Chapter 31 Jin Jiang, you are so devastating! Can I send it out?

The factory process had to be approved at every level. Tian Guiju, the factory director, personally wrote a report criticizing the process and submitted it. However, she still gave some face to He, who had worked in the factory for many years, and only mentioned the major mistakes, without pointing out that she had maliciously tampered with the application form. After half a month of completing the process, the public announcement was made on Monday afternoon.

The factory office punished He Fen, a senior employee, with a fine of one month's salary, and posted a notice of the punishment on the factory bulletin board and announced the criticism through a loud speaker. This is no small matter!

The factory was bustling with activity. Workers were busy in the workshop, whispering to each other, working non-stop and chatting non-stop.

"Wow, what did He Fen do? Why was he punished like this?!"

"Deducting one month's salary makes me sad just thinking about it."

"She must have made a big mistake. When has our factory ever punished a worker like this?" The worker who was putting salt and shrimp into the mixing tank looked around for a while, and then carefully shared the gossip he had learned. "My aunt works in the factory office. She said that He Fen had bad intentions and targeted a little girl, hoping to make her unable to enter the factory."

There is no wall that is impenetrable. Even if Director Tian did not make it clear what wrong He Fen had done, some news would have leaked out from the factory office. Such rumors could not be stopped and would quickly spread throughout the factory.

The factory was full of gossip. In a short while, many people who knew the situation had spread all the details about He Fen's behavior. Changing the application form was annoying, especially for the military families, who didn't get the job through recruitment? Now everyone was involved and followed suit to criticize.

Among the many gossips about He Fen, there were a few scattered reports about new employees who were assigned to Factory 2 because their registration forms were tampered with.

"I heard that the girl is quite capable. She has a high school degree and ranked first in both rounds of exams. If He Fen hadn't gotten in the way, she would have definitely gotten the job of publicity officer in our factory."

"Is he so amazing? What a pity."

Most people are like this. If Lin Xiang was directly assigned back and exchanged jobs with someone, many people might object, shaking the already determined job allocation quota. But if she was not assigned back directly, everyone would express regret, sympathy and pity, and have some empathy.

But when these words reached the ears of Shen Chunli, the current publicity officer of the first factory, it sounded different.

She boasted that she had a good family background and was an excellent student. Her high school education was good enough to impress people in the college entrance examination. Moreover, she performed very well in both exams, which enabled her to successfully take the most difficult and valuable job in this year's recruitment - publicity officer.

After joining the company, Shen Chunli was very motivated and seemed to have endless energy every day. She went around doing interviews, writing promotional articles, and vowed to devote her energy to the food factory.

Now, the rumors outside are mixed with that I got the publicity officer position because others were framed and didn't get it. If Lin Xiang's application form had not been changed and she was transferred to Factory 2, I would never have gotten the publicity officer position.

Shen Chunli was so angry and embarrassed that her face turned red. She ran out of the factory in a hurry and saw Lin Xiang at the factory gate.

"Lin Xiang, you...did you really lose your position as publicity officer and be transferred to the second factory because He Fen changed your application form?" Shen Chunli was impatient and rushed. She didn't notice who else was beside Lin Xiang at the moment. She got straight to the point and asked, "Is this true? You did better than me in the exam?"

Lin Xiang had no idea why Shen Chunli was so excited. She and He Fen were staring at each other in bewilderment when they heard the criticism announced on the loudspeaker.

He Fen seemed to have her own logic. She was criticized by the whole factory, and her face was extremely dark. She did not dare to criticize other workers who were gossiping. Instead, she asked Lin Xiang in a sad and gloomy tone: "Are you satisfied now?"

Hearing this, if someone who didn't know the situation passed by, they might think that Lin Xiang had bullied her.

Lin Xiang only replied to her: "People should be punished for doing wrong things. It is right to stop having bad thoughts. I hope you can learn from this."

Lin Xiang gave her face by not talking about the ridiculous things He Fen had done to her face to face, but who could have known that Shen Chunli would actually come over and start yelling.

He Fen was scolded by Shen Chunli in front of her. Even though Shen Chunli didn't see her face, she couldn't bear it. Her face turned blue and red, and she left quickly.

"Lin Xiang, is that true?" Shen Chunli seemed to be obsessed with an answer, "This publicity officer position should have been yours?"

