Chapter 24 The Matter of Regional Prejudice
In these days, it is certainly impossible for even those urban residents who receive wages to eat meat every day. Liu Daneng, who only has a mother and son in the family, is in the butcher business, so there is often meat and meat dishes at home.
Today, in order to entertain Xu Zhengdao, who is rarely a guest, Liu's mother stewed a chicken and fried two meat dishes. As for vegetarian dishes, it is difficult to buy even if you have money in this season, and the cabbage that was stored in the cellar years ago is basically eaten.
may know that eating too well is easy to arouse the envy and jealousy of the residents who live in the same courtyard, and the Liu family eats behind closed doors. Even so, the aroma of meat wafted out, causing many children in the yard to covet it.
"Alas, this butcher Liu, he eats meat again today, is it just this day?"
"People are in the meat business, and it's not uncommon to eat meat every day. Daddy, why don't we go buy catties of meat at night? ”
Xu Zhengdao, who was eating at Liu's house, had to strengthen his hearing a lot because of his cultivation. The chatter of the other residents of the courtyard can naturally be heard as long as he is willing to listen hard.
What made Xu Zhengdao happiest was that he had entered the stage of refining qi and transforming gods, and he began to contact the cultivation of spiritual power. Every time his mood improves, his mental power will be boosted. Now the distance that his spiritual power can probe can reach up to ten meters.
The so-called detection distance is to release spiritual power, and within ten meters, he can even see the insects hidden in the corner. In Xu Zhengdao's words, in the future, if you want to listen to people's corners, or watch others do embarrassing things, it is equivalent to watching live broadcasts!
Of course, if he really uses his mental power to do this kind of thing, it is estimated that God will not be able to stand it, and reward it with a thunderous blow!
Taking advantage of the efforts to drink and eat, Xu Zhengdao also tried to ask: "Brother Liu, the living conditions of you and your eldest mother should be much better than those of other families in the miscellaneous courtyard, right?" Isn't there anyone who will introduce you to someone or something? ”
"Why not? But this kid is muddy, he has to marry his first marriage and be young and beautiful, and he doesn't look at his own virtue. ”
didn't wait for Liu Daneng to speak, but his wife reprimanded him. In Liu's mother's heart, although she also hopes that her son will marry a young, beautiful and housekeeper's first daughter-in-law, she knows in her heart that it is not possible unless her son is willing to marry a country girl.
The problem is that if you really marry a country daughter-in-law, then in the future, a family of three will really have to rely on Liu Daneng to support herself. In recent years, although there are many women who marry from the countryside to the city, it is still very difficult to get a commercial grain account.
If you don't have an urban hukou, you won't have a fixed amount of food from the government. All in all, Liu's mother would rather her son marry a second-married city man than her son marry a young and beautiful country daughter-in-law.
It can be seen from this that there is a big gap between city people and country people in this era!
Liu Daneng, who was trained, also smiled, and didn't dare to talk and said directly: "Brother, drink!" Don't talk about this! ”
But Xu Zhengdao loved the pot and didn't mention the pot, and continued: "Auntie, you also know what kind of virtue Brother Liu is. I think, since he wants to find the young and beautiful, let him find it himself, can't he find it in the city, and can't he find it in the countryside? ”
"What do you do if you look for a country man and marry him? If you don't have food, you can choke on food! ”
As a result, to the surprise of Liu Daneng's mother and son, Xu Zhengdao quickly shook his head and said: "Auntie, national policies will not remain unchanged forever. Not to mention far away, take the Beiwan Hutong where you live, for example, a few decades ago, this was also considered a countryside, right?
As long as he likes it, he can go to those villages on the outskirts of the city and find a young girl with good conditions to start a family, and I believe it will be no problem. After a few years, maybe the daughter-in-law who marries back can also get a town hukou.
Kyoto is so big, but it's only going to get bigger and bigger in the future. The inner city has limited space, and if there are many people moving into the city, where will they go to find a place to live? The government will definitely consider expanding the inner city to the outside.
With this expansion, those villages on the outskirts of the city will not all be able to become urban hukou. Besides, at present, many places have begun to divide the fields into households, and I estimate that those villages on the outskirts of our city will do the same sooner or later.
