Chapter 31 My own brothers
Zhou Jianliang obviously didn't understand the meaning, "Leaving the land or not leaving the homeland?" Recruitment is different now? ”
"What kind of life did you say that the kind of recruitment that both transferred the relationship between food and household registration was a matter of life? Do you remember that kind of thing, how many years has the country not recruited workers in the countryside? You don't want to think about it, I'm the factory director, isn't my hukou still in the village? ”
Don't look at Zhou Jianliang is the village director, in this remote village, he still can't feel the pace of the times, "That means you're recruiting temporary workers?" ”
"What kind of temporary worker? They all do the same work and earn the same wages, and the workers in my factory are all city residents, and no one else has them. ”
"Are you saying that there is no difference between those workers in the city and those in the countryside?"
"I don't know about other units, anyway, in my factory, if you enter the factory at the same time, there is no difference, the difference is mainly reflected in the length of time and work ability."
"Oh, that's good. Jianping, do you think I can do it? Zhou Jianliang finally figured out what it meant, and he wanted to be the first to sign up.
"Second brother, you have just been elected as the village director, and there is a big deal in the village that you need to deal with, so I don't think it's appropriate to leave your post without permission; In addition, the rules and regulations of the factory are very strict, I am afraid that you will not be able to adapt to it, so I advise you to be your village head. Zhou Jianping said bluntly.
"I listen to you, our brother has this relationship, your words must be for my good, so what is the purpose of you looking for me?"
"No one knows the whole village better than you, you know best who is good and who is bad, I want you to help me recommend more than 20 young adults, to be honest, not lazy, more clever kind of people."
"Oh, you want me to help you recommend candidates, are you in a hurry? When are you going back to town? ”
"I can't say it's in a hurry, but I'm going to go back to the city tomorrow afternoon at the latest, and I want to meet with these people before I leave."
"No problem, I'll give you the list tonight, tomorrow morning at the latest. Jianping, we can't see each other a few times a year, so come to my house for a drink tonight. Zhou Jianliang said.
"It's good to drink, but I should invite you to my house, but I'm going back to the city tomorrow, and I'm going to see my parents tonight anyway, so I can't invite you."
"Who are we two with whom? Come to me tonight and drink from me, and you'll talk about it later. Go to the second uncle's side early in the evening, I'll be here after I am done, I'll wait for you, see you or not, if you don't come, don't ask for the recruitment recommendation list. Zhou Jianliang joked.
Zhou Jianping told Yuling to finish work early and go back to her parents to help make dinner. The sky was still bright, Zhou Jianping came to the old house of his parents with some vegetables, he turned around the yard a few times, and felt that the old house was really a little dilapidated, his parents had worked hard for most of their lives, and they had worked hard day and night, and the harvest from the land was not only to fill their stomachs, but now they can't even build a decent house.
After a while, Zhou Xuecheng and Chen Xiuhua came back with farm tools, "Mom, Dad, have you finished work?" ”
"Why is Jianping here? When did you come back? ”
"I just arrived home at noon, and I came to eat here with you in the evening, and Yuling came over to help cook in a while."
As she was talking, Chang Yuling entered the yard, and she went straight to the kitchen.
"Why didn't you see Jianwen?" Zhou Jianping asked.
"He's behind your eldest sister Jianxiu."
"What's the matter, Jianxiu doesn't study anymore?"
"After graduating from junior high school in July, I went home without going to school." Chen Xiuhua said.
Zhou Xuewei didn't talk much, and he couldn't get used to what his eldest son Zhou Jianping did, so no matter how long they hadn't met, the father and son rarely had a common topic.
"Dad, how is the harvest this year?" Zhou Jianping has nothing to say, he doesn't even want to do farm work, when did he care about the crop harvest?
"That's it, it's about the same as in previous years." Zhou Xuecheng didn't have any extra words.
Zhou Jianping felt embarrassed to stay with his old father, so he came to the kitchen to help light the fire, "Jianping hasn't been home for a while this time, it's busy outside, right?" Chen Xiuhua is different from Zhou Xuecheng, she always takes the initiative to find a topic to talk to her eldest son.
"It's been a really busy few months, and I've really been so busy that I don't even have time to go home."
"Jianping, you've been married to Yuling for three or four years, you two don't plan to have a child when?" Chen Xiuhua asked casually.
"Mom, why do you care about this ----,matter?" Zhou Jianping still blushed a little.
"It's normal for me to care, get married and have children, who doesn't do this? What's so strange about that? Chen Xiuhua said.
"Yes, it's not that we haven't thought about it, but I'm away all the year round, and the housework and farm work at home all depend on Yuling alone, if there is a child, Yuling herself can't be busy at all, which is also our specific difficulty!"
"You can't just don't want children for that reason, right? You two say yes? Chen Xiuhua deliberately took Yuling with her.
"Mom, what you said is right, but in this big mess at home, I will get pregnant and have a baby again, what do you say?" Yuling said.
"There are specific difficulties, let's find a way to overcome them together, you are both almost thirty years old, and those of your age in the village have long been fathers and mothers. Otherwise, once Yuling is pregnant and can't work in the field, your father and I will help you farm the land, and Yuling won't have to take care of the work in the fields. "My daughter-in-law has been married for three or four years and has not given birth to children, and she is more anxious than anyone else when she is a mother-in-law.
