Chapter 232: Huahua Has Rarely Come These Past Few Days
Meng Xia looked at her second daughter pushing the cart in, her expression changed a bit, and she walked forward to tell Lu Qiaoge what Grandma Sun had come for.
“……She actually doesn’t have any bad intentions, maybe she just felt uncomfortable and came to me to vent, her family needs compensation for Yaya’s medical expenses and nutrition fees, the neighborhood committee and security department handled it together, they gave ninety yuan in cash all at once, ten jin of grain ration tickets and three jin of meat tickets, actually this counts as lucky, Yaya looks fine, if she really got that rabies, Zhang Zhuliang would go crazy. Those two families are the ones who have a grudge, and it’s a big grudge.”
“You don’t need to worry about her, you did the right thing, Mom and Dad both support you.”
Lu Qiaoge grinned at Meng Xia and said a few intimate words, Su Hui and Qiao Ling also got off work, and several people chatted while washing up.
Today Lu Da got off work very late.
But everyone was waiting for him to eat together.
Lu Da was carrying a lunchbox in his hand, and it seemed like one could smell the aroma of braised pork.
Meng Xia saw her husband so happy, frowned and walked forward, saying in great surprise: “You didn’t drink alcohol either, why are you so happy, hey, what’s in this lunchbox?”
Old Lu handed the lunchbox to Meng Xia and said with a chuckle: “This is braised pork I got from the state-run restaurant, and it’s a large portion too, tonight we’ll celebrate.”
All the Lu family members looked at Lu Da.
Meng Xia kept a straight face: “Did you get a bonus? You’re really such a spendthrift, you don’t know the situation at home……even if you buy braised pork, you can’t buy such a large portion, buy less and I’ll add some cabbage and potatoes, that’s enough for everyone to eat two meals.”
Meng Xia had always been like this, no one felt anything was wrong.
Old Lu waved his hand without keeping them in suspense and said straightforwardly: “I’ll tell you all, I’m now an eighth-grade worker, I passed the assessment. Hahaha, I’ve got my certificate in hand.”
Including Old Lu’s wife, everyone looked at Lu Da in shock.
Only Lu Qiaoge wasn’t too shocked.
She had known about this for a long time.
But she had been very busy lately, and Old Lu had asked Qin Hengzhi to keep it secret, so Qin Hengzhi really didn’t say a word to Lu Qiaoge.
So when Old Lu’s gaze fell on Lu Qiaoge’s face, she immediately acted very shocked, her eyes wide open: “Really? How come I didn’t hear about it at the work unit?”
Old Lu said proudly: “You’re at the neighborhood committee and we’re in the factory area. How could you know about this?”
Then he opened his briefcase and carefully took out a little red book to show Meng Xia.
This time Meng Xia was truly happy.
Eighth-grade worker was top-tier.
Actually, it seemed like only now cadres had higher status than workers. Just a few years ago, eighth-grade workers had higher salaries than factory directors.
This was achieved step by step with skill.
It was not only proof of superb and exquisite technology, but also meant his salary would be very high upon retirement.
Of course, his salary would increase now too.
An extra jin of meat ticket per month.
And one welfare was priority recruitment for children.
Because 516 wasn’t an ordinary state-run factory, Old Lu’s salary was higher than eighth-grade workers at other factories, 129 yuan per month.
Lu Da was elated, and Meng Xia no longer called him a spendthrift.
Lu Da felt he had reached the peak of his life.
At this time, Qin Hengzhi received a phone call.
It was the information on Sun Ziliang that Lu Qiaoge had asked him to find.
As far as he knew, this person really had medical skill, and at a very high level.
Because of the dispute between traditional Chinese medicine and western medicine and getting into a fight with someone, he was dismissed by the hospital, and had almost cut ties with his family.
“I checked, he was a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner back then, and now he has a good reputation at the farm.”
Qin Hengzhi pondered for a moment and said to him: “Brother, do me a favor, transfer this person back to me, um, temporarily transfer him to Jiangcheng, give him a worker target.”
Sun Ziliang was sixty-five, and because he was dismissed, he had no retirement salary, so giving him a worker target, he believed he would agree.
The other party didn’t ask the reason and readily agreed.
Qin Hengzhi hung up the phone.
He thought of Old Gu recuperating at the cadre recuperation center, and had to admit that some people were irreplaceable.
Old Gu was such a person.
If his illness could be cured, then the progress on Project 01 would be much faster than now.
Not to mention there might be other new projects.
He also thought of Qiao Ge asking him to help improve the instant noodle production line, so Qin Hengzhi pulled out a book and started looking for related information.
After reading a few lines, his gaze involuntarily turned to the window, these past few days Hua Hua had come very little.
And swallows, sparrows, even that grey pigeon were almost nowhere to be seen.
Could it be that the big black dog incident made Qiao Ge wary.
Qin Hengzhi’s eyes were gentle, but his heart felt empty.
He sighed silently and continued reading the book.
At the same time, at the Swan Hotel.
Zhen Xi was deep in thought.
The room had only him in it, and he was thinking about what happened that day in the foreign trade section meeting room.
At the time his mind was in chaos, but the seizure happened in front of everyone, in front of those very simple, very strange yet very positive and upward people.
His father had called several times, telling him to come back soon.
But he had delayed setting off.
Speaking of which, the feeling these people gave him was different.
He finally understood what one’s heartfelt sincerity meant.
They treated him well from the bottom of their hearts.
So, he couldn’t embarrass himself in front of them.
Otherwise, he would never be able to set foot in this place in his lifetime.
Just as he was desperately controlling it, a change occurred.
It was like in the blink of an eye, Lu Qiaoge had made him drink a glass of water.
Secretary You told him that glass of water had medicine in it, probably Lu Qiaoge had crushed a pill.
Thinking of this, Zhen Xi frowned slightly, and that hand pressing on his shoulder, thinking back now, seemed to have terrifying strength.
Zhen Xi shook his head, no longer letting his thoughts run wild, his mother told him that one should be clear about kindness and grudges.
So Lu Qiaoge had saved him this time, how should he thank her?
Send a gift?
Definitely not, many habits here were different from Hong Kong, not open, but women went out to work just the same, and could hold many positions, said to be open, yet very strict on male-female relationships.
Especially since he was a Hong Kong businessman, and Lu Qiaoge was a cadre at the military factory.
Then he’d see if he could place more orders tomorrow.
This night was not peaceful.
Assistant Gao and Xiao Ka, who had just gotten information from Secretary You, pretended to smoke and started exchanging information in the corner of the corridor.
“General Manager Zhen had a seizure, but Lu Qiaoge gave him medicine to calm it down.”
“Actually, if he embarrassed himself, it wouldn’t look good for us either.”
“Yeah, after all, this isn’t Hong Kong.”
“So……Lu Qiaoge isn’t the treasure guardian?”
“Probably not, they’ve never had any private contact either.”
“But it’s still a bit suspicious, we should still be careful.”
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The next morning, Lu Qiaoge went to the neighborhood committee, she arrived very early, before everyone had come to work.
Lu Qiaoge left a note for Director Hu, saying she had to go to the archives bureau in the morning, it was the first day helping out, not good to ask for leave, she’d ask for leave in the afternoon and go straight to the foreign trade section……
After writing the note, Lu Qiaoge felt that not having a telephone was really inconvenient.
But actually, not having a telephone was really peaceful.
The kind of peace where one could sleep soundly without worrying about anything.
She didn’t know if advanced communications liberated humanity or enslaved it.
