When Jiang Yinyin returned, it was already four o'clock in the afternoon.
She had someone move tens of thousands of yuan worth of medicine home. When she saw Shen Mingzhi was still there, she was about to say something sarcastic, but she held back and just glared at her, saying, "I won't admit defeat! I won't go to the credit union either. What you can do, I can do too."
Shen Mingzhi nodded, "It's a good thing that young people have courage, so keep it up."
Jiang Yinyin was so angry she was practically fuming.
She quickly ran upstairs to the second floor and saw Jiang Shaozhen tidying up his things in the room, so she quickly went inside.
"Second brother, are you really planning to become a frontline worker?!" She still couldn't believe it.
Jiang Shao Chen looked up at her and asked, "You've taken all the medicine back?"
"Why do you want me to take the medicine back? I'm not going to set up a stall to sell it anyway. You want me to go out and shoo it away like her and embarrass myself? I can't do that!" Jiang Yinyin said, turning around to leave.
"Mom said this medicine cost you over two thousand. Do you know what two thousand means to those people outside?" Jiang Shaozhen threw the clothes in his hand onto the bed. These were made by Jiang Qing for the two children and were only picked up from the tailor this afternoon.
Standing at the door, Jiang Yinyin sensed the coldness in Jiang Shao Chen's tone and swallowed hard. "That's also Shen Mingzhi's fault. She deliberately set up that lottery to target Chunshan Pharmacy!"
"Two thousand is the average annual income of people in advanced villages. In poorer villages, it's the income of the whole family for two years. My parents and I have discussed it. You either need to study hard and go directly to the credit union after graduation, or your father will assign you to a village to be the village accountant and lead the villagers to get rich," Jiang Shaozhen said coldly.
"I'm a college graduate, and instead of climbing the social ladder, I'm forced to work as an accountant in the countryside?!" Jiang Yinyin's eyes reddened with anger. "Second brother, you're being way too biased!"
“You think construction workers suffer, you think street vending is shameful, you steal from your sister-in-law’s pharmacy to make medicine for other pharmacies and lose money, and you still have to rely on your parents and your sister-in-law to clean up your messes, what kind of bullshit college student are you? Where can you find a college student like you?! I think sending you to a factory is a waste of a spot, you should go to the countryside to get some proper training!” Jiang Shaozhen said in a deep voice.
Jiang Yinyin's lips trembled, and tears welled up in her eyes.
“Either go to the credit union or go to the countryside. Forget about going to the factory. Each factory has a limited number of college student slots they can recommend, and I don’t think you’re suitable.” After saying that, Jiang Shaozhen sat down and continued to tidy up the child’s clothes.
Jiang Yinyin angrily returned to her room and slammed the door shut.
Jiang Shaozhen's eardrums throbbed from the loud noise next door. He quickly checked on Niannian and Zhouzhou on the bed, and sure enough, both children were crying from fright.
He dropped the clothes he was holding, picked up the child, and soothed him until they finally fell asleep. He then went to the next room and knocked on Jiang Yinyin's door. "Open the door!"
"Are you trying to kill me?!"
"There are children at home, can't you be a little gentler?!"
Jiang Shao Chen said angrily at the door. He said that he and his two siblings had indeed quarreled since they were young, and even fought when their parents were not at home.
However, after his older brother joined the army, he had less time to spend with his younger sister while he was at school, and their relationship gradually improved.
It seems like we've gone back to the point where we couldn't stand each other when we were kids.
"She's not my child, why should I be gentler?! Just keep coaxing Shen Mingzhi, what use is my sister to you! Now that you have a wife, you don't even recognize your own family!" Jiang Yinyin cried and accused in the room, feeling wronged.
Jiang Shaozhen stood at the door, took a deep breath, and finally returned to his room with no other choice.
Shen Mingzhi, who was downstairs, heard the argument upstairs and shook her head helplessly.
Aunt Wang brought out the cooked mung bean soup and said softly, "They used to argue like this when they were little. Yinyin would often cry when she couldn't win the argument. It was so lively back then. In the end, he and Shaoan both went to join the army, and the house became cold and quiet. She started to miss her brothers again and said that she would never argue with them again."
Shen Mingzhi nodded slightly; the Jiang family had a very family-like atmosphere.
Modern families have fewer children, and every household is very quiet; it's as if no one is home, so you rarely see scenes of arguments like this anymore.
In this era, however, this is the norm.
Jiang Guofu returned just before dinner.
As soon as he returned, he said to Jiang Qing, Jiang Shaochen, and Shen Mingzhi at the dinner table, “Zhizhi really has foresight. I talked to the engineers at the design institute, and they said that there had been rumors a month ago that the reform would start in those remote villages. Those places are poor, the village secretary has no choice, and everyone is going to be unable to afford food. Improving the economy and productivity is imperative.”
Jiang Yinyin didn't understand and looked at Shen Mingzhi with a blank expression.
"Have the documents been processed yet?" Jiang Shaozhen asked him.
“It’s done. I’ve expedited it. There’s a very ambitious engineer at the design institute who’s willing to go with you. If you encounter difficulties in the future, you’ll have to rely on yourself and him. And there’s Zhizhi too. There’s so little Dad can help you with in the future.” Jiang Guofu had to beg and plead with everyone he could today to get the certificate and register with the design institute.
“She’s from the village too. Since this reform started in the village, it’s normal for her to know about it.” Jiang Qing thought she really knew someone important, but it turned out it was for this reason.
Shen Mingzhi didn't say much; it was good that they were such kind people, so as not to ask too many questions.
"The engineer talked to me a lot today, saying that private enterprises might become the mainstream in the future. He said that our state-owned enterprises... when we need something done, they drag their feet. We can afford to wait, but can the people in the villages afford to wait?" Jiang Guofu finished speaking and sighed sadly.
Shen Mingzhi thought he must have thought of Song Huiquan.
In fact, the final acquisition of state-owned enterprises by private enterprises was also due to these people.
They thought that with a secure job, they had nothing to fear, but in the end, state-owned enterprises were caught in a pincer movement with private and foreign companies, and one after another they declared bankruptcy, leading to a wave of layoffs.
Jiang Yinyin couldn't help but ask, "What kind of certificates do we need? My second brother works on a construction site, does he need certificates and a technical engineer?"
"Eat your food!" Jiang Qing rolled her eyes at her.
"Second brother, what's going on?!" Jiang Yinyin had just been arguing fiercely with Jiang Shaochen, but now they were fine again.
"I don't understand either." Jiang Shaozhen was indeed still confused. He listened to Shen Mingzhi, after all, she was smart.
Jiang Yinyin didn't want to ask Shen Mingzhi, so she kept quiet.
It was almost six o'clock when we left the Jiang family's residence.
"I'm going to the stationery store later to buy something for Xinian." Shen Mingzhi hadn't originally planned to buy anything, but then she thought that Wang Xinian probably hadn't celebrated Children's Day either.
Buy him some now to make up for it, but when he goes to university, he'll have to rely on himself.
Jiang Shaozhen hummed in agreement, and while driving, he asked Shen Mingzhi, "Do you think what my dad said makes sense?"
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