The Eldest Sister is Like a Stepmother [60’s]

When they reached the bank of the reservoir, Lin Yiyi saw a group of children playing with water and mud. Lin Yiyi shouted: “The army, the third army, the fourth army… come back to me.” You must know how dirty the sewage is after this drought.

When the younger brother of the Lin family heard it, he didn’t care about playing anymore, and hurried to find his elder sister. Before they knew it, their trust in their sister had not changed, but they were more in awe.

Lin Yiyi was standing on the shore waiting, when suddenly, she saw something moving in the water plants by the reservoir. Lin Yiyi took a few steps back and suddenly felt dull, couldn’t it be a snake? However, before she could run away, the thing jumped out and blinded Lin Yiyi’s eyes. It was a grass carp weighing seven or eight pounds.

Lin Yiyi’s mouth widened in surprise. She suddenly remembered that when she came out of Mrs. Ge’s house, she had asked God not to let her run into wild boars, pheasants, eggs and fish were all fine, now… here comes the fish. So… is this really the heroine’s luck? The so-called heroine’s luck, can you get what you want?

Lin Yiyi didn’t know, but she walked to the haystack, guarding the fish, waiting for Lin Dajun and the others to come.

“Sister…” Lin Dajun came quickly with his two younger brothers.

Lin Yiyi: “Shh… army, look.” Lin Yiyi pointed to the fish.

Lin Dajun hurriedly covered his mouth: “Sister, where did you get this fish?” His fingertips leaked out, and he asked in a low voice.

Lin Yiyi: “I picked it up on the shore.”

Lin Sijun: “Sister, you are too powerful. You can pick up pheasants, wild eggs, and fish.”

Li Dajun licked his lips: “Sister, how do we eat this fish?”

Lin Yiyi thought for a while and said, “Bring this fish back to Grandma Ge’s house to keep it. Tomorrow, my sister will go to the county town to see the house. If you are optimistic, you will live in the county town. Then you will bring the fish to the county town to support your sister. Sister will make fish soup for you.”

When Lin Dajun heard it, he could not only save face for his sister, but also make fish soup for himself, and thought it was perfect. It’s just that he was curious about one more thing: “Sister, are you going to move to the county seat? What about us?” ?

Lin Yiyi said: “When my sister is familiar with the county, in a few years, you will graduate from junior high school and go to the county to study in high school. Can’t you be with my sister? My sister moved to the county because of your brother-in-law’s work, so I can’t pick you up. Otherwise, the Xiao family will have to follow. If this happens, maybe the Xiao family will be angry and not even let the elder sister follow. How does the elder sister know the county town? How can she save face for you?”

In this era, there is a sister in the county, but it is a very face-to-face thing.

Lin Dajun: “Listen to my sister.” They didn’t expect to go to the county seat, and they didn’t dare to be presumptuous in front of the Xiao family.

Lin Yiyi: “But you can come to the county every week, and my sister will cook you delicious food. But in order to stop your brother-in-law’s mouth, and to stop the Xiao family’s mouth, you can’t come empty-handed.”

Lin Dajun: “Then what do we bring? Dried shrimp?”

Lin Yiyi: “Firewood. Coal is burned in the county town, but the amount of coal is limited, and money is also required. When you come to see my sister in the county town, bring some firewood. You are young, and you will not dislike bringing some firewood. Say you are sensible.” In this era, piped gas was not popular, especially in remote counties, where there was no piped gas, so all mediums were burned and stoves were used. But there are also firewood, because firewood is cheaper than coal. Therefore, some farmers will carry firewood to the county town to sell.

When Lin Dajun heard it, he must have no problem sending firewood. The most important thing on the mountain is firewood.

night

When Xiao Yu came back from get off work, he told everyone about the Public Security Bureau Staff Family Home: “Tomorrow, I will go to see the house one by one, and clean it up by the way. Once it is sorted, I will live there with me one by one.”

What Xiao Yu said was not sudden. On the first day he came back, he told his family about returning from a career change, so he got married and took Lin Yiyi to the county seat, which was something everyone could think of.

