Cheng Rushan stood up and said, "Thank you, Captain Cen."
Captain Cen smiled and said, "You have experience in transportation, so why don't you become the captain of a non-staff transportation team and help us transport daily necessities in addition to military supplies."
Guns, ammunition and other items are transported by the army's internal transport teams, but some daily necessities such as grain, oil, rice, flour and charcoal are supplied by local governments and require reliable transport personnel.
This is a lucrative job!
Cheng Rushan did not show his joy, but just nodded: "As long as Captain Cen trusts me, I will definitely fulfill my mission."
Captain Cen patted him on the shoulder and said, "It's okay. It's not a job that will cost you your life. It's not that serious." He walked to the side and took out a few lists and handed them to Cheng Rushan. "I will transfer your file back to you. I will also attach documents to help you solve your class status issue. In addition, this is the list of allowances for the past few years. If you are not satisfied, you can raise an issue."
Cheng Rushan took it and took a look. Even though he was always calm and indifferent and didn't care much about material things, his eyes lit up: there were actually seven thousand yuan.
At this time, the average worker only earns about 30 yuan a month, and the average member can only earn a few cents a day. Seven thousand yuan is a huge sum of money.
Food and clothing are separate matters.
Captain Cen tilted his head and glanced at him, and finally saw a trace of emotion on Cheng Rushan's face. Ahem, it's not easy. Before, this kid's smile was hypocritical and sarcastic, but now he is blinded by money!
He patted Cheng Rushan's shoulder again and said, "Okay, go and complete the formalities and go home. When you deliver the supplies, remember to send us the freshest vegetables, meat and eggs."
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After a night of deep sleep, Jiang Lin was still a little groggy when she woke up in the morning. She opened her eyes and looked at the smoky roof, wooden beams, sorghum straw fence, and white lime walls. It looked a bit like her step-grandmother's house.
Her mother remarried a Phoenix man, who was a pair of drama queens with his mother. They were very enthusiastic towards her in front of her mother, and they were also very nice to her before her brother was born. Later she learned that her mother didn't want a child at first, at least not when she was young. But the drama queen mother and son were very dramatic, and the old lady gave her son the idea to pretend that the condom was leaked and the pregnancy was an accident.
Jiang Lin heard all this when the old lady later boasted to her relatives.
After she had a younger brother, the mother and son started bullying her in various ways, behind her mother's back. At first, she got angry and made a scene, but her approach was wrong and she became increasingly distant from her mother. She felt that her mother didn't help her, and her mother thought she was rebellious and difficult to control.
Later, she started to think of something scheming. She used a tape recorder to record the words and actions of the drama queen and her son, and then showed it to her mother.
At that time, she was young and did not understand the helplessness and difficulties of marriage and family. She thought that the world was only about black and white, right and wrong.
If she didn't have a younger brother, perhaps her mother could leave her stepfather and give her a close mother-daughter relationship. However, because of her younger brother, her actions only put her mother in a dilemma, and her love for her mother meant that she was destined to be redundant in the end.
Think about it, although she is stubborn, she just lacks love, even if she doesn't admit it.
Otherwise Bian Haitao would not have impressed her.
At that time, she hated her biological father who was handsome and good at sweet-talking, and she hated her stepfather who was big and fierce even more. However, Bian Haitao was 175cm tall, with a handsome and friendly appearance, without any sharpness, which made her feel safe.
Bian Haitao came from a poor village and was admitted to a top university, where he obtained a master's and doctoral degree. He is the pride of his village and even his county. Who wouldn't praise him for being a promising young man?
The two had been dating for several years. He was gentle and considerate to her, but she could still feel that he despised her low education level, but liked her because she was beautiful and could make money.
In fact, she was a good student when she was young, but she didn't grasp the rebellious period, and her grades plummeted. Later, she could only go to a vocational high school. The mother and son used the drama to make a fuss all day long, and she dropped out of school in anger and went to work. It was better to move bricks than to have to deal with people's faces.
Although life in that world is not very exciting, it is my familiar home. It's a pity that I can never go back, right?
Her eyes felt sore, so she closed them to lock away the surging emotions.
No matter where you are, you should try your best to live comfortably and freely. This is her own feeling.
Cheng Xiaobao also woke up. He jumped up and looked around. When he saw Jiang Lin lying beside him, he immediately smiled - his mother was still there!
He rubbed his hands together, his eyes sparkling with excitement, and quietly moved closer to take a closer look at Jiang Lin.
Mom is so beautiful.
He grinned with joy, but his lower teeth were about to change and he drooled a lot, and his saliva accidentally flowed out, right onto Jiang Lin's left cheek.
