◎Third update◎
"Hello everyone, I am Liang Baozhen from the factory radio station. Today I will read a selection of leaders' quotations for you."
"Imperialism and all reactionaries are paper tigers."
"Be self-reliant and work hard."
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Most people in the factory don't care whose voice is coming from the big speakers hanging everywhere. They only care about listening to the radio.
There were no entertainment activities on weekdays, not to mention expensive electrical appliances such as radios and televisions that required precious tickets to buy, so the big speakers in the factory were an important source of spiritual energy for everyone. It was interesting to listen to the announcer reading the newspaper... Of course, there were also some people who had the leisure to listen and heard something different.
Xu Shengjie was naturally familiar with his wife's voice. Liang Baozhen's voice was thin but not sharp. Her words passed through her left ear and then into her right ear, more like a warm spring breeze. When she reached a point where her words were full of emotion, she would lower her voice and speak in a sonorous and powerful voice.
However, the sound effects of the loud speakers always make people's voices sound a little strange.
"Xiao Xu, is your wife a broadcaster?" Ding Xiaoxia loves listening to the radio! To her, broadcasters are simply amazing. After all, they can recognize so many characters and speak standard Mandarin.
Xu Shengjie took his lunch box and prepared to find a place to eat. "Yes, this is my first time on duty today. Auntie, I'm leaving first."
Xu Shengjie covered Liang Baozhen's meal with a lunch box lid and put it aside to prevent it from getting cold too quickly. He and Hong Saner found a place to sit down. The two grown men ate quickly and often resolved fights quickly. Liang Baozhen scolded him a lot for this.
However, Xu Shengjie ate slowly today. Listening to his wife's voice constantly floating out from the radio, he felt it was fresh and magical. Unconsciously, he ate slower, as if there was an extra dish to go with his meal.
"This is incredible! My sister-in-law has made great progress. I can listen to her reading on the radio every day in the future." Hong Saner's mouth was full of food, and he did not forget to praise Liang Baozhen.
Xu Shengjie also felt proud when he heard this, "That's right."
Hong Saner glanced at his brother and didn't know how to be humble!
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Calculating the time, Liang Baozhen's broadcast was about to end. Xu Shengjie washed his lunch box and asked Hong Saner to take it back. He then carried the hot meal to the radio station to find someone.
In the small radio station, Liang Baozhen was broadcasting the last two minutes with her back to herself.
Xu Shengjie leaned against the door, staring at his wife's back in a daze. Her two braids were thrown behind her, black and shiny. Liang Baozhen was meticulous in doing things and pursued everything to be done in a proper manner. Every time she combed her hair neatly, her braids were skillfully braided, which made her neck look white and slender.
Hearing footsteps behind her, Liang Baozhen turned around and saw the expected man looking back and smiling, with curved eyebrows. She gestured to him to wait for her, but she didn't stop talking, her red lips opened and closed as she continued to broadcast.
"That's all for today's broadcast. See you tomorrow." By pressing the knob on the radio station, the microphone was turned off and the sound would not be muted.
Liang Baozhen quickly stood up and walked towards Xu Shengjie, smiling, "How was it? I did a good job reporting today, didn't I?"
Seeing his wife looking for praise, Xu Shengjie couldn't help but pinch her cheeks. His fingertips felt slippery and he said, "Very good."
Gradually getting used to the man's frugality with words, Liang Baozhen took the lunch box, sat next to the radio station and started eating.
Before the broadcast, she ate a steamed bun as a cushion. At lunchtime, she was so excited and nervous that she didn't feel hungry at all. It was only after the broadcast was over that her stomach started to growl.
Xu Shengjie never knew why Liang Baozhen looked pretty when she ate quickly and hurriedly when she was very hungry, unlike Hong Saner sitting opposite him who would get a mouthful of oil after eating. Look at his wife, with her bulging little mouth and cheeks that bulge out and then sag, and you can tell she eats with relish.
"Eat slowly, don't choke." He brought a pot of water, opened the lid of the military pot, and handed it to his wife.
After taking a big gulp of warm water, Liang Baozhen continued to fight!
