The train driver in the courtyard

In the obstetrics and gynecology ward of the Railway Hospital.

Chen Xueru held the child and looked at the rough man, her eyes full of happiness.

"You finally made it back."

"We've finished the work over there." Li Aiguo looked down at the child.

It looks a bit ugly at first glance, with wrinkled pink skin, like a big "rat".

But even so, an indescribable bond of family affection quietly spread in my heart.

Li Aiguo feels that he has now completely integrated into this passionate era.

He carefully extended his fingers and gently touched the child's hand.

The small hand instantly clasped his fingertips tightly, and a warm current instantly spread throughout his body.

Li Aiguo's heart was filled at once, and all the previous fatigue, anxiety and worry turned into tenderness and love at this moment.

"Let's give the child a name?" Chen Xueru looked at the actions of the father and son, with a smile on her lips.

Li Aiguo thought for a moment and said, "Hongsheng, let's call him Li Hongsheng."

As soon as he finished speaking, a hearty voice came from outside.

"The red sun rises, its path is bright. The river flows out from the underground stream, rushing down to the vast ocean.

The dormant dragon soars into the abyss, its scales and claws flying. The young tiger roars in the valley, and all the beasts are terrified.

The eagle tries its wings, the wind blows and the dust rises. Liang Qichao's "On the Youth of China" is a good name!

Liu Guozhang and his wife walked in from outside.

Li Aiguo stood up and greeted him: "Teacher, why are you here?"

"I was inspecting the container production work in the maintenance workshop of your locomotive depot, so I rushed over." Liu Guozhang winked at his master's wife.

The master's wife took out a small gold lock from her purse and handed it to Chen Xueru.

"This was handed down from our ancestors. Leave it to your children to ward off disasters."

This golden lock was probably to be passed down to the next generation. Chen Xueru felt it was too valuable and looked up at Li Aiguo.

"This is a gift from the teacher, please accept it."

Seeing Li Aiguo nod, Chen Xueru hid the gold lock in her pocket.

This thing is too eye-catching, and if others see it, it might cause trouble.

"The things have been sent. The teacher has an idea. I wonder how you would like to express it to the patriots?"

"Teacher, please speak clearly."

"If possible, let Hongsheng be my godson."

The only daughter of Liu Guozhang and his wife was lost during the war, and now the old couple is all alone.

Although his relationship with Liu Guozhang was that of master and student, it was actually not much different from that of a family.

Now with this relationship, the relationship between the two families will become closer.

Whether out of consideration of interests or emotions, Li Aiguo had no way to refuse.

"It's a blessing for Hongsheng to have you as his grandfather." Li Aiguo agreed without hesitation.

"Oh, my eldest grandson!" Liu Guozhang seemed particularly excited. Although he was old, he squatted beside Hongsheng and kept watching him like a child.

The teacher's wife was discussing with Chen Xueru about making a few more sets of clothes for the children.

It's lively here.

Chen Fangxuan, his sister-in-law and Chen Xingjia also came.

When they learned that Li Hongsheng had acknowledged Liu Guozhang as his godfather, they were both very satisfied.

Chen Fangxuan nodded: "Director Liu is a leader. He once served in the army. He has evil spirits and can ward off disasters."

The eldest sister-in-law whispered: "This child is really lucky. He was born with a grandfather who is the director of the research institute. This director grandfather has no descendants. In the future, the Liu family's property..."

"What are you talking about!"

The sister-in-law was given a sidelong glance by Chen Xingjia and she reluctantly shut her mouth.

Chen Xueru had a normal birth. After completing all the formalities and having her baby examined, she was able to be discharged from the hospital in the afternoon.

Li Aiguo was called into the office by the obstetrician and gynecologist. After learning the relevant knowledge about caring for a pregnant woman, he helped Chen Xueru to complete the discharge procedures.

The eldest sister-in-law and He Yushui helped pack up, and the group left the delivery room and prepared to get on the jeep driven by Zhou Ke.

At this time, Yan Bugui came in from outside on a bicycle, carrying the three aunts.

"Oh, he's about to be discharged from the hospital. Old man, it's all your fault. You insisted on going fishing and wasted half a day." The third aunt complained to Yan Bugui.

