"Patriotic brother, I really want to thank you for what happened this time. If it weren't for you, my sheep would definitely not be recovered."
As she spoke, Liang Ladi was about to hand the mutton to Chen Xueru.
That piece of mutton weighs at least four or five kilograms, and can be sold for five or six yuan on the black market.
Chen Xueru felt that the gift was too expensive. She looked at Li Aiguo and saw Li Aiguo nodded, so she took the mutton.
After sending the mutton, Nan Yi and Liang Ladi were going back to prepare dinner.
Li Aiguo stopped them: "It's just right, there is such a big piece of mutton. Nanyi, Liang Ladi, you bring the children, and call He Yuyu and Aunt Liu, let's have a delicious meal "I'm sorry, brother Patriot, you have a guest here."
Both Nan Yi and Liang Ladi looked a little embarrassed.
"This is not an outsider, he is my good brother Yang Xingzhai. He is from Modu and is not familiar with the capital. You can just help him." Li Aiguo patted Yang Xingzhai on the shoulder and said.
Yang Xingzhai seemed particularly happy to be called 'brother' by Li Aiguo.
"Yes, yes, it's more lively to eat and drink together."
Nan Yi and Liang Ladi still wanted to refuse.
Li Aiguo asked with a straight face to return the mutton, and they nodded in agreement.
With the arrival of the guests, the room quickly became lively.
The four children of the Liang family, He Yuyu, Aunt Liu, Chen Xueru, Chen Xingyi, plus Li Aiguo and Yang Xingzhai, filled the house to the brim.
This is not difficult for us, Li Aiguo.
He took out the key and opened the next door. The entire room here was decorated as a living room.
“There are four rooms.” Yang Xingzhai nodded enviously.
Housing in Beijing has always been very tight. As the deputy director of the workshop who was transferred from other places, he was assigned a single dormitory in one room.
There is a big gap between the four rooms in Li Aiguo's house.
As night falls, the courtyard is filled with smoke, and the air is filled with the smell of human fireworks.
Nanyi used his special skills and made seven or eight plates and placed them on the table.
The tempting scent of mutton slipped out through the cracks in the window.
Yi Zhonghai’s home.
Yi Zhonghai looked at the cabbage leaves on the plate and scratched his head depressedly.
"Old lady, are you feeding sheep? I still have a salary of seventy or eighty yuan a month, so I just eat this."
A aunt brought out a bowl of stick noodles from the kitchen The porridge was placed in front of him angrily.
“We just paid a fine of 20 yuan for Jia Dongxu. Where can we still have money to buy groceries? Let’s make do with it.”
When the fine was mentioned, Yi Zhonghai immediately said no. The words came out.
Last night, Aunt Ma calculated an account for him. In the past few years, the Jia family has borrowed hundreds of dollars from the Yi family one after another, without paying back a penny.
"Old lady, you have to take a long-term view. Once Jia Zhang is killed, we will have a son for nothing." Yi Zhonghai said while drinking stick noodle porridge.
Auntie sighed and said, "Jia Zhang looks stronger than an ox. I'm afraid I won't be able to survive her."
Yi Zhonghai: "."
At this time, there was an attractive smell of mutton coming from outside.
The stick noodle porridge in Yi Zhonghai's mouth became even more unpalatable.
“Who is such a decent family that can afford to eat mutton?”
The aunt glanced at him sideways: “Who else could it be? It must be Li Aiguo.”
"This afternoon I saw that Nan Yi brought a large piece of mutton to Li Aiguo. It must be to thank Li Aiguo for helping his family find the goat."
When mentioning this matter, Yi Zhong Hai couldn't eat anymore and put the bowl and chopsticks on the table.
During the incident where the Nan Yi family lost their sheep, Yi Zhonghai was criticized by many residents in the compound because he did not stand up for the Nan Yi family.
Li Aiguo retrieved the sheep and won praise from the residents. Now he can get the mutton for free.
With this coming and going, Yi Zhonghai felt that he was about to lose his pants.
