Chapter 066 Leaving the Pharmaceutical Factory
The sewing machine was directly transported back home. After unloading it, Wei Dai went to return the donkey truck. It was almost noon when he came back. The sun was at its peak. He entered the house carrying a bulging sack in his hand. It didn't look like it was just two rabbits.
"What else did you buy?" Wen Jiajia asked. She knew at a glance that this person had bought some extra things.
"Guess." Wei Dai's eyes sparkled with excitement, and Wen Jiajia became interested.
"Chicken and duck meat?" Wen Jiajia asked puzzledly.
Of course not. Who would be willing to sell chickens and ducks at this time? It's even more reluctant than at the end of the year. The double grab will start soon. All the chickens and ducks that can be slaughtered and eaten must be saved for eating before and after the double grab.
The rural double-robbery is really hurtful. If there is not enough oil and water, one can lose more than ten pounds after a double-robbery.
"...No. Do you want to eat chicken and duck? If you do, go find someone to buy them tomorrow." Wei Dai said.
As he said this, he simply opened the sack and took out something wrapped in oil paper.
"It's rice noodles!" Wen Jiajia was surprised and stepped forward. "It's rice noodles. Someone actually makes rice noodles."
She was really surprised, even happier than seeing chickens and ducks.
At that time, it was very difficult to buy rice noodles in either the supply and marketing cooperatives or grain stations. It was even harder to buy than chicken and duck meat.
But Wen Jiajiate likes noodles. After coming to the military family area, the number of times she has eaten noodles can be counted on one hand.
"One bag weighs one and a half kilograms. I bought four bags in total. I had to grind them for a long time at someone's house before they were willing to sell them to me." Wei Dai took out a few pieces of rice noodles wrapped in oil paper, put them on the table, and took out a scale to weigh them. It was indeed six kilograms, enough to last until the end of the year.
Wen Jiajia took out a piece of rice noodle and looked at it carefully. She smelled it again and said, "Rice noodles are thinner and can be boiled or fried. See if you can catch two fish later. We can cook fish noodles tonight."
"What is fish meal?"
"Hey, you'll know after you eat it." Wen Jiajia carried a few packets of rice noodles to the utility room, wrapped the rice noodles in oil paper, and then put them in the cupboard.
The storage cabinets in the utility room are made of camphor wood and filled with mothballs.
This mothball is not a synthetic mothball...well, in a sense it can be considered a synthetic mothball.
Simply put, mothballs are divided into synthetic mothballs and natural mothballs.
Synthetic mothballs contain paradichlorobenzene and naphthalene, which are very harmful to the human body and are considered strong carcinogens. Wen Jiajia has read about this in reports throughout her life, so she dares not buy mothballs sold in the supply and marketing cooperative because she cannot tell whether they are synthetic or natural.
But the mothballs that you "synthesize" yourself are definitely natural mothballs.
Wen Jiajia went to the back mountain and picked up a basket of camphor tree branches and leaves, and used them to make five mothballs.
I have to say that natural mothballs are really useful. Not only do they have a pleasant fragrance when you smell them for a long time, but they are also really effective in preventing insects and moths. Two months have passed, and I haven't seen a single bug in this cabinet, not even a moth.
Wen Jiajia is also planning to synthesize some more, as several cabinets at home need mothballs to prevent insects, moths and mold.
The sewing machine's limelight was immediately stolen by rice noodles. It was not until Sister Bao from next door came to her house that Wen Jiajia suddenly remembered that she had brought a sewing machine back today.
Where is the sewing machine? It is placed in the room.
Wen Jiajia now felt that she could no longer leave the sewing machine in the room, because the sewing machine would definitely be borrowed by someone. If she left it in the room, wouldn't someone have to use it in the room every time they borrowed it?
That won’t work. The room is a private place. Even Wen Chun and Wen Xuan wouldn’t go to Wen Jiajia’s room to play for no reason.
Valuable items such as banknotes at home, as well as some books that are inconvenient to show to others, are placed in the room.
So Wen Jiajia asked Sister Bao to wait for a moment, and then she took Wei Dai to the room to move the sewing machine out and placed it in the corner of the living room.
Sister Bao's eyes lit up when she saw it. "It's the Butterfly brand. They say Butterfly brand is the best. The pedals are so smooth to step on. I've wanted to buy it for a long time, but I couldn't save up the industrial coupons."
She came here just to take a look today. As a good needleworker, it is hard for her not to love the sewing machine.
