Chapter 168
Go fishing
oilfield middle school.
Because it was summer vacation, there was a big lock on the iron gate, which was locked tightly, and there was a small door next to it that was open.
But the gatekeeper was on high alert, fearing that some parents who wanted to get their children into the Oilfield Middle School would come to the principal and use the back door.
Hearing that Chen Lina was the director of a woolen textile factory, the doorman let her in.
"What, the director of a woolen textile factory? What does that have to do with me? I'm a school principal and a teacher. I don't like to build relationships with people. No thanks." Principal Chai was very pretentious.
Besides, Chen Lina was standing downstairs in the teaching building. He walked down with a swagger, still cursing, "It's always about this factory director or that factory director. In order for their children to go to a good school, parents really don't care about their dignity."
"Mom, why is Principal Chai so angry?" Nie Weimin was puzzled. Principal Chai had met him several times and he was always very friendly. He didn't know what happened today.
"Because, yesterday I fired his wife from the woolen textile factory."
"Ah? Why?" Nie Weimin was shocked.
Chen Lina said, "Because his wife has been working at the wool textile factory for two months, she was late for attendance 50 times, and there were still 30 days left. She even asked for leave in the afternoon. Why not fire such a person?"
However, he just expelled Principal Chai's wife yesterday, and now he's looking for someone to help him today. No wonder Principal Chai is trying to make indirect accusations and save her face.
It was hot, and Miss Chen was wearing sunglasses, a high-waisted long skirt with green polka dots, and plastic sandals, what are they called? It was the most fashionable and beautiful scenery in the mining area.
She took off her sunglasses and looked at Principal Chai from a distance. She said, "Principal Chai, why are you so angry? We are going to go fishing on the Baiyang River. Let's go together. I'll treat you to fishing."
Chai Tianming stopped and asked, "Director Chen, who are you going fishing with?"
Principal Chai is a man who particularly likes fishing.
When it comes to getting colleagues to engage in corruption and currying favor with leaders, Chen Lina is the master. If she really wants to corrupt someone, He Min can't even touch her feet.
Chen Lina said, "There are many people, including me, He Lanshan and his wife, and our mining district chief Leng and district chief Hu."
"Let's just do it with all our might and see how it goes when the time comes." Chai Tianming wanted to go in his heart, but he didn't show it on his face!
After returning to the woolen textile factory, Chen Lina handed the children to Liu Xiaohong and Nie Weimin and went to work.
"Hey, secretary, you're here. Hurry up, I've made some tea for you." Jiao Lai Di has been trying to curry favor with Chen Lina recently.
"The accounts are all ready, right? Lai Di, you are the accountant of our wool textile factory, not my secretary. There is no need to be so attentive every day. Just pour me some water."
"Yes, Sister Jiao, pouring water for Secretary Chen is my job." He Min came in, rubbing her hands and said, "Lina, I find that you are really, really unkind."
"What's wrong with me? I'm not a decent person. He Min, don't put flowers on my desk. I don't like your flowers. Just put my embroidery ball in a nice place."
He Min gave Chen Lina a bouquet of flowers. When she saw the embroidery ball sent by the worker on the table, she wanted to move it away. Chen Lina refused, so she had to hide her flowers. "Hu Su is here. You should introduce us to each other, but why did you introduce her to District Chief Hu? Do you think District Chief Hu is as considerate and handsome as me? Do you want me to be single for the rest of my life?"
"Hurry up and get out of the workshop. Stop messing around here. I'll introduce Hu Su to you. Wash your face and look in the mirror first." Chen Lina was annoyed by He Min's courtesy.
Jiao Lai Di stood nearby, looking just like an old woman from the old society. "Our Secretary Chen is really generous. If you ask me, your sister should go back to her hometown. Why don't you send her away? She is in the mining area. She will only ruin your reputation and bring you no benefit."
Jiao Laidie is so shameless that no one can compare to her.
"Hello, Secretary Chen, we meet again." Just then, two people walked in from outside and shook hands with Chen Lina with a smile.
"Is there a woman named Jiao Lai Di in your woolen textile factory? We are here to investigate her under the order of the organization. May I ask where she is?"
"Investigate...investigate...why are you investigating me?" Jiao Lai Di was so scared that she stuttered.
The comrade from the Central Group said, "Hello, Comrade Jiao Lai Di. Your husband Du Qiming is currently in the process of preparing for cadre inspection. We have heard some complaints that you have accepted bribes. In order to investigate and collect evidence, we will take you to the credit union in the mining area, the credit union in Uru, and the credit union in your hometown to check your deposits and ask you to explain the source of the deposits. Is this okay?"
