Chapter 92: Processing Plant
Chu Hong, who was holding a washbasin nearby, also discovered that now almost every household has a scale. People who brought rice would weigh it at home, and they would always have an extra ounce or half an ounce.
She thought to herself, one washbasin weighs one ounce, ten of them would add up to one pound, and two thousand would add up to two hundred pounds.
There was so much food that she didn't feel tired at all.
At the beginning, Secretary Song was weighing the grain, and Chu Hong held a washbasin for the person who was weighing it.
However, there were many people in the family, so Uncle Song and Grandpa Song also came to help soon.
Chu Hong and Secretary Song took some time to go to the kitchen to eat some noodles. When they saw that there were more people in front, they came over to help.
By a little after nine o'clock, nearly a hundred washbasins had been replaced, and dozens of sacks of rice had been added.
After closing the door, Grandpa Song and Party Secretary Song chatted for a while, and Party Secretary Song said, "Chu Hong, tomorrow you will accompany Grandpa to the processing factory in town, deliver the rice to the factory, and bring back the rice bran."
Chu Hong also knew that she was the only one at home who had free time, so she agreed immediately.
But she added, "Even a bullock cart can't carry it all the way there, right?"
Today's ox carts can only carry a maximum load of 2,000 kilograms.
Besides, people nowadays are particularly caring about cows and are reluctant to let them pull such heavy loads.
Secretary Song said, "It will be enough if both ox carts in the village go."
He added, "Go out again after 7:30 tomorrow and come back after 1:00 p.m. There will be fewer people at these two times."
Chu Hong wished: "It would be nice if I didn't have to get up early."
She was so tired today that she fell asleep as soon as she got into bed. She had no time to think about anything else, not even her boyfriend.
After all, she is not love-brained and prefers food that can fill her stomach.
However, the people from the Su family in Lingshang Village had been talking about the Song family before.
Mainly at around five o'clock in the afternoon, Secretary Song and Chu Hong also went in and talked to the team leader about exchanging grain for the defective washbasins.
Secretary Su was also in the brigade office at the time, but Secretary Song acted as if he didn't see him. He just said something to the brigade leader and a few people outside and left.
This made Secretary Su very embarrassed and he felt he had brought disgrace upon himself.
When she got home, Su Jinxiang rushed to him with red eyes and cried, "Dad, please help me and let me marry Gu Ci."
Secretary Su glared at her in dissatisfaction and said unhappily, "Gu Ci is not the only male educated youth. I think Zhang Jianming is not bad either."
"Zhang Jianming is going to dig a reservoir today." Su Jinxiang said with disdain: "If his family is really rich, why would he be so eager to dig a reservoir to earn work points?"
The reservoir has not been completed yet, but Lingshang Village is not close to Lingxia Village, and even few villagers go there to earn work points.
After all, people nowadays think that country folks are busy working in the fields all year round and only have these few days to take a good rest.
Before the Lantern Festival, few people are willing to go to work.
Of course, the main reason is that there is not much work in the fields now, and not many people are needed to work.
Aunt Su brought him a cup of tea with some sugar and tea leaves in it, which was also a unique treatment for Secretary Su in the family.
Aunt Su also spoke up for her daughter: "Our Jinxiang is the daughter of the Party Secretary. It's her good fortune that she likes Gu Ci."
"He is young and hot-tempered, so you should find a way to deal with him."
Secretary Su glared at her and said unhappily, "Women are always short-sighted. Gu Ci has caught the leader's eye now. If I make things difficult for him for no reason, what if he sues me?"
He frowned again: "Is dinner ready? Why don't you serve it to me?"
Seeing that he was unwilling to help, Su Jinxiang didn't dare to say anything more and went to the kitchen to bring out the food.
At this moment, she also thought of her sister-in-law.
It would be great if my sister-in-law was here. She cooks almost all of our three meals a day.
Now that her sister-in-law is gone, she has to revolve around the stove. She even feels that her hair, which she just washed yesterday, smells of cooking fumes again.
Aunt Su also called out, "It's time for dinner."
Then she started to complain in a low voice: "The second wife is too unreasonable. She even asked me to call her for dinner."
Secretary Su said with a straight face: "Then tell her to work. If she doesn't obey, don't eat."
It's not that he's protecting his wife and supporting her, but he's afraid that if he doesn't suppress her, she'll become more and more unfilial.
Otherwise, why is there the saying: Don’t reveal your family assets until you die?
Nowadays, there is no such thing as depositing money in the bank. Many people die unexpectedly and do not have time to explain clearly where the money is buried, so that when their children and grandchildren dig the foundation, they will dig out the bottles and jars containing the family's wealth.
When Aunt Su heard this, she felt that her man still protected her, so she smiled and said, "I've stewed eggs tonight, you and Xiaobao should eat more."
The Su brothers came in chatting and laughing. Liu Fangfang also came in holding her son's hand with her head lowered and her face submissive.
The staple food for dinner was sweet potato rice, and the side dishes were a big bowl of egg custard, stir-fried shredded radish, and cabbage stewed with vermicelli.
This kind of food is considered pretty good.
Aunt Su first scooped a spoonful of egg custard for everyone, and scraped the rest into Secretary Su's bowl.
But after Su Hongwei took a bite of the vermicelli, he was a little disgusted: "Put the vermicelli in later, it's all broken after being stewed for too long."
Su Jinxiang already felt that cooking dinner was hard work, but she didn't expect to be despised by her second brother. Her face darkened instantly: "If my second brother can't eat it, let my second sister-in-law cook it."
Liu Fangfang said in a good-tempered manner: "Xiaobao is not feeling well today, so I will take care of him. I will cook tomorrow."
She is also very good at reading people's faces. When her father-in-law is not at home, she dares to confront her mother-in-law and sister-in-law.
But her father-in-law wasn't in a good mood today, and she didn't want to run into trouble.
Alas, it’s another day of missing my sister-in-law.
Now she is the only outsider in the family, and no one is there to help her take the blame, which makes her very uncomfortable.
She said softly, "Mom, Sister Liang's cousin is young and pretty, and she has studied for a few years. Do you want me to go and meet her?"
Aunt Su snorted, tartly: "Don't mention her family to me. They want a bicycle and two hundred yuan. They are asking for too much. They want to sell their daughter without even considering what she has."
Su Hongqi took two bites of rice and said, "Dad and Mom, I like Chen Mei."
"She looks like a fertile girl. She will definitely give me a son."
"Besides, she is an educated youth. We can just give her a little less money as a token of our appreciation."
"But we still have to buy a bicycle. Even if we buy a bicycle, we will still ride it ourselves. It will sound good when others say it. Don't you agree?"
Secretary Su said nothing and placed the empty bowl in front of Aunt Su.
Aunt Su put down her bowl and chopsticks, picked up his empty bowl and asked, "Shall I give you a full bowl or half a bowl?"
Secretary Su then spoke up: "Half a bowl is enough."
Su Hongqi was unwilling to give up. After finishing his meal, he very attentively took the pipe for Secretary Su, filled it with tobacco, and passed it to him after lighting it: "Dad, if I don't have a son, people will scold me for extinction, right? Just promise me, right?"
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