Wen Jiajia waved her hand and said, "If you have any big items that need sewing, just come to my house and have them sewn. Forget about small items. They won't be as fast as you can sew them yourself."
"Haha, I dare say that no one in our family is better at sewing than me!" Sister Bao laughed proudly, "When my great-grandmother was young, she was an embroiderer in the palace. You know Beijing embroidery, right? My great-grandmother is best at that. It's a pity that my grandma didn't learn all her skills, but later she learned a little bit from Master Su Xiu, and she became more refined than expensive. It's even worse for my mother, she doesn't know anything, and my skills were taught to her by my grandma after she couldn't stand it!"
Wen Jiajia was surprised: "No way, your grandma's level is considered expensive or not?"
She had seen the embroidery of Bao Jie’s grandmother. Bao Jie had a four-piece bed set that was sewed by her grandmother.
When Bao Jie's eldest daughter got married, she gave this quilt cover to her as a dowry. Wen Jiajia was fortunate enough to see it, and she was simply astonished!
It is no exaggeration to say that this is the most skillful embroidery she has ever seen in her two lifetimes.
It was as beautiful as flowers and extremely exquisite, especially the entangled dragons and phoenixes, which looked like they were copied from dragon and phoenix robes. Wen Jiajia couldn't take her eyes off it.
Later, Sister Bao showed her two round fans and two embroidery pieces, both of which were good enough to be collected in a museum. Even so, Sister Bao said that grandma's craftsmanship was not "refined" enough.
"It's really not enough!" Sister Bao said, "When my mother comes to visit me someday, I'll ask her to bring you some of my great-grandmother's embroidery. Then you'll understand why I said my grandmother's embroidery is not exquisite enough."
"Okay!" Wen Jiajia nodded. If possible, she wanted to buy a pair from Sister Bao. Sister Bao's great-grandmother said she was still alive, but she didn't know if she could still sew.
Wen Jiajia remembered something and asked Sister Bao, "Sister, will you accompany your son to the Municipal Industry Bureau the day after tomorrow?"
"Go! Of course I have to go. I also have to go to the textile factory. I have a job there and I have to go get the thread the day after tomorrow."
"Take on embroidery work?" Wen Jiajia asked curiously.
The local textile mills not only produce fabrics, but also make exquisite embroidery.
Who do we sell fine embroidery to? We sell it to foreigners. Fine embroidery is one of the main products for earning foreign exchange. Sometimes textile factories can even put production aside and focus all their resources on fine embroidery.
Those embroiderers were also extremely valuable people. They didn’t even need to do housework in their daily lives. They received monthly subsidies of vanishing cream, which others used to apply on their faces, but they used to apply on their hands.
Wen Jiajia had heard from Sha Yue that her mother had a good sister who was an embroiderer. She could earn an average of 48 yuan a month, and her daily income included fruits and eye-protecting vegetables such as pork liver and carrots. If you embroider well, you can get a bonus. In this era, this is definitely a high-income group.
Sister Bao: “That’s not the case.”
She rarely showed a shy expression and said, "I'm not at that level yet. I just embroider and make lace, and I can earn more than ten yuan a month."
"Net-buckle flower?" Wen Jiajia really didn't know what it was, so she quickly said, "I'll take a look when the time comes."
Sister Bao said, "Look! That thing is called fetal cloth in our place. Many people in our family compound know how to make it, especially those from the north. You don't have this thing in the south. Anyway, I haven't seen it in the past few years. A few days ago, I heard from a family member who works in a textile factory that the factory decided to make net buckle flowers. Otherwise, I wouldn't have remembered this thing."
Then he said, "It's easy. I'll teach you when the time comes. You can do it after get off work in the evening."
"..." Wen Jiajia covered her forehead, "Forget it, I'm always exhausted after get off work."
Bao Jie: "Hahaha! That's right, you have to pedal the bike for more than half an hour."
We chatted until half past eleven, and Sister Bao had to go home to make lunch.
Wei Dai also came back with two fish.
"What have you been talking about for so long?" Wei Dai put the fish in a basin outside the side door of the kitchen, picked up a knife and started to butcher it.
"Let's talk about weaving webs and making flowers." Wen Jiajia couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh. "That's it. From now on, our family compound will be quiet."
"What do you mean?"
Neither of the two fish were very big, so Wei Dai killed them both without any hesitation. He knocked the two fish unconscious with two "bangs" using his knife.
Wen Jiajia: "Because Sister Bao said that net buttonholes are easy to make. After listening to her description, I think this thing is just like a cross-stitch."
