Chapter 1282: Glowing and Fever
Chen Xiangdong talked to Lu Miao about the budget issue and then went to do it immediately.
By the time things started to get clear, summer vacation was almost over.
The two female college students who lived there moved back to the school dormitory early.
The children in the family no longer ran outside.
The whole class is preparing for the new semester.
The two slightly younger ones were competing with each other to see who could save more donations from selling paintings and flowers during the summer vacation.
As for the smallest one?
The heartless guy is still playing "puppy sucking" in the yard.
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After the detergent factory was acquired, it quickly entered the renovation stage.
In addition to repainting the walls and floors in the factory, some production facilities such as machine tools and conveyor belts that had problems were repaired or replaced.
Chen Xiangdong was not sensitive to machinery, so he invited Fu Jingyou to go and check it out.
As the children returned to school, Lu Miao's daily life became even more empty.
Besides reading books and newspapers, I usually write and draw in my notebook when I have some free time.
The outline design of the spout bottle is made in advance to be used when the detergent factory is restarted.
For the workers who take over, retaining the original formula is only an initial short-term production plan.
If we want to develop for a long time, we still need to make breakthroughs and innovations in technology.
Therefore, Lu Miao also privately told Chen Xiangdong to keep an eye out for talents in this area.
If necessary, you can invest more money and go to universities in advance to sponsor and recruit people.
As the detergent factory was acquired, various raw material suppliers were also negotiated with.
Chen Xiangdong came into contact with two herbal breeding bases in Pingyin, Shandong and Yili, XJ. Since then, the main toiletries and essential oils of "A Rose" are no longer completely dependent on imports.
At about the same time, Fu Jingyou's factory purchased two new machines, and the production of transmission cables was also put on the agenda.
After wasting several batches of materials, it was already late November when we finally delivered the qualified steel wire rope that passed the tensile testing machine.
It was also at this time that two letters arrived from my hometown.
The first letter was sent by Li Dachui on behalf of Tianzao.
The general idea is that Li Dachui has a sixteen-year-old daughter who graduated from junior high school. Her name is Li Xiangyang and she is now unemployed at home. She is very well-behaved and sensible and can endure hardships.
Li Dachui complimented Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou in the letter, saying that they had seen the world.
He wrote this letter to ask Lu Miao to help his daughter find a clear path.
It’s actually very easy to understand what it means.
This Li Dachui came here just to find a way out for his daughter.
Having previously owed Li Dachui a favor, it was difficult for Lu Miao to refuse this matter, but Lu Miao did not agree so arbitrarily.
She called the county in the south and asked Hu Zhiyuan to find Tianzao to inquire about Li Xiangyang's situation.
After hearing that she was indeed a down-to-earth and honest girl, Lu Miao slowly relaxed his tone.
He wrote back saying that the end of the year was almost here, and if Li Xiangyang was willing to come to Jingbei, he would ask Li Dachui to wait until the beginning of spring after the New Year to send her over.
Li Dachui actually took a shameless gamble. Lu Miao agreed to arrange it for Li Xiangyang, and Li Dachui was extremely happy.
When the Li family heard that Li Xiangyang was able to go to a big city to see the world, they all clasped their hands together and prayed that smoke was coming out of their ancestral graves.
Let’s talk about the second letter.
The second letter was sent from the He family.
Also sent along was a pair of flowered cloth shoes.
When he saw the thing, Lu Miao had a premonition in his heart.
I opened the envelope later and it was indeed...
Zhao Lanxiang is dead.
Before her death, Zhao Lanxiang made two pairs of cloth shoes during her waking hours.
One pair for Minrui and one pair for Minmin.
Minrui lived in the village. After the shoes were made, Chen Guifen gave them to Minrui to wear directly.
But Minmin is in northern Beijing, and they don’t know the address of Minmin’s workplace.
So I sent the shoes to Lu Miao.
When a person dies, all debts are settled. Lu Miao felt neither happy nor resentful, and he didn't even have any emotional fluctuations.
But considering Minmin, she went upstairs to put on a long windbreaker, then went downstairs to let Liu Xiaozhu drive.
