It is said that Wen Yuanfang was entangled in work from the day he took office as the deputy director of Meichi Supply and Marketing Cooperative, and he could no longer get out.

After the half-month sweet period of the newlywed was over, Zhu Yuliang said goodbye to her husband at the Meichi Railway Station early in the morning and boarded the train back to Zhuji Chengguan alone.

Before getting on the train, Wen Yuanfang told again:

"Before going to bed at night, you must be insured by your boss Biling!"

"Remember to take the time to write to your parents to report safety!"

"Read more Marxist-Leninist-Maoist works, not those messy novels!"

"Keep a diary and write down your daily learning experience, which will help improve your writing skills!"

"If you don't know the words you don't know when you read books and newspapers, you should check the dictionary in time, and you can't recognize half of the words with difficulty!"

"In business, you must study hard to adapt to the new job as soon as possible, and don't hold your colleagues back!"

"Stop wearing high heels! High heels are not good for pelvic bone development and are prone to dystocia in the future. ”

"If braiding takes too long every day, just cut your hair short! Short hair looks very energetic! ”

……

Zhu Yuliang laughed out loud and said, "My parents are not so annoying. Are you my dad? ”

"Isn't it? What I promised to your mom and dad is that I won't let you lose a single hair. Otherwise, I have no shame to face them. Wen Yuanfang said with a solemn face.

"Alright! I'm not a child, I always have to face everything independently, right? Zhu Yuliang straightened the corners of his clothes, puffed up his chest and said.

"That's right! You have to find a way to solve everything independently, overcome your dependence on anyone, and don't trouble your neighbors at every turn; If you really have difficulties, ask them for help, or ask Li Ju to call me! ”

Until the train started, Wen Yuanfang was still chattering......

After getting off the Zhuji Railway Station, Zhu Yuliang thought about her husband's advice and walked back to Tongxin Pavilion through the streets and alleys. This new home was too foreign to her; Fortunately, her ability to recognize the way is okay, otherwise she would not be able to find it for a while.

Now, facing the empty living room, Zhu Yuliang felt lonely like never before.

At the age of fourteen, she left her parents and younger siblings to go to Jurong Technical School and lived in a collective dormitory; After graduating from technical school, she worked as an apprentice in an auto parts factory and lived in a dormitory. Therefore, living alone is the first time in her life.

She still remembers that when she was working at the Jurong Auto Parts Factory, she had discussed with her best friend in the upper bunk who she would marry in the future. Cheng Yafang said that she hoped to find a man who loved her to hang in front of her all day long; And Zhu Yuliang said that she hoped to find a husband who could do great things, and she didn't care about the kind of dawn and twilight. Well, choice determines fate, and now the situation of being alone in a foreign land as a stranger is the result of one's own choice, so there is nothing to complain about.

But it's also strange to say that Zhu Yuliang, who has just arrived, doesn't find Zhuji difficult to understand. For example, her mother-in-law Lou Xiangfu can't speak Mandarin at all, and speaks an authentic Tangfeng dialect; But Zhu Yuliang didn't sound like there was any obstacle, and he never misunderstood what she meant.

In addition, she sometimes walks on the streets of Zhuji, and when she walks by the Huansha River, she will have a feeling of returning to her hometown at dusk. Could it be that he lived in Zhuji in his previous life? Could it be that he was originally from Zhuji?

But she quickly dismissed these ridiculous thoughts. Because Wen Yuanfang said: The theory of the previous life is a fallacy used by the ruling class to deceive the working people, so that the working people think that they have been cattle and horses in this life because they have not accumulated virtue and done good deeds in their previous lives, so they should be good people in this life and willingly accept the enslavement and exploitation of the ruling class.

Zhu Yuliang felt that her husband Wen Yuanfang's theory of no past life and her mother Xu Guiying's theory of past life had a certain amount of truth. If people have past lives, why does no one know who they were in their past lives? What has been done? If people don't have a past life, why do they have different interests, different habits, different thoughts and feelings?

To be honest, Zhu Yuliang did not have much interest in these disputes between idealism and materialism. As my mother-in-law said, you have to know what you really want. So, what exactly does Zhu Yuliang want?

She has two desires that are very strong and clear: one is that she hopes to have a husband who can bring her glory, because she has admired heroes since she was a child and fantasizes that her husband is a big man who has lived through heaven and earth; Second, I hope that I can live a life without worrying about food and clothing, away from the whirlpool of right and wrong, away from politics and power struggles...... She knows very well that her IQ for playing conspiracy is zero; If they play with fire and self-immolate, it is better to stay away from the fire.

But Zhu Yuliang never thought that her two wishes were contradictory, so they were destined to have both. However, it is too profound, too complex, and too dialectical for a peach-like character like her...... It's so hard for her!

