Chapter 13: Homecoming
Elle came back with her face covered, Elaine hugged Amy to sleep together at night, there were three more adults and one child in the house, squeezed and squeezed, and the floor was bunked, and I couldn't wait to hang a hook on the wall to sleep well, and all the space was used to the extreme, so that it could be squeezed down.
Although housing is the biggest problem in this era, Ai's mother is also glad that if the family is a little bigger, the old lady will dare to bring the whole family over.
Elaine hugged her sister and whispered, "I'm sorry." ”
Amy knew that Elaine knew, so she closed her eyes and shook her head, "No one in this world is a fool. ”
She had already guessed it.
What about debunking, I haven't heard that you can change people in the countryside.
"Don't be with Qian Xiaojun." It was the only thing Amy could persuade her.
Even if it's not Zhou Yize, don't marry a bastard.
"Don't worry." Elaine is not used to telling her sister this, and there is always only one sentence, which makes people unable to figure out what she thinks.
The old lady stayed for three days before leaving, the countryside is big, and they are not used to cramming into a small room, in the words of Ai's family, Sun Ai Daxing, they can't breathe.
"If you can't breathe, you have to come, the old and the young are not afraid of anything wrong on the road." When the people left, Ai Mu began to chatter, wishing that she could vent all the anger she had suffered in the past few days.
"Come and remind my dad about work, our dad is young, and he can work for at least 20 years. Besides, he said that the top class is the top class, there is no primary school diploma, and the factory is not in tatters, everyone wants it. "Elle is used to saying beautiful things and is very good at pleasing her mother, which is also her way of survival in this family.
Ai's mother slapped her thigh, yes, it's not their family who has the final say, and the factory has to agree to it. The conditions for entering the factory are clear, at least the first Chinese certificate, no diploma is a temporary worker.
"Countrymen are countrymen, relying on their age to think that what they say is what, and they don't want to think about it, even if we can agree, it is useless if the factory does not agree. She has the ability to try to play tricks with the factory, and no one but us will pay attention to her. Ai's mother was relieved, swept away her previous grievances, and looked proud.
Ellie glanced at Amy vaguely, thinking that she was not afraid of you saying it, and no one would help you make the decision if she said it. Who calls you stupid, stupid and useless person, who will go if you don't go to the country?
Amy had no intention of exposing it, let alone paying attention to Ellie's demonstration, and she was in a hurry to go out to do business on the black market. In the seventies and eighties, it was a purely seller's market, lacking everything, and as long as there was goods in hand, there was no worry about selling. The big road goods in the supermarket, in this era, are all good things that can be sold at a good price.
She wants to take advantage of this time to save more money in her hands, and when the turmoil passes, whether it is to buy a house or a business, she has to ask for money. What we have to do now is to earn enough money for the first pot of gold, and no matter what we want to do in the future, at least have a start-up capital.
And there is a reason why Jiangcheng is a big city with millions of people living in it. As long as she is careful, the possibility of being found out is very small, and good things can still be sold for a price.
In that place in Mao'er Village, it takes most of the day to go to the town. It's even farther to go to the county seat, and even if you go to her with a person with a distinctly different accent, it's easy to be recognized.
Besides, even if it takes half a day to go to the county seat, it is not as good as one-ten-thousandth of Jiangcheng's consumption capacity. So the opportunity to go home once a year to visit relatives is precious for Amy, where is there time to waste on Ellie.
After the end of the year, some factories with good efficiency have started production, and workers have begun to work one after another. Just after the end of the Chinese New Year, the number of people willing to spend a lot of money on pork has definitely decreased sharply. Amy walked around the supermarket and chose milk powder and sugar.
Milk powder is a special commodity with a very small supply, and only those who have babies at home can buy a small amount of milk powder every month with a ticket. Most of the time, milk powder is out of stock, only milk substitute powder, which is mixed with soybean rice and a small amount of milk powder.
If you are a mother without milk, you can't support your child with this little thing alone, so rice soup is popular, and people born in the sixties and seventies, almost everyone can proudly say that they are the generation raised by rice soup.
During the Chinese New Year, Amy found out that there were several underground black markets in Jiangcheng during the cordial and friendly exchanges between her elementary school classmates, junior high school classmates, and relatives and friends. She quietly jotted down the address, and now she is ready to put it into practice.
If you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, change clothes is a must, and you must consider the way out in advance. Amy chooses a black market with complex topography, where small streets and alleys intersect, and the complexity is like a spider's web. In case of an action to crack down on speculation, she can hide in a corner and hide in the supermarket. No matter how bad it is, find a corner and stuff the things in her hand back to the supermarket, and walk around empty-handed, who dares to say that she buys and sells.
Walking in the rivers and lakes safety first, Amy put on her backpack with satisfaction and went directly into this complex alley. As long as the person carrying the armpit on his back just sways slowly in it, someone will naturally come over to talk to him to make sure that the other party has something in his hand.
At first, I saw that Amy was young and no one came forward to talk to her, but I saw that she kept coming and going, and from time to time she held her backpack with her hand.
A young man who had been here for three days and hadn't received much of anything finally couldn't help but come up and say, "What do you have in your hand?" ”