Chapter 51 Chapter 51

Zheng Xipo has an old-fashioned clock at home, which he bought when he and his wife got married 30 years ago. Although it is old, it is very accurate, and it strikes the hour and half in turn.Recently, Zheng Xipo always wakes up when the clock strikes 4:30, and has never felt sleepy since then.When the clock rang five times, he couldn't lie down anymore and simply got up to do things.Boil a pot of porridge, boil eggs, mix side dishes; then sweep the floor and wipe the table; before six o'clock after the work is done, I sit on the bench in the small hall and wait for the dawn to gradually dawn outside the window.Older, more preoccupied, and lost the sweet sleep before dawn, his biological clock is more accurate than the old-fashioned desk clock.

In the back room lay his son Zheng Shengli and his daughter-in-law Baobao.They didn't get up until after seven o'clock, washed in a hurry, sat at the table to eat the breakfast prepared by their father, and then rushed out to earn money and change like a whirlwind.The son has now changed his name to Zheng Gan.Zheng Xipo thought he was making money, so he taught his son: If you want to make money, you can't just call it money, you have to be more reserved, right?The son's small eyelids rolled: Are you reserved, old man?Su Dongpo, you Zheng Xipo, know that this is an era of starving poets, but you still speak boldly.Zheng Xipo couldn't help feeling ashamed, and stopped arguing. If his son wanted to call it making money, let him call it making money!Only then did the son explain that what he did was the work of Qian Kun, and he had Qian Kun in his heart.This little bastard!The little bunny got married at last.It doesn't work if it doesn't end, the baby is pregnant again, and it is said that it is no longer possible to miscarry.Zheng Xipo secretly breathed a sigh of relief, the years of worries were finally over.Because the money was invested in the factory, they were unable to help their son buy a new house, so the young couple had to live at home.

The house has just been renovated, and the furniture is newly bought. There is a faint pungent smell in the house.The glass windows are pasted with paper-cuts of happy words, and the wedding photos of the couple are hung on the walls. The old house has a new look.While waiting for the dawn, Zheng Xipo always likes to talk to his wife in his heart. The portrait of his wife is placed on the low cabinet, next to the old-fashioned clock—look, look!Zheng Xipo looked at his wife and said: We are successfully married to our baby, and our grandchildren will be born at the end of the year. How time flies!You are gone, I am old, our children have grown up, and we are capable of launching a coup...

Although the coup d'état had been expected by Zheng Xipo, it still seemed very sudden when it actually happened.A few days after Zheng Shengli changed his name to Zheng Qian, he, together with the general manager Lao Ma, the chief financial officer You Accountant and other traitors, couldn't wait to hold a shareholders' meeting. Lao Ma manipulated Zheng Qian as the nominee for the director of Alpha Information, the new major shareholder, and added He is a director of New Dafeng Company and was elected as the chairman of the board.After the chairman was elected, he made a very popular speech, saying that now that he has entered the "Internet +" era, he will use the industry as the foundation and the Internet as a platform to lead the majority of shareholders and employees to make money and get rich. There was thunderous applause, and there was a clamor of "Make money! Make money!"Zheng Xipo looked bewildered, and asked his daughter-in-law, Bao Bao: What is "Internet Plus"?The baby said: I don't understand this, shouldn't you abdicate to the virtuous? !He just let Hyun go.When I got home that night, I was drunk, and my heart felt refreshed: I am old, I am really old, and he can no longer adapt to this era of earning money or even stealing money.

The world began to become somewhat strange, perhaps the relationship between people changed.When his son Zheng Qian came on stage, the conspirator Lao Ma and many workers surrounded him to congratulate him randomly, saying that your son has become the chairman of the board, and you should be proud!He's so proud - how can they not understand his depression?A son's success means his failure.I don't know when, everyone started to dislike him and regard him as superfluous.He couldn't figure it out, his son was quick-witted, but he also committed a lot of illegal acts. He only played around the edges of the law, and there would be troubles in the future.But if you think about it deeply, now that everyone only cares about making money and disregarding the rules, is there still less trouble?It never stopped.It's not that he's worthless now, it's that the fine traditions of the entire older generation of working class are worthless.

However, what Zheng Xipo didn't expect was that his son was quite responsible.After taking office, under the coordination of the new district chief, he found an idle factory building for Xin Dafeng, signed a ten-year lease, and immediately organized the relocation.Within ten days after moving the factory, OEM production resumed.This kid is quite filial, he celebrated his 60th birthday yesterday, and by the way, he talked about the things that let him use his spare heat.It was a bit embarrassing when I said it: Dad, once your 60th birthday is over, you will enter the ranks of old people. It is said that it is time to take care of your life, but there is something that you can’t do if the old man doesn’t take over... Zheng Xipo’s heart suddenly became warm, and he asked What's the matter?His remaining heat needs to be used urgently!Unexpectedly, when the son said it, he was shocked.The son said: Dad, you are also idle when you are idle, why don't you take the stock-holding employees of the boss to the government for group visits.He immediately vetoed it: You want me to make trouble for the government too?I don't know what you little bastard is thinking!The son smiled wryly: "Okay, let's not talk about it, then let's not talk about it... But the baby jumped in and said: Dad, do you know?"Now everyone is calling you a scab behind your back!

