In 1978, I was admitted to Harbin Institute of Technology

Chapter 132: Honest? Darkness is the essence!
After Li Rui's reminder, things were indeed a little abnormal.

He had no idea of ​​the situation at all. Even after reading the telegram Li Rui handed to him, he was unable to understand the details.

But he couldn't let the old man really go to jail, otherwise there might be irreversible consequences during the crackdown a few years later.

Xie Wei fell silent.

"It's impossible to get the details here. How about I find someone over there to find out more about the situation first?"

"Thank you, Principal. I have to go back."

Xie Wei was not at all grateful for Li Rui's suggestion.

My father was arrested, probably because of the cooperation between the School-Enterprise Office and Hongguang Factory. Principal Li just said to find someone to find out first. How could Xie Wei wait?
"Okay, it's good for you to go back. I'll let Yuan Zhenyue go with you."

Looking at Xie Wei's expression, Li Rui hesitated for a moment. He wanted to say that Xie Wei participated in many projects, but in the end he nodded in agreement.

No matter who it was, it would be impossible for them to work in peace if their father was arrested.

"No need, I'll just ask Assistant Yuan to help me buy the tickets."

Xie Wei shook his head.

"Wei Guobin, deputy director of the Rongcheng Industrial Bureau, is a classmate of Du Guowang. Liang Hong, deputy director of the Electronics Industry Bureau, is a classmate of Yu Guofeng. You should go talk to them first... I'll contact them and see what connections they have."

Li Rui said to Xie Wei.

There's nothing wrong with following the rules, but these days, things are easier if you have connections, and at least you don't end up doing a lot of useless work.

Xie Wei did not refuse.

"Your dad was arrested? What happened?"

Hearing that Xie Wei came to him because Xie Jianguo was arrested, Du Guowang frowned, "He is so honest..."

As soon as I said this, I found it hard to believe.

At the beginning, Xu Zhihui was blocking Xie Wei's organizational relationship, so Xie Jianguo solved the problem by simply catching them in adultery.

"It may be because of the price war with competitors..."

Xu Changshuai came back during the Chinese New Year and reported that the products of Hongguang Factory were copied by others. Finally, Xie Jianguo gave the production process and technology to several other factories according to the plan left by Xie Wei, which triggered a price war.

"Ah~"

After listening to this, Du Guowang just sighed, "Old Wei is good in everything except courage. If he had courage, these things wouldn't have happened. I'm busy right now and can't go back with you. So, I'll write him a letter and you can take it to him."

Xie Wei was not familiar with Wei Guohan and did not understand him.

The reason I came to see Du Guowang was not to ask him to introduce someone to Xie Wei.

Just to understand what kind of person Wei Guobing is.

Without knowing why his father was arrested, Xie Wei couldn't come up with a solution.

Xie Wei knows the importance of relationships better than anyone else.

When Xu Zhihui was holding back on his organizational connections, if Xie Wei could have found the connections, he wouldn't have been so passive.

So he did not write a letter to Du Guowang and Yu Guofeng to sever their relationship with Chengdu.

You may not necessarily need to use it, but you must prepare it.

"Just let Xie Wei go back alone? The school won't intervene?"

Du Guowang and Yu Guofeng entered Li Rui's office almost at the same time. Both of them were dissatisfied with Li Rui's attitude. "It's easier for the school to deal with it than Xie Wei! He needs to participate in several projects!"

When Xie Wei came to them, neither of them said anything.

He just suppressed his dissatisfaction and came to find Li Rui now.

"Young people need to exercise, and this is a great opportunity. Besides, who knows whether Xie Jianguo really violated the law or not? If he was arrested without violating the law or discipline, not to mention that the cooperation between the school-enterprise office and Hongguang Factory would be affected, the school would have to step in just for the sake of outstanding students!"

Li Rui didn't care about their dissatisfaction. He raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice.

"..."

Faced with such a reason, the two fell silent for a moment.

"Care leads to confusion. You care about him, but you should think more about his future. If he can't even solve such a small problem, is it really worth the school to devote all its efforts to train him? I can't stay in the school forever. Even if I don't transfer, I'm not far from retirement."

Li Rui is already in his early fifties.

