Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 305 Things about my sister-in-law’s family

Luo Chengcai woke up just three days after sunrise.

I sat on the bed and giggled for a while before I got up and put on my clothes. They all said that this little farewell was better than a wedding, and they were honest. Because he just came back last night, first by boat, then by train, and finally by walking for a long time, it might not be a problem for other people, but Luo Cheng didn’t have the physique of people of this era. Although he had improved a lot, he was still very tired after coming back.

What made him happy was that he and Sissi unlocked a new ‘knowledge’ point last night. If they were not separated and came back together, she would not have been willing to be together before. But after trying to bring it up yesterday, it actually worked.

But after last night, Luo Cheng fell down completely exhausted, and that’s why he slept so late today. She didn’t even eat breakfast in the morning. Shishi originally wanted to ask Luo Cheng to get up and eat, but Sissi stopped her, saying that their eldest brother had a hard time on the way back. Let Luo Cheng sleep a little longer, and Shishi and the others are no longer little girls. The eldest brother may have been tired on the way back, but they really don’t think they are sensible. The eldest brother and sister-in-law must have put in a lot of trouble last night.

Dai Qianqian didn’t know that Luo Cheng would come back suddenly, otherwise she would have taken a day off to spend a day with him, chatting at home. But Luo Cheng came back just in time. The filming of the movie has been completed. There are no film reviews these days. There will be no illegal content, and the copy can be screened directly after trimming it.

Now Dai Qianqian’s art troupe can only be considered to have been initially formed, and the local government also supports it. A lot of land has been approved for them near the art troupe. But a lot of things have been delayed because of filming the movie. Now they are in the art troupe. In addition to practicing performances, they are also clearing wasteland and growing vegetables.

Yesterday, Sissi frequently whispered into Luo Cheng’s ears that in addition to being paid, this cultural troupe is considered a regular employee and has a quota. But there really are no benefits at all, and you have to rely on yourself to beg for alms. They usually have to complete certain condolence tasks, but the cultural troupe considered above is just established, and many things are prepared independently. So this National Day, no tasks were assigned to us from above.

But Luo Cheng came back just in time, during the National Day holiday. Sissi said that the cultural troupe has rehearsed several performances now, and told Luo Cheng to go to the industrial zone to express condolences and interact. The industrial zone now has too many employees and can be divided into four zones, southeast and northwest, to perform performances in turn for four days.

However, although this performance is said to be a condolence performance and does not require payment, you have such a large industrial zone and your own planting and breeding base. She wanted to beg some fruits for the art troupe, and then bring two pigs. She didn’t want pigs that were ready for slaughter, which would be too much, but she wanted two medium-sized pigs.

Their art troupe raises them by themselves, so they can have meat to eat and share during the Chinese New Year. If possible, it would be best to sponsor some hens, which can lay eggs. The area where the art troupe was located was already a suburb, and a piece of land was allocated to them, so they grew a lot of vegetables. There is no problem in raising two pigs and some chickens.

As for two pigs and some chickens, Luo Cheng asked Qianxi to work harder and perform at the cooperative in Longjin Town, Luo Cheng’s hometown. The cooperative can also sponsor some things, and when he came back from Xiangjiang this time, he also brought back a lot of videos from Xiangjiang.

When the time comes, let the art troupe and the projectionist go to the villages and towns to engage in charity activities. This can be regarded as full support for Sissi’s work. Let her go to the art troupe to prepare early. Luo Cheng himself will take a day off at home today, but will go to the transfer station here (the former automobile factory) and call people in the industrial zone to inform the people over there that all senior managers are due to come for a meeting in the morning tomorrow. He wants to deploy a new production direction and focus.

The other one is to wait for Sissi to come back from work in the afternoon, and then go together to make a phone call to her home. If there is no one at home, call her father’s army, and he will ask at least three or four people to accompany him to Xiangjiang. It’s best to have someone with reconnaissance skills. At least the scouts are smart. It’s best if you’re retired from the army, it doesn’t matter if you’re older. If you are not retired, it would not be good in Xiangjiang if you pay too much attention to discipline and principles.

Luo Cheng just bought two maids in Xiangjiang. Zhang Hao and Liu Qing had warned him several times that he should just act like a young master. But don’t go too far, because they saw Luo Cheng teasing the two maids several times. Although he mainly just let them beat their backs and pinch their legs, he would also ask some words that were considered gangsters in China.

At noon, there was no one at home. Luo Bing and his wife had moved out. Now Bingzi lives in the staff room over there in the industrial zone. Her daughter-in-law returned to her hometown in Longjin Town.

What everyone didn’t know was that just two days after Qin Ru returned to her hometown, her mother’s family took her over and stayed with her for a few days. In her natal family, she also has a younger brother and younger sister. It is said that although a daughter is married off, her mother’s family is her backer. Qin Ru’s mother said that although their family was poor, if Qin Ru was bullied in the Luo family, they would stand up for their daughter even if they risked their lives.

However, Qin Ru now has a younger brother and sister. As a sister, you have lived a good life in the city, so you must not forget your younger brother and sister. You are a working person, so you don’t have to worry about food or drink.

