Chapter 53
Wu Zhengrong ignored his love rival and when he passed by Xiao Zhou, Ye Manzhi was already sitting in the office, happily knitting a sweater.
Although her skating skills were not very good, the pair of white ice skates made her look particularly cool on the ice rink, so she decided to arrange the green sweater first and try to let Wu Zhengrong wear a new sweater during the Chinese New Year.
Seeing her relaxed look, Liu Jinbao said sourly, "Our Director Xiao Ye has finally become the wife of a daughter-in-law!"
Ye Manzhi asked with understanding, "You haven't completed your mission of mobilizing people to return home yet?"
"No, Guangming Street might be the last one to perform well again this month."
The district asked Guangming Street to mobilize 600 people to return home before the Spring Festival, and the number of people who successfully returned home must be reported every month.
Last month, Guangming Street ranked last in the district in terms of the number of people mobilized. After Director Mu came back from the district, he was in a bad mood for several days.
All personnel in the unit are required to attach importance to the work of persuading people to return. Of course, this does not include Aunt Feng and Ye Manzhi.
There is no need to talk about Aunt Feng. She is a special case, and Director Mu never arranged any persuasion work for her from the beginning.
What Liu Jinbao couldn't stand the most was Ye Manzhi.
Because he built a coal furnace factory and absorbed the idle labor force in the street, Ye Manzhi no longer had to participate in the persuasion work!
If he had known that setting up a factory would be useful, he should have found a way to set up one!
This persuasion work is the most difficult bone he has encountered since he started working!
Everyone on the street envied Ye Manzhi for escaping from her misery so early, but being a factory manager was not an easy job.
As the factory expanded, its operation and management became more difficult.
She had to learn everything from scratch, such as tax returns, profit retention, and worker wages, which made her extremely anxious.
She works on civil affairs at the street office every morning, and her afternoons are almost entirely occupied by this small factory.
However, whenever she thinks about the hardship of the repatriation work, Ye Manzhi cherishes her coal furnace factory even more.
Unless the persuasion work is completely completed, she will not give up the position of factory director!
Liu Jinbao couldn't bear to see her knitting so leisurely, so he knocked on her desk and asked, "Have you finished your application materials for the Advanced Individual Award? Let me have a look!"
"Our jobs are different, so what's the point of mine?"
Having said that, Ye Manzhi still opened the drawer and handed him the materials she had just finished writing last night.
Liu Jinbao certainly knew that he could not copy her application materials. He mainly wanted to see how much content the other party had written.
Whenever it was time to write this kind of material, Ye Manzhi always wrote the most out of everyone.
I don't know where she gets all that nonsense from!
Compared to her, he seemed like he hadn't done any work at all. In fact, he was almost exhausted every day!
He now understood that doing the work well was not as good as writing the materials well!
Liu Jinbao casually flipped through her application materials and asked in surprise, "Why did you only write seven pages?"
He also wrote seven pages.
Ye Manzhi laboriously knitted a pattern while whispering, "We've only been working for less than a year. I don't think it's going to be the Advanced Person Award for newcomers like us. I'll probably just write a few."
Each street can report two advanced individuals to the district.
Then, according to the custom of sitting in rows and dividing the fruits, one person from each unit will receive the district-level advanced individual award.
Director Mu was relatively fair in applying for the award. The district allowed two people to be selected, but she asked everyone in the unit to write a document and submit it.
The director and deputy director are not on the same track as them, and Aunt Feng voluntarily gave up the award, so the Guangming Sub-district Office can submit five advanced materials and let the district award committee screen them on its own.
Ye Manzhi's coal furnace factory was doing well, but the work being done by others was also good. She suffered from her lack of experience in award evaluations and did not have any particular advantage.
Therefore, she only wrote a rough outline of this report material without elaborating too much.
Liu Jinbao thought what she said made sense, so he didn't plan to modify his own application. After submitting the application materials, he went out to do the work of persuading people to return.
*
Ye Manyi knitted a sweater for the whole morning, took some time to practice calligraphy, and then went to the bank in the afternoon to remit this month's wages to the workers.
When she came out of the branch, there was still half an hour before the end of the get off work day. She didn't want to go back to the office, so she went into the cinema across the street and spent 5 cents to watch "My Life".