He, Zheng Xipo, turned out to be a scab!No wonder the old and the young don't like him so much, but there is still this holiday.But how can they blame the government? After the "September 16th", the government advanced funds to send resettlement fees to everyone, and now it helps to find idle factories, and the machinery and equipment in the old factories have also been disposed of by Xin Dafeng. What else can the government do?The equity has nothing to do with the government. In the final analysis, the boss Cai Chenggong is to blame.Cai Chenggong is a profiteer, and now the truth is revealed.This profiteer cheated and forged the decision of the employee stock ownership meeting to pledge the equity. When the pledge was made, the land and factory buildings in the factory were repeatedly mortgaged to the bank.Well now, the lawsuit is won, the pledge is invalid, and although the equity has come back, the Dafeng Factory has gone bankrupt and liquidated, and the equity is worthless.The employees who owned the shares of Dafeng didn't care about it, and started to visit the gates of the district government and the city government in groups every three days, and many people also came to drag him away-he didn't go, it was obviously nonsense!

Early this morning, after his son and daughter-in-law left, Zheng Xipo pushed his bicycle out the door, and rode to Dafeng Factory with ease.I heard from my son last night that the last batch of machines had been transported away by the new wind, and the old factory was about to be demolished. He had to take the time to take a last look. It was the factory for him and his generation! The factory area amid the contiguous ruins was quiet, and the scheduled demolition had not yet begun, and the huge national flag stained with the blood of "September 16" was still floating in the air.The flag is very old, faded, and the border is also frayed.Zheng Xipo circled around under the national flag, looking at the evacuated factory buildings, looking at the holly green plants on both sides of the factory road, looking at everything familiar around him, calling out in his heart over and over again: my factory, my dear factory!With a heat in his heart, turbid tears gradually filled his eyes.

On the first day of work many years ago, he met Liu Guihua, a female worker with big braids in the cafeteria.At that time, the Dafeng Factory had just started, but it had more than a hundred people, and it belonged to the Municipal Second Light Industry Bureau.His youth began here, working, studying, writing poems, leaning against the cafeteria window and talking to Liu Guihua.Then he married Liu Guihua.The marriage situation seems to be in sight, it is a collective wedding organized by the factory union.In the blink of an eye, decades passed. The old people in the factory were his brothers and sisters, and the young and middle-aged workers were his apprentices and grandchildren.

Later, reforms were made to allow some people to get rich first.Chen Shiyan came with a lot of government documents on restructuring.Later, this pile of documents became a decisive document of the government and was announced, and the huge factory fell into the hands of Cai Chenggong.Fortunately, there was an old revolutionary Chen Shiyan who emphasized fairness, and he and the workers also got equity.It's great to have equity, to truly be the master of the house!In addition to monthly wages and bonuses, employees and shareholders pay dividends every year, which makes many employees of state-owned enterprises who have not been restructured jealous and envious.The 200,000 in his passbook came from the dividends of those years.Then it failed, the world changed little by little, speculation prevailed, and real estate boomed. If you have worked hard all your life in the industry, you might as well buy a few houses and hoard them.Almost all the private enterprises in Jingzhou have collapsed. Even a man like Cai Chenggong can't stand it anymore. He lives on fraudulent loans and usury loans. ...

