Chapter 116 Manager It’s 1976.
Qi Fang apparently got inspiration at the exchange meeting, and he designed a control valve overnight.
After the two of them had a wild goose chase, he didn't even show any signs of fatigue. He went to work looking refreshed as usual.
Yan Xue sometimes wondered if being energetic was a standard characteristic of a big boss. Otherwise, even though he was so sick in the book, he could still overtake Wu Xingdra.
However, the design was created by staying up late, but Qi Fang was not too anxious and mixed it with other parts very patiently.
Anyway, he has been researching modifications all the time, and no one knows which of those parts are really useful.
Before the snow fell, the city's 200 or so 50-ton lumber trucks were finally modified and rumbled up the mountain.
The tractor driver was used to the previous hydrostatic system and was a little uncomfortable at first, but after gradually adapting, the efficiency improvement was very obvious.
I don’t know if it’s because they were too frustrated before or they wanted to avenge their previous shame, but the statistics from the forestry farms are even better than those from other cities.
The secretary of the municipal bureau was relieved. At least it proved that it was not them who were incompetent, but the previous hydraulic system.
Looking at Qi Fang, the great contributor, he liked him more and more. When the machinery factory said they wanted to promote Qi Fang to a level seven engineer, they approved him without hesitation.
Engineers in this era are divided into nine levels, with level one being the highest and level nine being the lowest. Level six enjoys treatment equivalent to that of a colonel, and level seven is definitely not low.
After all, the highest engineer in an ordinary large factory with 10,000 employees is usually only at level five, and those above level four are only held in special factories.
Besides, Qi Fang is only 27 years old this year. Normally, at this age, one has just reached the threshold of a ninth-level engineer.
Of course, he promoted all the engineers to level seven, and he was also generous with the city's advanced individual award. Yan Xue also developed a bottle cultivation method, and the income from wood ear mushrooms increased a lot this year.
Moreover, with more sales channels, sales were faster than in previous years. Almost all of them were sold out before the end of the year.
The secretary had seen a delivery truck from the training center once when he was in the city. It was so conspicuous that it was hard not to notice it.
Thanks to good advertising, sales were indeed opened up. The newly developed bottle cultivation method did not even rely on wood, and the center also received orders from two new towns in the city.
Now, in Jiangcheng City alone, there are seven towns engaged in the cultivation of wood ear mushrooms, and artificial cultivation of wood ear mushrooms has become a major industry in Jiangcheng City.
Moreover, the price of wood ear mushrooms grown in bottles is low, and sales volume is far from reaching the upper limit. Wugang Town and Liuhu Town both want to expand production next year and have ordered 15,000 bottles of fungus.
According to statistics before the New Year, the center received a total of 80,000 bottles of orders, not including the additional orders that may be received next fall.
With this extra profit alone, they can almost buy that Jiefang car. Within two years, they will definitely be able to make back their investment and even make more.
Yan Xue held a summary meeting before the Gregorian New Year, first announcing the good results achieved by the center this year, then praising individuals with outstanding performance, and announcing the goals and tasks for next year.
"Our center is different from other units. We start cultivating bacteria strains before the Lunar New Year, and we must ensure that we have people on duty 24 hours a day during the Lunar New Year period. We will discuss and arrange shifts later. The vacation time owed to everyone during the Lunar New Year period can be recorded and made up after the New Year."
As the center's current highest-ranking leader, she assigned herself the New Year's Eve. Of course, she wouldn't be on duty the whole day. The male employee who was recruited locally two years ago would come to replace her in the second half of the night.
As for Guo Changan, Lang Yue'e, Zhou Wenhui and others, they all had to go back to their parents' home in Chengshui to celebrate the New Year, which was arranged to be after the New Year.
The young man arrived earlier than the scheduled time, just after midnight. "Manager Yan, you can go home. I've already eaten dumplings."
After the man finished speaking, he went to check the boiler and the temperature. Yan Xue had been with him for more than two years and knew that he was reliable, so he packed up and prepared to go back.
Unexpectedly, before she even left the house, she ran into Qi Fang who came to bring her dumplings. He brought the dumplings all the way from home on his bike, and they were still warm when she picked them up.