Jia Zhang from the Jia family also smelled the fragrance of mutton.
She stood at the door and twitched her nose twice, and her face suddenly darkened.
"It's Li Aiguo who is eating mutton. Damn it, Li Aiguo cooked the mutton and didn't know how to give my old lady a bowl."
Qin Huairu said: "If Dongxu had taken the initiative back then Help, expose those bandits, maybe now we can eat mutton.
It’s better now, Dongxu has to make a self-examination in front of the residents, it will be embarrassing.”
"Pa"
As soon as she finished speaking, Jia Zhang turned around and slapped her.
"Is there a wife like you? How can I speak ill of my master!"
Qin Huairu was stunned, covering her face with tears streaming down her face.
She said to Jia Dongxu: "Don't you care about your mother?"
"I think mother beat you well. Even if mother doesn't beat you, I still have to beat you."
Jia Dongxu leaned on the chair with a cold face: "My father said back then that if a woman is disobedient, she will be beaten!"
If it is said that Jia Zhang's slap hurt Qin Huairu Jia Dongxu's words were like a sharp knife, piercing straight into Qin Huairu's heart.
She feels that she will always be an outsider in this family!
Because of Jia Dongxu's plan to mend the sky, the Jia family is in a state of turmoil these days, and Qin Huairu has long been holding back her anger.
Qin Huairu said nothing, raised her sleeves and wiped her tears, turned around and went into the back room to pack her luggage, picked up the stick and left the house.
When Jia Dongxu saw Qin Huairu going back to her parents' home, he suddenly panicked and wanted to step forward to stop her.
Jia Zhang took Jia Dongxu’s arm.
"Let her go back! I don't believe that a little girl from the countryside can turn the world upside down."
There was a curse behind her, and Qin Huairu felt that the whole world had dimmed.
After leaving the middle courtyard, I bumped into the third aunt face to face.
"Qin Huairu, it's getting dark soon. Where are you going?"
Qin Huairu didn't answer, lowered his head and sobbed softly as he walked outside.
The third aunt felt something was wrong, so she ran home in a panic and called the third uncle.
“Old man, it’s not good, Qin Huairu seems to be angry with the Jia family and is going back to her parents’ home.”
“Just go back, she is an adult now, who can stop her? She." The third uncle didn't care.
The third aunt said: "It's so late now and the roads in the countryside are not easy to walk. Qin Huairu is still holding the child. What should we do if something happens?"
Hearing this, the third uncle can no longer sit idly by.
Although he looked down upon the Jia family's character, he couldn't just watch Qin Huairu have any problems.
But the third uncle also knew that he would definitely not be able to stop Qin Huairu, and Jia Zhang would not listen to him.
The third uncle came to Yi Zhonghai’s house and told Yi Zhonghai about Qin Huairu’s return to her parents’ home.
Qin Huairu and Banggen were an important part of Yi Zhonghai's pension plan. Naturally, Yi Zhonghai couldn't just sit back and ignore them, so he approached the Jia family aggressively.
Faced with Yi Zhonghai’s questioning, Jia Zhang still said, “If a woman is disobedient, she deserves to be beaten and taught a lesson.”
Yi Zhonghai ignored Jia Zhang and glared at Jia Dongxu and said, "Dongxu, go and get your wife back!"
Although Jia Dongxu agreed with Jia Zhang in his heart, However, he did not dare to resist in the face of Yi Zhonghai.
He hesitated for a moment, stood up and walked outside.
Seeing Jia Dongxu being so obedient, Jia Zhang slapped the table and cried: "Dongxu, you are my son, how can you listen to outsiders?"
Yi Zhonghaiban He taught her a lesson with a straight face: "Ms. Jia Zhang, if you dare to mess around again, I will report your behavior these days to the street office and send you back to Jiajiazhuang."
Thinking of what she had experienced in the commune, Jia Zhang was so frightened that she was speechless.
Qin Huairu actually didn’t go far while holding the stick in her arms.
