The family welcomed Li Yunhai into the hall.

His house is a standard peasant adobe house, with black tile walls, wooden doors, wooden windows, wooden floors, wooden house pillars, and potholed dirt floors. The exterior walls are all exposed with yellow adobe bricks, and the places where the road is painted with lime water with large-character slogans of this era.

The adobe bricks are made by repeatedly stepping on the soil to form a cement, and then the cement is placed in a brick mold to make mud bricks that are one foot long, half a foot wide and half a foot high, and dried in the sun.

Li Yunhai's house has half a hall house, four rooms, plus a stove room and a thatched house, which is the ideal type of rural house in the 80s.

Why is it said to be a half-room house?

Because half of the room is someone else's, the two families share a hall.

Rural people usually live in clusters, and the houses form a building complex of a certain scale, with a few dozen or so households and dozens of households, and walking into it is like walking into a labyrinth. A hall is a communal inheritance left by the ancestors to the family.

Father Li Deming, holding his eldest son's hand, walked straight to the shrine in the hall, and said calmly: "Yunhai, you can get ahead and become a national worker, thanks to the blessing of your ancestors, kowtow three heads." ”

The shrine of the Li family is very simple, it is written on red paper, and it is written with thirteen words, "The spiritual position of the ancestors of the Li family of this sect", and some people do not write the two words of this sect, that is, eleven words. There are also people who only write five words about the prince of heaven and earth.

Li Yunhai kowtowed three times and entered the house with his family.

He opened the package, took out the shortbread and sweets he had bought in the provincial capital, and distributed them to his grandparents and younger siblings, and when he saw a group of children in the village gathered at the door, he waved to them.

The little ones immediately ran in, and they all stretched out their long hands.

Li Yunhai grabbed a handful of candy for each of them.

The children shouted happily: "Thank you, Brother Yunhai!" ”

Li Yunhai took out the clothes he bought for his family and stuffed them into everyone's hands.

The younger siblings saw that they had new clothes to wear for the New Year, and they jumped and jumped happily.

Mother Zhang Shuwen, watching her son come back from buying so many things, couldn't help but be happy and sad at the same time, took Li Yunhai's hand and asked, "Yunhai, where did you get so much money to buy so many things?" ”

Li Yunhai handed her the clothes he bought for his mother and said, "Mom, I stayed in the provincial capital this month and didn't come back, just to make money." I studied radio and knew how to repair electrical appliances, which was very profitable in the provincial capital. Mom, the clothes on your body have too many patches, change them! I bought you three outfits! ”

Zhang Shuwen took the clothes and said while looking at them: "It's too expensive!" Even if you make a few bucks, don't spend it like this! You save it up and ask your wife for it in the future. ”

Li Yunhai looked at the earthen houses with four walls, except for the stoves, pots and pans, wooden tables and bamboo chairs, cupboards and basin shelves necessary for daily life, there was no decent furniture.

Shiban Village is close to the county seat, not a remote mountainous area, and the electricity here is relatively early, but there is only one wire at home, and a five-watt light bulb is installed in each room, which is better than nothing compared to kerosene lamps.

As for household appliances, there are none. The only thing with the word charged is the old-fashioned flashlight, which uses two No. 1 large batteries, which is convenient for walking at night and going to the thatched house outside the house at night.

Li Yunhai originally wanted to save more money, take it home, and renovate the family's house, but as a result, all his money was stored in the goods, and he only had more than 2,000 yuan on him, and he definitely had less to renovate the house.

His family has a large population, and it is not practical to build a new house in a small area, so he envisions building at least a row of five rooms. In the middle is a hall house, with a three-bedroom and two-living room suite with kitchen and bathroom on each side, and it is enough to build two to three floors.

In the countryside, in the 80s, it took thousands of dollars to build a brick house with several rooms, which was a big expense, after all, people earned relatively little wages at that time, and a few thousand yuan was equivalent to an astronomical amount, and most families couldn't take it out, so they couldn't renovate the old house.

Li Yunhai has experienced this era, and he probably knows that the cost of brick houses in this era is not cheap, from laying homesteads to capping beams, to painting, installing water and electricity, there are many places to spend money. If the red bricks were not fired themselves, it would cost more money.

It also costs three to five thousand dollars to build a small house.

A big house like his dream, if it is renovated well, it will cost at least 20,000 yuan.

Therefore, he will not talk about the renovation of the house for the time being, and will talk about it when he makes a lot of money.

Li Yunhai knew that there were no good dishes at home, and when he passed by the Yongxing vegetable market in the county seat, he spent money to find someone to exchange for a meat ticket, weighed a few catties of meat and came back, and he took it out and handed it to his mother and eldest sister to cook.

Li Deming asked his son: "You are in the machinery factory in the county, when will you go to work?" How much is the salary? ”

Li Yunhai thought about it, and felt that he should not tell his family about resigning and going to the sea for the time being, his parents would definitely not agree, if he wanted to resign, he was afraid that there would be many more twists and turns.

He had already made up his mind, simply resigned, broke the boat, cut off his retreat, fought against the water, and went to the sea to do business.

With his ability and level, in this vast world, he can always mix a little appearance, right?

Li Yunhai told his father that he would go to work the day after tomorrow for 32 yuan a month.

He also said that this month he was engaged in repairs in the provincial capital and earned more than 2,000 yuan.

