Chapter 66 Household Registration
Shen Zhiyu was standing not far away. When he heard Jia Zhang’s request, he shook his head. Jia Zhang was daydreaming. Unless she was accepted by a formal unit and had a formal job, she could not even think about changing her household registration.

From before the founding of our country to 1957, free migration was adopted and one could change one’s household registration to a non-agricultural one by paying a certain price.

But from 1958 to 1978, it was a period of strict control, and it was basically impossible to change your household registration unless you had help from a big shot.

As expected, Wang Shuanghua glanced at Jia Zhang and said, “Aunt Jia, the subdistrict office should have contacted you two years ago and asked you to go to the police station to register your household registration. It was you who chose to register as an agricultural household registration. It is impossible to change it now. This is your own choice. You can’t blame others.”

Xu Damao said from the side: “Secretary Wang, you don’t know what Jia Zhang said when we registered our household registration two years ago.”

Seeing that he had attracted everyone’s attention, Xu Damao continued complacently, “Mrs. Jia Zhang was so proud at that time! According to her, her son Jia Dongxu worked in a factory and earned money. She, Qin Huairu and Banggeng had land in their hometown, which they could rent to others to farm and collect rent. Life was so beautiful. The other people in the courtyard were all fools and had no farmland. They would definitely starve to death in the future.”

Yan Jiecheng, who was beside Shen Zhiyu, suddenly said, “Isn’t Jia Zhang a wealthy landlord?”

Wang Shuanghua ignored Yan Jiefang. She knew the situation of the Jia Zhang family.

When the country was founded, land was distributed to landless farmers. In order to occupy more land, Jia Zhang chose to change the household registration of her daughter-in-law, grandson and others into agricultural household registration.

Afterwards, she gave the land to other people in the village to cultivate, and those who cultivated her land gave her family a portion of grain every autumn.

In 1957, the state introduced a policy to strictly divide household registration into agricultural and non-agricultural types. Jia Zhang was reluctant to change the nature of her household registration and refused to listen to anyone.

As a result, last year the land was nationalized, labor was collectively carried out collectively, and individuals no longer owned land. Jia Zhang became a Muggle and lost everything in the city and the village.

Now that the grain plan supply system has been implemented, agricultural household members like the Jia Zhang family have almost lost their living space without grain supply.

The subdistrict office had no choice but to drive Jia Zhang back to the countryside. She had no place to live and was too old, so no one knew what accidents might happen to her. But this was not a solution.

Wang Shuanghua didn’t know what to do. This was also part of Yi Zhonghai’s plan. He wanted to get in touch with the street office staff by solving Jia Zhang’s problem.

Restoring the system of “uncle in charge” is a good plan!

Wang Shuanghua was not originally in charge of the Nanluoguxiang area. She took over Tu Qifang’s job after Tu Qifang retired.

When she first took office, she heard about the difficult situation of the residents of the courtyard house at No. 95 Nanluoguxiang.

The neighbors in the courtyard tried to snatch the jobs of the military martyrs’ families, and the original manager was dismissed.

After she took office this year, she paid special attention to this courtyard.

Things were fine at the beginning of the year, especially regarding the delivery of scrap iron for steelmaking. The compound actively cooperated and exceeded the task, and she was praised for it.

But since May, there have been a lot of things happening in this yard, and people go to the street office to report problems almost every other day.

As a result, most of their energy was focused on this compound, delaying other work.

Among them, Jia Zhang was a prominent element, and Wang Shuanghua wanted to send her back to the countryside many times.

But after all, as a girl, she was soft-hearted. She felt that Jia Zhang was old, had left the countryside for many years, and had no place to live. She couldn’t bear to drive her away. In addition, his daughter-in-law Qin Huairu cried and begged for mercy, so she did not take any action.

It has been happening more and more frequently recently. Today is already the sixth time this month. This time, she has to get the matter resolved no matter what, otherwise she will have no time to do other work.

Wang Shuanghua looked at Jia Zhang who was still sitting on the ground. To be honest, she felt a little sympathetic. There were five people in the Jia family, but only Jia Dongxu had a ration of food. She didn’t know how the family would get through the difficult times, which was why she didn’t turn against them completely.

“Zhang Cuihua, get up! If you curse people at other people’s doorsteps again, I will send you back to the countryside. I mean what I say.” Wang Shuanghua had no choice but to threaten Jia Zhang.

Jia Zhang still wanted to continue acting like a rogue, but Yi Zhonghai gave her a look, and with Jia Dongxu and Qin Huairu each holding one of her arms, she had to get up reluctantly.

“Girl, I have something to talk to you about.” The deaf old lady suddenly interrupted.

Wang Shuanghua was also very familiar with the deaf old lady. She knew that she was a five-guarantee household who lived alone because of her old age.

“Okay.” She also wanted to leave Jia Zhang. To be honest, she was tired of Jia Zhang.

If this happens again next time, she will definitely drive him away. Even if Jia Zhang cannot survive in the countryside, she won’t care.

The house of the deaf old lady.

Wang Shuanghua helped the deaf old lady sit on the bed and found a stool to sit down on.

“Old lady, what do you want to talk to me about?” Wang Shuanghua asked puzzledly.

The deaf old lady smiled and said, “I’ll give you an idea, what do you think?”

Wang Shuanghua’s eyes lit up and he said happily, “Can you tell me about it?”

The deaf old lady said: “Elect a new manager and let them handle it.”

Wang Shuanghua lost interest instantly. She had thought of this plan a long time ago. The key was that there was no way to choose a suitable manager for this courtyard house.

Except for the three managers who were removed, the others were either too young or too quiet, and did not meet the requirements, so she had no choice but to give up this idea.

Seeing Wang Shuanghua didn’t say anything, the deaf old lady continued, “Why? Do you think there is no one to choose from?”

Wang Shuanghua could only nod in agreement.

The deaf old lady thought for a moment and said, “Girl, the three managers were very good. At that time, Courtyard No. 95 was always a civilized courtyard.”

“But they were removed because they bullied the families of military martyrs. It’s been less than a year now. Isn’t that inappropriate?”

“Girl, I don’t think it can be called bullying. Although I am old, I am not confused. Let me explain to you the whole story. You also know the household registration situation of the Jia family, right?” said the deaf old lady.

Wang Shuanghua didn’t understand what was going on, but he nodded anyway. The Jia family’s household registration was indeed a problem.

“Zhang was uneducated and short-sighted. She didn’t realize the importance of household registration. She was greedy for small gains, and later when the reform came, she lost the food supply in the countryside. Jia Dongxu was the only one in her family who had a non-agricultural household registration. The family of five relied on Jia Dongxu alone, and they really couldn’t get enough to eat.”

“Yi Zhonghai and the other three are the managers of the courtyard. Naturally, they are aware of the difficulties the Jia family is facing. They are all trying to find ways to help the Jia family overcome the difficulties. Is this right?” The deaf old lady raised her voice.

Wang Shuanghua thought for a moment and said, “This is as it should be. Helping neighbors is also part of a civilized society.”

(End of this chapter)