Rebirth in 1960, My Industrial Age

Chapter 98 Father-in-law's boasting face (Subscription required)

Li Huaide knew where the Women's Federation was, so he sent his secretary to call for help.

Not long after they arrived at the private room of the cafeteria, Bai Yujie also arrived.

Bai Yujie smiled and greeted, "Deputy Director Li, it's been a long time since we last met. I shouldn't say this. After all, it's been less than a month."

"Yeah, it's a pity that the steel mill is missing a great general like Director Yujie. I think the secretary and the others are regretting it to death, haha."

Li Huaide also complimented him, but in his heart he felt that it was great that Bai Yujie was promoted and transferred.

In the past, the Women's Federation had such a person backing her up. She was really domineering in the factory and made many male workers dare not say a word. They said that they could only look at other people's melons.

After some male workers were persecuted, they had no way to appeal; one reason was that the Women's Federation was too strong and had Bai Yujie's support; the other reason was that those who were persecuted were not clean themselves.

As a result, many people avoided the Women's Federation when they saw it, while the female workers were extremely united. Even Director Yang had to temporarily avoid the Women's Federation.

Now that Bai Yujie is gone, the Women's Federation's arrogance has weakened a lot. At least they can no longer win over them when it comes to policy and reason.

However, Li Huaide couldn't show it on his face. He had to pretend to be regretful and invite Bai Yujie to take a seat.

"Director Yujie, you know our factory's special kitchen. The chef in the back kitchen is very skilled. The comrades in the brother factories will never forget it after eating it. You must try it today."

Li Huaide smiled and said that before, Bai Yujie was basically the leader who had the least special treatment in the factory, and it could be said that she had never had any private treatment.

Bai Yujie smiled and said, "Indeed, our factory's small kitchen is indeed good. I will try it as a guest today."

Then, while waiting for the food to be served, they started chatting.

Because the matter of adjusting materials had been discussed, Li Huaide made a joke about it and told Bai Yujie that Deputy Director Gao and Zhou Fengnian were robbing her "parents' home".

Bai Yujie just smiled after hearing this and didn't say much.

However, with the presence of a beautiful female comrade at the table, the atmosphere became a little more relaxed, and Li Huaide felt that Bai Yujie was not as cold as before after leaving the Women's Federation.

After a while, the dishes were served by a pretty female kitchen staff. Zhou Fengnian guessed that this was Li Huaide's secret lover.

But his attention was mostly on the food, which smelled good.

When Li Huaide saw the dishes on the table, he immediately said, "Come, come, try the cooking skills of our factory chef."

After hearing this, Zhou Fengnian and Deputy Director Gao picked up their chopsticks and took a little to taste.

It’s pretty good, and the Sichuan cuisine skills are quite good, but the cooking is a bit random and you can tell that they didn’t put much effort into it.

Zhou Fengnian was quick to give his evaluation. He has been cooking for more than two years now and has brought his cooking skills to a very high level.

But few people have tasted his cooking. Apart from his family, only Luo Cheng has eaten it the most. For others, only leaders of ministries and commissions have the opportunity to taste it when they come.

If Zhou Fengnian were to conduct a cook rating, he would at least be a level three cook.

The cook in the steel rolling mill must be at around level five, but it is obviously impossible for the factory to pay him the salary of a level five cook, because the cooks in the factory serve the workers.

"Not bad, it's delicious."

Deputy Director Gao made a comment and then continued eating; the food was indeed much better than the cook in their factory, but he had tasted Zhou Fengnian's cooking, so this cook was a little bit worse.

Unfortunately, Zhou Fengnian is now an eighth-level engineer. Even though Gao Zhiyuan is the deputy factory director, he doesn't dare to let Zhou Fengnian cook for him.

Li Huaide said with a smile: "As for the logistics of our factory, the only thing we can offer is our small kitchen. Otherwise, it would be difficult to entertain the comrades from the brother factories."

No one here would report the special treatment. Deputy Director Gao was also in charge of logistics. Bai Yujie had known about the special treatment in the steel rolling mill for a long time, so Li Huaide spoke about it with confidence.

"It's true. We need to take better care of the cooks in our factory. They can't even cook properly for the workers."

After hearing what Deputy Factory Director Gao said, Zhou Fengnian was the first to agree: "Indeed, those people in the kitchen are too foolish. If they continue like this, resentment will accumulate sooner or later.

Every time after lunch, the technical department complained that the lunch was not tasty."

Although we have only been able to eat well for a few years, the potatoes, radishes and cabbages that those guys cooked were so bad that it seemed like a waste of food.

Deputy Director Gao was stunned and didn't say anything else, but he decided in his heart that he must tidy up the kitchen when he returned.

