Paine and Li Tong's wedding was warm and successful, with the banquet held in a state-owned hotel.
Paine's sister came to the wedding and was particularly friendly. She also brought three hundred yuan given by her mother and told them to treat Li Tong well. She said they could live at home or continue to stay in Qingmiao Village. In the future, they could follow the army as they wished and would be given full freedom.
Li Tong's family had gloomy faces, feeling that they had not gained any advantage. The military district's archives were all confidential, and they could not find out any information about Paine. The wedding went on sloppily, and they left without even eating.
Wang Jinlin and Yue Hongming had to return to the army after attending the wedding, while Pan En was approved to take a few more days off, and the neighborhood committee also gave Li Tong a wedding leave.
After discussion by the neighborhood committee, Qingmiao Village has a new policy
1. Five days of marriage leave with work points, both men and women can stay in the fields.
2. Childbirth subsidy: Women can receive 5 work points per day for two months, and an additional 2-pound piece of pork per month.
3. Elderly people over 60 years old can receive a subsidy of three yuan per month, as well as a piece of two-pound pork.
4. Children in Qingmiao Village start going to school at the age of 7 and must study until they graduate from junior high school. All tuition and miscellaneous fees are free. If you eat at school, the food allowance is 1 yuan per month.
The literacy class in Qingmiao Village has study sessions every Tuesday and Friday. Adults must be able to read and count, and no illiterate people are allowed to exist.
This article stipulates that people can report on each other. The person being reported will have three centimeters deducted from their household's work points, and the reporter will be rewarded two work points.
5. Regarding pension policy, each household must be divided into small family units and re-registered with the neighborhood committee. The support of the elderly needs to be properly resolved and registered together.
6. If there are widows, orphans or families in particularly difficult circumstances in Qingmiao Village, they can register with the neighborhood committee and try their best to resolve their family difficulties.
As soon as the five regulations were released, they sparked widespread discussion inside and outside the village. Especially Article 5, regarding registration of separation of households, caused many elderly people to go to the neighborhood committee to raise questions and express objections.
The quarrels among the families in the village who usually quarreled the most were particularly intense.
Old Mrs. Liang took her three sons and daughters-in-law to the neighborhood committee office and said, "You can't do this. How can you force people to split up? You are destroying the harmony of the family. Besides, what about the elderly care at home? If you split up the family, the elderly will just wait to die at home."
This issue had already been discussed during the meeting, and Gu Xi gave an explanation: "Grandma Liang, the third day was about the elderly care in the village. All elderly people who have reached a certain age will receive subsidies for money and meat, in appreciation of their contributions to the village.
When dividing the family, we will clearly ask during registration which household is supporting the elderly in the family, and the other households will give financial compensation to the supporting household every month. So, Grandma Liang, which child do you want to live with in your old age? "
Mrs. Liang rolled her eyes and said, "I want to live with my second son's family."
Gu Xi looked at her three sons behind her: "Who is the second son?"
A man standing at the end stood up and said, "I am the second oldest in the family."
Gu Xi glanced at the woman next to him, and seemed to be hesitant to speak: "Do you and your wife have any opinions on supporting the elderly?"
The man thought for a moment and said nothing. The woman next to him could not help but speak up: "We have no problem with supporting the elderly, but I am afraid that my mother is partial. She often gives everything in the house to the eldest son and the youngest son, and asks my family to pay and help."
When Mrs. Liang heard this, she immediately slammed the table and said, "When have I ever been partial to you? I raised you, so it's my duty to take care of you. But you're still trying to stop me. You're just being unfilial."
Gu Xi was no longer surprised. She drank the soda Wang Xu gave her in the morning and said, "Why are you arguing? This is the neighborhood committee. Do you think you are at home? We are here to solve problems, not to quarrel. We will watch your words and actions and even record them.
According to our current regulations, you can live with the second oldest child, and you can give the village subsidy to the eldest and third oldest children every month. However, if you live with the second oldest child and let him take care of you in your old age, the eldest and third oldest children must give the second oldest child a subsidy of two yuan every month until they die. As children, everyone has the obligation to support the elderly. It should be fair and just, either by contributing money or effort.
Moreover, the family should be harmonious. You should follow the second eldest family, and the mother should be loving and the children should be filial. They cannot abuse you, and you cannot make things difficult for them.
If your three children are unwilling to take care of you after they separate, you can apply to the neighborhood committee. We have special staff to take care of the elderly and take care of their food, clothing, housing and transportation. A nursing home is already being built near the mountain in the village. "
When Mrs. Liang received the look from her youngest son, she immediately started to make a scene again: "We have the final say on how to support the elderly in our family. Why do you have the right to control our family affairs? I want the second son to support me in my old age, and he agrees. Why should others be subsidized? The second son is capable, so it's normal for him to contribute more money and effort. The eldest and third sons are in great difficulty and can't even support themselves. It's normal for me to subsidize them a little and the second son to subsidize a little."
Gu Xi looked at the second brother and his wife: "Do you agree with what your mother said? To support the elderly and not to take subsidies from the other two brothers?"
The second child was glared at by his mother and nodded: "I agree."
The second son's wife knew that this was her last chance to save herself. If she continued to swallow her anger now, she would be suppressed in the future: "I don't agree. We agree to support the elderly, and we can also discuss reducing the subsidies for the other two families, but my mother is very domineering at home.
They bully my husband because he is honest. We have two children of our own and we have to take care of the elderly, both financially and physically. My husband has to work ten work points every day, while I have to work eight work points just to have enough to eat. Every day I have to work in the fields, wash clothes, cook for the family, and take care of the children. I am really tired.
The money that my mother worked so hard to earn is used to subsidize the eldest and third child. They don't have to work hard in the fields. They go home to rest after earning five or six work points a day. They don't have to do any housework at home, and my parents are still subsidizing them. I really feel like they can't make ends meet, and they are forcing my children to wash clothes and cook for them. I finally had a little bit of savings for the New Year, and wanted to make new clothes for my growing children, but the clothes were snatched away by my third child's family. It's okay for me to suffer, but I can't let my children live like this. "
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