Chapter 153 If it's inconvenient, other places are fine
the next day.
Su Wenchen got up and walked out of the room refreshed.
Standing in the yard, I took a deep breath of the fresh morning air.
"Cool!"
Father Su and Xiao Shitou, who were exercising in the yard early in the morning, were stunned by what they saw.
"Grandpa, my uncle, what happened?" Little Stone looked at his grandfather with some confusion and asked.
Father Su glanced at him unhappily.
"How would I know, but it looks like he's eating magpie shit early in the morning!"
Su Wenchen ignored the old man and the child who were unaware of the situation.
Now, as for Su Wenchen, he and Jiang Li usually eat in his room.
In the house.
Su Wenchen brought two large bowls of porridge made from pure cornmeal and placed them on the table.
Later, Jiang Li brought two boiled eggs and a small dish of cucumbers she had pickled herself.
"Ah Chen, try it. This is the pickling method I learned from Sister Xiudong. She said it's great with rice porridge!"
Su Wenchen looked at the breakfast on the table.
Although it looks simple, it is a very good, even luxurious breakfast in rural areas in this era.
Because many, many members' families, no, even Mr. and Mrs. Su who lived next door to him were like this.
Basically, I have a steamed bun in the morning and an egg every day, which is impossible. Usually, I just have a plate of pickles, which will change with the season.
For example, we can change from salty dumplings to pickled radishes, sauerkraut, pickled cucumbers, etc. There will be slight changes according to the seasons.
This is also the reason why Su Wenchen did not eat with them.
Because if you want to eat something good there, you really have to listen to a lot of nagging the whole time, especially for someone like his mother who is particularly good at living.
There is really no way to change Su Wenchen, so I can't afford to offend him, but I can avoid him. For his family, eating white flour for every meal is a bit too luxurious, but they can still afford cornmeal without corn cobs.
But his mother just wouldn't do that. She just loved eating the ones mixed with corn cobs because they made her throat stiff. She would feel uncomfortable if she didn't eat them. Su Wenchen even admired her a little.
At this time, on the table in the room, Jiang Li was peeling eggs while casually counting the family assets to Su Wen.
"Achen, we have to save money for the next three months. Your trip to Shanghai this time has basically used up all our living expenses for three months."
"I don't plan to touch the 1,200 yuan in my savings account. We can still receive four months' salary before the end of the year. I plan to save your salary, and we will use my salary to buy things during the New Year. What do you think?"
As he said this, he put the peeled egg in Su Wenchen's bowl, and then picked up another egg and started peeling it.
When Su Wenchen saw the scene in front of him, he realized that without him noticing, the two of them had already started getting along like an old married couple.
Just like when he brought back a gift for Jiang Li last night, Jiang Li didn't say thank you to him like she did to her elder sister-in-law and second brother.
Because only outsiders would say thank you, family members would at most say something like "You are so nice" like Jiang Li did.
It seemed that Su Wenchen was a little distracted.
Jiang Li reminded.
"Achen? What are you thinking about? I'm talking to you!"
Hearing this, Su Wenchen came back to his senses a little, but he paid attention to what Jiang Li said before and only remembered the last sentence, that he wanted to buy things during the New Year.
So he nodded and agreed.
"Ah! What to buy? You decide!"
Hearing this, Jiang Li looked at Su Wenchen with angry eyes.
"What did I just say? You bought it?"
Su Wenchen touched his nose and coughed lightly to try to hide his embarrassment.
"Hey, Ah Li, I didn't hear you clearly just now. How about you say it again? This time I promise to complete the work assigned to me by the leader conscientiously."
Hearing Su Wenchen's funny words, Jiang Li immediately refuted.
"Humph, you are the leader, who dares to assign you work?"
Su Wenchen knew that no matter what kind of woman she was, most of the time she would have to be coaxed.
"Who said that? In our family, you are always my leader."
After hearing what Su Wenchen said, Jiang Li knew that he was just trying to coax her, but the slightly raised corners of her mouth still showed her inner joy.
After all, she didn’t know whether it was true or not, but Su Wenchen’s attitude alone made her very happy.