Just didn’t expect things to go so fast.

The elders of Xiao’s parents are relieved. Their son (grandson) has a promising future and can go to the county seat. How could they be unhappy? But the same generation is different. Even brothers, they will be jealous. After all, there are very few people in this world who are dedicated to everyone and regardless of their family. If there are, then this person is not normal.

Qi Spinach said sourly: “Second brother and sister are really lucky, just married, and will follow the second brother to the county town to enjoy happiness.”

Lin Yiyi said with a smile: “When I was a child, my mother said that I was a lucky man and a prosperous man. I still don’t believe it. When my sister-in-law said this today, I think I might really be a prosperous man. , and then saw the wild boar, Brother Yu, do you think I belong to Wangfu?”

Jin-Woo: “…Um.”

When it comes to Lin Yiyi’s prosperous husband or her good life, Grandma Xiao and Qin Xiangju believe the most. If Lin Yiyi is not fortunate, they will not ask her to get engaged to Xiao Yu.

So grandma Xiao said: “I believe that you can prosper Xiaoyuer. Your mother said that you are a prosperous husband, and you must be a prosperous husband.” Zhang, the blind man of the year, said, one by one, this girl matches her grandson , Look now, Grandma Xiao feels that this girl really has a prosperous husband’s life, and she is prospering her grandson anyway.

Thinking of this, Grandma Xiao became happier the more she thought about it. Who doesn’t want to marry a granddaughter-in-law to prosper her grandson, so she must live with Xiaoyuer one by one.

It’s not just Grandma Xiao who thinks this way, but also Qin Xianglian: “I will see the house tomorrow, and my mother will help you when it’s time to clean up. It’s better to go with you one by one. I’ll be relieved when one is here.” Wangfu’s daughter-in-law followed his son, and there was nothing wrong.

Qi Spinach: “…” This Lin Yiyi is thick-skinned and said that he is a prosperous husband, why did grandma and mother-in-law believe it?

Qi Spinach doesn’t know what happened between Jin Yu, Da Ya, and Blind Zhang. Even Xiao Wu and Xiao Bin didn’t know much about it. They remembered things at that time, but who remembers this kind of thing? Anyway, Jin-Woo suddenly mentioned a 1-year-old daughter-in-law that they were envious of at the time.

Qi Spinach: “Mother, what kind of prosperity do you really believe in? It’s a new society now, and feudal superstition is unacceptable.”

Qin Xiangju: “What kind of feudal superstition, I will say that my daughter-in-law is a blessed girl, a lucky girl, how can this be feudal superstition? What kind of feudal superstition is this? Ah?” Qin Xiangju would not admit that this is feudalism For those who are superstitious, her daughter-in-law is her son, and she has no doubts about this.

Grandma Xiao: “Okay, let’s not talk about this. Every day, I have to be noisy, and I have no filial piety.”

Qi Spinach snorted, the Xiao family was bullying her.

Qi Spinach doesn’t know, she can say that Lin Yiyi is not good, but she can’t say that Lin Yiyi is not lucky, and women are not lucky, won’t this affect her man? So Grandma Xiao and Qin Xiangju would not admit that Lin Yiyi was unlucky. After Lin Yiyi and Xiao Yu got engaged, Xiao Yu’s illness was cured, so they were fascinated by Lin Yiyi’s good fortune. However, I didn’t think of good luck or bad luck before, and there was no such thing at that time. Now my daughter-in-law says that she is a prosperous husband, and they are suddenly enlightened.

Yes, my daughter-in-law (grandson-in-law) is prosperous, so my son’s (grandson’s) illness will heal so quickly.

If Qi Spinach knew that because of the topic she brought up, Grandma Xiao and Qin Xiangju decided that Lin Yiyi was a Wangfu in their hearts, she would definitely be angry.

Lin Yiyi was also a little surprised. She didn’t expect Grandma Xiao and Qin Xiangju to believe so much about her husband. She was originally sour and sour with spinach. As a result… Lin Yiyi looked at Xiao Yu.

The corners of Jin Yu’s mouth rose: “Well, one by one prosperous husband.”

