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Chapter 175
After hearing this, Jiang Meishu was stunned for a moment, "Why do you ask that?"
Shen Zhanlie was silent for a moment, then said, "Because your eyes lit up when you mentioned him."
The girl he had a crush on for many years now has someone she likes.
Shen Zhanlie also had an extremely complicated feeling in his heart.
Jiang Meishu smiled, her features gentle, fair complexion beautiful, "Really?"
Shen Zhanlie hummed, pushing his bicycle forward. Jiang Meishu followed behind, muttering after a while, "That's good. Once you're married, you should love your partner well and live a good life with him."
It was unclear whether these words were addressed to Shen Zhanlie or to herself.
Or maybe both.
After Shen Zhanlie finished listening, he looked up at the sun above his head. The sun at twelve o'clock in the middle of summer was very dazzling, making it difficult to open one's eyes.
His eyes felt a little sore, and he said sullenly, "Yeah."
"After getting married, live a good life."
That wave of emotion came and went quickly.
It's as if it had never appeared.
After the goods were delivered to the department store, the purchase price of 400 pieces of clothing was five yuan, the selling price was ten yuan, and the department store sold them for twenty yuan.
But the red dress that costs twenty yuan is still popular among people.
This business made a net profit of two thousand yuan.
Jiang Meishu and Shen Zhanlie each earned one thousand yuan.
September 10th.
Shen Zhanlie went south again.
This time he went alone. At this time, Liang Qiurun had been in Yangcheng for one and a half months. He had rotated through almost all the state-owned and private factories in Yangcheng.
The day Shen Zhanlie came to Yangcheng was the day he left Yangcheng. However, after Liang Qiurun left Yangcheng, he did not return to the capital, but went to Pengcheng again. After staying in Pengcheng for thirteen days,
He secretly went to Hong Kong again.
When Jiang Meishu thought Liang Qiurun would not come back.
In mid-October, Liang Qiurun finally returned, having been on a business trip for two and a half months since he left.
This was the longest time they had been apart since they got married.
When Jiang Meishu saw Liang Qiurun again, she was still a little dazed. She was lying on the rocking chair under the pavilion and watching a story. The leaves were falling in the capital in early autumn, and there were still some grapes left on the courtyard.
It’s not much, but after being ravaged by the cold air, it is extraordinarily sweet.
"Lao Liang?"
Jiang Meishu's storybook fell to the ground. She stood up suddenly and looked at the person in front of her in disbelief.
Liang Qiurun, who has always been clean-cut, has some untidy beard, but his eyes are exceptionally bright.
"It's me."
He went forward and tried to pick up Jiang Meishu, but suddenly realized that he hadn't taken a shower for many days.
He paused his movements immediately, looked at her with a smile on his face, "Jiang Jiang, long time no see."
This word should not be used to describe a wife, but Liang Qiurun used it.
For Liang Qiurun, the seventy-eight days of separation felt like a year every minute and every second.
Jiang Meishu didn't care. She rushed towards Liang Qiurun and pounded his shoulder with her slender white hands. "You still remember to come back?"
"You still know that you have a home?"
Liang Qiurun was hugged tightly by the person in his arms. His hand finally fell down and gently patted Jiang Meishu on the back. "Sorry, it's my fault."
Jiang Meishu looked up at him, not blinking, "You've lost weight, a lot."
"Look at how thin he is."
Liang Qiurun originally looked like a handsome young man with a sharp facial features, but his body was also very well-proportioned, neither too much nor too little.
But Liang Qiurun in front of him had sunken cheeks, and only his cheekbones seemed a little high.
Liang Qiurun explained, "It's not as convenient when I'm on a business trip as it is at home."
"Go take a shower. I'll ask Aunt Wang to make you some dumplings. Then you can get some roast duck with peanuts and cucumber. And your favorite pork elbow in braised sauce."
These are the capital's specialties, but they are not available outside.
Liang Qiurun nodded and said, "Thank you for your hard work." He went to take a shower while Jiang Meishu went to do the chores. When Liang Qiurun came back, the house immediately became lively.
