"Accountant Zhao's sons and grandsons are not good enough. If there is another election, we will all recommend you." An old lady who was on good terms with Xu Yanfen immediately spoke up.
The others echoed one by one.
"Yes, yes, we'll choose you."
"You are the only one in the village who is good at studying, so it's you who always takes the accounting job."
"Don't worry, Jingzhi. It's really hard to find work in the city. Let's work in the village first."
Fearing that An Jingzhi would feel disappointed, these old ladies kept comforting him.
In fact, An Jingzhi was not disappointed at all. He got the job recruitment information in the city. After he came here and got along well with a classmate from school, the other party revealed the information to him. An Jingzhi also secretly took the exam and passed.
"What? Got a job at the county glass factory?"
After returning home, his family members also came back one after another, and An Jingzhi chose to confess.
"Yes, but I'm not going."
Before the An family's ecstatic expressions could last long, An Jing's words confused them.
Grandma Xu Yanfen was the first to lose her temper and asked, "Why don't you go? Those jobs in the city are so good that we can't even find them with lanterns. If you pass the exam, just go."
要不是这是她最疼爱的最骄傲的孙子，徐燕芬早就开始拿工具揍人了。
"Grandma, the work at the glass factory is too tiring. Although I'm only a high school student, there are many educated people there. I've taken a look at the work there, and it's too tiring. I can't do it. Isn't there an accounting job in our village that I can do? I thought I'd just take the exam and then sell the position."
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If other people thought the work in the city was too tiring and didn't want to go, Xu Yanfen would kick them out without saying a word, but this was her most beloved grandson, An Jingzhi.
"How tiring is that? Can it be more tiring than planting crops in the fields?" Uncle An's son An Shulin couldn't help but say.
"Pa." Xu Yanfen's anger had reached her chest, and now she found a place to vent it. She slapped An Shulin on the back of his head.
An Shulin looked aggrieved, "Grandma, why did you hit me? It's not like I passed the exam and won't go."
Xu Yanfen couldn't help but choke, "Then you have to pass the exam too."
An Shulin had brought disaster upon himself for no reason, but Xu Yanfen was the head of the family, and everyone was accustomed to her having the final say. No one dared to stand up for An Shulin, even his own mother did not dare to say anything although she was angry.
The job quota was sold for two reasons: firstly, it was convenient to live in the village and repay the original owner's debt; secondly, the work in the factory was indeed too tiring and was far less relaxing than working as a scorekeeper in the village; thirdly, it allowed him to pay back the debt quickly.
Seeing that no one dared to show their faces, An Jingzhi smiled and comforted Xu Yanfen, holding her hand, "Grandma, I really don't want to work in that glass factory. Besides, even if I don't go, we can sell our jobs. We can get at least 500 or 600 yuan. This is all cash. If I go to work, I don't know when I can save up that much money."
"When I first started working, I could only make a dozen yuan a month at most. Even if it was 20 yuan a month, it would take me two or three years to save up that much money."
Seeing that Xu Yanfen still had a stern face and didn't move, An Jingzhi comforted her again, "Grandma, since I can pass the exam the first time, I can pass it the second time. Wait for me to ask my classmates to ask around in the county to see if there are any better jobs. If there is an easier one, I will take the exam. Don't be angry, okay, grandma."
Xu Yanfen's expression relaxed a little. There was a reason why she doted on this grandson. He was the best at studying in the family since he was young, while others were forced to study until elementary school, and then they cried and shouted that they didn't want to go to school anymore.
"You already have your own ideas, why are you still talking to me?" Xu Yanfen said awkwardly.
Looking at the awkward old lady, An Jingzhi smiled again and moved closer to sit next to her. "I just want to stay in the village to accompany you better. Don't be angry, grandma."
As for going to work in the county, his grandmother would definitely not mention it again after he had made all the arrangements in the village.
The little old lady who was the leader of the many old ladies outside said awkwardly, "Alright, alright, what can I do to you?"
"You've been smart since you were little, able to make your own decisions. I used to worry that you were too ambitious and that setbacks would dampen your resolve, but you've grown up a lot in the past two years. Your life is your own. Since you're willing to do this, it's fine as long as you don't regret it."
Seeing that the old lady was no longer angry, the others were no longer so nervous.
An Shulin's mother, Aunt An, couldn't help but ask expectantly, "Mom, since Jingzhi doesn't want to go, can you think of giving this job to someone from our family?"
When these words were spoken, the whole family became nervous.
Although Xu Yanfen favors her eldest son's family the most, it doesn't mean she doesn't like her other sons and grandsons.
He looked at An Jingzhi and said, "You got this job by yourself. You decide how to handle it."
An Jingzhi looked at the eager eyes of his family and said, "It's not that I don't want to give this job to my family, but this job has requirements. Only high school students can take it over."
There are too many wolves and too little meat, so we can only raise the selection criteria. Even if it is just an ordinary worker, academic qualifications are required, so that most people can be eliminated.
After hearing this, everyone looked disappointed.
Xu Yanfen knocked on the table. "When I asked you to study, you all acted like dead pigs. Now the job is right in front of you and you can't even go."
Aunt An lowered her head in shame, always feeling that her mother-in-law was talking about her.
An Shulin also studied at the same age as the original owner, just a few years younger than the original owner. However, the original owner went to high school step by step, but her son dropped out after the first grade of junior high school.
Xu Yanfen forced him to go to school, but Aunt An thought that studying was useless and kept protecting her son. Xu Yanfen did not force An Shulin to go to school. Although she was the head of the family, she would not control everything. She just reminded them and asked them not to regret it.
The old lady managed a household and raised several sons, so she naturally had her own reasons for being a person.
Although she has a tough attitude, all her daughters-in-law obey her.
After hearing what her mother-in-law said, Aunt An San couldn't help but lower her head, fearing that the war would affect her.
Looking at the expressions of the crowd, Xu Yanfen couldn't help but roll her eyes.
The same old cliché begins again.
"When I was young, I didn't have the conditions to do this. I had to hide everywhere. Not only could I not eat, I couldn't even guarantee my safety. The devils were everywhere."
"Now that the country is doing well, we finally have the conditions for our children to go to school, but none of you care. Back then, I was a widow with three sons, but I still managed to raise them. If they weren't destined to study, I would have sold everything I had to send them to school."
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