Chapter 86 I went to find my biological father
If you ask Qi Fang if he has ever thought about transferring back to the town machine repair factory, the answer is actually no.
Not to mention his original purpose of leaving the machine repair shop, even if that had not happened, the machine repair shop or small repair shop would be the same to him, as they were not his specialty.
In the forest farm, he at least has a home, relatives, Yan Xue and his unborn child.
But when the words of refusal were on the tip of his tongue, he paused.
When Qu Mingli saw this, he asked, "Is there a problem?"
He still admired the young man Qi Fang very much. How could a capable person not be appreciated anywhere?
Qi Fang looked at him and said, "Yan Xue is pregnant. The due date is November."
Although he still meant to refuse, he didn't say it firmly.
Qu Mingli didn't expect that the last time he went there, Yan Xue's belly was not obvious and was covered with clothes.
Moreover, if you count the dates, Yan Xue was already pregnant when the pilot project was established. Who would have thought that the Jinchuan pilot project was supported by a pregnant woman.
Qu Mingli couldn't help but say, "Xiao Yan is a good comrade." There was emotion in his words, but more of it was praise.
She has worked so hard for the bureau's pilot program, and now that she's about to give birth, you can't transfer her husband away at this time, right?
The pilot project was established by Yan Xue alone, and we cannot do without Yan Xue, so it is even more impossible to ask Yan Xue to be transferred back.
Qu Mingli finally gave up. "Let's just leave it that way for now. In two months, when it snows, no one will want to modify the machine anymore."
The most important thing for the Forestry Bureau is logging, and everything else must give way to logging.
However, he still said to Qi Fang, "Think about it again and go back and discuss it with Yan Xue. I really think you're wasting your talent staying in this small repair shop."
Xiang Xiang added, "Let her do her best. I think there's a lot of potential in artificial cultivation of wood ear mushrooms."
This time Qi Fang didn't say anything, but nodded to indicate that he understood.
Sure enough, after the two excavators in the city were modified, although some people still asked about them, no one came to Chengshui for modification anymore.
Firstly, the logging season is approaching, and the modification will not take long; secondly, they are not the direct superiors of Chengshui Town, so they cannot directly ask the Chengshui Machine Repair Factory to make the modifications.
But the news that Chengshui could modify the excavator had spread. I guess as soon as the logging is completed next spring, someone will think of modifying the machine again.
When Qi Fang was packing up to leave the machine repair shop, someone smiled and said to him, "See you next year, Master Qi."
It was obvious that they had determined that Qi Fang would have to come again next year. After all, even if the machine was not modified, Qi Fang's skills would be transferred back sooner or later.
Qi Fang had been seconded several times and got along well with this person, so he replied calmly, "See you next year."
As soon as the words fell, someone else said with a smile, "It doesn't necessarily have to be next year. What if something goes wrong with this batch of 50 materials? Won't we still have to rely on Master Qi?"
It was meant to be a compliment, but it obviously didn't hit the mark. Qi Fang just looked at him and stopped talking.
When he got home, Yan Jigang was writing names on his newly-issued books. The young boy had just returned to school and would soon be a third-grade student.
Yan Jigang was very happy to see him and gave him a warm welcome. He then asked when he would leave next time and how many days he could stay at home...
Qi Fang paused for a moment, then patted his brother-in-law's head and said, "I won't leave this time."
Yan Xue is already pregnant, and nothing is more important than her and her child.
Besides, Yan Xue is still living in the second old lady’s house. It’s impossible that she hasn’t come back yet after giving birth to a child, right?
Just as I thought of Yan Xue, Yan Xue came back, petite and delicate, with one hand gently supporting her waist.
She has become a little rounder recently, and her small face, the size of a palm, only has a pointed chin, making her look gentle and graceful.
Qi Fang immediately went over to help the man, and before Yan Xue could ask, he took the initiative to explain: "I'm not leaving this time. I'll stay at home with you and the child."
Yan Xue didn't say anything and handed him the letter. "I just ran into Director Xu. Director Xu gave it to me and said he mailed it to the small repair shop."
Qi Fang took it, but didn't rush to look at it. He waited until Yan Xue came into the room and sat down on the kang before he glanced at the envelope.
