Chapter 76 Chapter 76 Want to charge?
Director Wu rushed back to the 11th Division that night and immediately reported the news to the Minister's Office.
Late at night, Minister Zou urgently convened a production and operation meeting of the pharmaceutical factory.
At the meeting, Director Li of the pharmaceutical factory frowned and said, "The 720 Machine Manufacturing Factory only started to develop fans in 1979. It has only been two or three years. At present, some places have not yet fully implemented the policy of contracting to households. It is impossible that the market is already saturated."
"Bat brand electric fans are the best in the country. If their factory has really switched to producing floor fans, it must be because they found that floor fans have a bigger market." Director Wu said anxiously, "The division has invested all its money in the development and production of electric fans at the pharmaceutical factory. If the floor fans can't make a profit, the families of the soldiers in the division will have to starve!"
"The military product tasks of several heavy military factories have been reduced by 75%. Everyone has to find their own rice. The higher-ups will not allocate any flexible funds to the division."
Minister Zou looked at the pharmaceutical factory's supply and marketing department and Wei Yuanyang and said, "Logistics does not participate in the production management of the pharmaceutical factory, but the pharmaceutical factory's operating profits are related to the construction of barracks for the entire division, the soldiers' food standards, and the updating and maintenance of equipment. Before you make a decision, I have only one thing to say. If you lose money again, you can go to the headquarters to ask for money yourself."
"Isn't there a bakery?"
As soon as a deputy director of the pharmaceutical factory finished speaking, he saw the logistics leaders all frowning.
The deputy factory manager immediately changed his expression, "I mean, didn't the bakery manager Liang give the suggestion? She is a college student who has been staying in Jiangjing. She was the one who gave the suggestion in the beginning..."
"Your research is not up to standard. Comrade Liang Xin would like to remind you. Are there any mistakes?"
Minister Zou slammed the table and said, "No wonder the pharmaceutical factory invested so much money, but it didn't make a penny after five years! You were also well-known soldiers before you went to the pharmaceutical factory. In just a few years, your belly is big, your hair is bald, and you are greasy from head to toe. Besides shirking responsibility, what else do you have? I think you are not even a man now!"
The deputy factory director was scolded like a quail.
"In fact, while I was learning about the market, I also heard that the 720 Machine Factory was going to produce floor fans."
Wei Yuanyang said: "However, it seems that there is no large-scale production this summer. I guess they want to be safe, just like us."
Minister Zou's face darkened. Wei Yuanyang continued, "But the pharmaceutical factory has chosen to take a safe route since its establishment. As a result, it has not only failed to make small profits but also failed to squeeze into the market. I suggest that we take out half of the order volume to produce floor fans. While other factories are hesitating, we can seize the market first. Even if it doesn't sell well, it can make our brand known to the people first. Anyway, it's only half. The half that has been produced can break even."
"That's what I thought."
Director Wu said, "Comrade Liang Xin, she has never asked for help from the division. She was still feeling her way through the various military factories, but she was able to build a bakery like this. She is obviously a genius with a business mind, and she is also the top scholar. I think we should still pay attention to what she said."
Wei Yuanyang's eyelashes flickered slightly.
Thanks to Liang Xin for sharing the key information.
Otherwise, Director Zou would have been planning to transfer him to the Finance Department. Once the pharmaceutical factory lost money, he would most likely be the one to go to the headquarters to ask for the money.
It was also because it was Liang Xin who spoke up.
Only then did he make the decision with confidence. If it were someone else, he would not say a word.
Director Li made the decision, "The pharmaceutical factory has been operating poorly for many years, and now we are entering a freezing period of national economic adjustment. We have been cautious for so many years, but all we have achieved is negative results. Let's conduct another detailed investigation. If we are sure that the news is correct, even if others don't, we will also go for floor fans!"
Wei Yuanyang's expression was mixed with joy and worry.
What makes me happy is that Liang Xin’s words have become so powerful.
It was worrying that Liang Xin's words carried so much weight.
He was afraid that if things continued like this, even if he climbed up, Liang Xin would have no place to rely on him.
Liang Xin got up early in the morning and did not see Lu Chongfeng. The military package on the leather box was also gone. The sleepyhead was immediately scared away and she quickly lifted the quilt and got out of bed.
I went to the bathroom and looked around, but no one was there.
He quickened his pace and walked down the stairs.
