Chapter 72
A few years ago, Cao Jun molested educated youth. In order to calm the situation, the farm compensated the educated youth who were harmed, including Long Yanli.
Because of her identity, she was unable to take up a better position and could only fill in Yang Qiujin's position as statistician at Erlian Warehouse for a few years. She currently lives in the statistician's office.
Yang Qiujin took Yu Cong to the warehouse. The warehouse still looked the same as it did four years ago. Long Yanli was standing at the door of the warehouse, tending to the land that Yang Qiujin had reclaimed to plant vegetables. Now that the land was idle, she was also learning to plant winter vegetables.
Seeing Yang Qiujin, she stood up in surprise and went to greet her, "Director Yang, long time no see, why are you here?"
Seeing her bulging belly again, he said, "I heard a long time ago that you were pregnant again, but I never had the chance to see you. Today I finally saw you. It's been a few months now. How do you feel?"
"It's been a long time since I last saw you, Long Yanli. I'm five months pregnant and I'm feeling fine. I came to see you today because I have something personal to tell you." After several people asked her how many months pregnant she was, Yang Qiujin realized that she stayed at the farm all day and seldom came to the farm to interact with people. She had neglected people, which was not good for her work. She should come to the farm more often in the future.
"Oh, why are you looking for me?" Long Yanli was a little surprised.
Yang Qiujin pointed at Yu Cong behind her and said, "Deputy Director Yu, can you please step aside for a moment?"
Yu Cong was staring at Long Yanli in front of him with infatuation and didn't hear what Yang Qiujin was saying at all.
Long Yanli is tall, beautiful, and has a beauty mole between her eyebrows. Even wearing a thick gray cotton coat, it is difficult to hide her beauty. There are countless men in the scene who are trying to hit on Long Yanli, but Long Yanli ignores them all.
Yang Qiujin saw Yu Cong's expression, sneered in her heart, and repeated her words.
Yu Cong finally came to his senses and said, "Okay, I'll take a walk outside."
After he left, Yang Qiujin took Long Yanli into the statistician's office and said straight to the point, "Comrade Long, I have an unwelcome request."
"What's the matter?" Long Yanli brought a chair for Yang Qiujin to sit on and poured her a cup of hot water. "As long as it's within my ability, I will help you."
"This is what happened..." Yang Qiujin briefly explained the matter between Professor Zheng and Secretary Zhai, and placed the fruits and vegetables in her hand on Long Yanli's desk: "Comrade Long, these fruits are for you to eat. I think you also know how easy it is for Professor Zheng and his team to grow these fruits in winter.
Yu Cong's father is one of the leaders of the capital's □□ team, and his father has a lot of say. If they don't want Secretary Zhai to be transferred, the best way is to let Yu Cong's father say something and put pressure on the Ava Corps so that they will not transfer Secretary Zhai.
The yield of most crops on our farm has doubled, and the money earned by the farm has increased exponentially. In just four years, most of the farm workers and educated youth are no longer hungry as before and can now eat their fill.
If Secretary Zhai is transferred at this time, and the new secretary does not support Secretary Zhai’s previous work, all our previous efforts will be wasted.”
Yang Qiujin paused, took a sip of hot water and said, "Comrade Long, Secretary Zhai told me that if the farm has another good harvest this year, there will be enough money next year to open a brick factory. Then we will build new dormitories with red brick walls for all the farm employees, so that all employees can live in new houses and no longer have to live in caves in the ground like before, exposed to the wind and rain."
"But what do these things have to do with me, a female educated youth?" Long Yanli asked while sitting in front of Yang Qiujin.
"It has a lot to do with it." Yang Qiujin put down the cup in her hand and said, "Comrade Long, your father is now undergoing labor reform in the Great Northern Wilderness, right? Your mother is also with him. You don't want them to suffer in the Great Northern Wilderness forever, right? Even if your parents asked you to break off relations with them, as their daughter, you have always been loved by them before the incident in your family. Do you have the heart to abandon them?"
