"Does the family have money to start a gang?" Fang Chen suddenly asked.

As if there was a pause, Liu Xiuying's chatter came to an abrupt end, and looking at Fang Chen's serious inquiring expression, her face suddenly turned red.

After a few breaths, he said a little embarrassedly: "It's not enough for you to treat your illness with the little money at home, and I still owe the hospital twenty yuan." ”

Fang Chen rubbed his nose, which was already expected.

"No, money is for your ...... treatment"

Liu Xiuying couldn't help muttering to herself.

Understanding, Liu Xiuying glared at Fang Chen fiercely, "If it weren't for your little rabbit cub to see a doctor, would the family's money be spent?

"Next time, dare to climb so high, be careful of your skin!" Liu Xiuying slapped her face.

This slap was not willing to go down after all.

Sighing lightly, Liu Xiuying continued: "This year, the efficiency of the factory is not good, only 70% of the salary is paid, and the hospital side, if it is a small problem with a cold and fever, it doesn't matter, you have a broken bone, and the cost of materials will always be paid." ”

Seventy percent salary?

Fang Chen's mind flashed with inspiration.

That said, this year is 1990, I am fourteen years old, and I am a freshman in high school.

Fang Chen also wants to know that today is a few years, months, and days as soon as he opens his eyes, but it's a pity that his family is poor and doesn't even have a calendar, for my father and mother, a few dollars of calendars are enough to buy a book, or play a circle of mahjong for a dime, anyway, the unit has a calendar, why put a copy at home, waste money.

The first calendar at home after he was ten years old was given to him by people after he went to work to deposit money in the bank, and was fooled into financial management by the lobby manager.

After being reborn, he didn't even have a calendar at home, and he was probably the poorest reborn person in history.

Since the reform and opening up, the large state-owned factories have finally flourished for a while, and their salaries are higher than those of civil servants, and many of the children of the factories have come back as soldiers, and they have to let the government not go to the establishment, so they have to let the factories arrange work, and this situation probably lasted until about 93 or 94 years, and then the rivers went down day by day, and they never returned.

Affected by last year's turmoil, 1990 was the only year in the next few years when the factory was under-operating and wages were paid at a rate of 60 or 70 percent.

At this time, the state-owned and collective enterprises were a behemoth, and many state-owned factories had almost all social functions, except crematoriums, everything, kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, high schools, vocational high schools, hospitals, guest houses, gymnasiums, libraries, etc.

The whole enterprise is like a small closed society, and even the jobs can be hereditary.

According to the company's regulations, the medical expenses of employees are fully reimbursed, but Fang Chen and they do not enjoy such treatment.

However, there are policies, there are countermeasures, when you take your child to see a doctor and register, just write your name as your parents', anyway, they are all from a factory, you don't see you when you look up, and the materials are also public, and the favor is your own, and you can't offend people for this.

It's just that the splints, bandages and wound medicine that Fang Chen wants to use are a little sensitive, and if the superior checks it, he will think that the unit below will conceal the work injury, so he can only pay for it.

"Okay, it's not something that you have to worry about as a child, I'll just go to the union tomorrow to borrow some mutual aid. ”

Hearing the three words of mutual aid gold, Fang Chen's expression was in a trance, and he was really familiar with this word.

Mutual aid is a form of mutual aid in the branch factory, or workshop as a unit, employees raise funds and mutual assistance, each person pays ten yuan to the trade union, if there is a sudden need for money in a month, go to the union to borrow, and then return to the union when the salary is paid.

In Fang Chen's memory, the family seemed to be always short of fifty yuan, and after borrowing it last month, it would be repaid as soon as the salary was paid this month, and at the end of the month, it would not be able to open the pot, and he would have to borrow the fifty yuan from the trade union.

It's like this cycle repeatedly, as if there will always be a difference of these fifty dollars, and without these fifty dollars, life will not be able to go on.

Although my father is second-tier and has a low salary, he is a dual-income worker after all, and there is really no one who lives like this with dual-income workers.

In the final analysis, it is still the father and mother who have no way to run the family.

"Can you return it?" Fang Chen asked.