I had just started working before, and I even knew how to send rice bran and soybean meal to my parents’ family when receiving welfare benefits. Later, this benefit no longer existed, so I didn’t give it away. But because of her work, she could buy rice. Qin Ru often paid for it herself and sent it over.

It’s already October. It’s almost a year since Qin Ru got married and ten months since she started working. In addition, the same goes for their Qin family’s son-in-law Luo Bing, who has been working for ten months. Qin Ru had told her family before that except for paying five yuan a month to Luo Cheng for living expenses in the city, they spent almost nothing else.

If this is the case, the couple has saved two hundred yuan. So now her brother is sixteen. In the countryside, he can marry a wife. If he has connections in the city, he can also work.

Especially when Qin Ru came back this time, she told her family that Luo Bing had been promoted to a regular job, and he was also the captain of the transportation team. The salary was more than forty a month, and they were also given a house of their own.

Now it’s better, Qin Ru’s family is more enthusiastic towards her. Now in Longjin Town, due to the cooperative and the good harvest of grain today, everyone is barely recovering.

And because there is a cooperative in the town, the conditions are better than in other towns. So now there is a situation where girls in the town are unwilling to marry out to other towns. It was really hard to go there, but the marriageable man in the town wanted to marry a girl from another town.

Now that the famine has barely passed, even married women in rural areas do not want anything. But if a woman from a town outside Longjin Town could marry into Longjin Town, she would be willing to ask for nothing. This makes it easy for the men in Longjin Town to find a partner.

But this situation is not good. The girls in the town are unwilling to marry outside, and the men are marrying girls from outside. The town will soon have a lot more people. Therefore, the town leaders held a meeting for this matter. Just like the previous practice of taking in refugees, you can marry a woman from another town, but you will not be registered. If you do not register, you will not have work points, and you will have children in the future. They all follow the mother’s household registration. If this continues, the child will be in trouble when he grows up.

Finally, due to policy conditions, men in the town had to give priority to women in the town when looking for wives. And in this way, because the people in the town are doing well this year, the custom of bride price has been put on the wedding agenda again.

It’s not that Qin Ru’s younger brother must get married this year, but he can start looking for him at this age. It doesn’t matter if you don’t find someone suitable, it doesn’t matter if you delay it for two years. If there is someone suitable, then naturally follow the blind date process.

Anyway, the whole story was to ask Qin Ru to get some money to help her get her first wife. Then, isn’t the son-in-law of the Qin family a formal employee now? He is also a captain, which is equivalent to a cadre. The Qin family knew that Luo Cheng’s cousins ​​had all arranged to join the cooperative in the town.

If Luo Bing arranged for his brother-in-law to go to the city, it would be fine to follow him in the transportation. Isn’t it just that rural people need to provide proof of stay to stay with relatives when they go to the city? Qin Ru said it herself, and they were assigned a couple’s double room with two rooms and a kitchen. This will give them a room for their brother-in-law to live in, and they will move out after he gets a permanent job and gets a house.

Qin Ru’s trip to her mother’s house was a big headache, as she needed both money and work. But what his parents said is right. This is his biological brother. If he doesn’t help himself, no one will. When she left, she left ten yuan for her parents, which was regarded as the bride price for the person her brother was dating. If you don’t talk about the suitable ones, just keep them.

Then Qin Ru went back to her parents-in-law’s house. According to the doctor, she was about to give birth recently. It’s not good to have a baby and stay in your parents’ home. You’ll be gossiped about.

Here in Longjin Town, Luo Wen, the president of the cooperative, is actually quite busy. There is a nearby town called Shibei Town that is going to be merged into Longjin Town. It’s an incorporation, not a merger. If the merger is to be done at the town level, then leaders will have to argue with each other about how to handle it. If this is merged, Shibei Town will only retain the commune, which will be the community in the future. If the top leaders in the town are transferred to other places, the deputy mayor can retain his position and work in the commune here in Longjin Town.

Shibei Town is willing to merge directly, mainly because it is too poor, and the most important thing is that there is a cooperative in Longjin Town. The chickens, ducks and pigs were all paid for by the cooperative, plus planting and some sideline production, which really made the surrounding towns jealous.

These days, if villagers raise chickens and ducks, if they raise more than three, they will be subject to 404. But if you sign up for a cooperative, it means that you are helping the cooperative to raise chickens and ducks, and it does not belong to personal breeding. Moreover, I really helped the cooperative to raise them. Once they were raised, as long as the eggs, chickens and ducks were sold to the cooperative, the income would be considered pure earned income. But if it dies, as long as you didn’t kill it yourself and explain the reason, you can take the dead chicken or duck and return it to the cooperative, but you can’t eat it yourself.

With this kind of policy, every family wants to keep a few of them. If they die, it will be a waste of time. For feed and other things, you can just go to the mountains to get some things to feed them. Therefore, the busiest thing about the annexation of Shibei Town is actually the cooperative. They have to survey the situation there. After the statistics are completed, they have to report it. Then the logistics personnel in charge of this area in the industrial zone can make better arrangements.

