Chapter 41

Baby Shower

"But the current director of Mulan Farm is Liu Jiefang, the brother-in-law of Sun Gong. He has done nothing wrong. I am a little embarrassed about this matter. The base is still short of a cashier. Comrade Xiao Chen, that's a good job. It will give you some free time and you won't be exposed to the wind and rain."

In order to get Chen Lina the job she wanted, Nie Bozhao made up his mind and said, "Xiao Chen studied biological sciences and her hobbies are only in this area. District Chief Gao, Daqing is also focusing on agriculture and industry. If she goes to Daqing, won't she be able to give full play to her expertise?"

"Well, what do you think, Director He?" District Director Gao was in a dilemma and passed the ball to his wife.

Director He is the director of an oil refinery. If Chen Lina really becomes the director of Mulan Farm, even though they are not on the payroll, they will be on the same level.

She said, "Xiao Chen's job is still mainly to take care of the daily life of the workers and take care of the children."

"I will take good care of my brothers." Nie Weimin clenched his fists and sat in a military posture. The sweat from the fight just now had not dried yet, and he looked serious.

At critical moments, he is the most powerful.

"Lao Gao, let Comrade Xiao Chen give it a try. If she can't do it, let He Min do it." Factory Director He said.

He Min, Chen Lina took note. She guessed that this person must be a relative of Director He.

As a cadre, taking the opportunity to recruit one of their own, this is a routine.

District Director Gao then said, "Well, Xiao Chen, you go back and get the news. I will do my best to see if I can get this done for you. But let me be frank. If production doesn't pick up, I will still have to change the director."

"Don't worry, leader. I can definitely get it done," said Chen Lina.

It was at least nine o'clock when they came out of District Chief Gao's house. The cold wind was howling. Nie Bozhao was carrying Erdan, who was as fat as an egg, and Chen Lina was holding the younger one. Except for Nie Weimin, the other two were all asleep.

Erdan slept all the way to the base and woke up when he reached the door of his home. By then, the open-air movie had already ended. Goudan took the lead, using his hand as a pistol and shooting.

Erdan rubbed his eyes and burst into tears, "The movie is over, what should I do?"

"Shangganling is so beautiful. Erdan didn't see it, Erdan didn't see it." Qian Goudan said, and jumped back home.

"It's okay. The projection team will stay at the base for another day tomorrow. There will probably be more movies tomorrow." Qian Gong said with a smile and closed his door.

"Will there really be tomorrow, Dad, do you know?"

"As far as I know, there is no more. Go home and wash up. You have eaten too much candy today, so make sure to brush your teeth well," said Nie Bozhao.

Erdan thought sometimes there would be something, sometimes he thought sometimes there wouldn't be anything, and he went to bed feeling worried.

But Nie Weimin, the little bastard, after brushing his teeth and washing his face, he put a handful of candy in one pocket and a handful of candy in another pocket.

And he picked out only the best candies, even some Soviet chocolates.

He counted them one by one, a total of three chocolates and eight candies, which was a lot for a child. He gave two chocolates and kept two candies in his pocket, and hid the rest.

Moreover, he did not hide them anywhere else. He simply opened the box under the sewing machine where the needles and threads were placed and hid them one by one inside.

Erdan would never turn over in this place. As for Chen Lina, she certainly doesn't eat candy. Nie Weimin has never seen her eat candy.

"Are you going to eat the few pills left in your pocket in the middle of the night, or give them to Chen Tiantian?" Chen Lina asked out of curiosity.

Nie Weimin gritted his teeth and shook his head, saying nothing.

Well, he's been replacing his upper front teeth recently, and he's showing his face again. Children who are in the teething period are usually ugly, but this handsome boy hasn't become ugly at all, with a pair of thin-skinned peach blossom eyes, and he looks like the type that a cunning little girl would like when he grows up.

"You are such a stingy person. You wouldn't even give away a needle, so why do you always like to give things to Tiantian?" Chen Lina teased deliberately.