Liang's mother, who was taking a lunch break, also came out, but she didn't see Liang Qiurun because he had gone to take a shower.
Jiang Meishu burst into tears when she saw Liang's mother, "He has lost a lot of weight."
Mother Liang sighed, "Let him come back and make up for it."
Having said this, he went to the kitchen to help, and prepared the pork and cabbage dumplings, stewed the chicken soup, and added the braised pork elbow that Liang Qiurun liked, which Jiang Meishu had bought, and also bought a roast duck.
Add homemade fried peanuts and chopped cucumbers.
This meal is comparable to the Chinese New Year.
When Liang Qiurun came out of the shower, the aroma of food was already wafting from the kitchen. He followed the scent and saw Jiang Meishu standing by the stove, making dumplings.
She lowered her head, revealing her slender white neck, her hair scattered on her forehead, her face was soft and her skin was fair, just like the scene of making dumplings.
It is an existence that Liang Qiurun will never forget in his life.
"Jiang Jiang."
As soon as he shouted, Liang's mother and Comrade Wang looked over and saw how thin Liang Qiurun looked.
Both of them were stunned.
"How did it become like this?"
"Aren't you going on a business trip? Why are you so thin?"
Liang Qiurun was very calm, "I'm not used to being outside, so I'll go home and make up for it, and I'll be back."
Liang's mother finally understood why Jiang Meishu was crying.
If her son hadn't been standing in front of her, she might not have been able to recognize him.
She sighed, "Work is work, and business trips are business trips. You can't just give your life to someone else."
Liang Qiurun said, "I know."
Liang Qiurun felt as if he was in another world when he ate home-cooked meals again. After the meal, he did not rush to rest, but took a walk in the yard.
Jiang Meishu stayed with him, but she didn't say anything, nor did she ask him how things were going outside. She just stayed with him quietly.
This made Liang Qiurun feel relaxed. After spinning around three times in a row, he finally spoke, "The market economy in the south is much better than in the capital."
This was his first impression when he went there.
Jiang Meishu just looked up at him. She didn't say anything, but Liang Qiurun wanted to talk to her.
"Our meat processing plant needs to reform. If we don't reform to the end, everyone will be laid off."
"As the market economy in the south gradually opened up, their prerequisites were much better than those in the capital."
"While we were still cracking down on the individual economy, the prototype had already taken shape there."
Jiang Meishu nodded, "Yes, although there are crackdowns over there, it's obvious that the situation is much better than in the north."
"But Lao Liang," Jiang Meishu whispered, "the North is not the South. Here they are particularly taboo against individual economy and market economy. What are you going to do?"
If it opens too early, it will be difficult to move forward because people will not approve of it and the policy will not approve of it. This is going against the policy and the people.
Liang Qiurun was also thinking about this problem. Although he had lost a lot of weight, his eyes were exceptionally bright, giving him a very energetic and heroic feeling.
"You can't do drastic things, you can only simmer slowly."
But it's also difficult.
Liang Qiurun knew very well that after people got used to eating from the same pot, they would get the same salary no matter how much they worked, so he wanted his subordinates to work hard and be paid by piecework.
It's difficult.
But even if it is difficult, you should still try.
If not, plan the next step.
Jiang Meishu took his arm and said softly, "Take it easy. Don't provoke the crowd's anger."
"Besides, compared to work." She looked up at him, "your health is more important."
When she spoke like this, Liang Qiurun felt particularly at ease. He raised his hand and touched her face, his voice gentle, "I know."
But, knowing is knowing, and facts are facts.
After returning to the factory, Liang Qiurun promulgated a series of new regulations, requiring the purchasing department to increase the purchase quantity, and the sales department to complete sales targets regularly.
Other workshops are based on performance.
As soon as this rule came out, the entire meat processing plant was in an uproar.
First there was a joint demonstration, then there was resistance.
Liang Qiurun seemed to have compromised. He took a step back and said, "The meat processing plant doesn't have enough space. We need to expand it from the outside in."
