Chapter 166

Regret

Chen Lili was quite angry at first, thinking that her sister was wrong and she was not wrong.

When I heard the word "hydropower plant", I was stunned.

Because she has always known that a large hydropower plant was being built on the Baiyang River. It is said that once the hydropower plant is built, the current thermal power plant in the mining area will be closed. Jiao Laidie has mentioned such a large plant several times, saying that whoever becomes the plant director in the future will also be a chief engineer-level cadre.

This means that she had been looking forward to Wang Hongbing's promotion for six or seven years, and her husband's promotion was finally underway, but it was ruined by Jiao Laidie?

Chen Lili was so angry that she felt dizzy, so she blocked Jiao Laidie at her door.

"Accountant Jiao, you are not like this, right? We agreed that my Xiaohong and your Lanlan would go to the Oilfield Middle School together. Didn't you also say that when the two children go to college in the future, Xiaohong will help Lanlan?" Chen Lili said, "You are the one who reported my Xiaohong for plagiarism. You received my Xiaohong's kindness, but you sold her out. After you sold her out, my Hongbing can't do anything. I wanted to become your relative and friend. How could you harm our whole family like this?"

Jiao Laidie was unhappy because she lost face at the woolen textile factory today.

As for Du Lanlan, she did not think much of it at the time. But in the evening, when the female workers came out of the woolen textile factory, everyone was talking about her, Gong Xiaoxia, Liu Suiwa and others, scolding them for having dirty thoughts and for not studying hard at such a young age and for squeezing out their classmates.

Although the mining area is large, almost everyone knows each other.

I had only just walked home from the woolen textile factory when several old neighbors upstairs came down to ask, "Lanlan, I heard that some girls in your school actually made up rumors about young girls and said that they had abortions. Do you know who that shameless girl is?"

Du Lanlan was so angry that she stomped her feet, rushed into the room, threw herself on the bed, and started crying.

Jiao Lai Di was already furious, and when she saw Chen Lili, she just added fuel to the fire. "My daughter got into Oilfield Middle School with her own ability. What is cheating? I ask you, Chen Lili, what is cheating? Only your daughter cheats. Besides, don't make jokes about being my relative. We grow vegetables on the same farm. What's there to be associating with?"

As she said that, she pushed Chen Lili out of her house.

Chen Lili is a typical bully. Jiao Lai Di pushed and shoved her and scolded her. When she was standing outside the door, she could hear Jiao Lai Di still scolding her inside. "You are really a shrew from the farm. You don't know anything and you are just barking! You keep barking. You'd better let the people in the mining area see your face. Chen Lina's face depends on you!"

When Chen Lili makes a fuss, people don't laugh at her, they laugh at Chen Lina!

This was not a woolen textile factory. Chen Lina sent Wang Hongbing and Liu Xiaohong away, took her sister in her arms, Erdan carried the vegetables, Sandan carried the milk powder, and prepared to go home with her two sons and a daughter.

Nie Weimin took the initiative to stay and wait for Chen Tiantian because she had to work overtime. He planned to talk to her, apologize to her, and go back to the base together after she was done.

"Mom, our car is about to get sunburned, right?" Sandan said.

The weather was too hot. Although the car was parked in the shade, it was still very stuffy inside after being exposed to the sun for a whole day.

Every time the children get on the bus, they sweat profusely.

The boys were fine, but the little sister wilted when she got hot, and kept shouting "No, no, Che Che, no."

This means that I don’t want to take the car.

"Okay, Mom, open the window wide for us, drive around for a while first, and wait until the car cools down before my sister gets in, okay?" Sandan is always the one with the most ideas.

The younger sister didn't understand why she had to run a lap first, but as long as her brother said yes, she was willing to do it.

As a result, I couldn't find the car where I parked.

Chen Lina was just wondering when the worker drove over slowly.

Rolling down the window, he said, "Come up and try it to see if it's cool enough."

Chen Lina looked left and right, and the worker was anxious, "Hurry up, it's so hot outside, the air conditioning in the car will run out soon."

Erdan took the lead and got on the car.

Haha, what is that called? In an instant, he went from the scorching summer like a desert into a world of ice and snow.