Nie Weimin laughed for a long time and said, "She tastes delicious."

Yes, when Chen Tiantian eats something, it’s just one word: delicious.

The little girl has a round face, a fat body and a bulging belly. After the New Year, her figure is almost as big as Erdan's.

"Can you really get the position of manager of Mulan Farm?"

Nie Bozhao was not at home for the Chinese New Year, and when he came back he wanted to show off. In the middle of the night, mopping the floor was his first task. The cement floor had to be mopped at least three times to satisfy Chen Lina's wishes.

“I can’t get it down.”

"Why are you making such a request to District Chief Gao? It's such a big farm, with twelve brigades and thousands of educated youth. I want to ask you, how do you manage it?"

"My brother-in-law was the director of a hydropower plant in his previous life. He does a very good job in management. I can ask him to be the deputy director and help me with administrative management."

"It seems that you got this position as the director for your brother-in-law. Chen Lina, the current Mulan Farm is under the Sun family name, and I still have a lot of work to do in my laboratory. Of course, even if it wasn't, I couldn't possibly fall out with the Sun family over these things. After all, the children still have to have a relative. You can't say that the district chief gave the position of director to Liu Jiefang first because of my face, and now he's giving it to Wang Hongbing because of my face. I, Nie Bozhao, am just a scientific researcher. I don't interfere in political trends, and I don't want to get anything out of the farm."

"Nie Bozhao, have you ever been to Mulan Farm?"

“Not often.”

"Have you seen the big frostbite on the hands and feet of those educated youth? Have you seen the black cotton they covered? Do you know that in addition to working in the fields, those female educated youth also had to dance with people of questionable character? Those were all children, most of them were high school students, not much older than the guards. If you say I can't see it, I don't have the ability, and I don't help them, then that's fine. But I saw it, and I have the ability, and if I don't help, and one of them freezes to death, I will feel guilty."

"Do people who come from the future all have the ambition to change everything?"

“It’s not ambition, it’s what I can do.”

"All you can do is take my salary and take good care of the children."

"Are you angry that I want to go out to work and will delay taking care of the children, or are you angry that I want to take the farm from my grandson's family? You are like everyone else, thinking that I am just a rural woman who will take care of children, eat chalk dust, and that my life will be over, right?" Chen Lina pressed on.

"Neither. I just think you can't take over a farm."

Well, these two are really arguing now.

Nie Weimin listened in the master bedroom with his ears cocked. Sandan had drunk too much soda today and couldn't hold it in any longer. He sat up with his mouth agape and was about to cry, "Mom, I need to pee!"

"Psst, don't cry, don't cry, brother will help you pee."

There was a small urinal outside the window. Nie Weimin pushed open the window and took it in. After Sandaner finished peeing, he pushed open the window again and put it outside.

Nie Weimin was afraid that his brother would continue crying, so he patted his chest carefully until his brother fell asleep completely.

In the living room next door, Nie Bozhao finished mopping the floor and sat on the sofa.

Even though they were arguing, there was too much housework to do and Chen Lina was weeding and watering the vegetables.

Taking some time off, she boiled the water, made him a cup of coffee, poured herself a glass of red wine, and after finishing her work, she sat down and chatted slowly.

"I definitely can't accomplish this by myself, but I have my own ideas and I need your support. If you were the original you, you would definitely listen to my opinions and help me find a solution."

Men have become younger, but they have also become less understanding and less considerate.

Chen Lina's eyes turned red as she spoke. Holding a glass of red wine, she stood in front of her big bathtub with her head hung, "I think I recognized the wrong person. You are not my man at all." This was the most destructive sentence, comparable to a nuclear bomb.

"Tell me, what do you want me to do for you?" Nie Bozhao surrendered immediately.

If Nie Bozhao really met the old Nie from his previous life, he would have to ask him in person how he could tolerate this princess.

She was obviously just pretending to cry, but since she was crying like that, he had no choice but to comfort her.

