Chapter 80: Bloody Conjecture
The break time passed quickly, and it was almost time for Wen Jiajia to go to work again.
The day before going to work, Wen Jiajia went to Principal Guo to tell him that she wanted Wen Chun to start elementary school earlier. Surprisingly, Principal Guo agreed easily.
Principal Guo lives in the school, and his classmates live next to each other.
The room is about the same size as a classroom and is divided into two halves by wooden boards. The smaller half can only accommodate a bed, a desk and a closet, while the larger half is the living room and kitchen.
When Wen Jiajia arrived, Principal Guo was having dinner, and it was already time for dinner, so Wen Jiajia felt embarrassed.
Principal Guo smiled and said, "I ate late. I usually eat at this time."
Wen Jiajia looked at her watch and saw it was almost three o'clock, so she asked, "You only eat two meals a day?"
Principal Guo nodded and said, "Yes, I'm used to eating two meals a day so that my stomach feels comfortable. If I'm really hungry at night, I'll eat a couple of two-grain steamed buns to fill my stomach. Anyway, there's a cafeteria in the school, so I don't have to worry about going hungry."
That's right. Wen Jiajia heard from Wen Chun and Wen Xuan that the food in the school cafeteria was pretty good. They said that the steamed buns made from two-grain flour were even better than the brown sugar buns she made. They were steamed very fragrantly and didn't make your throat ache.
Principal Guo suddenly asked, "Comrade Wen, are you here because of the Li family's child?"
"That's not the case." Wen Jiajia said quickly. How could she go around her parents and come to the school when they were right in front of her? "I just want to ask you something."
Then, he told her that he wanted Wen Chun to start primary school earlier. He also said that if possible, he wanted Wen Xuan to go with him.
Wen Jiajia smiled shyly: "The two sisters have also learned some elementary school knowledge at home. And they are always together, and their age difference is only a few months. If possible, I want Wen Xuan to go to elementary school with her sister."
Principal Guo put the bowl aside and said, "That's it. All right. Wen Chun and Wen Xuan can report in September."
Wen Jiajia was stunned and still hadn't reacted: "I thought I was too young to go to elementary school."
"Ah! That's because they are too young to sit still. It's useless for them to go to school, and they just cause trouble to teachers and classmates. But the sisters Wen Chun and Wen Xuan obviously have good concentration, and they listen to the teachers in the Yuhong class. They can still do well in elementary school." Principal Guo said.
Wen Jiajia heaved a sigh of relief, and her expression immediately became much more relaxed. "That's good. I'll have to trouble you, Principal Guo, in the future."
"You're welcome. It's my duty."
Wen Jiajia didn't bother him too much. The other person had only eaten half of his meal, so she had to let him finish it as soon as possible.
The next day, Wen Jiajia went to work.
Wei Dai was away on a mission, so the two sisters' breakfast fell on her.
Fortunately, the weather is not hot yet, and it can even be considered cold at night and in the morning, so Wen Jiajia always prepares breakfast the night before and just heats it up the next day.
Wen Jiajia made some dumplings last night.
The shepherd's purse is tender, the leek is delicious, and if you add a few fried eggs as a side dish, the taste is just as good as meat stuffing.
I had one last night and another this morning.
With the spicy and sour dipping sauce, Wen Jiajia's appetite was whetted. She ate 25 dumplings in total, and her stomach was still full until almost noon.
After not going to work for four days, Wen Jiajia felt as if she was in another world when she returned to the medical glass factory.
Alas, rest makes people weak.
She now has holiday syndrome and doesn't want to move at all when sitting in the office.
Fortunately, the factory work was over. Oh no, there was nothing left for her to do. After the machines were installed, only the workshop workers worked overtime to complete the second quarter's shipments before mid-June, so that they could have half a month to test the new products.
But...it's not just the workshop that's busy.
Wen Jiajia was bored and was thinking of making some hawthorn tea to help digest her food when Lin Yunfei knocked on her office door.
"Come in." Wen Jiajia said. After hesitating for a moment, she put the hawthorn jar back into the cabinet.
Lin Yunfei pushed the door open and walked in: "When they saw me coming, they put the food away instead. They are afraid that I will eat it."
