Chapter 26 Taotao is no worse than anyone else!
Taotao was happily eating in the cafeteria when a woman came over quickly with an empty lunch box and slammed it heavily on the table in front of her.
"Bang!"
There was a loud noise, which scared Taotao!
At the same time, the tabletop shook violently, and two of the three plastic cups of orange juice were overturned, and the red liquid flowed all over the table.
Song Zhi stood up immediately, and quickly lifted Taotao aside, then grabbed his and Taotao's lunch boxes and moved them aside, and then moved the remaining glass of orange juice aside.
Taotao looked at the orange juice that had flowed all over the table and smelled the fresh orange fragrance. She pouted in grievance, "Ah... my orange juice!"
——She was so busy eating meat just now that she didn’t even have time to try the taste of the orange juice! Just like that, two cups were spilled!
The one who started the attack was a young girl, about twenty-three or twenty-four years old, very thin, with two long braids, and wearing a blue work suit from the machinery factory. She looked a bit mean.
Cheng Zhujun yelled at the man, "Zhang Xiuli, how could you do this?"
Then he turned around and hurriedly explained to Taotao, "Taotao, I didn't scare you, did I? I'm sorry, she is my cousin, she has a bad temper..."
Zhang Xiuli frowned and sneered, "Don't try to be a relative. Who is your cousin? Humph, do you think I don't know? By calling me cousin, are you going to borrow money from me again?"
Cheng Zhujun bit her lower lip and her face turned red.
"Or are you a man of integrity and willing to pay me back?" Zhang Xiuli said sarcastically, "Thank you very much. It's fifty dollars including the principal and interest. Give it to me quickly!"
Cheng Zhujun's face was so red that it seemed like blood was about to drip out.
Tao Tao asked Cheng Zhujun in a low voice, "Do you owe her money?"
"No, that doesn't count as a loan!" Cheng Zhujun blushed and explained, "After my father passed away, I was too young to work in the factory as a formal employee, so she came to me and said she wanted to buy my father's job. I said no, I must keep this job..."
"She said, why don't she take my father's job as a temporary worker in the factory first, and when I turn 18 and have enough experience to officially join the factory, she will return the position to me. We agreed at the time that she would work as a temporary worker in this factory and get a salary of 36.5 yuan a month, and she would give me 6.5 yuan once she got paid..."
"But after only half a year, she refused to pay me back, and even said that the seven times she had given me six dollars and fifty cents were all loans to me! Not only did she force me to pay back the money, but she also spread rumors in the family compound, causing my brother and I to be kicked out... woo woo!"
As she spoke, Cheng Zhujun began to sob.
"Bullshit!" Zhang Xiuli cursed, "I work here, working so hard every day, but I only get 36.5 yuan a month. I feel sorry for you and your brother, so I lend you a little money every month... But you are so crazy that you even say that I took your father's job? What a joke! Even if I am a temporary worker, I signed a contract with the factory. What the hell is it to you?"
Cheng Zhujun looks weak, but she is actually stubborn at heart. "Why did the factory sign a temporary worker contract with you? It was because of me and my dad!"
Zhang Xiuli sneered, "You really think you're such a big shot! Let me tell you - I, Zhang Xiuli, came to work at the Red Star Factory, and it has nothing to do with you or your damn father! Besides, I'll be getting a permanent job soon..."
As she spoke, Zhang Xiuli showed a smug expression.
Cheng Zhujun’s eyes widened instantly!
——The staff establishment of state-owned factories involves a number of welfare benefits, which must be reported directly to the trade union and the labor bureau, so it is difficult for temporary workers to become regular employees.
Now Zhang Xiuli says that she will be converted to a full-time employee soon?
A bad guess came to Cheng Zhujun's mind: Could it be that Zhang Xiuli has figured out a way to replace Cheng's father's official employee position?
No, it's not possible!
This job is very important to Cheng Zhujun, she can't do without it!
Cheng Zhujun collapsed, "Zhang Xiuli! You are such a bad heart..."
Song Zhi touched Taotao's head and whispered, "Taotao, pull her aside."
Taotao immediately stepped forward and dragged Cheng Zhujun aside.
Song Zhi stepped forward and looked at Zhang Xiuli coldly, "Comrade, do we know each other?"
Zhang Xiuli was stunned and looked at Song Zhi.
Song Zhi is about 1.8 meters tall, tall and thin, with handsome features and an elegant temperament...