"Liang Xin is up?"
"Mom, charge ahead..."
Lu Chongfeng walked in from outside wearing a white vest and army green trousers. The sunlight shone on his thriving muscles covered with sweat, making them sparkle.
He saw Liang Xin coming downstairs with her hair loose, obviously not having washed yet, and was slightly startled, "What's wrong?"
Hu Fenglian smiled knowingly, "Liang Xin probably thought you were gone."
Lu Chongfeng immediately raised the corner of his mouth, walked forward and held Liang Xin's hand, turned around and went upstairs to the corner, and picked up Liang Xin horizontally.
"Brother Heping and Yueji..."
"They're gone."
Lu Chongfeng carried Liang Xin into the bathroom and put her on the sink. He leaned over to look at the remaining nervousness and anxiety in Liang Xin's eyes, and raised the corners of his mouth even higher. "How could I leave without telling you?"
"Why is your bag missing?"
Liang Xin picked up the ointment and squeezed it onto the toothbrush to ease the embarrassment.
"Mom took it down to pack her things."
Lu Chongfeng turned on the faucet, filled Liang Xin's toothbrush holder with water, held Liang Xin's armpits on both sides, and put her on the ground, "It's a pity that I don't have time to accompany you to Huaihua Village this time."
“Work is important.”
Liang Xin put the toothbrush in her mouth, turned around, and brushed her teeth facing the mirror.
Suddenly, I saw in the mirror that Lu Chongfeng raised his hands to take off his vest. The muscles on his shoulders and back were like rolling valleys, and his mermaid line stretched straight down into his tightly fastened military pants.
The next second, he unbuttoned his army green button with one hand, opening his military pants, making his mermaid line appear deeper, more seductive, and more eye-catching.
Liang Xin stopped brushing her teeth unconsciously and followed the end of the mermaid line. She saw a big bulge and then her military pants were bulged up, making it difficult to take them off.
Lu Chongfeng turned towards the mirror and tilted his head to look at Liang Xin in the mirror.
Liang Xin was awakened by the spiciness of the toothpaste and quickly looked away, concentrating on brushing her teeth.
As Liang Xin swayed, the white foam covered her chin and slowly dripped down.
Lu Chongfeng hissed, closed his eyes, and his chest muscles rose and fell.
Liang Xin deliberately stopped looking at him, and suddenly heard a sentence in her ear: "You asked for this."
The next second, Liang Xin was pressed on the sink, her waistline curved into a crescent shape, and her plump buttocks were held up high.
Last night, Lu Chongfeng felt sorry for Liang Xin who had been busy in the bakery all day, and he did nothing even though they would be separated for another half a year the next day.
When I woke up in the morning, I saw Liang Xin sleeping soundly, so I went out to the playground and ran two more laps.
He was originally planning to let it go, but Liang Xin took the initiative to seduce him.
Liang Xin, holding the sink tightly, said: "......"
It was the first time I faced a mirror as big as a sink in broad daylight.
The mirror in the General's Building was three or four times larger than the mirror in the narrow room of the 11th Division. It almost took up half of the wall and allowed the two men's bodies to be seen clearly.
When Liang Xin was picked up and faced the mirror, she was so stimulated that she couldn't help but moan. At the moment when her teeth bit her lips, Lu Chongfeng touched her earlobe and said, "They went to work."
"Scream it out, I like it."
Liang Xin's whole body turned red from the heat, and her red body also stimulated Lu Chongfeng's eyes to turn red.
Because she had to catch a train, Liang Xin couldn't bear to leave him, and besides being excited, she was very attached to Lu Chongfeng.
Lu Chongfeng did the same, kissing Liang Xin inch by inch from her face to her toes.
I hate having to leave.
After being separated many times, I haven't gotten used to it. Instead, I am becoming more and more reluctant to leave.
Liang Xin would not go back unless Lu Chongfeng insisted on going to Huaihua Village.
Lu Chongfeng didn't find time and went straight back to the 11th Division. Liang Xin canceled her plan to return to Huaihua Village and started preparing for the chicken farm.
Because it holds the technical patent for "artificial fly breeding", Liangxin did not go to the farm to negotiate the introduction of Ross chickens like other places did. Instead, it wrote a letter to the director of Shanghai Guangming Breeding Farm as a stepping stone and then waited patiently for a reply.
