The Green Tea’s Crushing Victories in the ’70s

Chapter 13 Thirteen cups of green tea

Tong Xuelu squeezed her sore and stiff shoulder, she didn’t want to continue this work.

In textile factories, weavers and stevedores are the most exhausting types of work, but stevedores can have a rest, but weavers cannot. They work hard from work to work, and work overtime at night.

Unbearable.

She must change her job!

When Tong Xuelu was so tired that she wanted to get down, the bell rang when she was off work.

Her eyes lit up, like a flock of sheep being released from a fence, following the workers and rushing towards the cafeteria.

“Come to a wowotou.”

Tong Xuelu came to the window in a light car and handed over the prepared food stamps and rice bowls together.

Master Huang in the canteen hit the Wowotou in her rice bowl, and asked a lot: “Comrade Xiaotong, are you enough to eat just one Wowotou every day? Don’t you order some meat and vegetables?”

Tong Xuelu showed an awkward smile that was just right: “No, I’ll wait until the salary is paid.”

Upon hearing this, Master Huang and the surrounding workers cast sympathetic glances at her.

Because of the propaganda of Xu’s mother and Qiu Guan, almost everyone in the family compound and textile factory now knows that not only her parents have died, but her grandmother is also crazy.

It’s so pitiful, but she is only eighteen years old, and the burden of the family falls on her alone.

Director Ma of the workshop walked over and said: “Master Huang, give her a scallion pancake and a piece of fried pork with cabbage. The food and meat tickets count as mine!”

Tong Xuelu hurriedly waved his hand: “No need for the director, I can just eat Wowotou.”

Director Ma couldn’t help but she refused, grabbed her lunch box and handed it over: “What are you polite to me, can’t I afford to eat this?”

Her little girl is going to get married next month. The man is the son of the deputy director of the Bureau of Education. He has a good family background and a good-looking person. He values ​​her little girl very much. The single betrothal gift amount is 180 yuan. Come here with a sewing machine, a watch, and a radio.

They discussed these things, and they didn’t leave them for the girl to take over. At the same time, she wanted to give her a long face, buy her a bicycle, and make enough for three revolutions.

It’s just that the bicycle ticket is very rare, and you don’t see one all year round. Although you can buy a bicycle with a normal industrial ticket, you need fifty.

The number is too large. The family has collected two or three months and still has seven tickets. Tong Xuelu didn’t know where to find out about her difficulties. The next day she came to work, she came to her with seven industrial tickets and asked her to Use it first, but don’t get any rewards!

Do you think such a kind-hearted girl can be unloved?

Not to mention inviting her to eat one meal, she is willing to even invite her to eat ten meals.

Seeing that Tong Xuelu couldn’t stop it, she had to say thank you to Director Ma. Looking back, Master Huang gave her more weight than others, and quickly said thank you. Then Director Ma took her to the table aside for dinner.

Director Ma took a bite of the scallion pancake, looked around, and said in a low voice, “Director Yu will be back today. I will help you urge him to get his pension when I turn around.”

Tong Xuelu’s apricot eyes are watery, and she is grateful: “Thank you, the director. Since I was a child, others have said that I am very lucky and always meet noble people. I didn’t believe it very much before, but now I believe it. When the factory comes, don’t you meet a distinguished person like you, the director?

After being said to be a noble person, Director Ma suddenly laughed so hard that he could not see his teeth: “You child, what noble person is not expensive! But if you have any difficulties in the future, please come to me!”

“Thank you Director, it is the greatest blessing of my life to meet the Director!”

Tong Xuelu’s eyes were red, and she looked at her with gratitude and admiration.

Director Ma’s heart was full, and at the same time a sense of sacred mission surged.

Such a poor child, she has to take care of her a lot. It is one thing to invite her to dinner, and she will have to arrange less night shifts in the future…

**

At noon, Director Yu returned as expected.

This time his wife was ill in the country, and when the phone called, he said that she was going to die soon, and asked him to go back quickly. He hurriedly arranged the affairs and left.