"How would I know?" Lin Xiang heard that Shen Chunli was particularly active among the new employees of the factory. She was full of energy and didn't say anything to spoil her mood. "You are doing a good job, why do you care about this? I have something else to do, so I'll leave first."

Shen Chunli watched Lin Xiang leave, and recalled her surprise when she learned that Lin Xiang went to the second factory that day. She bit her lip, stamped her feet, and hurried back to the office to find her third aunt, Director Tian.

Director Tian was busy announcing He Fen's punishment today. As soon as he came out of the broadcasting studio, he met his cousin who came in a hurry.

"Director Tian." Shen Chunli was a sensible person. She only followed her job title in the factory and didn't try to use her relatives' relationship with him. "Then Lin Xiang really ranked first in the two rounds of exams, but was she assigned to Factory 2 because He Fen changed Lin Xiang's application form?"

Tian Guiju was not surprised that He Fen's misdeeds had spread. She took a sip from the teacup and said casually, "Yeah, why do you care so much about this?"

"Doesn't that mean that the original publicity officer for the recruitment should have been Lin Xiang?" Shen Chunli looked anxious and her tone was a little eager.

"If we really count based on performance, then it should be. But no one paid attention at that time. You can just focus on your propaganda work. Comrade Lin Xiang's job will be settled in two months."

Shen Chunli's face instantly fell: "Then I will return the publicity officer position to her!"

Tian Guiju almost choked on the tea she had just swallowed: "What did you say? Chunli, don't act on impulse."

"That wasn't originally mine. It seems like I'm taking her place. Many workers outside are saying that the promotion job should have been hers. How could I get it?" Shen Chunli had never suffered such an injustice since she was a child. It seemed as if she had picked up what others had left, and picked it up secretly.

She would rather not have this most sought-after job than be talked about like this.

"Comrade Shen Chunli." Director Tian listened to his cousin's angry words and looked serious. "This is a position arranged by the factory. How can you give it to others as a joke? Besides, you gave the propaganda officer position to Comrade Lin Xiang, and what about you? You will exchange positions with Xiao Wu, the factory office officer, according to your level of the second place in the two rounds of examinations? But you took Xiao Wu's position, so where will Xiao Wu go? If you keep changing back and forth like this, won't the hundreds of people we recruit be in chaos? Otherwise, you can just stay in the second factory. Are you willing?"

Go to the second factory?

Shen Chunli knew how backward Factory No. 2 was. She heard that Factory No. 2 had been abandoned long ago. It was dead silent and lacked the fighting spirit and enthusiasm of Factory No. 1. How could she be willing to go there?

After being lectured by Director Tian, ​​Shen Chunli left in a depressed mood. She looked at Factory 2 which was separated by a wall from Factory 1, as if she was thinking about something.

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Today is a good day.

Lin Xiang received her salary for the first time, and also heard the criticism of He Fen in the factory bulletin, which could be considered as revenge for herself.

Shouldn't we celebrate with a good meal?

All the receipts for the newly-paid wages were there, and Lin Xiang was generous. She rushed to the food station and bought a pound of mutton and two pounds of pig's trotters, and then went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy half a pound of peach cakes. As for vegetables, the Zhou family still had dozens of pounds of cabbage and potatoes.

I went back to Zhou's house early. Zhou Lu and Zhou Yuezhu were both working in the army, so Feng Li chatted with her neighbors and then went back to help Lin Xiang carry things. She glanced at the abundant meat and asked, "Why did you buy so much meat?"

"Aunt Feng, I got my salary." Lin Xiang's eyebrows curved, the joy of getting her salary was incomparable, "I must treat you to a good meal today."

"Kid, when you get your salary, keep the money and receipts for yourself and don't spend them recklessly."

"I only spend a little now and then."

The two were busy in the kitchen, Lin Xiang was preparing the one pound of two-knife meat. This was bought with the only one pound of meat ticket that he could get after working for a month, so it was too precious. Lin Xiang was hungry and prepared to stir-fry the meat with garlic sprouts.

Lin Xiang of later generations also cooked the dish of twice-cooked pork, which was a perfect dish to go with rice. However, the pigs at that time were all quick-fed feed pigs, which were heavy but not fat enough. According to the old tradition, using two-knife meat to cook twice-cooked pork was not fatty enough and was too thin.