"What can I do if I'm unwilling? I can't even protect myself." Long Yanli clenched her hands unconsciously and said with her eyes downcast.
She was too beautiful and her innocence was almost ruined by Cao Jun's gang. Although those evil people were punished, many men in the field had been staring at her over the years, always harassing her intentionally or unintentionally, scare her, and try to force her to submit.
She complained to the leaders on the scene many times. The leaders said they would increase patrols and approved her to move from the female educated youth's nest to the warehouse statistician's office. With the door locked, she felt much safer.
However, even so, there were always people with bad intentions lingering outside her office door at night, knocking on the door, pushing the door, trying to force themselves on her.
She was really afraid that one day she would be murdered by someone, and now she lives in fear every day.
"Since you can't protect yourself, why not find a powerful backer?" Yang Qiujin said.
"Backer? Who?" Long Yanli asked with her lips pursed.
"It's far away in the sky, yet close at hand." Yang Qiu Jin pointed at the glass window of the office.
Yu Cong was standing about fifty meters away from them, under a bare tree trunk, smoking a cigarette.
"Yu Cong is his father's only son. He graduated from Capital University. He came to our borderland to respond to the country's call and to make money. In three years at most, he will return to the capital and take on the responsibility of the capital's leadership team. If you get along with him and ask him to help you speak in front of his father, all your worries will be solved."
"You want me to sacrifice myself and give myself to Yu Cong?" Long Yanli's face was not happy. "He is a well-known playboy in the field. He hooks up with this one today and that one tomorrow. He is not good at being reckless. Director Yang, in order to keep Secretary Zhai, you actually pushed me out as a bargaining chip?"
"You can't say that, Comrade Long. I am only giving you a suggestion, not forcing you to do it. The decision is yours.
Yu Cong is a well-known playboy, but his heart is not impossible to grasp. You can learn from him, play hard to get, and don't really put yourself into it. You can hook him, give him some sweet things, make him fall in love with you, and see if he can help you and complete what you want him to do.
If he is unwilling or keeps making excuses, just withdraw in time and don't dwell on it. You are a college-educated girl, I believe you are more rational than me and know what you should and shouldn't do.
Life is short, you have to try many things, only then there are infinite possibilities. If you stagnate and stay where you are, then no one can help you, just like why I came to you today. "
Yang Qiujin has said all. Whether Long Yanli is willing to do it depends on her personal wish.
Seeing that Long Yanli remained silent, Yang Qiujin sighed and said a few more words to her, then came out of her office and called Yu Cong, "Let's go."
"Where are you going?" Yu Cong was confused. "What did you say to Comrade Long?"
"Guess." Yang Qiujin took out all the fruits and vegetables that he had kicked into his pocket, put them into her own pocket, and walked towards the farm headquarters.
The winter in northern Xinjiang is long. Although it is already February, northern Xinjiang is still covered with ice and snow. Except for the greenhouses on the farms, fresh fruits and vegetables cannot be grown on normal ground. Yang Qiujin finds fresh fruits and vegetables so rare and does not want to let Yu Cong, the playboy, get them for free.
Yang Qiujin had just taken two steps when Long Yanli came out of the office, biting her lip and shouting, "Deputy Director Yu..."
Yang Qiujin and Yu Cong turned around and heard Long Yanli say, "Would you like to have a cup of tea before leaving?"
"Okay." Yu Cong ran over in surprise, "It's my great honor to have tea with Comrade Long."
Yang Qiujin glanced at Long Yanli and knew that she had thought it through. She said, "I won't drink anymore. I have other things to do. You guys chat." Then she turned and left.
Half an hour later, Yang Qiujin arrived at a red brick tube building at the farm headquarters. This was the residence of the farm cadres. It had six floors, with four families on each floor. All the apartments were small, each of which was 15 square meters.
It was almost time for lunch. Yang Qiujin climbed to the third floor. Two families recognized her and greeted her: "Hey, Director Yang, what a rare guest! Are you here to visit Minister Han's family?"