"Well, it's just like pasting matchboxes and sewing shoe soles. Of course, it's definitely more difficult and technically demanding than pasting matchboxes and sewing shoe soles, but it's easier to get started than embroidery."
"Besides, the materials are from the textile factory, so it's almost free! You can do it after you learn it. Sister Bao said that if you can make 10 yuan a month, you can earn 15 yuan. If you can make it quickly and well, you can make 15 yuan. Guess whether the people in the courtyard will chat or make webs and buttons in the future."
It must be a woven web, Wei Dai thought.
Wen Jiajia sighed after she finished speaking: "Women still need money in their hands. It's true that money makes people brave. You men can get money every month and don't care about the living expenses of the family. But we women are different. After getting the money in our hands, we have to pay it out bit by bit. The more we pay, the more anxious we become. The key is not the money we earn. Sometimes when we quarrel, we even feel inferior.
Let's talk about Hongjie's husband. Oh! I don't even like to say anything about him. Hongjie saves a few dozen yuan a month to support so many children at home. Hongjie has to earn money to support the family. But he is so good. When Hongjie got into trouble, he yelled that he wanted to teach Hongjie a lesson..."
"Hey, hey, hey - let me make it clear first, this is someone else's business, so just keep your mouth shut and don't get yourself mad at me."
Wei Dai was sweating profusely after hearing this. His wife would make her angry by saying such things, and when she was angry, she would treat him badly. He was really wronged.
Wen Jiajia rolled her eyes and said, "Why am I angry? I didn't say anything to you. Why are you so anxious?"
Wei Dai thought to himself: Once you let go of your thoughts for a while, you will start talking about me.
He didn't dare to say anything else and quickly lowered his head to slice the fish.
Wen Jiajia took a look and said, "Why is this fish so small? It must have a lot of bones."
Wei Dai: "I asked Xie Yang for the small grass carp. You may not be able to catch them if you go fishing now. Xie Yang happened to catch two, so I asked for his fish."
"Slice it thinner and keep the bones."
"Okay, go and take a rest." He was like a powder keg at the moment. He could get mad at himself just by talking. If he exploded, he would be the first one to get hurt.
"Why are you taking a break? You have to eat lunch. Really, look up at the sun."
Wei Dai still didn't dare to reply, he just counted the days in his mind. What day is today? The 19th, that's right, my wife's period is on these days, no wonder.
What are you having for lunch?
Wen Jiajia, whose appetite was not affected by her bad mood, simply ate noodles.
The weather is hot, and when steaming rice you have to stay by the pot and stir it all the time. The steam can make you sweat all over.
Kneading the dough is easy. After kneading, pull it and put it in a pot after the water boils. Cover it with a lid and wait while it cooks. You can pick it up and eat it after a few minutes.
Wen Jiajia scooped two bowls of flour and kneaded the dough, then woke up for a while as a token of respect.
"Have all the rabbits been killed?" Wen Jiajia asked. Without waiting for Wei Dai to answer, she opened the sack and saw that they had been killed.
It’s easy to kill the fish after cleaning them. Cut them into small pieces, then marinate them with ginger, rice wine and soy sauce. Then scoop out two spoonfuls of chopped pepper sauce for later use.
"I'll fry it." Wei Dai said while washing his hands. "The fish fillets are done. See if you want to marinate them."
Pickled, of course.
Wei Dai’s cooking skills were also pretty good, and now that he had been trained by her, he was even more willing to use more oil. Wen Jiajia confidently handed the spatula to him.
After closing the stove door, the fire in the stove hummed and suddenly became stronger.
Pour oil into the pot, pour the rabbit meat into the pot when the oil is hot and stir-fry until it is 70% cooked, then serve.
Use the remaining oil to stir-fry the chopped pepper sauce, bean paste and green onion, and stir-fry the rabbit meat. This is not enough, you have to pour some hot water to boil it, so that it can be cooked to its full flavor.
When it’s almost cooked, add the green and red pepper rings and some garlic sprouts and stir-fry until cooked before serving.
Wei Daixiao heard that Wen Jiajia wanted to eat the spicy fried rabbit meat with noodles, so he kept more soup.
After frying the vegetables, cook the noodles. When the noodles are cooked, scoop the bright red rabbit meat with juice into the clean white noodle machine.
The noodles are tasty, the rabbit meat is spicy, and the red oil soup is wrapped around the noodles. In this hot season, eating hot rice makes you sweat all over.
"Cool--"
Wen Jiajia held the bowl, put the last handful of noodles into her mouth, and let out a sigh!