Wen Jiajia rolled her eyes and said, "Yes, I hid it because I saw you coming."
Lin Yunfei was unhappy and opened the cabinet, saying, "I want to see what it is that you treasure so much."
At first glance, it's a can of dried hawthorn.
“…”
"Is this thing worth hiding? It's everywhere in the mountains and plains. It's so sour that even children won't eat it." Lin Yunfei put the hawthorn jar back into the cabinet.
Wen Jiajia opened the drawer, took out an iron box, took out two handfuls of tea leaves and put them into the boiling water, then took out two pieces of butterfly cakes and put them in front of Lin Yunfei: "Come, cover your mouth."
Lin Yunfei was satisfied, and sat down to eat butterfly cakes and said, "I came to hide here. If you have any relatives or friends who want to take the factory recruitment examination, you can ask them to prepare. We will be recruiting again next week, and this time we will recruit 10 people. Oh, there are educational restrictions, you must have a junior high school education or above, those who can't read will not be accepted, and our factory does not have any blindness classes now."
A while ago, they recruited a lot of illiterate people, and the people in their training team were almost tortured to death.
The key point is that they are not young anymore, so it is actually very difficult to ask them to learn.
It's difficult for them, and it's also difficult for their training group.
Later, a temporary literacy class was set up to teach common characters one by one. There were not enough people, so a few teachers were borrowed from a nearby factory school. Finally, the killer was released, saying that whoever could pass the high school entrance examination could enter the workshop. This group of people studied hard, otherwise they would procrastinate and never learn.
Wen Jiajia exclaimed, took out two cups, and poured tea into them: "I don't have any relatives or friends who need to work in the factory, but the factory is short of people again?"
"Nonsense, when have we never been short of people?" Lin Yunfei exuded a resentful aura as she stared at Wen Jiajia and said, "You have had a comfortable four days, haven't you?"
Wen Jiajia laughed: "It's OK, it's OK. There are many things I need to do at home, and it's not very comfortable."
"I didn't know you were so comfortable... You've been eating and sleeping well these past few days. Your face has become rounder, red and rounder."
That's nonsense. How is it possible to go full circle in just four days?
Wen Jiajia asked her, "You don't come here for no reason. Just tell me what you want from me."
"Didn't I tell you to hide here?"
Wen Jiajia: "Come on, you're almost the boss of the department, and you still want to hide. Now even your leader is afraid of you."
Lin Yunfei smiled, looked out the window, still feeling uneasy, and went to the door again. Seeing that no one was outside, she closed the door and asked in a low voice, "Some time ago, two people from the countryside came to your neighbor's house?"
Wen Jiajia was surprised: "You know all this? The workshop is very secretive. Many people are afraid of trouble and won't tell others about this. How did you know?"
Who are the people who came back? They are the two people that Professor Yan introduced before agreeing to come to the hospital.
Last year, Director Shen started investigating the two people, and Wen Jiajia even sent information to Director Shen.
After learning that the two had no major problems, he began to make efforts to transfer them to the medical glass factory.
This is not really unusual, as there is precedent.
Nowadays, written clauses are not as good as "precedents". If we don't try to be the first in everything, what we should compete for is stability.
In the chemical industry next door, a leader was sent to work on the front line a few years ago. Although he was later transferred away, this is also a precedent.
There are other factories that have also transferred farm or rural labor reform personnel to the front-line workshops for labor reform, and this kind of thing still happens today. It is for this reason that Director Shen dared to take action for this matter.
He was in his prime and had just taken office, so he was full of energy and after realizing the value of the two people, he tried his best to transfer the two people back in early March.
When the two of them first arrived, they were like bamboo poles. Wen Jiajia felt that they would fall down if the wind blew. She also understood why Professor Yan had to ask about the progress every week. It was really because the environment was too bad and they really couldn't stand it after staying there for too long.
Later, Wen Jiajia arranged for the two of them to attend a political and ideological class, in fact, to let them recuperate first so that they would not collapse in the workshop after finally returning.
After a week of rest, I finally recovered a little and was assigned to the workshop. Half a month later, when half of the work in the workshop was done, I could occasionally come to the R&D room to discuss new products with Professor Yan and others.
This matter was not widely publicized, mainly because there were many people and many things to do in the factory, and not many people noticed these two people who had little presence.
