After the New Year, everyone returned to their normal work and life. It was now 2002, and Zhang Weifang was nearly 60 years old.
Her physical condition is pretty good, and although she is at her age, she doesn't have any major problems.
However, as she grew older, her vision began to have some minor problems. Recently, she found that her eyes were a little presbyopic and she felt blurry when looking at small objects.
This made her feel a little troubled. After all, there are many things in life that require seeing details clearly, so she decided to get a pair of reading glasses.
This way, when she wants to see small things clearly, she can put on her glasses to make her vision clear.
Zhang Weifang and Lu Shi go to the hospital for a physical checkup every year, and any minor ailments are treated promptly, so both of them are in good health.
Moreover, Zhang Weifang usually buys some nutritional supplements to drink, and she is not stingy with the price in this regard.
In recent years, the situation outside has been very good, so she fell in love with wearing jewelry. She wore jade on her neck and wrists, which made her two daughters-in-law envious. They often said privately that their mother-in-law was coquettish in her old age.
The only thing that Zhang Weifang is not satisfied with is her hair. It has been turning gray since she was fifty years old. In order to look good, she has to dye it once a month, which makes her very annoyed.
And because she dyed her hair too much, her scalp became very sensitive, causing her hair to fall out easily, and her scalp often became inflamed and broke out.
I don’t know if it’s genetic, but Zhang Weiren’s hair is mostly white, so he has to dye it too. Only Zhang Weishuang is carefree. She now goes out with a head full of white hair every day. Everyone is used to it and thinks it looks pretty good.
This summer, Zhang Weibao's daughter Zhang Yuelin took the high school entrance examination. Her academic performance has always been good, so her family members are very optimistic about her.
On July 10th, as soon as the high school entrance examination results came out, Zhang Weibao couldn't wait to run to the township to see the results. In fact, the results would be announced directly in a few days, but he couldn't wait.
So Zhang Weibao chose to skip work. Fortunately, Zhang Yuelin's grades were very good and her score was enough to get into the No. 1 Middle School in the county.
Just when Zhang Weibao was extremely excited, his boss Li Ming was inspecting his workplace. When Li Ming found that there was no one at his workstation, he immediately became angry:
"This is our good employee. He's absent from work without reason and has no discipline. If I hadn't come, I wouldn't have noticed. If you don't want to work, then don't come in the future."
In fact, each coal inspection station has two employees in each group. Zhang Weibao thought that if he was not there, the other colleague would definitely stick to his post. Who knew that his colleague had the same idea as him.
Both of them trusted each other very much. It was summer and the weather was too hot, so they both wanted to be lazy. Therefore, no one expected that the leader would make a surprise attack.
The next day, Zhang Weibao received a notice of dismissal as soon as he arrived at the company. He was confused because their company generally would not fire employees. At most, they would deduct wages, criticize by name, etc.
Zhang Weibao knew that the matter was serious, so he quickly bought two packs of good cigarettes and some good wine and went directly to his immediate boss's house.
His immediate superior was a handsome young man. He met Zhang Weibao but confiscated his belongings:
"Go back. There's no room for easing this matter. I already pleaded for mercy yesterday, but unfortunately, this is an order from the First Leader."
At the critical moment, Zhang Weibao thought of his brother. He quickly called Zhang Weiren, who asked him to go home and wait for news.
In fact, this matter is neither big nor small. Jin Wu happens to be in charge of this line of work, so if he gives the order, this matter will definitely be easily resolved.
However, Zhang Weiren and Jin Wu had just fallen out a few years ago. How could he possibly be willing to help? It would be good enough if he didn't add insult to injury.
Besides, even if he wants to help, it will definitely be an exchange of interests. Zhang Weiren doesn’t know what price he will have to pay?
In fact, Zhang Weiren could have asked other people for help, but after looking around for a group of friends, he finally had to go through Jin Wu. Jin Wu made it known that he would arrange for his daughter to work in a government department.
Jin Wen's daughter Jin Mei is a poor student. She spent a lot of money to go to a technical secondary school, but she has no outstanding qualities. How could she be arranged to work in a government agency?
Zhang Weiren knew that this was an exchange of interests, but he also didn't want to ruin his reputation, so he didn't agree to it.
In the end, Zhang Weibao's case was left unresolved, and he could only accept the fact that he was fired.
When Wang Fuzi heard that Zhang Weibao was fired, he went crazy:
"How can this be? How are we going to live in the future? Where's your brother? Isn't he a high-ranking official? Doesn't he care?"
No matter how angry Wang Fuzi was, this matter had already come to an end.
Wang Fuzi is a proud person. She cannot accept this. She cannot let others know that her man has lost his job, and she cannot let others look down on her.
In September, Wang Fuzi had a new idea. She felt that her cave house was too dilapidated. The back wall had collapsed once during a previous flood, so she decided to build a new house.
Wang Fuzi asked the craftsmen to do some calculations and found that if they built three houses and a gate, the total cost would be about 70,000 yuan.
However, Wang Fuzi was not satisfied. She wanted to build four rooms, one for her son, daughter, and mother-in-law, and one for her and her husband.
Zhang Weibao disagreed. Their current homestead was only wide enough for three houses. If they wanted to build another one, they would have to buy the house next door, which would increase the cost a lot.
They don't have much savings, only less than 30,000 yuan. However, they have two children who are still in school, which requires a considerable amount of expenses.
In addition, they also had to build a house, which undoubtedly made the already poor family even worse off, and he had now lost his job and his source of income had become unstable.
Faced with this situation, they can only choose to borrow money from others to alleviate the urgent needs, but they are not sure when they can pay off these debts.
The pressure of life is like a heavy mountain pressing down on this family, making it hard to breathe.
Wang Fuzi didn't care about that. She thought that since she was going to build a house, she should build it all at once, and borrow the money all at once and pay it back slowly later.
A new house was being built in his hometown, and out of compensation, Zhang Weiren gave his younger brother 30,000 yuan, Zhang Weifang also contributed 5,000 yuan, Zhang Weishuang lent out 5,000 yuan, and Gou Xiao also contributed 2,000 yuan.
In the end, the total cost was 100,000 yuan, so Wang Fuzi borrowed the remaining 30,000 yuan from her two younger brothers from her mother's family.
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