"My top priority is to take root in this ancient and more hot land and become one with this land...... Thinking of this, Zhu Yuliang cheered up and began to tidy up the house, and then buy side dishes, fetch water, and cook rice......

"Xiao Zhu is back? Tomorrow is your first day of work, and tomorrow morning I will ask Deputy Bureau Cai to take you to the Huansha Business Department to report. You've got the appointment right! Li Fan came home from work at noon, and when he saw Zhu Yuliang, he took care of her.

"Okay, Bureau Li, I'm all set." Zhu Yuliang responded to Li Fan while digging well water.

The well, Zhu Yuliang grew so big and it was the first time to use it. This kind of old well, the wellhead is very small, the well bar is very high, and the bottom of the well is unfathomable. Putting down a barrel with a long hemp rope and filling it with water is not only a hard work, but also a technical job. Zhu Yuliang pinched the rope and dragged it left and right, but she couldn't let the wooden bucket turn over to hold water, so angry that she scolded in her heart, "What the hell!" ”

Li Fan saw that she hadn't fetched water for a long time in the house, so he went out to help her. He taught her how to pull the rope with moderate force to turn the barrel over, or simply throw it down with the bottom facing up...... When Li Fan was demonstrating to Zhu Yuliang, Liu Yuelan came back from work.

"Lao Li, have you cooked the rice?" Liu Yuelan shouted in the house.

"It's not cooked yet, the rice is ready." Li Fan responded to his wife, put down a bucket of water and walked towards his house.

"You know that I only have an hour to come back for dinner at noon, and you still have time to help people fetch water? That's not how you learned from Lei Feng, right? Liu Yuelan's words were full of sourness.

"Aren't people used to using our bucket......"

"I can't even hit the well water, I think you have a lot to worry about in the future!"

……

Li Fan and his wife's bickering words drifted into Zhu Yuliang's ears, reminding her of how prescient her husband's advice was! This is just the beginning, is the neighborhood relationship so awkward in the future? Thinking of this, Zhu Yu's conscience was very uncomfortable.

The next morning, Zhu Yuliang dressed neatly, with the mood of opening a new chapter in his life, under the leadership of Deputy Director Cai Fuguo, went to work in the Huansha Business Department of the County Materials Bureau.

On the way, Deputy Director Cai changed the impression he had left on Zhu Yuliang of gloomy and difficult places, and gently asked Zhu Yuliang long and short questions. He asked her: How many people are in her mother's family, and who are some of her in-laws? How did she and Wen Yuanfang meet? Is Wen Yuanfang good to her? Does she like Zhuji, and what do she think of the people in Zhuji......

Zhu Yuliang saw that he had no malice like a big brother, so he gave him all the relevant information.

Deputy Bureau Cai also took care of Zhu Yuliang: "The service industry will come into contact with all kinds of people, what grievances will you encounter in the future, don't quarrel with others, just tell me." I am in charge of the personnel and operation of the Material Bureau, and for the sake of our half-fellow villagers and neighbors, I will try my best to help you put things in order. ”

Zhu Yuliang felt that Deputy Bureau Cai was a trustworthy and good person, so he nodded to accept his kindness.

The Business Department of the Materials Bureau is mainly engaged in metal materials, mechanical and electrical products, light chemical building materials and other industrial and agricultural production, transportation and water conservancy facilities required by the national unified distribution of materials projects. There are thirty or forty employees in the Huansha business department, who are assigned to different departments. The department personnel are divided into two parts: invoicing and collecting in the store department and reviewing the delivery in the warehouse.

It happened to be a Saturday. When Zhu Yuliang was brought to the office of the director of the business department by Deputy Bureau Cai, Director Xu Qingpei was holding this week's work summary meeting for the managers of various departments, and the content of the meeting was how to implement the national economic work policy of "developing the economy and ensuring supply" and the material supply policy of "unified planning, hierarchical management", "ensuring key points and taking into account the general", and carry out the purchase, sale and supply of national unified distribution materials.

Everyone saw Deputy Bureau Cai coming, and hurriedly got up to greet them. Xu Qingpei announced that the meeting would be temporarily suspended and would be resumed after work in the evening, so the managers of each department packed up their notebooks and other items and went back to the department to arrange work.

"Manager Sun stays!" Sun Youcai heard Director Xu call him, walked to the staircase and turned back.

"Comrade Zhu Yuliang was assigned to your mechanical and electrical products department, in view of her work experience in an auto parts factory, she was assigned to the auto and auto parts group, and Xiao Guo was a partner!" Director Xu commanded.

"Good come! Comrade Xiaozhu, please follow me! After Sun Youcai nodded and said goodbye to Deputy Bureau Cai and Director Xu, he took Zhu Yuliang downstairs to the store department.