Chapter 170 Agen applies for a birth permit
There was a red notice on the blackboard at the entrance of the brigade office, listing three factories recruiting.
A total of 20 places were given to the two Lide factories. At the beginning, all of them were concentrated in the Beijing factory for training, and some personnel will go to the Shanghai factory later.
Another one was the garment factory opened by the Zhao family in Shancheng, which was recruiting sewing workers. Yue Ning asked for ten vacancies. Then there was Qiao Junxian's electrical appliance factory, which also offered ten vacancies.
Yue Ning was not in a hurry to recruit a lot of people, mainly because everyone had been living in the mountains for a long time and had no idea about the outside world. Once the first group of people went out and knew what was going on outside, they would naturally lead the next group of people.
Now the wealthy people in Hong Kong are also in a wait-and-see state. In the future, more and more people will return to the mainland to invest, and she will have no shortage of opportunities to introduce jobs to the people of Xiaoyanggou.
"This factory in Beijing pays 40 to 50 yuan a month, but the advantage is that it can be used to go to Beijing and Shanghai. The next two factories pay 60 to 70 yuan and 60 to 100 yuan a month respectively. So where are Pengcheng and Shancheng?"
"Agen and the others went to Pengcheng. Go ask Agen!"
Several people entered the office together.
Agen dressed up nicely, sat on Li Qiaomei's desk, and tried to persuade her: "Sister-in-law..."
"Agen! It's not that I won't give it to you, it's just that I shouldn't be the one to issue it. It's clearly written on the letter of introduction. You should go to the local health center and find the family planning department. You just go to the health center and get the stamp, and I can issue you a birth certificate. I'll issue it here, and you can go to the commune for review." Li Qiaomei said to Agen.
Agen had a headache: "Sister-in-law, what I mean is that you should issue me the birth permit first, and then I will go to the health center to stamp it. Wouldn't it be better to go directly to the public security bureau for the information review so as to save the trouble of running back and forth?"
"You save yourself the trouble of running back and forth. I'm violating the rules."
The person who came in heard something and asked, "Agen, is your wife pregnant?"
Agen nodded: "Pregnant."
"Isn't she infertile?"
When Agen wanted to marry Ge Yueqin, both sides despised him. People in Xiaoyanggou advised Agen that the reason a man married a woman was to continue the family line, right? A chicken that couldn't lay eggs was useless.
Ge Yueqin's family was even more furious. Why would a technical secondary school student and a cadre in the commune marry a bachelor who had an extra finger? This was too much of a stretch.
There were only two of them, and one was determined to get married, but he insisted that he didn't have a lot of wealth, so why should he carry on the family line?
One of them quarreled with her parents, saying that when she got divorced, no one took her in or cared for her, and now everyone came out to help her? She just wanted a man who understood her feelings.
Once the certificate was signed and the banquet was set, people could say whatever they wanted. The bride's family could come or not. Not long after, Yue Ning sent a letter asking them to go to Pengcheng.
Not long after arriving in Pengcheng, Ge Yueqin became pregnant.
Agen begged Li Qiaomei, "Didn't you think she couldn't have children? So you didn't take it seriously. When she vomited, you realized she was pregnant. You went to the hospital for a checkup, and they said you need a birth permit. And she's already two months pregnant, so you need to get it before you're three months pregnant, so the checkup can be complete."
"Which woman doesn't give birth to a child? She still needs to be examined? Did your mother have a checkup when she gave birth to you? There are four children in our family, and none of them were examined. They were all born at home, and nothing happened." Someone said disapprovingly.
Agen shook his head: "The country says that eugenics is the key to good parenting, and pregnant women should be examined. Don't look up old calendars."
"It must be your technical secondary school student's wife who is the troublemaker, Agen, a man should not be led by a woman's nose, otherwise you will be suppressed by her for the rest of your life."
"Bullshit." Agen looked at Li Qiaomei, "Sister-in-law, I have to get the birth permit quickly. I have to go back! Yueqin is still vomiting! Xiuxiu is still a little girl and doesn't know anything..."
"Alright, alright! I'll take the stamp and go to the health center with you, okay?"
Agen was ecstatic: "It's done, it's done!"
Li Qiaomei couldn't do anything about him, so she took a cloth bag from the drawer and put the seal in it.
"Agen, we're hiring!"
"I'll come back and tell you after I get the birth permit." How could Agen have the time to answer their questions at this moment?
Agen went home and pushed his bicycle over. Li Qiaomei also rode the team's bicycle, and the two went to the commune health center together.
With Li Qiaomei leading the way, the two of them were familiar with the place. They went to the health center together and found the family planning department which was together with the obstetrics and gynecology department.
Agen took out a bag of candies tied with a bow from his bag: "Comrade! Try some foreign candies."
"Foreign?" The doctor looked at the packaging and saw that it was covered with foreign words.
"I just came back from Pengcheng. This is foreign candy I brought from Gangcheng. It's sugar on the outside and chocolate on the inside." Agen opened the wrapping paper and offered it to the comrade.
The comrade took one, and Agen invited other people in the office to eat one. The doctors in the health center did have a better life than farmers like them, but such a thing had never been seen in the health center in the mountains.
When I saw that the letter of introduction he took out was from the Central Hospital of Pengcheng, Guangdong Province, I asked him a few questions casually.
The news that a big boss came to Gangcheng to pick up his granddaughter spread throughout their commune, and everyone knew about it as soon as Agen mentioned it.
Family planning had just been implemented at that time, and their county was a backward and poor area, so it was not one of the strictest places.
