Chapter 837

"Ding-a-ling~"

"Oh my, Ge Qian, stop busybodying, hurry up, hurry up, if we go late, the braised pork will be gone."

"You go first! I still need five minutes here!"

"Then I'll take your lunch box! Hurry up."

"Ah? Then Zhang Jing, just help me get a portion of egg drop soup; my throat is dry, and I want to drink something thin."

"You drink thin things all day; look how thin you've become? You're so frugal even with 140 yuan a month, really, hurry up!"

The lunch bell for the First Branch Factory rang, and the young people in the workshop hurriedly put down their work, grabbed their lunch boxes, and ran out.

Although the First Branch Factory's canteen has plenty of serving windows and queuing doesn't take more than a few minutes, everyone has been used to "grabbing food" over the years, and no one wants to fall behind others.

Only Ge Qian silently finished a piece of work on hand, dragged her feet until she was the last one, and then slowly washed her hands and walked to the canteen.

She doesn't like to squeeze in line with everyone to get food because there is always someone who will try to persuade her like her good friend Zhang Jing.

"Oh Ge Qian, you earn so much money alone, why are you so reluctant to eat or wear anything? You've become a stick, it won't be easy to find a partner."

And many male workers will even express their "love" by enthusiastically helping Ge Qian get a lunch box full of meat dishes.

Ge Qian doesn't like to owe people favors, and she likes to pull strings with people even less, so she always delays for ten minutes to avoid those unnecessary troubles and embarrassments.

It's just that Ge Qian miscalculated today because those colleagues who ran out earlier were all gathered at the entrance of the canteen, surrounding the few bulletin boards three layers deep, and kept squeezing inside, just like people grabbing discounted chicken frames at the vegetable market.

"Excuse me, excuse me, let me in to see; I've waited for a house until my hair has turned white, please do me a favor and let me take a look."

"Oh my, who isn't waiting for a house? I can't squeeze in either!"

"Then please, help me see if my name is on the list? I'm short, I really can't see."

"Then I'll look for you, Zhao Guofang, right? Yes, yes, you, you're on the list, hey, brother, you're really lucky."

"Really! I... I'm actually on the list! Deputy Factory Director Li is righteous; I didn't even know about the housing survey that someone else did before."

"Shh, keep your voice down. The one surnamed Lai doesn't do things properly, but you can't bring disaster to Deputy Factory Director Li. When gods fight, mortals suffer; don't escalate the conflict."

"Hey, hey, hey, you're right, look at my mouth."

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Listening to a group of men chattering and beaming with joy, Ge Qian knew that the factory's welfare housing allocation had not only been posted for public notice but had also truly "lived up to the masses," just as Deputy Factory Director Li had said.

Ge Qian knows that Zhao Guofang; he is an old worker transferred from the General Factory. Although his seniority is not short and his family has many people, he is honest and doesn't know how to play the game. According to past practices, he would definitely be the type of person who wouldn't be allocated a house.

But now Zhao Guofang has actually been allocated an apartment, so Deputy Factory Director Li didn't make empty promises; he is fair, just, and a good cadre of the Party.

But no matter how good a cadre Deputy Factory Director Li is, Ge Qian still won't be allocated a house because she is the type of person Li Ye explicitly forbids.

When Li Ye issued that staff housing registration form, Ge Qian was also tempted, but she has no father or mother, and her only close relatives left are a nephew and a niece, which just happens to fall into the category of people Li Ye "forbids from putting big nephews and big nieces" under their own names.

So Ge Qian had no expectations for this housing allocation at all; whether based on past practices or Li Ye's current rules, she doesn't meet the conditions.

"Ge Qian, Ge Qian, I'm here!"

Ge Qian's best friend Zhang Jing squeezed out of the crowd, excitedly leaned to her side, and lowered her voice: "Ge Qian, guess if our workshop's 'Big Chin' got a house?"

Ge Qian hurriedly said: "Don't call him 'Big Chin' all day long, that's the Deputy Director, be careful of walls having ears."

Zhang Jing said indifferently: "I'm not afraid of him! His family's house is clearly so spacious, yet he still competes for a spot with us who have no house. If he really got one, there would be no justice."

Ge Qian was startled and asked in a low voice: "He didn't get one?"

