Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 21 Distributing food and asking about jobs

The bowls in this era were not small. Luo Cheng was really amazed when he saw how his relatives were eating. The youngest child in my sister-in-law’s family is a girl, only over eight years old, but she uses the same bowl as everyone else to eat, and she can even finish two bowls. Although my stomach was a bit full, I still managed to finish two bowls of sweet potato porridge.

Everyone else is like this, they are active in cooking, unlike the children of later generations who are picky eaters even after eating, and no matter how much rice is served to them, there will always be some leftover. Moreover, I eat slowly and either watch TV or my mobile phone while eating. Looking at the current scene, everyone is eating their food honestly, and the bowl is licked cleaner than anything else.

The hot sweet potato porridge will blow when you blow it, but it is basically like breathing. You blow it out on the face in one breath, and a big mouthful of porridge immediately enters your mouth. Luo Chengdu felt that they were not hot, especially his cousins. They were chatting together just now. Although he could feel that they were uneducated and the things they talked about were very superficial, he still thought that at least they were girls and they were quiet.

But just like eating porridge, Wen Jing is nothing. Workers at construction sites in later generations did not eat so vigorously.

Luo Cheng was full after eating two bowls. Such a big bowl was really too big to be eaten after two bowls. Unlike others, he has no food and water. He has to live in this world for at least a few days and often cannot eat food. He will naturally get hungry quickly and eat a lot in the future. But now, I have already eaten three steamed buns in the morning, and lunch is early. Because these people who come here have probably not had breakfast, so they will eat earlier.

Basically everyone licked their bowls cleanly after finishing their meal. It was so hard for Luo Cheng to feel like he was out of place if he didn’t lick his bowls cleanly.

After the meal, everyone chatted for a while. I was always hungry, so I ate the food quickly, and my stomach hadn’t fully responded to it yet. After sitting for a while, everyone felt comfortable and felt like there was food in their stomachs.

The main event came when the food was distributed. In the morning, his father, Rowan, went to the brigade not only to ask for leave, but also to borrow a steelyard. It’s not possible to do business in this era, so these scales and the like are only available in the brigade. I don’t need it on a daily basis, so it’s convenient to borrow it.

Ten kilograms of stick noodles are easy to weigh, and sweet potatoes have to be picked and picked because of their size. Try to make it just right, but if it’s a little too much or a little bit off, you won’t use a knife to cut it. At this time, there is also a certain emphasis on it. The extra one or two taels must be given to the uncle. From then on, he will always be a relative of the family. If there is less, I will give it to my aunt. There is no reason for a married daughter to compete with the men of the family.

Maybe the uncle doesn’t care about more or less, but the rules are like this. Even if the things are divided, the elders will get it first according to the rules, then the men of the same generation will get it, and finally the married women will get it.

After dividing the things, the aunt and the younger ones all borrowed a cloth bag. Although the sweet potatoes weighed twenty kilograms, the big one weighed one or two kilograms, and the small one weighed about half a kilogram. There are many people, so it is easy to take it back even if you use it to collect it. But they don’t live in the town, so they have to pay attention to safety when putting it in a cloth bag. If they hold it in their hands, it will not blatantly seduce some people.

So they all asked Luo Cheng’s family to borrow the cloth bag, and the cloth bag must be returned. Everything is precious these days, and if you take it to someone else’s house, it may be of no use. It is not a question of whether it is valuable or not at all. Unlike in later generations, just take away some small things and just buy another one. It is convenient and not worth the money.

Both uncles live not far from each other in the town, which is much safer than the countryside. At least someone will take care of the security in the town. In rural areas, the village chiefs have to organize it themselves. Nowadays, many brigades have militia teams. In terms of security, except for some chaos in some border areas, the overall situation is actually pretty good.

The meal was finished and the grain was distributed, but these relatives still did not leave immediately. The uncles and aunts all had to chat with grandma, and in the end it was Luo Cheng who was the focus of attention after returning from the army.

Now that he has returned from the army, everyone is naturally concerned about his future plans, whether he will stay in the town or what will happen to him.

“I don’t know exactly what I will do from now on. There is a letter of introduction in the army, and the organization should make arrangements for the work. I also plan to go to the town committee in the afternoon to ask about the situation. Not only you uncles, but also aunts are here. , I, a junior, can’t leave first.”

“Oh, you kid, what do we care about? We can’t delay such an important thing as finding a job. Brother, you’re not doing this right. We younger brothers and sisters, even if we want to talk to our nephew, we can’t. We can’t delay the business.”

When uncle Luo Wu heard Luo Cheng say that he would go to the relevant departments to inquire about work later today, what he meant now was that he didn’t go now as a courtesy because of the presence of elders like them.

This made the uncle anxious. They were all brothers and sisters, and they were all from villages and towns. How could they have so much etiquette. If anyone has a formal job, it would be a big deal. Joining a formal job means that he will be eating commercial food from now on. It’s completely different from people like them who have been working in the fields all their lives.

Luo Cheng’s father was stunned when he heard this. His son didn’t tell him about this. If he were to ask about work today, it was a ‘big deal’ to share food and help relatives, then it wouldn’t be a problem at all. Don’t let Luo Cheng go do business early.

“Nariko, why didn’t you tell me earlier that you had to do such an important thing? I don’t need your company. Hurry up. If you have something to do, please do your thing first.”

Luo Cheng’s father was also a little anxious. The child was older and had his own opinions, but he didn’t just respond to such an important matter.

Seeing the attitude of his father and uncles and aunts, Luo Cheng was also a little confused. He also made this on the spur of the moment, mainly because there was no place for entertainment in this era. He thought that there was still a whole afternoon left. After his uncles and aunts left, he went to the town committee I’ll take a look and ask him if the issue of veteran placement ends here, and if not, which department he should go to.

In Luo Cheng’s view, it was just a normal trivial matter. Dealing with some government departments would also be normal in future generations. In later generations, there are also streets, village committees, and various departments that handle trivial matters. As long as it is not a crime, it is natural to go to the police station to ask about things.

But people of this generation have different ideas and are afraid of leaders and officials. There is a mentality that the people do not fight with the officials, because they are afraid of offending some powerful and status people, and then think about what to do. Many people will feel nervous and uncomfortable if they go to government departments, even for serious matters.

This is why Luo Cheng said he might go to the town committee in the afternoon, but no one said to accompany him, even the father, unless Luo Cheng asked to accompany him. This is something they instinctively resist and fear. If Luo Cheng said he was going to the grain station or other places to do business, he might directly ask if he wanted them to go with him.

Then at their urging, Luo Cheng had no choice but to go back to his room to get the letter of introduction, and he took his discharge certificate with him.

Some of the later plots may be a little bit toxic, because a lot of things are made up, and I don’t want to make them up, but if Zhen Sheji is a very good person, I guarantee that this book will hit the target immediately. As a novel, it always has a bit of a magical color. Please vote for support. If the score is passable, I will update it tomorrow.