Having agreed to partner with Xia Xiaolan, she flew to Shangdu with all her heart.
Since grandma's house doesn't want new tenants, Xia Xiaolan will definitely find a house for her uncle's family of three. Hu Yongcai's wife was very familiar with this matter.
"Don't be too far away, bungalows and buildings don't matter."
Hu Yongcai's wife was very impressed, "Are you all going to move to the city?"
Xia Xiaolan nodded modestly: "It's hard to live in the countryside, but it's easier to make a living in Shangdu."
Liu Yong and Xia Xiaolan each have money in their hands, otherwise, who would dare to leave the family land behind and drag their families into the city? Life in the city is not like that in the countryside where you can produce and sell your own food. You have to spend money to buy everything, and it won¡¯t take long to sit and eat, so you can only force people in the city to work hard to make money.
The term "migrant workers" is not yet popular, and a very small number of migrant workers go to the south. Most of the self-employed in the commercial capital are urban residents. Xia Xiaolan and Liu Yong were the first batch of farmers who went to the city to make a living in the 1980s.
Hu Yongcai's wife is very envious of the courage of Xia Xiaolan's family. These days, there are not many farmers who leave their fields behind and go to the city to seek a living.
The self-employed earn a lot of money, and I have never seen a worker lose his job to set up a stall.
What a shame to be self-employed. Besides, there is a risk of losing money in the wind and rain. Those who get wages can guarantee their income in drought and flood, and their lives are stable and nourishing. Some units don¡¯t have much salary, and the benefits are good! Food and necessities are distributed, from housing to the children at home go to school, and children¡¯s schools can go from kindergarten to high school The workers in the unit have a good life, and people have been raised and disabled. Later, there was a wave of layoffs, and the old iron rice bowl also To start from scratch.
It is more sad to start from a small stall and a hawker in middle age than to take the initiative to make a living like Liu Yong.
Of course, Hu Yongcai's wife can't see that far yet. She praised her a few words, asking her to give up her stable job and become self-employed?
? Hold on when you are full!
The last room that Liu Yong showed was not far from Grandma Yu¡¯s house, it was a suite in a building, and it belonged to the dormitory of Shangdu Railway Bureau.
Everyone lacks a house to live in, and those who can still rent out the house must be someone with their own connections. The house was visited by Xia Xiaolan. The bathroom is shared on the same floor, the kitchen is independent, and the room has a small living room. It is not considered a one-bedroom and one living room. The standard "one and a half" The house layout in the 1980s and later generations Commercial real estate is completely different. In the 1980s, the house type had a small living room and a large room. The living room was just a place to eat.
The rent of the house is only 15 yuan a month, and the owner is too lazy to come to the house every month to collect the payment, hoping to receive a year's rent.
Xia Xiaolan still wants to look for it again, but there is only one room, and it is inconvenient for her uncle's family of three to live.
Li Fengmei was very satisfied, "Just put a small bed in the living room!"
Hu Yongcai's wife was also surprised, "Don't they all live together, and sleep in the big room with the curtain drawn. Your family is still a boy."
Whoever doesn't live together, the commercial capitals have better housing. In places like Beijing and Shanghai, there are families who live in one room, and men, women and children, all sleep in Datong bunks.
Besides, there are so many houses that it is hard to find right now, and even in units like the Railway Bureau, young people can be allocated dormitories when they enter, so that they can have vacant houses for rent If you don¡¯t start quickly, the rent of 15 yuan a month is not cheap, but There are always housing-strapped families who want it.
Taotao was in a hurry to settle the matter of borrowing and reading, thanks to Zhou Cheng's "Cai Die" cigarettes, this thing is very face-saving as a gift, Hu Yongcai took the lead, Liu Yong sent a few cigarettes, and treated guests to dinner at the state-run restaurant , I completed the borrowing procedure at a nearby primary school.
What's wrong with rural household registration, rural people are not allowed to have money?
Li Fengmei also raised two pigs, and asked the village butcher to slaughter them. Everyone in Qijing Village thought it was rare:
"Before Chinese New Year, Yongzi's family killed a pig?"
"The two pigs in his family are not less fed with oil residue, and they are also very fat when they are slaughtered ahead of time. They are all over 180 catties, right?"
"It's a pity, I have to feed it for another two months, and it will weigh 200 catties!"
