Siheyuan: I am the seventh uncle of Banggen

"No, Yongfa didn't make any mistake." Old Mrs. Hong was a little scared now.

"Just because you say no, it's no? Do you have the final say over the steel mill? Hong Yongfa's family members have serious feudal ideas and must be expelled. Don't you want your son and daughter-in-law to divorce? The factory can approve it now, and you and Hong Yongfa will be sent back to your hometown tomorrow. People like you are just bringing shame to the steel mill. Just get out of here," said Zhang Cuihua.

"Leader, I was wrong. I was wrong," Old Mrs. Hong was really crying now, and she kowtowed to Zhang Cuihua and the others.

"I'm not the leader. The one you beat is the leader. I'm just a worker," said Zhang Cuihua.

Old Mrs. Hong turned around and began to kowtow to Zhao Lan.

"Sister Hua, what are you doing..." Hong Yongfa replied.

"Hong Yongfa, your mother beat Section Chief Zhao and keeps asking you to divorce your wife, saying that she can't live without a boy. I want to ask, does your family have a throne that needs to be inherited?" Zhang Cuihua asked loudly.

"Sister Hua, I'm just an ordinary worker. My daughter is very good, not naughty and very well-behaved. I like my daughter," said Hong Yongfa.

"You like it, but your mother doesn't. The factory has decided now that your mother has deep feudal ideas and wants you to help her reform. She has big problems. You should go back to your hometown and reform. The factory will handle the divorce procedures for you two. You can take your mother back to your hometown tomorrow," Zhang Cuihua said to Hong Yongfa.

"Mom, do you really want this family to break up?" Hong Yongfa said to his mother.

"Yongfa, I..." Old Mrs. Hong didn't know what she wanted to say.

"Stop talking. I am your only son. I can't ignore you. Pack up and let's go back to Gansu tomorrow." Hong Yongfa lowered his head heavily.

"Yongfa, if we don't go back, everyone in the village is fleeing famine. What are we going to do if we go back? Will there be a way to survive?" Old Mrs. Hong was anxious.

"You do this every day. You have to go back. It's a pity for these three girls. If you find a stepfather, I wonder if he will beat them." Hong Yongfa squatted down.

"Chief Zhao, please spare Yongfa. I was wrong. I won't do it again." Old Mrs. Hong knelt in front of Zhao Lan again.

The girlfriend of "Sister Hua" Hong Yongfa also returned from the factory.

"Xiao Na, please talk to your leader. I won't make trouble anymore. I won't make trouble anymore." When Mrs. Hong saw her daughter-in-law coming back, she quickly asked her to help plead for mercy.

Zheng Na came to Zhang Cuihua and was pulled aside by Zhang Cuihua to talk for a while. Then Zhang Cuihua and Zheng Na came over together. "Zheng Na still has feelings for Hong Yongfa, and is willing to give you and Hong Yongfa a chance. Only once. Next time if you make trouble again and we hear about it, either you go back to your hometown by yourself, or you and Hong Yongfa go back together," Zhang Cuihua said to Old Lady Hong.

"Stop making trouble. I won't make trouble anytime soon," said Old Mrs. Hong, convinced.

Hearing that Old Mrs. Hong had given in, Zhang Cuihua asked Wang Fang to write a letter of guarantee, and she and Hong Yongfa both put their fingerprints on it. Then Zhang Cuihua and others left the Hong family.

"Yongfa, isn't she Zhang Cuihua from Hongxing Street? Is she also a cadre now?" Old Mrs. Hong knew Zhang Cuihua.

"Of course she is a cadre now. Her cousin is the deputy director and second in command of the factory. What he says is final. If I tell you to go back to your hometown, you have to go back," Hong Yongfa said to his cowardly mother.

"I haven't heard that she has an uncle who is a leader," Old Mrs. Hong said to herself.

"He is her third aunt's cousin, a distant relative, but her younger brother is also a section chief in the factory. You can't mess with those people who came. The tall and thin one is the wife of the personnel section chief, and the other one is the chief engineer's brother-in-law. The man is the deputy factory director's elder brother-in-law. And this newcomer, the one you pushed down, is a section chief. We don't know where he came from. Mom, please don't do it. If you do it again, our family will really have no way to survive." Hong Yongfa explained the interests to his mother.

