Chapter 349 The real beginning

Chapter 349 The real beginning

Chapter 349 The real beginning

After making arrangements for Teacher Liu and the others, Li Jiayi drove his jeep back to the city.

There is nothing to do in the village.

In fact, even if he stayed, he couldn't help much.

After returning to the city, Li Jiayi also breathed a sigh of relief.

That night, after get off work, his parents saw Li Jiayi alone at home and asked, "Son, you didn't go to the factory today?"

"No, there was nothing to do even if I went, so I just stayed at home for a day."

He didn't tell his parents what he had done, mainly because he was afraid they would worry.

"That's right. Anyway, you just need to complete your monthly tasks. It doesn't matter whether you go or not."

"Ok!"

"Okay, have some tea. Mom will go cook. What do you want to eat today?" Ye Xin asked lovingly.

Although Li Jiayi is about to turn eighteen, Ye Xin still treats him as a child as before.

"Mom, I'll eat whatever you cook. Anyway, I like to eat anything you cook."

"Flattery."

"Hehehe, okay, just wait, mom will make it for you." After saying that, she glared at Li Aimin.

Who told him to say that Li Jiayi was a flatterer?

Seeing Ye Xin glaring at him, Li Aimin slowly touched his nose.

"You light the fire."

"coming."

Seeing Li Aimin's helpless look, Li Jiayi gave him a face.

Li Aimin was so angry, but he couldn't do anything about his son.

"Oh! This guy! He has forgotten his status and keeps talking nonsense all day long." Li Jiayi sighed in a pretentious manner.

"You brat, I think your skin is itchy."

Unfortunately, Li Jiayi ignored him and turned around to continue drinking tea.

"Look at what you can do. Come here, let me see why my son is itchy."

"Uh! I was just kidding." Li Aimin said quickly.

"Humph."

"Dad, Mom." At this time, the eldest sister and the second sister came in on their bicycles and shouted hurriedly.

"I'm home?"

"Ok!"

"Come in! Have some water." Ye Xin said to Li Jiaqi and Li Jialin.

"I'm not thirsty. Let me help you cook first!" said the elder sister after tying up the bicycle.

"No, your brother wants to eat the meal I cooked today."

When Li Jiaqi heard her mother say this, she knew that it was impossible for her to help.

She knew better than anyone that her mother doted on her younger brother.

The eldest sister and the second sister came to the main room. Li Jiayi had just finished pouring the tea when he said, "Eldest sister, second sister, come and have some tea. It's just been poured."

"Thank you, little brother."

"Brother, what delicious food can you bring back today?"

Li Jiayi scratched his head speechlessly and said, "Second sister, why do you only know how to eat all day long?"

"Who doesn't know how to eat when you say that?"

"Brother Jiayi, I'm back." As Li Jiafen spoke, she walked in from outside.

"Why are you alone?" Li Jiayi looked behind her and asked.

"My eldest brother and his wife went back to their home. I didn't meet my second brother."

"Brother is really something. He has to cook for himself. Can't it be good for the family to eat together?" The second sister shook her head and said.

Li Jiayi took a sip of tea and said slowly: "Big brother has his own considerations. Besides, he is married now and has his own family. Even if he doesn't leave, he will have to leave after a while."

"Ah! Why?" the second sister asked in confusion.

"You will know this later."

"Ok."

In fact, it is normal for them to eat by themselves. My eldest brother is already in his twenties and has been married for such a long time.

If I continue to eat and live here, even if my family doesn't say anything, others will.

In later generations, this would be considered as living off one's parents.

My brother is a man who cares about his reputation, so how could he let others talk about him like this?

Also, he is not a child anymore. To put it bluntly, he is going to be a parent soon. How could he still be eating at his uncle's house?

It’s not like they don’t have a salary, nor do they have a ration.

It is normal to help out at home. There is no elder who doesn't help children.

"Do you think something's wrong with my second brother? It seems like the situation today has been going on for a while!" Li Jiayi said.

"Well! It has been a while indeed. Will my second brother find a girlfriend?" Li Jialin asked excitedly.

"Who knows? He didn't say." Li Jiayi shook his head.

