The Red Era: Starting from a Truck Driver

Chapter 129 Grandma Liu Hualian

The scorekeeper has to face the registration of members of the entire production team, even if it is embarrassing. In addition to facing the people on her uncle's side, Jiang Yan also has many cousins ​​in Kaiyang Village. Many cousins ​​with the surname Jiang also know that Jiang Yan is now a scorekeeper.

As for my aunt Jiang Xiaoxi, she married into another village, so she doesn't have to face this.

In fact, Jiang Yan became a scorekeeper, and the relatives from her mother's side who didn't have any contact with her didn't care. She couldn't do whatever she wanted just because she became a scorekeeper. The key point was that everyone knew how Jiang Yan became a scorekeeper.

Secretary Wang of the commune arranged it because Jiang Yan's brother Jiang Cheng drove a big car in the city. And an insider said that the secretary of the commune even invited Jiang Cheng to dinner.

Now it was easy for Jiang Yan's grandmother to find her, and it wasn't the first time she had looked for her today. She mainly heard that her second son Jiang Changhe and his daughter-in-law had been taken to live in the city, and she wanted to know where they were in the city.

But Jiang Yan really didn't know. Even her sister-in-law Li Xianglan didn't know. All they knew was that Jiang Cheng worked at the bus station. She had never asked about the specific location of his residence, nor did she want to ask about it.

"Yan Zi, I am your grandmother. I was the one who took care of you when you were a child." Liu Hualian said to Jiang Yan.

"I really don't know. It's no use telling me this. My parents just went to the city for medical treatment and will be back sooner or later." Jiang Yan replied helplessly. She really didn't know how to face the relationship with her grandmother's generation.

Jiang Changhe went to work in the city in 1958. At that time, a large number of farmers flocked to the city due to production needs. At that time, the family had not yet been separated, and Zhao Yuxia lived in a small room with her three children.

Jiang Changhe went to the city to find a job and earn money, so his family didn't eat for free. And people who knew about the situation in those one or two years also knew that the whole country just started to set up collective canteens, where meals were free and people were actively producing.

That was the year when Jinhe Town was transformed into Jinhe Commune. Because we had to eat collective meals, the fields were also collective. The pots were ironware, so we were required to hand them over to support the construction. They were not handed over for free, and we compensated everyone according to the price of scrap iron recycling.

So when Jiang Changhe left, the money he sent back to support his parents every month was for nothing. Zhao Yuxia and her three children all ate in the collective canteen.

The collective canteen only lasted for more than a year before it was gone. I heard that in some places it was less than a year, and in some places it lasted a little longer.

Jinhe Commune didn't survive past 1960 anyway. In addition, there was drought throughout the country during those years, and people could eat whatever they wanted in the collective canteen, which led to "waste" in some places.

But after the canteen was cancelled, Zhao Yuxia did work to earn work points. Jiang Changhe even paid extra food for Zhao Yuxia and her children to eat together.

However, in 1961, due to the shortage of rural labor, the rural people who had been "mobilized" to move to the city returned.

After Jiang Changhe returned, he saved some money, but he was just like ordinary rural people, he could only earn work points to exchange for food. It was impossible for him to give money to his parents every month as before.

His parents were used to receiving filial money from Jiang Changhe every month, and they felt a little uncomfortable when it suddenly disappeared.

And much of the money Jiang Changhe sent to his parents was spent on his eldest son Jiang Dahai.

Later, it was not known whether Jiang Dahai had a grudge against Jiang Changhe or Jiang Changhe's parents had a grudge against him, which led to the requirement that Jiang Changhe take out half of the remaining money he earned in the city.

The quarrel was quite fierce back then, and it was only after the old village chief intervened that the family was divided. After the division, Jiang Changhe used the money to build a house, so there was not much left.

After so many years, Jiang Changhe's family didn't live much better than everyone else. Especially in the past year or so, Jiang Changhe's health failed, and life for the whole family gradually became difficult.