This request seems less outrageous than the previous ones.
"What about the previous request?"
The head of the sales department asked.
Liang Qiurun, "Don't implement all of them, test one-third of them first."
Everyone looked at each other.
"That's fine."
This time no one objected.
Liang Qiurun didn't seem surprised. "Then let's do this first."
"If we cut our original performance targets by two-thirds and fail to meet even one-third," he said indifferently, "it's no surprise that our meat processing plant is the worst in the entire capital."
After hearing this, no one said anything.
They don't understand. It's a state-owned factory. Why work so hard? It's enough to just finish the current work. Why do they have to do these unnecessary things?
With everyone's support, Deputy Director Li spoke up, "Director Liang, what we all mean is that we should just maintain the current style. Anyway, our superiors don't have too many requirements for our meat processing plant."
Liang Qiurun handed over a report, "This is the situation of the eight meat processing plants in the south. You can pass it on for a look."
Half an hour later.
The whole office was as quiet as a chicken.
I don't know who spoke first, "Isn't this inappropriate? We are a large state-owned factory. We don't need to compete with those small factories in this way."
Liang Qiurun, "If one day, small factories directly threaten state-owned factories, how will you respond?"
this--
Beads of sweat immediately rolled down everyone's head.
Liang Qiurun handed over another newspaper. "The garrison will be reducing staff. What makes you think our factory can keep doing this with so many people?"
Everyone was startled by these words. Director Yang was the first to take the newspaper and read it. He was a little shocked. "No way? Why would the garrison be reduced in size? Aren't they defending our country?"
Liang Qiurun said, "With so many people, we naturally need to streamline." He said in a calm tone, "If our factory is not profitable in the future and there are too many people, we will definitely streamline it."
"It all depends on who will be laid off by then."
The office suddenly became quiet.
"No way?"
"Director Liang, our unit is the best in the capital. We have good benefits and plenty of benefits. How can a good unit like ours be less profitable in the future?"
Isn't this like saying that the sun will fall from the sky?
"Whether it will or not, everyone will know in the future."
Liang Qiurun stood up and walked in front of everyone. "I just hope that when that day comes, you can all still gather in my office."
"If you can't, the consequences will be borne by you all."
Director Yang was sweating profusely. Those who could reach their position were naturally not fools. He glanced around and, regardless of other people's reactions, he turned directly to Liang Qiurun and said, "Director Liang, just tell me what you need me to do?"
He was the first to speak out.
It's not just a matter of position, but also because of Liang Rui. Director Yang's son is called Yang Xiangdong. He and Liang Rui are close brothers. In the past, the two of them had been causing trouble and fighting.
But in the past six months, Liang Rui was admitted to the first high school. Although Yang Xiangdong did not get into the first high school, he was admitted to the second high school.
Not only that, Yang Xiangdong also threatened that he would take the college entrance examination.
For Director Yang, this was like a dream. No, it was smoke coming out of his ancestral graves.
Because of this incident, Director Yang now has special faith in Liang Qiurun.
As soon as he expressed his opinion, the people around him immediately joined in.
"Yes, Director Liang, what do we need to do?"
Liang Qiurun said, "Just follow the rules from above and do as much as you can. We're not looking for a big gain, but we just hope that when private enterprises become rampant in the future, we'll still be around."
These words are really from the heart.
This time, no one objected.
However, everyone is wondering whether private enterprises can really replace state-owned enterprises like theirs in the future.
That seems unlikely.
But no one expected this day to come so soon.
When that day came, other factories were downsizing, laying off employees and closing down, but their meat processing plant survived. When everyone thought back to that day two years ago, they all began to be glad that they had agreed to Director Liang.
I am also fortunate to have such a good leader like Liang Qiurun.
Reform is not easy, and implementing new regulations is not easy either.
All I can say is, walk slowly first.
However, this incident did attract the attention of many people. Some people were dissatisfied and reviewed Liang Qiurun's behavior.
He has capitalist tendencies. He is engaging in capitalism in a state-owned factory and is simply a scum of the factory.
