I am in the courtyard, animals are just vegetables!

Cao Dongfang met Qin Jingru and confirmed that this was Qin Huairu's parents' home. As long as there was something good going on, he separated from Qin Jingru and returned to the car to rest.

As for whether Qin Jingru wants to marry into the city and whether Qin Huairu will return to her parents' home, and how many people miss her, it has nothing to do with Cao Dongfang. It is not Cao Dongfang's turn to worry about other people's family affairs.

Cao Dongfang is not a person who likes to meddle in other people's affairs. His job here is to transport ore and do his job well.

"Xiao Xu, how is the food? How is it compared to at home?" Cao Dongfang asked Xiao Xu who was also resting in the car.

“The food is good, big white flour buns, I only eat one a week at most at home.

My mother is not in good health. She needs to eat good food to keep healthy. She worked too hard when she was young. "Xiao Xu said.

"How long do you think we can survive eating white flour buns like this here? Even in the city there is a ration. We only eat ten kilograms a month," said Cao Dongfang.

"I don't know, just eat it if you can. Master Cao, shall we go home tonight? If the dinner is still so good, I want to take some back." Xiao Xu said embarrassedly.

"Go back. It's close here. We can't go back and live there. Just get up an hour earlier tomorrow morning and then go back to the commune." Cao Dongfang said.

"That's fine, getting up an hour earlier is better than staying here. I can also bring the food back so my family can eat it!" Xiao Xu said.

"It would be nice to be able to drive next year and earn some extra money. You should learn to drive as soon as possible. You have been here for less than a month and have never driven a car. There are some things you don't know." Cao Dongfang said calmly.

"Then I'll have to trouble Master Cao!" Xiao Xu said respectfully.

"If you learn, I will teach you. If you don't learn, I won't teach you. It all depends on how hard you work," said Cao Dongfang.

"I will work hard, I will definitely work hard, please rest assured, Master Cao. My father and I are the only ones working to earn money in my family, and I have many brothers and sisters, so we need to earn money." Xiao Xu said excitedly.

"If you have nothing to do later, find an open space and I will teach you how to drive," said Cao Dongfang.

"Thank you, Master Cao!" Xiao Xu said gratefully.

.......

Xiao Xu came in early August. There was no one in charge of the fleet. The experienced drivers were busy transporting steel and earning extra money. Cao Dongfang was relatively free, so Xiao Xu was temporarily registered under Cao Dongfang's name.

Because they were not in a formal master-disciple relationship and they had not been together for long, Cao Dongfang was slacking off and did not pay any attention to Xiao Xu.

Cao Dongfang knew the basic situation of Xiao Xu's family. There were seven people in the family, including his parents and four younger brothers and sisters. Xu's father was the only one in charge of the seven people, and he earned about 50 yuan a month.

My mother is in poor health. She is recuperating and needs to take medicine. Our family conditions are very ordinary.

Xiao Xu had just graduated from high school. His father used his connections to get him into the steel mill fleet as a driver. In those days, drivers were one of the eight major employees and had a relatively promising future.

Half a month has passed, and Cao Dongfang has decided to teach Xiao Xu some skills when he has nothing to do, so that he can become a regular employee as soon as possible, at least be able to drive a car, and become a driver assistant, with a higher salary and some extra income.

In Cao Dongfang's eyes, there is no such thing as teaching a disciple and starving the master to death.

Cao Dongfang didn't teach Xiao Xu out of kindness, he just felt that he should teach him.

.......

I had nothing to do in the afternoon, so I drove to find an open space, came back and told Uncle Jiang that if he needed anything, he could call me, and he started teaching Xiao Xu from the basics.

Cao Dongfang looked at the food in the cafeteria in the evening, got his meal, and gave it to Uncle Jiang. He didn't eat it and would eat again when he got home.

Cao Dongfang was indifferent to the white flour buns and some meat dishes in the cafeteria! The habits of his previous life had a great influence on Cao Dongfang!

Go home! There were fourteen people from the steel mill, and they all decided to go back. They had no place to sleep that night, so they would gather at the entrance of the steel mill at seven o'clock tomorrow morning.

I got home just after seven o'clock. It was not dark yet, but it gets dark late in the summer. I parked the car in the garage, said goodbye to Uncle Jiang and others, and returned home.

"Dongfang is back. Have you eaten?" asked Cao's mother.

"I didn't eat. The food in the cafeteria is average. It's okay for other families, but it's a bit bad for me. I don't want to eat it." Cao Dongfang said.

"Then heat up some dishes. What do you want to eat?" asked Cao's mother.

"Two steamed buns and a bowl of Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. I'll heat it up later." Cao Dongfang said.

"Brother Dongfang, I'll go heat up the food. You take a rest and eat." He Yushui said and went to heat up the food.

