Rebooting the Peak Years of 1985

Chapter 88 Investigation

"It's also related to you. If it weren't for the schoolbag you bought for your daughter, would our family have been targeted?"

Lin Jiayin was furious, but she took a deep breath after speaking to calm down.

"Teacher Wang asked our family to pay for repairing the exterior wall of the kindergarten. Isn't it clear that our family has made some money, so we want to eat the money."

She explained and finally concluded.

Chen Huajiang finally understood, but it also made him more confused.

Suddenly, he thought that this incident seemed to have happened in his previous life.

During this time in his previous life, he had just been fired, and since he honestly didn't ask Gou Zhiguo for a severance package, he was living in poverty and was drinking heavily.

Lin Jiayin was very distressed at that time, and was even scolded by herself. She thought she was looking down on herself, so who could she show her frown to?

Isn’t it just that you look down on yourself for not being able to make money?Later I found out that it was really because of money. The family kindergarten of Hongqi Factory pooled money to repair the exterior wall.

At that time, every household contributed some money, but Huanhuan did not. He was also made things difficult by teachers and bullied by his classmates at school, so that Huanhuan was depressed for many days.

"This matter needs to be investigated first. Teacher Wang, that woman Wang Xiufang does have some power."

"But as far as I know about her, she doesn't have a huge influence. In this regard, it's impossible to just look for our family, let's make further inquiries."

"You haven't cooked dinner yet, have you? You won't do it today. Let's go out to buy some braised vegetables, just to get to know each other."

Chen Huajiang thought for a while and said comfortingly to his wife.

"Is there any explanation for this? I picked up Huanhuan from school today, and she pulled me over and whispered."

"If you are not a big eater, why are you so sneaky? Can you just tell everyone in class that you don't?"

"Okay, since you still don't give up, why don't we go out and ask."

Lin Jiayin still held her own thoughts, but seeing Chen Huajiang's gentle attitude, she had no choice but to give him face.

Of course, she wanted to prove that her guess was correct. It was not that she was jealous of a gentleman, but that Chen Huajiang thought too well of others.

In this way, with his left hand supporting Huanhuan who was riding on his neck, and his right hand holding the former's wife's hand, he left the house.

Braised vegetables stalls are mobile, and Hongqi Factory is naturally a big customer. However, the thermos bottle factory next to Hongqi Factory also has a certain scale.

Therefore, the stewed vegetable stall is generally located in the middle of the two family courtyards, which is slightly biased towards the location of the Hongqi manufacturer's courtyard.

There are three stalls here. They obviously gather together to do business. They also know that there is a lot of traffic here and things are easy to sell.

Among them, the stewed vegetables stall on the left has the most people, because the taste is good, the owner is a middle-aged man in his forties, his face is weather-beaten, his face is rough, and he looks very old.

His surname is Huo, and the guests call him Boss Huo.

As for the other two stalls, there were also many people, but compared to Boss Huo's, they were much smaller.

"Old He, your granddaughter will start elementary school next year, right?"

Chen Huajiang led his wife towards the stewed vegetables stall, and said to an old worker.

The other party's name is He Sanmu, a senior fitter in the factory, and he will retire in two years.

"It's Xiao Chen."

"Yes, my Feifei will be seven years old next year and can go to the factory primary school. What can I do for you?"

He Sanmu smiled and said, but his expression was a little off, and his body also moved a step to the side.

Now Chen Huajiang is not from Hongqi Factory, he is a fired worker, and he wants to keep his distance.

Workers in this era were fired from factories just as civil servants were fired from the state in later generations, and it was more or less considered to be their own fault.

"I would like to ask if your family has received any apportionment for kindergarten wall repairs, and we can discuss how we should apportion the funds at that time."

Chen Huajiang also noticed the other party's awkwardness, took out a cigarette and handed one to the other party.

"No, I'm going to borrow it."

"I don't know anything about this, and my family, Feifei, will go to elementary school next year. What does kindergarten have to do with my family?"

He Sanmu waved his hand, rejected the cigarette Chen Huajiang handed him, and glanced at his mouth slightly.

The smoke is soft and medium, this smoke has always been wanted, even in later generations it is one of the high-end smokes.It's the same at the moment, He Sanmu is very disdainful when he sees that Chen Huajiang has been drawn into the soft spot.

First, as an old-school worker, I looked down upon the other worker who was fired.

The second is that the other party, as a fired worker, actually got into the soft middle. He really didn’t know how much he had.

You must know that in their Hongqi Factory, even the chief and deputy factory directors dare not smoke this cigarette, not necessarily because they can't afford it, but more because they are afraid of gossip.

Seeing that he was so outspoken, Chen Huajiang didn't bother to be polite anymore and just thought about other people.

This time we found a young worker named He Song, who is said to be related to He Sanmu. He Song is He Sanmu’s nephew.

"Brother Chen, thank you."

"It's about the kindergarten, yes. When I went to pick up my son from school the day before yesterday, Teacher Wang pulled me aside and talked about it. Huh, I thought it was just my family that was being targeted, but I didn't expect that yours was also targeted."

He Song was not as arrogant as He Sanmu. He took Hua Zi with some envy, hesitantly put it on his ear, and didn't want to smoke it for a while.

Then after hearing Chen Huajiang's words, he said it with a grimace, looking like he was in the same boat.

"It's not just our two. Is there something going on in the factory recently? Are wages being paid?"

Chen Huajiang continued to ask, seeing that the other party hadn't smoked, he also put the cigarettes he took out back into the cigarette case.

He is addicted to cigarettes, and it is precisely from his previous life that he was addicted to cigarettes.He didn't smoke much after his rebirth, but this addiction spanned time and space and still remained in his heart.

"Brother Chen, I seem to understand what you said."

"We ordinary workers have not been paid this month's wages, and are owed for half a month. My uncle and other senior workers have all been paid their wages, and the factory said there is a problem with capital circulation and they will be paid next month. The kindergarten has no money. Repairing the wall skin may have something to do with this matter."

He Song said with sudden realization, his face a little ugly.

That's it. Chen Huajiang nodded, patted his shoulder and comforted He Song.

He was already certain in his mind that the economic crisis of Hongqi Factory in his previous life had occurred.

In fact, many young people in later generations have got one thing wrong, and that is the wave of layoffs in the 90s, which really broke out in the 80s.

It's just like a leaky ship. It didn't sink all at once, but it went through a series of struggles and self-rescues, such as plugging the eyes, scooping out water, reinforcing, etc., and finally sank.

Hao Jianguo's military factory was the first to have problems, and it has been unable to pay wages for more than half a year.

Because of the special nature of the military factory, other factories in the city did not arouse alarm.

The crises that occurred intermittently after that were all deceived by the factory by delaying wages, paying part of wages, lowering wages, cutting welfare benefits, etc. In the end, in the 90s, it was impossible to raise a penny of wages, which triggered the crisis.

This time period will not erupt in five to six years, and will continue intermittently for many years, and will not completely come to an end until 2000.

(End of this chapter)