Chapter 049 Article in the Newspaper
Wei Dai is a man who is very open to new things and wants to try everything. He even dared to covet a TV that he had to empty his family's savings to buy.
Wen Jiajia felt that televisions could not be purchased until the 1990s at the earliest.
After all, having a TV alone is useless. If there is not enough TV to watch, the TV can only be used as a decoration.
Wei Dai sighed and buried this thought deep in his heart.
The next day.
The pot used to cook osmanthus sauce last night was not washed. After one night, the living room was still filled with the faint fragrance of osmanthus.
As soon as Wen Chun and Wen Xuan opened the door, they ran to the table without saying a word and stared at the stone pot with burning eyes.
Wen Jiajia got up later than the two sisters and saw this scene when she went out.
She knew it. She knew it would be like this.
Wen Jiajia covered her head and was speechless. I forgot to wash the stone pot yesterday, and only remembered it before going to bed. But I couldn't get up to wash it then, so I could only leave it there and think about washing it tomorrow.
But if Wen Chun and Wen Xuan got up earlier than her... she could guess that the two sisters would definitely be able to wipe the stone pot clean with their fingers.
"Aunt, where is my uncle?" Wen Chun ran to wash his hands, then dipped his fingers in the osmanthus sauce on the stone pot and put it in his mouth.
Wen Jiajia couldn't bear to watch it, so she simply went to the kitchen, out of sight and out of mind: "Your uncle-in-law has gone to work."
He went there before dawn. Wen Jiajia vaguely heard him getting up and opening the door, and asked unconsciously, "What time is it?"
Wen Jiajia remembered that Wei Dai replied at five o'clock.
Wen Chun said "Oh", and continued to dip it, then licked her fingers. The sweet taste was so beautiful that they narrowed their eyes.
Wen Jiajia in the kitchen had no time to take care of them. They had boiled rice this morning.
After several months of taking care of the baby and working, Wen Jiajia and Wei Dai have become smarter. They finally figured out a breakfast that doesn't take much time to make but is tasty and filling: fried rice and boiled rice.
Eat fried rice when the weather is hot.
When the weather is cold, cook the rice.
The rice is leftover from steaming extra food the day before. Even in hot weather, rice will not go bad if left overnight in a cool cupboard.
What about vegetables? They are also chopped greens or peeled green beans and corn the night before.
Add eggs, fry them and cook them, and you can have a breakfast.
Wen Jiajia looked up at the rain still falling outside and decided to eat some hot rice.
Today's boiled rice also has mushrooms as a side dish.
These are fresh mushrooms. I don’t know where Wei Dai picked them from yesterday. There are cracks on the top of the mushrooms, and they smell rich. They are even more fragrant after being cooked.
"Eat!" Wen Jiajia said.
From lighting the fire to washing the pot, it took Wen Jiajia less than ten minutes to finish breakfast.
When she came out with two large bowls of hot rice, the stone pot had already been licked clean by the two girls.
Wen Jiajia couldn't bear to watch it. It was so shameful, so shameful!
"Have you brushed your teeth?" she asked.
Wen Chun immediately said, "Not yet, let's go wash it after dinner."
Wen Jiajia followed her.
Anyway, both children brushed their teeth at night and did not eat after brushing. Logically, the oral environment is not dirty in the morning, and it is better to brush after eating.
Eating the hot rice makes one feel warm inside, so hot that even Wen Jiajia felt suffocated even in her raincoat.
"I hate rainy days the most." Wen Jiajia muttered.
At this moment, she was riding a bicycle, looking at the rice that had not been completely harvested, and she secretly felt it was a pity.
This rain came at an unfortunate time. If it had come a day later, the rice in the fields could have been harvested.
She looked around as she rode, and seeing that it was already 7:40, Wen Jiajia did not dare to delay any longer, so she sped up, overtaking one person after another who was going into the city to work or delivering goods, and finally entered the pharmaceutical factory before 8 o'clock.
"How was the movie last night?" Wen Jiajia put her raincoat at the door and shook it, then asked Shayue.
Sha Yue held her head and rubbed it: "It gives me a headache just looking at it."
Of course it wasn't because of the plot, but because the wind was howling and the rain was falling. She seemed to have caught a cold under the combined force of wind and rain.
Wen Jiajia thought, it’s a good thing I didn’t stay last night.
