The team leader's wife: "Isn't it? Because you are famous, because of your story, everyone thinks that it is good to study, and that people with education are smart and have a bright future, so everyone supports studying. Look, everyone knows that the commune rewarded you with a worker position, and everyone also knows that you left the position for someone in your family, so everyone doesn't look down on girls as much as before. As long as they are taught well, girls are good too, and they can also take care of the family."

Lin Yiyi said: "That's great. I didn't expect that I would have such a credit. Is there a junior high school in the team?"

The team leader's wife: "Junior high school is always in the commune middle school. In our area, there has never been a village with a junior high school."

Lin Yiyi: "In September, our Dajun will go to junior high school, and Sanjun and Sijun will go to elementary school. I won't be around by then, so please take care of them. If there is anything, please go to Xiao's house and call my mother-in-law and the others."

The captain's wife said, "Don't worry, I know. By the way, Auntie wants to ask you something. Have you ever thought about what kind of wife you want to be for the army?"

Lin Yiyi: "..." This is still a child, but she also knows that in this era when boys get married and have children at the age of 18, Lin Dajun, who is 14 years old after the Chinese New Year, can really be married. "This, you have to understand, after all, Dajun is the eldest brother, and this eldest sister-in-law must be smart. Then, Dajun's job, he can indeed be a worker after graduation, but the salary is not for his family. This salary can only be considered for his family after Xiaowu gets married. So if a girl comes for his worker position and seduces Dajun, I can give his position to Sanjun."

The captain's wife said, "That's right." She understood Lin Yiyi. They were all younger brothers, so she couldn't just care about Dajun and ignore the others. "As the eldest daughter-in-law, you need to be smart and generous, and not mean."

Lin Yiyi: "I will support Dajun to go to junior high school in September next year. It is up to him whether he can pass the high school entrance exam, but he will be there after graduating from junior high school. If I were to find him a wife, I would hope that she is educated. Otherwise, it would be inappropriate for him, an educated person, to be with someone who is not educated."

The captain's wife: "Yes, yes, that's right." In her opinion, although the Lin family has no parents, the elder sister and brother-in-law are promising, so the younger brother of the Lin family can definitely choose a wife. "Yi Yi, what do you think of my daughter-in-law?"

Lin Yiyi: "..." My aunt, you scared me to death. However, "I haven't seen Xiaozhen for a long time, how old is she?" It would be a good idea to marry the captain's family. The captain and his wife are upright people, so there is no need to worry about the children they educate. If the couple has conflicts in the future, it will be easier to solve with such upright father-in-law and mother-in-law. Moreover, it is very important to marry a daughter-in-law with good character for Lin Dajun, and the daughter-in-law's family must be peaceful, not full of top-notch people, otherwise she is worried that Lin Dajun will be corrupted by them. However, she insists on freedom of love, and she doesn't come here to force her brother to marry someone he doesn't like. But you can ask Lin Dajun.

The captain's wife said, "Xiaozhen is the same age as you, Dajun. She started school a year later than you. She will only be in the fifth grade in September. How about I ask Xiaozhen to come and show her to you? Don't worry, I raised this girl, so you don't have to worry about her character."

Lin Yiyi: “Okay, let’s see.” Since the Lin brothers were not at home, she was the only one at home.

The captain's wife is selfish. No matter how good a person's character is, they are all selfish. She had not thought of the Lin family before. Her daughter will be 14 after the Chinese New Year. People in the countryside will start to talk about marriage at this age. They will start looking for a partner at the age of 14. If the person is good, they will get married after one or two years. When they are 16, they can get married. They can get the marriage certificate when they are 18. However, rural people in this era do not care about marriage certificates. Only people in the city care about them. Getting married at the age of 16 is a little early, and a little later is 18, but men will also look for a partner early. If you are still single at the age of 18, you will be called an old woman.

The wife of the brigade leader was worried about finding a partner for her daughter and about food for the family. In this year, who would be willing to marry a daughter-in-law to share the food? So the wife of the brigade leader was very worried that her daughter's marriage would be affected. If it was delayed for two or three years and the year was still like this, what should she do?

At this time, the news about growing vegetables on the stove spread. In the next month, the people were busy getting up from the stove and started growing vegetables. Now that they had food, they were no longer worried about starving to death. However, a few days later, the sequel to the story of growing vegetables on the stove came again. The commune rewarded Lin Yiyi with a job as a salesperson in the supply and marketing cooperative, and then Lin Yiyi was going to change to the position of the commune gatekeeper. In addition, what Lin Yiyi said at the Xiao family made many people interested in Lin Dajun. This was the predetermined candidate for the iron rice bowl of the workers. He had a job right after graduation. Even if the salary was enough to support the family, what was wrong? Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun are close in age to Lin Dajun. These young men can earn work points by working. Even if they use their wages to build a house, it will only take a few years. Won't this job belong to Lin Dajun in the future?

