Chapter 197: Problem
The son is back!
What a joy!
In the afternoon of the same day, Wang Yunlin, who was working in the cloth shoe factory on Beiwei Road, fell into an extreme joy from the moment she was called to the communication room and received a call from her daughter Hong Yanru. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
As the saying goes, "people are in good spirits when they are happy", so when Wang Yunlin returned to the sewing workshop, her whole spirit was different.
The person looks extremely radiant, more than ten years younger, and no longer has the haggard appearance of worrying about all kinds of trivial tasks, and can only sleep for four or five hours a day.
This strong contrast between the front and back naturally provoked those female colleagues who were familiar with Wang Yunlin to inquire one by one.
Because Wang Yunlin is very popular, although people didn't attach much importance to the "release of labor prisoners after completing their sentences", out of an understanding that they are both women and mothers, most people are still very happy for her after learning the news of Hong Yanwu's return home.
In the following time, because this matter was quickly spread throughout the factory by some good old ladies through the way of "small broadcasting", Wang Yunlin has also been constantly receiving congratulations from acquaintances in other workshops.
can be happy, but there is an imminent practical problem in front of Wang Yunlin's eyes - how to deal with the dinner when her son returns?
According to Lao Li'er, "the dumplings on the horse and the noodles off the horse" are nothing more appropriate than a bowl of hot lo noodles for the youngest son who has been away from home for a long time before returning.
But this is a matter of course for every household, but at present, it is a big problem that is not easy to achieve for Wang Yunlin.
Because not to mention pork belly with skin, eggs, yellow flowers, fungus, mushrooms (if you don't have them, use dried shiitake mushrooms to make do), magnolia slices, sea rice, and deer horns, she doesn't have any of these materials that can't be in short supply, even if she just tries to make up some white flour tickets, it's actually difficult enough.
What's the matter?
There is no doubt about this, because the financial burden on Wang Yunlin is too heavy.
At home, she not only has a husband who is sick in bed all the year round, a minor daughter who is still in school, but also her eldest son Hong Yanzheng already has a child, and there is an additional five-year-old grandchild in the family.
Outside, in addition to Hong Yanwu, who is in prison, she also has a second son "Hong Xiangyang" who suffers in SX Yanbei and can't eat or drink.
Which one person doesn't mean an extra pick?
Therefore, no matter how shrewd and capable Wang Yunlin is, even if she has her eldest daughter-in-law Xu Manli who is helping her wholeheartedly, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and with only the salaries of three adults in the family, it is absolutely impossible to succeed in perfunctory so many things and do everything.
It is precisely because of this that everyone in the Hong family will spare their hands and desperately paste cardboard boxes whenever they have time, in order to earn some extra income to supplement the family.
But even so, the difference between the "in" and "out" of the family is too far, and in the end, it is still inevitable that the famine will be stretched and difficult everywhere. As a result, Wang Yunlin was worried about money all day long, and when she was in a hurry, she panicked, couldn't eat, and sweated profusely.
To be honest, she has indeed thought of all the ways she can think of for the sake of her family's affairs, and she has exchanged all the money that can be exchanged.
But you must know that this year's Spring Festival has just passed less than a month, and the things in the shopping book at home, except for matches, soap, candles and a little vermicelli, have long been bought out.
Today, her noodle pockets are empty, and there are only a few sticks left in the jar. When it comes to dried vegetables, apart from cabbage, potatoes and a little eggplant skin dried in autumn, it is just pickled vegetables at home, with half a bundle of green onions and a braid of garlic.
And to this day, she still owes the factory "mutual aid association" (that is, a form of microcredit loan) because of the holiday. In the seventies of the twentieth century, the trade unions of each unit formed mutual aid associations and volunteered to participate. At that time, people's wages were only a few dozen yuan, and each person had to pay 2 to 5 yuan per month as membership dues, which were managed by special personnel and used to borrow money when employees were in difficulty. The person in charge of the mutual aid association keeps the money in a bank near the unit, and at the end of the year, he returns the membership fee paid by each member for the year. During the year, each member can submit a written application for temporary living difficulties at home, and after writing an IOU, he can borrow money, but the next month after borrowing, he must pay off when he or she pays his salary. I haven't paid back the ten dollars.
In this case, where can she go to make up the resources for her son to make a meal of lo mein?
Thinking of this, Wang Yunlin, who was sitting in front of the sewing machine and hemming the uppers, the smile on her face stiffened, and the brows that had just stretched out were also entangled again.
After a long while, she looked at the work in her hand that had stopped unconsciously, and let out a long sigh......
5:10 p.m. that day.
After leaving the coal factory, Hong Yanwu, who had come to take a bath alone, had just finished taking a shower and was lying on a bunk in the bathhouse on Zixin Road in front of his home.
He had a "North Sea" in his mouth, but he was still thinking about the grievances he and Izumiko had suffered today, and he couldn't forget it.
He hated Hu Erkui even more, but fortunately, the "transformation operation" of the bicycle in the end went very smoothly, if nothing else, the old boy would soon be punished.
It's really choking, I don't know if it's because there is no food in the stomach, and the heat in the bathroom is so steamed, which makes Hong Yanwu's eyes a little stunned at this time.
So, he simply closed his eyes, smoked a cigarette and closed his eyes to recuperate.
At some point, he began to hum unconsciously, inadvertently attracting the attention of many people around him.
This is nothing else, because Hong Yanwu is humming a song that should not have existed at this time. That is "Friends", which was once popular all over the country, as long as it was a man, he once yelled at when he was drunk.