Before I received a reply, I received news that someone had gone to the bakery to cause trouble.
Liang Xin hung up the phone and rode her bike to the nearby police station.
Following the two public security comrades, they arrived at the bakery and saw an old man sitting at the door, lying on the ground and wiping his tears pitifully. A boy with a fierce look on his face was pointing at Wang Daya who was standing at the door, swearing at her.
Wang Daya, however, stood in front of Zhu Xiaoling and her two daughters with a serious face, not giving in at all.
The police pushed through the crowd, walked up and asked, "What's going on?"
Wang Daya was relieved when she saw Liang Xin, "Director Liang, they are playing rogue!"
Liang Xin first looked at Wang Daya in surprise.
Wang Daya continued to explain: "He is, Grandpa Xiaoling!"
Liang Xin smiled and turned to look at the old man on the ground. Before she could say anything, the boy who was originally pointing at Wang Daya pointed his finger at Liang Xin again.
"Are you the one in charge? You better return Zhu Xiaoling's job to me right now. Otherwise, if anything happens to me, I will never forgive you!"
Liang Xin looked at the finger stretched out in front of her, raised her hand and slowly waved it away, "Willfully provoking, threatening and insulting, forcibly taking things, and disrupting public order, this kind of hooligan, everyone has seen it, public security comrades, should he be shot?"
The boy, who was about to point his finger back viciously after having it pushed away, was so frightened that his legs started shaking after hearing Liang Xin's words. "Who are you trying to scare? I'm a relative of a martyr. Why are you going to shoot me?"
"A martyr's relative?"
Liang Xin asked, "Was the martyr your mother or your father? What unit did you work for? Where did you die? In what year was he recognized as a martyr?"
The boy's fierce expression froze.
The public security comrade said: "Even if they are relatives of martyrs, if they really broke the law, they should be shot to death."
As soon as the public security comrade spoke, the old man lying on the ground cried out, "Oh, there is no law. My son died for the country. I ran to the bakery run by the army where my son served before his death, but the person in charge teamed up with the public security to bully the old widower who lost his son. Is there anyone who can control these rampant and bullying cadres?"
"Director Liang."
Zhu Xiaoling ran over crying, "He is my father-in-law. I don't know why he suddenly came here. I am so sorry for delaying the bakery's business."
"Oh~"
Liang Xin raised her voice, "So it was you, the old man who didn't use the martyr's family subsidy on the two daughters left behind by the martyr, but used it all to subsidize the eldest grandson of the eldest son, leaving the two little girls, the real martyr's family, who were in the critical period of development and growth, and the old man who couldn't eat an egg for half a month."
When the people who were queuing up to buy bread heard this, they all frowned and looked at the old man on the ground.
Liang Xin looked at the vicious boy again, "Are you the eldest grandson who takes the martyr's family subsidy every day?"
The boy first glanced at the police, then looked at the crowd who were all frowning and looking condemning. He felt that Jiangjing was different from his hometown after all, so he kept his mouth shut and said nothing.
"It seems so."
Liang Xin looked at the boy and asked, "Uncle, your eldest son and his wife are gone too?"
The old man immediately frowned and said, "What nonsense are you talking about? My eldest son is alive and well!"
"Comrade Public Security, in addition to the crime of hooliganism, you are also pretending to be a relative of a martyr and provoking trouble, and at the same time damaging the reputation and honor of heroes and martyrs..." Liang Xin looked at the boy, "You dare to do this when you first arrive. You are not unfamiliar with it at all, but you are used to it. I see that you have done similar things in your hometown. For the honor of heroes and martyrs, you must also investigate it thoroughly and give him a heavy sentence."
The police officer came forward with handcuffs, and the boy struggled, swearing again.
The old man stopped whining, got up from the ground, pointed at Zhu Xiaoling and cursed: "Zhu Xiaoling, if anything happens to Goudan, I will make sure you die!"
Liang Xin stopped Zhu Xiaoling who wanted to speak.
Seeing that Zhu Xiaoling didn't care, the old man immediately rushed to the police again, "He is not pretending, he is a martyr's relative. I have checked the scope of martyrs' relatives. In addition to family members, children, and parents, it also includes minors supported by Erniu. My eldest grandson has always been supported by Erniu's salary. He is a martyr's relative!"