Lin Yiyi: “…”

Going to bed at night, Lin Yiyi lay in Jin Yu’s arms: “Are grandma and mother superstitious? Comrade Jin Yu, you are a revolutionary comrade, you can’t be superstitious.” When the time comes, it’s not prosperous?

Jin Yu: “…you are Wangfu’s in the hearts of grandma and mother.”

Lin Yiyi: “Why?”

Jin-Woo: “Did your mother-in-law tell you why we got married?”

Lin Yiyi shook her head: “No.” However, she knew that after reading the novel, could it be said?

Xiao Yu said: “I had a disease when I was eight years old, and I could hardly survive it. Grandma and mother found Zhang, the blind man. The blind man Zhang was a blind fortune-teller and was somewhat famous at the time…” Xiao Yu explained what happened. Said it again, “After we got engaged, my illness was inexplicably cured, so in the hearts of grandma and mother, you are my noble person.”

It was only then that Lin Yiyi realized this, so Grandma Xiao and Qin Xiangju treated them well, and there was a reason for that.

While Lin Yiyi was contemplating, Jin Yu’s head gradually approached her, his eyes were rolling with desire, then he opened his mouth and called to her lips, continuing the exciting kiss that he learned only yesterday.

The next day, Lin Yiyi and Xiao Yu went to the county town to see the house. She took the fifth brother Lin to the younger brother of the Lin family. Anyway, Qi Spinach was in the Xiao family, so she was not at ease. That person had no sense and said she would bully the children. Lin Yiyi would not doubt, or the younger brothers of the Lin family could rest assured that they would not bully fifth brother Lin.

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Although it is said to be a staff house, this area is not only for the employees of the Public Security Bureau, but also for employees of other units. There are few people in the Public Security Bureau, and this area is not small, so of course, when building the workers’ house, it was done together with other units, which also saved a lot of money.

Xiao Yu had the key to the house in his hand, so he took Lin Yiyi directly over.

Lin Yiyi has been here before. There are cheese towers and small courtyards for single-family homes. Those with the identity of the former director of the Public Security Bureau must be independent courtyards.

The environment in the small yard is very good, and flowers and plants are still planted, but the flowers and plants have withered. The doors and windows of the yard are quite new. It can be seen that when the former director’s family lived, they were painted with paint. The wood of the windows here is army green paint, and then the left and right windows have three pieces of glass each, a total of six pieces of glass, and they are also equipped with curtains. The door is black lacquered and looks very solid.

There are four rooms in the small courtyard, but unlike the rural ones, there is no main room.

From left to right, the four rooms are side by side. The left side is the kitchen and the place to eat, and the innermost is the stove, which is the type with two stoves and two iron pots. Next to the stove is a large tile jar, and the tile ridge is covered with two wooden boards. In addition to the pot, there is a table, four stools, and a kitchen cabinet. It is estimated that people can’t move these things away, so they all stay.

In fact, it is not. Even if some things cannot be taken away, the iron pot is different.

When the former director asked Yang Tai to handle these things, Yang Tai also had the idea of ​​iron pans, beds, tables and chairs, etc. Yang Tai, the deputy director of the county public security bureau, disliked it, but the iron pan was different. It’s just that when he knew that the series of changes in the Public Security Bureau was for Jin Yu’s airborne, he didn’t make this idea. He wanted the iron pot for his relatives in his hometown, not for the sake of making money. An iron pot cost 30 yuan. He bought it from the former director and then resold it? How could Yang Tai like this kind of business?

So he really wanted to give it to relatives in his hometown, not to make money.

However, relatives are only relatives, so how can their own interpersonal communication be important. Yang Tai also wants to have a good relationship with Xiao Yu. Although Xiao Yu was born in the countryside here, it is different after graduation from military academy.

The front door and windows of the kitchen face the front yard, but the kitchen also has a back door, right next to the stove. There is a small room at the back door, which is a toilet, about 2 square meters. The environment of the toilet is considered good. After it is installed, you need to flush the feces into the **** well with water. This toilet is similar to the public toilet with partitions in the middle of the 1980s, but that public toilet does not need to be flushed by itself. It has a water tank. As long as you pull it with your hand, the water tank will discharge water and flush the feces into the manure well. Now, obviously there is no such condition.

