Scholars in the courtyard

In the warehouse, Silly Zhu listened to the radio playing over and over again, but his name was not there.

However, there are two people whose names are very jarring.

One is Xu Damao and the other is Yang Xiaotao.

He remembered that the man ran into the third workshop, and suddenly felt that Yang Xiaotao was the most suspicious.

Moreover, the assessment of the first-level fitter had ended at that time, and Yang Xiaotao had sufficient time to commit the crime.

The more he thought about it, the more Shazhu thought, almost convinced that it was Yang Xiaotao who disgusted him.

Thinking about Yang Xiaotao's past, I just felt that this guy was even more shameless and bad than Xu Damao.

Thinking of this, Shazhu wanted to find a stick and beat him up, but considering this was a factory, the security personnel would not let it go.

"Hmph, I'll make you look good after I get out of the factory."

In the afternoon, the factory began to distribute wages and food stamps.

This is also the day that workers have been looking forward to.

Compared with going to the grain store to get food, the wages and food stamps issued by the factory are directly related to the living conditions of the family.

The team started waiting after finishing their meal.

The factory finance department also calculated the latest wages and started preparing for payment with a list of ledgers.

"Get in line, and those who are called will come forward and line up."

The security guards of the nearby factory maintained order, and the workshop director began to take orders.

Then the team lined up, everyone happily waiting to be paid.

No matter how much, making money is worth celebrating.

The wages and benefits in the steel rolling mill are like a heavenly life to the country people. A farmer's work points for a year may not be worth ten yuan in money, while the minimum apprenticeship for a worker in the steel rolling mill is 18.5 yuan a month.

This is why Qin Huairu chose Jia Dongxu, because Jia Dongxu is a first-level fitter, while Yang Xiaotao is just an apprentice.

There is a difference of 9 yuan between the two parties.

"Yang Xiaotao, you are a first-level fitter, and your salary is 27.5 yuan."

"These are food stamps, 22 kilograms! These are non-staple food stamps, 4 taels each of oil and salt, and 3 taels of meat!"

Yang Xiaotao took a stack of banknotes, and then several food stamps and non-staple food stamps. These things are linked to the grade, because workers operating machines are strenuous work, so they have more rations.

Wang Fa, who was in front of him, got a bunch of votes.

There are not only oil and salt ones, but also candy and cloth tickets.

In short, if you want to live a good life, you must upgrade your level.

After the salary is paid, it is officially a holiday.

The workers walked out of the factory together, some saying hello to meet them during the New Year, and some pulling them together to drink and celebrate.

Yang Xiaotao declined the invitation from Wang Fa and others. At the moment, he is only a first-level fitter and is not worthy of celebration.

When you reach level eight, you will definitely have a feast.

After walking out of the gate, Yang Xiaotao came to a poplar tree without leaving a trace, stretched out his hands to support the trunk, pretended to take off his shoes and pour out the dirt, then he felt his sleeves bulging, and then Xiaowei appeared at the collar.

"咻咻"

"Are you full today?"

"Boohoo!"

"Let's go shopping!"

It was still early, so Yang Xiaotao was not in a hurry to go home. Now that there was a shortage of things at home, he happened to have money and tickets to go to Chaoyang Market to buy some food.

After walking for more than an hour, we arrived at Chaoyang Market.

As a famous trading market, when it first started here, it was also to facilitate the transactions of rural farmers, so the materials here may be a little less than those of the supply and marketing cooperatives, but in terms of freshness, they are not comparable to the supply and marketing cooperatives.

Walking in the vegetable market, there weren't too many shouts around. There weren't that many show-offs in selling vegetables these days. After the items were arranged neatly, the sellers would sit behind them, and those who liked them would naturally buy them.

Many of the vegetables here are grown by veteran farmers from the countryside. Vegetables grown in their own fields can be bought here without a ticket, but the corresponding prices may be a bit higher.

These are also unwritten rules, and unlike Pigeon City, everyone here has registered with the street office, so there will be no speculation.

Yang Xiaotao walked around, looking at the cultural scenery that belonged to this era, and feeling the vicissitudes of life that he had never experienced before.

Most of the market sells cabbage and radishes. As for seasoning, oil and salt, there is almost no seasoning. Yang Xiaotao probably has to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy it.

Of course, there are not many meat sellers here, and they are all chicken and duck, and then there are live chickens and ducks.

Yang Xiaotao wanted to buy two chickens and keep them at home, but thinking about the beasts in the yard, he probably would have ended up in someone else's stomach if he bought them back.

Although he is not easy to fool, he always feels uncomfortable in his heart.

After walking around in a circle, Yang Xiaotao held a small bag of eggs in his hand, fifteen of them, costing seventy cents.

They are all laid by old hens. They are quite big. There is no feed these days, and the food they eat is all natural and pollution-free. Therefore, the nutritional value of these eggs is much higher than that of pheasants in the previous life.

That is to say, there are only fifteen aunties selling eggs this time, otherwise Yang Xiaotao would buy more.

Eat one every day for better health.

Just when Yang Xiaotao was eating fresh food at the vegetable market, there was a burst of crying in the courtyard.

In the middle courtyard, Yi Zhonghai was sitting on a stool drinking tea. When he heard the sound coming from the backyard, he undoubtedly shook his head.

"Did Old Liu beat his son again?"

The third uncle heard the sound and rushed over. Although his face was asking, he also had an expression of gloating.

There are more than 20 households in the entire courtyard, and 11 households work in the steel rolling mill, so every time there is an assessment in the factory, it is a major event in the courtyard.

Whoever has passed it or who has not passed it will be publicized.