"Uncle, the minors supported by the martyrs' relatives during their lifetime refer to the minor brothers and sisters supported by the martyrs during their lifetime." Liang Xin corrected, "It does not include the children of the brothers and sisters supported by the martyrs during their lifetime."
“Yo!”
Xu Dafeng ran over and panted, "So, when your second son was alive, you were partial to him, letting him raise the children you raised, leaving your two daughters to suffer. Now that your second son has died, you are still sucking the blood of the dead to support your eldest grandson?"
The old man said confidently, "That shouldn't be the case? The second son has no son. If he has money, why doesn't he support his own family? Can he support outsiders? I asked him to raise Goudan for his own good. When he dies, someone will break a yellow basin and burn paper for him at his grave!"
Liang Xin asked, "How many times has he been to the Martyrs' Cemetery?"
The old man shut his mouth immediately.
The people around him immediately looked at the old man with indescribable eyes.
"Comrade from the Public Security Bureau, take this young comrade away. He must be given a severe sentence." Liang Xin added, "But this gentleman is a legitimate relative of a martyr. You should still be polite. Of course, if a relative of a martyr breaks the law, he should be dealt with accordingly."
The police officer held the old man's arm and said, "Don't worry, we will handle this impartially."
"What are you doing!?"
In the direction Xu Dafeng had just run, another woman ran over, grabbed the boy like crazy, and pushed the policeman, "Why are you handcuffing my son? My son is a martyr's relative!"
Without waiting for the police to answer, the woman glanced at Zhu Xiaoling and said, "Xiaoling, this is your nephew, are you just going to watch him die?"
Zhu Xiaoling walked up to Liang Xin and said, "If you don't come to the bakery to cause trouble again, I will ask Director Liang to let you go."
"You wish, you bitch!" The boy who was caught by the police cursed Zhu Xiaoling fiercely as soon as he saw her: "Second Uncle's things are all mine! Why did you take my job?"
Liang Xin stepped forward and asked, "Do you think that if Zhu Xiaoling agrees, you can come to work in the bakery?"
The boy stared at Liang Xin, "Of course! This is the job the army assigns to the martyrs' families!"
Liang Xin said, "Don't say you're not a martyr's relative. Even if you are, you can't come in because the bakery only arranges jobs for female martyrs' relatives, not male ones."
"Why?"
The old man seemed to be stabbed in the lungs. "Women are capable, but men are not? How can this be true? Can women be better than men? I have lived for so many years, and this is the first time I have heard such a joke!"
"Uncle, I never realized that you have lived for so many years and have realized that men are better than women." Liang Xin looked at the old man's ugly face and continued, "Otherwise, why would you come here to bully women and want to take women's jobs for your eldest grandson?"
The old man looked at the mocking eyes of the people around him and said unconvincedly: "This is arranged by the army. You, a woman, have no say here!"
"Since you said it was arranged by the military, why didn't you go to the army and come directly to the bakery?"
Liang Xin said coldly, "It's useless even if Zhu Xiaoling speaks for you now. Public Security comrades, if you don't deal seriously with this pair of grandfather and grandson who are looking for trouble, I will file a complaint against you to the Municipal Public Security Bureau."
After hearing this, the police immediately took real action, handcuffed the grandfather and grandson's hands behind their backs.
The grandfather and grandson's facial features were distorted in pain, and they could not utter a complete word except "ouch".
The eldest grandson's mother, seeing her father-in-law and son being taken away, immediately ran after the police, crying and shouting.
The entrance became quiet, but the guest did not leave. Besides really wanting to eat the bread, he also felt sorry for Zhu Xiaoling and wanted to say a few words of comfort.
Some guests also wanted to persuade Zhu Xiaoling to have a good discussion and not let the old man's eldest grandson be shot, otherwise the old man would probably have to die with him, which would be bad for Zhu Xiaoling's reputation.
Xu Dafeng interrupted, "You don't know, I just went back because I heard that someone had picked the lock. Yuanyuan's aunt threw all of her and her three daughters' belongings at the door and moved all the things they brought with them into the house. It was so bullying!"
While the masses were united in their hatred of the enemy, some people still tried to persuade Zhu Xiaoling.
Zhu Xiaoling looked at Liang Xin worriedly.
Liang Xin said, "If they don't spend two days in jail, they won't know what fear is and won't listen to anyone. Besides, if we let them go so easily, others will follow suit and how can we keep the bakery going? However, I've remembered everyone's advice. Just letting them spend some time in jail won't cost anyone their lives."
