Chapter 75 Chapter 75 1st update
Even though Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei were not happy about it, Shen Moli still took the time to go and see the factory building under construction. The commune allocated a circle of land outside the textile factory to the embroidery factory. In addition to the factory building currently under construction, a piece of land was reserved nearby for building staff dormitories.
Mao Jianxin was probably afraid that Shen Moer would intervene and give suggestions, so his expression was very stiff throughout the whole process. But Shen Moer just glanced at him casually and went back without saying anything.
In fact, Shen Moer didn't understand what Mao Jianxin and Jin Caifei were worried about. The construction of the factory was indeed a great achievement, but the factory was built for production. If production was not done well, what was the use of building a good factory?
They were willing to work diligently and dustily every day at the construction site to watch the factory building construction. In fact, Shen Moer was eager for it. It can be seen that these two people really want to achieve some results, so they watch very carefully.
After reading it, Shen Moer decided to ignore it. After all, she was very busy.
Not only did she have to attend classes, but she also had to arrange for those who had previously learned embroidery from her in Yangliu Brigade to go to other brigades to "pass on their knowledge and skills". Then she had to return to Yangliu Brigade on weekends to answer their questions and help them improve their level. She also had to take time out of her schedule to draw the drawings for the factory's first batch of products.
In short, every day is busy.
Fu Mingze was also busy. The experimental field of Yangliu Brigade was expanded to 30 acres instead of the 3-5 acres that Zhou Mancang had originally planned. Zhou Mancang was really worried every day, fearing that something bad would happen to the 30 acres of land, so he kept nagging Fu Mingze.
Fu Mingze now not only has to study fertilizers and water supply with agricultural technicians, but also has to screen seeds everywhere. He often leaves before dawn and comes back after dark at night.
In comparison, Shen Shaoyuan is the most idle among the three people in the family.
The busy time passed especially quickly, as if the weather had suddenly become hot. The heavy cotton-padded jackets were put away, and every household began to plan to make summer clothes. I heard that a batch of Dacron fabrics had recently arrived at the supply and marketing cooperative, and they were almost snapped up.
Because Liuqiao Commune had a textile factory, the cloth coupons issued by various enterprises and institutions in the commune were sufficient. The cloth saved by Shen Moer and her family of three was just enough for each of them to make a Dacron shirt.
The cloth was bought with the help of Liu Guizhi from next door. Their food station and the supply and marketing cooperative are actually brother units. They are in close contact on a regular basis, so it is no big deal to help save some cloth.
A while ago, Shen Moer applied for a sewing machine ticket from the Embroidery Factory. Due to work needs, the Embroidery Factory has a close relationship with the sewing machine factory, so it is easy to get a sewing machine ticket. After Shen Moer got the ticket, she used the salary she had saved in the past few months to buy a sewing machine.
A sewing machine is also one of the three major items. In addition to the ticket, a sewing machine costs nearly two hundred yuan, and a better one even costs nearly three hundred yuan. Shen Moer compared them and finally spent one hundred and eighty yuan to buy a high-end one in Taichung.
After buying the sewing machine, Shen Moer asked her sister-in-law who knew how to use the sewing machine in the family compound to teach her how to do it. She learned it quickly. After that, it was easy to make anything else. Three Dacron shirts were made in just a few days.
Although the weather is getting hot, it is not time to wear short-sleeved shirts yet. Chen Moer asked Fu Mingze and Shen Shaoyuan to try them on. When they found the size was right, they were going to put them away. Liu Guizhi who came to visit happened to see them. She felt that they were both simple shirts, but why did the one made by Chen Moer look so well-cut and make people look so energetic?
Of course, her good looks are one thing, but the style of her clothes is also really good, and the length and size are really suitable.
The next day, Liu Guizhi came to the door with a pig ear and begged Shen Moer to cut some cloth for their old Zhou. She knew that Shen Moer was busy and did not dare to ask others to do it for her. Anyway, the quality of the clothes mainly depends on the cutting.
