Chapter 95 Chicken Blood is Out of Place.
"Did I just say something?" Seeing that Qin Xiangxiang and the other person didn't react in any way, Lin Xiuqin pretended that she didn't know what she had just said.
Zhao Yangyang felt a chill run down her spine. She felt that Lin Xiuqin was acting very strangely, like a relative from her hometown. This relative had always lived in a poor mountainous area, and one day came to Shanghai to visit relatives. After returning home, she started acting crazy.
This madness doesn't mean he's actually become insane, but rather that he often talks nonsense. He probably thinks he's a national leader or a foreign minister, fantasizing about living in a villa with a nanny and a chef to cook for him.
After uttering these nonsensical words, he forgot them all, and then acted like a normal person again when he was in a normal state.
No matter the era, there are always people like this who are a bit crazy.
It's only now, with the "Destroy the Four Olds" campaign underway, that people dare not speak out. If it were in the past, that would be called "possessed by a ghost."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "I'm not going to chat anymore, I'm going home for dinner."
She couldn't be bothered to care what was wrong with Zhao Yangyang's guests; she was better off hurrying home to cook something delicious.
"Think about it, let's go back together." Zhao Yangyang quickened her pace and moved closer to Qin Xiangxiang. Thinking of the word "possessed by a ghost," she was filled with fear and dared not get any closer to Lin Xiuqin.
She was terrified. Had she brought a female ghost home?!
Zhao Yangyang felt a chill run down her spine and kept swallowing. Even though it was only early autumn, she felt a bone-chilling cold.
But she was too proud to directly send Lin Xiuqin away, saying, "I won't let you come to my house as a guest anymore."
But what if she goes inside and turns into a skeleton?
Zhao Yangyang was anxious, but she dared not speak of such supernatural and bizarre things, lest she be accused of being feudal and superstitious.
"Think about it, we're all the same age. She's visiting my house, so why don't you come up and we can all chat?"
Qin Xiangxiang said, "Zhao Yangyang, I bought a big yellow croaker today. I need to go home and eat fish."
How big is it?
"It's quite big, very rare, I was just lucky to come across it."
As they walked, they arrived at the foot of the family building. Zhao Yangyang caught sight of an elderly woman sitting in a wheelchair downstairs and exclaimed with delight, "Grandma, is your Gou Qiang here? I brought a friend back with me, and she really wants to see what an imported watch looks like."
Grandma Gou perked up immediately upon hearing this, and looked Lin Xiuqin up and down. "This girl has good taste. Gou Qiang and the other man are here. I'll call Qiangzi out right away and let her see what he's made of!"
Zhao Yangyang: "Is Gao Rong here? Tell her to wear a polyester dress when she comes out. Xiao Lin is curious about everything."
"Xiao Lin, let's sit at the old lady's house for a while." Zhao Yangyang regarded the Gou family as a lifeline. Putting aside everything else, the Gou family had a lot of people. In case Lin Xiuqin was possessed by a ghost, there would be a large group of people around.
Lin Xiuqin glanced at Qin Xiangxiang who was going upstairs. She couldn't resist Zhao Yangyang and was forced to come to the Gou family. Gao Rong and Gou Qiang were overjoyed to hear that Lin Xiuqin had come to broaden her horizons.
"Xiao Lin, right? Take this watch off and let me show you. It's imported, very valuable, worth seven or eight hundred yuan."
"And this was also a token of our love."
Gao Rong: "Comrade Lin, you must be from a small place. You've never seen this 'Dacron' before. It's only sold in Shanghai and Guangzhou now. It's normal that most people haven't seen it. The color is really nice."
Zhao Yangyang glanced at the washbasin and noticed that the Gou family had killed a chicken that day; there was a bowl of chicken blood by the sink. "You killed a chicken?"
"Yes, Qiangzi and Rongrong are talking about marriage. They'll be getting married during the National Day holiday. You can come to the wedding banquet; it'll be held in the courtyard."
"Great, that's wonderful, congratulations!"
Zhao Yangyang: "This chicken blood is very fresh."
"That's right! That's right! We just killed it, but Yangyang, we're having a family gathering today, so we can't invite you two to stay for dinner."
Zhao Yangyang stepped forward and, feigning curiosity, picked up a bowl of chicken blood. "There are a few chicken feathers in here. I'll pick them out for you. I hate plucking feathers when I slaughter chickens at home."
She poked her finger into the chicken blood and felt a sense of comfort, remembering how her parents used to kill chickens and pour their blood on the door to ward off evil spirits when she was a child. Chicken blood has been used to ward off evil spirits since ancient times.
Zhao Yangyang quickly pretended to stumble, forcefully released his grip, and splashed the chicken blood in his hand onto Lin Xiuqin.
