"I won't go and I won't write!" Wang Zhong had no intention of giving in.
With a bang, the teapot that the factory director had just picked up was slammed on the table: "Zhou Bingkun, this is not asking for your opinion, but informing you that this is the decision of the factory branch."
"Then I have to listen carefully. Is it because Tu Zhiqiang and I are both phototypes? We are colleagues with him?" Wang Chong smiled. This reason can be cited.
Xu Hongbing said with a straight face: "Zhou Bingkun, what's your attitude! Do you dare to disobey the decision of the factory branch?"
Wang Zhong showed no fear: "Then you are still Tu Zhiqiang's leader. If there is a murderer under your command, you have nothing to do with it? Why don't you go and see it? Why don't you write an inspection?"
"You..." Xu Hongbing, the factory director, was so angry that his face turned green. He stared at Wang Zhong with his eyes wide open and an angry look on his face. Who dared to talk to him like this in the factory: "I am the factory director. How can I talk to you?" It is the same?"
"Why, the factory director is superior to others? Aren't we, the people, the masters of the affairs now? Why do I hear what you mean? The factory director must be aloof, and what he says is an imperial edict?"
"You, you, you..." Xu Hongbing was so angry that he slapped the table and stood up, pointing at Wang Zhong with a trembling hand, and the fat on his face trembled, "Nonsense, nonsense! Unreasonable!"
"Zhou Bingkun, you are just a troublemaker. I left my words here. If you still want to work in our lumber factory, just come and see me honestly and write the inspection honestly. If you don't want to work anymore, just Ma Liu, get out of here!"
"You don't need to rush me. I'm a leader like you who can't tell the difference. I won't wait for you anymore!"
Wang Zhong threw the towel around his neck onto Xu Hongbing's desk, turned around domineeringly, and left the factory director's office without looking back.
"Zhou Bingkun, let me tell you, you have been fired from the factory!" In the office, Xu Hongbing roared at the top of his voice, with a ferocious face, and the loud voice spread throughout the entire factory office building.
"What? You quit?" As expected, as soon as Wang Zhong got home and told Li Suhua about this, Li Suhua exploded.
"You brat, you're not going to do it. Do you want to take such a good job in the lumber factory just because you don't want it? That's an iron rice bowl!" Li Suhua became anxious, chasing Wang Zhong with the rolling pin and beating him.
Wang Zhong explained while running. In the end, he cooperated and was severely beaten several times by Li Suhua. He explained with great effort, and then brought up the matter of writing articles for the magazine as an excuse, and also took out five hundred The RMB yuan was said to be the royalties earned over several years, which temporarily appeased Li Suhua.
Although the magazine company made more money, in Li Suhua's eyes, the iron rice bowl in the lumber factory was more reliable, which made Li Suhua feel unhappy the whole night.
It was the next day when Wang Zhong went to Taiping Hutong to invite Zheng Juan back that Li Suhua's face looked a little better, but when she saw Wang Zhong, she still couldn't help but scold him.
However, with Zheng Juan on the side to help and persuade, the situation has improved a lot.
But soon Li Suhua's mind was caught by another thing.
Zhou Zhigang and Zhou Bingyi both wrote letters saying that they would come back. They made Li Suhua happy. She was cheerful all day long. When she had nothing to do, she would just be silly and happy, and her eyes were filled with anticipation.
On Zhou Rong's side, the three-year period agreed with Wang Zhong is about to expire. I heard that Cai Xiaoguang is ready to use his connections to find someone to help Zhou Rong arrange work.
At this time, if the educated youth wants to return to the city, they can only return to the city through illness, poverty, replacement, recruitment, etc. It is really difficult to do so if there is no relationship with the family.
Cai Xiaoguang's father is now a high-ranking official in the Revolutionary Committee. He has a broad career and great reputation. He himself is willing to work for Zhou Rong, so naturally Wang Zhong will not stop him.
Knowing that her husband, son and daughters would be coming back for the New Year, Li Suhua started making preparations early.
Since resigning from the lumber factory, Wang Zhong has been free. Although his daily exercise time has increased by two hours, he still has a lot of free time.
With nothing to do, Wang Zhong pondered over the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual" and found a carpenter. He spent some money privately and learned carpentry from him.
With a mental attribute of up to 20 and agility attribute that is nearly half that of an ordinary person, Wang Zhong learned this carpentry job very quickly. The master taught him twice and he could memorize it all. After practicing it three to five times, he could find the trick.
In just half a month, Wang Zhong added several small stools to his home.
After another month, Zheng Juan's house had an extra cupboard, a wardrobe, a square table, four stools, and a pile of wood shavings piled up against the wall under the shed in the yard.
Wang Zhong also planned to help Zheng Juan's family replace the courtyard door and the room door together.
It's almost the twelfth lunar month.
It started to snow early in Jichun, and it was getting colder day by day.
Li Suhua knew that the Zheng family lived a relatively poor life, so she specially obtained some bathing tickets from Qiao Chunyan and asked Wang Zhong to take Zheng Juan's family to the public bath for a good bath.
He also specifically asked Wang Zhong not to forget to prepare New Year's goods and pork for the Zheng family. During this Spring Festival, Zheng Juan will be the daughter-in-law of the old Zhou family.
Zheng Juan was often taken to the bathhouse by Wang Zhong, but Zheng's mother and Guangming didn't go there much. Usually in winter, they just wiped themselves with hot water at home.
On this day, Wang Zhong replaced the courtyard door of Zheng's house with two new doors that were half a person's height made of wood chips and square logs. He had dinner at Zheng's house, and brought Zheng Juan, Aunt Zheng and Guangming with him. I put on a change of clothes and headed to the public bath.
