Chapter 19: The Problem
Sister Lao is really not exaggerating, Zhou Xiaoan persuaded the old lady to leave so quickly, which really helped her a lot.
In the past few days, the trade union is fighting with the factory committee for the welfare of the workers during the Spring Festival, and if the people of the factory committee catch them and make a big fuss about the relationship between military martyrs and their families, then they will be very passive.
In this era, the status of workers is unprecedentedly high, and the trade unions are still playing their due role, and for the sake of the workers, the trade unions can really not give an inch to the leaders of their own factories.
Zhou Xiaoan looked at a large pile of materials waiting to be distributed in the conference room, and said goodbye to Sister Lao with a very clear look, "Sister Lao, I still have to go to the section to go through the leave procedures, you are busy first, and I will come to talk to you after I am busy." ”
Sister Lao patted Zhou Xiaoan's hand and asked her to go first, she must come over after finishing her errands, "Sister still has something to tell you!" ”
Zhou Xiaoan went to the section with the leave slip and diagnosis letter issued by the doctor, and successfully issued a sick note from the section chief, because the bone crack had to rest for a month, and he had to go to the personnel department to find the officer in charge of attendance to report, and the head of the personnel section had to sign.
She went down one process after another, accepted everyone's attention wherever she went, and completed the procedures in a sense of curiosity and sympathy, Zhou Xiaoan resisted the urge to run away, thanked everyone and thanked everyone, and finally walked out of the personnel department.
It is estimated that Sister Lao is also busy, and she went to the union again.
Unexpectedly, the union was even more lively than just now, a middle-aged woman with six or seven children of all sizes was crying there, and the children were also crying with their mothers, the youngest was only two or three years old, crying and frightened, and her face was so red that it was already blue and black.
The mother and son were dressed in tatters, so thin that only a handful of bones remained, and in the winter, several girls even wore single cloth shoes with open toes on their feet.
Sister Lao coaxed the child and persuaded the mother with both soft and hard methods, and a trade union officer fed water to an old lady sitting on a chair with an enamel tea jar.
The other officers all went down to the mining area with labor protection supplies to distribute them, and they were used to seeing such a noisy scene, so they didn't take it seriously for a long time.
Zhou Xiaoan didn't bother Sister Lao, watched quietly for a while, picked up a broom and dustpan from the corner and began to clean up the garbage on the ground.
First of all, collect and sort out the cardboard boxes, woven bags, kraft paper, and packing ropes scattered all over the place, which are the packaging of the labor protection supplies just now, and they will be useful in the future.
He put away the other bits and pieces, went to the water room at the end of the corridor to wash the mop, and slowly mopped the snow and mud on the ground with one hand in his hand.
By the time Sister Lao finally pacified the family, Zhou Xiaoan had already cleaned up a messy large conference room.
Sister Lao took Zhou Xiaoan's hand and sighed to another officer, "What a good girl! Diligent and sensible! It's just a bad fate! ”
The people in the trade union have seen a lot of crying and crying and making a fuss, but I really haven't seen Zhou Xiaoan like this, he has suffered so many grievances and mistreatments, he doesn't complain or make demands, he sends them pennants, helps solve problems, and even helps work with injuries!
In comparison, Zhou Xiaoan looks particularly cute.
Sister Lao handed over the affairs of that family to others to deal with, pulled Zhou Xiaoan to sit down and talk, and never forgot to gossip with her, talking about the old and small family just now, "The man will help the brothers in the countryside more, and he will make a fuss and say that he can't live anymore, and he wants to take the children to jump the Tuanjie Lake!" made my mother-in-law so angry that she fainted several times! ”
Zhou Xiaoan looked at the family's ragged clothes and vegetable-colored faces, and nodded to Sister Lao without saying anything.
This is the most common situation in this era, there are several brothers in a family, there is only one recruitment quota, whoever is given it has the obligation to take care of others, even if they are hungry for their wives and children, they have to save food for their parents and brothers.
This is a bit similar to the modern phoenix man, but in this era, being a phoenix man is a love and righteousness, and if you dare not take care of it, it is forgetting your roots, that is, you are accused of having no conscience by Qianfu, and you can be punished for it organizationally.
So a woman who thinks about her little family and children seems particularly selfish and unworthy of sympathy, even if she and her children are so hungry that they may collapse at any moment.
"Xiao An, what are your plans for the future?" Sister Lao finally got to the point.
"I don't want to go back to their house until I've healed from my injuries." Although he didn't complain, Zhou Xiaoan still lowered his head sadly, "Their family has to give me an explanation, or I won't be able to live if I go back." That means she still wants to go back and live a good life.
Sister Lao nodded, this is a problem-solving attitude! She disapproves of those who cry and make trouble and even shout for divorce, and if there is something to organize, it is not that you will not be in charge, saying that which one will leave in the end of the divorce? It's not like you have to go back and live a good life!