Moreover, she has no mother-in-law above her. She is the head of the family once she marries in, and she is also the eldest daughter-in-law, who is different from the younger daughters-in-law. Moreover, she is the brother-in-law of the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, which would be a high-ranking official in ancient times. Therefore, Lin Dajun is now a popular candidate for girls to find a partner.

The captain's wife also had this idea. Today, when she met Lin Yiyi, she mentioned it.

Soon, the captain's wife came with her daughter Lin Zhen.

The captain's wife: "Yiyi, this is my daughter Xiaozhen. Xiaozhen, call Yiyi sister. You two played together."

Lin Zhen said, "Sister Yiyi." As the daughter of the team leader, Lin Zhen was treated the best in the village. The team leader was also an official, and the highest official in the village besides the secretary. In addition, their family was also good to girls, so she was spoiled since she was a child. However, although Lin Zhen was spoiled, the girls in the countryside, no matter how spoiled, would not stay out of the water. Although she did not have to work in the fields, she went up the mountain to collect firewood, cut pig grass, and wash clothes. These were all her duties.

Moreover, as the daughter of the captain and a scholar, Lin Zhen has a confidence that other girls do not have. She is also generous and generous in character, not the kind of girl who is timid.

At this moment, after Lin Zhen called Lin Yiyi, her eyes stopped on Lin Yiyi, looking at her pants, clothes, and scarf. The envy in her eyes was obvious, but there was no jealousy.

Lin Yiyi smiled and said, "Yes, I have played with her. I haven't seen her for half a year. Xiaozhen has become more and more beautiful."

Lin Zhen was delighted. The little girl loved being praised for her beauty. "Really?"

Lin Yiyi: "Of course it's true." After thinking for a while, she took out a few White Rabbit candies from her cotton padded jacket pocket, "I came here in a hurry and didn't bring anything else with me. These candies are for Xiaozhen to sweeten her mouth."

Lin Zhen swallowed but didn't take it. She looked at her mother and when she nodded, she took it carefully and cherished it.

Lin Yiyi asked, "Xiaozhen, what do you think of our Dajun?"

Lin Zhen was stunned, and then a little shy. When she came, her mother told her that although the Lin family's parents were gone, they had a capable sister who had found a job for Lin Dajun. If she married Lin Dajun, she would not have to serve her mother-in-law, but only need to help take care of Lin Dajun's younger brothers. Besides, she would not have to take care of them. After all, if there were other things, they still had their sister. She only needed to be generous as a sister-in-law. Besides, according to the situation of the Lin family, the younger brothers would definitely separate after getting married, so she would live her own life in the future.

Of course Lin Zhen was willing. Who wouldn't want to marry a worker? Besides, the Lin family had a brother-in-law who was the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau, and Lin Dajun wasn't an ugly guy.

Speaking of this, none of the Lin family brothers is ugly. The only shortcoming of Lin Dajun is that he is shorter than his peers, but that is due to lack of nutrition, which is a common condition for people of this generation.

Lin Zhen's face immediately turned red: "Very...very good."

Lin Yiyi raised her eyebrows: "Xiaozhen is also very good." As for how good Lin Dajun was, Lin Yiyi did not ask. In Lin Yiyi's opinion, it would be good to find a wife for Lin Dajun from a local boss's family in the countryside. She did not plan to let the Lin brothers go to the county town. Ten years of turmoil were about to begin, and it would be better to be in the countryside than in the county town.

The captain's wife understood what Lin Yiyi meant when she heard it. Lin Yiyi said her daughter was fine, which meant that she had no objection. She said to her daughter, "Go and play."

Lin Zhen: “Hey.”

After Lin Zhen left, the captain's wife asked, "Yi Yi, what do you think?"

Lin Yiyi said, "Xiao Zhen is pretty good, she is open and generous. I just like girls who are generous and smart, not petty ones who would quarrel with their brothers over a small matter." Besides, Lin Zhen is not bad looking, and the captain's wife is not stupid. If Lin Zhen is not good enough, she certainly would not recommend herself. "However, when the two children are talking about dating, we have to see what they like each other. I hope they like each other, so that they can be together for a long time. If they don't like each other, people's tolerance is limited, and they will quarrel more often in the future, which will hurt the harmony. What do you think, auntie?"

The captain's wife said, "That's exactly the reason." She was a very clear-headed person. Wasn't it because of this that she introduced her daughter to him? The Lin family was simple in population, so it was a good thing. In the future, her daughter would be able to take charge of the family once she got married. What a blessing.

