Chapter 174: Stay Back!
Lu Qiaoge said with a smile, “Since you guarantee it, I guarantee too. As long as you keep your mouths shut, when recruitment time comes, I’ll definitely prioritize admitting you two.”
Sun Da Tian and Xiao Tao excitedly exchanged a glance. For some reason, Lu Qiaoge’s guarantee seemed as good as set in stone.
At this time, Xiao Cangcang flew back and told Lu Qiaoge: 【Little Master, Chen Gou won’t let Xiao Huanghuang leave. If he tries, he cries. He’s quite pitiful. The doctor said there are still many scars from cigarette burns on his body. Xiao Huanghuang has decided to wait for him in the backyard until he gets out of the hospital.】
Lu Qiaoge nodded.
That’s it then. She had to go back to work.
Unexpectedly, Deputy Director Huang from the Neighborhood Committee received a call from the Security Department, asking her to go to the hospital to see if Xiangyang Neighborhood Committee could temporarily help arrange accommodation for Chen Gou.
The two met at the doorway.
Deputy Director Huang was both angry and frustrated. This Ding Jianshe was truly exasperating.
But the Neighborhood Committee had this responsibility, after all, Ding Jianshe was a resident in their jurisdiction.
She didn’t let Lu Qiaoge go with her, telling her to rest well. She asked Elder Sister Tong, who was responsible for this area, to go to the hospital with her.
After everyone left, the crowd started discussing animatedly.
They even asked Lu Qiaoge if she had seen it at the hospital.
Lu Qiaoge said, “I didn’t see it, but I heard a child was sent to the emergency room. He’s out of danger now.”
“Fortunately, fortunately, otherwise this matter would have been huge.”
Lu Qiaoge checked the weather and said to Sister Qiao, “It looks like there will be rain these days. I’ll go to the Food Factory.”
At this time, Ding Jianshe and Chen Ying were also taken to the hospital by people from the Security Department.
Chen Ying had never been so disheveled. She felt like her entire face had been peeled off.
She glared hatefully at Ding Jianshe. If only she had divorced him. Damn it, why did she soften her heart?
But when they saw Chen Gou, Ding Jianshe was stunned, and so was Chen Ying.
To avoid scaring Chen Gou, the hospital had arranged a separate hospital ward for him.
At this moment, the doctor first introduced the injuries, then showed them the scars from cigarette burns.
Chen Ying was a mother and empathized deeply. If her son were treated this way, she would be so upset she’d want to kill someone.
She looked at Ding Jianshe and said word by word, “You confess your issues properly. If you’re sentenced, I’ll take care of this child for you.”
Ding Jianshe clenched his fists, holding back tears in his eyes, and said ruthlessly, “No need. If I go to prison, the organization will take care of him.”
At this time, Deputy Director Huang and Elder Sister Tong also hurried over.
The hospital would cover the medical expenses. The Neighborhood Committee would handle food, drink, and daily needs. Deputy Director Huang arranged for Second Aunt Lin from the Residents’ Committee to take care of Chen Gou these days.
After Ding Jianshe’s issues were handled, they would deal with Chen Gou’s.
But one thing was certain: the work unit wouldn’t let the child go back to the mine.
Of course, if the child strongly insisted, there would be no way around it.
They would talk about that later.
The Neighborhood Committees of this era were truly grassroots organizations, the most humane, and played a very significant role.
When the heavy rain poured down, Lu Qiaoge had also arranged the Food Factory’s work.
Mainly transportation and grain storage.
There were also the sunflower seed baskets from the handicraft group.
The first batch of orders was two-thirds complete. Now everyone was full of energy because they could get salaries next month too.
Meng Qingshan had also taken on more than a hundred bicycle basket orders.
Just like the woven bicycle baskets on Lu Qiaoge’s bicycle.
The price wasn’t high, but it was still income. No wonder Xiao Liu was complaining about the work being hard. Compared to before, it really was tiring and tedious.
All these had to be accounted for by the Finance Office.
Lu Qiaoge said to Meng Qingshan, “This is really troublesome.”
Meng Qingshan glanced at the Food Factory environment. It used to be rundown and shabby, but now it was neat and orderly.
There was a main door and wall, and even a guard room. Moreover, the Factory Director had subscribed to newspapers for them.
This was no longer the old pickle factory or the small workshop others called it.
Lu Qiaoge thought for a moment and said, “Don’t think the Finance Office complains about the trouble and fatigue. If our Food Factory really becomes independent and builds its own Finance Office, they would be the first to oppose it.”
Meng Qingshan truly didn’t understand. “Reducing their burden should make them the happiest. Why oppose?”
Lu Qiaoge said indifferently, “I’m inferring based on Accountant Shen’s style. But if it really comes to the point where we must have our own Finance Office, their opposition won’t matter.”
Meng Qingshan felt relieved, but work was too busy, so he went off to work.
Lu Qiaoge couldn’t do manual labor.
She read the newspaper for a while and pondered the workers’ mealtimes.
There was no canteen now, so at noon everyone had to switch shifts to go home for meals. After all, this place was all about food. If they brought lunches, jealous people might gossip again.
Lu Qiaoge thought to herself, the main issue was still the source of grain and oil.
But at this time, the country’s agriculture was still very backward, with low grain output per mu. Many places had almost nothing left after handing over public grain, and production brigades or communes had to apply upward for relief grain.
However, Jiangcheng was much better than other places.
Mainly because the land was vast and the population sparse.
Since her first enterprise was the Food Factory, she had to find a method to exchange for grain from abroad.
Lu Qiaoge prepared to go to the Research Institute to ask Director He about relevant information.
No, no need.
Lu Qiaoge’s eyes lit up. How had she forgotten about her partner?
Qin Hengzhi, this military representative, was not only an elite in the military but also a top talent in the scientific research domain. What he knew wouldn’t be less than Director He.
Lu Qiaoge put on rain boots, didn’t ride her bicycle, and pushed it toward the work unit.
The Neighborhood Committee was in the residential area. It was now noon off-duty time, with more and more pedestrians on the road. But there was a stretch of cement road ahead where she could ride.
Just as Lu Qiaoge was about to ride, a pile of things was thrown down from an upstairs window of a nearby household.
When it hit the ground, it scattered everywhere.
Pedestrians were startled. Lu Qiaoge naturally couldn’t leave. Who was throwing things indiscriminately? What if it hit someone?
Someone went to look at those things. A person nearby pulled that young worker back and said, “These are things for girls. What are you looking at!”
The young worker blushed because on the muddy ground, splashed with water, there was a faded but clearly girl’s underwear…
Lu Qiaoge frowned and looked up.
Then a young woman with a pale face, visible slap marks on it, hurriedly ran out.
Lu Qiaoge sternly scolded a few male youths watching the spectacle, “Step back!”
She didn’t help pick up the things. There were quite a few girls’ personal belongings here. Even as a woman, it wasn’t appropriate for her to touch them.
The young woman’s tears fell like raindrops, but she had to hurriedly pick up the things thrown into the mud and water.
Grabbing here and there, she looked truly pitiful.
The second floor window opened. A woman stood at the window, pointing at the young woman and cursing loudly, “Shameless! You’re crying now? What grievance do you have? How old are you and still living in the same room with your parents, leaving no place for my son to live? You’re a jinx, a homewrecker. Why did you come back from the countryside instead of staying there?”
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