Famine Bride: Marry into the best in-laws and win

Xu Manyue's expression changed slightly, but she quickly calmed down. "Aunt, I think we should just forget about this."

"Our family doesn't have that much ability."

Let’s not talk about food first. Just half a pound of meat every month, and this needs to be given for a whole year. In this difficult period, how many families can do that?

Even if they were workers in a meat processing plant, they probably wouldn't have this ability.

Not to mention that in addition to these, they also have to provide a pound of fine grain every month.

This is clearly a huge ask.

Zhang Fengxian raised an eyebrow. "As a sixth-level fitter apprentice at a machinery factory, as long as he works hard, he has the opportunity to become a full-time apprentice. If I'm not mistaken, your brother-in-law is probably just a country thug who's not good at anything."

"The conditions I've proposed are a bit high, but I can give you a lot in return. A sixth-level fitter from the county machinery factory, an apprentice who I personally teach, is much better than the apprentice you found next door, the master from the small brick factory in town."

"And I can guarantee that as long as he works hard, he'll be able to become a regular employee within two years. His monthly salary will be at least a few dozen yuan, and he'll get a city hukou. At the very least, he'll marry a city girl in the future."

"Tell me, is this apprenticeship position worth the little I'm offering?"

Xu Manyue pursed her lips and said, "Aunt, you should know that there is famine everywhere now. It is difficult to get ordinary coarse grains, let alone fine grains and meat. Now the meat in the meat processing factory outside is gone in a moment before it is put out for long."

"I gave the neighbor four ounces of meat today, and it took a lot of effort to get it. If you want half a pound of meat, I might give it a try and see if I can get it."

"But you ask for half a pound of meat every month, and you keep asking for it for a whole year. Who can come up with so much meat in a whole year? Aren't you making it difficult for me?"

"I think it's better to forget about this matter, Auntie. I'm leaving first."

After saying that, Xu Manyue turned around and was about to leave.

But Zhang Fengxian came up and stopped him. She curled her lips and said, "Hey, wait a minute. How about this? I'll give you a discount. Half a pound of pork every two months. I want fat pork. I'll give you a year, but you can't miss a pound of fine grain every month."

"My conditions are low enough, right? If you go out and ask around, you won't find such a good thing even if you search with a lantern."

"This is because you're a man serving in the army. If it were someone else, I wouldn't want to do something that would lose money."

Xu Manyue still shook her head and sighed, "Aunt, it's not that I don't want to, but I really don't have the ability."

"These days, even city dwellers can only eat meat a few times a year. We're just an ordinary rural family with more than a dozen people, and we can barely afford to eat."

"The reason I can afford so many things today is all thanks to the allowance my husband sent back from the army."

To be honest, if you exchange these meats and grains for money according to the market value, there is actually not much. Even if you exchange it on the black market, it is only a few dozen dollars.

Even if we calculate it at 100 yuan, it means you can spend 100 yuan to buy an apprenticeship position as a level 6 fitter in a county machinery factory, which can be converted to a regular employee.

It’s really not expensive at all, it can even be considered cheap.

After all, having a formal job in the city means having a city household registration and even the opportunity to get a house.

But the problem is that there is a famine now, and meat and food are life-saving things, but you can't buy them even if you have money.

The request made by the other party is simply harder than climbing to the sky.

Zhang Fengxian was silent for a moment. "Forget it, forget it. It's just my bad luck. I'll make a concession and give you half a pound of pork every four months, and the fine grain will remain the same. If you think it's okay, I can help you get it done the day after tomorrow."

"Isn't this request too much?"

Her bottom line has been lowered again and again, and it really can't be lowered any further. If it fails this time, she might as well not eat the meat.

Xu Manyue hesitated for a long time, and finally said, "Aunt, I'll go back and discuss it with my family first. I'm a new daughter-in-law who has just been married to my husband's family for a year, and my husband is away from home all year round. How can I make the decision on such an important matter? I must go back and discuss it with my husband's family."

"Look, how about I go back and discuss it tonight and give you an answer tomorrow?"

These things are not a problem for her, but for the Shen family, it is definitely not a trivial matter.

Although she hopes to transform Shen Jianping in this way, she can obtain transformation value and transformation rewards.

But she wouldn't fill in too much stuff in private, as it would be bad if someone found out.

Zhang Fengxian thought about it and agreed, so she waved her hand and said, "Alright, but before you leave, go and bring the meat that was sent to next door back to me. If that old woman eats it, where are you going to get another piece of meat? You might as well give it to me now."

"It also saves you from having to go through so much trouble to use your connections to buy meat."

Xu Manyue raised her eyes and looked at her, "Aunt, you said you could get things done, but how can I believe it? Are you telling the truth?"

"What if I go next door to get the meat back and you don't get it back? Then I'll be left with nothing, and I'll have offended Aunt Li's family next door for nothing."

Zhang Fengxian smiled and asked, "Are you worried about this?"

"Oh, don't worry. Although I, Zhang Fengxian, am not a good person, I still keep my word. If you don't believe me, you can go out and ask around, and you will believe it naturally."

"Of course, if you're really afraid that I'll cheat you, you can wait until everything is settled before giving it to me. Anyway, I need a letter of introduction to go anywhere now, and I can't run away."

Although Xu Manyue was curious about what kind of ability this person had that could make a sixth-level fitter in the county machinery factory give him an apprenticeship position.

But she also knew that if the other party didn't say anything about this, it was because he didn't want to tell her.

"Aunt, I'm going to go back and discuss it with my family."

"Go ahead, go ahead. Just remember to come over at this time tomorrow."

Before Xu Manyue left the yard, she inadvertently glanced into Zhang Fengxian's house.

There had been several children lying in front of the window in the house, staring at her. They were all very thin and had extremely pale faces.

After she left Zhang Fengxian, she went to ask a few nearby aunties about the situation.

"You're talking about Zhang Fengxian. She looks unfamiliar to you. She's probably not from here. No wonder you don't recognize her. I'm giving you a piece of advice: stay away from her."

"She's a restless person. She claims to have adopted children from her family, but the two oldest ones are actually hers. I heard she had them with several men."

"She's already in her forties, and she's not ashamed at all. Luckily her husband died young, otherwise he would have died of rage if he saw her like this."

"Yes, I see you're young and from a good family. Don't get close to that woman. It would be bad if she led you astray."

……

After some inquiries, Xu Manyue roughly understood that Zhang Fengxian should be related to the sixth-level fitter in the county machinery factory, and the relationship was not shallow.

I heard that the sixth-level fitter was not young anymore. Although he had no wife or children, he was ugly, so he failed in his pursuit of Zhang Fengxian several times.