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

Chapter 32 My Father Doesn’t Allow
The Lin family of four said goodbye after dinner.

Lin's father also asked Lin Yi to ride the tricycle away, saying that he would ride it back and return it to Lao Wei.

Fang Mingche thought that this was an attempt to cut off his chance of setting up a tea stall.

He must be setting up a stall on a cart now. The cart is both a means of transportation and a stall.

Fortunately, he had asked A Yan about his father-in-law's attitude towards their stall early in the morning, and gave up the idea of renting a car from the Wei family.

I also successfully bought the bills on the black market in the afternoon.

Don't mention it, BJ is different from other small places. The black market where my cousin works doesn't have such a rich variety of bills.

Common items such as food coupons and postage stamps are not difficult to find.

It is not easy to exchange the tricycle ticket. The ticket for the tricycle must be a bicycle ticket.

Yanyan was surprised as she waved goodbye to her grandma, grandpa and uncle, "Dad, why is mom gone too?"

Fang Mingche said, "Mom is your mother during the day, and goes back to be your grandma and grandpa's daughter at night."

Yanyan was still confused, but her father took her to the kitchen and she didn't ask any more questions.

Fang Mingche placed her on a clean chopping board, with her back against the wall. This way, her short legs were all on the board, with only her feet hanging in the air.

"Don't move, be careful not to fall. Otherwise, I'll put you on the ground?"

"I won't move." Yan Yan quickly assured. She could see clearly what her father was doing from a higher position.

Fang Mingche knew that she would not say one thing and do another, so he started to boil water and wash the dishes and pots.

The father-in-law refused to let Ayan stay to help, which means she has completely regressed to the position of being a guest.

After cleaning up, he wiped his hands and touched the boiling water in the tin pot.

It’s hot!

"Okay, brush your teeth, wash your face, and then soak your feet."

After placing his daughter on a small stool to soak her feet, Fang Mingche filled the bottle of saline for her.

It's very warm to sleep like this.

Lin Yan took her mother home on a bicycle. Lin Yi took his father to the doorstep and then went to Wei's house to return the tricycle.

When he left, Fang Mingche asked him to bring a bag of rock sugar to the Wei family as a thank you gift for spending a day there.

Lin Yan said: "Remember to give the rock sugar to Aunt Wei."

Otherwise, this guy might get hacked in the middle.

Lin Yi said, "I understand."

Father Lin said to Lin Yan: "Come in with me."

Lin Yan followed him in, and he said directly, "I don't agree with you setting up a stall in the square. Either take over my job, or wait for the street office to assign you a job. In the end, this matter must be implemented by the street office, they can't avoid it."

The slight delay now is just to allow those who have connections to solve part of the problem themselves first.

Lin Yan said: "Dad, I know you are thinking about me. But we can't just share the good times and not the bad times."

“It’s not okay to set up a stall!”

"Dad, you said that we would remarry when Mingche was admitted to university. But what if he passed and I didn't? His education level is higher than mine."

Father Lin said, "Didn't he fail the exam the first two times?"

"He was just perfunctory before. I guess he knew I couldn't get into a good school in BJ. After all, I went to the countryside after finishing junior high school and didn't touch a book for seven years."

Father Lin said, "Isn't your love stronger than gold? Then what are you afraid of?"

"He didn't meet many women before. And in the countryside, girls are not allowed to go to school. They only study for one or two years, and learn a few words and don't act blind. At that time, it was rare to see girls who graduated from junior high school around him. But now that he has come to BJ, if he gets admitted to university in the future, he will have the opportunity to meet female college students. If I wait for him to get admitted to university and then pick the fruits, the fruits may not be mine."

Mother Lin asked, "Isn't there still Yanyan?"

"I abandoned my husband and daughter to return to the city. It makes sense that he didn't want to remarry me after he got into college."

After much persuasion, Lin's father said, "You should also prepare for the college entrance examination. Your mother will retire soon, so you won't have to do housework in the future. If the street office doesn't arrange a job for you, just focus on your studies. But you must not set up a stall! We would rather not take advantage of his admission to college than let you follow him to set up a tea stall."

How can he study well if he is obsessed with making money all the time?

Now that you have prepared the money, you should focus on reviewing.

Fang Mingche soaked his daughter's feet in his new home, then carried her to the bed and took off her coat and trousers.

"Dad is going to get some water. You just stay in bed and don't move. You'll run away if you get too hot!" "Oh."

Fang Mingche came back with the water, took the college entrance examination papers from the previous two years from the desk, and sat on the bed to read through them.

He sat sideways, just in time to block the light, so as not to disturb Yanyan's sleep.

There was a bottle of hot saline wrapped in a pillowcase at Yanyan's feet, and she fell asleep right behind her father, feeling safe.

After watching for more than an hour, Fang Mingche felt sleepy.

I turned on the light directly on the bed and fell asleep holding my already warm daughter.

The next morning, Yanyan woke up and pushed her father, "Pee——"

Fang Mingche quickly got up and put on his military coat. He then wrapped his daughter in a thick cotton jacket and let her relieve herself in the wooden toilet.

There is no way, nowadays bungalows don't have toilets. If you want to use the toilet, you have to go to the public toilet.

Not to mention residential buildings, the Forbidden City did not have toilets before, and people relied on toilets. It was only after the reconstruction that toilets were installed.

This is really worse than the countryside!
In order to collect farm manure, every household in rural areas has its own toilet.

Just to flush the toilet less, he has to work harder so that he can buy a house in the future.

The building was built later and already had a toilet.

As for buying a courtyard house while the price is low, that is not within my current ability.

In later times, people would talk about courtyard houses that cost ten thousand yuan each, but those were all located far away from the city.

Here, two kilometers away from Tiananmen Square, it is impossible.

Set a small goal first: buy a house first.

Then let’s talk about the courtyard house.

After finishing all the morning chores, Fang Mingche washed his hands and made steamed eggs for his daughter.

Yanyan said, "Meat." She saw her father making crispy pork yesterday.

Fang Mingche said: "You are quite good at eating."

I took out the crispy fritters I had made yesterday from the cupboard and scooped a little of it onto the steamed egg.

The little bit of white fat melted as soon as it was put on.

When he cooked crispy shao, he put the white fat in a separate pot. There was only a little fat in the pot for the crispy shao.

Yanyan took a small spoon, sat aside and started eating the steamed egg.

Watching dad boil water and cook noodles.

"Would you like some noodles?"

"want!"

Fang Mingche picked some more green leaves, washed them and threw them into the pot.

This is quite a luxury in the winter. Vegetables shipped from other places are very expensive.

But he didn't want to compromise his words.

By the time he picked up the noodles, Yanyan had finished her small bowl of steamed egg.

She is not naughty at all when eating and is very active.

Fang Mingche washed the mini porcelain bowl for her, picked out some noodles, crispy pork and vegetables and gave them to her, and also shared some of the noodle soup with her.

"Eat this with a fork."

Yesterday, he saw small bowls, chopsticks, forks and spoons at the black market. He and Yan thought they were cute, so they bought a whole set for their daughter.

Fang Mingche put some chili peppers into the bowl and mixed them thoroughly before he started eating.

After eating and washing the dishes, he looked outside.

"Your mother hasn't shown up yet, so she must have been locked up by your grandfather.

　Dear readers, if you feel that Chapter 31 is repetitive, you can go back and read Chapter 30. Sorry, I changed it on the CodeWord app and forgot to copy and paste it here.

　　
　
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