Chapter 145 Chapter 145 2nd update
Huacai Garment Factory developed beyond Shen Moer's expectation.
Especially at the end of 1978, the country officially made a major decision to shift the focus of work to economic construction and implement reform and opening up. Various policies were further relaxed, and the development of the garment factory was in full swing. In the
second half of the sophomore year, the business volume of the garment factory expanded further, and Shen Moer's daily work became more and more numerous, so she simply resigned from the position of class monitor and appeared less and less frequently in school.
At this time, almost everyone in the department knew that she had built a social enterprise in the capital from scratch. It is said to be a social enterprise, but the clothes produced by their factory are almost all hot-selling. Except that the scale is not as large as that of several large garment factories, the factory efficiency is far superior.
It is said that the wages of their factory workers are completely comparable to those of state-owned factories, and the welfare is even better than that of state-owned factories. No matter what festival, they will give things to workers.
The only thing that is not as good as state-owned factories is that they cannot allocate housing.
However, they have rented several courtyards for employees to use as dormitories. Those who live in dormitories can get half of the housing subsidy, and those who do not live in dormitories can get full housing subsidies. The full housing subsidy is nearly one-third of the salary.
What does this mean? It means that if you are a local of the capital and have a house to live in, you can get one and a third of the salary a month.
By this calculation, the salary is much higher than that of state-owned factories!
When other students were still doing part-time internships in school-run enterprises and running errands for others to gain experience, Shen Moer was already leading such a company with a good reputation in all aspects and a bright future.
At the end of the first semester, when Shen Moer ranked first in the class, won the first-class scholarship and special commendation, many people were not convinced, thinking that although she had good grades, she was more lucky.
She just happened to save someone on the train, and her father just happened to be able to paint, so she just happened to think of the idea of painting on the electric fan.
When Huacai Garment Factory became famous in the capital, the gap was getting bigger and bigger, and finally the sour words behind it disappeared.
The gap was too big, and I couldn't feel jealous.
Time passed quickly, and it was the autumn of 1980.
"Mom, I don't want to go to school."
Little Liangliang, who was a little over three weeks old, dragged the small schoolbag made by her mother, her chubby face full of reluctance, and her little mouth was pouted high.
Shen Moer looked down at her and said, "Going to school is something every child must do, just like eating and sleeping. You can't just not do it if you don't want to."
Xiao Liangliang said righteously, "Then I will not eat or sleep from today."
Shen Moer almost laughed out of anger, "You think you are a god, but you don't eat or sleep. If you don't eat or sleep, you will die like a mouse."
A few days ago, mice appeared in the yard. Fu Mingze got a bag of rat poison from somewhere, and the next day the mice died under the courtyard wall.
No one noticed it at first, but Xiao Liangliang found it when she was riding the bamboo horse made by her grandmother in the yard.
The little girl was born brave, not only was she not afraid, but she also pestered her father and asked what happened to the mouse for a long time.
Although Fu Zhiqing always looked calm and often mocked his daughter, he was actually a daughter slave at heart.
He didn't think there was anything wrong with his daughter asking this question, and patiently explained to his daughter what rat poison and death were, and even told her what was put in rat poison.
The little girl now knew what death was, but when she heard Shen Moer say that she would die like a rat if she didn't eat or sleep, she had something to say.
"Shushu died from taking medicine, not from not eating or sleeping."
Shen Moer: "..."
She glared at Fu Mingze who was checking the child seat on the crossbar of a bicycle: "Fu Zhiqing, quickly give it to your daughter to take away."
Little Liangliang was not to be outdone: "Shanghai Jiqing (Fu Zhiqing), Liangliang doesn't want to go to school."
Fu Mingze turned around and glanced at the mother and daughter who were wearing exactly the same thin sweaters and skirts. The two pairs of extremely similar eyes were staring at him, as if asking him to administer justice.
He couldn't help laughing. He went over and picked up his daughter, put her in the child seat in front of the bicycle, touched his daughter's hairy head and said:
"Your mother is right. Everyone has to go to school. You can't not go if you don't want to. Besides, didn't you make good friends in kindergarten before? Don't you want to meet your friends?"