Cheng Xiaobao: “!!!”
Jiang Lin felt something strange and opened her eyes, and saw Cheng Xiaobao's shocked and flustered look, as if he had done something wrong and was at a loss as to what to do.
"Mom, are you awake?" Cheng Xiaobao kissed the dripping saliva to prevent his mother from getting angry if she found out that he had saliva on her face.
Jiang Lin was stunned, and touched her wet cheek in surprise, then she laughed. She used to play like this with her parents when she was a child.
Her childish nature was aroused, and she hugged Cheng Xiaobao, sat up and began to rock him.
When Cheng Xiaobao saw her smile, he smiled even more brightly and laughed non-stop, waking up Yan Runzhi and Cheng Dabao.
When Cheng Dabao got up, he saw Jiang Lin playing with Xiaobao there. She was still laughing, "Play, play, play a big ball, eat some potatoes, and become a big ball..."
He started laughing as he watched.
Yan Runzhi sat up and pushed Cheng Dabao, motioning for him to come over and play too.
Cheng Dabao immediately put on a serious face and said, "I have to cook."
He is the man of the family, the head of the household! Grandma said that men who are the head of the household must work!
Jiang Lin put down the giggling Cheng Xiaobao and said with a smile, "Get up and cook! You two go to school."
In the village, boys from three or four years old to six or seven years old who are unable to work are all in school, with teachers helping to take care of the children. They only start formal school at the age of seven or eight.
They are still young and cannot even enter the first grade, so they have been having fun at home all the time.
Cheng Xiaobao put his delicate arms around Jiang Lin's neck and said in a soft and coquettish voice, "Mom, I want to follow you. I don't want to go to school."
Jiang Lin smiled and said, "Let's cook first, and then discuss it."
No one understood her dislike for going to school better than she did. When she was rebellious, she wanted to skip classes all day long. She got annoyed by the sight of school and got a headache when she heard about math and English.
After getting dressed and going to the fields, Jiang Lin took Xiaobao to tidy up things in the house and yard, while Yan Runzhi took Dabao to make breakfast.
Jiang Lin looked around the small courtyard. There were three main rooms and one south room. Although it was not as big as the previous one, it was big enough for her family.
At the beginning, the Cheng family compound was requisitioned to be used as the brigade headquarters and the production team headquarters, and some small courtyards were occupied by cadres for their own residence. Later, when the four inspections were carried out on grassroots cadres, they withdrew and then removed the bricks and tiles to repair their own houses. Now only this intact brick and tile courtyard is left.
Jiang Lin saw that the pigpen was still usable and that he could catch a pig and raise it, which would not only earn him work points but also allow him to save manure.
When the Great Leap Forward was over, pigs were raised collectively by the brigade, but the effect was not good. After all, raising pigs is not as beautiful and easy as it sounds. You have to feed them three times a day, and you can't just feed them weeds even in summer, otherwise the pigs won't gain weight. In addition to feeding, you also have to clean the pigsty, remove the pig manure, and pad new soil so that fertilizer can accumulate.
A brigade has a task of raising dozens of pigs, which is too much for three or five women to take care of. Besides, most villages don’t have such a large pigpen for collective pig raising. So the brigades don’t care about the policies from above and encourage members to raise pigs at home. They are given a certain amount of coarse grain subsidies for feeding pigs, and work points for accumulating manure. As long as the pigs don’t die, everyone calculates that one pig can almost replace a labor force and earn work points, so every family rushes to raise pigs. Of course, the pork members cannot make the decision themselves, because they were assigned tasks when they were piglets.
If we break the whole into smaller pieces, we will have a pigpen. Even if some people don't raise pigs, a brigade will have at least nearly two hundred pigs.
After Jiang Lin washed her face, she wiped it while inspecting the place. When she returned to the main hall door, Yan Runzhi, the "young wife", stepped forward to ask, "Mother Baoer, what shall we have for breakfast?"
"Mother-in-law" Jiang was stunned and thought for a while, "Have the chickens laid eggs?" They brought three chickens here last night and are now kept under the west wall. I don't know if they have laid eggs.
As they were speaking, a pheasant flew out, chirping, "Cluck, cluck, cluck," and the whole yard was filled with the good news.
"Mother-in-law" Jiang: ...like a silly roe deer!
"How about we just have egg noodles?"
Yan Runzhi: “Okay.”
Cheng Xiaobao ran over to pick up the eggs and said, "Let's eat egg noodles~~"
In the past, the eggs in the family were either sold for salt and kerosene, or eaten by the aunts and others, and he had no chance to eat any.