Chen Moer had been getting along well with Liu Guizhi recently, and she was often asked to help with things, so she readily agreed. After a long tussle, Chen Moer had no choice but to accept the pig ears and gave a piece of pickled wild boar meat in return.
So when Zhou Xingwang returned home after working overtime, he was dragged by Liu Guizhi to Chen Moli's house.
Zhou Xingwang was the deputy director of the commune in charge of agriculture. When he saw Fu Mingze, he couldn't help but start talking to him: "Fu Zhiqing, how is the wheat in your village's experimental field growing? Are you confident that the yield will increase?"
Liu Guizhi rolled her eyes and slapped him on the shoulder: "Open your arms, I'm measuring you! Wheat, wheat, it's not time to harvest wheat yet, how can Fu Zhiqing know if the yield can be increased? Work hard when you're at work, and don't talk about work after work."
Zhou Xingwang: "This tiger bitch! Okay, okay, Fu Zhiqing, let's talk about it at the regular meeting."
Open your hands obediently, Liu Guizhi took a tape measure and asked Shen Moer standing next to you: "Is this the case?"
Shen Moer responded, and when Liu Guizhi told her the number, she wrote it down in her notebook.
Liu Guizhi thought that she was going to trouble someone anyway, so she gritted her teeth and gathered some more cloth coupons to make another pair of pants for Zhou Xingwang, just enough for one set, so she measured the hip circumference, trouser length, etc. Shen Moer took note of everything and agreed with Liu Guizhi to cut the cloth for her within three days.
After taking measurements, Liu Guizhi and Zhou Xingwang returned to their home. When Zhou Xingwang saw his son Zhou Ping'an sitting there reading a book, he said, "Actually, I have clothes. You and Ping'an should make new ones."
Liu Guizhi didn't care: "You are a cadre after all, you can't wear a washed-out shirt all day long. I am in the sales department, I can wear whatever I want. I wanted to make one for Ping An and asked him to go to the next door, but he refused and insisted that I just make the same clothes as before."
Zhou Ping'an moved his legs, looked up at Liu Guizhi, and said nothing.
Liu Guizhi sighed secretly in her heart, but said, "It's okay. Children can wear whatever they want. It's good enough to have a new piece of clothing."
On the other side, Shen Moer packed up the notebook and the cloth given by Liu Guizhi and put them aside. She turned her head and asked Shen Shaoyuan who was writing at the dining table: "Dad, are you going to the brigade tomorrow?"
Since moving to the commune, Shen Moer and Shen Shaoyuan have deeply felt why everyone here wants to move to the city. Although the commune is not actually a city, it is really much more convenient than the village.
First of all, the commune has electricity. Daliang doesn't have electricity. Although Shen Moer and Shen Shaoyuan have experienced the benefits of electricity before, whether they were on business trips or at work, the days of being able to use electricity all day long, especially at home, are only possible after moving to the commune.
Then there are running water and toilets. In short, life has become much more convenient, so Shen Shaoyuan goes back less often now.
"Go ahead. I'll borrow a bicycle from Xu Weiguo. We'll come back at night. I can still find time to chat with Old Wang."
So the next day, the family of three rode two bicycles back to the village.
Fu Mingze always eats lunch in the village. Sometimes when he is busy, he also eats dinner in the village. He usually keeps the house clean, so there is no situation where the house is dusty after being away for a long time.
Not long after entering the door, Li Xinmei and her group arrived. They were a group of female soldiers and looked full of energy.
This group of "direct disciples" have been training the pre-selected personnel from other teams since the beginning of the year. This is equivalent to upgrading to become masters. They are respected and their abilities are recognized by others, which makes them unprecedentedly confident.
It is said that even Xing Fangjie, who usually speaks softly at home, started to speak loudly. Once, Cheng Tao met Shen Moer and complained to her with a smile, saying that Xing Fangjie's temper had been getting worse and worse since she had "recruited" her.
