Chapter 83

Sewing underwear

When Nie Guozhu heard that he could enter Nie Gong's laboratory, he was excited the whole night.

You know, when they were in Hongyan, whenever the Gong father and daughter talked about Nie Bozhao, Gong's father would often say that Nie Bozhao was a man of great luck throughout his life.

Why?

Look at him, he was bought home by the old couple Nie just because of his good looks.

And then, of course, because of my good luck and the support of Mr. Nie, I was admitted to university.

As for his admission to university, wasn't it because he was handsome? People always have different expectations for handsome people. So, he was able to make rapid progress in this turbulent era, become a nationally selected worker, and appear on the radio every day?

Gong's father and Nie Bozhao's adoptive father were colleagues. Nie's father has passed away. Currently, Gong holds a high position and rank, but the only regret is that his children are not good enough. His two wives gave birth to seven or eight children. Everything else is going according to plan and they work diligently. Only Gong Hongxing is the most capable.

Look, her revolutionary work has won the attention of the higher-ups. Isn't that good?

Nie Guozhu was excited and overwhelmed. He thought that from now on, he would break into Nie Bozhao's studio and in the future, he would definitely be like Nie Bozhao, get on the radio every day and be praised frequently by his leaders.

"Nie Gong, is this what your laboratory looks like?"

In every room on the entire sixth floor, there were everything from small bottles and jars to large instruments that Nie Guozhu could not understand at all.

What was even more frightening was that the students inside came and went, speaking a language that he couldn't understand.

That's fine, there were words on many of the instruments, and when he got closer, he saw the words were intricate and he knew it was English. But how could the children in this laboratory speak English so fluently?

"Hey, Nie Guozhu, what are you doing?" Nie Bozhao yelled when he saw him start to take off his clothes.

Of course, several students immediately gathered around to see what this rough old man was going to do.

"Well, didn't the boss say that I will work here starting today?" Nie Guozhu said, "Mr. Nie, do you want to move this? Come on, I'll help you move it."

Nie Bozhao was almost going crazy. "No, Guozhu, that is a high-pressure oil pipe pressure monitoring simulator, don't carry it, no, no, no, what are you going to do?" You can let your wife carry you, but you can't touch the instruments. This is the principle.

"Boss Nie, I have plenty of strength."

"This is not something that can be done with force. Don't touch anything in my laboratory again. Now, immediately, leave me immediately."

"It's said above that from now on, I will work and learn with you. The leader said it well, those who are younger and less knowledgeable should defeat those who are older and more knowledgeable, so why can't I do the same?" Well, he actually had a set of ideas when he spoke.

Nie Gong glanced at the students who looked ashen and said, "Okay, you just want to study with us, don't you? You have the strength, don't you? Come on, I'll take you somewhere."

After getting on the truck, Nie Guozhu became more energetic. "To be honest, Boss Nie, I have been following you for many days. I am no worse than you in terms of maintenance, and I am no less capable than you. It's just your oil wells. Let's go. I don't believe there is any kind of work that I can't handle."

It's a late spring cold snap, the temperature has dropped to almost below zero.

When the truck arrived at the No. 5 oil well at Base 1, Nie Bozhao led the students to get off the truck first and asked, "How is it? How many meters has the well logging instrument been lowered? Is there enough time? Can it be pulled up now?"

"Okay, but who will come to twist the plate today? Laborers, our arms are about to be dislocated."

"Guozhu, come on, get on the winding plate, I'll help you wind up the well logging instrument."

In the desolate mine, the wind and sand were extremely strong. This was where Nie Bozhao and the oil workers had been fighting for a long time. Not to mention rooster eggs, even duck eggs could not be found here.

"Okay, listen to my call, one, two, three, everyone work together and come and tie it up." The leader of the No. 5 underground operation team shouted.

Nie Guozhu thought that he was the only one with great strength, but he did not expect that after taking off their clothes, those thin and well-mannered students would be full of muscles.

Downhole pressure gauge, this thing is used to measure oil pressure and is used in every oil well.