So she repeated it to Su Wenchen.
"I said before that your trip to Shanghai this time basically used up all our three months' living expenses."
"I don't plan to touch the 1,200 yuan in my savings account. We'll save your portion of the salary before the end of the year, and use my salary to buy things during the New Year. What do you think?"
Su Wenchen nodded.
"I think your arrangement is very good. This way we can save some money and we won't be too tight on money during the New Year."
Seeing that Su Wenchen had no objection, Jiang Li put the other egg in her hand into Su Wenchen's bowl.
"Well, you've been out for so many days, so I'll give you two eggs as a reward today to replenish your body."
Hearing Jiang Li say this.
Su Wenchen rolled his eyes and asked tentatively.
"Ali, can I change the reward?"
Jiang Li tilted her head and looked at Su Wenchen. From the look in his eyes, she could tell that it must be something embarrassing.
After all, she has gotten to know Su Wenchen a little over the past six months, because this guy would only show this kind of expression in this kind of place.
"Su Wenchen, I told you not to even think about it?"
When Su Wenchen heard this, he immediately picked up the bowl and took a sip of the porridge in the bowl, then glanced at Jiang Li's cherry lips with evasive eyes.
I only dared to speak in a low voice.
"Ali, you can use other places!"
When Jiang Li heard this, she was stunned for a moment, then she saw Su Wenchen looking at her evasively.
Jiang Li instantly understood what Su Wenchen meant.
"Ah! You bad guy actually want to push it further. Humph, don't even think about it."
"Besides, I'm unhappy now, so you have to clean the table yourself these few days!"
As she spoke, Jiang Li looked at Su Wenchen angrily.
I don’t know where this bad guy learned so many shameful things.
She had asked a lot in the brigade and the commune, but had never found that he was close to any woman!
Finish breakfast.
Su Wenchen came to the state-owned chicken farm in a good mood. Since the distance was not far, he didn't even ride a bicycle.
Just walked over there.
When he arrived at his rest area outside, Su Wenchen discovered that it was only a short month.
The rest area here is actually built in a very nice way.
Because raising chickens is a thing, no matter how clean you clean it, there will still be a smell.
So when planning it at the beginning, Su Wenchen planned the staff dormitory rest area, as well as the functional areas for dining and entertainment, outside the wall.
Because Su Wenchen felt that just like the one in Shiquan, the rest area was built not far from the chicken coop, so he could indeed walk two fewer steps to go to work, but if he lived not far from the chicken coop every day, he would definitely be influenced by it!
So here, Su Wenchen separated the work area and the non-work area.
However, there were not enough manpower at the beginning, so the rest area at the beginning was a row of small houses, and they were the kind that didn’t even have a foundation, so they could only be lived in temporarily for a period of time.
Now, not only has an extra row of small houses been built here, but an extra building has also been built next to the canteen in the functional area.
Su Wenchen just walked over.
I saw Han Yang riding a bicycle on his way to work in the distance.
When the other party saw Su Wenchen, he immediately got off the bicycle before getting in front of Su Wenchen.
He immediately pushed the cart over and greeted Su Wenchen.
"Captain, you're back! During your absence, the farm has lost its backbone."
"I couldn't sleep well at night, now I can finally sleep well."
When Su Wenchen heard Han Yang's flattering words, he smiled and waved his hand.
"That's enough! Old Han, you have to change your habit of flattering others all the time. But you have done a good job this month. I heard that you even led people to dig the foundation."
"It only took you half a month to dig the foundation ahead of schedule. I must commend you for that!"
Han Yang smiled and rubbed the back of his neck.
"It was all arranged properly by the director."
"Otherwise, we wouldn't have thought of going to Lan City to recruit a group of educated youth to go to the countryside."
Su Wenchen shook his head.
"Okay, I won't brag to you anymore. By the way, what is this thing on the side of the cafeteria used for? I don't remember it being there before."
Hearing Su Wenchen's question, Han Yang immediately pointed to the river in the distance and began to explain.
"Director, isn't the foundation already dug in advance?"
