Professional Ethics of a Concubine

At Xie Jin's strong request, the article that interviewed him finally wrote his name as Xie Jin, not Xie Qianjin or Xie Tiedan.

However, the correspondent felt that the name Xie Jin was not down-to-earth enough, and specifically mentioned it in the article:

On weekdays, everyone prefers to call him by another name, Tiedan, and the children also prefer to call him Brother Tiedan, which seems particularly intimate.

After reading the report, Xie Jin threw it aside expressionlessly, and once again realized hopelessly that the name Xie Tiedan would probably follow him for the rest of his life.

"Hahaha...Brother Tiedan, that's a very friendly name indeed." After Xie Wenyuan finished reading it, he almost laughed to death and said to him deliberately,

"Brother Tiedan, please stop struggling. This name has left a deep mark in your life that cannot be erased."

Xie Jin rolled his eyes at him and asked him, "Two wild boars won't last long with food, and we still owe a lot of money. We need to find something to do. What do you think?"

In fact, the two wild boars and two rabbits were given to the commune, and the commune gave a bonus of 30 yuan, four industrial tickets, three non-staple food tickets, three cloth tickets, a piece of pork, and 100 kilograms of grain.

As for the thirty yuan and the tickets, Xie Jin and Xie Wenyuan, two country bumpkins, spent them all in the blink of an eye after visiting the supply and marketing cooperative.

Of course, pants are the first thing to buy!

Two for Xie Wenyuan and one for Xie Jin.

At least I have something to change into, so I don't have to dream of wearing the same thing every day. Those days are gone forever.

Next comes the shoes.

Xie Wenyuan is still wearing straw sandals. Although the shoes on Xie Jin's feet are cloth shoes, they have holes in them and the big toes are exposed.

Rubber shoes, one pair for each person, that cost twenty yuan.

You have to buy kerosene. You can't just pretend to be blind at night.

You also need toothpaste and a toothbrush, a bar of soap for bathing and washing your hair, and a thermos. The ones at home are broken.

You need tickets to buy these, and the few tickets the commune gave them were not enough, and there was not enough money.

Lei Lao Hu, who went with them, was dumbfounded. He felt that these two people did not grow up in a poor mountain village and seemed like they had never been poor.

The way he spends money without blinking an eye makes him look like a young master from a wealthy family who has fallen into poverty.

"I haven't bought any pants yet. My pants are torn and I don't want to wear them anymore." Xie Wenyuan frowned and said to Lei Lao Hu.

"Do you have any money left? Lend us some and we'll pay you back later."

"Here you go." Lei Lao Hu took out some money from his pocket and gave it all to Xie Wenyuan without even looking at it.

Lei Laohu is a driver and has been traveling all over the country for two years. Tiedan and Erdan are definitely the two brothers who have left the most profound impression on him.

He felt that the two of them would definitely achieve something famous in the future, so he was happy to establish a good relationship with them now.

In this way, Xie Wenyuan and Xie Jin owed Lei Lao Hu a lot of money before they were able to buy all the necessary necessities.

Finally, the two brothers no longer had to go to the old house to beg for food every day like bandits and bullies.

But if you say how good the living conditions are, haha, in fact they are still in extreme poverty and have just escaped from the state of starvation.

"This is a poor and run-down place, and the ideological restrictions are so severe. The only fat sheep is Lei Lao Hu. I can't implement any of my ideas."

Xie Wenyuan spread his hands and said with a lonely look on his face, "Alas, I can't find anyone to kill!"

Xie Jin also sighed.

Alas, he was a dignified emperor, but now he has become a pig-killing hero. It's all due to fate. Sometimes, no matter how great one's personal ability is, it cannot overcome one's background and the constraints of the times.

The two of them sat in front of the doorpost, like two door gods, sighing secretly. They were very dissatisfied with the current situation, and for a while they couldn't find a good way out.

Xie Jindu began to think that he might as well run to a farther hill to see if he could kill two more wild boars.

In this area, he has firmly established his title as the number one killer in the wild boar world.

With a reputation, the leaders above you know you, and you will have more opportunities to show your talents and have more choices.

Xie Jin learned from historical materials that in this era, ordinary people could not take the imperial examinations, but they could go to university through other means such as recommendations, such as the Workers, Peasants and Soldiers University, and after graduation, they also had relatively good employment opportunities.

Moreover, in order to ease the employment pressure in the city, a large number of young people are forced to go to the countryside to work as sent-down youths or to the northeast, Xinjiang, and the south to open up wasteland in the form of military corps.

As an emperor, Xie Jin knew the difficulties and pains a country faces in its early stages of development, and it is normal to take some detours.