For the cooperatives in the industrial zone, they hope that they can produce as many vegetables, chickens, ducks, and pigs as possible. There is also the fact that a large number of trees have been cut down in the town to produce wooden pallets. Therefore, we cooperated with the Forestry Bureau and started to plant fruit trees wherever trees were cut down. As for this kind of fruit tree, if you start planting it from seeds or saplings, the tree will not make any profit in the first two years.

Therefore, I have just finished studying greenhouse cultivation in cooperation with the Agricultural University, and now I am starting to study a new course, grafting technology. If a branch that has been growing for several years can be planted directly, even if it looks about the same size as a sapling grown from seeds, it will begin to bear fruit within one year.

For example, grapes can be grown using grape seeds to germinate and grow seedlings. You can also cut an ordinary branch and plant it, and cutting a grape branch is definitely faster than planting seeds.

If the branches cannot take root and germinate directly, consider grafting. Grafting some branches of slow-growing fruit trees onto fast-growing fruit trees can still produce fruits quickly.

However, Luo Cheng no longer paid much attention to whether Longjin Town was developing well now. As long as the relatives of the Luo family lived well, that would be enough. Even if the new town is incorporated and expands the cooperative’s business scale, it will not be able to meet the needs of tens of thousands of people in the increasingly large industrial zone.

Luo Cheng didn’t go anywhere today, mainly because even though he slept until noon, he still felt a little tired. I took out some food from the system and settled down for lunch. It was a variety of snacks that I got from signing in at the Xiangjiang Teahouse. He wasted a lot of time checking in, and it was almost as if he was checking in every day some days.

After eating, Luo Cheng took another night’s sleep before feeling that his body was back under control. Then I went to the transfer station to make a call and drove back in a car there.

After returning home, Luo Cheng rested in the yard. The tables and chairs in the form of wooden piles were obtained by him from the lumber factory himself. Some vegetables are planted in the yard, including peppers, greens and radishes. Luo Cheng saw that the radish was pretty good, so he pulled one out, cleaned it, and ate it raw as a snack.

Unfortunately, I found that it was not particularly delicious. It was a little spicy and the water content was okay, but it was not like the big radish of later generations. It was white and sweet and could be eaten as fruit. But then again, this radish has a radish flavor, and the spicy radish pickled dried radish actually tastes better than the large and sweet-looking radishes of later generations.

In the yard, Luo Cheng also discovered something interesting. There were actually fish in the small well in the yard. Although they were not big, there seemed to be a lot of them. Luo Cheng is not very good at fishing, but he likes fishing a bit. I didn’t go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy special fishing lines and hooks, so I just got white thread and needles for sewing clothes in the room.

The needle was bent, and it looked like a fishhook, except that it was missing an upside-down thorn. There wasn’t even any leftover cooked rice at home, so Luo Cheng took out a shaomai from the system, which is the type of glutinous rice, and directly clasped the glutinous rice to see if it would fall.

I tied a small piece of wood to serve as a float, which was just a blind attempt. Unexpectedly, as soon as I put it down, a fish would bite the hook. This makes Luo Cheng happy. He can fish and play while staying at home.

I don’t know where the fish in the well came from. Although they are not big, they are longer than a finger. I caught more than a dozen in a while, and the fish in the well didn’t feel any less.

Then~~the washbasin was half filled before Sissi came back. After Sissi came back, she found Luo Cheng fishing by her well and was surprised that he caught so many fish. There are fish in the well. In fact, they all know that when the weather is hot, the tap water is hot. But the well water is very cold. They use the well water to wash clothes, so they can naturally find fish. But no one thought about catching it.

This fish is not big and has no meat. It can still get some flavor when stewed in soup. But if you simply cook it, it won’t taste very good. If you want it to be delicious, you have to use oil, fry it first and then stir-fry it. But who would be willing to use oil to fry such a small fish these days? The oil used is more expensive than fish.

Seeing that there were a lot of fish in the basin, Qian Qian asked Luo Cheng to stop fishing. She now understands Luo Cheng’s character. He is someone who only cares about killing and not burying the fish. It will take a long time to kill the fish after it is caught. If Sissi doesn’t do it, she will wait for Xiao Yu and her cousin Wang Yue to come back to get it. These half basin fish must have been taken out all at once, and some of them were given to the surrounding neighbors who had children.

Asking Luo Cheng to clean up, the two of them went out directly to make a phone call. Recently, Sissi hasn’t contacted or spoken to her family for a long time. The cultural troupe has installed a phone, but it’s not like Luo Cheng’s industrial zone, where people are wealthy and can make casual phone calls if they need anything.

In the art troupe, unless there are special circumstances, you can’t use the phone casually. You are poor. Not only are the art troupes here poor, but all art troupes in general are not very rich. When Sissi and Luo Cheng were still dating, they never called each other.

This time when Luo Cheng went to ask Sissi’s father who wanted to protect him, Sissi stopped by to make a few phone calls.