The sofa wasn't solid wood and wasn't very heavy, so the kids would work together to carry it to a corner to get some fresh air and sleep during their lunch break.
At this moment, the Yu family, consisting of one adult and four children, was sleeping in the shade of the corner of the backyard wall, enjoying the breeze.
Just as Yu Rujia was dozing off, a female voice came from outside: "Yu Zhiqing, are you there?"
Yu Rujia wiped her face regretfully, sat up from the recliner, and replied, "Coming."
Hearing the voice, Duofu, who was a light sleeper, opened his eyes and called out, "Auntie."
Ever since the child started sleeping in Gao Guojing's room with his younger brothers and saw Gao Shujing come over at night to cover them with blankets, he has become a lighter sleeper. He will wake up at the slightest noise to see if his younger brothers have kicked off their blankets.
Because he's taking care of Duoshou, Gao Shujing no longer needs to make rounds at night.
Yu Rujia responded softly, "You go to sleep, Auntie will go out and take a look."
Yu Rujia only realized that the person who came out was Huang Jingdong's wife. She already knew this person, but had never dealt with her before.
Jingdong's wife was carrying a basket containing some eggs and sweet potatoes.
Upon seeing Yu Rujia come out, he walked up with a smile: "Did I disturb Yu Rujia's lunch break?"
She usually has to work, so unless it's something urgent, she can only come to see Yu Rujia during her lunch break.
Yu Rujia: "It's alright. Is anyone in your family feeling unwell? What are the symptoms?"
Jingdong's wife: "No, my family members are all in good health. I just want to ask you for a favor."
Yu Rujia: "We're in the same brigade, so if I can help, I definitely will. Just say what you need to say, don't ask me for anything."
Jingdong's wife: "It's like this, you know my mother-in-law, she's always gossiping about others. She even said something about Yu Zhiqing before, I'm really sorry."
Yu Rujia: "Let bygones be bygones. You didn't come here just to talk about these things, did you?"
Her lunch break is so precious. Being woken up from her sleep, and even her best-behaved child is startled awake, if they keep arguing, she'll lose her temper.
Seeing that she looked unwell, Jingdong's wife wisely stopped talking nonsense: "I want to ask Yu, the educated youth, to put in a good word for us with Cadre Gao. If we split up our family, could Cadre Gao help us get electricity?"
His family's marriage prospects were not good, and spring plowing was hard work. Huang Jingbei worked for a few days but didn't want to go anymore. More than half a year had passed since he was arrested. Not wanting to work, he started to persuade Huang Dawei to give him money to buy him a job in the city.
Huang Jingbei went too far in the past. He worked in the town for many years, but he never gave his family a single penny. In fact, his family had to subsidize him with money and food.
Given these circumstances, even if Jingdong's wife had a very generous heart, she wouldn't be willing to take money from the public funds to buy Huang Jingbei a job.
Even if Huang Dawei said that Da Niu's wedding expenses would still be covered by the public funds, how much money would Da Niu need for his wedding? In their rural village, a few dozen yuan is considered very good for a wedding.
A job should pay at least several hundred yuan, so this is a tenfold difference, which Jingdong's wife naturally didn't want.
As a result, Huang Dawei's family once again started fighting over dividing the family property.
Jingdong's wife thought that since they had separated their households and were no longer living with Li Cuiniang, they wouldn't have to be affected by Li Cuiniang's words anymore, and they could finally have electricity. This was Jingdong's wife's real thought.
Yu Rujia: "As far as I know, the real reason why we didn't give you electricity was because there were no power lines. That's why we put the families of some team members who didn't perform very well at the back of the line to get electricity."
"As you can see, the last bit of wire was used at another team member's house. Even if Officer Gao is willing to provide you with electricity, he can't do anything without the wire."
Gao Shujing initially suggested arranging the order of sending telegrams based on daily performance because Li Cuiniang and others had spoken ill of Yu Rujia.
After the power supply order was rearranged, those households whose power was supplied later paid more attention to the use of the wires, and the wires were used up under the supervision of everyone.
Captain Huang said he couldn't get any more electrical wires, and the remaining households without electricity had no choice but to continue using kerosene lamps.
It's worth mentioning that this power-on session made everyone realize the importance of their usual performance and that they shouldn't easily offend Yu Rujia, otherwise they might not get a chance to have any good opportunities later.
Based on these two points, the atmosphere in Shangfen Brigade has improved, and the kind of thing where dogs would get scolded for passing by the door has never happened again.
Jingdong's wife: "Isn't Officer Gao helping to bring electricity to the other brigades? Those brigades have power lines, could you ask him to help us get some? If he can do it, we will definitely reward you handsomely."
Everyone in the brigade knew that Yu Rujia and Gao Shujing were dating. Jingdong's wife wanted to start with her, asking her to help persuade Gao Shujing to approach the brigades with power lines so that they could definitely get the money back.
Yu Rujia: "Those are wires from another brigade. If he asks someone for wires, that would be abusing his power for personal gain. If someone reports it, Shujing might not only lose his job, but he might even lose his life. We wouldn't dare to do such a thing."
She dared to ask Gao Shujing to use his connections to get electrical wires for her family? With her meager income, would Gao Shujing really risk his jobs as a commune cadre and brigade technician for such a small amount? What a pipe dream!
Jingdong's wife was still unwilling to give up: "Could Yu, the educated youth, ask Cadre Gao for help? Maybe those brigades have extra wires, which we could use."
Yu Rujia: "Even if there are extra wires, they can't just give them to us like that. The use of these wires is recorded, and no one can take them without permission."
"I think you should go find Captain Huang and ask him to communicate with the captains of the other brigades. That's the proper procedure. Shujing is a man of action. Once you have the wires, you'll naturally be able to get electricity."
All she wanted to do was get rid of the person as soon as possible so they could go back to sleep, so she pulled Captain Huang out to cover for her. Anyway, these things were indeed his responsibility; how he responded to Jingdong's wife was his business.
As for those people who spoke ill of her, they were gossiped about for months, which was even worse than what they said about Yu Rujia. She had long since let it go.
Jingdong's wife couldn't get through to Yu Rujia, but after receiving her advice, she went to find Captain Huang.
In fact, Captain Huang had thought about giving electricity to the remaining families before. He had gone to see Director Liu and Captain Fang, but the power lines had already been distributed to the various brigades.
Before the power was fully restored, no one was sure if they had enough wires, and no one was willing to share their wires with the remaining families in Shangfen Brigade.
Captain Huang only said that he would try to get the wires and that if he could, he would definitely make arrangements for them, and then he sent Jingdong's wife away.
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