Daily life of female supporting actresses in the 1970s

When I got home from work that day and returned to the educated youth camp, the postman happened to come to deliver mail. He was riding a donkey upside down. I guess there were a lot of packages.

Jiang Qiu looked at the postman, a middle-aged man in his forties. He was a little disappointed. It turned out that he was not the male protagonist.

I only remember that the male protagonist worked as a postman, but he had so many jobs that I can’t remember the exact time.

Qiao Lei received a super large package, which was almost as big as her. The Tian sisters, Xu Yan, and Qin Yiheng also received packages.

Many educated youth received letters, and Lin Xiaomei was no exception. When she saw that the letter was from her family asking her to exchange it for food coupons, she tore it up without saying a word.

Jiang Yanqiu also received a letter, which was written by Lu Yunxia. She probably didn't know that Jiang Mingzhu had written to her.

The letter starts by calling Jiang Yanqiu an ungrateful person. She didn't even bother to send a letter back to report her safety. Does she really want to sever ties with her family?

Later, he said that life was not easy at home, and asked her to save money, buy what she needed, and not spend money on what she shouldn't. He also asked her to behave well in the countryside and try to return to the city as soon as possible.

He also told her to keep the money safe and not let anyone steal it, and to deposit it in a savings bank if possible.

At the same time, he also advised her not to get married in the countryside, otherwise she would not be able to return to the city.

There is worry between the lines.

Lu Yunxia was very nice to other children and did not favor boys over girls, but she was particularly harsh on the original owner.

To say it's harsh is a bit too much.

Jiang Yanqiu's feelings towards the Jiang family became more and more complicated.

The Jiang family's conditions are not bad. When Jiang Anhua retired, he was a battalion commander. He worked in the logistics department of the Public Security Bureau for 20 years. Now he is also a cadre of medium status, with a monthly salary of 150 yuan.

Lu Yunxia is a nurse in a military hospital and earns more than 60 yuan a month.

The Jiang family has seven children. The eldest brother, Jiang Kaijie, is 25 years old. He went to the northwest to serve as a soldier in the spring of 1969. He is still a young soldier now. He only receives an allowance of 15 yuan per month. Although he has not sent any money home, he has never asked for money from his family.

The eldest sister Jiang Mingzhu was 23 years old and graduated from high school in 1971. Lu Yunxia was afraid that she would be assigned to work in the countryside, so she hurriedly got her married before she graduated. She married a good man and often contributed to the family's income.

Now there are only five children left in the family. Jiang's parents' salary allows the family to live a comfortable life, but Lu Yunxia is really a weird person.

My second sister Jiang Zhenzhu and Jiang Mingzhu are twins. Jiang Zhenzhu weighed only 3.2 jin when she was born. The doctor said she was born with congenital deficiencies and needed to be well taken care of.

Lu Yunxia has a certain preference for Jiang Zhenzhu. She has had everything she wanted since she was a child. She has been the boss in the family all these years. She even has a separate portion for meals, which is different from everyone else's.

She was also very extravagant with money, and her eldest sister Jiang Mingzhu could only wear clothes that she didn't want.

Jiang Mingzhu is 1.65 meters tall and Jiang Zhenzhu is 1.55 meters tall.

Now we don’t know what his congenital deficiency is. Anyway, compared with the Jiang family, he is a little thin, and nothing else can be seen.

Moreover, before she graduated from high school, Lu Yunxia made a fake medical record for her, saying that she had a congenital heart disease and could not go to the countryside.

The second brother Jiang Shaojie is eighteen years old this year. Lu Yunxia was injured when she gave birth to twins and could not have another child. It was almost five years later that she became pregnant with Jiang Shaojie, and it was another son. She really spoiled him to death.

Then there is the sixteen-year-old original owner. He ate from a big pot after he was born, and later encountered famine. In Lu Yunxia's eyes, he was an ominous person, and she had not been very nice to the original owner since childhood.

The original owner started helping with housework at the age of eight or nine. After Shen Mingzhu got married, all the housework was contracted to the original owner. Shen Zhenzhu even asked the original owner to wash her underwear and socks.

There was also a girl named Jiang Yuzhu in the family who was one and a half years younger than the original owner. She was actually born in 1959, and food became scarce as soon as she was born.