She knew that the third aunt was soft-hearted and would definitely tell Yi Zhonghai about her.
Yi Zhonghai considers himself Jia Dongxu's father and cannot tolerate Jia Dongxu driving her and Banggeng away.
Sure enough, seeing Jia Dongxu chasing after him, Qin Huairu's lips curled up with a hint of pride.
After Jia Dongxu apologized to her and surrendered, Qin Huairu returned to the courtyard again holding the stick in her arms.
The Jia family has returned to its previous appearance, as if nothing had happened.
Li Aiguo had no idea that a meal of mutton would cause such a big disturbance in the courtyard.
But even if he knew it, he wouldn't care.
Because now the dishes are all on the table.
There is no feast without wine.
Just when Li Aiguo was about to open the cabinet and take out the wine, Chen Xueru stopped him: "That girl Xu Huizhen gave me a jar of old wine. Let's drink this today."
Xu Huizhen? Only then did Li Aiguo remember that she was the little widow from Zhengyangmen who knew how to make wine.
He asked casually: "Is the business in the tavern okay?"
"Business is pretty good. That girl Xu Huizhen knows how to do business and makes good wine. She buys wine every day. People have to wait in long lines."
Chen Xueru said nonchalantly while opening the wine can:
"That girl's marriage is not going well. The director of our subdistrict office once introduced her to her. Several people.
Either she looks down on them, or they look down on her. ”
In the eyes of future generations, Xu Huizhen’s conditions are quite good.
She is pretty and has a good figure. She is also the proprietress of a tavern, so she can be considered rich and beautiful.
But in these days, in the eyes of the public, Xu Huizhen is a divorced woman, a capitalist, and a wine seller
When these BUFFs are added up, it becomes more difficult for Xu Huizhen to find an excellent partner.
Otherwise in the original work, Xu Huizhen would not have been able to marry a temporary worker in the street office.
Chen Xueru touched Li Aiguo's arm: "Brother Aiguo, if you meet a suitable partner, you can introduce him to Xu Huizhen."
"Don't worry." Li Aiguo has a good impression of Xu Huizhen. , agreed immediately.
The old wine made by Xu Huizhen tastes delicious. Yang Xingzhai is a wine lover. After drinking two glasses, he asked: "Aiguo, where does this wine come from?" "A tavern in the capital. If you have time, I'll take you there." Li Aiguo picked up a peanut and stuffed it into his mouth.
This Yang Xingzhai seems to be single. He is the deputy director of the workshop. Xu Huizhen should be enough.
It’s just that this kind of relationship between men and women is all about fate, and Li Aiguo doesn’t have the bad habit of being a matchmaker.
A dinner party for all the guests.
After seeing Yang Xingzhai away.
The weather was hot, Li Aiguo unbuttoned his collar and was about to go back to the house.
I saw Nan Yi and Liang Ladi moving the mutton onto the flatbed truck.
"Nanyi, what's the matter, where are you going to sell this mutton?"
"It can only be sold to food stations. If it is sold on the black market, there may be trouble."< br>
Looking at Nan Yi who was a little depressed, Li Aiguo thought for a moment and said, "Well, tomorrow morning I will go to the logistics department of the locomotive depot to help you ask where mutton may be purchased."
"Oh, Thank you so much, brother Patriot." Nan Yi held Li Aiguo's hand with gratitude.
The price given by the logistics department of the locomotive depot will definitely be higher than that of the food station.
"You're welcome."
After Chen Xingyi returned to Chen's house, Chen Fangxuan was a little dissatisfied when he saw that he came back so late and still smelled of alcohol.
"Xing Yi, you just went to work. You need to perform well in the workshop, but you can't fool around with those gangsters outside."
Chen Xingyi explained with a smile: "Dad, you misunderstood, I am at my brother-in-law's house It’s time to eat, and Deputy Director Yang from our workshop is here.”
“Deputy Director Yang, this is a good thing. You should love the country more in the future.”
Sister-in-law heard about this. Let's give Chen Xingyi some advice.
