Courtyard House: Starting in a Ceramics Factory

Chapter 156 Getting Ready to Buy a Bicycle

Courtyard house

Jia family
At this time, the entire Jia family was already resting in bed.

However, neither Jia Zhangshi nor Qin Huairu were asleep at this time.

Qin Huairu has been working for several days now, but she is not quite used to life in the factory.

Because Qin Huairu's current job is as a fitter, and fitters need to read blueprints, which Qin Huairu can't understand at all.

So now she can only do odd jobs as an apprentice.

If Qin Huairu continues doing these jobs, her salary will only be 27.5 yuan.

This made Qin Huairu very worried.

Most importantly, my child will be born in two months, and I might have to go on maternity leave next month.

At that time, Qin Huairu didn't know if she would be able to receive her apprentice's wages.

When Qin Huairu thought of this, she became even more worried.

At this moment, Qin Huairu whispered to Jia Zhangshi.

"mom!".

"I might be going on maternity leave next month."

"What should I do?"

Jia Zhangshi immediately spoke to Qin Huairu.

"Of course it's a divorce. You have to give birth to my grandson. Dongxu passed away early, and now only two of us are left."

"If you give birth to another son this time, our Jia family will be able to continue completely."

At this time, Jia Zhangshi believed that Qin Huairu was pregnant with a boy this time, so Jia Zhangshi insisted that Qin Huairu give birth to the child.

However, Qin Huairu spoke to Jia Zhangshi with some concern.

"mom!".

"What will happen to my hospital bills then?"

Jia Zhangshi immediately spoke to Qin Huairu.

"Don't worry about this. I'll borrow money to pay for your hospital stay, even if it means borrowing it myself."

The reason Jia Zhangshi said this was to indicate that she herself had no money.

As for borrowing money, she certainly wouldn't, because she knows that it's very difficult to borrow money in this day and age.

Moreover, she still has Jia Dongxu's pension, which she can use to pay Qin Huairu's hospital fees.

If Qin Huairu sees that he has borrowed a lot of money, he can ask Qin Huairu for the money to pay back.

In other words.

The compensation money is still in your own hands.

When Jia Zhangshi thought of this, she couldn't help but feel that her idea was very good.

That's when.

Qin Huairu couldn't help but start asking Jia Zhangshi.

"mom".

"Today I went to the factory to inquire about the Dongxu pension."

"They said they had already paid."

Madam Jia was taken aback by Qin Huairu's sudden remark, and she quickly offered a nonchalant explanation.

"Oh".

"This one."

"I received Dongxu's pension a couple of days ago, but I forgot to tell you that I used most of it to exchange for food coupons."

"After all, there are so many people in our family, we definitely don't have enough food to eat."

Qin Huairu was surprised by Jia Zhangshi's words, so she pressed Jia Zhangshi for an answer.

"mom!".

"How much is Dongxu's pension?"

At this moment, Jia Zhangshi dared not tell Qin Huairu that she had taken more than 230 yuan, so she thought for a moment and then told Qin Huairu.

"Ok".

"Let me think about it."

"It seems there are a hundred."

"I'm getting old, so I don't remember much anymore."

Jia Zhangshi said that last sentence on purpose.

She just didn't want Qin Huairu to keep asking.

Seeing Jia Zhangshi's reaction, Qin Huairu decided not to press the matter further. She didn't want to upset her mother-in-law.

the other side

Li Feng then returned to the courtyard house by the moonlight.

The cold wind at night chilled Li Feng to the bone, making his journey quite arduous.

When he got home, Li Feng immediately lit a charcoal fire in a brazier.

This carbon is still the main source of heating in Beijing.

It has to be said that, given Li Feng's current circumstances, this is all he can afford.

Currently, Li Feng's monthly income is decent, but he simply doesn't have the time to accumulate it.

Unlike Xu Damao, who received a considerable dowry after marrying Lou Xiao'e, I don't think I'm like him.

Li Feng knew that Lou Xiao'e had brought a considerable dowry to Xu Damao's house, and Xu Damao was considered incredibly lucky in the courtyard.

He married the daughter of a wealthy family.

Sha Zhu and Xu Damao started from roughly the same point, but Sha Zhu wasn't as lucky as Xu Damao.

This may be related to personality.

Li Feng didn't look down on anyone.

After all, it's hard to change a person's personality. Generally speaking, people with Xu Damao's personality tend to do quite well.

Sha Zhu's personality makes him prone to offending people, but he can also be a bit petty at times.

This is all thanks to Sha Zhu's petty nature; otherwise...

That's difficult to handle.

Li Feng believes that whether it's Sha Zhu or Xu Damao, they have their own way of living, and he won't interfere.

Last time, when Shazhu asked me for advice, I only gave him suggestions out of friendship.

It's just that Sha Zhu was really unlucky; he fell in love with someone like that.

In the end, Shazhu could only suffer for several days.

In the past few days, Li Feng discovered that Sha Zhu had finally returned to normal.

After that, Li Feng stopped paying attention to it.

After all, I have a lot on my plate myself.

In a courtyard house, each family has its own calculations.

But this is quite normal. Even among relatives, it's like this, let alone just neighbors.
Li Feng's principle is simple: just don't mess with him.

If they mess with them, they won't have an easy time either.

Li Feng at least considers himself a very easy-going person.

When Li Feng thought of this, he immediately soaked his feet.

After soaking his feet, Li Feng planned to take advantage of his free time the next day to look at bicycles.

Now I have industrial vouchers, and all my assets add up to about two hundred yuan.

Li Feng heard from Sha Zhu that his bicycle cost around 170 yuan, while other cheaper ones cost a little over 100 yuan.

If I spent over a hundred yuan to buy a bicycle, I'll have about a few dozen yuan left, which should be enough for me.

And soon, I'll be getting paid again.

Once that's the case, I won't have to worry about money anymore.

Working at the factory means three meals a day are provided, and you don't have to spend much money yourself; you can basically save that money.

Although I don't have much savings right now, I'm sure things will get better and better.

This is what Li Feng firmly believes at present.

Next

After washing his face, Li Feng lay down on the bed.

It's very late now.

Tomorrow, I need to get up early to go to the supply and marketing building to buy a bicycle.

Li Feng wasn't worried about not being able to buy a bicycle at this time; at least in Beijing, you could definitely buy a bicycle with a ticket.

If it's a small place, then that's not necessarily true.

Because regardless of the era, resources are always concentrated in big cities.

Small counties or towns certainly don't have as many resources as big cities.

Therefore, things that are easy to buy in big cities may not be available in smaller towns.

The same applies to other resources, which is the fundamental reason why many people want to go to big cities.

(End of this chapter)