The booming era begins with the director of the Propaganda Department!

Chapter 435 Level!!
Zhang Shenfei carefully shaved his beard and said, "Old lady, how can you say that you are not conscious enough? The focus today is on moving, and for the workers to live in collective housing, which reflects the advantages of our socialist country! !
This isn't my day as a groom, why should I dress so handsomely? Besides, wearing something so eye-catching is not conducive to unity. As for me, I'll just keep myself clean and that's all."

After explaining the situation, Zhang Shenfei did not forget to criticize their old lady:
"You are really going backwards as you get older. You are not as thoughtful as our little fifth child."

"Hmph, you know shit!" Grandma Zhang was unwilling but did not say anything in rebuttal, because when she thought about it carefully, what her grandson said did make sense.

But being choked by the other party like this? This is not her style.

The old lady thought about it and decided to save face from another angle. She turned her head and glared at Zhang Shenliang, saying in a harsh voice:

"Why don't you hurry up and serve your wife and your sister-in-law food? You just sit here and show off! You useless thing!!"

Zhang Shenliang: “……?”

No, what does it have to do with me? Why is it always me who gets hurt?
But he was tongue-tied and didn't dare to show his anger to the old lady like his brother did. Helplessly, he could only get up and go to the kitchen in a cowardly manner.

Because we were moving, all the pots and pans in the backyard were packed up and we couldn't cook. So today, all fifteen members of the Zhang family, young and old, were eating in the front yard.

There were so many people that we had to make three big pots of cornmeal porridge, and forty-five steamed buns made from the same flour. It took two pots of steaming to finish them.

Adults eat one or two each, while children eat more, three each.

Tang Danniu is always good at cooking. She cut eight pieces of pickled cabbage into a big pot.

Use hot oil with dried peppercorns and dried chilies to add fragrance.

quickly,

The food was served on the table and the family gathered together. The octagonal table was too small for all the people to sit at, so the children stood aside with their bowls in their hands.

Holding the bowl in one hand and kneading the steamed bun in the other, the pickled vegetables are sandwiched between the steamed buns. Take a bite of the steamed bun hesitantly, then lower your head and sip a mouthful of cornmeal porridge, it's delicious! !
"Grandma, why don't you move into an apartment building with us? Is that okay? You've lived in all kinds of houses in your life, but you've never lived in an apartment building." While eating, Zhang Shenliang brought up the old matter again and began to persuade the old lady to move with them.

Since the family split up at the end of 1952, grandma has been living with my younger brother.

In the past, he had many children in his family and was powerless so he didn’t say anything.

Now that our house is bigger, we should at least let the old lady stay with us for a few days, right?
After all, he is the eldest grandson and should support the old lady.

Grandma Zhang broke off a steamed bun and soaked it in cornmeal porridge, pouting: "I don't live in a high-rise building. With my legs and feet, it would be so hard to go upstairs! I can't just live upstairs and not go downstairs all day long, right? Wouldn't that suffocate me to death?"

Before Zhang Shenliang could say anything, Tang Danniu had already waved her hand: "What's the big deal? Old lady, have you forgotten your great-grandchildren? They live in an apartment building. If you want to go downstairs tomorrow, let them carry you upstairs!!!"

Several guys rolled their eyes, which good guy uses the nest?

"Carry? Which young man is willing to carry an old lady like me?" Grandma Zhang shook her head.

A few young men noticed their mother's glare and immediately expressed their opinions.

"Madam, we are all willing to carry you, just come with us!!!"

"That's right, you are biased. We have lived with Uncle Er for so long, it's time for us to take over!!!"

"Madam, if you live with us, we won't dare to use too much force when my mother hits us..."

"In order to save us from being beaten a few times, please come..."

The children talked to Grandma Zhang one after another, but they still couldn't convince her.

She said with certainty: "If I leave, there will be no one to talk to the deaf old lady, and she will be so lonely."

Zhang's front door,

The deaf old lady who had come here with her crutches to say goodbye to Old Lady Zhang had a dark face: "..."

I thank you so much!!
It wasn’t enough for me to see you showing off your large family in front of me every day.

You won't let me go even at this point!
You have a building but you don't want to live in it, but you still want to keep it to be an eyesore!! Do you feel uncomfortable if you don't show off in front of me for a day?
My heart hurts so much, I can't breathe. What's going on?

The deaf old lady dragged her cane and stumbled away.

In the morning glow, her shadow was lonely and long.

In the room, Grandma Zhang said slowly:

"Leaving aside the deaf old lady, I can't leave either. Your second uncle is a nobody, I have to stay with him to prevent him from bullying Xiaozao!!!"