Lin Yunfei said: "I just saw it suddenly one day, and then I asked the people in your workshop and found out that they came here for forced labor."
Then he whispered, "To be honest, Jiajia, I have a teacher who is also in labor reform. The place she is in is not good. I want her to come back, but I don't have the ability to do so."
Wen Jiajia frowned, "Neither did I. Director Shen spent a lot of effort to bring those two back. They are famous experts, so they were able to come back."
Lin Yunfei sighed: "My teacher teaches foreign languages, and I was thinking that if the factory had imported machines..."
Wen Jiajia shook her head: "It's too difficult to import machinery. I'm afraid we'll have to wait a few years."
The factory has recently been considering Corning machines, but has no channels or sufficient foreign exchange. Judging from the current size of the factory, Wen Jiajia estimates that it will take at least 1996 before Corning products can be introduced.
Besides, there are people in the factory who don’t know English. All the people under Professor Yan next door know English.
Lin Yunfei was a little disappointed: "I was just daydreaming. My teacher is really a good person. When I had no money to go to school, it was she who paid for me. Her health is not good either. I am always worried that something will happen to her."
What else could Wen Jiajia say? Without personal experience, she couldn't understand the worries in Lin Yunfei's heart. She could only comfort her dryly: "Maybe in a year or two, or maybe not even a year or two, the situation will get better."
If we count the time, it has been 75 years this year, and the movement will end in 76. Many people will return before the end of the movement. Even if they don’t return, the villagers will take care of the labor reform personnel who are still in the village after seeing many of them return.
Lin Yunfei's eyes lit up: "Really?"
"…I don't know whether it's true or not. I just said it casually, so you just take it casually. Come and have some tea, drink some tea quickly." Wen Jiajia added tea to her cup, trying to shut her mouth.
Lin Yunfei is a sensitive person, not unlike her parents who are police officers and herself who often deals with people. Sometimes Wen Jiajia can't speak too clearly or too bluntly to her, otherwise she will hear something.
She snorted softly: "How could I not know you? You don't say nonsense."
Wen Jiajia felt guilty and covered her expression with a cup.
After finishing the drink, he quickly changed the subject, "Hey, let me tell you something. I always feel like something is weird."
"Go ahead."
Wen Jiajia organized the language and said, "A new person has moved into our military compound, and her child is a bit naughty—"
It started from the time when the child made trouble in the Yuhong class, and then she went to his parents' house the next day to argue with them.
"From what you described, his mother seems to be a reasonable person. How could she raise such a child?" Lin Yunfei wondered.
Wen Jiajia: "It seems that the child has always been taken care of by the elderly and the uncle and his wife. Comrade Lu has her own job. Oh, I remember now. She said she works with the construction team, so she is often not at home."
These days, when a construction team goes to a place to work, they have to recruit people locally. Because there are no machines, the construction is almost entirely done by manual labor, so the wages offered by the construction team are not low.
Fuyang also had an engineering team. The nearby reservoir was dug in the 1960s by an engineering team that led most of the people from the commune.
"That's what my family taught me." Lin Yunfei thought for a moment, "But that doesn't make sense. Why would we teach our children this?"
Wen Jiajia recounted what happened after entering the house, and after recalling for a moment, she repeated what she heard when she left.
After thinking for a moment, he whispered, "Maybe, I mean maybe, you say... is it possible that the child is not Comrade Lu's, but the eldest brother and his wife?"
This guess is really far-fetched, but maybe it’s because she watched too many melodramatic TV dramas in her previous life, but Wen Jiajia inexplicably feels that it is very likely, extremely likely.
If this happened to someone who had nothing to do with her, Wen Jiajia would probably mutter a few words and forget about it.
But Comrade Lu is suspected to be a relative of the original owner, a blood relative on the original owner's mother's side, so Wen Jiajia would naturally think more about it.
After thinking about it for the past two days, she came up with this possibility.
Not to mention, it is difficult for people who have not experienced the bombardment of various melodramatic TV dramas and novels to think of this level. For example, Lin Yunfei did not think of this possibility for the time being.
But when Wen Jiajia brought it up, she was stunned for a moment, and then said: "Although it's ridiculous, the truth is often ridiculous... But this is too ridiculous, is there really anyone who can do such a thing?"
