Siheyuan: I found a wife right after I crossed over

After delivering the meat to the factory today, Yang Chong drove and took Yang Xiaojuan to Yangjia Village.

The New Year is coming soon, and it’s time to let Yang Xiaojuan go home to see her parents, and also to give Yang Laochuan and his wife some New Year gifts.

Yang Chong loaded two bags of flour, some vegetables, ten kilograms of pork, a wild rabbit and a pheasant into the car. Although they were called wild rabbits and pheasants, they were actually raised by himself in the space.

In addition, some cloth and clothes were taken.

Yang Laochuan was so grateful that he didn't know what to say. He grabbed Yang Chong's hand and was about to cry: "Chongzi, I am so grateful to you for taking Juan'er away. You also brought so many things. I am really..."

He Shuying hugged Yang Xiaojuan excitedly: "Juan'er, let mom see, you are fat now."

Yang Xiaojuan said, "Mom, I follow Brother Chongzi and Sister Xiuer, and eat good food all day long, with meat and white flour, and I don't have to work, how can I not get fat? Oh, by the way, my brother Chongzi also said that when I turn 18, he will let me go to work in the factory, and let me settle down in the city in the future, and then he will bring you to the city to enjoy the good life."

He Shuying was so excited that she couldn't believe it: "Chongzi, do you think Juan'er will be able to work by then? And settle down in the city?"

Yang Chong nodded: "That's right, Second Mother, I will arrange the work for her when the time comes. I will also help her find a son-in-law with a job. After they settle down, I will bring you two old people to the city to enjoy a good life."

Yang Xiaojuan blushed immediately: "Brother, you are talking nonsense again. I am only sixteen, and I have already said that I will not marry in the future and will live with brother and sister-in-law."

He Shuying said: "Silly girl, of course a girl has to get married when she grows up. How can she follow her brother and sister-in-law for the rest of her life?"

Yang Chong thought of Guo Lao San and his son, so he asked Yang Lao Chuan, "Second uncle, has Guo Lao San not come to harass you guys these days?"

Yang Laochuan said, "They came once. I followed your instructions and called the police. They scolded them and said they were buying and selling marriages and forcing people to buy and sell. If they did it again, they would be arrested and put in jail. They never dared to come again."

Yang Xiaojuan breathed a sigh of relief. The shackles on her head were finally completely broken.

The one who helped her break the shackles was none other than Brother Chongzi, who was closest to her.

Chapter 99: Can't Let Others See

New Year’s Eve is getting closer and closer, and today is already the 29th day of the lunar year.

Today, Yang Chong pulled another truck of flour to the canteen. Now the canteen has stored more than ten tons of flour and rice, which is more than enough to meet the three-day Spring Festival banquet. So even the food in the canteen these days has begun to have a bit of the flavor of the New Year.

The staple food in the canteen is no longer the same old steamed bread made of mixed flour, but has quietly changed to steamed buns made of corn flour and white flour, and a small amount of rice is also supplied.

This was simply unimaginable in New Taipei City in the 1960s.

The amount of meat in the dishes has also quietly increased compared to usual. Every time the workers walk into the canteen, their faces are filled with smiles.

Naturally, they worked more and more enthusiastically, and the daily statistical reports of the production department showed a significant increase in output.

For this reason, Director Yang has received calls from department leaders more than once, asking him what clever ideas he has come up with to make the steel rolling mill's production soar.

Director Yang would naturally not say that the workers in his factory are so motivated because they have meat, white flour buns and rice to eat.

He just laughed and said, "Big boss, I am following the spirit of the ministry and trying to do ideological work on the workers. You know what, this method is really effective. Since using your method, the workers' mental outlook has changed all of a sudden. Look, they are more motivated to produce, and the output has naturally increased."

"You mean ideological work?" The senior leader was a little unconvinced. "Don't fool me, kid. There are so many factories in the department, and you are not the only one who can do ideological work. Why is it that they have no effect there, but you have achieved results here?"

Director Yang said: "It must be that they are not fully motivated, or they are not working hard enough, otherwise they would have achieved results long ago."