The second son Jiang Cheng went to the army, and the eldest son Jiang Quan also died a few months ago while saving someone. Jiang Dahai's people knew all this, and they didn't even help him out of kinship. They would also talk about Jiang Changhe at home in private, saying that he was a man of integrity back then, but for a little money, he didn't want any relatives. Now, the family is about to break up.

Jiang Dahai has always told others that if he had gone to the city to work and Jiang Changhe had stayed at home, he would not have earned as much money as Jiang Changhe.

But in fact, Jiang Changhe's parents were not very old at that time, not yet fifty, and in good health. It was just that Jiang Dahai himself had never seen the world and did not dare to venture out.

No one expected that in Jiang Changhe's family, the return of Jiang Cheng, the second son who had been a soldier for several years, would directly change the fate of the entire family.

It is difficult for rural people to treat their children equally. Jiang Changhe and Zhao Yuxia prefer their eldest son a little bit because in rural areas and even in cities here, the eldest son is the one who takes care of the elderly.

Even if parents love their younger sons and daughters when they are young, when they grow up and reach a certain age, they will be influenced by the general environment and will not treat them equally.

Not to mention that those relatives didn't think much of Jiang Cheng. In fact, Jiang Changhe and Zhao Yuxia didn't expect to rely on the second son Jiang Cheng for the rest of their lives.

But now it is really true that when one person succeeds, everyone else will benefit. Jiang Yan becoming a scorekeeper is nothing to Jiang Dahai. But Jiang Cheng drives a big car in the city, and now he has brought Jiang Changhe and Zhao Yuxia to the city to live a good life.

Now Jiang Changhe's parents are really old and can't do farm work. It's easy for them to come to Jiang Changhe, after all, they raised him since he was a child, and Jiang Changhe has the obligation to take care of him in his old age.

Liu Hualian and her husband couldn't raise Jiang Changhe in vain just because they had a quarrel and split up the family. And even if they were a little partial, how many people in the countryside would ignore their parents just because they were a little partial?

Moreover, Liu Hualian felt that coming to Jiang Changhe now was already an act of justice to him. At least when Jiang Changhe was having a hard time, he did not come to them for food to feed them.

"I'm going to check other places. Don't follow me. My parents are coming back, and my sister-in-law will definitely tell them that you came to see them." Jiang Yan said to Liu Hualian. Now she didn't know whether she should call her grandma or not. She could only say 'you'.

After all, this was a conflict between Jiang Yan's parents and the other side. Before the reconciliation, she was afraid that her parents would criticize her if she addressed the people there as elders.

For many years, Jiang Yan would not say a word or talk to her uncle and aunt when she saw them. She would just pretend she didn't see them. The uncle's children were the same when they saw Jiang Changhe. They would not say a word.

We all live in the same village, so we'll always see each other throughout the year, there's no way to avoid it.

Liu Hualian saw her granddaughter Jiang Yan had gone and couldn't catch up with her. She couldn't figure out whether the second son and his wife had gone to the city for medical treatment or just lived there.

The eldest son Jiang Dahai and some relatives said that Jiang Changhe's disease was incurable and he couldn't even stand up. It's not like we haven't seen this before. He won't live many years. He will die. He was taken to the city to enjoy a good life for as many years as he could.

There are indeed cases like Jiang Changhe in rural areas. The sanitation in rural areas is poor. If you really become paralyzed, there will be no one to take care of you, keep you clean, and eat healthy food. You will really get sick easily because of your poor body resistance and sanitation problems. You will not live for more than a few years.

Liu Hualian stood in the field for a while and then went back. She didn't know where Jiang Changhe lived in the city, so she couldn't go to the city to look for him. But even if Jiang Changhe went to the city to enjoy his son's blessing, he would come back.

If you just come back a month later, you will have to get one month less of pension.

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(End of this chapter)