Yu Sui saw the date on the newspaper clearly before unfolding Yu Hemiao's letter:
"My dear second sister, I am writing to you. I have been feeling bad lately, so I haven't written to you. Now that the relationship is basically over, I dare to tell you.
Have you seen the newspaper? This recent major incident in the production team has completely devastated everyone in Team 3.
The newspaper didn't detail the cause of the incident, citing concerns about word of it spreading and potentially causing a widespread food safety panic. We've also been told not to discuss it freely, and I'm taking the risk of telling you now. I don't know if I'll be reported, but I hope not.
Well, let me tell you, our new product, Dragon Beard Candy, contains rat poison. Two city dwellers felt unwell after eating it and went to the hospital right away, but they didn't die. Another one was an old lady from the countryside, who died after eating it because there was no time to send her to the hospital.
When the epidemic first broke out, it was chaos. All the supply and marketing cooperatives issued notices prohibiting the consumption of anything branded as ours. There were also emergency announcements over the radio, prohibiting the consumption of anything branded as ours. From the moment those announcements came, I knew our factory was finished.
However, everyone in our factory gathered together to find the problem, but they couldn't figure out why rat poison appeared in Longxu Candy.
When Yu Sui saw this, her brows were furrowed into knots.
These are really incredible.
How could there be rat poison in food?
Is this man-made?
Yu Sui took a deep breath and continued reading:
"Second sister, you know how much Tang Zhaodi and I cherish this job! We take hygiene requirements very seriously and produce food strictly according to the requirements you listed! To be honest, we comb our hair every day so that not a single strand falls out and not a drop of saliva is allowed to leak out. How could there be any messy medicine?"
When we first started making tasting products, the warehouse was very old and rats were found. However, since we were producing food, we held a meeting to discuss how to ensure that rats were not present. Everyone agreed that the factory must not use rat poison, and instead used mousetraps for fear of causing food safety incidents.
We even sealed the cracks in the doors to prevent rats from entering the production workshop. Tang Zhaodi even slept by the warehouse door for several nights to completely eradicate the rats, insisting she was determined to catch them and absolutely eradicate them from our factory. We haven't seen any rats in ages, yet now they're accusing us of rat poison in our food. We simply can't accept this.
Therefore, everyone believed that our factory had been maliciously poisoned.
At first, everyone suspected that it was a member of our production team.
But in the end, everyone felt it was wrong. At the end of the year, the factory distributed money and meat to everyone, and they did so again in March of this year. Every member was very grateful to the factory and considered it an honor. If the factory were to fail, everyone in our production team would lose out, so it couldn't be our own people who were responsible, right?
It is very likely from another production team.
Ever since our production team set up this factory, people have been envious, but most of them are probably jealous.
Because Zhang Caifeng was a female factory director, some production teams were clamoring to replace their team leaders, so several team leaders were angry with Zhang Caifeng. Zhang Caifeng suffered a lot of grievances in the commune meetings.
Even though such a big incident had happened, Zhang Caifeng was able to remain calm at first and rushed to get the news. She also thought that the animals had been poisoned. She used chickens and ducks for experiments and tried all the batches of products from the factory. The chickens and ducks were all fine and showed no signs of poisoning at all.
If rat poison was accidentally mixed into the product during production, it's impossible that all batches of the product would be free of it, right?
But before we could come up with a plan, people from the Public Security Bureau came and arrested Zhang Caifeng.
They said she was the main person in charge, and no matter whether she was wrong or not, she had to be arrested because someone was killed.
We are all very sad.
Several educated youth behaved quite well in this matter. After Su Shengqiang was arrested, it should have been Tao Jun's turn to become a peasant-soldier college student, but Tao Jun refused. He said that he reported Su Shengqiang not so that he could become a college student himself, but because he felt that Su Shengqiang was not a kind person, so he stayed in the factory all the time. When this incident happened, Tao Jun took the lead and investigated with us. He also joined forces with the members of our production team to vouch for Zhang Caifeng, hoping that the Public Security Bureau would release her.
Now Secretary Zou has delivered the joint letter of guarantee written by the members, but there has been no response yet.
Secretary Zou said that even if there was a response, it would not be so quick.
Alas, there is nothing we can do but wait.
All in all, this period was really difficult.
My mother was so sad that she fell ill.
Since the factory was closed, I definitely have no job.
Tang Zhaodi and I, along with several other official members, were all investigated by the local Public Security Bureau. My mother was afraid that something might happen to me, and she got scared and fell ill the night I was taken away.
Dad told me that during the days when I was not at home for investigation, Mom had a high fever and kept calling your name and my name at night. She was afraid that I would be arrested and that something might happen to you in the north. But after her fever subsided, when I got home, she said she was fine and didn't want me to worry or tell you this.
She said that it was a great blessing for you to be able to reunite with Xia Linsheng in the north, so she would let you live a good life there.
We're lucky you weren't implicated in the factory incident. If you were still in our house, you might have been arrested too.
Second sister, I'm so sorry. I haven't been a good sister. I've made mother worry about me, and I haven't protected the factory well. It's really sad to say this."
Seeing this, Yu Sui stroked the paper.
There are noticeable tear marks on the paper.
Yu Hemiao is having a really hard time.
Yu Sui sighed, and her nose felt a little sore.
It was unbelievable that the factory that she had put so much effort into building would end up like this. Not to mention Yu Hemiao, she couldn't accept it either. She snatched the letter excitedly, but it turned out to be such a sad letter from home.
But we still have to keep watching.
Yu Hemiao's explanation was quite detailed:
After the factory was shut down, some people from the production team came to cause trouble. People like Tang Zhaodi's sister-in-law had long disliked the factory. She was upset because Tang Zhaodi, whom she insulted and looked down upon, was able to get in, but she wasn't. Tang Zhaodi had salary, but she didn't, and her petty nature made her feel uncomfortable. So she instigated several other women, and while we were not officially at the factory, they took over and stole all the machinery, flour, sugar, and other supplies. Then they divided them among several families on their own initiative.
Secretary Zou found out and came to criticize them, but there was nothing he could do. The law doesn't hold everyone responsible. Half the production team was involved, and all the flour and sugar were eaten up. What could the secretary do?
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