In the past few days, he drove the car overnight, went back and stayed up all night to take care of his mother. He was so tired that he was out of shape. When his mother came through, he drove back to Beijing again overnight.

As soon as he sat down and couldn’t even take a sip of water, Director Ma came in with a serious face.

“Director Yu, I have something to tell you about the Tong’s pension.”

Director Yu put down the enamel jar in his hand: “You said.”

Director Ma learned how hard-working the Tongs and his wife were before their death, how pitiful the children were after their death, and said that Dajun Tong’s mother was crazy. In short, what happened to the Tong family can be said to be tragic. If Director Yu doesn’t give the pension quickly Tong Xuelu, he is a careless person!

People who can sit in the position of the factory director are naturally not able to fool around in a few words: “You mean that the girl Tong Dajun has returned and is still working in the factory now, right?”

Director Ma nodded: “The child is serious about his work, and he takes care of his younger brothers and sisters. He is a particularly reliable child.”

Director Yu waved his hand: “Okay, I see, you can let her come over.”

He didn’t believe what Director Ma said.

People who can’t even recognize their own biological parents, it’s a real shit!

Director Ma didn’t know what the factory manager thought, so he stood up and hurried to inform Tong Xuelu.

After thanking Director Ma, Tong Xuelu walked towards the factory director’s office without a panic.

Most people who can be called green tea are people with first-class observation skills.

As soon as Tong Xuelu entered the door of the office, she immediately noticed Director Yu’s dissatisfaction with her.

The explanation was pale at this time, and she decided to take a preemptive move.

As she walked in, she took out a piece of paper from her pocket: “I heard that the factory manager’s mother is not in good health. I have a prescription left by the former imperial physician, which has the effect of strengthening the body. The director sees whether it is appropriate or not.”

“…”

Director Yu got stuck in his throat if he wanted to blame, and got stuck in his throat if he wanted to refuse.

The doctor’s prescription is a good thing.

His mother’s body was broken when she was young, especially during the years of the Great Famine. In order to save food for their brothers and sisters, she became skinny from hunger. Although her life gradually improved, her body did not get better.

He paused, then picked up the prescription and said, “This prescription…Where did you come from?”

Tong Xuelu said nonsense solemnly: “I gave it to my adoptive parents.”

The prescription was actually given by an old Chinese doctor in the previous life. It has a certain nourishing effect on the body, and most people can use it.

“Thank you, Comrade Xiaotong.”

Tong Xuelu has a well-behaved appearance: “You are welcome, the director, you should put the prescription away quickly, don’t let people see it.”

Factory Director Yu folded the prescription and put it in his pocket, and then asked: “Your parents had an accident before, why have you not shown up?”

After all the above, his tone actually softened obviously.

Unexpectedly, Tong Xuelu’s eyes reddened, and she started her performance in a second.

“I know that in the eyes of the factory manager, I am an ignorant child, but the parents who have lived together for so many years suddenly said that they were not my parents. I was really scared and confused at the time. When I am not afraid, I am not confused anymore, my dad. Mom and they woo woo woo…”

“I used to have a sincere family affection placed in front of me. I did not cherish it. I regretted losing it. The most painful thing in the world is this. If God can give me another chance, I will treat my parents Say three words: I’m sorry!”

At the end, she looked sad and tears rained down.

Director Yu was most afraid of a woman crying. Seeing her crying into tears, she suddenly became one of the first two big people: “You should stop crying! Knowing your mistakes can improve the great things. This person will do wrong things, not to mention that you are young. After all, if your parents know about it, they will definitely forgive you!”

Tong Xuelu looked at him with tears, “Really? Will my parents really forgive me?”

Director Yu nodded quickly: “Yes!”

Tong Xuelu said with a relieved look: “I feel a little better after hearing what the factory manager said.”

Director Yu saw that she finally stopped crying, and he was relieved.

He thought that the child had no conscience before, but now that she cried to tears, and said a lot of truthful things, he felt that he might have misunderstood her.

