Chapter 261 There Must Be a Charter for Favors

Before New Year's Eve, it is customary to post couplets.

However, in 1962, there were no ready-made printed couplets for sale. You just buy some red paper on the street and ask someone to write it on it. Of course, there are also places dedicated to writing couplets. You can go and ask for couplets, and you can say that you are asking for them, which means you are buying them. But in this era, we can't say buying, we can only say begging. The money given is also said to be refinishing fees, and cannot be said to be money to buy couplets.

Otherwise, those who write the couplets will become speculators to make money from the price difference. And these days, the paper of the couplets is also good and bad. The cheap ones cost a few cents, and the expensive ones usually have to be bought by people from wealthy families, who get two or three cents. .

Some poor people can't even afford food, and some don't use couplets during the New Year. For some people who are not separated into separate families, if they want to stick it up, they can just stick one in front of the main door.

This time, the Luo family didn't spend any money to hire an outsider to write the couplets. They asked Zheng Xue to write the couplets. She has good calligraphy. But in fact, it costs more to buy the brush and ink than to find someone to write with. But if you buy the brush and ink, you can still use it in the future.

Everyone in the family is making couplets, and those preparing meals are all busy in the kitchen. When Luo Cheng came back, he got a lot of vegetables out of the system. If he didn't get them out in advance, others would be suspicious if they were out during the Chinese New Year.

At noon, we have boiled rice, scrambled eggs, vegetables, etc. I brought the chickens, ducks and geese, and I will stew the goose tomorrow. This goose has been showing up to Luo Cheng for a month or two. I brought it back to my hometown during the Chinese New Year. I will put it into the pot tomorrow and stew the goose in an iron pot.

But in fact, there is no such way of eating in the south. In the north, it is called goose stewed in an iron pot, and corn tortillas are attached to the side of the pot. In the south, goose is simply stewed, but these days there is goose to eat. This is meat, and it is delicious no matter how you eat it.

Luo Wen asked Bingzi to call his aunt and uncle. Their children's marriage could not be postponed. If the negotiation could not be concluded, he should give them an answer as soon as possible. If it could be accomplished, he should also give them a plan. Basically, if we agree here, things will be done immediately during the Chinese New Year.

But this time, the uncle came quickly. He lives on the street in the town. The distance between the two streets couldn't be faster. Uncle Luo Wu came here with his second son Luo Qiang. Luo Qiang's height is not exaggerated, he should be over 1.55 meters tall. But among the Luo family relatives, this is considered short. As for her appearance, how should I put it, it's not ugly, but her face is a bit long.

But if you look closely, you will see that it is not actually a long face, but a face that does not match the figure. Let's put it this way, if Luo Qiang sat in front of the table and talked to everyone, with only his upper body exposed, everyone would never know that he was only about 1.55 meters tall, just like a King Kong lolita. For a lolita, you only see her face. If you did, you would never have thought that her muscles were more developed than those of men.

After the uncle came to Luo Cheng's house, he first briefly greeted his father, but then became enthusiastic towards Luo Chengke. The director of the automobile factory in the city is his own nephew, so he is really embarrassed.

At this meeting, uncle Luo Wu told Luo Cheng about Luo Qiang's marriage. In fact, the uncle originally wanted to ask Luo Wen to borrow some food. Taking advantage of the fact that a wife was easy to find, he took care of Luo Qiang's affairs during the Chinese New Year this year. I know that Luo Qiang's image is a bit bad, but there are many families who have no food in many places in other towns. Even if you don't look for someone from another town, this woman who escaped from famine is too thin to look good, but she can be raised for a while.

But now there are better girls to choose from. The matchmaker introduced a girl from the Liu family to his family. She was not bad looking and seemed to be able to work and give birth. The uncle and the aunt both like the girl from the Liu family, and the girl is not short, she is only 1.58 meters tall. A woman who is 1.58 meters tall is not considered short these days.

Of course, the uncle did not embarrass Luo Cheng. After all, the other party's condition was to work, which was not a matter of a few kilograms of grain and a few dollars. But it would be strange if the other party was willing to marry Luo Qiang without mentioning such conditions.

Before Luo Cheng said anything, the uncle said that if this matter couldn't be solved, just ask Luo Qiang to find another girl. Those who are on the run from famine are not bad at raising them.

