Time Travel to the Educated Youth Era [Space]

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After the 15th day of the Lantern Festival, the New Year is over, but the light snow that had stopped for a long time has started to fall again, but it is just lazy and will not cause any weather.

The winter in the north is long, and there are three or four months of snow in the year, and the glaciers will not melt until March.

The Gadatun Brigade was not in a hurry to organize the residents and educated youth to go to work. Everyone was still hiding from the last period of winter at home. Work had to wait until the spring to melt the ice.

Tao Xiang took advantage of this time to bring Grandma Chen to the old branch secretary's house. She wanted to ask the other party to make the decision and get her money back.

"Secretary, the Zhao family's affairs are still unsolved. We don't care about it anymore. We have to get the money back."

Tao Xiang stretched out her fingertips and pointed at the two papers on the low table. Her fingers were soft, but her attitude was a bit tough.

One was an IOU for 20 yuan in Baohongshu, and the other was a receipt for a 30-yuan down payment for buying a house. They all went through the brigade process and were stamped with the brigade's official seal, which could not be denied.

A total of 50 yuan, two months' salary for a well-off middle-class worker, and nearly the amount of money Tao Xiang received from two martyr's allowances every month, which was really not cheap.

The now decadent Zhao family obviously couldn't come up with it. This was a difficult problem.

The old branch secretary, who was over fifty years old, took two puffs of homemade grass cigarettes, and his face looked a little ugly. He looked at Grandma Chen: "Do you really not want the house?"

Grandma Chen nodded: "My relatives think it is unlucky, so they gave it up..."

Her legs and feet are not good, so she sat on a small chair in the main hall. After saying this, she shut up and it was all up to Tao Xiang to make the decision.

At this time, there was no such thing as "deposit" or "down payment" in the countryside. If you don't want it, you can regret it. What's more, the Zhao family couldn't find anyone who could take the initiative to go to the office to transfer the ownership, and the three children were still detained in the county town waiting to be picked up.

The Zhao family was so poor that only the house was left alone.

The old branch secretary was wearing an old jacket and didn't say anything for a while. He just blew out a puff of smoke and felt overwhelmed.

The cold draft mixed with snow particles blew in from the wide-open door. At this time, the old branch secretary's youngest son, who was in his early twenties, blushed and brought out two bowls of hot sugar water from the back stove. He gave one bowl to Tao Xiang and one bowl to the pampered Grandma Chen.

In farmers' homes, brown sugar is considered precious, so the few people in the hall heard the old branch secretary's wife muttering in the back.

The old branch secretary felt embarrassed and drove the shy son away in a bad mood.

It's no wonder that the young man of the right age is so attentive. Tao Xiang was very popular when she performed in the county before. Everyone knew her. Young guys all had some admiration for her, but she rarely went out of the courtyard, so naturally they didn't run into her.

Tao Xiang thanked him, didn't think much, picked up the hot bowl to warm her hands, and was still waiting for the old branch secretary's reply.

The other party was very embarrassed: "Alas, the Zhao family can't get any money for the time being. Tao Zhiqing, where can I get the money for you..."