December 9, 1975.
Liang Qiurun was taken away.
Jiang Meishu, who got the news, knocked over the water cup in her hand and asked, "What did you say?"
It was Shen Zhanlie who came to inform him of the news. He came here in a hurry from the meat processing plant. Although it was winter, he was still sweating profusely.
"Director Liang was taken away. Many people came. Some of them were sharp-eyed and saw that Director Liang was wearing handcuffs on his wrists."
Jiang Meishu was stunned for a moment, "Did you say why?"
She knew Lao Liang's character. He was a noble man at heart. At his current point, it was impossible for him to engage in corruption and bribery.
"They said his reforms were a restoration of capitalism, an attempt to transform state-owned factories into capitalist factories."
This is a serious crime.
After hearing this, Jiang Meishu shook her body. She felt a little regretful that she shouldn't have mentioned the development of the south to Liang Qiurun.
If she hadn't mentioned it, Liang Qiurun wouldn't have gone to the south to study, and if he hadn't gone to the south to study, he wouldn't have come back to carry out reforms.
Jiang Meishu forced herself to calm down, "Where was the person taken? Do you know?"
Shen Zhanlie shook his head, "I only saw him being taken away, but I didn't see where he was."
*
School.
Liang Rui was still in class, and everyone had been praising him that morning. After all, as the factory director's son, he was always flattered wherever he went.
But in the afternoon, Liang Rui noticed that some people looked at him with strange eyes, or even sympathy.
Liang Rui, "?"
Liang Rui seemed really puzzled.
The classmate next to him explained to him, "Liang Rui, you don't know yet, right?"
"Your father has been arrested. Everyone is saying it. It seems your father can no longer be the factory director."
"What did you say?"
Liang Rui subconsciously grabbed the other person's collar and asked, "Say it again?"
The other person was caught and couldn't breathe. "Why did you arrest me? Go ask everyone. Everyone has heard about it."
"When your father was taken away, many people saw it."
At this moment, Liang Rui immediately loosened the other person's collar, turned around and ran out of the school.
"What do you think? Did his father embezzle or accept bribes?"
"Otherwise, why would he be caught suddenly?"
Liang Feng watched Liang Rui leave. He was about to chase him out to ask, but when he heard his classmates discussing this, he suddenly became anxious, "Who do you say is corrupt and accepting bribes?"
"Liang Rui's dad? He's been arrested, you don't know about it, do you?"
When Liang Feng heard this, he punched the other person on the nose.
After smashing the thing, he ran home quickly regardless of the other party's reaction.
Liang family.
Jiang Meishu's eyes were a little swollen. "Mom, I went to look for him this morning, but I didn't see him. Now I'm not allowed to meet him."
"How's it going over there?"
Liang's mother also shook her head, "It's not very good. I asked old friends for help. They said that my Qiurun's matter is a bit serious this time, and I'm afraid it won't work."
"What should we do then?"
"I wonder how Lao Liang is doing in there?" Jiang Meishu's voice was already filled with tears.
"Xiao Jiang, don't worry, I'm looking for someone to pull the strings."
Before Jiang Meishu could answer, Liang Rui rushed in like a gust of wind, bringing with him a gust of cold wind. "Did something happen to my dad?"
The voice came in before the person arrived.
Jiang Meishu looked at Liang Rui in surprise as he appeared in front of her, "Why are you back?" She had no intention of telling the children about Liang Qiurun's accident.
Liang Rui was stubborn and stared into her eyes, "Did something happen to my dad?"
It was obvious that the secret could no longer be concealed.
Jiang Meishu then nodded.
"Why was he arrested?" In Liang Rui's eyes, his father has always been his idol.
Jiang Meishu hesitated for a moment, then looked at Liang Rui, who was half a head taller than her, and finally told him everything.
She felt that eighteen-year-old Liang Rui should be qualified to know.
"Your father went to the south to learn the rules and regulations of private factories, and implemented reforms at the meat processing plant. He was reported for taking a capitalist approach."