In the past six months since I returned to northern Beijing, I stepped out of my home and went to the cultural center for the first time.
Minmin was very happy when she heard that she was coming, but after she got in the car and heard what happened, Minmin calmed down again.
After all, it was her biological mother who passed away, and Lu Miao was actually very worried that Minmin would be sad.
But Minmin was neither happy nor sad, and appeared very calm.
Even after taking the pair of cloth shoes with not very fine stitching and looking at them for a long time, Minmin only said one sentence:
"My feet have grown up a long time ago."
Minmin hasn't been home for several years, and during that time she never had close contact with Zhao Lanxiang.
Zhao Lanxiang didn't know what size shoes she wore, or maybe Zhao Lanxiang's memory was chaotic and still stuck in the past.
Zhao Lanxiang made this pair of flowered cloth shoes according to the size of Minmin's shoes she remembered wearing when she was twelve or thirteen years old.
Lu Miao patted Minmin and accompanied her silently without saying a word.
Minmin said again:
"Aunt, I don't regret not going back at all."
Lu Miao still didn't speak.
Minmin sat in the car for a while, then got off with her things.
Lu Miao looked at her through the car window and saw that before entering the cultural center, she stuffed the shoes and the package into the trash can.
Liu Xiaozhu in the car also saw Minmin throw away her things, turned around and asked:
"Sister-in-law, do you want to pick it up?"
Lu Miao shook his head slightly and sighed inaudibly.
The weather in late autumn is changeable. The letter was delivered by the postman in the afternoon. When they arrived, the sky had already darkened and a drizzle was falling outside.
Liu Xiaozhu rolled up the car window and was about to ask Lu Miao if he wanted to go back.
Before he could finish his words, a figure ran out of the cultural center.
Minmin slipped on the road, but finally picked out the things she had stuffed into the trash can not long ago.
Saying you don’t regret it doesn’t mean you really don’t regret it.
If I really don't regret it, I won't say it so easily as to prove it.
The trauma of childhood cannot be erased.
But blood is thicker than water, and in an era that values filial piety, that person is her mother, from whom she can never completely sever ties...
Watching Minmin wipe away her tears and walk back into the cultural center, Lu Miao withdrew his gaze and said:
"Let's go back."
"Why!"
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Having returned to northern Beijing in August, Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou did not return to their hometown during this year's Spring Festival.
After spending a neat and lively New Year's Eve in northern Beijing, Lu Miao's health returned to a relatively stable state.
But before returning to work after the New Year, she actually returned to Beijing University earlier.
Chen Rivet had come to visit them when they had just returned from their hometown.
At that time, based on Lu Miao's academic and teaching abilities as well as his experience in cooperating with state officials, Chen Maiding asked Lu Miao to fill out an application form.
The application form was approved just in time for the start of the school year after the New Year, and Lu Miao was promoted from a lecturer to a professional associate professor.
She returned to school to work on coordinating courses.
Around this time, Li Dachui, who had been contacted from his hometown before, also arranged for his daughter Li Xiangyang to come to Beijing North.
Lu Miao owns several factories, and it only takes a word to arrange a job for him.
But she was thoughtful and, considering various circumstances, she did not tell anyone that the factory was hers, but only said that it belonged to a familiar friend.
Lu Miao's work is not very busy, but her class status has gradually reached a certain level, and it is impossible for her to personally take anyone who comes to the village out to play.
Therefore, when Li Xiangyang came, Lu Miao took him home and only arranged for Wang Xiu and Liu Xiaozhu to take him around the door when they were not busy.
Li Xiangyang stayed at home for a few days to familiarize himself with the city environment, and then Lu Miao called Mei Zi to come over and handed him over to Mei Zi.
All relationships have different levels of closeness or distance, and this is just a small favor I'm repaying.
There is no way Lu Miao would cross the red line and get someone into the system.
But for other things, like working in the workshop of a detergent factory, or learning sewing skills, Lu Miao asked Mei Zi to take Li Xiangyang to visit his own factory and the garment factory that Wang Yuehua was in charge of.