Zhang Xiuli blushed and wondered why she didn't notice such a handsome man just now?
"I……"
Before Zhang Xiuli could ask who she was, she heard Song Zhi say, "Since no one knows each other, why did you spill my fiancée's drink?"
Zhang Xiuli was stunned and lowered her head, only then did she see the mess on the table.
Bai Taotao said crisply: "Hey, you have to compensate me with three servings of braised pork, rice and other vegetarian dishes, and three glasses of orange juice!"
Zhang Xiuli turned her head and looked at Bai Taotao again.
fiancée?
Zhang Xiuli thought to herself: I must take a good look at what the fiancée of such a handsome man looks like! But when she saw Bai Taotao, Zhang Xiuli took a deep breath - is there such a beautiful little beauty in the world?
For a moment, Zhang Xiuli was stunned.
Song Zhi urged, "Comrade, please pay the compensation as soon as possible. My fiancée has a delicate stomach. If she gets hungry, she will have to go to the hospital to see a doctor."
Zhang Xiuli finally came to her senses and looked at Song Zhi and Bai Taotao again. She saw that they were strangers and were wearing ordinary clothes. They were not the factory uniforms.
She became angry and said sarcastically, "How can you be so poor! You have the nerve to sneak into our factory and eat and drink for free!"
Cheng Zhujun, "Don't talk nonsense, Taotao..."
Song Zhi asked again coldly, "Will you compensate me?"
Zhang Xiuli was embarrassed and said with her neck stiff, "You're dreaming! I haven't investigated you for sneaking into our factory and eating and drinking for free! You're still investigating me? Be careful or I'll report you to the police and have you arrested!"
Song Zhi held Tao Tao's hand and said to Cheng Zhujun politely, "Please tell Director Pan that I'm leaving."
After saying that, he took Taotao and walked away.
Cheng Zhujun became anxious, "Engineer Song! Engineer Song, please wait a moment...you can't just leave like this!" She hurriedly chased after him.
Zhang Xiuli asked in confusion: "What Engineer Song? Which Engineer Song?!"
The crowd of onlookers all hated Zhang Xiuli, and when they saw Song Zhi leading the little beauty away, they began to ridicule her.
"Who do you think he is? He is the Engineer Song that Director Pan has been talking about!"
"I finally got someone to come here, and we just started working this morning, and you already drove them away!"
"The problem with the main engine can't be solved. The whole factory is going to be paralyzed. And Engineer Song is the only one who knows this technology! You've also driven people away... Just wait for the factory to close down!"
"If I were Mr. Song, I wouldn't be able to stand this, and I would leave too!"
"You have no ability at all. You took over the girl's job by climbing into her bed, and even pissed off Mr. Song. I want to see who can protect you this time..."
"Alright, alright, stop joining in the fun and go find Director Pan!"
Someone hurried to find the leader.
Zhang Xiuli was stunned, and a bad guess came to her mind.
Song Zhi took Tao Tao out of the gate of the Red Star Factory. Tao Tao made a request, "Song Zhi, I want to eat braised pork!"
Song Zhi patted her head and said, "Okay, let's go to the state-owned restaurant for dinner... But since we're already out, why don't we go back to the guesthouse and take your mother and sister with us."
Taotao nodded happily.
Cheng Zhujun followed behind the two of them, crying anxiously, "Taotao, Mr. Song... I'm sorry that I have implicated you because of my affairs, but... please don't be angry, work is work..."
Song Zhi smiled at Taotao and suddenly saw a small store opposite the factory?
Thinking about how greedy Taotao was when she saw the orange juice just now, he took Taotao to the store and bought two cream popsicles, giving one to Taotao and one to Cheng Zhujun.
Cheng Zhujun held a popsicle and said with a sad face, "Mr. Song, Taotao, please don't be angry..."
Taotao had never eaten popsicles before. Although she had seen vendors selling them in foam boxes at bus stations and train stations, she had no idea what they were. At this moment, you are watching Song Zhi slowly tear open the wrapping paper, revealing the snow-white popsicle inside?
Song Zhi brought the popsicle to Taotao's mouth and said, "Lick it." His tone was very intimate.
Taotao obediently stuck out her little pink tongue, tilted her head like a cat, and licked the popsicle carefully.
——She looked so cute that Song Zhi’s anger instantly disappeared without a trace.