"Dad, it's cool, really cool. Can you tell me how you made the car so cool?"

When Nie Gong saw Chen Lina getting on the bus, he quickly handed her his clothes and said, "Pick up Wei Xing. Be careful not to let her catch a cold. I'm afraid the child won't be able to stand the air conditioning."

Chen Lina was also shocked. "You actually installed an air conditioner in my jeep?"

"I have been submitting reports to apply for a foreign trade vehicle to research original engine oil. The higher-ups approved a Japanese car, which is not as good as European or American cars, but it has air conditioning. I removed it and installed it in your car."

"The pipes are all wrong. Our car can only turn on the heating, so how did you install an air conditioner in it?" Miss Chen, who knew a lot about cars, was completely confused.

Before the laborer could say anything, Sandan, who was studying the blueprints in the back, said, "My dad must have dismantled your heating system and installed the air conditioner in that place. The pipes are the same, and I guess the connectors are a little different in size, but that shouldn't be a problem for my dad."

"Then will we only be able to blow cold wind in the winter from now on? Dad? Will I freeze to death in the car in winter?" What Erdan said was exactly what Chen Lina wanted to ask.

"The air conditioner can cool and heat, it just consumes more fuel. Am I right, Dad?" Sandan said.

Nie Gong nodded and said, "You are absolutely right. Next time my dad goes to the motorcycle factory to modify machinery, I have to bring Nie Weijiang with me to the motorcycle factory to help me with the hand bending."

Don't think that hand-bending is a trivial matter, but as soon as the laborer arrives, there are so many young men in the motorcycle factory who are scrambling to be the one to do the hand-bending.

He is experienced and skilled, and any advice he gives would be enough to benefit the engineers at the motorcycle factory for a long time.

Can’t you see Liu Xiaohong, Chen Lili, and Wang Hongbing standing in front of the tractor on the street?

Well, the whole family can be described in four words: distraught.

Erdan said, "Mom, stop the car, my aunt is there."

"Don't worry, just let them stand." said Chen Lina.

She decided to wait until Chen Lili's mind was clear before curing her illness.

Since the worker didn't know what happened between the two sisters, Chen Lina told him everything and then said, "Liu Xiaohong is really something. My sister is getting more and more confused. I asked her to follow me, but she refused. I don't know what she is thinking."

"If you make a mistake in something, even if it hurts Nie Weijiang, and another woman wants to take him away, will he leave?" Nie Gong doesn't think so. He said, "Children are called children because they are willing to tolerate their parents' shortcomings no matter how big they are, because home is more important to them than adults."

"That's why I'm angry. Xiaohong is such a good kid, but because of Chen Lili, she can't go to a good school."

While driving, Chen Lina had to visit Hu Su to give her some of the finest cotton she had collected for her and help her mend a quilt.

She had just arrived at the mining area and was currently working on the garment factory.

Regarding the garment factory, Chen Lina had a lot to discuss with Hu Su and the others. After all, the woolen textile factory provided work for the women in the mining area, but the mining area still could not get rid of the shackles of its heavy industrial city and pollution.

During her trip to the Party School, Chen Lina got to know several top leaders of economically advanced cities. She and Hu Su planned to invite them as guests once everything was on the right track. Of course, they wanted to take advantage of their momentum and make the mining area rich first.

The two chatted for a while. Chen Lina was even more excited than Hu Su herself when she heard that Hu Su and Hu Xuanang were hitting it off and were making good progress.

While preparing to give her sister a bath in the evening, Chen Lina was still thinking about Liu Xiaohong.

My sister was still too young to go to the bathroom. She just sat in a large plastic basin filled with water and refused to come out. So Sandan bought her two small ping-pong balls that floated on the water for her to play with.

"Yie Gong, our mining area has always been electing reserve cadres. Do you have the list?"

"Yes, but that has nothing to do with me. I don't really care about those things. So what?" Although Nie Gong only does scientific research, he is now the nominal director of the mining area. In the personnel column, he is ranked third.

Of course, he won't get any real power, but his resume will look better and his salary will be higher. This is what Secretary A and the autonomous region came up with, as they want to raise his salary.

