Chapter 101 Chapter 101 1st update

Fu Mingze put the plate away, turned around and took Shen Moer's hand, and asked with a smile: "Could it be that the city wants you to move your factory there again? If it doesn't work, I'll try to find a way to apply for a job at the state-owned factory in the city, and try to get you to follow my lead?"

Two years ago, the Second Branch of the Nan Province Embroidery Garment Factory was officially renamed the Second Nan Province Embroidery Garment Factory. Although the word "branch" was missing and the order of the characters was changed, the nature of the factory has undergone a fundamental change and its level has suddenly become the same as that of the Nan Province Embroidery Garment Factory.

As factories became larger and larger, more and more workers were recruited. Today, Liuqiao Commune is no longer the remote and poor place it once was, but has become the largest commune in Jiangbei County. Geng Liming, the former commune secretary, has moved up to become the deputy county chief, and Zhang Zhengxiang, the former commune director, has been promoted to secretary. Gu Yangbo, the former Jiangbei County chief, is now the mayor of Lingjiang City.

Since last year, Mayor Gu has been calling Shen Moli from time to time to lobby her to move the embroidery factory to the city.

Liuqiao Commune has developed rapidly because of the embroidery factory, but it is just a commune after all. Mayor Gu believes that the embroidery factory will develop better if it is moved to the city.

Hearing that Mayor Gu also went to the Canton Fair this time, Fu Mingze suspected that Gu Yangbo had finally persuaded his wife to move the factory to the city.

Chen Moer scratched Fu Mingze's palm with her fingers and said with a smile, "The factory will not move. I have already rejected Mayor Gu's request this time. Originally, this factory was built for the development of Liuqiao Commune. Wouldn't it go against the original intention to move it to the city? Besides, I believe that our place will develop better and better in the future."

Instead of going through the hassle of moving the factory, the city would provide more policies and funds to develop Liuqiao Commune better.

This is how she replied to Gu Yangbo.

This time when she went to attend the Canton Fair, Shen Moer clearly felt that the atmosphere was very different from before. On the opening day of the fair, more than 2,000 members of the trade delegation and trade fair staff held a simple parade to celebrate the demise of the small group that had brought many years of disaster to the Flower Kingdom. At the end of the parade, everyone had a very relaxed smile on their faces.

It was like some invisible shackles were finally being broken free of.

This is similar to the information that Shen Moer got indirectly from Liu Yinshuang. This country is about to usher in a new development.

Strictly speaking, it was not an indirect attack. After all, Liu Yinshuang was not a scheming person. Sometimes, even if no one asked, she would accidentally let something slip. It was just that she had a rather violent personality and a "bad reputation", so she was not very close to the people in the factory. She only interacted more with Shen Moer, so she did not attract anyone's attention.

But Shen Moer did know a lot.

For example, policies will gradually be relaxed, allowing individuals to do business and start businesses. For example, probably next year, the country will resume the college entrance examination, and everyone will have the opportunity to change their own destiny through the college entrance examination. For another example, in ten years or so, a large number of state-owned factories will go bankrupt, and workers with "iron rice bowls" will be laid off and unemployed... Anyway, Shen Moer knew most of what she needed to know, even if she guessed it.

In this case, Shen Moer felt that there was no need to move the embroidery factory to the city.

Liuqiao Commune will definitely develop better and better under a more relaxed policy environment in the future.

Fu Mingze thought about it and stopped guessing. Instead, he pinched her fingers and asked, "What's the matter?"

Shen Moer grabbed his hand and placed it on her lower abdomen, then looked up at Fu Mingze and raised her eyebrows.

Fu Mingze's eyebrows jumped, and he was silent for a moment. He lowered his voice unconsciously and asked in disbelief, "What are you doing?"

Shen Moer smiled and said, "Yes, we are going to have a baby. It's been more than a month."

Fu Mingze was silent for a while, then suddenly pulled Shen Moer to the dining table, pressed her to sit on the stool, knelt down, and looked at her: "Are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Chen Moer smiled and shook her head: "One day during the trade fair, it might have been too stuffy in the venue, I fainted for a few minutes, and then they checked it out. After that, they didn't let me work. I ate well and slept well all day, and even gained a few pounds. Except for that time, I didn't feel uncomfortable afterwards. On the train back, I ate everything and fell asleep immediately. They were all envious of me."

Fu Mingze put his palm on her still flat belly, a little scared: "She has been on the road for several days, she must be feeling uncomfortable and fainted."