When Jiang Yuzhu was three months old, Lu Yunxia couldn't get enough nutrition, so she stopped breastfeeding her. But in Lu Yunxia's eyes, this meant that Jiang Yuzhu had suffered since childhood, not even having breast milk, and she had to make up for it.

When his eleven-year-old younger brother Jiang Chaojie was born, food supply returned to normal and Jiang Anhua was promoted to a higher rank. Jiang Chaojie suddenly became the lucky star of the family and was especially favored.

However, being the youngest, she received the most love, but also the most oppression. Her older siblings all went to high school, but when she came to the original owner, they said her grades were not good enough and she was not allowed to continue.

Aside from Jiang Kaijie, Jiang Mingzhu, and Jiang Yuzhu, the rest of the Jiang family didn't have very good academic records. However, these days, high school admission relies primarily on recommendations, not academic performance. Even if your grades are excellent, a poor family background can make it difficult to get a recommendation for high school or a technical secondary school. Poor grades don't matter; as long as your family has a clean background and enough money to support your education, you can still get a recommendation for high school. As for technical secondary schools, admission is based on merit, and you also need a clean family background.

After the Lunar New Year, Lu Yunxia stopped talking about the original owner going to high school, saying it would be pointless. Now that she was about to graduate from junior high school, the original owner still knew the 21st of 30, but she didn't know 21 divided by 3.

Jiang Yanqiu felt that it was most likely because the high school was far from home, and the original owner could not help with housework while in high school. The other four were all young masters and young ladies, and could not do housework.

The original owner was sensitive by nature and had known since childhood that Lu Yunxia didn't like her, otherwise she wouldn't have hidden in her bed and cried so many times after finishing school.

But the original owner was lucky! She had been at the park with her classmates when a child fell into the water. Seeing no one to help, she jumped in to save the child. The child's family worked in the postal and telecommunications sector, and the child's grandmother was about to retire, and there were no children in the family who could take over her job. To thank the original owner, she let her take over.

So, because of her bravery, the original owner got her junior high school diploma early and got a job at the Post and Telecommunications Bureau. Lu Yunxia originally wanted to give this job to Jiang Zhenzhu or Jiang Shaojie. If she gave it to Jiang Zhenzhu, she would have a partner and it would be easier for her to talk to her in-laws.

Jiang Zhenzhu doesn't want to go to work. She can just stay at home and have money to spend without doing anything. Who would want to go to work?

It takes an hour to take the bus to get to work at the post office. When she heard that Lu Yunxia was going to give her the job, she immediately pretended to be unwell.

Lu Yunxia originally wanted to give it to Jiang Shaojie, but then she found out that Jiang Shaojie had already volunteered to go to the countryside, and he was the kind that couldn't be pulled back even by nine oxen.

The policy on sending children to the countryside is not so strict now. The current policy is that if there are two children, one will go to the countryside; if there are three children, two will go; if there are four children, at least two will go; if there are five children, at least three will go.

However, many parents know that it is not easy for their children to go to the countryside.

As long as you can find a job before the final deadline for registering to go to the countryside and are not reported, the street office and the Youth League Office will turn a blind eye.

But if you don't find a job before the deadline, you will have to go to the countryside.

I don't know what was wrong with Jiang Shaojie before, but he insisted on being an activist. Before he even graduated from high school, he signed up to go to the countryside without telling his parents.

If it weren’t for the original owner’s job, his family wouldn’t have known that he had signed up to go to the countryside.

No matter how much persuasion was done, they refused to come back. Lu Yunxia looked around at the educated youth who had gone to the countryside to work and found that the most educated youth from Su Province went back to visit their families, had the longest home leave, and were in the best condition.

But now Su Province no longer accepts educated youth from other places. Lu Yunxia spent money and gave gifts, and finally arranged for Jiang Shaojie to go to Su Province to work in the countryside.

As it was almost time to go to the countryside, Jiang Shaojie changed his mind and refused to go when he saw that none of his good classmates were going.

It is easy to arrange a job. Jiang Anhua has some ability and he will definitely be able to find a job.

But the problem is that Jiang Shaojie's name has already been reported, so it is impossible not to go to the countryside. Someone from the Jiang family must go to the countryside.