Zhu Tian: The Fiery Years Begin with Taking Qin Huairu as a Concubine

Chapter 252 Opening Stone

The total output reached 500 kilograms of penicillin. In addition to basic salary and various subsidies, the girls also received a bonus of 1.02 million.

The lowest wage is more than 2.3 million.

The employees in penicillin factories and research institutes were paid so much that they were stretched to the limit.

However, before the breakthrough in genetic technology, the production capacity of this factory had almost reached its limit.

Outside the medical school, a large group of family members gathered again, all of them coming to pick up their loved ones.

The girls received their wages, their pockets were bulging, and they walked out of the house without caring about their relatives.

It is easy to distinguish girls nowadays from people outside. Girls in medical schools basically have short hair, wear foreign cloth clothes or foreign cloth skirts, and leather shoes or leather boots.

We all have such high incomes, how can we wear homespun clothes and look down on factory workers! ?

After they got their wages and went out, their family members immediately surrounded them and talked about their wages in a panic.

People in the city of Peking could recognize the identities of those girls who went out to play or buy things at once.

Sister Tian Zao and her friends also went together, but were urged to go back by the people in the yard.

The weather is getting warmer!

I can’t find any excuses, so let’s go back and take a look!
...............

After resting for a few days, Zhu Zhiyin recovered a lot and was able to run and jump. Zhang Kaiwu was finally freed from home.

Leaving behind all the pots and pans in the kitchen, he decided to go on strike.

Sister Huizhen called him:
"Brother Kaiwu! Do you have anything to do today? Let's go to Qianmen Street and give me some suggestions for my restaurant."

Zhang Kaiwu rubbed her and drove a Willys Jeep, taking Huizhen with him and stopped at Qianmen Street.

He wasn't there to give advice, he had no interest in the pub at all, he just went there to relax.

Sister Huizhen didn't really ask him for advice, she just told him briefly and asked him to come and take a look, so that Zhang Kaiwu would know about this matter.

Zhang Kaiwu is the boss of the family. No matter what he knows, he has the right to know it.

Xu Huizhen’s EQ is much higher than Chen Xueru’s. Maybe it’s because she has been working and being someone else’s adopted daughter since she was a child?

Although she is younger than Chen Xueru, she is also a smart person. She knows that Zhang Kaiwu has no interest in this tavern.

The tavern has been renovated and Huizhen's parents have become the owners.

We hired a chef to help, and two little girls to help serve the food and wash the dishes.

Huizhen introduced with a smile:

"I asked them to prepare some snacks to sell for a while. Usually, they mainly eat and sell wine as a supplement."

"Neighbors are also very caring and often come to have a drink. It's no problem for my parents to make a living."

Zhang Kaiwu rubbed her. Isn't this just going back to his old job, and it's still a tavern! ?

The only difference is that the fake wine is not cooked!
While Huizhen was still introducing, Zhang Kaiwu looked at the back kitchen, where he saw a large black stone pressing down on the jars of pickles.

This is the jadeite stone! ?

Zhang Kaiwu became interested and said with a smile:

"Huizhen! This stone is a treasure. There may be jade inside it."

Sister Huizhen looked at it in surprise and said:
"Brother Kaiwu! This stone has been here for many years. It is very heavy and is good for pressing pickles."

"You said there's jade in it, isn't it very valuable? Let's take it back quickly. There are so many people coming and going here, don't let anyone steal it."

Zhang Kaiwu weighed it and found it was quite heavy.

There are also stone skin and rough marks of the jadeite raw stone on it, but it may be because it is soaked in too many pickles, so it is not very obvious.

but!

Doesn’t that Mr. He know the inside story?!

Did he know that even with this stone, he still couldn't pay those people back?
Zhang Kaiwu took some water and rinsed it, but could not see anything. It was at most a piece of jadeite raw stone. No one knew what was inside.

How much is it worth? Before it is opened, it is just for entertainment.

Unless the imperial green jade is produced, other jades are worthless in the city of Peking.

To be honest, jadeite of other colors is really not worth much money. Xiaojiu's imperial green brand is only worth about two small yellow croakers.

According to the current value, it is only about one million.

