The vocational school of the Public Security Bureau is very close to the Public Security Bureau, and it only takes 15 minutes to walk there. There are employees from several units living in the vocational school. However, Xiao Yu has not started work yet, so he has not been assigned a house. So they just walked around the vocational school, took a look at the overall environment, and then got familiar with the situation nearby. After walking around the area, Xiao Yu said, "Your wedding dresser has been painted with tung oil and placed in the waste station. You can take it back when you go back this time."

Lin Yiyi was puzzled: "Why put it in the scrapyard?"

Xiao Yu explained: "It's not appropriate to bring it home. My eldest sister-in-law and younger sister-in-law are here, so they might have other thoughts." He is a man. Although he won't argue with women, he also knows the temperament of his family members, so he avoids any trouble that can be avoided. Moreover, this is something for his fiancée. After taking it back, won't everyone know that he prepared it? No matter where you are, dowry is a woman's scene, so Xiao Yu doesn't think it's necessary to let his family know that he prepared it.

Lin Yiyi didn't expect this man to be so considerate. She was touched: "Thank you, Brother Xiao Yu."

Xiao-Woo: "Yeah."

Arriving at the scrap yard, the man who managed the scrap yard was a middle-aged man, but Lin Yiyi noticed that he seemed to have some problems with his feet. After they entered, he stood up from the stool, limping. "Brother Xiao is here, are you going to take the cabinet away today? It's like new after applying tung oil."

Xiao Yu said: "Take it away. Did they say before that they would be responsible for delivering the goods to your door?"

The middle-aged man said, "Responsible for delivering the goods to the door, two kilograms of food or two kilograms of food coupons."

Xiao Yu: "Can it be taken away later?"

Middle-aged man: "I have time these days."

Xiao Yu: "I'll take her to have a look. She also wants to choose some books. We'll leave later."

The middle-aged man said, "Okay, you guys can look around. Brother Xiao, help me take a look. I'll go call someone next door."

Xiao-Woo: "Okay."

After the middle-aged man went out, he closed the door slightly, and Xiao Yu took Lin Yiyi to another room. There are four rooms in the scrap station, one for the middle-aged man to rest, two for storing scraps, and one empty room for "taking on jobs". For example, Xiao Yu chose a dresser and processed a layer of tung oil here. For this, it is "taking on jobs", just like selling scraps. This thing can be done openly because the employer pays the scrap station. Of course, whether the middle-aged man has a "tip" is another question.

There were many tables, chairs and cabinets painted with tung oil. Xiao Yu pointed at one of them and said, "This is what I chose. What do you think?"

Lin Yiyi saw this as soon as she came in. There were only a few cabinets here, and this one was the most eye-catching.

Lin Yiyi: "Very good, very impressive." The rectangular cabinet has four legs and is about half a meter high. On the legs is a 70-centimeter-high box with three doors. Two doors can be opened opposite each other, which are used to store clothes and the like. There are four drawers on one side, which add up to a length of about 1.3 meters and a width of about 60 centimeters. It's just a pity that the space for four cabinets is wasted. "Brother, you can put a simple box under this cabinet."

Xiao Yu pointed to one side and said, "Yes, it has a lock. It's not convenient to apply tung oil, so it's not placed underneath."

It turned out to be a matching set. No wonder, she felt that the legs of the cabinet were so high that it would be a waste to leave the space underneath empty. This half-meter high, 1.3 meters long, and 60 centimeters wide should be used to store quilts or something like that.

Xiao Yu was very sensitive to people's emotions. Seeing Lin Yiyi's satisfied expression, he was also happy: "Like?" But his happiness was so great that no one could tell.

Lin Yiyi said: "I like it, thank you Brother Xiao Yu."

Xiao Yu: "I'm glad you like it. Go find the book you want."

Lin Yiyi: "Well, I want to find books for junior high school."

