Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"Mom, there's no need to sleep in separate rooms. I can bear it!"

Zhou Tian's face turned red after hearing what his mother-in-law said. He quickly brushed his teeth and rode his bike to work without even having breakfast.

"This mother-in-law is really tough. She actually asked this kind of question to her son-in-law!"

Zhou Tian was speechless as he rode his bicycle away from home.

But if he thought about it carefully, he could understand his mother-in-law's thoughts, but this was the first time he had encountered such a direct question.

He shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Ten minutes later, facing the cold wind, he arrived at the technical department. After yesterday's incident, the situation of the technical department in the steel mill has obviously improved a lot.

At least on the surface, no workshop dared to make things difficult for the Technical Department again, and progress on the production of cylindrical grinders began to accelerate.

At noon, after lunch, Zhou Tian was still drawing the design of an improved version of the cylindrical grinder in the office when a broadcast sounded.

"Attention, fellow workers! Attention, fellow workers! After a comprehensive, in-depth and detailed investigation by the factory leaders, it was found that the remarks and actions made by Deputy Factory Director Sun and the Fifth Workshop Director Guo Yu against the Technical Department yesterday were completely slanderous and defamatory without any factual basis. Such behavior has seriously undermined the atmosphere of unity within the factory and has had a very bad impact on the normal production order. After serious deliberation by the factory leaders, it was decided to suspend Deputy Factory Director Sun from his post to make him reflect deeply on his own wrong behavior.

As for Comrade Guo Yu and Comrade Zhou Erma, they deliberately provoked the relationship between the workers, maliciously created trouble, and disrupted the normal working order of the factory. Their behavior is extremely bad. With the unanimous and firm agreement of the factory leaders, it is decided to hand Guo Yu and Zhou Erma over to the police station for further processing! "

"Attention, fellow workers! Attention, fellow workers...."

"Vast..."

The three consecutive broadcasts instantly sparked heated discussions throughout the steel mill, and countless workers who knew or did not know the truth began to discuss it.

In particular, some workers who had received favors from Zhou Tian pointed fingers at the workers in the fifth workshop and scolded them for being ungrateful and ungrateful.

As a result, the workers in the fifth workshop were unable to raise their heads in the entire steel rolling mill for a while, and Zhou Tian’s master Liu Wuming even went to the fifth workshop and scolded them for a full hour before leaving.

"Is Director Yang so efficient?"

Zhou Tian listened to the broadcast and was filled with doubt. If it was just an ordinary worker, this efficiency might be acceptable, but it was too fast when it involved Deputy Director Sun!

You have to know that Deputy Director Sun is the son of an official, and his father must be involved behind the scenes. The fact that the other party could easily arrange Deputy Director Sun to work at the steel rolling mill shows that this person's power is not inferior to that of the big leaders in TV dramas.

"Is Director Yang really not afraid of offending the other party?"

Despite this, Zhou Tian was quite satisfied with the result. After all, he didn't suffer too much harm or suppression.

This result is the best outcome he can think of. If he continues to be aggressive, it will cause disgust among many people!

"Is this how it ends?"

Zhou Tian murmured to himself, smiled, no longer had any emotions, and concentrated on the design drawing of the external cylindrical grinder.

Zhou Tian felt that time passed very quickly while working. In a blink of an eye, it was the end of December, and the whole of China was immersed in an atmosphere of national celebration.

As the Spring Festival approaches, the steel mill also began to announce this year's benefits through the radio on December 25. Perhaps because the steel mill's performance has been getting better and better this year, in short, this year's benefits are particularly generous.

Not only did each person have one pound of pork and two pounds of rice, but they also had three feet of cloth.

When the factory announced the benefits, the entire steel mill cheered and the workers lost interest in work. Seeing this, the factory leaders readily let the workers go home after receiving the benefits and announced that tomorrow would be a formal holiday.

As workers continued to flock to the Labor and Wages Section of the Logistics Department, Zhou Tian had already sat in Nie Guodong's office. The two of them chatted while looking out the window at the workers who were queuing up to receive their benefits.

"Chief, I guess it's not easy to get these things, right?"

Zhou Tian couldn't help asking as he watched the workers who received the benefits leaving with their things smiling happily.

You have to know that in 1951, although private transactions were relatively free, large-scale transactions of grain, meat and cloth were not allowed. Although the steel mill was a heavy industrial unit, the state might have supplied grain, meat and cloth, but certainly not in such large quantities.

"It's definitely not easy! For these things, I, your section chief, went to several units and found several former comrades-in-arms before I finally gathered these things together!"

When Nie Guodong heard Zhou Tian's question, he couldn't help but sigh.

Although the workers were very happy when they received the benefits, they did not know how much Nie Guodong had paid for these things. He owed a lot of favors alone, not to mention the mutual exchange and exchange of interests.

However, he couldn't explain this matter in detail to Zhou Tian, ​​after all, many things involved some unspoken rules.

"Okay, let's not talk about this anymore. By the way, I've asked someone to reserve your share of the benefits for you. Do you plan to take it now, or wait until all the workers leave?"

"It's better to wait until the workers have left before taking it!"

After thinking about it, Zhou Tian said, "After all, when I first came here, the section chief had already said that their benefits must be much more than those of the workers. If they take it away now, the impact will definitely not be good."

Instead of doing this, it would be better for him to wait until the workers have gone home before taking it. It would look better that way.

"That's right! If we take it now, it will have a bad impact!"

Hearing Zhou Tian's answer, Nie Guodong nodded in agreement.

Soon, three hours later, most of the workers had left, and Nie Guodong and Zhou Tian came to a warehouse of the logistics department.

He took out the key and opened the door of the warehouse, only to see a lot of pork, rice and cloth inside.

"Here, that's your share!"

Nie Guodong pointed to the rice, pork and cloth that had been packed in net bags and placed on the ground and said.

Zhou Tian nodded, walked forward, took a look, and was immediately shocked.

"Wow, this is ten kilograms of pork, fifty kilograms of rice, and quite a bit of cloth, enough for the whole family to make new clothes!"

Although he was surprised by the number of things, he knew that since the section chief said that they were his, it meant that they had been ordered in advance. As for himself, he didn't have any moral obsession, so he naturally didn't ask more questions. He picked up the bag and walked out with Nie Guodong.

After saying goodbye to Nie Guodong, Zhou Tian put his things on his bicycle and rode towards home.

Twenty minutes later, he rode his bicycle back home. As soon as he stopped the bike, Chang Wen and Chang Wu came out from the back, picked up the things, and the three of them walked into the inner courtyard together.

"Xiaotian, did you buy this?"

As soon as I walked into the inner courtyard, I saw my mother-in-law busy taking apart and washing bedding in the yard. When she saw the three people coming in, especially the things Chang Wen and Chang Wu were carrying, she couldn't help but step forward and ask.

"No, Mom, this is the welfare our factory gave out this year!"

Zhou Tian did not hide anything from his family.

"Benefits? So many?"

As the two were talking, grandma came out of the house. Seeing the four of them talking, she couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Grandson, what are you talking about?"

"Old lady, look, your eldest grandson, my son-in-law, has received benefits from the factory!"

Before Zhou Tian spoke, Li Yuling spoke first, with joy on her face, pointing at the things in Chang Wu and Chang Wu's hands.