When Ye Li walked into the village party committee office, the village party secretary was leading a meeting of about ten people including several production team leaders, accountants, security team leaders, and women's directors.
Guan Gensheng was sitting facing the door. He was very surprised to see Ye Li coming. He stood up excitedly and shouted, "Sister, why are you here?"
Ye Li smiled, greeted the cadres in the room, and then replied: "Gensheng, I came here to deliver the loom to you!"
"What?" Guan Gensheng was stunned. "Sister, you mean a loom? The kind of machine used for weaving cloth? One that can replace manual weaving by plugging in electricity?"
"yes!"
"Is this true? Sister, you are not lying to me, are you?"
"Why would I lie to you!"
The village party secretary was also incredulous after hearing this: "So fast? We said before that it would be good if it could be completed before New Year's Day. How come it was completed so much earlier!"
"With the help of the factory workers, the progress is much faster! I have already brought people to deliver the loom to the entrance of Qingshan Village. Now the driver and my wife are waiting in the car! Leader, do you think we can send a few people to move the machine down and transport it to the factory?"
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"Okay, okay, okay! That's no problem! Oh, I didn't expect this! This is such a happy event! Comrades, let's end the meeting here today. Now everyone go to the village entrance to help lift the loom down and send it to our factory!"
The village party secretary's call received a lot of response and everyone was very enthusiastic.
"Are there enough people? If not, I'll call a few more people over!" Guan Gensheng asked.
"Yes, yes, yes, go call a few more people! The road in our village is narrow, and the big truck can't get in. Go and ask Erzhuzi to come over and drive a tractor. Put the loom on the tractor and transport it to the village factory!"
"Don't worry!"
Not long after Guan Gensheng left, he came back with the tractor. A group of strong young men got off the tractor, holding ropes, torn sacks and long sticks in their hands, and came to help move the loom.
The village instantly became lively, with a group of people shouting slogans enthusiastically. After great effort, they finally got the loom onto the tractor and transported it to the factory.
Ye Li and Jiang Xun still had to go to the factory to debug the machines, so Lao Zhou was invited by the village party secretary to the village office for tea.
"Gensheng, introduce the factory in our village to your sister and brother-in-law!" The village party secretary gave this difficult task to Guan Gensheng.
Guan Gensheng started to introduce without hesitation: "Sister, brother-in-law, look, this is the factory that was built in our village after you left! Take a look at this five-room blue brick house, it's quite spacious, right? There are twelve women working in the factory now, and they are all spinning and weaving by hand, so the efficiency is very low! But once the new machines come in, we will be much faster!"
"What about the dyeing workshop? Has it been built?" Ye Li asked.
"Of course! Our production team is quite fast! The dyeing factory has been built. The people in the village don't know how to dye cloth. Even if they do, they can only dye blue coarse cloth. Other colors and patterns are not possible! Come on, I'll take you to have a look!"
Guan Gensheng took Ye Li and the others for a walk, explaining as they walked. Ye Li nodded continuously: "Very good, I am quite surprised at your speed! Very impressive!"
The village party secretary smiled helplessly and said, "There is nothing we can do. The village is short of cloth! The fields in Qingshan Village are all on the hillside. Farming is very hard, and the harvest is not good! Therefore, we have to find a way to develop new fields and increase grain production! However, this land reclamation is not an easy task. It is labor-intensive and wears out clothes! The villagers' clothes are patched up all year round! Last time you said that you could give us the cloth to weave, which would not only allow us to wear new clothes, but also allow us to sell the cloth in the future. We were so happy! Aren't we more proactive about such a good thing?"
"Yeah, everyone is so motivated and energetic! Let's go back to the loom and let Jiang Xun show you how to use it!"
"Okay, let's go!" Upon hearing this, the village party secretary hurriedly led the way, shouting as he walked, "Gensheng, go find your wife quickly. She's a smart person and learns things quickly! Let her come and learn first, and then she can teach everyone after she has learned it!"
"Secretary, don't talk nonsense. She is not my wife!" Guan Gensheng blushed.
"Why are you blushing, young man! If it's not now, it will be sooner or later. Aren't you guys set to get married by the end of the year? After you get married, won't she be your wife? Go, go, and stop talking nonsense!"
Guan Gensheng chuckled twice, swung his legs and went to call his girl Lin Yuetao over.
Lin Yuetao met Jiang Xun and Ye Li for the first time. Although she had never met them before, she had heard of them from Guan Gensheng. She admired Ye Li very much. After meeting her, she called her "sister" openly.
Seeing that the girl was sweet, spoke slowly and was very polite, Ye Li liked her immediately: "Yuetao, right? I heard that you learn things the fastest. Let your brother-in-law teach you a few times. After you remember it, you have to teach everyone how to start the machine! As for how to weave cloth on this loom, I will show you later!"
"Okay! Thank you for your hard work, sister and brother-in-law!"
Jiang Xun was surrounded by a group of people, who patiently explained several times in a very clear and organized manner.
Lin Yuetao learned it immediately.
"I suggest you take a notebook and write it down, so that you can look it up later if you forget it!" Jiang Xun suggested, "A good memory is not as good as a bad pen, give it a try!"
"Okay!" Lin Yuetao listened to the advice and quickly borrowed paper and pen from Guan Gensheng and began to record seriously.
After Jiang Xun finished teaching, Ye Li came to teach.
She learned a lot of such knowledge during this business trip in the south. When she returned to the factory, she went to the workshop to watch the workers operate the looms and weave cloth when she had nothing to do. Some old looms were semi-automatic and still required someone to watch over the machine.
The process she taught was a little complicated, but not difficult. After confirming several times that Lin Yuetao had memorized it, she felt relieved.
After finishing all this, it was already past two in the afternoon, and she and Jiang Xun hadn't even had lunch.
The village party secretary wanted to invite her and Jiang Xun to dinner, but was stopped by Guan Gensheng: "My sister and brother-in-law are going to come home for dinner! My aunt said that my sister and brother-in-law must go back for dinner. She is waiting at home and has prepared everything!"
"In that case, then you guys go! Just let me know when you leave, I still have some things to discuss with Ye Li and Engineer Jiang!" said the branch secretary.
"That's no problem!"
Guan Gensheng was going back with Ye Li and Jiang Xun. Seeing Lin Yuetao still trying to learn from the machine, he asked her, "Can you come back for me?"
Lin Yuetao blushed shyly: "What should I do? I want to study the machine and hope to be able to weave cloth as soon as possible. We villagers also want to wear new clothes during the New Year!"
"That's fine, I'll come find you later! I'll take my sister and brother-in-law home first!"
"Go ahead! Sister, brother-in-law, goodbye!"
"Yuetao, goodbye!" Ye Li waved to her.
Jiang Xun also nodded at her.
When Guan Gensheng brought his people back, Liu Yan'e was waiting in the yard of her home. When she saw Ye Li and Jiang Xun coming, she was immediately happy. She stood up from the stool and walked forward and stuffed a hot sweet potato into the hands of Ye Li and Jiang Xun without saying a word.
"Eat, eat, eat! Eat while it's hot!"
Ye Li and Jiang Xun were both stunned. After they reacted, they smiled at each other and thanked Liu Yan'e in unison: "Auntie, thank you!"
"Why thank me? We're all family! I've been waiting for you for a long time!" Liu Yan'e grabbed Ye Li's hand and dragged him straight into the house. "Come on, let's go eat first. After dinner, I've got something good for you and Jiang Xun!"
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