Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

The announcement of the end of get off work soon sounded in the steel mill. Yi Zhonghai just walked out of the steel mill with a frustrated look on his face, and Qin Huairu caught up with him.

Without further ado, he asked directly: "Godfather..."

"The steel mill has gone too far in this matter. The police don't care. Why should they punish you?...Should we go find the factory leaders?"

"The fitter's grade was suddenly downgraded from level 6 to level 4, and his salary will also drop to less than 40 yuan. This is too cruel."

"Even if the steel mill insists on this matter and really intends to punish you, there is no need to demote you by two levels at once..."

Looking at Qin Huairu, whose face was filled with indignation, Yi Zhonghai's first subconscious reaction was that Qin Huairu was standing up for him. Although he was very pleased, he still shook his head to refute.

"it's useless……"

"Director Li is now in charge of the steel mill..."

"I've always had a feud with this Factory Director Li. He finally found a handle to deal with me, so he definitely won't give up easily."

"And I was really wrong about this matter. Any punishment given to me by the steel mill would not be excessive."

"If the dispute continues, neither side will be able to save face, and the punishment from the steel mill may even be more severe."

"never mind……"

“If the salary goes down, it goes down.”

"Your Aunt Yi and I are just a couple. A salary of more than 40 yuan is enough for the two of us to live on. If we save a little, we can save 30 yuan every month, which is still enough for the two of us to use in our old age."

It has to be said that Yi Zhonghai is a very smart person who can judge the situation.

Knowing that the steel rolling mill is now headed by Director Li, if he really goes to the factory leaders about the punishment, not only will the punishment not be reduced, it may even be increased, which is not worth the loss.

The best thing to do is to accept the punishment and pretend nothing happened.

But Qin Huairu became very anxious after hearing what Yi Zhonghai said.

With a monthly salary of more than 40 yuan and saving 30 yuan, Yi Zhonghai and his wife only have more than 10 yuan left every month. If they keep a few yuan for medicine, then they only have 10 yuan left for their living expenses every month.

How could he use this money to help the Jia family? He planned to put some of the money into his own pocket.

He stood up and refuted on the spot: "Godfather..."

"Isn't it a bit too much to save thirty dollars a month?"

"You two old people only have a little over ten dollars left. After deducting some money for medicine, you will have at most ten dollars left for food. Isn't that too little?"

"Although the average cost of living in this city is only five yuan."

"But you are old now. You definitely can't eat cornmeal steamed bread and boiled radish and cabbage every day like young people do."

"I suggest you save only 20 yuan a month. You will get a pension after retirement. Even if you don't save much, it will be enough for you to eat."

"Leave a few dollars for medicine, and give me the remaining twenty dollars for living expenses..."

"When the time comes, I will make sure you eat steamed buns made of 200g flour every day, and only have meat every few days."

Yi Zhonghai was instantly embarrassed.

Just now, Qin Huairu asked him whether he wanted to appeal to the factory leaders about the severe punishment. Yi Zhonghai thought that Qin Huairu was standing up for him.

Now it seems that I was wrong and overestimated the character of Qin Huairu, this white lotus.

What he said just now was not to defend himself. It was obvious that he was worried that after his salary was reduced, the living expenses he gave her every month would be reduced, which would in turn affect the living standards of the entire Jia family and affect her ability to save private money from living expenses.

His face darkened instantly, but he did not immediately reject Qin Huairu's proposal.

Although Yi Zhonghai knew that Qin Huairu did this for the Jia family and for himself, he did not dare to refuse. He was worried that if he refused, Qin Huairu, the only person in Siheyuan who might take care of him in his old age, would also refuse to take care of him in his old age.

Yi Zhonghai absolutely cannot bear such a result.

He frowned and fell into deep thought, analyzing what adverse effects saving more than 20 yuan every month would have on his retirement life in the future.

If nothing unexpected happens, I will retire in eight years and leave the steel mill.

If you save twenty dollars a month, you can save about two thousand dollars by the time you retire.

Together with the couple’s existing savings, the total is less than three thousand yuan.

Although I had a pension at that time, the amount was very small, only a dozen yuan a month.

In addition, as the old couple gets older, the expenses on medical treatment and medicine will increase dramatically, and that little pension will definitely not be enough.

At least ten or twenty yuan should be taken out from the saved pension money every month to subsidize the pension.

Qin Huairu would then calculate a portion of the money, which was equivalent to taking out twenty or thirty yuan from his pension fund every month.

Three thousand yuan for retirement may seem like a lot, but it is only enough for you to spend for ten years.

Even if you add in the various interests earned from saving, it would only be enough for me to spend for thirteen or fourteen years at most.

If the couple had not passed away by then, they would have had to rely on a pension of a dozen yuan a month to get by.

Given Qin Huairu's selfish and greedy character, he will definitely not continue to take care of himself if there is no profit to be made.

Then the retirement plan that you carefully planned will become a laughing stock.

The more Yi Zhonghai thought about it, the uglier his expression became. He hesitated for five minutes before speaking: "Huai Ru..."

"It's not that godfather is reluctant, there's really no other way..."

"Our salary has been reduced. To ensure that our retirement life will not be affected, we should save as much as we can while we are still in good health."

"So starting from next month, I can only give you ten dollars a month..."

"If you want to eat cornmeal steamed bread, just eat cornmeal steamed bread."

"Other people in Beijing can live for a month on five dollars. I am so old, and I don't eat much, so I can definitely live for a month."

Qin Huairu’s eyes widened immediately. She didn’t expect Yi Zhonghai to reject her proposal and insist on reducing the food expenses to ten yuan per month.

This little amount of money is not enough to subsidize the Jia family, let alone keep some of it as their own pocket money.

Qin Huairu would definitely not do a business that would lose money.

As for Yi Zhonghai's future retirement with no pension money, Qin Huairu couldn't care less. She only cared about the immediate benefits.

Refused on the spot: "Godfather..."

"Ten dollars is too little."

"If you really intend to give me only ten dollars a month for living expenses, then we should live our own lives from now on."

The implicit meaning of Qin Huairu's words was to tell Yi Zhonghai that as long as you don't add money, the issue of retirement care will be settled.

Although Qin Huairu was the only old-age caregiver Yi Zhonghai had found in the courtyard, he was particularly worried that Qin Huairu would refuse to take care of him. But he would not allow Qin Huairu to bully him, nor would he watch Qin Huairu ride on his head.

It's fine to calculate a little bit of his living expenses and retirement money at ordinary times, but if someone really uses the retirement issue to threaten him, and wants to control him and ride on his head, Yi Zhonghai will definitely not accept it. (End of this chapter)