Other jade brands, no matter how good they are, only cost tens of thousands of dollars.

Before it is opened, there might even be a stone inside. Find a saw to open it and see.

Ha ha ha ha ha!
Zhang Kaiwu threw the stone onto the jeep. Niu, the owner of the Yitiaolong Restaurant, ran over, handed him a cigarette, and said with a smile:

"Brother Kaiwu, you are such a great man, but you opened a small restaurant to compete with me. Are you trying to do something bad? Haha."

Zhang Kaiwu lit a cigarette and asked with a smile:

"Brother! You better be careful, or I'll bankrupt your restaurant. Have you used up the money for the pancakes?"

Shopkeeper Niu listened to his joke and said with a smile:
"No! Those kids rarely come here, and now they are all hanging around the train station. You haven't spent much of your three hundred dollars."

"Let's go to the opera this afternoon. It's much safer now. We don't have to worry about syphilis. Those patients were taken to Li Hongying for treatment. She said that she got the penicillin from you by begging for alms. It can be regarded as a great thing for Qianmen Street."

Zhang Kaiwu looked at him and said with a smile:

"Don't be careless! There are other people who have been infected, so don't get infected yourself."

Shopkeeper Niu said with a smile:

"Don't be afraid! Aren't you the one who has to protect me?"

Zhang Kaiwu smiled and said:

"You have so many concubines in your family, why do you still like this one!?"

Shopkeeper Niu said with a smile:
“I just went there to listen to a play.”

Zhang Kaiwu said:
"To tell you the truth, syphilis has been around for a long time and it can't be cured. Even if it is treated with penicillin, there will be no problem on the surface, but in fact, the blood is full of poison!"

Shopkeeper Niu's teeth clenched. Shopkeeper Zhang had said this once before.

Zhang Kaiwu smiled and comforted:

"From the look of your face, there shouldn't be any problem. If there is any problem, come to me immediately."

After saying a few sarcastic words, Shopkeeper Niu gritted his teeth and went back into the shop.

Maybe he was regretting that he shouldn't have come over to join in the fun. He didn't want others to have fun anymore.

...............

Zhang Kaiwu came to Xiangyi Manor, and Xiaolian and Xiaocui called out affectionately:

"Shopkeeper! You are here."

Sister Chen Xueru smiled and pulled him up to the second floor, served him some tea, massaged his shoulders and said:

"Brother Kaiwu! Business is booming in our store, but the supply is tight. Many things are sold out. Especially foreign cloth. There is no stock at all now."

Alas! This is the limitation of the times. No matter how smart Chen Xueru is, she can't escape the perspective of a businessman.

It seems different now than before, but the same thing is that the more you sell, the greater the loss.

He didn't intend to remind her. If it rains, it will, and if her mother wants to get married, let her get married!
Zhang Kaiwu took a sip of tea and said with a smile:

"There's no foreign cloth? Don't worry! Once the South is liberated, things will recover naturally."

Seeing that Zhang Kaiwu had no interest at all, Chen Xueru was a little discouraged and asked in a low voice:
"Why don't you sell the batch of watches you pressed last year?"

Zhang Kaiwu played with two large walnuts and said with a smile:

"No rush! You can treat those things as small yellow croakers. We can talk about it later!"

After thinking about it, he took out his salary, put it on the table and said:
"Make some more clothes for the sisters at home, and treat it as payment for the goods. You should buy as much goods as possible, don't keep the money in your hands, and hold some goods in your hands. If you don't have foreign cloth, hold other goods."

Chen Xueru took the thick stack of banknotes and said:

"Okay! I understand. I'll go get the stock this afternoon."

People who do business always listen to gossip.

From ancient times till now, when has anyone ever made a fortune by doing legitimate business? ?
Just like the prices of commodities today, bicycles, sewing machines, watches, radios, and other such things.

Including Chen Xueru's clothes and cloth, as well as those houses, as time goes by, the economy and population are adjusted, more and more people are entering the city, and the price keeps rising.

There will be a big price change in terms of grain and meat.

For the development of industrialization, the previous urban-rural population ratio of 1:20 will soon become 1:4.

