Chapter 107
Qiao Wei's worry about Lu Manman was completely unnecessary.
When Lu Manman came back, her face was rounder, she was energetic and refreshed.
Lu Manman's mother was worried for the whole New Year, until she saw her round, greasy face, she was finally relieved.
The mother-in-law liked her son-in-law more and more.
Lu Manman brought Qiao Wei a small pot of salted duck eggs: "This is pickled by my mother-in-law herself, not salty and oily, especially delicious."
Her mother-in-law couldn't bear to eat it herself, and only took it out when she heard that she wanted to bring it to her son's leader.
Qiao Wei asked how she spent the New Year.
"The hygiene is a little poor, but everything else is fine. The food is good, and there are a lot of vegetables for the winter in the cellar at home, as well as pickled vegetables." Lu Manman said, "The other two sisters-in-law are pretty good, but there is one sister-in-law who always says sour things. I ignore her. I don't give her children the candy and chocolate I brought. She was so angry that she beat the child in front of me."
Qiao Wei was speechless.
She really couldn't understand this kind of operation of beating your own child in front of others as a protest.
Wouldn't it hurt your own child?
But at this time, many people really did this.
"I sleep until dawn every day. On the first day, someone said a few words, and Li Aiguo grumbled a few words, but no one said anything after that. My mother-in-law even brought me food."
"Before leaving, I quietly slipped her ten yuan. I told Li Aiguo on the train, and Li Aiguo cried."
It is true that people treat me with courtesy, and I treat others with courtesy. People feel sorry for me, and I feel sorry for others.
Lu Manman now has a lot of insights into marriage.
After the holidays, when people go back to work, basically no one has the kind of post-holiday syndrome. On the contrary, many people buy new clothes because of the Chinese New Year, so they look particularly energetic when they wear new clothes to work.
The road between Xiahekou District and the old county town was completed before the New Year. This road is much wider and smoother than before.
There are buses, bicycles, tractors, horse-drawn carriages, donkey carts, mule carts and even ox carts on the road. Some people even push flatbed carts and wheelbarrows.
Every time Qiao Wei sees them from the bus, she sighs.
After the Chinese New Year, the weather starts to warm up. You can feel the change in temperature and sunlight. The feeling of freezing to death is gone.
Qiao Wei sent Yan Xiang to kindergarten that day. When she saw a teacher, she was stunned for a moment.
Teacher Wang likes Yan Xiang very much now. When she sees Yan Xiang, she smiles and says, "Xiang Xiang is here."
She reaches out to pull Yan Xiang, but Qiao Wei doesn't let go.
Qiao Wei lowered her voice and asked Teacher Wang: "Is that teacher feeling unwell?"
Teacher Wang looked back and said: "Teacher Zheng from Class 2? A little bit, maybe it's the change of seasons, she always says she feels unwell."
Teacher Wang didn't think so. She heard from the teachers in Zheng's class that Zheng just wanted to be lazy and pushed all the work to them.
Qiao Wei stared at Teacher Zheng and asked Teacher Wang: "Can you help me see, is it my eyes that are wrong or what, are that teacher's eyes...especially yellow?"
Teacher Wang said: "She is like that."
Qiao Wei pulled Yan Xiang back: "Yan Xiang has a little cold, so forget it, don't infect other children. I'll take him to the office."
Teacher Wang didn't really want to take care of the sick child, who was always running a big nose, sniffing, and some even ate, which was disgusting.
She said, "Okay then. Remember to give the child more hot water."
Qiao Wei smiled and pulled Yan Xiang away.
Yan Xiang wanted to go to kindergarten very much and kept looking back. Qiao Wei picked him up and walked away quickly.
When they arrived at the office, Secretary Huang looked at him and said, "Why did you bring Yan Xiang here?"
Qiao Wei asked, "Is the secretary coming here today?"
Secretary Meng had a cold and fever these days and was resting at home.
Secretary Huang said, "No, he is not well yet."
Qiao Wei put Yan Xiang in her seat and casually picked up a magazine from the bookshelf and gave it to him, "Read this first, mom will be back soon."
