Chapter 131
In the 1960s and 1970s, cotton textile mills were state-owned factories with iron rice bowls. Workers who could eat the state's food would never have to worry about food and clothing.
Now it is different. Since the reform and opening up, foreign investors have come to China to build factories. Large factories have sprung up everywhere. Foreign manufacturers have strong funds, first-class production equipment, and advanced management concepts, which have brought great impacts to state-owned factories with outdated business models.
The steel mill and cotton textile mill are the leading industries in Yunshui County. As long as one of them is not profitable, the county leaders will be worried and unable to sleep.
I heard that the south has been divided into special economic zones, and the economic growth of the special zones in the future should not be underestimated.
The newly formed leadership team vigorously advocated the reform of state-owned factories. In order to mobilize the leaders of each factory, there was a big meeting every three days and a small meeting every five days.
Even so, the attitude of the leaders of each factory was ambiguous, and they were in a wait-and-see state.
No one expected that the cotton textile factory would take the lead in holding a general meeting of all employees, and through the shareholding reform of state-owned enterprises, it successfully attracted the major shareholder of the investment. In the past few months, the efficiency of the factory has increased several times, and the wages of workers have also increased a lot.
Deputy Director Lin also set up a set of advanced personal system to encourage technicians and workers in the factory to participate in the factory's technical competition. No matter what their background is, as long as they win awards in the technical competition, they will not only receive bonuses, but also be transferred to the corresponding departments to work.
In the past few months, the employees of the cotton textile factory have been like chickens with blood, reading the technical manuals issued by the factory over and over again. The employees work during the day and recite the manuals at night. Although they are tired, they don't feel tired at all because they have the idea of a better life in the future.
Not only did the factory leaders smile when they met the cotton textile factory cadres, they also gave the green light to the cotton textile factory, and the people in the county also racked their brains to enter the cotton textile factory.
The leaders of other factories complained bitterly, and they would have followed the reform earlier.
Now it is not easy to attract investment, because the one who invested in the cotton textile factory and became the major shareholder was the Gao family, the richest family in the county.
Although the Gao family has been in decline for more than ten years, the current head Gao Wenbin is really powerful. Within two years of moving to the provincial capital, he quickly bought a large piece of wasteland in the suburbs and invested in building a factory. Now in the business world of the provincial capital, the Gao family will tremble if they stomp their feet.
I don't know how Deputy Director Lin got to know the Gao family, but the cotton textile factory made a lot of money after the reform, and they could only sigh in admiration.
After the reform and opening up, foreigners with blond hair and blue eyes who spoke strange English began to pour into major cities, and the status of English also rose.
Some smart parents focused on cultivating their children's spoken English.
Gu Doudou and Yuanyuan, a brother and sister who were in high school, also had an interest in it. Every morning, they would hold a foreign language classic, read English along with the radio, shaking their heads. When
the brother and sister first started practicing speaking, Zhang Cuilan was stunned.
The old lady had been listening to Chinese all her life, and this was the first time she heard a foreign language... English, what was this babble?
Later, Deputy Director Gu specifically explained it to the old lady.
Zhang Cuilan suddenly realized that English is the language spoken by foreigners. If she wanted to make money from foreigners to build the motherland, how could she not communicate? Zhang
Cuilan and her husband gladly accepted it.
Doudou Yuanyuan practiced speaking whenever he had time. When he took a break in the alley, he lowered his voice so as not to disturb the neighbors in the alley.
After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the land in the countryside was contracted to households, and the people were very energetic, and life at home became better.
Uncle Zhang retired from the position of team leader and opened a pig farm with Uncle Zhang.
The two brothers refused to admit that they were old and could not bear to sit at home with their legs crossed and eating melon seeds. They were more energetic when they were busy.
My uncle's family opened a pig farm, and it was hard to make ends meet at the beginning.
Zhang Cuilan and Lin Yao bought some butterfly cakes and fruits, and took some time to go to the countryside.
When the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came to visit, my eldest and second aunts were moving firewood at home. When they saw my sister coming, they put down their work and served tea and egg cakes. In the early summer, a thin layer of sweat appeared on their foreheads.
Zhang Cuilan told her sister-in-law not to worry, saying it was nothing serious, just buying some snacks for her mother's family to try, and she would be back soon.
"That won't do. You can't leave home without drinking some tea."
The eldest aunt wiped her face with a towel while the second aunt quietly went to the vegetable garden to pick up half a basket of water celery and handed it to her with a smile, "Cui Lan, we don't have much good stuff at home, just a few handfuls of water celery. Take it home to make dumplings and they will taste delicious."
Zhang Cui Lan took a look and saw that the water celery was so fresh that it seemed to be squeezed out of water. She still happily praised her two sisters-in-law for their good vegetable planting.
