"There's no mistake?" Lin Zhenhua looked at Lin Fanghua's panicked back and couldn't help but shake his head. In later life, although he was only a graduate student, he had also taken tens of thousands of yuan in his hand, and he never thought that 200 yuan would make his sister excited and nervous like this.

No, you have to find a way to make money, Lin Zhenhua silently thought that according to the living habits of later generations, his retirement pension can't withstand a few days of tossing, and if he lives on the monthly income of 52 yuan for his brothers and sisters in the future, wouldn't he die of hardship? Wait, it seems that my sister means that the 52 yuan has to be saved with 12 yuan, and there are only 40 yuan left in a month. 40 yuan, according to the standard of the dinner in Dongfeng Factory, you have to save a few months of money to eat once?

"Zhenhua, Zhenhua!" There was a shout outside the house, and before Lin Zhenhua agreed, the door was pushed open, and then several young people rushed in, surrounded Lin Zhenhua in his heart, and asked him affectionately.

"Yongqun, Hongyang, Shaozhe!" Lin Zhenhua excitedly shouted the names of his friends and slapped each other with them. These people are all the children of workers in the factory, and before Lin Zhenhua became a soldier, they were iron buddies who were fooling around in society with him.

Zhao Yongqun, Dad is a sand turner, he also has a good strength, he is tall and big, and he is keen to settle all kinds of things with his fists, of course, he is often carried by his father afterwards and then leveled again.

Chu Hongyang, his father is the chief of the supply and marketing section, the family has a little money, he likes to make friends all over the world, and often steals the family's cigarettes and alcohol to invite guests, and his popularity is good.

Peng Shaozhe, his father is a technical department, he has read a few books since he was a child, he has seen more than other partners, and he likes to call himself a Zhiduoxing. Every time a few people go out to provoke and fight, he comes up with bad ideas. But every time he comes back from trouble, the only one who can not be beaten by his family is him.

"Zhenhua, I heard that you are back, why don't you go to look for us?" Chu Hongyang complained.

"The meal I ate at Aunt Wei's house after I came back has just arrived home, and the house still has to be cleaned up." Lin Zhenhua explained.

"What kind of food to eat at her house, the meal that catches the wind should be eaten with our buddies." Zhao Yongqun said.

Peng Shaozhe glanced at him and said, "How can we have the money to invite Zhenhua to dinner?" I saw that Yang Xin's mother bought a lot of vegetables two days ago, and they were ready for a long time. ”

"That's not as good as eating together with our buddies, isn't it?" Chu Hongyang said.

"Why don't we eat together for this dinner in the evening?" Zhao Yongqun proposed, "I still have two yuan, you can make up some more, let's go buy some food to cook at Zhenhua's house." ”

"I'll make a bottle of wine." Chu Hongyang said, taking out a bottle of wine from behind him like a trick. Lin Zhenhua took a look, it was the most ordinary kind of liquor, and the bottle cap was not original, but a wooden stopper. Lin Zhenhua knew that Chu Hongyang's father was in charge of supply and marketing in the factory, and he often had some business to accompany guests to eat. After sending off the guests, he has the right to take the remaining liquor on the table home to drink, but if he takes away such wine, he must pay two cents to the canteen for each bottle, otherwise it will be embezzlement. The wine that Chu Hongyang brought is this kind of origin.

"You don't have to break the bank, this meal is mine." Lin Zhenhua said. When he saw his sister coming back from outside, he shouted: "Xiaofang, you go buy some food, I still have wine in the box, tonight, I will get together with Yongqun and Hongyang." ”

Lin Fanghua glanced at Zhao Yongqun and the others, but she didn't say with any disgust, these gangsters are very good to their families, Lin Zhenhua has been a soldier for two years, and sometimes when Lin Fanghua has some trouble in school, it is Zhao Yongqun and a few of them who help her settle it.

"Xiaofang, buy some good vegetables and get a chicken." Lin Zhenhua pulled his sister outside the house and explained in a low voice.

"You're crazy, but it's not a festival, how can you eat chicken?" Lin Fanghua glared and reprimanded.

"Uh, let's have some ribs."

"There's no meat ticket." Lin Fanghua said, it is already the end of the month, and the meat tickets have long been used up.

"So what do you say?" Lin Zhenhua was at a loss, so he had to hand over the decision to his sister.

Lin Fanghua didn't want to disappoint her brother, so she said, "I'll go and take a look." Then he took the basket and left, and there was a small vegetable farm outside the factory, where some surrounding farmers were selling.

"What's the matter, where are the brothers now?" Lin Zhenhua returned to the house and asked a few buddies that he was now going to get used to using the language of workers to communicate with people.