"Is it really like that?" The big leader was skeptical. "Well, get ready. I'll take them to your place to learn from you and see how you do ideological work for the workers, so that they don't complain to me all the time. Do you know that I asked them to look at your production report, which said that your output is increasing every day, but they didn't believe it. Instead, they said you were cheating, saying that the workers are not getting enough to eat, so how could the output increase instead of decreasing? It's a good opportunity for them to see whether you are cheating or they are incompetent."

When Director Yang heard this, he was dumbfounded, thinking that if they really came, wouldn't everything be exposed?

The directors of these brother factories are all very cunning. If we let them come to learn from us, wouldn’t they find the meat and food in no time?

If they saw it, wouldn't the three-day free meals during the Spring Festival that I promised to the workers be wasted?

These guys are worse than beasts. When they see something good, they will split it in half after meeting it, and they rob and plunder in various ways.

And the big leaders are not vegetarians either.

These are not important. What worries Director Yang more is the source of Yang Chong’s food.

Yang Chong did not explain in detail where the grain came from, but everyone knew it must not have come from a regular channel, because it was now supplied in a fixed quantity, and even the state-owned grain stores did not have so much grain.

At the beginning, he decided to send Yang Chong these grains of unknown origin without hesitation because it was a special case and he had to do it for the production of the steel mill. But if outsiders knew about it and reported it to the higher-ups, he would be violating organizational discipline and even national policies, and he would be punished if he was investigated strictly.

Thinking of this, Director Yang suddenly became restless. He quickly called Hou Liqiu over and told him that the department was going to organize directors of sister factories to come for a visit and study, and expressed his concerns.

Hou Likui was very clever and immediately came up with a solution: "Director Yang, the food and pork must not be known to people from other factories. Otherwise, I will have people hide everything immediately, and then ask the workers and the canteen staff to keep their mouths shut. As long as they don't see it, it will be fine."

Director Yang frowned and said, "This is a good idea, but the problem is where to hide so many things. And time is so tight, and the people will probably arrive soon. Will there be time to move them?"

Hou Likui said: "We have to try even if we don't have time. How about we find a way to cover up everything, and then Director Yang, you find a way to take them to the workshop and don't let them go to the cafeteria, and everything will be fine."

Director Yang nodded and said, "This is the only way. You should take people to deal with it now. Don't let it get out of hand."

Hou Likui hurriedly opened the door and went out. When he returned to the department, he hurried to gather people: "Xiao Zhang, the two of you go to the cafeteria quickly and tell the people in the cafeteria not to leave work yet. I have something to tell them."

"Xiao Zhang, Xiao He, go to the warehouse now and find some tarpaulins. The more the better. Pull them to the cafeteria immediately."

"Everyone else, put down your work and follow me to the cafeteria. Hurry up, time is short and the task is heavy."

After Hou Liqiu gave the order, he ordered his men to rush to the cafeteria.

As soon as he went out, he ran into Deputy Section Chief Zhou Chi who was coming back from outside. Seeing that everyone was walking out in a hurry, Zhou Chi hurriedly asked, "Section Chief Hou, where are you going in such a hurry?"

A clerk blurted out, "Deputy Section Chief Zhou, the section chief asked us to go to the canteen and cover up the grain and pork that Yang Chong bought."

Before he finished speaking, Hou Likui also came out: "That's great, Zhou Chi, you can come with us, time is tight, more people will be better."

Zhou Chi thought for a moment and said, "Okay, you guys go first, I'll go to the toilet later, I've been holding it in all the way."

Hou Liqiu nodded and said, "Okay, hurry up." Then he hurried away with the others.

Zhou Chi watched them leave, but did not go to the bathroom. Instead, he hurried up to the third floor and came to Li Huaide's office.

"Brother-in-law, what happened? Why did Hou Liqiu rush to the canteen with people to cover up all the pork and grain?" Zhou Chi asked as soon as he entered the door.

"Really?" Li Huaide was stunned. He quickly stood up and went to the window to look at the cafeteria at the back.

After looking around for a while, he was also confused: "Yeah, what's the matter? Why are they covering up the food and meat?"