Xiao Yu: "When you go to school in September, you can ask the school to buy books." It costs money to ask the school to buy books. In this era, there is no restriction on every student to buy books, so in order to save money, some people will go to the waste station to find books. In Xiao Yu's eyes, his wife is only 15 years old and will go to junior high school in September, so he plans to let her continue to study, and the tuition fee is not a problem for him.

Lin Yiyi was stunned: "Brother Xiao Yu, you... do you want me to continue going to school?"

Jin-Woo nodded.

Lin Yiyi was quite shocked. She didn't expect Xiao Yu to have such an idea. Not to mention the current environment, even the general in-laws don't support their daughter-in-law to go to school. Can the Xiao family agree?

Xiao Yu seemed to see through her thoughts and said, "Don't use the public money. My mother won't care."

Lin Yiyi asked with a smile: "Brother Xiao Yu, are you going to use your private savings to support my schooling?"

Xiao-Woo: "Yeah."

Lin Yiyi shook her head: "I still don't want it. Even if my aunt has no objection, what about the others?"

Xiao Yu: "No, we are using our own money, and no one else has the right to comment."

Lin Yiyi: "It's still not possible. However, Brother Xiao Yu, you gave me 16 yuan as a betrothal gift, and I kept 10 yuan. If I want to study, I will use this 10 yuan." The in-laws will not have any objections if the daughter-in-law uses the money saved to study. However, Lin Yiyi has no intention of continuing to study. She thought, "Brother Xiao Yu, please teach me to read, so that I don't have to go to school."

Xiao Yu: "You should think about it later." As a college student, Xiao Yu is very supportive of studying, so he wants his daughter-in-law to continue studying. If his daughter-in-law has not even graduated from elementary school today, he would not have this idea, but she has just graduated from elementary school and has been studying all the time, so he thinks it is okay for her to continue studying.

Lin Yiyi: "Okay, I'll think about it later. Brother Xiao Yu, thank you for considering me so much."

Xiao-Woo: "Yeah."

Lin Yiyi smiled as she looked at the tall man in front of her, who had a calm expression and serious and solemn words.

At first, Xiao Yu was able to keep his composure and look at her, but after a while, he hummed and turned his head away. He... he didn't dare to look at her. It was just that her eyes were too direct and too passionate, not shy at all, "You..."

Lin Yiyi: “Hmm?”

Xiao Yu: "I'll move these two cabinets out first."

Lin Yiyi: “…” It felt strangely funny.

Xiao Yu was very strong. When he lifted the dresser, the muscles in his arms bulged. He was so explosive. Lin Yiyi looked at his hands. They were long and slender, with strong muscles wrapped in tan skin. According to the novel, men's muscles are hard. She really wanted to touch them. It was just that she had been single for 28 years and it was rare for her to see someone she liked, so she was very impulsive. However, she did not move. After all, she was outside and she would not do anything rash.

Xiao Yucai walked out of the room and saw the middle-aged man coming with a young man, who was the rickshaw driver.

Xiao Yu moved the dressing cabinet onto the cart, and then he and Lin Yiyi found a set of junior high school textbooks. Lin Yiyi originally planned to find two sets, one for Lin Dajun and one for herself, just to look good, but Xiao Yu said he had a set of junior high school textbooks, so she only found one set.

Don't think it's easy to find a set. In the 1960s, it was not easy to find books. Even newspapers, magazines, and weeklies were very rare. Because the college entrance examination was not banned at that time, and intellectuals were not sent down to the countryside. When the Ten Years of Turmoil began in 1966, the waste station could be said to have degenerated into a "second-hand book" station.

The two of them searched for a long time before they found a set, but the book was a little old and even missing a page. It didn't matter if there was a missing page, Xiao Yu had a set, and they could just copy it by hand and fill in the missing pages.

After finding the books, Xiao Yu took Lin Yiyi and the young man who pulled the cart back to the Shanglin Production Brigade. Xiao Yu did not stay at the Lin family for long, and was ready to go back after moving everything.