It was a completely unfamiliar address and a completely unfamiliar name. People who usually wrote letters to Qi Fang would send them directly to his home, and it was rare to send them to a small repair shop.
Qi Fang lowered his eyes and opened it. After reading a few lines, his expression faded. He handed the letter to Yan Xue and said, "Take a look too."
Yan Xue was just wondering why she had to read the letter when her eyes had already scanned the content. "Written by Wu Xingde?"
"Eighty percent of it is." Qi Fang's lips curled up in a mocking arc. "You didn't dare to say it directly, and you even made up a fake address and a fake name."
"It seems that he is not in a good situation." Yan Xue looked at Yan Jigang who was still in the room, and finally got up with the letter and went to her own room.
This time, the couple were the only ones left in the room. She unfolded the letter and continued reading. "He said Professor Lin told the institute that he has your teacher's notes?"
"Yes, I told Professor Lin." Qi Fang said, and then looked at Yan Xue again, "You were still angry at that time."
Yan Xue was indeed still angry at that time, and she hardly spoke to Qi Fang except in front of outsiders.
Although he could speak these days, Qi Fang had also been on several business trips, so the two of them had no chance to bring up this matter.
She didn't say anything else and continued to read the letter. She found that Wu Xingde was really in a bad situation. This letter could be regarded as a manifestation of impotent rage.
Of course, he couldn't say that he was not living a good life. The whole article was mocking Professor Lin, Qi Fang, Su Changqing and Wei Shuxian.
It is said that Professor Lin has been tightening screws for so long that his brain has become worn out. He believes everything others say and really thinks he is very capable.
Apparently, after Professor Lin reported the notebook incident to the institute, he had a falling out with him and didn't get any advantage.
But he was incompetent, making such a big mistake and hiding the work. The institute must be very dissatisfied with him. Otherwise, he would not have written this letter, saying that he overestimated Su Changqing and probably didn't research anything useful.
At the end of the letter, he also said that if the institute could not figure it out, he would definitely strongly advocate that hydrostatic pressure was useless and that funds should not be wasted in this area in recent decades.
Anyway, if he loses this project, he can still do something else. If Qi Fang really has something in his hands, he will never be able to make a breakthrough.
It's really not easy for you, and no one else can have an easy life. Even if you don't bite others, it will be disgusting.
Yan Xue laughed at this, "He really thinks he can keep it going for decades."
Qi Fang paused at this and looked at her with his peach blossom eyes, "Hmm?"
Yan Xue didn't avoid his gaze, "He should first think about how to get out of this unscathed."
This is the truth. If Wu Xingde fails to do so, he will lose the trust of those people and be marginalized from then on.
But Qi Fang always felt that Yan Xuegang meant more than that. She seemed never to worry about the current predicament or that all this would not pass.
It was like this when I advised him at the beginning, and it was also like this when I advised his wife later. I don’t know if it’s because I am optimistic by nature and always have hope.
Thinking about this, Yan Xue had already returned the letter to him, "If the project is really stopped, he should also stop."
"Who knows." Qi Fang took the letter with an indifferent expression and put it aside.
But Yan Xue remembered that when he received Wu Xingde's letter for the first time, he reacted strongly and threw the letter into the bottom of the pot and burned it on the spot.
Later, Wu Xingde came to the mountain to find him, and the two of them started fighting as soon as they met. It was nothing like now, when they could talk calmly.
Some things are really different now. Yan Xue touched her belly and was about to get up when Qi Fang mentioned something else. "Secretary Qu came to see me a few days ago."
It was obvious that there was something else to say. Yan Xue stood up a little, then sat back down.
Seeing this, Qi Fang simply squatted down to help her take off her shoes and put her legs on the kang. "Are you tired?"
His movements were very skillful. After he was done, he even went to get a pillow and placed it behind Yan Xue's waist. He pinched Yan Xue's leg and asked, "Is it swollen again?"
Yan Xue was used to it, "It's been a whole day." It's easy for legs to swell up in the late stages of pregnancy.
Hearing this, Qi Fang simply sat down beside the kang and gently rubbed her breasts, "Let's just have this one."
He spoke as if he had the final say, and there were no contraceptive measures in those days.