Grandma Zhang sat cross-legged on the kang and took a bite of the butterfly cake brought by Lin Yao. She picked up the teapot and refilled herself with a glass of water. The faint fragrance of locust flower honey filled the air. She took a sip and her toothless mouth was so sweet that she shrugged.
Zhang Cui Lan talked to her sisters-in-law and took out a large group from her bag for them to use.
The family was indeed short of money, so the two aunts of the Zhang family accepted it.
While the family was talking, the second aunt suddenly looked out mysteriously, closed the door and said, "Yaoyao, your sister-in-law sent me a few kilograms of glutinous rice flour, and I have made it into glutinous rice cakes. You can take a plate home with Yuanyuan and your mother to taste it. There are also some snacks at home, you can take them with you." After
saying that, the second aunt ran to the small room at the back, and only heard a rustling sound, and came out with a small basket.
Lin Yao stretched his neck to take a look, and was stunned. Wow, there is really everything, including glutinous rice cakes, fried melon seeds, peanuts, and dried sweet potatoes.
"Sister-in-law, we have all these at home, you can save them for the children."
Zhang Cuilan did not want the melon seeds, peanuts and so on.
Lin Yao also said that glutinous rice cakes were so precious, she could not have them.
The second aunt-in-law glanced at her with hatred, and poked Lin Yao on the forehead, "You silly girl, you usually look very smart, why don't you open your mind! Such a good glutinous rice cake, fried in a pan and coated with brown sugar, is the best for nourishing qi and blood, and is for us women to replenish our bodies. Those little devils at home eat and drink like crazy all day long, like two fart baskets, farting at home every day, and they still need to replenish their farts! We women... Only the ones who are pregnant need to be supplemented. You work hard at home every day and bleed every month. Don’t you like to eat something good?
To be honest with you, all the good things sent by the family over the years, I, your aunt, gave them to whoever I wanted to give them. I never gave them to your second uncle! Men are all dogs! If we women don’t love ourselves, no one will love us. "
Zhang Cuilan & Lin Yao: "...This makes a lot of sense."
The eldest aunt agreed on the side.
So, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law took the glutinous rice cakes sent by the second aunt, fried them in a small pot until both sides were golden brown, and when eating, they used chopsticks to pick up the glutinous
rice cakes and rolled them in brown sugar. When they were full of brown sugar, they put them into their mouths while they were hot and took a bite, pulling out a piece of snow-white and crystal meat inside, not to mention how delicious it was. The women of the old Gu family, including Yuanyuan, ate sweet glutinous rice cakes, and even the fat cat Nuomi licked the brown sugar on the glutinous rice cakes .
But no one cared about the three children of Master Cang.
Don't ask why, the answer is that dogs are not worthy of eating.
Of course, in order to compensate the three children, Lin Yao specially stewed fish soup for them.
With fish soup to drink, the three of them didn't suffer a loss.
In July, Lin Yao went to the provincial capital for an exhibition exchange meeting, and was gone for a week.
Gu Shi'an and his wife have been married for so many years, and except for training outside or handling cases, they have always been inseparable.
He was reluctant to let Lin Yao go for seven or eight days, and Doudou Yuanyuan also shouted that she didn't want her mother to leave.
Gu Mancang and his wife were leisurely.
Well, the whole family of four just followed them to the provincial capital.
Doudou Yuanyuan was on summer vacation, and Gu Shi'an had just received a transfer order from the provincial government a few days ago. In September, he would be the captain of the Special Police Corps of the Provincial Public Security Department. Datou Ge and Xu Xiangqian were also transferred with him and entered the Supervision and Management Corps.
This also means that Lin Yao needs to face the choice between family and career.
I don't know if it's God's will, but before Lin Yao made a decision, the provincial cotton spinning factory sent a message that the factory was short of a union director, and Gao Wenbin also extended an olive branch to her, inviting Lin Yao to be the director of his own factory.
Two pieces of good news came out of nowhere, but Lin Yao was not excited yet, and the siblings Doudou and Yuanyuan were already chattering about it.
Gu Chunmei made a much better choice than Lin Yao.
Now the business of the supply and marketing cooperative has plummeted, and it is no longer the good job that everyone envied.
A few dozen yuan a month is not as much as selling melon seeds and popsicles outside.
As soon as Big Head Brother's transfer order came, she quickly quit her job at the supply and marketing cooperative, packed her luggage at home, and prepared to start a new life in the provincial capital.
She had planned everything out. When she arrived in the provincial capital, she would open a small shop, follow Lin Yao's advice, install a phone, and charge money by the minute, and she would still live a carefree life.
Xu's father and mother didn't want to move. They were reluctant to leave their hometown, so they retired in Yunshui County.
Gu Shi'an and his wife were not in a hurry to make a decision. They planned to take their children to the provincial capital first.