"No, there is something you need to take care of." Chen Lina said, "You promoted Du Qiming to the reserve cadre position this time. I tell you, many comrades can share hardships but not wealth. Haven't you noticed that Du Qiming's plastic factory has developed very well in recent years? That comrade should also be subject to the organization's review."

The development of the plastic factory was possible because Chen Lina pushed Du Qiming to attend the Canton Fair.

However, once the ground film was produced and expanded on a large scale, Du Qiming changed.

Wang Hongbing is not an isolated case of getting mulch film stuck. He has blocked many people from getting mulch film approved. For each farm, mulch film is now a necessary product for production, just like fertilizer. If the plastic factory does not give it to them, the farm can only stare anxiously.

Chen Lina guessed correctly that Du Qiming had received a lot of money.

Think about it, when Chen Lina was reviewed by the people from the Central Group and the Youth Group, they reviewed her eight generations of ancestors.

This kind of trial, if he is innocent, he will be promoted and embark on a career in politics. If he is really not clean, he will spend the rest of his life crying behind bars.

Nie Gong was very dull in this regard. "I don't know much about Comrade Du Qiming, but he is about the same age. I will look through the documents tomorrow and write a letter of recommendation. I will have Xiao Wang send it to the mining area. If he is really a good comrade, he should be promoted."

But if it weren't for good comrades, his good days would be over.

"Are you going to blow up the balloon again?" Chen Lina said when she saw her sister fell asleep and the worker was tossing and turning at the head of the bed.

The mechanic paused and said, "How about we not use the balloon at all and just make another one at once?"

Nie Gongxin thought that he should enjoy all the luxuries of capitalism. Well, he would write a report tomorrow and change to a few more brands.

Du Qiming also returned home, but he was not as confident as his wife Jiao Laidie. He was actually timid in his heart.

"What are you afraid of? Plagiarism is like dirty water. Liu Xiaohong, don't even think about overturning the verdict," said Jiao Laidie.

"But if Chen Lina really wants to intervene in this kind of thing, I'm afraid I'll lose my position as factory director." Du Qiming said, "You only know that she's aggressive, but you don't know that she has many tricks up her sleeve."

His plastic factory has been the best business developed in the mining area in recent years.

Backed by an oil refinery, it is the largest of the few plastic factories in the entire republic.

The border is such a vast area that every corps farm needs mulch to increase production, not to mention plastic sandals, umbrellas, and rain boots.

To say this, he had to express his sincere gratitude to Chen Lina.

If she had not suggested that he go to the Canton Fair more often to learn about Japan's new film production technology and import large equipment, it would have been impossible to achieve the achievements of today's plastic factory.

"No, don't worry." Jiao Lai Di was confident. "That Chen Lili is very stupid. She doesn't have any special ability except that she likes to curry favor with people. Although she is a sister of Secretary Chen, Secretary Chen hates her. If she makes trouble again, Secretary Chen will chase her away. Even if they are sisters, they are worse than strangers if they really become enemies!"

"But my reputation has been ruined. Please help me think of a solution. If people in the mining area scold me all day long, I will never go out and stop going to school." Du Lanlan yelled in the bedroom.

Just then, Du Lanlan's aunt Du Baozhen came in.

Du Baozhen works in the health hospital as a urologist. Coincidentally, she was also the one who examined Chen Tiantian.

Du Baozhen was examining Tiantian at the time. Of course, it was the first time she had encountered a girl who couldn't live with rumors, so she said, "Everything has its time to come to an end. I have to tell you that you are intact. I will tell your father about this.

By then, even if many people in the mining area say that you slept with someone or had an abortion for someone, it doesn’t matter. Your father believes in your innocence, which is the best thing. Do you understand? "

"But I think life is so boring." The reason why she followed a herdsman was because the herdsman's home was far away in the pastoral area and had almost no contact with people. This was the reason why she would never be laughed at.

Du Baozhen was also a grown-up girl, and she knew the impact of such things on a girl.

It would have been fine if she didn't hear it, but she had heard on the way that the rumor about Chen Tiantian was that she was targeting her niece Du Lanlan and two other girls. She couldn't hit the others, but she could at least hit Du Lanlan.

