Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

Opposite Yi Zhonghai's house in the central courtyard, an old lady with completely white hair was sitting at the door, wearing an old cotton-padded jacket.

The old woman didn't seem to be afraid of the cold. She was holding a porcelain bowl in her hand with a white steamed bun in the bowl;

The steamed bun was cold and a little hard, but the old woman still took bites of it stubbornly. With every bite, the wrinkled skin on her face would tremble, which had become loose due to weight loss.

This is the Jia Zhang who was released!

Jia Zhang suffered a lot in prison. She was born in 1906 and is sixty years old this year, but she looks like she is in her seventies or eighties.

She was in prison, looking forward to her son coming to see her every day and telling her when she could be released, but neither her son, grandson, or daughter-in-law came to see her.

Later this year, just a few days ago, she was released and returned to the courtyard, only to find that her son was gone.

During these two days, Jia Zhang has been eating all the time. No matter where Qin Huairu worked hard to find the delicious food, or who it was for, she ate it all, as if she wanted to make up for all the food she didn't eat during the days in prison.

"Old Yi, I see Qin Huairu's mother-in-law is in such a state, something bad might happen." Liu Haizhong glanced at Jia Zhang from the window and said, "If something happens at this critical moment, no one will have a good New Year."

"It's okay. She's an old woman who doesn't like her daughter-in-law and grandson. What can go wrong?" Yi Zhonghai didn't care too much. He took a sip of tea and said, "He wants to deal with Zeng Wangcai, but is Zeng Wangcai someone he can deal with now? You know the situation of the Zeng family. Even if she gave up her life, she still can't deal with him."

Ever since Zeng Wangcai solved the problem of not returning, the Zeng family has returned to its previous state.

This led to Yi Zhonghai, who was at the section chief level, and Liu Haizhong, who was at the deputy section chief level, temporarily stopping their actions and not daring to continue to oppose the Zeng family.

The gap is too big.

But Jia Zhang was not like that. After she came back and learned how her son died, Jia Zhang went into revenge mode. She didn't say much every day, ate when there was food, and wandered around after eating. No one knew where she was going.

"Old Yi, what do you think about the support for the automobile company organized by the factory this time?" Liu Haizhong stopped talking about Jia Zhang and turned to talk about the recent big news in the industrial circle.

The automobile company officially began to prepare to set up a new automobile manufacturing plant from scratch. The first thing to prepare was land, but this was everywhere and there was no need to mobilize; the second thing was personnel and equipment. Not to mention equipment, machines have no thoughts and do not need to be mobilized. The only thing that needs to be mobilized is people.

From old automobile manufacturers, military factories to ordinary machinery factories, all received the mobilization order from the ministry. The mobilization order stated that in order to support the construction of the automobile company, a group of people with skills and the ability to endure hardships were needed to support the construction.

Why is mobilization necessary?

This is because grassroots staff do not know as much as senior management, nor do they have as many choices as senior management. Work is something that affects one's entire life, and grassroots staff feel that a car company that was built from scratch, particularly one that is a partnership with a private investor, is unreliable and unstable.

"Why, do you want to go?" Yi Zhonghai did not answer, but asked Liu Haizhong instead.

"I'm a little tempted!" Liu Haizhong hesitated. "You know my relative doesn't like to talk to me now. I plan to visit him during the New Year. If there is still no movement, I will go to the automobile company. According to the management, I, a deputy section-level official, must be promoted to a section-level cadre..."

Liu Haizhong became a team leader and a deputy-section-level cadre, but instead of satisfying his desire for power, he became deeply trapped in it and was very dissatisfied with the status quo.

"If you want to go, I can't stop you." Yi Zhonghai nodded, and did not persuade Liu Haizhong, but only talked about the time issue, "It's still early, and the inspection team hasn't come back yet, who knows what's going on, you still have time to think about it, I think, even if the technical staff go, it will be the middle of next year at the earliest, you can take a look first, by the way, the factory will distribute benefits tomorrow, we can go back together."

"Okay, by the way, what are you going to buy with the industrial vouchers?"

"I want to buy a TV."

"Hey, I think the same as you. I've asked around. We can get tickets. Not many people are buying them right now."

"Of course, it's that much money, and there aren't that many programs..."

The Sijiucheng TV station, which has only been on the air for a few years, now broadcasts programs every day except Tuesday, but the program formats are very limited.

However, this is already amazing for now.

Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong both wanted to buy a TV so that they could have fun during the New Year. They heard that in 1958, there were only a few dozen TVs in the entire city.

The situation may be better now, but not much better. It is a great honor for a family to have a TV.

Outside, Qin Huairu suddenly came back with a bag in her arms.

When she came to the door and saw her mother-in-law eating cold steamed buns, she couldn't help but say, "Mom, even if you want to eat it, you should heat it up before eating it. Also, you can ignore Banggeng and Xiaodang now that they are grown up, but you have to take care of Huaihua, right?"

"I don't care about her!" Jia Zhang cursed viciously, "Who knows whose bastard she is? I'm lucky enough that I didn't strangle her to death. Why do you want me to care about her?"

Jia Zhang's mentality changed completely, and she treated everyone like an enemy.

Jia Zhang was especially angry at Huaihua, who was born when she was away.

Jia Zhang learned the specific date of her son's death and Huaihua's date of birth. After some calculation, she felt that Huaihua was a bastard born between her daughter-in-law and a strange man, and that he was a shame to the Jia family.

My son is gone, my revenge is not yet taken, my daughter-in-law is not faithful to her husband...

These two are the greatest hatred in Jia Zhang's heart.

"If you say that again, get out and go to the countryside!" Qin Huairu disagreed and said coldly, regardless of whether they were outside or not.

"Why should I go to the countryside? You should go first!" Jia Zhang suddenly got angry and stood up to quarrel with Qin Huairu, "This is my Jia family's house, you want to drive me out? What a joke, even your current job is..."

"You want to take over, right?" Qin Huairu interrupted Jia Zhang with a sneer, "Go and ask around and see how much trouble your son has brought to the family. With a person like him, who would let me take over?"

The quarrel brought out Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong. They ignored Jia Zhangshi and just advised Qin Huairu to calm down and not be angry.

"Uncle, uncle, look at her..." Qin Huairu felt miserable, tears streaming down her face. "Is there any grandmother like her? She always fights for food with her grandson. It's almost New Year's Day, and I don't even have enough flour left for making dumplings at home, because she eats it all.

"You can eat it, but at least leave some for the child, right? But she only cares about herself. She even eats the rice you sent for making porridge with Sophora japonica flowers..."

Jia Zhang, who had been there before, was not afraid at all. She glanced at the two of them and went in on her own.

"This is also a headache!" Yi Zhonghai frowned and said, "If you do this, your factory will distribute welfare benefits tomorrow. When you get back, leave the things at my house and let your aunt keep them for you. You can have the New Year's meal at my house this year, and leave a portion for your mother-in-law. Take your time. After all, she is your mother-in-law. Just ease the relationship and it will be fine."

What could Qin Huairu say but to agree.

She fed her children at home, turned around and went out, stopped at Zeng's house, called "Auntie", went into Zeng's house and talked to Chen Yumei.

"Aunt, please have pity on us and talk to my uncle to let me work at the car company..."