Chapter 16 Reporting the Su Family
To buy labor protection gloves and liberation shoes, you need to provide industrial coupons. Unlike food coupons, each person has a fixed amount every month. Industrial coupons are only issued with wages, one for every 10 yuan of wages, and the amount is calculated by rounding up the last digit of the wages.
Yun Qiao is still in school and has no job. Since his grandmother Liu Zhujun passed away, no industrial coupons have been issued for two months.
To buy a cotton quilt, you need a cotton ticket, and there are only a few kilograms available in a year.
Now, Yun Qiao can buy these things for free with the notice of going to the countryside, so he naturally cannot miss it.
It's just that it's cold in the Northeast, and even a two-jin quilt wouldn't be enough to cover her. The quilts at home all weigh two or four jin. Winters in Shanghai aren't too cold, so a four-jin quilt is plenty warm enough. But in the Northeast, where water freezes instantly, and temperatures drop dozens of degrees below zero, even a four-jin quilt wouldn't be enough; it would have to be at least six or eight jin.
Yun Qiao planned to unpack her quilts and take them to a quilting place to have them re-quilted, combining the two into one. The quilts were too heavy to bring with her, but now that she knew where she was going to be sent to the countryside, she could send them to the Northeast in advance.
Planning to forget all this, Yun Qiao left the reception office for educated youths and passed by the office hall of educated youths when he was suddenly stopped by Sister Feng.
"Ye Yunqiao?" Sister Feng waved at her: "Ye Yunqiao, come here, I have something to tell you."
Sister Feng had come forward to help her, and when she called him, Yun Qiao hurried over: "Sister Feng, what's the matter?"
Sister Feng pulled Yun Qiao in front of her. She looked around cautiously at first, then covered her lips with her hand, lowered her voice, and whispered to her, "Someone registered as you."
"What?" Yun Qiao's eyes widened in disbelief. "Impersonating me? Signing me up? Is this true?"
"It's absolutely true. How could I lie to you?" Sister Feng said with certainty.
Yun Qiao was silent for a moment, then asked, "Who is this person? He's so bold, isn't he afraid of being exposed?"
"That's right, she's very brave and even tried to get close to me," Sister Feng said. "She's a young girl about your age, with curved eyebrows, big double-lidded eyes, fair skin, and a pretty face. She even wears two pigtails."
After hearing what Sister Feng said, Yun Qiao guessed who it was.
Around her, no one except Su Lin would do such a thing.
"I know who it is. Thank you, Sister Feng."
"No need to thank me, no need to thank me. I just feel sorry for you. How could you have met such a sinister person around you? If you hadn't signed up to go to the countryside a long time ago, you would have been tricked by her!"
After saying goodbye to Sister Feng, Yun Qiao left the office hall of the Educated Youths Office and turned to go to the Up to the Mountains and Down to the Countryside Management Office next door.
If Su Lin dares to plot against her, don't blame her for retaliating!
There were two people in the office, a man and a woman. The man was older, around 40 years old, with a thin face and wrinkles between his eyebrows.
The lesbian was a little younger, but looked to be around thirty years old, with a plump figure and rounded features, and she seemed to have a very amiable personality.
As Yun Qiao walked outside, she heard two people arguing inside. She didn't go in at this time, but stood outside the door and listened for a while, then she found that the two people were arguing about "how to mobilize young people to go to the countryside."
The two people have different opinions.
The young women meant that mobilization should be based on a completely voluntary principle and that people should not be forced to sign up; the older men disagreed, believing that rigid targets should be set and that anyone who met the conditions for going to the countryside must sign up.
The two people had different opinions and started arguing.
The man said, "The deadline for registration for the October batch of educated youth is approaching, but we still have nearly half of the quota assigned to us by the district to go. What are we going to do about this shortfall? You said we want to follow the principle of complete voluntariness, but I tell you, even if you talk your mouth off, no one will volunteer to go!"
The woman disagreed. "You can't just force them to sign up, or they'll just get angry."
"Let them rebel, they won't dare to rebel anyway!" The man snorted coldly. "If you ask me, we need to be tough in our work style. You women are just too soft-hearted, that's why you can't control these unruly people! Xiao Wang, you better listen to me this time, otherwise if we don't meet the target, both you and I will be in trouble."
"So what do you want?"
"Hard targets have been set. Anyone who meets the requirements must sign up to go to the countryside! Anyone who dares not cooperate will be given a lesson to raise their awareness!"
The man thought for a moment and added, "Especially if a family has several children and they dare to resist when we mobilize them, they should be arrested and made an example of to scare the others! They should be sent to a training class for re-education!"
When Yun Qiao heard this, he felt that God was really helping him.
Now it would be difficult for Su Lin to go to the countryside even if she didn't want to.
She knocked on the door and immediately attracted the attention of the two comrades inside.
The man was upset at the moment, and spoke a little rudely: "Comrade, this is the cadre office, we don't receive visitors. To sign up for the rural work, please go to the next door to ask for the registration office."
"Comrade, I've signed up. I'll be going to the Great Northern Wilderness to support construction in a few days."
Yun Qiao was still thinking of beating around the bush, but after listening to the conversation between the two people in the office, he realized they were trying to make an example of him, so he got straight to the point and said, "I'm here to report someone who's trying to avoid going to the countryside! Do you have any say in this?"
"We are in charge! This is exactly what we are in charge of!" The male comrade was delighted when he heard this. He thought that this was just like someone giving him a pillow when he was sleepy. He was worried that he would not be able to complete the target of going to the countryside!
"What's going on? Tell me about it."
"It's the Su Kang family from the Railway Administration's staff housing complex. They have four children. The eldest, Su Lin, is sixteen years old. The second and third are twins, and they'll be ten this year. All three of them meet the requirements for going to the countryside, but they haven't signed up yet."
"Go check it out." The male comrade waved his hand at the female comrade, signaling her to look up the information.
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