Section 5 Special Era

As dusk fell, Lu Li and Gou Li rushed into the yard from outside. Uncle, aunt, two sisters and grandfather had already eaten. On the low table that landed, there were bowls and chopsticks. Dinner was steamed buns and fried potatoes with tomato sauce stored last fall.

"Why did you go? So late! Unlucky thing!" Yu Fang took out a few steamed buns from the pot and went to the door to serve the dishes, "Wash your hands! Eat if you don't wash your hands?"

The eldest daughter of the Wu family, Lai, followed the two little ones, grabbed one with one hand, and carried it to the edge of the water basin, "Look down!" said to Gou Li, "Don't run, wait."

The boy's face was dubbed "cat washing face" by adults. The emphasis is on holding up water with his hands, scratching his face, and not serious at all. Lai brother rubbed his brother hard and scratched him. Lu Li's small body was shaken constantly, and his neck was scratching his sister's nails so hard that it hurts. He kept humming in his mouth. "Look at your neck, why is it like axle? It's all iron-colored!"

After washing his face, he grabbed his hand, put on soap, and washed out red and white colors before he gave up, "Go."

Luli sat down on a small stool and picked up a steamed bun. Dogli washed his face and sat down. The two men picked up chopsticks and spoons and started eating in big mouths. The two children gathered together all day long, and they ate at this house today and to eat at that house tomorrow. Parents of both sides have become a habit. When they don’t come back when the meal starts, they know that they must be eating at the opposite door and will not worry.

Yu Fang lit a cigarette, took a beautiful breath, and shouted loudly, "Eat potatoes! If you are unethical, you will know that you are not stupid when you use a spoon to scoop tomatoes!"

Wu Baokun took a few sips of cigarettes, snatched out the cigarette butts, got up and went out, "Baochai, why are you going?"

Baochai is the nickname of his uncle. It turned out that after the founding of New China, a movie called "March 3" was staged, which describes the story of the Bai people turning over and becoming masters under the leadership of the Party. There is a negative character in it, an officer of the Nationalist Party named Wu Baochai. In fact, this character has nothing to do with him except that his name is somewhat similar, but his family and neighbors in the alley thought it was fun, so he gave him this nickname.

"Go to Courtyard 4."

"I just know that you have something else to do with your erhu?"

Wu Baokun can play the erhu, and his skills are quite good. After dinner every day, he plays a few musical instruments with his neighbors in the alley, which is his favorite. In addition to him, the fathers of Li Xin and Liu Gan, who are also one of Lu Li’s friends, one plays the accordion and the other plays the yangqin.

He ignored his wife's complaints, opened the door, and turned around and said, "Xiaoxiao, after eating, don't let your aunt do it."

"Where are the children eating, are you urging me?" Yu Fang glared at her husband's back and looked back at the dog Li who was eating loudly, "Slow down, look at your mouth and eat like a chicken's eyes. Why are you eating so quickly? Look at Xiaoxiao?"

Gou Lili ignored it and kept eating. At noon, the two of them were just playing crazy and did not eat lunch seriously. They were so hungry that they were so hungry. Soon, steamed buns quickly filled in Wudian Temple, and a pair of potatoes and tomatoes on an enamel plate also entered his and his small belly. Lu used his hand to wipe the vegetable juice and dough residue at the corner of his mouth, picked up the empty plate with quick hands and feet, and turned out, "Why do you do?"

"brush!"

"Stand there, I'll go later."

"Uncle and uncle... I've talked about it,"

"Don't listen to him, let it go, I'll do it later."

"Yu Fang, let him go." Wu Jihou said, "It's so old, so how can you do it? Xiaoxiao, go and wash the dishes!"

With her father-in-law's words, Yu Fang was not easy to stop her. She knew that because of her daughter's death, her father-in-law turned her longing into hatred for Lu Xuedong and her posthumous son. She had never been as good as ever for several years. Even when the child just arrived at her home, he never hugged his infant grandson.

******************************************************

Wu Baokun's family's living conditions are pretty good. Although his aunt has no job, she doesn't have many children. Her uncle is a policeman and her salary is 46 yuan per month and 6 corners, the same as the third-level workers in the factory.

