An Guosheng was transferred to work under An Jingzhi. Before leaving, everyone wanted to know what he was going to do.
An Guosheng said that it was the superior's idea not to pry into confidential matters, and then he sent everyone away.
This was a special era, with espionage incidents happening all the time. Everyone knew the interests involved and dared not ask any more questions.
But they turned their conversation to teasing An Guosheng.
"Old An, you have worked all your life, but you didn't expect that in the end you would serve as a soldier under your own son. Tell me how you feel?" said a colleague with a smile.
A man nearby, about the same age as An Guosheng, also joked, "From now on, I'll have to listen to my son in everything I do. Tsk tsk, it makes me uncomfortable just thinking about it."
An Guosheng's face darkened, and his calmness, which had been adjusted by Chen Hongjiang, became unbalanced again. He took a deep breath and said righteously, "You are still old employees of the factory. Even if you are not a party member, you should be aware of the party's discipline, right? I, An Guosheng, am a brick of the country. I will move wherever I am needed."
"What's wrong with working for my son? As long as my son is capable, we should listen to capable people. Otherwise, how can the country get better and better?!"
Everyone was shocked by his impassioned words, and then felt a little ashamed. "Old An is right. We were wrong."
"I'm sorry, Lao An."
An Guosheng didn't expect that his conversation would actually change their attitude. What he had originally said was to comfort himself, but when he thought about it carefully, it seemed to make sense. He held his head high, pretended to teach his co-worker a lesson, and then packed up his things and went home in a refreshed mood.
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On the other hand, since An Jingzhi came back, Li Hongjuan has been finding ways to make all kinds of delicious food for An Jingzhi to nourish his body.
All this money was saved by the old couple in the past two years. They were tortured by the original owner's affairs and looked several years older. They lived like zombies and had no mood to cook.
All the money was saved, most of it was eaten in the cafeteria, and they were frugal, so they saved a lot of money in the past two years.
At that time, the planned economy had not yet begun, and there was no need for receipts to buy things. It was also convenient to buy things living in the city. Li Hongjuan ate either fish or meat every day. After An Jingzhi returned home for half a year, he gained five kilograms.
This all depends on Li Hongjuan's feeding.
But their wallets were also shrinking rapidly.
Most of the two years’ savings have been used up.
But Li Hongjuan felt very satisfied when she saw her son being raised by her and how plump and fair he was.
As for the skinny old man, Li Hongjuan subconsciously ignored him.
I went to the vegetable market again, and as soon as I arrived in front of a familiar stall, I saw that the stall in front of it was empty.
The stall owner explained to Li Hongjuan that there were too many customers today and all the food was sold out.
Li Hongjuan said regretfully, "Why are they gone? Are they sold out so quickly? Will you come tomorrow? If you do, leave two fish for me."
The stall owner agreed cheerfully, "Okay, okay, tomorrow I'll reserve the two largest fish for Sister Li."
Li Hongjuan often came to him to buy fish, and the two of them became quite familiar with each other. However, she went there to buy pork a few days ago and hadn't been here for several days, so the stall owner didn't leave any for her.
If you can't buy fish, you can only buy other things, but there is no good meat at this time. After wandering around, Li Hongjuan came to a butcher shop and picked out a piece of pork liver and a piece of lean meat with her hands.
"Your pork liver is not fresh anymore. And your meat is all lean, not fat at all. Give me a discount."
It is lunchtime now. The pork brought in this morning is not unfresh, but it may not look that good. The remaining ones are what other people don’t want to buy.
Seeing that Li Hongjuan wanted to buy it, the owner of the pork shop generously gave him a discount of five cents.
Li Hongjuan would not have bought the meat if she really couldn't buy it. She bargained with the owner of the pork shop, and only agreed to pay after he agreed to give her a ten-cent discount.
An Jingzhi had finished his work at the factory long ago and was eating an apple at home when he saw Li Hongjuan walking towards the house with things in her hands from afar. He quickly put down the apple in his hand, stood up, walked over and took the things from Li Hongjuan.
"Mom, let me do it. You bought so many things, why didn't you ask me to help you carry them?"
Li Hongjuan accepted her son's filial piety with a smile on her face.
"This is nothing. It's not even as hard as the work I do in the factory. I don't need two people."
"Wow, isn't this heavy? This bag of potatoes weighs at least 80 kilograms, right?" The moment An Jingzhi took it, his shoulders slumped a little, and then he raised his shoulders with an expressionless face.
It looked heavy, but he didn't expect it to be even heavier when he lifted it. When he looked inside, he saw that it was filled with solid potato eggs.
"I hadn't thought about buying potatoes originally, but this is just the right time, isn't it?"
Li Hongjuan held the light meat in her hands and looked at her son with some concern, "Can you lift it? Or let Mom do it."
An Jingzhi forced a smile and said, "It's okay, I can lift it! My son was a soldier, have you forgotten?" If he couldn't even lift this little weight, what had he become?
His original body had been a soldier and had good physical fitness, but he had done nothing in the past few years since he traveled through time and space and was only busy studying.
No matter how strong she is, she can never compare to a woman like Li Hongjuan who has been tightening screws all year round.
"Mom remembers that you were a soldier. You haven't done any heavy work for a long time. Don't hurt your waist suddenly." Li Hongjuan said.
As they were talking, they arrived home. An Jingzhi took the potato eggs directly to the place where the food was stored in the house.
Fifty kilograms is not a big weight for an adult man. The reason why he was a little uncomfortable was simply because he had never done heavy work before.
But later he had plenty of time to do the heavy work. The manufacturing of the aircraft had entered the middle stage, and a series of preparatory work was being done at the front. An Jingzhi was basically not allowed to do anything. He just talked and gave orders.
It is impossible for him not to get started with the following. If he does some more hard work, his physical fitness will immediately return to its peak.
An Jingzhi leaned against the door frame, biting the half of the apple he had not finished eating. He ate the apple while helping Li Hongjuan cook.
"Mom, why did you think of buying lean meat today?"
Li Hongjuan regretted this when she talked about it. "That stall always sells fish. I thought I didn't need to go so early today because I had to buy fish. But who knew it was sold out?"
"Then I went to the butcher shop in East Street Lane. Luckily, they still had some meat, but it was just some lean meat and scraps. I haggled over the price with them for a long time before they agreed to give me a ten-cent discount."
An Jingzhi was helpless. Money was very valuable at that time. One cent could buy a big steamed bun.
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