After going down into the well and pulling it up, it was all done manually. Such a heavy machine had to be pulled up from several kilometers away. Hearing everyone shouting, Nie Guozhu also tried his best. The wind and sand were so strong that he couldn't even open his mouth.

"Why, do you think it's just today?" Nie Bozhao shook off his clothes and pushed the winch. "Let me tell you, Guozhu, not only do you not understand any of the foreign words in the laboratory, but I have been doing this winch for ten years since the first day I arrived at the mining area. So, do you really think that you can replace me by standing beside me and watching for a few days?"

"Come on, everyone, try harder, and we will be out soon." The team leader shouted loudly.

After the well logging instrument was pulled out from the well, Nie Guozhu raised his hands and saw that both of his hands were bald and broken.

"I don't care what your unemployed family is up to. I just want to tell you one thing, Nie Guozhu, the younger one may not necessarily beat the older one, and the less educated one is doomed to be defeated by the more educated one. Now, go back to Hongyan and serve in the army. If you still want to argue with me, I'm in need of someone to twist the plate. If you want it, I'll let you twist the plate for me every day."

As the worker spoke, he picked up his clothes, shook them a few times, put them on, and went to record the data from the well logging instrument.

"Aren't you always staying in the laboratory, or attending meetings with leaders in Beijing, staying in a hotel, with someone to receive you?" Nie Guozhu was stunned. He didn't expect Nie Bozhao's working environment to be so harsh.

"Why, you want to replace me because you think the laboratory is warm in winter and cool in summer, and you are not exposed to the wind, and you can go to Beijing to hold meetings with leaders and stay in a hotel every day?" Nie Bozhao felt like he was talking to a donkey.

Moreover, it is the dumbest donkey in the world.

"In a year, I spend an average of more than 200 days working in the field, and the remaining 100 days in the laboratory. I go to Beijing for meetings, which is at most three to five days a year. Nie Guozhu, you only see the thief eating meat, but not the thief being beaten. You don't pay, you don't work hard, and you still want to replace others. If you are not a stupid donkey, stupid to the extreme, I would not be willing to say these words to you."

In the mining area, Chen Lina brought Liu Xiaohong to deliver photos to He Lanshan.

In the photo, He Lanshan and Sun Duoyu are driving a tiller together, smiling brightly.

"Director He, this basket is really good. It is made of pure wheat straw. It couldn't be more beautiful to use it to hold vegetables. Look, it is beautiful and breathable. I wove this one myself." Liu Xiaohong said as she put the small basket for selling vegetables on Director He's wrist.

"It's not bad, easy to carry and quite light. But I can't take this thing for free, how much do you want?" He Lanshan asked.

People like her, as the wife of an official, will have higher positions in the future as her husband will rise higher. Of course, she will not take other people's things for nothing. What's more, Liu Xiaohong is still a child.

"Didn't you say tomorrow that you had a lot of unused stretch fabric at home? Just give me a few feet, okay?"

The stretch fabric was also an imported product, given to He Lanshan by his sister-in-law. It didn't look good when made into clothes, so He Lanshan just kept it unused.

"Okay, of course. I won't give you a few feet. I have more than five meters here. You can take them all. As for these baskets, can you make a few more for me? Okay?"

She had thought it through. Secretary A's wife, Wu Qiong, and a few other close friends would each send one child, and they would all carry the groceries together. Hey, this would create a scenic spot in the mining area.

"Okay, thank you, Director."

After leaving Director He's house, Chen Lina saw Liu Xiaohong walking proudly in front of her with the cloth in her arms, so she asked, "Xiaohong, who are you giving this cloth to?"

"For my mother. She has been complaining recently that her pants are too tight and uncomfortable. She is afraid that they will squeeze my little brother, so I gave it to her." Liu Xiaohong said with a smile.

However, after buying some oil residue from the supply and marketing cooperative, and exchanging the coupons for two kilograms of brown sugar and two kilograms of fine flour, Liu Xiaohong took the initiative to stay when she arrived at the base.

The children worked on the farm all weekend and brought back some peanuts, walnuts and raisins.

Erdan kept asking for black bread every day, so Chen Lina added some money and bought four more pounds of milk, preparing to make black bread for the children.