Lin Yiyi said: "I will ask Dajun about this later and hear his opinion. If he thinks it's a good idea, then let the boy and girl be together?"

The captain's wife said, "Okay."

Lin Yiyi: "Don't worry, auntie. I will teach the army the rules and won't let them do anything wrong. The Chairman has said that women can hold up half the sky, so male comrades must follow the Chairman's steps and respect female comrades."

The captain's wife smiled even more: "That's exactly the truth." What does a mother worry about most about her daughter? Isn't it that she is worried that someone will take advantage of her when she is dating someone?

The two talked for a while, and then the captain's wife left. Lin Yiyi took half a pound of meat to Yang Guilan's house.

Yang Guilan's family was very enthusiastic when they saw Lin Yiyi coming. The two families had a good relationship. Now that Lin Yiyi was well, they were happy for her. In addition, people tend to move up, so they were naturally more enthusiastic. However, half a catty of meat was very expensive, so of course they would not take it. Lin Yiyi also used the same words to persuade the captain's wife, asking them to send some vegetables to the Lin brothers in the future, because the Lin brothers would work here and go to school later, so they also asked them to take care of them.

In fact, the Lin family could refurbish one of the three rooms to build a stove and kang for growing vegetables, but Lin Yiyi felt that it was unnecessary because by 1962, they had their own private plot, and their younger brothers had grown up and needed a room each.

Yang Guilan's family agreed to exchange vegetables for meat.

Then, Lin Yiyi said, "Auntie, I... when I was in the county, I went to see Erjun, but I asked around and found out that the Zhang family seemed to have moved away. What's going on?" After Lin Yiyi settled down in the county, she went to check on the Zhang family, only to find out that no one was there. After asking around, she found out that they had moved away. Not only that, they had adopted two children, one after Lin Erjun. This surprised Lin Yiyi very much. Later, after asking around, she found out that the Zhang family was also worried that they would not be able to raise the children well, so adopting one more child would provide more security.

Suddenly, Lin Yiyi was thinking, according to the original plot, when Lin Wudi was adopted, did the Zhang family also adopt other children? If so, how did Lin Wudi live in the original plot?

Even if she thought about these things, she couldn't figure them out. Fortunately, she didn't send Lin Wudi away.

Yang Guilan: "This..."

Lin Yiyi showed a sad expression: "Auntie, I know that the Second Army has gone to a family with better conditions. He looks down on us poor relatives and is afraid that we will go and ask for money, right?"

Yang Guilan sighed.

Lin Yiyi said again: "Auntie, I just want to know about his situation. As long as he is doing well, I won't worry. Even if he doesn't remember us, it doesn't matter." Lin Yiyi didn't know whether Lin Erjun would come back in the future, but he was different from Lin Wudi. When Lin Wudi was sent away, he was only two years old. If no one told him, he didn't know where his hometown was. But Lin Erjun was different. He knew it clearly. With Lin Erjun's temperament, if he didn't have a good life there, he might come back after knowing the situation here.

So, just in case, she pretended to be in a safe place. If one day Lin Erjun came back, she would have to make his disdain for the poor and love for the rich come true. Why would a person who was adopted at the age of 12 and never thought about or helped his family come back to enjoy life? If Lin Erjun had a conscience, he was adopted by a rich family. Even if he was young and couldn't give much help, couldn't he write a letter? To be more honest, Yang Guilan said that when Lin Erjun returned to the Zhang family, the Zhang family didn't accept the 200 yuan. So if Lin Erjun had a conscience, he could return the 200 yuan, but he didn't.

At this time, Lin Yiyi had already confirmed that Lin Erjun was a heartless and extremely selfish person.

Yang Guilan sighed again: "Yi Yi, my relative has been transferred to another place. As for where he went, I don't know. They just don't want people to know that the child is adopted, so they transferred and left, and naturally they didn't tell us. But don't worry, no one over there knows that Erjun is not his biological son, and he will live a good life."

Lin Yiyi: "But how can he be so heartless? It's been half a year, and he hasn't written a letter. Does he think we will go looking for him and disturb his wealthy life? We won't. For his own good, why would we bother him? Besides, he has already graduated from elementary school. Even if the people there have really moved away, he knows their home well. How could he not even write a letter? He is just... just..." Lin Yiyi said, and left crying.

Yang Guilan didn't know what to say.

Finally, Lin Yiyi gave Doctor Lin a pound of meat, thanking Doctor Lin for teaching the Lin brothers how to dig herbs, thanking Doctor Lin for teaching the Lin brothers how to dig yams, those thirty or forty pounds of yams, when there was no food, could be eaten for four or five months. Doctor Lin was not polite and accepted the pound of meat given by Lin Yiyi, because he did help the Lin brothers in such a difficult time, but he gave Lin Yiyi some wild ginger and a few wild ginseng roots, which were not worth much, but they were very nutritious when used to make soup, and they were also worth the meat.