If you don't report it, they are unlikely to be caught. But if you come and report it yourself, you have to explain the problem clearly in detail. Since Yang Yonggen is getting married for the first time, it is very simple. However, since Ge Yueqin is getting married for the second time, she also has to explain the fertility situation of her previous marriage.
Li Qiaomei was afraid that the family planning department would think she was not doing her job well, so she explained in detail: "Her ex-husband is Dr. Zhang Xiang from your health center. Her mother-in-law adopted her aunt's daughter, so she has an adopted daughter. The child is the old woman's granddaughter. When they divorced, she naturally stayed in the man's home. She has no children under her name."
"Didn't Doctor Zhang divorce his ex-wife because she couldn't have children?" a doctor in the office asked, "How long has his ex-wife been married for?"
"Just over four months, right?" Li Qiaomei calculated.
"She got pregnant really fast!" The comrade who was filling out the form looked up, "You call this infertility?"
An obstetrician and gynecologist said, "Many of these cases are men's faults. But those men think that as long as the thing can be erected, there is no problem, and they put all the blame on the woman. Doctor Zhang has been remarried for two years, right? Nurse Luo's belly hasn't grown."
"Didn't Nurse Luo say that she was taking Chinese medicine?"
"What are you trying to cure? If there's something wrong with the man, the woman won't be able to have a baby even if she takes a truckload of medicine."
"Shh..."
When Agen looked up and saw Ge Yueqin's ex-husband Zhang Xiang, he immediately smiled enthusiastically and called out, "Doctor Zhang, what a coincidence!"
Zhang Xiang looked at the person in front of him. He looked familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen such a person before.
"I'm Yueqin's man, Yang Yonggen!" Agen took out a pack of Marlboro cigarettes from his coat pocket and handed one to him, "Doctor Zhang, have a smoke."
Zhang Xiang then connected the man in front of him with the shabby butcher in a torn cotton jacket. He waved his hand: "No need."
Without Zhang Xiang asking, Agen couldn't hide his excitement and said, "I'm here to apply for a birth permit. Yueqin is pregnant."
Zhang Xiang's face changed instantly.
"Yang Yonggen, your order has been prepared," said the comrade in charge of family planning.
Agen walked in happily and thanked him a lot!
Li Qiaomei took out a stamp from her bag, stamped it on his birth permit, and handed him the paper: "Go to the commune to get the stamp yourself."
"Thank you, sister-in-law." Agen carefully put the information into his bag.
As Agen walked out, he saw Zhang Xiang standing there. He asked, "Doctor Zhang, Yueqin and I have been married for less than half a year and she is pregnant. You divorced Yueqin and remarried two months ago. It's been almost two years now? And there is still no news?"
Zhang Xiang's face twisted at these words. He said hatefully, "Aren't you afraid that your child will have an extra finger like you?"
Agen smiled and said, "You are a doctor! Don't you know that some of these diseases are related to heredity, but most of them are not?"
When he learned that Yueqin was pregnant, he was both surprised and scared. He wanted a child so much, but when he stretched out his hand and looked at his hands that were different from others, and thought about being called Six-Fingered Agen for the rest of his life, he became afraid.
After Ningning found out, she helped him consult a famous doctor in Hong Kong City. The doctor said that it was indeed partially hereditary, but his family had not had this problem for generations, so the possibility of him inheriting it was not high, so they could rest assured.
Thinking of the suffering Yueqin had endured at the hands of the mother and son, Agen had to vent his anger. He asked, "My problem is unlikely to be inherited, but will your inability to have children be inherited?"
Zhang Xiang's face turned pale and red, as if he had been slapped hard in the face.
Agen looked like he was asking for a beating and said, "But you don't have to worry. You can't have children and you can't inherit the disease."
These words completely ignited Zhang Xiang's anger. His eyes turned red, veins popped out on his forehead, and he swung his right fist violently, hitting Agen in the face.
Ah Ben was a butcher who did manual labor, so how agile was he? He turned his body to the side and easily dodged the punch.
Then, he grabbed Zhang Xiang's wrist and twisted it hard. Zhang Xiang cried out "Ouch" in pain, and his body leaned forward uncontrollably, almost falling down.
Agen pulled him back and asked him to stand still. Agen said, "I'm going to get a birth permit. I don't have time to talk to you."
Agen left happily. Zhang Xiang saw his colleagues all leaning out to look at him, and shouted angrily: "What are you looking at?"
Li Qiaomei greeted the comrades from the Family Planning Department and walked out. She was not Zhang Xiang's colleague, she was a women's cadre in Xiaoyanggou Village and the sister-in-law of Yang Yonggen. She had to speak a fair word for the women comrades in the team both publicly and privately.
She came out and shook Zhang Xiang's hand enthusiastically: "Doctor Zhang, I want to thank you!"
Zhang Xiang, who was still in shock, felt confused by her grip.
"The county! Organize us to carry out activities to fight against feudal customs, and ask our grassroots women cadres to list the persecution of female comrades. I don't have any materials to use. Your case is really typical. Comrade Ge Yueqin worked hard after marrying your family, but was oppressed and persecuted by your mother on the grounds that she couldn't have children. Even after the divorce, your mother came to the door to insult her. Especially when she married Yang Yonggen from our brigade, your mother scolded her on the road for not being able to have children and had to marry a butcher. Now, the truth is finally out. You married another wife, but she hasn't given birth yet. Ge Yueqin's belly has grown bigger. Your mother doesn't tell the facts, and persecutes Ge Yueqin as a feudal head of the family."
When Zhang Xiang heard these words, didn't it mean that he was being accused of being infertile at the county meeting?
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