Chapter Twenty-Three: The Years Are Quiet and Peaceful
Whether it is Feng Aizhen's understanding of reason or Guo Weiming's emotion, it cannot restore Zhu Yuliang's decision.
She walked aimlessly along the Huansha River, her heart rippling like a raccoon......
Where do you go after you quit your job?
Is it back to Jurong? Oh, Jurong can't go back, she has lost her job, and it is impossible for her original unit to accept her anymore.
Do you want to go back to Xiaoyizhuang? Oh, there is no room for her in Xiaoyizhuang for a long time, and there will be no place for her anymore. To put it bluntly, go back and stay for a few days, she is a guest; After a long time, she is a superfluous person.
Do you want Wen Yuanfang to support himself for a lifetime? For such a big matter, he made a decision by himself, and he didn't even talk to him, how would he react when he knew?
Even if Wen Yuanfang is willing to support her for the rest of her life, a woman has no job, which means that she has no right to economic independence, which means that she has no right to personal dignity.
For example, her mother Xu Guiying has worked hard for half her life, and she will still be scolded or scolded by her father from time to time, and she is still facing the risk of a "wild woman" snatching her father at any time when she is young. Like his mother, he has been a fertility machine for a lifetime, a nanny who has served her husband and taken care of her children all her life, and in the end she has not even had the most basic economic security and personal dignity protection, which is the life path that Zhu Yuliang hates the most.
Another example: like Wen Yuanfang's sister-in-law Zhou Jiahong, she cut off all her advantages and talents, insisted on acting as a good wife and mother praised by everyone in that isolated small mountain village, and finally dried herself into an old tree root to satisfy everyone...... Despite this, she even has to ask her mother-in-law's opinion on small things such as what small snacks to cook when guests come to the house, which shows that there is no world where she can make her own decisions. If she lives a lifetime like her, she would rather die.
Thinking of this, Zhu Yuliang regretted his impulsiveness a little.
"Whether I have a job or not, I don't want to work hard all my life, complain all my life, and worry about it all my life, like most women in China; I just want to be myself, and no one wants to limit me or transform me! Wen Yuanfang can't do it, Cai Fuguo, Li Fan, etc. can't do it. ”
Thinking of this, she walked towards Tongxin Pavilion; Now that it has happened, we can only take it one step at a time.
"Why did Xiao Zhu come back early today?" Chen Meijuan took advantage of Sunday to rest, and was washing the seasonal sheets in Daxi, and saw that Zhu Yuliang went home before he got off work at noon, so she asked curiously.
"Hello Mr. Chen! I'm not feeling well, take a leave of absence to come back and take a break. Xiao Zhu said that he entered the door and locked it, then went upstairs, fell on the bed and began to think about the way out.
"Oops! I don't think Xiao Zhu is right today, his face is pale, as if something has happened. It can't be that there are births, right? Chen Meijuan saw Liu Yuelan go home for dinner at noon, and came to talk to her again.
"It doesn't look like it." Liu Yuelan doesn't seem to be very interested in this topic.
"I see that her husband hasn't been back to Tongxin Pavilion for a month recently. Did the two quarrel? Chen Meijuan also wants to dig up some material.
"Didn't Xiao Zhu go to Meichi quite diligently? Men who are leaders are busy! Aren't Lao Li and Lao Cai also going out early and returning late every day? Originally, Lao Li was resting at home on Sunday, and I was very busy in the hospital, so it was only natural for him to cook ready-made food for me? It's good now, I don't even see a single figure, I don't know where I died! Liu Yuelan complained while washing rice and cooking rice.
"Oh! Li Ju and Lao Cai were called away by the director of a business department below them just now, and the three of them looked anxious, as if something had happened to the store department. Isn't it? I originally expected Lao Cai to take advantage of Sunday rest to play with his two sons, but usually the two little red guys are locked up in the bureau nursery, which is also pitiful. He's good, as long as there is something in the unit, the dead man will leave without hesitation. Chen Meijuan also complained.
At this time, in the office of the director of the material bureau, three big men were quite nervous about a little woman's resignation report.
"If you quarrel with a customer, you have to resign, this Zhu Yuliang is really willful!" Cai Fuguo's tone seems to be "Zhu Yuliang", in his mind, he is just an ordinary worker.
"The main thing is that I am still young and vigorous, and I haven't experienced anything!" Li Fan's voice.
"Is the opinion of the Li Bureau to approve his resignation or to reject the application?" Cai Fuguo cautiously probed.
