Chapter 268
"I've had dinner, Xiaozhen, go and call Ling Chen over for dinner."
Chen Biying came out of the kitchen with a bowl of oily braised pork, put it on the dining table, and said to her daughter-in-law Xue Zhen.
"Okay." Xue Zhen responded softly, let go of her daughter she was holding, and stood up with her belly straight.
"I'd better call me. You go to the kitchen to help Biying serve the dishes." My father-in-law Kong Ze put down the newspaper, took off his reading glasses, opened the door, and went downstairs.
Kong Lingchen's house currently has two apartments.
Not long after they got married, they participated in the sixth batch of house purchases and bought a 45-square-meter house. At that time, the construction of a new city had just begun. In order to attract domestic educated youth, the housing prices were very low, and only cost more than 400 yuan, which was equivalent to Kong Lingchen's three-month salary, just like giving it for free if you don't have money.
The next year, Xue Zhen became pregnant.
In order to take care of her, Kong Lingchen's mother rushed over from Shanghai, and the house was not enough to live in.
Kong Lingchen's total monthly income reached more than 100 yuan at that time. He was one of the few rich people in the factory and was rich and generous. So he paid for another 75-square-meter suite in the Seiko Community.
However, because it was the second house purchase, there was no discount. This three-bedroom suite cost more than 1,600 yuan in total.
Although it is more than three times more expensive than the first one, it is only equivalent to his annual income. Besides, Xue Zhen also has a job and applies for installment payments, so it is not difficult to buy this house.
Now Xue Zhen and his wife live in a set of three, while Chen Biying and his wife live in their original set of ones.
Perhaps because of my childhood, my family was in good condition, and after going to the countryside, I had resentment about life in the countryside, and I developed a compensatory mentality. After working, Kong Lingchen was very obsessed with various modern household appliances.
He bought two portable recorders, including several power amplifiers. Later, the base area launched a five-point one-channel combination speaker, and he went to buy another set. In order to place these audio equipment, a wooden floor was specially laid in a room, the walls were soundproofed, and a listening room was set up. He often bought audio magazines to read, and became a HiFi enthusiast.
It was already past seven-thirty, and his factory had already gotten off work. Xue Zhen had been here for almost two hours. Kong Lingchen had not come yet, so he thought he must have been staying in the listening room again.
Xue Zhen helped her mother-in-law bring out the dishes and put them on the table. Before the meal started, she first fed her one-year-old daughter to make her eat full. Her daughter looked as close as her, with a round face, a slim nose, and a pair of black eyes. She rarely cried when she was a baby, and became more sensible after one year of age. She always sat quietly beside her mother, and she never annoying when she pulled her sleeves and she was never annoying.
Chen Biying and his wife still love this little granddaughter. However, although the Kong family has three children, the first two are sisters, only Kong Lingchen, the only boy. Out of the traditional idea of favoring boys over girls, they still hope that Xue Zhen can give birth to a boy for their Kong family this time so that it is easy to pass on the family line.
Fortunately, there is no family planning in the base area. Xue Zhen got pregnant again less than a year after giving birth, which makes them still have some hope.
For the sake of possible future grandson, Chen Biying and his wife didn't even go to work. Xue Zhen was only more than three months pregnant, so they asked for a long vacation from the unit and came to take care of her.
"I'm eating braised pork again today, why are you braised pork every day?" The door opened, and before Kong Lingchen came in, his voice floated in first.
Hearing his father's voice, the daughter immediately widened her black eyes. As soon as she saw Kong Lingchen appearing at the door, she immediately cracked her small mouth with two breast teeth and smiled, stretched out her chubby little hands, and said in a vague manner: "Papa, hug!"
"My little guy, okay, okay, dad will hug you now, come and let dad kiss you!" Kong Lingchen loved this daughter to death.
As soon as he heard her titty voice, his eyes narrowed into a line, and he didn't have time to change his shoes. He ran over in two steps, picked up his daughter, kissed her face constantly, making her laugh, shaking her head left and right, avoiding the stubble on his chin.
"What should I eat if I don't eat braised pork? I've only had a few days of full meals and felt that I was the great master. I don't even want to eat braised pork." Chen Biying knocked on his head with chopsticks, "Tomorrow I'll go to Jinxiu Plaza and buy hairtail fish and block your mouth!"
Although the base area breeding industry is doing well, and chicken, duck, fish and meat are rich, seaweed products such as hairtail are still very scarce, and only Xincheng supermarkets can be sold.
But the price is much more expensive than pork, one pound of hairtail can be worth two pounds of pork.
"It's still mom who hurts me the most!" Kong Lingchen slapped a flattery with a smile, and then kissed her daughter's little face, "Nannan, you're lucky. Dad will feed you hairtail tomorrow. Let me tell you, this hairtail is delicious. Dad didn't have the chance to eat much when he was a child. You'll know after eating it tomorrow. It's much better than pork and chicken."
"Fish...eat..." My daughter didn't know much about it, and she couldn't understand his long speech. She could only roughly imitate his accent and repeat it, which made the whole family feel happy again.
"She is still young and can't even eat too much porridge. You even let her eat hairtail fish, and you are not afraid of fish bones getting stuck!" Kong Ze couldn't help but curse when he heard his son's unruly words.
"I'll help her pick out the fish bones." Kong Lingchen said unconvincedly.
"You can't even pick your own thorns, so you can pick them for Nannan!" Chen Biying distributed the bowls and chopsticks and said sarcastically.