Li Xinmei and the others pulled Shen Moer to ask questions, and Wang Qiutong grabbed Shen Shaoyuan for advice.
Wang Qiutong is now a private teacher in the commune primary school, which means she has taken over the position previously occupied by Shen Moli. However, she not only has to teach art, but also has to teach some of the main subjects.
The main team took into consideration that the school will have four grades in the next semester. With more classes, there will naturally be more classes. In addition, in another year, the five grades will be full, and there will be even more classes at that time. Cheng Tao and Shen Lingling alone will be too busy to teach the main subjects.
Besides, Shen Lingling was pregnant, and she had mentioned it to the team leader and Cheng Tao, saying that she was weak and could not continue to teach full classes after her pregnancy, and asked to reduce her workload. Zhou Mancang and Cheng Tao discussed it with Wang Qiutong, who naturally had no objection. She would wake up laughing in her dreams at night to be able to teach in an elementary school, so teaching a few more classes was nothing.
Wang Qiutong's grades were average when she was in school, but she was more than qualified to teach primary school students. She was not very interested in Chinese and math, but after learning painting for a while, she was still quite interested in it. She thought that if she learned better, she could teach the children better, and maybe she could win a prize in the next competition.
Shen Shaoyuan was free anyway, so he was willing to teach her.
He didn't like women who were full of calculations. Wang Qiutong's simple and straightforward personality suited his temper. Besides, Wang Qiutong had a good relationship with Shen Moli. In Shen Shaoyuan's eyes, she was his daughter's little sister. There was nothing wrong with his daughter's little sister learning something from him.
Both sides were learning very enthusiastically. Fu Mingze glanced at Shen Moer who was surrounded by everyone, smiled, and turned to leave the yard.
Fu Mingze walked all the way to the experimental field and saw Zheng Jiamin sitting on the edge of the field with his head hung from a distance. When he got closer, he saw that he was pulling weeds beside the edge of the field. There was a small pile of weeds he had pulled on the ground next to him.
Fu Mingze couldn't help but say, "If you want to pull weeds, go into the field and pull them out."
Why pull up the grass outside the ridge? It's growing well by the roadside and hasn't run into the fields to compete with the wheat for water and fertilizer.
Zheng Jiamin looked at the weeds on the ground, scratched his head, and said, "Yes, why should I pull the weeds outside? But there is not much weeds in the field. The experimental field support team headed by Comrade Zhang Zhiqiang gets up early and works in the dark every day to pull weeds, fearing that the weeds will take away any precious fertilizer for the wheat. Where is there any weeds in this field?"
Fu Mingze did not comment. He walked around the periphery along the ridge of the field and carefully observed the growth of wheat in each plot. He then walked back to Zheng Jiamin and asked, "What's the matter?"
Zheng Jiamin scratched his head and rubbed his face, then said after a while, "My family sent me a letter saying that my father fell and is in the hospital, and my sister-in-law is pregnant again. I'm afraid they won't be able to send me much money in the next few months."
Fu Mingze glanced at him and said, "Your family originally sent you a lot of money, didn't you save any of it?"
If it was someone else, Zheng Jiamin would definitely not say it. When Fu Mingze asked, he hesitated for a moment, but still said, "Xu Wei borrowed some of the money I saved before."
Fu Mingze had expected this and asked, "How much did you borrow?"
Zheng Jiamin rubbed his face again, and after a while he said in a muffled voice: "I can't count the tickets, they are all small and odd. As for the money, adding up all together, it should be more than a hundred."
In fact, Zheng Jiamin never kept a record of the one or two yuan that Xu Wei borrowed at the beginning, nor did he think of asking her to pay it back. Later, she said that Zhou Chuntao was seriously ill and had to go to the county hospital. Seeing that she was very anxious, Zheng Jiamin gave her thirty yuan at one time. Not long after, Xu Qi broke her leg again and went to the county hospital. Zheng Jiamin gave her another thirty yuan. The biggest sums were mainly these two times. Later, he "borrowed" her money in small amounts, such as buying cooking oil, soy sauce, kerosene, and grinding rice. Anyway, he "borrowed" her money many times in small amounts of two or three yuan.
