In the middle of the night, starlight shines through the completely unpolluted atmosphere, reflecting the shadows of the surrounding trees.

The machine factory building was closed, the lights were out, and there was silence, and the chirping of cicadas and frogs in the nearby fields could be faintly heard.

The barbed wire fence behind the factory made the sound of vigorous tongs twisting the wire. Several black shadows came in through the broken hole, and slowly felt towards the abandoned warehouse behind the factory.

In the dark, there is the sound of a key drilling into the keyhole. Several people burrowed into the warehouse.

"Yo, why is it so dirty in here, it's all dust." A woman's cough was heard inside the warehouse.

"Daughter-in-law, bear with me. This is the best place I can find in Liu Tiezhu. The people who spoke were the few members of the superborn guerrillas who had been pursued by the Planning Commission and the public security organs in the past few days.

Liu Tiezhu looked at his big-bellied daughter-in-law and helped her to sit by the wall.

"Daughter-in-law, there is no way, since we have decided to give birth, we can only choose this path." Liu Tiezhu hesitated.

"I've been here for three months. You tell me? This time, you must be promoted to a male baby. Liu Tiezhu's daughter-in-law touched her belly that was gradually bulging and said resolutely.

A few people crouched against the wall of the warehouse, their faces covered in grass roots. In the past few days, in order to avoid the Family Planning Commission, they have been hiding in Tibet, and they have not lived a few days of stability.

Liu Tiezhu leaned against the wall, looking at the moonlight coming in through the window, he regretted it a little: "If it weren't for this mess, I would have done quite well in the workshop of our machine repair factory." In the past two years, our new factory director has been particularly capable. The welfare in the factory is also getting better and better. Now for the sake of the children, I am running around, and I have lost my job......"

"Alright. It's all come to this point, you don't have to mumble......" Liu Tiezhu's daughter-in-law glanced at him.

A few people spread out the covers, ready to sleep for the night. The three couples also have six children. The children cried because they were hungry.

Liu Tiezhu was extremely nervous and quickly covered the child's mouth.

"You be a little harder, look at the child's suffocating ......" Tiezhu's daughter-in-law hurriedly knocked his hand off.

As he spoke, there was a sudden thump in the iron door of the warehouse. Then the iron door was kicked open, and several flashlights shone in.

Footsteps piled up, and the warehouse suddenly became noisy, and a few shouts were heard.

"Get up for me, stand up! We are from the factory security department! ”

Several security officers with red armbands pointed at Liu Tiezhu and the others and asked them to stand in a row. Tong Weihua, the director of the security department, glanced inside the warehouse, and when he had just inspected the factory, he heard a suspicious sound coming from the back wall. He didn't startle them, but followed them, and then quietly called for help, and rushed into the warehouse together.

At first, Tong Weihua thought it was a thief. When he saw that there were several big-bellied women in the warehouse, he immediately understood.

Tong Weihua, who was stocky, shook his flashlight and said, "Liu Tiezhu! Zhao Hongwei! A few of you are all workers in the workshop. How dare you commit a crime against the wind? Don't know about the family planning policy that the factory has recently advertised? Take it all with me! Take it to the Family Planning Commission! ”

Hearing that he was going to be taken to the Family Planning Commission, Liu Tiezhu and the others immediately knelt down, holding Tong Weihua's thighs with both hands and begging: "Director Tong, you must not bring us to the Family Planning Commission." My daughter-in-law is three months pregnant......"

Tong Weihua said impatiently: "The Family Planning Commission and the hospital will have a way to help your daughter-in-law drain." You don't have to worry about it! ”

"Director Tong, Director Tong!" Several big-bellied women, holding their waists, knelt down with difficulty, and begged with sweat:

"You're good at it. Just let us go, we'll ...... go."

"I don't care if you want to be somewhere else...... But this is the factory area. If it weren't for the big bellies of you, I would have held you accountable for entering the factory without permission! Tong Weihua did not let go at all.

Liu Tiezhu and Zhao Hongwei fell into despair. He was unwilling to let the fetus in his daughter-in-law's womb be gone.

He suddenly shouted: "Director Tong, can you call Director Zhao to come here." I would like to meet with Director Zhao and ask him to think of a way for me...... You can help, Director Zhao is so capable, there must be a way. ”

Tong Weihua looked at these people kneeling and begging for mercy, and he was a little unbearable. He muttered; "Look at a few of you now, people are not ghosts, how good it would have been if you had complied with the laws and regulations of the country? So much to spare. You wait, I'll find you a factory director......"