After shaking out her raincoat, she hung it on the door and went to the bulletin board to get a newspaper.
"Hey, where's the Workers' Daily?"
George's head popped out of the window: "I have the Daily Workers' Daily."
He pulled out a page and placed it on Wen Jiajia's desk: "This is the newspaper that published your article."
Wen Jiajia ran in immediately and picked up the newspaper to read.
Sha Yue didn't care about the headache and came over. "Mom, mom, I never thought that the name above would be connected to the people around me."
There were only a few big words written at the top of the newspaper: 20 years of rapid development of the sulfonamide series.
Below is the densely packed main text, which takes up half of the newspaper. That’s half a page!
Sha Yue was stunned and couldn't help reading it aloud. The more she read, the more emotional she felt. She felt it was strenuous to read and had no idea how Jia Jia wrote it.
How is it written?
Wen Jiajia: "I just polished it. It took me more than a month to polish it out."
After she finished speaking, several people in the office looked at her.
To be honest, these words sounded quite insincere at first, as if they were just being perfunctory.
But thinking about how Wen Jiajia got through the past two months, I didn't think she was just being perfunctory.
As she herself said, one word: grinding.
Wen Jiajia borrowed all the information about the Sixth Workshop and read it, and also wrote notes that filled half a notebook.
Later, I went to chat with the workers in the workshop. For a few days, I basically took root in the workshop and got along very well with them.
Li Haijun couldn't help but recall what he was thinking at that time.
Wen Jia was no different. She hadn't been favored by Director Xue for long before she was sent back to do some menial work. And she was stupid enough to work so hard.
Who would have thought that he was lying in wait, "sleeping on straw and trying to gain courage", and that he would directly publish his work in the Workers' Daily, becoming the most powerful penman in the factory. After today, I'm afraid he will be put on the list of several leaders above him.
How could this be possible? He was still thinking of taking over Director Xue's position.
No one cared what Li Haijun was thinking at the moment, because just as she guessed, Wen Jiajia soon became famous in the pharmaceutical factory.
Team leader Wei from the workshop came to the office for a rare occasion, with a big smile on his face: "Wen Jia, you are amazing. You really wrote about our workshop No. 6 for the whole nation to see."
He was a well-known person in the report. When he saw his name, Team Leader Wei's head became flushed, his face turned as red as a cooked shrimp, his ears were buzzing, and he couldn't hear anything anyone said.
It wasn't until someone pushed me like that that I came to my senses.
"Well, just a name..." Wen Jiajia wanted to say something polite, but before she could finish her words, Team Leader Wei said:
"Oh, just a name? Do you know that it is the Workers' Daily? There are tens of thousands of workers in our country, but how many of them can leave their names on it?"
Team leader Wei became excited again as he spoke, his voice so loud that it made the glass nearby vibrate.
Sha Yue smiled and said, "Uncle Wei, why don't you buy a newspaper and post it at home? This way, no matter who comes to your house in the future, they will know about this."
She was actually joking, but Team Leader Wei thought she was absolutely right!
"Very, very much." Team leader Wei quickly ran to the newspaper store not far from the entrance of the pharmaceutical factory to buy newspapers.
Most of the workers these days are simple and honest, and they don’t even take a newspaper from the factory.
After Team Leader Wei left, many people came one after another and the floor of the office was wet. It was not until Wen Jiajia was called away that the office returned to peace.
Where did Wen Jiajia go?
She was called away by the deputy factory director who was in charge of production. The deputy factory director's surname was Cao Fang, and he was considered Wen Jiajia's highest-level leader besides the factory director.
Of course, many times he is the top leader of all workshops.
After all, the factory director has too many things to do. After the authority is delegated, unless something major happens, the factory director will not pay any attention to the workshop at all.
Cao Fang was very enthusiastic towards her, asked her to sit down, and asked her if she had any difficulties in life and work...
What difficulties could Wen Jiajia have?
She honestly said that she had no difficulties.
As long as there is food and drink at home and the relationship between husband and wife is good, there is really no difficulty.
Unexpectedly, Factory Director Cao was full of emotion: "What good comrades you are. You shoulder all the difficulties by yourself and are unwilling to trouble the factory. It is because of comrades like you that our factory can develop, grow, and achieve continuous success!"
“…”
How should I put it? I have nothing to say.