Yan Xue didn't respond, but instead brought up the previous topic, "You just said that Secretary Qu came to see you."
"Yeah." Qi Fang directly lifted her legs onto his own legs. "Secretary Qu asked if I wanted to be transferred back to the machine repair factory."
Yan Xue was not surprised by Qu Mingli's question. After all, Qi Fang had been seconded to the town more than once in the past six months.
She was surprised that Qi Fang specifically mentioned this to her, "You want to be transferred back?"
She was really perceptive. She immediately guessed that if Qi Fang had no idea, he would not have mentioned it to her specifically.
Qi Fang raised his eyes and looked at her, "No, didn't you say before that he seemed to be quite familiar with that person from the province?"
That means he also wants to try Qu Mingli's route. Yan Xue's expression became serious. "I only heard a little bit at the time."
"Yeah, so I plan to ask Zhou Li." Qi Fang said, "I've never heard of anyone with the last name Qu in Yanjing before."
Zhou Li is Qi Fang's friend. Yan Xue didn't see anyone with the surname Qu in the newspaper.
But from Qu Mingli's familiar tone, he does have a close relationship with the man in the province, and there have always been rumors that he has a strong background.
Qi Fang looked at Yan Xue quietly with his peach blossom eyes, "I haven't told you about my family in detail yet, right?"
He was indeed a little reluctant to talk about his family, mainly because Yan Xue didn't ask. She had read the original book and knew that Qi Fang's father was Qi Jingwei.
As expected, Qi Fang only talked briefly about it. "My relationship with my family is average. I was mainly raised by my grandfather and teacher."
Then he talked about Zhou Li, "We knew each other when we were young. Later, his father was transferred to another place, and we were classmates for several years. But later, I took the college entrance examination and he joined the army."
They were childhood friends, so it was no wonder he would ask him about something. "You want to investigate Secretary Qu and those people..."
Qi Fang understood the rest without having to explain. "I just want to check it out. We can't just keep taking the blame like this."
This time it was Professor Lin, who knows who it will be next time. The less foundation they have, the more unscrupulous others will be in targeting them.
Moreover, more than one person has told him that it is an injustice to let Yan Xue stay in the forest farm with him, although Yan Xue may not care.
But Yan Xue also has his own career, and who knows when he will be gone. It’s impossible for her to accommodate him while he has accomplished nothing, right?
Qi Fang leaned over and kissed Yan Xue on the belly, "We have to find out the truth before deciding whether to use more force and how much force to use."
The touch was gentle, but the man's gaze on her belly was so tender that Yan Xue couldn't help but reach out and touch it.
"Then check it out." Yan Xue also felt that it was a bit suffocating for the man to stay in the forest farm like this. She still remembered his excited look when he talked about machinery and fiddled with it.
Besides, all this will be over in another six years. He can't really let him waste these six years and start over again after it's over, right?
Yan Xue held her stomach and pondered, "It just so happens that I asked your friend to help me look up the address last time. I haven't thanked him yet, so I might as well mail him some of the wood ear mushrooms we grew ourselves."
He even thought of a reason. After all, Qu Mingli is not from the Yan family and has nothing to do with Qi Fang. It would be inappropriate to ask rashly.
Qi lowered his peach blossom eyes to look at her, "By the way, let me mention the help and promotion that the new town secretary has given us."
Both of them were smart people, so there was no need for them to explain everything. After a few rounds of discussion, they had already finalized the matter.
Qi Fang has been carrying the burden alone, and it is rare for him to have the feeling of having someone to help share the burden and give advice.
Yan Xue has had to support her family alone for both of her lives. How could she ever find someone like this to sit down and discuss things with?
There was silence in the room for a moment. The couple looked at each other, and no one spoke.
The second old lady came back from the vegetable garden at this time. As soon as she entered the door, she saw Yan Jigang raised a finger and said, "My sister and brother-in-law are here, talking about something."
The old lady said "Oh" slowly, put down her things, and asked, "Is your brother-in-law back? How long has it been?"
Yan Ji was just about to turn around to look at the clock when Yan Xue opened the door and came out. "Want to have persimmons tonight?"
The old lady looked at her, then at Qi Fang who followed her out, without asking any questions, but she tidied up her bedding that night.
