Since 1979 I have been in the tide of the times

Chapter 4 Dispute II

When the meal was almost finished, Wang Weidong suddenly said: "Dad, I will look for a house tomorrow, and then I will move out with my grandma."

There was another complete silence in the room.

After a long time, Wang Haifu asked: "You don't even have a job now, how can you live outside renting a house?"

"Dad, don't worry about it, my brother is capable, and he will have a good life when he goes out!" Wang Jinjin said ironically.

"I have hands and feet and can support myself and my grandma." Wang Weidong replied.

When going to bed at night, Wang Weidong could only spread the mattress he brought back on the concrete floor.

"There is one more night, tomorrow will be relaxed!" Wang Xianjin said loudly on purpose.

Wang Weidong lay down and closed his eyes and said, "Remember, Wang Jinjin. From now on, you will not be my brother. You don't need to say hello when you see me! Also, grandpa's bicycle is left for me, and I will take it away tomorrow!"

Waking up the next morning, Wang Weidong packed his luggage and ran outside to find a house.

The 3 or [-] people who live here are from Xiangyang Chemical Factory, and they are very familiar with each other. It took Wang Weidong more than two hours to know a suitable house from an old lady.

"Old Sun's son has been admitted to college, and his daughter has been admitted to technical secondary school. Now the west room at home is vacant, and he said he wanted to rent it out a few days ago." The gray-haired old lady said to Wang Weidong.

Seeing that it was almost noon to get off work, Wang Weidong stood at the door and waited.

An hour and a half later, the hostess and hostess of the house returned home one after another.

To say that the most proud people in Xiangyang Chemical Factory are Sun Youcai and Xie Yulan, the male and female masters of the family. Their son was admitted to Dalian Institute of Technology in the second year of the national college entrance examination, and their daughter graduated from junior high school. Mushi Kindergarten Normal School.

Now wherever the couple went, they were greeted with envious eyes.

Both of them had a vague impression of Wang Weidong, and when Wang Weidong mentioned the names of his grandfather and father, both of them acted as if suddenly enlightened.

Sun Youcai stroked Wang Weidong's head and said: "The original Wang Haifu's second son has grown so tall! When he comes back, he will work hard! The current national policy is so good. Young people have a lot of opportunities! Serving as a soldier, taking over the job, and going to university, there are all roads. Way to Rome."

When Sun Youcai said the three words of taking the university entrance examination, he deliberately emphasized his tone, and the shaking glass buzzed.

"There is a kang in the Westinghouse. You and your grandma live in a good place. The cabinets and tables in the house are reserved for you. The pot connected to the kang in the Westinghouse is reserved for you to cook. The tap water is provided by the factory. It does not cost money. I will pay for the electricity. You alone Just four yuan a month." Sun Youcai continued.

Now electricity is used for lighting, and at most a radio can be added.

"Okay, uncle, I will give you money on a monthly basis in the future, and I will give you two months first." Wang Weidong nodded and said.

After the house was settled, Wang Weidong immediately went back to pack his things.

He used his bicycle to move all the pots, pans, pans and bedding from his grandfather's house here one after another. The last time he did not use a bicycle but carried his grandmother Huang Guiying on his back to bid farewell to the old ladies in the courtyard and turned around.

"Hey, this old lady dragged her grandson up with shit and urine, and the pain is finally not in vain." An old lady looked at the backs of Wang Weidong and Huang Guiying and said with emotion.

Almost none of the daughters-in-law and mother-in-law in everyone's family are like mothers and daughters. They have no tongues or teeth. It is very good to have a filial grandson.

When it was almost time for dinner, Wang Weidong took two big bowls to the state-run restaurant and bought four steamed buns and a plate of dried tofu with sharp peppers.

Wang Weidong said while eating with his grandmother: "Tomorrow I will borrow a small cart to buy half a ton of coal from the coal yard, and then go to the mountain to collect a few bundles of firewood. After that, I will cook. If you don't see it, stay away from the stove!"

At night, the grandparent and grandson were lying on the kang, and Huang Guiying stretched out her thin hands to touch her grandson's broad back, feeling very at ease in her heart.

"Your grandpa's old man died two years later! He is the deputy director of the workshop, and your work problem can be solved if he comes forward. But don't worry, I will go to the factory tomorrow to find those apprentices of your grandpa. They Quite a few of them have become section chiefs and division chiefs, and if you don’t mind my old face, I will solve your work, and it’s okay to work with a large group first.” Huang Guiying said.

"Don't worry about it, I'll take care of my own affairs!" Wang Weidong said.

"The director Shi in the factory gets off his bicycle and chats with me every time he sees me. He is very enthusiastic. His daughter is around your age and has polio—" Huang Guiying said to herself.

Wang Weidong couldn't help but turned over and sat up and said, "Grandma, don't talk about it anymore, and don't do things behind my back! I'll say it again, I will settle my own affairs!"

"You don't listen to advice just like that dead ghost of your grandfather!" Huang Guiying murmured.

Huang Guiying used to be a very strong woman. Wang Weidong's father, Wang Haifu, was introduced to Wang Weidong's mother, Li Yufeng. Li Yufeng finally got married.

Now that Huang Guiying is old, her husband is dead, and she has lost her eyesight. She can only live with her son, that is, in the hands of her daughter-in-law Li Yufeng.

Thanks to Wang Weidong, the precious grandson, who came back at this time.

After a while Wang Weidong said: "I want to go out and make a lot of money and get your eyes cured first!"

It doesn’t cost money to see a doctor in the factory hospital, but the doctors there can’t do complex operations like cataract removal. To do such an operation, you have to go to a big hospital in Harbin, which may cost a lot of money.

"I'm almost seventy, how many years can I live? What are you doing with that wronged money? If you have money, you have to save it, and I will marry you a wife in the future!" Huang Guiying said.

From the second day onwards, Wang Weidong was busy buying coal and firewood and dealing with household registration and grain books. It took him four or five days to finish it.

He has only saved more than 100 yuan in the life of an educated youth for more than two years, and now he has less than 100 yuan left.

When Wang Weidong got up early in the morning and made dinner with his grandma, he rode a bicycle and took a fishing rod to the river to fish.After tidying up the floats, putting on earthworms and throwing the hooks into the water, Wang Weidong smoked grape cigarettes and waited for the fish to take the bait.

A bicycle bell rang, and a bicycle rode quickly to the wooden bridge by the river, and saw someone fishing by the river. The cyclist got off the bicycle and walked to Wang Weidong, saying: "The fish in the river used to have old noses! Now 666 and DDT are used too much, and there are fewer fish in the river.”

Wang Weidong handed out a cigarette and asked, "Brother, don't you need to go to work?"

It is now [-], and there are still three or four years before the implementation of contract work in the Northeast, and farmers have to go to work collectively on time.

"Go, I sent the vegetables from the private plot to the county market after five o'clock in the morning and sold them at a low price. Now I'll go back and order meat for a day. Brother, I'm leaving!"

After the man said this, he rode on his bicycle and walked across the wooden bridge to the village in the distance.

Looking at the man's back, Wang Weidong's eyes lit up.

(End of this chapter)