The train driver in the courtyard

There were no mobile phones or the Internet back then.

However, there is a super powerful information dissemination tool - the intelligent artificial loudspeaker.

When Qin Huairu was washing vegetables by the sink, she heard that the third uncle's family had got a job doing manual work in the locomotive depot, and she was almost envious.

back home.

She looked at Jia Zhang and said, "You can make money at home. You can earn two cents for each hot pack you make.

This job is great, but it can only be done by the family members of maintenance depot employees."

Jia Zhang rubbed her sore wrist and said unhappily, "Aren't you on good terms with Li Aiguo? Can't you get through the back door with him?"

"Mom, what nonsense are you talking about!"

Seeing that Jia Zhang's old illness had recurred, Qin Huairu turned around, went into the inner room and closed the door.

Jia Zhang's life in the cleaning team has been worse than death these days.

Working in the toilet every day, doing dirty and tiring work, my temper is getting worse and worse.

When she saw Qin Huairu enter the room, she spat.

"Little slut, don't think I don't know what you're thinking!
You are now seeing that Li Aiguo is doing well, and you want to go and provide him with a small room to warm his bed!"

Jia Dongxu was standing nearby. He felt a chill on his head and quickly interrupted Jia Zhangshi.

"Mom, I went to Uncle Three's house to borrow salt today, and I saw Aunt Three was worried about not being able to complete the task. Can we help her?"

Jia Zhang squinted her eyes: "Help? Am I that kind of person?"

"Mom, we have worked hard, so we should get paid for our work." Jia Dongxu said with a blink.

Jia Zhang suddenly understood.

Patting Jia Dongxu on the shoulder, he said, "Dongxu, you are still smart."

"That's right. I, Jia Dongxu, am also a man who does great things." Jia Dongxu suddenly remembered something and asked in a low voice: "Mom, you are so tired, do you still want to make a hot pack?"

"Don't worry, I have already learned from Yan Jiecheng how to make the warm baby. When the time comes, all I need is Qin Huairu to help sew the bag."

Jia Zhang threw down a few words and strode out of the room, leaving Jia Dongxu standing there in a daze, scratching his head.

"What do you mean?"

When Jia Zhang came to the third uncle's house.

The third aunt and uncle fell into sorrow.

A few days ago, after the three aunts took the materials for the hot packs back home, they started making the hot packs in their spare time.

The three aunts originally thought that they could make the hot packs quickly and then go do the laundry and cook.

The same situation happened as on Monday.

It is very troublesome to mix the materials for the hot pack.

It took only one night to make three hot packs.

Worried that the goods could not be delivered on time, the third aunt also called the third uncle and Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang.

It’s just that the third uncle has to go to work at school, and Yan Jiefang and Yan Jiekuang have to go to school, so they can’t be the main force and can only play supporting roles.

After two whole days of hard work, the three aunts only made about twenty hot packs.

"Oh, old man, the goods are due tomorrow and more than half are not finished yet. What shall I do?"

The third uncle had no choice.

After all, you can't just put those materials into the bag randomly.

At this time, Jia Zhang knocked on the door and explained her purpose.

"Ms. Jia Zhang, do you want me to share the manual work of making the hot packs with you?" The third aunt frowned.

Jia Zhang said expectantly, "You can't finish it by yourself anyway, I'll help you do some."

"Are you really willing to help me?" The third aunt doubted.

".What are you thinking about!" Jia Zhang's face turned cold, "I have put in the work, so I should get paid.

I heard that the locomotive depot gives two cents for sewing a hot pack.

We are neighbors, I only want 1.5 cents, how about that? "

Of course, the third uncle and aunt would not believe that Jia Zhang was willing to help others.

After hearing these words, I finally understood her intention.

Logically speaking, the third uncle would be reluctant to hand over the money-making job to others.

But now his family really cannot complete the task.

Besides, he can earn five cents from each hot pack.

This deal can be done.

"Ms. Jia Zhang, can you be a warm baby?"

"Of course I will. Your Jie Cheng has been making so much noise that everyone in the compound knows about it. I'm not a fool."

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The third uncle rubbed his brows.

He felt that Yan Jiecheng's occupational disease was becoming more and more serious.

"How many do you want to make?"

"Let's start with twenty chapters."

