Hu Guilan consoled them, "Aunts, no one knows what the situation is like there before we get there. This isn't your fault."
"That's what we say, but how can we mothers not blame ourselves?"
"Aunties, I have to say something to you. If you keep thinking like this every day, can your body handle it? You should think positively. Maybe the situation isn't that bad, and the receptionist is just trying to scare them."
Someone on the side echoed, "Exactly. It's no use thinking like that all the time. For example, Sister Ye, you have an old lady at home. If you two keep blaming yourselves, she'll definitely be worried about her grandson. She's already so old, how can she handle that?"
The three of them thought about it and felt that what they said made sense, but they didn't know how to convince themselves.
Ye was hesitant. "Based on what's written in the letter, I really don't know how to think positively. I can't be happy about that meager salary, can I?"
Hearing this, Hu Guilan's eyes lit up and she thought to herself that the opportunity had come.
She organized her words in her mind, then said with a smile, "Why not? I'm not afraid of you laughing at me. Our family has been complained about a lot these days, and they've been saying that Xiaochen's place is expensive. I think if their children could get a salary, they would definitely be very happy, and they would even wake up laughing in their dreams.
So Aunt Ye, if they can be happy about this, then you can be too."
Ye said angrily, "They can't sleep because of this. How bad are these parents? I can't do what they do. To be honest, if I could switch places with their child, I would be willing to spend two thousand yuan."
The other two followed suit, "That's right, people like that are not fit to be parents. Even though my family doesn't have much money, if I could make a change, I would sell everything I have and borrow money to get the money together."
"You can live a very comfortable life by spending a little money, and yet there are people who blame you for such a good thing. You are simply ungrateful. Guilan, tell your family to avoid associating with people like this in the future."
Hu Guilan was skeptical about their statement that they were willing to pay a high price to move their child.
After all, it's just talk, not real money.
Hu Guilan knew very well that, whether they were sincere or not, the three of them would definitely pretend to love the child in front of the neighbors, so she said this in order to make them curse the person she was talking about.
Things turned out just as she expected. The three of them not only cursed her, but also cursed her in a very harsh way.
Hu Guilan suppressed a smile and walked over to pull the three of them over to the stool, asking them to sit down. "Aunts, I was just saying it casually. There's no need to get so excited. Besides, getting a salary is a good thing. It should make you feel a little happier, right?"
During this time, she glanced calmly at the woman who had persuaded the three people to read the letter here.
I found that the other person's face turned green and he looked restless.
But even so, she couldn't just get up and leave, otherwise she would be incriminating herself.
Seeing this, Hu Guilan was so happy that she almost couldn't hold back her laughter. She pinched herself secretly to stop herself from laughing.
The three of them looked at each other and nodded slightly, "Indeed, there is a little bit."
"That's all. Let's think about other things that can make people happy. Oh, by the way, the letter said that during the winter there, they had to burn firewood every night to keep warm. This means there's no shortage of firewood there, which is great. Unlike where Xiaochen went, the weather was not only cold, but it was even difficult to find firewood."
Everyone was a little confused. Since when did having enough firewood make people happy?
Besides, it’s just a little difficult to pick up firewood where Li Chen is, but there is firewood there. Can this be used for comparison?
Seeing their expressions, Hu Guilan understood their thoughts a little, but she didn't care.
She mentioned Li Chen to continue to squeeze someone, and it doesn’t matter what other people think.
When they came to their senses, everyone thought that Hu Guilan really couldn't think of anything to make people happy, so she had to make it up.
For a while, everyone thought she was a good person. She was willing to say such words to relieve the neighbor aunt's low mood...
In this way, in the following conversation, Hu Guilan would mention Li Chen every few words, and she squeezed someone so hard that he wanted to crawl into the ground.
In the evening, she told this story to everyone in the Li family, and her back teeth were exposed with joy.
But this is just the beginning.
Over the next few days, letters sent from other rural areas arrived in Tang County one after another.
Judging from the situation described in the letter, the places they are in are not as good as Li Chen's.
So whenever she met someone, Hu Guilan would always find ways to tease them.
It won’t be over until people are forced to stop coming to the Li family.
Another incident happened during this period. The Mu family members who went to the Du family to cause trouble were sentenced.
Due to the serious nature of the crime, the ringleader was directly sentenced to ten years in prison, and the rest were sentenced to one to five years.
...
More than a year passed in the blink of an eye, and it was May 1970.
This day.
The long-lasting peace in Tang County was broken by a piece of news: the young people in the city were going to the countryside again.
Hearing the voice coming from the loudspeaker, Master Qi from the motorcade couldn't help but say, "Last year, no one over the age of fourteen was allowed to go to the countryside. Doesn't that mean it won't happen again in the future? Why did it suddenly pop up again today?"
In fact, he is not the only one who thinks so.
The year before last, people who went to the countryside had to be at least fourteen years old. Some people who did not meet the age requirement met it last year, but there were no activities to go to the countryside last year, so many people thought that people would no longer be allowed to go to the countryside.
Li Xu explained, "I heard that many people in the first batch of people who went to the countryside didn't perform well, and the younger they were, the worse it was. So the authorities raised the age limit by one year, to 15 years old. Last year, no one met the requirements, so the program didn't go to the countryside."
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