No matter what Li Xiangyang's final intention is, it's easy to talk about.
Let’s talk about the British Society.
Lu Miao returned to work in April.
At that time, as Minister Zhan said, after Minister Wang retired to the second line, his position became vacant.
The position was originally assigned to Lu Miao, but in order to take care of Lu Miao's health which had not yet fully recovered, the agency temporarily transferred a comrade from the Tianjin branch.
Lu Miao remained in his original position.
Although Minister Zhan discussed this arrangement with Lu Miao, other colleagues in the company were not aware of it.
Last year, the ICP moved into a new office building and recruited many new people during this period.
These newcomers knew almost nothing about Lu Miao, the deputy minister who had returned to work.
Therefore, it is easy to be led astray.
Because Lu Miao had been infected with tuberculosis before, she had to wear a mask when traveling in March and April when willow catkins were flying all over the sky in northern Beijing.
Windows cannot be opened in the office normally, so ventilation can only be done by window air conditioners.
She turned on the air conditioner in March and April, and this unique privilege made her the target of public criticism, either directly or indirectly.
The discussion in the community was even more intense.
The discussion started with speculation about her promotion and then progressed to discussions about her work ability, which gradually extended to discrimination against her as a woman.
As luck would have it, when everyone was discussing these topics, Lu Miao happened to confront them.
In front of everyone, Lu Miao did not show any anger.
She only asked the relevant personnel involved to go back and ask their superiors to visit her office.
Everyone's faces were stiff and their hearts sank.
But I still held a glimmer of hope, thinking that she wouldn't be too angry.
But they were destined to be disappointed.
To be honest, after two years of rest at home, Lu Miao's temper has become much calmer.
She usually doesn't have much energy to pay attention to these things.
But unfortunately, she is fundamentally intolerant of not only gender confrontation in the workplace, but also anything involving discrimination against women.
These people have directly offended her, so she must make an example of them.
Several department heads entered Lu Miao's office. Lu Miao went straight to the point and said, "If you can't solve the gender discrimination in the workplace, then wait for others to solve you." He scolded the department heads so much that they couldn't even breathe.
Afterwards, several departments involved held a meeting.
Among those who were punished and underwent ideological education, some shut up after realizing their mistakes, while others remained unconvinced.
He thought Lu Miao was guilty, so he took the jokes of his subordinates seriously.
But it doesn't matter what they think.
Because soon there will be a slapping incident that will shut everyone up.
On the surface, Lu Miao's job position was not promoted.
However, Lu Miao received a joint recommendation from two senior senior officials, President Qin and Minister Zhan, and was honored to become a candidate and will participate in the election of the next National People's Congress.
During the same period, Fu Jingyou's career was also moving forward steadily.
Fu Jingyou is a careful and pragmatic person, and he has a hard-working heart when it comes to work.
In the past, he always took seriously the work that state-owned factories in the market were unwilling to take on.
Since then, the factory he runs has gradually accumulated a good reputation.
The Tianjin tidal gate was indeed his opportunity.
When the Tianjin tidal gate was completed in June 1988, the steel wire rope he recalculated and developed was famous for its ultra-high standards.
He surveyed the market and found that only their factory could produce steel wire ropes of this specification. He seized the opportunity and quickly applied for a patent in November of that year.
Huasheng Machinery Factory gradually emerged.
For a long time thereafter, not only tide gates in various places, but also infrastructure viaducts such as Haikou and cross-river viaducts were built.
Whenever there are projects involving steel wire ropes, local governments will list them as priority options.
In 1990, Fu Jingyou bought the Beijing North Equipment Factory, which had declared bankruptcy in 1989, for 760,000 yuan and renamed it Beijing North Huasheng Equipment Factory.
In the same year, Zhou Yurong, an old senior who had participated in the Malan Project, once again exchanged letters with Fu Jingyou.
In 1994, Fu Jingyou signed a confidentiality agreement, and the Beijing Huasheng Machinery Factory was officially incorporated into a national military factory.
Later, their story may be nearing its end.
But it doesn't matter.
Because the seeds that continue their bloodline are also shining on the road to various fields.
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