Daily life of female supporting actresses in the 1970s

When they parted, Jiang Yanqiu said to Shen Shuyan awkwardly, "Comrade Shen, if you run into my family in the future, please don't mention my return to the city."

Shen Shuyan smiled and said, "I don't like to meddle in other people's business."

If he hadn't really been fed up with the fact that Li Conghui, a country boy, had no self-awareness and wanted to step on others, he wouldn't have said anything.

Gu Qingshi, Gu Qingqing and a few others also went to Lin Shaoyang to get familiar with the route, and stopped by to visit Jiang Yanqiu.

Gu Qingqing turned around and praised: "You really know how to live."

Jiang Yanqiu explained: "It just happened to happen. Even if I buy a monthly bus pass, the cost is almost enough to cover the rent, so I just rented it."

Gu Qingqing couldn't help but sigh: "The buses here are really scary. Once we went to climb the Great Wall, and we squeezed several times but still couldn't get on."

Gu Qingqing had never even taken the subway in her previous life, but now she has to try her best to squeeze in when taking the train or bus.

But there is no way, she can only adapt to the local customs, otherwise it is impossible to ride a bicycle to far places. You should not go, especially in cold weather, riding a bicycle is painful. Now she feels that she has become rude.

Jiang Yanqiu listened and said with a smile: "Are you going there on the weekend?"

Gu Qingqing said: "I went there during the Chinese New Year."

"No wonder."

It was getting late, so after chatting for a while, Gu Qingqing and the others went back.

Before leaving, Gu Qingqing specifically instructed: "If you hear anyone selling a house, remember to tell me. I also want to buy a house of my own."

"Okay." Jiang Yanqiu agreed readily. As for whether she could introduce something, that was her own business. She would also like to buy something if there was a suitable one.

After the new week began, Jiang Yanqiu found that she had met Aunt Lai quite frequently. Sometimes she would come to use the toilet early in the morning.

After Jiang Yanqiu found out that the other party did it on purpose, she stopped exercising in the yard every morning. She went out to exercise directly and only came back when it was time to go to work. She also took her lunch to the Chinese medicine clinic and never came back.

It saves me from having to spend time and energy dealing with Aunt Lai every time. It’s tiring, and it’s impossible to let her be the scapegoat.

After Jiang Yanqiu started going out early and coming back late every day, Aunt Lai had no chance to take advantage of her and could not meet Jiang Yanqiu at all.

Jiang Yanqiu also takes time to tidy up the yard and grow some vegetables.

Sometimes this city is really not that great. You have to queue up early in the morning to buy vegetables. If you go at noon or in the afternoon, you can only buy unfresh vegetables, and sometimes they are all gone.

Later, Jiang Yanqiu and Tian Mi took turns buying groceries and helped each other carry them.

At the end of the month when salaries were paid, Jiang Yanqiu still had one yuan in housing allowance, three and a half yuan in transportation allowance, an industrial coupon, and one and a half kilograms of meat coupons, cloth coupons, and so on.

Overall, her salary is enough for her to live a comfortable life and save a little.

They were given meat coupons, but they had no time to queue up to buy meat, and the supply of meat was limited, so they almost all spent their meat coupons on state-owned restaurants.

It was almost time for the second month's paycheck. Before 3 p.m., Tian Mi came running up to her and said, "The food station has meat available today. They'll start selling it at 6 p.m. Do you want to go buy some meat?"

Before Jiang Yanqiu could reply, her supervisor, Master Gao, spoke up: "Xiao Jiang, if you don't have anything else to do today, go home early. And by the way, tell your Aunt Sun that there's meat available at the grocery store today."

After saying that, Master Gao didn't even take the food and ran away, and the other two did the same.

Jiang Yanqiu helped them pack up and ran to tell Sun Yufang, but Sun Yufang was gone.

When she and Tian Mi arrived at the food station, there were already quite a few people queuing there, including many people from their Chinese medicine clinic, including Sun Yufang.

Jiang Yanqiu said to Tian Mi with emotion: "Your neighborhood is really well-informed."

Tian Mi said proudly, "Of course not. Our host's son works in a meat processing plant. He knows exactly which supply point has meat and when."

They said it would start selling at 6:00, but it actually started selling at 5:30. Each person was limited to buying half a pound of meat.

Jiang Yanqiu and his friends were at the front of the line and, as they were strong, they were able to grab half a pound of pork belly, two spare ribs, and a pig's trotter. There was no limit on the last two items and they were available on a first-come, first-served basis.

She planned to send the spare ribs and pig's trotters to Jiang Mingzhu. After the Chinese New Year, the vendors selling live chickens, ducks and fish disappeared, and pork became a rare commodity.