"Okay, we know this in our hearts, and you're not too young, I don't want you and my dad to suffer for us." With Zhou Jianping's current strength, even if he doesn't plant those one or two acres of land, he can fully afford to raise Chang Yuling, and if Yuling is pregnant, he is ready to temporarily outsource the land.
Dinner was ready, the brothers and sisters had already arrived home, and the family sat around the table for dinner, Zhou Jianping only ate half a bowl and put down the dishes and chopsticks, "Does Jianping eat so little?" Chen Xiuhua asked.
"Oh, I'm going to Jianliang's house in a while, it's all set in the afternoon, he's still waiting for me, I just have something to look for him."
"What's the matter with him? People have just become the village head, don't let outsiders think that our family is leaning on the body of an official. Zhou Xuecheng ate and admonished without raising his head.
In the previous generation, Zhou Xuecheng and Zhou Jianliang's father were originally brothers, but because of some family trivialities in the past, the two families basically did not move around, and the relationship between Zhou Xuecheng and the eldest brother who was the village party secretary was not as good as that of ordinary friends.
"Dad, we can't manage the grievances of your previous generation, and we don't want to care, but you don't have to worry about the affairs between us, don't worry, no matter who you deal with, I will definitely not embarrass you." Zhou Jianping said.
"Your dad is also kind, Jianping, what are you looking for Jianliang for?" Chen Xiuhua is also very concerned.
"I wanted to recruit 20 workers in the village, and Jianliang knew the people in the village well, so I asked him to help me recommend those honest, clever and capable young people."
"What? Are you going to recruit workers in the village? Who to recruit? The people at the table stopped their chopsticks and looked at Zhou Jianping in surprise.
"Recruit workers for my own factory, why do you look at me like that? Yuling is also making such a fuss, didn't I tell you? "Zhou Jianping is a little baffled.
"You told me? That's what I just knew! Yuling glanced at Zhou Jianping without concealment.
"Hey, I was too busy during this time to tell you that I resigned from my original unit, and with the support and help of my friends, I contracted a food processing factory, and now I don't have enough manpower, so I go home this time and mainly want to recruit twenty workers from the village." Zhou Jianping gave a brief introduction to the whole family.
"Oh, Jianping, you haven't been home in the past few months, it turns out that you are doing a big thing outside, so you are now the factory director?" Chen Xiuhua looked at her eldest son in great surprise.
"Mom, this is not a big deal, I am the director of the factory, but it is only a contracted operation, and the ownership of the factory is not mine."
"That's fine! Isn't it up to you to recruit all these people? Chen Xiuhua said.
"Not only these people recruited from the village, there are now twenty or thirty workers in my factory, and they are the workers of the original factory. After the contract, it has been trial production for more than a month, and now that the product has a market, there is not enough manpower in the factory, and I want to recruit some people from the village. ”
"Jianping, such a good thing, you should first think of your brother Jianwen! If you ask Jianliang to consider the candidate, he will definitely not think of Jianwen. Chen Xiuhua seemed to be a little complaining.
"Mom, it's not that I didn't think about Jianwen first, when I walked out of the village, my dad was very angry, I'm afraid I'm still dissatisfied with me, if I take Jianwen out again, I'm afraid you won't agree!" Jianping is also worried.
Zhou Xuecheng lowered his head and didn't say a word. As a father, at this moment, he doesn't need to feel guilty, just ask him to understand Zhou Jianping more.
"Brother, don't care if our dad agrees or not, such a good opportunity, please take me out, I just want to go out with you." Zhou Jianwen shouted.
"Jianwen, if you go out, who will help your parents work!" Zhou Jian's plane has a difficult color.
"I don't care! Several people in the family have been circling around these acres of land all day long, and what has come out of it for decades? I can't even afford to repair the house to this day, and I still live in this dilapidated house. ”
The second brother Zhou Jianwen is not as sensible as the eldest brother Zhou Jianping, he can say anything regardless of his parents' feelings. It's no wonder that Jianwen is twenty-three or four, and the young man doesn't look bad, but someone in the village has introduced him to the object, and the woman can just look at his house. Every time such an experience is a great injury to Zhou Jianwen's self-esteem.
Jianwen's trouble, Chen Xiuhua didn't feel good in his heart, "Jianping, let your brother go with you, there is me and your father in this little work at home, and now Jianxiu can also help us, when you were young, only me and your father, didn't you come over too." ”
"It's up to me who I want or who I don't want, as long as my parents don't object, it's okay if Jianwen is willing to go out with me, you discuss it first, Fan doesn't have to be angry about this." After speaking, Jianping left his parents' house.
Zhou Jianliang counted when he spoke, made dinner and waited at home, "Haven't you eaten yet?" Zhou Jianping asked when he entered the house.
"I'm waiting for you." Zhou Jianliang said.
"I've eaten it all, so eat it all."
"You, you've said okay in the afternoon, come to me to drink in the evening, and it's not okay to eat, you sit down, let's have two drinks."
"Second brother, let me take a look at the list of candidates you recommend first."