The pork nowadays is still better, it is raised slowly, little by little, the pork is full of fat, 40% fat and 60% lean, which is most suitable for stir-frying.

In the hot pan and hot oil, the fat and lean meat slices are fried until the sizzling oil fills the kitchen, making people swallow their saliva.

The fat is fried until it is curled, and the lean meat is tasty, and paired with the fragrant and refreshing garlic sprouts. It is just the right combination of fishy and fragrant, which can satisfy your craving for food.

Feng Li pressed down the two pig trotters and hung them on the kitchen wall to be eaten in a few days. She also stir-fried cabbage with pork fat and mixed some cucumber shreds, both of which were sufficient portions.

The two prepared the meal, and the square table was filled with steam and aroma. Zhou Yuezhu was so hungry after smelling the food that she stole a piece of meat. When Zhou Shenghuai returned from the army, he brought news that He Hongyuan had a temporary mission and could not come for dinner.

Lin Xiang felt a little disappointed. She never thought that after waiting for such a long time, she would get the news that He Hongyuan could not come for dinner.

Even without He Hongyuan, the four people in the family still enjoy their meals.

Zhou Shenghuai asked Lin Xiang about her work situation at the food factory and asked her to remind him if she had any difficulties. Lin Xiang just agreed and thanked the whole family for their care.

After dinner, Zhou Shenghuai handed his wife some cloth coupons. These were prepared by Feng Li for Lin Xiang, but there were not enough at home as they had been used to make new clothes some time ago.

Feng Li turned around and took it in her hand, preparing to make two long-sleeved shirts for Lin Xiang to wear in autumn and winter.

There weren't many colors and styles of fabrics in the supply and marketing cooperative on the island, and there was no high-end material like Dacron. She thought about taking the two little girls to the department store in Phnom Penh to buy some on this Sunday when she had a day off.

Lin Xiang rushed to the island after getting off the train in Phnom Penh, and never went back to the city afterwards. Upon hearing this, she immediately became excited. Zhou Yuezhu was also excited, as going into the city to buy clothes was the happiest thing.

However, Lin Xiang thought about what she discussed with He Hongyuan yesterday, and now she really bumped into it.

The two young girls went upstairs with laughter and joy. Zhou Yuezhu went to Lin Xiang's room as usual to chat, talking about everything from interesting things and troubles at work to love stories.

"I'm very careful every time I keep accounts, but I'm worried that I might have made a mistake."

"Comrade Shen Jianming is like a wooden stake. Every time I want to hold hands, I have to pull him!" Zhou Yuezhu complained shyly, "He also tried to shake my hand off like a thief, saying he was worried about being seen by others."

Lin Xiang leaned against the head of the bed, listening to Zhou Yuezhu's love story. In the past, she felt that she could smell the sour smell of love, but now it was different from the past, because she also had a boyfriend.

Holding hands? She remembered that He Hongyuan had been "playing tricks" on her yesterday and had held her hand tightly and wouldn't let go.

As she thought about it, she looked at Zhou Yuezhu who told her everything and felt that it was not good to hide it from her, so she tentatively said, "Yuezhu, I actually have a date too."

"Sister Xiangxiang, tell me, is Comrade Shen Jianming very old-fashioned? What? You have a partner?" Zhou Yuezhu was talking when she was suddenly interrupted by shocking words.

Sister Xiangxiang has a partner, what about her cousin?

Zhou Yuezhu, who had been determined that the two would get married, was heartbroken.

But she was also happy for Lin Xiang because her good friend had found a partner.

Zhou Yuezhu's little face had a wonderful expression, she seemed happy and sad at the same time, which made Lin Xiang laugh. It felt like even movie queens didn't have such colorful expressions.

"What are you thinking about?" Lin Xiang asked her.

Zhou Yuezhu didn't know which emotion prevailed for a moment, and still said with a little regret: "Congratulations, Sister Xiangxiang, it's a pity that you can't be my cousin, ah~"

Lin Xiang: "..."

Lin Xiang, who was so happy that her eyebrows curved, teased her: "How do you know? Why do you have so little confidence in your cousin?"

"Of course, my cousin just came back yesterday, so you must have found someone more than just in the past one or two days." Zhou Yuezhu felt that her analysis was correct. "You must have been introduced to someone by a military wife when you went to the Second Factory, right? I know. I worked in the logistics department of the army, and there were also many sisters who were very enthusiastic and wanted to introduce me to someone."

