That night, Su Mo, a financial fanatic, began to do the accounting again. After doing the calculations, he currently had more than 6,900 yuan in cash.
It's only May 1, and April's wages haven't been paid yet. When the two people's wages are paid, it will be enough for 7,000 yuan.
If I can continue to work as a translator, I estimate that I will soon become a "ten thousand yuan household".
However, Su Mo's intuition shouldn't be that easy. Although the atmosphere is now more relaxed, the overall environment is not particularly good. It will probably take another two years before things become more relaxed.
Sure enough, by mid-May, Su Mo received another letter and translation from the editor. The letter said that the novel would not be translated for the time being and that Su Mo would be asked to translate the others first.
Su Mo took a look and found two academic research papers on the industrialization of production.
Su Mo thinks it's good to publish this. It can help Chinese people better understand the current industrial status of foreign countries and clearly see the gap between the two sides. It may give some impetus to our industry.
On this day, after Su Mo finished setting up the experimental site, she went to the brigade headquarters to check last month's electricity bill and prepared to pay it.
At the beginning of April, the electricity meter applied for by the power supply office came down, and they came over to install the electricity meter for everyone. This was the first time that the electricity meter was charged according to the actual meter.
However, Su Mo estimated that her home would not be cheap. When installing the electricity meter, Lu Changzheng asked people from the power supply station to install light tubes. Moreover, she often stayed up late last month to translate, and the lights were turned on until midnight. It just went out.
Su Mo looked at the bulletin board and found that everyone saves a lot of electricity. Basically, they use 1 to 2 kilowatt hours of electricity, and the electricity bill is between 20 and 30 cents.
Su Mo quickly found Lu Changzheng's name. Good guy, the electricity consumption is 8.6 kilowatt-hours, which is 22 cents per kilowatt hour. The electricity bill is 1.89 cents, which is a discount of 2%.
Just when Su Mo was about to pay the money, someone suddenly stopped her.
"Su Mo? You are Sister Su Mo, right?" A girl with two pigtails walked towards Su Mo.
"I am Jiang Yue and Jiang Lan is my sister." The little girl was a little excited and burst into laughter as soon as she opened her mouth. "Oh my god, I didn't expect to meet you here. Are you married? Your belly is so big. You are about to give birth. ?”
Su Mo dug out from the memory of the original owner that there was a person like Jiang Lan, who was a high school classmate of the original owner. When he was in school, he often played with the original owner and Yang Suyun.
But after graduation, I met a date in Sioux City. In order not to go to the countryside, I quickly married to Sioux City. After that, I had less contact with him.
"Hello. Why are you here? Is your sister okay?" Since she is the sister of an acquaintance, she needs to exchange greetings.
"I came here to go to the countryside. I just arrived yesterday. My sister is doing well. My brother-in-law was transferred to Haishi to work at the beginning of the year. After my sister came back, she still wanted to find you. Unexpectedly..." Jiang Yue said Suddenly he stopped talking and smiled awkwardly at Su Mo.
"It's fine," Su Mo said, "I also came here to go to the countryside last year, so I won't get married here anymore."
Jiang Yue saw that Su Mo was well dressed and guessed that she would marry well. From the look of her, she probably didn't have to work.
This was good, because yesterday she saw other educated youths coming back from the fields, covered in mud and almost unable to straighten their waists. She will also start working in the fields tomorrow, and I don’t know if she can adapt to it.
"I have to write a letter to my sister, telling her that I met you here and that you are fine, so that she can rest assured." Jiang Yue said, then lowered his voice, "You don't know, my sister came back and found that something happened to you all. Extremely worried.”
Su Mo's eyes flashed and she asked, "What's wrong with Yang Suyun?"
"You don't know, she was miserable. She got her job by cheating. After it was found out, she was fired from the factory. Her father fell downstairs when he was drunk. He was paralyzed and couldn't speak. Her mother sent her and her father back to her hometown."
"The house allocated to them by the school has also been taken back. His mother now lives in her uncle's house. Her brother is lucky and has become the son-in-law of the textile factory director."
"Everyone is spreading the news that it was her father who reported your father, right?" Jiang Yue asked in a low voice.
"There's no smoke without fire. Since everyone says so, it means it's true." Su Mo said calmly.
"I really didn't expect them to be so bad, but now it's good, I think they got their comeuppance. I just pitied your family... Oh, but you are doing well now, so we can feel relieved."
The Jiang family also ate relief food from the Su family during those difficult years, and was quite grateful to the Su family.
"Sister Su Mo, I'm going to leave first. I have to go to the supply and marketing cooperative with them to buy things, and I will go to the fields tomorrow." Jiang Yue pointed to a few people waiting not far away.
"Okay, go ahead." Su Mo waved her hand.
She heard that seven more educated youths came this year, four women and three men. There were originally nine people, and together with the new seven people, there were sixteen people in total. It was estimated that the educated youth spot would be lively again.
Hearing Jiang Yue tell the fate of the Yang family, Su Mo felt happy, but it was a pity that the Yang family was not killed. Yang Suhong was lucky enough to get a job as the factory director.
However, after feeling happy, Su Mo was a little worried again. She didn't know if Jiang Yue would tell the truth about her family's situation, so she had to think of a way to deal with it first.
Although it won't have much substantive impact on her, it is certain that she will be criticized for a while.
She doesn't know the details about Jiang Yue yet, so she won't take the initiative to go to her and tell her not to tell. What if this person is not a good person and takes the initiative to expose her weakness? How will she deal with it in the future if someone uses this to threaten her?
After Su Mo paid the electricity bill, she went home to make lunch. Now that she is a month old, she is eating more and more, and she has to eat five or six meals a day.
On the way to the commune, a new educated youth asked Jiang Yue: "Jiang educated youth, who was that person just now? Do you know any relatives here?"
"No, that person is my sister's classmate and an educated youth, but he got married here."
"Is her name Su Mo?" asked a female educated youth. She shared a room with another female educated youth and Zheng Caiping. Last night she heard her talk about some past events.
"How do you know?" Jiang Yue was surprised.
"I heard from Zheng Zhiqing, she is a celebrity among the educated youth."
"Having been here for more than half a month, she married the son of the brigade party secretary who is an officer. The previous commune secretary was her uncle. A gold mine was discovered a year ago. When she reported it, the state rewarded her with 500 yuan and also arranged a job. .”
"Her lover has also been promoted to team leader, and is now transferred back to be responsible for gold mining. It is said that she is still pregnant with twins. Before, her mother-in-law drove a donkey cart to and from get off work. It is really enviable."
The more the educated youth talked, the more envious she became. Who wouldn't want such a life?
"What does her family do? Are her parents also cadres?" someone asked.
"Yes, her grandpa is very powerful. Even the country's top leaders have met him." Jiang Yue didn't want to say more, so she vaguely explained.
Several people were stunned when they heard this, but their hearts felt strangely balanced. Such powerful people have all gone to the countryside, and they seem to have nothing to complain about.
