"Thank you." Jiang Shushu smiled and sat next to Sun Lanlan. He grabbed two melon seeds naturally. "It smells good. Sister Sun's cooking skills are really good."
"Haha, why call me sister? You want to call me aunt? I'm 40 this year. Xiao Jiang, how old are you this year? You look so beautiful. Look at your little round face, it's so tender. I want to reach out and pinch it."
Jiang Shushu's big, sincere eyes were filled with disbelief. "Sister Sun, are you kidding me? Are you really 40? That's impossible! You look 30 anyway."
Although it is a hot summer day, Sun Lanlan feels cool from the inside out. In one word, she feels refreshed. She looks at Jiang Shushu with even more fondness.
It’s been six years, and no one has complimented me on my youth and beauty. Today, someone finally complimented me on my youth and beauty. I love this feeling.
"Haha, no way? I'm really 40, I'm not lying to you." Usually, Sun Lanlan would feel unexcited when she mentioned turning 40, but today, when she talked about turning 40, a sense of pride emanated from her inside out.
"Sister Sun, I am 18 this year. Although you are 40 years old, you don't look like it at all. I'd better call you Sister Sun. I can't call you Auntie." Jiang Shushu looked embarrassed.
Jiang Shushu's embarrassment made Sun Lanlan even happier. "Haha, it's up to you, it's up to you. The name doesn't matter. Pumpkin likes it, so eat more." Sun Lanlan grabbed two handfuls and put them in Jiang Shushu's hands.
"Sister Sun, there's too much. We can't finish it. Take some back."
"What's more? Just eat slowly. Put some in your pocket and take some more whenever you want to eat." The word "sister" sounded so sincere and pleasant. If I only had pumpkin seeds, I would have wanted to give her more.
"Thank you, Sister Sun. You are such a kind person."
"Haha, that's hello, Xiao Jiang. I'm happy too. When I see you looking so cute, I'm happy. I've been busy with work lately and haven't been this happy in a long time."
Jiang Shushu said embarrassedly, "Sister Sun, I just overheard your conversation with Sister Li at the door." Then he asked with concern, "Did you fail to meet the quota for going to the countryside?"
As soon as the indicators for going to the countryside were mentioned, Sun Lanlan's good mood suddenly dropped by half.
"Yes! The state requires that every family that does not have only one child must send one child to the countryside, and those without jobs will be given priority. But some of them are unreasonable, crying and kneeling. She doesn't say she won't go, but just delays, saying that she has found a job and is in the process of handling the paperwork. As a result, one or two months have passed, and she still hasn't found any job." There are many families like this. Sun Fangfang gets a headache every time she thinks about it. She has children herself and knows how hard it is to go to the countryside, so she doesn't push them to death if she can. Now she feels that there are more and more families like this, which are affecting her work. She hasn't met her work standards for three months.
"Sister Sun, difficulties will always pass. Every household must go to the countryside. It's just the beginning. It's normal to have difficulties. It will be fine after a while." Jiang Shushu comforted her.
"Sometimes difficulties come without warning, but as long as we are strong enough and work hard enough, there is nothing we cannot overcome. Just like the unexpected disaster I encountered a few days ago, a woman came to me crying and kneeling, asking me to give up her job. She said she didn't want to go to the countryside and would be bullied to death if she went there, and asked me to have pity on her. I refused, and she knelt for a long time..."
Now, when Sun Fangfang heard someone crying and kneeling because they didn't want to go to the countryside, she thought of the humiliation she had endured over the past few months and immediately became furious. "How could someone be so shameless? What makes her think others will give her the job? Does she think that because I'm weak, I'm right? It's totally unreasonable. Xiao Jiang, who is that person?" This kind of black sheep should go to the countryside, get some training, and correct her bad habits. "Going to the countryside will kill you?" That's nonsense. Workers and peasants are now one family, so isn't this just sabotaging it?
"Later, my colleague told me that she was my cousin, Zhou Hui, who had transferred the job to my brother-in-law Fangfang. She thought her cousin's wife's job should be hers."
He Fangfang had said that the Youth League Office had urged Zhou Hui to go to the countryside several times, but each time, Old Mrs. Zhou kept putting it off. The Youth League Office had long been dissatisfied with the Zhou family. Now that this opportunity had come, she had to raise her voice and send Zhou Hui off to the countryside as soon as possible.
Oh, I worked so hard, finally got a stable job, finally got a few meals of meat, and lived a somewhat normal life. Zhou Hui actually wanted to take me back to the village to eat sweet potatoes. What a favor! Didn't she not want to go to the countryside? I insisted on sending her there, so that she could experience the charm of sweet potatoes and even her farts would smell like sweet potatoes.
When Zhou Hui's name was mentioned, Sun Lanlan's brow furrowed even deeper. The mother and daughter of the Zhou family were definitely unreasonable. It was because of that mother and daughter that her neighbors followed suit, making their work so difficult.
I had originally planned to visit Zhou's house in a few days, but now it seems that there is no need to wait a few days. I will take people there in the afternoon. I have to make an example of them to scare the monkeys, otherwise they will have no time to do their work in the Youth League Office.
Jiang Shushu saw Sun Fangfang's expression changing from time to time, and knew that she cared about Zhou Hui. Unless Zhou Hui could find a job now, her going to the countryside would be a foregone conclusion.
Jiang Shushu glanced at the small blackboard and saw that the next batch of educated youth going to the countryside would arrive in three days. He really hoped that Zhou Hui could get on this train and start her rural journey.
"Comrade Xiao Jiang, here is the lunch box." Li Meili's voice came from behind.
Jiang Shushu took the lunch box and said politely, "I'll be going back now. Sister Sun, Sister Li, goodbye."
In the afternoon, Sun Fangfang came to Zhou's house with a male colleague.
Old Mrs. Zhou cried and wanted to use the same trick again, delaying it for ten or eight days.
But Sun Fangfang didn't give her the chance. Her face remained cold throughout. "How many times have you said this? Do you think I believe it? It's not like I haven't given you time. One of your family members must sign up today, or I'll go to your husband's and your son's factories and ask them. How can a family with such ideological problems be qualified for factory work?"
Mrs. Zhou stopped crying immediately and said, "No, no, no, please talk it over nicely."
"This is the application form. After filling it out, hand it to me before we get off work today. If you don't, our Youth League Office will go directly to talk to your husband's leader tomorrow. How can you work in the factory if you destroy the family relationship between workers and peasants?" He Fangfang left after saying this, too lazy to pay attention to Old Lady Zhou. She still had more than ten companies to notify.
In the end, no matter how much Zhou Hui cried, her information was still filled out by Old Lady Zhou and handed to Sun Lanlan before the Youth League Office closed.
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