"Uncle, this work matter is easy for me to handle. This time I called you here to discuss this matter. Don't the Liu family just want Qiangzi and the girl to have jobs? It's not difficult to arrange the work. . But the difficult thing is where to live. If it had been a few years ago, it would have been easier. Do you know that the city is currently implementing a policy of urban population reduction? "

"How can I know the city's policies? Nariko, just tell me what's going on."

When Luo Cheng heard the uncle's answer, he stopped talking to him and directly talked to him about the city's policies. That is to say, in order to ensure the production of food, those who came to work in the city after 58 years, even if they were formal workers, were dismissed and returned to their hometowns to farm. Of course, that doesn’t mean there aren’t any left. Some skilled workers still stayed in the city, but most of the rural people who came to the city did unskilled work, and there were only a few who could learn skills and were willing to work hard to learn.

So if you go to a car factory, your work can be easily arranged, but your accommodation cannot be arranged. He only had three rooms in a courtyard in the city, and he couldn't afford to rent an additional room.

Although he will be allocated a courtyard room in the staff building next year and there will be a lot of rooms, Luo Cheng is also cautious. After the Chinese New Year, he has someone by his side, how could he be stupid enough to create some obstacles on his own initiative.

There is no place to live here, so what if I have a job? Living in a factory is not allowed now. Even if Luo Cheng agreed, it was still against the rules. If someone didn't report it, it would be fine. If he did, he would be criticized and educated to some extent, but he would still be unable to live with him later. Especially if you live in a factory building, you cannot register with the street office. If you cannot register, you will be a black household in the city. If you are caught out of the house, you will not only be deported, but also in the town. At that time, some leaders from the town will come to educate you. .

Anyway, these days, it is really difficult for rural people to switch from farming to non-farming and eat commercial grain. The only formal channel is to study and become a high school or technical secondary school student. If he could become a college student, it would cause a sensation in the whole town. In addition, serving as a soldier cannot be an ordinary soldier, because if a rural person becomes a soldier and retires, the most he can get is a small amount of retirement pay, and then he can return to the countryside to continue farming. Only city residents who have served in the military and retired from the army will be given priority in job assignments. The so-called priority only means priority arrangement at the street office, which does not mean that work must be arranged. You also have to wait for arrangements.

If rural people want to succeed as soldiers and become officers and soldiers, they must at least be a platoon leader.

When rural women say they marry in the city, they are just living in the city. In fact, they are still rural people.

The last situation is that Luo Cheng relies on connections to get into the city. First, by seeking refuge with relatives, at least I can have a place to stay in the city. Then jobs have to be arranged, and rural people can only be recruited into the factory in a non-standard way. As I said before, those who enter the factory in this way don’t even have the factory’s work clothes or other things on hand, and they have to rely on the factory’s supply.

Nowadays, car factories have good welfare. If it is another factory, try hiring a non-standard person from rural areas. He doesn't even have a ration for meals. If ordinary relatives are not very capable, they really don't want to provoke relatives in rural areas to arrange work.

But in fact, there is another best solution, and that is adoption. Rural people adopt their children to relatives in the city. This kind of adoption means raising them as children, and the household registration can be obtained. But it’s generally the case that people in the city have no children. Otherwise, if you have children, what will you do if you finally get a job quota after working long enough, and who will it be given to?

"Ningzi, if that's the case, then this matter can't be done. If so, Qiangzi, just forget it. It's not that your cousin won't help you, but that it's not easy to help. Let the matchmaker help you later. Find a."

"Hmm~~."

Luo Qiang was a little bored. Apart from calling people at the beginning, he couldn't say "hmm" for a long time. However, many rural people are actually more honest and introverted, and some people can be very nervous.

"Uncle, Qiangzi, I haven't finished speaking yet. In fact, it's not difficult to solve Qiangzi's matter, but the difficulty lies in starting this problem. At least I don't have the ability to arrange too many people at the moment. There must be a charter. I also need to solve the monthly affairs of my aunt's family. Now it's you and my aunt's family who have something to do. In the future, it's my uncle's side. My sister-in-law's child is still young, so there's no need to worry about it. But my uncle's side Well, what if I ask for help too?"

Luo Cheng didn't want to hide his uncle, them, or anyone else. He has to explain to everyone the difficulty of working in the city. It's not that he doesn't want to help everyone, but that his ability is limited. And it takes time.

