Back to 1979: Sending the Educated Youth’s Wife Back to the City

Chapter 7: Let's Make It Clear
The next day, Fang Mingche hung two sandbags, one large and one small, on the big tree at the door, and the father and daughter practiced boxing and kicking together.

Moving like this in the cold winter will keep you warm.

Yanyan must have been joking, gesturing along casually.

But Fang Mingche practiced very seriously, and also practiced military boxing and grappling fighting skills that he learned from the Internet in later generations.

I sweat profusely every day during training.

He was so skilled that none of the school leaders, colleagues or students dared to provoke him easily.

I was afraid that he would be dumped by his educated youth wife and become abnormal.

Yanyan cried whenever she thought of her mother in the first few days, but later she realized that crying was useless and had to gradually accept reality.

I just earnestly follow the principle of getting up early every day and tearing off a calendar.

If someone told her that her mother had divorced and left, she would respond, "My mother went to see my grandma and grandpa. When I wear a flowery dress, my father will take me to see my mother."

So everyone knew that Fang Mingche was still thinking about going to BJ to find Lin Yan.

While I felt that there was little hope, I couldn't help but sigh at his infatuation.

Fang Mingche thought that Lin Yan should have returned home and settled down by now.

However, without a phone, I can’t notify myself in time. Writing letters is too inefficient.

Just as I was thinking about it, I heard the postman shouting: "Fang Mingche, there's a telegram——"

He hurried back to the house to get his seal and retrieve the telegram.

It was indeed taken by Lin Yan. There were only two simple words on it: "Arrived", followed by a phone number.

This is a pay phone near her home.

She couldn't call because Fang Mingche could only go to the post office to make a call. There was only one post office in several communes, so one had to queue up to make a call.

It's impossible to ask someone to call for help.

Fang Mingche said to his daughter who was playing hard under the tree, "Yanyan, let's go call mom."

Yanyan was still a little unhappy that her mother had gone alone and left her behind. Upon hearing this, she turned her head away.

"Then Dad will go by himself, and you can go play with Sister Liu?"

That was definitely not going to happen. So the father and daughter went out together to the post office to make a phone call.

Fang Mingche called, "Hello, please help me call Lin Yan who just returned from the countryside in Compound No. 12 of Xingfuli."

The other side asked: "Who are you?"

"I'm her ex-husband, and my daughter wants to talk to her."

"Okay, just wait."

Two minutes later, Lin Yan ran over breathlessly, "Ming Che——"

"Well, did the journey go smoothly? Have you settled in?"

"It went smoothly and we've settled in. I'll stay in the room, and Xiaoyi will put two boxes together and make a bed in the dining room at night. We'll put them away during the day. There's no sign of work yet, so let's celebrate the New Year first and talk about it after."

Fang Mingche had been holding Yanyan in one hand, and she also leaned in to listen. After coaxing her again and again, she finally shouted "Mom——" into the microphone.

Lin Yan was about to cry, "Yanyan, mom misses you——"

After hanging up the phone, she paid the ten cents for the call.

"Xiao Lin, your ex-husband must be reluctant to let you go, so he called you so soon."

Lin Yan said, "What ex-husband? We'll remarry when he comes to BJ. He just wants me to come back first." The shop owner put a dime into the cash box. Is it that easy to come to BJ?
If it’s that easy, how come you only came back after eight or nine years in the countryside?

Nowadays, without a letter of introduction, people from the countryside are not allowed to come to BJ at all.

Next, final exams will be held in schools across the country.

This year the Chinese New Year falls on January 1th, and the village primary school’s final exams ended on January 27th.

That afternoon, Fang Mingche put his daughter on the bike bar, tied the luggage to the rear rack, and rode back to his parents' home.

His room at home is still there. He is a son, not a daughter who was sent away.

Logically, he should own half of this family from now on.

Of course, in his previous life, his parents said he had a formal job and a stable job, so they left everything to his eldest brother.

After returning home, the eldest sister-in-law couldn't help asking, "Second brother, how much is it for you and Mingfeng to drive a car per day?"

Outsiders don’t know about this, but family members know about it.

"Five yuan a day, and it takes eight days to drive a round trip. I have a day off in Guangzhou, but I don't have money to go in. Only food and lodging are provided."

"That's great. You can earn 40 yuan per trip. Can you take your brother to learn how to drive next time?"

Fang Mingche said, "As long as Big Brother can borrow a car, I can teach him how to drive."

"Where can your brother borrow a car?"

"That's all I can do. I don't have the face to borrow a car from anyone. I learned how to drive by chance in BJ."

In his previous life, he bought a car and learned to drive when he was in his forties.

The price of cars didn't change much at that time, but wages had gone up. It was still no problem for him to buy a car worth tens of thousands of yuan.

The sister-in-law looked unhappy. Why couldn't such an opportunity to make a lot of money fall on her man?

I couldn't help but ask, "Why do all the good things belong to you?"

Fang Mingche saw that his elder brother was in the room, not far away. Even his parents were within earshot of their conversation.

So he said, "Sister-in-law, are you going to say that I owe my elder brother again? Let me ask you, what do I owe my elder brother? Did dad only support me when we all got into school together? Our father is still a very fair person. If my elder brother had also been admitted, he would have sold everything he had to support me. As for saying that my elder brother worked in the fields to support my studies, that is even more ridiculous. He is only two years older than me! What you two have earned from working in the fields in the past few years may not be enough for your family of five to eat and drink. What's more, my eldest nephew is still studying, and my youngest nephew should go to school in two or three years. Ayan and I give our family ten yuan a month, three yuan each to our parents. The other four yuan has always been used to supplement your family."

We need to make it clear who owes whom!

Don't brainwash yourself every day, and don't accept your parents' robbing the rich to help the poor with a clear conscience, and think that it is their duty for him and Ayan to give more money to their eldest wife.

Once the salary increases, more subsidies should be provided.

He only owes his parents, and he has not fallen behind in fulfilling his obligations.

In their previous life, when they were owed wages and had to scrape together money for Yanyan's tuition, the brother and sister-in-law refused to give them anything in return. They even made sarcastic remarks, saying that they didn't know how to live. What was the point of a little girl studying so much?
When Fang Mingche exposed that he was taking advantage of his family and his brothers, his elder brother Fang Minghua's face turned red and he was speechless.

Fang's mother said angrily, "Mingche, why are you saying all this? I know you have made a great contribution to the family, okay? But brothers should help each other. Your eldest brother's life is not as easy as yours, so you should help him a little. It will be fine when your nephew grows up."

After saying that, he felt something was wrong and asked nervously, "Are you trying to say that Lin Yan is getting divorced and you won't give her the four dollars in the future?"

Four dollars can go a long way and is enough to pay for a child's tuition for a semester.

In the past few years, the old man and the eldest brother have been doing farm work and can only make a living.

The money saved at home comes from the ten yuan given by the second son and his wife every month.

So this is what you're talking about after all this time of preparation?

(End of this chapter)