Xu Shengjie also took the lunch box, washed it and put it back in the workshop. Liang Baozhen took on the role of a hands-off manager for a rare time and returned to the factory office to prepare for the selection of broadcast content for the next few days and the preparation of promotional materials.
Director Xue was going to let her go out for some exercise, and she followed Huang Cui'e to interview Chen Yong, the director of the National Cotton Mill.
The factory's publicity department publishes a monthly report. It is not long and mainly records major and minor events in the National Cotton Mill, such as the selection of labor models in the factory and the monthly production evaluation results of each workshop. There will also be interviews with factory leaders from time to time. The work content is quite rich and varied, and Liang Baozhen enjoys it.
However, her work schedule is not full, so she can still take her books to the radio station in the afternoon to read leisurely. A while ago, she went to the book flea market and found a lot of high school teaching materials. She also brought her own high school textbooks from home to prepare for the college entrance examination next year.
The old office building where the radio station was located was facing a forest. Liang Baozhen was tired of reading and stretched her body to stretch her muscles. She happened to see two people standing by the forest opposite. The distance between them was not far. Looking down from the height of three floors, Liang Baozhen vaguely recognized who they were. After all, there were not many men wearing white shirts and black trousers in the National Cotton Mill, and Chen Siming was one of them.
The man next to him was the middle-aged man with the mole on the corner of his mouth that he had seen that day.
This man has been seen going to the office building twice. It seems that Chen Siming is really hooking up with him.
Work has been going well recently, and she has been looking for opportunities to read and review. Liang Baozhen did not read on her rare day off. She took a nap and prepared to go talk to Liu Nianhua.
She has been busy preparing for the radio station recently. As she has started her new position, she has to put more effort into it, and her interactions with Liu Nianhua and Cheng Caili have become less frequent.
But today Cheng Caili said that she was going back to her parents' home with Lu Yuan, so she went to the west room.
"Sister Hua, are you home?" The Liu family's door was ajar and everything was quiet. Liang Baozhen stood at the door, knocked, and shouted inside.
For a long while, there was no movement.
"Looks like he's gone out." Liang Baozhen muttered to herself, turned around and prepared to leave, but there was a creaking sound behind her.
"Baozhen."
Liang Baozhen turned around and saw Liu Nianhua opening the door and standing at the door looking at her. His hair was messy, his eyes were full of fatigue, and he opened his mouth with a wry smile.
"Sister Hua, what's wrong with you?" Liang Baozhen had never seen Liu Nianhua like this before. Her eyelids were swollen and her eye sockets were red, as if she had been crying.
Liu Nianhua looked at Liang Baozhen, biting his lower lip with his upper teeth until it was almost bleeding. He was speechless. His head was dizzy and he wanted to say, "It's okay", but tears had already fallen.
Thinking that something was not right, Liang Baozhen looked around and saw that no one was around, so she quickly took Liu Nianhua's hand and went into the house. Her hand was also cold, and Liang Baozhen felt weak inside.
"Sister Hua, what's wrong with you?" Liang Baozhen shook the Liu family's thermos and found that there was no water. She looked at Liu Nianhua in surprise. She had known Liu Nianhua for half a year. Apart from anything else, she would never allow the thermos at home to be empty. No matter what time it was, she would boil water in advance and fill it with new water when there was only half a bottle left.
That's just how she is. She considers everything carefully, no matter how big or small it is. She doesn't like changes or being caught off guard.
But this time, Liu Nianhua couldn't find a way out no matter how hard she thought. What was even more frustrating was that she had no place to vent her grievances.
Her parents were old and in poor health, so she had not been home for the past few days, fearing that she would cry in front of them and cause them to pass out. The two children were still young, Xiaolong was seven years old, and Xiaohu was just five years old, so they could not understand what she was saying.
Liu Nianhua has been staying at home since her marriage. She devotes her whole heart to this family and has few friends. But now, she can't find anyone to vent her grievances to. She feels sad and lives like a walking corpse at home. But that's how it is, and Zhou Guoping didn't notice anything.
Because Wang Fang's husband had recently gone on a long-distance transport trip and was said to be not back for ten days, Zhou Guoping hurried to visit him.
