"How did you know it was a son? I think you are carrying a daughter this time."
"Xu Huizhen, you don't know that you are destined to have a daughter, and I am destined to have a son, so there must be a son in my belly."
Fan Jinyou didn't even know when it started or when Chen Xueru came up with this statement.
Perhaps after Xu Jingli was born, Chen Xueru finally found a place that could outperform Xu Huizhen and accepted this statement.
"What's wrong with my daughter? I just like my daughter."
Xu Huizhen is also good at speaking out, especially when facing Chen Xueru.
"Of course you can like it, and I like it too, but I just don't have this life."
Chen Xueru pretended to be worried, but it was a pity that her acting skills were a bit lacking, and even a blind person could see that she was not distracted.
The two women were chatting outside, and Fan Jinyou stayed in the courtyard to chat with Cai Quanwu.
Two people chatting is much more boring than two people in a room.
You can think about it, when chatting, a person can only say, um, okay, yes..., then you will know how boring it must be.
In the end, I didn’t even have a meal at Xu Huizhen’s house.
Chen Xueru is so angry with Xu Huizhen that if she dares to stay for dinner, Xu Huizhen will open a jar of good wine to satisfy Chen Xueru.
Although she doesn't drink anymore, Chen Xueru really likes her work.
Pregnancy has not delayed my work, and I might still feel a little uncomfortable during normal times. But when I get busy in the silk store, there are no problems at all.
Xu Huizhen did not lag too far behind. She got pregnant only two months later than Chen Xueru.
The two of them couldn't get along before, one was showing off and the other was drinking.
But after they both became pregnant, they had a common language again.
In my free time, when I can't drink and just chat together, my relationship is much better than before.
At the end of the year, Chen Xueru unexpectedly gave birth to a boy.
Father Fan rarely wants to take charge at home and wants to name his child Fan Xiaojun.
It was also considered that Fan Jinyou knew the origin of the name Fan Xiaojun.
However, Fan Jinyou felt that this name was distorted, so he gave his child a contemporary name, Fan Zhijun, using only one word, so his father's hard work was not in vain.
Naming the child this kind of name is very suitable for Fan Jinyou, a cadre of the subdistrict office.
Xu Huizhen was not surprised. After celebrating the New Year, she also gave birth to a girl, Xu Jingping, the second eldest son of the Xu family.
This result is more like verifying Chen Xueru's words. One gave birth to a son and the other gave birth to a daughter, which made Chen Xueru happy for a long time.
However, 1958 was considered a special year after all. First, a large canteen was opened in rural areas.
By the middle of the year, the influence shifted from agriculture to industry, and came to cities, where large-scale steel smelting was required.
Fan Jinyou no longer had the leisure time before, and became busy.
Street staff, no matter what kind of work they are responsible for, except for those who must remain, are assigned to the neighborhood committees.
Fan Jin is young and powerful, so he is a good worker no matter what.
Fan Jinyou was assigned to his neighborhood committee and reported to the director.
After arriving at the neighborhood committee, we cooperated with the street staff to organize mass meetings, conduct publicity, mobilize the masses, and donate steel.
Of course, most of the people have a high level of consciousness, and for the sake of the country, this is not a problem.
The preliminary work is not difficult, and each company has some reserves of scrap steel.
It can only be said that it is a bit hard. I have to constantly contact the stewards of each yard to communicate and deal with related issues.
Each neighborhood committee also plays to its own strengths. Those who have factories rely on factories. Like this one under the front door, which is owned by merchants, they also leverage their advantages and rely on merchants to collect steel on a unit basis.
As for the director of the neighborhood committee, she doesn't know whether to call her smart or bad.
Count the number of each merchant and advertise it widely.
There is competition and contradiction. In order not to fall behind and strive to be advanced, competition begins spontaneously.
In particular, Chen Xueru has never been better than Xu Huizhen in responding to government policies, whether it was the first public-private partnership or a literacy class.
Therefore, in donating steel this time, Chen Xueru was determined to beat Xu Huizhen.
“Xu Huizhen’s tavern weighs 50 pounds!”
"Chen Xueru's silk shop weighs 60 pounds!"
"###Tea shop 35 pounds."
"Another twenty pounds came from the tavern!"
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The silk shop also specially arranged for manpower to come to the place next to the blast furnace where the director's wife counts the items every now and then to learn about the specific kilograms in the tavern.
The neighborhood committee lady is responsible for counting the weights and is very cooperative with the competition between Xu Huizhen and Chen Xueru.
Especially the weight of the tavern and the silk shop, the neighborhood committee lady shouted the loudest.
If people from the two stores happen to not be watching, the neighborhood committee lady will thoughtfully send someone to the store to inform them.
The tavern no longer sells vegetables during the day, but only sells wine, and the silk shop has also been temporarily closed.
All the manpower in the store was sent out to collect steel.
"Fan Jinyou, if you have nothing to do, don't run around. Either stay at the neighborhood committee and keep an eye on the weight of the steel in the tavern, or you can collect the steel for me."
Chen Xueru said anxiously, saying something slowly seemed like a waste of time.
At this time, Cai Quanwu was very interesting, and by default he belonged to the tavern.
In order to keep the specific weight of the steel collected in the silk store secret, Chen Xueru did not dare to keep Cai Quanwu in the store.
Originally, the relationship between Fan Jinyou and Sun Ziqiang was okay, and it was not difficult to inquire about other matters through Lao Sun.
However, for Lao Sun, who is looking forward to promotion, the honor of whoever donates the most steel is also very important. It is impossible for Fan Jinyou to get information about the tavern from him.
From the information point of view, the silk store lost first and gave away Cai Quanwu, a man in charge.
Cai Quanwu cannot underestimate the ability of one person to collect steel, which can rival several others.
I found a cart and started pedaling again. This was also half of Cai Quanwu's specialty.
Being able to get to know Xu Huizhen so well, I began to look forward to riding a tricycle to the hospital and riding a scooter to drink.
I am also very familiar with the various alleys.
Fan Jinyou was busy with the arrangements of the neighborhood committee and was not idle after get off work. He could not go home to see his children, so he was arranged by Chen Xueru to go out to find steel.
Riding a bicycle and carrying two baskets, I wandered around the streets and alleys all day long.
As time goes by, steel becomes increasingly difficult to collect.
The battle situation between Xu Huizhen and Chen Xueru is becoming more and more anxious. The difference in total sales every day is in single digits. However, the gap between them and other stores has widened far.
There is not much difference between the two stores because both the tavern and the silk shop have some steel stocks.
They are all preparing to give each other a decisive blow in the end, the kind that even if they want to catch up, they can't catch up.
Two stores, in order to know each other's inventory, understand each other's trump cards, and use various methods to find out information.