In that era, state workers like Wu Baokun (who are senior cadres, their wages are high) could not compare to factory workers. The reason is very simple: the agency is 100% clear water yamen, and there is absolutely no gray, black, or white income other than normal income. Every month, it only relies on a salary that never changes the amount given by the state. Therefore, some people try their best to transfer to the company to work, just to get a salary of 4 yuan a month (actually, it is a bonus, but it cannot be called that, because the nature of the bonus is capitalist material stimulus) and some very small overtime pay.

For enterprise employees, in addition to their salary and additional salary, there is also overtime salary (at a normal day of 200%, overtime is not allowed to work normally, even if someone works overtime, it is voluntary contribution). The transportation subsidy is 2-6 yuan, which depends on the distance from the family to the unit. Recently, it will be at more than four public transportation stops.

Take Wu Baokun as an example. In addition to salary, the monthly income is also a wash and supplementary fee of 0.2-0.8 yuan per month; the hairdressing fee is 2-2.5 yuan per month; the ** subsidy is 5 yuan per month; the night shift fee is 0.4 yuan per time; the movie fee is 0.5 yuan per month; the coal fire fee is 16 yuan per quarter; the non-staple food subsidy is 5 yuan per month.

There are other labor protection products, such as gloves, work clothes, soap, etc., which are all the same. What makes Luli most happy is that he can take a bath in the police station where his uncle is located - this is also a benefit - the police officers in the station are free, and the family members wash each time for 5 cents, which is much cheaper than in public baths.

In addition to the salary of his uncle, the salary of his grandfather Wu Jihou was the big part of his income. His monthly salary exceeded 100 yuan, which was about the level of eight-level workers in the factory, which was extremely high at that time. There was one reason for this: after the liberation, public-private joint ventures were implemented, and all the wages of some people left before the liberation were implemented in a personal way - that is, how much money he said was the best. In fact, this salary level was not something Wu Jihou was lying. He received sixteen oceans of salary in the early stages of liberation.

Before liberation, Wu Jihou worked under the command of Yuan Moumou, a famous landlord in Tianjin and a gangster leader. Lu Li didn't know what to do. He just heard that Wu Jihou played good cards, that is, Shuha. There was someone who liked playing cards in the alley. He often bets on cigarettes and made a bet with him. Unexpectedly, when the cards were handed over, everyone realized it very well!

Wu Jihou’s biggest advantage is that others never want to see any clues from his face! No matter whether the cards are good or bad, there is never a hint of joy or anger on his face. When Lu Li was a child, he heard from his uncle that his grandfather’s behavior made others unable to touch his mind, making others unable to touch their minds, even if they have good cards, they often block cards in a hurry and dare not follow them again when they want to win and are afraid of losing.

After Wu Baokun said that the most common one, Wu Jihou won thirty-five cigarettes from Lao Han (that is, Gou Li's father)! This was the case with five cigarettes as the upper limit of betting! Later, according to Wu Jihou himself, he opened his trump card in advance for the sake of each other's neighbors. He won 10 and 9 gourds with a pair of A and 6 gourds.

When the trump card was opened, Lao Han was furious! He didn't want to think that the card that was sure to win was still lost to the other party? He shouted for a moment, saying that the other party was playing "hand lottery" (playing tricks, meaning of "thousands". Both parties almost turned against each other on the spot, but it was only after the persuasion of others that the matter was given up.

Although Wu Jihou often plays and wins, he doesn't smoke. The cigarettes he wins are cheaper. Later, the couple became more and more addicted to smoking and couldn't quit even if they want to.

Luli was overjoyed, "Then...what after...will come?"

"Later, your mother was unhappy."

"Why?"

"Yes, your mother is so unhappy!" Wu Baokun rubbed the head of the child who had never seen his biological mother lovingly. "Your mother and your grandfather had a fight once, saying that drinking was thick and playing cards was thin! I have lived here for many years, just for a few cigarettes, and my face turned red and my neck was thick, and even my neighbors couldn't do it! Is it worth it?" He sighed and said, "Since then, your grandfather has never played cards with his neighbors again."

Lu Li's little heart was full of pride: Mom is so good! What she said is so exciting! Look at the cold and cold person of grandpa, don't he obey the words he said to his mother?
Chapter completed!