"The insulation materials had not been delivered at that time, and the employees we recruited later were young people from Lan City, so they liked to be clean."
"In the past, ours was called a bathhouse, but it was actually just a small single room. Most of the people there were female employees. It was very inconvenient to carry a basin of water in and wipe the body."
"Someone suggested that we should renovate the temporary bathhouse!"
After listening to Han Yang's explanation, Su Wenchen nodded with some surprise.
"It really should be renovated. Otherwise, male employees can go to the river to wash, but female employees have no place to wash and can only wipe themselves with water."
"You also led people to build this?"
Han Yang raised the corners of his mouth slightly and said modestly.
"I just contributed a little bit, and it was basically all the ideas of those young people."
"And Director, you know what, this big city has quite a few people with ideas. Although we encountered many problems later, we finally asked the Municipal Engineering Institute to help us with some ideas."
"But the bathhouse was finally built, and now we can draw water directly from the river to the two large bathhouses."
"Originally, I was planning to convert those small rooms where people used to wash themselves into showers."
Han Yang sighed as he spoke.
"But after asking around, I found out that showers are much more complicated. Pipes and valves are easy to deal with, but a water tower that stores water is more difficult to build."
“If we don’t build a water tower at a high place, the pressure won’t reach the sprinkler head.”
"Unlike a big bath like this, we can just pump water directly into the river."
"And I have reserved space in the cafeteria in advance. When the winter comes, we will build a boiler room there, so we can take a hot shower without any problem."
Listening to Han Yang's words, Su Wenchen also walked into the men's bathing pool and took a look.
But there was no water in it early in the morning.
Su Wenchen took a look at the area of the bathhouse and found it was about 40 to 50 square meters, which was not small.
The entire surface of the bath is made of cement and some large stones.
Su Wenchen discovered that it was much more beautiful than he had imagined.
Han Yang saw Su Wenchen's eyes and said with a smile.
"Isn't it too monotonous to just use cement? Mixing some stones on the surface will not only make it stronger, but also more beautiful."
"This slope is deliberately left, not only is it more conducive to drainage, but also because some people like to lie in shallow places, while others like to wash in places more than one meter deep."
“So in the end, the Academy of Engineering helped us design this sloped bath.”
"They also said that the water pressure would be greater and the water would drain faster. For this reason, they asked us to add more steel bars to reinforce the half of the bathtub that bears the heavier pressure!"
Su Wenchen looked at the deepest point and asked curiously.
"How deep is the maximum depth? Don't make it too deep or something unexpected might happen."
"Captain, don't worry, the deepest point is only 1.2 meters, there won't be any problems."
As he said this, he looked at Su Wenchen with a somewhat amused look.
"Manager, you don't know that we only open the bathing area for two hours after get off work in the evening, so the bathing area is almost always full of people every night."
"Many people from nearby brigades also come to join in the fun, and sometimes there's no place to put your feet."
"It's impossible to drown!"
After hearing this, Su Wenchen understood the situation.
Even now people may just feel it is new, but if hot water is supplied here in winter, more and more people from surrounding areas will definitely come here.
So Su Wenchen looked at Han Yang.
"Old Han, we still need to regulate the bathhouse. We can't all take a bath together."
"You can make arrangements later and discuss this with the feeding, cleaning, and transportation teams below."
"See which group washes first and which washes later. Everyone should wash at different times so they don't all get crowded together."
"As for those who are not from our field, you can arrange for someone to print a batch of bathhouse tickets. Those who come here to work for us will be issued one ticket valid for three to five days."
"From now on, employees in the field will not have to pay to take a shower, but there will be a set time. In the winter, if there is hot water, if members of the surrounding brigades come to take a shower without a ticket, they will be charged 5 cents per shower."
For Su Wenchen, the field will definitely become bigger and bigger in the future, and it will be impossible for him to provide services to members of the surrounding brigades for free.
Because in this era all services are not free.
Just like water pumps require diesel, and boiling water in winter requires coal.
If they had always provided it to members for free, their chicken farm wouldn't be that big of a business!
(End of this chapter)
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