Unlike Yu Guofeng and Du Guowang, who both took the technical route, he is a pure stock manager.

When Xie Wei arrived at the school, Li Rui had a very clear idea of ​​his position.

"Also, the school is responsible for training talents for the country. Will Xie Wei, after gaining so much power, ..."

Li Rui didn't say the rest.

Both Yu Guofeng and Du Guowang knew what Li Rui meant.

"Ugh!"

Du Guowang sighed again and looked at Li Rui with dissatisfaction, "Xie Wei is still young."

Human nature is the last thing that can be tested.

"If Xie Wei is not suitable for holding power, then just let him focus on technology. Perhaps you have positioned him wrongly from the beginning!"

Yu Guofeng was equally dissatisfied.

Yu Guofeng couldn't guarantee whether Xie Wei would use nepotism and seek benefits for himself after gaining power.

Currently, the School-Enterprise Office has taken over the match factory run by the neighboring street office. Xie Wei has asked that issues such as employment and resettlement of the families of school cadres and staff be given priority. From the school's perspective, Xie Wei is right.

But if it's at a higher level...

"I haven't had much contact with Xie Jianguo, but from what I know about him, he won't do anything illegal. He originally didn't want to be the director of Hongguang Factory, but Xie Wei asked him to go... For the sake of his children's future, he won't do it!"

Du Guowang spoke.

When Xie Jianguo came here before, since Xie Rou lived in his house, she naturally had more opportunities to interact with Xie Jianguo.

Although Xie Jianguo sometimes does things not according to the rules, there is no problem with his character.

"That's pretty much my opinion."

Li Rui nodded.

The two looked at him in astonishment.

I was relieved in my heart.

It seems that Li Rui is not completely letting Xie Wei solve the problem on his own.

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After taking the train for several days, Xie Wei returned to Rongcheng. Without even going home, he went straight to Hongguang Factory.

"Xie Wei is back! How is your college life?"

"Thank you, technician. Are you back to help solve the problem of mass production of rice cookers?"

"Xie Wei, it's not school time now, why are you back?"

When they saw Xie Wei, people in the factory greeted him one after another.

Xie Wei was surprised by the attitude of everyone in the factory.

No one mentioned that Dad had been arrested, and no one even asked a question, as if they didn't know that the factory director had been arrested.

Or are they from the original Hongguang Factory?
After asking around, we found out that all the management personnel who had a say in the factory were not in the factory, and the grassroots cadres and workers in the factory really had no idea that Xie Jianguo had been arrested.

I thought Xie Jianguo was on a business trip again.

"Why are you back?"

Xu Changshuai came back a few days earlier than Xie Wei. He was a little surprised to see Xie Wei, "Is it about your father's matter?"

Xie Wei nodded and directly asked Xu Changshuai, who had arrived in Chengdu first, whether he knew some specific details.

"I don't know. Not many people in the factory even know that he was arrested... No one believes that he would embezzle the factory's money to buy your mother an expensive mink coat."

Mink coat!

Another mink coat.

There was no news from the factory, and his father's confidant Wang Zheng followed the leader of the Industrial Bureau to attend the Canton Fair. In desperation, Xie Wei could only borrow a bicycle from someone familiar in the factory and ride back home.

"Why are you back?"

When Xie Wei returned home, Liu Mei, wearing a sweater, was harvesting mustard greens planted in the yard.

Seeing his son appear, he was stunned for a moment, "You take a rest first, I will finish harvesting these vegetables. If I don't harvest them, they will all bloom."

In spring, temperatures rise and plants grow faster.

"Mom, my dad..."

Seeing that there was no worry on Liu Mei's face, Xie Wei, who knew his mother's character, naturally did not think that she was also unaware of the situation.

He took off his heavy coat and helped Liu Mei with the work, asking Liu Mei questions while working.

"You old man is just bored from eating too much all day!"

Liu Mei said with a dissatisfied look on her face.

Xie Wei was even more surprised by her mother's reaction: having her husband arrested was definitely not a good thing in that era, and it would even make the whole family lose face.

My mother didn't scold or complain like she did in the past when my father did something wrong, and she didn't even worry at all.

"He said other factories copied Hongguang Factory's products..."