If she took it back, it would be cold. Yan Xue simply took off her coat and sat down to eat the dumplings first. "Have you all finished eating? Are Grandma, Jigang, and Yanyu asleep?"
"They're all done." Qi Fang even brought her some garlic sauce and vinegar. "Grandma and Yan Yu are already asleep, and Jigang is still in our room listening to the radio."
No one expected that after Yan Jigang entered junior high school, he showed a strong interest in foreign language classes. Not only did he study hard, but he also spoke foreign languages fluently, even more fluently than usual.
Yan Jigang himself was not very clear about the surprise of his family. "Maybe no one could understand me because I was speaking in a foreign language. I didn't feel nervous at all."
Anyway, after these two years, what he learned in school was no longer enough for him, especially after entering high school. Sometimes he would secretly listen to some foreign radio at night.
Now the child's speaking and listening skills are very good, at least better than Yan Xue, who gave up for many years and only picked it up in the past two years in order to get a high school diploma.
Hearing that everyone was asleep, Yan Xue was even less anxious. Instead, Qi Kao watched her eat beside her. "I asked around, and it seems that the Provincial Normal College is recruiting foreign language students."
"You need to be recommended by your unit, right?" Universities in that era were all workers, peasants and soldiers universities, so you had to be recommended by your unit and pass the political review.
"We can first find a school for Jigang to teach." Since Qi Fang suggested it, he must have thought it through carefully. "Teach for a year or two, and then the school will recommend him."
He took Yan Xue's cup and poured water for her. "Jigang is a good student and he likes it. It would be a pity if he doesn't continue his studies."
But the college entrance examination had been resumed at that time, and all high school graduates across the country could be admitted to university based on their own abilities.
Yan Xue knew it clearly in her heart, and she knew even more clearly that Qi Fang said this to her entirely for Ji Gang's sake, "Then let's find a school for him to be a teacher."
There was still half a year between Yan Jigang's graduation from high school and the announcement of the resumption of the college entrance examination, and the school was also short of foreign language teachers.
After finishing the dumplings, Yan Xue put on her coat again. When she went out, people were still setting off firecrackers outside.
I don't know when snowflakes started falling from the sky, and a thin layer of snow landed on the ground. When the flashlight was shone on it, it reflected a tiny light.
Neither of them got into the car, but walked lightly on it, and went home together in the excitement of the New Year.
After a while, Yan Xue looked at the road ahead and suddenly said, "It's 1976."
The sound was drowned out by the sound of firecrackers, and Qi Fang didn't hear it clearly at first.
But soon, Yan Xue turned her gaze towards him and said, "Qi Fang, it's 1976."
It was 1976, and there were only eight months left until the days of having to hold everything in would end.
If he persists for another eight months, he will be able to stand up and help his teacher restore his reputation.
If he just persevered for another eight months, he would be able to return to his research instead of staying in a small machinery factory, hiding what he was best at.
Just eight more months, and the curtain will fall on what has felt like an eternity to many people, a decade long...
Most of Yan Xue's face was wrapped in her hat and scarf, revealing only a pair of bright eyes. But it was these eyes that seemed to capture all the brilliance.
It was also these eyes that found him seven years ago and gave him a brand new possibility in the midst of wind and snow.
Qi Fang could sense that something seemed different about Yan Xue in 1976, but perhaps because the atmosphere was too good, he just hummed softly in the end.
After walking a distance, those smiling eyes were still flashing back in his mind. He suddenly stopped and asked, "Are you in a hurry to go home?"
His tone was still calm, but his eyes seemed to be filled with snowflakes as he looked at Yan Xue.
Yan Xue narrowed her eyes and said, "Don't worry." The next second, the man pulled her into the car and said, "Let me show you the new system I made."
The two adults, whose children were both six or seven years old, looked like a young couple who had just fallen in love, rushing to the machinery factory in the wind and snow on New Year's Eve.
When I went to knock on the door of the guard room, the guard on duty was stunned. "Mr. Qi, did you leave something behind?" He came out to open the door after a while.
Qi Fang didn't know what to say, so he could only say "hmm" and ride his bike directly to the workshop he was in charge of.
