Chapter 115: It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but difficult to go from luxury to frugality

“Hongcai, the troops are coming, your sister is really going to take you to join the army!”

Liang Ping’an, a good friend of Mai Hongcai, stood on the ridge of the field and shouted loudly.

A head suddenly popped out from the haystack next to him. It was not Mai Laosan, but it was no one else.

Others were working, but he was hiding here and sleeping.

Hearing Liang Ping’an’s voice, Mai Laosan sat up and asked excitedly: “Ping’an, where are the troops?”

“They are talking to Shen Zhiqing at the entrance of the village.” As soon as Liang Ping’an finished speaking, Mai Laosan rushed out directly.

Mai Hongcai followed closely behind.

“Dad, wait for me!”

To be honest, Mai Laosan really missed the days when Mai Sui was at home.

Because as soon as Mai Sui left, the food standard of their family dropped directly.

Although Mai Sui left a hundred yuan for Mai Hongcai, telling him to be the housekeeper and not to save money, he could eat whatever he wanted.

But some things are not available whenever you want.

For example, meat and fish.

When Mai Sui was at home, he could go to the mountains to catch them or fish in the river to eat them, and he had no worries at all.

But now, they can only go to the commune or the city to buy them, and they may not be able to buy them.

First, because of the limited supply, if you go too late, they will be gone.

Second, because they need tickets, and they don’t issue such tickets in their rural areas. Even if Shen Xingchen is there, the meat tickets he has are very limited.

Less than half a month after Mai Sui left home, Shen Xingchen’s meat tickets were used up.

Later, Shen Xingchen went to find Yang Lin to exchange for some meat tickets, but it was a drop in the bucket, and Yang Lin didn’t have much either.

So, as Mai Sui was away from home for a longer time, their food level dropped faster.

Up to now, they haven’t eaten meat for more than half a month.

As the saying goes, it’s easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it’s hard to go from luxury to frugality.

Mai Laosan and his friends used to eat meat every day with Mai Sui, but suddenly they returned to the period before liberation, which inevitably caused some psychological gap.

Now they heard that they could follow the army, so they were naturally happy.

Because the living conditions in the army are definitely better than those in the countryside.

This is indeed the case.

The army not only issues allowances, but also various bills.

There are all kinds of food coupons, meat coupons, cloth coupons, sugar coupons, etc.

Not only that, free supplies are also issued according to different levels.

Mai Sui has no level now, but he also has a free supply quota, two packs of matches every month.

Does it look a bit stingy?

Therefore, the army issues 24 packs at a time, and the annual quota is issued at one time.

This looks much more generous.

If you don’t use these materials or bills, you can mail them back to your hometown to your parents, or take them back when you are on vacation.

In addition, there are several canteens in the military region that serve family members.

The things supplied by the canteen are sometimes more complete than the largest supply and marketing cooperative in the city.

After all, this is the army!

During festivals, the army would specially bring in a batch of supplies to provide welfare to the family members.

Sometimes it was meat, sometimes it was fish, sometimes it was rice, black beans, etc.

It’s not that they don’t need money, but they don’t need tickets, which is also a kind of welfare.

There is also free meat.

But you have to reach a certain level, such as Huang Zongwei, who can get free meat every month.

In short, life in the army is definitely better than in the countryside.

At least, you don’t have to work in the fields.

For educated family members like Shen Xingchen, the army will also help arrange jobs.

After all, the entire Southeast Military Region, in addition to military camps, also includes hospitals, schools, and family committees, etc.

The troops also need people to work, and it is impossible to let soldiers take on all the responsibilities.

The main task of soldiers at this stage is still training, because war may break out at any time.

Although the new society has been liberated, there are still some exchanges of fire from time to time in border areas.

Other military region troops must always be prepared to rush to the front line!

The troops need people to work, but this is a military region, not an ordinary place, and not everyone can do it.

The most important thing is safety.

Family members just avoid this problem.

Because family members have been reviewed by relevant departments, their identity background is cleaner than those outside, and they are more assured to use them.

Of course, they also have to go through a series of application, interview, inspection and other processes, and they can only take up their posts after passing the qualification.

Like some family members, they can’t read a single word and can’t speak fluently, so such people can only be arranged to clean the house.

But not everyone is willing to do the cleaning job. They may feel ashamed, so they would rather stay at home and do nothing.

For example, Mai Laosan.

He doesn’t even want to take care of the hygiene of his own home, and it’s impossible for him to go out to clean.

“I’ve been to junior high school. A high-level intellectual like me can be a primary school teacher, right?” Mai Laosan boasted.

Qian Xiaodao smiled and said, “Isn’t this a coincidence? I heard that a group of teachers will be recruited in the second half of the year. Uncle Mai, you can go and try.”

“Really?” Mai Laosan was happy. He didn’t expect that he would have a day to be a teacher. This is really a blessing.

But when Qian Xiaodao told him that teachers need to take exams, Mai Laosan immediately wilted again.

He thought he could go to work directly. If he took the exam, he would definitely have no chance. He hasn’t read a book for many years.

But in front of Qian Xiaodao, Mai Laosan was so face-saving that he just said that he was old, his daughter and son were filial, and he probably couldn’t bear to let him go out to work.

How could Mai Hongcai not know how powerful his father was? Upon hearing this, he took the opportunity to take over the conversation:

“Yes, Dad, just take a good rest at home, I will support you.”

“Good son, your father loves you well. But how can you support yourself?”

“I’ll be supported by my sister’s allowance.”

“Okay! Then we’ll all rely on your sister in the future!”

Qian Xiaodao: ….. Your family is really humorous.

After Qian Xiaodao finished his meal and went back, Shen Xingchen couldn’t wait to start packing his luggage.

Yang Lin, who was in the educated youth camp, heard about this and ran over to ask, “Xingchen, are you really going to follow the army?”

“Yes, how can this be false?”

“I can’t bear to leave you.” I can’t bear to leave those delicious foods.

Although the family’s food standards have seriously declined after Mai Sui joined the army, it is still better than the educated youth camp.

Because Mai Laosan and Mai Hongcai are not the kind of people who are willing to treat themselves badly, Shen Xingchen will naturally not suffer.

Besides, there is a hundred yuan left by Mai Sui.

Therefore, their family still eats better than ordinary people.

Yang Lin can get a few bites of delicious food from time to time.

Now, Shen Xingchen and his friends are going to follow the army, and he can only eat bran and vegetables in the educated youth camp in the future.

Just thinking about it, Yang Lin couldn’t help wanting to cry.

It seems that it’s time to find a new employer.

He Jiawei seems to be a good guy.

Just by the fact that he sends delicious food to Zhao Xue from time to time, Yang Lin guessed that his family should not be bad.

Little did he know that He Jiawei didn’t eat it himself and saved it for Zhao Xue.

And the person Zhao Xue really wanted to hook up with was Yang Lin, and she had no intention of marrying He Jiawei.

However, Yang Lin didn’t like Zhao Xue, and he didn’t even realize that Zhao Xue liked him.

After all, Zhao Xue had been accepting He Jiawei’s feeding, and Yang Lin thought they were dating.

And now, Yang Lin has set his sights on He Jiawei’s…food at home.

He Jiawei: Don’t come over! I don’t have enough to eat myself!