I went in smiling and came out crying.
Even when I got home, I was still sad about what happened to me in the movie.
Chang Yue'e saw her listless look and complained, "Why did you come back just now? I was so anxious waiting for you!"
"What's going on?"
Chang Yue'e pulled her into the room and asked quietly, "Did you spend your royalties recklessly?"
"No, didn't you say you would buy me a house? I saved all the money in my current account with a bonus at the bank, and I didn't dare spend a single cent."
She even used Wu Zhengrong's savings to buy government bonds.
"I wanted to take you to see the house, but you came back so late, it was already dark, how could we see the house?"
Ye Manzhi didn't dare to say that she had sneaked off to see a movie. She chuckled and said, "Why rush to buy a house? I can earn some interest if I put the money in the bank!"
"Xiao Wu's grandmother has already given you a gift, how can I not be anxious?"
Chang Yue'e was more knowledgeable than her daughter. She knew it was worth a lot of money just by looking at the water head of the jade bracelet.
She bought a property for her daughter before her marriage, which was at least a decent dowry!
Ye Manzhi glanced at his watch and said, "I definitely can't go today. Tell me about the house and we can go take a look during lunch break tomorrow."
"I've found three houses for you recently. One is next to your third aunt, facing the river. You can see the river when you open the window."
"Wow, this is great," Ye Manzhi nodded with satisfaction. "I love looking at the river view, and I can even go swimming in the river in the summer. This is the one I'll go for."
The last time she attended Wu Zhengrong's class reunion, she thought their Mugeleng River view room was pretty good.
Chang Yue'e hesitated and said, "The river view is nice, but it's better to be prepared for the worst. If there's a flood, it'll be troublesome. If the flood backs up, the first houses to be flooded are those along the river."
After being reminded by her, Ye Manzhi also hesitated. She still remembered the flood disaster she encountered in her childhood.
"What about the other two sets?"
"The second one is near your fourth aunt's house, south of the provincial university, about three stops away by bus. The third one is at your grandmother's house."
Ye Manzhi asked, "Why is the house you found either next to my third aunt's or my fourth aunt's, or next to my grandmother's?"
"If you don't live there often, whether you rent it out or leave it unused, you'll need someone you trust to look after it. Choosing a place near them is most convenient!"
Ye Manzhi gave a thumbs-up and asked, "Which of these two houses is cheaper?"
"The one in the south of the provincial university is 1,500, and the one near your grandma's house is 1,250."
"Then let's go check out the 1250 set. I'd rather be next to my grandma and my uncle!"
She only has 800 yuan in total. After her parents give her 300 yuan, there is still a gap of 150 yuan. I wonder if the price can be negotiated.
During lunch break the next day, Ye Manzhi and Chang Yue'e took a car to see the house.
The two houses with blue bricks and gray tiles are well maintained. They have a kitchen, a vegetable cellar, and a small courtyard.
There is a persimmon tree and a hawthorn tree planted in the yard.
Although it is not connected to the municipal tap water, the original owner dug a well himself, so he does not have to go to the water station on the street to buy water.
Although the sparrow is small, it has all the organs.
What made Ye Manzhi quite satisfied was that the courtyard wall was made of bricks and was of a pleasing height.
If you don't jump up and take a look, you can't see what's going on inside the yard at all.
This feels safer than Wu Zhengrong's small courtyard with a fence.
"Aunt, what did the original owner of this house do?" Ye Manyi pulled his aunt under the persimmon tree and asked in a low voice.
Although it doesn't look like it, she still wants to make sure not to buy a capitalist's house.
"Don't worry, the original owner and your grandfather worked in the same factory. Their youngest son died in the Korean War. They are considered martyrs' relatives."
"Then why are they selling the house? It must be quite old, right?"
"They are the only two left in Binjiang. They want to sell their house and move to Nanjing to live with their daughter."
Ye Manzhi had nothing to complain about the house, except that the price was too expensive. A house like this on their Guangming Street would cost at most four hundred yuan.
My aunt raised her hand and pointed toward the street, smiling, "Nephew, why don't you look at this location? It's a twenty-minute walk to the river, right next to China Street, the vegetable market, and the department store! How can your little corner compare to this? I heard from your mom that your future in-laws live near the provincial university, right? It's only four or five stops from here. How convenient!"