Zheng Jiamin was not stupid and soon came to his senses. He had tried several times to make the excuse that he had no money, and Xu Wei would cry and roll up her sleeves to show him the bruises on her arms, saying that her mother blamed her for being useless and that she would be beaten if she couldn't "borrow" money.
Zheng Jiamin couldn't bear to see this. He didn't expect Zhou Chuntao to be so cruel. But thinking that the amount he borrowed was not much, he still gave it to her.
But he kept a record of all these.
Later, Xu Wei came to say that her brother was sick, and Zheng Jiamin stopped giving him money.
Originally, his family sent him money checks every month. Zheng Jiamin thought that his life was better than that of an orphan and a widow, so he never thought of asking them for money. Now that he received a letter from home, he thought that he should have more than what he had received from them before, so he decided not to send any money in the next few months.
But how could Zheng Jiamin have any extra money?
He didn't know when his family would send him money again. Not to mention spending it like before, even buying soap or a pair of socks would cost money. The few dollars he had on hand were of no use at all.
Zheng Jiamin, who had always been well-off, was suddenly reduced to a penniless pauper, which made him very uneasy. He felt that a few months of cold and rainy weather, or even longer, would be waiting for him.
Fu Mingze was puzzled by his sad face and said, "In that case, why don't you ask Xu Wei to return the money you lent her?"
It was unlikely that the ticket would be returned, after all, the family had no way to get the ticket, but it was not difficult to get the money back. It was impossible for them to have spent all the more than 100 yuan. Even if they were really sick, a visit to the county hospital would only cost 10 yuan at most, and 30 yuan would leave two-thirds of the money. Moreover, according to Fu Mingze, the illness was probably exaggerated. It might be true, but it was definitely not as serious as they said.
It is impossible for a family of orphans and a widow to be completely clueless. They spent all the money they scammed out of more than 100 yuan immediately, and most of them are still saving some.
Even if Zhou Chuntao still refuses to pay, doesn't she still have brothers? Zhou Qingguo and Zhou Weiguo are not unreasonable people.
Zheng Jiamin: "I actually asked her for it."
Actually, he went to ask Xu Wei for money yesterday, but he didn't ask for much. He wanted her to pay back thirty or fifty yuan. But Xu Wei burst into tears in front of him, swearing to heaven that her family really had no money, and if she had money, Zhou Chuntao would beat her to death. In the end, she even asked him if he could lend her two dollars to buy a few boxes of matches. Zheng Jiamin was speechless, and realized the fact that he might not be able to get the money back.
No wonder Wang Qiutong said he was a sucker.
In fact, when he saw Xu Wei like this, he thought of his own younger sister.
There are three siblings in their family. The eldest brother is older and married. Zheng Jiamin is the second oldest, and the youngest sister is the same age as Xu Wei. At the beginning, the Youth Educated Office came to their home every day to urge them to go to the countryside. His old man was an eighth-level worker and was definitely not allowed to work. His mother couldn't give up her job to two people, so one of them had to go to the countryside.
Zheng Jiamin had already prepared himself mentally for going to the countryside, but his younger sister secretly went to the Youth League Office to sign up for going to the countryside. If the neighbors hadn't happened to see it, the girl might have really gone to the countryside.
When he went to the countryside, the little girl hugged him and cried, saying that her second brother suffered for her. In fact, Zheng Jiamin was worried about her. She was so weak and he didn't know if she was bullied at work.
Fu Mingze looked at him and said, "You didn't ask for it back, right? Why not ask for it today?"
Then he turned and walked towards the village.
Zheng Jiamin was stunned for a few seconds, then stood up and followed.
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