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

The Public Security Worker’s Institute is very close to the Public Security Bureau, and it takes only 15 minutes to walk. There are workers from several units living in the Worker’s Institute. However, Jin-woo has not yet been employed, so he has not been assigned a house yet. So they just strolled around the staff courtyard, looked at the overall environment, and then familiarized themselves with the surrounding conditions. After walking around the neighborhood, Xiao Yu said, “Your dowry cabinet has already been painted with tung oil and placed in the junkyard. You can take it back when you go back this time.”

Lin Yiyi was puzzled: “Why put it in the junkyard?”

Jin Yu explained: “It’s not appropriate to take it home. There are sister-in-law and younger siblings, so they don’t have other thoughts.” He is a man. Although he doesn’t care about women, he also knows the temperament of his family, so he can avoid troubles. avoid it. Moreover, this is something for his fiancée. After taking it back, don’t everyone know that this is what he prepared? No matter where it is, the dowry is a woman’s scene, so, Jin-woo doesn’t think it’s necessary to let the family know it’s what he prepared.

Lin Yiyi didn’t expect this man to be so careful, she was moved a little: “Thank you, Brother Xiao Yu.”

Jin-Woo: “Yeah.”

Come to the junkyard. It was a middle-aged man who managed the waste station, but Lin Yiyi noticed that there seemed to be some problems with the other’s feet. After they went in, he got up from the stool and called a crutch. “Brother Xiao is here. Are you going to take the cabinet away today? It’s coated with tung oil, just like new.”

Xiao Yu said: “Take it away, I said earlier that this side will be responsible for bringing the goods to the door?”

The middle-aged man said: “Be responsible for pulling goods to the door, two catties of grain or two catties of food stamps.”

Jin-Woo: “Can you take it away later?”

Middle-aged man: “I have time these days.”

Jin-Woo: “I’ll take her to see it. She has to choose some books, and I’ll leave later.”

The middle-aged man said: “Okay, you can just look at it. Brother Xiao, let me have a look. I’ll go and call someone next door.”

Jin-Woo: “Sure.”

After the middle-aged man went out, he closed the door slightly, and Xiao Yu took Lin Yiyi to another room. There are four rooms on this side of the waste station, one is for middle-aged men to rest, two are used for stacking waste, and one is empty for “receiving work”. For example, Xiao Yu has selected a dowry cabinet and processed a layer of tung oil here. For this side, it is “receiving work”. In fact, it is just like selling waste products. This can be done in an open and honest way, because the employer pays the waste to the waste station. Yes, of course, whether middle-aged men have “tips” is another question.

There are also quite a few tables, chairs and cabinets covered with tung oil. Xiao Yu pointed to one of them and said, “I chose this, what do you think?”

Lin Yiyi saw this as soon as she came in. There are not many cabinets here in twos and threes, and this is the most conspicuous one.

Lin Yiyi: “Very good, very face.” The rectangular cabinet has four legs and is about half a meter high. A box with a height of 70 cm above the cabinet feet. The box is a three-door box. The two doors can be opened to store clothes. There are four drawers on one side. The total length is about one meter three. , about 60 cm in width. It’s just a pity that the four cabinets were wasted. “Brother, you can put a simple box under this cabinet.”

Xiao Yu pointed to one side: “Yes, it has a lock, it is inconvenient to use tung oil, so I didn’t put it under it.”

It turned out to be a matching set. No wonder, she felt that the legs of the cabinet were made so high that it would be a waste to leave the bottom empty. The height of half a meter, the length of one meter three, and the width of 60 centimeters should be used for quilts and the like.

Jin Yu is very sensitive to people’s emotions. Seeing Lin Yiyi’s satisfied expression, he is also happy: “Like it?” It’s just that the happiness is invisible.

Lin Yiyi said, “I like it, thank you Brother Xiao Yu.”

Jin-Woo: “If you like it, go find the book you want.”

Lin Yiyi: “Well, I’m looking for books for junior high school.”

