Chapter 13 Issuance of Certificates
Although the educated youth in the Victory Brigade did not starve, they could only eat meat once a month, and they had to pool their money and tickets to buy it. They could not get it at all at other times.
Everyone wants to eat meat, so when everyone heard what Wang Mingzhu and Zhang Baoer said, they all lowered their heads and pretended not to hear.
Li Yingying stretched out the chopsticks to the meat dish, but they stopped in mid-air. Finally, she could only reluctantly take the chopsticks back and sat on the bench crying.
Everyone was eating the meat dishes with relish and no one paid any attention to her.
At this time, it is not easy to eat some meat, and others will not give you a few pieces just because you cry.
Li Yingying looked at the people eating heartily, a trace of resentment flashed in her eyes, but she was very hungry, and in the end she could only eat vegetarian food with tears in her eyes.
After finishing their meal, it was already dark. Thinking that the team leader might have already eaten, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao took flashlights, asked the old educated youth where the team leader's home was, and then went to the team leader's home.
Because she wanted to ask the captain for help, Li Ruolan took two taels of brown sugar, and Deng Minghao added a box of Fengshou cigarettes, which cost 27 cents a box. Not expensive, but a good gift, after all, you need a ticket to buy cigarettes.
I knocked on the captain's door and the person who opened the door was his wife, Xu Xiujuan.
"Aunt, is the captain here? We are new educated youth and have something to ask him." Li Ruolan smiled at the captain's wife.
"I'm here, here, come in quickly." Xu Xiujuan looked at the two of them in surprise, but didn't say anything. She smiled and opened the door to let them in.
Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao walked into the room and saw that the captain and his companions had just finished their meal and the dishes had not yet been cleared away. The captain was sitting on the kang and invited the two to sit on it.
Deng Minghao was not polite and sat down next to the captain: "Uncle Wang, we have something to do and need your help. Please accept this little gift."
The captain looked at the brown sugar and cigarettes, and his expression immediately changed: "What are you doing? If you have something to say, just tell me. I will definitely help if I can. You don't have to send anything, just take it away."
Deng Minghao said with a smile: "Just think of it as wedding candy and cigarettes given to you by the two of us. You have to accept it, right?"
The captain and his wife were both stunned, and then looked at Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao in surprise, "Are you two getting married?" The captain's voice was a little loud, full of disbelief.
Nowadays, after graduating from junior high school, as long as you have a job in the city or are married, you don’t have to move to the countryside.
It's obvious that Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao were lovers before they went to the countryside. If they were lovers, why didn't they get married? Did they have to go to the countryside to suffer?
Xu Xiujuan noticed something, and with a gossipy gleam in her eyes, she pulled Li Ruolan onto the kang and asked her what was going on.
“Our family situation is not very good. We are neither the eldest nor the youngest, and we are the ones who are neglected by our parents at home.
Our parents will neither spend money to buy us jobs nor buy us a house for us to get married properly. In this case, it is better to go to the countryside, where we have our own house and can work and support ourselves. "Deng Minghao sighed and said.
These words really touched the hearts of the captain and his wife.
Because the team leader was also the second child, he was neglected a lot when he was a child and was not loved by his father and mother. However, he was the most hardworking and finally became the team leader step by step, while his older and younger brothers were not doing as well as him.
"It's not easy for you two. You just need to get a marriage certificate. That's easy. I'll ask your uncle Wang to get you a certificate so that you can get it tomorrow.
After you settle down in Shengli Brigade, you can live here well. If you have any difficulties, come to your uncle Wang and your aunt, and we will definitely help you!" Xu Xiujuan patted Li Ruolan's hand lovingly and said with some heartache.
Having experienced this kind of suffering herself, Xu Xiujuan could especially understand the two of them.
Deng Minghao and Li Ruolan both smiled and said yes: "In addition to the certificate, there is another thing that Uncle Wang needs to help with. Since we are getting married, we can no longer live in the Youth House.
So we plan to build a house, it doesn’t have to be too big, just one room, a kitchen and a yard.”
Just on the way here, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao discussed how to build a house. In the end, they both decided to just build one room, put up a toilet, and enclose a yard.
It’s not that they don’t want to build a few more houses, but they can’t. One house is enough for the couple. If there are extra rooms, what if other educated youth want to stay with them?
Instead of not knowing how to refuse and having trouble arguing, it is better to just build a house so that others won’t have any ideas.
Also, wealth should not be shown off, so one must pretend to be poor. Therefore, they did not build a brick house, but just the most common adobe house in the village. They only built one house, but it had to be big enough so that they could have children living in it when they had them in the future.
As for the location to build the house, they did not plan to build it in the village, but would just build it on the open space next to the educated youth's yard.
After all, they are all educated youth, and even if they get married, they have to stick together with the educated youth. In the original book, these villagers are very xenophobic. When they have conflicts with the educated youth, the educated youth always suffer in silence. Therefore, it is not safe to live in the village.
The team leader knew what Deng Minghao meant and said, "If you want to build a house, it will cost 40 to 50 yuan to build it completely. Because you have a yard, you need to buy more bricks. Every family in the village has bricks, and they are not expensive. Just give some money as a token of your appreciation.
Wooden beams don't cost money, as there are plenty of trees on the mountain. But you have to hire people to cut them down and carry them back, which costs money.
So the thing that requires the most money is buying tiles, plus the wages for hiring people to do the work, all the miscellaneous expenses are at least this amount, and that doesn't include carpentry work such as doors and windows.
If you want a carpenter, you can go find Lao Zhaotou in the north of the village. He’s the one we go to for carpentry work or making cabinets or beds.”
Deng Minghao nodded, then took out five big unity notes and handed them to the team leader: "Okay, the house matters are all left to you, Uncle Wang. We don't understand so much, so we'll give you the money first.
If it's not enough, I'll make up for it. Oh, and give us some of the vegetable plot, so we can fence it into the yard. It doesn't need to be much, but at least you have to give us some."
"Don't worry. Each educated youth has one private plot. I will mark out your two plots in due time." This was not a big deal at all. The team leader was happy to do a favor and agreed with a smile.
After discussing building the house, Li Ruolan and Deng Minghao followed the team leader to get a certificate. With the certificate they can get their marriage certificate tomorrow.
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