He said seriously, "Comrade Chen Moer, our daughter is still young. You must not be so careless in the future. During this period of time, leave all the factory affairs to Jin Caifei and the others. You should stay at home and take care of your pregnancy. Also, don't cook. I will tell my father later to have him bring you lunch from the kiln factory canteen or your embroidery factory canteen. Dinner will be prepared when I get home. Don't worry, after the autumn harvest, I will have less work to do. I will try to stay at home with you more."

"Also, don't ride your bicycle. It's bumpy on the road. It would be bad if you fall or get hurt. By the way, let's go back and tell Dad to exchange some meat coupons at the kiln factory. I'll ask Sister Liu to exchange some for us as well. We have to make sure you can eat meat at least once every three days. As for eggs, that's easy. I can exchange some with the aunts in the village privately. You can eat at least one egg every day. Also, we have to find a way to save some cloth coupons..."

Obviously, he is a man of few words, but when he is nervous, he starts to talk non-stop. Shen Moer didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She touched Fu Zhiqing's face and said softly, "Okay, okay, I got it, Fu Zhiqing, don't be too nervous."

Fu Mingze held her wrist and rubbed it, then kissed it, then he let out a long breath and said seriously: "Comrade Shen Moer, you have worked hard, thank you!"

Shen Moer thought that her own Fu Zhiqing's rare panic was really cute, and couldn't help but kiss the corner of his mouth: "You're welcome, Comrade Fu Mingze."

There was a burst of laughter outside the courtyard gate, and soon Chen Yu and Zhou Zhaodi came in.

Seeing Fu Mingze half-kneeling in front of Shen Moer, Chen Yu winked and made a fuss: "Fu Zhiqing, did you make my sister Moer angry? Do you want me to help you get the washboard?"

Fu Mingze stood up, brushed off his clothes, and said, "I'll ask your father if he needs a washboard."

Chen Yu immediately begged for mercy and said firmly: "No, no, we don't need it, maybe my father needs it more."

Zhou Zhaodi laughed so hard that she covered her stomach. "I'll tell Uncle Chen later that you said he needed a washboard more."

Chen Zhuangzhuang and Li Xinmei have been devoted to their work in recent years, especially Li Xinmei. After several years of training, she has become a bit like an iron lady. They have no intention of having children. Chen Yu is the only one loved by the whole family. It can be said that he is not afraid of anything except his own father.

Chen Zhuangzhuang showed no mercy when he beat people up, and no one could persuade him.

Perhaps it was because there was such a Five Finger Mountain pressing down on him that Chen Yu, although a bear, did not turn into a bad person.

Zhou Zhaodi severed ties with her family and worked odd jobs in ceramic factories and embroidery factories to earn money to make a living. Chen Moer usually improved her food by either calling her to the commune or buying things to bring back to Yangliu Brigade. However, she returned to Yangliu Brigade more often, after all, Fu Mingze was also busy on weekends, and Zhou Zhaodi worked on embroidery with people in the "extra-curricular workshop" on weekends.

If Zhou Zhaodi had something to eat, Chen Yu would naturally not be left out, so the two children were very familiar with eating at Shen Moer's place. They didn't hesitate and just took their bowls and chopsticks and started eating with big mouthfuls.

"Sister Mo'er's cooking is really delicious, even better than my grandma's." Chen Yu said as he ate his rice, "Why don't we come back next weekend, Sister Mo'er, can I come to your house for dinner next weekend?"

Fu Mingze glanced at him, put a piece of food into Shen Moer's bowl with chopsticks, and said, "No, your sister Moer will not cook anymore."

Chen Yu immediately looked unhappy: "Ah, why?"

Zhou Zhaodi was also eating, glanced at Shen Moer, and interrupted, “Master, I’ll do it from now on, I know how to cook.”

Fu Mingze glanced at her approvingly, smiled, and said, "No, I can cook. Your master is pregnant with a baby, so she needs to pay more attention to nutritional balance."

Zhou Zhaodi was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously looked at Shen Moer. Chen Yu's chopsticks fell to the ground with a clatter. The two children looked at each other blankly, and then screamed in surprise almost at the same time:

"Ahhh, Sister Moer, you are pregnant, ahhhh, I am going to have a little niece!"

"Ahhh, Master, Master, you have a baby, ahhh, I'm going to have a little sister!"

No one knows what's wrong with this kid Chen Yu. From childhood to adulthood, no matter how his family members discuss their relationship with Shen Moer, he always firmly calls Shen Moer "sister" and never discusses seniority with others.

Shen Moer heard them calling her niece and sister, and she didn't know whether to laugh or cry. She subconsciously touched her belly and said, "I'm pregnant, but I don't know if it's a boy or a girl. Why do you think it's a girl?"

Chen Yu and Zhou Zhaodi looked at Fu Mingze at the same time and said in unison: "Fu Zhiqing said so!"

