Reborn 1980: Cannon fodder mother changes her life against fate

Chapter 76 The eldest brother is facing layoff

Year after year, the gears of time never stopped, and Lu Chuyao's family followed the spring breeze of reform to 1990.

Child Song Zhiyu, no, he should be called a primary school student. He is nine years old this year and will soon be in fourth grade.Under the careful feeding of his mother and grandmother, he is a head taller than other children of the same age. I don't know, I thought he was a junior high school student.

However, this kind of superficial deception will not last long. When he opens his mouth, he is still a primary school student.

The voice has not yet changed, and his voice is still milky. Lu Chuyao thinks it is cute, but he himself is very distressed.

"Grandma, I'm going to go play ball with Xiao Ling. I'll be back in half an hour." As soon as he put down his schoolbag, he went out to play again without resting for a moment.

In recent years, the old lady's ears have become increasingly difficult to use. When her family speaks to her, she has to raise eight tones before she can hear them.

Song Zhiyu repeated it at the top of his throat, and the old lady nodded with a fan, and said in a slow voice, "Don't fight, just go home and eat when the time comes, ah."

Ding bell, the landline phone in the living room rang.

The old lady was holding the wooden rocking chair with one hand and was about to get up. Lu Chuyao, who heard the phone ringing in the room, quickly came out to answer the call, "Hello?"

"Sister-in-law~, um, say,... don't cry, speak slowly, I'm listening." Eight hundred expressions changed in one minute, until the word "laid off" came into the ear from the microphone, and the face began to become serious.

The hand holding the microphone paused slightly, but she forgot, forgot about this incident.

The life was so comfortable and unrestrained that she forgot about the nationwide wave of layoffs in 1990.Being laid off has swept through countless families, and the resulting tragedies are too numerous to mention.

She cleared her throat and straightened her tone, "Has the notice of layoffs been issued? Are you sure that my brother is on the list of laid-off workers?"

The sister-in-law cried, "Yes, your brother said that the factory has been unable to make ends meet in the past two years, and all the masters who are more senior than him have been laid off. Oh, oh, oh, what should I do, little sister, your nephew is about to be in the third year of junior high school, and will have to take the high school entrance examination and college entrance examination in the future Yes."

"Your niece is only three years old. Wow, your brother has lost his job. It's like the sky has fallen for our family. The two children need money everywhere..."

Lu Chuyao didn't want to hear the complaints that followed.Perhaps because of the second child, she always felt that her sister-in-law's personality had changed drastically. She became nagging, careless, and tended to develop into a resentful woman.

She interrupted in time, "Where is my brother?"

"He hasn't come back yet. He may be looking for connections outside to see if there is any room for change."

There should be no room for turning around, Lu Chuyao thought.

After hanging up the phone, he let out a long breath, and multiple plans appeared in his head instantly, including plana, planb, etc.

At some point, the old lady walked up behind her and asked like a ghost, "What happened to your brother and sister-in-law? Did they have a quarrel?"

Lu Chuyao patted his chest and replied in shock, "...No, it's my brother."

"What's wrong with your brother?" The old lady now likes to ask questions, especially gossip.

Although I was speechless, after all, I was my husband’s grandmother, so I had to be polite and respectful. “My brother has become a homeless person.”

In order to prevent the old lady from continuing to ask what a vagrant is and why she became one, she chose to escape.

When Song Zhiyu finished playing ball, he came home in a stinking sweat, and there was no movement in the kitchen.

He was also surprised, "Grandma, aren't you going to have dinner today?" After exercising, his stomach was growling with hunger.

The old lady pointed to the study and whispered, "Your mother doesn't know what she is doing. She is so mysterious that she doesn't even cook."

Since the old lady suddenly fainted in the kitchen two years ago, Lu Chuyao stopped letting her cook.

So when Song Mingze was not at home, the task of cooking would occasionally fall on his son.

"Then I'll go cook..." Song Zhiyu put the ball into the storage basket, turned around and walked towards the kitchen.

I am familiar with scooping rice, washing rice, measuring water, putting it in the rice cooker and pressing the cooking button, "ok!"

Glancing at the closed study, Song Zhiyu felt that his mother wouldn't come out for a while, so he turned around and prepared to take a shower first.Even he himself couldn't bear the smell of sweat, let alone his mysophobic mother.

While she is away, quickly make yourself tidy and fresh.

As soon as I entered the bathroom, the study door next to me opened.Lu Chuyao changed his worried look and walked briskly to the living room. Seeing his grandma still playing with the old radio, he casually said, "Mom, can I buy you a new one?"

The old lady waved her hands without raising her head and said slowly, "Your son has cooked the rice and is taking a shower in the bathroom now."

"Oh", this kid must have just finished playing basketball, as evidenced by the small amount of dirt and dust left on the floor tiles next to the storage basket.

Normally, this kind of challenge to mysophobia would make her hairy, but today, she didn't care.Even when cooking in the kitchen, she still thinks about investing...

Yes, she decided to invest in his brother.

After careful analysis, she felt that there was nothing to fear about being laid off. In the 90s, there was gold everywhere.If you have hands and feet, as long as you work hard, you can support your family no matter what you do.

So after eating, she called back home. The number belonged to Uncle Niu's house next door. His son became rich at the Pengcheng construction site. After he got rich, he immediately connected the phone line to his family.

Uncle Niu's voice was loud, and he stood at the door of his house and shouted to the Lu family's yard, "Haoyang, Minghui, your sister's phone number~"

Suddenly, the sound of footsteps sounded in the quiet courtyard, which seemed to be in a hurry. The courtyard door was forcefully opened from the inside. The usually calm man's breath was disturbed at this moment, and he replied quickly, "Uncle Niu, my sister didn't hang up, right?"

"No, I'm just waiting for you to answer the phone."

"Hey, thank you, Uncle Niu."

Afraid that her sister would wait too long, she took two steps with her long legs and left her wife Yao Minghui far behind.

Uncle Niu slowly walked behind with his hands behind his back, muttering, "What's going on? You're in such a hurry..."

The call was very brief and can be summarized in two points.First, how is the health of the parents and whether they have been checked recently.Second, make arrangements at home and come to her as soon as possible.

Lu Jianjun held a cigarette between his fingers, his slightly frowning brows were covered in white mist and his expression could not be seen clearly. Only the words he spoke could reveal his sad expression.

"Your sister asked you to find her. Did you tell her why? Could it be that she found a job for you?"

"I don't know. My sister didn't say anything else, so she just asked me to buy a ticket and leave early. Tsk, that's so mysterious. What kind of job can you find for me?" He is a technician in the factory, and he won't be able to use it when he comes out.

Li Miaohua sat in a corner of the main room with her granddaughter in her arms, and said calmly, "You will know when you go. Anyway, your sister will not harm you."

"Haoyang, mom just wants to remind you that as a brother, don't rely on your sister for everything. Your sister has helped the family enough, and I'm afraid Mingze has something in mind."

"...Yeah, Mom, I understand."

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