Chapter 40: The Yang Family's Daughter-in-law is Forty
The two of them wandered around the county town for half a day, and when they thought it was almost noon, they returned to the food factory.
Because the weather outside was too hot, both of them were sweating after walking around, so they went to get some hot water and simply washed themselves.
As soon as I finished my work here, Accountant Qian came over to look for someone.
"Xiao Lin, Xiao Yang, hurry up and follow me."
"Your aunt has prepared a lot of delicious dishes today, especially to entertain you two."
"If I hadn't been delayed by something over there, we should have been able to go home earlier."
Accountant Qian led the two people through the streets and alleys, and kept explaining why he was late.
The three of them soon arrived at the gate of a courtyard.
As expected, it’s Accountant Qian’s residence. The yard is spacious and bright, and there are many rooms.
However, Accountant Qian’s family has quite a few people, including his elderly parents and several children.
The oldest one is not much younger than Lin Wanwan and the others, and the youngest one still needs someone to hold him and feed him.
In this era, family planning had not yet become popular, and every household had many children.
When Lin Wanwan and the others came over, Accountant Qian's wife immediately welcomed them in warmly.
Everyone chatted for a while before sitting down.
Lin Wanwan and Yang Qingfeng were so warmly received that they no longer felt as reserved as they did at the beginning.
Gradually, I started chatting with Accountant Qian's family.
Accountant Qian's family usually talked about interesting things in the city. In order to avoid embarrassing the two, they specifically asked about life in the countryside.
"Xiao Lin, you may not know this, but this city has many advantages except for one thing: food is hard to come by."
"It's not just the staple food, but also the various vegetables and pickles. If you want to get more, you have to pay double the price."
"City people only dress a little better, but their food is not as good as yours in the countryside!"
Aunt Qian's face was full of worry when she talked about this.
Although there is a black market in the county town, their family often goes to the black market.
But the prices on the black market are too high, and no one can afford it in the long run.
"I didn't expect that life in the city is so difficult for you, Auntie. We have it better in the countryside. In addition to the food we earn from the fields, we can also go to the mountains to pick wild vegetables, mushrooms, and game to eat."
Lin Wanwan listened to Aunt Qian's complaints and suddenly lost hope for life in the city.
She still prefers life in the countryside, where she has no worries about food and drink, but the daily work is a little harder.
But what’s wrong with a little hard work?
Being able to eat full meals every day and occasionally hunt for something to satisfy your hunger, such a life is so rare.
"Xiao Lin! You don't understand. We city people actually envy the lives of country people."
"It's just that we're used to city life. If we go back to the countryside, I guess we won't even be able to support ourselves."
What Aunt Qian said was true. Although it was a little difficult to get food in the city, there was still salary and food supply every month.
If there are many workers in the family, it is actually not very difficult, and it may even be more comfortable than in the countryside.
The fear is that in some working-class families, only one or two people actually have jobs, while the entire family has to feed themselves.
This large family had neither rural work points nor urban treatment, so they relied on the two workers for their livelihood.
There are many cases like this in the county town.
Many families gave up their rural work-point-earning lives and became dependent on these two workers just because they had one or two workers.
Although they can take some paper box pasting jobs in the community, if these people are really willing to work honestly, how could they run from the countryside to the city to suck the blood of their families?
Aunt Qian looked down upon people like this the most, and there was one such family in their alley.
The son found a wife who had a job in the county and moved to the county to live.
But not long after they got married, the elderly in the family came to live with them, along with a large group of children.
The young wife was not happy in the first place, and the two old people were stingy and took the grandchildren born to other children to live a life of free food and drink in the city.
It’s understandable that an old man is too old to work, but what about raising a child for his brother?
But the old man is not stingy, and the parents of the children who live with the uncle are unwilling to pay money or food.
A few kilograms of food are sent over every month, which is considered the children's food rations.
Although people were given rations, in reality these rations were not enough for a few meals.
When Aunt Qian thought of this family, she felt a buzzing in her head.
I heard that the young wife in that family is getting a divorce from her husband!
The guy is a good guy, but it's a pity that he has such a group of terrible relatives.
It's embarrassing to live in the house bought by the father-in-law for his wife, and now the family members are dragging it down.
Aunt Qian heard that the man seemed to be selling his job and planned to return to the countryside to live with his parents.
When the couple divorces, the man will return to the countryside with his family, young and old, and will have to make a living by digging in the soil.
I don’t know what those two old people were thinking. They had to force their youngest son into a desperate situation.
Mingming has a bright future in the county town, and with the support of his father-in-law, he will definitely live a good life in the future.
Not to mention anything else, giving the old couple a little money every month is enough for them to eat and drink for the rest of their lives.
It is really sad that things have to get to such an irreversible point.
"By the way, there's a guy in our alley who wants to sell a job. Do you have any interest in this?"
The news was released, but it seemed that the job had not been sold yet, so Aunt Qian had something to say.
Although Accountant Qian had heard something about that family, he had never expected it to come to the point of selling their job.
"What job does that kid from the Chai family do?"
Hearing his wife's question, Accountant Qian couldn't help but ask.
"Old Qian, you really are old and have a bad memory. Isn't Chai Junsheng a porter at the cotton mill?"
Hearing her husband's question, Qian's sister-in-law glared at him unhappily.
She had just talked to this person a few days ago about the Chai family's affairs, how could he have forgotten about them in the blink of an eye?
"Oh, yes!"
"But the handling work in the cotton mill is not easy. If you want to be a warehouse keeper, Xiao Yang, you might consider it."
After hearing about Chai Junsheng's job type, Accountant Qian lost interest.
Porters usually get the least pay and do the hardest and most tiring work, and Accountant Qian doesn't take such work seriously.
"What's wrong with having a porter? It's not like he's carrying it all by himself. Isn't there two people helping him?"
"And the only time you need to exert some strength is when loading and unloading goods. Otherwise, there are small trailers throughout the process."
Aunt Qian has a different opinion. The porters look very tired, but they don’t have heavy tasks every day.
It's enough to work hard three or four times a month. The rest of the time, it's all lifting and moving work. With the help of a small trailer, it's actually much easier than digging for food in the fields.
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