Zhou Xiaoan, this little girl looks honest, and she is really pretending to be a problem! It is really good to see clearly, not blindly weak, have accurate ideas, and know how to advance and retreat!
"Don't worry! The eldest sister must let the old Han family give you an explanation! So that you will go back in the future and no longer be bullied! Sister Lao assured Zhou Xiaoan that she cared about her life in her parents' house, "If you go back to live, no one will embarrass you, right?" ”
She had a face-to-face with Ma Lan yesterday, and she could see at a glance that this second sister-in-law was not a good talker.
Zhou Xiaoan reluctantly smiled at Sister Lao, "Sister Lao, you also know that now everyone's housing is tight, food is even more scarce, I must have difficulties, but I can't always add trouble to the organization, I try my best to overcome ......"
Sister Lao's afterglow swept the cardboard boxes, woven bags and bundles of packing ropes neatly placed in the corner, which Zhou Xiaoan sorted out with one hand, as well as the clean cement floor, which was also wiped out by Zhou Xiaoan with one hand, and then looked at her thin little body like a piece of paper, and inexplicably felt soft in her heart.
"Xiao An, don't worry," Sister Lao interrupted her conversation, "Your situation is special, and Sister Lao will help you find a way to solve these difficulties!" I can't let you take care of your injuries without stopping! ”
Sister Lao said that she would do it, and knocked on the office door of Chairman Jiang of the trade union in a hurry, Chairman Jiang passed by the large conference room just now, and took a closer look at Zhou Xiao'an, who was not from their trade union, who would give them such serious work?
Sister Lao said about Zhou Xiaoan's situation with affection, and Chairman Jiang gave Sister Lao face and sympathized with Zhou Xiaoan, so he immediately nodded:
"Find her a bed in the bachelor dormitory, and then say hello to the finance department, let her receive her own salary next month, and she is not a child daughter-in-law in the old society, how can a mother-in-law come to receive her daughter-in-law's salary!"
It's true that there isn't, but the daughter-in-law's salary is still handed over to her in-law's family, but she hasn't done it as excessively and eye-catching as the Han family.
As soon as Sister Lao went back to tell Zhou Xiaoan, Zhou Xiaoan was really relieved in her heart.
The single dormitory in the factory is not for anyone to live in, the housing is too tight, the family is not allowed to apply for a single dormitory without special circumstances, that is, there are special circumstances, waiting for a year and a half to live in is fast, she can't wait so long.
And Sister Lao cut her in line, "You will live in it on the sixteenth day of the first month!" Xiao Yang of the Labor and Management Department got married on the sixteenth day of the first month, and she will give you the bed when she moves away! ”
Solve the two big problems of food and housing, and the rest is easy to say!
Zhou Xiaoan listened to a lot of advice from Sister Lao very patiently, and nodded to her sincerely and trustingly, "I listen to Sister Lao!" ”
Sister Lao is pleased, she likes this kind of persuasive and sensible little girl the most!
Saying goodbye to Sister Lao, Zhou Xiaoan returned to the courtyard before dinner, pulled Zhou Xiaoquan out, and gave him two big meat buns.
Zhou Xiaoquan knew that she had money and food stamps on her, but she refused to eat anything, "You eat!" You are not allowed to give anything to others in the future! Eat it all yourself! ”
The little fart ran away after speaking, wiping her tears while running, because she felt sorry for her sister, and she was also angry that she was ignorant before, and she had never thought about her sister, which made her suffer so much.
Zhou Xiaoan's current body can't catch up with this half-sized child, and he doesn't dare to take it back, so he can only eat the bun first.
Dinner returned to the previous level, bran vegetable dumplings and sweet potato dried gruel, Zhou Xiaoan gave Zhou Xiaoquan a dumpling he had distributed, and this time he ate it.
was able to move to a single dormitory, got his salary back, and lay in bed at night, Zhou Xiaoan began to think about some details of life.
The first is to change clothes, especially the underwear, menstruation is coming to an end, she doesn't even have a set of underwear to change clothes, and the set on the Han family's body is the same, it is so broken that she can't wear it anymore.
There are also autumn clothes and pants to be worn at the beginning of spring, and there are no single shoes, let alone a change of clothes......
Zhou Xiaoan is not worried, solve it the same!
It's really not good, even if you are abducted and deceived from Wang Lamei, you have to solve the urgent need first. Anyway, Zhou Yuehai gave her a bulging big envelope, and there must have been a lot of money and tickets.
was woken up by Wang Lamei the next morning, but Zhou Xiaoan was scared stupid.
She dreamed of the supermarket again, and this time she ate the cake again, but she woke up, and she still had the small plastic fork in her hand to eat the cake!