In fact, it is normal for my second brother to find a girlfriend, because he will soon be twenty, and it is time for him to find a wife.

"Brother, if my second brother doesn't tell you, how can it be difficult for you? Can't you investigate it yourself?"

"Uh! Isn't this bad?" Li Jiayi said, touching his nose.

"What's wrong with that? Didn't you find out about my brother in the first place? Don't think I don't know."

"All right!"

What else could Li Jiayi say? His past had been exposed.

More than half an hour later, my mother prepared the meal and my eldest and second sisters went over to help bring it to the main room.

At this time, the second brother had not come back yet, and the mother asked: "Do you know what Queen Cheng is doing?"

"do not know."

"Jiafen doesn't know either?" Ye Xin asked.

"Aunt, I don't know either. He never came back with us."

"Forget it, let's not wait for him, let's eat first."

After finishing the meal my mother made, it was already completely dark.

Although the time of short days and long nights has passed, it is already dark after six o'clock.

The eldest sister went to help mother clean up the kitchen, and Li Jiayi also went upstairs.

He was not going to sleep. It was only seven o'clock. How could he sleep so early?

Li Jiayi went upstairs and entered the space, and went through his daily routine first, because he had to go out in the evening.

If I go out, I won’t have time to take care of things in this space.

It was not until after nine o'clock in the evening, when his parents and eldest sister had all gone to bed, that Li Jiayi came down from upstairs.

When he arrived outside the gate, Li Jiayi took out the key, opened the jeep door, started the jeep, and drove straight to Teacher Wang's house.

If Teacher Liu is like this, then Teacher Wang is even worse, so he must go and take a look.

At night, there were many Red Students on the streets, but since Li Jiayi was driving a jeep, no one was so blind as to dare to stop him.

Not only that, when they saw the jeep, these students hid faster than each other.

They are not stupid. They know who they cannot afford to offend. To put it bluntly, they bully the weak and fear the strong.

It took Li Jiayi twenty minutes to arrive at Teacher Wang's house.

After parking the car, Li Jiayi entered the staff housing compound. Yes, this was the staff housing compound of the Vocational and Technical College.

When we arrived at Teacher Wang's house, it was dark.

"Knock knock knock!" Li Jiayi went up and knocked on the door.

"Who?" The master's wife's voice came from inside the house.

It sounds a bit nervous and a little scared.

"Master Wife, it's me."

He could still recognize his master's wife's voice.

Soon the door opened and the master's wife appeared in front of him.

"Why are you here at this time?" the master's wife asked hurriedly.

"I'm here to see the teacher."

"come on in."

"Ok!"

As soon as Li Jiayi came in, the master's wife quickly closed the door.

"Teacher's wife, where is the teacher?" Li Jiayi asked.

"Your teacher is lying in the room."

When Li Jiayi heard what his master's wife said, his face changed and he hurried into the inner room.

Sure enough, I saw a blurry figure lying on the bed, and the lights were not on.

The master's wife followed in and turned on the light.

When Li Jiayi saw Teacher Wang lying on the bed, his face looked very unhappy.

Because Teacher Wang was covered in wounds and had gauze tied around his head.

"Jiayi, you...why are you here?" Teacher Wang struggled to sit up, speaking weakly.

"Teacher, how did you get injured?" Li Jiayi asked hurriedly with concern.

"It's okay, just a minor injury."

In fact, when Li Jiayi saw Teacher Wang, he understood what was going on.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Wang, I'm late."

Li Jiayi opened his schoolbag, took out five forms and said, "Teacher Wang, I have five forms here. Please see who needs them."

"This is..." Teacher Wang looked at Li Jiayi in surprise.

"Yes! That's it, but don't worry, these are all formal forms, and I can fill them out myself wherever I go."

"Plus one! The teacher has to go out for a while."

"Okay, I'll take you there and pick the person up at the same time."

"Good good."

"But teacher, once you leave, I don't know when you will be back, you should talk to your wife more!"

To be honest, there is no need for that. They are going to Lijia Village, and Li Jiayi can take his wife there to have a look at any time.

It would even be okay to let the master's wife live in Lijia Village for a while.

"You kid, can't you take your master's wife with you to the place you arranged for me?"

