804: The Boss is Back
While Yu Zhengxian was reuniting with his son, Xu Ying was preparing dinner at home.
As it was almost time to get off work, Xu Ying told Cuihua:
"Cuihua, you stay home and look after the kids. I'm going out for a while."
"Yeah, okay."
Xu Ying left home and headed towards the Red Star Machinery Factory. As she reached the street in front of the factory, she heard the bell for the end of work, and workers streamed out of the factory gates.
Xu Ying saw Yu Jiahui and his son Yu Erye in the crowd and waved to them.
Yu Erye ran over with a smile:
"Mom, why are you here?"
Yu Jiahui saw that Xu Ying had a serious expression on her face, with a little redness in the corners of her eyes. Something must have happened at home, otherwise she wouldn't be waiting for them at the factory gate.
"What's going on? What's going on at home? Who's in trouble?"
Xu Ying sighed, paused, and shook his head:
"No one is in trouble. The boss is back."
“——”The boss is back?
Yu Jiahui's first reaction was Yu Zhengxian, who was far away in the Great Northern Wilderness. Yu Erye was stunned for a moment before realizing who the boss his mother was talking about was:
"Mom, what did you say? Is my eldest brother back?"
"Well, I'm back—"
"Ah, big brother is here, big brother is here, I want to go home to see big brother!"
Before Xu Ying could finish her words, Yu Erye flew out and squeezed into the crowd in an instant.
Yu Jiahui looked at Xu Ying nervously:
"Why is he here? Did something happen over there?"
Xu Ying pondered for a moment:
"It doesn't look like anything has happened. They said they came to the capital for something else. I guess it's something going on at the forest farm or the deer farm."
Xu Ying turned and walked, and the two of them started walking towards home.
Yu Jiahui asked:
"What do you think of him? Has he changed over the years?"
Xu Ying sighed, her tone somewhat distressed:
"It's changed. It looks several years older."
"To be honest, so many years have passed. Our four grandchildren have grown so big, and we both have gray hair. Isn't he getting older?"
Xu Ying thought about it and it made sense. People who were around him every day didn't seem old when they got older, but people he hadn't seen for a few years seemed to have aged several years at first glance.
Their eldest son is now in his thirties. The conditions at the forest farm are difficult, and running the deer farm is stressful and laborious, with him being exposed to the wind and sun every day. He looks older than the workers in the city, so when Xu Ying saw him, she felt that her son seemed to have aged many years.
"Old man, after keeping him in the forest farm for so many years, he has changed a lot. He has been working hard for so many years. This is not an act, he has really changed. In this case, let's keep him this time when he comes back and don't let him leave."
Yu Jiahui saw that Xu Ying was really worried about her son and knew that she was serious and not joking.
It can be seen that people's hearts become softer as they get older.
In fact, Yu Jiahui had been thinking about this for a long time, but he had never found a suitable opportunity. This time he finally made it happen.
"Why don't we go home and talk to him about it and let him stay. From now on, our whole family will stay in the capital, and you won't have to worry about him anymore."
"By the way, can you see if you can arrange a job for him? Aren't you the workshop director? Can your workshop assign him a position?"
"You're kidding! There's so much room for everyone these days, there's no room to place people. Besides, so many educated youth have returned to the city and are unemployed, waiting to get into the factory through connections. Even the small factory where the street office pastes paper boxes is overcrowded. The positions have already been filled. I'm just a workshop director, how dare I place someone there casually? A few years ago, I could have thought of a way, but now it's impossible. There are too many educated youth returning to the city, and I can't arrange any positions. I have to talk to Xiao Zhou about this."
"Oh right, why don't I give Xiao Zhou a call and tell them that the boss is back."
"Okay, call him and ask him to tell Xiao Ye that we should hurry to the post office. If we're late, Xiao Zhou will be off work."
The old couple went to the post office again, waited in line for more than ten minutes, and called Zhou Ziheng's office.
Zhou Ziheng had just finished get off work when he heard the phone ringing and picked up the receiver.
"Hello, Xiao Zhou?"
"mom."
"Hey, I have something to tell you. The boss is back from the Great Northern Wilderness."
"He's back?" Zhou Ziheng was also a little surprised. "Did he say why he came back?"
"He didn't say anything, but he looked quite normal. There must be something going on at the forest farm or the deer farm. Oh, and he also brought a bag of mountain products, saying that Director Jiang asked him to bring it to you."
"Okay, I got it. I'll go over there after I pick up Ono."
"Okay, we'll wait for you two to come and have dinner. We'll talk about it when you get here."
"good."
Zhou Ziheng hung up the phone, picked up his briefcase, quickened his pace, walked out of the office, and went downstairs. The driver was already waiting there.
Zhou Ziheng asked the driver for the keys, drove out of the gate of the Military Engineering College and headed towards Peking University and Tsinghua University.
The two schools are not far from each other, and it only takes about ten minutes to drive there.
On the way, I came across a grocery store, stopped and bought a pound of beef and two pounds of braised food, and also bought two bottles of wine. When I drove to the gate of Peking University and Tsinghua University, Yu Xiaoye was already waiting at the gate.
Yu Xiaoye was wearing a red dress, had long curly hair, and a black and white polka dot bow headband she made herself on her head. She was carrying a backpack and looked youthful and fashionable standing on the roadside.
This kind of dress was still very eye-catching in the 1980s, and passers-by, regardless of gender, would turn around to take a look.
Zhou Ziheng's car stopped in front of her. Yu Xiaoye saw that it was Zhou Ziheng who was driving. She opened the passenger door and got in. Just as she was about to speak, she smelled the aroma of braised meat in the car. She looked back and saw two bottles of good wine on the seat. Yu Xiaoye smiled and asked:
"What good day is today? You bought wine and meat, and you even came to pick me up yourself?"
Zhou Ziheng restarted the car and deliberately kept it a secret:
"Guess."
"——I can't guess." Today didn't seem like a special day. "Tell me, what special day is it?"
Zhou Ziheng smiled:
"It's not a special day, it's just your big brother coming back."
"My eldest brother?!"
"Mom just called me and said she's back. Let's go over there now."
Yu Xiaoye was happy but also a little nervous and worried when he heard the news that his elder brother was coming:
"Then my mother didn't tell me why my eldest brother came back?"
"No, don't worry. It shouldn't be a bad thing. We'll know when we get there."
Zhou Ziheng knew that Xiao Ye must be anxious to see his elder brother, so he stepped on the accelerator harder, and the car drove steadily and quickly towards the Yu family.
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On the other side, Yu Zhengxian took his son and niece out for a walk. He finally enjoyed the family happiness with his son and felt extremely satisfied.
When it was almost time to get off work, I thought about how my child had been away for so long and how worried his family would be if they couldn't find him. So I took my son and niece's hands and said:
"Come on, Changning, your grandpa hasn't seen you for such a long time, it's time to look for you, let's go back."
Changning held his father's hand and walked in a skipping manner, and suddenly asked:
"Dad, are you staying at our house tonight?"
"Uh——" This question made Yu Zhengxian look embarrassed.
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