Before the meal, the fourth child returned.

Sweating profusely, he ran back, as if he was being chased by a ghost.

"What are you doing with Zhou Jitong? Hurry up and wash your hands, hum, I've said it so many times, and I don't listen to it every time, I know that I am perfunctory, big brother, you talk about him! ”

The fourth child, who was about to eat with chopsticks as soon as he entered the door, was frightened by the chopsticks raised by his second sister.

In order to eat hot dumplings as soon as possible, Zhou Jitong had to go to the kitchen to fetch water and wash his hands.

Then he was reprimanded by his second sister.

The water at home is brought in from the well at the door, and most of this water lifting work is done by Zhou Shuqing.

"Fourth, don't always remember to eat or not, washing your hands before meals is not a rule but hygiene, you said to your second sister that you will do it next time?"

Now in this family, Zhou Jimin is not only the eldest son, but also the parent.

So what he said, the fourth didn't dare not listen.

"There is no next time, second sister, I promise!"

The fourth naughty ghost is smart, and he didn't say anything about punishment.

After swearing, before I sat down, I picked up the chopsticks and sandwiched a dumpling.

It's a pity that it's too hot, and my mouth is angry, but no matter how hot it is, it's good, but I don't want to spit it out.

Zhou Shuqing was angry, but this was her own brother, she was afraid that she would be broken, and she was afraid that he would be burned and she couldn't finish it, so she had to give her eldest brother a look.

Seeing the second child's gaze for help, Zhou Jimin was also speechless for a while.

This family is not at ease when it comes to eating.

"Set a rule, don't eat so fast in the future, eat slowly, do you hear?"

"I heard you!" Zhou Shumin was the first to answer, she was very sensible and obedient.

"That's good!"

And then there's a head-touching kill.

The third and fourth children still go their own way and eat fast.

It's delicious, it's delicious!

The mouth keeps chewing, and the words don't stop, in Zhou Shuqing's words, even the president of the United Nations is not as busy as the two of you.

Halfway through the meal, the third and fourth had already finished the battle, lying on the kang and touching their stomachs, their eyes still looking at the plate.

If Zhou Jimin hadn't let them eat it, they would definitely have been able to continue to make more than ten dumplings.

There is a guest at the door, it is Teacher Yan, the three masters in the front yard.

"The third master is here."

Looking at the plate of dumplings, Yan Bugui's throat couldn't help but roll.

"Jimin, how about eating?"

"Well, it's almost finished, have the three masters eaten?"

"No, your three mothers have just started cooking."

Then he looked at Zhou Jimin, who didn't answer at all, but changed the topic:

"Oh, come in and sit down, Xiaoqing, pour a glass of water for the three masters, have you finished eating the little goldfish? I didn't finish eating and brought it to your house. ”

"The three masters drink water." Zhou Shuqing poured a glass of boiled water and said respectfully.

But the eyes of the three masters were not on the water cup at all, but at the plate of dumplings.

But the dumplings were held by Zhou Shumin, and she ran to the next room with her little short legs.

"Jimin, it's not that the three masters are too talkative, you make it like this every day, and you can't live the rest of your life?"

When Zhou Shumin left, Yan Bugui withdrew his gaze, and then began to preach as an elder.

In 1958, five cents could buy one and a half catties of pork, 2 catties of beef, 15 catties of cornmeal, and more than 8 catties of ordinary standard flour.

A bowl of soybean milk is 4 minutes, a long fritter is 4 minutes, the tuition and miscellaneous fees for primary school students are 2 yuan and 5 jiao, and the tuition fee for middle school students is 4 yuan.

And Lao Zhou now only has one apprentice for Zhou Jimin, with a salary of 23 yuan per month.

According to their family's daily consumption of one and a half catties of pork, plus two catties of flour and five catties of cabbage, they will lose an average of seven or eight cents a day, which is twenty-one yuan a month.

It's just a daily meal.

Lao Zhou's family also has three children who go to school, plus Zhou Shumin, who is about to reach school age, and it costs 23 yuan a year here.

And what about other expenses such as sickness, salt, and clothing on weekdays?

Just relying on Zhou Jimin's apprenticeship salary of 23 yuan, he can't support it at all.

Therefore, Yan Bugui's preaching is not unreasonable.

Zhou Shuqing and their three sisters and brothers, who were listening next to them, suddenly panicked, and looked at their eldest brother again and again.

The latter's eyes lit up, and he beat the snake with the stick, and said:

"Third master, are you ready to support our family? Thank you so much, don't you know, my younger siblings, they eat a lot every day, and they make me feel so sad......"

Yan Bugui was dumbfounded for a while, wocao, is there such a brazen person in the world?

Teacher Yan, who came back to his senses, quickly stopped saying that he had misunderstood, explained again and again, and then quickly changed the topic.

Wucao, this Zhou kid can't be provoked.

"That's the case, Jimin, you see that our family's Xie Cheng is four years older than you, and he hasn't worked yet, and your three masters and I are also sad to death."

As soon as the topic changed, it was the first to sell miserably.

It's really worthy of Yan Laojiao, this calculation, there is no one.

Zhou Jimin was speechless, this Yan Lao Lao actually stared at the job left by Zhou's mother before, it was too bullying.

It is said that a radish is a pit, which is vividly reflected in this era.

The job opportunity of a noodle worker was left by Zhou's mother, and naturally it was the children of the Zhou family.

But now in the old Zhou family, there are four candidates who can be hired, but all of them are not of age.

is like Zhou Jimin himself, who is in Lao Zhou's position, but because he is less than sixteen years old, he can only get an apprentice salary.

"Then why didn't Brother Xie Cheng go looking for a job? I remember that rolling mills, cotton mills, power plants, etc., all have recruiting workers, isn't there a post on the other side of the street? ”

Then this word to block Yan Bugui is a silent refusal.

If you don't have a job, then look for a job, this is a normal basic logic.

When Teacher Yan heard this, his face turned blue and red for a while, and he secretly scolded Zhou Jimin, a little fox, how could he still learn to scold?

Yan Jiecheng of his family, nineteen years old this year, like most young people in the capital, has nothing to do, and has low eyes.

There is indeed recruitment in the street office, but they all require a certificate to work or have academic requirements, whether it is an electrician certificate or a university degree, Yan Jiecheng can't meet any of them.

In other words, most of the young people in the capital cannot meet such requirements, otherwise there would not be so many young people waiting to work at home.

Therefore, what Zhou Jimin said just now was to point to the monk and scold the bald donkey.

It's just that Yan Lao Lian can't be angry yet, there's no way, isn't he seeking a job in the old Zhou family?

"Hehe, Jimin, you just love to laugh."

Laughing awkwardly, Yan Lao continued to say:

"Your mother just left before, I was embarrassed to mention it, and now it's been more than half a month, I want to ask Jimin, how do you arrange the work left by your mother?"