Wen Jiajia smiled dryly. Why else would he be called the factory director? He is really good at speaking.
Because she was of the opposite sex, Cao Fang did not keep her for long. After chatting with her for a few more words, he gave her a bonus and let her go.
Of course Wen Jiajia accepted the bonus.
The pharmaceutical company was generous. The bonus was not money, but a ticket for a radio. They probably gave the radio ticket because they knew Wen Jiajia had a bicycle.
Wen Jiajia was extremely satisfied and felt that all her hard work in the previous two months was worthwhile.
A radio ticket would cost at least 40 yuan, and sometimes it was out of stock and there was nowhere to buy it.
In the evening, Wen Jiajia gets off work on time at five o'clock.
She has been really tired of talking today. Not only did many people come to watch the fun, but even people from the publicity department came to her for "advice".
She wasn't being sarcastic, she really wanted to ask for advice, but Wen Jiajia could only write and not teach, so she tried to refuse for a long time but couldn't, so she could only tell her some of her thoughts when she was writing.
Who knew that people from their publicity department still came to ask for advice in waves? There were three waves in total. The office only became quiet after Wen Jiajia couldn't stand it anymore and refused firmly, asking them to go find the people in front of them themselves.
Wen Jiajia felt very sorry for the other three people in the room, so when the time came, she didn't stay for a second and ran away with her bag on her back.
On the way, I only stopped for a while at the supply and marketing cooperative, bought two kilograms of white sugar, and then left in a hurry and went straight home.
The house was quiet. Wen Chun and Wen Xuan had not returned yet, and Wei Dai was not at home either.
At this moment, the clouds have dispersed and the rain has stopped, and I can actually see the fiery red sunset in the sky.
Wen Jiajia spread the clothes hanging under the eaves out in the yard. Today's rain continued to fall until two or three in the afternoon. Perhaps the wind blew the rain onto the clothes, and the clothes were still a little wet to the touch, so they had to be hung out to dry.
She looked up at the sky. It shouldn't rain tonight.
After hanging up the clothes, I went to steam the rice. Only then did I feel a little regretful that I should have bought another piece of meat.
If not, then let’s just use eggs. Who would know that Sister Bao is here with something in her hands?
Sister Bao came into the room and said, "I heard the sound of a bicycle and knew you were back."
"Sister Bao!" Wen Jiajia was surprised and added, "At that time, a group of children blocked the door of Xu's house. They had to ring the bell three times before they gave way."
"Oh, those kids are so naughty, they either pick flowers from this family or vegetables from that family, and they even dare to poke a beehive. You don't know, at the beginning of the year, when they were poking a beehive, Bai Ying happened to be passing by holding her granddaughter who had just turned one month old. If Bai Ying hadn't tried her best to protect her, the child would have been almost stung! Those naughty monkeys were so scared that they hid in the water. In the middle of winter, several of them fell down at once, and all of them caught a cold and were sent to the hospital that day."
Sister Bao was terrified as she spoke. She was such a cheerful and generous person, but when she mentioned those kids, there was a hint of displeasure on her face.
Wen Jiajia: "Beehive?"
"Of course." She thought Wen Jiajia was afraid of the beehive, so she explained, "It's on that big camphor tree. But don't be afraid, the logistics department has already taken care of it. I heard that those kids were severely beaten by their families after they recovered from their illness, and they have been quiet for a few months. Now they have probably forgotten the pain."
Wen Jiajia lost interest when she heard that the beehive was burned. She didn't want to eat honey, but beeswax.
The vanishing cream at that time was really mediocre and expensive, so Wen Jiajianing preferred to find some beeswax to make it herself.
Beeswax can also be used to make lipstick. She and her two sisters have dry lips in the winter. Last year, the three aunts and nephews kept picking their lips and their lips were cracked.
"Oh, by the way, this is for you." Sister Bao handed the thing in her hand to her, and Wen Jiajia could see clearly that it was a sea snail.
Her eyes lit up: "Wow, sister, where did you get these sea slugs? They are so fresh!"
Sister Bao smiled and said, "Wenzhou gave it to me."
Wen Jiajia: "Your eldest son-in-law? He is really filial. You can enjoy your life now, sister."
Miss Bao brought a man back some time ago. He was a navy man. He was tall and strong, but a little dark.
