Chapter 102 Chapter 102 Part 2

"What's wrong with being pregnant? She still went to work as usual. The production tasks in the factory were arranged by her and Xing Fangjie. I couldn't get involved at all."

Jin Caifei rubbed his forehead and said with a headache, "Chief Mao, Director Shen may look easy to talk to, but he is not without temper. We have all experienced this."

Mao Jianxin sneered on the other end of the phone: "Yes, we have all experienced it, but you are still serving as the deputy director, while I will be stuck in the logistics department as a small section chief who can't manage anything for the rest of my life."

Jin Caifei was a little embarrassed: "Chief Mao, I really feel..."

Mao Jianxin interrupted her: "I don't believe you don't want to go back to the provincial capital. Your son will soon graduate from elementary school. How is he? Is he close to you every time you go back? And your husband, Cheng, if you two continue to live apart like this, I'm afraid your relationship won't last, right?"

Jin Caifei fell silent.

Mao Jianxin's words touched a sore spot in her heart. She couldn't be with her son as he grew up, and the child became more and more indifferent to her. Her husband was the same, too. He went from being supportive in the beginning to complaining now and then.

It seemed as if she had taken a shortcut and reached a height that would have been impossible for her to reach if she had stayed in the provincial capital, but who knew what she had lost?

"You don't have to do anything else, just sign and stamp a few documents. She can't stay in the factory forever. When she gives birth and recuperates after childbirth, she has to give up her power and let you take care of her for a while, right?"

Mao Jianxin's voice was full of temptation: "When the time comes, you will be the factory director, and I will be your deputy director. I will be your assistant, and we will bring the Second Embroidery Factory to a new height. This is not the time when the Ninth Workshop was just built. Now the foundation of the factory is already there, with workers, equipment and orders. There is nothing missing. No one cares if there is one more or one less Shen Moer."

"She has always insisted on keeping the factory in that corner of Liuqiao Commune. The provincial leaders are also not satisfied. Do you understand?"

Jin Caifei: "Let me think about it again."

He hung up the phone.

Someone was knocking on the door. Jin Caifei calmed down and said, "Come in."

Liu Yinshuang brought in a purchase order and said, "Deputy Director Jin, the amount of this batch of goods exceeds my authority. I need your signature."

Liu Yinshuang was originally the deputy director of the workshop, but after working for a while, she went to ask Shen Moer to change her position. The skills she had learned with great difficulty were not good enough in front of the embroiderers who were getting better and better.

Because of her experience in participating in the Canton Fair, Liu Yinshuang feels that she still prefers jobs like purchasing and sales.

Sure enough, after entering the Purchasing and Sales Department, Liu Yinshuang felt like a fish in water.

Later, as the factory expanded, the purchasing and sales department was split, and purchasing and sales were separated. Liu Yinshuang was promoted to the head of the purchasing department.

Jin Caifei took the form, looked at it, and quickly signed it.

Liu Yinshuang glanced at Jin Caifei and walked out of the office.

After returning to the office, Liu Yinshuang quickly finished some of the work at hand, and then went to the factory director's office empty-handed.

When she entered the room, Shen Moer was reading a document. Liu Yinshuang poured herself a glass of water, took out an apple from the cabinet next to her, peeled it and handed it to Shen Moer: "It's time to replenish your vitamins."

Shen Moer put down the documents, took a bite of the apple, and asked, "Why did Fu Zhiqing also assign you a task?"

Liu Yinshuang had a look on her face that said, "Quickly take care of your man, he's going crazy." "Not only that, he assigned us all tasks, such as the fruit group, the snack group, the on-time leave group, the tea serving group... Zhao Tingting and I are both in the fruit group. We are A and B positions. Whoever is free will supervise you eating fruit."

Shen Moer pinched her eyebrows speechlessly: "Why don't you just ignore him?"

Ever since she became pregnant, Fu Zhiqing seemed like a different person. He used to be a very brave person, but now he is cautious in everything, as if she was a fragile porcelain doll.

But her father rarely formed a united front with his son-in-law. Now the two of them are of the same mind. There are three people in the family, and in democratic voting, she is always the one who obeys the majority.

But it's really a bit too outrageous.

Although she did gradually feel various inconveniences in her life as the months went by, it was not to this extent.

"It's okay. It's just peeling an apple. It's such a simple thing." Liu Yinshuang drank her tea. "I can take this opportunity to rest."

Shen Moer glanced at her and asked, "Did something happen? Did the person pursuing you send something to your home again, or did something go wrong with the rattan weaving cooperative?"

After returning from the Canton Fair that year, the ninth workshop was changed into the second branch. After Liu Yinshuang was promoted to deputy director of the workshop, people pursuing her emerged like mushrooms after rain.

Some of them would simply give her some food and daily necessities on her way home to express their desire to establish revolutionary feelings, while others would go a step further and directly run to her father's house to show their courtesy and give her gifts.

Although Liu Yinshuang and her grandfather had moved out of their home a long time ago, outsiders always felt that the father was the one who could decide on his daughter's marriage.

Because of this, Liu Yinshuang would quarrel with her father and stepmother every time she returned to Songshu Brigade.

As for the rattan weaving cooperative, it was gradually established after returning from the first Canton Fair.

Didn't Chen Moli sell 50,000 rattan gift boxes? At the beginning, the commune organized skilled people from each brigade to weave boxes, and adopted a regular purchasing method. The purchased boxes were then sold to the factory by the commune. Later, as the number of orders increased every year, the commune simply established a professional rattan weaving cooperative.