Within half an hour, Zhao Yuemin and Duan Qiming, who got the news, rushed over.

"Okay, I'll find you the two factory leaders." Tong Weihua panted and said, "Whether it's a blessing or a curse, it depends on your creation." ”

"Director Zhao, Director Duan, we were wrong, we were wrong." Liu Tiezhu, Zhao Hongwei and several other workers knelt down again, "We have betrayed the trust of the factory......

"Rise up and speak, rise up and speak." Zhao Yuemin looked at these people still with children, and they looked a little depressed and fleeing, and he couldn't bear it.

He turned his head to look at Tong Weihua and ordered: "Old Tong, hurry up and move a few chairs to the security office, don't let the pregnant women sit on the ground and catch a cold easily." ”

"Yes!"

A few people from the security department moved chairs and let these little daughters-in-law with big bellies sit down.

Zhao Yuemin listened to the other party's explanation, frowned and said, "Old Duan, how to deal with this situation generally?" ”

Duan Qiming held the enamel tea jar and said: "According to the regulations, we will send it to the Family Planning Commission." These workers have been absent from work for so many days, and they will also be punished in accordance with the regulations. ”

Zhao Yuemin heard the meaning of Duan Qiming's words. Regarding Liu Tiezhu and others' farewell, Duan Qiming did not fire them, but directly defined absenteeism, obviously to show mercy to his subordinates.

Director Zhao ...... It's no problem if I want to hit or get a penalty. Liu Tiezhu said with an anxious face: "But it's too cruel to send my daughter-in-law to the hospital and lure out the living child......

Zhao Yuemin looked at Liu Tiezhu's daughter-in-law's bulging belly and sighed. He had also heard of tragedies caused by brutal law enforcement in the villages next door. Although this is only an extremely isolated phenomenon, Liu Tiezhu and his wife are from the machine repair factory after all, and he Zhao Yuemin can't ignore it.

Several pregnant women waited with their heads bowed and their eyes waiting. And the husbands are anxious.

"Old Duan, do you think this matter is necessary to send it to the Family Planning Commission?" Zhao Yuemin asked.

Duan Qiming, who had gray temples, saw Zhao Yuemin's anxious face, and he already understood seven or eight points in his heart, and said unhurriedly: "You are the factory director, you make decisions, and I, Duan Qiming, obey and cooperate." ”

"Good!" Zhao Yuemin showed gratitude, and he instructed Tong Weihua, the director of the security department, "Old Tong, you bring these people to my dormitory in the factory. This dormitory, let them live in it first. ”

"Factory director, don't send it to the Family Planning Commission? That's your dormitory......" Tong Weihua emphasized.

"What nonsense, let you do it, you will do it."

“…… Good. ”

"I think so." Zhao Yuemin said, "Don't send it to the Family Planning Commission." We pay the fine and give birth to the baby. ”

"That's a lot of fines." The chief of the finance section who rushed to the side said, "They are all third and fourth children. The second child is six times the social maintenance fee, the third child is six times the sixth, and the fourth child is ......"

"The factory can afford to pay the fine!" Zhao Yuemin glared at the chief of finance, "Ten thousand? Is it enough? ”

"Don't ...... so much," muttered the chief of finance.

"However, the fine was paid. However, our factory violated the regulations, and the title of Hongqi Factory next year can be ......," reminded the chief of finance.

"I'll take all the responsibility." Zhao Yuemin said calmly, "I can't watch the workers in my factory suffer. I will explain the actual situation to Director Li of the Family Planning Commission. I'm sure she can understand it too. ”

Zhao Yuemin believes that people's hearts are long, and the comrades of the Family Planning Commission will also buy him face when they hear about this situation.

"Director Zhao......" Liu Tiezhu and his wife had tears in their eyes, "You are really our great benefactor......

"Alright, you guys go to rest early. When the daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, she came to the workshop to report. Zhao Yuemin comforted, "Let's go, I'll take you to the dormitory." It's so late, let the kids rest early. ”

The group left the warehouse.

Duan Qiming walked at the end with the teapot in his hand, he glanced at Tong Weihua next to him, and said slowly:

"Lao Tong, you asked me before, why are you willing to delegate power and cooperate with Zhao Yuemin's reform? Today, I'll tell you a word. Just for Zhao Yuemin's character, I, Duan Qiming, am willing to be a green leaf for him for the rest of my life! ”