But Lin Yiyi felt that this was already very beautiful.

At this time, there were no public toilets in the worker’s courtyard, all were household toilets, that is, in a residential courtyard, there was one toilet per household. The small yards here are built uniformly, so the toilets of each household are in the same location.

At the same time, there are three rooms outside the kitchen, two of which are bedrooms and the other is a utility room. Of course, the other one is also a bedroom, but from an environmental point of view, the former public security chief’s house was used as a utility room, and there were seven or eight things piled up.

There was some firewood, broken stools in the utility room, and black soot in the corners, which should have been free of coal.

The other two had beds, both wooden beds, with desks and cabinets, and one of them had bunk beds.

Lin Yiyi: “Isn’t this family’s stuff moved?”

Xiao Yu: “The former director was transferred to the city, he couldn’t move these things, and he didn’t deal with them for a while, so the key was given to the current director Yang Tai, asking him to help deal with it, probably because he didn’t want to sell it at a loss.” , cabinets, tables, are painstakingly custom-made, you can see. “So we moved in and bought stuff?”

Lin Yiyi: “Well, it saves us a lot of trouble, and I think the materials used for these things are not bad.”

Jin Yu: “It’s not bad, is there anything else to do for the house?”

Lin Yiyi: “There are two places.”

Jin-Woo: “Which two?”

Lin Yiyi: “One is the toilet and the other is the bathroom. I have an idea, you have to do it.”

Jin-Woo: “What’s your idea?”

Lin Yiyi took out a pen and paper from the liberation bag she was carrying, and drew a picture: “Look at Yu, how about we install this in the toilet? This is hollow bamboo, with a water tank on top of it. After going to the toilet, pour the water into the water tank, and then the water in the water tank will flow down with the hollow bamboo, and the water will not splash, and the feces can be washed away directly.” If you use water yourself, the water will definitely splash, a little dirty.

Jin Yu was a little surprised: “This method is good, how did you think of it?”

Lin Yiyi said in a proud tone: “I’m smart.”

Jin Yu couldn’t help but let out a deep laugh: “Well, you’re smart.” He didn’t think much of it.

Lin Yiyi: “What about the bathroom? What should I do?”

Jin Yu said, “There should be a bathroom in the utility room.”

The area of ​​this kind of single-family yard is not small, especially the area of ​​each room is quite large, which is much larger than that of the modern commercial houses with several rooms and several halls. Now the houses are separated by apartment types, but the area is actually quite small.

Lin Yiyi: “That’s perfect, nothing is missing.”

After the house was settled, the two went back to Xiao’s house, only Grandma Xiao was in Xiao’s house. When Grandma Xiao heard that Xiao Yu and the others were moving today, she was surprised: “Moving so soon? Don’t wait for your mother and the others to come back?”

Xiao Yu said: “There is nothing missing in it, we only need to bring small things over there. I have to go to work tomorrow, it is not convenient to move, and it will be delayed until next week.”

Lin Yiyi: “There are three rooms over there. Grandma misses us. You can come and stay at any time. We reserved a room for grandma.”

Grandma Xiao smiled: “Ah, I still have the fortune to live in the county?”

Lin Yiyi: “Why not? When we buy a house in the county town, grandma’s hukou can also be moved to the county town, then grandma will become the old lady in the county town.” But in fact, this is not acceptable. Otherwise, anyone can move, isn’t it all for commodity grain? So Lin Yiyi’s words were just to coax Grandma Xiao.

Of course, not everyone is willing to go for commodity grain. Commodity grain needs money, and there is no money and no grain. But in rural areas, as long as you work and earn work points, you will have food. Even if some people envy eating commercial food, it is not the food that they envy, but the job.

In the afternoon, Lin Yiyi and Xiao Yu packed up and hired the bullock cart from the brigade to go to the county seat. The brothers of the Lin family sent them to the gate of the village, and reluctantly watched the bullock cart go away. They also wanted to go to the county seat.

