Siheyuan works as a nanny for Shazhu

While having dinner in the evening, He Yuzhu told Jiang Feng that the deaf old lady came over after he went out in the morning. She didn't say anything, but just talked about family matters with Li Xiaoyan and looked at He Xiao. Jiang Feng thought about it and thought that since there was no cooking at home, the deaf old lady probably just came to get close to him first so that she could talk to him later if there was anything.

He said to Li Xiaoyan: "Sister-in-law, what do you think about this matter?"

Li Xiaoyan said, "I know, she just came to test me, otherwise why would she choose to come after you two went out? I haven't seen her come during work hours, and now she seldom comes out. But today when I was washing clothes, I saw Yi Zhonghai coming back from the backyard. Do you think it was Yi Zhonghai who ordered her to do so?"

"That won't happen, but the news reported by Yi Zhonghai is true. In fact, Yi Zhonghai has been plotting against the He family for a long time, but he has always kept it as a backup. After several failed plots, he dared not come openly again. This time, the old lady must have wanted to come on her own, maybe she wanted to get to know you better, so that you won't be able to save face if something happens."

Li Xiaoyan nodded after hearing this, and after thinking for a while, she said, "How about this? She is old enough, so just treat her as an ordinary neighbor. Don't invite her into the house, avoid her when you have something to eat or drink, and just say hello when you meet her outside."

"That's a solution, but if you get really close, I'm afraid someone will push it too far. She'll bring it up herself, and you have to think of your words, refuse when you should, and put on a show. Anyway, at worst, the neighbors won't get along anymore, and she'll naturally know that it's useless to try to win you over."

Li Xiaoyan nodded. Now that He Yuzhu and Jiang Feng had gone to work, Li Xiaoyan was the only one at home. He Yushui was still young and no one would go to her to complain. As long as Li Xiaoyan didn't give in, there was nothing others could do. If nothing worked, they could just push the blame onto He Yuzhu and talk about it after get off work.

They chatted for a while, and Jiang Feng saw that He Yuzhu and Li Xiaoya also understood everything, so he added, "Sister-in-law, it doesn't matter. Just do what you want. If you are not satisfied, just say it back. They are just ordinary neighbors who like to act like elders. You don't have to consider whether they are neighbors or not. If you refuse her a few times, she will naturally stop coming."

Li Xiaoyan nodded, and He Yuzhu followed suit: "Except for my father, the elders in my family are all buried underground. Don't pay attention to these people."

Li Xiaoyan smiled and patted He Yuzhu, and Jiang Feng and He Yushui went back to their rooms to rest.

On Monday, Zhang Jiacheng came to the office with dark circles under his eyes, and several people started discussing again. However, this time Jiang Feng was much more proactive. He said that he had been thinking about it at home over the weekend and had some new ideas. In just one day, he completed the information about the rolling mill.

I also told Engineer Zhang that the practical matters are left to you while I take a look at other equipment. Zhang Jiacheng didn't take it seriously. If it weren't for the fact that the factory leaders needed to arrange the production of these equipment, Zhang Jiacheng wouldn't want to do the reporting work. Wouldn't it be better to study the technology himself when he has time?

The National Day was over very quickly, and the Red Star Steel Mill was in the limelight this time. Not only did it have a self-produced equipment as a gift for the National Day, it also completed the test of converter steelmaking. Although it has not been announced yet, everyone who should know it knows that the Red Star Steel Mill is building a converter as a pilot project.

It has been more than two months since the last meeting. The current steel production is only slightly more than the full-year output of last year. There are only more than two months left. Everyone is waiting for the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. This time, Director Yang has been pushed to the forefront.

Director Yang has been under tremendous pressure these days. Not only is he being urged by senior leaders, but acquaintances from factories of the same level have also called to ask, asking overtly and covertly whether he can accomplish the task or not. This year's task depends on the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. In just a few days, Director Yang's mouth has blisters and he wishes he could stay in the workshop instead of the office.

However, when Director Yang heard from the workshop director that it would take at least two months to build the converter, he stopped coming to the workshop. However, he gave Zhang Jiacheng and Master Wang a task to continue production with the previous small converter, to explore more, to give suggestions for the construction of the 15-ton converter, and to ensure that the workers could become familiar with the converter steelmaking process.

Jiang Feng basically doesn't pay attention to the converter now. The small one has been successful, and the big one is just a matter of time. He has also been writing materials. He needs to design the machines that he is familiar with in the steel rolling mill first. As for equipment with other functions, he will have to wait and see. He can't improve the mechanical equipment without having seen them before.

Liu Jingjun brought a letter, saying that they agreed to buy the house. Jiang Feng took a weekend to go and take a look. It wasn't very big, with two main rooms, one east and one west wing room, a small kitchen, and a utility room. There were also yards around it, but they were all separated by alleys, so it was relatively quiet.

The two agreed on a price of 1600 yuan. Jiang Feng felt like he had made a fortune. The next day, they went to the neighborhood office and went through the voluntary donation procedures, transferring the property to their own names. Every weekend, they would take He Xiao to live in the courtyard, and from time to time, they would bring people from Huang Ming's family, Liu Jingjun's family, He Yuzhu's father-in-law's family, and their master's and uncle's family to improve their lives.