"I can't even afford to offend Zhang Cuihua, let alone those people. I'm done with this." Mrs. Hong was really scared today, because going back to the village now would be a dead end. She and her son haven't farmed for many years, and they can't farm. Even if you can farm, how can you do it? It's not raining.

After Zhang Cuihua and others came out, they happily reviewed the incident and found out the shortcomings in the incident. Now Zhang Cuihua and three others were in the front, Kang Qingquan and Wang Fang were following behind. As for Zhao Lan, no one paid attention to her.

"Now that we have solved this problem, we must celebrate. How about we go to the Red Star State-owned Restaurant to have a bowl of cold noodles?" Zhang Cuihua made a suggestion, which was unanimously approved by everyone. Then the five of them happily went to the restaurant opposite the factory. As it was still early, everyone sat under the fan and chatted.

Zhao Lan was a little confused when she saw everyone went to the restaurant. I am the section chief, why didn't anyone call me? I also paid a lot, and only after I was beaten did you have an excuse to attack me? Didn't you call me when you were having cold noodles?

No one knew what Zhao Lan was saying, but she knew that she had put out two of the three fires she had just started, and it was still uncertain whether the third one would start. Among her five soldiers, only Wang Fang was an obedient citizen. As for the people like Zhang Cuihua, she could not win over them by argument, nor could she beat them with the night watchmen. Their backers were almost the same. How could she manage them?

Zhao Lan wondered if it was a mistake for her to come to the Steel Mill Women's Federation. The Steel Mill Women's Federation was too complicated, and now she just wanted to return to her warm nest.

When the weather gets hot, people don't want to move because they will sweat if they move. As a cultivator in the foundation-building stage, Zhang Dabao is naturally immune to cold and heat, but Lou Xiao'e and the Yu sisters are not like that, so they have stopped their favorite game of cards.

Nowadays, Zhang Dabao likes to read alone at the door of his house or under the shade of a tree. He has basically finished reading all the books he brought from the black market in Baoding. They are ancient books, but not the kind that Zhang Dabao wants.

It was already evening when I returned to No. 95 Courtyard from reading in Masi Hutong.

"Seventh Uncle, have you eaten?" Jia Dongxu stood up from his stool when he saw Zhang Dabao coming back.

"I just ate a little bit, didn't you eat anything?" Zhang Dabao asked.

"I've eaten. Zhuzi wants to talk to you about something. I'll go call him." Jia Dongxu walked to the rear window of He Yuzhu and shouted.

He Yushui and He Yuzhu heard Jia Dongxu's shout and walked over.

"Brother Dabiao, Section Chief Lin Hua wants to invite you to dinner tomorrow night. They came to the hospital during the day and you were not at home, so let me talk to you," said He Yushui.

"Let's go together tomorrow night," Zhang Dabao agreed.

"Okay, will you bring a gift?" He Yushui was very happy to hear that Zhang Dabao was going to take her with him.

"I have a gift. The weather is too hot, so I have to take some time to go to the factory to see if there are any motors. I can assemble an electric fan," said Zhang Dabao.

"Seventh Uncle, can you assemble electric fans?" Jia Dongxu on the side stood up immediately after hearing this. He was really impressed by this uncle who was five years younger than him. There was nothing he couldn't do.

"What's so difficult about this? The senior technicians in the factory will learn it just by watching. By the way, you are a first-level worker, not a senior technician," Zhang Dabao said, and did not forget to mock Jia Dongxu.

Jia Dongxu didn't care because he was used to it. It was even more okay now because he was a postman.

Chapter 229: Saltpeter Ice Making

Zhang Dabiao is a person with strong execution ability. He came to the factory the next day after thinking of assembling fans. As a student majoring in mechatronics, he had worked as an electrician in society for several years and repaired home appliances for a period of time. For Zhang Dabiao, electric fans were a piece of cake.

