Chapter 2 Aunt Rong

Looking at his 6-year-old sister, Li Wenkai began to ponder.

What should I do? Can I be a worker for the rest of my life?

Business cannot be done. Now is a critical period of excessive over-the-top economic era and market economy era, that is, reform and opening up have just begun.

Everything is about a public character. The production tasks of the factory are assigned by the state. At this time, there are no self-employed people doing business.

Reform and opening up are now only piloted in Pengcheng, and have not yet been piloted in Yanjing.

Not an ordinary danger.

However, the workers at this time were very honorable and had a very high social status.

I am just an undergraduate graduate in automobile major and a ten-year mechanic.

Later, when the blind date, the other party heard that it was a car repairman and saw his palms full of oil and dirt. He left without even saying anything about any car or room.

I was drinking with a friend outside, and I came back at noon and took a nap and arrived here.

Do you need to repair a car?

When doing business, it mainly depends on the number of private cars. There are not many cars at this time, and this is not practical.

"I can't go back anymore. Forget it, I'd better be a worker first, and then make plans after getting familiar with this place." Li Wenkai was thinking, but was interrupted by his sister's purr, and stood up and prepared to cook breakfast.

"Little sister, where is the rice jar at home?" Li Wenkai looked at his sister a little embarrassedly with the aluminum pot.

"Then." My sister pointed to a small urn in the corner.

The mouth of the jar is as thick as a bowl. Cover it with a porcelain bowl, take out the bowl and look in.

"This..." This is a meter?

Li Wenkai took it out with his hands, and felt it was about two or three pounds.

At this time, the unified sales and supply certificate system is implemented.

A worker can buy 28 kilograms per month, and those who do key physical work can buy 40 kilograms. They all have to be "supplied with tickets". If you buy rice, you can buy food coupons and oil coupons, you will of course be more strict in the review.

It's December 13th now, and there are 17 days left before the end of the month, two or three kilograms of rice, how can this be done?

Li Wenkai suddenly felt that the sky had collapsed when people lived in an era of sufficient supplies.

Famine is not so chaotic.

"Well, our family is still good. My father's salary is quite high. The amount of rice per month is more than that of ordinary workers. My father leaves some to send it back to his hometown in the countryside." After the sister said, she was afraid that her brother would be too big, so she walked over and said in a big way: "I'll do it."

"Okay, let me come." After Li Wenkai said that, he reached out and grabbed a few hands into the urn.

"I can't use so much, it's not cooking!" The sister stood aside and saw her brother grab four handfuls in a row. She jumped so anxiously that she grabbed the aluminum pot from her brother's hand.

"Isn't it just rice? I have cared about it before, let alone rice, bread, and biscuits are thrown away when I don't want to eat it." Li Wenkai looked at his sister's door-blocking look, and recalled the past when he was wandering around, and felt a little guilty.

Looking at about three taels of white rice in the pot, clean water accounted for about half of the pot. "This is really porridge." Li Wenkai shook his head.

When did you feel sad for a little rice when you grow up?

Looking at the white rice in front of him, which was as thin as the stars in the night sky, Li Wenkai recalled the food wasted before, the white and soft and fragrant bread, which could no longer be described as shameless. He felt like a prisoner on the execution ground in his heart, feeling uncomfortable.

When washing rice and putting it in the pot, Li Wenkai came to the aisle to set up a pot and set up a fire. This is a coal stove and burning coal balls. Not to mention, although Li Wenkai was from the north in his previous life, so many years have passed, the work is very smooth. Perhaps it may be that the owner of the original body is a educated youth who went to the countryside and has muscle memory.

"Wenkai is back. If you don't have time to eat breakfast, come over to have some food." At this time, Aunt Rong, the neighbor, also took his own rice and started to make a fire on his own stove. When she saw Li Wenkai, she greeted her.

This is Li Wenkai's neighbor, Aunt Rong. Her full name is Rong Xiuni. Aunt Rong is a rural woman and has three sons at home.