Just now, lying in the room, Liu Nianhua looked at the ceiling and thought. She seemed to have cried all her tears and her brain seemed to be about to explode. How could she live like this? But, what should she do? What about the children? What about her parents?
Questions came to her one after another. She felt disgusted when she looked at Zhou Guoping now, but if she got divorced, how would she live? Widow Chen in the hospital was a living example. When her husband had just died and she was leading two girls through a difficult life, she saw it all and even pulled her belt tight to stuff food into her mouth.
Even after all these years, there is still a lot of gossip around the widow.
At this moment, Liang Baozhen's voice was heard outside the house.
"Sister Hua, don't keep things in your heart. If you feel really upset, just speak up. If it can be solved, then solve it. If it can't be solved, let's think of a solution together." Liang Baozhen held Liu Nianhua's cold hand and rubbed it hard to warm it up.
"Baozhen." Liu Nianhua sniffed and held her hand tightly. "Zhou Guoping has a woman outside."
This sentence made Liang Baozhen confused. Zhou Guoping has a woman outside? Liang Baozhen's first reaction was to disbelieve it. Zhou Guoping's reputation in the hospital for so many years is well known to everyone. He is a good man praised by everyone and is well-known for being good to his wife and himself. How could he be fooling around outside?
But the next second, Liang Baozhen realized that this was true.
Given Liu Nianhua's personality, she would never say this unless she was 100% sure.
"Sister Hua, you..." Seeing Liu Nianhua's haggard appearance, Liang Baozhen carefully considered every word and went through it in her mind, fearing that a careless word would hurt her. "How did you find out?"
Liu Nianhua looked ahead blankly, talking about the scarf that Cheng Caili mentioned, about the faint fragrance she smelled on Zhou Guoping, and about the scenes she saw when she followed Zhou Guoping that night... Liu Nianhua thought that one day when she told these things to others, she would cry uncontrollably and become hysterical, but she spoke very calmly, without even a tear.
But the more numb and desperate the look was, the more frightened Liang Baozhen became.
"He is such a person!" He used to pretend to be gentle and considerate in the courtyard. Not only Liang Baozhen, but everyone else was fooled by him. "It's really a damn thing! Sister Hua, have you thought about what to do in the future?"
If Liang Baozhen encountered such a thing, she would definitely fight to the death with this person, but Liu Nianhua is different. She has a gentle personality and she may not even be able to have a big fight with Zhou Guoping.
Liu Nianhua looked at Liang Baozhen and asked the question she had been thinking about for a long time these days, "Baozhen, tell me, can I live on my own?"
She was unsure, her heart was unsure, and she didn't know whether divorce was the abyss or a turning point for her.
"Of course!" Liang Baozhen said without hesitation, "Sister Hua, you can definitely live well on your own! People like this, no matter if they admit their mistakes to you in the future or not, are not worthy of forgiveness. Think it over. If you want a divorce, I will definitely support you."
"But I don't have a job and I have children. I don't want to give up either Xiaolong or Xiaohu to him, but Zhou Guoping will definitely compete with me..." Liu Nianhua seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw and revealed all his worries.
The word "divorce" has passed through her mind countless times, but everything after divorce scares her.
"As long as you take the first step, everything will be possible!" Liang Baozhen remembered what Liu Nianhua had just said about Zhou Guoping's tryst with his mistress, and she already had an idea.
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Zhou Guoping came out of the tube building, still carrying some of Wang Fang's fragrance. Wang Fang spent the money of a man who was engaged in long-distance transportation, and was used to being extravagant. Recently, she bought a bottle of perfume in a department store. The perfume was really expensive and really fragrant, and it made people's hearts itch...
Zhou Guoping, who had a good time, walked back to the house. Just as he was about to enter, he suddenly realized something was wrong. He staggered back two steps and looked at the empty wall above his front door. At the threshold, the sign with red letters on a yellow background was broken into two pieces and lay quietly on the ground.
Zhou Guoping's eyes suddenly glowed red, and he shouted, "Who smashed the sign of my family's 'Five Good Families'?"
Liu Nianhua opened the door, looked at the drunk man outside, and said coldly, "I smashed it."
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