◎Second update◎
The Municipal National Cotton Factory Employees' Sports Meet kicked off with exciting music.
Liang Baozhen was in charge of adjusting the radio to play music at the radio station. The music was transmitted through the loudspeakers to all parts of the National Cotton Mill. Representatives from each workshop came on stage one by one to welcome the long-awaited sports meeting.
Before the competition started, the factory manager Chen Yong gave a speech at the podium, aiming to motivate the employees and inspire them. He also mentioned the prizes for the Games, which included bicycle tickets, radio tickets, food coupons, meat coupons, matches, shampoo, etc.
The first few words had already excited everyone, and after the prizes were listed, everyone was even more eager to show off their skills.
Liang Baozhen did not sign up for any event. She had just given birth and could not stand all the hardships. She would rather be a spectator.
The factory office organized five female employees to train in volleyball for more than half a month in order to participate in a volleyball competition.
Liang Baozhen helped to look after the military water bottles for everyone and passed out water during breaks. The rest of the time she watched the game with great interest, cheering from time to time.
In the end, the women's volleyball team from the factory won third place and each of them received a piece of shampoo.
There are many events in this sports meet, and many workers are participating, including table tennis, basketball, long jump, skipping rope... and tug-of-war, which is the best test of unity and cooperation!
The key to tug-of-war is for everyone to pull together as one, and it is also the spirit of unity and cooperation that the National Cotton Mill advocates the most. Therefore, the grand prize of bicycle tickets is also among the prizes of this event.
By the time people from the eight workshops and departments gathered in the playground, the roars were already deafening!
"Can we do this?"
"Just listen to my instructions and do your best."
"I hope to draw lots and pick a weaker one."
There are eight teams, each with eight people. Each team will send a representative to draw lots to decide the duel.
The factory office dispatched a team of five men and three women. They all worked in offices and were definitely not as strong as the workshop workers.
As a result, they ran into the Qinghua workshop where Xu Shengjie was working. It was full of men, and all of them looked strong!
Factory Office: "..."
"Everyone, get set!"
Both sides pulled the rope tightly, forming a stalemate, waiting for the referee to blow the whistle to start.
"Baozhen, which side do you support?" Huang Cui'e did not go on the court, giving the opportunity to the young comrades and watching from below. On the court, the factory office team's opponents included Liang Baozhen's man, so she naturally would not miss this opportunity.
Zhu Jinyu, who was preparing at the time, heard it and turned around and shouted, "Comrade Liang Baozhen, you must support us! There are no men and wives in the arena!"
"Hahahahahahaha, that's not certain. Let's see if Comrade Liang Baozhen's elbow will be bent outward?" Factory Office Director Xue Lijun also came to watch the game and had fun with everyone.
"Director Xue, aren't you saying it the other way around?" The female worker in the cotton combing workshop next to him joked, "The couple is the inside, and your factory is the outside!"
Xue Lijun waved his hands repeatedly, "That's not necessarily true. My own man is not very useful in the factory. Our factory and office are one family!"
Liang Baozhen was amused by everyone's chatter. She passed through the gap in the crowd and saw Xu Shengjie, who was standing on the Qinghua workshop team, looking at her. It was obvious that he had heard everyone's jokes.
The two looked at each other, with the same expression of joy and helplessness on their faces. Liang Baozhen looked at everyone and said, "No matter who wins, I won't suffer any loss!"
"That's right! The palms and backs of your hands are all made of flesh!"
However, wishes are beautiful and reality is cruel.
Amid the cheers of Liang Baozhen and other employees, the factory office team was defeated in the first round.
"The opponent's force is too strong!"
"My hands are all red." Zhu Jinyu did try her best, but there was nothing she could do.
Liang Baozhen rubbed her hands and said, "It's okay. The most important thing is to participate."
The tug-of-war competition attracted a lot of people's attention. Everyone loves to watch this direct and simple contest of strength, and the winner can be decided in a short time.
In the end, the flower cleaning workshop, which had been favored all the way, defeated the coarse sand workshop in the final and won the first place in the tug-of-war competition!
The first place winner of the tug-of-war competition will receive a reward of 20 yuan, and the eight participants will take turns to draw the prize.