"Uh!" Li Jiayi scratched his head and said, "Of course, it's fine even if you let your mistress go with you."

Of course this is impossible. It’s not that it’s impossible, but that it can’t be done, because there are children in Master’s family!
The youngest one is only a teenager. If the master's wife follows her, what will happen to the children?

"That's it."

"Master, when you give them the form, explain the situation to them clearly, and then say goodbye to your family."

"I know."

"By the way, the place has already been filled out, just ask them to fill in their information and leave the form at home."

"Ok!"

This is not Xinjiekou, so they can only leave the form at home. When someone comes to visit, they can just ask their family members to take out the form.

As for Teacher Liu and the others' forms, Li Jiayi will also have to submit them to the street office later.

These all need to be registered, otherwise it will be a mess!

"okay, I get it."

"Master's Wife, I'll send the teacher off first, and we'll talk later when I come back."

"Good good."

Li Jiayi helped the teacher out of the room, and got into the jeep outside.

Li Jiayi followed Teacher Wang for about two hours and finally met four teachers.

These four teachers are all male teachers, which is mainly because vocational and technical colleges basically have male teachers.

These four teachers also looked in poor spirits, and were treated similarly to Teacher Wang. This was probably why Teacher Wang took them away.

After picking up four teachers, Li Jiayi drove back to Teacher Wang's home.

Li Jiayi did not get off the bus, and the same went for the other four teachers. Only Teacher Wang went back.

I don’t know what Teacher Wang said to his wife, but he came out in less than half an hour.

Similarly, leave the form at home. If someone comes to your house later, just hand it in. No one will come to you again.

Fortunately, the stamps on these forms are all from the Municipal Revolutionary Committee, otherwise he would really have no way out.

"Master's wife, we are leaving now. I will come back to see you later."

After Teacher Wang got into the car, Li Jiayi said to the teacher's wife who followed out.

"Yeah! Okay, let's go!"

After saying goodbye to his master's wife, Li Jiayi drove out of the city overnight and took Teacher Wang and others to Lijia Village.

It was already around four in the morning when we arrived at Lijia Village. Mainly because visibility was poor at night, we drove a little slowly.

"Teacher Wang, this is Lijia Village, which is also my hometown. I call the village party secretary and team leader uncle. You can stay here with peace of mind."

Yes, Li Jiayi did not tell Teacher Wang and the others about this before coming here.

Now that they have arrived at the place, Li Jiayi told them.

"Ah! So this is your hometown?" Teacher Wang asked.

"Yes, Mr. Wang."

"Oh! I didn't expect it! In the end, I still got the credit from my students."

"Teacher Wang, please don't say that. You also helped me a lot when I was in school."

What Li Jiayi said was correct. Whether he liked it or not, Teacher Wang really had nothing to say about him.

"How can I help you?" Teacher Wang shook his head and said.

"Of course you can help me find translation materials so I can earn more money."

"But I later found out that you were not happy about it," said Teacher Wang.

"Teacher Wang, whether I like it or not, I know you are doing this for my own good."

"I……"

"Okay, Mr. Wang, let's not talk about this for now. After you come to Lijia Village, you don't need to work in the fields."

"Ah! How can this be possible? We..."

Before Mr. Wang could finish his words, Li Jiayi interrupted him and said, "Please listen to me first."

"Okay, you say."

"Teacher Wang, and several other teachers, Lijia Village is quite remote and all schools are closed now, so I hope you can teach knowledge to the children in the village."

"Ah! You want us to be teachers for the children in the village?"

"Yes, in fact, there are more than just you. I have sent five of my junior high school teachers here. You will teach the children in the village together in the future."

Hearing what Li Jiayi said, several teachers quickly said, "Don't worry, we will definitely teach you seriously."

"Yes! Plus one, don't worry about this."

"Ok!"

Because it was only around four o'clock, Li Jiayi did not drive the car into the village, but just parked it not far from the village.

There are many dogs in the village! If you enter the village at this time, the dogs will definitely bark, and then wake up the whole village.

Although the temperature is still low, it is not cold in the car.

Time passed minute by minute, and in the blink of an eye it was daybreak. Li Jiayi even saw someone carrying a dung basket and holding a shovel to pick up dung.