Xiao Yu: "I'm leaving first. I'll pick you up on September 4th."

Lin Yiyi: "Well, I asked the captain's family and Aunt Guilan to help out that day."

Xiao Yu: "Then I'll bring you some food in advance."

Lin Yiyi: "No, we have shrimp, dried meat, and pheasant eggs at home, enough to entertain people... What kind of day is it now? Just having something to eat will be enough."

Xiao-Woo: "Okay."

Lin Yiyi looked at him and hooked her finger.

Xiao Yu raised his eyebrows. Although the 15-year-old girl was still a child, he seemed to see a hint of the charm of an adult woman in her eyes. His heart was pounding. What "bad thing" was she going to do? He was actually looking forward to it.

Lin Yiyi: “Come here.”

Xiao Yu took two steps closer and kept a very polite distance. Even though they were an engaged couple, he was still restrained.

Lin Yiyi: "Close your eyes."

Xiao Yu clenched his fists consciously under his hanging hands, nervous and curious. He wondered: What was she going to do? Was she going to feed him too?

Lin Yiyi: "Close your eyes quickly."

Xiao Yu looked at Lin Yiyi for a while and said, "You don't have to give me the food. Keep it for yourself to replenish your body."

Lin Yiyi: “…I won’t give you anything to eat.” I gave it to you last time, so how can it be new if I give it to you again this time?

It's not food? What is it?

Lin Yiyi: "Hurry up, don't you listen to your wife?"

Xiao Yu closed his eyes: "..." Where did such evil ideas come from for a 15-year-old girl? But he could not deny that he had expectations in his heart. His life was like an alarm clock, as if it had been carved out, but two years later, since he met her unconscious on the road, his life seemed to be disrupted. Xiao Yu closed his eyes, his heart beating a little faster. Because of his profession, he is now more sensitive to everything around him. He can feel any movement. For example, his young fiancée is getting closer to him, her breath is getting closer, and he... is getting more and more tense.

What is she going to do?

At this moment, Lin Yiyi looked at him with his eyes tightly closed, and even his eyelashes were shaking because of nervousness. Lin Yiyi smiled, suddenly stood on tiptoe, kissed him on the chin, and then took a few steps back.

Xiao Yu suddenly opened his eyes: "You..."

Lin Yiyi said: "Thank you, thank you for thinking so much about me, thank you for creating a world for me."

Xiao-Woo: "...Yeah." He blushed. "Then...then I'll leave."

Lin Yiyi: "Then I won't see you off."

Xiao Yu: "Yeah." He turned around, almost messing up his steps, and then... walked faster.

Lin Yiyi stood at the door, watching him leave, feeling happy. This kind of happiness was different from the happiness her family gave her, and this kind of happiness filled her heart.

But after a while, her smile gradually faded. She came here inexplicably, and she didn't know what was happening to her in 2020, nor did she know what was happening to her parents.

In the past few nights, every time she fell asleep, she wondered if she had just had a dream, and when she woke up, she was still Lin Yiyi in 2020, not Lin Daya in 1960. But... after this week, she knew it was not a dream.

Lin Yiyi wiped her eyes and suppressed her longing for home and her parents deep in her heart.

When it was time for dinner, Lin Dajun came back with Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun. When he saw the junior high school textbooks that Lin Yiyi took out, he was overjoyed. Even though the books were old and had missing pages, it did not reduce his joy. In fact, people of this generation were used to poverty, so they did not care much about the age of the books. They were happy to have books.

Lin Dajun grinned: "Thank you, sister." He held the book tightly.

Lin Yiyi: "There are a few pages missing from the book, just copy them in when the time comes."

Lin Dajun: "Hey, sister, when do we start studying?"

Lin Yiyi thought for a moment and said, "After I get married, the weather will be cooler in the morning, so we can go out to find food. In the afternoon, when it's hot, we can study at home. What do you think?"