Liu Xiuying's face turned red again, "It's a big deal...... Deal...... I'm not going to play cards this month. ”

"I still have 200 yuan in my piggy bank, so let's use it at home first. ”

Liu Xiuying raised her eyebrows, a little moved, but after thinking about it, her face instantly drooped, "This is the New Year's money that your father gave you, I want to use it when you go to college, I don't want to eat your father's head." ”

"It's okay, just don't tell my master, the family will turn around first, and then you can return it to me, I don't know when the time comes. ”

"That's okay! It's really a good son of my mother, my mother will go to the street to buy you a big bone stewed soup, and make up for it!"

Liu Xiuying agreed, her eyebrows fluttered, her face was bright, and she couldn't wait to walk towards the little pig, just like a female butcher sharpening her knife.

The genes of my grandfather's pig killer have been revived in my mother's body.

Fang Chen sighed faintly, although he said so, he knew in his heart that there was a good chance that the money would not be returned.

When money enters the hands of his parents, it is like water blending into the desert, and it is impossible to say whether there is in or out, or even how it is not.

He just didn't want to, so that this atmosphere of no money enveloped his family again, and the right was ruined.

In this regard, when he was a teenager, he was angry, complained, and even hated how he was born in such a family, but later after he also had a son, he didn't know the kindness of his parents if he didn't raise children, and then looked at their aging bodies, and then slowly relieved.

They are such people, with such personalities and habits, they can't help it.

They always have their own way of living, and as children, they must not be forced to shed all their blood and sweat before they stop.

Thankfully, though, I had the opportunity to change all that.

Let these bad things no longer affect themselves, the journey of the reborn should be a sea of stars, and this is just a little bumpy in life, or even just waves.

Fang Chen knew why the reborn were so eager to change their current lives, it was really because this terrible life was like making people eat.

It's human instinct not to eat!

At night.

Fang Aiguo came back empty-handed, and when he saw the fragrant big bone broth on the table and the dazzling array of dishes around him, his eyes were straight, and his throat couldn't help but swallow saliva.

"Where did you get the money?" Fang Aiguo asked.

"I ......"

As soon as Liu Xiuying got up, Fang Chen hit her with his leg.

Liu Xiuying, who came to her senses, glared at Fang Aiguo, and said angrily: "I asked the union to borrow mutual aid funds." ”

Fang Chen wasn't afraid that this word would spread from his father to his grandfather, but he was afraid that his father would be frightened, he would be frightened all day long, he couldn't sleep well, he couldn't eat well, a simple person, he didn't know so many secrets.

"Oh. ”

Fang Aiguo didn't doubt him, went straight to the kitchen to get a pair of dishes and chopsticks, and sat down.

Fang Chen's face was helpless, yes, he knew that his father never cared how the family's money came from, and he didn't care whether he could pay it back, anyway, just don't let him go out to borrow money and lose face.

"It smells so good!"

Fang Aiguo picked up a stick bone, swept away the meat on it, and then knocked the bone and sucked the marrow, making a sigh of admiration.

Liu Xiuying glanced at Fang Aiguo, took out twenty yuan from her pocket and slapped it on the table, and suddenly became arrogant, "What do you use this money to buy Yu Hua's "Eighteen Years Old", and Lu Yao's "Ordinary World". ”

"Okay, I've been thinking about these two books for a long time, wife, you're so good!"

didn't care that Liu Xiuying didn't even say the right title of the book, Fang Aiguo hurriedly put the money in his pocket and let out an exclamation from the heart.

In the face of money, it doesn't matter.

"It's good to know, if you dare to yell at me in the future!"

"Don't dare, I was wrong. ”

Looking at his parents, who were happy, raised their eyebrows, and respected each other, Fang Chen rolled his eyes helplessly, although this scene had long been expected by him, but how could he feel that it was very heart-piercing.

actually used his money to make his father bow his head, and looking at his mother's posture, I'm afraid she really didn't think about repaying the money.

After forcibly feeding Fang Chen a wave of dog food, Liu Xiuying seemed to suddenly notice Fang Chen's existence, "Go to bed early after eating, you have to go to school tomorrow to get your results, if you don't do well in the exam, be careful about your skin!"

Fang Chen responded, not taking his mother's threat seriously, because first, his mother has never really beaten him since he was a child, and second, he has never failed the test.

On the contrary, his father beat him a few times when he was a child, and now that he thinks about it, he seriously suspects that his father is using him as a prop to show manhood in front of his mother.