Chapter 111 Letter from relatives

On the evening of January 25, 1980.

Gaocun Brigade, Zhaoxian County, North Province, Li Wenkai's hometown.

All households began to clean up the front and back of the houses, and some production teams began to kill pigs, preparing for the New Year. The children chased and slapped in the alleys and discussed in private whose New Year's clothes were beautiful.

A strong Chinese New Year atmosphere.

There are still 4 days before the Spring Festival, which is different from decades later. Nowadays, children's New Year's clothes are hand-sewn by adults at home.

Adults who have the conditions at home start to go to the supply and marketing cooperative to cut cloth and make new clothes for their children.

Li Wenkai's younger uncle Li Jianan had just returned home from the production team when he heard a radio from the village call him and said that he had written from Yanjing.

"Mom, it's probably Xiaokai who wrote another letter, I'll get it." Li Jianan said to his mother Ye Lanying.

"Go, let's give it to the village chief again, and tell me again." Ye Lanying felt energetic when she heard it was a letter from her eldest grandson.

I have been here twice this month. Every time I send something, the red carrots and a few bottles of canned food, which are good things that have never been seen in the supply and marketing cooperative. The transparent thing sealed in a small bowl like rice cake, I ate it myself. It is so delicious, soft and sweet, and it is very suitable for a toothless old woman like me.

But I can't compete with my grandson, and now my wife has been taken away by her wife and I will take it out and eat it during the Spring Festival.

"I understand." Li Jianan responded, and before he could wash the mud all over his body, he walked towards the radio station of the brigade commune.

After Ye Lanying was waiting, Li Jianan finally came back after half an hour.

"What is written in the letter?" Ye Lanying said with concern.

"The letter mainly says that Xiaokai has no time to work and will not come back this Spring Festival this year. He also sent a remittance form and some cloth tickets, grain and photos." After Li Jianan finished speaking, he marked the cloth for the food tickets. The lover on the side saw it, widened his eyes, and took over and said, "This can be used in the whole country. There are so many cloth tickets, which is enough for each of our whole family to make a new piece of clothing." After saying that, he looked at the mother-in-law on the side and said, "Children's father, you will ask for leave from the team tomorrow, go to the town to cut some cloth and make a new piece of clothing for your mother." said his lover Liu Lanhua.

Among them, there are 10 cloth tickets, and there are even more food coupons, with a total of 100 kilograms of national food coupons.

This was exchanged by Li Wenkai with foreign exchange coupons on the black market. He sent all of his cards to his uncle and grandma without leaving any of them, which can be regarded as helping his predecessor to respect his family.

"Make it for the children. I am a man with half of my body. What new clothes are you wearing? But you haven't had a few decent clothes over the years. Now that you have the conditions, make a few more for yourself." Ye Lanying said.

"I will make another set for my child's father. I will go home on the second day of the New Year and have no decent clothes, but I will not be decent."

Adults can be made in the town's slit shop. If it's fast, just add some money, and children can come back to make it themselves.

Li Jianan continued, "There are still a few photos. Xiaokai sent a lot of money this time, and it was 300 yuan. It was said that it was transferred by Xiangjiang's aunt, totaling 500, and Xiaokai left two hundred." After Li Jianan said that, he took out a colorful photo taken by Li Wenkai and his younger sister in Tiananmen Square.

"I'll take one hundred, the remaining two hundred for you. Forget this distribution, you have taken some advantage." The old man said leisurely, thinking that his eldest grandson is already a level 8 worker, he felt more comfortable.

The couple also knew that although the mother said she would cost 100 yuan, in the future, if she was in trouble or her grandson wanted to eat something good, her grandmother would take out some of her own small treasury.

So I took advantage of it.

"Yeah." As the first nod of my daughter-in-law, I understand it.

"This photo... is so beautiful. The color is really similar. Xiaokai has grown up. Xiaowan, look at this little face, red and simple, and very round." Grandma took the photo under the kerosene lamp and looked at it.

"Mom, be careful, don't burn it." Li Jianan was scared to see his mother approaching so close.

"So many, I will ask Xiaoshan from the clan to go with you tomorrow. Shanzi has a gun, otherwise he will be robbed." Liu Lanhua was shocked when she heard that it had 300 yuan. She couldn't let the child's father go alone. The world is too unsafe now.

