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"Mom, I'm fine. Don't worry. I won't do anything rash. Don't you believe me? Long-distance calls are expensive. You should write back."

Meng Wantang talked for a long time before hanging up the phone.

Mrs. Cui poured a glass of water and said, "Drink some water to moisten your throat."

Having talked too much just now, Meng Wantang picked up the cup and drank it all.

She looked outside and saw Mrs. Cui secretly looking at the yard next door. She called her in quietly, "What are you looking at?"

"The Zhou family is quarreling again."

Mrs. Cui usually has nothing to do, so she just lives by enjoying the fun next door. Whenever there is a little noise next door, she wants to go over and take a look. She was working in the house just now and didn't hear any noise, but now she is very curious.

"I heard everything outside just now." Meng Wantang changed into a comfortable position and lay down.

When Mrs. Cui heard this, she hurried over with a knife to peel an apple for him. Meng Wantang opened his eyes and looked at Mrs. Cui.

"Don't peel the apples. I prefer to eat the skin. The skin has more flavor."

Mrs. Cui quickly handed over the apple.

"What's the quarrel next door about this time?"

"What else could it be? Of course it's because of the house." Meng Wantang took a bite of the apple and looked up to see Mrs. Cui looking at him eagerly, waiting for him to continue.

She couldn't help laughing.

"None of the Zhou family's girls wanted to leave and wanted to stay here, but none of the Zhou family's sons wanted them to stay. Finally, Zhong Yuemei took the lead and said they wanted to build a house in the yard. The house wasn't big, just two rooms for each person. Zhou Yuemei borrowed a camera from somewhere and climbed up the wall to take pictures."

After hearing the whole gossip, Mrs. Cui said with satisfaction: "So that's what happened. But the Zhou family is really capable of doing things. If my daughter wants to come back and live here, let her stay. If you don't want to share the benefits with your daughter, then make it clear in advance. There will be a place for them to stay. It's good for you, me, and everyone."

"Some things just can't be said. If they were said, there would be trouble."

Why didn’t so many members of the Zhou family separate?

Is it because the company didn’t provide housing?

It’s because the house at the company is too small and not as big as the house at home, so all my brothers want the house at home.

Mrs. Cui naturally understood these things. She said, "The house at home must be divided. Let's make it clear while everyone is here, and then move in to the company and wait for the company to distribute houses. If they keep squeezing here, the company will definitely not give them priority in allocating houses."

"Look, you understand this kind of thing, so why don't they understand it too? It's just that no one wants to suffer a loss, and no one wants to take this step back first."

Meng Wantang felt a little sleepy, so she got up and went back to her room to rest.

Not even two days passed.

The foundation next door has been laid and the house construction has begun.

In order to save money, the house was built next to the old house, thus saving the bricks of one wall.

The small house is not too high, but not too short either.

The small red brick house was built in just a few days.

Meng Wantang didn't see what the house looked like, so she climbed over the wall secretly to see it.

After she finished her inspection, she came back and told Meng Wantang, "The houses next door have been built. They were built very quickly. I don't know where those Zhou sisters found these people from. More than 20 of them came at once."

“They should all be educated youth returning to the city.”

Meng Wantang ate fruit and watched TV while explaining to Mrs. Cui: "Now the policy has been relaxed, allowing people to return home freely with information. But the educated youths who return to the city also need a place to stay. If there is no receiving unit, they still cannot get their hukou. There are so many educated youths now, and there are also many children of educated youths. In addition to the problem of their children going to school, there is also the problem of their own work."

"What's the good of going back to the city? Can't we still have food to eat in the countryside?"

"You can earn more money in the city than in the countryside. There are more opportunities in the city than in the countryside. Children in the city have better conditions for studying. The teaching staff is also stronger than in the countryside. The world they are exposed to is also different from that of children in the countryside." Meng Wantang took a sip of water and said slowly, "Let's not talk about others, just talk about yourself. You can find a job in the city and earn more money than the people in your county textile factory. Do you think the city is not good?"

Mrs. Cui is speechless.

"Besides, these educated youth were originally from the city. Why wouldn't they come back? When they went to the countryside, they even moved their household registration there, turning from city dwellers into farmers. They accepted their fate, but for the sake of their children, they still want to put on this shameless face and fight again."

Meng Wantang understands those who know the truth.

"But, they have no jobs and no place to live when they come back. How can they survive?"

"Find a job, be a temporary worker, or do something else. The industry has been liberalized now, and there are thousands of ways to make money."

Meng Wantang didn't say that a few years later, the factory closed down, the workers were laid off, and the dual-income family faced the biggest difficulty in life. At that time, it was more lively.

The time when the educated youth return to the city now is several years different from the time when the educated youth returned to the city in her original world.

But the overall trend has not changed.

The educated youth can’t find jobs when they return to the city now, but they can still find many temporary jobs.