Chicken blood spilled out, and the porcelain bowl shattered on the ground with a bang.
"Ah!" Zhao Yangyang feigned a look of horror.
A bowl of chicken blood was poured over Lin Xiuqin, and she screamed, "Ah!!"
The Gou family was terrified.
Zhao Yangyang quickly said, "I didn't hold it properly, I'm really sorry. I'll go home later and make you a new bowl and a piece of cured meat. I'm really sorry."
Gou Qiang quickly replied, "It's nothing, it's nothing. It's a sign of peace and good fortune."
"Xiaolin, I'm so sorry, I didn't hold it properly just now, it scared me to death, you must have been scared too?"
Lin Xiuqin stared dumbfounded at Zhao Yangyang in front of her. Covered in chicken blood, Lin Xiuqin had no idea what Zhao Yangyang was thinking. What an idiot!
Zhao Yangyang felt that she was possessed by a ghost.
Lin Xiuqin, covered in chicken blood, was furious and left the family compound in a huff.
Zhao Yangyang breathed a sigh of relief. She shouldn't have brought Lin Xiuqin home. Now she ran upstairs to tell Zhong Li about her ordeal.
Zhong Li said with an air of seriousness, "...This is possession by a ghost. I've seen this kind of scene back in my hometown."
"Yangyang, when you encounter something like this, you need to be both brave and resourceful!"
Zhao Yangyang felt relieved: "I won't dare to mess with them anymore."
After this incident, Zhao Yangyang decided to stay away from Lin Xiuqin. It was better to keep her at a distance from such a eccentric person. She was terrified today. It was fine if she was eccentric on ordinary days, but what if she turned into a skeleton if she was brought home?
"Don't worry, there's plenty of yang energy in our residential compound, the evil spirits will be driven away."
Lin Xiuqin left the family compound and returned to her residence to take a shower and change her clothes. She was filled with doubt and uncertainty. Looking at Zhao Yangyang and Qin Xiangxiang, they both looked like natives.
Who else time-traveled? How did they manage to mess up the plot like this?
She, the leading lady, has now become a complete outsider!
During the National Day holiday in October, Gou Qiang and Gao Rong from the first floor got married and held an open-air banquet downstairs. It was a beautiful autumn day, and people from the family compound came to join in the fun and help out.
"Old Gou, you can rest assured now. Your only son has gotten married, and he has completely completed his mission. He can enjoy his retirement now."
"Gou Qiang, you need to treat your wife better."
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Qin Xiangxiang and Li Jianzhi's entire family of five came to the wedding banquet. Qin Xiangxiang gave a pillowcase made of scrap fabric with a floral pattern. She was skillful and made the scrap fabric into a striped pattern, which made good use of the scrap fabric and made it exquisite and beautiful.
"Director Qin, your craftsmanship is excellent." Gao Rong accepted the pillowcase with great delight, and tentatively asked, "The textile factory will be hiring soon, right? I only graduated from junior high school."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "When the recruitment notice is posted, you can apply if you want to try. We're recruiting quite a few people."
Gao Rong married Gou Qiang, so she was considered a military family member. There was no problem for her to apply for a job at the textile factory; the new factory would definitely hire a large number of female workers when it opened.
Apart from military families and those from Hongqiling Commune who are eligible for compensation without educational requirements, anyone else who wants to work in the textile factory must at least have graduated from junior or senior high school. They are usually assigned jobs by relevant departments. Qin Xiangxiang has also spoken with people from the island's middle school, who have been sending students to learn to work there every year.
At this time, the knowledge in textbooks was not important for middle school students, but they were required to learn industry and agriculture. Learning agriculture goes without saying, while learning industry meant becoming an apprentice in various factories.
Previously, there were few factories on the island, so students had to work on reservoir repairs. Now that there's a textile factory, there are more places for students to "learn industrial skills."
If we're talking about middle school students, Shanghai is still a good place to study. Shanghai has many factories, and students have the opportunity to experience working in textile factories and machinery factories, as well as meat processing plants, canneries, and food factories.
Qin Xiangxiang knew a student who went to a food factory to "learn the trade" and gained several pounds after two or three months of training.
Gao Rong: "Then I'll have to trouble Director Qin to take care of things."
Qin Xiang thought to himself: It's questionable whether I'll still be a factory manager in the future.
However, now that the factory is about to be completed, wherever she goes as the factory manager, people greet her with smiles, all wanting something from her. Some want to work in the textile factory, while others look forward to the textiles that the factory will produce in the future...
Being a factory manager must feel very prestigious.
Let the glory last as long as it lasts. I'm not going to force it. As the saying goes, I'll just take it one day at a time and enjoy it while I can.
Her son, Little Fatty, was just like her, eating heartily at other people's wedding banquets.
