Chapter 155 The Package

Time passed day by day, and before we knew it, two months had passed.

A major event occurred in Beijing. With the crushing of the "□□", the cadres of the Revolutionary Committee were also affected.

After hearing that the director of the Revolutionary Committee had been arrested, Deputy Factory Director Mao was worried that his wife would also be implicated, and paced anxiously back and forth in the living room.

Seeing this, the daughter-in-law whispered to comfort her, "Mom, you don't need to worry so much. Dad will definitely be fine. He's not a cadre of the Revolutionary Committee anymore, so this fire won't affect him."

Deputy Factory Director Mao's expression remained extremely agitated. She said coldly, "That's true, but he did serve in the Revolutionary Committee for so many years. Some people just don't like him and are deliberately bringing up old grievances!"

This is always how things are: when someone's down, everyone pushes them down. People will only wish you bad luck, not try to help you out.

The daughter-in-law immediately shut her mouth to avoid incurring her mother-in-law's wrath. The more she said, the more mistakes she would make, so it was better to say nothing. She hadn't been too worried before, but after hearing her mother-in-law's words, she couldn't help but start to worry. If something happened to her father-in-law, everyone in the family would be affected.

Half an hour later, Deputy Director Han rushed home from outside.

Deputy Factory Director Mao and others rushed over to greet him. Everyone surrounded Deputy Director Han, asking questions all at once, their eyes revealing their worry.

The daughter-in-law couldn't keep things to herself, and she spoke her mind, "Dad, will the matter of being the director of the Revolutionary Committee affect you? This family still needs you, you absolutely can't get into trouble! I don't know if it's still useful to sever ties now!"

Deputy Factory Director Mao glared at his daughter-in-law. His daughter-in-law really had no tact; she always brought up the most sensitive topics, saying things like "severing ties" at a time like this.

She gently comforted her husband, "Don't keep the bad news to yourself. No matter what happens, we'll face it together as a family. Don't listen to your daughter-in-law's nonsense; she's not very bright. If all else fails, I'll go talk to my old classmates and try to build some connections. I'm sure I can get you out of trouble."

Deputy Director Han gave Deputy Factory Director Mao a reassuring smile, then took Deputy Factory Director Mao's hand and led him to sit down on the sofa.

Daughter-in-law and others: "..."

If we just leave them alone, it feels like they're outsiders.

Deputy Director Han looked at Deputy Factory Director Mao and said solemnly, "You don't need to worry too much. I haven't been affected at all. Although the higher-ups sent people to investigate my previous work, I haven't done anything illegal or disciplinary, and I'm not close to those people. The impact on me is negligible. If it really had a big impact, I would have been suspended from my duties for investigation long ago, instead of continuing to assign me work tasks and keeping me in my current position."

After hearing what Deputy Director Han said, Deputy Director Mao was completely relieved. She smiled with relief and said, "As long as you won't be affected, that's fine. You're already so old, I don't want you to suffer at this time."

After all, he's already halfway into his coffin.

Fearing that her earlier words might have upset her father-in-law, the daughter-in-law quickly interjected, "Dad, I knew you wouldn't get into trouble. This is nothing to you."

Deputy Director Han ignored his daughter-in-law's words and sighed, "It's all thanks to Comrade Lin Yuanshu for tipping us off, which allowed me to leave the Revolutionary Committee vortex sooner. If I were still in the Revolutionary Committee, I certainly wouldn't be having such an easy time now."

Fortunately, he didn't cling to power back then, otherwise he might be in jail with the director now. Thinking about this, he felt a sense of lingering fear and knew he had to be more careful in his work in the future.

Deputy Factory Director Mao patted Deputy Director Han's hand. She was also glad that she had never thought of suppressing Lin Yuanshu, but instead chose to help him whenever she could. She knew very well that if she had had the idea of ​​suppressing him, Lin Yuanshu would have just stood by and watched instead of informing her.

She never expected that her casual act of helping out would bring such a great reward, after all, no one expected Lin Yuanshu to go from a worker to a researcher.

Deputy Factory Director Mao said from the bottom of his heart, "Lin Yuanshu is such a grateful child. She only revealed such important information to us. It's a pity that she's not in Beijing right now, so we can't invite her to dinner to properly thank her."

She used to help Lin Yuanshu more, but now Lin Yuanshu helps her more. All she can do is keep Lin Yuanshu's in-laws in check and prevent them from interfering with Lin Yuanshu's life.

The daughter-in-law blurted out, "Although we can't invite Comrade Lin Yuanshu to dinner, we can send a package to express our gratitude!"

Upon hearing this, Deputy Factory Director Mao's eyes lit up, and he praised with a smile, "Your brain has finally shown some intelligence for once, actually managing to come up with such a good idea."