"If you can get along well with Deputy Director Yang, you might be able to become a team leader in the workshop!"
Chen Xingyi still prefers to be a worker.
Watching Li Aiguo chatting and laughing with Yang Zhaishan, he felt a little restless just sitting next to them.
Just facing the kindness of my sister-in-law, I still said: "Thank you, sister-in-law."
"You, don't be like your brother, who only knows how to immerse yourself in technology." My sister-in-law saw it. Understanding his thoughts, he shook his head helplessly.
Although Chen Xingjia has been promoted now, because of a bad relationship with the workshop leader, he has not become a team leader in the workshop. He has lost five yuan a month!
The next day.
Li Aiguo has two things to do.
The first thing is to help Nanyi sell mutton.
The second thing is to go to Hongqi Umbrella Factory to contact us about the production of automatic umbrellas.
He decided to do the first thing first, for no other reason than that the mutton would stink if left for a long time.
This is the first time that the head of the logistics section of the Qianmen Locomotive Depot has heard of someone selling just one sheep.
"Driver Li, you mean there are only seventy or eighty pounds of mutton?" Section Chief Zhang rubbed his ears.
"It's one of my neighbors. His sheep was stolen."
Li Aiguo also knew that such a small amount of mutton was not worth the logistics department's intervention.
He held out a cigarette and told the whole story. Section Chief Zhang was amazed.
"This does not violate the regulations, but there is no need to put it in the freezer.
Aiguo, I will write you a note. You ask that Nanyi to deliver the mutton directly to the canteen."
Li Aiguo: "."
Good guy, let’s get into the pot right away.
But the price given is quite good, a full one dollar and twenty cents per catty, which is the same as the selling price at the food station.
Nanyi sent the mutton to the canteen and had it weighed, and received more than eighty yuan.
Clutching a thick stack of banknotes, the stone weighing on Nan Yi's heart finally fell to the ground.
With this money, I can buy food and nutritional supplements for Liang Ladi.
Nan Xiaoying needs breast milk when she is young, and Liang Ladi has to work in the workshop while breastfeeding, which is very hard. She has lost four or five pounds in this time.
Nanyi wanted to thank Li Aiguo, but found that Li Aiguo had already left the locomotive depot on his own bike.
"Can't Driver Li drive?" he asked the canteen cook curiously.
The cook laughed: "Don't you understand this? Driver Li from our locomotive depot is a special driver. The driving time on weekdays is shorter than the time on missions."
The train driver still has a mission?
Nan Yi couldn't understand it either, but he could detect his admiration for Li Aiguo from the cook's tone.
The Hongqi Umbrella Factory is located in Fangshan County, which is far less prosperous than later generations and is still a wilderness.
The umbrella factory, like the instant noodle factory, is a third-line railway factory. Its main purpose is to accommodate the families of railway employees.
Similarly, like the instant noodle factory, the old-fashioned umbrellas produced by the Hongqi Umbrella Factory are not popular.
It’s not that the Hongqi umbrella is not strong, on the contrary, it is too strong.
The umbrella handle is a steel pipe as thick as a thumb. The umbrella cloth is three centimeters thick, and the entire umbrella weighs more than ten kilograms.
Those employee leaders in the capital like to buy umbrellas from the south, which are lighter.
Therefore, Hongqi umbrellas can only be sold within the railway department.
Soon the railway workers developed a new use. This thing could be used as a weapon.
If you are working in the field, it will give you a lot of confidence to carry a red flag umbrella with you.
A road construction worker once used a red flag to scare away a big black bear. Since then, the red flag umbrella has become famous within the railway.
So, Hongqi Umbrella Factory can live a life without enough food or hunger.
A day like this is a good day.
Yan Guangzhong, director of the Hongqi Umbrella Factory, felt a little confused after receiving a call from Chief Xing of the Qianmen Locomotive Depot.
“Why does the Qianmen Locomotive Depot order a batch of umbrellas at a high price?”
Generally speaking, the production tasks of this third-tier factory are planned on a quarterly basis, and additions are rarely made midway. Order.