"Wherever you can be, you're working as a temporary worker." Zhao Yongqun said, "Not long after you left, we all entered the factory as temporary workers, Hongyang is in charge of the warehouse, Shaozhe is in the drawing room, they are all good places, but I am bitter, and I followed my father in the sand turning workshop, responsible for transporting sand boxes." ”

"It's a good idea to make the best use of your talents." Peng Shaozhe said with a smile, "The three of us, just count you in good health and great strength, if you don't move the sand box, who will do it?" ”

Lin Zhenhua said: "I don't know what kind of work I will divide." ”

Chu Hongyang said: "No matter what type of work you have, you are better than us." You are a regular worker, and it is 37 yuan as soon as you enter the factory. We are temporary workers, 24 and a half dollars a month. As for this money, the finance department does not send it directly to us, but our father collects it on his behalf. ”

"Why aren't you regular workers?" Lin Zhenhua asked stupidly, he was basically an idiot about the system back then.

"Do you think regular jobs are so easy?" Peng Shaozhe said, "You are a veteran, and your parents' indicators are empty, so you can become a regular worker as soon as you enter the factory." We have to change to a regular job, and we have to wait for my father and mother to retire before we can have a place. ”

"My dad is only 42 years old, and when he retires, I will retire myself." Chu Hongyang said depressedly.

"What are you worried about?" Zhao Yongqun said, "Your father is also a middle-level cadre, if there is a recruitment quota, he will definitely give priority to taking care of you people, my father is a worker, and it is us who are really suffering." ”

Although Zhao Yongqun's words were like this, he did not have a trace of disgust towards Chu Hongyang, in those years, it was people's ability to engage in unhealthy trends, and he would not blame others if he didn't have the ability.

Chu Hongyang probably agreed with Zhao Yongqun's words, so he didn't refute it, but directly pulled the topic back to Lin Zhenhua: "Zhenhua, did you go to the factory director, what kind of work did you get assigned?" ”

This is the second person to talk to him about the type of work in one day, and it seems that the people in the factory are really sensitive to the issue of the type of work. Lin Zhenhua shook his head: "Let's go to work tomorrow, I will do whatever kind of work I do." ”

Lin Zhenhua said this and thought so. The people in the factory are already accustomed to the mode of planned economy, and once a type of work is determined, it is a lifelong thing, so everyone attaches great importance to the division of labor. But Lin Zhenhua knows that in a few years, the economic management model of the whole country will undergo earth-shaking changes, farmers will become speculators, eighth-level fitters will go to open breakfast shops, professors will become bosses, and bosses will also go to colleges and universities to be visiting professors.

"Zhenhua, are you stupid to be a soldier?" Peng Shaozhe wondered, "You should still have some retirement money, right?" Didn't spend it all, did you? Why don't you hurry up and buy some good cigarettes and wine, and go to the factory director's house at night. Now to storm a mountain, you can't do it without twenty rings and grenades. ”

"Twenty rings and grenades?" Lin Zhenhua was stunned, I'm down, is this still a factory.

"Why, don't you say that in the army?" Peng Shaozhe asked, "Twenty rings are cigarettes, and grenades are wine bottles." ”

Lin Zhenhua smiled and said: "How can I have the money to give them gifts, I won't keep the money to marry a daughter-in-law?" Besides, my sister is going to college in two years, so she has to save some money. ”

"Going to college?" Chu Hongyang smiled, "Xiaofang's grades are the same as my sister's, and she can go to college?" You're not kidding. In this year's college entrance examination, the children of our factory didn't even go to a secondary school, do you still think that Xiaofang can go to college? ”

Lin Zhenhua was completely speechless, he really couldn't tell these buddies that he was no longer the Lin Zhenhua of the past, he was a graduate student of Huaqing University, and he guided high school students to take the college entrance examination as if they were playing.

Lin Fanghua came back from buying vegetables, in addition to a few kinds of green vegetables in the vegetable basket, there was actually a large grass carp weighing more than three catties, Fenghua County has the Zhangjiang River flowing through, rich in freshwater fish. At that time, the commodity economy was underdeveloped, and there were few fishermen, so it was often possible to catch some large fish. The income of the workers in the factory is not high, and few people usually buy such a big fish to eat, Lin Fanghua gritted his teeth and bought a big fish in order not to spoil his brother's interest.

"Yo, there's fish, that's good." Lin Zhenhua said happily, "This fish belongs to me, and I will show you a unique skill." ”

"You know how to cook?" Including Lin Fanghua, all of them showed a look of distrust.

Lin Zhenhua said with a smile: "[***] said that the People's Liberation Army is a big school, and I have been a soldier for two years, so I can be regarded as a college graduate." What's so hard about being a fish? In this way, the vegetables are made by Xiaofang, and the fish is handed over to me, which is guaranteed to make everyone satisfied. ”