Yan Bugui got off his bicycle and first congratulated Li Aiguo and Chen Xueru on the birth of their baby boy. Then he said, "I originally brought some nutritional supplements with me, but since Xueru has been discharged from the hospital, they are definitely not needed. I'd better take them back."

Li Aiguo took the basket from him and said with a smile: "It's already been delivered. If I don't accept it, I will be wasting your kindness."

Yan Bugui: "."

He thought he should come later.

Chen Xueru brought the children back to the courtyard, which caused quite a stir in the compound.

In particular, Yan Bugui actually gave two taels of brown sugar and four eggs, which surprised many residents.

Soon, several neighbors came to the door with gifts.

The gifts were not valuable, two eggs from the east family and a bag of flour from the west family. The most valuable thing among them was wood ash.

Li Aiguo looked at the bags of wood ash and was really puzzled.

"What is this for?"

Aunt Liu treated the wood ashes as treasures. She carefully poured them into an enamel basin, mixed them with her hands, and said with a smile, "You don't understand these things. Children easily wet their pants.

Put some wood ash in a small cloth bag and use it as a diaper. After drying, it can be used repeatedly.

Isn’t this the prototype of diapers in later generations?

It is true that the working people are very intelligent.

Li Aiguo originally planned to make some diapers himself, but he felt that they were too eye-catching, so he didn't do it.

Now with wood ash diapers, we can save a lot of trouble.

Aunt Liu raised Liu Tianquan and Liu Diquan personally, so she knows all about these things.

Li Aiguo asked Aunt Liu to make some wood ash diapers.

He Yushui was given an important task, which was to help wash diapers.

The next day Chen Xueru returned home with her child.

Wang Da Kui, Cao Wenzhi, Zhou Ke, Lao Zheng and Liu Qingquan also came to the Li family with gifts.

A few people sat for a while and left because they had work to do.

As soon as they left, Zhang Yazhi brought Miaomiao to the Li family.

Zhang Yazhi brought handmade clothes and tiger-head boots. As soon as she entered the house, she held Chen Xueru's hand and talked nonstop.

Miaomiao stared at Xiao Hongsheng curiously: "This is my little brother."

"Yes, Miaomiao, you will be the big sister in the future, you have to protect your younger brother, okay?" Zhang Yazhi smiled.

"Of course, but I have to wait until I become a soldier and get a gun before I can protect my brother." Miaomiao said, puffing out his chest.

Perhaps it was influenced by what happened in childhood.

Miaomiao’s biggest dream is to join the team and become a glorious female warrior.

Zhang Yazhi felt that it was inappropriate for girls to wield swords and guns, and wanted to persuade Miaomiao to give up the idea and take over her job as a railway worker in the future.

But he was stopped by Li Aiguo.

Afterwards, Zhang Yazhi just let it go.

But there are also benefits to this.

Miaomiao really demands of herself like a little soldier.

Whether it was eating, sleeping or going to school, Zhang Yazhi never had to worry too much.

Not long after, Li Hongsheng fell asleep and Zhao Yazhi still had to drive, so she took Miaomiao away.

After seeing off several groups of guests, Li Aiguo prepared to take a break and then continue reading.

Who admits it.

Before he could pick up the book.

There were footsteps outside the door again.

This time it was my eldest sister-in-law and eldest brother who came.

The two of them were commissioned by Chen Fangxuan to come to the Li family to "dig Zhu rice".

Life was tough back then, and when a married daughter gave birth to a baby, her parents would send food to her family.

This folk custom is called "digging blessing rice".

Generally, the gifts include food such as rice, brown sugar, noodles, eggs, etc., as well as a small amount of baby clothes, boots, shoes and other clothing.

Chen Fangxuan spent a lot of money this time to "dig for rice" and actually bought two old hens and fifty or sixty eggs.

Li Aiguo slaughtered the old hen and asked Aunt Liu to stew it into "old hen soup" specially used during the confinement period.

Chen Xueru has had no appetite since she gave birth to a child. She can only eat two bites and then nothing else.

"Don't do that. You won't have anything to eat and you'll have to breastfeed the baby, which will drain your body."

Under Aunt Liu's persuasion, Chen Xueru ate some of the chicken, and most of the remaining chicken was given to He Yushui.

However, He Yushui also contributed a lot. Now she is responsible for helping Chen Xueru coax the child and cleaning the wood ash diapers.