But he is very talkative, even more cheerful than Sister Bao. After staying here for just two days, Wen Chun and Wen Xuan have become friends with him.
"What a blessing! My youngest child is only 10 years old. When the youngest doesn't want me to take care of him anymore, I will have to help take care of my eldest child. Wenzhou's parents are in their hometown, and the couple have already made plans to leave the child with me." Sister Bao sighed.
She has four children. People who have raised four children don't care about the joy of having grandchildren around them. They just want to stay at home alone.
But let her refuse... Well, my children all have jobs, so there is no way I can refuse them.
Wen Jiajia was amused by what Sister Bao said, "Yes, Sister, you will be busy in the future."
Sister Bao handed her the sea cucumbers: "Wenzhou brought a lot of them. I soaked them in water. You can just blanch them and mix them together and eat them."
"Okay!" Wen Jiajia took the sea cucumber and said, "Thank you, Sister Bao. I always think about this when the weather is hot."
Sister Bao: "Why are you being polite? Pick me some okra from your yard so I can make soup at home."
Wen Jiajia waved her hand and said, "Pick it, pick it. You can come pick it tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. There are so many okra this year. If you don't pick them, they will get old."
The crops in her yard's vegetable garden have been replaced, and now the best growing ones are lettuce and okra.
Oh, and winter melon.
Wen Jiajia casually planted the winter melon seeds, who would have thought that they would actually bear fruit and grow into 8 large winter melons.
Wen Jiajia took out two, cut them into several equal portions, and distributed them to the neighbors in Beishan. Some of them were eaten at home in the past few days. Now there are five left in the vegetable garden, which shows how big the winter melons are.
After Sister Bao left, Wen Jiajia put the half-cooked rice into a wooden barrel to steam it, and then started cooking.
Cut sea cucumber into shreds and blanch, then mix with shredded cucumber.
Because it would be salty, Wen Jiajia did not add salt, but only sugar, vinegar and chili oil.
Finally, add half a spoonful of sesame oil and the sour, spicy, salty and sweet jellyfish is ready.
The yellowish and translucent jellyfish and cucumber shreds mixed together with the pungent vinegar aroma make your mouth water at the mere smell.
Then she fried some okra.
Okra can be used to make soup, stir-fried with some water, or fried with eggs. There are many ways to cook it.
The fried okra comes with a little soup, which is very smooth. Sisters Wen Chun and Wen Xuan especially like to eat it with rice.
After frying the okra, stir-fry the shredded potatoes and scrambled eggs.
The potatoes were newly dug this year, and there are more than 20 kilograms of them waiting to be eaten in the utility room.
Finally, cook some winter melon and dried scallop soup.
I have to say that winter melon and dried scallop soup is more delicious than meat soup. This place is close to the sea, so it is not difficult to buy dried scallops, and they are not expensive. The half-pound of dried scallops bought by my family two months ago is only half left now.
She had soaked the dried scallops before going out in the morning. They had been over-soaked and were now swollen.
But it doesn't matter if you eat it at home.
After dinner, the two sisters returned home after playing outside for a while after school.
Wei Dai came back one after the other. Wei Dai was covered in mud after training, while the other two were obviously covered in mud after having fun.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan carried their small schoolbags, lowered their heads, and folded their hands in front of their stomachs. They stood nervously in the yard and did not dare to go into the house.
Wen Jiajia looked left and right, picked up the broom next to her and raised her hand to hit someone.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Wei Dai stopped her, "You have to ask clearly first. You can't just beat someone up without asking anything."
Wen Jiajia put her hands on her waist and asked the two people, "How did my body get into this mess? I can't explain how ugly I am. You guys beat my butt so badly."
Wen Chun moved her little feet, rubbed some mud off her hands, and said with her head down, "I fell accidentally."
Wen Jiajia: "How could you fall on such a big road?"
"Yes, I fell while running." She looked up at her aunt and then quickly lowered her head.
"Don't try to evade the point. It's different whether you fell while running or playing. How long has it been since school ended? You came back after I had already prepared dinner, and you came back covered in mud... How did you fall? If you dare to lie, I'll beat you up!"
Wen Jiajia sneered, and the two children took a step back in fear.
Wen Chun quickly said, "It was while playing."
As he spoke, his voice was filled with tears, and he consciously stretched out his hand to be beaten.
Wen Jiajia was not polite either. She used the bamboo stick made by Wei Dai to hit each of them ten times.