As he spoke, he took out 2,000 yuan, put it in his father's hand, and said, "Dad, you take it and use it." Add some furniture, farm tools, electrical appliances to your home, etc. My younger siblings are about to start school, and I also have a lot of tuition and fees. ”

The eldest sister is in high school, the third is in junior high school, and the fourth is about to enter junior high school. The fifth sister is the youngest, and she is in elementary school, and she also needs more than 5 yuan in tuition and miscellaneous fees per semester. These dozens of yuan in tuition and miscellaneous fees are the biggest expense of the year for the Li family.

Li Deming looked at the two thousand yuan in his hand in shock, more nervous than picking up a golden baby.

The thickness of 2,000 yuan is equivalent to 20,000 yuan in later generations.

Such a big stack of money, all of them are big unity, held in your hands, heavy, and very weighty!

He asked nervously, "Yunhai, why is there so much money?" You're out there, you're not doing anything bad, are you? ”

Li Yunhai smiled: "Dad, what kind of person am I, don't you know yet?" Am I the kind of person who can do bad things? ”

Li Deming asked Ai Ai: "Then where did you get so much money?" I know that there is a Peng madman in the county who mends the pot, his family used to be in our village, I heard him say that he only earns twenty or thirty yuan a month! You are engaged in repairs in the provincial capital, and you can earn two thousand a month? ”

Li Yunhai thought to himself, my own father! Your son and I earned 250,000 a month! It's just that all the money is stored in the goods, and when I return to the provincial capital and sell these goods, the 250,000 yuan can at least become 500,000 yuan!

"Dad, all this money is earned by me doing repairs, Peng is crazy to make up the pot, there is not much technical content, of course I can't make a few dollars. I repair high-tech appliances, like photocopiers, typewriters, computers, etc., so it's very profitable. ”

Li Deming hadn't even heard of these electrical appliances, so he didn't know how to do it, and asked, "It's better than repairing TVs?" ”

In order to appease his parents' hearts, Li Yunhai said: "Dad, let me tell you this, make up a pot, earn two cents, repair a TV, earn five yuan, and repair a photocopier, I can earn hundreds of yuan!" ”

Everyone in the family gasped, shocked by what Li Yunhai said.

If you repair a machine, you can earn hundreds, which is worth a worker's income for a year?

Li Yunhai said tentatively: "Dad, this industry is really profitable, I don't want to go to work anymore, go to the provincial capital to do repairs." ”

Before he finished speaking, his family objected: "That's not good! Don't! ”

Li Deming blushed anxiously and said, "Sea of clouds! Never! This is engaged in repairs, and no matter how profitable it is, it is also self-employed! How can it be compared with the workers of the state? You are the first worker in our village to go out, and if you develop well in the future, you can still be a cadre! You are the pride of our Li family, you can't be self-employed! ”

In their opinion, Li Yunhai's salary of 32 yuan per month is far better than being a self-employed person earning 2,000 yuan per month!

In the long years of the past, the severe crackdown on speculation and the prohibition of individual and private enterprises frightened these people of the older generation.

Besides, no matter how much money a self-employed person makes, he is not as good as a state worker!

National workers, how decent, more magnificent, more popular!

Li Yunhai sighed helplessly and said no more.

In the evening, Li Yunhai called out to his eldest sister Li Yunfang, took out a hundred yuan and put it in her hand, and said: "You have grown up, this money is for you to use, you usually have to buy personal items such as menstrual belts, and you also have to buy a lot of extracurricular books in high school, you just take the flowers, and when you finish spending, my brother will send them to you." ”

Li Yunfang has grown so big, it is the first time to see so much money, and it is the first time to hear such kind care, she is happy and moved, and her face is flushed and said: "Brother, I don't need so much money." ”

Li Yunhai smiled: "You still have a lot of money?" With the extra money, you can keep your pocket money! ”

Li Yunfang was so excited that her eyes were teary-eyed, and she carefully divided the money into three parts and hid them separately.

The other three younger siblings were still young, so Li Yunhai didn't give them too much pocket money, and each gave ten yuan, which also made them happy for a long time.

Li Yunhai did not have the habit of sleeping lazily, and woke up very early the next day.

He circled around his family's homestead twice, thinking about how to renovate the new house in the future.

When he had free time, he called his younger brothers and sisters to help the family, carrying water and chopping firewood, and helping in vegetable fields and farmlands.

After a busy day, Li Yunhai was tired enough and sweated profusely.

In the evening, he took a bucket with a towel and soap and went to the well to bathe.

There are three wells, each with its own purpose, the top well is a drinking well, the middle well is a vegetable washing well, and the bottom well is used to wash sundries.

Li Yunhai fetched water with a bucket and went to the side to take a shower.

He lifted a large bucket of water and poured it down from his head, refreshing and cool!

Li Yunhai wiped off the water droplets on his face, opened his eyes, and suddenly saw a familiar face in front of him.

He thought he was dazzled, so he wiped a handful of water from his face, opened his eyes wide, and shouted, "Miss Lin!" Why are you here? ”

The person standing in front of him was not Lin Zhi?

Lin Zhi was wearing a long white dress that was longer than her knees, graceful and slim, looking at Li Yunhai, who was full of muscles, and was smiling with her mouth pursed!

Li Yunhai took a towel to block the key parts, and said with an embarrassed smile: "Aren't you going to work?" ”

Lin Zhi tilted his head and said with a smile: "I specially asked for leave!" Are you going to treat me well? ”

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath: "This is the smell of your hometown, it is very fresh and smells, I seem to have smelled the fragrance of jujube flowers!" ”

Li Yunhai shattered her illusion with one sentence: "The dates have already borne fruit, and they can be picked and eaten." You smell the scent of soap on me! ”

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