There were eight pieces of paper in a wooden box, each with a corresponding prize written on it. The most eye-catching one was naturally the bicycle ticket, and the least attractive one was a box of matches.
After all, the price of a bicycle ticket and a pack of matches differs by a huge amount, and no one wants to be the unluckiest one.
The eight people from the Qinghua workshop stepped forward one by one and drew the prizes from the wooden box.
Hong Saner was the second one to draw. He rubbed his hands under the gaze of everyone, reached into the wooden box and took out a ball of paper.
When he opened it, his face changed instantly.
"Look at Hong Saner, he must have drawn a match!"
"Hahahahahahaha, Hong Saner, stop pretending and show everyone."
"Damn, why am I so unlucky!" Hong Saner was so angry that his mouth was twisted. Where's the bicycle ticket? He just missed it like that!
The next person eager to try was Liu, a worker in the workshop. He was a fourth-level worker in the factory, but he had always had bad luck with his hands, and even drinking water would get stuck in his teeth. Even though the four olds were being destroyed, he would still check the almanac before going out.
"I'll find someone to catch it for me!" He didn't trust his own stinky hands at all.
"I'll do it, I'll do it!"
"I'll do it for you!"
The spectators gathered in a circle nearby were delighted and wanted to go up and have some fun.
"What are you guys making a fuss about? Liu Gong's wife is here! What does this have to do with you?"
Mr. Liu's wife is also a factory employee, working in the fine yarn workshop, and is also in the crowd.
"Fan Meijuan, what are you doing standing there? Hurry up and get up!"
Fan Meijuan was a straightforward person. She walked to the front amid the crowd's jeers and pushed the unlucky man away with her elbow, "Let me catch it!"
As a result, her luck was neither good nor bad. On the paper ball she caught was written - three catties of meat ticket.
"Very good, very good!" She was satisfied. Liu Gong was even more satisfied. After all, there was Hong Saner as a cushion, and now there was shampoo in the wooden box. The meat ticket was already the best thing!
However, ever since Liu Gong started doing this, the workers who were going to grab the prizes later began to ask their wives to come up and help. After all, someone said that if you grab the prize with your hands too smelly, you will have a hard time explaining it when you get home!
When it was Xu Shengjie's turn, there were only two pieces of paper left.
"Come on, just take out the last two pieces of paper!" Xue Lijun became interested and opened the wooden box directly. Now there was only a bicycle ticket and a five-jin grain coupon left.
It is very obvious which is more important!
"Baozhen, what are you standing there for?"
"Go up!"
Huang Cui'e pulled Liang Baozhen to the wooden box and trotted back.
The last worker was still a single man and had no partner, so he let Liang Baozhen represent Xu Shengjie to choose first.
Liang Baozhen glanced at Xu Shengjie and saw him nodding his chin.
"You can choose whatever you want. If you choose bicycles, we will buy bicycles. If you choose food stamps, we will eat at the state-owned hotel."
It sounds like both are good!
Liang Baozhen looked at Director Xue, who had a piece of paper in each hand. No one knew which one was the bicycle ticket. She pointed at his left hand and said, "Director Xue, we want this one."
"Are you sure? You can't regret it."
"No regrets!" Liang Baozhen made up her mind as soon as she said it, and she was determined not to change her mind.
"Okay, you can take it apart and see for yourself."
The two paper balls were handed to Liang Baozhen and another worker respectively. Xue Lijun was also curious, so he stood in the middle and looked left and right.
"Baozhen, you must draw a bicycle ticket!"
"Save face for our factory!"
"Song Ming, this is a prize from the Renqinghua workshop. How did it become a show of honor for the factory office?"
"What do you know? If Comrade Liang Baozhen wins the bicycle ticket, our factory office will also have a share of the credit!"
Liang Baozhen was a little nervous after hearing what everyone said. Although food coupons were good, they were not as valuable as bicycle tickets.
Cong Bai's fingers slowly unfolded the paper ball, and Liang Baozhen saw four big characters written in flying dragons and dancing phoenixes on it: Bicycle Ticket
She jumped on the spot, waved her hands, looked sideways, and met Xu Shengjie's eyes, "Bicycle ticket!!!"