Because Wen Chun was talking the whole time, Wen Xuan was hit two more times.
After being beaten by their aunt, the two children felt that they had been punished and were no longer afraid.
I saw my aunt bathing and changing their clothes, so I felt relieved to eat my meal.
The two people's eyes lit up as they ate the crispy jellyfish for the first time, and they completely forgot the pain in their palms. They were still in the mood to crunch the jellyfish and eat the whole plate of jellyfish.
Wei Dai smiled and shook his head, the two children were still too naive.
Just hitting her ten times was not enough to get rid of the evil spirit in Wen Jiajia's heart.
Jiajia didn't like to be talked about at the dinner table, so when the two children finished their meal and left the table, wanting to read comic books, Wen Jiajia picked them up one in each hand and carried them to the yard: "Go wash clothes, wash your own clothes today."
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan: …
"Is the punishment not over yet?" Wen Xuan asked very naively.
Wen Jiajia asked Wei Dai to take out the wooden basin and then take out the apron.
"End? Humph, it's over only after the clothes are washed." Wen Jiajia tied aprons on them.
We happened to have two aprons at home, so we didn't have to worry about our newly changed clothes getting wet.
Then he filled the wooden basin with water, placed the washboard in it, and clapped his hands: "Hurry up and wash while it's still light. Your uncle-in-law and I will go back to the room to sleep at a certain time. It will be dark and no one will be outside to accompany you."
The dark yard... The two children were scared to death just thinking about it. They no longer felt aggrieved and quickly rubbed the clothes with their little hands.
Wei Dai leaned against the door frame and laughed. Wen Jiajia couldn't hold back her laughter when she turned around. She blinked at Wei Dai and said silently, "Don't help."
Wei Dai pulled her into the house, pinched her palm, and whispered, "I'll help you."
Wen Jiajia blushed: "Don't say these things in broad daylight, okay?"
It's easy to make people blush and their heart beat fast. Without the darkness to help block it out, Wen Jiajia still felt very embarrassed.
She pushed him and said, "There's still hot water. Go take a shower too. Don't use cold water."
Wei Dai nodded, "No need."
Every time he took a bath with cool water, his wife would scold him.
Wen Jiajia went to wash the dishes. When Wei Dai came back today, his face was tired and he was obviously very exhausted.
At night, unknown insects take advantage of October to shout as much as they can, because after October, the weather in November is no longer suitable for their survival.
There are not many stars in the sky. Looking up, the bright moon looks like a pointed boat.
The lights in the room were on. Wei Dai was lying on the bed. Seeing Jia Jia rummaging through her backpack furtively at the desk, he asked her, "What are you doing?"
Wen Jiajia held something in her hand, walked to the bed with a smile, got on it, opened her palm, and revealed a folded newspaper: "Guess what's inside?"
Wei Dai: "So mysterious?"
What is there? Could it be gold?
Wei Dai sat up, took the newspaper and wanted to open it.
"Hey! I asked you to guess." Wen Jiajia stopped him, eyes full of expectation, "You guess first, if you guess correctly, I'll agree to your condition."
Agree to one condition. Wei Dai took it seriously instantly. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that he really couldn't guess it.
It must be either gold or money. What else could it be if it is wrapped in newspaper?
Wei Dai hesitated for a moment and said, "Gold."
The smile on Wen Jiajia's face froze: "Gold? Wait, how could you guess gold?"
"What is that?"
Wen Jiajia stuffed the newspaper into his hands and urged him, "Open it and take a look."
Wei Dai opened the newspaper under her expectant gaze, and then found that there was nothing inside.
Since there is nothing wrapped inside, the answer is in the newspaper.
He looked at it, and after a few seconds, his eyes widened.
"Isn't this the article you wrote?" He raised his voice. "The sulfa series, you wrote it."
Wen Jiajia's lips almost split from laughing. "That's what I wrote. What do you think? I'm awesome, right? You couldn't have guessed it even if you racked your brains!"
Wei Dai held her head and kissed her fiercely several times. At this moment, his admiration for his daughter-in-law was overwhelming.
"Amazing! You are amazing! There is smoke coming out of our ancestral tomb. It seems we have to go and clean the tomb next year."
“…”
Well, there's no need to be so exaggerated.
Wen Jiajia's face turned red again.
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