The third uncle raised his head and looked at Jia Zhang: "Sister-in-law, we have to hand over the warm baby to the locomotive section tomorrow. The production process of this thing is complicated. Can you make twenty of them?"

"Don't worry, I have a big family.

Me, Qin Huairu, and Dongxu.

If it still doesn’t work, I’ll call Lao Yi and Auntie too.

It will definitely not delay your business.”

It was the first time that the third uncle saw Jia Zhangshi so hardworking, and he couldn't believe it for a moment.

However, the third aunt felt that Jia Zhang must have improved her ideological awareness through labor.

She pulled the third uncle's arm and said, "Ms. Jia Zhang has repented and reformed now. As neighbors, we should help her."

As the uncle in charge, the third uncle also has the obligation to help the residents walk on the right path.

Now that he could help the residents and make money at the same time, the third uncle didn't think much about it and handed over the materials for twenty sets of hot packs to Jia Zhang.

Jia Zhang grabbed the hem of her clothes, rolled up the materials, and prepared to leave.

The third uncle held her back and reminded her: "Sister-in-law, you must strictly follow the production steps stipulated by the Patriotic Regulations to produce the warm baby."

"Don't worry, I, Jia Zhang, will take care of the matter!" Jia Zhang replied confidently, turned around and left the room.

Looking at Jia Zhang's back, the third uncle sighed and said, "I didn't expect that Jia Zhang has really changed. The Jia family will have a good life in the future."

The three aunts also nodded.

"They have a formal employee. As long as Qin Huairu and Jia Zhang are willing to work, they won't have to borrow things from the neighbors anymore."

Both of them felt that they had done a great thing.

As December approaches, the weather is getting colder day by day.

One week later in the afternoon.

When Li Aiguo drove back, he received a notice from Yan Jiecheng.

"Brother Aiguo, the logistics department asked me to inform you that the first batch of warm baby packs have all been put into storage. Can you go check it out?"

The production and distribution of the warm packs were the responsibility of Chief Liu from the Logistics Department, and Li Aiguo was reluctant to get involved.

But after all, he was the one who arranged this matter himself.

Just as he had nothing to do, Li Aiguo took Yan Jiecheng to the warehouse of the logistics department.

There are neatly stacked stacks of hot packs on the wooden shelves in the warehouse.

Seven or eight staff members from the logistics department were sorting out the list of workers and preparing to distribute the hot packs to the workers.

Section Chief Liu smiled and said, "Li Da Che, it will snow in two days. We are going to distribute the hot packs tomorrow."

Li Aiguo nodded, walked around the warehouse, his eyes fell on the shelves, and suddenly frowned.

He picked up a hot pack, looked at Chief Liu and asked, "Chief Liu, haven't these hot packs been tested?"

Section Chief Liu was stunned for a moment, then smiled awkwardly and said, "Li Da Che, you also know that it is going to snow soon, and our comrades in logistics are preparing cold-weather supplies, so we are very short of manpower.

Besides, the people who make the warm packs are the employees’ family members. The warm packs are related to the employees’ health, so they can’t be careless.”

"Snapped."

The warm pack was thrown on the table. Li Aiguo pointed at it and said, "Take it apart."

"Wouldn't it be a waste if we took it apart? It's not cold now," the logistics officer frowned.

Section Chief Liu sensed a clue from Li Aiguo's expression, so he walked forward and tore open the oil paper wrapping the hot pack.

He held the hot pack tightly in his hand.

His expression suddenly changed.

"It's not hot. This hot pack doesn't get hot at all."

Section Chief Liu realized something was wrong and was startled. He picked up a pair of scissors and opened the black silk bag of the hot pack.

Seeing that the bag was full of iron powder and carbon powder, Section Chief Liu's face suddenly turned ugly.

"This this."

Although Section Chief Liu did not believe that the family members of the maintenance section employees would do something wrong, he had to admit it when the facts were before him.

Section Chief Xing received news that someone deliberately made inferior quality hot packs, and rushed over with two deputy section chiefs.

He scolded Section Chief Liu so badly that he couldn't even raise his head.

Section Chief Liu kept wiping the sweat from his forehead, and said with his head down:

"Captain, this matter is my responsibility. I was negligent for a moment and did not arrange for someone to conduct an inspection."

Chief Xing Duan was so angry that he looked like he wanted to eat someone. He grabbed Chief Liu by the collar and continued to spray him.

