"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.