Tang Danniu thought about it and nodded: "Grandma, you are right, then I won't advise you."

She had heard that the second child was restless in school...

This is just her own brother-in-law. If it was someone else, she would have exposed him long ago.

Ah, this, Zhang Shenfei is speechless...

No, if you don’t want to leave, then don’t leave. Why do you involve me now?
……

Today is Labor Day, and everyone in the country except farmers has a day off.

After dinner, almost all the residents of Nanluoguxiang went out in full force and headed towards the steel mill.

Although many of them did not get allocated houses, they still had to attend the relocation ceremony.

Besides, after the ceremony, I can help my co-workers and neighbors move and appreciate their new homes.

Because the two brothers Zhang and Shenfei had bicycles, they each rode with their own daughter-in-law, and were faster than most people.

As for the boys at home, they had to suffer the same fate as everyone else.

Zhang Shenfei rode his bike to the factory gate and saw two banners hanging above the big iron gate where Jia Zhang's sausages used to be hung.
I wish the collective relocation ceremony of the first batch of collective housing of the steel rolling mill will be held smoothly!!!

Another one - Warmly welcome the city leaders/district leaders to come to our unit to guide the collective relocation ceremony of the first batch of collective housing! !
Under the banner, Xu Damao was instructing a group of primary school students, with red faces and holding flowers, on how to present flowers to the leaders.

the other side,
Zhou Wuli arranged the waist drum team and the gong and drum team to start beating the gongs and drums.

Uncle Qin, the gatekeeper, was holding a large string of firecrackers and spreading them on the ground with his butt sticking out.

As for Uncle Dong, he brought a group of young men to hang big red flowers that had been prepared in advance on the trees. The entire factory, from the main gate through the auditorium to the collective housing area, was decorated with new glamor.

The whole factory was decorated with lights and looked even more lively than during weddings and Chinese New Year.

After the arrangements were finally completed, the workers gathered in the auditorium, while Zhang Shenfei and the middle and senior leaders of the factory stood at the factory gate waiting for the leaders from the city, district and the Ministry of Metallurgy to appear.

After the leaders arrived, they naturally gave speeches.

"Comrades, fellow workers, six years ago, I was the one who shoveled the first shovel of earth at the groundbreaking ceremony for the steel mill's collective housing.

Today, I am here again to attend your relocation ceremony. The reason I came twice is that I want to know if you really like the collective housing. Can you feel happy living in such a house!!!
There is an old saying in our country that it is difficult to satisfy everyone. Before coming here, I couldn't help feeling nervous.

But now, when I stand on this stage and see everyone's spirit, I already have the answer in my heart!!
I know that you all sincerely like the spacious and bright new houses that the factory built for you, which have big windows, kitchens and toilets!!! Right?"

"Yes!! We like it!!! Of course we like it!! " There was thunderous applause from the audience and the workers roared to express their joy.

The city leader waited with a smile on his face. Seeing that the crowd's excitement had not subsided at all, he could only wave his hand and signal them to be quiet:

"Comrades, everyone knows that housing is in short supply in our urban areas, and housing for the working class is even more severe.

Every year, conflicts and even fights break out in almost every unit over the distribution of housing.

Not to mention the distant past, just during the Chinese New Year last year, a female worker in a textile factory was fighting for a house and she simply abandoned her child at the home of the leader in charge of allocation in the factory.

They even said that if you don’t give us a house, our children will live in your house!!

The child cried day and night in the leader's home, and the leader's family was troubled by his crying...

I am not saying that this female worker is a troublemaker. In fact, she is an advanced worker. She did that because she was forced into a corner..."

The workers below the stage listened to his words and nodded their heads in unison.

Who would be willing to throw their own child out if they were not forced into a corner? They could relate to this too much.

But the next second, the city leader changed the subject: "But comrades, in the example I just gave, the female worker was not wrong. Then, is the leader in charge of distributing houses wrong?"

"He was just following the rules!!! There were too many people and too little meat, so who gets the meat and who doesn't will be blamed. As the saying goes, a good cook cannot cook without rice!!! In the final analysis, this is all because of the lack of houses."

Having said this, his expression began to become solemn, and it was time to express his emotions.

Offstage,

Guo Dapiezi, the troublemaker, could no longer hold back and shouted, "The leader is right, so we all want to know whether our factory will build the second batch of collective housing or not?"

They had asked the factory leader before, and the factory leader said that the matter had to be decided by the higher authorities.