The more prosperous Chen Xueru's business is now, the greater the loss she will suffer later.

In the face of the rolling tide, mastering resources is the kingly way.

Ten generations of businessmen are no match for one generation...

Zhang Kaiwu rubbed Sister Xueru, too lazy to take care of these business matters, and took Huizhen back.

They came to the construction site inside the medical school, found a cutting machine, and took the curious Huizhen to cut the jadeite stone. Feng San brought a few people and asked curiously:

"Professor Zhang! Where did you find this jade ore? Judging from the quality of this stone, its value will definitely increase greatly!"

Zhang Kaiwu handed him a cigarette and said with a smile:

"Thanks to your good words, Shopkeeper Feng, I found a treasure today, I will treat you to a meal!"

Sister Huizhen said quickly:

"Brother Kaiwu! Saw it quickly. Once you have the jadeite, I will make a set of jade plaques like Xiaojiu."

Zhang Kaiwu made a clamp to fix the stone, and poured water on it while cutting to avoid burning the saw blade.

The piercing sound of the chainsaw can drive a person to death.

After peeling off layer by layer of the stone, a beautiful jadeite the size of a brick was actually found inside.

It's bluish-white with a hint of green, and only the size of a brick. You can probably make a dozen bracelets and a few jade pendants out of it! ?
After saving for eighty years, maybe it would be worth hundreds of thousands?

Too bad it’s worthless now!

If the marketing is good, it may be worth more than ten dollars, but the cost of cutting the stone and the labor of carving cannot be recovered.

Sister Huizhen was so disappointed that she didn't even touch it and ran back to guard the warehouse.

The chainsaw made her ears hurt.

As for Feng San and his group who were watching the fun and cheering on the side, they saw no green after two cuts and discovered that Professor Zhang's stone had collapsed. They were afraid that Professor Zhang would lose his temper, so they ran away without a trace.

Nowadays, everyone only recognizes Imperial Green. Without Imperial Green, everything else is nonsense.

It’s not worth the money!

They are collectively called miscellaneous jades, and no one wants them even for apprentices to practice on.

Zhang Kaiwu weighed the jade and felt it was heavy. He used it as a brick to hit people, and it felt surprisingly easy to use.

When there is no one around, put it in the storage space and use it as a brick from now on.

It was really irritating to see the disloyal sister Huizhen and Feng San and his gang, who didn't even come to praise me for the quality of the jade I cut.

………………

Not long after lunch, the young ladies and their sisters came back to celebrate their mother-in-law’s 38th birthday.

In fact, it's just that the young ladies and sisters brought some things to visit their mother.

Zhang Kaiwu also went to watch the fun and drove a Willys Jeep to take them to Nanluoguxiang.

As soon as the jeep stopped, the young ladies jumped out and went to see their mother with new clothes, canned food and other things.

Zhang Kaiwu saw He Yushui running over alone, stuffed a candy in her mouth, stuffed another handful of candy in her mouth, and asked curiously:

"Rainwater! Why are you alone today and no one else wants to play with you!?"

The energy value increased by another five points.

He Yushui said aggrievedly:

"Big brother! My brother went to work as an apprentice in the iron factory, and so did the others in the yard. Some went to school, but my family didn't have money, so they said they would send me to school next year."

He Daqing has no money! ?
This is just complete nonsense!
The father and son both worked as chefs and apprentices. They ate other people's food, drank other people's drinks, and obeyed other people. How could they save that money to take care of the widow?

It is true that the rain is a little light. Children nowadays start school late. Even after the liberation of Peking, it is normal to start school at the age of ten or so.

It might be until the next two years when the neighborhood committee forced all children to go to school that He Daqing would be willing to send her, a girl, to school.

It's normal to favor boys over girls!

Zhang Kaiwu silently calculated for a while and realized that the literacy class had started in 1953. Then he figured out all these things.

The twelve years between 1953 and 1965 were just enough for He Yushui to graduate from high school.

When the Siheyuan plot begins, He Yuzhu is already 31 years old. He Yushui is already in her twenties, maybe 23? She just graduated from high school and went to work as an accountant in a cotton mill.

