binnovel Chapter 72 "Full of Love" - World Widows Raising Children 13
Chapter 72 "Full of Love" - World Widows Raising Children 13
By 60, many students at Jianguo and Jiangdang's school had stopped attending classes because they were too hungry to study. Liu Yuxi's night school had also been closed. So Liu Yuxi had Jianguo and Jiangdang study at home, accumulating any questions they didn't understand, and then go to the school to ask the teachers for clarification. It just so happened that she would study with the two children after get off work, and the two children would review their lessons at the same time.
This year, Jian Guo and Jian Dang will have to choose between taking the high school entrance exam or the vocational school entrance exam. The two children are quite sensible at a young age. Although Liu Yuxi always says that they don't need to worry about the family, seeing Liu Yuxi working and studying at the same time, the two children feel that she is working so hard in order to get a higher salary, so they have both decided to take the vocational school entrance exam.
In the past two years, many students have been unable to concentrate on their studies due to food shortages, so both Jianguo and Jiandang were admitted to their desired schools. Jianguo is studying mechanical engineering, while Jiandang applied for railway engineering. Since it was really difficult to celebrate, Liu Yuxi bought some candy and distributed it in the yard to share the joy with everyone.
Both Jian Guo and Jian Dang attended vocational schools in Beijing. After the start of the semester in 61, they lived on campus and only came home on weekends and during winter and summer vacations.
I don’t know how much effort Lou Bancheng and his people put in, but Liu Yuxi hasn’t seen many refugees since 59 when he saw them fleeing in Beijing. Meanwhile, grain has been appearing in Beijing’s pigeon market from time to time since 60.
Because the Third Uncle frequently went to the pigeon market, whenever there was grain at the pigeon market, the young and strong people in the courtyard would organize to buy it. Although the courtyard had been struggling financially in recent years, each family had managed to get by, and there had been no organized efforts for the people in the courtyard to donate grain to the Jia family.
At the end of 1961, Liu Yuxi's work grade was promoted again, and she became a level 4 fitter. Her monthly salary for level 4 was 52.8. Her uncle passed the level 7 fitter exam that year and earned 84.5 per month. Her other uncle passed the level 6 forging exam and earned 72.3 per month. Jia Dongxu had probably been worried about his family in recent years, so he did not pass the exam. At the end of the year, Qin Huairu became pregnant.
According to the plot, Jia Dongxu should have had an accident at the beginning of 62. Liu Yuxi didn't know what caused the accident, but after passing the fourth-level fitter assessment, he handed over the "Workshop Production Specification Manual" that he had compiled over the years through the workshop director.
After the factory held a meeting to discuss the matter, it implemented the study of this manual throughout the factory after the factory started operations in 62. The placement of tools in the workshop, machine maintenance, and the warehousing and outbound of raw materials and workpieces were all improved.
Until the latter half of 62, when Huaihua was born, Jia Dongxu was still alive. As long as Jia Dongxu was alive, the Jia family would not have any major problems. Because Jia Dongxu was still alive, Banggeng was not like the character in the drama and fan fiction. The current Banggeng was more like his father, Jia Dongxu. Due to the presence of Jian Guojian and Jian Dang in the courtyard, children of similar age were all voluntarily or involuntarily huddled together.
In 61, Xu Damao married Zhang Juan, a woman from the countryside. Two months after she returned home, she became pregnant, and the following year she gave birth to a healthy baby boy, named Xu Changsheng.
In 62, Yan Jiecheng still married Yu Li. They rented a small house near Liu Yuxi's home as their marital home. Yan Jiecheng now works as a temporary worker in a machinery factory, a job he earned himself. Because Uncle San lives across the street from Liu Yuxi's family, and perhaps observing Jian Guo and Jian Dang's usual behavior and the way Liu Yuxi and her two children get along, Uncle San doesn't scheme against his family like in the drama. Although the Yan family's food is still not good, the family atmosphere is relatively harmonious.
In the latter half of 63, Jianguo joined the technical department of the steel rolling mill as a technician, assisting the engineers. Jiandang went to work as a train attendant at the railway station, only now starting on short-distance trains. After graduation, he would officially start working, earning 35 yuan a month, which would increase to 41.5 yuan a year later after becoming a full-fledged employee. Suddenly, Liu Yuxi's family became the highest-earning family in the courtyard.
Although Jian Guojian and Jian Dang are still young, they have already been targeted by matchmakers in the area, who are keeping an eye on their resources so they can be the first to visit Liu Yuxi's family.
In 1963, Liu Yuxi received her graduation certificate after resuming night school and passed the Level 5 fitter exam at the end of the year, earning a monthly salary of 61.7 yuan. Jia Dongxu also passed the Level 4 fitter exam in the same year, earning 52.8 yuan a month, which was enough for his family to live on. He Yuzhu's family welcomed another daughter that year, named He Wanning. Needless to say, the child was born at night.
For the past few years, the deaf old lady has been celebrating the New Year with the Jia family and the eldest uncle's family. This year, Jia Dongxu officially became Yi Zhonghai's godfather in the courtyard. Since He Yuzhu can no longer be relied upon, the eldest uncle has devoted all his attention to the Jia family and usually takes good care of the Jia family's three children.
Jia Zhangshi was now quite idle. Her children were looked after by an older woman, and her daughter-in-law did the housework. Apart from the deaf old lady, she was the most idle person in the entire courtyard. She spent her days visiting and chatting with neighbors in the alley. In this life, because her family was doing well and her son's job grade was steadily increasing, she had basically stopped calling him "Old Jia" after Jia Dongxu started working. Later, she was even taken in as an unofficial member by the Women's Federation of the Street Office, and they would take her along when dealing with conflicts between families. Now she always talked about various policies and was a little nicer to Qin Huairu and her two granddaughters.
Liu Yuxi was dumbfounded. What kind of amazing development was this?
In this life, the children in the courtyard all had good grades, and most of them graduated from high school. When the steel rolling mill was expanded, several young men from the courtyard were admitted to the steel rolling mill. Liu Guangqi was also admitted to a vocational school and is now working as a clerk in the propaganda department. After getting married, he did not follow his father-in-law to leave Beijing, but rented a house in another courtyard. He will be able to get a house after working for a while.
Liu Guangtian and Yan Jiefang both apprenticed under Liu Yuxi, since they lived in the same compound and her work rank rose quickly. Liu Yuxi combined the methods taught by Sister Chen with two copies of her own work notes, giving one copy to each of them so they could review them at home after work.
That evening, the second and third uncles brought the two of them with gifts and immediately asked them to kowtow and become their disciples. Liu Yuxi forgot that in this day and age, the law was not easily passed on. Giving them her notes was equivalent to accepting them as her disciples. Liu Yuxi did not refuse. They lived in the same courtyard and knew each other well. Besides, Liu Yuxi did not want anything from them.
Since the Cultural Revolution began in 66, grading exams were no longer allowed. Therefore, Liu Yuxi was very strict with the two of them in the early stages, hoping that they could take more exams before 66 so that it would be easier to support their family in the following ten years.