sbdcsierra Chapter 7, First Lottery Draw! Rewards Galore!
Chapter 7, First Lottery Draw! Rewards Galore!
Although Banggeng was unhappy that Zhang Chengfei didn't give him all the candy and made him manage it, he still managed to eat two pieces of candy.
With meat, chicken, and eggs on the table, he was quite satisfied, so he picked up his chopsticks and began to enjoy the meal with his grandmother.
Xiao Dang and Qin Huairu were not to be outdone. Usually, there weren't many good things to eat at home, so the other three had to eat first, while the two of them could only watch.
Now that there was enough food and her mother-in-law was in a good mood, Qin Huairu pulled Xiaodang along and urged her to eat quickly.
Jia Dongxu watched the other four eating with their mouths full of oil, and felt anxious, like a cat scratching at his heart.
As the only mature male in the Jia family, he had to accompany his third grandfather to drink and chat.
Helpless, he could only swallow his saliva while chatting with Zhang Chengfei.
The two talked about everything from the first Five-Year Plan in 1953, to the country's support for heavy industry, to the aid from the Soviet Union, and the people's livelihood after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
During the time it took to eat a meal, Zhang Chengfei was surprised to find that Jia Dongxu was not as incompetent as those fanfiction writers portrayed him to be.
Although he wasn't particularly insightful, his knowledge, experience, and perspectives were perfectly in line with his age. As for his appearance, he was average, and he wasn't particularly sexist. Judging from his relationship with Qin Huairu, he wasn't abusive.
Of course, there are also many drawbacks, such as being fond of showing off and flaunting one's abilities.
These things were naturally inherited from his mother, Zhang Erya, but Zhang Chengfei felt that they weren't necessarily bad things for him.
The more arrogant the Jia family mother and son are, the more public anger they will attract, and the more dislike they will gain. With more dislike, they can participate in the lottery and convert it into technology points.
In order to gain more technology points, Zhang Chengfei hoped that the Jia family mother and son would be as smug as possible. If all else failed, he would even give them a push.
After several rounds of drinks and several dishes, Zhang Chengfei went out to use the restroom.
As soon as he left, Jia Dongxu slammed the door shut with lightning speed: "Emergency meeting!"
The other four members of the Jia family immediately sat in a row, looking up at him.
"I've already talked about my third grandfather's background many times today, so I won't go into it again. I'll just emphasize one point: starting from a vocational high school diploma, he was a level 16 cadre, earning a monthly salary of thirty-three!"
Wow! Thirty-three yuan? Jia Zhangshi's eyes lit up.
Their family, Dongxu, entered the steel rolling mill eight years ago. During their internship, they earned 18.5 yuan. Before the salary reform, they earned 23 yuan a month.
Last year, after the wage reform and passing the first-level worker assessment, the salary was only 27.5 yuan.
Moreover, this 27.5 yuan was spent by the family of five, but the third grandfather was only one person.
"Thirty-three yuan a month, how will Third Grandpa ever spend it all?" Jia Zhangshi smacked her lips, feeling that as Zhang Chengfei's only junior in Beijing, she had a responsibility to help him share the burden...
"Mom, don't interrupt." Jia Dongxu glanced at her. "The problem we're facing now is, how can we keep Third Grandfather around and get him to interact with us more?"
Jia Dongxu counted on his fingers: his third grandfather brought five catties of meat, a chicken, a catty of white sugar, a can of malted milk powder, and two cans of food.
"These good things add up to at least fifteen yuan! If we get along well with Third Grandfather, he'll come here every few days, and we'll be rich!" Jia Dongxu rubbed his hands together, extremely excited.
In order to leave a good impression on his third grandfather, he deliberately said things that the other person wanted to hear when he spoke today.
Qin Huairu calmly analyzed: "Mom left her hometown before Third Grandfather was born. The two of them only met once in twenty years, so their relationship wasn't particularly deep."
"Maybe..." She paused, then decided to tell the truth, "Maybe he came to visit this time on behalf of his great-grandfather and great-grandmother back home."
The implication is that after this once, who knows when it will happen again.
Upon hearing this, Madam Jia became anxious: "No! Now that my third uncle is here, we must find a way to keep him here!"
She told her son and daughter-in-law that their Zhang family was small, which made family ties all the more precious.
"Unlike Qin Huairu's family, they have many children, and your parents don't treat them all equally, they don't take you seriously!" She snorted coldly.
Don't think she doesn't know that the lunchbox Qin Huairu brought back wasn't given to her by her parents at all.
How could I possibly order food for that couple who only ask for help and never ask for it? Especially meat dishes!
Those dishes must have been prepared by Qin Huairu herself, trying to curry favor with him upon her return.
After criticizing him, Jia Zhangshi said, "We, the Zhang family, value family ties the most. As long as we treat my third uncle with all our hearts, he will definitely stay."
Of course, the purpose of opening one's heart and lungs was to take money from Uncle San's pocket, and in turn, to take away Uncle San's heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys.
But let's leave those aside for now. All five members of the Jia family agreed that the most important thing right now is to keep Third Uncle/Third Grandfather/Third Great-Grandfather alive!
After setting the general direction, Jia Zhangshi cleared her throat and raised a new question: "As long as Third Uncle stays, our family will be a cadre family. Dongxu, from now on, Mom won't call you Dongxu anymore; you'll call me Comrade Dongxu!"
Jia Dongxu knew what his mother meant. Wasn't that shown in the movies? That's how cadres' families, especially high-ranking cadres' families in the compound, all addressed their family members.
"Then I won't call you Mom anymore, I'll just call you Comrade Er Ya." He nodded reservedly, then looked at Qin Huairu, "You are Comrade Huairu."
Qin Huairu straightened her back: "Okay, Comrade Dongxu."
Outside the Jia family gate,
After listening to the discussion of the Jia family members, Zhang Chengfei, who had returned, smiled without saying a word and headed out of the courtyard.
As you walk, check your dislike rating.
Since arriving at the courtyard house this morning, he has accumulated 2,100 dislike points.
Dislike points can be used for both lottery draws and skill point conversion, and can be reused twice. In other words, he got 21 skill points, plus two lottery draws.
This was Zhang Chengfei's first time trying the system's lottery, and he didn't plan to save up for ten draws. He had a sudden thought: "System, draw a lottery."
A moment later, a notification sounded in my mind.
"Congratulations, host. You have spent 1,000 Dislike Points to draw a 100-cubic-meter space."
"Congratulations, host. You have spent 1,000 Dislike Points and won half a carton of pork, ten boxes of milk, and ten boxes of instant noodles."
I don't know if it's because of a newbie bonus, but the first reward I got was pretty good.
As for the second one, Zhang Chengfei was about to complain when the expressions of everyone in the courtyard when they saw the five catties of pork he had brought suddenly flashed into his mind.
Well, that's not bad either.
After checking the system rewards, Zhang Chengfei continued walking out. He was stopped by Yan Bugui as soon as he reached the front yard.
"Third Uncle, are you leaving?" Yan Bugui asked, his small, lecherous eyes peeking out from behind his glasses, afraid of seeing any members of the Jia family appear.
Zhang Chengfei smiled and said, "I'm not leaving. I drank too much tea earlier and need to use the restroom."
"Oh, well, I just smelled something, did the Jia family stew chicken for you?" Yan Bugui got to the point. "Zhang Erya has been very good to you. Her family is so poor that they eat cornbread every day, yet they still managed to stew chicken for you."
Seeing Zhang Chengfei's expression change slightly, he immediately pressed his advantage: "Oh dear, you don't know how difficult life is for the Jia family, do you?"