"Your belly is so big now. Do you want me, an old lady, to serve you, or do you want Jigang to serve you?"
The old lady moved the things directly back to her room. "Xiao Qi is back just in time. Let Xiao Qi take care of you. If I were here, I'd be afraid that Ji Gang wouldn't sleep well and kick you."
Yan Jigang is indeed a restless sleeper at his age, but Yan Xue is not sleeping next to him, but next to the second old lady, and Yan Jigang is on the other side of the old lady.
But the old lady was determined to kick her out. She put down her things and acted as if she had finally gotten rid of this burden. "You don't bother with young people, but you bother with an old lady like me. Now that Xiao Qi is back, how can you deny it?"
Yan Xue didn't know what to say, but Qi Fang lowered his eyes to look at the second old lady and said, "Don't worry, grandma. I will take good care of Xiaoxue and the child."
I immediately made the bedding and put the two pillows together. After putting them there, I felt that they were not close enough, so I moved them to the middle.
Then the man became diligent. He helped Yan Xue get water to wash her face, and then helped Yan Xue get water to wash her feet. If Yan Xue didn't stop him, he would also help Yan Xue take off her clothes.
As soon as Yan Xue lay down, he came over, his hands carefully placed on her belly, as if afraid that she would be angry, "Wife, I will listen to you from now on."
Yan Xue found that the phrase "I listen to you" appeared quite frequently, and couldn't help but look at the man, "I don't think I asked you to listen to me in everything, right?"
She didn't shout, but when he asked Brother Zhengrong, that's what Brother Zhengrong taught him.
I take all the money I earn home and give it to my wife, and listen to her.
If you have something to discuss with your wife, don’t make all the decisions on your own, just listen to her.
If your wife gets angry and says the sun is blue, then it is blue. Don't talk back, just listen to her...
Of course Qi Fang couldn't say that, "I just wanted to listen to you."
I don’t know where I learned this from, but ever since that day when I misunderstood that she was going on a blind date, some words have become worthless.
Although Yan Xue was more receptive to this than to saying nothing, she still moved away and said, "Don't crowd the child."
She was pregnant and heavy, so when Qi Fang saw this, he simply held her down and moved back.
After moving, he put his hand back on her belly and whispered softly, "Has the baby been moving recently?"
"He's quite lively." Yan Xue didn't intend to deprive the man of his right to be a father. "He moved a little just now. Here."
She raised her hand and pointed, and the man immediately lowered his hand, "This?"
As soon as he put it on, the place he had touched moved and a small bulge appeared.
This time, Yan Xue didn't need to say anything, he saw it himself, and put his hand close to it, wanting to feel it.
Then this side stopped moving, but the place just now moved again, as if it was deliberately going against him.
Qi Fang was also very patient. He chased after the child several times, but failed to touch him once. He then touched the child until he could no longer move.
The lights in the room were still on at that time. The man sat next to Yan Xue with his eyes lowered, staring at Yan Xue's belly, looking somewhat helpless.
So she has to give birth to the baby herself. When Yan Xue puts her hand on it, the baby will greet her.
Yan Xue yawned. "Maybe the child is still angry. After all, his father abandoned him and ran away."
This time Qi Fang was speechless. He looked at it for a while and then lay down again. "I won't do that next time."
The next day, Qi Fang wrote a letter to Zhou Li and mailed it to Yanjing along with a large bag of black fungus that he grew himself.
Unfortunately, I waited until October and the other party did not reply. I don’t know if something happened, but the forest farm became busy again.
At the small repair factory, Qi Fang and Xu Wenli had to overhaul all the machines in preparation for the logging team to go up the mountain. Yan Xue also began the winter management of the ear wood.
The pilot ear wood was relatively easy to deal with. The first-year wood was relatively hard, so just raise the sides with sleepers, just like the batch at home last year. However, the batch at Yan Xue's home was not so good. After two years of ear growth, it had begun to rot and needed to be stacked in a crisscross pattern to keep it dry.
Fortunately, the quantity at home was not large, and Qi Fang, Liu Weiguo and Guo Changping also came to help, and it was done quickly.
Yan Xue only had to keep an eye on the pilot project. After all the arrangements for the pilot project were completed, she gave the two temporary workers Xu Wanchang and Gao Daidi a holiday.