Although the singer of this song was arrested for breaking the law, the song is really good. Therefore, at this time, these people around Hong Yanwu also thought that the song was very good.
However, it is precisely because everyone has never heard of it that they think Hong Yanwu is very strange, so they pay special attention to him.
And Hong Yanwu didn't realize this at all, he was humming a tune, and he was still thinking about a very important question in his mind.
That's -- what's going on with Mom?
Hong Yanwu doesn't really think that his mother will have any bad conditions, but so far, the people he cares about the most at home have basically seen him, but he has not met his mother who is good to him, so he will naturally think about it, and his heart will be unsteady.
In his opinion, his mother, Wang Yunlin, is simply the greatest and most amazing person in the world.
Don't look at her as just a weak woman, but in the face of so many difficulties at home and abroad, not only was she not knocked down by life, but she also supported the whole family and pulled all the children and even grandchildren up. It is not easy to do this step, it is simply a great difficulty, in today's parlance, it is a legend.
So on the other hand, now he can empathize with the hardships and sufferings that his mother endured.
Especially at this time, the family's economic situation is very bad, and his father's illness is inseparable from people, so he feels that his mother will be more worried and worried, which makes him feel distressed and ashamed.
And one of the things he struggles with the most now is how to give the money and tickets in his pocket to his mother.
This will definitely alleviate the family's embarrassment to some extent, but without a suitable reason, his mother will definitely not accept it, but will interrogate endlessly, worrying endlessly.
Alas, it seems that he must first solve this problem, and if he can't, his heart will not be able to settle at all......
Just when Hong Yanwu was pondering this question, suddenly, an extremely inferior voice sounded in his ears.
"Hey, I said, can you go home and clean up the corpse after washing?
He opened his eyes a little, and it turned out to be a young worker in labor cloth overalls, in his early twenties, wearing a hat crookedly, holding a cigarette, and standing in front of his bunk with a very dissatisfied demeanor.
And he looked around a little more, only to find that there were a lot more people in the bathhouse, and the wall clock on the wall also showed that it was time to get off work.
It seems that the bunks should be full, this kid probably just can't wait, and he searched around, and found that he was young around him, and he felt that he could be bullied, so he found him.
However, in general, factories have their own bathhouses, no matter how big or small. So Hong Yanwu couldn't help but be a little curious while being disgusted, so he propped his arms and half-sat up.
"Where are you? If you don't wash in your factory, what are you doing here?"
"Nonsense! If our factory hadn't repaired the boiler today, who the hell would have come here, so crowded, it would be like dumplings...... Hey, you're going to wash and go, and you're going to move!
Hong Yanwu saw that this kid couldn't speak, so he turned his face off and lay back at that time, and shook him coldly.
"I owe you you, you deserve it!
Hong Yanwu's "basket removal" is actually a common phenomenon that began at the end of the "movement" and the rise of public bathhouses.
As the economic tension began to gradually ease during this period, the common people were much more relaxed, and the number of people who went to the bathhouse to take a bath also increased.
Naturally, the limited number of beds is not enough, so all the bathhouses have prepared some extra large baskets for those who can't wait to put clothes, shoes and socks.
Especially before the festival or on the day off, when the bathhouse is overcrowded, the method of "taking off the basket" is usually effective.
In terms of form, it is actually equivalent to temporarily adding tables in some particularly popular restaurants today.
However, the young worker obviously couldn't accept this kind of treatment, and put up with Hong Yanwu's indifferent attitude, so he glanced at Hong Yanwu and immediately stretched out his hand to say hello to the distance.
"Brother Liu, there is a kid here who refuses to leave after washing, and he is still blowing up thorns with me! This is your door, if you don't know him, I can fan him with big ears......
As soon as he finished speaking, another worker came from afar, and the boy swaggered and didn't care, and his mouth was still muttering, "Who......?
Unexpectedly, as soon as he arrived, this person felt as if his throat was choked, and he was completely silent.
Not to mention, Hong Yanwu even felt that this call was very familiar. As a result, when he opened his eyes and saw clearly, he snorted disdainfully.
Dare to follow this kid Hong Yanwu really knew, there was a stitch mark on his upper lip, it was none other than his alumnus, a worker at the 541 factory, "Huozi" Liu Fugen.
Now it was the turn of the "Huozi" who had just enlarged the words to be completely dumbfounded, he stared at Hong Yanwu as if he had seen some poisonous snake and beast, and he was so frightened that he stammered, and he stumbled for a long time before he called out.
"Red ...... Red, Red Boy ......"
"Huozi, you're awesome, you're majestic!"
Hong Yanwu teased playfully, sat up all at once, and the bath towel he was covering also fell on the bunk.
Naturally, the upper half of his body was completely exposed, and the muscles not only had an intimidating contour, but also clearly contained incredible explosiveness.
And the most amazing thing is that his chest and two ribs are covered with many hideous scars, some of which are left during practice, and some are memorials from the fight.
But in this case, it's like a sharp mouth that can swallow life alive!
This time, the other kid was also stunned, and the little face that was "seven dissatisfied, eight unsatisfied" just now was all green.
Not surprisingly, he should have heard of this name, so naturally he understood the feelings in the heart of "Huozi......
This situation, if you want to describe it appropriately, if you want to describe it appropriately, in a certain underworld movie shot by "Devil", a few gangsters who were playing in the water in the bathhouse finally found that after the person they splashed the water stood up, there was a gorgeous tattoo on his body, which had the same dramatic effect.