Back to 1979: Sending the Educated Youth’s Wife Back to the City

Chapter 26 Remittance Arrived
When checking out, the waiter saw Lin Yan and a look of sudden enlightenment appeared on his face.

It turned out to be Lin Yan's country man and daughter.

This man is really infatuated! Lin Yan had divorced him and returned to the city, but he still followed her with his daughter.

Fang Mingche ignored her look and calmly went through the check-in procedures.

He put his suitcase under the bed in the guest house.

He carried the money and bills with him. Four people lived in one room, so he had to be extra careful with his belongings.

However, the room was not fully occupied by four people. Currently, he was the only one who had checked in.

If there is no one around when he turns around, he will have received the treatment of 1 yuan for 3 yuan.

Then, he pushed Yanyan and her suitcase on his bicycle and took the mother and daughter back to No. 12 Yard, Xingfuli.

If his brother-in-law and his wife had been nicer to Yanyan in his previous life, he would have been willing to treat them to a meal at a restaurant today at noon.

Now, forget it.

It was just what Ah Yan said, the house belonged to the father-in-law. He was the one who asked for his granddaughter to move in.

Besides, my brother-in-law and his wife are ungrateful people who can never be satisfied.

Don’t appreciate other people’s kindness!
When they arrived at the gate of Courtyard No. 12, Fang Mingche stuffed a lot of national food coupons, cloth coupons and other tickets into Lin Yan's pockets.

"Yanyan will eat and live at home. If your father insists on not collecting food expenses, you can buy some food for the family from time to time. Or you can go to the state-owned restaurant and bring back a bowl of braised pork for everyone to eat together."

My mother-in-law made it clear yesterday that Yanyan was awarded to him.

Lin Yan nodded, "Are you really not going to come in and have dinner with us?"

"No. You should go in quickly. You must be hungry after working all morning."

Lin Yan said: "It's okay. I also ate two steamed dumplings before."

In fact, Mingche was afraid that Yanyan would be hungry, so he sat down and ordered a basket. Yanyan ate one, and she ate two.

The remaining three were taken care of by Mingche.

"Take Yanyan to rest this afternoon, I'll go find it myself. Lend me this bike."

BJ is too big, so it’s more convenient to find a house by bike.

"Okay, go ahead and ride it. This bike also belongs to my dad."

Lin Yan took her daughter by the hand and carried the box inside.

"dad?"

"Dad has something else to do, Yanyan will follow mom first."

After entering, Lin Yi came up to me and asked, "Sister, have you found a house?"

"No, there are not many people who rent out rooms. If you know anyone near the square, please keep an eye out for me. When your brother-in-law finds a house, we will remarry and move out."

Lin Yi nodded, this is not bad.

But, "If he is not found, he will not live in our house, right? Our house is so small."

"No, he won't even come in for a meal. Have you steamed the rice?"

"Not yet. I went out to do something. It's inconvenient without a car. I waited for the bus for a long time."

Lin Yan was too lazy to talk to him. What kind of business was it? It was just going to her boyfriend's house.

He didn't do any work at home, but worked hard there. As a result, they didn't even offer him lunch.

"Then wait a minute, I'll start cooking. Yanyan, you had eggs in the morning, so mom will make you steamed tofu soup at noon."

"it is good!"

Lin Yan carried the box into the room, and then arranged for Yan Yan to sit in a corner of the kitchen and watch her cook.

Don't be in a hurry, take your time, since both mother and daughter have been there before.

Fang Mingche searched for seven days but still couldn't find a room for rent.

He can only prepare to expand the scope.

But before that, there is one more thing to do.

He sent the money that his cousin had sent to the hotel. Ah Yan told him the time when the postman came to deliver things, and he would wait at the door. There was a specific amount on the remittance slip, and the postman couldn't help but look at him twice.

1900! This is not a small amount of money.

At present, if someone is willing to sell his room, it is enough to buy a single room of 13 or 14 square meters.

However, Fang Mingche is definitely not in a hurry to buy a house.

Even if the price rises to RMB 200,000 per square meter in the future, that will be forty years later.

He had to use the 1900 as capital to set up a tea stall.

But compared to now, setting up a tea stall is probably much easier than renting a house.

Fang Mingche said casually: "On a business trip, using the company's public funds."

Don't want to be too conspicuous.

Today, Yanyan followed Fang Mingche. Ah Yan was notified by the street office to attend a meeting.

About arranging jobs for educated youth returning to the city.

Therefore, Fang Mingche could only wait for her to come back from the meeting, and then take his household registration book and the new passbook he opened a few days ago to the bank to deposit the money.

When Lin Yan entered the room of the guesthouse and saw the amount of 1900, she was stunned.

She thought that Fang Mingche had brought goods twice, so the money must be more than 300.

What kind of cargo is this? In just two trips, 300 has become 1900?
"Didn't you give our dad the money from selling your job?" That was still too much.

“Yes.”

Many people came and went in this room this week, but Fang Mingche was the only one who stayed here the whole time.

There was no one here again. The two people from the morning had left, and the people from the afternoon hadn't moved in yet.

"Then why are there so many?"

Fang Mingche touched his nose and said, "I borrowed 700 from my cousin."

Lin Yan raised her hand and hit his arm. "If something happens, how long do you want to pay for it? Don't do such risky things again."

"Didn't I promise you that day? Let's go to the post office to withdraw the money first, and then deposit it directly into the bank."

Not far away, the two men walked over with their daughter in their arms.

"Aren't you going to ask me about my meeting?"

"It must be that the state-owned factories and mines cannot arrange it, so let everyone find a solution on their own. Don't wait and rely on others, and reduce the burden on the organization."

Lin Yan nodded, "You're right. They also said that the Street Office will continue to find ways for us. If they really can't arrange anything, they will find a way to open a collective unit to accommodate us."

Nowadays, there is a chain of contempt for jobs, and workers in state-owned enterprises are definitely better than those in collective enterprises.

Workers in collective enterprises will definitely be inferior to workers in state-owned enterprises in the marriage market in the future.

Of course, it’s definitely better than setting up stalls on the street.

Over the years, the street office has also taken on some work for residents in its jurisdiction, such as sewing buttons and pasting matchboxes.

None of this makes any money.

Therefore, everyone is not very optimistic about collective units.

Fang Mingche was a little anxious. Soon the higher-ups would assign people to resettle all the educated youth who had returned to the city.

In the previous life, the street office had stalls making clothes, repairing shoes, and repairing cars, which were collective in nature.

Of course, I also ran a big bowl tea stall.

By then, the competition will be fierce. But he is not afraid of competition, but he is afraid that he will not be able to find a house and will not have the opportunity to participate in the competition.

At this moment, the higher-ups have not yet assigned any tasks, and have not linked the work of the educated youth who have returned to the city with their treatment and honors.

So the street office has not yet become active.

Lin Yan said, "Some of the educated youth who returned to the city with us have been pulling carts to deliver honeycomb briquettes to people. They would buy briquettes from other people's homes with supply tickets, and then deliver them to people's homes. For every 100 yuan of honeycomb briquettes, they could earn one yuan as errand fee. Dual-income families who were too busy to handle the work accepted this service. I heard that on a good day, they could earn one or two yuan. However, their bodies and faces were all a little black."

(End of this chapter)