So, after pushing open the door and entering the bedroom, Du Baozhen swung her feather brush at Du Lanlan, who was lying on the bed. "You gossipers almost forced a nice girl to commit suicide. You don't repent at all, and you still want the people in the mining area not to scold you? Let me tell you, you deserve to be spit on by the people in the mining area and drowned."

"Du Baozhen, what's wrong with you? Why are you hitting my daughter?"

"Your daughter is so young and yet she is always gossiping about other people. She is learning from you, sister-in-law. You should take care of yourself. Otherwise, your daughter's future will be like you now, a woman with no manners, vicious, and completely rotten."

"Du Baozhen, get out of our house!" Jiao Laidi was so angry that she slapped him.

Well, a martial arts fight in the Du family began with the beating of gongs.

"It's your fault. You're incompetent and can't get the plastic mulch. You force me to curry favor with Jiao Lai Di." No matter what Chen Lili was angry about, she could vent it on Wang Hongbing.

Wang Hongbing squatted on the curb and said nothing.

"I don't care. Anyway, Lina won't give us tuition and wants us to go back to Qisixiang. You figure out a way to deal with this." Chen Lili said again.

Wang Hongbing said, "If it weren't for my father-in-law and mother-in-law, if it weren't for you carrying me to the border, if it weren't for our two daughters, Chen Lili, I really..."

Chen Lili's great contribution lies in the fact that she carried Wang Hongbing to the border on her back.

"Forget it, I'll go kneel down to Lina and let her find a solution for us. Lili, think about the past, when we were walking towards Umay, one supported the other, on the snowy plain. At that time, you said that you would be satisfied as long as I gave you a bowl of hot mutton soup. But now, you want to go to the city, want to live in a building, and don't want to stay on the farm. Think about the past, okay? Really, I think you will feel much better if you think about the past, okay?"

How could Chen Lili not feel sad?

She suddenly turned around and saw the door of the security team.

The whole family happened to stop at the door of the security team.

Yes, that was what happened when they first went to Wumai. She and Wang Hongbing were arrested by the security team. When they wanted to repatriate Wang Hongbing, she even thought that even if she died, she would die in the security team with Wang Hongbing. She would never let anyone take the thin and lame Wang Hongbing away from her.

At that time, she only had Wang Hongbing in her heart, and she just wanted to carry him to a place where she could have food and drink and would not be beaten or criticized.

However, from the moment her sister drove her car into the security team, her heart changed.

She wanted more and more, and she even forgot why she came to the frontier in the first place.

Suddenly she knelt down on the ground and started crying.

"Mom, don't cry. I can weave straw braids, and I can also work to earn money. I can earn my own tuition fees, okay? Please don't cry." Liu Xiaohong said, and knelt down.

Chen Lili tore her chest and said, "Mom is just upset. Mom doesn't know how I ended up like this."

Wang Hongbing was angry and helpless. He stamped his feet and said, "Okay, I'll go ask Lina to take care of this matter. Is that ok?"

It just so happens that Chen Tiantian has just finished cleaning and is off work.

In order to enlighten her and apologize to her, Nie Weimin walked with her.

Liu Xiaohong was kneeling at first, but when she saw Nie Weimin and Chen Tiantian, she stood up quickly.

"What's wrong with you, Auntie? Can you please stop doing this? It will be so ridiculous if someone sees you."

In Nie Weimin's opinion, crying in the street, no matter how many people are watching, is really shameful enough.

"Wei Min, this is your aunt. She has something on her mind that she can't express, so she cried a few times. You go on your way and don't worry about us," said Wang Hongbing.

Nie Weimin said, "Wang Sitian, Chen Tiantian needs your help today. Do you want to help?"

"What's the matter, Tiantian, tell me." Liu Xiaohong said.

Tiantian actually didn't have anything to say to Liu Xiaohong, but Nie Weimin gently tugged at her clothes from behind.

"Come on, Xiaohong, I really have something to talk to you about," she said.

Nie Weimin was still tugging at her clothes, so she said, "Let your parents go back first. I want to talk to you for a while."