Back to 1978: Getting rich starts with treasure hunting

Lin Shu found that Lin Xiaojun had a good memory, so he wanted to find his textbook to test him. Just when Lin Xiaojun was looking for his schoolbag, someone came to the door again. From the voice, Lin Shu recognized that it was his elder sister Lin Xue.

"Little sister, is your boyfriend here?"

Lin Shu walked out and saw that her eldest sister and her family were all there. She had just greeted her brother-in-law Deng Cai when she heard her eldest sister's question.

"He came back yesterday afternoon. Why did you come here only today, sister?"

"There's a lot of stuff to do at home. I finished it yesterday and set off at dawn this morning."

As Lin Xue spoke, she took out the things she had brought with her. One of the bags was a festival gift, and she opened the other snakeskin bag to let Lin Shu have a look. "Little sister, this is the wild yam that your brother-in-law and I dug yesterday. See if it's good enough in this year. If possible, I want you to help us exchange it for some money."

Needless to say, the two of them didn't come here yesterday because they went to dig wild yam.

Lin Shu looked through them and asked, "Were these dug yesterday?"

"Yes, I thought that you have a market, so we can bring some here and exchange it for some money for household expenses." Lin Xue was still a little nervous, afraid of causing trouble for Lin Shu.

"Okay, the quality of the Chinese yam is pretty good. Brother-in-law, bring the scale here to weigh it and I'll give you the money."

Liu Xiao'e turned around first and took out a scale from her bedroom and asked Deng Cai to weigh it.

Deng Cai: "28 jin 4 liang, even if it's 28 jin, these wild yam will be hard work for you, my little sister. It's more than miles from the Xiaohe production team to the township. How about I help carry it to the township tomorrow?"

Liu Xiao'e glanced at her little girl and said with a smile, "No need for you, the youngest one has a bicycle."

Lin Shu nodded: "Brother-in-law, it's not that hard. I happen to be going to the county town tomorrow, so it won't be a big deal to bring it to you."

He signaled Deng Cai to pour the wild yam in the corner of the main room and let it dry on the ground.

Lin Xue didn't see anyone else at home, so she asked casually. When she learned that they were all out busy, she asked Lin Shu: "How does your partner treat you? Is he good to you?"

"good."

"As long as he's good to you, your boyfriend is good-looking, and his only shortcoming is probably that he doesn't have a job. He used to be single and supported by his family, so it wasn't a big problem. But now that he's dating you, he'll have to start a family and raise children. Have you ever advised him to find a job?"

Lin Shu asked back with amusement: "He was a street urchin before he met me. Do you think he can become a model worker after meeting me?"

"Let's not talk about becoming a model worker, but at least we can support him and you, right?" Lin Xue felt that Lin Shu didn't know how to get along with his wife. A man must be subdued before he gets married. Otherwise, after marriage, he will not obey you.

If a woman doesn't take care of the household, how can the family be run well?

Lin Shu thought of the more than 2,000 yuan in Gu Jiu's passbook and chuckled, "Even street urchins have to choose from people. For someone like Gu Jiu, even if he does nothing all day, he has capital and doesn't have to worry about having no food to eat."

Lin Xue didn't believe it at all, and said with a bit of regret: "You don't know that he is living off his wealth. No matter how much wealth his family has, it can't withstand his living off his wealth."

In order to protect his ears from being abused by her, Lin Shu obediently replied, "Okay, when I marry him, I will encourage him to make progress."

Lin Xue thought that she had remembered her words, so she breathed a sigh of relief. After thinking for a while, she said unwillingly, "You said you have only known him for a short time, and you got engaged so soon. What if he is not a good person? Are you going to cancel the engagement again? In my opinion, you can talk to him first, and if you meet someone better, just choose the better one."

The only thing about Gu Jiu that made Lin Xue unhappy was that he had no job.

As soon as these words came out, Lin Shu instinctively glanced at the door, and felt relieved when he found that no one had come in.

However, she did not agree with her elder sister's words: "Eldest sister, I just pretended that I didn't hear what you said just now, and don't say it again in the future. I can't do such a thing as riding a donkey to find a horse and seamlessly connect with it. Besides, it seems that you and your elder brother-in-law decided to get married after seeing each other once, right?"

Lin Xue: “…”

Lin Shu sighed, knowing that his elder sister probably didn't know that they had already obtained the marriage certificate.

She took out a wad of money from her pocket and counted out fourteen yuan: "Chinese yam is fifty cents a pound, and yours is twenty-eight pounds, so that's fourteen yuan a pound, count it."

At this time, Gu Jiu, who was catching loaches in the ditch, had no idea that someone was advising his wife to keep him as a backup.

"Uncle-in-law, there are two educated youths staring at you." Lin Dongfa reminded.

Gu Jiu threw a loach into the bucket, straightened up and looked in the direction Lin Dongfa pointed. Two female educated youth were standing on the ridge of the field not far away.

The two female educated youth kept staring at the person, and when they were discovered by the person involved, they were too embarrassed to continue staring.

The two turned around and left.