He smiled and reached out to touch Taotao's head.
Taotao's eyes suddenly widened, "...It's delicious!"
She was so happy that she smiled happily. She took the popsicle from Song Zhi's hand and licked it happily again and again like a cat licking its paw.
Ahhhhhh…
Why is there such delicious food! It has a strong milky flavor, is sweet, and icy! After licking, take a breath and even your breath will be sweet!
tasty! So delicious! Mom and third sister definitely haven’t eaten it before. When Song Zhi bought the popsicles just now, she saw the price: two cents each! She will buy some for her mother and third sister when she goes back today!
Woohoo it’s so delicious…
Taotao was so engrossed in licking her popsicle that she didn't notice how Director Pan caught up with her.
——In fact, Song Zhi bought popsicles for Taotao on purpose in order to delay time and wait for Director Pan.
Sure enough, Director Pan ran over breathlessly, grabbed Song Zhi's hand, and said anxiously: "Engineer Song! Engineer Song...please listen to my explanation, this is a misunderstanding, a misunderstanding!"
Song Zhi, "Maybe it's not a misunderstanding. The employees of your factory said that I cheated on food and drink... It really makes me feel guilty."
Taotao licked the popsicle happily, looked at the calm Song Zhi, then looked at Director Pan who was blushing with anxiety, and thought that Yan Naqian's speaking skills were nothing compared to Song Zhi's!
Director Pan was so anxious that he was sweating all over. "That employee has no manners! She is just a temporary worker in our factory. Don't bother with her! I will deal with her immediately and transfer her to another position!"
Song Zhi, "That's right, Director Pan. My work schedule in Ruyi Village is quite full. How about I come here to solve this problem next time when I'm free?"
Director Pan was so anxious that he almost cried, "That can't be possible, Mr. Song. If the problem with the movement is not solved, the more than 300 employees in our factory will be out of work! If we don't start work, where will the wages come from? There are more than a thousand employees and their families in our factory! What will they eat?"
"Mr. Song, I know this is not your business, but please, for the sake of... we are all proletarian brothers, have mercy on us employees. Everyone has a family to support, and we really have elderly parents and young children to take care of!" Director Pan said pitifully.
"You didn't take care of the employees' families!"
Tao Tao licked her popsicle and said crisply, "Zhu Jun was supposed to take over her father's job...but she was not old enough, and you sold her job to Zhang Xiu Li!"
Taotao remembered that she had seen a banner at the train station that said "Find the police to keep you safe" and shouted, "You didn't protect the families of the employees at all! Zhujun, don't worry, I'll go with you to find the police, they'll take care of it!"
Taotao didn't know that the police would not deal with labor contract disputes, which were the responsibility of the Labor Bureau.
But Taotao's words made Director Pan feel ashamed and a little frightened.
Song Zhi, "Director Pan, since Zhang Xiuli is so capable, why don't you ask her to help you with the movement?"
Director Pan: ...
Got it.
Director Pan immediately said, "Mr. Song, this is the case. I still don't know what happened to Zhang Xiuli. How about this? I'll go to the state-owned restaurant with you for dinner. After dinner, we'll come back and continue to deal with the movement issue..."
Director Pan's attitude was cautious.
Song Zhi frowned.
Director Pan said quickly: "...But don't worry, I will definitely give you an answer before I get off work this afternoon! I promise you that I will find out whether Zhang Xiuli has occupied Cheng Zhujun's job!"
"If this is true, I will definitely deal with Zhang Xiuli, and also the issue of illegal buying and selling of employee positions! As for you, just focus on dealing with the issue of the movement. What do you think...is this how we should handle this matter?" Director Pan looked at Song Zhi eagerly, his eyes full of hope.
Song Zhi smiled, "Why are you telling me this? I'm not in charge of personnel matters."
Director Pan sensed a hint of relaxation in Song Zhi's tone and was immediately overjoyed. "No, no, no! You are... social supervision. There is a problem with the job structure of our factory employees, so we should rectify it. At the same time, we should also humbly accept the power of social supervision..."
Song Zhi looked at Taotao, who had licked the popsicle until it was almost melted.
Tao Tao glanced at Song Zhi, still thinking about her braised pork, "...I want to eat more braised pork."
Director Pan, "Hey, Comrade Taotao, the braised pork in our state-owned restaurant is so delicious! Come on, let's go to the state-owned restaurant to eat!"