"Dongfang, is it okay to use primitive methods to make steel on the streets? I just saw that it was quite lively there." Cao's mother asked.

"It's a different era now, and we're still using traditional methods to make steel. There's no benefit at all. What kind of steel are we making? It's just a pile of iron lumps," said Cao Dongfang.

“Isn’t that just nonsense? No one above is doing anything about it.” Cao’s mother asked in surprise.

"It's difficult to manage. The problem hasn't come out yet. Only when the real problem comes out will everyone understand and someone will take care of it. Now is only the first day..." Cao Dongfang said speechlessly.

"This matter is really difficult to handle. We can't do anything about it. How about the 'Red Star Commune' you went to?" asked Cao's mother.

"Haha, interesting. The steel rolling mill sent five people to my car. Mom, do you know who they are?" Cao Dongfang said with a smile.

"have no idea!"

"Tong Zhi, Liang Ladi, Liu Haizhong, Yi Zhonghai, and the last one, Jia Dongxu, this combination is really weird, I don't know who arranged it.

The Red Star Commune is in Qinjia Village, which is also Qin Huairu's mother's home. I talked with one of her sisters at noon and found out how lively it is! "Cao Dongfang said.

"This is really, three mortal enemies meeting each other, this matter..." Cao's mother was also speechless.

I can only say that the person who assigned the personnel is so talented!

Something is bound to happen to Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and Jia Dongxu, and Cao Dongfang is ready to watch the fun.

.......

"Brother, I went out with Sister Yushui today to watch the fun. The furnace was so high and there were so many people. Everyone in our yard went, including the three aunts.

From morning till noon when I came back for lunch, there were so many people there, it was so lively. "Cao Jiajia said.

"You are so curious at such a young age. Go less often in the future. It's easy for something to happen when there are too many people. It's time for you to go to school after a few days of rest." Cao Dongfang said.

"Okay, let's not go. There are too many people. Sister Yushui and I can't squeeze in, and we can't see anything inside." Cao Jiajia said with some regret.

"Jia Jia, you and Yu Shui should go there less often in the future. That's where they work and accidents can easily happen there, okay?" Cao's mother said seriously.

"I understand, Mom. I won't go there anymore." said Cao Jiajia.

"Brother, I study very well in school. Can you give me a little reward?" Cao Jiajia gestured with her little hand.

"What do you want?" Cao Dongfang asked.

"Pencil case and beautiful pencils! Is that okay?" Cao Jiajia said happily.

"That's fine. I'll give you ten dollars. Go buy it with Sister Yushui tomorrow. Buy both of them. I don't have time." Cao Dongfang said.

"Okay, Sister Yushui and I will go." Cao Jiajia nodded.

"Just spoil her every day!" said Cao's mother.

"It's okay to buy stationery for school, it's for studying!" Cao Dongfang said nonchalantly.

.......

At seven o'clock the next day, five people from the steel rolling mill were gathered at the gate of the steel rolling mill and went to the Red Star Commune to continue the steel-making project.

Today is the first day of the official start of steelmaking. Cao Dongfang pulled back the ore and took a look at the traditional steel-making blast furnace. Everyone was very enthusiastic and everyone had a smile on their face.

They worked very enthusiastically. If one person took 30 kilograms of ore, another would take 35 kilograms. Everyone was competing with each other.

The guy with Liu Haizhong unknowingly ran to the front again and was talking to several commune cadres, pointing and gesticulating from time to time.

Only one cadre occasionally spoke to him, while the other three ignored him and were only concerned about how much steel could be produced in the blast furnace.

Yi Zhonghai, Liang Ladi and Jia Dongxu all consciously did not move forward, but watched the fun in the crowd. They did not understand the real primitive steel-making method, and would only embarrass themselves if they moved to the front.

Tong Zhi had a strange expression on his face, as if he was dissatisfied with the traditional steel-making method. He wanted to say something but didn't dare to, and was hesitating.

Cao Dongfang wanted to laugh after reading this. He had read too much. A technician couldn't handle national policies, not to mention -

Original method of making steel!

You don't understand either. Wouldn't it be better for you to just watch the fun and kill time, and then go back to the factory to work when the time comes?

A technician has too many things to think about every day, and none of them have anything to do with himself.

The people of the Red Star Commune were very enthusiastic, and everyone at the steel rolling mill was watching the fun, including the people brought by Uncle Jiang.

Only Liu Haizhong is pretending to be the boss, a blacksmith, directing the primitive steelmaking, can you do it? Why are you pretending to be so big and powerful!

When Cao Dongfang saw the molten steel coming out, he shook his head slightly and said, "It would be better to say that it was molten iron rather than molten steel."

The quality of this molten steel is so bad that even Cao Dongfang, a layman, can see it. It is far inferior to the molten steel produced by steel mills in Northeast China!

Cao Dongfang has seen it!