Now that the higher authorities have said so much, but still haven’t mentioned what they care about most, they are getting impatient.

"Comrade, your question is very insightful." The municipal party committee leader said, "I can give you a clear answer to this question right now!!!"

"This time the steel mill is building collective housing, and for you, you can live in a new house and have a new home. This is certainly worth celebrating.

But for our municipal party committee, it is even more significant, because your distribution of houses this time can be said to have set an example for our entire city, and even the entire Z country! !
With your good example, we can now vigorously promote collective housing.

We call on those factories that have reserved land to also apply the formula of the steel mills and use your model to build more collective housing so that more workers can have new houses to live in!!!
Sharing happiness is worse than enjoying it alone, what do you think? "

well!!
The workers in the audience were very excited. I wish I could have thousands of mansions to shelter all the poor people in the world.

Their wish is simple, they all hope that more people can live in good houses!!

After the city leaders, Director Yang of the steel mill spoke, and then Deputy Director Nie...

In addition to district leaders and leaders from the Ministry of Metallurgy, representatives from major factories and mines in the city were also included in the city leaders' visit today.

The purpose of their coming here was to learn from others. In fact, they had come here once a few years ago when the steel mill’s collective housing project was laid.

At that time, no one thought that the project would be shelved for so many years. Fortunately, everything is over now.

Now, seeing the steel mill like this, the representatives began to get restless one by one.

The delegation surrounded Zhang Shenfei and asked about the details of the collective housing, and Zhang Shenfei knew everything.

After them, reporters from Youth Evening News, Sijiucheng Daily and other newspapers interviewed them.

Zhang Shenfei was the initiator of the collective housing project, so it was right to interview him. One reporter even proposed to take a photo of Zhang Shenfei and publish it in the newspaper.

"Director Zhang, your clothes are too plain... Well, comrade with the horse face over there, can you exchange clothes with Director Zhang?" The reporter from Youth Daily pointed at Xu Damao and asked.

Xu Damao: "...Me again? Why is it always me?"

When I first joined the factory ten years ago, I helped Zhang Shenfei. Now it’s happening again?
Zhang Shenfei put on Xu Damao's new clothes with a smile and adjusted his collar: "Damo, your clothes are really nice. You must have spent a lot of money, right?"

Xu Damao said sullenly, "My father asked someone to bring this back from another place. It cost thirty dollars."

The two walked up to the reporter, who gave a thumbs up: "It's said that clothes need people to set them off! Director Zhang looks so handsome in this dress! This dress instantly raises your level on you."

Xu Damao: “…” So I lowered the grade of this dress?

Is it wrong to be ugly? Do ugly people not deserve to wear clothes?

In this way, Zhang Shenfei was busy until the relocation officially began.

Finally, we have reached the final step of the ceremony.

Zhang Shenfei gave an order with a loud speaker, and the workers who had been prepared in advance rode tricycles, pushed unicycles, bicycles, and even carried bags on their backs, and rushed towards the building as if they were running a 100-meter race.

Although it was a mess, everyone had an unconcealed smile on their face, and their eyes were bright, as if they were full of energy.

Reporters from major newspapers ran around, snapping photos from every angle.

Zhang Shenliang pushed a bicycle, while Tang Danniu rode a tricycle borrowed from Cai Quanwu. The eight sons pushed the tricycle from behind, running at a very fast speed, leaving the others far behind.

The young men ran after the car, shouting that they wanted to live in a big house! ! They no longer had to squeeze on one kang! ! !
When they arrived at the door of Building No. 8, Tang Danniu directed Zhang Shenliang to take the second, third, seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth brothers upstairs.

The house here was won in the name of Zhang Shenfei, and it has three bedrooms and a living room.

According to her plan, each of her six sons would have a room, which was just right.

As for the house in Building No. 7, it is occupied by the couple and the fifth and sixth sons.

The empty room belongs to the eldest and the fourth brother.

The eldest is fighting outside, and the fourth is fooling around somewhere now, but there has to be a place for them at home!!!
After the ceremony,

The workers were happily packing up their new home. In the steel mill's conference room, factory leaders, city leaders, district leaders, the Ministry of Metallurgy, and representatives from other factories were sitting upright.

"Leader, what you just said in the auditorium about vigorously promoting the collective housing project, is that true?" In the end, Director Yang couldn't help but speak first.

There is still a lot of vacant land in their factory. If it is true, they will have to build the second batch of houses.

recent,
He has been blocked several times by workers who failed to buy houses, and he is really fed up with it.

(End of this chapter)