"We'll talk about the issue of accountability later. I'm worried that there are more than one low-quality hot packs." Li Aiguo stopped him.

Director Xing Duan's face changed.

"What should we do? We can't take apart every hot pack, right?"

The hot pack cannot come into contact with air. Once a chemical reaction occurs, it will be scrapped.

Li Aiguo pondered for a moment and said, "Weigh them one by one! The inspection standard I gave to the logistics department includes the total weight of the warm baby.

We just need to weigh them one by one and we can eliminate the unqualified warm babies. "

Hearing this, Section Chief Liu was stunned at first, but after thinking carefully, he finally understood.

"As expected of Mr. Li, this method is absolutely amazing."

Ten thousand hot packs have to be weighed one by one, which is a huge task.

Fortunately, the locomotive depot is a whole.

Section Chief Xing transferred more than 30 people from the Education Office, Planning Department, Passenger Workshop, and Freight Workshop.

With strength in numbers, it took less than an hour to weigh more than 20,000 hot packs.

"Li Da Che, there are a total of 55 hot packs whose quality does not match the standard quality."

"Tear it all down."

Section Chief Liu picked up a pair of scissors and opened all fifty-five hot packs.

It turned out that the material ratios were in a mess and the product was not produced according to the prescribed formula at all.

"This is definitely intentional! Normally one would not accidentally overlook one of the materials." Section Chief Liu's face turned red with anger.

The leaders of the maintenance section all felt their faces burning.

In their view, railway workers regard the locomotive depot as their own home.

The actions of the families of the maintenance depot employees were tantamount to a slap in the face to them.

Section Chief Xing felt as if he had been stabbed with a knife, and said angrily through gritted teeth: "I didn't expect that there are so many bad apples among the families of our locomotive section.

Investigate, we must find out.”

There was no name written on the heat packs, so it was impossible to tell who had submitted these inferior heat packs. Li Aiguo remembered what happened to Zhou Yi on the battlefield a few days ago.

At that time, he felt strange and wondered why Monday said those inexplicable words.

Now it appears Monday was an insider.

If we report this news to Section Chief Xing, and question Zhou Yi within the section, we will definitely be able to get to the bottom of the matter.

But the hesitation on Monday's face showed that she had something to hide.

To do so would put her in the spotlight.

Whistleblowers and payroll people are great.

However, they often have to face various doubts and criticisms, which sometimes even cause big trouble.

After pondering for a moment, Li Aiguo decided to suppress the matter.

“Duanzhang, it may be difficult to investigate the matter thoroughly at the moment, but people who do this kind of thing will definitely not do it only once.

As long as we intensify testing, we will definitely be able to find these people."

Section Chief Liu said, "We have a batch of warm baby products to purchase tomorrow morning."

Director Xing made the final decision: "We must conduct a thorough investigation tomorrow."

Monday had mixed emotions.

on the one hand.

No one knew that she had secretly informed Li Dache, and Su Pozi and Zhao Xiaohong were still good neighbors and good friends.

on the other hand.

She was worried that the low-quality hand warmers handed over by Mrs. Su would affect the workers.

While eating breakfast, Aunt Zhou saw that Zhou Yi looked listless and asked with concern: "Did anything happen at school on Monday?"

"No, mother."

"Then what's wrong with you? We've made 20 more hot packs these days and we can get 20 cents as wages. Why are you unhappy?"

"Mother, it's Su Pozi's family's business."

Zhou Yi looked at his brothers and sisters who were playing around, gritted his teeth and said, "Mom, I've made up my mind. When I hand over the warm baby today, I will expose Su Pozi's actions to the leaders of the locomotive section. I can't just watch her fool the locomotive section!"

Hearing this, her hands trembled and she almost dropped her chopsticks. Aunt Zhou picked up the chopsticks and sighed, "Zhou Yi, since you have made up your mind, just do it bravely. I support you!"

Zhou Yi didn't expect Aunt Zhou to be so reasonable.

Aunt Zhou smiled bitterly and said, "I am not a fool. If everyone is like Aunt Su, who used inferior hot packs to fool the locomotive section to save trouble, the hot packs will not work and will definitely not be produced again, and we will not get the two cents.

Your father gets frostbite every winter, and if he is given a low-quality hot pack, he will still suffer."