Taotao, "My mom and sister haven't eaten yet!"
"Let's go together! It's more fun when there are more people!" Director Pan said enthusiastically.
At that moment, Director Pan found out where Taotao's mother and Taotao's sister lived, and asked Cheng Zhujun to pick them up. He took Song Zhi and Bai Taotao to the state-owned restaurant first and ordered the dishes.
When Tang Liren and Bai Lili arrived, everyone started eating happily!
Director Pan ordered several dishes with meat: braised pork, pork with garlic paste, steamed pork with rice flour, and braised pork with pork belly…
Taotao enjoyed her meal so much!
That’s right, Cheng Zhujun went somewhere and hasn’t come back for a long time.
Taotao ran out to look for him, and then saw Cheng Zhujun squatting on the ground and crying with her head in her hands at the side of the hotel gate.
"Xiao Zhuzi, what's wrong with you?" Taotao asked.
Cheng Zhujun raised her head and looked at Taotao, her face full of tears, "Taotao, thank you... wuwuwu thank you... but I'm so bad, I, I may never be able to repay you in my entire life..."
——She must have accumulated blessings for several lifetimes to meet Taotao, who is as beautiful as a fairy and kind-hearted! Not only did he give her capital and do business with her, but he also helped her get back her job that had been taken away?
Tao Tao patted Cheng Zhujun's head politely and said, "Then why don't you try harder?"
Cheng Zhujun cried so hard, "Am I not working hard enough? The children of the same age as me who worked in factories and factories are still the treasures of their parents, but I... I have to get up early and work three or four odd jobs a day to support my brother and me, and earn money for my brother's medical treatment and medicine."
"But no matter how hard I try, I can't even reach the starting point of others." Cheng Zhujun suffered a lot since her father passed away more than a year ago, but she couldn't vent to anyone. Now that she had Taotao as an audience, she sobbed -
"Zhang Xiuli wants to take my father's job. I know her path. Section Chief Wu of the factory's finance department has a crazy son. When my father left, Section Chief Wu came to me and wanted me to marry his stupid son. He also said that if I agreed, he would transfer me to the finance department as a cashier."
"I refused, so I signed a contract with Zhang Xiuli under the witness of Deputy Director Dong, asking her to replace my father's job and work as a temporary worker in the factory. After Zhang Xiuli entered the factory, Section Chief Wu took a fancy to her. In fact, there were very few female workers in our factory, and Section Chief Wu wanted to persuade any unmarried female worker to marry his crazy son..."
"That man was so crazy that he even beat his own mother to death. Everyone advised Section Chief Wu to send the madman to the hospital, but Section Chief Wu said that his son had no offspring... I guess they must have conspired together. One wanted to get my father's formal job, and the other wanted to trick someone into becoming his crazy son's wife..."
As she spoke, Cheng Zhujun sighed again, "I wonder if Zhang Xiuli is really stupid. Wouldn't she go and ask around first? Section Chief Wu has already married a rural wife for his stupid son. That young wife was really honest and worked like a slave for their family. Later, she was almost beaten to death by that crazy son..."
Taotao was surprised, "Is he dead?"
Cheng Zhujun shook her head. "No, the family members in our factory felt sorry for her and secretly hid her. They let her recover from her injuries in the factory, and then secretly let her go... Section Chief Wu's family thought she had died outside."
Taotao was very angry, "This family is so evil!"
Cheng Zhujun, "So Zhang Xiuli is really...seeking her own death!"
Taotao comforted her, "You will live a better life than her in the future."
These words warmed Cheng Zhujun's heart, and she wanted to cry again, "But when will it get better?"
Taotao couldn't answer.
Cheng Zhujun remembered something else, "Taotao, what grade are you in?"
Taotao shook her head, "I never went to school."
Cheng Zhujun was shocked, "You haven't been to school? Then you..." Don't you know Russian?
"Song Zhi taught him at home." Taotao said.
Now that this has been brought up, Tao Tao is delighted. "Xiao Zhuzi! I never thought that Song Zhi was right. It turns out that knowledge can really be exchanged for money! And money can be exchanged for braised pork!"
Cheng Zhujun, "How long have you studied Russian with him?"
Tao Tao counted on her fingers and said, "Almost two months!"
Cheng Zhujun:! ! !
