After Geng Changqing left, Su Mo looked at the red envelope in her hand and opened it. She was given one hundred yuan, and the two children were given fifty yuan each.
Uncle Geng's salary is about the same as Lu Changzheng's, and now he has lost two months' salary. It's a good thing that he hasn't gotten married yet, otherwise his lover would probably come here with a big knife to kill him.
Sometimes, when you owe too much, you just have to lie down and pay it back later when you are able.
Su Mo put away the red envelope and opened the two small ones separately. Unexpectedly, the two little ones, less than eight months old, had a savings of 135 yuan each by receiving red envelopes.
She heard a saying in later generations - small wealth depends on hard work, and big wealth depends on elders and luck.
It makes perfect sense.
On the second day of the Lunar New Year, everyone in the Lu family was at home except for the eldest brother who went back to his parents' house to visit relatives and Lu Xiaolan who went to work.
Because of Zhao Jiuxiang's trouble, Lu Guihua did not return to her parents' home. If Lu Guihua didn't mention going, Lu Weiguo would naturally not say that he was going. Lu Fubao, on the other hand, carried his things and went to visit relatives in the second room, treating them as a brother and sister.
In the evening, when Lu Xiaolan came over, Su Mo saw that she seemed worried and asked her, but she said she was fine.
On the third day of the new year, Lu Xiaolan took a break. Li Yue'e thought that it would be rare to celebrate the New Year and no one would have to go to work, so she thought about going for a walk in the county as a family.
Since Lu Changzheng took her to visit the city last year, Li Yuee'e's mentality has changed. She has worked hard all her life. When she gets old, she still has the opportunity to go out for a walk, open her eyes and see the world.
Because there were so many people, it was inconvenient to ride a bicycle. So together we all rented a tractor from the brigade to take the family to the county and then bring them back in the evening.
It's not a short trip to the county seat, and the tractor burns oil, so the team charged a usage fee of 2 yuan.
The money was paid by Lu Xingjun. He attracted a lot of deposits last year, and the credit union gave him a bonus of more than 80 yuan at the end of the year.
Except for Lu Fengqin, who had been to the county once with her father two years ago, none of the other children had ever been to the county. When they heard that they were going to the county, they all jumped up with joy.
Seeing how happy everyone was, Su Mo brought her camera with her to take some photos for everyone.
The tractor is not slow, and it takes about 40 minutes to reach the county seat. If you ride a bicycle, it will take more than an hour.
The tractor was driven by Lu Baoguo's youngest son. After telling everyone to meet at the entrance of the bathhouse around four o'clock in the afternoon, he took the bathing ticket and went into the bathhouse to take a bath.
Qingxi County is not big, so there aren’t really many attractions to visit, but the kids still had a blast watching it. Because they have never seen so many buildings.
In the brigade, all the houses are bungalows, and the only building in Hongqi Commune is the commune office building.
"Third Aunt, is it very comfortable to live in this building?" Lu Fengqin asked Su Mo. In their family, only Third Aunt was from the city.
Su Mo shook her head and said with a smile: "No, our home is still comfortable. We have a kang in winter. We can't burn a kang in the building because it gets cold in winter."
At this time, there was no such thing as heating in small places. Those who lived in buildings relied on coal-burning stoves for heating in winter, so naturally they were not as comfortable as burning a kang.
"Ah, you can't burn the kang? You won't be able to sleep that night?" The longing for the building that had just arisen in the children's hearts was instantly suppressed by Su Mo.
This building looks decent, but if you want to endure the cold, it’s better not to take it.
A large group of people went to the supply and marketing cooperative first. The children looked around and found everything very novel.
The supply and marketing cooperatives in the county are at least three or four times larger than those in the communes, and the types of goods are also much richer.
Now that they were all out playing, Li Yuee was not stingy and bought cakes, candies, and frozen pears for the children.
Su Mo looked around and didn't find Sister Liu. She was probably on vacation. Then I went to buy film. At this time, the film was a piece of 2 rolls, which could take 16 pictures. Su Mo bought three rolls directly.
After shopping, the family strolled around the county. Su Mo took a lot of photos for everyone, both group photos and individual photos.
At noon, the whole family went to a state-owned restaurant for dinner. It was too luxurious to order food for so many people, so they all ate noodles and steamed buns with the money given by Lu Boming.
After dinner, the whole family went to the cinema to watch a movie.
This was the era when eight model plays had been watched for eight years. Almost all of the movies released had been seen by these people before, but everyone was still very excited to see them in the cinema for the first time.
Movie tickets cost a dime each, and Lu Weiguo bought them, while Lu Xiaolan bought soda and popcorn for everyone.
Little Lele was so excited that when he arrived at the cinema, he was so sleepy that he fell asleep.
An An looked at it carefully for a while. This was the first time she had seen such a thing.
Although the scenes in this so-called movie are not as good as her photo-taking stone at that time, the photo-taking time is still quite long, but the people in it are extremely dull.
After watching the movie, it was almost time, so everyone went to the entrance of the bathhouse and took the tractor back.
On the way, Li Yue'e and Su Mo sighed, "The department stores in the city are better, but the ones in the county are still not worth seeing."
Unfortunately, it’s too far to go to the city if you don’t have a car.
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The year flies by and everyone is back to work.
In late February, Su Mo received a call from Geng Changqing, asking her to go to his office to get the translation test questions.
When Su Mo passed by, she asked about Cao Yatou. She thought about applying for Cao Yatou's reward before leaving, so that her life would be easier in the future.
This matter involves a relatively complicated matter. There are two parties looking for the so-called treasure. One is an external force, and the other is related to certain people. Therefore, Luo Yuan's matter is still in a stalemate for a while.
"This matter cannot be decided yet. If you want to apply for her reward before you leave, you can only find another name." Geng Changqing said.
Su Mo nodded, it seemed that she had to think of another way.
After returning, Su Mo spent two days translating the translation test questions sent from Yangcheng, which were all inquiry letters and reports on new products.
This was almost not difficult for Su Mo, so he quickly translated it and sent it back to the address given by Geng Changqing.
In mid-March, Su Mo received a reply from Yangcheng, affirming her foreign language ability. At the same time, she was invited to take the recruitment exam in Yangcheng at the end of April.
Su Mo naturally had to take this recruitment exam.
It's just that there has been no news from Lu Changzheng since he called in mid-January. Su Mo went to the post office and called the communication room of Lu Changzheng's new unit. Sure enough, Lu Changzheng was still participating in the training camp and had not returned.
Su Mo:......
It seems that I can only rely on myself.
After Su Mo returned to the brigade, she called Tao Peisheng, told him the situation, and asked him if he could contact the division commander.
Since Lu Changzheng was not here, she had no choice but to ask the leader to go through the formalities of joining the army and transfer the food related matters. Otherwise, when she got there, she would have neither housing nor food, and wouldn't she become a black household?
When Tao Peisheng heard this, he immediately promised to help her get it done and asked her to wait for news from him.