Jiao Lai Di was shocked as if struck by lightning in a clear sky. "No, no, no, no, why do you want to check my savings? My savings have nothing to do with Du Qiming."
"Everyone's income is recorded. Her savings must of course match her income. As long as your income and expenditure match, and you can explain the source of the savings, it will help your husband's promotion. Come on, please cooperate with our investigation." said the young cadre.
Jiao Lai Di wanted to scream, to yell, or even to jump out and burn all the savings she had saved in several credit unions over the years.
After great joy came great sorrow. She had saved at least 20,000 yuan. 20,000 yuan was her joy and happiness. She was so happy that she couldn't sleep every day holding the passbook.
But now, my husband has finally gotten the money. Will the 20,000 yuan drag him into an abyss of no return?
She ran to the stairs in two steps and looked back. The people from the organization were staring at her with numb eyes.
Maybe they have seen many people like her, and they just do their job and won't waste their time talking to her.
"Come on, let's go to the credit union. Comrade Jiao Lai Di, what's wrong with you? Why is there so much sweat on your face all of a sudden?"
It was not just sweat, Jiao Laidie's heart was bleeding and being torn into pieces. She was now crazy. She wanted to know if there was still a glimmer of hope for Du Qiming to be promoted under such circumstances.
She wanted to cry but had no tears. She looked at the two officers blankly. Suddenly, her legs went weak and she fell to her knees on the ground.
The elegant Miss Chen took a sip of tea, smiled, and went back to work.
When she was promoted, there was no such thing as checking deposits. One can only say that as the system becomes more and more perfect, even the termites will have nowhere to hide. What is there to argue with a shrew like Jiao Lai Di? It is enough to watch her committing suicide.
Here, it was the first time for Liu Xiaohong and Nie Weimin to take care of their younger sister and Erniu alone.
As for Erdan and Sandan, they were at the base, staying at home. The worker had not been busy recently, so he cooked lunch for the two kids.
Liu Xiaohong followed Chen Lina's method and cooked cheese for the two children, then ran out to buy vegetables and prepared to come back to cook.
As soon as I entered the door, I heard Erniu crying.
Well, there was a big bowl of cheese, but Nie Weimin only fed his younger sister, and the dark-skinned Erniu was watching beside him. She was hungry, but couldn't eat it, so how could she not cry?
"Nie Weimin, can you be less petty? Erniu is also your sister, okay? Can you feed her some cheese too?"
"Even if you have two children, you can't share a spoon. What if they get infected?" Nie Weimin pursed his lips. "Your sister is on the table. You have to feed yourself."
Liu Xiaohong had no choice but to start feeding cheese to her dark-skinned daughter.
The two children played together for a while. The younger sister was holding a little white rabbit that her mother bought for her in Beijing, and was taking pictures of it as if it were a baby. When the second girl saw it, she rushed over to grab it.
The two kids were playing, but Nie Weimin, who was reading a book, suddenly jumped up from the bed and said, "Liu Xiaohong, take care of your sister. She's stealing my sister's toys again."
Looking at him, he seems to want to help his sister grab the toys.
Both the younger sister and Erniu were frightened and cried by Nie Weimin's angry look, so Nie Weimin held the younger sister to comfort her, and Liu Xiaohong held Erniu to comfort her, and the two of them had to comfort one each.
"Nie Weimin, if you continue to be so petty, your sister will be left without friends. Let me ask you, she is going to grow up and go to school. If she is bullied at school, what will you do? Will you go to school with her?"
Nie Weimin was holding his sister, and in his sister's hands was her little white rabbit.
With a cold snort, he said, "When my sister goes to school, I can be a teacher. I have already thought about it. When she goes to primary school, I will be a primary school teacher. When she goes to middle school, I will be a middle school teacher. I will never allow any child to bully her."
"Nie Weimin, you are biased. Can't you treat everyone equally? Erniu is also your sister."
"I'm sorry, I only have my sister in my eyes and can't treat everyone equally." Nie Weimin said righteously.
Liu Xiaohong glared at him coldly for a long time, then found a small whistle that Sandan often played with from the corner and gave it to Erniu, finally balancing the two girls.
Liu Xiaohong used the cucumber shreds she peeled at noon to make cold noodles.