"I saw it!" Xu Shengjie smiled and praised his wife, "You are so lucky!"
"Xiao Liang made a good choice!" Xue Lijun also saw it and comforted the workers next to him who had received food coupons.
But people are very open-minded and think that having food is a good thing. Their family’s food coupons are just not enough this month, so now it’s like a timely help.
Xu Shengjie and Liang Baozhen showed their bicycle tickets to the crowd. Many people wanted to buy bicycles but didn't have tickets. Someone immediately became interested in the precious bicycle ticket. Sister Chen from the logistics department wanted to sell it, but buying and selling is speculation, so she could only speak politely and try her luck.
"Baozhen, I remember you have a bicycle at home, can you lend me this ticket first? I can give you an egg ticket."
"Sister Chen, I'm sorry, we are going to buy another one because there are too many people at home." Liang Baozhen wanted to buy another bicycle, which was why she wanted Xu Shengjie to win a bicycle ticket.
"Oh, your family is willing to spend so much." Sister Chen glanced sideways. The young couple who both work are well-off, and they even bought two bicycles.
"Next time, the next time there's an activity in the factory, come and have a look." Liang Baozhen said goodbye to Sister Chen and walked back with Xu Shengjie.
"I really won a bicycle ticket!" Liang Baozhen held the paper ball and asked Xu Shengjie to go to the Administration Department to redeem the ticket later. "You really keep your word."
"Of course, but we won this together. If you hadn't chosen us in the end, we might have only had five kilograms of food coupons."
"Yes, at least half of the military medal belongs to me!" Liang Baozhen thought that she was lucky, otherwise how could she have been chosen with just a casual pointing!
The two followed the crowd back, not noticing that someone was staring at them from far behind.
"Siming."
Secretary Fang took Chen Siming to look for the factory director Chen Yong, but halfway through they saw him stop and look at something.
"There's a sports meet being held in the factory today. I think the tug-of-war competition just ended. It was quite lively." Secretary Fang explained.
"Yes, it's quite lively." Chen Siming smiled and followed him.
"You are really different now. Your personality has changed a lot. I almost didn't recognize you."
Chen Siming secretly returned to the city a year after his labor reform. Secretary Fang probably knew that he was following the path of Chen Sixian. Now Chen Siming's temperament is completely different. He is no longer the noisy son of the director of the National Cotton Mill.
Instead, he has a calm and sophisticated temperament.
The office door was closed to let the father and son talk, while Secretary Fang waited outside.
After get off work, Liang Baozhen and Xu Shengjie rode their Phoenix bicycles to a department store, and used their still-hot bicycle tickets and 160 yuan to buy a Feipig bicycle.
This time Liang Baozhen did not sit on the back seat of the man's bicycle. Instead, she rode with him to Yueya Hutong.
The summer evening breeze blew, making the two people's clothes flutter. Liang Baozhen glanced at Xu Shengjie and always felt that he had passed her by half a parking space.
Liang Baozhen exerted force with her feet, not wanting to fall behind, and pedaled the bicycle hard. The bicycle she rode originally was the one Xu Shengjie rode, and the newly bought one was not that easy to pedal, and the wheels still needed to adapt.
But Xu Shengjie seemed to be pedaling very easily.
"Let's see who can reach the alley entrance first!" Liang Baozhen had been watching the sports games all day and was getting addicted.
Her words were blown away by the breeze and flew towards Xu Shengjie.
"Okay, do you want me to let you?"
"don't want!"
Liang Baozhen was riding very fast and could only catch a glimpse of the blue light beside her with her peripheral vision. When she was still a few hundred meters away from the entrance of the alley, she suddenly braked.
Xu Shengjie rode more than a hundred meters before he realized that his wife had stopped riding. He turned back and parked his bike next to Liang Baozhen. "What's wrong? Don't you want to compete anymore?"
"Look, isn't that Sister Hua and Zhou Qingdang?" Liang Baozhen saw Liu Nianhua and Zhou Qingdang standing and talking at an alley entrance in front of the alley.
The author has something to say:
Congratulations to Mr. Xu Shengjie & Ms. Liang Baozhen for buying their second bicycle with full payment. I am different. I can only buy a cup of milk tea with full payment⊙▽⊙
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