Although Lin Yiyi gave meat to the captain's family, Yang Guilan's family, and Doctor Lin's family, it was actually an exchange. The captain's family and Yang Guilan's family exchanged for vegetables, and Doctor Lin exchanged for wild ginger and wild ginseng. However, Lin Yiyi also had reasons. First, she was really grateful to them, and second, she wanted to make friends. Although Xiao Yu was the deputy director of the Public Security Bureau and no one dared to approach them, it was still good to be kind to others. The captain was a local tyrant here, and Doctor Lin was a famous doctor in the surrounding area. There was nothing better than making friends with such people.

Lin Yiyi returned to the Lin family. The four brothers of Lin Dajun had already returned. The four brothers went out in a row, which was quite impressive. Because it was almost lunchtime, they returned.

Lin Dajun: "Sister, look, the house is clean, right? We cleaned it last night."

Lin Yiyi: "Well, that's all. I brought you some dumplings. You can have them for lunch. I'm going back to the Xiao family now."

Lin Sijun was a little reluctant: "Sister, aren't you going to stay and eat?"

Lin Yiyi: "No, today is New Year's Eve, I have to go to Xiao's house, and I will be back the day after tomorrow on the second day of the New Year."

Lin Sijun: "Okay then."

Lin Yiyi: "Sanjun, take your brothers to make dumplings. Dajun, I want to talk to you."

Lin Sijun: "Hey, what do you want to talk about?"

Lin Yiyi looked at Lin Dajun. When she first came, she was only 155cm tall, and Lin Dajun was only a little over 140cm, but not even 150cm. In the past six months, Lin Dajun has grown taller and is almost 150cm tall now. The normal height of a 14-year-old boy is about 160cm. Lin Dajun is still a little shorter, but height is not something that can be achieved immediately.

In fact, according to her height, she is only 15 years old in this body, with a height of 155cm, which is also normal. However, Lin Yiyi is still worried. Thinking back to the past, she was 155cm tall when she was 15 years old. Later, she did not grow much taller. It was very difficult to grow to 159cm. She ate many things that could make her taller without damaging her body. Later, she just couldn't break 160cm, so she gave up.

She has to work hard with this body now. In fact, she has been drinking milk powder every day since she got it. She has to drink milk to grow taller.

Looking at Lin Dajun again, she found it unbelievable that a man less than 150cm tall would actually talk about a partner. However, Lin Yiyi still told him frankly: "Dajun, I want to tell you two things today."

Lin Dajun was a little scared when he saw how serious his sister was: "Sister, what do you want to say?" In the past six months, he had gotten used to listening to his sister in everything. It was so comfortable to live without having to think about anything on his own.

Lin Yiyi: "The commune gave me a job. Before you graduate, this job was given to my father-in-law. It was also considered as our filial piety. After you graduate, we will give it to you. Do you remember?"

Lin Dajun nodded: "I remember." Of course he knew about this, and he was happy. Nowadays, even the youngest children knew what a worker meant, not to mention that he would be 14 years old after the Chinese New Year.

Lin Yiyi said, "That sister also said that you are the eldest brother, and this job is for you, but before your younger brothers grow up, get married, and build their own houses, the money you earn should be shared with them. After they get married and build their own houses, this money will be your future small family. You remember that, right?"

Lin Dajun said, "Yes, I remember it all." He never thought there was anything wrong. His sister had given him the job, and as the eldest brother, he had a great advantage compared to his unemployed brother.

Lin Yiyi added: "But, if you grow up and get married, and your wife doesn't want you to use your salary to help your brothers get married and build houses, what should you do then?"

Lin Dajun: "Then I won't marry a wife like this. Besides, it's not up to the wife to decide." It sounds quite chauvinistic.

Lin Yiyi: "At the beginning, the girl lied to you and obeyed you in everything. But after you got married, her true colors showed up. If you insisted on giving the money you earned to your brother to get married, she would quarrel with you every day and make you upset."

Lin Dajun was shocked when he heard this: "This... is not possible? Sister, please don't tell me about such a wife in the future. She quarrels with me every day and I am so annoyed."

Well, this guy never thought about finding a wife for himself. He thought that everything would be arranged by his sister, which was the safest option.

Lin Yiyi: "So, sister is trying to tell you that it is important to see the other person's character before dating."

Lin Dajun: "Then how can I see the other person's character clearly? If she deceives me, I can't see it clearly. Sister, what do you think I should do?"