"The problem is that I don't have enough money on hand. Aunt, can we negotiate the price?"
"I've negotiated for you several times, and the landlord can only reduce the price by fifty yuan, and that's because of your grandfather's kindness. There are very few private houses left in our area. There was one to the east that was sold last year. It only had a firewood shed, which was larger than this yard, and it sold for 1,520 yuan." Her aunt pulled her aside and asked, "How much do you still need?"
Ye Manzhi answered honestly: "One hundred yuan."
"That's settled," my aunt said with a smile. "Your grandma has already said that she will make up the difference. The old lady still has a hundred yuan in her pocket money!"
Ye Manzhi has been learning pipa from her grandmother since she was a child, so the relationship between the grandmother and granddaughter is self-evident.
She said with a smile, "Then I'll give Grandma a few more fashion books so she can show them off to the neighbors. Then I'll have to kowtow to her a few more times during the Spring Festival!"
Compared with Guangming Street, this place is bustling with traffic and can be regarded as a colorful world.
Now that Ye Manzhi has a house in the city, she can occasionally take Wu Zhengrong to the city to see the world!
*
The two parties quickly completed the handover procedures. Since Ye Manzhi still had to go to work, Chang Yue'e helped her with all the procedures.
Ye Manzhi was only responsible for signing and paying the money at the last moment, and the 800 yuan was gone in a flash before it even got warm.
Holding the key to her new house, she could only hope that the persimmon and hawthorn trees in the yard would bear fruit as soon as possible so that she could eat some free fruit.
Having a house of his own makes Ye Manzhi radiant and energetic all day long.
However, her good mood only lasted a few days before it was broken by Zhang Qinjian.
At the regular meeting of the new week, Zhang Qinjian suddenly mentioned the matter of submitting application materials for advanced individuals to the district.
"Before we filled out the application, we repeatedly emphasized that you must fill it out truthfully! What's wrong with some of these young comrades?" Zhang Qinjian flipped open his notebook and read. "Some actually wrote on their application materials, 'Public security has improved significantly, there's no picking up of lost items on the streets, and doors are left unlocked at night!' Do you think anyone would believe that?"
Everyone looked in the direction of Liu Jinbao and Zhao Erhe.
These two people are in charge of public security, and it is probably written by one of them.
This description is indeed a bit exaggerated.
Liu Jinbao waved his hand and said, "Why are you all looking at me? I didn't write it!"
It must have been written by that idiot Zhao Erhe!
Zhang Qinjian cleared his throat and continued, "Some comrades are even more exaggerated! Last year, the average monthly income of the entire street's cottage industries was only 350 yuan. This comrade wrote in her materials that since she took charge of the cottage industry, the entire street's income has exceeded 3,000 yuan in three months. On average, this is almost three times the monthly income of last year! How can you be so amazing? Even if you're just falsifying numbers, you wouldn't report it like that, right?"
Everyone turned their gaze towards Ye Manzhi.
After the redivision of labor, Ye Manzhi was in charge of the family handicraft industry.
This must have been written by her!
"A comrade from the district awards committee called me and specifically mentioned the situation of these two comrades. The application materials must be filled out truthfully and no exaggeration is allowed! It's fine if we embarrass ourselves within our unit, but we can't bring shame upon the district, right?"
Zhang Qinjian admitted that Ye Manzhi has been running the coal furnace factory very well recently.
But one thing is for sure, home handicrafts are different from state-owned factories, and there is no street in the entire district where the monthly income of home handicrafts can reach 1,000 yuan.
Ye Manzhi opened his eyes wide and said, "Director, I didn't exaggerate the facts! I reported all the data truthfully!"
The family handicraft industry has to file taxes once a quarter. She didn't file taxes in the first two months, and she herself hadn't even calculated the revenue of the handicraft industry.
Last week she summarized her three months' income and filed her taxes together.
She just filled it out truthfully according to her tax payment situation!
Zhao Erhe also joined in the fun: "Director, I also filled out the report truthfully. The public security situation has improved significantly!"
Zhang Qinjian waved his hand and said, "Don't try to argue with me, the two of you. If you have the guts, go argue with the district chief!"
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