Chapter 322 I don't usually have someone like the evil Factory Director Qin. ...
In 1983, the Lunar New Year was approaching again. This year, Lunar New Year's Eve fell on February 12th, which was a little late. As the Spring Festival drew near, the small Western-style buildings on Fuxing West Road were already decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, creating a festive and lively atmosphere.
Aunt Rong is a traditional person. She would lead her children around the fireplace to cut paper snowflakes. If Qin Xiangxiang had to say what made the little villa most happy, it would be this fireplace, perfect for a lazy person to spend the winter.
Aunt Rong's paper-cutting is not only based on traditional festive patterns, but also incorporates cartoon-style "good news swallows," making it both playful and adorable.
On the coffee table at home are snacks that Qin Xiangxiang brought back from the special economic zone: imported chocolates, Hong Kong cookies... Little Sui Sui would occasionally take a bite.
There was still Coca-Cola that Qin Xiangxiang had bought in the refrigerator. The children found the bubbles exciting, so Li Jianzhi used it to make Coca-Cola chicken wings and Coca-Cola ribs. Li Qingfeng even drafted the prototype of "Li's Recipe Book".
"Celebrating the Spring Festival in the 1980s...it really had the spirit of the New Year. This year, there was also the first Spring Festival Gala."
Qin Xiang thought that there were many things to do at the end of the year, but they were all things she liked to do, such as year-end greetings - delivering New Year's gifts!
No one can resist the allure of sending New Year's gifts! Sending New Year's gifts, organizing park activities, and joyfully celebrating the Spring Festival.
Qin Xiangxiang, along with Secretary Li and others, visited the island textile factory to express their appreciation to the workers, then visited the Shanghai textile factory to express their appreciation to the workers, and also visited the naval base family compound and several major universities in Shanghai.
The New Year's gifts included "Peaceful Swallow" pendants, seaweed crisps, rice crackers, shrimp chips, cured meat, as well as fresh and delicious canned fish and various dried seafood...
Egg yolk pastry, pork floss roll, cream cake.
For Shanghai, the Spring Festival of 1983 was a season of "cream cake".
That year, cream cakes suddenly became a popular gift for visiting relatives during holidays. Feiyan Textile Factory's meat floss cakes, tiramisu, cream cakes, etc., sold like hotcakes and made a fortune as the market changed.
Qin Xiangxiang herself, like her husband, was overwhelmed by the "cream cake".
The couple, one the director of a state-owned textile factory and the other the deputy chief of staff of the headquarters, received numerous visitors and countless cream cakes.
Li Jianzhi was stunned by the mountain of cream cakes in his house. He thought, "Who the hell would deliver cream cakes to my door for Chinese New Year these days? It's a mark of the times."
Nowadays, cream cakes are the most respectable New Year's gift.
"Another cream cake? I always gain weight during the holidays... Luckily, we have a lot of kids in our family."
"Mom, I'm tired of eating cream cakes."
Qin Xiangxiang said with a sigh, "I'm almost overwhelmed by all the cream cakes I have."
Thinking back to ten years ago, she was happy to eat a piece of cream cake. Now, her house is piled high with cream cakes, and the refrigerator can't hold them all.
Everyone was giving cakes as gifts; who could have predicted this kind of life?
The festive atmosphere at the construction site in the special economic zone is not as bourgeois and sweet as in Shanghai. Most of the time, the Shekou Industrial Zone only has a holiday of three to seven days during the Spring Festival. Wang Youyou, the general manager, is like a man possessed. He does not take a holiday for himself and, together with Jiang Dayou and others, pays out of his own pocket to give red envelopes to the workers and veterans who stay behind.
They contacted a local pig farm and got a few pigs. For men, especially those on construction sites, "pig-killing feast" is still the most economical option. The New Year is all about eating meat and drinking alcohol.
In the evening, Wei Shanhe and others organized everyone to sing military songs around the campfire, as if they were still living in the army.
At the same time, the Spring Festival was also a "dangerous signal" in the 1980s. Every year during the Spring Festival, petty theft and robbery increased frequently. Wei Shanhe strengthened the supervision and patrol of Feiyan Market and the branch factory construction site.
Although the 1980s were a time of "gold everywhere," for ordinary people, a simple and ordinary life was actually a safer bet. The fear of getting rich is that you might not live to enjoy it; murder and robbery were common occurrences.
Those who commit murder and robbery don't care if you're a high-ranking official or a top academician. Robberies at this time are far more heinous than many people imagine.
For example, there are also many people who sneak into the military base to rob things in the dark. Being a sentry at this time is a dangerous job. In the middle of the night, there really will be robbers who "steal guns" from the military base and then go to the deep mountains and forests to rob people and make a fortune.
Wei Shanhe spent the Spring Festival at the construction site in the special economic zone when he encountered a minor setback. A local contractor took advantage of the lax management at the end of the year to smuggle building materials from the Feiyan Textile Factory construction site, intending to resell them. He was caught red-handed by the veterans on night patrol.
This incident was also reported by local and Hong Kong media reporters, who referred to it as the "Special Economic Zone Flying Swallow Iron Army".
