Chapter 436

On the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month in the 1980s, the flavor of the New Year was already very heavy.

Li Ye, who had not yet left Beijing, was called to his home by Teacher Ke personally, had a good family banquet, and then was stuffed with a lot of New Year goods.

And when Li Ye was leaving, he asked Teacher Ke if it would be appropriate for him to come over to move around on the second day of the Lunar New Year?

According to the tradition of the Chinese family, the second day of the Lunar New Year is also called "Son-in-law Festival." After engagement and marriage, the son-in-law must bring gifts to his father-in-law's house to pay a New Year call on this day.

And the quantity and value of the gifts brought are linked to the "son-in-law age" of this son-in-law. The newer the son-in-law, the more and more expensive the gifts he needs to bring.

If it's an old son-in-law of decades... a few ingredients plus two bottles of white wine are enough, and at noon, he will show off a meal, and most of it will fall into his own and his wife and children's stomachs.

And Li Ye and Watching Wen Leyu are only "said to be open." In some places, they need to pay a New Year call, and in some places, it is not necessarily. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, this Zhongliang courtyard is definitely full of sons-in-law. Whether he is qualified or not depends on Teacher Ke's meaning.

However, as soon as Li Ye finished speaking, Wen Qingsheng, who already had 80% alcohol, said: "Of course it's appropriate, how can this not be appropriate? I'll wait for you on the second day of the Lunar New Year!"

And Teacher Ke also looked at Li Ye and smiled playfully: "If you don't come to my place to pay a New Year call on the second day of the Lunar New Year, where else do you want to pay a New Year call?"

"Hehehehe, I was wrong, Auntie Ke, I will definitely arrive on the second day of the Lunar New Year."

Li Ye smiled awkwardly and went out.

And Watching Wen Leyu, who sent him out, also had a face full of comfortable smiles.

Qingshui County is 500 kilometers away from Beijing. It is very troublesome to rush over to pay a New Year call on the second day of the Lunar New Year, so it shows Li Ye's importance to the relationship between the two.

However, although Watching Wen Leyu smiled happily on her face, she said something against her will: "Actually, you don't need to rush so fast, it's okay to come over a bit later. You have to set off from Qingshui County on the first day of the Lunar New Year, my dad and mom won't blame you..."

Li Ye was much smarter in dealing with Watching Wen Leyu. He immediately looked troubled and said: "That won't work! If I am at home on the second day of the Lunar New Year, people will think I don't have a partner.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, the matchmaker will bring a beautiful girl to the door. You say, what should I do?"

Watching Wen Leyu was stunned for several seconds, then looked at Li Ye and said word by word: "Although I know you are joking, but... I still want to beat you."

"Puff"

A small fist hit Li Ye's shoulder accurately and fiercely.

Why did Watching Wen Leyu hit Li Ye's shoulder? Because hitting other places, whether it's the chest, lower abdomen, or forehead, would be very painful.

"Eh eh eh, it hurts, it hurts, it really hurts, don't hit..."

Li Ye called out in pain repeatedly, but Watching Wen Leyu became addicted to hitting, the strength of her hands reduced by more than half, but the frequency didn't decrease at all.

"Eh eh eh, look, look, is that your brother? And who is the other one..."

Li Ye suddenly grabbed Watching Wen Leyu's hand and pointed to a dark place outside the courtyard gate.

Watching Wen Leyu looked over and really saw her brother Wen Guohua's jeep.

And next to the jeep, a bicycle was parked, and a woman with long hair stood by the bicycle.

Although Li Ye's vision was very good, the distance was a bit far, and it was the darkest place, so he couldn't see clearly.

But Watching Wen Leyu said lightly: "It should be Ning Pingping."

"Ning Pingping?"

Li Ye looked carefully again, and it was really like Ning Pingping.

Looking at Ning Pingping's bicycle again, thinking that it was almost nine o'clock, Li Ye tasted a bit of flavor.

With the stickiness of Wen Guohua and Ning Pingping before, it was impossible for this kind of blocking the door to happen.

Li Ye asked in a low voice: "Is Ning Pingping blocking your brother? Is your brother hiding from her?"

Watching Wen Leyu didn't answer directly, but said gloomily: "Sometimes, having fate but no points is a very tormenting thing. Knowing clearly that you can't walk together, but you just can't let go, can't think through,

So you and I must cherish it. Li Ye, you and I... almost missed it."

In the darkness, tears welled up in Watching Wen Leyu's big eyes.

Obviously, she was thinking of her past with Li Ye. If it weren't for Lu Jingyao's rebellion, if it weren't for Li Ye and Watching Wen Leyu being decisive enough, and even if it weren't for Li Ye being excellent enough, the two of them wouldn't have walked to today.

Li Ye helped Watching Wen Leyu wipe away her tears with shame and whispered: "I was wrong, Xiaoyu, I won't make that kind of joke in the future."

"Hmph,"

Watching Wen Leyu sniffed: "It's okay, it's okay for you to make a joke occasionally, I just happen to practice boxing,

One of my roommates recently joined the school's boxing club, and I also learned combo punches, front straight punch, back hook punch... I'll hit you until your face blooms."

Watching Wen Leyu's two little arms danced with wind, looking like it was really the case.

Li Ye suddenly felt that Watching Wen Leyu seemed to have mastered his preference password, and the intimate gentleness and the fake wildness combined to form a super perfect little daughter-in-law image.