Tao Tao, "I have made up my mind. I will study hard this time when I go back. I will try to memorize the entire Russian dictionary, and then learn English and Japanese... I can make a living with knowledge in the future! I must eat braised pork every meal and cream popsicles every day!"
Cheng Zhujun was so shocked that she was speechless.
Knowing is money.
This is the truth she has heard and been exposed to since she was a child.
But before meeting Taotao, Cheng Zhujun's concept of "knowledge" was that he could write his own name and address, and calculate the daily necessities of his family...
Until today, she saw with her own eyes the young Taotao earn a sumptuous meal using the Russian language she had just learned for two months.
Although the meal was ruined by Zhang Xiuli, it was indeed earned by Taotao.
Cheng Zhujun held it in for a long time, "Taotao, look... can I, can I learn it?"
"Of course!" Tao Tao said seriously, "I can learn it, so why can't you?"
Cheng Zhujun, "Then teach me!"
"Okay!" Taotao agreed.
Bai Lili hurried out to look for someone, "Hey, what are you two doing squatting here? Go in and eat, Song Zhi and the others have to go to work soon!"
Taotao pulled Cheng Zhujun into the restaurant.
Song Zhi asked Taotao to go shopping with Tang Liren in the afternoon. Taotao had already seen the world in the factory and didn't have a good impression of the messy factory. Of course, she would rather go shopping on the street and see if there are any opportunities to make money.
So, everyone went their separate ways.
Song Zhi and Director Pan returned to the Red Star Machinery Factory. Taotao followed her mother and sister back to the guesthouse. Cheng Zhujun was busy packing up the leftovers and rushed back to give them to her brother...
On the way, Taotao wanted to treat her mother and third sister to some cream popsicles because she also wanted some.
As a result, Tang Liren heard that Taotao had already eaten a popsicle?
"That won't do. Eating too much cold food will hurt your stomach! Your third sister and I will eat it, and you watch." Tang Liren said.
Taotao pouted in grievance.
Bai Lili felt sorry for her sister, so she spent two cents to buy Taotao a string of candied haws, and only then did Taotao stop crying and smile.
After returning to the guesthouse, Taotao felt drowsy due to overeating.
Tang Liren told Lizi, "Then you can stay here and watch your sister take a nap. I can go out alone."
Bai Lili thought for a moment and said, "Why don't we ask the vendor to bring it over? Just shout downstairs and I'll go downstairs to pick it up. Or I can go get it in the evening."
Tang Liren: "I understand. I'm leaving now."
Bai Lili tidied up for a while, and when she went to see Taotao again——
Taotao was already curled up in bed, sleeping soundly.
Bai Lili rubbed her sister's soft and elastic face lovingly and said softly, "Sleep on the pillow!"
Taotao opened her eyes dazedly, looked at her sister, and closed them again.
Continue sleeping.
Bai Lili had no choice but to hold a pillow in one hand and pick up her sister with the other, letting her lie on the pillow and then pulling a thin blanket over her...
When Taotao woke up from her nap, she heard her third sister Bai Lili humming a song quietly.
She opened her eyes and saw Sister Li Zi sitting on the bed opposite her, holding a small mirror in her hand, and seemed to be rubbing something on her face?
The folk song has a charming and melodious tune, and the girl's voice is sweet. Although her voice is too soft and it is impossible to hear what she is singing, the girl's sweet expectation is clearly revealed.
Taotao slowly crawled to the end of the bed like a caterpillar, and lay on the bed with her head tilted to look at her third sister.
Bai Lili paused in singing——
She looked at her silly sister, her face slightly flushed, and she laughed, "What are you doing? You didn't even call me when you woke up."
"Third sister..." Taotao said, "You sing so beautifully. What song is this?"
Bai Lili said embarrassedly: "It's nothing, just a folk song that my music teacher in school taught us to sing privately."
"What song?"
"Yunnan folk song, the stream flows."
"This song is so beautiful, Third Sister, please teach me how to sing it!"
“Oh, I can’t even sing!”
"Third sister, third sister, my dear third sister, please teach me!"
"Well... okay, remember, you can't just sing it casually."
After saying that, Bai Lili began to hum softly -
"The moon is out and shining--
Thinking of my brother... deep in the mountains,
Brother is like the moon, walking in the sky, walking in the sky..."
Tao Tao understood and smiled evilly, "Oh... I know, it's about my brother and sister!"
Bai Lili blushed and scolded her silly sister, "You can't sing outside!"