He Yushui would come to the Li family to help after school. In addition to eating chicken, she would also be given red wine and soft-boiled eggs.

Red wine and soft-boiled eggs are the exclusive postpartum meal for mothers these days.

Chen Xueru often ate half of her meal, frowned and said that she was too greasy and couldn't eat anymore, and asked He Yushui to help her finish it.

He Yushui was also sensible and refused to eat, but Chen Xueru forced the bowl into her hands and forced her to finish it.

He Yushui was in the period of growth and was indeed greedy, but he could not resist the rich aroma of red wine and eggs.

Unable to resist Chen Xueru, she originally wanted to just taste a small bite, but as soon as she started eating.

I can't stop anymore.

After a while, the bowl turned upside down...

He Yushui will never forget the fragrant and sweet taste!
After eating and drinking, He Yushui took the wood ash to the pool to wash the diapers as usual.

Jia Zhang was sitting at the door sewing shoe soles as usual. When she saw He Yushui helping the Li family with work again, she felt a little suffocated.

"Yushui, wow, this diaper is washed very clean. When my Huairu gives birth, you can help wash the diapers."

"Why?" He Yushui widened his eyes.

"We are neighbors. You helped Li Aiguo but didn't help our Jia family. Do you think that's right?!" Jia Zhang said as if it was a matter of course.

"Jia Zhang, stop daydreaming."

He Yushui was sharp-tongued and didn't give Jia Zhangshi any face. After scolding her, she took the basin and went back to the backyard.

Jia Zhang was so angry that she rolled her eyes and pointed at He Yushui's back and said, "Look at this girl. She doesn't know how to respect the elderly at all. What benefits did Li Aiguo give her? Can't our Jia family afford it?"

"Ms. Jia Zhang, I saw with my own eyes that He Yushui ate soft-boiled eggs at Li's house!" Xu Damao squatted beside them and roasted wood ash with firewood.

There are no secrets in the courtyard. The residents are all sharp-eyed and nodded when they heard this.

"He Yushui also ate chicken."

"Haven't you noticed that He Yushui has gained a lot of weight recently?"

"You used to be skinny, but now your face has some flesh on it." Jia Zhang immediately shut her mouth and said nothing.

He cursed in his heart: Li Aiguo is a guy who really doesn't know anything. He Yushui is just a little girl and she is so clumsy. How can she wash things cleanly as well as she can?

She doesn't need chicken, just two soft-boiled eggs at each meal to keep her diapers clean.

Qin Huairu looked at the cornmeal porridge in the bowl and sighed silently.

She didn't know what delicious food Chen Xueru ate after giving birth.

However, He Yushui, who helped out, was given chicken and soft-boiled eggs. One can imagine how Chen Xueru's life was.

Qin Huairu is due to give birth in a few months, and the Jia family hasn’t even saved up ten eggs yet.

Comparing the two, it is obvious which one is superior.

Qin Huairu regretted it a little.

Chen Xueru is taken care of by Aunt Liu and He Yushui, and Li Hongsheng is also quite obedient.

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Besides, the aunties and young wives in the compound also really helped.

Whenever a child cries, the aunties will hold the child and comfort him.

If the children were hungry, the young wives would lift up their clothes and feed them, just like they were their own children.

During these difficult times, it is difficult for individuals to live independently.

People choose to stick together for warmth, which is why the relationships between people become so close.

Chen Xueru doesn't need any extra care.

Li Aiguo's vacation was over, so he returned to work and drove a big train between Beijing and Tianjin.

After a busy day, Li Aiguo took a shower and originally planned to go home directly, but was invited by the Women's Federation staff to the director's office.

The director of the Women's Federation, Sister Zhang, poured tea for Li Aiguo and handed it to him: "Aiguo, I heard that your wife gave birth?"

"Yes, it's a son."

Li Aiguo was a little puzzled. He had already reported the matter of having a baby to Duan Li, and as the director of the Women's Federation, there was no need for Sister Zhang to talk to him specifically.

Sister Zhang saw Li Aiguo's doubts and asked directly, "Have you ever thought about sending your child to a nursery?"

"Daycare center?" Li Aiguo keenly noticed that daycare centers were different from the Yuhong class.

"That's right. Our locomotive section responded to the call from our superiors and built a new nursery."