On the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, it was the day Li Ye and the eight-person group agreed to go home together.

As everyone entered their junior year, the routine gathering of the eight-person group became more and more difficult.

Li Dayong had to be busy with Changbei, Fu Yingjie talked about a girlfriend, Hu Man became the Minister of the Girls' Department of the Student Union, Jiang Xiaoyan had to be busy helping her family's noodle restaurant open a branch, Yan Jinbu and Han Xia met each other's parents...

Everyone was busy, everyone had their own small circle, and it was very rare for the eight people to get together, and even many times only Li Dayong, Li Ye, and Watching Wen Leyu had family gatherings.

However, when everyone went to school and went home every semester, everyone's opinions were very unified. If they could go together, they would go together.

And this year, Changbei Machinery Company just mentioned a seven-seater Land Cruiser, which happened to be able to fit everyone. Li Ye still had to go to honor his father-in-law on the second day of the Lunar New Year, so he decided to drive back and drive this car back on the second day of the Lunar New Year.

Although taking the train from Qingshui County on the first day of the Lunar New Year can also arrive in Beijing on the second day, Li Ye, who had a private car in his previous life, believes that within 500 kilometers, a private car that can leave whenever you want is still the first choice.

But everyone agreed, and on the afternoon of the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, Li Dayong called and said that he might not be able to leave.

"Brother, the factory is still very chaotic! Xiaohui and Guo Tianyong have both gone home for the New Year, I might not be able to leave, I'll ask someone to send the car to you, you go with Hu Man and the others first!"

"Can't leave?" Li Ye asked strangely: "Isn't Changbei on holiday starting today? What the hell can't you leave for? Is it the management side making trouble again?"

Li Dayong said bitterly on the other end of the phone: "The management side did make trouble for a while, but it didn't become a climate at all. It's mainly because we seem to give too much, and the workers don't want to have a holiday!"

After hanging up the phone, Li Ye called Tian Hongshan over and asked him to drive himself to Changbei Machinery Company.

When he arrived at the factory, sure enough, the machines didn't stop, and the workers didn't have a holiday.

Tian Hongshan smiled and said: "Before when I came to pick up the goods, the workers were also very motivated, but they couldn't compare with now.

Now they are all like labor models, not knowing tiredness! Look, it's 4:50, and the machines haven't stopped yet!"

In the factory of the 1980s, whether it was state-owned or collective, the workers would stop the machine at 4:30 when they got off work at 5:00, wash and scrub, and wait to get off work on time. If anyone delayed them for a minute, they wouldn't be relieved if they didn't scold for ten minutes.

But if the machine didn't stop at 4:50, you definitely couldn't leave at 5:00.

Li Ye looked at the tireless workers and didn't know what to say.

Busy for a year, let you have a long holiday for the Spring Festival, and one by one they are still unwilling.

In fact, many people in later generations don't know that workers in the 1980s had "annual leave," authentic paid leave.

As long as they are formal workers, they have "employee leave" every year, ranging from five days to ten or fifteen days, and even some old employees can have longer leave.

Instead, in the later generations with developed economy, annual leave has become a high-end name, getting further and further away from ordinary workers.

"Ling ling ling"

The bell for getting off work rang, and the machines in the workshop gradually stopped, but the workers swarmed to the canteen instead of going home.

"Is this still overtime?"

Tian Hongshan smiled: "Isn't it? The workers in the workshop have performance wages. The more they work, the more they earn. Now the production tasks are arranged for half a year later, so they are all working hard to make a fortune, one by one?"

"What is making a fortune? Hard work."

Li Ye smiled and said: "Okay! As long as the management side doesn't make trouble, let the workers earn more. It's not like we can't afford the wages."

In fact, according to Li Ye's past experience, any company that encounters the situation of "workers making a fortune" will inevitably adjust performance and lower the workers' wages.

But Li Ye will absolutely not bring this kind of business philosophy of treating workers like cattle and horses to the current Changbei.

It's not like the factory has no profit, and it's not like it doesn't make money. What's wrong with giving workers a few more steel coins? Isn't there a Fatty Donglai in later generations?

Just at this time, an old man walked past Li Ye and Tian Hongshan and greeted Tian Hongshan.

"Boss Tian, are you here to pick up goods today? If you want to pick up goods, say it quickly, otherwise I won't be able to arrange it for you after the office gets off work."

Tian Hongshan smiled and waved his hand: "Master Liao, I'm not picking up goods. Our company is already on holiday. I just came over to find Technician Li for something."

"Technician Li is over there! I'll go call him for you."

"Don't go yet, Master Liao, I'll ask you something."

Tian Hongshan is a person with clear eyebrows and eyes, knowing what Li Ye wants to know, and asked the old man immediately: "Master Liao, among the workers in your workshop, are there any who don't want to work overtime?"

"Yes!"

The old man said: "There are indeed a few lazy people who don't know their surname after earning two money, and they want to have a long holiday. Everyone dragged him directly to the construction site on the east side..."

Master Liao pointed to the east side and said with slanted eyes: "You can also go to the east side to see the foundation of that building. It started construction a week after the meeting. It dug a groove in a month in the middle of winter. Whoever doesn't believe it..."

"But people said, if the efficiency is not good, there will be no second-phase employee building. Now the production plan is half a year later. Whoever ruins the efficiency and drags the brothers' hind legs, everyone can break his leg."

"I'll ask you, who dares to have a holiday?"

(End of chapter)