In October, batches of machines began to be moved into the factory, which was still under construction. Master Li brought three other people from the factory to the island. In addition to her, the other three were Gui Xiang, a skilled female worker, Xu Anguo, two mechanics, and Ma Taihua. They were the first group of people to come and provide support.
Besides Master Li, who came voluntarily, Gui Xiang and Ma Taihua also applied to come. One wanted a promotion and the other wanted to be promoted. Xu Anguo, on the other hand, came reluctantly because he had made a mistake at the factory and was assigned to support the construction.
Xu Anguo complained all the way here, "I'm about to suffer a lot!"
Qin Xiangxiang arranged accommodations for them in brick and tile houses with courtyards. Master Li exclaimed in surprise, "Weren't you supposed to be in rammed earth houses? This looks quite nice, with a two-bedroom and one-living room room."
Gui Xiang: "Wow, what a big house!"
They lived in the same workers' housing in the city as Qin Xiangxiang's family, in a dozen or so single-story houses. Many families also had one or two rooms, totaling about 30 square meters. People on each floor shared a kitchen and bathroom.
Now I can live in a two-bedroom house with a front yard, the space is quite nice.
“We can raise chickens in the front yard. Guixiang, let’s live together. I feel it’s too empty for me to live alone.”
Qin Xiangxiang said, "Master Li, please don't be so frugal. If you live in the same courtyard as Guixiang, it will be easier for your family to have a place to stay when they come to visit."
"Two apartments in one courtyard, right? Okay, then I'll live with Guixiang, and Taihua and Anguo will live in the same courtyard."
After Mr. Li arrived and settled in, he said he wanted to see the machine, so Qin Xiangxiang led them to see it.
"You even got approved for synthetic fiber material quotas? Our factory also produces polyester?"
Qin Xiangxiang: "Yes."
Gui Xiang was delighted: "This is great! This kind of material is hard to find even in Shanghai!"
Xu Anguo and Ma Taihua also had this idea. They thought it was really going against the grain. They could produce things that were hard to buy in Shanghai here and send them back home.
Qin Xiangxiang said, "Masters, from now on, I'll make sure you can all wear Dacron!"
The current high price of Dacron is actually just a cheap blend of synthetic fibers, with synthetic fibers as the main component. Once several synthetic fiber production lines are built, it will become a common commodity.
"Your factory even has water-jet looms?" Xu Anguo was stunned.
What a remote and impoverished place, hiding such treasures!
Water jet looms are rare in the country and are all imported, with only a few factories owning them.
"No wonder you were able to apply for the chemical fiber material quota."
Master Li asked, "Director Qin, has the support from the local textile school arrived yet?"
"We've arrived. There are two teachers, thirty college students from worker and peasant colleges who are technicians, and a group of female trainees from the school. They're here to learn on the job."
"Several other textile factories also successively provided support with thirty veteran mechanics and a group of skilled female technicians."
Xu Anguo: "There weren't many people providing support. When a textile factory was being built before, a total of two hundred technical experts were sent."
Qin Xiangxiang said, "So now it's decided that you experienced senior technicians will lead the textile school technician students, and these students will lead the inexperienced new female workers."
"Everyone worked hard in the early stages, but now there is still plenty of time. The main task is to debug the machines and equipment and lead the personnel and machines to break in and conduct trial production."
"Okay," Master Li replied. "I love how vibrant the factory looked when it was first built."
"The newly built factory is full of energy, and the students are all very motivated. Let's hold more labor competitions for 10,000 meters of flawless fabric next year!"
Upon hearing this, Assistant He immediately became very enthusiastic, saying, "Absolutely! We should hold more labor competitions."
Qin Xiangxiang: "Huh?!"
Teachers and students from the textile school came over to chat with Master Li and others. Upon hearing about the labor competition, they were all eager to start production immediately, showing great enthusiasm.
The idea that competitions would allow students to stand out, stand out would lead to awards, and awards would lead to promotions, made these fresh-faced students feel that they were full of talent and ready to make a big splash.
That's the difference between a student and a seasoned veteran.
Qin Xiangxiang found it absurd; she felt completely out of place with this group of people who were on steroids.
This probably also indicates that she, as the factory director, will eventually step down and hand over the reins to a more capable person.
"Director Qin, I didn't expect you to be the most composed one. You've really impressed me. Unlike your old Master Li, who's still acting crazy at his age." Xu Anguo is a seasoned veteran with both skill and experience. He's completely uninterested in motivational rhetoric. Production enthusiasm and competitions? Bah!
The more loudly they shout, the more chaotic and messy things become.
"I admire your composure. You have the same composure as your mother back then. No, you are even more composed than your mother."
Qin Xiangxiang: "Huh?!"
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