Chapter 102 Chapter 102 Second Update

"What's wrong with being pregnant? She still goes to work as usual even when she is pregnant. The production tasks in the factory are all arranged by her and Xing Fangjie. I can't get involved at all."

Jin Caifei rubbed his forehead and said with a headache: "Section Chief Mao, Director Shen looks easy to talk to, but he is actually a man without temper. We have all experienced this."

Mao Jianxin sneered on the other end of the phone: "Yes, we have all experienced this, but you are still doing well as the deputy director, but I will be trapped in the logistics department as a small section chief who can't manage anything for the rest of my life." Jin

Caifei was a little embarrassed: "Section Chief Mao, you really..."

Mao Jianxin interrupted her: "I don't believe you don't want to go back to the provincial capital. Your son will graduate from elementary school soon, so what do you think? Is he close to you every time you go back? And your husband, Cheng, if you two continue to live apart, even the best relationship won't last, right?"

Jin Caifei fell silent.

Mao Jianxin's words touched a sore spot in her heart. She couldn't be with her son as he grew up, and the child became more and more indifferent to her. Her husband was also like that, from supporting her at the beginning to complaining now.

It seemed that she had taken a shortcut and reached a height that she could not have achieved in the provincial capital, but who knew what she had lost?

"You don't have to do anything else, just sign and stamp on a few documents. She can't stay in the factory forever. When she gives birth and recuperates, she has to give up her power and let you take charge for a while, right?"

Mao Jianxin's voice was full of temptation: "Then you will be the factory director and I will be the deputy director. I will be your assistant, and we will bring the Second Embroidery Factory to a new height. Now is not the time when the ninth workshop is just being built. The foundation of the factory is already there, with workers, equipment orders, and everything else. No one will care if there is one more or one less Shen Moer."

"She has always insisted on keeping the factory in that corner of Liuqiao Commune, and the provincial leaders are not satisfied either. Do you understand?"

Jin Caifei: "Let me think about it again."

He hung up the phone.

Someone was knocking on the door outside. Jin Caifei calmed down and said, "Come in."

Liu Yinshuang came in with a purchase order: "Deputy Director Jin, the amount of this batch of goods exceeds my authority. I need your signature."

Liu Yinshuang was originally the deputy director of the workshop, but after working for a while, she went to Shen Moer to ask for a job change. The skills she had learned with great difficulty were not good enough in front of the embroiderers who were getting better and better.

Because of her experience in the Canton Fair, Liu Yinshuang felt that she still preferred to do work like purchasing and sales.

Sure enough, after entering the purchasing and sales department, Liu Yinshuang was like a fish in water.

Later, as the scale of the factory expanded, the purchasing and sales department was split, and purchasing and sales were separated. Liu Yinshuang was promoted to the head of the purchasing department.

Jin Caifei took the list, looked at it, and quickly signed it.

Liu Yinshuang glanced at Jin Caifei and left the office.

After returning to the office, Liu Yinshuang quickly handled some of the work on hand, and then went to the factory director's office empty-handed.

When they entered the room, Shen Moer was reading a document. Liu Yinshuang poured herself a glass of water, took out an apple from the cabinet next to her, peeled it and handed it to Shen Moer: "It's time to replenish your vitamins."

Shen Moer put down the document, took a bite of the apple, and asked: "Why did Fu Zhiqing also assign you a task?"

Liu Yinshuang had an expression on her face that said "Hurry up and take care of your man, he's going crazy" and said: "Not only that, he assigned tasks to all of us. Tasks, such as the fruit group, snack group, on-time leave group, tea serving group... Zhao Tingting and I are both in the fruit group. We are A and B posts. Whoever is free will supervise you to eat fruit. "

Shen Moer pinched her eyebrows speechlessly: "Why don't you just ignore him?"

Since she became pregnant, Fu Zhiqing seemed to have changed into a different person. She was a very courageous person, but now she was cautious everywhere, as if she was a fragile porcelain doll.

Her father rarely united with his son-in-law. The father-in-law and son-in-law were now breathing out of the same nostril. There were three people in the family, and she was always the one who was obeyed by the majority in democratic voting.

But it was really a bit too outrageous.

Although she did slowly feel all kinds of inconveniences in her life as the months went by, it was not to this extent.

"It's okay, it's just peeling an apple, it's such a simple thing." Liu Yinshuang drank tea, "I just took this opportunity to take a break."

Shen Moer looked at her and asked, "What happened? Did your pursuer send something to your home again, or did something go wrong with the rattan weaving cooperative?"

After the Canton Fair that year, the ninth workshop was changed to the second branch factory, and Liu Yinshuang was promoted to deputy director of the workshop. People who pursued her emerged like bamboo shoots after rain.

Some just sent her some food and daily necessities on her way home to express their desire to establish revolutionary feelings, while some went a little too far and went directly to her father's house to show their courtesy and send things.

Although Liu Yinshuang and her grandfather had moved out of the house a long time ago, outsiders always felt that the father was the one who could decide the marriage of his daughter.

Because of this, Liu Yinshuang would quarrel with her father and stepmother every time she went back to Songshu Brigade.

As for the rattan weaving cooperative, it was slowly established after the first Canton Fair.