However, a grain of sand from the times, falling on an individual, is as heavy as a mountain, which can crush the person half to death.

Just like the current unreasonable system, the confinement of thoughts, the crazy class struggle and confrontation, and the almost blocked planned economic policy, people's enthusiasm has been suppressed to the extreme.

His current identity is just an ordinary poor child. He has no power and no say. It is impossible for him to move the gears of this era and accelerate the progress of the times.

At least he doesn't now!

What he thinks about every day now is to find his lover as soon as possible so that he can live a normal life, such as eating better...

Ugh.

After Xie Jin realized his low-level thoughts, he couldn't help but sigh again.

Sure enough, when people have not yet met their basic survival needs, if you talk to them about ideals, they just want to punch you, telling you to stop making empty promises and just give them something to eat.

"Why don't you go hunting again?" Xie Wenyuan asked.

"I'll kill a few more wild boars..." Xie Jin also spoke at this time.

After Xie Jin found out that the two of them had the same idea, he couldn't help but smile, "It looks like we really have to fight the wild boar to the end."

At this time, Uncle Xie came over with a fat aunt.

"Why are you sitting at the door? Have you had dinner?" Uncle Xie greeted him with a smile. That smile was so warm and sincere!

Ever since Xie Jin became the pig-killing hero of the commune, his and Xie Wenyuan's status in the old house has skyrocketed. It became the case that Old Man Xie and Uncle Xie would take the initiative to curry favor with Xie Jin.

"What are you doing? Do you want to come to my house and eat some food?" Xie Wenyuan saw him and said to him with a smile, "If you want to come in and talk, you have to give me an egg."

"Then let's talk outside the door." Uncle Xie said immediately.

Xie Wenyuan rolled his eyes at him.

"That Tiedan..." Uncle Xie looked at Xie Jin with a smile and pointed at the fat woman next to him.

"This is Matchmaker Wang, the most powerful matchmaker in our area. She came here today to find you a good match!"

"Oh my, I've only heard of the pig-killing hero, but now that I've seen him in person, I realize he's quite handsome, too."

Matchmaker Wang looked at Xie Jin with increasing satisfaction, and said with a smile,

"Tiedan, my auntie came over today to tell you about a great marriage. The girl's family is very well off!

The girl's father is the team leader of the village, and her second uncle is a county cadre. The girl herself graduated from high school and works as a teacher in the commune school.

Their family dotes on this girl very much, and they are afraid that she will be bullied by her husband's family after marrying her, so they want to find a live-in son-in-law for her. As long as you marry... no, as long as you marry the girl, they will immediately arrange an easy job for you, and you don't have to go to the fields to earn work points!"

"Oh! That's great! Brother Tiedan, agree immediately!" Xie Wenyuan said, "By the way, do they want me as a burden?"

The matchmaker immediately clapped her hands happily and said with a smile,

"Yes, yes. They specifically told me that they felt sorry for you losing your parents. It's okay to have another brother. Our family can afford it."

"Wow, these conditions and this kind of heart are really impeccable!" Xie Wenyuan immediately asked again,

"With such good conditions, how did you find Brother Tiedan? Is it because the woman is too old, ugly, or has some problem?"

"Of course he likes Tiedan because he is a famous pig-killing hero. His name was even reported in the newspapers!" Matchmaker Wang said immediately with a smile.

Xie Jin, ...

Listen to me thank you.

After his reputation spread, his superiors didn't think highly of him and refused to assign him a job, but this job of a live-in son-in-law did attract him.

"The girl is eighteen years old, and she is a famous beauty in the surrounding area. There is nothing wrong with her. You can go out and ask around to see if Lin Qingyu from Xinghua Village is very pretty."

Matchmaker Wang praised the girl, Lin Qingyu, highly.

Xie Jin was a little touched because the other person's name contained the word "Qing", but he didn't know if she was Ye Qingzhi.

"Brother Tiedan, for this condition, we must meet the girl first before rejecting it! It will be a shame if we don't meet her." Xie Wenyuan said immediately, blinking wildly at Xie Jin.

When Matchmaker Wang heard that they were still talking about rejection, she couldn't help but curl her lips and thought to herself, once you meet the person, you won't refuse!

"The girl also said that if you want to meet, you can go to the bridgehead next to the town supply and marketing cooperative at 10 a.m. on the 15th of this month."

Matchmaker Wang said again.

With the idea of ​​seeing if the other person was Ye Qingzhi, Xie Jin nodded.

Xie Wenyuan was just looking for fun, so he immediately said, "Let's go, go and write back to the girl. We will definitely go, see you there."