The huge factory was silent and asleep, with only a light at the guard post at the door. Qi parked the car and took Yan Xue's hand without hesitation.
Even through the thick gloves, Yan Xue could still feel the force of his hand and was quickly led into the workshop.
"I made this thing two months ago and have been adjusting and testing it constantly. It was just finished recently. I'll install it for you to see."
Qi Fang found the accessories he needed and before installing them, he came over, held her face and kissed her, "It will be done soon."
The pair of peach blossom eyes lowered their heads to look at her before letting go and swiftly getting on the machine to start working.
Yan Xue wondered if he was like this when he was seventeen or eighteen years old, silent on the outside but full of enthusiasm on the inside.
When he said he wanted her to see it just now, she even thought of Jigang, and how Jigang would show her his test scores every time after the exam.
Yan Xue didn't even notice the passage of time. The man had finished his preparations, came down, washed his hands, changed into work clothes, and then hugged her around the waist.
He was tall and had long legs. He walked to the machine in a few steps, put her on it, and then followed suit.
Yan Xue quickly saw the hydraulic system above, which was very compact, much more compact than the one originally made by Wu Xingde.
Although she didn't understand, she could tell that some parts had to be cut out. She turned to the man and asked, "Is everything finished?"
"Well, all that's missing is a long application test." Qi Fang placed his hands on the console and looked at her. "Would you like to drive around?"
Yan Xue somehow thought of the scene in the novel or TV series where a man drives a luxury car to pick up girls, but unfortunately his comrade Qi Fang was not driving a luxury car, but a tractor.
But those guys who drive luxury cars to pick up girls probably can't say, "This has a system I made." She couldn't help but laugh, "Okay."
Qi Fang might not be able to give her any romance, but at least on this night leading to 1976, she became the first person to share the fruits of his labor with him.
When the two of them returned home and the sun rose, Qi Fang returned to his cold attitude, as if it wasn't him who dragged her to see the new system in the middle of the night.
However, Yan Xue knew that he had already prepared many things and was just waiting for an opportunity. However, he himself did not know that the opportunity was gradually approaching.
After the logging ended after the New Year, the Jiangcheng Forestry Bureau changed its previous ranking at the bottom and jumped to the first place in output, which surprised many people.
When the secretary of the Jiangcheng Forestry Bureau was awarded the title of advanced unit by the province, he was very proud and finally no longer felt as depressed as in previous years.
In Changshan County, Secretary Tang also looked very happy. After sitting in this position for many years, he was finally going to be promoted to the city.
To be honest, he thought it would be Qu Mingli who was promoted, but he didn't expect it was him. Qu Mingli was only promoted from director to secretary.
However, I don’t know whether Qu Mingli is a Wang leader, or whether Yan Xue and Qi Fangwang are the Wang leaders brought by Qu Mingli. Wherever he goes, people are promoted.
The secretary of their forest farm has now been promoted to director. Qu Mingli came to the county to be the secretary, and Zhuang Qixiang also went to Liuhu to be the top leader.
Now that he's gone, it seems even more likely to be the case. I wonder if anyone will target the manager of the training center after he leaves.
After all, all of his political achievements were closely related to Yan Xue and her husband, so Secretary Tang hinted to Qu Mingli before leaving.
Qu Mingli also knew that the first thing he would do after taking office was to hold a meeting to discuss the promotion of Yan Xue, the acting manager, to a permanent position.
Sure enough, someone objected immediately, and the reasons were all he could think of: Yan Xue was too young.
Yan Xue is only 25 years old this year and has only been working for seven years. It is impossible for her to become the top leader in any unit.
Even if Qu Mingli had not insisted and she had to be the one to cultivate the wood ear mushroom strains, she might not have been able to get the position of deputy manager.
Now, in less than four years, she is about to be promoted to manager. Zhuang Qixiang had been a section chief for several years before being transferred to the training center.
Some people even suggested transferring an experienced and reliable person to the center to guide the young people so that they would not mess around and cause any problems.
Qu Mingli asked him at that time who he thought could develop the center to this level in just two years like Yan Xue.
