Chapter 12 Paving the way
Haha, my aunt is so pretentious. Okay, I’m all a family, so I’m not polite.
"Sister, brother-in-law, today's fish is only part of what I caught yesterday, and there are still 100 kilograms at home. The harvest this year is not good, and it will definitely be difficult to bear in the beginning of next spring. We will prepare to catch some more fish and store more food for emergencies. My father Li Deyou smiled."
"Ah! These are only part of today. There are still hundreds of kilograms in the family. My aunt and her family were shocked when they heard this."
Li Wen and his group nodded.
"Then the rest of this year will be better, my aunt said happily."
"Brother-in-law, please inform Lao Wang and Lao Chen of the flour mill tomorrow and ask them to come tomorrow night at this time. I will also send them some fish catches. Thanks to the help of the two of them in recent years, I will get some unplanned food from time to time to give me some unplanned food, otherwise it will be difficult. We will not forget the well digger when we have good things now, and our father Li Deyou smiled."
Before the liberation of the liberation of his father and his second uncle, they often dealt with flour mills in the county grain store. After a while, they met Lao Wang and the other two. They had a good relationship. The previous article said that after the liberation of the grain store, the two of his father returned to the countryside.
The few people have not seen each other for almost ten years. The famine the previous year was too serious and life was too difficult. Even if you have money, you can't get food. My father and I found Lao Wang who still works in the flour mill. Unexpectedly, they agreed to help without saying a word. In the past two years, they have also helped my father exchange a lot of food one after another, so my father is very grateful to the two.
"Okay, I'll inform Lao Wang and the others tomorrow. Although they are in the flour mill, they have many children at home, so they can only have a full meal. Then I might be so happy to see you send them fish."
"Dad, I'm back, my cousin Zhao Jiefang hurried in."
"Have your Uncle Peng safely sent you? Did your Uncle Peng say anything? Zhao Hongjun asked."
"I've been delivered. Uncle Peng is very satisfied with the fish today. He kept telling me that he would come to him next time he has the goods. He also told me about my work. He looked at my father and uncle and felt embarrassed to get up."
"Liberation, what's wrong with your work? Tell me, it's all your uncle and cousin, why are you doing shyly? My aunt scolded softly."
"Uncle Peng said that if I could get fifty kilograms of fish, I could ask someone to help me turn the temporary worker in the fertilizer company into a regular."
"Really? Your Uncle Peng didn't coax you, my aunt and uncle said excitedly."
His father Li Deyou took a sip of the big rooster cigarette handed over by his eldest uncle and said with a smile: "This is a good thing. Fifty kilograms of fish can make my eldest nephew a formal worker. I will give this fish and your second uncle," Li Decai also nodded.
"Thank you so much, uncle, I can finally look up and be a human being."
"Before, because I was a temporary worker, my mother asked someone to introduce me to several partners. When I heard that I was a temporary worker, I felt so sad. Zhao Jiefang was so stupid."
"If I become a formal worker, you will come to me at any time to get fertilizer in the future. Zhao Jiefang patted his chest and promised."
"Okay, that's settled, my father joked."
My father Li Deyou knew that Zhao Jie was working in a fertilizer company, but he used to be a temporary worker, and he was a delusional idea to get fertilizers. However, if he became a formal worker, he might be able to help him.
Father Li Deyou smiled and said: Brother-in-law, we will come again tomorrow night and put the remaining fish on you. You will ask some friends and leaders who have good relationships to see who needs them. Then we will leave the relationship and make profits. Look at who needs it. Then I will put the fish in your house and you will let them take it secretly at night at 2 yuan per pound."
As for the 50 kilograms of fish meat from Jiefang, Li's father turned around and looked at his cousin and smiled, "Jiefang, don't be anxious first, let your Uncle Peng digest today's fish meat first. Now the meat is precious. Once he sells it tomorrow, he will come to the door automatically and let them know that our fish meat is hard-won, so it will be easy to negotiate at that time."
"Well, uncle, I know this, Zhao Jiefang nodded and responded."
"Sister, we won't stop for a long time. We have to go to work tomorrow morning. You can take these tickets and ten dollars to help us redeem them into food and cooking oil tomorrow. We will get them when we are in the evening, and my father said with a smile."
My aunt put away the bills and smiled, "This is all a trivial matter. It's getting late and I won't keep you anymore. Please be careful when you go back."
After saying goodbye to my aunt's family, my grandfather hurried to the house with the moonlight on his back. When he returned, he kept a distance from one after another to prevent the patrolled militia from seeing the slaughter.
When I went back, I was empty-handed and my speed was much faster, and I returned to the village in less than an hour.
Nowadays, every household is relatively poor and cannot eat enough for themselves, so there is no household in the village who raises dogs.
The dark village came into view, and several people walked around the backyard wall, holding the other and crawling back home.
Is it the boss? The old lady is worried that her children and grandchildren will be guarding the backyard at night. When she saw several figures climbing over the back wall, she whispered.