"Are they the educated youth from your village?"

Lin Dongfa narrowed his eyes and watched the two educated youths walk away: "Well, one of them found a male educated youth and got married. The other one has been in our village for five or six years, but has not thought of finding a partner so far. I think she has high standards and doesn't like the boys in our village. But she has looked at you again and again, uncle-in-law, she won't fall in love with you, right?"

"Cough cough!"

Gu Jiu almost choked to death on his own saliva, "Ancestor, don't talk nonsense!"

An educated youth who has been working in the countryside for five or six years should be quite old. If someone really likes him, it would be like an old cow trying to chew on a young grass.

Ah~poof!

You are wrong. This young grass already has a master.

"Then why is she staring at you?"

"Maybe they find it strange that a city boy likes to come to the countryside to dig loaches." Why did Gu Jiu feel inexplicably guilty?

The two female educated youth who walked away were Qi Xiaoyun and Wei Miao from the educated youth point.

They were also discussing Gu Jiu at this moment.

"Sister Qi, I didn't expect that Lin Shu's partner is quite good-looking."

"Yes, she looks good." Qi Xiaoyun is feeling a bit complicated. She is envious, but also jealous.

I have been working in the Xiaohe production team for five or six years. And how many more five or six years can a woman's blooming period withstand?

At her age, even if she returns to the city, she will be left out if she wants to find a partner. But Lin Shusheng was able to find a girl from the city in the countryside. Not to mention the girls from the educated youth camp, she believed that there were many girls in the village who were jealous of Lin Shusheng.

"I heard that she is from the provincial capital. If she is from the provincial capital, why would she come to our remote countryside to find a partner, and find Lin Shu, a country girl?" Wei Miao felt jealous.

Country girl?

Ah!

Qi Xiaoyun glanced at the chloasma on Wei Miao's face and sneered in her heart. She had to admit that in terms of appearance, Lin Shu looked more like a city dweller than them, the educated youth.

"How can I know what's going on between them?"

"I think her boyfriend is blind. You are better off than Sister Qi. If she finds someone with a rural hukou now, it will be a big problem to get the child registered after getting married and having children. There are so many educated youths in the rural areas. At least she can find one to adjust the hukou relationship a little bit, and then the problem of getting the child registered will be solved in the future."

The two of them walked towards the educated youth center while listening to Wei Miao's words. Qi Xiaoyun, an older young woman, didn't want to continue this topic.

"It has been more than a month since Zhu Zhiqing returned to the city, almost two months. Has he written any letters or sent any telegrams back?"

The topic was successfully changed. When Wei Miao mentioned Zhu Zhengliang, she couldn't help but worry, "I haven't received it yet. Maybe he wrote the letter and it hasn't been delivered yet."

Qi Xiaoyun glanced at the green hills behind the educated youth camp, took a deep breath, and expressed her worries: "You and educated youth Zhu probably didn't register your marriage at the beginning. You had a de facto marriage but didn't register it. He went back to the city and brought no news back. Aren't you afraid that he will never come back and abandon you in the countryside?"

Instead of nagging about other people's affairs, you should pay more attention to your own affairs.

Her own life is a mess, who gave her the courage to worry about other people's affairs?

Wei Miao stopped and looked at her in shock: "How do you know we haven't registered?"

Qi Xiaoyun raised a sneer at the corner of her mouth, but quickly hid it: "During that time, neither of you left the village, how did you register?"

Any normal person can think of it.

Few people in rural areas go to register, so no one cares about these small details.

"The older generation all lived this way, haven't they? All their lives. If Zhu Zhengliang wants to abandon me, I will go to his house. If he doesn't admit it, I will go to the Women's Federation to make the decision for me." Wei Miao said stubbornly, but she was actually panicking.

Qi Xiaoyun shook her head. Married people were afraid of being abandoned, and she, who was not married, was afraid of getting old and could only find those leftover guys after returning to the city.

There are few comfortable things in life.

In fact, in the eyes of parents, festivals mean that their children get together, sit around a table with steaming hot food, eat happily, and enjoy the family happiness, which is happiness.

In the afternoon, Lin Xue returned home with her family.

The next day, Lin Wei and Lin Guang had to report back to their units, and Lin Shu and Gu Jiu also planned to return to the county.

It happened to be on the way, so on the way back, Gu Jiu rode with Lin Shu, Lin Wei rode Lin Shu's Baige bicycle, and Lin Guang rode the women's bicycle that Lin Shu was engaged to.

Women's bicycles are not as practical as 28-inch bicycles in the countryside, so I thought I would just ride them back to the county town. In the county town, women's bicycles can still be ridden.

After the four entered the city, they agreed to have dinner at Gu's house in the evening and then parted ways.

Lin Wei and Lin Guang arrived at the power supply station, signed in first, and then prepared to return to the rental house to put their luggage.

However, before their bicycles were pushed out of the power supply station, they were spotted by Xu Ming who had just come down from the office building.

"Brother Lin, Brother Lin, you are back?"

"Hey, I just signed in and am going back to the rental house to put my luggage away."

