Chapter 189 The Wife Wants to Poke a Hole in the Sky
At the home of the team leader of Beishan Village, the women's director told the team leader's wife everything that had happened today.
The captain’s wife was very angry after hearing this. She drank the water in the bowl in one gulp, put the bowl heavily on the table, and said angrily: "No, we have to go to the secretary. How can he do this! Isn’t this ruining everyone’s job? Why does he look down on Ziyi’s wife? If it weren’t for Ziyi’s wife, every household would be crying out to my man to ask for relief food. It has been like this every year. Every time the leaders hold a meeting, they say that the people cannot keep waiting for relief and must learn to save themselves. Everyone can say this, but how many people can really do it? This year, we finally have a way to save ourselves, so that everyone can live. Now there is hope. He is so good, looking down on this and that, then he should show his ability to make everyone have enough food. He himself has no ability, but he tramples capable people into the mud. No, we can't let him succeed. Doesn't he look down on Ziyi's wife? Only Ziyi's wife can make bags. He wants his daughter-in-law to make them, so let her make them on the spot and let's see. Not only the current ones, but also make a few more styles. Just like clothes, there must be different styles to sell well. If he can't make them, then ask the secretary to stop being the production section chief of the factory, so as to avoid trouble again, and Ziyi's wife will not come back. "
"Okay, this is a good idea. I knew that my sister-in-law is smart and can definitely think of a solution." Women's director Liu Xiuyun stood up and said excitedly.
"Good things take time, good things take time. That's what the old saying means, good things take time." The captain's wife said this excitedly to the women's director, who calmed down instead.
She sat back on the stool and motioned for the director of women's affairs to sit down as well. "Xiuyun sat down and said, "Well, we think this method is good, but the secretary must cooperate. Other cadres will not force the secretary to stop being the production section chief out of respect for the secretary. At most, they will cancel her younger daughter-in-law's entry into the factory, and then her younger daughter-in-law will suffer an undeserved disaster. Why is it that the eldest daughter-in-law instigated her father-in-law to do bad things, but the younger daughter-in-law is punished, while she and her father-in-law, two evil people, are not punished at all?"
The director of women's affairs also thought of this, and if the secretary was still the production section chief in the factory, Ziyi's wife would probably not return to work in the factory.
"What should we do then?"
"Yeah, it's really worrying."
"Why don't we go find Tietou's wife, she's also a person with a lot of tricks up her sleeve."
"Okay, let's go there later. It's almost time to get off work, so let's prepare the food and wait for the family to get back from work so we can eat. Then we can go to her house later, how about that?"
"Okay, you go back first. I'll come find you when I'm done cooking. Let's go together."
So the director of women's affairs and the team leader's wife were busy cooking at home.
At this time, the secretary never dreamed that the woman he looked down upon was discussing how to deal with him. He also never imagined that the woman he looked down upon would lead the entire village to a well-off life.
The team leader talked to the secretary at his home, hoping that the secretary could change his opinion of Yi Ke. It would be best if he could go and have a good talk with Yi Ke in person and correct his attitude, in the hope that Yi Ke would put aside the past grudges and lead everyone to make money together.
The secretary is 59 years old this year. He used his old age as an excuse, saying that he couldn't afford to lose face and was stubbornly unwilling to talk to Yi Ke.
When the secretary heard that she knew scientific breeding, he sneered and said that the little girl was ignorant and took things for granted.
The secretary laughed and said that women think raising chickens, ducks and pigs is as simple as playing house. In the beginning, many production teams followed the Liberation Brigade to learn how to raise pigs, but a swine fever ended up making those teams lose all their money.
Now people have nothing to eat, and the food is being wasted on a little girl. They criticized the team leader for being obsessed with making money, and finally reprimanded him to go home and sober up.
The captain had no choice but to go home dejected.
The captain's wife asked him about the situation. Captain Wang Guoqing was surprised how his wife knew it. Then he learned that the director of women's affairs had been there and that things didn't go well. The captain wanted to pull his hair out.
"Oh, you see what happened. It was supposed to be a happy thing, but it turned out like this." The captain complained to his wife.
"Don't think too much. This is not something you can solve by yourself. Let's eat. Everyone has eaten, and you are the only one who hasn't eaten yet. After dinner, I have something to do and I need to go out." said the captain's wife.
"Where are you going?" the captain asked while picking up the bowl and eating.
"I'm going to Xiuyun's house. Don't ask about our women's affairs. Eat quickly so I can wash the dishes." The captain's wife said impatiently.
The team leader finished his meal in a few bites. His wife quickly washed the dishes, tidied her hair, and went out to find the women's director.
The captain didn't know that his wife would poke a hole in the sky as soon as she went out.
The director of the women's department was waiting at the door after dinner. When she saw the captain's wife coming, she went out to meet her. After the two met, they turned a corner and continued walking.
Wang Tietou's home is at the east end of the village. Although his family is one of the poorest in the village, no one has ever starved to death. It's not that his family is lazy, it's just that there are too few able-bodied laborers. However, his wife is very calculating and she managed to feed the whole family even when people in other families were starving to death.
Wang Tietou’s family has ten members, and the oldest parents are in their sixties.
My mother had a difficult labor when she gave birth to him, and she became ill from then on and was sick every other day.
In order to earn money to treat his mother's illness, the father went to the mountains to look for herbs and was hit by a wild boar and broke his waist. If a hunter hadn't happened to pass by, his father might not have found even the bones. Although he survived, he couldn't stand on his legs. I don't know where he was injured, but his legs were fine but he just didn't have the strength to stand.
Wang Tietou's family was too poor, so he was in his thirties before he found a beggar girl, Zhang Xiuying, to be his wife.
Don’t be fooled by Zhang Xiuying’s thin and frail appearance. After she married Wang Tietou, she gave birth to a daughter in the first year and then stopped having children for more than a year. Then, like a faucet opened, she gave birth to five “little Tietou” one after another year after year.
The birth of his daughter and "Big Tietou and Little Tietou" made Wang Tietou happy and sad. These are six big mouths. Two people earn work points, but they have to support ten mouths. It's a bottomless pit.
Fortunately, he has an older sister who married a city man and has a job in the city. She helps his family from time to time. Plus, his wife is a successful woman, so they have been able to scrape together enough money to support the family until now.
During those years of drought, their family had to eat wild vegetables. He and his wife went to the mountains to look for wild vegetables, insects, and dig rat nests, etc., and barely managed to prevent the family from starving to death.
Wang Tietou's wife Zhang Xiuying was fanning mosquitoes away from her youngest son to coax him to sleep.
The women's director called out "Xiuying" at the door, and Wang Tietou's wife Zhang Xiuying quietly left the room and closed the door. The five boys on the bed opened their eyes as soon as Zhang Xiuying closed the door.
Just as the youngest was about to speak, the eldest made a "hush" gesture, signaling him not to make a sound. The others all looked at the eldest brother, waiting for his next instruction...
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