Chapter 243: Twenty Years Ago (5)

(5) Iron broom

Twenty years ago, in my quiet childhood, my parents were being beaten by an "iron broom" regiment that swept through a qiē ox, ghost, snake and god, my father had broken his ribs, and my mother had memorized ** quotations like a stream, plus she had always been a pregnant or lactating woman, just standing with her, and she hadn't been beaten much.

Later, the principal of the elementary school where my mother worked was still the head of the iron broom corps, and my father was never transferred.

Looking back now, what is said to be a son of heaven and a courtier, in fact, there are still powerful families who have always played with authority, and rich families have always made money. What's more, after the resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, there are still many children of learned families who are admitted to universities. Those educated youths have been working in the mountains and countryside for several or more years, without reading and exercises, and they have also studied in a short period of time, and they were admitted to university and changed their fate. And the children of poor middle peasants have to rely on the sweat of 99 points of hard work.

Mr. Pei's father, my father-in-law, was a member of the Revolutionary Committee, and we should still have class hatred. But when we got married, we had only known each other for half a year, and we completely left our respective families behind and didn't think about it. It's just that the matchmaker said to me privately: How much money you have in the future, don't sue the parents of both sides, especially his family.

Unfortunately, I didn't understand the meaning of this advice. After Father-in-law Pei and Granny Pei came to my house for the first time, because they had to go back during Mr. Pei's business trip, they said that seeing that my arms were so thin, they would not be able to walk when they were old in the future, so they had to go back to their hometown to care for the elderly. I was afraid that Mr. Pei would misunderstand, so I tried my best to keep them and wait for Mr. Pei to come back. They still kept saying that they had to leave tomorrow, so I showed them the passbook of 200,000 yuan, saying that you can't move, I will ask a nanny to serve your wages, don't worry, stay.

In fact, they were worried that during the busy farming season, they were not there, and Uncle Pei would waste the land.

As soon as I arrived at my hometown, I called and applied to use the money they used to hire a nanny in advance. Send 20,000 first.

At that time, Mr. Pei also wanted to move his family to Beijing, and planned to buy a homestead as his hometown, and buy two apartments in the suburbs for his brother and second sister, who were teachers, and would wait until he retired. Then I was stunned by the phone calls to borrow money one after another.

It turned out to be like their family had become an iron broom corps, sweeping away every penny of our money except for food and shelter. Uncle Pei bought a motorcycle for a few days, changed his face for a few days, changed his face for a big truck for a few days, sold his truck for a few days, and left a bunch of loans. And Mr. Pei has ridden a broken bicycle until now. My bicycle is better, it was bought in Carrefour in 1997 with the first shopping card issued by his company's employee welfare. In Beijing, other people's families will lose several bicycles, my family doesn't dare to lose it, losing the car is equivalent to losing a nephew's tuition!

Whenever Uncle Pei said to Mr. Pei in a mocking tone on the phone: "Do you have any money, don't pretend if you don't have it", I hope he will say a hard word like a man, "If you have it, I won't give it to you!"

But every time he whispered and begged his brother to be kind to his parents, and quickly sent the money over. His parents also asked for a living allowance of 500 yuan per month to be sent once, and it was too little to send every month and no face. As a result, it was spent in less than two months, and even the clothes bought here were all stripped by relatives, and the farm was busy and couldn't stay anymore, so I had to wear the old clothes before and buy a bus ticket to come and see us, saying that it was better to have heating in Beijing in winter.

But as soon as the winter passed, calculating the salary saved in a few months, plus the pocket money here to buy vegetables, I was reluctant to use the money I saved, and I felt that I had money, and I couldn't bear to buy new clothes, so I went back to show off.