Siheyuan: a hole in the sky with you

"Well, let's make a few more flush toilets and install them for grandma and aunts together. This way, it will save them the inconvenience of going to the toilet outside."

The deaf old lady is not young. She is already sixty-three this year. This age may not be considered old in modern times, but in the 1950s and 1960s, this age was already considered a longevity star.

At that time, the average life span was less than 40 years old, and 63 years old was really a long-lived age.

In addition to the scarcity of supplies in this era, there are no nutritional supplements at all. Therefore, once a person reaches the age of fifty, his physical fitness will decline sharply.

Just like the deaf old lady, her current physical condition is not good. As long as the climate changes, she will easily catch a cold. If she catches a cold, she will have to lie in bed for at least half a month, and if she falls, she will have to stay in bed for at least half a month.

It took several months for her to recover, which was all due to her poor physical fitness.

Therefore, at her age and with such physical fitness, it is really unsafe to go to the toilet outside, especially when it snows in winter or rains and the roads are frozen, it becomes even more dangerous.

As far as Zhou Jianguo knows, in winter, the deaf old lady can't go to the toilet without going to the toilet. She usually prepares a toilet at home, but even so, dangers often arise.

It is impossible for her not to go out and empty the toilet, and once it snows outside and the roads are frozen, do you think it is safe for a sixty-three-year-old man to go out to empty the toilet and wash the toilet under such circumstances?!

Taking this into consideration, Zhou Jianguo also planned to build a modern bathroom for the deaf old lady this time and install a flush toilet. In this way, she would no longer have to worry about going to the toilet in the future.

You can go on it whenever you want, for as long as you want, and you don't have to worry about urging from the outside.

The deaf old lady is pretending, so the aunt can't forget it either.

The aunt has truly regarded her predecessor as her own son over the years, so she should also be treated the same way.

Time passed very quickly, and by the time Zhou Jianguo came out of the Dongtian World, it was already past four o'clock in the afternoon.

It seems that it is still very early, but don't forget that today Zhou Jianguo has prepared a large table of meals, and it takes a long time to prepare several major dishes, so it is just the right time to start preparing at this time.

The eldest mother also happened to come over at this time. She was here to help make dinner.

Zhou Jianguo is only thirteen years old after all. In the eyes of his aunt, he is just a child, so when it is time to cook, his aunt comes over and wants to help.

"Jianguo, you go wash the vegetables, and I'll kill the chicken." As soon as she entered the house, she picked up the rooster on one side and prepared to go outside to kill it.

"Auntie, no need. Let us men do these bloody things. You go wash the vegetables." Zhou Jianguo quickly grabbed the rooster and said with a smile.

Killing a chicken is not an easy task, especially plucking the feathers, which is even more tiring. However, you can easily kill it by throwing it into the cave world. Therefore, it is better to let the aunt wash the vegetables and kill the chicken yourself.

, so that both of them are relaxed.

"Our Jianguo has really grown up!" the eldest mother said with a pleased look. For the first time, she felt that Zhou Jianguo in front of her had indeed grown up and was no longer the child before.

"Okay, then Jianguo, you go kill the chicken, and Auntie, I'll wash the vegetables!" Auntie smiled and picked up a side of the sweet potato vine and went out to clean it.

Men need to exercise, and killing chickens and drawing blood is also a kind of exercise.

"Auntie, there are more than five kilograms of tender peanuts here. Wash them out together." Zhou Jianguo handed the tender peanuts under the table to Auntie.

"Tender peanuts?" The eldest mother looked at it with a puzzled face and found that there were really tender peanuts inside. She couldn't help but asked: "Jianguo, how come there are tender peanuts now? They are still so fresh, as if they were just picked from the soil.

It’s like digging out the inside.”

It's March now, and generally speaking, young peanuts should only be available in June or July.

"Auntie, these are all grown in the greenhouse." Zhou Jianguo pushed everything on the greenhouse: "Not only the young peanuts, these sweet potato vines are also grown in the greenhouse."

"So it's a greenhouse!" The aunt nodded. She had heard of the greenhouse, but most people couldn't buy it. Of course, even if they could, most people wouldn't buy it because the price was too high.

Taller.

"Jianguo, we can no longer buy vegetables from the greenhouse in the future. It's too expensive. We ordinary people should just eat some radishes and cabbage." The eldest mother said with a look of pain on her face.

Without Zhou Jianguo saying anything, she knew that these tender peanuts and sweet potato vines definitely cost a lot of money. Although the aunt didn't know the exact amount of money, she couldn't help but say something when she saw Zhou Jianguo's lavish spending.

