Chapter 386 - 0386: Lion’s Mouth Opens 2_1
"Wang Zhengguo certainly knew why Wang Zhengjun came to ask for food, isn’t it just because his family doesn’t have enough to eat at home?
For an urban household, the standard of grain supply varies according to the type of work. The minimum is twenty-five kilograms, the maximum is forty-five kilograms, and only miners have the forty-five kilogram standard. Unemployed adults get only twenty-one kilos and children, eight kilos, calculated monthly.
Wang Zhengjun has a job, and his son was assigned to a job after graduation, but Liu Jinhua, his wife, has none.
Wang Zhengjun moved to the city for work only after the founding of the People’s Republic of China. His ability to read and write made him stand out during recruitment.
Before that, he was married and had his children in his hometown. The wedding gifts and the wedding itself were all paid for by Wang Zhengguo. To put it bluntly, he is just a country bumpkin, and the mud on his legs isn’t quite washed off.
Their parents are just ordinary peasant farmers, without money or skills. Without the help of the Lu Family, they couldn’t raise seven children. Later, they lived a decent life thanks to Wang Zhengguo and two daughters who worked in the Lu’s family for a few years. They have no ability to host weddings for their sons and daughters, as they can’t afford the dowry and gifts, nor could they pretend to be elders.
Their parents are incompetent; the eldest brother is like a father. Isn’t the marriage of his younger brothers and sisters Wang Zhengguo’s responsibility?
Among them, the marriages of the sisters Fengmei and Fengying were not arranged by Wang Zhengguo but by his parents. For this reason, Wang Zhengguo decided to take charge of his other siblings’ marriages.
At the time, he said that the two families were not suitable, but his parents did not listen. They thought that the city folks who proposed to Fengmei were rich so Fengmei marrying them would bring good fortune. As for Fengying’s father-in-law, he was Wang’s father’s good friend, who verbally committed to the daughter’s marriage and wouldn’t be Wang Zhengguo’s choice for a brother-in-law in any case.