Chapter 315: Telling Tales 1 It’s easy for people to find out she’s telling tales…
After all, Sister Yao Taotao had been divorced from the Cao brothers for a long time. Even if she wanted to go to the factory to verify the situation, she would have no legal basis to do so.
So she planned to start from other channels. Coincidentally, there was a female classmate in her class whose parents worked in a non-staple food factory.
Yao Taotao was on good terms with her, so while they were changing rooms between classes, she stopped her and asked, "Cheng Jia, I have a relative who works at your food factory. He's asking me to borrow money, saying he's been struggling to get paid lately. Is that true?"
Cheng Jia is from the third batch. She is short and thin. It is said that she has lost weight due to childbirth.
After so many years, she never expected to return to campus, so when she received the notice of the resumption of the college entrance examination, she was very surprised, but also nervous, fearing that two months would not be enough time to review and prepare for the exam.
Fortunately, she studied hard and had a good foundation, and the exam was not difficult, so her last-minute cramming yielded good results.
In fact, based on her grades, she could go to university in the provincial capital, but she didn't want to be separated from her child, so she only filled in Yicheng University on her application form.
She also knew about Yao Taotao's situation. After all, Yao Taotao's ex-husband still worked in the factory.
She pulled Yao Taotao along, glanced at the other students, and finally dragged her to the bathroom before she dared to speak: "Don't ask in the classroom next time."
"What's wrong?" Yao Taotao was a little surprised. Seeing Cheng Jia's nervous expression, it seemed as if some terrible monster was waiting for her.
Cheng Jia whispered, "Do you still remember Director Hu?"
"Remember, the grass on the grave was several feet high." Yao Taotao frowned subconsciously when she heard the three words "Director Hu".
Oh no, could it be...
Cheng Jia reminded quietly: "Listen, Director Hu is back again."
This sounds ridiculous, but they are all students of the Faculty of Arts, and this kind of metaphor is very common in literary works.
Yao Taotao understood instantly: "You mean, the Xiao family..."
Cheng Jia quickly covered her mouth: "Shh! Go to class first, I'll come find you after school."
"Do you know where I live?" Yao Taotao did not invite her classmates to visit her newly bought house.
Cheng Jia smiled and said, "I've seen you go into the old dormitory. My parents want to buy some too, but the food factory is too crowded. They don't have much money, so let's wait a little longer."
"How much is it? I'll lend you some?" Yao Taotao was happy to do her a favor. After all, Cheng Jia was willing to tell her the real situation in the factory, which showed his sincerity.
The two of them will be classmates for four years. It would be great if they could become close friends.
Cheng Jia refused: "No, I know your family situation. You have to help your sisters raise their children. How can I lend you money? Besides, I heard that the individual economy will be opened up soon. My parents are hardworking people, and my parents-in-law, brother-in-law, and husband are all down-to-earth. As long as there is a chance, I can definitely make money to buy my own house. In short, I appreciate your kindness."
"Okay, if you're short on money when doing business, you can come to me." Yao Taotao originally thought Cheng Jia was a good person, and now she likes Cheng Jia even more.
Cheng Jia also admires Yao Taotao very much. She is a rural girl who takes one step at a time, works steadily, dares to innovate, and is proactive. She is really a good role model.
The two of them had a great conversation and after class, they walked together.
Yao Taotao took her directly to the house she bought and asked, "Would you like some noodles?"
"No need, I'll just sit for a while and leave. The child is waiting for me to come back. The boy is spoiled by his grandmother. He doesn't eat well and insists on being fed. I've been forcing him to eat by himself recently." Cheng Jia didn't bother to be polite. She found a chair to sit down, picked up a pen and paper, and started writing.
She was worried that there might be eavesdroppers, so she just wrote down some things. Yao Taotao happened to be cooking, so she burned the paper after reading it and pretended nothing had happened.
Yao Taotao went to the kitchen to boil some water, came in, closed the door, and stood by, watching silently.
In short, because Director Zhang did not want to offend anyone, he condoned and allowed the employees in the factory to steal.
Indeed, ever since Director Yuan came, the incident of stealing and selling raw materials has not happened. In addition, Director Zhang is not bold enough to steal, so even if someone asks him to do such a thing, he will not agree.
But he got the position of factory director too casually, so the employees in the factory did not obey him.
In order to shut everyone up and win a little more people's support, he condoned all kinds of violations.
Fortunately, not everyone is willing to be a parasite, so although the factory has a small deficit, it is not serious enough to make it unable to pay wages.
But things were different when Director Xiao came.
In order to quickly gain a foothold here, Director Xiao had to hang out with some colleagues and friends. Every time he did so, he would go directly to the factory to get things. Not only did he take things for himself, he also used the factory's products to do favors all day long.
No ticket? No problem, talk to Director Zhang and he'll make an exception and write an IOU.
It was said to be an IOU, but I never saw the money paid back or the ticket paid.
In order to save face for themselves, these colleagues and friends spread the news of this good thing widely, so that their relatives and friends also came to use their connections to ask for leniency.
So the factory has recently had a large number of products but has not received any repayment or food coupons.
Without a ticket, it means that the plan is exceeded. If it exceeds the plan, the superiors will not approve the raw materials. Without raw materials, the production target approved for that month cannot be achieved. The factory cannot produce products for sale, and naturally cannot pay wages.
After reading it, Yao Taotao was stunned.
Director Xiao is indeed a nuisance, but it seems that this kind of person has backers in the province and cannot be easily brought down. What should we do?
What a difficult question. Yao Taotao took the note to the kitchen and burned it. When she came back, she looked at Cheng Jia with a worried look on her face: "Then your parents are out of money too, right?"