200-jin big fat pigs are not common. Pigs that don¡¯t eat feed grow slowly. Only 200-jin pigs can grow fat three fingers thick. Whose housewife in charge of the stove can buy such a piece of meat, but she has to be proud It's been a long time.
With the help of a few villagers, they tied the pig's four feet, lifted it to a long bench and pressed it firmly. The experienced butcher stabbed the pig's neck with a knife, and the white knife entered the red knife. Clean water and salt are put in the basin, and the hot pig's blood is sprayed into the basin, and it will slowly condense into a prosperous pig's blood.
Fresh pig blood is a good thing, and the north is used to pouring blood.?Stewed with sauerkraut, the famous way to eat it in Sichuan is fat intestines and blood, and here in Anqing it is fried with shallots.
Wait until the blood of the pig is drained before scalding the skin with hot water and shaving.
With his helpers, the butcher quickly picked up a pig. Liu's pigs weighed less than two hundred catties, and they were not too far away.
The red meat, the white fat, the people who watched the excitement couldn't help drooling.
"Do you sell meat from Yongzi's family?"
They are all from the same village, and it is impossible for Liu Yong to sell everyone a high price. It is rare to see oily meat on the dinner table, so he cut two catties of meat and went home to satisfy his hunger.
"Sell, why not sell!"
Liu Yong wanted to sell the two pigs whole, but Li Fengmei said it was not worth it, and the family wanted to keep some meat for themselves. Then slaughter the two pigs, give away the leftovers that should be given away, sell the excess meat, and try to maximize the value of the two big fat pigs that have been fed so hard.
After killing the pig, the people in Qijing Village knew that Liu Yong was going to move to the city with his wife and children.
"It's all for that bastard at home to go to school!"
Liu Yong explained it in this way, and the villagers were skeptical.
Did you make a fortune?
The family's fields were ignored, and they were directly entrusted to other families to plant.
Liu Yong really didn't get rich, but Liu Yong is looking forward to getting rich. If he doesn't leave the backward place, how can he get rich!
After the pigs and poultry at home were processed, Liu Yong's family of three took some pork and luggage to Shangdu to move. On the day Liu Yong left, Chen Wanda's eldest daughter-in-law was really worried:
"The Liu family is also floating too much!"
? If you earn some money, no one will ask you to borrow it. As for moving to the provincial capital?
It's easy to rent a house, and you don't need money to buy it like that in the city. When it comes time to pay the public rations and withdraw money next year, I don't know if the Liu family can take it out.
"Chen Qing's father said that he would divide the land for Liu Fen's mother and daughter. They have all moved to the provincial capital. Do you still care about this land?"
Boss Chen was impatient, "Why do you care so much, you took our dad down and became the village head yourself?"
Aunt Chen rolled her eyes.
When she loves to worry, isn't she also pulling things for the family? It was said that Liu Yong's family had made a lot of money. When Mrs. Chen thought of the telegram as thick as a letter and Xia Xiaolan's letter of introduction to Yangcheng, she suspected that Xia Xiaolan had found a good partner. It's not Liu Yong who is rich, it may be Xia Xiaolan, who attained enlightenment and ascended to heaven alone, even her uncle's family was supported.
I hate the little boy of the Liu family who is not easy to coax. He ate a lot of fruit candy. When he asked his cousin what he was doing in Yangcheng, he didn't know what to do.
Bah, the ability to play dumb is a family tradition.
In the past, Auntie Chen was mostly kind to the Liu family and to Xia Xiaolan's mother and daughter, but she slowly changed her attitude at some point¡ªmaybe because she was the village chief's daughter-in-law at first, and Chen Qing's conditions were very outstanding in the neighborhood, and she was condescending to Chen Qing. Qing pick the object. Only when people are in an advantageous position can they have sympathy and compassion. In a blink of an eye, Xia Xiaolan was so pitiful that she didn't need help from others, and she was even better than Chen Qing. Aunt Chen's pity was out of balance.
When Liu Yong went to the city with his wife and belts, Zhou Cheng, who was far away in the capital, really reported.
When he arrived in the capital, he even asked Kang Wei to handle the goods, so he sent a telegram to Xia Xiaolan himself, and he was recalled to the army.
"Yo, our Major Zhou is finally willing to come back."