"Mom, it's us, my father Li Deyou should come. Why are you always sitting here? Don't you let you rest when you leave? The second uncle helped the sitting old mother up and complained."
"Boss, A Quan, Awen, you guys go to bed early. I'll talk to your second uncle and the others."
Li Wen and the others nodded and returned to the room. After all, it was still late, so I could still take a quick sleep.
Li Deyou and Li Decai came to the old lady's room, but their mother Wang Chunmei and second aunt Cui Yanzi didn't sleep either. They were waiting at home. When they heard the movement, they walked out of the room.
Mother Wang Chunmei worried, "It will be smooth tonight, no danger will happen."
"My mother, don't worry, the five big men, who can do what we do to us, my father said happily."
"The fish catch today has been sold for a big price."
As he said that, he took out the remaining 78 yuan and more than a dozen cloth tickets and placed them on the table. His mother and second aunt's eyes lit up as soon as they saw it.
It's so much money, and there are still five or six meters of cloth tickets, which can make several clothes and two kilograms of cotton tickets. This is great. The two of them are very happy to count the notes on the table.
"You can take the forty dollars from his second aunt, and then give you three meters of cloth tickets. My mother took out the bill and gave it to her second aunt Cui Yanzi and said!"
"That won't work. This fish was fished by Awen. We didn't put in much effort. How could we still share the big head? We can't ask for this money. I left the cloth ticket, and the second aunt refused."
"That won't work. His second uncle, A Quan, you and Xiaoxia have all put a lot of effort into his second aunt's arms." The mother kept stuffing money into her second aunt's arms, and in the end, the second aunt charged twenty yuan before giving up.
"You women, my father looked at his mother's virtuous relationship with his sister-in-law, and shook his head with a smile: "These are only a small part, and there are more than a hundred yuan of food coupons and oil coupons. I asked my elder sister to go tomorrow to exchange for food, and we will carry it back tomorrow night.
"Ah, why did you say that these fish are sold for nearly 200 yuan per pound of fish and sold for more than 2 yuan? My mother Wang Chunmei was shocked."
"Well, the food in the city is very expensive now. If a pound of flour is more than one piece, the price of meat is even higher. Of course, I am talking about the price of the black market, my father said softly."
"My mother, and the second son and the second son's family, today Jiefang actually said that fifty kilograms of fish could turn his temporary worker into a regular job. I thought a lot."
Can we also use 80 kilograms or 100 kilograms of fish to exchange jobs for a few children? After all, workers are a strong job, which is better than digging food in the fields.
When several people heard this, their eyes lit up. The workers are so good. They are at least dozens of yuan a month, and they are also a job with iron rice. They don’t have to worry about food and drink. They have national guarantees for birth, old age, sickness and death, but they are much better than farmers.
Second aunt said excitedly, "That's good, that's what it means to eat imperial grain. If our family produces a few workers, it will be underdeveloped. I agree with his elder brother, but I will have to work hard at that time."
"Awen is a sensible child. Today, I took the initiative to send food coupons and oil at his aunt's house, which made me look at him with admiration. My second uncle Li De nodded."
It's okay, our family is only the eldest, the second, and Awen is almost there. After the fifteenth year of the Chinese New Year, you can go to the factory. I guess the three jobs can only be done at most three or four hundred kilograms of fish. With Awen's skills, it will be done in just a few nights, Li Deyou said lightly."
"Well! Awen's child has performed very well these days and has ideas. He will definitely have a promising future when he grows up. But he is still young now. You can help him more in the future as fathers and uncles. The old lady Guo Xiuyun looked at the few people talking about Li Wen and said lightly.
I went to bed, it was almost four o'clock and I had to go to work tomorrow. After discussing, I returned to my room.
Li Wen lay in bed and recalled what happened tonight, got to know the county town, and established a relationship with his cousin's family, and had a preliminary starting point for his future development.
Today, when my father heard my cousin's words, he must have thought about it. At that time, he would also help his elder brother and the others. Now he is a worker world. Several workers at home will have some confidence to resist harassment during the exercise period, which will also make the family live a better life.
The family of Dagu in the county town was also much more lively. After packing up the two grass carp sent by Li Wen, the children were allowed to return to their rooms.
My aunt Li Xiulan lay on the bed and smiled: "I didn't expect that after helping her parents for so many years, I'll get such a big reward. Dad, don't you complain about me, the country relatives now."
Zhao Hongjun was lying on the bed thinking about the problem and looked at his wife beside him and smiled: "I haven't complained yet, but our living conditions were not good before. I'm just talking, but your parents' family has produced talents this time, Zhao Hongjun sighed."
"You mean Awen, right? Today I see that this child is different from usual. He is easy to deal with people and things, and speaks calmly and generously, neither humble nor arrogantly. This child has indeed grown up, Li Xiulan exclaimed."
"This child must be unusual to grow up. It may be beneficial to let Jianjun and the others have more contact with your nephew in the future. Zhao Hongjun stared at the ceiling.
Chapter completed!