While Xie Wei was wondering what his mother's reaction meant, Liu Mei did not hide anything and told him exactly the reasons Xie Jianguo had told her.

"Did my dad do this on purpose?"

Xie Wei's eyes widened.

I immediately understood why Xie Jianguo took this approach.

The old man is so shameless!
Not only did he make things worse by going to jail regardless of his reputation, but he also told me that he bought the mink coat!
The old man didn’t pay a penny!
"That's right! The police station came to investigate, and I was going to take out the invoice, but your father wouldn't let me..."

"..."

Xie Wei suddenly discovered that his father, whom he had always thought to be honest, was actually extremely insidious.

When he first dealt with Xu Zhihui, Xie Wei thought he was being pushed into a corner.

Thinking about what my mother said about how my father tricked her into getting her, I now realize that the old man himself is a sinister person!

It's just that he was unwilling to climb up by suppressing others before.

After figuring this out, Xie Wei felt much more relaxed. "Mom, does Xie Rou live on campus?"

"She lives in a shitty school, and she doesn't even attend morning and evening self-study classes! What does she eat all day over there? As soon as she comes back, she complains about the food at home..."

When it comes to Xie Rou, Liu Mei's face is full of resentment.

My daughter refused to listen, especially after she went to Harbin Institute of Technology. She became even more disobedient after she came back.

"..."

Seeing his mother's face full of resentment, Xie Wei sighed silently. Du Guowang and his wife's combined monthly income was just over 400 yuan. Although most of it was used to subsidize students, the couple's income was still higher than that of an ordinary family.

What's more, Liang Hongbin and others often buy various things and go to Du Guowang's house to have a feast.

He didn't dare say it.

Once I say it, I'm afraid I'll feel upset that my daughter can't support the family.

"Brother, why are you back?"

Xie Wei was helping his mother to harvest all the vegetables that were about to bloom in the yard, put them in a snakeskin bag, and then use a stone weighing hundreds of kilograms and decades to press down the snakeskin bag to make salted vegetables that can be eaten directly with rice. This thing is used to steam salted vegetables and meat, which is also known as salty pork.

Just thinking about it makes people drool.

Just as Xie Wei was thinking about leaving and taking some salted vegetables made by his mother to go with his meal, Xie Rou's surprised voice was heard at the gate of the yard.

It seems that my sister still cares about me.

Xie Wei was about to speak with a smile on his face, but Xie Rou said to her sweaty mother, "Mom, my brother is back. Do we have meat to eat tonight?"

"..."

Xie Wei was speechless for a moment.

It turns out that for Xie Rou, her return was not for the joy of family reunion, but just for the chance to eat more meat.

What can I say?
"Eat, eat, eat. All I do all day is eat!"

Looking at Xie Rou, Liu Mei said unhappily, "There are only so many meat coupons in the family every month!"

"Tsk, where's the bacon you made before the Chinese New Year? You're so biased. My brother always has meat to eat at home, but since I came back, I haven't seen any meat at all. You even said you were going to exchange the eggs for salt and matches to pay the electricity bill..."

Xie Rou was not polite to me at all.

The mother and daughter were enemies in their previous life.

Hearing this, Xie Wei sighed silently.

After his organizational relationship was transferred to the school, the factory would no longer issue any tickets.

Even the meat coupons and other things at home were missing my quota.

As a factory manager, my dad sometimes has to entertain guests at home, which results in the limited meat and side dish rations at home being insufficient.

When Xie Rou studies, her calorie consumption will be much higher than usual. Before going to Harbin Institute of Technology, she always complained about not being full. But at Du Guowang's house, she never complained about being hungry and even gained a lot of weight.

Just a few days after returning, he started making trouble again.

Or maybe the nutrition at home is not enough.

"Oh oh oh~"

At this moment, the crowing of a rooster in the chicken coop made Xie Wei turn his head to look.

Xie Rou stared at the chicken coop with shining eyes and said to Liu Mei, "Mom, didn't you say you would keep that big spotted rooster for my brother? Now my brother is back..."

The big spotted rooster is still kept?

Xie Wei was even more surprised.

“All I do is eat!”

Liu Mei was obviously a little sad, "Your father is not at home!"