She is a little incoherent.
Wen Jiajia sighed and said, "Because of this, I dare not mention it to others." She thought about whether she should make it clear to Lu Yiyuan, but she was afraid that she would be chased out with a broom.
Lin Yunfei hurriedly said: "You'd better not say anything for now. Are you sure that the two children were born on the same day?"
"Yeah! She said that yesterday, otherwise I would never have thought of this possibility." Wen Jiajia nodded vigorously.
She was sure she heard it correctly, and later asked Sister Jin, who said she heard it too.
Lin Yunfei: "You, you, you better not go straight to him. After all, he is still, temporarily, his son. The elderly relatives in the family have known each other for years. Don't you know that the distance between them is not that of a family?"
Wen Jiajia: "I know, otherwise I would have told her directly the day before yesterday." She felt that if this was true, then Lu Yiyuan was quite wronged, and his own daughter had to suffer at home. This made Wen Jiajia feel uneasy whenever she thought of this, and her conscience ached.
"How about this, you find out her home address, and I'll ask my dad if he can help check it out." Lin Yunfei thought, "My dad has friends everywhere, and one of his uncles seems to be in He Province."
Wen Jiajia was delighted: "That's great, professional matters should be handled by professionals. I'll go and ask when I get home."
Wen Jiajia still knows how to inquire about news, and she doesn't even need to ask Lu Yiyuan, because Sister Bao can give her the answer.
In the evening, Sister Bao came to her to get candy.
"Two kilograms is enough. I smell the fragrance of beans. Is your family cooking sweet porridge again today?" Wen Jiajia handed the white sugar to Sister Bao.
Sister Bao took the candy and said, "Yes, those greedy devils were clamoring for some. My hometown just happened to send me some beans and corn grits, so I cooked some sweet porridge for dinner."
"Oh, by the way, my mother also sent me some embroidery left by my grandma. Do you want to take a look?"
Wen Jiajia was also cooking. She shook her head and said, "Let's see tomorrow. I have to go to the Li family later."
"Why are you going to the Li family?" she asked, and then curiously, "Which Li family? There are a lot of people with the last name Li in our army."
"It's the Li family whose daughter-in-law recently came with the army. Their children have been complained about many times, and some even came to their doorstep."
Sister Bao understood, "Li Sunming?"
"Yes, that's him."
"What do you want to see him for? He's not at home today."
Wen Jiajia: "I actually want to find his wife, Comrade Lu Yiyuan. I heard that Comrade Lu is from Hebei Province, and I want to ask where her home is."
Sister Bao is truly worthy of being the gossip queen of the compound. Even though she has now "retired" and no longer goes around chatting with people, but instead makes web lace at home, she still has a lot of gossip in her stomach.
So he clapped his hands and said, "Oh my god, I know about this. His wife is from Wanggang, Hebei Province. Why are you asking about this?"
Wen Jiajia: "Oh, my mother's family is in He Province, and her accent is somewhat similar to Comrade Lu's, so I wanted to ask."
Then he showed a curious look and asked, "Sister Bao, how did you know?"
Sister Bao hadn't talked about gossip for a long time, so she sat down and started talking: "Didn't I tell you that I used to stay in He Province with my husband, and Li Sunming was recruited into the army at that time. My eldest daughter had a birthday one year and asked for meat, and it was Li Sunming who helped buy a few pounds of meat."
Wen Jiajia paused and said, "So you also know where Li Sunming is from?"
Sister Bao: "Hey, we're both from the same place, in Wanggang, and the conditions there aren't very good."
"Wang Gang, where exactly is it?"
Sister Bao: "Red Star Commune, Xincheng County. I don't know any more details. I basically never served in the army."
Wen Jiajia took note of the address and wanted to ask again, but gave up after hearing what Sister Bao said.
night.
Wen Jiajia copied the egg-stuffed pancakes tonight. Although it didn’t look very good, the two children ate them without even raising their heads.
This kind of campus-gateway delicacy is still very attractive, especially since Wen Jiajia’s sauce is well-seasoned and the sauced meat is added, the taste is not bad at all.