"Not difficult." Chen Lina turned around immediately, humming the 4/2 dance music of Moscow's Nights, and went to the bedroom. She took a piece of paper from the baffle under her sewing machine, turned back, and handed it to Nie Bozhao. "The people I listed here, such as this one, Tian Jin, a famous breeding expert, should be working in the cowshed of the 798 Corps Farm now. Find him for me. And this one, Qiu Hua, a professor at the North Agricultural University, has done research in the field of grafting. He should also be in a cowshed now. Find him too. And this one, this one, I am confident that with their help in analyzing the soil and finding suitable seedlings, the output of our farm can double."

"Xiao Chen, not only have you read Sun Gong's diary, you've also looked through my address book?"

These people are all in his address book.

However, he was very bothered when she first looked through Sun Gong's notes. But when it came to his own address book, he actually didn't mind too much, nor was he very angry. He just felt that in this offensive and defensive battle, he had already lost everything.

This woman is not a princess, she is the White Bone Demon in Journey to the West. Unfortunately, she is not a golden cicada and has no golden body to protect her, so she can only be defeated.

"You worked so hard every day, but you didn't give all your money to me. You remitted 50 cents or 1 yuan a month to these people, sometimes 2 or 3 yuan, to ensure that they could make ends meet, right? In your previous life, you told me that you felt very sorry that many of them didn't make it through the past ten years."

"In my previous life, I was a very compassionate person with a broad mind. Well, I was the ideal lover of my dreams." Nie Bozhao laughed at himself. "By the way, what did he call you in his previous life? What was that unique title?"

He still looked serious, his eyes sparkling behind his black-framed glasses, and he looked stiff and serious. "Darlg? Honey? Cher? Honey?"

A minute ago, Chen Lina was still shaking with anger, but now she was laughing and laughing so hard that she was laughing and laughing.

"Neither. Take your time to think about it." Having said that, she went to bed.

Well, soon, she will be able to take up the position as Director Chen.

"By the way, we have to visit a relative tomorrow. It's not too far, but not too close either. Is there any place where we can leave the children?" Nie Bozhao asked again before falling asleep.

"Why not bring them along? The kids really like visiting relatives."

I don’t know why, but when she dresses up the children neatly and beautifully and takes them out and gets compliments from others, Chen Lina feels very happy.

Is this called a baby-showing maniac?

"I only go over to the leader's home at night, and it's not convenient to take care of the children," said Nie Bozhao.

The next day, Chen Lina paid close attention and found that, as expected, Nie Weimin's candy was for Chen Tiantian.

The little girl didn't feel bad at all, and threw one into her mouth after another, eating the most precious round chocolate ball in one bite. Well, watching her eat is really a pleasure.

"Xiao Chen, have you heard about this? Sun Xiaoai took Liu Xiaohong to the mining area under the pretext of taking her to the hospital, but she ran away. Liu Xiaohong stayed in the mining area hospital for half the night and was brought back by Qin Sheng. It is said that people from our armed forces are looking for her everywhere now." Sister Wang was knitting a sweater for Chen Tiantian.

"She ran away? What did Qin Sheng do? Why didn't he hand her over to the armed forces and let her run away?" Chen Lina paused. After all, Nie Bozhao had always suspected that Sun Xiaoai was the real Su Xiu.

"If you ask me, then just run away. She stays at home and beats the children every day. That stepmother is as good as nothing." Sister Wang said.

After returning home, Chen Lina thought about it and felt sorry for the little girl Liu Xiaohong, so she scooped a large bowl of fried dough sticks that she had made, piled a large plate of large fried dough sticks on top, and personally brought it to Liu's door.

The room was cold and dark. The little girl was squatting in the kitchen, cooking over a fire. When she saw Chen Lina bringing the oil fruit, she insisted on giving her a big orange as a return gift.

Children of poor families have to grow up early. A little girl of the same age, Chen Tiantian, is still acting coquettishly in her mother's arms.

