What Xu Yanfen said was the truth. The three An brothers knew it best. At the beginning, the family conditions were so difficult that they couldn't even have enough food to eat. Xu Yanfen still tightened her belt to send them to school, but they were so disappointing that the old lady had to give up in the end.
"There's no point in talking about this now. The child is yours anyway, so you can take care of him/her. When he/she grows up, as long as you're not afraid of him/her blaming you, that's fine."
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Three days have passed since An Jingzhi returned home. During these days, he has been riding his bicycle to the county every day just to sell job quotas.
The three of them came out of the glass factory with smiles on their faces.
Sun Hualin joked, "Okay, this matter is finally resolved. I say Jingzhi, there is no way you can regret it now."
Kong Hualin was the classmate who introduced An Jingzhi to the job recruitment exam here. His father was the deputy director of the supply and marketing cooperative and had some connections in the town.
An Jingzhi asked him to sell the job quota. Now the jobs are in short supply, so An Jingzhi asked him to do this. It seemed that he was asking him for help, but in fact, An Jingzhi was doing the other party a favor.
"No regrets, the glass factory is not suitable for me." An Jingzhi smiled slightly and shook his head.
The third person was the one introduced by Kong Hualin to take over An Jingzhi's job. They had completed all the procedures at the factory, and the other party directly took out a wad of money from his bag and handed it over.
"Comrade An, this is six hundred and five. Count it."
An Jingzhi took it and accepted it. After counting it and confirming that there was no problem, he said, "Counting it in front of everyone will make everyone feel at ease."
The two men laughed, and Kong Hualin said, "This is not a small amount. We should clarify it. First, be a villain, then a gentleman. No problem."
The man who bought An Jingzhi's job quota also smiled and said, "That's how it should be."
Then the man said hello and left.
An Jingzhi said to Kong Hualin, "Thank you very much. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to find a suitable buyer so quickly."
"Aren't you embarrassing me by saying that? If this job position is put up for sale, people will definitely fight for it. Why would they need me to help sell it?" Kong Hualin said self-deprecatingly.
An Jingzhi didn't mention any introduction fee. He knew that Kong Hualin's family must have made a lot of money from this, not money, but connections.
The transaction was completed, and the other party was obviously very happy. He put his arm around An Jingzhi's shoulder and said,
"You did my dad a favor this time. Originally, the higher-ups had to consider the issue of the supply and marketing cooperative director, but now it's settled."
When An Jingzhi asked, he found out that the person who bought his job quota was a relative of the leader who helped Kong Hualin's father get promoted from deputy director to director.
"Then let me congratulate uncle first." An Jingzhi said with a smile.
The two of them walked arm in arm towards the state-owned restaurant in town.
"Haha, it hasn't been decided yet." Kong Hualin said modestly, but he couldn't suppress the smile on his lips.
"Come on, come on. I'm in a good mood today. I'll treat you to a meal before you go back."
"No way. I made money today, so of course I have to pay it back. You were the one who told me about the recruitment quotas. How would I have known about the recruitment if you hadn't told me? I'll invite you." An Jingzhi refused.
Kong Hualin did not refuse again. Although the other party might not pass the exam even if he gave him the information, if he did not give it to him, the other party would not even have the chance to take the exam.
This is how human relationships work. With interaction, relationships become closer and closer.
The two ordered three meat dishes and one vegetable dish at the state-owned restaurant, and ate two large bowls of white rice.
"Burp~" Kong Hualin patted his bloated belly and said with a relieved look, "I haven't eaten so well in a long time."
An Jingzhi said, "You're at this state-owned restaurant in town every day, so you can come whenever you want?"
"That requires money and tickets," Kong Hualin said helplessly. "Although my father is the director of the supply and marketing cooperative, we can't afford to go to this state-owned restaurant every day."
An Jingzhi smiled and said nothing more. All three meat dishes on the table were eaten. People these days have little fat in their stomachs, and their food is like a bottomless pit.
He packed another box of braised pork and put it in the lunch box he brought specially, then said goodbye to Kong Hualin and went home.
The bicycle was bought with money pooled by the family. The An family was not wealthy. The original owner was admitted to the junior high school in town, but the school did not have accommodation, so he could only walk back and forth every day. It was okay in the summer, as long as the distance was far, but it was too cold in the winter and it was unbearable. It took an hour and a half to walk to read.
Xu Yanfen loved her grandson so much that she asked the whole family to pool money to buy this bicycle. When the original owner was young, his father would pick him up and drop him off every day. When the original owner grew up and could ride a bicycle by himself, he would ride it back by himself.
When I was in high school, the bicycle was still used by the original owner. Although the bicycle was supposed to be the property of the whole family, it was used by the original owner most of the time.
When An Jingzhi got home, he put down his bicycle. Without his request, An Shuming, the youngest son of his uncle An, stopped playing with the branches in the yard and ran directly into the house to get a piece of cloth and brought out a basin of water.
He squatted in front of the bicycle and wiped it carefully.
He treats cleaning the bicycle as a game, and he feels very satisfied just by touching the bicycle with his hands.
"Shu Ming, come here."
An Shuming immediately put down the cloth in his hand and looked at An Jingzhi with hope, "Brother."
The original owner never brought anything home before, but since An Jingzhi came, his hands were never empty every time he came back, and he always had candy.
An Jingzhi took out five White Rabbit candies from his pocket and said, "Don't eat candy at night."
Children at this age rarely have the opportunity to eat candy, so once they get it, they treasure it extremely. They will even pick it up and chew it when they feel hungry at night. An Shuming was caught doing this once before.
The next morning, his mother found that the candy was stuck in his hair. He was sleepy and hungry, and fell asleep while eating.
An Shuming chuckled, "Got it."
It was basically Xu Yanfen and An Shuming who were cleaning the bicycles, and Xu Yanfen wouldn't let anyone else touch them.
It was clearly a pile of steel, but Xu Yanfen was always worried that others would bump into and rub the bicycle. The reason An Shuming got the chance to wipe the bicycle was because Xu Yanfen was old and couldn't stand squatting all the time, so she gave it to him.
After getting this job, he felt extremely valuable, but An Jingzhi felt a little embarrassed, so he would bring him some snacks every time he came back.
Today it was Aunt An's turn to cook. An Jingzhi took the braised pork he had packed and walked into the kitchen to hand it to her.
"Aunt San, please add some dishes to our family today. I packed some from the state-owned restaurant."
Auntie San looked at the sizzling braised pork with a look of delight in her eyes. "Oh! This meat is really well-grown, with fat in every piece. I'll add some potatoes and stew them together. The potatoes will absorb the aroma of the meat and taste almost like meat."
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