Guangming is happy to go, but Aunt Zheng is a little reluctant to go: "I am quite old and my legs are not strong enough, so I won't cause trouble for you. Just take Juaner and Guangming with you."
Wang Zhong knew that Aunt Zheng was reluctant to part with the bath ticket and the little money.
"Auntie, that's not what it says. This medical book says that taking more hot baths can open the pores on the skin and promote internal and external circulation, which is good for the body."
"And at your age, if you take more bubble baths, it can promote blood circulation, cell respiration, and metabolism. There are many benefits."
"Why else would so many adults like to go into the bathhouse?"
Zheng's mother didn't know this, and she didn't know what cellular respiration was. She was stunned for a moment when Wang Zhong said it.
However, Wang Zhong’s words were not meant to fool Aunt Zheng.
Zheng Juan knew what Wang Zhong meant and hurriedly persuaded: "Mom! Just go with us!"
Guangming, who was almost as tall as Zheng Juan's shoulders, also took Zheng's mother's hand and persuaded her.
Zheng's mother struggled for a long time, but in the end she couldn't resist the three of them and was dragged away together.
Unexpectedly, as soon as the four of them arrived outside the public bath, they encountered two young men coming out of the bath carrying an old man wrapped in a military coat and his bare feet kept complaining that it hurt.
"Comrade, what's wrong with this?"
"This man slipped inside and fell on his leg!" The young man was an employee of the bathhouse. Another man wearing the same work clothes pushed a tricycle, and a middle-aged man wearing a thick cotton coat. They worked together to push a tricycle. The uncle moved to the cart.
"Look at the fall!" Mother Zheng looked at the groaning old man lying on the tricycle, and suddenly felt compassion again.
Wang Dian nodded, "It does look serious."
This kind of injury can be minor or serious. A minor injury can heal after a short rest. A severe injury like this can cause Wang Zhong to have broken bones and have to lie down on the bed without being able to get off the ground.
The two young men were only wearing single clothes. It was cold outside, so they had to go in and change clothes first. But after going in for a while, they didn't come out. The middle-aged man who looked like a leader was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot.
But I didn't see him taking the initiative to take the uncle to the hospital by bike, just worrying there.
The uncle lay groaning in the car, with one leg exposed. The wind was not strong this time, and he felt cold even wearing a cotton-padded jacket.
Zheng's mother was kind-hearted. Seeing this scene, she could not sit still. She immediately said to Wang Zhong: "Bingkun, how about you..."
"OK!"
When Wang Zhong saw this scene, he immediately had an impression. Could this old man be Ma Shouchang?
"Let me take you to the hospital!" The middle-aged leader thanked Wang Zhong repeatedly as if he was grasping at a life-saving straw.
Wang Zhong took off his cotton-padded jacket and asked Zheng Juan to cover the uncle's feet. He got on the three-wheeler, gave Zheng Juan the money and bath tickets, and asked them to go in first. He would take the uncle to the hospital and come back.
Although the weather was cold, his body warmed up after staring at the tricycle. The road was slippery in the cold weather, so Wang Zhong did not dare to ride too fast.
"Uncle, just hold on, we'll be there soon."
"Young man, you gave me your coat, you're not cold at all!" Ma Shouchang saw that Wang Zhong was only wearing a sweater and asked, enduring the pain.
"I'm young and full of firepower!" Wang Chong said with a smile.
Seeing that it was getting dark, I sent Uncle Ma to 131.
"My name is Ma Shouchang. Just tell me my name when you go in!"
Wang Zhong hurriedly ran in. As soon as the nurses on duty heard the words Ma Shouchang, they immediately hurriedly called for someone to come out with a stretcher and carried the old horse into the hospital with such deft movements.
Wang Zhong didn't mind doing good deeds without leaving his name behind, but Ma Shouchang and Qu Xiuzhen were very close to Wang Zhong's taste in terms of character and outlook. Wang Zhong didn't mind making friends with them, and he said no. There will be trouble for others in the future.
Wang Zhong was not high-minded, so he left his name for the nurse who chased him and asked for his name, and rode a tricycle back to the public bathhouse at full speed. There was no old man in the car, so Wang Zhong had no scruples and the speed was naturally faster.
It took fifteen minutes when I went there, and less than ten minutes when I came back.
Unexpectedly, they reached the entrance of the bathhouse. Zheng Juan and the others had not yet entered, so they were all standing at the door waiting. The middle-aged man who looked like a leader was also there. Seeing Wang Zhong return, the middle-aged leader was obviously relieved.
"Bingkun, how are you? Are you okay?" Mother Zheng asked worriedly about Ma Shouchang.
Wang Zhong smiled and replied: "Auntie, don't worry, the person has been sent to 131. The uncle has a high status and there are a lot of doctors and nurses taking care of him. Nothing will happen."
"That's good! That's good!" Wang Zhong couldn't do it for Zheng's mother to be so kind to everyone, but it didn't affect his respect for Zheng's mother.
"Little brother, thank you for your hard work!" The middle-aged leader just now also came out to welcome him, holding Wang Zhong's hand and thanking him repeatedly.
"It's just a little effort, brother, there's no need to be so polite."
"You have been of great help. My name is Wu Dalong, what do you call me little brother?"
"Zhou Bingkun!"
"Brother Zhou!"
Wang Dalong thanked them repeatedly, and enthusiastically led Wang Zhong and the others into the bath. He greeted the staff at the window and waived Wang Zhong and his bath tickets.
