Chapter 20: What's in the bag

Chapter 20: What's in the bag

Chapter 20 What’s in the Bag

Here in the county town, as soon as Cao Jiandang returned home in the evening, he heard that his eldest daughter-in-law had returned to her parents' home with her two children. Even her eldest son, Cao Dazhu, also followed her back to her mother-in-law's home.

Hearing this, Cao Jiandang's face suddenly dropped, "What's going on? Why did you suddenly go back to your parents' home? Dazhu went back with you too?"

Cao Jiandang's wife was instructing several sisters-in-law and daughters to cook, and replied: "What else could be the reason? Of course it is because they want to have children. The first two of them gave birth to daughters, so they must have sons, but you Look at this house, it’s so small, living like this, how can you let them have a baby?”

 Cao Jiandang looked at the 10-square-meter house in front of him. It was indeed very small. There were 16 people in the family in total.

But there was only one room, with several beds put down, and there was no place to stay. The beds could only be separated by curtains.

 But what's the use of the curtain? It's late at night, if there is a sound, I can't hear it all at once.

Especially when men and women are doing things, the sound cannot be covered up.

 But this child must be given birth to.

Especially at the other ends of the curtain, there are not only the husband’s younger brothers and sisters, but also his own parents-in-law, and the husband’s grandparents.

“If Cuiping hadn’t already had a child in her belly, do you think her parents would have been willing to let her marry her?”

“Look at how difficult it is for my brothers-in-law, Erzhu, and Sanzhu to propose marriage. When the matchmaker heard that it was our family, he immediately shook his head and was unwilling to propose marriage to us.”

"Look at such a small house, how can they marry? Where can they live? Are they being asked to follow their wives back to their parents' homes one by one? As time goes by, it won't be certain whether the son is his or not. .”

“Look at Dazhu, I think he is no different from a son-in-law who comes to your house.”

"After three days, Cuiping took him back to his mother-in-law's house. He called him mother-in-law, and she was more affectionate than my own mother. This son is almost no longer ours."

　　　…”

His wife was still chattering, but the more Cao Jiandang listened, the more upset he became, as if there were countless mosquitoes buzzing in his ears.

“…You are allotted a house in the factory this time. Hey, it would be great if you could also get one.”

“Unfortunately, your seniority is relatively low and you are just a workshop worker. Even if you become the workshop director, you won’t be able to get a house. But this time, you have to be the workshop director.”

 Cao Jiandang continued to be silent for a while, and then responded, "It's not impossible."

Originally, Lu Hong was just talking and complaining casually as usual, but she didn't expect that her husband would reply to her.

She immediately became nervous, came to her husband's side, and said, "Nothing is impossible. Is it something about the workshop director or the house?"

Cao Jiandang's parents, who had no place to sit and could only sit on the bed, cheered up when they heard this.

“Yes, it’s up to you to build a party. Can you get a house?”

 “It would be great if the founding party can really get a house.”

 Cao Jiandang remembered something he heard when he happened to pass by the factory director's office once before.

 This matter has been weighing on his mind for the past few days, and now he can finally talk about it.

 Cao Jiandang’s family members were surprised when they heard about it.

“What, the workshop director can also get a house.”

“Great, build the party. You are about to become the workshop director. As long as you become the workshop director, we can allocate a house.”

“With a house, our family finally has a place to breathe.”

Chao Jiandang listened to what his family said and didn't know. He thought he had become the workshop director and even been assigned a house.

He explained patiently, "Don't you understand what I'm saying? I'm talking about opportunities, and there are dozens of workshop directors. There are only three sets of welfare houses that can be allocated to workshop directors, and..."                                            I feel that this workshop director must be me, am I competing with Xu Aiguo, maybe he will become the workshop director."

At that time, there was no workshop director, no house, nothing.

 His words instantly silenced the originally excited Cao family.

It took a long while before I managed to squeeze out a sentence.

"What does it mean for Xu Aiguo to become the workshop director? You are said to be competing. But Xu Aiguo is a rural man who didn't know how he entered the textile factory in the first place. He became a worker. If he can do better than you, you will have to live a lot. Outstanding Worker Award."

 “This workshop director must be yours.”

“As long as you become a workshop director, you will have a chance to be allocated a room. So what if there are dozens of workshop directors? How many outstanding workers are there, and how many of them have been praised by the leader? None.”

“So, you can definitely become the workshop director, and our family can definitely get a house.”

 The Cao family is very confident that Cao Jiandang can become the workshop director and be assigned a house.

 They are blindly confident in Cao Jiandang and feel that no one can compare with Cao Jiandang.

 A small workshop director is just something in their pocket.

 But Cao Jiandang is not so optimistic.

Leaving aside the matter of dividing the houses, he didn’t know if he could compete with Xu Aiguo as the workshop director.

Of course, in Cao Jiandang's heart, he must be better than Xu Aiguo.

Especially since he is from the county town, Xu Aiguo is just from the countryside.

 But Cao Jiandang is not so sure.

 At the beginning, he joined the textile factory as a successor, but Xu Aiguo, I heard that he got in through connections.

He was afraid that Xu Patriot would use some shady means and use his connections to become the workshop director.

Although Cao Jiandang doesn't want to think so about Xu Aiguo, in the face of promotion and house allocation, everything is fake.

If you can't even be a workshop director, let alone be assigned a house.

 However, Cao Jiandang feels that he will only have one chance to divide a house in the next ten years.

 If he doesn't grasp it, he may not have a chance in the next ten years.

 He is not willing to give in.

 But what should he do?

 Is there any way to properly make him the workshop director and get a house at the same time?

 At this time, the discussion of his family entered his ears.

"Hey, do you have Qianer's newspaper? A worker at the Ontario Steel Plant discovered that the metal materials in the plant had been stolen for a long time. He immediately reported it and eventually caught a lot of moths. If it hadn't been for his report, it would have been tons. All the metal materials were about to be stolen and sold. He saved the factory's important property, and the factory directly rewarded his family with a worker position and gave him a promotion. Now it's even in the newspapers."

"Yes, I heard about it too. It's glorious to read that newspaper."

Cao Jiandang wondered, "Where is the newspaper?"

 (End of this chapter)