Lin Dajun: “Very good.”

There is naturally no problem with Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun.

Perhaps it was the influence of being able to study that Lin Dajun, Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun were in high spirits these days. Not long after they went out to look for food this morning, a stranger's voice rang out at the gate of the Lin family's yard: "Excuse me, is Lin Yi's family here?"

Lin Yiyi was writing something, while Lin Wudi was playing in the house. When she heard someone coming, she went out and said, "It's from here, who is it?" But she knew who it was without waiting for the other party to answer. It was the postman.

The postman asked, "Are you Lin Yiyi? Here's your letter. Please sign it."

Lin Yiyi: “Okay, thank you.” She took the letter and looked at the sender’s address. She became excited. It was a letter from the newspaper in the county. It had been almost a week, and the letter finally came.

After the postman left, Lin Yiyi returned to the house and opened the letter impatiently. She submitted three manuscripts at that time. One was 1,000 words, which was about praising the motherland; one was 3,000 words, a short story, about the mutual help between ordinary people; and one was 5,000 words, a serialized novel, about the love, hatred and hatred in the Republic of China. Now she received a reply. The 1,000-word and 3,000-word manuscripts were accepted, and the 5,000-word manuscript was rejected. She didn't expect that the manuscripts that the newspaper didn't like would be rejected. You know, when she submitted manuscripts in modern times, the manuscripts that were not accepted would not be returned.

The person who replied was an editor named Yu. Editor Yu said that if Lin Yiyi submitted articles in the future, she could send them directly to him. He also said that because our county is relatively remote, there are very few people who submit articles here, so Lin Yiyi is welcome to submit articles actively. In addition, he also tactfully told Lin Yiyi that a long novel like 5,000 words is not suitable for a newspaper in a small place like theirs.

In addition, Editor Yu talked about the issue of manuscript fees. Nowadays, people with a little fame are paid 4 yuan per thousand words, but Lin Yiyi is a newcomer, so she was paid 2 yuan per thousand words. There is a reason for this price. I hope she will be more active in submitting articles in the future, because the county newspaper is really in need of submissions.

Lin Yiyi could see that the editor was sincere, otherwise he would not have disclosed these things. Of course, she could also see that the newspaper wanted to collect manuscripts, which was an opportunity for Lin Yiyi.

Finally, there was a remittance slip of 8 yuan, a total of 4,000 words, and the manuscript fee was 8 yuan. With this manuscript fee, Lin Yiyi had the confidence to adopt Lin Wudi. Of course, she was not confident that every time she submitted her manuscript, it would be noticed, but even if it was noticed once or twice a month, it would also give her confidence.

She also had new ideas about the submission incident.

When collecting manuscripts, newspapers in the county and publishers in the big cities prefer different themes and styles. Publishers prefer stories with a strong narrative style, while newspapers prefer realistic styles.

After having the idea, Lin Yiyi quickly came up with thoughts. She wrote two stories that were submitted to the publishing house. One was a Republic of China article that had been rejected by the newspaper, and the other was a quick travel story. Of course, the quick travel story is somewhat different from the quick travel in Lujiang's novel. The protagonist in the quick travel story is a policeman. During the day, he would go to work at the police station normally. At night, he would have a dream. In the dream, he became someone else. Every dream is a different identity. In some dreams, he is still a policeman; in some dreams, he is an orphan; in some dreams, he is a kidnapped child; in some dreams... In the dream, he did a lot of good things and helped many people. The name of this novel is Between Black and White, which has two meanings. One is the two identities of the protagonist in day and night, and the other is that black and white is the truth. The first story written by Lin Yiyi was called The Human Trafficker. The protagonist was a policeman. In order to find the abducted children, he gave up his identity as a policeman. After going through untold hardships, he finally found the children and busted the human trafficker's den.