"Auntie, don't worry. The price I bought for these tender peanuts and fresh vegetables is not expensive, which is only 30 to 40 cents per catty. Some of my uncles are in charge of greenhouses, so don't worry.

I won't use it randomly." Zhou Jianguo explained.

Zhou Jianguo was not actually lying, because in his memory, he did have two uncles who were responsible for some greenhouses. When his parents were still there, his predecessor often took him to play in those greenhouses in winter.

"Oh, I remember. When Zhou Hai and the others were still there, they often took you to play in the greenhouse." The eldest mother remembered, but soon she looked at Zhou Jianguo carefully, her eyes

There was a hint of uneasiness in it.

Zhou Jianguo understood that Auntie was afraid that he would think of the past again and that he would be unhappy, so she was so careful.

"Auntie, don't worry, it's been so long, I'm fine now," Zhou Jianguo said.

"Besides, I want to live well. This is the best reward for my parents and their spirits in heaven. So, from now on, I will live well!"

"Okay!" Auntie shouted, with a look of relief on her face: "Jianguo, if you can think of Auntie like this, I'll be relieved, Amitabha..."

The aunt was so happy that she even recited the Buddha's name. It was obvious that she had been worried about this matter before. Now with Zhou Jianguo's words, the big stone in her heart finally fell.

"Auntie, thank you!" Zhou Jianguo said with moist eyes.

"Thank you, you are a big mom I have seen since childhood." There was also a glimmer of water in the big mom's eyes.

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In the third workshop of the steel rolling mill, Qin Huairu raised her head with a tired look and carefully put aside the processed parts on her hands. Today, the production line was processing parts weighing dozens of kilograms. She was really tired.

To be honest, the female workers who can stay on the front line are all strong people, and ordinary women really can't stay there.

Not to mention the weight of the parts to be processed, just using the machine requires considerable strength. If you don't have the strength to weigh a hundred pounds, you really can't turn the machine.

Although Qin Huairu was born in a rural area and had a lot of strength, operating these machines for a long time was really unbearable for her.

Women are inherently inferior to men in this regard.

She also wants to study hard and raise her level, but what can I say, she may not be compatible with the machine. She can handle rough machining, but when it comes to fine machining, for some reason, she just does it.

No, it's either worse here or somewhere else. After all these years, to be honest, Qin Huairu himself has given up on advancing.

Some people have said that since you can't be a front-line worker, wouldn't it be better to transfer to the logistics department, such as the kitchen or something like that? It's easy and there's some extra money, wouldn't it be better in comparison?

If you say this, it proves that you don't understand the huge gap between the low-level positions of kitchen helpers and front-line workers.

Yes, it is not difficult for Qin Huairu to be transferred to the kitchen to help cook. At least He Yuzhu will definitely help, but why has Qin Huairu never thought about this? Is it because she didn't see it, or is there some other reason?

Qin Huairu had actually seen it a long time ago, but she didn't want to be transferred to the kitchen.

Although the work on the production line is hard and torturing, the status is much higher than that of kitchen helpers, and this type of work also has many benefits. Because it is strenuous work, the monthly food quota allocated is really not low.

Take the kitchen helper as an example. Because he does not need to do heavy physical work, his monthly ration is only twenty-three kilograms. But for the front-line job where Qin Huairu is currently working, because he does heavy physical work, his monthly ration is only 23 kilograms.

The ration of food weighed a full forty-six kilograms, which was twice as much as the previous one.

In this era where a morsel of food can save a life, having an extra 23 kilograms of food is irresistible to everyone.

Especially for a family like Qin Huairu's, these twenty-three kilograms of grain are really life-saving food.

Qin Huairu was very clear-headed. There were indeed some unspoken benefits to helping in the kitchen, but the total of these benefits was definitely not as much as the twenty-three kilograms of food, or even less than half.

Besides, the factory also subsidizes the frontline workers with some things every month. Sometimes it’s money. It’s not much, like two or three yuan, but these two or three yuan is a salary that’s just in the early twenties.

For Qin Huairu, it is not a small amount of money.

Of course, it’s not all money every time. Sometimes they subsidize meat tickets in some canteens. In summer, they subsidize popsicle tickets, soda tickets, and coal tickets in winter. There are really many benefits, so,

Why would Qin Huairu be willing to be transferred from the front line?

Finally, and most importantly, the salary of a kitchen helper is really low, sixteen and a half yuan a month, which can be said to be the lowest salary in the factory. Even though Qin Huairu is still a first-level worker, her salary is higher than that of a kitchen helper.

It's much higher, a full 27 yuan and a half, which is a whole 11 yuan more. So why would Qin Huairu be willing to be transferred to help in the kitchen?