Another thing, the original won’s director Xie Yinfeng was dismissed, and the private teacher Li Xiaoxia also took on the role of the team’s won’s director.
Another day later, Wang Futang personally went to the commune, saying that he was not in good health, couldn’t handle it anymore, and voluntarily resigned as the team secretary.
Upon hearing this news, not to ntion Wang Lianfa, even Wang Liansheng and Ling Chengyan were silent, their suspicions were likely to co true.
With a small child around, ti seed to pass extraordinarily fast. In the blink of an eye, the child nad Hong Hui was already a month old.
Ling Chengyan and Wang Liansheng went to give gifts for the child’s full month celebration, but Hong Hui had his sleep schedule reversed, not sleeping at night and not waking during the day. Zheng Xiaotian, who had gained so weight during pregnancy, was noticeably thinner.
"I heard that there is soon going to be a policy allowing personal business, is it true?" Wang Lianfa inquired, pulling his cousin aside.
Wang Liansheng nodded with a smile, "Even if you didn’t ask , I was going to tell you about it anyway. The policy has already been implented in the south, and it should be coming here soon too. Once there’s a policy, second brother, you should quickly go get the paperwork done..."
Always setting up a stall on the street, even though the earnings weren’t bad and there were no taxes or managent fees to pay, it wasn’t secure. Every day felt like being a thief, constantly having to be alert for inspections, and even after earning money, others still looked down on you.
With the paperwork, it becos a legal business, conducting business honestly and making money openly and legitimately, standing tall as a person, and with a different spirit.
Wang Lianfa looked at his wife and children, smiled, and nodded, "Alright, keep an eye out for . When they start issuing licenses, I’ll be the first to get one."
On the way back ho from the second cousin’s house, Ling Chengyan suddenly said, "We still need to ask about the child’s household registration, it’s needed for preschool and school."
Wang Liansheng: "Yes, I’ve already asked soone to help with it, there should be results in the next couple of days."
Two days later, when Ling Chengyan returned from a trip, Wang Liansheng told her that the second cousin’s penalty had co out: a fine of seven hundred. After paying the fine, he could use the receipt to register the household.
Seven hundred yuan was not a small amount in the village. Back in the production team days, a family of ten earned only two to three hundred a year. Now, with land distribution, careful managent of the crops, and supplenting with vegetables and pigs, earning three to four hundred a year was considered a good year.
The fine startled the entire Nanli Team—seven hundred yuan! Marrying a wife only cost three hundred yuan, enough to marry two!
Soone joked, "Lianfa’s son is so precious, might as well call him Seven Hundred."
"Hey, Seven Hundred, haha, Seven Hundred it is! Precious!"
What was even more shocking to the village people was that Wang Lianfa had returned once, handed over seven hundred yuan in one go, swiftly registered his third son’s household, and brought back plenty of good stuff for his parents, older brother, sister-in-law, nephew, and niece. The children’s snacks and candies aside, he bought ready-made clothes for the young and old and even added a bicycle to the household.
The whole team was abuzz, the Wang Family’s second had struck it rich.
Ever since the household contract responsibility system, every household had been striving for better days, unlike the days when ’the poorer, the more glorious’ was the ideal.
Thinking about their own hard-earned two to three hundred yuan a year from early mornings to late nights, suddenly it didn’t seem as appealing.
Sour, so sour.
However, so people were tempted, so they flocked to Wang Futang’s house.
Wang Lianfa, dressed in brand new ready-made clothes, his face not particularly pale but a bit plumper, looked sowhat like a cadre from the commune.
Wang Lianfa distributed sweets to the children who ca by, each getting two or three pieces, all of high-quality candies, wrapped in cellophane.
The children, after eating the candies, couldn’t bear to throw away the pretty candy wrappers, smoothing the creases to take ho and press into their books... Whoever collected the most candy wrappers was considered quite proud because it ant they had eaten a lot of sweets.
The won also received candies and delicious cream sunflower seeds, while the n each got cigarettes from Wang Lianfa, with filters.
"Second brother, amazing, you’re smoking ones with filters now," a young man envied.
Wang Lianqi, the eldest, smiled while pouring tea for the elders and said, "Your second brother specially bought these for coming ho, he usually only smokes the ’Peony’ brand."
"’Peony’..." Hearing this, everyone took a deep breath; Peony cigarettes were also over three mao a pack, considered good cigarettes. No one in the team was willing to smoke them, even the carefree young n only smoked the eight fen ’Pearl Fish’ brand.
It was lively for quite a while before people gradually dispersed, leaving only the elderly and children of the Wang Family. Wang Futang sat at the head, with Wang Lianqi and Wang Lianfa sitting below, Qu Cui leading the eldest daughter-in-law and children in the inner room.
Wang Futang, not used to cigarettes, continued to smoke his old pipe. Through the smoke screen, he looked at his youngest son and asked, "What are your plans?"
Wang Lianfa said, "Dad, we have already set foot in Huicheng over there, and I still want to go back to do business in Huicheng... Dad, don’t worry, both you and mom, Liansheng said that the country supports economic developnt and personal business. Oh, by the way, personal business is called individual business operators. The south has already started issuing licenses for individual business operators. Once licensed, it’s a legal operation, no longer speculation and profiteering."
Wang Futang filled another pouch of tobacco, silently finished smoking, and only after a while said, "We have seen less, not understanding the latest policy changes, but since it’s Liansheng who said it, there shouldn’t be any big problems, Liansheng won’t set you up."
"Yes, Dad, I was able to successfully have Hong Hui and even pay the fine, all thanks to Liansheng and his wife. Without their care, let alone having the child, even if the child was born, we wouldn’t have had the seven hundred yuan to pay the fine." Wang Lianfa spoke and grew sentintal.
Wang Futang looked up at his youngest son, feeling the worry in his heart subside but couldn’t help feeling so lancholy rise again.
All this ti, it had always been the eldest son who was steady and reliable, with the youngest son being a little lazy under his and the elder brother’s protection. Unexpectedly, this ti he grew up quickly and could stand on his own.
This old father’s heart was proud of what he saw. However, as the child grew up, it also ant that their reliance on their parents gradually decreased, inevitably making the heart of a parent feel a bit lancholic.
"Alright, as long as you’ve thought it through. If there’s anything in the future, consult with Liansheng more, he sees things more clearly and thoroughly than you."
Wang Lianfa agreed, and Wang Futang got up and walked out with his hands behind his back.
He hadn’t been willing to wear the new clothes his son bought, but he was wearing the leather shoes his son brought back. Having been the old party secretary for more than twenty years, he always saw the cadres wearing leather shoes. This was his first ti wearing them himself.
Wang Lianfa went inside to tell his mother and sister-in-law that he still had to rush back soon; only Zheng Xiaotian with their youngest son would be at ho, and he couldn’t rest easy.
However, this ti, he wanted to bring his two sons along, and also take his second nephew Hongbing to the city to broaden their horizons.
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