1972, The Red Flag-Waving Youthful Era

In the spring of 1972, on a train heading to the Great Northern Wilderness for re-education, Chu Miaohong quietly tossed an old envelope into the wind. Far away in the year 2024, Zhang Hongcheng co...

Chapter 374 Cheap House

Shang Yiming only recently realized how calm and steady his future brother-in-law Zhang Hongcheng is in his work.

After getting the picture of Erye's bicycle, Zhang Hongcheng did not rush to collect the Takahashi notebook. He even asked Shang Yiming to ask the people who were keeping an eye on the other party to withdraw.

In Zhang Hongcheng's words, few people who dare to go abroad to do business are so bold, especially those from Japan who like to play tricks. Shang Yiming and his gang's stalking skills might have been noticed by the other party.

If someone takes advantage of your own trick, it would be more trouble than gain.

Shang Yiming has a somewhat impatient temper. His family members say that he is not very useful, but when facing his future brother-in-law, he does not lose his temper at all.

Chu Miaohong also glanced at her lover with a smile, and said a few words to comfort Shang Yiming.

"Xiao Shang, just go ahead. I'm afraid he already has an idea in mind."

Zhang Hongcheng did have an idea, and after his mind started thinking, he soon thought of too many things.

When he finally made up his mind, using this half-finished painting to deal with Takahashi became the part of his plan to kill two birds with one stone - to achieve some results while dealing with this guy at the same time.

Zhang Hongcheng has been avoiding Director Qin and Director Jie recently, but today he was finally "accidentally" caught by Director Jie near the library.

Director Xie was very proud.

Except for Lao Qin, everyone in the school is not very active. Ninety percent of them only care about classes and books.

God bless him, a little fox like Zhang Hongcheng finally appeared. He would feel really uncomfortable if he didn't pluck all his fur.

Zhang Hongcheng pretended to be annoyed and did not dare to let Director Qin come to "catch" him, because Director Qin was also a fox and might suspect that he had come to him on his own initiative.

Boss Yu has become the director of the Student Union's Self-Discipline Department. Except for classes, he spends almost all his time in the Academic Affairs Building, so Zhang Hongcheng actually knows exactly what has happened in the school recently.

The reason why Director Jie came to block him was nothing more than Zhang Hongcheng deliberately leaked some information in front of Boss Yu.

Student Yu Zhaowen was also very tactful and "inadvertently" whispered a few words to Director Jie.

Director Xie, who was already overwhelmed by several issues, suddenly had a look of light in his eyes. He did not ask Yu Zhaowen to "summon" someone, but went to arrest the person himself with great sincerity.

Director Xie has been both happy and worried recently.

What made him happy was that Dongfeng Express had completely withdrawn from the Minzu University campus and returned with a large number of teaching buildings and dormitory buildings, which had greatly improved the school's accommodation and teaching conditions.

Originally, he and Director Qin thought that with the addition of several family buildings under construction, the accommodation problem for students and their families should not be a problem, but the actual development was beyond the leaders' expectations.

More than a decade ago, the teachers at Minzu University came from high-income intellectual families. At that time, there was no one-child policy, but instead there was a call for "strength in numbers."

Therefore, almost every teacher's family has two or more children.

But with the development of the times, the children of most of the faculty and staff of Minzu University went to the countryside to work as sent-down youths, either voluntarily or involuntarily.

After the policy of reform and opening up was issued, the teachers at Minzu University, who were part of the policy academic research, were extremely well-informed. Half a month before the policy of educated youth returning to the city was issued, some of them began to "run" back from the countryside.

First, the newly added and temporary positions in the Logistics Department of Minzu University were instantly filled due to the reopening of the school. Then, the fan factory, a school-run enterprise, expanded production due to its good performance, and the number of staff needed doubled. In addition to the children of the factory's own employees, more than 60 children of faculty and staff who had returned to the city were also employed.

However, some children of faculty and staff still have not been accommodated, forcing the faculty and staff to lose face and run to the offices of several school leaders every day.

"These are the children that we old men have watched grow up."

Director Xie asked Zhang Hongcheng to sit down, and his tone was a little sad.

"They used to be clean and polite boys and girls, but now they are all dark-skinned and ragged, hiding behind the teachers and parents, looking at us timidly. Oh, it's so sad."

Zhang Hongcheng held the teacup in silence, knowing that Director Jie had not yet gotten to the real issue.

He knew that in order to solve the problems of these disciples, the school leaders had done something out of pity.

When Minzu University moved to the Third Frontier, it left the campus to Dongfeng Express.

The teachers and their families who stayed behind to look after the house jointly set up a handicraft factory with the families of Dongfeng Express employees.

At that time, there were countless family units across the country that were affiliated with large units.

This handicraft factory lives a comfortable life thanks to the plan orders within the Dongfeng Express system.

But this time the two sides officially broke up, and the handicraft factory was assigned to Minzu University. Not only were the vacant positions filled by the children of faculty and staff, but the remaining children who had not been resettled were also eventually squeezed in.

"They're now getting one-third of a temporary worker's salary, and there are five or six people vying for just the job of sweeping the floor..."

"But now we have some problems. Dongfeng has stopped sending us funds. Our school doesn't need many handicrafts, and they are all allocated directly by the Ministry..."

"I heard from your roommate Yu Zhaowen that you have some ideas?"

Zhang Hongcheng smiled modestly.

"Don't listen to our boss's nonsense. I just heard that the theme of this year's Youth Day is a grand gathering of Chinese and foreign youth, so I said a few random words."

"Yeah, it's okay. I just like listening to your nonsense. Go on."

Zhang Hongcheng cleared his throat.

"Isn't it said nowadays that practice is the only criterion for testing truth?"

"Many of our teachers at Minzu University are policy advisors, and most of our graduates are policy implementers, so I wondered if I could combine theory and practice."

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