Zhuang Qixiang has been gone for almost two years. Can't you see whether Yan Xue has the ability to manage the center?
Seeing that the other party wanted to speak, Qu Mingli added calmly: "If anyone dares to issue this military order, I will send someone over."
No one said anything this time. Although some people thought I could do it, military orders were tricky. What if I was unlucky? What if I got tricked?
The meeting room fell silent for a moment, and Qu Mingli took a sip of water. "If you feel this isn't appropriate, you can ask the forestry bureaus in the following towns for their opinions. After all, they're the ones buying the fungus strains and growing the wood ear mushrooms. They probably have more dealings with the center than we do."
No one spoke again. Was there any need to ask what the outcome was? Yan Xue was from Chengshui, Zhuang Qixiang from the training center, and the remaining Donggou might not be willing to offend Yan Xue.
After all, the most technically proficient people right now are either Yan Xue herself or people brought by Yan Xue from Chengshui. If you piss them off, who can you turn to for help?
So there was nothing more to say, and it was decided that Yan Xuesheng would become the manager. The bureau only symbolically sent a deputy manager to the center, who was still in charge of nothing.
After the matter was settled, everyone in the bureau came to their senses. This new secretary was not Secretary Tang. He would not just drag his feet and try to smooth things over.
Moreover, he likes people who can get things done. He doesn't look at age or seniority, but only at ability. You have to be very attentive when working under him.
Anyway, Yan Xue was finally able to officially move into the manager's office. When she went to the bureau to submit her documents, she also updated her academic qualifications.
"Graduated from high school?" Qu Mingli was a little surprised. The last time he helped Yan Xue transfer to the county, she was still in junior high school.
"Yeah." Speaking of this, Yan Xue's eyes softened. "I just graduated last year, and I took all the exams."
The high school textbooks of this era are quite different from those in her previous life, so Qi Fang even helped her with remedial classes for a while.
Qu Mingli didn't know the inside story, but he admired the ambitious young man. "That's great. After the center stabilizes in two years, you can go to university."
"I think so too." Yan Xue smiled brightly, but the university she wanted to attend might be a little different from what Qu Mingli had in mind.
But no matter what, getting a high school diploma brings her one step closer to making up for her regrets and one step closer to her dream.
Unexpectedly, there was more good news. Guo Changan conducted hybridization experiments for several years and actually produced a variety with higher yield and thicker meat.
Some clues were visible when cultivating in the laboratory last year. This year, we did two types of cultivation, bottle cultivation and log cultivation. The yields of both methods were higher than the original strains.
"I'll contact Chengshui and try growing some there next year." Yan Xue looked at it carefully and tasted it, then said to everyone.
Although Zhuang Qixiang came from the training center, Chengshui is closer to them.
After all, Yan Xue started her family in Chengshui, and it was she who single-handedly brought the wood ear cultivation in Chengshui to its current state, so people trust her even more.
Moreover, the situation in Liuhu is much more complicated than that in Chengshui. Even if she looks for Zhuang Qixiang, the people in the forest farm may not be willing.
As expected, when Yan Xue asked, Chengshui agreed immediately and asked her how many bottles she wanted to try planting and whether there was anything she needed to pay attention to.
"Let's try planting 1,000 bottles first. If we plant fewer, I'm afraid the data we get won't be accurate enough."
The more samples the better, but 1,000 bottles is close to the annual planting volume of a small forest farm, so it is not good to let people take the risk in vain.
Yan Xue said to the other party: "This part of the bacterial strain center can be given to you for free, but we want detailed and real data."
The cost of giving everything away is only a few hundred dollars, but if the products are really good, you can make the money back quickly.
Moreover, the artificial cultivation of wood ear mushrooms was successfully achieved in the laboratory as early as 1950s, so it is impossible for them to be unique forever.
When competitors emerge, more advanced technology and higher-quality strains become the basis for their invincibility.
Yan Xue was considering the long-term future, but Chengshui, after hearing this, felt that she would always be good at dealing with people and doing things.
Originally, due to the relationship between her and Chengshui, they would have helped her to test-grow the mushroom seeds even if they had to pay in full, but she offered to give them to them for free.