As for herself, she still had to wait until the remaining wood ear mushrooms were sold and the accounts were settled before her work for the year could be considered completely finished.
Although Xu Wanchang and Gao Daidi have both been working here for a long time, they have not chosen to work long-term.
After all, this is only the first year, and no one knows what the effectiveness of the pilot project will be. Xu Wanchang has a family to support, so he doesn't dare to do it, and Gao Daidi's family won't allow it either.
But from March to now, the two have received more than six months' salary, and including the attendance bonus given by Yan Xue, the total amount is nearly three hundred yuan.
Don’t think this is a small amount of money. Xu Wanchang used to farm in the village, and it was considered good if he could get 100 or 80 yuan in cash a year.
He smoothed out the money Yan Xue gave him one by one, folded it up and carefully put it into his clothes pocket. After a while, he couldn't help but reach out and touch it.
Everyone in the village said he was lucky. Even though he had both legs amputated, there were still people willing to hire him and pay him the same salary as a normal person.
Some people even complained behind my back that I couldn't find such a good job because I had a pair of good legs.
But so what? He was just lucky to have met Technician Yan, such a good Technician.
Technician Yan continued to tell them, "Our schedule is different from other places. From now on, there won't be much work, so you can take two months off. The workload for the first round of bacterial cultivation isn't heavy either, so you can spend the New Year at home and report back in February."
Knowing that Gao Daidi couldn't hear, he wrote it down on paper. Even Xu Wanchang, who had only had a few years of education, learned a lot of new words in order to communicate with Gao Daidi.
Yan Xue met him again and asked if he wanted to move to the forest farm temporarily next year. "It's troublesome for you to run back and forth like this. If not, ask the school if you can send your child to study here."
When Xu Wanchang first came here, he didn't think he could grow up, after all, his legs were really inconvenient. But now he is starting to look forward to next year.
He nodded and said that he would think about it carefully. In the evening, Xu Xiaoli came to pick him up in Uncle Jin's car and told him about this.
"If we all move here, then we won't have to trouble Uncle Jin?" Xu Xiaoli thought this was a good idea.
Uncle Jin also gave them some advice, "If that doesn't work, I'll go ask Baozhi. She has two empty rooms in her house. They used to be rented to Technician Yan."
He actually helped them find a place to stay right away. It seemed that everything had gone smoothly since they met Technician Yan.
A few days later, Xu Xiaoli walked along the mountain road to Yan Xue's house by herself, holding a bundle in her arms and a pile of pancakes on her head.
"I made the pancakes myself. My skills aren't very good, so please don't mind. These are my brother and sister's old clothes. They're used as diapers for the children. They're soft."
Without waiting for Yan Xue to refuse, he turned and ran, "Technician Yan, my father asked me to thank you and wish you a happy new year in advance!"
He almost bumped into the second old lady who was coming in from outside, and the old lady was so scared that she stepped back to the side, "How can this child run so fast?"
"I came here to deliver something." Yan Xue felt helpless.
The Xu family was in financial difficulty, and she really didn't want anything from them, but she was too pregnant to catch up.
After hearing this, the old lady also saw the things in the room and asked, "So many pancakes, how many pounds do they weigh?"
After sighing for a while, he remembered to hand the letter to Yan Xue and said, "The postman just arrived."
Yan Xue thought it was Zhou Li's reply, so she was going to put it aside and wait for Qi Fang to come back and read it, but she caught a glimpse of her own name on the envelope.
The second old lady was also packing up those things and said, "The postman said it was your letter, but I don't know who wrote it."
The main reason was that once the second old lady and Yan Jigang took over, there were almost no people left who could write letters to Yan Xue, and everyone was around Yan Xue.
But Yan Xue had already seen the sender's name, "It's my great aunt."
The second old lady couldn't help but look over and asked, "Is something wrong with her?" After all, Great Aunt Yan Xue was illiterate.
"There must be something wrong." Yan Xue opened the envelope and read a few lines before the smile on her face faded.
The old lady's heart sank as she saw it. "What's wrong? What happened back home?"
"Not really." Yan Xue looked at the old lady and said, "My great aunt said that my biological father went to ask her about me."
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