As soon as he finished speaking, Liang Rui clenched his fists and cursed, "Bullshit."
"My dad works overtime every day, exhausting himself every day for the factory. Are they blind? They can't see, yet they act like capitalists? What capitalist doesn't just want to sleep in and let their subordinates work for them?"
"He's nothing like my dad. He's exhausted to death."
Jiang Meishu took a deep breath and said, "I know what to do."
"How?"
Jiang Meishu said calmly, "Public opinion."
"Whether Lao Liang is a capitalist or not, others may not know, but the workers at the meat processing plant do."
"I'll go find them."
"I'm going to write a joint letter and submit it to the people above me." She looked at them, her eyes glistening. "I don't know if it will be of any use, but I'm going to do something."
Her old beam is still inside.
She was going to do something.
Jiang Meishu has never been a decisive person, but this time she was particularly decisive, "Liang Rui, come with me."
"Call your classmate Yang——"
"Yang Xiangdong."
"Yes, that's him." Jiang Meishu's mind was spinning rapidly. "Let's see if we can get his father to our side."
“Besides that, there’s my dad, Shen Zhanlie.”
“Pull up all those who can be brought together.”
Jiang Meishu looked at him and said, "I need a petition signed by everyone in the factory."
"Can you win over Yang Xiangdong's father?"
Liang Rui gritted his teeth and said, "I can."
"That'll do."
"Separate our forces."
Jiang Meishu wrote a letter of request first. At this moment, she was somewhat glad that she was a liberal arts student. After she finished writing, she was the first to sign it.
Then, she took the letter of request to find Secretary Chen.
Secretary Chen has been extremely worried these past few days, trying to find a way to get the person back. When he saw Jiang Meishu, he thought she was here to get information again, so he said directly, "I still haven't seen her. She won't let me see her."
"This is the fourth day since the leader was taken away."
Jiang Meishu said, "That's not what I'm asking." She handed over the petition, "Look, if my plan works, gather everyone here now and get them to sign their names."
Secretary Chen's eyes lit up as he looked at her. "Why didn't I think of that?"
"Can."
He stood there and paced for a while. "Running from place to place is too slow. I'll go to the radio station and have someone notify everyone in the unit to gather in the cafeteria."
After saying that, Secretary Chen went to do it. Within ten minutes, his voice could be heard in the radio station.
"Comrades, everyone, please gather in the cafeteria in half an hour. Let's talk about Director Liang. Please be sure to come."
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone in the workshop and office looked at each other in surprise.
In less than half an hour, or only about ten minutes, the entire cafeteria was packed with people.
Looking at those people, Jiang Meishu's eyes suddenly became warm. At this moment, she felt that Liang Qiurun's contribution to the meat processing plant was not in vain.
She stood up, holding a megaphone, and said to the workers below, "Comrade, I am Liang Qiurun's lover. I believe everyone knows that Director Liang has been taken away."
"I am his lover, and Secretary Chen is close to him. We can all swear on our lives that Liang Qiurun's reforms are absolutely not intended to restore capitalism, and they are absolutely not for personal gain!"
"He went to the south to learn advanced knowledge and systems because he was worried that the current development trend of the southern factories would force them to become less profitable in the future. He worked overtime from dawn to dusk, conducting research and making plans."
"He wanted the meat processing plant to have better development, so that everyone could see each other again at the meat processing plant in ten years, and still earn a salary there to support their families."
"We're both working to support our families," Jiang Meishu said, her voice choking. "I've never seen him come home before ten o'clock. He works overtime three hundred and sixty days a year, voluntarily, without pay. With Liang Qiurun like him, I don't believe he's trying to restore capitalism."
These words were so contagious that the workers below followed suit and said, "We don't believe it either."
"Director Liang is a good director."
Jiang Meishu was waiting for these words. She took a deep breath and said, "Liang Qiurun would definitely be very happy if he knew that everyone thought of him this way."
"Now that he's been taken away, our family is powerless and has no news at all. So I'd like to ask everyone to sign a petition and help him."
She bowed to everyone, "I'm counting on you all."
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