"This Feiyan Textile Factory possesses an iron will and spirit like that of soldiers; no wonder their textile factory has maintained a high standard of quality for so many years..."
"I heard that the factory director, Qin Xiangxiang's, favorite book is 'How the Steel Was Tempered'."
"We look forward to the successful construction of the Feiyan Textile Factory's special economic zone branch, which will bring new surprises to the economic development of the special economic zone."
...
Qin Xiangxiang learned the following news from Wang Youyou's phone call:
"What's my favorite book? How the Steel Was Tempered?"
Wang Youyou said excitedly, "The media in the Special Administrative Region and Hong Kong and Macao have all reported on it and praised our textile factory as the 'Iron Army of the Special Administrative Region.' Factory Director, you have a will as strong as steel!"
Qin Xiangxiang was speechless: "..."
I don't usually have this kind of thing.
"Li Qingfeng, you brat, did you spread the word that your mom likes to watch 'How the Steel Was Tempered'?"
Li Qingfeng: "Isn't that right? You and your dad watch this when you go to sleep."
"Mom, I'm trying to protect your positive image!"
Qin Xiangxiang: "..."
Li Jianzhi chuckled: "It's just my son's filial piety."
On February 12th, Lunar New Year's Eve, the whole family gathered at the small villa, including Qin Wutong and Zhou Aodong, Wu Xueyan and Li Jianzhi's younger brother and sister-in-law, and Li Jinling, whom they hadn't seen for a long time. A large group of people celebrated the Spring Festival at the small villa.
That year, the family already had a color TV, a refrigerator, a washing machine, and an air conditioner that Qin Xiangxiang brought back from the special economic zone. However, the air conditioner felt stuffy in winter, so it was only useful in the summer.
The whole family gathered around the color TV to watch the first Spring Festival Gala, and Qin Xiangxiang even led the children to participate in the telephone-based program request and prize-winning riddle guessing game.
"Mom, please request a program!"
"I want to see singing!"
"I want to watch a comedy sketch."
...
"Mom, when we go out to visit relatives for the New Year, let's not take your car, let's take a taxi!"
"I'd like to take a taxi too."
Qin Xiangxiang: "Hmph, these brats have no taste. They don't want a car, they want to take a taxi."
"It's something new, isn't it? There are more and more taxis in the city now, and people think taking a taxi is fashionable. The kids are just trying something new."
In that year, becoming a taxi driver was a very prestigious thing; without a certain background, one couldn't even get a taxi operating license.
Taxi license plates alone cost over ten thousand yuan.
The New Year is celebrated with great fanfare. Since the 1980s, it seems that every year has brought tremendous changes, with living standards visibly improving and people full of anticipation for the coming year.
After the Spring Festival, normal work and life resumed, and the branch factory in the special economic zone began construction in full swing. However, at this time, Qin Xiangxiang and others discovered a huge flaw.
Firstly, the land allocated to them by the Special Economic Zone was coastal industrial land. In addition, the Special Economic Zone itself has a humid and saline climate, which poses a fatal threat to the precision textile industry.
At the very beginning of building the factory, one of the biggest issues to consider was "moisture prevention".
In fact, this is a challenge that Feiyan Textile Factory has been studying to counter.
"The Hong Kong business owner is very experienced in this area and recommended that we purchase more advanced 'industrial dehumidifiers' in the future. Xiangjiang and Liben Linhai have extensive experience in this field, but purchasing more industrial dehumidifiers will incur additional costs, as well as the electricity bills for the factory's operation in the future..."
Moisture prevention should have been considered from the very beginning of the factory's construction; otherwise, more industrial dehumidifiers would have to be purchased afterward, which would have significantly increased the cost of the machines and electricity.
To save money—mainly because they were too poor—Qin Xiangxiang decided to optimize a moisture-proof system physically, saving money wherever possible and providing double protection.
She first packed up Old Master Ouyang and forcibly transported him to the special economic zone factory.
Old Master Ouyang was trapped on the ship bound for the special economic zone: "...I'm on a pirate ship."
Originally, after retiring, I could have set up a stall near the base and lived a comfortable and carefree life even if no one paid attention to me. But ever since I met Director Qin, my life has become lively and busy.
Making warship toys was one thing, but when he visited the pig-raising workshop of Feiyan Textile Factory at the end of the year, "Factory Director Qin" maliciously packaged him up and sent him to the wasteland of the special economic zone, making him lead a team to figure out the factory's "moisture-proof construction".
Qin Xiangxiang: "Grandpa, you've spent your whole life dealing with ships at sea, you must have a lot of experience in moisture prevention, right?"
"Building ships is essentially the same as building a textile factory by the sea..."
According to Qin Xiangxiang, she is not wrong. The most important and crucial aspects of warships are rust prevention and moisture prevention, and Old Master Ouyang must have a lot of experience in this regard.
"Come back after the Feiyan Textile Factory is completed, and I'll throw you a celebration banquet then."
Grandpa Ouyang: "??????"
The evil Factory Director Qin.
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