Hearing this, Deputy Director Zhang said cheerfully: "Old Yan, why do you care so much? As long as there are orders, we can pay bonuses to the workers this month.
Besides, Qianmen Locomotive Depot also promised to deliver production materials without using our factory quota. This is a steamed bun falling from the sky. ”
When Yan Guangzhong thought about it carefully, it was really like this.
Things were not easy for the third-tier factories these days.
In order to provide the employees with food, They even purchased piglets from the countryside and sent several employees to raise pigs.
So when Li Aiguo and Deputy Chief Liu came to the factory, they seemed very enthusiastic.
"Driver Li, don't worry, as long as you give me the drawings, our factory guarantees that we can make two thousand umbrellas in only ten days. "
After Li Aiguo shook hands with Yan Guangzhong, he handed him the drawing: "I have some special requirements for the umbrella. The umbrella surface is made of nylon cloth and the umbrella handle is made of aluminum. ”
“Nylon cloth? That kind of nylon cloth from industrial yarn? ”
“Yes, it is nylon 66 industrial yarn. "
Li Aiguo said in a deep voice, "This time the superiors issued a batch of nylon 66 industrial yarn, which is enough to produce two thousand umbrellas. It will be delivered to your factory tomorrow. ”
When it comes to aluminum umbrella handles, Yan Guangzhong is not surprised.
There are factories affiliated to the railway that specialize in the production of aluminum materials and can be called upon at any time.
But nylon 66 is different.
In 1953, China developed its own nylon yarn, which was divided into two types: nylon 6 and nylon 66.
Limited by the backward domestic industrial base, there is no way to produce nylon materials on a large scale. There are only a few manufacturers producing nylon in the Northeast.
Under normal circumstances, it is very difficult to obtain the quota for nylon.
This driver Li actually planned to use nylon silk to make an umbrella cover. Yan Guangzhong couldn't help but become interested.
The smile on his face became even brighter. After pouring tea for Li Aiguo and Deputy Chief Liu, he studied the drawings carefully.
Yan Guangzhong was an experienced technician and quickly understood the principles of automatic umbrellas. He was quite in favor of the design of automatic umbrellas, but he felt that the cost was too high.
It’s just that he is the customer who paid the money, and Yan Guangzhong will not stop him.
After a full half hour, Yan Guangzhong narrowed his eyes slightly: "Driver Li, you still have to draw patterns on the umbrella. In addition, the umbrella handle has a complicated process, which greatly increases the difficulty of production.
Also, this kind of umbrella is completely different from our Hongqi umbrella. Our workers have to learn it all over again when making it."
No matter how powerful you are, Yan Guangzhong, as the factory director, must always provide benefits to the workers. .
“I’ll add more money.” Li Aiguo said.
“Huh?!”
Yan Guangzhong didn’t expect him to be so cheerful. He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed and held Li Aiguo’s hand: “Driver Li, don’t worry, in ten days, Just give us ten days to ensure the completion of the umbrella manufacturing work."
Li Aiguo: "."
Deputy Section Chief Liu: "."
Deputy Section Chief Liu. After careful calculation, I found that after adding the money, the price of a single umbrella reached three yuan and twenty cents.
Who can afford such a high cost?
Deputy Chief Liu deliberately reminded Li Aiguo not to mess around.
But if you think about it carefully, Li Aiguo has money now, so he can only give up.
This is true. Now through the instant noodle factory, the studio can earn more than 10,000 yuan every month.
In addition, Li Aiguo also holds the domestic sales quota of instant noodles. These quotas are not money, but they are far more useful than money.
Take this time's nylon quota as an example. Li Aiguo used instant noodle quotas in exchange for it from factories in the Northeast.
There is no way, Li Aiguo is very wealthy.
We, Li Aiguo, are rich and powerful and have no choice.
After telling the Hongqi Umbrella Factory about the work of manufacturing umbrellas, Li Aiguo resumed his driving duties.
(End of this chapter)