"My dad is a factory manager, and he often goes out to eat delicious food and drink spicy drinks!"

Xie Rou looked unhappy.

"Mom, kill that big rooster. My second sister will take the college entrance examination in a few months. Once she passes the college entrance examination, she will become a government official, and everything will be borne by the government."

Xie Wei sighed.

I don’t think I know Xie Rou’s nutritional needs given her horrible learning ability.

Without my own supply, the family only had my father as an adult, plus my mother and Xie Rou, so the supply became even tighter.

In the past, the family had to prepare a lot of dishes to keep themselves from going hungry.

"Your dad hasn't come back yet!"

Liu Mei still didn't want to.

In her opinion, it is appropriate to kill the chicken when the whole family is present.

"Second sister, go back to your room and study first. Mom and I will kill a chicken. We will have chicken tonight."

Xie Wei asked Xie Rou to go back to her room to study first.

Hearing this, Xie Rou excitedly rushed to Xie Wei and smacked his face, "My brother is so nice!"

He rushed into the room without caring that his mother didn't agree.

"Mom, although mental work doesn't require as much nutrition as physical work, Xie Rou's situation is a little special..."

Xie Wei immediately told Liu Mei that Xie Rou had never been hungry since she arrived in the Northeast. "If she doesn't have enough nutrition, she will fail the college entrance examination this year. She will definitely have to continue to go to school, and she will be hungry every day..."

"really?"

Obviously, Liu Mei was a little unconvinced.

"My dad also knows about the situation. Didn't he tell you? Not only Director Du and his wife, but many school leaders and professors also know about the situation. They often buy chicken, duck, fish and meat to Director Du's house for a feast. In fact, it's all for her..."

Under Xie Wei's persuasion, Liu Mei finally slaughtered the big rooster with great reluctance, even though she was still a little reluctant.

She would think about it when her daughter was not at home.

I am full of disgust when I am at home.

"It's not that my second sister is delicious. As long as she doesn't study, she won't be hungry. She's growing up! She's only been back for a few days, and she's already lost weight..."

This is how Xie Wei explained it when Liu Mei complained while his mother was stewing chicken.

"After entering university, the state provided her with a higher ration than at home, and the school participated in a project, which provided her with a half-pound of food and a subsidy of 20 cents a day. It was much better than at home..."

After hearing Xie Wei's explanation, Liu Mei just sat there in silence.

Nothing was said.

I am a half-grown boy and a poor man.

Growing boys are the ones who eat the most. Xie Wei also said that Xie Rou uses his brain intensively, which leads to insufficient nutrition, so he gets hungry faster than his peers.

When I was in the Northeast, I never felt hungry and even gained weight...

How can a mother feel good after hearing this!

"Xie Wei, nothing will happen to your dad, right?"

Liu Mei changed the subject.

Ask his son Xie Jianguo whether there will be any unexpected events in this matter.

"What could possibly happen? The Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee has clearly stated reform and opening up. Hongguang Factory is an independent operation and can be considered a pilot unit for reform. It also has a school-enterprise cooperation agreement with Harbin Institute of Technology. Even if the Industrial Bureau does not care, Harbin Institute of Technology will not tolerate it."

Xie Wei comforted his mother.

Seeing that Liu Mei was still worried, she added, "Mom, I'm going to ask the Industrial Bureau tomorrow if there's a chance for me to meet Dad. I need to understand the situation first."

After listening to this, Liu Mei just nodded.

That night, Xie Rou was delighted by the big spotted rooster.

Apart from asking her to eat slower and not to choke, Liu Mei did not complain at all. She just kept putting some meat on the plate for Xie Wei, asking him to eat more, while she ate very little herself.

Xie Wei knew his mother's temper and did not give in.

There is not much meaning in giving in now. The real thing is to work harder and make your parents live a better life.

The next morning, Xie Wei went directly to the Industrial Bureau to meet with Deputy Director Wei Guobing.

He was not familiar with Wei Guobin, and both of them had heard each other's name many times.

Li Rui and Xie Jianguo highly agree on their evaluation of Wei Guobing: he is indecisive and lacks courage.