Xiao Liangliang snorted, and finally said aggrievedly: "But I want to go to see grandpa."
Shen Moer understood why the little guy suddenly got angry and refused to go to kindergarten today. It turned out that he missed his grandpa.
Before coming to the capital, Shen Shaoyuan was planning to find a job like an editor to earn some money, but his plan couldn't keep up with the changes. After coming to the capital, he found that his daughter and son-in-law were too busy studying and it was impossible for them to take care of the children.
It just so happened that the publishing house was preparing to publish a comic book, so Shen Shaoyuan simply stopped working and stayed at home to take care of the child and draw.
He took care of her for three years, and the little girl spent much more time with her grandfather every day than with her parents.
This fall, the little girl was finally able to go to kindergarten. Her parents could make time to pick her up, and if that was not possible, there were still her grandparents, so Shen Shaoyuan took Zhou Ping'an to participate in the field trip organized by the publishing house.
He had been gone for half a month. When he called two days ago, he said that he was visiting the preserved ancient buildings in the county town under Hexi Province.
The little girl used to ask where her grandpa was every day, but she stopped asking after receiving the phone call two days ago. Shen Moer thought she had accepted the reality that her grandpa was not at home, but she didn't expect that she was actually planning to go look for her grandpa.
"It takes a long time to get to where grandpa is going. We can't go there, baby." Shen Moer touched her daughter's head and coaxed her softly.
The boy turned his head to look at his father. Fu Mingze's eyes were gentle and he said, "Your mother is right. Grandpa's place is too far away. Liangliang can't go yet. You can go when you grow up."
"But as long as you study hard, you can call grandpa at night."
Little Liangliang pouted and said weakly, "Okay."
Thousands of miles away, Shen Shaoyuan, who was visiting ancient buildings in Hexi Province, sneezed twice while standing in the sun. People around him asked him if he caught a cold. He thought for a while and said, "Maybe my granddaughter at home misses me."
People around him thought he was joking, but they didn't know that Shen Shaoyuan stared at the ancient tower in front of him for a while, but in his heart he had already begun to wonder when to go back.
After raising the little kid for more than three years, this was the first time that Shen Shaoyuan hadn't seen his granddaughter for so long. He always felt empty inside.
On the other side, Shen Moer and Fu Mingze rode their bicycles to school together after sending their daughter to kindergarten. Shen Moer
had two classes in the morning, while Fu Mingze had no classes in the morning, but he would usually go to the professor's laboratory to help out in his free time.
After two classes, Shen Moer and Yuan Lan walked to the cafeteria together. Yuan Lan said as they walked, "By the way, there will be overseas Chinese from the United States returning to China to investigate investment next month. The department has secured several errand runners to serve the overseas Chinese businessmen together with students from the School of Foreign Languages. Do you want to sign up?"
After Shen Moer resigned as the monitor, Yuan Lan won the election and became the new monitor of the first class of political economy.
Shen Moer thought about it and said, "Forget it. The opportunity is rare. Let the students exercise more."
She saw that there were many opportunities for foreign businessmen. Even if Huacai Garment Factory was not qualified to participate in the Canton Fair, if she really wanted to go to Guangzhou, she could go with other participating companies.
Yuan Lan nodded: "Okay."
She also guessed that Shen Moli would not sign up, but she had to mention this matter to her. What
they didn't know was that at the same time, the department was also holding a meeting to discuss this matter. In the end, the department decided that there would be ten places, six of which would be selected from those who registered, and four would be designated by the department.
Since they are going to serve overseas Chinese businessmen, they have to show their best side to them. At least, the "ace students" in the department must go, and let the overseas Chinese businessmen see the style of contemporary Chinese college students.
"Let Shen Moli go to the 77th session of Political Economy! She has set up a garment factory outside, maybe the overseas Chinese businessmen will be willing to invest in her?"
The department head with gray hair and a rascal-like look said with a smile.