Jin Yu: “When you go to school in September, you can ask the school to buy it.” Asking the school to buy books requires money. In this era, there is no restriction on every student to buy books, so in order to save money, some people will come to the junkyard Find books. In Xiao Yu’s eyes, the little daughter-in-law is only 15 years old, and she will go to junior high school in September, so he intends to let her continue to study, and the tuition fee is not a problem for him.

Lin Yiyi was stunned for a moment: “Brother Xiao Yu… you mean to let me go to school?”

Jin-woo nodded.

Lin Yiyi was quite shocked, she didn’t expect Jin Yu to have this idea. Not to mention the current environment, that is, the general in-law’s family does not raise a daughter-in-law to study, can the Xiao family agree?

Jin Yu seemed to see through her thoughts and said, “My mother doesn’t care if you don’t need the money from the public.”

Lin Yiyi asked with a smile, “Brother Xiao Yu will use private money to pay me to go to school?”

Jin-Woo: “Yeah.”

Lin Yiyi shook her head: “I don’t want it anymore. Even if my aunt has no opinion, what about the others?”

Jin Yu: “No, with our private money, no one else has the right to have an opinion.”

Lin Yiyi: “It still won’t work, but, Brother Xiao Yu, you gave me 16 yuan as a bride price, and I kept ten yuan. If I want to study, I will use the ten yuan.” The daughter-in-law used the money from the bottom of the box to study , The in-law’s family won’t have any more opinions, but Lin Yiyi has no idea of ​​continuing to study, she thought about it, “Brother Xiao Yu, teach me to read, so that I don’t have to go to school.”

Jin Yu: “You look back and think about it.” As a college student, Jin Yu is very recognized for reading, so he has the idea of ​​letting his little daughter-in-law continue to study. If the little daughter-in-law hadn’t even graduated from elementary school today, he wouldn’t have this idea, but she just graduated from elementary school now, and she has been studying all the time, so he thinks there is no problem in continuing to study.

Lin Yiyi: “Well, I’ll think about it later, Brother Xiao Yu, thank you for thinking so much for me.”

Jin-Woo: “Yeah.”

Lin Yiyi smiled and looked at the tall and calm man in front of him, and his words were full of seriousness and seriousness.

When Jin Yu first started, he could still look at her calmly, but after looking at her for a while, he hummed and turned his head. He… he didn’t dare to look at her. It’s just that her eyes are too direct and enthusiastic, not shy at all, “You…”

Lin Yiyi: “Huh?”

Jin-Woo: “I’ll move these two cabinets out first.”

Lin Yiyi: “…” Inexplicably a little happy.

Jin Yu has a lot of strength. When he lifted the dowry cabinet, the muscles in his arms swelled up, which was so explosive. Lin Yiyi looked at his hands, they were long and slender, and the wheat-colored skin was wrapped with strong muscles… According to the description in the novel, a man’s muscles are hard, and she actually wanted to touch it, but she was single for 28 years, and it was rare to see it. To the right eye, so my heart is very impulsive. However, she didn’t move. After all, she wouldn’t mess around outside.

Jin Yu just walked out of the room and saw a middle-aged man coming with a young man, this man is the driver of the cart.

Xiao Yu moved the dowry cabinet to the cart, and then found a set of junior high school textbooks together with Lin Yiyi. Lin Yiyi originally planned to find two sets, one for Lin Dajun, and one for himself. But Jin-Woo said he had a set of junior high school textbooks there, so he only found one.

Don’t think that a set is easy to find. It was not easy to find books in the 1960s. Even newspapers, magazines, and weekly magazines were very few. Because the college entrance examination had not been banned at this time, and the intellectuals had not been delegated to the decentralization, when the ten-year turmoil began in 1966, the junk station can be said to be reduced to a “used book” station.

The two searched for a long time before they found a set, but the book was a little old, and even a few pages were missing. It doesn’t matter if there is a missing page, Jin Yu has a set, when the time comes, he will copy it by hand and make up for the missing page.

