Old Mrs. Sun: "Oh, Sister Xu, this little girl is your eldest granddaughter, right?"
Old Madam Yan smiled and said, "Yes, this is my eldest granddaughter, Yan Ning. It's my day off today, so I brought her to your house to introduce herself to the family!"
After saying this, Old Lady Yan introduced Yan Ning: "Ning girl, this is my old sister. She has a very good relationship with Grandma and your Second Grandma. You should call her Grandma Sun."
Yan Ning smiled, "Hello, Grandma Sun!"
Old Mrs. Sun smiled kindly, "Okay, okay, come in and sit down. I have two granddaughters who are one year older than you.
I'm not at home today, I'll introduce you to him some other day."
Yan Ning looked at Old Lady Yan, waiting for her grandmother to make a decision.
Old Lady Yan waved her hand and said, "I won't go in to sit. I still have to take her around the village!"
Old Mrs. Yan took Yan Ning for a walk around the village.
When you pass by a relative's house, introduce your relationship to her.
When passing by a family that is difficult to get along with, remind her not to pay any attention to them.
We met many villagers along the way.
Someone asked out of curiosity.
Old Mrs. Yan generously introduced Yan Ning to the people in the village.
Yan Ning received a lot of stares along the way.
Especially when passing by the intersection near the Youth League Institute.
There were two women who kept staring at Yan Ning.
Yan Ning looked at their clothes and the direction they came from and guessed that they were educated youth.
Old Mrs. Yan had a cold face and walked forward holding Yan Ning's hand.
After walking a distance, Yan Ning finally spoke: "Grandma, were those two people just now educated youth?"
Old Madam Yan regained her usual gentle demeanor. "Yes, that's the one in yellow clothes with long hair. It's He Zhiqing who came to our house last night to look for your second uncle."
Yan Ning recalled the face of He Zhiqing just now, and soon matched it with the sound of the clappers he heard that night.
It’s true...the voice reflects the person.
The two of them wandered around the village until about ten o'clock, finally completing their tour of the entire Daliushu Brigade.
Old Mrs. Yan took Yan Ning back home.
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw Mr. Yan, Yan Guoshu, Yan Guodong and Yan Yulin sitting under the pavilion.
Yan Yulin is doing his homework.
The other three were chatting.
Mrs. Song was washing clothes by the well.
Yan Ning helped Old Lady Yan walk to the stool and sit down.
Yan Guoshu was scratching his sparse hair with a frown on his face. "Oh! Are we really going to let them sleep on the floor after they arrive?"
Old Master Yan swayed while drinking his tea. "Are there any empty houses in this village?"
Yan Guoshu thought for a moment and continued to sigh, "There is a yard, but it has an owner. It is the yard of Uncle Qin's house in the east of the village.
His eldest son is a soldier in the army, and his youngest son works in the commune.
It's not convenient for Uncle Qin to live alone!"
Yan Ning listened for a while and roughly understood what her second uncle was worried about.
She proposed a solution based on her experience from the many period texts she had read.
Yan Ning spoke slowly: "Second Uncle, when will the second batch of educated youth going to the countryside arrive?"
"There is still one week left, and the train will arrive in Tongshi on the morning of the 23rd." Yan Guoshu scratched his hair in annoyance when he thought of this.
Yan Ning looked at Yan Guoshu and said, "Second Uncle, I have a way to solve the housing problem for the educated youth. Please give it a try and see if it works."
Yan Guoshu raised his head and looked at her with hope, "Ning girl, please tell me."
The people nearby also looked at Yan Ning.
Yan Ning spoke uncomfortably under the gaze of everyone.
“Isn’t there a vacant lot behind the Youth League House?
The brigade can build about seven or eight single-person houses on that vacant land.
After the building was completed, we rented it out to the educated youths for a month.
If the educated youth wanted to live there, they would have to pay rent.
If the later group of educated youth wanted to live in free houses, they could live in the educated youth courtyard in front.
The house at the back doesn’t need to be too big, just a kang for sleeping and a stove for cooking will do.”
Mr. and Mrs. Yan looked at Yan Ning with a smile.
Yan Guodong looked at Yan Ning with a smile and approval.
Yan Guoshu applauded, but also felt a little worried. "This is a good idea, but what if no one is willing to rent those houses?"
Yan Ning smiled and said, "Don't worry about this, Second Uncle. It's hard to say what the educated youth who came before are.
They may have become accustomed to living in the Youth House and would not pay to rent a house.
But the educated youth who came later were all from big cities.
Some of them are children from wealthy families and are used to enjoying their daily lives.
Suddenly they came to this countryside, and were made to live in a large dormitory like the Youth House, and eat from a big pot that was difficult to satisfy everyone.
They won't be able to stand it and will wish they could pay to rent a house to live in alone!
The money spent on renting the house just offsets the cost of building the house.
The extra money in the future will be considered as income for the team."
It is only mid-June 1975.
There were more than two years until the resumption of the college entrance examination on October 21, 1977.
There are still more than three years before the educated youth return to the city on a large scale!
I can still earn more than two years of money.
"Okay, okay, okay."
Yan Guoshu said "good" three times in a row, "Ning girl, you are really smart. I will go to the brigade to discuss it with the party secretary and accountant now."
After saying this, Yan Guoshu hurried out of the yard.
Old Madam Yan looked at Yan Ning with a smile, "My eldest granddaughter is really smart.
In Beijing, I have seen a lot and my horizons are different.
He is smarter than everyone in our family."
Yan Ning raised his eyebrows and took a deep breath.
She felt really embarrassed by her grandmother's praise.
It's not her who is smart, but the authors who write period novels.
Yan Ning: "Grandma, you just think I am your granddaughter, so I am good in every way. The smartest person in our family is my uncle.
My eldest brother, my younger brother, and I combined are not as smart as my uncle alone!"
Anyone who can get a job in the county party committee office must be extremely smart.
Yan Ning thought of his uncle's insightful eyes last night, and couldn't help but secretly compliment Yan Guodong in his words.
Yan Guodong curled his lips and looked at her with amusement.
"You are indeed the smartest person in our family. You are the only one who came up with this idea out of so many people. Even I haven't thought of it in this way!"
Yan Ning smiled and said, "Let's not be modest to each other. My intelligence is used in small things, and my uncle's intelligence is reflected in big things."
Yan Ning knew that he was no match for this shrewd fox.
The family was chatting happily.
Yan Yulin, who was doing his homework, suddenly interrupted, "Sister, I'm also very smart. I'm the best at math in the class, and I always rank first in the grade."
Everyone in the yard burst into laughter.
Yan Ning smiled and looked at Yan Yulin, saying seriously, "Yes, my brother is also very smart. Everyone has their own smart points.
We don’t need to compare ourselves with others, as long as we know what we are doing.”
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