"You go tomorrow too. Take the children with you. I don't know what style I want. You have to choose this. Besides, I will take the children to the town for the Chinese New Year." When the two children heard that they were going to the town tomorrow, they were so excited that they couldn't sleep tonight.

"Okay, then I'll ask for leave from the team tomorrow and borrow a ox cart to go with me." Liu Lanhua was safer when she heard that many people were going there.

After dinner, the village chief’s wife Zou Yueming came over.

"Auntie, let's have something together." Liu Lanhua shouted when she saw the other party coming.

"No, I just came over to eat." Zou Yueming was a little embarrassed and didn't know how to open this next mouth.

Liu Lanhua didn't even point it out. Both sides started to talk about the production team today, saying nothing, and when the other party was really anxious.

"Auntie, I heard from my servant that Kaizi came back from Yanjing again?" Zou Yueming said when he saw that it was getting late, he really couldn't do it.

Well, it's finally here.

"Yes, this kid has been here three times this month." Why didn't Ye Lanying know the other party's purpose?

"Auntie, I am a cheerful person, so I said it straight. I heard from my mouth that Xiaokai sent back a lot of national cloth tickets this time?" Zou Yueming went straight to the point.

"There are a few, Yueming, I can guess your purpose, but there are not many cloth tickets left, and each of our family has made not much." Ye Lanying said.

Although I have a lot of them, I have to keep them, right?

This is a good thing that is universally used in the country and cannot be bought with money.

Besides, there are quite a few people in our clan, why should I lend you?

"I also know, aunt, I really have no choice. The New Year will be in a few days, and the children don't have a decent piece of clothing. Look, can you give me some? Don't worry, you can guarantee that there will be no other company to know about this matter. If we buy it, we will follow the price of the supply and marketing cooperative." Zou Yueming said.

The daughter-in-law on the side thought that she could not offend the village chief, and said that she would nod her head when she asked for leave tomorrow. So she looked at her mother-in-law and said, "Mom, I think let me go. We adults are nothing. But this child is just looking forward to wearing new clothes for the New Year for a year. Who can't leave children without them, right?"

Don't treat the village chief as a cadre.

Ye Lanying has lived for most of her life. How could she not know that she would take leave after establishing a good relationship with the village chief? She would be easier when distributing her life in the production team. No one can offend her.

"Okay, you are the leader, I am an old woman, just open my mouth."

"Thank you aunt!" When Zou Yueming heard the aunt say something, it must be correct.

Then the two of them hand in the money and the tickets.

Zou Yueming changed the cloth tickets for the three children in the family and went back.

Before leaving, Liu Lanhua accidentally told her about taking leave tomorrow. The other party agreed and told the servant that she would go back and let Liu Lanhua say something tomorrow.

At the same time, Li Guangyuan's hometown is in the Bashui Village Brigade, Fengming County, Shan Province.

The family received photos sent by Li Guangyuan.

"This photo is so clear. I have never seen such a beautiful color photo. My elder brother said in the letter that this is their unit, a car repairer. Their factory manager is very good and takes good care of him. He can also learn some car repair skills." Li Guangyuan's younger brother Li Guangqiang also went to elementary school and could understand the content in the letter. He reads every time he sends a letter from his home.

"My elder brother also said that the unit also divided the house. When my niece was three or four months old, I would let my sister-in-law go there." Li Guangqiang said.

"This is a good thing. Having a good leader in a good unit is also a blessing. The main thing is to learn how to repair cars from the leaders." Li Guangyuan's mother was relieved when she heard that her son had a good leader. She looked at the grandson in her daughter-in-law's arms and said, "We will go to the capital with your mother to find your father in the capital in a few months, live the life of a city and have a national meal."

Then Li Guangqiang took down the photo frame from the wall, then put all the five five-inch photos sent back by his elder brother into the photo frame and hung them.

"Our Mingming is going to live a life of a city with his father!" Li Guangyuan's lover said happily to coax his daughter in his arms.

Ji Zhiying is also bitter and sweet.

During the years when her lover was in the army, she had been in charge of this family. Now she finally waited until her husband was demobilized and still had a job in the capital. Now she heard that the unit had a house with a salary of 42 yuan. The family of three could barely live a good life, at least better than those in the village who were facing the loess and the sunset and facing the sky.

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