Although Shen Moer had never been a bad kid, everyone in Yangliu Brigade knew that Fu Zhiqing liked girls.

Because once Zhang Junliang showed off his son in front of him, he directly replied: "I like girls, and, a son like yours won't be picked up even if thrown into the garbage dump."

Zhang Junliang was so angry that he almost started a fight with him.

If there weren't other members holding them back, they would have fought each other.

Shen Moer glanced at Fu Mingze lightly: "What if it's a son?"

Fu Mingze touched his nose and said helplessly: "It's really my son, there's nothing I can do about it."

What’s the matter? It’s really your son, and you’re feeling wronged, right?

Shen Moer couldn't help but twisted his waist hard. Fu Mingze gasped and grabbed Shen Moer's hand and squeezed it: "He is really my son. I will teach him well."

Shen Moer: "That's about right."

Zhou Zhaodi and Chen Yu looked at each other and both covered their mouths and laughed.

Ever since the news of Shen Moli's pregnancy came out, the gossip in the village immediately stopped. Aunt Chen knew that there were some gossips in the village, and sometimes when she chatted with her old sisters, she couldn't help but talk about it.

"Mo'er and Xiao Fu Zhiqing were busy with their careers and didn't want to have children in the past few years. Otherwise, how could they have developed the factory so well and taken good care of the land? Now that life is getting better and better and both sides are on the right track, they are finally ready to have a baby."

Aunt Chen said, "You people are really ignorant." She said, "People in the city are like this. They have children when they want to. We country people are not like that. We have nothing to do at home and have to have two children in three years."

Aunt Cai spoke up bravely: "Well, don't the men in the city sleep with their wives at night? Isn't this too much to do in order not to have children?"

A group of old ladies laughed, and Aunt Chen laughed too: "Well, I can tell you didn't listen carefully when the commune propagandists came to preach. They call this family planning, and there are those contraceptive measures. Look, my Xinmei hasn't gotten pregnant in the past few years, and she got those things from the hospital."

Some people were curious about Shen Lingling: "Her first child is already big, why haven't we seen her pregnant with the second one?"

Aunt Cai curled her lips and said, "Just look at how often Zhang Junliang comes back to the village and you'll know."

She lowered her voice and said, "My little girl is working in the purchasing department of the embroidery factory. She has a lot of contact with the textile factory. Everyone in the factory knows that Zhang Junliang is basically living with his cousin now. If it weren't for the national policy that they can't get married, he would have to divorce Shen Lingling and marry his cousin."

Another aunt gasped, "No, how dare they?"

Aunt Cai: "Why should we be afraid? Now the people in the Revolutionary Committee are not in charge of the matter anymore. We are just afraid that they will be punished. They are so daring that no one cares about their adultery."

"Tian Fang has the nerve to laugh at Mo'er behind her back. What's going on in their family? I've never seen anything like this in the surrounding villages." Aunt Chen said speechlessly, "I used to think Shen Lingling was smart, but now I see that she is also a person with a muddled mind."

An auntie who lived close to the Shen family said, "You are wronging her. She is very clear-headed. It is said that most of Zhang Junliang's salary is in her hands. After all, Zhang Junliang and his cousin cannot get married. She will probably continue to live like this just for Zhang Junliang's salary. Besides, divorce is always unpleasant."

"What do you think of Zhang Junliang? If he likes my cousin, why did he get married?"

"Well, I know about this. It is said that they had a good relationship when they were young, but he didn't have any other thoughts. Later, his cousin got divorced and came back to find him, and they got together after a while."

Aunt Cai shared information, "I think Fang Yuhua is not a good person. When she was taking care of Shen Lingling after her confinement, she hooked up with Zhou Gencai. I heard that she took more than 30 kilograms of flour from Zhou Gencai during that time! Zhou Gencai was almost beaten to death by his mother."

"Zhou Gencai is also a man with a confused mind. Although his family and Zhou Chuntao's family are five generations apart, they are still blood relatives if they go back a few generations! Our ancestors said that people with the same surname should not marry, but he ended up marrying Zhou Chuntao. Over the years, Zhou Chuntao hasn't given him any children, but he's been raising a son for someone else."

"Zhou Chuntao is amazing. She once had a crush on Shen Laoqi. Her daughter was similar. She chose a good husband's family after careful selection. She always digs things from her husband's family to support her brother."

“…”

The autumn harvest has just passed, and this year is another bumper year. The old ladies are happy all day long. Whenever they chat, they always sigh that life is getting better and better nowadays.

Some people were happy for Shen Moer when they heard that she was pregnant, but some people couldn't help but start to have some thoughts that had been dormant for a long time when they heard that she was pregnant.