After finding the book, Jin Yu took Lin Yiyi and the young man pulled the car, and went back to the Shanglin production team together. Jin Yu didn’t stay at Lin’s house for long, and he was ready to go back after moving his things.

Jin Yu: “I’ll go first, I’ll pick you up on September 4th.”

Lin Yiyi: “Well, that day, I asked the captain’s family and Aunt Guilan to support the scene.”

Jin Yu: “Then I’ll bring you something to eat in advance.”

Lin Yiyi: “No, there are shrimp, jerky, wild eggs at home, enough to greet people… What time is it now? It’s good to have a bite to eat.”

Jin-Woo: “Okay.”

Lin Yiyi looked at him and hooked her fingers.

Jin Yu raised his eyebrows, the 15-year-old girl was obviously still a child, but in her eyes, he seemed to see a trace of the amorous feelings of an adult woman. Heart pounding, what “bad thing” is she going to do? There was some expectation.

Lin Yiyi: “Come here.”

Jin Yu took two steps and kept a very polite distance. Even if it was a fiancée, he still restrained himself.

Lin Yiyi: “Close your eyes.”

Jin Yu clenched his fists subconsciously with his drooping hands, nervous and curious, he guessed: What is she going to do? Also for your own food?

Lin Yiyi: “Close your eyes.”

Xiao Yu looked at Lin Yiyi for a while: “You don’t need to feed me, you keep it for yourself.”

Lin Yiyi: “…I won’t give you something to eat.” I gave it last time, and I will give it again this time. What’s new?

Not to eat? what is that?

Lin Yiyi: “Come on, don’t you listen to your daughter-in-law?”

Jin Yu closed his eyes: “…” A little girl who is only 15 years old, where did she get her brains? But it is undeniable that there is hope in my heart. His life is like an alarm clock, as if portrayed, but after two years, since meeting her unconscious on the road, his life seems to be disrupted. Jin Woo closed his eyes, his heart beat a little faster. Due to his occupation, at this moment, he is more sensitive to everything around him. He could feel the slightest movement. For example, the little fiancee is approaching him, her breath is getting closer, and he… is getting more and more tense.

What is she going to do?

At this moment, Lin Yiyi looked at him with his eyes tightly closed, and even his eyelashes were shaking because of his nervousness. Lin Yiyi smiled, suddenly stood on tiptoe, kissed him on the chin, and then took a few steps back.

Jin Yu suddenly opened his eyes: “You…”

Lin Yiyi said: “Just thank you, thank you for thinking so much for me, thank you for holding up a world for me.”

Jin-Woo: “…Hmm.” He blushed. “Then…then I’m leaving.”

Lin Yiyi: “Then I won’t send you.”

Jin Yu: “Yeah.” Turning around, his footsteps were almost messy, and then… he walked faster.

Lin Yiyi stood at the door and watched him leave with a feeling of happiness. The happiness that this kind of happiness gives her family is different. This kind of happiness can fill her heart.

But after a while, her smile gradually sank, and she came here inexplicably. She didn’t know what happened to her in 2020, and she didn’t know what happened to her parents.

These few nights, every time she fell asleep, she wondered if she just had a dream and woke up, she was still Lin Yiyi in 2020, not Lin Daya in 60 years . But… this week, she knew it wasn’t a dream.

Lin Yiyi wiped her eyes, pressing her thoughts of her family and her parents to the bottom of her heart.

When it was time for dinner, Lin Dajun came back with Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun, and when he saw the junior high school textbook that Lin Yiyi took out, he was very happy. Even if the book was old and lacked Zhang Shaofeng, it did not reduce his inner joy. . In fact, people in this era are used to poverty, so they don’t care much about whether books are new or old, and they are happy to have books.

Lin Dajun grinned: “Thank you, sister.” He held the book tightly.

Lin Yiyi: “Some of the books are missing, just copy the missing ones.”

Lin Dajun: “Hey, sister, when will we start studying?”

