#万能生活指南##天南地北大拜年##爆料#
Text/Fan Guiyun
There is an abacus kept in the mother-in-law's house, black frame, black beam, black beads, and 13 gears, although it is a little old, it is also intact. The most distinctive place is that there is a small rectangular aluminum sheet inlaid on the outer frame, which is engraved with the name of the manufacturer, although it has gone through the friction of the years, it can vaguely identify the "Tianjin Combat Stationery Factory". It is conceivable that this should be a product of the Cultural Revolution, and it is not an exaggeration to say that this abacus is a cultural relic.
Her mother-in-law's name is Ma Lijuan, and when she was 26 years old, she came to Guyuan, Hebei from Shandong. She has been in business almost all her life, and she is a salesperson at the Lightning River Supply and Marketing Cooperative. This abacus is the prize given to her by the unit, and it is also a testimony of her mother-in-law's work, her mother-in-law has moved home a total of 6 times and discarded many things, but this abacus has always been with her mother-in-law.
When my mother-in-law worked in the supply and marketing cooperative, she was a lesbian herself, and the rest were male workers. At that time, the workers had to do a lot of heavy work, they had to follow the horse-drawn carts to buy and unload goods, collect rabbits and chickens, load wool bags into cars, and even carry fertilizer into the warehouse. At that time, some gay men thought that their mother-in-law was a woman, and they were afraid that they would become a burden, so they were reluctant to work in a group with their mother-in-law. But the mother-in-law doesn't believe in this evil, and always asks the leader to give her as much work as the male comrades, and she does as much as the male does, and never flinchs, sometimes the male does 8 hours of work, the mother-in-law does 9, the male collects 200 rabbits, she collects 230, and for the dirty and exhaustive scrap work, others are unwilling to do it, and the mother-in-law does it. After a long time, everyone gave their mother-in-law the nickname "Iron Girl", and they all rushed to work with their mother-in-law, and those who were younger than their mother-in-law affectionately called their mother-in-law "Sister Ma".
The mother-in-law is capable and strong, and she is well-known in the unit, and she is also obedient, and she does whatever the leader tells her to do, and never picks the fat and the thin. Every spring, she began to push the cart to go out early and return late, to collect eggs in various villages, but also to take care of the family, the child is taken care of by the father-in-law, the mother-in-law has to walk 7, 80 miles almost every day, collect 2, 3 hundred pounds of eggs, it is common to encounter wind and rain, but the mother-in-law's eggs will always be protected as before. In the autumn, when eggs are not collected, it is time to collect chickens and rabbits, in fact, it is more burdensome and troublesome to collect live animals. The chicken and rabbit are not honest, and they don't say anything about it, and they pull and pee dirty. Because she always catches chickens and rabbits, her mother-in-law's hands and arms are full of blood scratched by chickens and rabbits, and even now you can faintly see some horizontal and vertical marks.
My mother-in-law said that the basic skills of working in the supply and marketing cooperatives are very important. In the afternoon, when there are not many customers, they are not idle, practicing "a handful of quasi" and "bags". "A handful of accurate" is to grasp sugar cubes and other commodities, by feeling to grasp one or two on one or two, grasp two or two on two two, there is little difference, this is the real kung fu accumulated over time. Practicing "bag" is to wrap sugar, alkaline noodles, tea and other commodities with hemp paper, after wrapping, play hard with your fingers, and if you can't bounce open, you can pass the test, otherwise you will practice again.
Because her mother-in-law was hard-working, conscientious and responsible, she was recognized and praised by the unit and superior leaders, and became the person in charge of the acquisition department. Every year, he is rated as a county-level model worker, and when he goes to attend the county model worker conference, he wears a big red flower on his chest, and the prizes are basically hanging mirrors, and most of the units and colleagues' homes have hung his mother-in-law's prizes.
Once the unit asked the mother-in-law's store department to start collecting grain, and gave them the target task, in addition to the basic task, the reward of 2 cents for one pound more, and 4 cents for one pound less. So the mother-in-law led all the staff, day and night, working overtime and busy. In the end, the leader was dumbfounded, and he couldn't fulfill his promise to his mother-in-law at that time, and the reward salary was unaffordable, so the unit bought an abacus and sent it to his mother-in-law as a reward. My mother-in-law couldn't put it down, and she followed her in her future work. My mother-in-law used it to calculate many accounts, and no one could count them, until my mother-in-law retired, and the abacus followed my mother-in-law home.
After retiring, when my mother-in-law has nothing to do at home, she always likes to take out her abacus and play with Mimi, and even has the words "one up, five to four, one to nine into one".
Later, his wife went back to her hometown to do business, and every autumn her mother-in-law took out the abacus, wiped it clean, and helped her collect the accounts at home. The wife said, "What is the era, and you still use an abacus to settle accounts?" How happy it is to use an electronic calculator! My mother-in-law said that she was not used to that high-tech thing, and she did not have an abacus. It's also strange that sometimes the wife will add the wrong one with a calculator, and the mother-in-law will add the wrong one. I'm really unconvinced.
More than ten years later, my mother-in-law is also 82 years old this year, and she still helps us collect our bills, and she rarely makes mistakes. Some customers also doubted their mother-in-law, and personally calculated with their mother-in-law, and finally had to clench their fists to express their admiration.
My mother-in-law often said that an abacus is a calculation. Life is an account, only when it is well calculated and there are no mistakes, can life be valuable and meaningful.
Edit/Piao Piao Hua Yu