Didn't Shen Moer sell 50,000 rattan gift boxes? At the beginning, the commune organized skilled people from each brigade to weave boxes, and adopted a regular purchase method. The purchased boxes were sold to the factory by the commune. Later, as the number of orders increased every year, the commune simply established a professional rattan weaving cooperative.

Because the initial samples were made by Old Man Liu, after the establishment of the cooperative, Old Man Liu took the title of vice president, and the president was directly appointed by the commune.

Because of this title of vice president, Mr. Liu often got into trouble. There were always people among his relatives who tried every means to ask him for help, wanting to be a team leader, or trying to pass off defective products. Mr. Liu, who had such a good temper, was often irritated.

Liu Yinshuang wanted the old man to stop working and go home to enjoy a peaceful life, but the old man was unwilling to do so. He said that he had lived for decades and it was a rare opportunity to contribute to the construction of socialism. He would work until the day when the organization no longer needed him.

Liu Yinshuang had no choice but to let him go, and then secretly criticized those so-called relatives who were not related to him at all.

These things are indeed annoying, but not to the extent that she would come to complain to the factory manager during work hours.

Liu Yinshuang shook her head: "No, it's..."

She stood up and closed the office door. After making sure that the secretary outside could not hear, she said, "I went to see Deputy Director Jin for his signature and accidentally heard her talking on the phone. She said something about being pregnant and not being able to intervene."

Shen Moer smiled and said, "Did you accidentally hear it?"

Liu Yinshuang said very bluntly, "At first, I accidentally heard about pregnancy and so on. I deliberately stood there and listened for a while. Unfortunately, she didn't say much. It seemed that she was talking to the other side. In the end, she just told her to think about it again."

"She must be holding back something bad."

She finally commented.

Shen Moer thought about it and smiled, "It's okay. It won't cause any trouble."

This was indeed the case. Until July of 1977, the weather was getting hotter and hotter, and the factory was still calm.

Shen Moer's belly was already very big at this time, but thanks to Fu Zhiqing's meticulous care, she was in good health, eating well and sleeping well every day.

It had just rained in the afternoon, and in the evening the rain stopped and the clouds dispersed. The air was no longer hot during the day, and the occasional breeze brought a rare coolness.

Shen Moer supported her waist and walked towards the factory gate. People in the security room greeted her one after another: "Fu Zhiqing has arrived, just outside the door."

Sure enough, under the camphor tree outside the gate of the embroidery factory, Fu Mingze was waiting there with his bicycle.

"Why don't you go in? It's so hot standing outside." Shen Moer handed the cloth bag in her hand to Fu Mingze.

Fu Mingze took out a brown paper bag from the basket: "Eat something to fill your stomach first."

After Shen Moer took it, he continued to answer her previous question: "It has rained, it is not hot outside."

In the brown paper bag were two still warm egg and scallion pancakes, which were not oily, just a little egg and chopped scallions.

After her belly got bigger and bigger, Shen Moer got hungry easily. She ate two palm-sized egg and scallion pancakes while walking, pursed her lips, and realized that they were just filling her stomach.

Fu Mingze knew what she was thinking, and laughed and said: "These are the pancakes that Aunt Cai sold for her grandson. I am embarrassed to take more."

Shen Moer had guessed that he had "begged for alms" and Fu Zhiqing did not know how to sell pancakes.

But since she got pregnant, Fu Zhiqing seemed to be getting more and more shameless, and he would ask someone to cook for her from time to time. He had asked Aunt Chen, Aunt Cai, Aunt Wang, the team leader's wife, Zhou Dashuan's wife , and even Lu Dongyun.

The first few were okay. Although Zhou Dashuan's family was a neighbor, they didn't have much contact because they lived in a team. They didn't even know Zhou Dashuan's wife Shen Moer very well.

And Lu Dongyun, although she was doing embroidery work for the embroidery factory, she was still a landlord and didn't have much contact with other people. I don't know how Fu Mingze knew that she was good at making mung bean cakes, and he prepared things and asked her to make a basket of cakes.

In short, although Shen Moer didn't get any strange diseases after she became pregnant, she ate no less than those pregnant women who were "sick".

Shen Moer said anxiously: "So Fu Zhiqing would feel embarrassed?"

Fu Mingze glanced at her: "Who am I doing this for?"

Shen Moer immediately made a zipper motion to her mouth.

After a while, she changed the subject and asked: "Have you replied to your father? It's normal for the old man to want to see you. You haven't seen each other for so many years. Why don't you find time to go back to visit your relatives after I give birth?"

In the past two years, educated youth have returned to the city one after another. According to what Liu Yinshuang revealed, it is estimated that most of the educated youth should be able to return to the city within one or two years.

Since last winter, Fu Mingze's family has been sending more and more letters. Shen Moer guessed that his family wanted to ask him when he could go back.

Fu Mingze had never asked for a leave to visit his family in recent years. One year, Shen Moer took the initiative to ask him to go back to the capital with him to visit his family, but he said that it would be better to send the money back home so that his family would be more comfortable. Shen Moer thought that the capital was so far away and they were both too busy to do anything, so she just let him send 300 yuan back home.

Fu Mingze narrowed his eyes slightly: "Let's talk about it later. I'm afraid I'll be even busier after the baby is born."

In fact, his father didn't want him to go back to visit his parents. His parents had been rehabilitated and returned to the capital, urging him to bring his wife back to visit them. However, he hadn't figured out how to explain to his wife that his family was not of good origin and not of the proletariat.