After listening to Sister Zhang's explanation, Li Aiguo finally understood what this so-called "kindergarten" was.

In 1955, the Second Women and Children Welfare Work Conference proposed: "In the future, women and children welfare work should continue to be centered on production."

It was under the guidance of the "production-centered" concept that large state-owned factories across the country built childcare institutions.

The operating purpose of childcare institutions is to "serve production and solve employees' worries."

Qianmen Locomotive Depot also built a nursery this year.

According to the nursery's regulations, children are sent to the nursing room 56 days after birth and are divided into large and small classes.

Each class lasts 56 days, and then the students are divided into different classes after three or four months.

If there are many children, they will be divided into two classes.

The child stays in the nursery until he is 14 to 18 months old. When he is able to eat, he is sent to the nursery.

"You are a train driver, and Comrade Xueru is a clerk in the street office. You both have to work on weekdays. Send your children to the nursery, where the childcare staff will take care of them. You can devote yourself to your work.

We are not far from the Zhengyangmen Sub-district Office, so Comrade Xueru can come to the nursery to feed her child during her breaks at work.

At present, more than one hundred employees in our locomotive depot have entrusted their children to nurseries.

By the way, Zhou Ke and Secretary Huang’s children are also in the nursery.

"

Because the daycare center in Qianmen Locomotive Depot was a new thing, and out of concern that Li Aiguo might have concerns, Sister Zhang explained it in great detail.

Li Aiguo never thought that there would be free childcare institutions these days.

However, how to take care of the child should be discussed with Chen Xueru, so Li Aiguo did not agree immediately.

"The child is still young. He must be at least fifty-six days old before he can be admitted. You two should discuss this carefully."

Sister Zhang stood up and sent Li Aiguo to the door, and suddenly thought of something.

She turned back to the counter, took out a stack of tickets and handed them over.

"This is the nutritional supplement our locomotive section gives to children. You can pick it up later."

The nutritional supplements include ten kilograms of soybeans, two kilograms of brown sugar, two kilograms of eggs, and one kilogram of refined white flour.

It may not seem like much, but it is very rare these days.

This is both a nursery and a nutritional supplement store. Li Aiguo has only one feeling: these days factories really are training children as successors.

After returning home with the nutritional supplements, Li Aiguo told Chen Xueru about what happened at the nursery.

"This is a good thing, but the child is too young and I'm worried." Chen Xueru hesitated.

Li Aiguo could understand and did not urge him.

After all, there are still two months left.

"The child seems hungry. Come, I'll feed him some milk powder."

Chen Xueru had a poor appetite and her milk supply was a little insufficient, but fortunately Li Aiguo had prepared bottles and milk powder in advance.

Now the Li family’s living standard has not decreased because of having children, but has improved a lot.

Li Aiguo can now eat white flour buns openly.

During this period, Li Aiguo was paying attention to the promotion of containers while driving.

After Secretary Chen from the Railway Materials Supply Bureau submitted the report, it immediately caused quite a stir within the Ministry of Railways.

Putting aside the water transportation aspect, just from the perspective of saving one-third of the time and one-quarter of the cost, it is worth spending a lot of money to promote containers.

Minister Teng organized a group of experts to review the railway technology and invited the R&D team of Li Aiguo and Zhou Qigong to attend the review meeting.

Experts suggested that if containers are to be used on a large scale on railways, there must be corresponding container standards. Li Aiguo brought out the container standards.

Experts suggested that relevant transportation standards were needed, and Li Aiguo put the transportation standards in front of them.

Experts also suggested that container dispatching technology is needed to establish a unified container dispatching center.

Li Aiguo pushed Zhou Qigong, Professor Zheng and Professor Zhang in front of them.

The expert looked at the three people and finally signed his name on the review form.

Subsequently, at an enlarged meeting of the Ministry of Railways, the promotion plan for railway container technology was passed unanimously.

Liu Guozhang attended the meeting.

To Liu Guozhang's surprise, the situation he was worried about, that someone would block them due to route issues, did not occur.

Think about it and understand.

Li Aiguo has made sufficient preparations.

Now the facts are in front of us.

The tens of millions of dollars saved in transportation costs each year are enough to make Minister Teng pull out his gun.

