Chapter 186 Bamboo Shoot Digging Dad, I Look Just Like You.
Qin Xiangxiang and Chen Wen agreed to meet at the family compound on Sunday. When she returned home, she saw the sickle, small hoe, small shovel and burlap sack that Li Jianzhi had prepared. The man was planning to take his son Xiaopang and daughter Suisui to the mountain to dig bamboo shoots on Sunday.
Qin Xiangxiang: "How many bamboo shoots do you want to dig up?"
"The more the merrier. You can never have too many good bamboo shoots. They can be stored for a whole year once dried. Think about it, don't you really want to come along? Take the kids to get close to nature." Commander Li said that he is a good father and takes his little daughter up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots, catch insects, and learn about nature during his vacation.
"A new actress named Chen Wen came to our factory. She played the female tractor driver in the movie 'The Great Northern Wilderness' last year. She also played the female lead, Haihua, in this textile movie filmed in our factory. She's here now, saying she wants to live and eat with the female workers and experience the life of textile female workers firsthand."
Li Jianzhi nodded: "A very good actor, a true actor."
"But she said she wanted to observe me and learn from my wife's 'model worker' spirit."
Li Jianzhi: "..."
"That's not all. The female lead, Haihua, is a model worker, and her husband is also a naval officer. She said she wants to meet you and learn how this textile model worker and naval captain get along in their marriage."
Li Jianzhi: "This..."
It's truly heartening to see that Comrade Li Jianzhi, who couldn't find a wife at the age of thirty-six, has now become a model of marriage.
"You also think it's unreliable, right?"
“Reliable, I’m a model husband who’s an officer.” Li Jianzhi put his arm around his wife’s shoulder, full of confidence: “I’m a living, breathing good husband and a good father.”
Qin Xiangxiang gently slapped his face, pushing his handsome face away: "You don't fit the movie image at all now. You were more like the person before 1970."
Li Jianzhi: "? The kind who never comes home?"
"Yes, the kind of guy who's always on missions, we're rarely together all year round, and when he has free time he's still working, and he feels guilty towards me, his wife."
Li Jianzhi: "I know, movies and stories need conflict. Good fathers and good husbands don't have much conflict, and neither do good mothers and good wives."
Qin Xiangxiang asked curiously, "Then which couple in our residential compound do you think most resembles someone from a movie?"
"There are relatively few. The most dramatic love-hate relationship would be between Jiang Changtian and Xiao Ye, or the couple next door, Zhong Li and her husband… Old Yang has been called a coward for ten years, so we could make up a story like 'The God of War hid his identity for ten years, and his wife found out…'"
Qin Xiangxiang: "I don't understand, what are you saying?"
“I’m making up a story. I said if the couple next door were to be the male and female leads, they could make up a story where Old Yang is actually a ‘God of War’. Zhong Li has been calling Old Yang a coward for ten years, but she doesn’t know his true identity as a God of War. What do you think will happen when Old Yang’s identity is revealed one day?”
Qin Xiangxiang: "...After cursing my good-for-nothing husband for ten years, he became a war god? Wow—you men certainly know how to dream."
Li Jianzhi sighed: "This kind of story is what makes it interesting. The God of War returns after ten years, only to find his wife and children living in a dog hole. With one order..."
For a while, social media was flooded with novel recommendations like these. Male-oriented novels were nothing more than "The God of War Returns and Discovers XX," or "At the banquet, she brought her good-for-nothing husband to toast, and everyone at the table was so scared they dropped their bowls." Female-oriented novels were like "The Prodigy Returns, with Three Miniature Versions of You," or "The lady has been kneeling for three days... Has she admitted her mistake yet?"
Qin Xiangxiang nudged him: "You're the one who lives in a dog hole! You haven't been home for four years, while your wife lives in an old apartment in Shanghai, drinking coffee, eating cream cakes, and having wontons for late-night snacks."
"My wife is so good." Li Jianzhi smiled and touched her face. "I know you don't mean it."
Qin Xiangxiang: "..."
"Putting all that aside, I think their movie is doomed. This actress thinks I'm a workaholic and wants to learn from me. What kind of movie can they possibly make?"
Li Jianzhi: "He is an actor with true conviction."
"Nonsense! I told her I don't really manage the staff, and she said that's called trusting the masses, that's motivating the masses' initiative. Why doesn't she say I'm lazy?"
Li Jianzhi chuckled: "That's normal. This is what they call 'After I enter the pass, great Confucian scholars will debate the classics for me.'"
“As long as you get things done, any method can be explained, model worker, think about it!” Li Jianzhi patted his model worker wife.
Qin Xiangxiang shook her head: "No!"
"You say no, but you're actually willing." Li Jianzhi chuckled and nuzzled her with the tip of his nose.
Li Jianzhi had arranged to go to the mountain to dig bamboo shoots on Sunday, but Chen Wen said she wanted to come to the family compound. So he decided that his family, Chen Wen, the driver, and the canteen staff would go to the mountain to dig bamboo shoots first, and then return to the family compound.
Early that morning, Chen Wen arrived in a transport truck and met Qin Xiangxiang and her family, who were carrying sickles and sacks to dig bamboo shoots on the mountain.
