Rebirth 1977 Great Era

Chapter 143 Hardcore Gratitude (Monthly Ticket Plus)
After completing the formalities at the street office, the house is now rented to Fangyan.

After finishing it, Fangyan went to a nearby store and bought a lock and some new light bulbs.

I installed a new lock on the front door and replaced all the not-so-bright light bulbs in the house with high-wattage ones.

I turned on the light bulb and tried it, and found that the line voltage here was also OK and it withstood the test.

There was no humming sound or flickering of electricity.

Then he looked around inside. Some simple furniture was already there. He only needed to add some pots and pans for the kitchen, bedding for living, and daily cups, basins, towels and the like.

Then he went back to the back room alone and checked it carefully.

The observation skills of visual diagnosis are activated, and no details are missed.

He then confirmed that nothing suspicious was found.

And it is really cleaned regularly, everywhere is very clean.

In other words, the only flaw now is the painted slogan on the screen wall at the entrance.

In other aspects, the dialect is quite satisfactory.

After closing the doors and windows, Fangyan walked out the door and went to the street office diagonally opposite, where he found the woman he had just met, who was also the director of the street office.

Ask her to help find someone to remove the paint on the screen wall.

You will pay your own wages when the time comes.

The director of the subdistrict office hurriedly said that it could be done now.

She called a few young staff members from the street office and asked them to go to the warehouse in the backyard to get a bucket of cement, a mop and a ladder.

These young staff members obviously just returned from other places.

They were able to get the jobs in the street office by using some connections.

Carrying tools, I followed the director and Fangyan to the courtyard, and then began to clean the screen wall again, smearing cement on it, covering the previously smashed parts and paint.

Fangyan originally wanted to help, but several people refused to let him, saying that this was their job.

It can be seen that these young people cherish their work in the street office very much.

Fangyan watched them work from the side.

Then I started chatting with them casually.

Gradually, I got to know their situation. They were all young people who had moved to the countryside not far from the city. In theory, their conditions were relatively good, but when they saw many people returning to the city, they were afraid that they would be left behind in the countryside, so they also tried to find a way to come back.

After I came back, it was hard to find a good job. I finally found a job in the neighborhood office on this street.

All of them were children from the slum on this street near Union Medical College.

During the conversation, they were also asking about Fangyan's identity. Fangyan did not elaborate on his identity, only revealing that he was a Chinese medicine practitioner and had a foreign-related mission.

Because it was a mission involving foreign countries, the young men decisively stopped asking questions and started doing their work.

After a while, they finished their work and packed up and went home.

Fangyan asked the street director how much he earned.

The director of the subdistrict office said that this is what they should do and that dialects should not be a concern.

Secretary Xia and the others also gave money.

The dialect sounded right and he stopped being pretentious.

He locked the door and said goodbye to the director of the street office. He glanced at the time and saw that it was almost time to get off work, so he went straight to Union Hospital.

……

On the way home, Fang Yan told his mother, Zhu Lin and her mother that he had rented a courtyard house near Union Medical College.

The three of them were still a little confused, not knowing why Fangyan suddenly went to rent a courtyard house.

What’s even more surprising is that he was able to rent a place in such a good location.

Fangyan explained the reasons and consequences of renting a house for himself, as well as the process of renting the house, and everyone finally understood.

Of course, no one had any objection to Fangyan's approach. Zhu Lin's mother even praised him. Fangyan accomplished something in just one afternoon that others could not easily handle. This was proof of his ability and connections!

And more importantly, he was not doing this for himself, but was planning for his future with Zhu Lin. All this shows that Fang Yan has Zhu Lin in his heart.

And the house was rented so close to Concord Hospital.

It's so thoughtful. My future mother-in-law likes the dialect more and more.

I had to remind my mother Fangyan again what I said this morning, for fear that she would forget it when she went back.

Then, Fangyan divided the keys of the courtyard into two.

He gave one to Zhu Lin and one to his mother.

When the time comes to buy things there, I'll have to listen to their opinions.

Fangyan didn't want to deal with these little things, so he just left them to Zhu Lin and his mother.

Of course, the two of them had no objections. After getting the keys, they even started making a list of items that needed to be purchased in the car.

After returning home, mother He Huiru held a family discussion with father and Fangyan.

First, I talked about Fangyan renting the courtyard house, and then I also talked about what Zhu Lin’s mother said early this morning about getting the marriage certificate.

After some discussion, the family decided to follow the custom of that year and get engaged and give the betrothal gifts first, and then set the date for the wedding.

Fangyan had no idea about this. When he read period novels before, he only knew that the protagonist seemed to get married on a random date. He had never heard of any rules such as giving a betrothal gift.

I just found out about this rule today.

The process is that after the betrothal gifts are given, the parents of both parties negotiate a good day for the wedding, and finally the wedding is held.

The wedding is not without its own rules. People nowadays are no longer as poor as they were in the 1960s. My mother said that we should prepare "three cylinders" for the wedding.

That is, a jar of old wine, a jar of rice dumplings according to the number of households of the bride's relatives, and a jar of pork, which is probably half a pig, are first sent to the bride's home for use in the wedding banquet the next day.

The dowry given by the woman is determined according to the betrothal gift given by the man. The more betrothal gifts are given, the more the woman will get back. The Zhu family is a big family in the south, and they must win face for their daughter, so they will definitely do everything possible to make the scene look better.

Some of the details are unknown in the dialect and will only be understood after the specific implementation.

Anyway, my parents know the customs, so let them handle the dialect.

……

The next day soon came.

On the bus to work, my mother and Zhu Lin's family agreed to have dinner together in the evening and discuss the betrothal gifts and wedding date at that time.

Zhu Lin's mother readily agreed and said she would definitely arrive in the evening.

When Fangyan arrived at the Tongrentang store, he found that someone was already waiting for him in the store.

This person came early and looked exhausted.

This man is very strong. From what Fangyan observed, he is about 1.93 meters tall, with a sturdy build, and an arm span of at least 2.13 meters. He looks like a martial artist.

After asking, Fangyan found out that the other party had taken Train No. 297 from Jinan last night and arrived in Beijing in eight hours.

As soon as I got off the bus at the station, I found someone at the station to ask about the dialect.

As a result, he happened to find the station manager Zhu Jianye, who happened to know the dialect.

Someone pointed him here.

He talked about his father's situation and said he must thank Fangyan.

Then he took out several gold bars with the logo of the Republic of China Gold Bank.

He was about 1.90 meters tall and had a bandit-like look, which made the scene look just like the scene in "Water Margin" where Liu Tang went to give gold to Song Jiang.

Fangyan has never seen such gratitude before, this gratitude is really too hardcore.

According to the gold price at that time, these gold bars were not cheap.

Because the value was too high, Fangyan didn't dare to take the gold bar and quickly asked the other party to take it back.

As a result, this man refused to do it, saying that he had promised his mother and must do it.

For a moment, the two of them were in a stalemate.

One refused to accept it, and the other insisted on giving it away.

PS: I have finished updating today, and I still owe you 96,000.

In addition, the information about the marriage gift is selected from "Changes in Weddings in 30 Years"

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