Yang Qiujin nodded, "Yes, is she home?"
"Yes, she has a big belly and it's inconvenient for her. I just helped her carry a bucket of water."
"Auntie, I would like to say thank you to you on behalf of Comrade Ren. It is said that distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors. Without your help, Comrade Ren would have a very difficult life with her big belly."
Ren Ying has been pregnant for more than eight months. She has cut off contact with her parents. Han Yongxin's parents died early, and there is no one to take care of Ren Ying, a pregnant woman. Usually, Han Yongxin tries his best to tidy up the house and do the housework before going out to work, so that Ren Ying doesn't have to work while pregnant and tire herself out.
But even so, Han Yongxin couldn't avoid being negligent sometimes. Ren Ying didn't want to trouble Han Yongxin with everything because he had to go to work and take care of her as a pregnant woman. She was so tired for him that she often did things within her ability with her big belly. The neighbors couldn't bear to see this and would help her.
"Well, Director Yang, no need to thank me. We are all neighbors. We all have inconveniences and need help. We are just doing what is convenient for us. It is not worth thanking you." The lady said kindly.
"I treat Comrade Ren as my sister. I feel relieved to have you helping me take care of her." Yang Qiujin said a few words to the aunt with a smile.
Before she even reached the door of Han's house, Ren Ying, who heard her voice, walked out of the room with a big belly and called her in surprise: "Sister Yang, you're here, come in and sit down."
Yang Qiujin followed her into the house and looked at the narrow living room filled with things, but arranged neatly. She walked in and sat in her armchair, looking at her big belly and said, "How do you feel? Are you okay being alone at home?"
Ren Ying wanted to pour red sugar water for Yang Qiujin, but Yang Qiujin declined. Then she held her big belly, sat opposite Yang Qiujin and said, "Fortunately, Brother Xin finishes all his work before going to work every day, so I stay at home and do nothing. I don't go anywhere, and it feels good."
Yang Qiujin looked at her and said, "Why is your belly so big? Are you pregnant with twins?"
Ren Ying was from the south. She was petite but had a frighteningly large belly. She walked while holding her belly, and Yang Qiujin was worried about her.
"I'm not pregnant with twins, I was fattened by Brother Xin." Ren Ying said embarrassedly: "He always said that I was too thin, and paid the canteen chef to cook for me. He fed me a lot of weight. Now I dare not look in the mirror because I have gained weight and become ugly."
Yang Qiujin looked at her and said, "You are indeed much rounder than before. As someone who has given birth before, I still have a suggestion for you. You'd better not eat too much or too well, otherwise the baby in your belly will grow too big, which will make it difficult to give birth, and you may have a dystocia. My first child was just like you now. My parents-in-law always thought that I had to eat well so that the child would grow well. As a result, the child grew too big, I had a dystocia, and almost died."
Ren Ying's face turned pale when she heard this. "Then what should I do now?"
"What should we do?" Han Yongxin, who had just got off work and went to the cafeteria to get food, asked in a hurry, carrying his lunch box.
"Brother Xin, you're back." Ren Ying came forward and told Yang Qiujin what she had just said, complaining, "It's all your fault. You worked so hard to make delicious food for me and made me so fat. If the baby is too big, I will have a difficult delivery and won't be able to give birth. I wonder what you will do."
Han Yongxin would not listen to or believe what other people said, but he would listen to Yang Qiujin to some extent.
He put the lunch box on the table, hugged Ren Ying's thick waist, and coaxed her, "Okay, okay, it's all my fault. Starting tomorrow, I will try to make you lighter meals and stop letting you get fat, okay?"
Ren Ying pouted and said, "You've already made me fatter by more than 20 pounds, and you're just thinking of asking me to eat lighter. Don't you think it's too late?"
Han Yongxin coaxed her: "It's still early for you to give birth, don't worry, at most you just need to eat less in the next two months."