The three chickens laid two eggs. It seemed that the move yesterday did not scare them at all. They, like Dabao and Xiaobao, adapted well.
Jiang Lin put her things in order.
Yan Runzhi kneaded the dough and rolled it. The dough for rolling noodles was hard and rolled to make it tough so that the noodles would be chewy. After rolling the dough, she rolled out the dough, cut the noodles, chopped the green onions and shredded the ginger. She was very skillful in cooking, and she didn't show any cowardice in front of others. She was very confident.
"Dabao, light the fire."
Cheng Dabao immediately struck a match to start a fire, burning the straw and some dry branches.
The grass for the firewood was mostly the crop stalks distributed in the fields. They were allocated quotas based on work points and population. Usually, if it was not enough, they would go to the distant mountains to cut some shrubs or vines to supplement. The grass they were burning now was from the brigade. Theirs was still at Cheng Ruhai's house. They would borrow a truck to bring it over after the work points were paid in the evening.
Yan Runzhi shredded ginger and chopped green onions, and added a few drops of oil to the pan. The aroma of green onion oil wafted up, and then she added water and put the noodles in after the pot boiled.
She wanted to give the two eggs to her daughter-in-law and children, so she cracked them whole.
Jiang Lin saw it and used chopsticks to crack two eggs, "This way the noodle soup will be more fragrant."
She hated it most when the family was eating and her parents had to give the eggs and chicken legs to her younger brother or sister!
Anyway, in her previous life, she ate at home, and she hadn't eaten chicken legs since her brother could eat meat. It's not that she couldn't afford chicken legs, but it was always so disgusting. Later, she tried not to eat at home, so that she wouldn't feel cold.
Jiang Lin saw that there was only a little water in the water tank, so she took the bucket she was assigned to the well to fetch water. She was really strong, and it was not difficult for her to carry most of the buckets of water. She filled the water tank at home in two trips.
Yan Runzhi whispered, "Bao'er's mother, fetch water at night from now on."
Jiang Lin: "Okay."
Yan Runzhi looked at her curiously, and said yes without asking why. How strange.
The purpose of fetching water at night is to have water available in case of fire, and also to ensure that there is no shortage of water for cooking in the morning. If there is no time during the daytime at work, then fetch water at night after work.
Jiang Lin didn't think too much about it. After fetching the water, she prepared breakfast.
Yan Runzhi also made some pickles, including pickled toon sprouts and tender toon heads pickled in spring. She chopped them up and added a drop of sesame oil, which was especially fragrant when mixed with noodles.
Jiang Lin ate so much that beads of sweat appeared on his forehead and nose. It was so delicious!
She smiled to Cheng Dabao and Cheng Xiaobao: "Grandma's cooking smells so good!"
Yan Runzhi looked at her with a slight smile. Her daughter-in-law used to say that her cooking was terrible, but now she said it was delicious.
She scooped another handful of noodles for Jiang Lin: "Bao'er mother, if it smells good, eat more. Tell me what you want to eat and I'll make it."
Jiang Lin smiled at her, "I want to eat... pancakes, scallion oil pancakes, dry pancakes, sesame pancakes, steamed pancakes, pancakes, spring rolls, leavened pancakes... oh, there are so many."
Yan Runzhi listened quietly and said, "Let's take it slow and do one thing a day." You will enjoy the delicious food and won't want to leave.
While eating, Meng Yiyi's voice came from outside, "Linlin."
She came to eat for free!!! Jiang Lin's face tensed up and she immediately gave Yan Runzhi a look.
Yan Runzhi understood immediately and took the remaining bowl of noodles back to the house to save for Dabao and Xiaobao as a snack in the morning. After coming out and sitting down to continue eating, Yan Runzhi was still feeling uneasy. Her daughter-in-law was really different. She used to grab the delicious food and give it to Meng Yiyi, but now she was instructing her to hide it.
This feeling is... weird, but... pretty good.
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Cheng Xiaobao: O(n_n)O haha~
Cheng Dabao: Σ(⊙▽⊙“a嚯嚯嚯。
The author has something to say: Yan Runzhi: My daughter-in-law is actually on good terms with me instead of her best friend, I am secretly happy~~
Cheng Dabao: My mother has turned over a new leaf. That's great.
Cheng Xiaobao: My mother’s playing is great!
Cheng Rushan, who is separated by thousands of mountains and rivers: Do I have to walk on mountain roads, take a bullock cart, ride a tractor, a bus, a train, a ship, a train, and walk... to get home?
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