The sewing machine was clacking and clacking for a while, and then I heard a whisper from inside, "Oops! It's broken."

She still didn't care and went outside to pump her breasts and make butter.

After a while, Liu Xiaohong called out from inside, "Auntie, Auntie, come quickly."

"What's the matter?" Chen Lina washed her hands and went in to see Liu Xiaohong lying on the sewing machine, her face flushed. "Auntie, why can't I thread the thread through your machine? I got my hand stuck when I tried."

"You want to make underwear for the three brothers, right?" Chen Lina tried to hold back her laughter. When she saw the rows of cut flat-legged underwear on the kang, she poked her finger and said, "I've always told you to respect yourself. You made the baskets yourself, and you got the cloth in exchange. Shouldn't you make a small bra for yourself first? Why did you make underwear for them?"

"Because I only know how to make underwear."

"No, you just think about them and not yourself. Little girl, I tell you, if you continue like this, you will suffer. Really. I always say love yourself, love yourself, you must always put yourself first, do you understand?"

She is kind to people without any thoughts and only knows how to give without asking for anything in return, just in case something good happens in the future. Gao Fengyi tries to bring them together, and Gao Xiaobing and Nie Weimin fall in love with each other. This silly girl, with her bad parents and poor conditions herself, how can she compare to Gao Xiaobing.

"Mom, do we have black bread today?" Erdan came back happily, carrying a stick.

"Where did you go? Why are you so dirty?" Chen Lina asked.

Nie Weimin also came in and said, "Uncle Guo said he wanted to roast the Qin prince. Let's go with him to roast the Qin prince."

Nie Weimin had gone to great lengths to keep reporter Guo. He even thought of roasting field mice. Reporter Guo was so happy that he didn't want to leave when he was being taken care of by these kids.

"It's wrapped in yellow mud and roasted?" When Chen Lina heard the word field mouse, she subconsciously felt sick and disgusted. Erdan was the one who had eaten it before, and he ran over to kiss her and breathed on her, "Mom, smell it, does it smell good?"

Sandan'er's face turned yellow. When he saw Erdan exhaling, he began to vomit. "Mom, reporter Guo roasted the field mouse, but he didn't eat it. Nie Weiguo ate the whole field mouse by himself."

"Nie Weijiang, mother has said that we cannot waste food." Erdan was unhappy because of Sandan's complaint. Between brothers, the cruelest thing is to refer to each other by their surnames and names.

Chen Lina tried to hold back her vomiting, "Ni Weiguo, hurry up and brush my teeth. Don't talk to me again until you've finished brushing your teeth."

"No, you can't kiss me either. It's so disgusting. Let me go quickly." The child's mouth was full of the smell of vole meat, and Chen Lina almost couldn't breathe.

"Wow, Sister Xiaohong, are you making these underwear for me?" Sandaner entered the bedroom and saw a pair of finished underwear lying on the kang, and he started jumping.

"Well, but this is what your mother sewed for you. Isn't it beautiful?"

"Hey, sunflower. I like this one." What Sandan has always envied the most is the sunflower on his brother's underwear.

Erdan never cared whether he had underwear to wear or not, but Nie Weimin's underwear was washed every three days and rubbed by hand. Every time he hung it out to dry, he would specially hide the sunflower. However, Sandan just liked it very much.

"Is this one my brother's?" Sandan opened another one and looked at the pattern on it thoughtfully. "Mom, mom, what is this?"

Chen Lina came in and took a look, then said, "Oh, that's an elephant. When you grow up and we have money, Mommy will take you to the zoo to see elephants, okay?"

"When my brother grows up and his underwear becomes smaller, I will want to wear this one too." Sandan said as he held all the underwear in his arms. Hey, he was pretending that all the underwear belonged to him.

"Underwear? Hate it, I won't wear it." Erdan snorted and was helping Chen Lina mix the egg whites.

"Why? All grown-up children have to wear underwear, why don't you?"

"It's not ventilated and it doesn't breathe." Erdan said with a red face and thick neck.

"Are you a sapling? Do you need the wind and sun to grow?" Chen Lina slapped his soft butt. "Try harder. You are so old, are your hands made of noodles?"