"I'd better pick it for Nannan. Her teeth are not yet grown, so I'll chew it before feeding her." Xue Zhen said in a quiet voice, as if she was to smooth things over for her husband.
The whole family sat down.
"By the way, Dad, the TV will be sold publicly tomorrow, so I decided to buy one too. Tomorrow, Sunday, we will go out to have fun." Kong Lingchen saw the newspaper his father was reading, mixed with an advertising leaflet from Xincheng Supermarket, and reached out to pick it up.
"There will definitely be many people tomorrow!" Kong Ze said very little, and he chewed slowly.
"There must be many people, tomorrow is Sunday. They choose tomorrow as the premiere day of the TV station after they have seen the holidays. They will sell more TVs. Let's go and see first. If we don't squeeze, we will buy one. If there are too many people, we will go to Shushan Park next to us to play. Anyway, it won't waste time." Kong Lingchen spread out the flyer, lit the exquisite pictures on it, and said, "If you want to buy, buy a NT$1, buy this 21-inch large-screen color TV."
His current income is higher than two years ago. His monthly salary, bonus, salary for seniority, salary for education, subsidies, etc. can be more than 400 yuan. More importantly, he has also enjoyed special contribution allowances, with an additional 500 yuan per month.
Xue Zhen also has about 200 yuan a month. The two of them have a monthly income of 1,230 yuan.
A 21-inch large-screen color TV is only one month's salary!
"You're just burning too much money!" Chen Biying said incisively, "What's the point of buying such expensive ones? I think it's good to buy a 19-inch one. I'll save the extra money for you. If you have something to do in the future, you won't panic."
Kong Ze nodded and agreed with his wife's words.
"Mom, you're an old idea!" Kong Lingchen did not. He had his own understanding. "There are only four things that people live in life: food, clothing, housing and transportation. Clothing is five yuan cheaper and one or two hundred yuan expensive; food, our family is big fish and meat every day, less than a hundred yuan; living, although the base area is no longer discounted, compared with the salary level, it is only one or two years of income; whether it is a bus or a bike by yourself, it doesn't cost much.
When I went to the hospital, I paid for the minor illness and the country was responsible for the serious illness. How many times can I get sick this year? How much money can I spend? Last year, Xiaozhen gave birth to a baby, and stayed in the hospital for a month before and after giving birth, but she only paid more than 1,000 yuan.
Education and education are free in the base area. If you have the ability, you don’t need to pay a penny by yourself until you graduate with a doctorate.
Even if you can't find a suitable position for you, you can continue to stay in a labor skills school. You may no longer apply to a new major to readjust your career. The Labor Service Department also pays 20 yuan a month. It is definitely not enough to live a comfortable life, but at least you won't be hungry.
You think about it, what else should I worry about? Isn’t this money just for use? I spend a lot, but I earn a lot!"
"You always make sense! Even if you are not short of money, won't you give me some advice from your elder sister or second sister?" Chen Biying couldn't argue with her son, so she had to talk to her two daughters.
"What else will happen if my eldest sister marrys a state cadre? Although my second sister almost didn't arrange a job after returning to the city, wouldn't I send her fifty yuan a month? It's enough to be kind and righteous..."
Before he finished speaking, Chen Biying knocked on the forehead: "What does it mean to be kind and righteous! How did you speak? That's your sister!"
"I asked her to come to the base area, but she refused to do so, thinking that this place was more like the countryside... I don't know which side looks more like the countryside. If she doesn't come, I even give her fifty yuan a month, which is more earning than she earns at work, and it's not enough to be kind and righteous?" Kong Lingchen said angrily, "Besides, the base area has developed so fast that everyone's income has risen. When I first started working, I was so happy to get seventy-eight yuan a month. In just a few years, my income has increased to thousands! Looking at the development of the base area, our income will continue to rise in the future. Yesterday, you saw that it was still very valuable, and I will see it again after a while..."
"It's still valuable!" Chen Biying said decisively.
Kong Lingchen was choked and changed his words: "Yes, it's still valuable, but the income is increasing, and we will get more and more abundant on our hands. I mean that the consumption capacity of the base area is increasing, and we cannot look at things with the old eyes. Besides, if everyone doesn't spend money, who will the product be sold to? In the end, the product cannot be sold, the factory has no income, and goes bankrupt, will we return to the Labor Service Department to receive the twenty yuan a month?"
"Will the country's factory go bankrupt?" Chen Biying said in surprise.
"Of course! Private owners can go bankrupt, why can't state-owned units go bankrupt? If you know that the country will provide a guarantee, then every factory will not do anything attentively. In the end, people will be in trouble, who will work? The factory has said it many times. The factory director, workshop director, and team leader are all watching it, for fear that the workers will be lazy and produce all the defective products, which will eventually go bankrupt." Kong Lingchen despised his mother for being so strange.
"It seems like this here," Kong Ze read many newspapers and knew some different bases from the country. He confirmed, "If you don't do it well, you will be fired. If the factory is not well managed, you will also close the door. It is called that... Asset Restructuring."
"Why did this happen? This is still the world of the Communist Party?" Chen Biying was shocked and said indignantly.
"How fresh you said, who said that the Communist Party's world is going to support lazy people? Besides, this is not yet a distribution on demand. Now it is socialism, and it can only be distributed according to work! More work is more rewarding, less work is less rewarding, no work is not rewarding! I am good at skill, work hard, and have created huge value for the factory and the country. If I share what I deserve equally with those who do not work, I will feel unfair!" Kong Lingchen curled his lips.
Chapter completed!