The two showed their affection without paying attention to others, which made Yang Qiujin feel sore. She coughed deliberately and said, "Han Yongxin, I came to see you today."
Han Yongxin knew that she would never come to see him unless she had something important to do. He asked his wife to sit on a stool and looked at Yang Qiujin solemnly. "Director Yang, what are you looking for me for this time?"
"Don't look at me like I'm a big trouble." Yang Qiujin took out two red tomatoes and a cucumber from her pocket and put them on the table. "These are the crops I got from the greenhouse on the farm. I think Minister Han knows that all the fresh fruits and vegetables sold in the farm's grocery store are the fruits of Professor Zheng, Professor Cai and a group of other professors. Without them, our farm employees would not be able to survive. , and they still eat rotten, wilted potatoes, cabbages, radishes and onions, and their mouths are full of blisters. But some people have holes in their brains, and they can't bear to see these intellectuals live a better life. They are thinking of ways to instigate other rebels and want to get rid of Secretary Zhai. I came to you for only one thing, to teach those idiots a lesson and not let a few rat shits spoil our farm's good soup."
"Headmaster Yang, you think too highly of me. Do you think I have the ability to deal with those people?" Han Yongxin said with a headache: "Do you know what kind of reputation I have in the scene now because of you?"
"Evil spirit? Mother-in-law? No matter what your title is, if you want to continue to be your minister in peace and give your wife and children a good life, it is necessary to keep Secretary Zhai. Otherwise, if the new secretary takes office and messes things up, do you think you can still live the good life you have now?"
After Yang Qiujin finished speaking, she stood up and pointed at Ren Ying's big belly and said, "If you can handle this matter, I will find you a reliable person to take care of her during the confinement period, and make sure that nothing will happen to her and the baby. Of course, it's not for nothing for someone to take care of her during the confinement period, you have to give them at least 30 yuan as a red envelope."
Ren Ying was about to give birth, and Han Yongxin had a reputation for being a vicious person. He was worried about not being able to find a suitable person to take care of Ren Ying during her confinement. He immediately agreed when he heard this, "Okay, I'll go clean up those rat shits tomorrow, and you have to remember to find someone for me."
"It's a deal."
Ren Ying wanted to invite Yang Qiujin to stay for dinner, but she declined. She could imagine that Chen Shengqing must be anxiously looking for her everywhere, and she could not stay in the group any longer.
After leaving Han Yongxin's house, Yang Qiujin waited outside the greenhouse for a while. Seeing that Yu Cong did not come back to drive the tractor, she simply took the handle of the tractor herself, exerted all her strength, turned the switch, sat on the tractor herself, and drove towards the farm.
I don’t know if she was hungry or if she had shaken the tractor too much and startled the baby. The baby in her belly was moving violently, so she could only comfort the child and say, “My dear, stop making noise. Mom is going to the farm soon. When we get there, I’ll feed you some delicious food.”
I don't know if it was something in her mind or if the child really heard what she said, but after she finished speaking, the child miraculously calmed down.
Yang Qiujin exclaimed and drove to the farm, where she saw Chen Shengqing looking for her.
"Where did you go?" Chen Shengqing asked with a dark face, "I couldn't find you anywhere."
"I went to take care of some personal matters." Yang Qiujin stopped the car and jumped out of it quickly.
The tractor's footrest was at least half a meter above the ground. She, a pregnant woman, jumped straight down from it, and Chen Shengqing was so scared that he quickly reached out to help her. "Be careful. Don't forget that you are pregnant now. You can't do things as recklessly as before."
"This is nothing. When I was pregnant with Tianyou and was about to give birth, I went up the mountain to carry a basket full of pig grass. I accidentally slipped and fell. Apart from some stomach pain, nothing happened to me." Yang Qiujin said as if nothing had happened.