Because the next year Sha Zhu was already 32 years old, and he fell in love with his sister's high school classmate Yu Haitang, who was only 18 years old and was an announcer.

If we calculate Yu Shui's age based on Yu Haitang's age, it would be nonsense.

Sha Zhu said that he was eight years old.

In this era, it is very normal and not surprising for classmates to have an age difference of more than ten years.

Didn’t Zhang, under the careful guidance of the young lady, also learn elementary education with those eight or nine-year-old children? ?
It is possible that this group of children in Nanluoguxiang Hutong, regardless of age, were forced to go to school because of the literacy campaign and the establishment of primary schools in 1953.

Of course there are exceptions. For example, those whose families have a little money, such as my young lady's family who focuses on education, may start school earlier.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the old scholar did not have a son. If the old scholar really had two sons, the young lady and her sister, it is hard to say whether he would teach them or not.

Zhang Kaiwu rubbed her little head and said:
“Rainwater! Come into my house and play for a while. I’ll go find your dad later and ask him to take you to school.”

He Yushui followed behind him and said quickly:

"Big brother! My father has no money!"

Zhang Kaiwu smiled and said:

"Your father is lying. He has money. He wants to keep the money for your brother to get married. I will make your father behave and give you the money so that you can go to school!"

He Yushui smiled and said:

"Really!"

The energy value increased by another five points.

The sister-in-law massaged Zhang Kaiwu's shoulders and teased He Yushui.

He Yushui asked curiously:

"Big Brother! Isn't your home over there? This is also your home!?"

Zhang Kaiwu rubbed her little head and said:
"My house is on both sides. Come, have a cookie and try it."

He Yushui pinched the biscuits and said enviously:

"Your house is really big!"

Ha ha ha ha ha!
The old scholar came back from school. Zhang Kaiwu chatted with him with a smile and asked him about things in school.

He Yushui and the young ladies were eating snacks and busy flattering each other.

The old scholar applied for the job and became a fourth-grade Chinese teacher, and his health recovered.

After chatting for a while, he whispered:

"Kaiwu! Our bodies are fine now, and we've already had sex. Is it still possible to have a child?"

Zhang Kaiwu felt his pulse for a while and told him for sure,

"It's impossible. I'm too old, my health was too bad before, and I've lost too much."

His mother-in-law looked pretty and had regained a lot of color. He examined her again and said with a smile:

"My mother's body is still able to give birth, but it's very dangerous, so don't think too much about it."

Looking at their disappointed expressions and thinking about the current situation, Zhang Kaiwu said comfortingly:

"If it really doesn't work, when one of your sisters' children is born, I'll adopt one of your surname Zhou to carry on the family line."

The mother-in-law thought about those rumors and asked excitedly:

"Looking at the condition of Zhaodi and Pandi, could it be that they can still have children?!"

The old scholar also looked at him expectantly, and Zhang Kaiwu said with a smile:

"Of course! When they go to college, let them have children."

The group chatted and laughed for a while, and then it was almost time, so it was estimated that He Daqing should be back.

………………

Zhang Kaiwu took He Yushui with him and rushed to He Daqing's house to reason with him.

When Yan Bugui at the door saw him coming, his legs immediately went weak and he asked hurriedly:
"Hello, Senior Zhang! What's up?"

Zhang Kaiwu smiled and said:

"I'll go find He Daqing and talk to him about my child going to school."

Yan Bugui:
"........."

He hurriedly followed to watch the fun, and ran to the uncle's house. Seeing Yi Zhonghai drinking wine with dried radish, he hurriedly shouted:

"Old Yi! Come out and stop drinking. Something big is going to happen."

Zhang Kaiwu brought He Yushui to Sha Zhu's house. The father and son were preparing dinner when they saw Zhang Kaiwu and He Yushui coming over.

He Daqing hurriedly cleaned up the things in the pot. They were all meals brought from the factory. It seemed that he had a long family tradition.

As the saying goes, if the cook does not steal, the crops will not be abundant.

In fact, everyone knows these things very well. As the saying goes, "live by the mountain, eat by the mountain; live by the water, eat by the water."

(End of this chapter)