Anyone who dares to stop it is deliberately sabotaging the development of railway technology and blocking the transportation of materials.

The resolution reached at the enlarged meeting was personally delivered to the lake by Minister Teng.

The reply in Haizi is "Just do it!"

With the imperial sword, the Ministry of Railways set up a container promotion team, with Minister Teng as the team leader.

There are ten railway bureaus, including Harbin Railway Bureau, Shenyang Railway Bureau, Beijing Railway Bureau, Qindao Railway Bureau, Shanghai Railway Bureau, Yangcheng Railway Bureau, Zhengzhou Railway Bureau, Wuhan-Wuhan Railway Bureau and Xi'an Railway Bureau. Each of the bureaus will select one deputy director to serve as a member of the team.

Beijing Railway Research Institute and Harbin Railway Science Research Institute are responsible for the technical work.

A vigorous campaign to replace containers is about to begin.

Under such circumstances, the container production of the Qianmen Locomotive Depot's maintenance workshop appears to be extremely limited.

The production of containers was handed over by the Ministry of Railways to the Changxindian Locomotive Works.

In order to complete the task of producing 20,000 containers within one month, Changxindian Locomotive Factory launched a vigorous large-scale production campaign.

All factory workers cancelled their holidays and were divided into three shifts to work day and night.

As a result, my eldest brother Chen Xingjia didn't go home for more than half a month, which made my eldest sister-in-law very distressed. But that's a story for later.

The railway's major moves can hardly be hidden from the eyes of those who are interested.

The transportation sector in particular has been keeping a close eye on container technology.

At the beginning, the transportation department did not pay much attention to it. After all, container technology was not properly regulated.

However, when Minister Teng got the approval document from Haizi, the leaders of the transportation department felt something was wrong.

Several leaders wrote letters personally to reflect the problems with container technology.

Haizili's reply contained only a few words: "If you want to be independent, you must be self-reliant!"

After seeing the reply, the comrades from the transportation department realized that they seemed to have made a mistake.

That is, they still mistakenly believe that the rabbits of today are the rabbits of the past, and the fur of today are the fur of the past.

In particular, the Rabbit family obtained the railway signal standard a while ago and became the leader in the Railway Alliance.

This made the Russians, who made their fortune from railways, very angry.

Controlling the railways not only brings huge profits, but also allows you to control the other party's transportation.

The Russians have always relied on their railway technology to win over or control their younger brothers.

Rabbits do the exact opposite.

All technologies can be traded or exchanged fairly. We only promote technology and do not interfere in the other party’s affairs.

Because of the promotion of automatic railway signals, many brothers in the east have witnessed the Rabbit family's style of doing things.

As a result, in just half a year, Rabbit Family sold more than 30 technologies.

Seeing that the Rabbit family was getting closer and closer to the little brother, Corn Emperor realized the seriousness of the situation. He even made a phone call himself, hoping that the Rabbit family would give in.

In the end, I was still hit back.

Under such circumstances, some people still hold the idea of ​​not making mistakes and closely following the Russians' footsteps, which is dereliction of duty and a crime.

After realizing the seriousness of the problem, the transportation department did not take immediate action but chose to wait and see.

As long as container technology does not play a big role, their refusal to promote container technology is understandable.

The result disappointed them again.

Half a month later, the Railway Material Supply Bureau officially adopted containers for large-scale transportation.

Transportation efficiency increased by 40 percent and transportation costs decreased by 30 percent.

A month later, Fengtai West Station, Tsinghua Park Station, Xinghuo Station, Tongzhou Station, Tongzhou West Station, Shuangqiao Station, Baiziwan Station, Huairou North Station, Miaocheng Station, Beizhai Station and other stations under the Beijing Bureau jointly provided container transportation.

Transportation efficiency increased by 50 percent and transportation costs decreased by 35.2 percent.

The most important thing is that after using container transportation, the accident rate of truck transportation is reduced by 80 percent.

As soon as the results came out, the leaders of the transportation department could no longer sit still.

At a department meeting, a leader said bluntly: "The rejection of container technology was a serious mistake. Some people deliberately ignored the advantages of container technology in order to maintain the original route."

Technical leaders from Dalian Maritime University stood up and started to protest.

Those leaders turned their attention to Zheng Xian, who was originally responsible for reviewing container technology.

(End of this chapter)