Why does it take time? For example, Xiaoyu Bingzi and the others have become formal workers, so they can be separated. At that time, a house can be arranged for them, and the vacant house can be loaned to relatives. Even the house arranged for Xiaoyu and the others had many rooms, and relatives could be rented to stay with them. But the cycle is too long, and within two or three years, Xiaoyu and the others will not be able to become regular employees.

The only person who can become a regular worker quickly is Bingzi, because he is asked to learn how to drive a forklift and later obtain a work permit and become a regular worker in the form of skills, so that he does not have to simply endure the time.

For Luo Cheng, there is currently only one way to solve the problem of relatives' work, which is the cooperative in Longjin Town. The work in the cooperative is made up of people from the town unit and people dispatched from the automobile factory. Therefore, the wages and benefits of one unit are two teams.

For example, the financial accountant assigned by the automobile factory receives her salary and benefits from the automobile factory. In fact, she can receive a lot of rice, flour, fish and other things. As for Luo Cheng's father, his salary was paid by the town commune, and he was a public employee in the town. During the Chinese New Year, I was given some pork from the pigs raised in the brigade.

Due to this situation, the town will not interfere with how many people are arranged to work in the cooperative. Anyway, everyone has their own say in terms of wages. It has nothing to do with the town if your automobile factory arranges for a hundred people to come. But it can be arranged to be appropriately bloated, but not completely unreasonable.

In other words, if you want to work, you can arrange to go to the cooperative, but the number of people cannot be too large, and the entire cooperative cannot be all relatives of Luo Cheng.

Now Luo Cheng's regulations are very simple. A few quotas are given. When the time comes, these relatively close relatives will be gathered together and you can discuss and resolve the matter yourself. Throwing the question to you, there is a saying that if there are not enough places, or if someone else asks to come later, we really can’t arrange it.

However, as long as the cooperative in the town develops well, becomes larger, and needs more people, it will definitely be possible to arrange people to join. But development takes time. If you have the ability to solve the housing problem in the city on your own, Luo Cheng will directly arrange it for you. If you can't solve it, you can only wait. If the cooperative cannot develop, we can wait until Xiaoyu and the others become formal workers in the future.

It didn't take long for the aunt to bring her eldest daughter Wang Yue over, and her uncle Wang Lin also came with her. Now the eldest aunt Luo Juan is at her uncle's house. She has a hard rocker and has the support of her family. In addition, her father Luo Wen also arranged for her to feed pigs to earn work points, so the income is no less than that of her uncle.

As soon as Wang Yue, the eldest daughter of my aunt's family, saw Luo Cheng, she obediently called her cousin. Unlike Luo Qiang, a man is so introverted.

Luo Cheng also asked about the situation at his aunt's house. How should I put it? When people go on blind dates these days, there is actually no such thing as love at first sight. It's actually easy to see someone in the right eye, as long as you don't feel disgusted. And before you agree to formally meet your partner, you have no way of knowing who the other person is. And if you agree to get along with your partner, in fact, as long as his character is not corrupt and you find some minor problems, you will be gossiped about.

So Luo Cheng asked his cousin Wang Yue, but she actually couldn't tell her anything. She just felt ok, and she didn't know whether it was good or bad. She could only listen to the matchmaker's introduction. The matchmaker said that the man was not bad, he was from the county town, but he had no job. It is normal for young people nowadays to be unemployed. If they had a job, why would they be willing to talk to Wang Yue?

Wang Yue is an authentic image of a rural girl. At most, she is passable compared to rural girls. But in Luo Cheng's eyes, both his aunt's daughter and his sister-in-law's daughter were not good-looking. My sister-in-law's daughter is still young. Generally speaking, little girls are good-looking, but Luo Cheng still feels that she is not good-looking. He only hopes that his sister-in-law's daughter will become a girl.

However, the appearance of domestic women in this era is generally much worse than that of later generations. So what may not be good in Luo Cheng's eyes is actually good in the eyes of others.

For example, Luo Cheng's sister, after staying in the city for more than two months, her complexion has improved, her body has become a little fleshy, and she is a bit paler. But in Luo Cheng's eyes, they were just getting by, but in the eyes of others, such as uncles and aunts, they all praised them for being good-looking, like girls from the city.

If they are all good-looking, then what does Zheng Xue look like?