But my sister said, let them come with the Xiao family tomorrow and bring the fish.

Although it is said to only pack luggage, there are actually a lot of things on the bullock cart, such as Lin Yiyi brought the dowry cabinet, and the bucket of soybeans, as well as the food of the Lin family’s younger brothers, the food that Xiao Yu exchanged for wild boar, etc. .

She brought it like this, it’s actually nothing, after all, they are moving, and maybe they will go back to Xiao’s house, but the meaning is different.

It was only two o’clock in the afternoon when he arrived at the county seat. Lin Yiyi cleaned up, and Jin Yu started to make a water pipe and water tank for the toilet. The water pipe is made of hollow bamboo, and the water tank is made of wooden boards. Five wooden boards can be used to make a water tank. However, the ring can be smaller than the bamboo ring, so that the hollow bamboo can drag the water tank, and finally fix the bamboo and the water tank to the wall. Seemingly simple work, in fact, it takes some time to do more detailed work.

However, the house has not been occupied for two months, and the smell in the toilet has long since dissipated after two months, so when Jin-Woo made the water pipe and water tank, the smell was not bad.

Lin Yiyi cleaned up and took Lin Wudi to watch at the door of the toilet: “Brother Yu, your workmanship is very good.”

Jin Yu: “Just be careful.” In fact, he doesn’t really have any craftsmanship, but his hands-on ability is not bad.

Lin Yiyi: “My brother Yu is the best in the world.” It sounds like he doesn’t want money. However, good words for not wanting money are not worth it at all.

Jin-Woo knows her temperament, but is always happy to be praised. “very good mood?”

Lin Yiyi: “Of course.” Thinking that she won’t have to face the spinach in the future, and no one will rob her of anything she eats, she is really happy, “Let’s cook white porridge at night.” Real white porridge, not just a few grains Rice soup. Cooked with rice that was previously exchanged for wild boar. Mung beans and soybeans, she was reluctant to cook them. One catty of soybeans can produce 8-10 catties of soybean sprouts, and one catty of mung beans can produce 10-13 catties of bean sprouts, but it is much more cost-effective than eating mung beans and soybeans alone. As for red beans, she didn’t know how to make red beans, so she used them directly to cook porridge.

Jin-Woo: “It’s up to you to decide.”

Lin Yiyi took half a catty of rice to cook porridge, and also added dried shrimp. I have to say that the taste of shrimp porridge is really good, and it feels similar to pork rib porridge.

Lin Yiyi ate two bowls by herself, and Jin Yu ate the rest.

In fact, living in the county town, apart from the toilet, Lin Yiyi is most satisfied with the electric light. Especially now, lying on the bed, looking at the warm yellow light, although it is not as bright as the energy-saving lamps of later generations, and the current light bulb is more yellow, but this is an electric light, and countless kerosene lamps are added together. Than.

Jin Yu: “Tomorrow, I’m going to pick up this month’s commodity grains. Grandma and the others are here to entertain them and leave them for lunch. I’ll call for lunch from the canteen of the Public Security Bureau. But now is a special period, and the commodity grains have been reduced by two. Success.” Then, Xiao Yu introduced the treatment of urban household registration in detail, “According to my job, the monthly quota of grain is 30 catties, 40% of which is flour, which is 12 catties, 5 catties is rice, and the rest is coarse grains, 13 catties. , but now the monthly ration is only 24 kilograms. Oil is half a catty per month, cloth is 2 feet per year, soap is one piece per household per month, meat is 2 pounds per month per household, and eggs are per month per household per purchase book. Supply half a catty, coal and firewood will supply 100 catties of coal per household per month based on the purchase book…”

After listening to Jin Yu explain the matter in detail, Lin Yiyi’s expression is like this _(3)∠)_: “Do you have coal and firewood too?”

Jin-Woo: “Yes.”

Lin Yiyi: “…” She also asked Lin Dajun and the others to take her from the countryside when they came to see her, which was a shame.

Jin-Woo: “What’s wrong?”