Secretary Huang felt that she looked strange, "What's wrong?"
Qiao Wei said, "Wait for me for a while, I will be back soon."
She looked weird.
Secretary Huang lay on the table and teased Yan Xiang: "Why didn't you go to kindergarten?" Yan Xiang thought about it
. His mother taught him that if what his mother said outside was different from what he knew, he couldn't tell others even if he knew that what his mother said might not be true. In front of others, he should say the same thing as his mother. The truth, I will tell my mother quietly when I get home. Yan Xiang said: "I have a cold. My mother won't let me go to kindergarten." Secretary Huang touched his forehead: "It's not hot." After a closer look, he didn't have a runny nose. What's wrong with Qiao Wei? Qiao Wei came back quickly with a publication: "Zeng Yue!" She spread the publication out for him to see: "The manuscript I used to promote with the Health Bureau. When I was writing it, I went to the data room to check the information. I have an impression of this. This is it. Take a look at this..." She pointed to the lines of words with her hand. "Teacher Zheng in the second class of the kindergarten, I just noticed that she fits the description perfectly. Her face is yellow, and the whites of her eyes are also burnt yellow. I rarely saw her before and didn't pay attention. Maybe it's only obvious because it's getting worse recently." Secretary Huang's face changed: "Are you sure?" "Why don't you go and see it yourself?" This is a big deal, because it's a government kindergarten, and many leaders' children or grandchildren are there. Secretary Huang really went to see it in person, and his face was already very wrong when he came back. Qiao Wei asked, "What should we do?" Secretary Huang thought for a moment and said, "Come with me." Secretary Meng was on sick leave today, so his office was empty. There was a dedicated telephone in his office. Secretary Huang used the telephone in Secretary Meng's room to call the director of the Health Bureau. Qiao Wei listened to him communicating with him.
After hanging up the phone, he said, "They will send someone right away."
Qiao Wei nodded.
She glanced at him and said, "Or... you can take the children first..."
"No." Secretary Huang was also a little annoyed, "The leaders' children are all in there."
Qiao Wei found out early in the morning before they were sent in, so she didn't let the children in directly.
Secretary Huang just found out, but he can't just take care of himself now. It's too offensive.
Qiao Wei didn't say anything.
She knew last year how hard this man worked for his career.
There are too many children and relatives in this unit. Even Qiao Wei has the support of the military district leaders behind her.
Secretary Huang is the first confidant of the top leader, Secretary Meng. Qiao Wei only found out later that he actually has no background at all.
He comes from an ordinary family.
He became the confidant of the top leader purely by his own ability and won the appreciation of the leader.
It was not easy for him, and Qiao Wei, who had connections in the army, felt a little guilty.
Talents are talents, but it is most common for talented people to be suppressed by people with connections.
As it involves the children and grandchildren of the leaders, the Health Bureau reacted very quickly. People came soon and took Teacher Zheng away.
There was a scuffle in the middle. Teacher Zheng resisted a little, but the people from the Health Bureau were very strong. They scared her a few words, so that she dared not say a word, and dragged her away.
Secretary Huang and Qiao Wei watched from a distance.
They waited for three hours, and then the Health Bureau called.
It was confirmed that Teacher Zheng had hepatitis B.
Just as Qiao Wei worried.
Today, she suddenly noticed that the whites of the teacher's eyes were yellow. She remembered the "yellow eyes and body" she saw when she was looking up information for her manuscript. She was shocked and ran away with Yan Xiang.
It was really bad.
She was a kindergarten teacher.
Secretary Huang called Secretary Meng. The leaders all lived in the county committee compound, and the families of several standing committee members were connected by phone.
Secretary Huang reported the matter.
Secretary Meng was very angry because his grandson also went to this kindergarten.
There were no outsiders in this kindergarten.
Secretary Meng hung up the phone first, and Secretary Huang and Qiao Wei waited for instructions. Half an hour later, Secretary Meng called and said, "I have talked to Director Li of the Health Bureau. The medical team will go there this afternoon to draw blood from the children."
