as possible. This was also their target for this year.
Lao Shi initially refused, saying his parents had just passed away and he needed to observe mourning. As a result, the factory director personally came to his house and scolded him.
"Why do you think your father went with your mother? It was to make you observe the mourning period! If you really observe the mourning period for three years to show him, believe it or not, Lao Shi will have to come back and slap you in the face to wake you up even if he steps onto the Naihe Bridge!"
Don't you know what he wants? Where's your brain? If you're truly filial, get married quickly! Give them grandchildren and see how they do it! "
By the second half of this year, Lao Shi’s eldest daughter, Shi Meimei, will be going to kindergarten.
Thanks to them, Lin Guoqing took over the position of section chief above him in just one year. Most of the business of the electroplating factory was brought in by him. The factory director said that no one else could be absent, but Lin Guoqing must be.
On New Year's Day in 1983, Lin Guoqing officially took the position of section chief of the supply and marketing department of the electroplating factory.
The disadvantage is that I am extremely busy every day and have to go out every few days to travel within and outside the province to solicit business.
The advantage is that you have money. The basic monthly salary is 30 yuan, and the subsidies, in addition to the food coupons, add up to 5 yuan. The year-end bonus is 1,000 yuan.
When he returned home for the Lunar New Year holiday, he pulled out 10 bundles of Da Tuanjie from his pocket like they were candies. Chen Chunhua was stunned. After a while, she smiled and slapped him on the arm, "I told you it was right to listen to me!"
"Hehehe, that's right, that's right... How could what my wife said be wrong!" Lin Guoqing couldn't close his mouth with laughter, and never mentioned again that he was going to leave the factory to sell vegetables with Chen Chunhua.
Working in a factory has its advantages. At least you can get a fixed salary every month, which is something that small vendor Chen Chunhua does not have.
Ever since Lao Shi stopped being a ticket scalper, it has become much more difficult for his family to eat pork. Families in the village who raise pigs have to wait until the New Year to take the pigs out to sell, and no one would slaughter pigs or sheep during non-holidays.
If I want to eat meat, I mainly rely on the chickens, ducks, and geese at home, the fish I catch myself, and the meat tickets that Ye Juncai occasionally gives me.
But when Lin Guoqing went to the electroplating factory, he was given a fixed amount of meat coupons every month. In addition, he also received food coupons, cloth coupons... and even popsicle coupons. Although it was not as much as the urban workers, it was still something.
Especially after he joined the Supply and Marketing Department, he had to go out on business, and the factory would give him food coupons for traveling, but he was very stingy with himself. He would grab a handful of food coupons, and unless he was treating others to a meal, he would eat the steamed buns or sweet potatoes he brought from home.
Last year, it was hot, and the sweet potatoes he brought back from running were already rotten, but he still ate them. He ended up vomiting and having diarrhea on the train, and collapsed. By the time he got to the station, he couldn't even stand.
It was the comrades at the station who sent her to the hospital. They then called the village factory, and the director told the village committee that Lin Fuqiang had come riding his 28-inch bicycle at full speed to report the news, and that was how Shen Chunhua found out.
She had acute gastroenteritis and was on an IV drip in the hospital for three days. The factory considered it a work injury and she didn't have to pay for the medical expenses. But for that month, whenever Chen Chunhua opened her eyes, she would start calling Lin Guoqing a fool, and Liang Shengdi would join in the fun, and the four children would nod in agreement.
Lin Guoqing's status at home declined sharply. Fortunately, those pet chickens had been sold, otherwise he suspected that even the chickens at home would peck him a few times when they saw him.
In this way, the Ma sisters helped manage the farm. Chen Chunhua rode her bike out early every morning to deliver eggs and vegetables, and then came back to help Liang Shengdi work in the fields.
Lin Guoqing earned a salary and money at the factory, and sent his children to school to study hard and make progress every day.
After several years of hard work, the changes in the Lin family are visible to the naked eye.
The youngest, Lin Shumei, will be in the fourth grade after the summer vacation. Elementary schools now have a five-year system, so the third child will be in the first grade, and the second child will be in the third grade soon. They will graduate from junior high school next year. It depends on their scores whether they can continue to study or go back home to farm if they fail the exam.ヽ(ー_ー)ノ
The eldest daughter, Lin Shuying, was admitted to the city high school last summer. Although her score was not very high, at least she was admitted.
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Why is no one watching it recently? No one is chatting anymore, and there are no flowers anymore. I am crying my ass off o(╥﹏╥)o
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