However, when I arrived at the Industrial Bureau, I found out that Wei Guobin had taken the heads of several units under the Industrial Bureau to attend the Canton Fair and would not be back for several days.

Go find Hu Chunlin, director of the Industrial Bureau?

Xie Wei simply chose to give up.

Xu Zhihui was able to be so arrogant in the beginning because he followed Hu Chunlin's path; the new leadership team of Hongfeng Factory also followed Hu Chunlin's path.

Xie Wei's appearance in front of Hu Chunlin might make things worse.

In the end, he ran to the police station next to the Hongguang Factory, found Chief Hu, and asked him if he had any way to allow him to go and see his father.

Director Hu was not unfamiliar with Xie Wei. It was because Xie Wei was admitted to university and Xu Zhihui blocked his organizational relationship that a series of changes occurred in Hongguang Factory.

I usually have a good relationship with Xie Jianguo.

Xie Wei is a college student and a prospective state official, so naturally he has to be given face.

That afternoon, Director Hu personally sent Xie Wei to the detention center, where he met Xie Jianguo.

"Why are you back?"

Seeing Xie Wei, Xie Jianguo frowned, "Was it that bastard Wang Zheng who sent you the telegram?"

"No."

Xie Wei shook his head, then turned his head to look around. Seeing that there was no one around, he lowered his voice and asked, "Dad, why bother if Wei Guobin doesn't take the initiative to take the lead?"

When facing his father, Xie Wei did not pretend to care about him and ask him how he was doing in there.

Looking at Xie Jianguo's rosy face and energetic face, you can tell that he is not only living a good life, but also very comfortable.

What's more, there is also the introduction of my previous situation.

"You can't say that. It's the same no matter who is the director. The key is to have the right to speak. Hongguang Factory didn't have the right to speak before, otherwise this situation would never have happened."

Xie Jianguo took out a pack of Pegasus from his pocket and handed it to Xie Wei, who waved his hand to refuse.

After he lit it and let out a puff of smoke, he spoke.

“You don’t need to put yourself at risk to have the right to speak.”

Xie Wei frowned.

The old man probably had no idea about the severe crackdown that would come a few years later.

Even if there is no problem now, when the boss is replaced and doesn't get along with the old man, who knows...

"Where is the danger? I have inquired about it before. Not to mention that there is an invoice for the mink coat, even if it is really 380 yuan, I can't take it out with my previous pension. Your previous salary was given to your family! The current situation is that I don't want to come out. When Director Wei comes back, they will take the initiative to ask me to go out..."

Xie Jianguo had a smile on his face.

Since Xie Wei already knew his intention, he naturally stopped explaining. "After I came back, I didn't disclose that the rice cooker had received foreign trade orders. Although there are only 38 of them, and each rice cooker costs only 38 dollars, this is dollars, and there will be more later... Now they can only say that I embezzled public funds through cooperation with the school to buy that mink coat for your mother... By the way, you didn't tell your mother that it wasn't bought by me, right?"

Xie Jianguo looked at his son nervously.

He was afraid that his son would expose his true colors.

"..."

Xie Wei was speechless for a while.

It’s already this late, and the old man is still paying attention to this.

However, after knowing that his father had not done anything illegal, Xie Wei was completely relieved.

"Since Lao Wei is unwilling to take the initiative, we have to force him to do it. If we don't make changes, it will be difficult to do anything later. I have talked to him before. The production capacity of Hongguang Factory is not enough, and it is not easy to expand. Some parts and inner pots of rice cookers need to be produced by OEM factories. The detention center asked me to leave a long time ago, but I didn't want to..."

Xie Jianguo told his son his plan in detail.

Especially after hearing that he was planning to merge the Hongfeng Factory, which was several times larger than the Hongguang Factory, Xie Wei looked at him as if he didn't recognize his father.

"38 dollars in foreign exchange may not be much, but these are industrial products, and our production cost is only 22 dollars. Large-scale batch manufacturing will further reduce the cost. Just for this reason, if Wei Guobin is still hesitant, then..."

What could Xie Wei say?
It is impossible to persuade him.

It wasn't until he was released from the detention center for quite some time that he figured out why there was such a big difference between the Xie Jianguo in his memory and the Xie Jianguo now?
(End of this chapter)