Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

In another courtyard less than one kilometer away from the Hongxing Courtyard.

Five people, young and old, male and female, were blocking the door of the east wing and saying something to a woman in the room.

Although this woman is only in her forties, due to long-term physical labor and torture, she looks older than a woman in her fifties.

Facing several people blocking his door, his expression was very painful.

More than a dozen neighbors gathered around to watch the fun. Although the woman in the house was bullied, no neighbor dared to stand up to help.

"Sister-in-law...just listen to me: as long as our two families exchange houses, I will help you get an apprenticeship position in a steel mill."

"Xiaoyu's father is a man who made mistakes. He can't even pass the political review. It's impossible for him to find a job on his own."

"If you don't agree to me now..."

"After a while, more and more educated youth will return to the city. Even if you sell the house you live in now, the money you get won't be enough to help Xiaoyu find a job."

The woman sitting in the room did not respond.

The aggressive man blocking the door was the younger brother of her deceased husband.

When her husband was demoted after being slandered, this man, as her husband's younger brother, not only did not help, but instead made things worse, which eventually led to her husband's cabin being demoted.

Although her husband Hei Mei was rehabilitated, the government has returned to them the east wing where they once lived. There are a total of three rooms with an area of ​​more than 80 square meters.

The younger brother of the man in front of her, who had once taken advantage of her husband's misfortune to frame him, had not been demoted in the past ten years, but his life was not good. The family of five was squeezed into a house of less than 30 square meters.

I don’t know where this man got the apprenticeship job from, but he wanted to use this apprenticeship job to take advantage of his nephew’s inability to find a job to steal his sister-in-law’s house.

The three rooms in my nephew's house are more than 80 square meters, and it is the east wing. The current market value is more than 1,400 yuan.

The house he lives in is less than 30 square meters, and it is an ear room, worth less than 400 yuan. The difference between the two is at least 1,000 yuan.

A man trying to exchange an apprenticeship position for a house is tantamount to taking advantage of his own nephew.

But he believed that his sister-in-law would definitely agree.

As long as his deceased brother's injustice is not cleared, his nephew Kang Yu will not be able to find a job, and the mother and son will have no income.

There was no way he would refuse the job that was offered to him.

Even if my nephew will lose 500 yuan after the transaction, the exchange must still be made.

Sure enough, as soon as the man said those threatening words, the woman sitting in the room began to hesitate.

"What are you doing?" Just as the woman was about to nod in agreement, an angry voice suddenly sounded behind the man.

Turning around, they saw a young man rushing towards them angrily.

"Xiao Yu...we didn't do anything..." The man narrowed his eyes and answered the young man. The confident expression on his face was not affected by the young man's arrival.

In his opinion, the young man who was rushing towards him angrily should want to find a stable job more than his mother.

As long as you offer your workstation to the other party, they will definitely agree to your unreasonable request.

When the young man entered the house and saw that his mother was safe and sound, he couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Then the middle-aged man spoke again: "Uncle has set up an apprenticeship position. Considering that you haven't found a job yet, he came to ask sister-in-law if you want this position."

"But uncle can't give you this job for free."

“My uncle’s house is too small to accommodate so many people.

"There are only two people in your family. It's a waste to live in such a big east wing."

"As long as you and your son agree to let us change houses, I will give you this apprenticeship position."

"Your mother has already agreed and is just waiting for you to come back and nod."

Kang Yu refused without thinking: "I don't agree..." "The difference between our two houses is at least one thousand yuan. How can an apprenticeship position be worth so much money?"

"You are not here to give me a workstation, you are here to steal my house."

"Hurry up and leave. I, Kang Yu, don't want this workstation."

Seeing her son reject the other party's proposal as soon as he opened his mouth, the woman sitting in the room suddenly became anxious.

She also knew that she would lose a lot of money if she agreed to trade her house for her job.

But what the other party said made a lot of sense: as long as her husband did not clear his name, her son would have no chance of finding a job, and the two of them would not be able to hold out for too long sitting in the house and living off their savings.

She was worried that her son would never be able to find a new job if he missed this one.

Quickly reminded: "Son..."

"This is an apprenticeship position in a large factory in Sijiu City..."

"As long as we can get a job in the factory, we don't mind if we suffer a small loss."

Kang Woo frowned and replied, “Mom…”

"This is not a loss at all, it's clearly a house grab."

"Don't worry about my job..."

"I've already found a job on the street today?"

"This is impossible?" The middle-aged man blocking the door retorted with a frown.

If Kang Yu had already found a job, how could he use his apprenticeship job to plan for a big house for his nephew's family?

Seeing the mother and son's disbelief, he asked back: "As long as Kang Yu's father has not been cleared of the injustice, no factory in Sijiu City will hire him."

"Sister-in-law, Kang Yu must be lying to you."

After hearing this, the woman turned her attention to Kang Yu and asked with a worried look on her face, "Xiao Yu?"

"Did you really find a job?"

"I remember you went to ask Director Tang of the street: As long as your father's grievances are not cleared, no factory in the city will want you."

"Could it be that the policy has changed? Otherwise, why can you find a job?"

Kang Yu knew that if he didn't explain clearly today, his mother would not give up the idea of ​​changing houses and finding a job for him, so he answered quickly.

"mother……"

"The policy has not changed, but the job I found was not in a factory in Beijing... but in a restaurant."

“Although the restaurant is privately owned, it is very large, with more than a hundred employees.”

"I graduated from high school with very good grades, and they made me the deputy manager right away."

"As long as you pass the three-month internship assessment, you can become a regular employee, and the salary is much higher than working in a factory."

A trace of sarcasm flashed across the middle-aged man's face, and he continued, "I thought Xiaoyu really found a job in Sijiu City..."

“So I’m working for the capitalists…”

"Sister-in-law, I'm not saying you..."

"Although the policy has been relaxed now, capitalists are capitalists. It's better to be a factory worker than a capitalist."

"Maybe one day the policy will change and capitalists will become targets of overthrow again. Then Xiaoyu will not only lose his job, but he may also be implicated." (End of this chapter)