Suddenly, he seemed to have thought of something, waved his hand, asked Zhou Chi to put his ear close to him, and whispered: "Xiao Chi, you go with them and see how they cover up. Someone will probably come later, then you just..."

Zhou Chi was stunned for a moment, then immediately nodded repeatedly: "Okay, brother-in-law, don't worry, I will definitely do as you say."

Li Huaide nodded with satisfaction: "Okay, go ahead. Remember, if this is done well, Hou Likui will definitely not be able to stay. Then the position of the head of the purchasing department will be yours."

Zhou Chi showed a look of joy on his face and went there in a hurry.

Li Huaide stood at the window, looking towards the cafeteria, with a sneer on his face: "When the time comes, Hou Likui won't be the only one who will be in trouble."

Chapter 100 Someone is giving me a special treat

The big boss is decisive and does things as soon as he says he will do them.

In less than an hour, several jeeps carrying the top leader, several department leaders, and the directors of several state-owned factories under the ministry arrived at the steel rolling mill.

Director Yang, Deputy Director Li Huaide, and several middle-level managers had already arrived at the factory gate to greet us early.

Seeing the convoy coming, Director Yang asked Hou Likui in a low voice: "How is it, have you packed everything?"

Hou Likui quickly said, "Don't worry, it's all covered. Outsiders will definitely not be able to see anything."

Director Yang nodded and looked at Duan Dagang, who nodded quickly, meaning, "Don't worry, Director Yang, I have already given the instructions as you requested, and the workers know what to say."

Director Yang was relieved.

The motorcade drove over, and the top leader and several department leaders got off the first car. Director Yang and Li Huaide hurried forward to greet them: "Welcome to the steel mill to guide our work."

The senior leader said, "We won't talk about guiding them this time. We brought them here to learn from you. We want them to see why the steel rolling mill, which is also a factory under the ministry and under the same difficult conditions, was able to hold on during the difficult times and not only did it not reduce production, but it actually increased production day by day. Let them visit and learn from you, and then go back and build up their own factories."

Director Yang smiled and said, "The big boss is joking. We are all brothers in the same unit. It doesn't matter whether we study or not. If we want to study, we should implement the spirit of the department leaders' speeches and pass them on to every worker, so that they can feel the care of the department leaders and the organization, and thus rejuvenate their work enthusiasm."

The big leader turned his head and saw several factory directors shaking their heads. One of them, Liu Feng, the director of Steel Plant No. 1, couldn't help but say, "Big leader, no matter what you say, I don't believe it. This year is so difficult, the workers can't even eat enough and have no intention of working. The steel mill is not a food factory, so how can they work and eat? How is it possible that the output has increased instead of decreased?"

Several other people also said: "We don't believe it either, boss, they must have falsely reported the production volume."

"Yes, big boss, the ministry must be biased. They gave their steel mill a special treatment and approved special food. Otherwise, with that little food, the workers couldn't even fill their stomachs. Who would be so enthusiastic to insist on production without reducing output?"

"That's right, big boss. This is simply impossible. You can't let them renew their production quota and then use it to pressure us. Even if they crush us to death, we still won't be able to complete the production task."

……

The big boss looked at Director Yang and said, "Look, Xiao Yang, now no one believes that your steel mill's output has increased instead of decreased. They think you are falsifying the output and that I deliberately let you exaggerate to put pressure on them. I also want to see if you are falsifying the output to me."

Director Yang smiled bitterly and said, "Well, since no one believes it, let's go to the workshop and take a look."

Of course, we went to the production workshop first, but as soon as we entered the workshop, all the leaders present were shocked.

Especially the factory managers of the sister factories, all of them couldn’t believe their eyes.

These days, because of hunger, their workers are listless at work every day. Not to mention working, they even walk with dragging legs and weak energy.

But when I came to the production workshop of the steel rolling mill, wow, everyone I saw was full of energy and working enthusiastically. Each one was working harder and faster than the other, and they even walked like they were running.

It seems like he is afraid of wasting every minute and every second.

The factory managers were all stunned, and even the top leaders and department heads were filled with shock.

He couldn't help but point at the workers working enthusiastically and said to Liu Feng: "Liu Feng, look at the enthusiasm of these workers, and then look at yours. Do you still think they are falsifying their production?"