No matter what, when Zheng Xue was serving tea to the uncle, Luo Qiang took one look at it and didn't dare to look at it again. Just like the girl coming out of the painting, why is there a fairy in my cousin's house?

At first everyone thought this was Luo Cheng's partner, but they had heard before that the partner Luo Cheng was looking for in the city was a female soldier. Artistic soldiers are also soldiers, and the image they have in mind is completely different from Zheng Xue's. Fortunately, I found out what was going on after asking.

But since she's not Luo Cheng's partner, this girl is really cool. If~~ forget it, he doesn't deserve it.

Wang Yue's affairs are different from those at uncle's house, but they have to be negotiated. Even though her cousin is now married to someone from the city, if she is alone, the aunt said, she can actually still arrange to live with Xiaoyu and the others in the city, with the issue of adding an extra bed at most.

As long as Wang Yue works honestly in the automobile factory for a few years, Luo Cheng can also turn him into a person who eats commercial food and has a regular job in the city. She is only sixteen now, and she is still weak, just as old as Shishi. In the city, Luo Cheng refused when people wanted to introduce someone to Xiaoyu and Shishi, not to mention that Wang Yue was still talking about people in the county.

Therefore, Luo Cheng told his aunt and uncle simply, don't look down on your own family too much. It’s okay to find a partner, but you must be optimistic about the man’s side. It was obviously the relationship between Aunt Tu and Luo Cheng, but there was no problem with Tu's relationship. On a blind date, there was always something to do with each other.

But what Luo Cheng means is not to think that the other party is from the county seat, and some things can be muddle along. If you want to do this, next year when Luo Cheng has finished handling the matters at hand, let Wang Yue also go to work at Ngee Ann City Automobile Factory. If you want to find a partner, you can find someone in the city, which is better than in the county. Of course, if the person you're talking to is really good, just pretend he didn't say anything.

As soon as Luo Cheng said this, his aunt and uncle really fell silent. Yes, the county town is good, but the daughter will only live in the county town at most after she is married, and it is a fact that city people look down on rural people. Because when you get married, you have to eat their rations. When you have children, you still follow your mother's household registration, and you are still a rural person.

If someone is willing to marry Wang Yue, a blind date is similar to a business deal. If the deal is not cost-effective, they are really willing to suffer losses.

First, Luo Cheng needs to solve the problem. Later, Wang Yue’s household registration will probably have to be found by Luo Cheng. Without Luo Cheng, the other party had a county registered residence, so it would be easy to become a permanent resident. But as for Wang Yue, even if he works for three years, it doesn't matter, he still can't become a regular employee. If you can't change your job, you still won't be able to settle down.

"Nariko, what you said is true. Even if Yueyue finds a partner, are you willing to take her to work in the city next year?"

"Wang Lin, what are you talking about? What my nephew said can still fool me. What kind of arrogance do you have?"

After hearing Luo Cheng's words, the eldest uncle asked with doubts. But after the aunt heard her uncle talking like this, she immediately became angry. Either she saw someone nearby, or she almost didn't do anything. What do you mean, your eldest nephew has good intentions, but you dare to question him. My eldest nephew is the director of the factory. He has studied in high school and served in the army. You only weigh a few pounds and you still question my eldest nephew. Even if we are a couple, you will be upset in front of me.

"Aunt, my uncle just asked casually, why are you so angry? But I can let it go. Regardless of whether Yueyue's marriage is successful or not, she will go to the city to find Xiaoyu and the others after the fifteenth day of the Lantern Festival. I am young If I have to go on a long trip later, I will arrange work for her when I come back."

When Luo Cheng said this, his uncle was very excited, but he was afraid of saying the wrong thing, so he didn't dare to say anything in front of his aunt.

Since Luo Cheng wanted to make this matter a charter, he naturally had to inform other relatives as well. Luo Cheng simply asked Bingzi to call his uncle and sister-in-law over after lunch. Luo Cheng even told his mother to call her uncle, second uncle, and aunt over in the afternoon. Anyway, these are the two families who are relatively close to each other. As for the other Luo family cousins ​​with the same surname, Luo Cheng cannot take care of them now. If the business develops more in the future, there may be opportunities.

Those relatives can only rely on their father Luo Wen, the director of the cooperative, to take care of them while arranging work. The most I can do is earn more work points, and it is impossible to take care of other things in the short term.