Matchmaker Wang laughed when she heard this and said to Xie Jin, who looked grumpy,

"It's right for you to go! You will regret it if you don't go!

I, Wang the matchmaker, have said so much about matchmaking, and I guarantee you that with the woman's condition, even if she finds a city man, there will be a lot of people rushing to propose marriage to her. There is no need to find a country man.

So, since such a good thing has happened to you, just be happy about it. You must give me a big red envelope as a matchmaker later!"

"Yes, yes, yes. If it succeeds, you will definitely benefit from it." Xie Wenyuan immediately said in support.

Matchmaker Wang left happily.

Uncle Xie stayed behind, smiling as he tried to get close to the others.

"When we go to see him in three days, Tiedan won't have any decent clothes to wear. That won't do! Your grandfather said he'll have to spend ten yuan to buy you a new set of clothes!"

"Where's the money?" Xie Wenyuan immediately stretched out his hand to him and asked him to give the money immediately.

The smile on Uncle Qian's face almost froze, "That ten yuan is not a small amount of money, how can I carry it with me!

The money for buying clothes can’t be given to you for nothing. Once you are in love, the gift money from the woman must be given to her family…”

"Get out!" Xie Jin was impatient to listen to him and interrupted him with a frown.

Uncle Xie shuddered all over and couldn't say anything anymore. He looked at Tiedan with some fear.

Ever since he learned that Tiedan had killed two wild boars, Uncle Xie became even more afraid of him.

"Haha, they are selling their daughters, you are selling your grandsons. You want to turn your life around by relying on your grandsons to become sons-in-law and eat soft rice. That's quite a skill."

Xie Wenyuan laughed and disparaged Uncle Xie, "Run faster, or run slower, or be careful that my brother Tiedan will shoot an arrow through your butt to avenge my poor, unfortunate father."

Uncle Xie was so frightened that his face turned pale and he ran away. Thinking of the evil things he had done before, he didn't dare to get close to Xie Jin and the others anymore.

-

Xinghua Village is part of the Hongxing Commune. It is not close to Xiaoxi Village and it takes an hour to get there by bike.

Xinghua Village is also a big village. Its population is less than twice that of Xiaoxi Village, but its arable land area is twice as much, and the land is quite fertile.

Therefore, the work points of Xinghua Village are valuable, and the villagers generally have enough food to eat. It is the richest village in the two communes.

When matchmaker Wang got the news from Xie Jin, she immediately came to the Lin family in Xinghua Village with a smile on her face to talk about the matchmaking.

"Xie Tiedan agreed to meet her!" Matchmaker Wang shouted to Lin Xuejun with a smile.

This Lin Xuejun is Lin Qingyu's father and the captain of Xinghua Village. He is considered the top leader of the village. He has received a few years of education and is also a Party member. He is definitely ideologically conscious and loves his daughter very much.

"It's no surprise that he agreed to meet me. Considering my daughter's conditions, he would be crazy not to agree."

Lin Xuejun took a puff of his cigarette and asked with some disdain, "What does Xie Tiedan look like? Is he tall? Is he dark-skinned? Do he have big eyes? Does he have a foul mouth?"

Matchmaker Wang,

This is the first time I hear my father-in-law choosing a son-in-law like this. Are you choosing a male concubine for your daughter?

"She's good-looking, with big eyes and a tall stature. All country kids are tainted. Her mouth doesn't stink, and I didn't smell it anyway. If she changes her clothes, she'll look stylish like a city girl."

Matchmaker Wang always spoke nice words. Xie Tiedan's image was better than she thought, so she had every reason to praise him.

Lin Xuejun nodded with satisfaction, then called his daughter over, "Qingyu, the matchmaker said Xie Tiedan agreed to meet you in three days, do you really want to go?"

Lin Qingyu nodded, her big eyes narrowed into slits as she smiled.

"Of course I'm going. I'm very curious about the pig-killing hero. If I can't recruit him as your son-in-law, I can also interview him. I just happened to be submitting an article to the county radio station."

"Okay, as long as you like it." Lin Xuejun muttered, "It's rare that you are interested in something now."

-

In the blink of an eye, three days have passed, and today is the day to meet them at the bridgehead next to the supply and marketing cooperative.

"Should we go to Lei Lao Hu to borrow a piece of unpatched clothing to show our respect for this blind date?"

Xie Wenyuan looked at the clothes on the two men and asked Xie Jin before leaving.

"The fact that you can wear shorts instead of pants with holes that expose your buttocks is the greatest respect you can show," said Xie Jin.

Xie Wenyuan,...

Are we going to hurt each other?

Okay, Xie Tiedan, just wait for me.