Zhang Jing nodded with a smile, her face full of schadenfreude.

Ge Qian was surprised.

Big Chin's family has a small courtyard passed down from his ancestors, so his housing situation is not considered difficult.

But that is his parents' house; he has no house under his own name, and the department head of the General Factory's Labor and Personnel Department is Big Chin's uncle-in-law. No matter how you look at it, it wouldn't be excessive to allocate him a house.

But he just didn't get one; this Deputy Factory Director Li's rules are really strict!

"Forget it, do less of laughing at people's jokes, let's go eat first!"

Seeing many people around, Ge Qian still pulled Zhang Jing away. A county magistrate is not as good as the current manager; no matter how fair Deputy Factory Director Li is, he can't stop the Deputy Director from giving you a hard time, so it's better to talk less.

It's just that when they reached the canteen, Zhang Jing said mysteriously again: "Ge Qian, I have a way to get you a new apartment in minutes, do you want to hear it?"

Ge Qian lowered her head to drink soup and said indifferently: "Don't make fun of me, don't you know my conditions? No chance."

"No, no, no, there is a chance."

Zhang Jing said in a low voice: "Ge Qian, I just looked at that announcement; this time, only two hundred and sixty-something of the three hundred apartments were allocated, and there are still thirty-something left empty, which are said to be reserved specifically for the introduction of technical talent."

"So as long as you get a marriage certificate with Huang Zhisheng and then introduce him to our factory, you don't even need to queue, you can get a new apartment immediately."

Zhang Jing stopped talking directly and drank her soup sullenly.

But Zhang Jing continued to chatter: "The standard for the introduction of that technical talent is not low, but Huang Zhisheng fully meets it!

University students after the reform and opening up are all admitted without examination, and the salary starts at at least two hundred. Didn't he come to look for you a few days ago? If you put in some effort, you'll turn things around!"

"Alright, I'm full, you eat slowly."

Ge Qian gulped down the egg drop soup and returned to the workshop with her lunch box.

Her best friend has no sense of propriety all day long, thinking of one thing after another, and only coming up with flashy ideas.

Huang Zhisheng, Zhang Jing, and Ge Qian were all high school classmates; he had some unclear feelings for Ge Qian in the past.

It's just that later he was admitted to university, and now he has been assigned to a research institute for a year. He just came over to chat for a while a few days ago; does that mean he wants to rekindle the old relationship?

And Ge Qian has understood a truth over the years, which is that in life, you still have to rely on yourself.

Ge Qian, with her head lowered, walked to the bulletin board and suddenly saw a few people from the Comprehensive Department tearing down the red paper of the housing allocation list and then posting another white paper announcement.

So she asked puzzledly: "Wu Kezhang Qin, wasn't this list just posted this morning? Many people probably haven't seen it yet! Why tear it down?"

"Don't mention it, our factory director went to the General Factory for a meeting this morning and was scolded by the people there, saying that some workers reported to the General Factory that our newly built dormitory building is a 'tofu-dreg' project, so the housing allocation has been suspended..."

"Suspended? That means... not allocated?"

"Yes, temporarily not allocated. Which grandson who was born without an asshole is making trouble? I go to see that building every day; the cement and steel bars are used to the fullest, how could it be a tofu-dreg project?"

"Humph, needless to say, the General Factory side is jealous of us! Many cadres haven't been allocated new apartments yet! Our workers have moved in; there's no way they'll think for the masses, they are first-class at doing bad things."

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The people from the Comprehensive Department walked away cursing, and Ge Qian approached the bulletin board and saw the content on the announcement clearly.

【For the sake of staff safety, a professional testing agency will be invited to test the staff welfare housing. Specific housing allocation matters will be notified after research.】

"Heh~"

Ge Qian smiled sarcastically and turned to walk to the workshop.

She doesn't know how many times she has heard such rhetoric as on the announcement over the years, but the final facts proved that not many times was it considered "for the sake of the staff."

【One person, how can they fight against a group of people!】

During the lunch break, Ge Qian worked overtime on her own work; for every extra piece she finished, she could get a little more money, and her confidence grew a little more.

But she hadn't been working for long when she heard an increasingly intense commotion coming from outside, which finally got out of hand.