If you want me to say, the matter of finding a daughter-in-law is to urge, but you have to let Brother Liu make up his own mind. In the future, he will live at home for the rest of his life with his daughter-in-law. All you have to do is help him take care of the child for a few more years while he is in good health, isn't it? ”
Knowing that there is such a thing as regional bias is also present in this day and age. It's just that the so-called regional bias at the moment is more due to urban and rural people. Many people in the city feel that they are more noble than the people in the country.
Whoever marries a daughter in the countryside will be envied by the whole village. But if a countryman wants to marry a girl from a city family, it is self-evident that it is difficult. The elders of that era seemed to agree with this rule.
In Xu Zhengdao's view, Liu Daneng has not found a suitable marriage partner so far, which is more due to the inherent cognition of the mother and son. The son can't be high or low, but the mother hopes that the son will find the right person.
Although this kind of thing is not the turn of Xu Zhengdao, an outsider, at all. But in Xu Zhengdao's opinion, if Liu Daneng continues to be so picky, if he really wants to find a daughter-in-law after the age of forty, I am afraid it will be several times more difficult than now.
At the moment, my mother is still in good health, and she can still help one or two. If he really has to wait for his mother to get older, even if he can finally marry a daughter-in-law, then he will have to support his family and take care of his elderly mother, and his life will be even more difficult than now.
Mother Liu may not want to listen to other people's words, but Xu Zhengdao can be regarded as her life-saving benefactor. And Liu's mother could see that Xu Zhengdao said this for the sake of her son. If she continues to pick, when will she be able to hold her grandson?
This kind of thing is undoubtedly the most concerned about the older generation!
After drinking a bottle of Erguotou, seeing that Liu Daneng was still about to open the wine, Xu Zhengdao, who hadn't drunk much, hurriedly stopped and said, "Brother Liu, drink an appropriate amount of wine, it's almost fine." And there is something to do in the afternoon, and it is easy to make mistakes if you drink too much. ”
As soon as these words came out, Liu Daneng no longer insisted, and then said: "What do you want to do, can I help?" ”
"That's for sure! I live in Bumrungrad Village now, so it's not easy to travel to and from the city. I want you to help you find someone to get a bike ticket and then buy a bike to get around. It is also much more convenient to go shopping in the city in the future. ”
"That's it? This is a trivial matter, and I will take you to exchange the ticket after eating. ”
As a capable person in Pigeon City, Liu Daneng naturally knows that tickets can be exchanged there. Unlike in previous years, when bicycle tickets were difficult to exchange, now bicycles are becoming popular, and as long as you are willing to spend a little money, you can basically redeem bicycle tickets.
Nowadays, if you don't buy a bicycle at home, it's not that you don't have a bicycle ticket, but you still don't have the money, or you are reluctant to spend such a large amount of money. After all, to buy a bicycle now, in addition to the ticket, it will cost one or two hundred yuan to buy the car!
Families with low incomes want to save enough money to buy a bicycle, and they are naturally choked. Not to mention, as far as Liu Daneng's living conditions are concerned, he didn't dare to buy a bicycle. Sometimes when he goes to the countryside, he borrows a bicycle from his buddies.
Although he didn't have a bike, he still saved up a board bike. For him, having a pallet truck is more convenient for him to do business and pull goods. On the contrary, it is a bicycle, which is really bought and put at home, and it is not used many times.
In addition, his mother kept talking about letting him save money to marry his daughter-in-law. If you really want to talk about a good daughter-in-law, it will cost a lot of money to buy the 'three turns and one ring' that people in the city pay attention to. If you don't save money now, you will have to spend money then, where will the money come from?
Living at home, many people are used to budgeting. On the contrary, Xu Zhengdao is obviously more willing than ordinary people when it comes to money. It cannot be denied that he is not slow to make money.
Aside from the money spent on buying a house, the money to buy a bicycle today, the three wild boars sold to Liu Daneng yesterday must be more than enough to change a bicycle. Coupled with the fact that he is full of food alone and the whole family is not full, why should he wronged himself in life?