Seeing Zhou Yuezhu becoming more and more regretful, Lin Xiang couldn't suppress the smile on her lips. Forget it, she would not tell Yuezhu who it was for the time being, so as to scare her later.

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He Hongyuan had some temporary work on Monday and was unable to attend the dinner that Lin Xiang had treated him to with her salary.

The next morning, Lin Xiang went out to work and ran into He Hongyuan at the gate of her family's courtyard.

"I was assigned a temporary task yesterday afternoon and didn't make it over for lunch." He Hongyuan hurried over and explained.

"I understand." Lin Xiang would not care about these things, especially since he was a soldier and would not be too free. "It's a pity that you didn't get to eat the dinner I treated you to. It was just fried pork."

He Hongyuan was amused by her pretending to be regretful expression and curled his lips: "Why are you suddenly treating us?"

"I got my salary yesterday!" Lin Xiang lowered her voice as if she was whispering to him, "I've only been working for half a month, and I got 16.5 yuan!"

Because she was happy, the ending tone of Lin Xiang's voice rose slightly, like a fluttering little tail, clearly swaying with joy.

This joy also infected Jiang Hehongyuan: "My monthly salary is 86.5 yuan, and the allowance is 31 yuan. Cloth coupons, grain coupons, meat coupons, sugar coupons... these are more than enough."

Lin Xiang was surprised when He Hongyuan suddenly revealed his income. She subconsciously compared it with others and thought, wow, that's hurtful.

"Why are you suddenly saying this? Does it seem like your salary is much higher than mine?" She snorted, wiping her nose.

He Hongyuan found that Lin Xiang was becoming less and less afraid of him. She no longer had the reserved attitude she had when they first met on the island. He then knelt down and said, "I'll send thirty yuan to my mother every month, and I'll give the rest to you, okay?"

The sunlight in the early morning was not too hot, but Lin Xiang felt the heat coming and crawling up her cheeks, making her feel slightly hot.

Isn't this man a person who can't fall in love?

How come you are quite good at it.

"I don't want it. No reward without merit." Lin Xiang muttered with a smirk on her face, turned around and walked quickly forward, leaving He Hongyuan behind.

Every morning before work, I would walk slowly to the factory gate with my partner, and it seemed that my mood for the day would improve a little.

After saying goodbye to He Hongyuan, Lin Xiang walked to the office and sat down, holding her cheeks with her hands in a daze.

"Xiao Lin, have you found a partner?" Kong Zhenzhen, who was taking off the stitches of a pair of labor protection gloves at the desk next to her, looked at Lin Xiang while removing the stitches.

"Sister Zhenzhen, why...why are you asking that?" Lin Xiang withdrew her hand and smoothed the corners of her mouth again.

"You look like you're dating someone." Kong Zhenzhen is an experienced person, married for five years and has two children. "I was like this back then, too. My man is more obvious than me."

Aren't men and women who are dating just happy and cheerful? She understands this very well!

Lin Xiang was bored, so she just started chatting with Kong Zhenzhen.

As they chatted, Kong Zhenzhen assigned her a job, which was to help her take off labor protection gloves.

The factory will provide labor protection gloves to the workshop workers. When they are worn out, they will be replaced with new ones. There are many old gloves piled up. It is a good way to save money to pick out the wool that can be used to make sweaters.

Kong Zhenzhen is frugal and has collected a lot of old gloves.

Lin Xiang helped to untie the threads and asked, "Sister Zhenzhen, our Factory 2 and Factory 1 don't have such heavy tasks, and we are not so proactive. Will the factory leaders be dissatisfied?"

"Why are you worrying about this?" Kong Zhenzhen said nonchalantly, "What can the factory leaders do to us? Even when we were proactive in the past, things didn't end well for us."

"Was Factory No. 2 quite proactive in the past?" Lin Xiang was really curious. In this era when everyone was so energetic, Food Factory No. 2 was truly an outlier.

"Of course not." Kong Zhenzhen finished unpacking a pair of gloves and put away the dirty balls of wool, preparing to wash them later. "I worked so hard before, but ended up getting nothing. The good thing is that they are all from the same factory. Forget it, it's better to be like this now."

Lin Xiangming obviously heard something behind the words, but when he tried to ask more questions, Kong Zhenzhen looked uninterested.