Liu Feng was stunned. He touched his head and said in surprise, "How is this possible? How can we have such a strong motivation to work when we are all hungry? Is it true that Lao Yang is better at ideological work than us?"

The big boss said proudly: "I told you a long time ago that the reason why the output can't be increased is that you haven't done your job well. You said that Mr. Yang has run the steel mill very well. But you didn't believe me. Now the facts are in front of you. I wonder what else you have to say."

The factory managers looked at each other in bewilderment. One of them said with shame: "It seems that we are really narrow-minded. Old Yang is still better than us."

Director Yang secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Liu Feng shook his head: "No, something is wrong. I still feel something is wrong."

The big boss gave him a mocking look and said, "Liu Feng, you are really still stubborn. The facts are right in front of you. What else is wrong with you?"

Liu Feng said, "Big leader, the workers in our factory don't have enough to eat every day. They are so hungry that they look pale and skinny, and they can't even walk. Look at their workers again, they all have rosy faces. Who looks like they are hungry?"

The big boss was stunned, and wanted to retort, but after a closer look, it was true. The workers here were all in such good spirits and complexions. How could they look like people who were hungry all day?

The other factory managers also perked up: "Yes, there is something fishy here. Their workers must have been given special treatment. Big boss, this is unfair. You give their workers special treatment just to set an example, and let our workers go hungry."

"Yes, we are all state-owned factories under the ministry. Why do they have food to eat while our workers go hungry?"

The big boss glared at him and said, "Nonsense! The ministry treats all factories equally and impartially. The food and supplies allocated to each of your factories are of the same standard. How can there be any special treatment?"

As he said that, he quickly waved to Director Yang: "Come here and tell me what's going on."

When Director Yang saw Liu Feng making a scene, he was shocked. However, he was prepared. He came over and said with a bitter face, "Boss, aren't they being unreasonable? The materials allocated by the ministry to each factory are all of the same standard. Our steel rolling mill is not the crown prince, so how can we get any special treatment or special treatment? If you don't believe me, we can ask our logistics department to bring all the materials allocation documents to them and let them see what's different from theirs."

The big boss nodded and said, "Go, bring all the documents here for everyone to see."

Hou Liqiu was well prepared. He immediately ran back to the logistics department and took out the material allocation list that had been prepared long ago.

The big boss read through them one by one, glanced at Liu Feng, and pushed the report in front of him: "Look for yourself!"

Chapter 101 I want to report

Liu Feng quickly took the transfer list, and several other factory managers also gathered around and looked at it head to head.

After reading it, they looked at each other in bewilderment, and someone muttered, "This is impossible."

"Yes, but the transfer list is right here. It's impossible to forge it."

The big boss looked at Liu Feng: "Liu Feng, do you have anything else to say?"

Liu Feng didn't say anything for a long time, staring at the report, thinking about something.

After a while, he suddenly walked up to a worker who was collecting materials nearby and asked with a smile: "Master, what do you eat every day in the factory cafeteria now? Can you eat enough?"

The worker was startled, and instinctively turned his head to look at the workshop director and Director Yang standing there, and then said: "What else can we eat? Steamed bread and radish. Sometimes there is not even radish, just some steamed bread. Do you think it can fill you up?"

Several factory managers showed disappointment on their faces. Liu Feng was also a little disappointed, but he did not give up and continued to ask a few more workers.

These workers had already received instructions from the workshop director in advance, so their answers were the same.

After asking several questions, the senior leader couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "Alright, Liu Feng, we've heard it all. They eat the same thing as your factory workers, steamed bread and radishes. Don't waste your energy here."

Liu Feng was a little reluctant to give up: "Boss, I still think it's impossible. Besides, these workers all looked at Lao Yang before answering. I think they had planned it in advance."

The big boss was almost laughing out of anger: "Liu Feng, you are such a stubborn donkey, you don't even know how to turn back even if you hit your head against the wall. So, how can I believe that what they say is true?"

Liu Feng thought for a moment and said, "Well, let's go to the canteen and see how the workers eat, then we'll understand everything."