"Are you feeling comfortable?" Wei Dai asked.
"It feels good."
"You're out of temper now, aren't you?"
“No more.”
Wei Dai was relieved and started to enjoy the meal.
evening.
The sunset glow in the sky is as beautiful as the finest satin, reflected on the lake surface, and when the water ripples, the sunset glow also ripples.
Every household has started preparing dinner, only the children who just got out of school are still playing outside.
Sometimes you can hear parents calling their children home, accompanied by the evening radio, the atmosphere is warm and life is comfortable.
Wen Chun and Wen Xuan jogged all the way home. As soon as they entered the yard, their noses were like radars, immediately catching the fragrance.
"Aunt, are you cooking fish soup?" Wen Xuan's voice was like honey, so sweet that it made people sick.
Wen Jiajia was indeed cooking fish soup at this moment.
Fry the fish bones and head in oil, then add boiling water and boil until the fish soup becomes milky white, add seasonings and soaked rice noodles.
Wei Dai was picking up the osmanthus flowers that had fallen on the ground for his wife. When he heard the noise, he turned around and said, "We're having fish meal tonight. Go wash your hands quickly and you can eat right away."
Wen Chun stopped and asked, "Uncle, what is fish meal?"
Wei Dai: "It's noodles cooked in fish soup. Do you smell the fragrance? Your aunt must have cooked it very deliciously."
Wen Chun jumped into the house: "Of course, everything my aunt cooks is delicious!"
"..." Wei Dai had reason to suspect that Chun'er was trying to flatter him. Last time, she ate the large intestine soup cooked by her aunt with a bitter look on her face.
In the kitchen.
When the noodles are almost cooked, put the fish fillets into the boiling pot and blanch them.
The fish fillet was marinated with seasoning, and the thin fish was marinated for an entire afternoon. Before boiling, Wen Jiajia also put some water starch into the fish fillet and touched the fish fillet, so that the fish fillet was "protected" by the starch as soon as it entered the pot, making it more tender and less likely to fall apart.
Not only the fish fillets need to be boiled, but also the vegetables.
After the vegetables are blanched, the fish fillets are also thoroughly cooked.
After serving, Wen Jiajia added the sour radishes and freshly fried peanuts taken out of the jar.
She remembered that tofu cubes were added to the fish noodles in her university cafeteria. The cooked tofu cubes were delicious, but now they are not available, so she has to omit it.
"Eat!" Wen Jiajia shouted.
"I'm coming, I'm coming." Wen Xuan was already sitting at the table, and she even helped to distribute chopsticks and spoons.
"So active today?" Wen Jiajia teased her.
"If you're not active when eating, there's something wrong with your brain!" Wen Xuan answered seriously.
Wen Jiajia put down the bowl and knocked her on the head. This child really makes people at a loss for words.
"Wei Dai, come and eat." She shouted outside the door again.
"good."
When Wen Jiajia brought the last bowl of fish noodles to the table, Wei Dai just came in carrying osmanthus flowers.
He packed the osmanthus flowers in a paper box, which was almost half full. The small flowers had a rich and fragrant scent, which was very lovely.
"What do you want osmanthus for?" He put the paper box on the tea table, washed his hands and asked.
"Make sachets to fumigate clothes." Wen Jiajia smiled.
The long-lost memory resurfaced, and Wei Dai got goosebumps. He quickly said, "Just fumigate your own clothes. There's no need to fumigate my clothes. It's a waste."
Wen Jiajia said, "Hey, how can it be considered a waste? Anyway, there is a sachet in a closet, and it doesn't matter if there are more or less clothes. It would be a waste if there are fewer sachets."
"Then move Chun'er and Xuanxuan's clothes over to fumigate them." Wei Dai said, "I can't fumigate mine anyway."
"You really don't want fragrance?"
“More real than real gold!”
"Okay." Wen Jiajia sighed in a pretentious manner, "If you make me unhappy in the future, I will smoke your clothes."
Wei Dai finally realized that she was teasing him, so he said slowly: "Don't worry, I will never make you unhappy in this life."
As he spoke, he sipped the noodles.
As soon as he took a bite, Wei Dai felt the smoothness of the rice noodles! It was really smooth, and it went into his mouth in a "slurp", carrying with it the fragrant fish soup, and the taste of the fish soup bloomed in his mouth.
Then I took a bite and was surprised to find that the noodles were very springy and had no moldy smell that comes from rice noodles that have been stored for a long time. Instead, I could taste the natural rice aroma of the rice noodles.