Only then did Li Jiayi start the jeep and drive towards the village.

"Hey, Jiayi is back?"

Li Jiayi then saw clearly that the man who came out to pick up the manure was actually the second uncle. This second uncle was not like the second uncle arranged by the street office in the courtyards of the city.

But he is the second son of Li Jiayi’s father’s generation, the second uncle.

"Yes! Second uncle, are you out here picking up manure?"

"Well! Since I couldn't sleep anyway, I came out for a walk."

"Okay, then you keep going, I'll go back first."

"Okay, go back!"

Although Li Jiayi is called Erbo, he is quite old! He is one or two years older than Li Jiayi's grandfather.

Li Jiayi did not drive the jeep to his grandmother's house, but went directly to his uncle's house.

After parking the car, Li Jiayi got out and went up to knock on the door.

"Who is it?" The old lady's voice came from the yard.

"Mom, it's me."

"Add one." The old lady shouted and quickly opened the door.

"Jiayi! Why are you here so early?" the old lady asked hurriedly.

"I came here early today. Is uncle home?"

"Yes, getting up."

"Ok!"

In a few minutes, my uncle came out of the house and ran over to ask, "Jiayi! Why are you here so early?"

"Uncle, I'll send you some talented people. They are all my teachers when I was in technical secondary school. They can teach the children in the village skills and knowledge."

"The technical secondary school teacher is a great intellectual, why don't you invite him in?"

"Uncle, don't treat you and the secretary uncle differently. To the villagers, they are both great intellectuals."

"Uh!" The uncle was stunned for a moment, thought for a while and said: "Jia Yi, you are right. For people in our village, they are indeed great intellectuals."

"Okay, uncle, I'll leave the people to you. You can discuss the rest with the secretary uncle. I'll go see grandpa and grandma first."

"Okay, go ahead!"

"Teacher Wang, please get off the car! Just follow my uncle, he will arrange a place for you to stay."

"Thank you! Jiayi." Teacher Wang said to Li Jiayi.

"You're welcome."

When Li Jiayi drove to his grandmother's house, his grandparents had just gotten up.

"Hey, my eldest grandson, why are you here at this time?"

"I'll send a few teachers over."

"Send it to the teacher?" Grandma looked at Li Jiayi in confusion.

"Yup!"

"Didn't you just send a few teachers over yesterday? Why are you sending them again today?" asked grandma.

"Grandma, the one who came yesterday was my former junior high school teacher, and the one who came today was my technical secondary school teacher."

"That's it!"

"Ok!"

Now in Lijia Village, the primary school has the original primary school teachers, and the junior high school has the junior high school teachers sent by Li Jiayi.

Now with the addition of these technical secondary school teachers, to be honest, Li Jiayi really can’t imagine what Lijia Village will be like in ten years.

If the college entrance examination had been resumed at that time, would Lijia Village be filled with college students? To be honest, this is really possible.

With so many teachers here, I guess even adults will be able to say a few words by then.

"Grandson, you haven't had breakfast yet! Wait, grandma will make breakfast for you."

"Ok!"

"Jiayi! Do you have any plans for sending so many teachers here?" the old man asked after the old lady left.

Li Jia nodded and said, "I do have some plans."

"Oh! What are you going to do?"

Let the children in the village learn more knowledge and use knowledge to change their destiny.

"That's it?"

"Of course that's not all!" Li Jiayi shook his head.

There were some things he couldn't say now, and he couldn't say that the college entrance examination would be restored in the future.

Or will the country change in the future? Although this is true, no one would think so at present.

"Alright! Since you can't tell me, Grandpa won't ask. Anyway, it's fine as long as you have a plan."

"Ok!"

After breakfast, Li Jiayi did not go back to the city directly, but went back to the house and lay down on the kang.

He hasn't slept for two nights in a row. Although he won't feel anything, it's always good to have a good sleep.

Li Jiayi was not woken up by his sleep, but was woken up by his grandmother. Because lunch was ready, his grandmother came to tell him to get up and eat.

Although he didn't wake up naturally, Li Jiayi felt much more energetic after sleeping for a few hours.

