Chapter 186 The Cause of the Conflict
The accountant and the women's director sat there in a daze. They couldn't digest so much information all at once.
"Captain, are you telling the truth? Does Ziyi's wife really have that ability?" the accountant asked in disbelief.
"Of course it's true. My cousin, who delivered the food yesterday, saw it with his own eyes. It can't be fake." The captain said affirmatively.
"Then, if we learn it, our brigade will no longer be the poorest in the entire commune," the women's director said longingly.
"Of course. Not to mention the whole commune, even in the whole county, we can rank first." The team leader said confidently.
"What a pity! Ziyi's wife will definitely not be able to teach him now. Alas, Secretary, why are you still confused at your old age?" The secretary is the captain's uncle and usually supports his work. This time it was really abnormal.
"I do have a guess," the women's director said hesitantly.
"What do you know?" The team leader and the accountant looked at the director of women's affairs and asked.
"I'm not sure if this is the reason. I told you not to tell anyone. I don't want the secretary to remember me." said the women's director.
"Don't worry, we won't tell anything. Just tell me quickly, do you still want Ziyi's wife to lead everyone to become rich?" the captain said anxiously.
"I heard it from the youngest in my family. He said that the secretary's eldest son had an argument with the secretary last night. He said that his wife was the best at sewing. Her sister-in-law had a sewing machine, and his wife could use it to make clothes and cut clothes. The team leader did not arrange for his wife to work in the factory as a sewing machine. He said that Ziyi and his wife both came to the factory together, so why was there only the secretary in his family? Moreover, the secretary is old and will not be able to work for a few more years. By then, there will be no one in their family left in the factory." The women's director said in a low voice.
The team leader was silent. The secretary's eldest son refused to study when he was young, so he only went to school for one year. Apart from knowing how to write his own name, he didn't even know two big characters. The younger son was smart, like the secretary, but he was too young at the time, so the commune recommended him to be the team leader. At that time, the secretary's eldest son was also very dissatisfied. He thought that the secretary did not allow his son to be the team leader, but gave it to someone else instead. The father and son also had a quarrel. However, the secretary always supported him, which helped him to have fewer setbacks when he first became the team leader. This time there must be something going on and the quarrel was caused by the secretary’s eldest son wanting to get his wife into the factory. But why is the secretary really so upset with Ziyi’s wife?
The accountant was furious after hearing what the director of women's affairs said: "Didn't the secretary's daughter-in-law get a job in the factory? How come there is no one else? Does it mean that we have to arrange for his daughter-in-law to come in to be considered as a family? The secretary's family is only a family with his eldest son, but not with his youngest son's family. This is ridiculous. This is going to hold back socialism. How can the secretary listen to such people?"
"That's because the secretary also thinks his eldest son is right." The women's director said contemptuously.
"What's with that tone of voice? You can't talk like that in front of the secretary. If you make him angry, you'll suffer the consequences." The accountant glanced at the team leader who was in deep thought and whispered to the women's director.
"Hmph! He has already given me a hard time, what else should I be afraid of?" the women's director snorted.
The team leader stood up and said, "Let's leave it at that today. I'll go talk to the secretary. We can't leave it at that. We still have to find a way to get Ziyi's wife to lead us in raising chickens and ducks. We can postpone raising pigs for a while, but we can start raising chickens right away so that we can sell them at the end of the year. You can also think about whether there is any way to persuade Ziyi's wife to change her mind. Why don't you give it a try? You women should be easy to communicate with. I'll go talk to Ziyi, and you, the accountant, can discuss it with a few production team leaders. Isn't it said that three cobblers are better than Zhuge Liang? But be careful not to tell anyone about the secretary's matter. I'll finish writing the application for setting up a social enterprise this afternoon, and call all the cadres from each production team to come to a meeting in the evening to sign."
The team leader went to find the secretary, the accountant went to each production team to find the team leaders, and the women's director slowly walked towards Ziyi's home, thinking about how to talk to Ziyi's wife as she walked.
After Yike came out of the office, she waited for Ziyi outside. Sure enough, Ziyi came out shortly after she did.
"Wife, I'm sorry for making you feel wronged. I didn't expect the secretary to be such a person. If we had known earlier, we would not have proposed to set up a factory. We would have just done it the same way as at the beginning. We were greedy and wanted to help the team get rich all of a sudden, so we forgot about human nature. You should go back and have a good rest. You have been busy with village affairs these days and you are exhausted. Now it's good that you don't have to do anything. In a few days, we will go back to do our own things." Ziyi sent Yike home on his bicycle, and then he went into the city to buy a sewing machine. He decided to buy a three-step sewing machine, and Yike used the excuse of going to borrow money and didn't go to borrow it. Who told them to look down on Yi Ke? But with three sewing machines, I can earn some money to improve my life.
As soon as Yike got home, he really went to bed again. He had been working overtime to cut bags at night these few days and was really tired, mainly because of poor sleep. Beauty sleep, beauty sleep, that means you have to sleep well to be beautiful.
Yike was sleeping soundly when he was awakened by the "bang bang" knocks on the door. Yike muttered, "Who is going to let me sleep peacefully? Why is it so annoying?" Yike cursed in his heart, opened his sleepy eyes, opened the door of the main room and asked, "Who is it?"
"It's me, Ziyi's wife, open the door. I have something to talk to you about?" The women's director said loudly outside the courtyard gate.
"She's not here to cause trouble for me, is she? The secretary asked me to take her place, but I didn't agree. She won't cause trouble for me, is she? But she seems to be a sensible person, so she shouldn't do that." Yi Ke thought over and over again, and finally went to open the gate of the courtyard.
The director of women's affairs looked at Yi Ke with a smile and said, "It seems that I really disturbed your rest. Maybe you didn't sleep well these few nights because of work, so you are trying to catch up on your sleep. How about I come back in the afternoon and you can go back to sleep?"
"It's okay, I won't sleep anymore. Director, come in and talk." Yike let the director of women's affairs in and casually left the door of the courtyard ajar.
The director of the women's department walked and observed the courtyard and said, "Your house is nice and you keep it very clean. At first, people outside saw that you didn't work and said how lazy you were. Look at how clean you keep your house. This is not the work of a lazy person."
Yi Ke smiled and didn't answer. It was not easy to answer. He said that he was very hardworking, but he really didn't do any work. If he said that he was lazy, Yi Ke would not want to do it.
"Ziyi's wife, please don't think I'm too talkative. I'm here to chat today on a mission." The director of women's affairs entered the main room, sat down on a bench, and roughly explained the purpose of her visit...
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