Who wouldn't feel relieved after hearing this? Which forest farm wouldn't be eager to help her with her trial planting? And of course, they'd try to help her remember the data in detail.
No wonder he was transferred to the county so early and became the head of the training center at such a young age.
As soon as Chengshui notified everyone, several forestry farms expressed their willingness, and in the end they even had to compete for this spot.
After the new secretary of Chengshui called Yan Xue, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart when he saw Lang Zhongting, saying that this old guy was really lucky.
Yan Xue had just put down the phone when she received another call from Qu Mingli, "Is an inspection team coming from above?"
"Yes," Qu Mingli hinted to her, "Come to various places in our province to inspect the revolutionary situation and learn the revolutionary spirit."
Yan Xue knew which side it was, and there was no need for Qu Mingli to remind her again. She thanked him and hung up the phone.
After hanging them up, she reminded everyone in the center to wipe the portraits and quotations carefully, as an inspection team from above was coming. Everyone soon understood.
Although the situation in recent years has not been as intense as in previous years, we all went through that time and have experience in dealing with these things. We hurried back to the office to check and start memorizing what we needed to memorize.
Yan Xue also checked her office carefully. Although out of caution, she hardly wrote anything on paper except for technical matters.
After confirming that there was no problem in the office, she went home and told Qi Fang about it, and checked the house with Qi Fang.
"The inspection team should also come to your factory. Is everything okay on your side?" She asked Qi Fang in a low voice when there was no one around at night.
Qi Fang immediately sensed something was wrong. Yan Xue was being too cautious. "Is there something wrong with this inspection team?"
It can’t be said that there is a problem. It’s just a coincidence that the timing is stuck in this last month. Yan Xue always has to be more careful.
But she couldn't tell Qi Fang, so she could only look into his eyes and say, "I just think the more careful you are, the safer you will be."
In fact, it is not very convincing, especially for someone with Qi Fang's brain. He has his own judgment in doing things and does not just believe what others say.
But the man looked at her quietly for a long while, and didn't ask any more questions. "Then I'll take care of everything that needs to be done."
She chose to believe her for no reason. As Yan Xue listened, she suddenly felt as if her heart was hit by something, feeling sour and soft.
Noticing the change in her eyes, Qi Fang even touched her head and said, "Send away all the jewelry and toys at home and return them to the forest farm."
No matter how hard the inspection team checks, they can't go so far away from the forest farm and enter anyone's home.
Yan Xue nodded, looked up at him for a moment, then stretched out her arms and hugged him, "Everything will be fine."
Soon the things were put into an ordinary bag and asked Zhou Wenhui to send it back to Jinchuan. It is unknown where Huang Fengying put it.
Yan Xue even opened her pocket in front of Zhou Wenhui to let her know that it was not something dangerous. Zhou Wenhui did not ask any more questions and found a time to take the child back to her in-laws' house.
A few days after returning, the inspection team arrived. Yan Xue received a call from the bureau immediately and was asked to be prepared to welcome them.
When people arrived, the center had already been cleaned from inside to outside. Yan Xue was leading people to weigh and bag the dried fungus and make records.
Qu Mingli's voice could be heard from afar, "Industry should learn from Daqing, and agriculture should learn from Dazhai. Our bureau has also been working hard to build socialism more quickly, efficiently, and economically. Researching and promoting the artificial cultivation of wood ear mushrooms is one of our efforts, and we've already seen initial success."
Someone seemed to have asked him about this, and he smiled and said, "Yes, the stir-fried black fungus in the cafeteria at noon is made with the wood fungus we cultivated ourselves, which greatly enriches the local residents' dining tables."
Yan Xue put down the work at hand and came out. When she raised her eyes, she met a gentle face wearing glasses. Her heart sank, and she felt that it had finally come.
The other party listened to Qu Mingli's introduction: "This is Comrade Yan Xue, the person in charge of our wood ear fungus cultivation center. It was she who discovered and promoted the artificial cultivation of wood ear." The eyes behind the lenses also turned cold.
Did she discover and promote it? She is also the director of the Fungus Cultivation Center in Changshan County.
It seems that he underestimated her before...
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