"Get up and eat. If you want to sleep, eat first and then sleep."

"No need, grandma. I'm already asleep." Li Jiayi quickly got up and said.

"Well! Then go wash your face and eat."

"it is good."

After dinner, Li Jiayi drank tea with his grandfather for a while, and then drove away.

He did not go to the village, nor did he go to see Teacher Wang.

Driving during the day is much faster, and it took Li Jiayi just over two hours to return to the city.

He still didn't go to the factory and went straight home.

Time passed, the weather became hotter, and in the blink of an eye it was late July.

More than two months have passed, and life seems to be back on track.

There are more Red Students on the streets than before, and it is more lively.

Now Li Jiayi does what he is supposed to do every day. No one bothers him, and he doesn't bother others either.

And he can start what he wants to do.

After more than two months, some good things have emerged, so it's time for Li Jiayi to get down to business.

Early in the morning, after finishing his meal, Li Jiayi drove to the fat man's home.

Fatty graduated from high school a long time ago, and graduated from technical secondary school one year after Li Jiayi.

But he was not so lucky and is still staying at home.

There was no other way. One could not be assigned a job directly after graduating from high school, so it fell on him to find a job.

It’s not that his family can’t find him a job, it’s mainly because this guy doesn’t want to do it.

It’s not because of anything else, but because if he wants to do it, he can only start as an apprentice.

Li Jiayi could help him find a job, and it was a clerk job, but he disagreed.

This left Li Jiayi with no choice. To put it bluntly, this guy didn't want to go to work at all.

Otherwise I would have gone to work long ago.

"Fatty." Li Jiayi didn't even get out of the car and shouted directly into the yard.

Today is a working day. I guess there would be no one else at Fatty’s house except him at this time, otherwise Li Jiayi wouldn’t be like this!

"Come, come, who is it?"

"Me, who else could it be?" Li Jiayi looked at the fat man coming out and rolled his eyes at him.

"Uh! Boss, why are you here?"

"I have something to talk to you about. Get in the car quickly." Li Jiayi pointed at the passenger seat.

The fat man understood what he meant and quickly opened the passenger seat and sat in.

Li Jiayi started the jeep, drove forward for a while, and then stopped the car.

"Ugh! Boss, what are you doing..."

The fat man didn't understand why Li Jiayi parked the car here?
"Fatty, how many of those brothers are at work now?"

"There are about a dozen! What's the matter, Boss?"

"So many people are going to work?" Li Jiayi said with emotion.

There are thirty-one brothers in total, and now more than a dozen of them have to go to work, which means that almost half of the brothers cannot follow him for the time being.

"Yes Boss, even I almost went to work."

"All right!"

"Boss, you came to me today not just to ask about your brothers, right?" said the fat man.

"Indeed, it's like this. I have some things I want to sell, so I want you brothers to help me sell them."

"Uh, Boss, what new stuff have you come up with?"

"It's nothing, I just have a batch of badges, a batch of fine badges, which are incomparable to those on the market."

"Boss, don't keep me in suspense. Take it out and let me see it."

"Okay, take a look." Li Jiayi took out a wooden box from his schoolbag.

Then open it in front of the fat man.

More than a dozen exquisite badges appeared in front of the fat man.

"Boss, are you sure this is a badge and not an antique?"

"Get out of the way, stop being ignorant, this is a badge, how can it be an antique?"

"Uh! That's right!"

"How is it? Beautiful, right?" Li Jiayi asked.

"Beautiful, very beautiful, otherwise I wouldn't have called it an antique."

“This is a set.”

"A set?" the fat man asked doubtfully.

"Yes, this is a set from this series. There are eighteen pieces in total, all made of ceramic."

"Boss, how much does this set cost?" asked the fat man.

"One hundred dollars."

"What? One hundred dollars a set?" the fat man asked in surprise.

"Yeah! What's the matter? You want to say the price is too high, right? But I tell you, this..."

"Wait Boss, I didn't say it was sold too high, I said it was sold too low."

"Selling it low? No way! This price is not cheap anymore."

Just kidding, you know he originally planned to sell them for two dollars each.

Now it’s made into a set with a wooden box added on the outside, and the price has more than doubled.