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The big cafeteria is full of workers. After a busy morning, they come here to have a delicious meal, then smoke a cigarette and chat.

This is the happiest time for the workers.

"Old Zhou, I'm eating."

A middle-aged man with a crew cut came to Zhou Xiangde's table with a lunch box and sat down opposite him.

Zhou Xiangde looked up and immediately said, "Master Yi, and Master Qin, what's the matter?"

He was one of the few level eight fitters in the steel rolling mill, but he was not in the same workshop with him and they had never dealt with each other before. He didn't know why he came to see him this time.

As for Qin Huairu who was working next to him, he was not familiar with her.

"I was asked by someone to ask you something."

After Yi Zhonghai sat down, he continued to ask: "Old Zhou, I heard that you have a daughter who is also of marriageable age. I have a younger generation who asked me to mention this to you after hearing about it. Can you make an appointment to meet her?"
Of course, my junior won’t be stingy with the betrothal gifts.”

"My daughter is indeed old enough to get married, but I'm sorry, Master Yi, she has already found someone and will be getting married at the end of May."

Zhou Xiangde said this angrily, but in his heart he was thinking that he would reveal this matter "accidentally" after returning to the workshop, so that the bastard surnamed Liang would not continue to shout and spread rumors.

A man named Liang lived in the yard next to his and worked in the same workshop. When he heard his wife and daughter quarreling, he spread rumors in the factory that Zhou Xiangde wanted to sell his daughter and was asking for a very high dowry.

Now his daughter is married to an engineer, who dares to accuse him of selling his daughter?
"Have you already found someone to marry?"

Yi Zhonghai was stunned, then shook his head and said, "I'm so sorry, Lao Zhou, just pretend I never said anything about this."

"It's okay. We've only been dating for a few days. I haven't told anyone else."

Zhou Xiangde paused for a moment, then added: "What the Liang guy said is all bullshit. My family doesn't ask for such a high gift."

Although his wife wanted to have it before, now she doesn't want it anyway.

"Uncle Zhou?"

Zhou Xiangde suddenly heard someone calling him. He turned around and saw Zhou Fengnian standing behind him. He was surprised and asked:

"Fengnian, why are you here at the steel mill?"

"I came here to discuss something with my boss. I didn't have time to go back at noon, so I stayed at the steel mill for lunch."

Zhou Fengnian came over and said, "I just glanced over and accidentally saw you sitting here, Uncle Zhou, so I came to say hello."

"I'm almost done eating, it's ok if you're done."

Zhou Xiangde immediately blushed as he introduced Yi Zhonghai and Qin Huairu: "Master Yi, Master Qin, Lao Hao, this is my son-in-law, Zhou Fengnian, an engineer at the machinery factory."

“Oh, that’s right, I’m a level eight engineer!” How glorious.

It was not so glorious even when he was promoted to level 4 fitter. It is such an honor for him that his son-in-law is an engineer.

Yi Zhonghai and Hao Xiangguo were both shocked when they heard this.

Qin Huairu was surprised and a little happy and greeted, "Comrade Zhou Da, it's you."

Zhou Fengnian glanced sideways and was about to say something when Deputy Director Gao came over and asked, "Fengnian, what's wrong?"

"Nothing, Deputy Director Gao, I ran into my father-in-law and came to say hello."

Zhou Fengnian explained: "This is my girlfriend's father. We have already decided to get married at the end of May. He just came out and looked familiar, so I came over to say hello after seeing him."

"Your girlfriend Zhou Yan's father, right? Not bad, not bad. Zhou Yan is an excellent announcer in our factory. But this sentence should be said by Deputy Director Bai, haha."

Deputy Director Gao smiled and said that Bai Yujie was in charge of the Propaganda Department, so he would not take the initiative to praise her.

Bai Yujie also came closer and said to Zhou Xiangde, "Comrade Zhou, your daughter is doing very well in the factory. It seems that she has learned a lot of excellent qualities from her father."

"No, no, no, Yanyan performed well herself."

Zhou Xiangde was so pleased with the compliment that his mouth almost stretched to his ears. He also heard that the person who spoke was another deputy factory director, which made him extremely happy.

The deputy factory director is a high-ranking official in their factory. I didn’t expect that my son-in-law would associate with such a high-ranking official.

Zhou Xiangde also saw Deputy Director Li of their steel rolling mill, who was with his son-in-law at this time.

Seeing more and more people looking here, Zhou Fengnian said, "Uncle Zhou, if there's nothing else, we'll leave first. We'll come back to see you on the weekend."

"Okay, okay, your work is important!"

Zhou Xiangde quickly said that he had already made enough of an appearance in such a short time and could not delay his son-in-law's work any longer.

