Ji Xia sighed a little.
Before the restart, when her parents were still alive, they were also worried about her marriage. Unfortunately, she was quite unfilial. From the time she became an adult at the age of 18 until her parents passed away, she had never even had a relationship.
Now it's all happening again.
Therefore, Ji Xia could understand her mother's resentment, mainly because she was different from those girls who were thinking about getting married at the age of fourteen or fifteen. She really didn't have any thoughts of being in love.
How could her mother not be anxious?
"Mom, don't worry. The better-looking guys out there may not necessarily be interested in me. Besides, what kind of people are those in the transport team? Mom, don't just look at how much they earn and how they drive cars all year round. I heard that many of them have mistresses outside and some even have illegitimate children." Ji Xia told her mother what she had heard from others, mainly to scare her.
"Stop talking nonsense. What era is it now? If you still keep a mistress outside, you will go to jail." Xie Sufen obviously didn't buy her daughter's words, but she still took her daughter's words to heart. This was not a joke.
"If you don't believe me, go and find out for yourself. I've heard people say that he also took the opportunity to engage in speculation and made some money and then spent it on wine and women. So, I don't want the nephew from Aunt Cuixiang's family." Ji Xia refused.
Xie Sufen was full and a little tired at this point. She didn't want to move for the time being. Plus, since she had this opportunity, she wanted to take the opportunity to talk to her daughter about life matters. "You're not a child anymore. If you don't settle down now, in the next two years, many people will have been snatched away by others. You look down on this and that, what do you want? Let me tell you, your father and I won't support you. If you want someone to support you, go find a son-in-law to support you."
Ji Xia simply said, "Okay, I'll find it myself, don't worry about me."
Xie Sufen said, "Find one as soon as possible. If you can't, I'll help you find one. I heard there are quite a few unmarried people in your father's factory. I'll ask your father to think of a way to find you a temporary job in the city. With a job, it will be easier to talk about marriage."
Seeing her mother's serious actions, Ji Xia was also a little scared, "Mom, didn't Dad and his factory hire me to be a..."
"Just shut up, I don't know how much you weigh. Stop jumping around all day and night, or you'll get your dad into trouble. Are you here to collect a debt or not?"
Ji Xia simply stopped talking.
At night, she slept next to her mother. The north wind was howling outside. She could hear her mother and Aunt He Xiang talking about her marriage again. Aunt He Xiang's hands were not enough to handle the whole thing, so she counted the young men of marriageable age in the entire Tuanjie Commune one by one, which made Ji Xia feel superior as if she was choosing a concubine.
The secretary and the old captain gathered all the drivers for today in a shack and asked them about their experiences of digging and dragging the soil today, just to show off.
"How's it going? Isn't it much faster than digging with your hands?" Yang Muchun's old face was smiling like a chrysanthemum. Without waiting for a reply, he said, "I saw that our team can dig out a large piece in minutes. It's fast and deep, much faster than your team five."
Luo Heng was from Team Five. He was honest, but not stupid. He understood what was being said. "Uncle Mu Chun, of course, this machine digs a huge hole. A tractor is much faster than people carrying it. I think Team Seven can just work for half a day tomorrow morning and basically call it a day. Can Team Five have its turn next?"
The latter sentence was asked to Ji Changgeng. He was the secretary and was in charge of coordinating the digging of the artificial lake. It just so happened that Team 5 and Team 7 were next to each other, so there was nothing wrong with it.
"It's really fast this year. In previous years, it took at least ten days to dig, but this year it was finished in just one or two days. It's really fast with this machine." Yang Nianzu drove the excavator, which was also arranged by Yang Muchun.
According to the commune's arrangement, the four of them who operated the machines had to keep digging at the artificial lake until they completed all the tasks of the Unity Commune this year, but they would be given full work points every day.
It would be fine for Yang Nianzu and the other three healthy people, but because Luo Heng lost half of his arm, no matter how hard he worked, he could not get full work points. As long as he did, there would always be people who would be dissatisfied, as if even a disabled person like him got full work points, those healthy people would be ashamed.
But this time, he drove a tractor and got full work points, and no one dared to say a word.
He wants to keep driving this tractor.
Not only he had this idea, but Yang Nianzu and others also had this idea. It was so cold, but there was heating in the cab. I wished I could just wear a single piece of clothing. I heard that there was air conditioning in the cab even in the hot summer. I wished I could wear a jacket and sit in it to control the system. I could get full work points in a day. Isn't this much better than doing farm work?
Not to mention these four people who were envied, the entire Seventh Brigade was envied. Although they were assigned the same work, the Seventh Brigade only worked for one day and was basically almost done. They could go home tomorrow.
Before the New Year, they can rest at home and do some work on their private plots. Before the snow falls, they can go into the mountains to collect firewood, grind grain, and store pickles to prepare for the next year.
As soon as spring comes and the thaw arrives, work in the fields begins.
At night, some are happy and some are sad.
The next day, early in the morning, Ji Xia had just gotten up when she heard someone calling her outside. She put on her clothes, washed up, and came out, only to see two kind-looking men in Zhongshan suits coming over, led by the secretary.
When bending over to enter the shack, Ji Xia clearly saw that the two men frowned deeply.
"Is it Comrade Ji Xia?" Xie Youwei looked at Ji Xia without any concealment, with a sharp light flashing in his eyes.
Ji Xia also responded, not taking the two people seriously, "What's the matter?"
Ji Changgeng introduced them, "Xia Xia, these are the two secretaries and the team leader of the Revolutionary Committee."
"I'm Secretary Yang Zhenglin, and this is our team leader Comrade Xie Youwei. We received a report that you were involved in the enemy spies' funding of the 21st Factory's production equipment. They said you were the middleman. We need to investigate this matter, and please come with us." Yang Zhenglin said arrogantly, looking at Ji Xia as if he were a dead person.
Ji Xia was a little amused, "Are you sure you want me to go with you?"
I’ve seen people who are not afraid of death, but I’ve never seen anyone so fearless!
Xie Youwei's eyes turned hostile. "Comrade Ji Xia, please note that we are from the Revolutionary Committee. This is a matter of national security. Please cooperate with our investigation, or we will take coercive measures!"
Ji Changgeng was so frightened that he almost fainted. "Comrades, Ji Xia is a member of our production team. She has always been hardworking and law-abiding. That enemy spy thing has absolutely nothing to do with her."
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