Before the assessment, Liu Haizhong promised that he would succeed. When the time came, he would become an eighth-level worker. His status would not be lower than that of a senior official, and he would be tough in speaking in this yard from now on.

In the past two days, he has attracted a lot of attention in front of the third uncle.

Not only Liu Haizhong, but also Xu Damao in the backyard and Jia Dongxu in the middle courtyard were all so arrogant, as if they had everything they needed to capture them.

It's really annoying to bully him, a people's teacher, and not get a promotion.

But now, I heard that the steel rolling mill has increased the difficulty of the assessment this time, and only two people in the entire compound, Xu Damao and Yang Xiaotao, passed it.

Liu Haizhong and Jia Dongxu had lost face and were hiding at home, afraid to see anyone.

In fact, speaking of it, is Xu Damao considered an assessment?

Yang Xiaotao was the only one who actually passed.

This guy has only been in class for two months and he can pass the exam. It's really incredible.

Yan Fugui was thinking about whether to ease the relationship with Yang Xiaotao. At least he didn't get involved in what happened last time. Although he had made many calculations over the years, the past was over. Wouldn't it be enough if he started to be nice to him now?

"The second brother feels uncomfortable and must be angry."

Yi Zhonghai said with a smile, he already knew Liu Haizhong's thoughts.

So he couldn't get through the bangs, and he was happy in his heart.

"They are all our own flesh and blood. This old Liu is so ruthless. Sir, do you want us to take care of it?"

"Well, it's hard for an upright official to deal with household chores, so let's save our worries."

After Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, he walked into the room. Yan Fugui sighed and turned around to walk out, but a trace of disdain flashed in the corner of his eyes.

"It's hard to be an upright official but to stop family affairs. When have you ever not participated in the Jia family's affairs? Bah, you hypocrite!"

At Liu Haizhong's house, Liu Haizhong used a feather duster to beat Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu until they squatted in the corner and wailed, looking pitiful, but they did not dare to resist at all.

On the side, the second aunt put the scrambled eggs on the egg table, took out a plate of peanuts, a basin of two boxes of steamed buns, and half a bottle of wine. They placed them on the table and invited Liu Guangqi to come over for dinner.

The eldest brother, Liu Guangqi, sat down and didn't look at the two brothers who were being beaten. He picked up the wine bottle and filled a cup for himself, and then filled up Liu Haizhong.

From beginning to end, there was no sympathy for the two beaten brothers.

Liu Haizhong was tired of beating and threw the feather duster on Liu Guangtian, "Go and stand in the back room. You are not allowed to eat today!"

"Move quickly, count to three!"

Liu Guangtian helped Liu Guangfu and immediately climbed to the back room, for fear of wasting time.

"What else can these two beasts do besides causing trouble for me?"

Sitting down with a puff of bangs, he poured the wine into his mouth in one gulp.

"Guangqi, have you thought about the job you told me about?"

"Um!"

Liu Guangqi answered without raising his head, and then took the scrambled eggs into his mouth.

"Any ideas?"

"This job makes little money and is too tiring. I don't want to go."

"Well, okay then, I'll ask someone to find one for you."

"Know!"

The two of them were eating, and the second aunt sat aside and watched, waiting for the two of them to eat and drink before going back to the house to rest.

The second aunt then invited the Liu Guangtian brothers to come out for dinner.

As soon as the second uncle finished speaking, the Jia family in the Intermediate Courtyard erupted in curses again.

However, the target of the curse this time was not Jia Dongxu, who failed the assessment, but Qin Huairu, who had just returned from her parents' home.

"Who are you? You go back without bringing some souvenirs to honor your old lady."

"Thank you, old lady, for asking you to bring back some toffee. Is this how you become your in-laws?"

"Do you have the nerve to come to the city again?"

"A bunch of country bumpkins who don't even understand a little bit of human interaction deserve to be dug in the dirt and eaten!"

Mrs. Jia Zhang was sitting at the door holding the soles of her shoes, yelling and cursing, which made Qin Huairu's face turn blue and red in the room.

At noon, Qin Huairu trekked back to Qinjia Village.

When he gave the candy and cigarettes he brought to his family, he was indeed warmly welcomed by his family, but when he talked about returning the bride price, the entire Qin family fell into dead silence.

It turns out that Qin Huairu's brother also wants to marry a wife, and the money given as a gift from the Yang family has just been misappropriated. Now that it's time to get married, is there still money to pay back?

As for the Jia family's betrothal gift, the Qin family spent almost all of it on a banquet set up by the whole village in order to show that their daughter had married a city man.

Now, if you ask them to spend 15 yuan, won't this cost them their lives?

After Qin Huairu finished speaking, the old man of the Qin family almost fainted, and then the boss shouted angrily, "I want money or my life!"

Even Qin's mother cried and said that the family really needed money.

Qin Huairu also wanted to give it a few days, but she also knew how difficult it was to save ten yuan in the countryside.

But thinking of her mother-in-law's temper, she could only grit her teeth and force her mother and father.

After all, this is owed to the Yang family.

If you don't give it, you will go to jail.

In this way, the Qin family took out the engagement money and went to the brigade party secretary's house to borrow some, and then collected fifteen yuan and asked Qin Huairu to bring it back.

When something like this happened, Qin Huairu was too embarrassed to eat at home, so she took the money and hurried to the city.

In the afternoon, as soon as Qin Huairu came back from her parents' home, Mrs. Jia Zhang stared at Qin Huairu with a pair of triangular eyes and scanned Qin Huairu's body over and over again.

Although he had money, he didn't see any of the expected souvenirs. Now he heard that Jia Dongxu had failed the exam, so he found an excuse to scold Qin Huairu.

In the room, Qin Huairu looked at Jia Dongxu's depressed look, her eyes turned red and she cried.

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