binnovel Chapter 13 No Rural Areas in the Past 6
Chapter 13 No Rural Areas in the Past 6
After the matter was settled, everyone smiled, especially Wang Jianjun. After all, he was a young man who had just come of age and had not yet learned to hide his emotions. Who could blame him when the educated youth who came back to visit their families in previous years had suffered so much?
After discussing whether to take on the workshop job for Liu's mother or the warehouse moving job for Liu's father, Wang Jianjun decided to take the moving job, since the workshop was full of female workers and he, a grown man, didn't want to go there.
It was arranged that Liu Yuxi would go to the factory to hand over her work to Wang Jianjun after school the next day at noon, and then Liu Yuxi went home. After all, the sooner this was done, the better, so as not to worry about any unexpected incidents.
The next day at noon, Aunt Liu and Wang Jianjun went to the school to pick up Liu Yuxi from school, and then went directly to the textile factory to help Wang Jianjun get his job.
After completing the onboarding process, Wang Jianjun finally felt at ease, no longer needing to go to the countryside. As for his high school diploma, he could get it in advance now, since he had a job to accept him; he could just go back to the school to get it done.
The two then accompanied Liu Yuxi to the bank to deposit the 1200 yuan. After all, it was a large sum of money, and no one was comfortable letting her keep it at home. She couldn't very well say, "I can put it in my storage space, right?"
Later, Uncle Wang had Aunt Liu give Liu Yuxi 20 jin of meat coupons and 20 jin of non-staple food coupons. Don't think it's too little. In those days, a regular worker only got half a jin of meat coupons a month. Who knows how many favors Uncle Wang would have to use to get those 20 jin back.
Food coupons were even scarcer; a single package of snacks would be delivered from one person to another and then sent back to the next, and might not even be eaten by the end of the year.
Liu Yuxi accepted it without saying anything. You can owe favors, but you can't make people feel guilty. Since he could afford it, it means he thinks the job is worth the price. Only after you accept it generously can both parties continue to interact without any burden.
From then on, Aunt Liu took even better care of Liu Yuxi, and often reminded her of things to pay attention to in social interactions, as well as things that girls should know.
The other families in the courtyard all knew that Wang Jianjun's job was given to him by Liu Yuxi, and no one said anything sour. After all, the people in the courtyard knew each other well and knew that Wang Jianjun's family would not take advantage of Liu Yuxi, and besides, it was Liu Yuxi himself who proposed this.
I just think Liu Yuxi is a kind and righteous person. If you help her, she will remember it in her heart. When you need her, she will not hesitate to give back. Everyone likes to be with people who know how to be grateful.
The days that followed flowed by like water; after all, the lives of ordinary people at the bottom of society consisted of mundane everyday matters.
Before they knew it, it was June 1976. Liu Yuxi didn't know if this world was a parallel world, or if the great earthquake would happen next month.
She hasn't been able to sleep lately. There are some things you can't be sure about if you don't know them, but knowing in advance that so many people have died would leave any normal person at a loss. She's just an ordinary person, and she doesn't know how the news got out, but watching those people die right before her eyes makes her feel guilty, so she doesn't know what to do.
She really didn't know how to resolve this matter without revealing herself.
After pondering for many days, she put on gloves and printed a booklet on her computer in her online space. The booklet detailed the cities in China that were located on earthquake zones, especially highlighting several cities that had experienced major earthquakes in later generations.
She also added "The correct actions to take when an earthquake strikes and precautions after the disaster." Since she had already written about this, she added "The correct actions to take when a flood strikes and precautions after the disaster," "The correct actions to take when a fire strikes and precautions after the disaster," and "The correct actions to take when a typhoon strikes and precautions after the disaster."
She made the booklet very small, mostly text with no pictures, so the text content wasn't very extensive. She printed many copies of the booklet and would wander around Tiananmen Square every day after school.
After all, Mao'er Hutong is not far from Tiananmen Square. When I came across some units with guards on duty, I would mark them. Then, on a day off, I used the cosmetics, high heels, height-increasing insoles, long and short wigs, colored contact lenses, etc. that I had in the space.
Change into a different outfit, secretly throw two pamphlets at the entrance of a unit, run away, change into a different outfit at the nearest spot you've scouted, and then go to the next unit.
She was spotted by the guards on duty a few times, but by the time they called for her to come out, Liu Yuxi had already run to a secluded place and entered the space. Liu Yuxi also hoped that someone would see her, otherwise the booklet probably wouldn't be taken seriously.
After a day of work, Liu Yuxi threw away all the labeled units and changed back into the clothes she had worn when she left home that morning before returning to the courtyard house.
Fortunately, current technology is not advanced enough, and reconnaissance relies mainly on human eyesight. She also doesn't plan to take any further action, so she feels she is likely safe. When she left, she said she was going to a classmate's house, and the neighbors all assumed she spent the day there.
After finishing this task, Liu Yuxi was no longer anxious. After all, this was the best she could do. She was just an ordinary citizen whose biggest wish was to live a carefree life. She really couldn't handle such a big matter. She could only wait and see how the higher-ups would handle it.
She wrote down the approximate timelines of major earthquakes that would occur in the following decades in that booklet, only saying it was a prediction. In order to help the people in the courtyard make some preparations in advance, she also threw out booklets at the gates of several large factories in the vicinity.
You have to believe in how fast Chinese people gossip. Liu Yuxi believed that as long as someone picked up the pamphlet, the whole yard would know about it within three days at most.
Sure enough, two days later, after everyone had returned to the courtyard that evening, Uncle Wang organized a meeting and brought up the matter.
Liu Yuxi's prediction in the booklet was that a major earthquake would probably occur in Tangshan between July 15 and August 15, 1976, because Tangshan is only 180 kilometers away from Beijing, and since it was a major earthquake, the surrounding areas would definitely be affected.
It's early July now, and the weather has been mostly sunny lately. After discussing it, the families decided that they would sleep in the yard every night from now on, and that all their valuables, such as property deeds, bankbooks, and banknotes, would be packed up and carried with them at all times.
For the next two days, the men set up a simple rain shelter in the yard after get off work, and each family put some grain and firewood underneath, so that if an earthquake really happened, the rain shelter would be easy to dismantle.
During the day, adults and children at home should try to stay in their living rooms or yards. If something happens, they can run to the flat ground in the yard in time.
In the following days, they inspected their own houses, reinforcing those that needed reinforcement and replacing those that needed replacement. This arrangement was basically made for the houses of all the people Liu Yuxi knew in the surrounding area.
Since news from Beijing wasn't blocked, it's likely that Tangshan will also make arrangements. After all, the earthquake occurred at 3:42 AM, when people are in their deepest sleep, which explains the large number of casualties.