Wen Jiajia also started eating, and after taking the first bite, she said solemnly: "We will buy his rice noodles again next year!"
This rice noodle is really good. It has the same texture as the rice noodles from the Yingtan Beef Bone Noodles that she ate in her previous life. After eating Yingtan Beef Bone Noodles once, she couldn't forget it. She couldn't forget the taste of the soup base or the texture of the noodles.
It was smooth and refreshing, and slightly soft. The beef bone noodles there were among the top three noodles she had ever eaten.
What a pity! Beef is hard to buy at this time, otherwise she would have to replicate the taste of beef bone powder.
Wen Jiajia sighed and continued eating.
After eating enough of the original soup, Wen Jiajia scooped two spoonfuls of chili oil and one spoonful of balsamic vinegar, stirred and continued eating.
The combination of hot and sour taste and the original soup aroma creates a different taste that really stimulates the taste buds.
The fish slices are tender and smooth, the greens are refreshing, the sour radishes are sour and crispy, and the peanuts still retain their crispness after being soaked. Each ingredient has a different taste. It was a really satisfying dinner.
Wen Jiajia is really satisfied with today.
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Rest time always goes by quickly.
The sewing machine came into play on the second day after it arrived home, helping Wen Jiajia make four autumn clothes in half an hour.
Of course, the autumn clothes had been cut long ago, but Wen Jiajia had been waiting for the sewing machine to arrive before taking the next step, until now.
She had never used this thing before and it took her a few minutes to figure out how to use it.
After that, I used it to make a quilt cover.
There were enough quilts at home, but not many quilt covers. The key point was that Wen Jiajia often washed the quilt covers, and as she washed them, the quilt covers, which were originally quite thick, became thinner.
Fortunately, Wen Jiajia successfully bought several kilograms of cotton from Master He, and made them into some cotton cloth, which was more than enough to make three four-piece sets of bedding, and there might even be some cloth left over to make some underwear for the two girls.
The quilt cover is relatively difficult because the zipper needs to be sewn on.
And because the quilt cover was too wide and too long, she would always sew it crookedly, and she would have to remove the threads and start over from time to time.
Later I had to ask Sister Bao for help, and it took me half an afternoon to sew the quilt cover.
But as long as you master the skills, sewing will be very smooth. Wen Jiajia sewed all the rest in one go, folded them up and put them in the cabinet waiting to be used.
She was so tired that she fell asleep right after taking a shower and didn't even know when Wei Dai came back.
This person is always busy for a few days and then idle the next day. Recently, I heard that there is a big competition, and she is even busier. I am afraid that the next month or so will be even busier than when she went to the new factory. By then, the two of them will really have to rely on the cafeteria for their three meals a day.
I slept dreamlessly until dawn.
A few days later, early morning.
It was bright outside, but the sun had not yet risen.
Dewdrops hang on the tips of leaves, and they are about to fall off. Lovely wild chrysanthemums bloom in the corner of the yard, bathing in the morning light and attracting bees to stay.
Wen Jiajia rubbed the mint cream on her wrists and temples before putting it in her pocket and riding away with her bag on her back.
Today is the day she leaves the pharmaceutical factory and also her first day at the hospital.
The morning breeze is refreshing, especially on the wrists and temples.
Wen Jiajia hummed a little tune as she entered the city. She passed by the pharmaceutical factory that occupied most of the street. For the first time, she did not stop but drove on.
Looking at the familiar gate, she couldn't help feeling a little sad. She had worked here for more than a year, and looking back, there were almost no bad things. Wen Jiajia unconsciously developed a sense of dependence on it.
But life, isn't it, we have to keep moving forward?
If she stayed in the pharmaceutical factory, her room for advancement was really limited. Because the pharmaceutical factory was already a mature factory, it existed before the founding of the People's Republic of China. After several decades, administrative staff like her had almost no channels for advancement except to gain experience.
She will have to wait for Director Xue to be promoted, then for Team Leader Wei to be promoted, and then for the Deputy Team Leader. Maybe she will have to wait until the Deputy Team Leader is promoted before it is her turn. This is still the case without parachuting.
But she would not stay in the pharmaceutical factory forever. There was no place for her to train and study, so she had to leave.
As for medical glass, it is a young factory that has just been established. It has the support of pharmaceutical and chemical factories, and the Municipal Industry Bureau, its mother, is always ready to help. Although it looks very weak now, it has a very broad prospect for development.
It is the most suitable place for you.
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