The couple made a living in the 1950s.

"When I'm fifty, I'll have eighteen years of experience."

"The pension is 70% of the original salary."

"If we really have to wait until the college entrance examination is resumed, there will be a department to help with the retirement process."

"By 1977, I had exactly 20 years of work experience."

"The pension is still based on the length of service of 15 to 20 years. After retirement, you will receive 70% of your original salary as pension."

"There is only one year left until the next length of service, twenty-one to twenty-five years."

"The pension will be 5% less than the original salary."

"I should retire at my current level. Seventy percent of $110.5 is a little less than seventy-five percent by a little over five dollars and fifty cents."

"Although, our family doesn't lack this little money."

"But in the 1980s, rice was only a few cents per pound, and in the 1990s, rice gradually reached one yuan per pound."

"Five dollars and fifty cents will be a lot of money in the next decade or so."

"I can buy a lot more rice and flour."

"We'll look at the policy when we apply for retirement."

"If you really start applying for retirement in 1977, then you can retire in 20 years."

"We don't need that five dollars. It's impossible for all good things to happen to us."

Bai Ye tilted his head and kissed the beautiful hair of his wife in his arms.

Seeing that she fell asleep, he closed his eyes too.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye it was already 1975.

On this day, Lin Hanyu and Bai Ye were just like every Sunday before.

They lay together in the rocking chair under the arbour, with the letters they had just read placed on the round bamboo table next to them.

Two years ago, my daughter followed her son-in-law to Ning City to work in the army.

At that time, they deliberately went through Beijing City so that they had time to go home and stay for three days.

From then on, they didn't see their little daughter for another two years.

Her retirement age had already arrived yesterday, but there was no one in the Personnel Bureau to handle this matter.

She will continue to be the section chief in the future.

Fortunately, in the past two years, people around me have reached retirement age one after another.

No one was able to retire on time according to the policy.

At this time, the salary you get from working is more than the pension.

Whether you work in a government agency or a large state-owned factory.

Unless there are children waiting to take over the family, no one is in a hurry to retire.

She is not the only one who is still holding on to her original job even after retirement age.

All their children have jobs, and their workplaces are pretty good.

When she retires in two years, she won’t know who to give her job to.

We can't just waste the Public Security Bureau's staff.

"Auntie Yu, I'm Wang Fang."

"Hey…"

Lin Manyu was rocking herself with her eyes closed when she heard the voice of Ruyang's newlywed wife Wang Fang coming from outside the Moon Gate.

Today, Ruyang is twenty-one years old.

He just got married two days ago. Like him, his wife started working at the Railway Bureau after graduating from high school.

The couple worked in the same unit, and they looked sweet to everyone else when they went out together.

When Lin Hanyu opened the moon door, she saw Wang Fang standing at the door holding an aluminum lunch box.

"Auntie Yu, my mother just made some jujube flower pastry and sent it over for the family to try."

"come on in."

Lin Yuyu looked at the fair and clean young wife in front of him and smiled as he let her into the yard.

"Auntie Yu, I still have to go home to help my mom clean up the kitchen. I'll come to play at your house next time."

"it is good."

Lin Hanyu did not try to keep her until he saw her walk into the hanging flower gate that led to the fourth courtyard.

She then closed the moon door of her house and placed the aluminum lunch box containing jujube flower crisps on the round bamboo table.

He lay back in the rocking chair.

Bai Ye saw his wife coming back and turned his head to look at her.

"what's up?"

"Meijia made some jujube flower cakes and sent some to us."

"Ah."

Bai Ye said nothing more, closed his eyes and continued to doze off.

Lin Hanyu sat there and shook himself, his thoughts gradually drifting away.

The child Wang Fang lived with Ruyang in the annex of the west wing of the second courtyard.

Meijia and Ding Qiang bought this house from Xu Zhaodi not long ago.

I started to renovate and install the earth heating system after so many years.

Now, I can finally let my son and daughter-in-law live in together.

Ruyang, the child of Meijia's family, is also a child she watched grow up.

When he was a child, I often held him in my arms.

Now time flies and he is already married.

Fang Jun just got married to Zhang Yun last year. It was her college roommate Zhang Qiulan who acted as the matchmaker.

Zhang Yun is her niece, and she joined the Finance Department of the Finance Bureau after graduating from high school.

The work was personally led by her aunt.

In this respect, the young couple are the same.

When Fang Jun first joined their finance department, she was the one who taught him the basic financial skills.

Now, among the three children of their family, including Meimei and Meijia, only Meijia's son Ruchen is not yet an adult and married.

The boy was only twelve years old and had just graduated from elementary school.

Lin Manyu tilted her head to look at Bai Ye who was sleeping beside her, and in a trance she seemed to have returned to the past.

That year, the two of them came to Sijiu City to settle down.

Everything here is unknown to them.

It is certain that only two people will be together forever.

Now it seems that they only have two years left to safely get through this special period.

At this moment, Lin Hanyu felt particularly calm.

"Mom, when Qingxiang gets home from get off work, let's go back to my mom's house."

"Xiaojuan just came back from the hospital, I want to go over and see Mingguang."

"Well, Leilei, come and sit down."

Lin Yuyu looked at her second daughter-in-law who was pregnant and nodded with a smile.

Last September, my eldest daughter-in-law, Xiao Ou, gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl.

Their grandfather named their elder sister Bai Jinhe, which means, holding the jewel in the crown and grasping the jade, the wind and the grass will rise.

Holding the jade in one's arms is from Chu Ci. Jiu Zhang. Huai Sha. It is a metaphor for a person with pure and noble character.

"The wind blows and the crops all rise" comes from Book of Documents, Jingu, which is a metaphor for following the will of heaven and getting heaven's help.

The name I thought of for my younger brother is Bai Jinyu, which comes from "Chu Ci. Nine Laments".

"Hide the jade in the golden box, and leave the red brocade in the courtyard" implies the character of beautiful jade.

A few days ago, Meimei's eldest daughter-in-law Fan Xiaojuan gave birth to her and Fang Xu's eldest son Li Mingyang in April 1972.

She gave birth to their second son, Li Mingguang.

By August, their baby Leilei should be born.

If we line up the children in the family, Zhiyun and Zhiyi are the eldest and second oldest sisters.

Jinheng and Zhijin are the third and fourth brothers.

Jinhe and Jinsu, who were born not long ago, are the fifth and sixth graders.

The little guy in Leilei's belly is the youngest.

Their family is already full of children and grandchildren.

As Lin Hanyu thought about it, she couldn't help but let her thoughts drift away to her little daughter who was still in Ning City.

Their family has been living in Ning City for almost two years.

The family’s little granddaughter was born in November 1975.

He was born two months later than his eldest son’s two children, Jinhe and Jinyu.

The birth of this child finally fulfilled her little daughter's dream of having a little daughter.