Nie Weimin was watching from outside the window. It was embarrassing enough that Liu Xiaohong was making his underwear for him, but Chen Lina even sewed an elephant on his underwear. The young man was angry and embarrassed, and went into the kitchen with a red face.

"Why, Comrade Xiao Nie, I see you don't like it a bit."

"It's not a matter of likes or dislikes. Anyway, you're just treating us as puppies. It's up to you to decide what you want to sew." Nie Weimin said, glaring angrily, picking up an axe and going to chop wood.

"You know I treat you like puppies, but you still help me chop wood?"

“But we really love you.”

Nie Weimin tilted his head and blew out a breath. My God, the only person in the world who could confess his love so coolly and casually and still make people feel so happy is Nie Weimin.

"Chen Lina, is Comrade Chen Lina at home? The organization reminds you to open the door immediately and accept the organization's inspection. Open the door immediately and accept the organization's inspection." This was the voice of a loudspeaker. Apparently, the visitor was carrying a loudspeaker.

When the two looked at each other, a hint of fear flashed in Nie Weimin's eyes.

Of course, he was brought up by bullies, and he always has a fear of the powerful, or those who dominate and crush him with an overwhelming sense of victory from the very beginning, as well as a hysterical feeling of being determined to fight to the death.

Of course, this is also the reason why he was always unwilling to leave himself a way out in the future, and refused to beg for mercy or write a letter of apology until he was finally shot.

"Okay, you see those big logs you were going to use to smash Nie Guozhu last time? Now, tell me how you got them to the door?"

"The rope is still there. Look, that's the winch I made on top of the pile of firewood. The heaviest one is the rafter, which was originally vertical. Just tie up the other end and then let go, and it will fall outside." Nie Weimin said as he demonstrated to Chen Lina.

"Okay, now you go upstairs, and I'll tie the wood downstairs. As soon as those people with loudspeakers outside come knocking on the door, put the wood down. Do you understand? Don't be afraid if anyone gets hit. I can handle it."

While Chen Lina was speaking, Nie Weimin had already climbed onto the firewood pile.

She tied a very heavy rafter to it, and stood it up, with the other end resting on the wall. Nie Weimin slowly tied up one end and placed it across the big iron gate of the house.

"Chen Lina, I know you are a stinking ninth grader. I also know that you are even a Soviet revisionist. Now open the door immediately and accept the organization's inspection... Hey, why the hell are you resisting with force? Hey, Team Leader Gong, you didn't get hit, did you?" Xiao Ma from the working group was holding a big loudspeaker and reading aloud from the script. Suddenly, there was a clang above his head. It turned out to be a thick piece of wood rolling down.

He had good eyesight and dodged. Gong Hongxing, who was knocking on the door, hit him on the head. Before he could finish what he was thinking of, he felt dizzy and saw stars.

"Su Xiu, spy, stinky old nine? Who the hell sprayed shit on my door so early in the morning?"

"I'm looking for Chen Lina."

"Bah, you are the one who scams people in the mines every day in the name of the revolutionary work group. Don't think I don't know that many families in the mines said that someone came to their homes in the name of the revolutionary work group to inspect, and as soon as they opened the door, they put a lot of accusations on them, either cheating them of money or things, and even cheated someone out of two socks with foot odor. I'm talking about you, right?"

The bump on Gong Hongxing's head was bulging rapidly. He looked at the piece of wood with a rope hanging on one side and it seemed to be shaking and about to fall.

Taking a closer look, yes, she has big eyes, a high nose bridge, an oval face, and fair and tender skin. This is definitely the cousin Chen Lina, whose photo Nie Guozhu treasures.

When enemies meet, they are particularly jealous of each other.

However, the leader also said that it is better not to fight a battle without confidence.

Gong Hongxing has been hovering in the mining area for nearly two weeks, trying to shake the people's hearts from top to bottom. When all else failed, he went straight to the base, thinking that as long as he used Su Xiu, the spies, and the Chou Lao Jiu, he could defeat Chen Lina in one fell swoop.

But she didn't expect that the trick Chen Lina gave her was to beat the old master to death with random punches.