Chen Lina was on a business trip and couldn't come back for dinner, so the two older children brought the two younger children and everyone ate cold noodles together.
After finishing the meal, Liu Xiaohong hugged the dark-skinned Xiao Erniu and it was time to leave.
There are many thugs in the mining area now. Nie Weimin is afraid that Liu Xiaohong will go out alone. It is unsafe to be alone on the street at noon. In the past, Nie Weimin always liked to make trouble for Liu Xiaohong, pulling her braids or her clothes. In short, Liu Xiaohong would never be able to leave peacefully wherever they went.
But today he was much more well-behaved. He held his sister in his arms and followed Liu Xiaohong from a distance until he saw her get on the tricycle. He paid her five cents and then stood by the roadside until the tricycle was full and far away. Then he held his sister in his arms and went back to the woolen textile factory.
It's the weekend in a blink of an eye.
The cadres of the mining area were organized by Chen Lina and went to the large reservoir on the Baiyang River to go fishing.
This large reservoir has just been built and the hydropower station is also in the stage of debugging its equipment. In just a few years, a barren desert river will be transformed into a large reservoir with green waters.
The men spread out their fishing rods and went fishing.
Most of the female comrades had no interest in fishing and were just sitting on the dam watching their children.
The hydropower station had just started operating, and in order to entertain the visiting leaders, the staff had prepared a full range of soda, melon seeds, and biscuits, and also helped the female cadres look after their children.
"Hu Su is becoming more and more beautiful, and more and more confident." He Min sighed, looking at Hu Su boating on the water in the distance without blinking.
He Lanshan felt sorry for his brother's misfortune and hated his lack of fighting spirit. "Hu Su was able to bring a large clothing factory to you, and run it from above, approve equipment and funds, marry you, and then let you go after you were upset? He Min, if you can't get Yuan Hua back, you will be alone for the rest of your life."
"Yuan Hua has already visited the Chengdu Military Region twice to visit relatives. She and Gao Dayong have not only cooked the meal but also burnt it. Will she come back to follow me?" He Min stamped her feet in anger. Looking around, all the female cadres in the mining area were so dazzling, but none of them belonged to him.
Ah, what a pity! He went fishing.
Hu Su and District Chief Hu were probably in the stage of passionate love.
The two of them were rowing in a small boat. Hu Su was telling District Chief Hu about his experiences in Daqing. And District Chief Hu...
Because of their work, they keep their mouths shut and won't say a word. To be honest, people like them are really boring.
In fact, he really wanted to talk to the other party more, but he was afraid of leaking military secrets once he opened his mouth, so he couldn't say anything. District Chief Hu was almost suffocated to death.
From a distance, Chen Lina saw Sandan and Nie Gong fishing. Erdan had gone somewhere long ago. Nie Weimin was holding his sister and feeding her cake. She thought, this is strange.
Ever since they had a younger sister, the Nie Weimin brothers seemed to have lost their original cheerful spirit.
Although the younger sister is so young, she has a really great influence on her brothers. All of a sudden, all the children become grown-up kids.
When workers fish, that is not called fishing, that is called harvesting.
After a while, he caught several big, thick and long bluefish. The father and his sons carried the sister to the fish bucket and let her play with the fish.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Chen Lina walked to the side of Principal Chai. Seeing that he was about to make bait, she handed the earthworms in the plate to him.
"Secretary Chen, just let me do it by myself. I don't need anyone to help me fish. I enjoy the fun of doing it myself. Don't be so attentive here. It's useless!"
"Deng Dongya told me that when we were in school, Chai Tianming was a very interesting person, with a sense of justice and passion. Although he was aloof, he was definitely not a false aloof person without reason. During the four years of college, he remembered you except for others."
"Do you know Dongya?" Principal Chai was obviously interested.
"We are classmates in the Party School." Chen Lina said, and handed over all the papers and notes that Liu Xiaohong had given her a few days ago.
Seeing Principal Chai open the notebook, Chen Lina told her how Du Qiming started out as the director of a plastic factory, and how, after the plastic factory became prosperous, Du Qiming used those factory managers to gain benefits for himself.
Then he stopped Wang Hongbing and ordered Liu Xiaohong to give the answer to his own Du Lanlan. He recounted the whole series of events from beginning to end.
"I apologize to you on behalf of Wang Sitian. I also know that what she did was wrong and unkind. My brother-in-law should have spoken up, but he didn't. My child has also deeply realized her mistake. Today I want to ask you, the principal, to give her another chance. Do you think that's okay?"