Liu Yunsheng was so busy that he had no time to rest. Jiang Mingzhu was so pregnant that she could hardly walk steadily, let alone grab the meat.

Jiang Yanqiu sent her some of the meat she grabbed. Although she had a lot of meat in her space, the taste was different from what she had now, so it was better to be cautious, even if they were sisters.

Seeing that it was still early, Jiang Yanqiu simply asked Tian Mi to take the meat back and send the pig's trotters and ribs to Jiang Mingzhu.

As expected, Jiang Mingzhu and her son were the only ones at home. Jiang Yanqiu asked as soon as she entered the room, "Is my brother-in-law working overtime again?"

Jiang Mingzhu sighed: "There are too many people causing trouble outside recently. They are too busy and confused. You should not get involved.

Dad and your brother-in-law both said that the higher-ups are discussing arresting those who caused the disturbance. If they get arrested, they'll lose their jobs. That's not worth it. Yesterday, the seventh child came over and said that the sixth child joined the parade and got beaten up by Dad again. He beat her up so badly that she couldn't face going out and making trouble.

Jiang Yanqiu then remembered that Qingming Festival was coming soon.

He simply said, "I've been so busy all day that I wish there were forty-eight hours in a day. How can I have the time to do these things?"

Then he changed the subject and said, "By the way, my friend heard in advance that there was pork available today, so I quickly went to grab some ribs and pig's trotters and brought them to you to replenish your body."

Jiang Mingzhu didn't know what to do for a moment, so she could only complain, "You send everything to me, what are you going to eat?"

Jiang Yanqiu smiled and said, "I still have half a pound of pork belly. You can decide whether you want to eat the ribs or the pig's trotters first. I'll chop them up and stew them for you."

Before Jiang Mingzhu could speak, Liu Huaijing rushed in and said, "Auntie, I want to eat spare ribs."

Jiang Mingzhu said helplessly, "Then let's have spare ribs. You've spoiled Xiao Jing'er's taste. Yesterday, he complained that Lao Qi's cooking wasn't as delicious as yours. Fortunately, Lao Qi was generous and didn't think of anything else."

"It's a good thing for children to be able to eat. I've washed and salted the pig's trotters for you. Remember to wash them and stew them for tomorrow. It's getting hot and you can't keep them." After that, he asked, "How's Seventh Old Man's study going?"

When Jiang Chaojie was mentioned about his studies, Jiang Mingzhu laughed: "He did study, but he didn't make much progress. Your second sister even came to complain to me, saying that Old Seven was going to give her a heart attack."

When Jiang Yanqiu thought about Jiang Chaojie's learning attitude, she didn't know what to say.

Jiang Mingzhu continued, "My sister-in-law came to see me alone on Sunday. I gave her the money, but at first she refused to take it, saying it was a job opportunity you had worked so hard to get, and you gave it up to go back to the city and gave it to her, so she couldn't take advantage of you. Later, I made the decision and left you two hundred, and she accepted the remaining six hundred."

"Two hundred is two hundred, so what? She put it in my suitcase without saying a word. There are so many thieves on the bus now. Those people saw that you were well dressed, so they put the same bag as yours together and switched it with you when you got off the bus."

"She might be afraid that you won't want it. But she is much more sensible than your second brother. After receiving her salary, she bought food to show her filial piety to our parents and even sent us some cakes. Your second brother has been working for so long, and even Xiao Jing'er has never seen him give her any candy.

"I heard the benefits at the Post Office are pretty good, but I haven't seen him take anything home. I wonder where he sends it all."

Jiang Yanqiu said bluntly, "Wang Weiwei's family. This is all because of mom's spoiling. Lao Liu's cunning is also because of mom's spoiling. Mom introduced my second sister to a very good blind date, about 1.8 meters tall. My second sister was too self-conscious and refused to go, saying that going would be humiliating, so she asked me to send the person away.

I took Lao Liu with me, and he fell in love with the girl. He told me the reason why my second sister refused the blind date, and also said that I had become vulgar after going to the countryside and even ate big fat meat.

Jiang Mingzhu was also helpless, and just said Jiang Yuzhu said: "When eating big fat meat at home, Lao Liu's movements are no slower than anyone else."

Jiang Yanqiu smiled and said, "I feel that Lao Liu is a little too eager for quick success and instant benefits. He is a little clever and doesn't follow the right path. He only thinks about calculating others."

Jiang Mingzhu nodded and said, "Dad thinks so too. Look, he gets beaten one after another."

Jiang Yanqiu went back without having dinner, fearing it would be unsafe if she went too late and that there would be no car.