Chapter 144: Fun
Time flies and more than a month has passed since Su Hong left. The newspapers and the radio brought exciting news to all the students: the college entrance examination was resumed.
The educated youth from Wangou Village were attending class at school when suddenly someone ran in and handed them a newspaper. When they saw the news, they couldn't help but burst into tears.
In the entire Wangou Village, only the school has electricity, and only a meeting room near the field ditch has electricity. This thing was bought from Zhao Yi, allowing them to study not only during the day but also at night.
Zhao Yi returned to Wangou Village with his family.
Every month when Zhao Yi goes home to bring things to Li Daju, the two little ones always come along.
When the two men returned to the village, all the dogs in the village had to avoid them.
"Grandpa Li."
Seeing Li Dequan, the two little guys ran up to him with a smile and hugged his thighs.
"Hey, Dabaoxuan girl."
Li Dequan was very happy to see the two of them, and hurried into the house to make two cups of malted milk.
At the beginning, these two little guys tortured him so much, as if Su Hong's shell had fallen on them. He followed the village cattle-herding children to the mountains to herd cattle, and the three little guys were lost in the mountains.
Li Dequan was so scared that he quickly contacted Liu Qi and mobilized the entire village to look for him. Li Dequan then went to several nearby villages and called all the militiamen.
Now, as long as the two little guys don’t ask to herd cattle, Li Dequan will agree to almost anything.
After this incident, Li Dequan, who used to herd cattle, no longer dared to let his children do it. Instead, he let the old men in the village who were still able to move do it.
Hearing the voices of Zhao Peng and Zhao Xuanxuan, Li Dequan's big black dog ran away. No matter how Wu Lan called out, the dog pretended not to hear anything.
"Uncle Li."
Zhao Yi came to Li De's family with some gifts.
"You are always so polite, just come here."
Li Dequan smiled.
"Isn't it nice to be polite? How is Uncle Li doing lately?"
Zhao Yi smiled.
"Not bad. I can still work in this position for another 20 years."
Li Dequan said happily.
My son is a driver in a steel factory and earns 70 yuan a month. My daughter-in-law is a worker in a garment factory and earns 36 yuan a month. I have grandchildren and they are all well-behaved, pretty and obedient. As for my daughter and son-in-law, both of them are working.
There was nothing wrong at home, so Li Dequan focused all his energy on the team.
Life is stress-free and he doesn't need to worry about his children. Li Dequan no longer accepts gifts from anyone and lives a very comfortable life.
If they wanted their grandchildren, they would go to the gate of the commune and wait there. When Li Chao's truck passed by, he would take them to the district to stay for two days.
After chatting with Li Dequan for a while, Zhao Yi walked towards the old house.
"Grandma, grandma."
The two little guys shouted loudly as they entered the door.
"Dabao, Xuanxuan."
Li Daju heard the two voices and quickly walked out of the house.
Zhao Gang often suggested that Li Daju live in the city in the future, so that his father could take Li Chao's car to the district during holidays, but Li Daju disagreed and insisted on staying at home to take care of the animals.
He said that if you go to the city, you won’t have as much pork to eat every year.
After touching the tops of the two little guys' heads, Li Daju hurried to the kitchen and cooked sweet wine and eggs for them.
"Are you going to Zhangjia Village today?"
Mother Li Daju looked at Zhao Yi and asked.
"No, their grandparents are in the city, and there's no one there if we go there."
Zhao Yi shook his head.
"Where's Grandma Lihua?"
After eating the eggs, the two men remembered the tabby cat raised by their grandmother.
The three of them bring fifteen yuan home every month from work. Zhao Dahai's salary at the coal mine has now risen to thirty-five yuan a month. The monthly income of the two elderly people is not low. The family has no pressure in life and has saved a lot of food. They raised a tabby cat to prevent mice from eating the food.
The loaches, small fish and shrimps in the village fields can be raised by boiling them in water. No other ingredients are needed and there is no cost involved.
The two little ones miss the cat very much.
"It was just now, Mimi, Mimi."
Li Daju began to call, but the tabby cat on the beam saw the two devils in the house and refused to come down at all.
"Where has this broken cat gone crazy again?"
Li Daju called out a few times but got no response from the tabby cat, so she cursed.
"I saw you dogs were taking a detour, but you still wanted to catch the cat."
Zhang Jing said unhappily when she saw the two of them.
"I have reached the age where people hate me and dogs hate me."
Li Daju also laughed.
The cattle-herding incident had scared Li Daju half to death. She followed the crowd up the mountain to look for them. She almost shouted herself hoarse. When she finally found the two people, she burst into tears.
When Zhao Yi and Zhang Jing rushed back from Zhangjia Village, they had already found the two, but were still severely beaten by Zhang Jing.
Before long it was already afternoon and Zhao Yi had to rush back with the little ones.
"I'll pack up and go to the city with you. The second child is about to give birth, so I'll go over and help."
Li Daju said with a smile.
When Xuan gave birth, Zhang Xiang also gave birth. Her mother-in-law, Wang Kaihui, was unable to come, so it was her mother, Li Daju, who took the initiative to go over and take care of her during the confinement period.
“It should be.”
Zhang Jing nodded.
While Zhao Yi wasn't noticing, he quietly stuffed two dollars into his pocket, asking Li Daju to help deliver a red envelope.
Li Daju nodded, knowing that Zhao Yi would scold Zhang Jing again if he found out.
Zhao Yi said nothing about this. His mother should have gone to see and help take care of the child, and lend a hand if she could.
Back home.
The two little guys immediately turned on the radio, listened to the music and started doing their homework.
"When will your department store give you a TV ticket?"
Zhang Jing looked at Zhao Yi who was cooking and asked.
"I haven't seen the garment factory give you, Director Zhang, a TV ticket."
Zhao Yi joked with a smile.
"If I were the chief director, I would have received it long ago. I can't compare to you, Director Zhao, who has only one workshop."
Zhang Jing also smiled and joked.
Televisions are also scarce now, but ordinary employees have started to be given television tickets, but in relatively small quantities.
The department store almost didn't get any TV ticket quota, otherwise my elder sister Li Mingzhu would have gotten one for herself long ago.
The price of a TV ticket on the black market is now shocking, costing several hundred dollars.
It’s almost the price of a TV.
A 12-inch black-and-white TV only costs 320 yuan, but a ticket like this costs 300 yuan.
Zhang Jing really wanted to buy one, but she couldn't bear to go to the black market to buy one because she thought it was too expensive.
Zhao Yi didn't like it. In a few years, color televisions from Hong Kong would enter the market, and such televisions would suddenly lose their luster. It would be better to go to the movies than to watch TV.
The two little guys had no interest in watching TV, but they often took Zhao Yi's book card to the bookstore to borrow picture books.
"We are going to be rewarded with TV tickets and tickets for model workers at the end of this year, but unfortunately I can't be named a model worker."
Zhang Jing said somewhat frustratedly.
"We don't have any news at all."
Zhao Yi spread his hands and said.
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