"Just kidding! Xiao Zhu, she is young and ignorant, could it be that we, as people who have come over, don't pull her when we see her jumping into the fire pit? Li Fan seemed both surprised and annoyed by Cai Fuguo's questioning.
"What Li Ju said is true. However, the opinions of the masses on her service attitude are still quite large...... I think we should criticize and educate her; If she doesn't accept criticism and education, then agree to her resignation, anyway, the twisted melons are not sweet. What do you think? Cai Fuguo still has a businesslike tone.
"It is appropriate to criticize and educate the employees. But as leaders, we must also distinguish between right and wrong, and we cannot blindly blame our own employees. Xiao Zhu is right, salesmen and customers are equal in personality, because we are a socialist service department, and both the service and the served are equal laborers; And not the private workshops of capitalism. That rascal made a move on Xiao Zhu, Xiao Zhu slapped him, I don't think it's Xiao Zhu's fault; We have to admit that Xiao Zhu was wrong, didn't she obviously force her to resign? Li Fan looked really angry this time.
"Bureau Li is right! It is true that I did not have a good grasp of proportions in the conversation, which made Comrade Zhu Yuliang more resistant, which led her to write her resignation report in a fit of anger. Xu Qingpei saw that the situation was not good, and quickly punished himself with three cups.
"In this case, then do it according to the opinion of Bureau Li. On her resignation report, both Li and I signed the opinion that it would not be approved. Don't spread this matter here! Cai Fuguo instructed Xu Qingpei.
"But according to Comrade Zhu Yuliang's personality, if she insists on resigning, what should we do?" Xu Qingpei asked the two leaders carefully.
"If she insists on going her own way, she will be removed from the list! Do you want us as directors to beg an ordinary worker not to resign? How unreasonable! Cai Fuguo seemed very impatient with Xu Qingpei's questioning.
"I'm here to call Xiao Zhu's lover Comrade Wen Yuanfang and ask him to come back and do Xiao Zhu's work. That's it! After Li Fan finished speaking, he got up and hung up the phone for Wen Yuanfang.
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It is said that Zhu Yuliang got up to pack her bags after sleeping for a while, and she was going to take the initiative to go to Meichi to ask her husband for her guilt, in order to get Wen Yuanfang's forgiveness for her unauthorized resignation.
When she walked down the stairs and was about to open the door to go out, she found Wen Yuanfang shouting the door: "Yuliang, why are you locking the door in broad daylight?" ”
"Why are you here? I'm getting ready to go to Mae Chi! Oh, it must have been Bureau Li who called you. Zhu Yuliang pretended to be relaxed and said.
"Are you waiting to go back to Jiangsu after resigning, and you don't plan to say hello to me?" Wen Yuanfang asked angrily as he stared into his wife's eyes.
"I ...... Aren't you going to Mae Chi to confess your mistake? Zhu Yu justified with a humble conscience.
"You cut it first and then tell me that it's still a fart!" Wen Yuanfang suddenly cried, hugged his wife and said emotionally.
"......" Zhu Yuliang was overwhelmed by her husband's actions for a while.
"Yuliang, you are too willful! How can you throw away the iron rice bowl that others regard as life? Didn't you say you want to be a working woman and not a housewife? If you don't have a job, don't you become a housewife? You don't have a job, of course I can support you, but will you be happy then? Wen Yuanfang still hugged his wife tightly and gently enlightened her.
"I just feel wronged, but no one understands me and no one sympathizes with me; And every time you just preach to me, tell me a lot of theories, and don't help me solve any of the practical problems, so I feel so tired, lonely, and bored to stay here...... I was obviously insulted, and the leaders criticized me for my poor service attitude...... I don't want such a job that I get angry with every day. Zhu Yuliang finally cried in her husband's arms.
"Oh! It's all because I usually only care about work and don't care enough about you. I thought that my Yuliang was strong enough to overcome all difficulties! Do you know? I'm both surprised and proud that you won the skills competition. Wen Yuanfang wiped away his wife's tears, patted her back and said. Promise me! In the future, we must discuss everything first, and we can no longer make our own decisions and cut things first. All right? ”
"What if I've resigned?" Zhu Yuliang asked timidly.
"At noon, Director Li Fan talked to me on the phone for half an hour, saying that the leadership of the Materials Bureau decided to reject your resignation application and let you go to work after two days of rest. That's over! In good conscience, the leaders of your bureau really love you very much. ”