Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 56 Account
It’s just that it’s difficult to produce Luo Chenghua’s car model. There is no suitable template. Even if the template can be made, it will not be able to be compressed at one time because the material is not up to standard. This is why many cars these days are boxy, lack lathe technology, and lack of respective technology.
The manufacturing of this model requires the cooperation of various eighth-level workers, so even if a shell is produced, it cannot be mass-produced, but it can have symbolic significance. Everything domestically lags behind foreign countries, and a car made with this model is enough even if it is unveiled in front of foreign guests. When the time comes, those who can match this car must at least be the kind that cannot be said of 404.
It’s really unusual for someone like Principal Dai to take special care of him, but I have to admire his righteousness. It would be a huge loss for such talents to be locked up in the army to drive and repair cars.
In Longyang Town, Luo Cheng spent the whole afternoon chatting with his grandma, and he could tell that his grandma was in good spirits. When it gets dark, most people who went out come back.
I don’t know if my father, Rowan, is a gossip, or if this era is too unentertaining. Whatever happens in this town, he will talk about it.
An incident occurred in a nearby village. A beggar sneaked into a vegetable field in the village and ate the growing vegetable seedlings. When someone discovered him, he just pushed him and the beggar fell to the ground without making a sound.
This was a fatal incident, and the villagers did not dare to hide it, so they called the people from the town police station. The beggar was swollen all over. We often see people like this, the kind who have been hungry for a long time and are about to die. If you press lightly on this kind of person, a large piece of flesh will sink into it. They will be swollen and the whole body will have little strength.
But after being pushed by a villager, it was hard to tell whether he was pushed to death or starved to death. The police station registered him but did not do anything to the villager. As long as the family of the deceased does not pursue matters like this, the police station does not want to go to any trouble to please them.
The vegetables that can be grown in vegetable fields now are all cold-resistant, such as radish, cabbage, winter melon, luffa, etc. This month, most of the vegetables have just been planted. Some seedlings may have grown, but they haven’t produced any fruit yet. This beggar has eaten the vegetable leaves growing in the ground, so they can still grow. Therefore, it cannot be said that the villagers did something wrong, and we cannot let others eat like that.
Now that we have finished talking about this gossip, grandma rarely speaks. I’m going to find a partner for my soldiers, and with Luo Cheng’s help, it might be a good idea to find a partner now. If the harvest is really good next year, no married woman will have to ask for a gift of five or eight yuan, and the discerning ones will also need to buy a set of clothes.
What’s more, if the harvest is not good, soldiers will not take wives if they are rare.
Hearing that Luo Cheng was willing to help, the parents naturally had no objection. Partiality is partiality, but Luo Bing is their son after all, so he naturally hopes that they will live well.
Luo Bing is rarely shy. If you ask him for his opinion, he will just listen to his parents’ arrangements. This doesn’t mean he wants a wife.
“Well, I’ve just started working now. Grandma told me this afternoon that Bingzi is looking for a wife. The most difficult problem at the moment is housing. If there is a suitable one and it can be settled quickly, let Bingzi Stay in the side room where I live now. Xiaoyu and Shishi will live with me in the city.”
Luo Cheng expressed his thoughts. The main reason is that these days, rural areas are too quick to talk to each other, and many of them are just selling their daughters for food. If this daughter gets married, the family can save a mouthful of food. Just like what grandma told him in the afternoon, if Bingzi finds a suitable partner, it would be normal for him to marry him this month. Even faster, if you fall in love with her on the same day, you can directly set a good date and marry her immediately. These good days may only last three or five days.
If it had to be so fast, even if Luo Bing were to separate his family, he wouldn’t have time to build a house. Even if it means building him a cabin.
Hearing Luo Cheng’s words, Luo Xiaoyu and Shishi wished in their hearts that their grandma would quickly find Bingzi a wife, so that they could live with their eldest brother in the city. This is the dream of many rural young people.
What Luo Cheng said was a good thing. He was the only one who suffered a loss here. What opinions could others have? Another thing is that Luo Cheng took out fifty yuan from his body.
“I’ll leave these fifty yuan to Dad. I’ll try to get some nutritional supplements for Grandma. It’s getting cold today. If there’s anything you need to prepare at home, just prepare it.”
Several big black tens were placed on the table by Luo Cheng. If he didn’t know how much Luo Cheng’s salary was, his family would definitely not accept the money. This was his retirement pay from several years of service in the army, and no one had ever thought about this money.
Without bills, it is true that even if you have money in the countryside, you cannot buy anything. But it’s not the same in the city. When the ration is used up, you can’t buy anything without a ticket.
But the Pigeon Market is different. You can exchange for goods there, and you can also spend money to buy things. However, if you don’t have a receipt, the price is expensive.
In Pigeon Market, the price of a pound of grain has increased several times. To be more precise, food stamps have increased several times. If you buy tickets from a ticket seller, you can still buy food at the supply and marketing cooperative at the original price.
A pound of fine grains is now sold for almost the price of meat on the black market. When the harvest season is good, the price of food stamps for a pound of fine grains can be about 20 cents, and the price of fine grains is only about 16 cents.
Nowadays, a pound of fine grains is sold at the pigeon market for at least six cents per pound. The main reason is that everyone is short of food, and no one sells or exchanges food for enough.
Eggs have always been a very precious nutritional product these days, and their price is about the same as meat. It’s also about six cents per pound, and the price of this thing has gone up to several yuan in Pigeon Market.
Money is indeed valuable these days, but it is not worth much. When you have tickets, the money is well spent, but when you don’t have tickets, the money is not well spent.
After finishing the matter, after dinner in the evening, Luo Cheng washed up and went directly to his room to sleep. He planned to go to Ngee Ann City tomorrow. Although the factory did not arrange a job for him, he had to go to work. He had to go to the street near the factory to register for the leave he was given.
If he has not passed the grading assessment, the unit’s human resources department will recommend that he live in the dormitory building in the factory. Because there is water and electricity, the dormitory building is specially connected to running water and electricity.
In a small place like Nghe An, formal workers who have been established look to the street to solve the housing problem, but they can’t find any good houses. The most they can get is electricity. There are two ways to use water, one is well water, and there are many wells in the city. The other is that the subdistrict office arranged for someone to connect a water pipe to him at a nearby water pipe. It was impossible to bring it to his home. They just had to get a water pipe and a meter so that he could use tap water.
This is the case in many places in Ngee Ann City. A thick electric water pipe is divided into several faucets, one at a time. Later, the conditions gradually improved, and because of frequent disputes, they were transferred to each household one by one.
In the dormitory building in the factory, each household has a water pipe, so water is very convenient.