Simple language, no big principles, no high-sounding rhetoric, and a completely different starting point from Monday, but the two reached a consensus.

After dinner.

Zhou Yi and Auntie Zhou came to the locomotive depot with hot packs.

Today is the day to deliver the hot packs and collect their wages, and a long line has formed in front of the office of the logistics department of the maintenance section.

When Mrs. Su saw the two people, she waved at them immediately.

"Come here quickly."

After the two of them approached, Mrs. Su looked around and saw that there was no leader. She lowered her voice and said with great joy, "This time I want to hand in fifty warming patches."

"Fifty sheets from Old Zhao's, how come you finished them so quickly?" Aunt Zhou was stunned: "With all the children in our family working together, we only managed to sew more than twenty sheets."

Mrs. Su curled her lips and said, "I taught your Zhou Yi before, but who knew that your Zhou Yi was so stubborn and didn't listen to me. What can I do?"

Only then did Aunt Zhou remember that Mrs. Su must have cheated again.

She gave a few words of advice, but thinking of what Zhou Yi said, she could only sigh.

Mrs. Su saw the disdain in Aunt Zhou's eyes and said gloomily, "You guys are just too honest. Honest people will suffer losses, do you know that?"

"Yes, yes, yes," Aunt Zhou said perfunctorily.

At this time, the door of the Logistics Department's office opened.

On Monday, it was discovered that in addition to the two staff members from the Logistics Department, Li Dache was also responsible for purchasing the warm baby products.

Zhou Yi took advantage of the chaos in the crowd, squeezed out of the line and walked up to Li Aiguo.

"Li Da Che, I have something to report to you."

Li Aiguo frowned: "Little girl, I'm at work now and don't have time to chat with you."

"No, I'm talking about the low-quality hot packs." Zhou Yi was anxious and blurted out.

Li Aiguo frowned and chased her away: "What do you know as a little girl? Go back to your parents."

Zhou Yi felt like being struck by lightning when she heard this. She didn't expect Li Aiguo to treat her in such a bad manner.

Zhou Yi returned to Aunt Zhou feeling very aggrieved.

After asking carefully, Aunt Zhou sighed and said, "It's better this way. It won't offend the neighbors."

At this time, the staff of the Logistics Department had already started purchasing the hot packs.

"Zhang Cuihua, ten."

Unlike in the past, this time the logistics staff set up a table at the door.

After receiving the hot packs from the family members, they directly wrapped them with old newspapers, wrote the other party's name on them, and asked the family members to press their red handprints on the newspapers.

Then he handed the wrapped hot pack into the office through the window.

Moreover, the locomotive depot did not pay the labor remuneration on the spot.

Some employees' families have raised questions about this.

Section Chief Liu explained: "There are too many people and the amount of money is too much, in order to avoid any mistakes. A special accountant will come to pay you later."

Anyway, the amount of money had been registered, and the employees' families believed that the maintenance section had enough money, so they didn't care and waited outside the door of the logistics department.

Through the window, Mrs. Su vaguely saw a lot of shadowy figures in the house. She felt something was wrong and wanted to turn around and leave.

But by this time it was her turn.

Chief Liu saw that Mrs. Su was behaving strangely, and frowned and said, "Comrade, where is your hot pack?"

The warm baby was in Mrs. Su's hand, and it was too late to hide it now.

She felt that she was being too cautious.

With so many hot packs, who would take the time to check them all?

"Here, I have made a total of fifty."

Mrs. Su handed over the hot pack. Section Chief Liu took the newspaper, wrapped it up, wrote her name on the newspaper, asked her to put her fingerprint on it, and handed it in.

When Mrs. Su saw that there was no movement in the office, she finally breathed a sigh of relief. The corners of her mouth curled up with pride, and she began to imagine whether she would buy the Daoxiangcun cake or the milk candy from the supply and marketing cooperative after getting the dollar.

The three aunts also came over with a bundle of hot packs.

"Comrade, this time it's still one hundred."

"Family members of Yan Jiecheng." After the name was written, the warm baby was also sent in.

There were many people who came to collect the hot packs, and it took more than an hour to collect them all.

When Chief Liu saw that no one came forward, he walked up to Li Aiguo and whispered, "Li Da Che, after checking, a total of 20,000 tickets were collected."

The task volume is 20,000 pieces at a time. It seems that the family members have handed in all the hot packs.