Lin Yiyi thought for a while: “After I get married, the weather will be cooler in the morning, and everyone will continue to look for food. In the afternoon, the weather will be hot, so I will study at home. What do you think?”

Lin Dajun: “It’s good.”

Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun are naturally no problem.

Maybe it’s the influence of reading, Lin Dajun, Lin Sanjun and Lin Sijun are all in high spirits these days. This morning, not long after they went out to find food, a stranger’s voice sounded at the door of the Lin’s yard: “Excuse me, is the Lin Yi family here?”

Lin Yiyi was writing, and Lin Wudi was playing by himself in the house. Hearing that someone was coming, Lin Yiyi went out and said, “It’s here, who is it?” But she didn’t have to wait for the other person to answer, she knew that he was the postman.

The postman said, “Are you Lin Yiyi? Sign your letter.”

Lin Yiyi: “Okay, thank you.” She took the letter and looked at it. When she saw the sender’s address, she became excited. It was the newspaper office in the county town who sent her the letter. It was almost a week later.

After the postman left, Lin Yiyi returned to the house and couldn’t wait to open the letter. She submitted three manuscripts at that time, one was 1,000 words, and it was written to praise the style of the motherland; the other was 3,000 words, a short story. , which is about mutual help among the common people; one is 5,000 words, which is a serialized novel, about the love and hatred of the Republic of China. Now I have received a reply, 1000 words and 3000 words were accepted, and 5000 words were returned. I didn’t expect that the manuscripts that the newspapers did not like would be returned. You must know that when she submitted her manuscripts in modern times, she was not accepted. Manuscripts will not be returned.

The one who replied was an editor whose last name was Yu. Editor Yu said that if Lin Yiyi still submits manuscripts in the future, he can send the manuscript directly to him. At the same time, he said that because our county is relatively remote, there are very few people who submit manuscripts here. Therefore, Lin Yiyi is welcome to actively contribute. In addition, he also politely told Lin Yiyi that a novel of 5,000 words is not suitable for a newspaper in a small place like them.

In addition, editor Yu talked about the issue of manuscript fees. Now, people who are a little famous are calculated at 4 yuan per thousand words, but Lin Yiyi is a newcomer, so I gave her a price of two yuan per thousand words, and this price is also given. For the reason, I hope she will be more active in submitting articles in the future, because the newspaper office in the county is really short of people to submit articles.

Lin Yiyi could see that it was out of the sincerity of the editor, otherwise she would not reveal these things. Of course, she could also see that the newspaper wanted to collect manuscripts, which was an opportunity for Lin Yiyi.

Finally, it is a remittance slip of 8 yuan, a total of 4,000 words, and the manuscript fee is 8 yuan. With this fee, Lin Yiyi has the confidence to adopt Lin’s fifth brother. Of course, she is not confident that every time she submits, she will be favored, but even if she can be favored once or twice a month, this is her confidence.

She also has new ideas for the submission event.

The newspaper offices in the county towns and the publishing houses in the big cities outside have different themes and styles when collecting manuscripts. Publishing houses tend to have strong stories, while newspapers tend to be realistic.

After having an idea, Lin Yiyi quickly came up with an idea. When submitting to the publishing house, she wrote two stories, one was the Republic of China text that was returned by the newspaper before, and the other was the Kuaichuan story. Of course, the story about Kuaichuan is somewhat different from the Kuaichuan in Lujiang’s novels. The protagonist in the story of Kuai Chuan is a policeman. During the day, he would normally go to work at the police station. At night, he would have dreams. In his dreams, he became someone else. Each dream had a different identity. In dreams, he was still a policeman; in some dreams, he was an orphan; in some dreams, he was a kidnapped child; in some dreams… In dreams, he did a lot of good things and helped a lot of people . The name of this novel is between black and white, and it has two meanings. One is the two identities of the protagonist in day and night, and the other is black and white, which is the truth. The first story Lin Yiyi wrote was called a trafficker. The protagonist was a policeman. In order to find the kidnapped children, he resigned his identity as a policeman. nest.