But when he went to the factory to look for spare parts, Zhang Dabiao was confused. There was no motor. How could the electric fan rotate without a motor? Could anyone pull the rope to rotate it? The fan blades were no problem. The factory had machine tools and they could just press them out with a thin iron plate. The other parts, such as the base, fan frame, and shaft, were easy to deal with, but without a motor, they couldn't be made.

Zhang Dabao had no choice but to go to the department store again. However, the department store didn't have motors, and even if it did, they wouldn't sell them to individuals. Zhang Dabao was completely at a loss. He couldn't just take the fan out of the space and disassemble the motor. The gap between motors of later generations and current products is too great. If someone with ulterior motives saw it, there would be no way to explain it.

Since making an electric fan himself was not working, Zhang Dabao thought of making ice using saltpeter. Saltpeter can be purchased now and is sold in pharmacies. With this in mind, Zhang Dabao went to four or five pharmacies, bought a bag of saltpeter, and returned to No. 95 Yard.

With saltpeter, Zhang Dabiao prepared two basins, filled the large basin with water, and placed the small basin inside the large basin, making sure the water could cover the small basin. The saltpeter was ground into fine powder, and the ground saltpeter powder was slowly poured into the large basin, shaking it while pouring, until the water in the small basin began to freeze.

There were two basins of ice in the room, and I felt cool from the bottom of my heart. I didn't want to cook at noon, so I just had a bite and then took a rest.

After the nap, the two basins of ice in the room were almost melted, so Zhang Dabiao went out to make two more. As soon as he went out, he saw Jia Dongxu standing at the door, sticking out his tongue and sweating.

"Shut up, are you a dog?" Zhang Dabao couldn't help but scold Jia Dongxu when he saw his expression.

"Seventh Uncle, it's too hot. I can't stand it. What are you holding in your hand?" Jia Dongxu saw the two basins in Zhang Dabao's hands and walked over curiously.

"It's so cool." Jia Dongxu put both hands into the basin with a comfortable expression on his face.

"Don't be disgusting. Go and grind the saltpeter into fine powder. I tell you to make it and I'll make two basins for you." Zhang Dabao saw Jia Dongxu's disgusting expression and kicked him away.

"Seventh Uncle, can ice be made?" Jia Dongxu didn't believe it, because this was already in his blind spot of knowledge.

"Don't waste time, go quickly." Zhang Dabao didn't explain to him because it was too difficult to explain.

Lou Xiao'e next door was also feeling very hot. When she heard what Zhang Dabao and Jia Dongxu were going to say, she came out to watch the fun. Xiao Dang and Qin Jingru also came to the backyard.

Zhang Dabao collected the saltpeter that had just been used, and Jia Dongxu also ground some, and used two basins to make another basin of ice.

"There really is ice. Holy crap, holy crap, Uncle Seventh, are you a god?" Jia Dongxu now simply worships Zhang Dabao.

"Oh my god, this is knowledge, this is science. Your mother asked you to study, why don't you study hard? It's nothing." Zhang Dabao retorted to Jia Dongxu again.

"Where can I find such knowledge? I've never even heard of it," Jia Dongxu explained in a low voice.

"This is saltpeter. The principle of making ice from saltpeter is that saltpeter (potassium nitrate) absorbs a large amount of heat when it dissolves, causing the surrounding temperature to drop, thereby causing water to freeze into ice. This is chemistry, haven't you heard of it?" Zhang Dabao explained to Jia Dongxu.

"Painting, doesn't painting use brushes or pencils? Do you still use these things? When I was in school, the teacher never told me about this," Jia Dongxu answered firmly.

"Get out!" Zhang Dabao didn't want to talk to him anymore.

"Chemistry is a subject that teaches modern scientific knowledge. Dabiao, is this how ice is made from saltpeter?" Lou Xiao'e went to high school and is familiar with this knowledge.

"People in ancient times used saltpeter to make ice. Today I wanted to assemble an electric fan myself, but I didn't have a motor. What should I do when it's so hot? When I passed by a pharmacy, I thought of this method. This is my first time trying it. Sister-in-law, bring two basins and I'll make some for you too," Zhang Dabao said to Lou Xiao'e.