The daughter-in-law was a little embarrassed by the praise and said modestly, "It was just a sudden inspiration. We can send some food that can be stored for a long time. Comrade Lin Yuanshu lives in the epidemic area, so it must be inconvenient for him to buy things. Besides, you can't buy anything good in those places."

Her younger brother, working as an educated youth in the countryside, faced significant difficulties buying things; even with money and ration coupons, he struggled to spend them. It's likely that Lin Yuanshu, working in the epidemic area, experienced a similar situation, living in a remote region and unable to frequently travel to the city…

Deputy Factory Director Mao nodded in agreement and said confidently, "You really impressed me today. We can send some dried meat over. I heard that Comrade Lin Yuanshu likes to eat meat."

Since no one raised any objections, the matter was decided amicably. After all, Lin Yuanshu could now be considered their father-in-law's savior, and unless someone was completely idiotic, no one would object.

Meanwhile, during her vacation, Lin Yuanshu and Li Lin took a bus to the post office in a nearby town to pick up a package. However, the package she picked up was not sent by Deputy Factory Director Mao, but by Director Huang and the Minister of Health.

She had come to the post office a while ago to pick up the packages sent by Zhou Xiangyang, Zhou Dafu, and her parents. They sent her some biscuits, malted milk powder, pastries, and other foods that could be eaten without cooking.

So now she knows the way to the post office like the back of her hand.

After confirming that Lin Yuanshu's identity documents and parcel notification slips were in order, the post office staff handed several parcels to Lin Yuanshu.

At this moment, Li Lin also picked up a package, while the others were either sending packages home or picking up mail. Few people would go back with several packages like Lin Yuanshu.

On the way back to the research site, Li Lin looked at the large and small bags in Lin Yuanshu's hands and said with a smile, "Next time you can ask them to send you packages at the same time, so you don't have to make so many trips. It's not easy for us to go to the city."

Lin Yuanshu gave a helpless smile. "The key is that I don't know who will send me a package. There's no way to save time and effort; I can only make trip after trip."

What a sweet burden! It feels like opening a blind box!

Li Lin couldn't help but sigh inwardly, "People from Beijing are really different. They come to work in the countryside and have countless packages. They live a much more comfortable life than I do."

Lin Yuanshu carried the package back to the dormitory once again, attracting frequent glances from the other researchers on the way.

Their eyes were filled with undisguised envy. They had all come to work in the epidemic area, but Lin Yuanshu had packages to take with him, while they had to bear it all on their own.

After returning to her dormitory, Lin Yuanshu immediately opened the package, fearing that there might be something easily perishable inside, so she thought it would be better to open it as soon as possible.

The package contained quite a lot of items, including compressed dry food, canned fruit, canned steamed pork, dried red dates, dried longan, and cured meat, among other things.

It's all thanks to Director Huang and the Minister of Health's extensive connections that they were able to buy compressed rations, canned fruit, and canned steamed pork. You simply couldn't buy these things without connections within the military.

Lin Yuanshu distributed a handful of dried red dates to each of the female comrades in the dormitory. After all, she got along quite well with these people. They were not petty people, and they would lend a hand to each other in life whenever possible, without causing any unpleasant incidents.

She is quite generous to people who mean her no harm.

The women were also quite surprised. Lin Yuanshu's generosity was beyond words. He had already been generous enough by giving them cookies last time, but they never expected him to share dried red dates with them this time.

Dried red dates are a good thing, they replenish qi and blood. They kept saying thank you, and in their hearts they felt that Lin Yuanshu was a generous and easy-going person.

Lin Yuanshu waved her hand dismissively. She didn't lack dried red dates, because Zhou Xiangyang had also sent her a bag of dried red dates. Then she packed the contents of the package, put them into her small wooden box, and locked the box.

It wasn't that she was being wary of others, because others also had their own small wooden boxes, which they also locked.

Lin Yuanshu had to admit that these things came at just the right time. You couldn't buy such good things here. She was eating bland and watery meals every day, and her body really needed to be nourished so that she could work better.

Meanwhile, after using the restroom, Li Xiaoqiang leisurely returned to the laboratory.

Wang Daniu was very uncomfortable seeing Li Xiaoqiang's nonchalant attitude. He frowned and questioned, "Why did you take so long to go to the toilet? Did you fall into the toilet?"

This Li Xiaoqiang only knows how to slack off all day long; he doesn't do any serious work.

Li Xiaoqiang touched his nose, smiled awkwardly, and then changed the subject, saying, "When I went to the toilet just now, I saw Team Leader Lin carrying big and small packages back to the dormitory. I really envy Team Leader Lin for living in Beijing and having a good family. He can pick up several packages at a time, while I don't have a single package. It's already a blessing that my family doesn't make me pay for them."

One comrade retorted with a laugh: "Team Leader Lin's good family conditions have nothing to do with living in Beijing. Comrade Qu Zhigang lives in Beijing, but he still doesn't have any packages!"

Upon hearing this, everyone instinctively looked at Qu Zhigang.