Taotao bit her lower lip, "Third sister, what do you like about Jiang Hongzhi?"
Bai Lili never revealed her little thoughts to anyone.
Except for that one time, when Taotao tricked me for no apparent reason...
When her sister mentioned this, Lili suddenly wanted to talk.
"I like his good looks. He is different from us farmers. Even when he works in the fields, he always keeps himself clean and tidy. He is much more tidy and neat than many girls in our village!"
"I like that he is educated! I heard him chatting with Yan Naqian several times, and they were all talking about drivers (Ski) and Tolstoy... I couldn't get a word in, but I know that they have ideals in their hearts, which is much better than us who just live a lazy life."
"I also like that he is very considerate. Everyone in the village, young or old, loves him..." Lili said shyly.
Bai Taotao burst her sister's pink bubble, "But he doesn't look like he wants to get married..."
——Jiang Hongzhi seems to be very infatuated with Yan Naqian. He also seems to treat other women in the village equally, regardless of age. He greets them with a smile and responds to their requests.
"Of course I know! He likes Yan Naqian!"
Bai Lili said with some melancholy, "I like him... although I like him, I know there is a gap between him and me, I am not worthy of him."
Bai Taotao frowned.
She didn't like that.
"My third sister is pretty, gentle and hardworking, so why isn't she worthy of Jiang Hongzhi?" Bai Taotao was angry.
Lili was silent for a while. "I am a country girl. It is normal that I am not worthy of the educated youth from the city."
After a pause, Lili whispered, "It's the same with you and Song Zhi! Song Zhi proposed to our parents that day, but Dad didn't agree because of this consideration."
"Huh?" Taotao widened her eyes in surprise.
Taotao doesn't want to get married either.
But that's because she doesn't understand the meaning of marriage yet, and at this stage of her life, except for being a little poor, everything else is pretty good, and Taotao doesn't want to change.
Of course, it’s also because Song Zhi seems to be a little resistant to getting married.
However, Taotao never knew that the reason her parents did not agree to Song Zhi’s proposal was - did they also think that she was not worthy of Song Zhi?
"It's not that I'm unworthy of Song Zhi!" Tao Tao was a little angry, "How am I worse than him?"
Bai Lili whispered: "Taotao, don't be angry. We are country people after all. We have to accept our fate..."
"No!"
Tao Tao said loudly: "I am not worse than anyone else! In fact... I am the most powerful person in the world! Now it is because I have not learned enough knowledge, so I can't eat meat every meal... In the future, when I learn more knowledge, not only will I be able to eat meat every meal, I can also make everyone... eat meat every meal!"
Bai Lili laughed out loud with a "puff".
"You! You just think about eating meat all day long!" Sister Li Zi came over with a smile and poked Taotao's forehead.
Tang Liren called from the door, "Lizi! Open the door for me!"
Lili ran to open the door.
Tang Liren came in panting, carrying a large bag.
"Mom, why did you buy so many things... Come, be careful!" Lili helped unload the big bag that Tang Liren was carrying, and also helped unload the backpack that was full of things.
Tang Liren took two deep breaths and said, "Well, as soon as I went out, I met that little girl Zhujun. She asked me where I was going. I told her that Sister Taotao was about to give birth, and we went to the city to buy some things to bring back... Then Zhujun took me everywhere..."
"Zhujun is a really good kid. She may not be very old, but she is very sensible when it comes to social etiquette! She accompanied me to run around for the whole afternoon and bought so many things. I offered her a dollar as a fee for her errands, but she refused!"
"Oh, come and see, look at the beautiful patterns and colors of these scraps of cloth! Zhujun took me directly to the garment factory to buy them from an acquaintance! I only spent three yuan and seventy yuan on so many scraps of cloth! If I went to the supply and marketing cooperative, I wouldn't be able to buy any! First, we don't have cloth coupons, and second, even if we had cloth coupons, so many pieces of cloth would have cost at least ten yuan!"
Tang Liren happily looked through the pile of cloth scraps in the backpack, "This time, even if there are many people in the family, we can at least make three sets of clothes for each person by putting them together!"
Li Zi rummaged through the bag again, and found a large pile of what looked like seven or eight pairs of Liberation Shoes, a few pairs of loose green military trousers, and two military coats.