When Lin Yiyi wrote it, she thought very well, so she wrote 30,000 words in two days, which is almost half of the story. After writing it, she checked one side, and then went to the commune post office to publish it together with the love novel of the Republic of China. Sent by the company. After returning from the commune, she went to Xiao’s house again.

There are only Mother Xiao and Grandma Xiao in the Xiao family. The two are doing manual work. By the way, they take care of the eldest Xiao’s children. As for the rest of the Xiao family, of course, they are going out to find food. The Xiao family does have food, and they have saved a lot in previous years. The main reason is that the Xiao family has a lot of labor and few people who eat rice. Plus the good things Jin-Woo has brought home over the years. But even if there are good things and food at home, Qin Xiangju is still hiding it tightly, how others eat, how they eat

Seeing Lin Yiyi coming, Grandma Xiao and Qin Xiangju were very enthusiastic.

Qin Xianglian: “Yiyi is here, Xiaoyuer is not at home, he went out with his father and the others.”

Lin Yiyi: “Auntie, I’m here to find you.” After speaking, she gave Qin Xiangju a piece of dried lobster meat wrapped in paper, “This is the shrimp meat that my brothers and I caught, dried, and added a dish for you. “It’s just a pound, but a pound of dried shrimp is quite a lot.

Qin Xiangju was not polite, and accepted the lobster jerky given by Lin Yiyi: “Yiyi, you are so kind, a relative came to the house a few days ago and brought some brown sugar over, and the family can’t eat enough, so take it back to nourish your brothers. “While talking, he took Lin Yiyi into the house. She put the lobster jerky in the kitchen cabinet, and then took out a half-pack of brown sugar from the cabinet, which was half a catty. What is important among relatives is that you come and go. Lin Yiyi is not her daughter-in-law yet. She walks around with such a large package of dried shrimp, and of course she will return the gift. Besides, this dried shrimp tastes really good, they have already tasted the porridge brought by Jin Woo a few days ago.

Lin Yiyi hurriedly said: “Auntie, no need, I… our family doesn’t like sweets.” She pretended to be embarrassed and lowered her head.

Qin Xiangju smiled, took Lin Yiyi’s hand and stuffed the brown sugar into her hand: “who doesn’t like sweets? You can just take it with confidence. You don’t mean that your parents have gone, and if you don’t understand something, you should ask for it. Aunt, please? You won’t listen to what your aunt gives you now?”

Lin Yiyi: “I…I…then I will accept it, thank you auntie.”

Qin Xiangju: “That’s right, the younger generation should listen to the elder’s words. If the elder gave something, the younger generation should not be polite.”

Lin Yiyi: “Yeah.”

Qin Xiangju: “One by one, did you just say you came to see me for something?”

Lin Yiyi said: “Well, I… Auntie, I want to take over my younger brother after I get married with Brother Xiao Yu. My other younger brothers are only in their teens, and they are boys who are more careless, so I don’t worry about taking my younger brother over. to them.”

Qin Xiangju: “Then what do you think specifically? Apart from your younger brother, what about your other younger brothers?” In fact, Qin Xiangju already had an idea about the younger brothers of the Lin family. She knew that her son’s marriage to Lin Yiyi was equivalent to taking over the Lin family. A few younger brothers, no matter how hard it sounds, is that she wants to help those younger brothers in the Lin family from time to time. She has already made a plan in her heart, but she did not expect Lin Yiyi to bring it up so early, she thought at least waiting for those dowry gifts. Food ran out.

How should I put it, according to the friendship between the Xiao family and the Lin family, it is impossible for the son and daughter-in-law to ignore the younger brothers of the Lin family, but there must be a bylaw for how to manage the law. Let the younger brothers of the Lin family do nothing and take care of what their family wants to eat, that’s not good.

Lin Yiyi was also a little surprised, she never thought that Qin Xiangju would be so calm. According to the situation of this era, every household has little food, and some even have no food. So when she brought this up, no matter how good Qin Xiangju was, it shouldn’t be like this, right?