The next day, the family of four got on the train to the provincial capital. It took five or six hours for the train to arrive at the station.
The provincial capital train station was bustling with people.
There was a Western-style church near the train station. Hanging in the attic of the church was a huge clock carved from marble, which looked very shocking.
Doudou and Yuanyuan, brother and sister, have traveled around with their parents in recent years and have seen a lot of the world. They are not as curious and helpless as other children.
Yuanyuan held Lin Yao's hand and whispered to her mother.
"Mom, the bell-bottom pants that brother is wearing, my brother also has one."
Lin Yao followed the lady's gaze and almost slipped. Fortunately, Gu Shian reached out and held her up.
Gu Shian protected Lin Yao with his long arms, and they both looked at the fashionable young people around the train square, each wearing bell-bottom pants and sunglasses, carrying a radio on their shoulders, and dancing to the trendy disco.
While the parents were silent, Gu Doudou couldn't help himself first. It was his embarrassing second-year syndrome. After seeing the dancing young man on TV, he couldn't help but buy one too. He wore it in the house for a while and then took it off quickly and put it in the bottom of the box.
God knows how Yuanyuan knew it!
Gu Doudou chuckled and told the story, and the handsome boy's ears turned red to the roots of his neck.
Lin Yao breathed a sigh of relief. She was not against her son wearing bell-bottom pants. The thought of Doudou with curly hair, wearing bell-bottom pants, carrying a radio and dancing in the square was
really unbearable for his mother .
Yuanyuan saw that her brother was about to get angry, so she tried to make up for it and held her stomach and cried out that she was hungry.
The family of four went to a store outside the train station to eat wontons.
Yuanyuan had been staring at the mutton soup on the stall next door. The stall owner asked attentively:
"Little girl, would you like some mutton soup?"
Gu Shian glanced over and asked the young lady if she wanted to eat some. Yuanyuan wanted to nod, but she had just eaten on the train: a steamed bun stuffed with cabbage and diced meat, a braised pork and vegetable lunch box, and a biscuit... She
really couldn't eat any more.
The little girl waved her hands, indicating that she would definitely come to visit before leaving.
When the family is away from home, parents always take care of their children first.
Gu Shian was different. He arranged for the two children to eat on one side, and he took care of Lin Yao by himself. The couple sat together and ate wontons affectionately.
The wonton shop at the train station has a good chef's skill. A bowl of thin and clear wontons, sprinkled with coriander and a spoonful of pork, was eaten by all the passengers.
Lin Yao still has that small appetite after all these years. He was full after eating half a bowl.
Gu Shian ate the rest.
Yuan Yuanyuan at the next table looked at her father eating the wontons left by her mother with big mouthfuls, and said pitifully.
"Brother, I can't eat anymore."
This girl didn't have a small appetite, but she couldn't eat because she ate biscuits and black bread on the train.
In the old Gu family, children can't leave any food after eating.
If it wasn't for saving her brother just now, Yuanyuan wouldn't have cried out that she was hungry.
Gu Doudou sighed, resignedly reached out his hand, and helped his sister finish the remaining wontons.
The siblings knew from childhood that they should not disturb their parents when they were talking.
When they were young, they went out and their parents were busy in the house. Yuanyuan was impatient and wanted to call her mother.
The mature Gu Doudou covered his sister's mouth.
"..."
The siblings thought of the past, looked at each other, and stretched out their hands to express their helplessness.
Sometimes the love between parents is too sweet, which is also very annoying.
The family of four finished eating wontons. Carrying the luggage and walking to the guesthouse, they passed by the newly opened vegetable market in the provincial capital.
A group of aunties carrying baskets were buying old chickens raised by their fellow villagers. One of the old ladies leaned over to look at the price and cried out, "A whole chicken is two yuan, and an old hen is two and a half yuan. Why don't you go grab some?"
The fellow who raised the chickens explained.
"These are good chickens that we raised ourselves. They grow up eating insects and are nutritious!"
"Even if they are nutritious, they are too expensive."
The auntie suddenly raised her voice again.
"What's the matter? The old hen I want is out of stock?"
"No, no, old hens sell the fastest. You don't want others to buy them." The
auntie was not giving in and pestered the fellow who sold the chickens, wanting to quarrel with him.
It was a hot day, and the old Gu family had no interest in watching the excitement, so they hurried to the guesthouse.
Today's guesthouse has also been transformed, with wooden floors, light bulbs, and the 12-inch Changfeng brand table fan in the room had been turned on at full power, and the cool breeze was very refreshing.
Gu Shian went to get water for the two children, and Lin Yao took a rest in the house, wanting to wait and come back, and take the children to take a look outside.
Unexpectedly, as soon as they went out, they ran into Gao Wenbin, and... Lin Hongna.
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