Chen Shengqing felt a pain in his heart when he heard this. He led her to the newly built canteen of the farm and said, "The past is the past, and the present is the present. In the past, I was not at home, and you had no one to rely on. You had to do everything by yourself. Now I am by your side, you should try to rely on me, let me do everything, and let me fulfill my responsibilities as a husband."
"Okay, I get it. Don't be angry. I'm telling you, when I was driving the tractor, the baby kicked me..." She shared what happened with Chen Shengqing, saying, "I'm hungry and want to eat a lot of delicious food. Let's go eat."
This was Chen Shengqing's second time being a father, but it was still his first time to feel the joy of having a child in his belly. He bent over Yang Qiujin's slightly bulging belly and listened for a while, but heard nothing. Then he heard Yang Qiujin crying out for hunger, so he took her to the cafeteria to get food without saying a word.
The farm was expanded half a year ago. It currently covers an area of about 100 acres, with separate areas for poultry and livestock breeding. It uses semi-automatic manure cleaning machines imported from the Soviet Union. The poultry are half raised in pens and half raised in the wild. The scale of breeding has increased five times, and the number of workers has increased from six to fifty, making it a medium-sized farm.
When a factory reaches a certain scale, its infrastructure must also be expanded. For example, employee dormitories, employee canteens, and employee entertainment rooms are all rebuilt after the beginning of the year.
It was lunchtime in the canteen, but less than half of the workers in the small canteen were eating.
At Yang Qiujin's instruction, the farm recruited mostly family members of farm workers, with a small number of migrant workers who were unwilling to do hard labor.
Female employees usually cook and eat at home, and most of the people eating in the cafeteria are single men in the factory.
Unless the canteen cooks delicious dishes one day, the canteen in the farm is always deserted.
Yang Qiujin, Chen Shengqing, and a bunch of children went to the cafeteria to get food, which naturally attracted the attention of the staff. They greeted her one after another: "Director Yang, come and get food. Is this your husband, Deputy Head Chen? He looks really energetic."
Yang Qiujin seldom came to the farm cafeteria to get food. Whenever the staff greeted her, she would respond with a smile.
Because there are not many people eating, the canteen does not prepare many dishes. Today we have scorpion stewed with potatoes, cold mixed shrimps, boiled radish, cabbage soup, and three-grain flour steamed buns, which are made of white flour, corn flour and sorghum flour mixed together and fermented. They are still soft when steamed. Then we have rice.
Chen Shengqing prepared ten servings of each dish, borrowed large basins from the canteen's back kitchen, filled several basins with the food, and asked Li Dadan, Chen Tianyou, Wang Songyue and other children to help carry the food back to Yang Qiuyue's room and prepare for dinner.
Chen Tianyou and several children hunted in the Gobi Desert for a whole morning. They caught two wild rabbits and more than ten field mice, all of which were peeled and chopped into pieces by Chen Shengqing. Then he went to the grocery store to buy some fresh fruits and vegetables and planned to make a hot pot to eat with rice according to the children's request.
The so-called hot pot at this time is made by stir-frying chopped pepper, bean paste, dried chili pepper, dried Sichuan peppercorns, ginger, onion, garlic, and various spices, then adding water and boiling them.
The one who cooked the ingredients was Yang Qiuyue. She fried the hot pot ingredients and put them on the red-hot beehive coal stove. She put the rabbit and vole meat that had been chopped earlier into the pot and cooked it. When it was almost cooked, she put the washed cabbage, cut radish and potato slices, soaked black fungus, shiitake mushrooms, and bamboo shoots into the pot.
The pot was bubbling, and the rich aroma of hot pot filled Yang Qiuyue's small house.
Yang Qiujin and the children smelled the fragrance and kept swallowing their saliva. She picked up the chopsticks and was about to start eating, but Yang Qiuyue said, "Sister, wait a minute, there is another guest coming to eat with us."
Yang Qiujin paused, "Who is it?"
"He'll be here soon." Yang Qiuyue smiled, "You know him."
Yang Qiujin's eyebrows jumped and she had a vague guess in her mind.
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