Return To 1977 Chapter 411: Warm Spring

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If winter comes, can spring be far behind?

This is the final word of Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind".

Indeed, as the poem says, the torturous times will eventually pass.

1979 was a year when the entire Republic survived the harsh winter and became completely vibrant with the warmth of spring.

For a whole year from the end of 1978 to 1979, the Republic had only one main theme, which was the intertwining of laughter of liberation and tears of excitement.

A series of actions to bring order out of chaos. It brings great joy to the people of the country.

This is true even for the Hong family, who are also included.

Because no one expected that the prophecy that President Hong Yanwu talked about would actually come true.

After the issues of "veteran cadres" and "intellectuals" have been taken advantage of one after another. People like them, who had suffered the most and longest, had waited for two and a half years after the end of the "movement" and finally ushered in the day of complete liberation.

On January 11, 1979, the central government made a decision to completely deprive "special groups" like them.

It is completely conceivable that after this, the lives of the Hong family, Shou family and Wanyan family will definitely undergo many positive changes.

Not only in terms of spiritual level and political treatment, but also with the implementation of each policy, there are real benefits.

For example, first of all, both Hong Lucheng and Wang Yunlin, who have long passed the retirement age, have received the coveted official employee retirement benefits.

Although both of them can only receive retirement benefits according to the minimum standard in the newly implemented "Interim Measures for Workers' Retirement and Resignation".

But the salary base originally approved by Hong Lucheng was high, and the 60% standard was more than 70 yuan. In addition, Wang Yunlin can get at least twenty-five yuan as a guarantee. Together, the old couple's monthly retirement allowance can reach one hundred yuan.

Compared with the past, when Hong Lucheng did not receive any "reform through labor" and Wang Yunlin only received a salary of 38 yuan, it is certainly much better.

Despite this, at the beginning, Wang Yunlin was really reluctant to quit her job in the shoe factory.

It's not for anything else. She thinks it's not easy to find a formal job right now, and she also worries about being like other families, who want one of their children to take over her job and then quit.

But Hong Yanwu said, "Mom, you really think too much. You don't have to worry about the eldest and second eldest brother. Not only is Xiaoru young, she studies better than my second brother, and she will definitely be good enough to go to college in the future. I'm afraid. Quanzi and I are the only two people who really make you worry. But once we come here, your shoe factory will look down on us and is not willing to accept "two workers" like us. Even if you ask grandpa to sue grandma, you may not be able to explain it. Secondly, if there is such an opportunity, who will go for Quanzi and me? Besides, we don’t want to separate. Also, your factory is a large collective enterprise at the district level, and young men like us deal with a group of old ladies all day long. What a painful thing it is. So, my dear mother, I beg you, please stop thinking about it, quit your job, go home and enjoy your life..."

Wang Yunlin thought so, but she couldn't hear Hong Yanwu's tone. I still yelled at him.

"What happened to the district-level collective? You were not supported by the wages of this large collective back then. Well, your mother has retired, and she will have to be a mother at home from now on. Taking care of you is more tiring than going to work. ”

When Hong Yanwu heard this, he quickly apologized.

"Yes, yes, I have no other meaning. How about saying that the greatest is mother? You are wronged. We can have food and clothing because of your hard work, old lady. Mom, don't worry, I will If dad is gone, our family will definitely not be able to perform "The Wax Drill". Who doesn't care about you, I don't care about you either..."

"Hun!" Wang Yunlin spat on the spot after hearing this. She had nothing to do with this precious son.

(Note: "The Wax Solder" is a stand-up comedy written and performed by Yan Deshan in the late Qing Dynasty. The story tells the story of an old widowed lady whose three sons were unfilial and forced their widowed mother to cast tin wax sticks and tie them around her waist. After the three sons and daughter-in-law, who were greedy for profit, found out, they rushed to support their mother. After her death, she found that her dream of getting rich was in vain and she was ridiculed by the world.)

Afterwards, various parts of the capital, with street offices as the specific execution departments, began to return the materials confiscated during the "campaign".

Don't ask, this refund process must be confusing and complicated. It will definitely be a protracted task.

Because when you think about it, you know that it has been too long since the inspection, and the materials are piled up like mountains, making it difficult to sort them out. Many supplies have been damaged or their whereabouts are unknown. For some existing things, the owners lack effective proof.

These are very real difficulties. We can only sort out part of them and then refund part of them.

But even so, being able to get back something that belongs to you is already a good thing that many people dare not even think about. For example, the Shou Jing Fang family had to get back a lot of artifacts.

Hardwood furniture, tea bowls and bottles, camphor wood boxes and leather cloaks, agate beads and Xuande stoves, enamel Western clocks... dozens of large and small pieces, there are really a lot of good things.

But what makes Shou Jingfang most gratified is that he found thousands of ancient medical books, imperial medical records and half of the medical books written by himself from the material warehouse of the subdistrict office. A true family heirloom.

Although the people from the subdistrict office were hesitant to let him take the things away because he had no concrete evidence to prove it.

But the street director was also a patient of Shou Jingfang. "Who else in our street, except the Shou family, can have these things? Give them to him, and I will bear the responsibility." No one would be embarrassed or have any second thoughts.

Shou Jingfang and Shouzheng were both extremely happy to get back these ancient books. They didn't sleep all night when they went back that day, so they sorted through all the books together.

The next day they asked Hong Yanwu and Chen Liquan to help get a tricycle, and then went to a furniture store to buy two large bookcases for the La family. Only when these books are arranged properly and completely can the father and son feel at ease.

As for other valuable things, they were piled up in the main room like piles of rags, and they didn't bother to take care of them for a while. This not only made Hong Yanwu laugh out loud, but also made him admire him greatly.

But the Hong family, there is no such big movement as the Shou family.

This is because most of their family's assets were originally transferred to Hong Kong through Hong Lucheng. What little money was left was all spent by paying compensation for the "Three Evils and Five Evils", moving out of the old house and selling it, filling his stomach during the three years of "natural disasters", and treating Wang Yunlin.

When it came to the "movement" period, there was nothing practical at home. Thanks to the protection of the neighbors, we didn't suffer much. So this matter has little to do with them.

But unexpectedly, another good thing fell from the sky.