What’s more, he also accepted her a prescription, so how am I embarrassed to say any more words of reproach?

Tong Xuelu wiped away her tears, and said with a serious face: “The past is useless. I just want to work hard to support my three younger siblings, and wholeheartedly train them to be useful to the country and the people, the director, please The organization and the factory supervise me!”

“Very good! It’s rare that you have this awareness when you are young, and you will continue to maintain it in the future.”

Tong Xuelu is high-spirited: “As the factory manager, I will dedicate my whole heart to the factory and Tong’s family, and strive to become an active member of the workforce!”

Upon hearing this, Director Yu finally nodded in satisfaction, stretched out his hand to open the drawer, and took out the pension in it.

He originally planned to hand over the pension to the people in Tong’s hometown, but now that Tong Xuelu is not as unreliable as the rumors, it doesn’t matter if the pension is handed over to her, anyway, it is all from their Tong’s family.

Tong Xuelu walked out of the office with the pension, looked around no one, sniffed the envelope.

It’s the smell of money, it’s so sweet.

But acting was too tired and too hard, so she decided to skip work and give herself a vacation.

Soon, she got the leave slip from the workshop director Ma.

Reason for asking for leave: I want to buy supplements and send to my crazy grandma to eat.

Director Ma sees her being so filial, why is there any reason not to approve?

From the factory, Tong Xuelu went straight to the state-owned hotel.

**

When I arrived at the state-owned restaurant, there were no other guests in the restaurant because the meal had already passed.

The two waitresses were sitting aside chattering.

“Comrade, is there any meat now?”

In order to create the image of a poor family, she has only fried greens or sauerkraut at home these days, and her mouth has almost faded.

“No, no, the meal is over, and I still want to eat meat, eat meat!”

The short-haired waitress responded impatiently.

With this attitude of service, you will be drowned by people’s saliva in a few minutes in modern times, but in this era, waiters are so proud!

Tong Xuelu would not be angry for the rudeness of others: “Then what else can you eat now?”

Another long-haired waiter said: “There are mung bean syrup and red dates steamed cake, would you like it?”

“If you want, give me a copy of each.”

The long-haired waitress said: “Mung bean syrup is a dime and a penny a bowl, and red jujube steamed cake is nine cents a dollar, a total of two cents, and the food ticket is two or two sugar tickets.”

It’s so cheap.

Tong Xuelu quickly paid out the money and tickets.

The long-haired waitress took the money and tickets to bring things over, and then went into the big business of chattering.

The mung bean syrup is not sweet enough, and the red date steamed cake is not bad.

Tong Xuelu’s mind was spinning while eating.

Beihe’s hometown should receive letters in these two days. It only takes one day and one night to travel from Beihe to Beijing. In other words, they should come over next week.

Now that her household registration has been set up, her pension has been paid, and a workstation has been sold. Generally speaking, her task has been completed.

It would be more perfect if I could change myself to a relaxed job.

At this moment, the voice of two waitresses came from behind—

“Why does your cousin want to change seats with you? Both of you work in state-owned hotels. What can I change?”

The long-haired waitress sighed: “My cousin, her mother-in-law and husband always beat her. She wants to find a job far away from home so that she doesn’t have to live at home, so maybe she won’t be beaten.”

Although she sympathizes with her cousin, her family is here, not to mention that she has no place to live in the city. Is it possible for her to rent a house?

“I think even if you are willing to change, her mother-in-law and husband will not let her come over!”

“You really got it right. She called the next day and said that she wouldn’t change it. Then my mother said that she was broken by her husband just by mentioning it…”

Tong Xuelu’s eyes rolled.

State-owned hotel…

This is a good job. It’s not tiring and I can eat and drink every day.

And she likes cooking, this job is almost tailor-made for her.

Tong Xuelu swallowed the red jujube steamed cake in one bite, ready to start her performance again.

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[Note] “There used to be a sincere family affection in front of me… I’m sorry!” This passage is adapted from the classic line of the movie “Western Journey”.