Now that Jiang Feng had this place, he would often stay out all night. He always said he was going there to rest. It was much more comfortable for him to enter and exit the space alone. Anyway, He Yuzhu didn't know where Jiang Feng was sleeping.

On December 12, the walls of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill were covered with slogans. Today is the day when the workshop converter officially starts steelmaking. After more than two months of construction and experiments, the 24-ton converter has been completed. Today, leaders from the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry were invited to the site to guide the work. This is also the day when the first rolling mill in the factory was assembled and tested.

At 10 o'clock in the morning, leaders at all levels had arrived at the steelmaking workshop, where high-temperature gases were rising. After receiving a signal from Zhang Jiacheng, Director Yang nodded, the converter mouth was opened, and boiling molten iron with a dark red glow flowed into the ladle.

Afterwards, a group of leaders came to the R&D workshop and attended the start-up ceremony of the rolling mill in the R&D workshop. Director Yang led the leaders to the conference room for a meeting. He first reported the operating data of the rolling mill, which has stronger power and faster speed, and has improved the mechanical performance by 18%, and can be put into mass production.

The data of the steelmaking workshop has also come out. The molten iron began to be smelted at 8 o'clock in the morning, and the molten iron was poured into the converter at 9:20. The smelting was completed at 10:03. The output of the first furnace reached 13.78 tons. The steel can be used as ordinary steel. The converter steelmaking was successfully completed.

Thunderous applause broke out in the conference room. All the leaders from the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry knew that with this data, there would be no problem with this year's targets.

The leader was also in a hurry to go back and make a report. After saying a few words, he took everyone away. The factory continued with production. Jiang Feng was still writing documents in the office. Including the previous two machines, Jiang Feng had already taken out the detailed information of four devices.

However, the current machinery factory is still just a prototype. It is winter now, so we cannot do infrastructure work. But it doesn’t matter. We can train workers in the R&D workshop and assemble machines. We will assemble as many machines as possible. These will be samples by then.

Before the Spring Festival, Jiang Feng took out the detailed information of a total of six equipment. Not only did the steel rolling mill exceed its target by the end of the year, but Director Yang's phone was flooded with calls, and everyone was scrambling to order the first batch of Red Star brand machinery.

Master Wang and a group of steel workers did not go home during the Spring Festival. The order they received was to assist the Sijiucheng Iron and Steel Plant in building a converter. They were given the same salary as a technician as a subsidy. At the end of the year, Sijiucheng still launched a vigorous steel delivery campaign. However, all the steel collected by Sijiucheng was sent to the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. The furnaces of other factories had not yet been built.

In the summer of 1961, the establishment of the Red Star Machinery Factory three years earlier ended China's reliance on imported machinery. The "Red Star" brand machinery and equipment produced by the factory was in short supply in the country, not only in the steel industry, but also in various types of manufacturers, who used their connections to send their machinery to the factory for technical personnel to conduct research and improvement.

Today's machinery factories are able to independently produce more than twenty kinds of equipment. A machinery factory has added four to five thousand jobs, allowing steel rolling mills to enter the era of large factories with tens of thousands of employees ahead of schedule.

The technical department was the most powerful one in the factory at that time. Considering the role played by Jiang Feng in the machinery factory, Director Yang, at the suggestion of the top leaders, promoted Jiang Feng to the positions of Chief of the Technical Department of the Red Star Machinery Factory and Chief of the Technical Department of the Zhangjiacheng Steel Rolling Mill. Both of them retired from their concurrent positions.

Zhang Jiacheng was promoted to level eight engineer, and Jiang Feng was promoted to level nine engineer. According to the top leaders, these machines can now be exported to earn foreign exchange, so the position of an engineer is of little use.

Taking advantage of this favorable situation, the second uncle's family in the courtyard sent Liu Guangtian to work in the Red Star Machinery Factory when it was established through the recommendation of the street office. Now he has been converted to a regular employee and become a first-class mechanic.

Yan Jiecheng entered the steel rolling mill one year earlier than Liu Guangtian. After negotiating with his son, Yan Fugui asked him to hand over 15 yuan per month during the internship. Yan Fugui was finally willing to buy some things and asked his second uncle for help, so he found a fourth-level fitter as a master for Yan Jiecheng. Now he is also a first-level worker.

Jiang Feng is now mainly in charge of the Red Star Machinery Factory, but he also returns to the steel rolling mill from time to time. The three years of hardship have left a trace of hardship on everyone's face.

With the help of Jiang Feng, he often delivered things to some people, including meat, rice, noodles, fish and everything else. Those families were not living so hard, and everyone tacitly gave some money and tickets without asking where the things came from.

Jiang Feng had no choice but to accept it, otherwise the other party would not want the food. But it will be fine soon. The grain production will slowly recover next year, and at least they will be able to have enough to eat.

People in the yard have not had a good time in the past few years. The food rations were not enough and had been reduced several times. Everyone looked pale and basically no one ate meat in the yard. Jia Zhang also came back. Everything was fine when she first came back, but when there was no food, she started making trouble in the yard again.