When Lin Yiyi was writing, her thoughts were very good, so she wrote 30,000 words in two days, which was almost half of the story. After writing it, she checked it again, and then sent it to the publisher at the commune post office along with the Republic of China romance novel. After returning from the commune, she went to Xiao's house again.

Only Xiao's mother and grandmother were at home. They were doing handicrafts and taking care of the eldest son's two children. As for the rest of the Xiao family, they went out to find food. The Xiao family did have food, and there was a lot saved from previous years. The main reason was that there were many laborers in the Xiao family and few people who ate for free. In addition, there were good things that Xiao Yu brought home in the past few years. But even if there were good things and food at home, Qin Xiangju hid them tightly. They ate the same way as other people.

Seeing Lin Yiyi coming, Grandma Xiao and Qin Xiangju were very enthusiastic.

Qin Xianglian: "Yiyi is here. Xiaoyuer is not at home. He went out with his father and others."

Lin Yiyi: "Aunt, I came to see you." As she said that, she handed a paper-wrapped dried lobster meat to Qin Xiangju, "This is the shrimp meat that my brothers and I caught. We dried it and will give you a dish." It was only about one pound, but one pound of dried shrimp meat was a lot.

Qin Xiangju was not polite and accepted the dried lobster meat from Lin Yiyi: "Yiyi, you are so polite. A few days ago, relatives came to our house and brought some brown sugar. We can't finish it at home. You can take it back to your brothers to replenish their bodies." As she spoke, she took Lin Yiyi into the house. She put the dried lobster meat in the kitchen cabinet, and then took out half a bag of brown sugar from the cabinet, which weighed half a pound. Relatives pay attention to the give and take. Lin Yiyi is not her daughter-in-law yet. She brought such a big bag of dried shrimp meat to go around, so of course she has to return the gift. Besides, this dried shrimp meat tastes really good. They have already tried the porridge that Xiao Yu brought a few days ago.

Lin Yiyi hurriedly said, "Aunt, no, no, I...we don't like sweet food." As she said that, she lowered her head pretending to be embarrassed.

Qin Xiangju smiled, took Lin Yiyi's hand and stuffed the brown sugar into her hand: "Who doesn't like sweets? Just take it. Didn't you say that your parents are gone and you still need to ask your aunt for help if you don't understand something? Now you don't listen to your aunt when she gives you something?"

Lin Yiyi: "I...I...I'll take it. Thank you, auntie."

Qin Xiangju: "That's right. The younger generation should listen to the elders. The younger generation doesn't need to be polite when the elders give something to them."

Lin Yiyi: “Yeah.”

Qin Xiangju: "Yiyi, you just said you came to see me for something?"

Lin Yiyi said, "Well, I... Aunt, I want to take my younger brother over after Xiao Yu and I get married. My other brothers are only in their teens, and they are boys who are more careless. I don't feel comfortable leaving my younger brother to them."

Qin Xiangju: "So what do you think specifically? Besides your youngest brother, what about your other brothers?" In fact, Qin Xiangju already had ideas about the brothers of the Lin family. She knew that her son marrying Lin Yiyi was equivalent to taking over the brothers of the Lin family. To put it bluntly, it was equivalent to helping the brothers of the Lin family from time to time. She had already made plans in her mind, but she did not expect Lin Yiyi to bring it up so early. She thought that she would at least wait until the food from the betrothal gifts was eaten up.

How should I put it? According to the relationship between the Xiao family and the Lin family, it is impossible for the son and daughter-in-law to ignore the younger brothers of the Lin family. However, there must be a rule on how to manage them. It is not okay to let the younger brothers of the Lin family do nothing and only care about their family's food.

Lin Yiyi was also a little surprised. She had never expected Qin Xiangju to be so calm. According to the situation at that time, every household had little food, and some even had no food left. So when she brought up this, even if Qin Xiangju was very easy to talk to, she shouldn't have looked like this, right?