Chapter 738: Escape from Famine 43
After graduating from high school at the age of 19, Geng Xiaoyu married one of her classmates, the son of a chef at a state-owned restaurant in the county. After graduation, her classmate also joined the state-owned restaurant and became the second chef.

With the help of her father-in-law, Geng Xiaoyu also got a job as a waitress in a state-owned restaurant.

In this era, being a waiter in a state-owned restaurant was a popular job, just like being a salesperson in a supply and marketing cooperative.

After graduation, Geng Xiaozhen followed Geng Xiaowu's footsteps and became a guest.

She asked to go on her own initiative, and Yuanchun did not stop her. However, Geng Dalin and Sun Chunfeng cried. After all, she was the eldest daughter and had finally graduated from high school, but she had to be a guest. Geng Dalin and Sun Chunfeng were reluctant to let her go.

Geng Xiaoling and Geng Xiaozhen graduated in the same year. Geng Xiaoling originally wanted to go as a guest with her sister, but Sun Chunfeng cried and pulled her back, saying that she could not let both daughters go as guests. If something happened, she would be left with no daughter.

With the help of Geng Xiaoyu, Geng Xiaoling had to find a temporary job in the county town. When there was a vacancy in the state-owned hotel, Geng Xiaoling sold her temporary job and applied for a waitress job in the state-owned hotel, working with Geng Xiaoyu.

Two years later, Geng Xiaowen graduated from high school and applied for a job at a machinery factory in the county.

All five children of the Geng family graduated from high school, which was a first in Fengling Village. All five children had formal jobs, which was also a first in Fengling Village.

As a result, Yuanchun, who was already over sixty years old and still in good health, became the most envied and jealous person by all the old men and women in the village.

Yuanchun didn't care what those old people thought. She no longer went to the fields to earn work points. She helped with cooking at home, tended to the vegetable garden, and went hunting in the mountains to pick mushrooms and dig wild vegetables.

Every month, she received filial piety money from her five grandchildren, and new clothes to wear all year round. Huo Guochang, who had been rehabilitated and returned to the capital, would also send her things from time to time.

Yuanchun lived a more comfortable life than any other old lady in the county town.

Geng Dalin and Sun Chunfeng work every day and come home to eat ready-made food. The couple lives a better life than the others in the village. They don't work as hard as they did when they were young. Geng Dalin now earns eight work points a day and Sun Chunfeng earns six work points. They can finish their farm work easily and still have time to tend to the vegetable garden.

Old Geng's vegetable garden was better taken care of than anyone else's. If there were more vegetables than could be eaten at home, Yuanchun would pick them and send them to her grandchildren in the city.

In 1978, Geng Xiaoyu and others, who had been reminded by Yuanchun early on, all took the college entrance examination and were admitted to top universities in big cities.

Huo Guochang was rehabilitated and returned to the city in 1971 and resumed his previous position.

Soon after he was reinstated, his wife and children who had abandoned him came to find him. His ex-wife wanted to remarry, and his children shamelessly wanted to recognize their father, but Huo Guochang ordered the guests to drive them out of the military compound.

Afterwards, his ex-wife found him several times and wanted to remarry and continue living with him, but Huo Guochang rejected her every time.

His ex-wife even approached the organization, hoping that the organization would persuade Huo Guochang, but Huo Guochang's attitude was cold and persistent, and the organization could do nothing about it. Until her death, his ex-wife was unable to remarry him.

His children came several times to ease the relationship with their father, but were driven away by Huo Guochang every time. After several times, his children never came again.

After Huo Guochang retired, he was alone and was arranged by the state to live in a cadre rest home. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, he would come to Lao Geng's house to spend the reunion festival with Yuanchun.

After Huo Guochang's death, his property was not inherited by his children, but by his younger sister Yuanchun.

Yuanchun was an old woman who was about to die. When she was very old, she suddenly inherited a large sum of money. Yuanchun did not want the inheritance. She donated it all to the army in the name of Huo Guochang.

In this life, Yuanchun lived to be eighty-nine years old and died accompanied by her five grandchildren.