But this thing is troublesome. Wen Jiajia made a few that were enough for dinner and then stopped making them. She fried the remaining dough into pancakes and ate them as rolls tomorrow morning.
After the two children finished bathing, Wen Jiajia said to them, "I will send you to primary school in a few months. Are you happy?"
Wen Xuan was a little confused: "Aren't you sending your sister there?"
"That's true at first, but then I thought it would be better for you to go together." Wen Jiajia patted the two girls on the shoulders and said, "You are only a few months apart, Xuanxuan, you can't be the one who can sit still while your sister can't."
Wen Xuan pouted: "I can sit still!"
If you give her a piece of candy, she can sit for the whole morning.
Wen Chun asked hurriedly, "Is Xiao Yi going?"
Wen Jiajia: "I don't know about that. You can ask him yourself tomorrow."
The two girls were a little excited but also a little scared.
Wen Chun, in particular, had a dream that night. She ran to Wen Jiajia's room in the middle of the night and climbed onto her bed. Wen Jiajia was almost scared to death. If she hadn't hit her tongue at the critical moment, she would have screamed.
the next day.
Arriving at the hospital early in the morning, Wen Jiajia told Lin Yunfei the address and gave her a wrap.
"Why do these things you stir smell so good." Lin Yunfei sniffed them hard twice. The smell was so attractive.
Why? Because she has eaten it.
We have sweet noodle sauce, bean paste, minced garlic, chili sauce and so on at home. Although the taste cannot be exactly the same as those sold at snack stalls, they are at least 50% to 60% similar.
Wen Jiajia joked, "Just eat it. You even want to know my family's secret recipe."
Lin Yunfei: "Is there a secret recipe for this? Mr. Zhang from the cafeteria can replicate it after taking two bites."
Lao Zhang has a golden tongue. The braised pork that Wen Jiajia likes to eat is made by him. He can cook a big pot of food to such a high standard, which shows how superb his skills are.
Wen Jiajia has everything planned out. If she opens a factory in the future, she will definitely poach Lao Zhang to work there.
A month passed in a flash.
It is the beginning of May, and although the weather has not yet become hot, people on the streets are already wearing thin shirts.
Wen Jiajia had a vague feeling half a month ago that she seemed to be pregnant.
Specifically, she had a poor appetite during that period. Even if hot and sour noodles with beef hotpot were placed in front of her, she had no desire to eat.
Then, she had a stomachache. Wen Jiajia thought it was her period, but she never knew it.
After another half a month, which is now, Wen Jiajia was roughly sure, so she prepared to see a doctor.
Saturday evening.
Wen Jiajia parked the car carefully, and Wei Dai had already prepared the meal.
He asked with a worried look on his face: "What happened? Why did you come back so late today?"
Wen Jiajia blinked and touched her belly: "Nothing, I just rode a little slower."
Wei Dai: "You must be hungry, go eat. What's wrong? You're getting thinner and thinner. Is it because of the hot weather that you have no appetite or something? Do you want to buy some black plums and tangerine peel? These two things are very appetizing when cooked together."
Not to mention, when Wen Jiajia heard the word "black plum", her mouth was watering.
She swallowed and said, "Where can I buy black plums?"
"Want to eat? I remember that Dr. Zhong in the hospital can make it. Xiao Xue, you still remember that he said that when his wife was pregnant and couldn't eat, he asked Dr. Zhong to buy black plums."
Wei Dai said this as he served Wen Jiajia a bowl of rice.
Wen Jiajia washed her hands and sat down. Today's dinner was quite rich. There was not only steamed fish, but also a plate of fried spicy and sour tofu.
"Wenchun and Wenxuan, come home for dinner." Wei Dai shouted to the neighbors next door, and then said to Wen Jiajia, "The two kids are at Xie's house. They are playing some kind of classroom game recently. A group of kids gather together to have a class as soon as school is over, and they take turns to be the teacher. It seems quite interesting."
As he said this, he laughed.
Sitting down and picking up the bowl, Jianwen Jiajia didn't move her chopsticks, so she urged him, "Eat quickly, don't you have an appetite today?"
Wen Jiajia nodded: "Yeah."
"What's going on?"
"I think I'm pregnant."
"Bang--"
Wei Dai dropped the bowl in his hand onto the table.
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