As for Teacher Zheng, Secretary Meng said, "Treat her first. If she can't be cured, she will be transferred to another position."
After hanging up the phone, Secretary Huang asked, "If she is infected, can she be cured?"
Qiao Wei sighed.
In the future, it can be cured. Now, it cannot be cured.
Secretary Huang looked very bad. After all, his child is also in the kindergarten.
Secretary Huang first talked to the Standing Committee members. Everyone looked very bad.
The medical team came in the afternoon, and the noise was too loud. Everyone knew about it. Some people wanted to take their children away.
Secretary Huang echoed Secretary Meng's strong words: "It's been so many days. Will we not be infected if we take the children away now? No one should move. Let's draw blood first."
Qiao Wei asked Yan Xiang to draw blood as well.
Everyone was worried.
Fortunately, the test results came out and no children were infected. Other teachers were not infected either.
When they asked, it turned out that this teacher Zheng always complained that she was not feeling well and always asked for sick leave. It was the other teachers who were unhappy and reported it to the leader
. You are a relative, and I am also a relative. Why do you rest at home while we work? Who is not a relative?
The leader found Teacher Zheng's relative and found that she came to work in the kindergarten because of this relative. She came to work because her relative told her.
She is not active at work and always finds a corner to take a lazy rest. Because she is not feeling well, she is in a bad mood and has a bad attitude towards the children. The children are also afraid of her and don't want to get close to her.
Of course, there is another possibility. Qiao Wei and Secretary Huang have a guess, that is, does she really not know that she has been infected with hepatitis B?
Is she aware of it, so she deliberately avoids others. Qiao Wei hardly saw her before when she sent the children to school. This morning, a teacher didn't like her and yelled at her, forcing her to come out, and Qiao Wei saw it.
In short, the children were not infected, which is a blessing.
The next day, Secretary Meng came to the office, gathered the relevant personnel and had a big temper.
As for Teacher Zheng, since hepatitis B could not be cured at that time, it was definitely impossible for her to continue to stay in the county committee.
But there was no such thing as "resignation" in this era, so she could only be transferred to a new position.
However, Secretary Meng's grandson was almost infected, so how could Secretary Meng not bear a grudge?
The new position was a septic tank worker.
At that time, toilets were all dry toilets, and septic tank workers were considered a glorious position in public opinion.
There was a septic tank worker among the first batch of labor models in New China. He was in the Chinese textbook and was even elected as a representative of the third National People's Congress two years ago.
But the young girl couldn't stand it and wanted to make a fuss.
Even in later generations, many things can be achieved through "making a fuss" to obtain a satisfactory result.
She is not married yet. If she really becomes a septic tank worker, it will be very difficult for her to find a partner. Her parents also joined in the commotion.
This "commotion" sometimes really works. Even if she can't go back to the kindergarten, she has to go to a better unit. How can a young girl be a septic tank worker?
The family wanted to force the leader to compromise and take a step back.
But they really didn't understand Secretary Meng.
Secretary Meng directly transferred her parents, brother, sister-in-law and their families to work in the manure factory.
The family was dumbfounded. They
wanted to make more trouble, and all the relatives came to visit. Everyone has a unit and an organization, and they are afraid of being implicated.
The more they make trouble, the worse it will be when they kick the iron plate of Secretary Meng.
Under the joint pressure of the relatives, the family finally hung their heads and went to work in the manure factory.
"Secretary Meng, Secretary Meng..." Qiao Wei watched the whole process and expressed her feelings to Yan Lei.
Yan Lei didn't agree, and even felt that there was nothing wrong with what Secretary Meng did.
"If he sits in that position and is not a little tough, many things will be difficult to handle." He said, "The army also does things in this style."
People with soft hands and soft hearts cannot be leaders.
Many times, people at the grassroots level rely on intelligence, but when they reach a certain level, they become simple and rough.
"Why are you always sighing?" Yan Lei disagreed with Qiao Wei, "It's a blessing to have such a leader, and the people below are willing to follow such a leader."
Qiao Wei said: "That's right."