Xu Ming noticed the bicycles they were pushing and asked with a smile, "Did you buy bicycles? Why is Brother Lin riding a women's bicycle? Hey, why does this bicycle look familiar?"

Lin Guang was a little uncomfortable riding a women's bicycle, and when he was pointed out, he blushed and stammered, "This, this is the bicycle my younger sister bought for her engagement."

"Oh, I remember now. Tang Jianjun and I sent the bicycle to your house together." Xu Ming patted his forehead and asked, "You guys are back from the holiday. Gu Jiu should be back too, right?"

Lin Wei didn't think much about it and nodded honestly: "I'm back."

"That's good. You guys go ahead and do your work. I'll go look for that guy who forgets his friends for the sake of a beautiful woman." Xu Ming didn't have time to chat any more and walked quickly towards the bicycle shed.

Gu Jiu was cleaning at home. When he heard a knock on the door, he opened it and saw Xu Ming standing outside. He frowned slightly and asked, "Why are you here?"

Xu Ming laughed angrily: "Hey, Gu Jiu, you're ungrateful, aren't you? I just helped you get engaged, and now you don't recognize me as your brother?"

"Who doesn't recognize you? Come in." Gu Jiu moved aside, secretly annoyed that this man had no good eyesight.

Xu Ming pushed his bicycle in and found Lin Shu sitting at the door of the bathroom washing clothes. He blinked at Gu Jiu with a knowing look on his face, "So my sister-in-law is here too."

"Brother Xu is here, please come in and sit down." Lin Shu shook off the water droplets on his hands and prepared to get up to make tea for them.

"I came to look for you yesterday, but you weren't at home. Did you go back to the village to celebrate the festival?"

"Yes, Gu Jiu and I went back to the village together." Lin Shu put some tea leaves in the teapot, then picked up the thermos and poured out the boiling water to make tea.

Fortunately, she was used to drinking warm water, so she boiled a pot of water as soon as she came back.

"That's good. Gu Jiu now has a mother-in-law to look after."

"Brother Xu didn't go to the future Yue family to celebrate the festival?"

"Well, I'm more proactive than Gu Jiu. I asked someone to send a gift before the holiday." Xu Ming remembered the purpose of coming here and said hurriedly, "You've been traveling all day today. Don't cook tonight. Let's go to the state-owned restaurant to eat together."

Gu Jiu raised his eyebrows: "You treat?"

He cared about their hard work and treated them to a meal. Gu Jiu concluded that it was not a good thing.

Xu Ming nodded: "Yes, I'll treat you."

Gu Jiu: "Just tell me, what's the matter?"

Xu Ming hesitated for a moment, "It's Xu Ting's birthday today, I want to treat everyone to a meal tonight, just to celebrate."

Gu Jiu turned and looked at Lin Shu.

Lin Shu knew that Gu Jiu was asking for her opinion. In fact, Xu Ming had helped a lot all along. It was reasonable and moral for her to give Xu Ming face and celebrate Xu Ting's birthday.

only......

"Brother Xu, why don't you let Gu Jiu go tonight? I won't go. I just happen to have something to do tonight."

Gu Jiu is married now, and it's too late for him to avoid Xu Ting. When he heard Lin Shu say that he couldn't go because of something, he also refused: "We have guests at home tonight, and it's agreed that my eldest brother and second brother will come over for dinner, so I can't not accompany them."

Xu Ming got anxious when he heard this. "It's too troublesome to cook at home. Since we have made an appointment, let Big Brother Lin and Second Brother Lin go together. It will be more lively with more people."

Lin Shu shook his head. It was Xu Ting's birthday, so why did she bring her whole family to the banquet?

Besides, the eldest and second brothers are not familiar with Xu Ting.

Besides, she really had something important to do tonight.

"This..." Xu Ming was in a dilemma, and looked at Gu Jiu with a pleading look, "Lin Shu can't go because of something, so you go. Xu Ting is the sister who grew up with us, after all, let's go and celebrate the birthday together."

"Brother, this is such a bad coincidence. We have already agreed to invite the eldest and second brothers to come over for dinner this morning. I can't treat them while I, the host, am not at home, right?"

Xu Ming's invitation failed and he left dejectedly.

After Xu Ming left, Gu Jiu asked curiously, "What important things do you have tonight?"

Lin Shu blinked and asked, "Isn't entertaining your brother-in-law an important matter?"

"Forget it!" Gu Jiu gritted his teeth.

Humph, if she doesn't tell him, then he will follow her closely tonight, and he will know it in the end.

But reality soon slapped me in the face.

After seeing off Brother Lin and Brother Lin II in the evening, Lin Shu looked at the time on his wrist and said to Gu Jiu who was washing dishes, "I'm going to go out for a while."

"Wait, I'll go with you." Gu Jiu trotted out without even having time to dry his hands.

Lin Shu did not refuse his request. It was indeed unsafe for a girl to go out at night, and having a man following her was an extra layer of security.

“We don’t ride bicycles?”

"The roads are slippery at night when it's dark, so I think it's safer to walk." Lin Shu walked out.