Tang Liren pointed at the military coat and said, "This is a good thing! It is also a defective product discarded by the garment factory. Look... the sleeves are sewn wrong, but it doesn't matter. We can take it back and modify it ourselves. Oh, this is really thick, so we don't have to suffer from the cold in winter!"
The mother and daughter were chatting when Song Zhi came back. Seeing the things spread all over the floor, he was a little surprised, "Aunt bought so many things?"
Tang Liren hummed and said, "We'll leave early tomorrow morning! Zhujun and I have agreed that she will go to the butcher's house tonight to order a few pig's feet for me, and deliver them to us early tomorrow morning... We'll take the things and go back!"
Song Zhi stared at the things on the floor, wanting to say something but stopping himself.
Taotao was still angry, so she said, "Mom, we won't leave tomorrow! We'll leave the day after tomorrow!"
Tang Liren was stunned, "Why?"
"Tomorrow I'm going to take my third sister to the factory to see the world!" Tao Tao said angrily, "I want to prove to my third sister that I, Bai Taozi, am no worse than anyone else! I can make money with the knowledge I've learned!"
Bai Lili was stunned and her face flushed.
Tang Liren and Song Zhi were both a little surprised.
However, Song Zhi quickly reacted and said to Tang Liren, "Aunt, you guys should stay for another day tomorrow. There are too many things, and it will be hard for the three of you to carry them back. Why don't you wait for me for another day? I'll be done with my work tomorrow, and we can leave together the day after tomorrow."
Tang Liren was somewhat tempted.
Tao Tao asked Song Zhi, "Song Zhi, does the Red Star Factory still need a Russian translator tomorrow?"
Song Zhi smiled, took out a roll of toilet paper from his jacket pocket and handed it to Tao Tao, "Take a look at this."
Taotao took the paper roll and unfolded it. Inside was seventy-eight cents, and a receipt for temporary worker's salary, on which was written neatly:
Name: Bai Taotao
Job Type: Temporary Russian Translation
Duration: 2.5 hours
Salary: 78 cents
Recipient: Song Zhi (signed on behalf of others)
Bai Taotao opened her eyes wide and looked at it over and over again.
"Is this my salary?" Taotao asked in surprise.
Tang Liren and Lili grabbed the pay slip and took turns looking at it.
Song Zhi nodded with a smile, "Engineer Ma also said that if you have time tomorrow, he would like to ask you to translate a few more manuals."
"I'm free! I'm free!" Taotao said quickly, "I'll take Third Sister there!" Third Sister must see with her own eyes how she uses the knowledge she has learned to make money!
Bai Lili bit her lower lip and a glimmer of hope arose in her heart.
——She has never been to a factory before, so it would be good for her to go and take a look!
Tang Liren, "Then I'll go with you to see the world. I promise not to cause any trouble for you, okay?"
Song Zhi smiled, "Then let's go and take a look together."
Tang Liren stood up in a hurry, "Let's go to the canteen to get food. After dinner, send the rattle your father made to Zhujun. I also have to tell her to change the pig's feet that were ordered tomorrow to the day after tomorrow..."
Tang Liren and Bai Lili left first.
Song Zhi touched Tao Tao's head and said, "Knowledge is not so cheap. If you work hard, you should get paid. Do you understand?"
Taotao nodded seriously.
Looking at Song Zhi, Taotao almost asked, "Song Zhi, am I really not as good as you?"
But she swallowed it back.
Forget it, she should use practical actions to influence the third sister!
No……
Brother Dongsheng does so much hard farm work every day, but the money he earns is not enough to feed his family! That's so tiring, so she wants to encourage her family to love life and study hard!
One day, everyone will be able to make money with the knowledge they have learned, eat meat and delicious food, wear warm clothes and beautiful clothes!
As for Song Zhi...
good! Since the third sister thinks she is not as good as Song Zhi, then she wants to compete with Song Zhi! Sooner or later, she will surpass her teacher!
Taotao held her chin high and went to look for her mother and third sister.
But in Song Zhi's eyes, he felt that Taotao looked listless with her head down today?
He was a little confused.
——Taotao has always been innocent and lively. She always looks happy at all times and rarely has a lot on her mind like she does now.
Thinking back, she seemed to have said "I, Bai Taozi, am no worse than anyone else"...
So, when he was away, who did Tang Liren or Bai Lili compare with Taotao?
There is no such thing as anyone worse than anyone else in this world.
Different people are good at different areas.
Song Zhi made up his mind to have a good talk with Taotao.
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