Because the initial samples were made by Grandpa Liu, after the cooperative was established, Grandpa Liu took the title of vice president, and the president was directly appointed by the commune.

Because of the title of vice president, Mr. Liu often got into trouble. There were always people, including his relatives, who tried every means to ask him for help, some wanted to get the position of team leader, some wanted to get defective products through the door, and Mr. Liu, who had such a good temper, was often irritated.

Liu Yinshuang wanted the old man to stop working so much and go home to enjoy a peaceful life, but the old man was unwilling to do so. He said that he had lived for decades and it was a rare opportunity to contribute to socialist construction. He would work until the day when the organization no longer needed him.

Liu Yinshuang had no choice but to let him go, and then secretly criticized those so-called relatives who were not related to him at all.

These things were indeed annoying, but not to the extent that she would come to the factory manager during working hours to complain about them.

Liu Yinshuang shook her head: "No, it's..."

She stood up and closed the office door, making sure that the secretary outside couldn't hear her, then she said, "I went to see Deputy Director Jin for his signature, and I overheard her talking on the phone. She said something about being pregnant and not being able to help."

Shen Moer smiled and said, "Did you hear it by accident?"

Liu Yinshuang then said very bluntly: "At first it was accidental. When I heard about pregnancy or something, I stood there and listened for a while on purpose. Unfortunately she didn't say much. It seemed like she was the only one talking. In the end she just told her to think about it again."

"You're definitely not holding back on anything good."

She finally commented.

Shen Moer thought about it and smiled: "It's okay, it won't cause any trouble."

This was indeed the case. Until July 1977, when the weather was getting hotter and hotter, the factory was still calm.

Shen Moer's belly was already very big at this time, but thanks to Fu Zhiqing's meticulous care, she was in good health and ate well and slept well every day.

It had just rained in the afternoon. In the evening, the rain stopped and the clouds dispersed. The air was no longer hot from the day, and the occasional breeze brought a rare coolness.

Shen Moer supported her waist and walked towards the factory gate. The people in the security room greeted her one after another: "Fu Zhiqing has arrived and is at the door."

Sure enough, under the camphor tree outside the gate of the embroidery factory, Fu Mingze was waiting there, holding his bicycle.

"Why don't you go in? It's so hot standing outside." Shen Moer handed the cloth bag in her hand to Fu Mingze.

Fu Mingze took out a brown paper bag from the basket and said, "Eat something first."

After Shen Moer took it over, she continued to answer her previous question: “It rained, so it’s not hot outside.”

Inside the brown paper package were two still hot egg and scallion pancakes, which were not made with much oil, just some eggs and chopped scallions.

As her belly got bigger and bigger, Shen Moer got hungry easily. She ate two palm-sized egg and scallion pancakes while walking, and pursed her lips, realizing that she was just filling her stomach.

Fu Mingze knew what she was thinking, and said with a smile: "This is the cake that Aunt Cai made for her little grandson. I am embarrassed to take more."

Shen Moer had already guessed that this was from his "begging", as Fu Zhiqing was not a good person.

However, since she became pregnant, Fu Zhiqing seemed to have become more and more shameless, and would ask someone to cook for her from time to time. Aunt Chen, Aunt Cai, Aunt Wang, the team leader's wife, Zhou Dashuan's wife, and even Lu Dongyun in the village had all been asked by him.

The first few were fine. Although Zhou Dashuan's family was their neighbor, they did not have much contact because they were separated by a brigade headquarters. They were not even very familiar with Zhou Dashuan's wife, Shen Moer.

There is also Lu Dongyun. Although she is doing embroidery work for the embroidery factory, she has not taken off the hat of a landlord after all. She doesn't interact with other people very much. I don't know how Fu Mingze knew that she is good at making mung bean cakes, but he prepared the ingredients and came to her house to ask her to make a basket of them.

In short, although Shen Moer did not suffer from any strange disease after she became pregnant that made her eat whatever she wanted, the food she ate was no less than those "sick" pregnant women.

Shen Moer said mischievously: "So Fu Zhiqing would also feel embarrassed?"

Fu Mingze glanced at her and asked, "Who am I doing this for?"

Shen Moer immediately made a zipper motion to her mouth.

After a while, she changed the subject and asked, "Have you replied to your father? It's normal for the old man to want to see you. He hasn't seen you for so many years. Why don't you find time to go back and visit your family after I give birth?"

In the past two years, educated youth have returned to the city one after another. According to what Liu Yinshuang revealed, it is estimated that most of the educated youth will be able to return to the city within one or two years.

Since last winter, Fu Mingze's family has been receiving more and more letters. Shen Moer guessed that his family also wanted to ask when he could go back.

Fu Mingze never asked for home leave over the years. One year, Shen Moer took the initiative to suggest going back to the capital with him to visit relatives. However, he said that it would be better to send the money back home so that his family would be better off. Shen Moer thought that the capital was so far away and they were both too busy to take care of it, so she simply let him send 300 yuan home.

Fu Mingze lowered his eyes slightly: "Let's talk about it later. I'm afraid I'll be even busier after the baby is born."

In fact, his father didn't want him to go back to visit his family. His parents had been rehabilitated and returned to the capital, and they urged him to bring his wife back to visit them. However, he had not yet figured out how to explain to his wife that his family was not a genuine proletarian family.