After making sure that nothing was left out, Li Aiguo waved towards the distance.

Minister Niu of the Armed Forces and Zhou Ke, along with seven or eight railway police officers, surrounded the scene.

The majestic uniforms, black guns, and serious expressions on the faces of the railway police made the employees' families feel uneasy.

"What's going on? Why are you arresting us?"

Li Aiguo walked forward with his hands behind his back, turned to face the crowd, and swept his sharp eyes across the faces of the employees' families.

"Everyone calm down!"

With just one sentence, the boiling scene calmed down instantly.

Li Aiguo said: "Among the warm packs purchased by the Logistics Department last time, there were a lot of low-quality ones. After identification, those low-quality warm packs were intentional!"

This plain sentence was like a thunder, echoing in everyone's ears.

The families of those employees were all very angry.

"What! Someone is deliberately fooling the locomotive depot."

"This is too bad. We are the family members of railway workers. Those warm packs are for railway workers to keep warm. How can they do such a heartless thing?"

"Who is it? Come out now. I'm going to tear her apart with my bare hands."

At this time on Monday, I was still depressed about being treated coldly by Li Aiguo.

Hearing this, her dark eyes widened.

"Li Da Che already knows"

At this moment, Mrs. Su was so frightened that her legs went weak.

Her face was pale, and beads of sweat kept dripping onto the ground from her hands. She felt terrified, as if the whole world was attacking her.

She looked around and seeing that no one was paying attention to her, her eyes began to roll around.

Li Aiguo explained the situation, and the families of the employees promised to cooperate with the work of the maintenance section and wait for the inspection results to come out.

Sudden.

An old woman raised her hand and said, "Boss, I have a stomachache and need to go to the toilet."

Li Aiguo vaguely remembered that this was Su Pozi who paid fifty hot packs.

"Stomachache is a serious matter, we can't delay it."

Mrs. Su felt relieved and was about to sneak away when Li Aiguo said, "Mr. Zhang from the Education Office, please accompany this old comrade to the toilet."

Officer Zhang walked up to Mrs. Su and said, "Madam, the toilet is over there."

Su Pozi: “.”

She was like a mouse that wanted to escape but was being watched by a cat. Now she could only follow Director Zhang obediently.

It was a huge workload to test 20,000 hot packs, so the logistics department mobilized 30 people and it took a full hour to complete the test.

Section Chief Liu brought out a bunch of hot packs and placed them on the table.

"Li Da Che, there are a total of seventy low-quality hot packs this time, and the materials are randomly mixed."

Seventy photos. Li Aiguo knew that the other party would take action again, but he did not expect that there would be so many of them, and his face became serious.

The families of the employees were so angry when they saw the unpacked hot packs that their teeth were chattering.

"Where is the list?" Li Aiguo asked.

Section Chief Liu handed over a piece of paper.

Li Aiguo took it and said, "Family members of Su Daqiang! Stand up!"

The scene fell silent in an instant, and gazes were like knives, piercing straight into Old Lady Su.

Mrs. Su didn't expect that she was caught again, and her face turned pale.

She realized that she was in big trouble, and said stiffly, "How do you know this is a hot pack I made?"

Li Aiguo pointed at the name on the newspaper and said, "See? This name is yours, right? And this handprint is yours, right?"

At that time, Mrs. Su was puzzled by the complicated practices of the Logistics Department, but now she finally understood that it had been designed long ago.

Section Chief Liu said coldly: "Su Daqiang is a maintenance worker in our locomotive depot. He braves the cold wind every day to carry out maintenance work along the railway for dozens of miles.
Those hot packs are for him to keep warm, how dare you fool the locomotive depot like this."

The families of the maintenance section workers looked at Mrs. Su with eyes full of contempt and hatred.

They felt that the old woman was murdering her family.

Faced with the angry gaze, Su Pozi's legs went weak and she collapsed to the ground.

She knew that any of her excuses would be pale and powerless in the face of solid evidence.

The third aunt had been standing in the crowd. At this moment, she couldn't help but spit at Mrs. Su: "My Xie Cheng has to run around in the section even in winter. Damn old woman, you just want to murder my Xie Cheng."

"Family members of Yan Jiecheng!" At this time, Li Aiguo took the list and read out the next name.

The three aunts: “.”

(End of this chapter)