"My family is doing well. When we have money, we save it. When we don't, we have enough food to last us three to five months. By then, maybe the policy on individual economy will have been released, and we can find another way out." Cheng Jia smiled and said comfortingly, "Besides, my parents-in-law are honest people who live a decent life. They have saved money, so they won't have to worry about not having enough to eat."
This is true. Cheng Jia's father-in-law works in a meat processing plant, her mother-in-law works in a street office, and the man works in a transport team, all of which are good jobs.
Yao Taotao turned around, went to the inner room, and took out two bags of different snacks: "Here, take them back for the children."
"Oh, these are the new peanut crisps and coconut bread from the provincial capital's non-staple food factory. You may not be able to get them even if you have a ticket." Cheng Jia was surprised.
She only saw it when she went to visit relatives in the provincial capital during the Chinese New Year.
Yao Taotao smiled and said, "You know Editor-in-Chief Yao from the publishing house, right?"
"I know." Cheng Jia hesitated for a moment, then said, "You two have been treating each other like sisters all these years, right?"
"Yes, every year she selects twelve apprentices to be sent to the provincial capital's non-staple food factory. One of them, Ye Sheng, never came back after he left and has been working there ever since. Every time a new product comes out, I send her money and tickets and ask her to help me buy it. She's an employee of the factory, so as long as she has tickets and money, she can buy it first." Yao Taotao smiled and stuffed the snacks into Cheng Jia's arms. "Here, I have more in the cabinet. Let the children try it too. This recipe was given by Editor-in-Chief Yao. Speaking of which, she wanted to cooperate with Factory Director Zhang at the beginning. She provided the recipe and asked Director Zhang to improve the factory's products, but Director Zhang refused. Fortunately, Director Gao in the provincial capital is very discerning. Look at how many new products have been released in recent years. When the day of economic reform comes, we will definitely be able to do even better."
"I was wondering why there are new things in the provincial capital every two months in recent years. It turns out that the recipe is provided by Editor-in-Chief Yao. I didn't realize that she can write news reports, novels, and publish magazines that are best-sellers nationwide. That's not all. She can even quietly come up with snack recipes. She is really versatile. If you get along well with her, you will definitely learn a lot." Cheng Jia was amazed. No wonder Yao Zhizhi was awarded the title of March 8th Red Flag Bearer in the past two years.
Well deserved.
Yao Taotao smiled and replied, "When she comes back for summer vacation, I'll introduce you to each other."
"Okay!" Cheng Jia really wanted to satisfy the child's craving, so she accepted the two bags of snacks. After thinking about it, she took out another dollar from her pocket and said, "I can't take yours for free. I can't make up for the non-staple food ticket for the time being, but I still have money."
"No need, I've already given the ticket. This is different from that one." The so-called "that one" refers to the purchasing method of Director Zhang's relatives.
After all, she did not lose the tickets from the provincial capital, but Director Zhang did not receive the tickets. When checking the accounts, it was an undisputed bad debt.
But Cheng Jia insisted: "Then you keep the money, and I won't buy a new ticket. Just consider it a gift from Aunt Xiaotao to the child."
Yao Taotao had no choice but to accept the money so that Cheng Jia wouldn't be too embarrassed.
After Cheng Jia left, Yao Taotao thought about it and decided to go to the small courtyard on the other side of the alley to make a phone call.
Of course she could also call the supply and marketing cooperative outside, but there were so many people around that it would be easy for people to find out that she was telling tales.
She ate a bowl of noodles first, then picked up the things she brought for the children, and went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a bunch of brown sugar and a can of malted milk, and took them to find Tang Fengyuan, so as not to be impolite when she arrived empty-handed.
Tang Fengyuan has been very busy recently, and the reason is that university has started.
The arrival of many students from other places has driven population mobility, and their parents and relatives will also come to visit relatives and friends.
When there were more people from other places, the homeless people at the train station were very happy.
Today this traveler had his wallet stolen, tomorrow that traveler had his luggage pickpocketed, and the day after tomorrow someone was robbed on the street by a homeless person.
It was a pity that she didn't have supernatural powers, and she was really stretched to the limit and exhausted. Fortunately, Director Sun agreed to recruit a few young police officers into the station in June, and then Tang Fengyuan would be able to relax a little.
She had just returned from the square in front of the train station, escorting a habitual thief.
Seeing her tired face, Yao Taotao couldn't help but sigh. Fortunately, Zhizhi had Uncle Jingzong to help take care of the children. Otherwise, such a busy mother-in-law would not be able to help her daughter-in-law at all, and Zhizhi didn't know if she had the energy to study.
Thinking about it this way, the child should have the surname Yao, after all, it is the Yao family who are doing the hard work.
Yao Miaomiao is very straightforward, all four of her children have the surname Yao.
However, Yao Taotao couldn't say this. If Aunt Tang didn't agree, she would think Zhizhi was dissatisfied with her mother-in-law.
So Yao Taotao could only think about it in her heart.
She hurried forward, bustling around to help.
This habitual thief with a shifty look was so stunned when he saw a beautiful young wife.
Xiao Jin had just finished handling another homeless theft case and was coming out of the interrogation room next door. Seeing the man drooling over Yao Taotao, he went up and kicked him: "What's wrong with you, idiot? You're such a grown man and still drooling? Get down right now!"
Yao Taotao was very grateful. She smiled at Xiao Jin, said thank you, and turned to find Tang Fengyuan.
Xiao Jin looked at her pretty eyes and could only sigh silently. What a pity, she was getting married for the second time, otherwise...
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