My lover Shen Wenbin works in the security department of the unit and is a demobilized member of the army. He is in his early fifties this year. In Li Wenkai's words, he is an old revolutionary.

After Shen Wenbin returned from demobilization and worked in Yanjing, Aunt Rong took her children to Yanjing to live a city life. The family of five lives on their lover Shen Wenbin's third-level salary of 42 yuan.

This was completely unimaginable to Li Wenkai before.

"I used to be unable to support myself for 10,000 yuan a month, and even rented the house, but Uncle Shen relied on 42 yuan to support the whole family. Alas..." Li Wenkai sighed.

In fact, if Li Wenkai gritted his teeth in his early years, he could barely pay the down payment. However, Li Wenkai felt that there was little left after paying the mortgage. He thought that living like a dog every day would decline sharply. He thought that people's life was mainly about their own happiness. As for a house, it was just a place to live. If you had to do it within your ability, don't force yourself to be fat without reaching that economic level. Why not buy it? Then he didn't buy it. Later, the house prices rose higher and higher, but his salary did not rise with the water. Later, he couldn't afford it, so he just rented a house. Anyway, he was a one-way dog, and with the ten thousand yuan of rent of 1,400 yuan, he would remit two or three thousand yuan to his parents in his hometown every month, and his life was fine.

Although the supplies are not that abundant at this time, the prices are very low. Although it is only 42 yuan, you can buy a lot of things.

Popsicles cost a cent, rice costs 14.3-17.10 yuan/100 kilograms, instead of having money and buying something you need, you need food coupons.

Two taels a bowl of noodles cost eight cents.

"Thank you aunt, no need." Li Wenkai said gratefully.

Since his father passed away and Li Wenkai returned, the neighborhood committee asked Aunt Rong to help take care of Li Wenkai's sister. This kind of kindness Li Wenkai was in his heart.

The memory I have told Li Wenkai that Aunt Rong is very good at taking care of her sister. She charges a certain amount of rice according to the standards of the neighborhood committee and takes good care of her meals. She does not have any "negative" things or even prefers them.

Aunt Rong knew what Li Wenkai meant, waved her hand and said indifferently: "It's all the families of the neighbors who are in the same unit. What do they do? Help each other. If you have any difficulties in the future, just tell your aunt, see if I can help you. Your aunt is illiterate. The rural people don't know anything, so they can only put in their efforts to do housework." Rong Xiuni said enthusiastically.

"Auntie is such a good background." Li Wenkai replied.

If you say this to others decades later, you will definitely chase you for ten miles, but now it is a compliment because the social status of the poor is more important than that of scholars.

At this time, poor people are well-born and safest.

The brother and sister finished their breakfast and the younger sister went to school.

The factory has its own school for children, so it is a different story as to the quality of teaching.

"Brother Kai, Brother Kai!" When everyone was sleeping at night, Li Wenkai was sitting on a chair in a daze when he heard Shen Zhengjun calling Li Wenkai outside.

Shen Zhengjun, Aunt Rong's eldest son.

He is 17 years old this year, but his grades are very poor.

"What are you doing? It's like an underground party joint." Li Wenkai saw the other party holding a bottle of wine, and he was still holding something in his arms.

"Let's have some drinks and congratulations to Brother Kai, you will become a glorious worker tomorrow." Shin Zhengjun said enviously.

That’s right, in this era, becoming a worker is the most glorious and the dream of young people.

"Okay, don't go back if you don't get drunk." Anyway, it's cold and drunk to sleep, so you can save trouble.

Wine is an unknown wine, with a "naked" bottle body, no label for reference, and it is a perfect product without three.

But it doesn’t matter, it’s just a three-no product, it’s also a grain wine. If you want to drink alcohol, alcohol is now a medical material for control.

I don’t know where Shen Zhengjun went to make some peanuts, so I started drinking them.

There was only half a bottle of wine, and I don’t know where Shen Zhengjun went to find it. Later, Li Wenkai was dizzy and slept in the pit.
Chapter completed!