Miss Chen changed into a black polka dotted long sandal dress and flat plastic sandals today. She sat on a small chair with her legs crossed.
The main reason why Chai Tianming was angry with Chen Lina was that as soon as she came back, she fired a large number of employees from the woolen textile factory, including his wife.
But his wife has her own sufferings, so let’s not talk about that for now.
"Secretary Chen, you are impartial and just in the woolen textile factory. I'm afraid it's inappropriate for you to use the back door here," said Chai Tianming.
"Your entire oilfield middle school is supported by the mining area, and our woolen textile factory has brought benefits to the mining area, so the mining area can support you, right?" Chen Lina said, "You graduated from college in the 1960s, a few years earlier than me, so you graduated, unlike me, who did not graduate. I can't explain this to others, but I can tell you. If a large factory has employees like your wife, how far will it be from bankruptcy? If our woolen textile factory goes bankrupt, what will your school teachers, staff, and students eat and drink?"
"But if I let a poor student go to the Oilfield Middle School, and subsidize his food and accommodation for three years, and waste a lot of money and manpower on him, and in the end he can't get into college, wouldn't that be a waste of the blood and sweat of your woolen factory workers?" Chai Tianming would not be fooled.
Chen Lina followed suit and said, "You shouldn't let a talent go. You didn't admit Wang Sitian because you heard that she plagiarized. But now I've told you that both families cheated together. You should at least give Wang Sitian a chance to prove herself, right? Let them take the exam at the same time and see who plagiarized who. That should be ok, right?"
Chai Tianming glanced at Chen Lina with a hint of annoyance. Well, using backdoors and talking about connections, anyone would be trying to curry favor with him. But she, on the other hand, fired his family first and then talked about connections.
"This kid's name is Wang Sitian. Her notes are really neat and detailed."
The little girl's notebook has separate sections for each subject, including the key points of knowledge, her own experience, and a summary for each lesson, written just like a lesson plan.
Especially the handwriting, which has the elegance of a girl and the grandeur of a boy. In short, it is written very beautifully.
To be honest, Chai Tianming feels that any average teacher can go directly to teach children with this notebook.
It is very difficult to correct rumors about plagiarism.
However, it is easy to distinguish between a good student and a poor student.
From what Chen Lina has seen, some children may be able to learn well without taking notes, but a student who takes notes well will definitely not be bad.
Chai Tianming finished reading Liu Xiaohong's notes, then looked through her past papers, and snapped the book shut. Of course, he had come to a conclusion in his mind: "Secretary Chen, this person's life would be completely different if they had different opportunities. Deng Dongya and Gao Feng are now rising higher and higher, with a bright future, but I can only be a teacher. What a pity."
Chen Lina said, "You are nurturing talents. At least in the hearts of Wei Min and Si Tian, you are greater than Gao Feng and Deng Dongya."
Principal Chai laughed twice and said, "What you said is very much in line with my opinion. I have settled down in this mining area and I probably won't be able to go anywhere else in my lifetime. But my students are my footsteps. They can take me around the world. As a teacher, as long as he remembers this point, he can teach good students."
"So, give them a chance and let them retake the exam!" Chen Lina took advantage of the victory and said, "Don't let go of a troubled person, and don't let go of a good student, okay?"
Chai Tianming sighed, "Kidnapping, kidnapping, and buying are the same crime, so, if it is plagiarism, the two children are both guilty. Secretary Chen, your children have difficulties, and my family has difficulties too. I have four children, and two of them are sick every day. She really has no other choice, so she takes leave every day!"
"I know. So even though I fired her, I gave her a small loom and she wove cloth at home. We would still buy her out. It's like piecework, right? She can still take care of the family. Isn't that good?"
There are always difficulties in life, it just requires mutual understanding and accommodation!
Wang Hongbing has already received the punishment he deserved for the mistake Liu Xiaohong made, so why can't he give her another chance?
"Fish, fish!" My sister can't say anything else. She thinks fish are fun, so she can only repeat the word "fish".
After she finished muttering, she looked at her brother one by one. Well, her brother and father also thought it was fun. She also wanted to look for her mother. Where was her mother?
The younger sister looked for her mother everywhere but couldn't find her. She didn't want the fish or anything anymore. She thought her mother was going to school again and would leave her alone for a day, so she started crying loudly.
Well, Erdan, who forgot his mother after having a younger sister, took the lead and hurried to help his sister find her mother. This was his most important job.