"The boss of the Zhou family has laid off employees in his factory."

Mrs. Cui came in with a gossipy look on her face and shared the new news with Meng Wantang.

Meng Wantang was surprised: "Layoffs? What's going on?"

Is it not the peak period for layoffs yet?

"I heard that their factory's performance was not very good, and the higher-ups required them to keep only one production line. Many older employees were to be laid off, and the boss next door happened to meet this criterion, so he was laid off. Now there's a commotion next door. The boss of the Zhou family said that the reason he was laid off was because of the Zhou girls. He had been silent before, but this time he went crazy and insisted on driving Zhou Yuemei and the others away."

Mrs. Cui was not excited at all this time, she was thinking about herself.

The weather is getting colder and colder, and the New Year is approaching.

Every household was in low spirits.

There were fewer people in the alley, and when people met each other they no longer chatted as much as before. It seemed as if everyone had lost the desire to chat.

Meng Wantang hasn't gone out recently and has been strolling around in the yard.

this day.

Lan Youyi came to see Meng Wantang with some nutritional supplements. Seeing her walking around in circles in the yard, she immediately said distressedly, "How about I take you out for a walk?"

"Mom, no need. I just walked around the yard for a while. You said you would come over, so why did you bring so many things?"

Meng Wantang and Lan Youyi walked into the yard side by side.

"If we don't take these things, we have to send them back to my hometown. You have seen what kind of people they are in my hometown."

"Why are those people here again?" Meng Wantang asked Mrs. Cui to make a pot of tea, and she poured it for Lan Youyi.

Lan Youyi took off her coat, hung it up, and then returned to the sofa and said, "Those people are really thick-skinned. Now that they know your dad has been promoted, they all stick to him like dog-skin plasters. They expect your dad to help arrange jobs for them. A few nice words have softened your dad's heart."

Lan Youyi was too lazy to stay at home and look after the people from the Lu family, so she came over with her luggage to see Meng Wantang.

"Mom, you can't leave at a time like this. If you leave, it would be a sign of weakness."

Meng Wantang immediately called Mrs. Cui.

Mrs. Cui came over in a hurry.

"My mother-in-law is taking me over to stay for a few days. The kids love meatballs. Go buy some meat and fry some meatballs."

"Then I'll go make it as soon as possible and install it for you after it's blasted."

"Row."

Mrs. Cui took the money and went out.

Soon he bought more than ten kilograms of meat.

"I asked them to help me process the minced meat. I gave them two dollars more."

Mrs. Cui also specifically told Meng Wantang about it.

"We'll do this from now on. Letting others help mince the stuffing is much faster than making more meat ourselves."

Meng Wantang felt that the two dollars were well worth it.

Mrs. Cui said, "If I wasn't in a hurry today, I would have done it myself."

"We have a big family and our children eat a lot, so we usually just let them prepare the fillings for dumplings and buns. It's still acceptable to spend an extra dollar or two."

Meng Wantang invited people over to cook for her, not to torture them to death.

Although she is a nanny, she still has dignity. Selling her labor is not dignity.

"That's fine."

Mrs. Cui happily went to work.

"The nanny you hired is really good." Lan Youyi was very satisfied.

"It's fate that determines who she is. She has her faults, but they are minor. Overall, it's comfortable to get along with her. She's hardworking and has good cooking skills. The kids really like the food she cooks."

"I'll go take a look in the kitchen."

Lan Youyi went to the kitchen and came back after a short while, carrying a plate of fried meatballs.

"This meatball is really delicious, you should try it quickly. I didn't expect her cooking skills to be so good."

"If you like, you can let her go to the compound with you."

Meng Wantang asked her mother-in-law to take the person away without saying a word.

Lan Youyi couldn't do such a thing. Isn't it annoying? If she were her biological mother, she might agree, but this is her daughter-in-law.

As a mother-in-law, she should have some sense of propriety.

"Just leave her here if you don't need to."

The meatballs are fried.

Mrs. Cui also made a lot of other delicious dishes, all of which were put in a basin and covered with a layer of gauze.

"It's not that hot right now. How long can these things be kept? If you really can't finish them, just freeze them in the refrigerator. You like sticky rice dumplings, don't you want me to steam two pots for you?"

Meng Wantang said, "Let's make some rice cakes. I prefer rice cakes and don't really want to eat bean curd."

"Row."

Mrs. Cui said, "Then I'll send it to you when it's done."

"Okay, let's go."

Meng Wantang and Lan Youyi sat in the back, and the driver drove them back.

When Meng Wantang entered the yard, she found it quite quiet and thought that no one had left.

Who knew that when she entered the room she saw a pool of blood on the floor.

Meng Wantang's face turned pale, and when she saw the nanny come out, she immediately asked the nanny.

"What on earth is going on? Who is injured?"