Zhang Jinmei, the trade union secretary of the Beijing No. 1 Textile Factory, is already sixteen years old and will be able to retire in two years.
Secretary Zhang was one of the first batch of elderly people recruited after the first textile factory was built. He was able to join the trade union as an officer because he could read and do math.
I have to say that she was really lucky. After entering the factory, she took several training courses. She was low-key and good-natured, and got along well with the people in the factory.
Moreover, Zhang Jinmei already had a seven-year-old son before she joined the factory. According to her own account, the child's father died of illness when the child was five years old, leaving the mother and son to depend on each other.
In those days, the combination of an orphan and a widow was very common, and no one had any doubts. Moreover, there was no such thing as a marriage certificate at that time. A wedding ceremony was considered a marriage.
Later, when her son was about nine years old, Zhang Jinmei was introduced to a man in the factory and married him. He was a skilled worker in the factory and his wife had died and he had only one daughter.
Less than a year after they got married, Zhang Jinmei became pregnant and gave birth to their youngest son.
Therefore, there was a difference of nearly ten years between the two sons, and there was also a daughter brought by the man.
Zhang Jinmei's eldest son, Xiangyang, is 29 years old and is now an engineer at the No. 1 Textile Factory in Beijing. Because he had good academic performance since childhood, he went all the way to university and was assigned to the No. 1 Textile Factory after graduation.
Xiangyang got married when he was about 20 years old, two years after he became a junior engineer in the factory. He now has a son and a daughter. His wife, Li Juan, is a trade union officer of the No. 1 Textile Factory, her father is the deputy director of the No. 1 Textile Factory, and her mother is the section chief of the district trade union.
For example, the family also lived with Zhang Jinmei and her two children. The couple lived in one room, the son lived in another room, and the daughter lived in another room. All the food and accommodation were paid for by Zhang Jinmei and her husband's salary.
Two years ago, after graduating from high school, the younger son Ma Shangming joined the No. 1 Textile Factory as a temporary worker under Zhang Jinmei's guidance. Not long after that, he married his high school classmate Xu Aizhen, and had a son one year after their marriage.
The younger daughter-in-law Xu Aizhen had no job and could only take odd jobs from the street office and bring them home to do. However, she would not hand over the money she earned and would only use it in their own small home, so Xu Aizhen's life in her husband's family was not bad and she was very diligent in taking jobs. Except for one thing, there was also comparison between the two sisters-in-law. Li Juan especially looked down on her younger sister-in-law, and both of them ate and drank for free at home.
Li Juan was different from Xu Aizhen, she was very good at dealing with people. Although she and Xiangyang didn't pay for living expenses, she would often buy some small things for the family, such as salt, salted fish, kelp, soy sauce, vinegar and matches, two cabbages, a white radish, etc., all of which were necessary for living and edible, and the key was that these things were cheap.
Since the whole family worked in the textile factory, they would never be short of cloth.
Although her two sons did not hand in their living expenses, Zhang Jinmei's salary was only more than ten yuan, but she managed to save more than ten yuan every month.
It was all because she had six or seven pieces of cheap defective cloth to resell to others every month, and she could get nearly twenty yuan in subsidies for each sale.
Of course, she couldn't have gotten so many defective cloths by herself. There must be a reason why the family can live in harmony without having to pay for living expenses.
The eldest daughter-in-law, Li Juan, would bring two to one pieces of defective cloth home every month, and Zhang Jinmei's own trade union would also receive two pieces of defective cloth every month. Then there were the eldest son and her husband, both of whom held high positions, and they could buy defective cloth whenever they wanted, which was another invisible source of income for the family.
After Zhang Jinmei married her current husband, she and her stepdaughter also lived in the house named after her. This small courtyard used to have only one main room, a firewood room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a large courtyard. Later, another room was built in the courtyard, so the courtyard was reduced by more than half.
Despite this, the family lives in a much more spacious and comfortable home than many other families.
"This house must have been bought by Fang Jiahai for Zhang Jinmei. I didn't expect that he was so nice to Zhang Jinmei."
After listening to the information the old man had inquired about, Old Lady Song made such an exclamation.
"Yes, after knowing that Zhang Jinmei gave me a son, I have been sending money to her and her son over and over again over the years."
Old Master Song snorted coldly and looked down on Fang Jiahai at all. This kind of man is actually a disaster for women.
"What?! Now you're giving her and her son money?! Isn't this guy married?!"
"He got married right after graduating from college, and his wife's family used to be pretty good, but in recent years, the parents on her side have retired, and it's not as good as before."
"Old man, I guess he's still giving money to his illegitimate son because he doesn't have a son yet."
"Hey, old lady, I didn't expect you to be so smart. You actually guessed that his wife didn't give him a son."
"Well, this is not a guess, this is a speculation. And what's wrong with guessing?! The person a man values most, besides his parents, is his son. If he doesn't lack a son, then he definitely doesn't care about this illegitimate son. Unless his illegitimate son's biological mother threatens him. Otherwise, his wife's family is so powerful, there is no need for him to have any connection with his past."
Don't tell her that this man is loyal and has no choice, or that his childhood sweetheart is his true love. In fact, from the moment Fang Jiahai abandoned his childhood sweetheart and chose his current wife who has particularly good conditions, there is no need to say more about what kind of person he is.
"That's right. Fang Jiahai's wife only gave him a daughter, and she will only have this one daughter for the rest of her life. His wife had a heavy hemorrhage when she was giving birth to the child. Her life was saved, but her uterus was not preserved and she could never give birth again."
It took Mr. Song two months to find out all the things about Fang Jiahai.
Old Mrs. Song nodded in understanding. Doesn't this make sense now? !
Humph, men! Most of them are like this.
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