"Hello, Comrade Chen."
"This is my husband, Li Jianzhi, my son, Xiaopang, Li Qingfeng, and my daughter, Suisui, Li Qingsui."
...
Chen Wen smiled and said, "Factory Director, your husband is very handsome. His resolute and upright appearance makes it clear at a glance that he is a soldier."
Qin Xiangxiang asked curiously, "Comrade Chen Wen, do you have a boyfriend?"
"There is one, he's in the north, he's a male ballet dancer."
Qin Xiangxiang: "Wow, then this must be very good-looking too."
"It's alright."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "The only advantage of our husband, Comrade Li, is his good figure."
Li Jianzhi: "His face is good too."
"Shameless."
Li Jianzhi picked up Sui Sui: "My daughter has set things right for me. All daughters look like their fathers."
Little Fatty: "Dad, I look more like you."
Li Jianzhi remained silent: "..."
Upon reaching the mountain, Qin Xiangxiang was carrying a small hoe. She had promised herself she wouldn't dig for bamboo shoots, so why was she here now?
Sui Sui: "Daddy! Bamboo shoots!"
"What huge bamboo shoots!"
Li Jianzhi: "Such big bamboo shoots, what a great start! Let our mothers dig them up."
"Wife, let's go dig bamboo shoots."
Qin Xiangxiang snorted, thinking to herself, "You think I'll just go because you tell me to? But these bamboo shoots are so big!"
Comrade Xiao Qin won the "first bamboo shoot".
Digging these bamboo shoots is really addictive; Qin Xiangxiang quickly filled a whole sack with them.
Li Jianzhi, carrying Sui Sui, went to his wife's sack to steal bamboo shoots: "I'll take your bamboo shoots."
"Look, Mom dug up some really big bamboo shoots."
Sui Sui: "Let's snatch the bamboo shoots!"
Qin Xiangxiang: "—Let go of me!"
Li Jianzhi chuckled. He glanced at the bamboo shoots his wife had dug and thought to himself, "That's just how it is. She either doesn't work at all, or she's amazing when she does."
They quickly finished digging the bamboo shoots, loaded several sacks of bamboo shoots onto the truck, and returned to the family compound. Chen Wen said, "You two are exactly like the military couple I imagined."
Qin Xiangxiang: "?"
Li Jianzhi: "?"
"They are all people with great love in their hearts, who transform their deep love into a shared responsibility for their families, are dedicated to their work, raise their children, help each other, share responsibilities, and turn small love into great love!" After saying this, Chen Wen's eyes showed a bit more determination.
Li Jianzhi and his wife looked at each other in bewilderment.
Commander Li has personally experienced what it means for great Confucian scholars to debate classics and what it means for actors to have faith.
Honey, I think your movie is going to be a hit!
As Chen Wen left Qin Xiangxiang's home, she could tell that Qin Xiangxiang and her husband got along well and understood each other. However, she was also concerned about something. As far as she knew, many military officers, and not just officers, but men in general, did not like their wives to go out and work in public.
It's extremely rare to meet a man who understands you.
She wanted to ask other officers for their opinions, so she stopped one on her way out the gate. "Hello, comrade," she said, "I'm Chen Wen, a film actress. I'm just curious, what do you think about your wife going out to work? If you had a hardworking wife, would you be proud of her?"
The person she asked about happened to be Jiang Changtian.
Jiang Changtian was extremely frustrated at this moment. "Let alone a model worker, it would be a good thing if she were willing to go out to work. Isn't it good for my wife to go out to work? It's better than having a bloodsucking leech wife who sticks to me and sucks my blood while spreading rumors."
Chen Wen: "?"
This was an answer Chen Wen had not anticipated.
Chen Wen went to the textile factory to observe and learn, and Qin Xiangxiang let her go. Whoever she wanted to be the model worker could be the model worker, anyway, the model worker wasn't her, Qin Xiangxiang.
However, when she received a document from the province, she felt a chill run down her spine.
This is the material for the selection of model workers. This year, model workers will be selected in the province before May Day, and they will be commended.
Qin Xiangxiang had originally thought that she was also among the candidates recommended by the local authorities, and they asked her to fill out some materials.
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"Write a report on your own exemplary deeds?"
Assistant He said, "Factory Director, you will definitely be awarded the title of Model Worker this time. You have too many outstanding achievements. You built Feiyan Textile Factory in one year, which broke the record for the fastest speed. Moreover, the quality of our textiles is good. We were even investigated for suspected exaggeration."
"Your achievements in generating foreign exchange last year are even more remarkable, and you also led the workers in innovating technologies..."
"And in terms of cultural relic protection..."
"Our factory's wave yarn and poplin were selected as 'provincial gifts' and were even used to entertain foreign princes! Oh, and the shipping magnate of Hong Kong too..."
Qin Xiangxiang remained silent for a while, then realized that she seemed to have quite a few "advanced deeds" she could write about.
“The workers still say that you came to work while you were sick, and that you never missed a day even though your leg was broken.”
Qin Xiangxiang: "..."
I sprained my ankle.
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