The two chatted for a while, and the workers were almost in place, starting a new day of production tasks. But not long after, news came from the workshop that the soda production line equipment suddenly broke down and could not be started.

Director Zhao and Ma Defa rushed over to take a look, but they didn't know where to start after a while. Lin Xiang followed to watch the excitement, but saw that the workers of Factory 2 were in high spirits.

"That's great. If the equipment breaks down, I can just go home after get off work."

Lin Xiang was so happy after hearing these words that everyone was really relaxed.

She recalled that when she worked in the company before, if there was a power outage or a circuit breaker, all the computers would be shut down. The employees would be happy, but Lin Xiang would secretly hope that the computer would not be repaired.

However, it usually doesn't take long to recover.

Director Zhao usually slacked off, but how could he take a day off in the morning? Although the task set by the second factory was low, it had to be completed every day. If he really took a day off, at the speed of this group, the amount of tasks lost would not be made up.

A bunch of lazy idiots just like me.

He waved his hand and asked Ma Defa to go to a factory to borrow a maintenance engineer.

When the two came back from the factory, Lin Xiang found that the usually cheerful Director Zhao had a stiff face, and the usually listless Ma Defa was a little trembling.

Kong Zhenzhen noticed something was wrong with the two of them: "What's going on?"

"My director and I went to Factory One to look for the maintenance team, but the contemptuous team told us to wait, saying that Factory Two was not in a hurry as they were busy with Factory One." Ma Defa showed some spirit when he scolded people.

Lin Xiang thought about it and realized that Factory 2 had a very bad reputation and the employees of Factory 1 looked down on Factory 2.

Director Zhao cannot delay his task for a day, otherwise his salary will be deducted next month and everyone will cry bitterly.

"I'll go check it out. Let's all think of a solution."

The workers in the workshop were not very motivated. A group of men were already playing poker nearby, and the women would look on from time to time, or eat melon seeds or knit.

Director Zhao looked at it and said sternly, "Are you still idle? The technicians from the first factory's maintenance team are too busy to come. If the equipment can't be repaired today, the task will be delayed for one day. If it can't be repaired tomorrow, it will be delayed for two days. If the delays continue day by day, can you catch up with the monthly task? You will behave yourself when no one deducts a few dollars from your salary next month."

When they heard that their wages would be deducted if they missed a day's task, everyone became anxious.

No matter how slow and clumsy you are in normal times, you will still care about money.

Some dropped their poker cards, some spat out their melon seed shells, some put down their yarn. The workers gathered around, staring at them, and urged them, "Director, fix it quickly! We don't want to deduct your salary."

Director Zhao: “…”

If I knew how to fix it, would I have to spend so much time looking at it?

Lin Xiang did not go to the workshop. She thought of the faintly worn English letters on the old production equipment. It seemed to be some brand. She always felt that she had seen it somewhere before.

There were a lot of things in the office junk pile. When Lin Xiang first started working, she had too much free time, so she found some work to do for herself. She sorted out some various documents and materials, and put them all in the drawer in a big pile.

This time she searched again and actually found a wrinkled, yellowed, worn piece of paper, with the word "TIME" written on the top.

The soda production equipment in Factory 2 is of a foreign brand. It was eliminated from Factory 1 and moved to Factory 2 for use. Because it is so old, it breaks down every now and then. Normally, it can be fixed by tapping it twice, but in serious cases like today, it won't work at all and we have to invite the craftsmen from Factory 1 to come.

Lin Xiang carefully studied the English text in the manual. The densely packed small characters gave him a headache, and there were many professional terms for equipment parts...

Having roughly understood the principles of the soda production line, Lin Xiang rushed to the workshop with the instruction manual. She overheard the workers discussing bringing over a maintenance engineer from the first factory who had fainted, or simply kidnapping him, in order to avoid having their wages deducted.

Wow, this is too fierce.

As expected, deducting wages is tantamount to taking the lives of workers!

"Director Zhao, let me take a look. I found the instruction manual." Lin Xiang is the youngest girl in the second factory and a newcomer.

The workers looked at her wearing labor protection gloves and touching the equipment here and there, and their hearts were in turmoil.

"Xiao Lin, why don't you let the director take a look? Where did you touch the equipment?"

"Don't damage it."

"It doesn't work in the first place. If you damage it again, what will we do if the factory's technicians can't fix it?"