"Okay." Lou Xiao'e went home and brought two basins. Jia Dongxu also brought two basins. Qin Jingru also went back to the house and brought two basins. Then Jia Dongxu ground the saltpeter for an entire afternoon.

Now all the basins are filled with ice and placed in the house, and the feeling I have inside is different.

"Seventh Uncle, can ice be eaten?" Jia Dongxu had some free time and thought of another question.

"It's best not to eat it. Saltpeter will produce a substance during the melting process that can make people sick, and once you get this disease, it's hard to cure. Also, saltpeter will explode when it comes into contact with fire, so don't smoke," Zhang Dabao instructed Jia Dongxu.

It was hot now, and Bang Geng couldn't run any more. He was exhausted when he returned to the yard. When he entered the backyard of Jia's house, Bang Geng shuddered, "Dad, why is it so cool in the house?"

"Did you see what that is? It's ice. How can it not be cool if there is ice in the room?" Jia Dongxu said to his son.

"How much did you spend on it? What a waste?" This was Banggeng's first sentence.

He walked to the basin of ice and put his hand on the basin, "Dad, can I eat this ice?" This was Bang Geng's second sentence.

"You will die if you eat it, there is poison in the ice. Let me tell you, the ice is not bought, we make it ourselves. This is knowledge, don't you know?" Jia Dongxu rarely has the opportunity to educate his son, so of course he has to seize the opportunity to educate Bang Geng.

"What knowledge? Ice can be made? Doesn't it just freeze when the weather gets cold?" Bang Geng asked.

"You don't even know this. This is ice made from saltpeter. Ancient people knew how to make it. Grind the saltpeter into fine powder..." Jia Dongxu told his son the process of making ice.

"Dad, you are so awesome" Banggeng admired his father for the first time.

"So you have to study hard. This is chemical knowledge." Jia Dongxu is very proud now. This is the first time he feels his son's admiration for him.

"Dad, I will study hard. My seventh uncle said that if you don't study hard, you can't become a factory director. My current ideal is to become a factory director. You have been a first-class worker in the steel rolling mill for all these years. You have lost face for our family. I will earn back the face for the Jia family when I grow up," said Bang Geng.

"Get out!" Jia Dongxu was originally very happy, but at this moment his heart was ruthlessly hurt by his son, so he got angry again.

"Isn't what Banggeng said right? It should be you who should get out." Zhang Cuihua, who supported Banggeng, came in with Qin Huairu, Qin Jingru and Xiaodang.

"Dongxu, I've thought about it. There's ice in this room, so a few of us will sleep here. You go to the middle courtyard," said Zhang Cuihua.

"Mom, am I not afraid of the heat?" Jia Dongxu was speechless.

"You're a grown man, what are you afraid of if you get a little hot? Get out of here!" Zhang Cuihua raised her hand to hit him.

"I'll go ask my seventh uncle to do some more," said Jia Dongxu.

"Da Biao and Yu Shui have left, but there are two pots in the Zhuzi room," said Zhang Cuihua.

"I'm going to chat with my uncle-in-law," Jia Dongxu ran out happily again.

Chapter 230 Jia Dongxu has the opportunity to become a cadre

Zhang Dabao prepared two bottles of red wine and two bottles of Xifeng, which should be enough as gifts when he goes to Ji's house for dinner.

The two of them came to Ji's house. What surprised Zhang Dabao was that neither Yu Sinian nor Lei Huanian came. In other words, they were the only two guests invited by Ji Denian today.

"Uncle Ji, Aunt Lin, it's so hot today and I'm sorry to keep you busy. There are too many dishes here," Zhang Dabao said to Ji Denian and Lin Hua after seeing the table full of dishes.

"Da Biao, I've wanted to treat you two to dinner for a long time. But I haven't been able to get everything done at my new workplace, and I've been so busy that I can't get home every day. Now that I finally have some free time, I asked your Aunt Lin to invite you two over," said Ji Denian.