But just as Zhou Fengnian and his group were about to leave, Qin Huairu suddenly said, "Comrade Zhou, thank you for what you did last time."

Zhou Fengnian turned his head after hearing this, pretending to recall, and said, "You are Comrade Qin Huairu, right? No need to thank me. Everyone will help a thief if they see one, not to mention you've already thanked me."

After that, Zhou Fengnian, Deputy Director Gao, Bai Yujie and others left, but Zhou Fengnian's voice could still be heard explaining, "I encountered a thief at the supply and marketing cooperative and sent him to the police station."

Zhou Xiangde turned his head and asked, "Master Qin, do you still know my son-in-law?"

Qin Huairu nodded and said gratefully: "Last time I encountered a thief at the supply and marketing cooperative, it was Comrade Zhou who caught the thief, otherwise my family's money would have been lost."

"I see, my son-in-law likes to do good things, haha."

Zhou Xiangde had a smug smile on his face again.

Then the co-workers around him asked about his daughter and Zhou Fengnian, giving Zhou Xiangde the opportunity to show off for a long time.

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After leaving the cafeteria, Deputy Director Gao turned aside and asked, "Deputy Director Bai, do you need my and Fengnian's help with your matter?"

Bai Yujie shook her head and said, "No need, it's already been done. If you two have nothing else to do, then go back to the factory."

Zhou Fengnian said: "Then let's go back. We still have a lot of things to do in the afternoon."

Then a few people said goodbye to Li Huaide. The latter tried to persuade them to stay and then sent Zhou Fengnian and the other two to the parking lot.

After getting on the car, Deputy Director Gao couldn't help but smile and said, "It's a good year. We've made a lot of money today. After processing this batch of steel into finished machinery, our factory will have a good year at the end of the year!"

Their factory specializes in producing various machines, including agricultural and military ones. It has strong manufacturing capabilities. It does not have a main product, but focuses on comprehensive products.

Therefore, this batch of steel can be processed into various machine products, and then exchanged and adjusted with other factories.

Apart from anything else, if all of it were used to manufacture machine tools, it would be enough for fifteen CNC machine tools.

This is what they gained this time, exchanging a CNC machine tool for various types of steel.

"Then we look forward to your benefits at the end of the year, Deputy Director Gao."

"Haha, that's no problem. By the way, Fengnian, mark out whatever your technical department needs in advance, and I'll store it separately for you when the time comes."

"Okay, I'll go back and think about it and make a list then."

Zhou Fengnian and Deputy Director Gao chatted with each other and handled many things in the car.

He did not hide it from Bai Yujie. After all, Deputy Director Gao would have to report this matter when he returned, and Director Li Zhengyang would also have to arrange tasks for him to process the steel into mechanical products.

"Mr. Zhou."

Bai Yujie suddenly smiled and said, "My cousin has been talking about you these past two days. If I run into you, I will definitely invite you to his house for a meal."

"Oh, that's right. It's my fault. I've been a bit busy lately and didn't think about it for a while."

Zhou Fengnian remembered this incident after being reminded, but he had a lot of things to do and forgot about it.

"I'll go see Director Bai Kang this weekend. Deputy Director Bai, please tell Director Bai Kang."

I've been looking for him, probably because he has something to say.

Bai Yujie smiled and said, "Okay, then we can go directly to XXX place to find him. If my cousin wants to find me, that's fine too. I'll be there this weekend too."

After listening to this, Zhou Fengnian nodded. This place was a bit like a family housing estate.

Soon, the three returned to the factory.

Zhou Fengnian went to the machine tool workshop and told Luo Cheng about the steel materials he had exchanged, then returned to the technical department.

It has been a month since he started drawing the blueprints. He can let the workshop start production next week. He also needs to coordinate with the six institutes and the university in advance.

Although the plan was for one to two years, Zhou Fengnian has been fully committed to his work recently and has unknowingly accelerated the progress.

As it stands, we will be able to see the first automated CNC production line by the end of the year.

No wonder the organization is so keen to help solve problems. With fewer trivial matters around us, we will only think about working.

When Zhou Fengnian was drawing the blueprint, he suddenly thought of building a car.

He had not had this idea originally, but the automated CNC production line would produce it a year in advance, and he also wanted to ride in the kind of sedan that would be available in later generations.

Coupled with Deputy Director Gao’s previous enticing words, the idea of ​​building cars suddenly took root in Zhou Fengnian’s heart.

"Try it out sometime. Once it's built, it will belong to the factory and I can use it a few times."

After Zhou Fengnian thought about this in his mind, his hands started drawing car shapes on a blank piece of paper, and soon he had drawn several classic car models.

There are big differences between them and the current sedan models, but Zhou Fengnian likes them very much.

(End of this chapter)