Eighteen pieces for one hundred yuan, that's more than five yuan each! How could this price be so low?

"ok, I get it."

"Well, Fatty, call over all the people who haven't officially started working, and then start selling food. As for the commission, it's still the same as before, 10%."

"Okay, I'll go find them now."

"Well! Once you've found the person, come to the courtyard to find me. I'll go there and wait for you now."

"Okay boss."

Li Jiayi sells badges to make money!
Some good antique calligraphy and paintings appeared, and he could buy them again, but he didn't have much RMB in his space now.

After the fat man got off the car, Li Jiayi drove the jeep to the courtyard.

The gate of the courtyard can't drive a jeep in, so we can only park the car outside.

Time passed by minute by minute, and in the blink of an eye it was noon, but the fat man still hadn't come.

There was no other way, Li Jiayi could only take some food out from the space.

Not only that, he also got himself a beer.

Li Jiayi has a very good alcohol tolerance. After drinking a pint of beer, it is almost the same as not drinking anything.

Besides, there’s no one checking this stuff now!
Also, there are very few cars on the road now, so he is not worried about that.

After eating and drinking, Li Jiayi lay on the bamboo bed for a while. Of course, the fan had to be turned on, otherwise it would be impossible for him to fall asleep.

At around two o'clock in the afternoon, Li Jiayi woke up, got up from the bed, got an enamel jar of spiritual spring water and drank it. He immediately felt refreshed.

Just at this moment, the fat man came in from outside. The boy didn't even knock on the door, but pushed it open and came in.

"Why did you come just now?" Li Jiayi asked.

"There's nothing I can do, Boss. Some of my brothers weren't at home when I went to look for them, so I can only wait."

"All right!"

"Come, I'll take you inside." After Li Jiayi said this, he went into the east room first.

After arriving at the east room, Li Jiayi opened several particularly large boxes and said, "These are all seals. One box has been boxed and sold by set. The rest are sold individually, and the price is two yuan each."

There are eighteen pieces in a set, but there are only seventeen of them sold individually, which means that it is impossible to buy them one by one to collect a set.

Not only that, even among these seventeen types, there are more and less, with the least number of one type only having about ten.

Then increase it little by little. This is what Li Jiayi asked Master Yan to do when he made it according to the proportion.

So unless you buy them in sets, it is impossible to collect a complete set.

"I understand, boss."

"Well! Go back and explain it to your brothers."

"Don't worry, Boss. I will definitely explain it clearly."

It was not until around three o'clock that brothers started to come over one after another.

"Boss, Fatty."

"Well! Have you been doing well during this period?" Li Jiayi asked.

"You're a good boss. You're in good health and enjoy eating." A brother said jokingly.

"That's good."

There is no need to rush now, as it is not yet the peak period for going to the countryside.

When that time really comes, Li Jiayi will do everything he can to provide jobs for these dozen brothers.

No matter what, we can’t let them go to the countryside!
This is not to say that Li Jiayi is selfish, but he has no choice. You have to know that the youngest of his brothers is in his early twenties.

The oldest ones are already in their twenties. If they were asked to go to the countryside, they would be gone for more than ten years!
By the time they come back, the day lily will probably be cold.

You know, now it's time for them to talk about marriage.

After ten years or so, you will be in your thirties.

Either find a wife in the countryside, or find a way to come back.

But since they have all been sent to the countryside, they definitely won’t have any backing, so all they can do is wait.

After chatting with these brothers for a while, the fat man took them to the east room.

Li Jiayi did not participate, but sat alone in the living room drinking tea.

I don’t know what the fat guy said to them, but they all left happily.

It looks like he's been given an injection of chicken blood.

Seeing that the time was almost up, Li Jia gave the fat man a key to the door and a key to the main gate.

"Okay Fatty, let's go!"

"Okay boss."

Li Jiayi sent the fat man home first, and then drove the jeep back home.

Because he came back early, his family didn't know whether he had gone out or not.

But even if we knew he went out, it wouldn’t matter, because no one stopped him from going out!

At around twelve o'clock that night, Li Jiayi came down from upstairs, opened the door and came outside.

Li Jiayi now...

(End of this chapter)