Nie Gong is still working overtime today. In the lobby of the laboratory on the sixth floor, a large projector is flashing film frames. A student named Xiao Zhu is copying the film attentively. When he looks up and sees Nie Gong calculating formulas on the blackboard, he says, "Teacher, when you are done, let's show a movie tonight."

"Yes, let's play a movie quietly. I want to watch 'Five Golden Flowers'. As soon as I saw Wang Jinhua, I felt like I was in love." Xiao Wang, who was playing the movie, raised his head and said.

Lao Nie turned around and snorted, "These reels were copied from Soviet scientists by our ancestors at the risk of their lives. If you don't pay attention and scratch them a little, you will be kicked out of my laboratory tomorrow."

The two students made faces at each other. "Let's put it on at night. It's much more comfortable to watch a movie in the warmth than in the small square outside. Teacher, we have been working hard for several months. Why don't you allow us to relax for a while?"

"Don't even think about it." The two children waited for a long time, and the teacher said this coldly.

In the evening, she said she was going to visit relatives, and Chen Lina specially entrusted the three Nie Weimin brothers to Chen Gong's home.

Erdan kept yelling, "Dad, there should be more movies today. The projection team hasn't left yet."

Qian Gong was also standing outside the door. "Isn't the projection team's car still there? Why aren't they showing the movie tonight? Can someone go ask them what's going on?"

"Yes, yesterday I heard that the projection team would not leave, and I was so happy that I stayed up all night. Do you know what happened?" Lu Fangfang also came over and asked, holding her son's hand.

Nie Bozhao was easygoing today and stopped to say, "The projection team didn't leave because the screen has another use, but I'm sure there won't be any movies tonight, so everyone should go back."

Chen Lina was also curious. Everyone was craning their necks to look at the small square, waiting for the movie, but Nie Bozhao always insisted that there was no movie.

"This is the base building. It's New Year's Day and everyone is off work. Who would stay here? Your guest, could it be the gatekeeper, Old Wang?" After entering the base building, it was dark and gloomy. Chen Lina was a little scared and couldn't help but hold the man's hand.

The man took out a flashlight from his arms and went up five floors. When he reached the sixth floor, there was a big iron gate. The key to this iron gate was in Nie Bozhao's hand. Of course, his laboratory was upstairs.

Apart from himself, several leaders of the base, and a few of his students, only they can enter this iron gate.

Oil refining, like nuclear bombs, is a journey that the world's major powers have completed and achieved with the best equipment in their advanced laboratories. The scientists of the Republic are groping and moving towards that goal in the blind sea of ​​knowledge in this harsh, difficult, and wind-swept frontier.

The man paused in front of the door and said, "If you are really a Soviet revisionist, I will be a sinner of the Republic, but I am sure you are not." She must be a little princess with a broken brain.

"Comrade Lao Nie, you actually brought me to your laboratory. This is not your style." He is a person who clearly distinguishes between public and private affairs.

"You don't want love, romance?"

"I'm just talking. You don't want to lock me up and interrogate me, do you?" Following the man, walking in the empty corridor, Chen Lina was still a little scared.

There is actually a large conference room on the sixth floor, with a ping-pong table and a basketball rack. Well, Chen Lina thought his life in the laboratory was very boring, but now it seems very colorful.

With a snap, all the lights went out, and then a light came on on the white wall, and it turned out to be an old-fashioned curtain.

This is a movie.

A child who grew up watching open-air movies will always feel inexplicably excited whenever he hears the creaking sound of the film rewinding, no matter how many movies he has watched.

Chen Lina fell down on the chair all of a sudden.

The creaking sound of rockers was accompanied by a familiar music.

"Casablanca?" It was her favorite movie.

Nie Bozhao poured the film, and the projector started to move on its own with a creaking sound.

"Did that fork in the almond tree in my previous life also like this movie?"

"You want to call yourself Apricot Fork, I have no objection, yes."

Well, the families and children of the entire base were almost staring at him, but he brought the projector here.

Well, it's not bad, a movie screening for two people, "Casablanca". This man, stop being awkward and try to be romantic with her.