Director Zhao did not speak. Looking at Xiao Lin's research manual and equipment, he asked tentatively, "Xiao Lin, can you do it?"

Lin Xiang compared the text description and the general equipment diagram in the manual with the actual old equipment reference. After searching around, he finally found the problem: "Director Zhao, okay, it should be the part that has fallen off!"

Seeing that Lin Xiang asked people to dismantle the equipment and replace parts, everyone became even more worried.

Several older sisters wanted to rush over to stop it: "It's over, it's over, it's really going to be messed up, it's delayed for ten days or half a month, and our wages next month will be reduced by half."

Even Kong Zhenzhen tugged at Lin Xiang's sleeve and whispered, "Don't make the equipment worse, or it will be your fault."

Lin Xiangchong smiled at her and looked at the instruction manual with confidence.

After all, knowledge is power.

Director Zhao always values ​​academic qualifications, and after a moment's deliberation he chose Lin Xiang, the only person in the factory with a high school diploma. After all, the maintenance team from the first factory could not come, and they were just waiting, so he asked the workers to dismantle the equipment and remove the parts according to her instructions.

The equipment was large, old, and rusty, making it difficult to operate and often having problems. Lin Xiang asked everyone to replace everything that could be replaced with new ones. Finally, they focused on inspecting the parts of the soda outlet according to the layout in the instruction manual, only to find that some parts had really fallen off.

After a lot of hard work, the workshop was hot and stuffy in the summer, and everyone was sweating as they gathered. The longer the time went by, the more anxious everyone became, worrying that they would not solve the old problems but create new ones.

"Oh, that's great!" The operator replaced the parts and restored the equipment according to Lin Xiang's instructions in the manual. He pressed the switch, and the old equipment really started to operate normally again!

Everyone stretched their necks to look, with joy gradually appearing on their faces.

No need to deduct wages!

This time, everyone looked at Lin Xiang with enthusiasm: "Xiao Lin, you still know more."

"Well, high school students are really good. Studying is useful."

"Hurry up and tell the maintenance team at Factory 1 that we don't need them to come over. They are always looking down on us!"

Lin Xiang was given a handful of melon seeds by the enthusiastic elder sister, and then she returned to the office with her colleagues.

Director Zhao raised his hand to wipe the sweat off his face and let out a long breath. God knows how nervous he was when he was dismantling the equipment. He was worried that he might really damage the equipment.

Factory 2 was not well-received in the first place. The previous factory leaders had all left, leaving only me, the office director, as the boss. If the equipment broke down, Factory 1 might not even bother to repair it, and production would stop, the mission would not be completed, and Factory 2 might just disappear.

"Xiao Lin, you did a great job." Director Zhao praised Lin Xiang and hurriedly called Ma Defa to the next door, "Come on, let's go talk to the maintenance team of Factory 1. We don't need them anymore!"

He looked so cocky and proud, and every time he walked out he acted as if he didn't recognize any of his relatives, which made Lin Xiang laugh.

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The day passed without incident. Director Zhao still recalls the surprise of the maintenance team members of Factory 1 when they heard that Factory 2 had repaired the equipment by itself. Wow, what an honor!

For this matter, she specially rewarded Lin Xiang for leaving get off work early.

Lin Xiang: "..."

What a real reward!

It’s not easy to have such an understanding leader nowadays!

It was too early to get off work and there was nothing to do. Lin Xiang thought about it and decided to go find He Hongyuan. When they parted this morning, He Hongyuan was thinking about picking her up after get off work. Since she left early, she might as well go to the army's single dormitory to find him first.

After registering at the gate on the first floor of the single dormitory, Lin Xiang was about to go upstairs when she heard someone calling her.

"Comrade Lin Xiang, why are you here?" Zhang Huafeng grinned at Lin Xiang, revealing his big white teeth.

"Hello, Political Commissar Zhang. I'm looking for Comrade He Hongyuan. Is he in the dormitory now?"

Zhang Huafeng was a little surprised to hear that Lin Xiang came to see He Hongyuan. He remembered that He Hongyuan had said before that he would not have a child marriage and wanted to cancel the engagement, so it should be fine.

"Oh, Hongyuan, he's in the dormitory. Do you want to go up to see him? But he probably doesn't have time to receive you now. Meng Jing is also looking for him."

Lin Xiang: “…?”