The guests all breathed a sigh of relief and felt that it was thanks to their persuasion that Comrade Liang Xin softened her heart and let the grandfather and grandson go. After praising Liang Xin, they felt closer to the bakery.
Liang Xin said at the right time: "Thank you all for your kindness. Today we have a new whipped cream. Everyone present will get a 10% discount!"
The comrades cheered at first, and then they remembered what whipped cream was.
Each small paper cup is filled with snow-white cream and decorated to look like a blooming flower, with a small salted cherry dotted in the middle. When it is placed on the glass counter, the guests are tempted to swallow their saliva at the first sight.
Whipped cream is 40 cents a cup, and today the guests present can enjoy a rare 10% discount, which means they can save 4 cents to only 36 cents.
Soon, all the cups of new whipped cream in the glass cake counter were sold out.
When guests walk on the street holding cream cups, they always instantly attract the attention of passers-by.
There is no need to ask, the logo of the word "conscience" on the paper cup is already well known to the residents of this city.
In addition to airplane meal packages, the whipped cream from Conscience Bakery has also become a popular signature product.
That day, Liang Xin received a call from Lu Chongfeng at home from the regiment commander's office.
"Director Hong of Shanghai Guangming Breeding Farm has found Shili. I told him the address of Jiangjing Bakery. He will probably come to the store tomorrow to discuss the Ross Chicken joint venture with you."
Liang Xin felt very relieved. Although she was sure that they would come, she still made preparations to go to Shanghai after not hearing any news for so many days. "Finally there is news. How are you doing over there?"
"Good."
Maybe it was in the regiment commander's office. The call was also transferred by the switchboard. The voice was very serious and solemn. "Since the cadre reform, the soldiers are just like the members of the rural contract responsibility system. I don't have to worry about their training. Everyone completes the training in excess every day, and also voluntarily trains at night and studies knowledge courses for an hour during the day. The classrooms are also crowded with people. Let's not talk about me for now. I heard about the trouble caused by someone in the bakery a while ago. The division has already issued a notice to the armed forces departments in various places, asking them to be responsible for explaining the details of the bakery recruitment to the martyrs' families. Don't worry, no one will cause trouble in the bakery again."
Liang Xin nodded subconsciously, and then she remembered that she was on the phone, "Got it."
"Is your prom after the New Year or before the New Year?"
"National Day."
"eleven?"
"Yes, what's wrong?"
"Nothing. You should first negotiate the cooperation with the chicken farm. Minister Zou of the Logistics Department was very happy when he learned about this. He has already notified Chief Zhang at the farm to make the arrangements."
"Commander Zhang?"
"Yes, it's the base commander Zhang who you persuaded to go to the farm."
"oh."
Beneath the surface of their conversation, the two of them had a lot to say, but as they were separated by several switchboards and the phone was in the military compound, they were restraining themselves. Finally, Liang Xin made a decision and hung up the phone.
Liang Xin sat on the sofa, looking at the ginkgo tree outside the floor-to-ceiling window and sighed slightly.
Hu Fenglian walked out of the room, sat next to Liang Xin, and held her hand. "Want to charge?"
Liang Xin smiled and didn't deny it.
Hu Fenglian patted the back of Liang Xin's hand, "Mom knows that you are doing a great deed. In the past, Chongfeng always said that he wanted to be a general, but I didn't take it seriously. It's not that easy to become a general. I didn't take it seriously before because I didn't know what kind of wife Chongfeng would marry. The higher you rise in the ranks, the stricter the Organization Department will investigate. Political performance, work performance, integrity and self-discipline are not just about whether he has done well, but also the moral character of his family members, which will also be carefully examined."
Liang Xinhui held her mother-in-law's hand and listened quietly to what the person who had experienced it all said.
Hu Fenglian continued in a gentle voice, "Reform and opening up have come. Let's not talk about others. Just look at the people in our compound. They are getting more and more blatant in eating, drinking and giving gifts. If this continues, who knows what will happen. Liang Xin, you are different. Mom knows that with your moral character, you can keep the organization from finding any problems for ten years. Maybe the Lu family can really have two generals."
Liang Xin chuckled, "If that day comes, Mom will be the one who did the real work."
Hu Fenglian laughed proudly as always, "That's right! It's because I have good taste that I found such a good wife for him!"
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