At this time, a shadow under the sun gradually pressed over, as if someone was coming.Zheng Xipo turned around and saw Accountant You.Accountant You chuckled, and greeted, "Old Zheng is here?"Zheng Xipo was very dissatisfied with Accountant You, the chief financial officer who was on board with his son's thief ship, and said coldly: Isn't this Mr. You?Come to say goodbye too?Accountant You was a little stunned: What farewell?Who are you saying goodbye to?Zheng Xipo said: Who else?Our factory!Isn't this about to be demolished?Accountant You looked disdainful: This broken factory will be demolished as soon as it is demolished, we are moving to a new factory!Zheng Xipo asked: Then why are you here?Accountant You said: I want to talk to you!Director Zheng still hopes that you will come forward and bravely participate in group interviews! Zheng Xipo was annoyed, and waved his hand: I want to go with you and Mr Zheng, anyway, I won't go anyway, I'm a scab now, I'm not brave anymore.Accountant You replied: But Chairman Zheng said that members of the board of directors and senior managers are not allowed to participate in group interviews, only old men and women over sixty years old can participate.Only then did Zheng Xipo remember that he had just turned sixty, and his son had celebrated it for him yesterday.So he said: I will not participate if I can. I told you Mr. Zheng last night.You Mr. Zheng didn't force me, you Mr. You didn't force me?Accountant You made a bitter face: "Old Zheng, Mr. Zheng is forcing me. I hope you will use your remaining energy to win back the lost rights in your hands."Let me tell you the truth, Old Zheng, it’s not because of Mr. Zheng, he’s going to smash your scab’s black bricks! Accountant You's words are true, and his apprentice Wang Wenge also said such things to him.Wang Wenge said that almost all those who have shares have been mobilized, and the rest are looking at their master.He must take it seriously. It doesn't matter if he is called a scab, but it would be bad if he hurt his son.After all, he is his own son. You can't force the chairman's own son to bravely rush to the front line of group interviews, right?Thinking of this, the hardness in his tone disappeared, and he sighed: What does this matter have to do with the government?If you want to blame, blame Cai Chenggong!Accountant You said: Who used Cai Chenggong?It is the government!Didn't Chen Shiyan bring in Cai Chenggong to hold a large stake on behalf of the government?The government is not responsible for who is responsible! Zheng Xipo said: Then let's talk to Chen Shiyan first, let's listen to Mr. Chen's opinion!Accountant You said: Listen to what Chen Shiyan said?He is not in position, no matter how good he says it is useless.Zheng Xipo said: Mr. Chen is familiar with Secretary Sha of the Provincial Party Committee. You see, Secretary Sha came over in person that day and tore off the seal of the workshop!Accountant You said: So we have to go to the government for group interviews. If there is no big commotion, can the secretary of the provincial party committee pay attention to it? !Zheng Xipo thinks about it too, without the shocking fire on the night of "September 16", I'm afraid he and the whole factory will not even get the resettlement fee!I was further shaken in my heart: Should I just go to a group interview?Accountant You struck again while the iron was hot: Don't be so discouraged, what if you win back your rights?Do you have the nerve to only enjoy the benefits and not take risks?Old Zheng, you are the chairman of the labor union of our factory, not a scab!Zheng Xipo knew that Accountant You was trying to provoke him, so he instinctively backed away, saying that he had become a scab anyway, so it didn't matter.Accountant You is too good at doing political and ideological work: Lao Zheng, Lao Zheng, why are you so clueless?You think for the government, does the government think for you?Look at the corrupt officials raised by the government, they are hundreds of millions and billions of dollars!Have you heard?That Zhao Lichun and his son got tens of billions, Gao Yuliang also got billions, and they all went abroad!Hey, why can't we go and ask for our hard-earned money back? Accountant You's words were like a fire, igniting the dry wood in Zheng Xipo's heart!That's right, instead of allowing corrupt officials to corrupt the government's money, it is better to compensate them. This is their hard-earned money! So, Zheng Xipo stopped arguing, closed his eyes, and got on the electric car that Accountant You picked him up, and went with Accountant You.Accountant You was overjoyed and praised him as a well-deserved worker leader.Zheng Xipo felt very ashamed, feeling that he was not like a worker leader, but rather like Ah Q in Lu Xun's novel "The True Story of Ah Q"—a rebellion?Fun fun!A group of revolutionaries in white helmets greeted him—Ah Q, let’s go together!So go together.Thinking of this, I laughed.Accountant You turned his head and asked, "Old Zheng, what are you laughing at?"Zheng Xipo didn't explain, just said: "Ride your car well, you won't understand even if I tell you..." Zheng Xipo got off Accountant You's electric car at the entrance of Santiao Lane, which was less than 200 meters away from the gate of the city hall.Accountant You said that he could not send it any further, otherwise it would be exposed.Zheng Dong has instructed that leading cadres on the job must not be exposed to the front line of group visits.Zheng Xipo said: Yes, yes, then hurry back!Xindao, as long as you get out, I can go home and sleep.Accountant You seemed to have been on guard against his move. Although he didn't want to be exposed, he didn't dare to leave. He insisted on watching him blend into the torrent of visiting workers.Zheng Xipo had no choice but to walk forward like sleepwalking. On this day, the three alleys were crowded with retired old men and women from the Dafeng Factory, and the leader was Wang Wenge, his apprentice and former captain of the factory guard.Zheng Xipo originally wanted to follow the crowd quietly for a while.Unexpectedly, Accountant You exposed him ruthlessly, and this guy suddenly yelled out behind him regardless: Hey, everyone, look quickly, Chairman Zheng of our labor union is here too!This is a bad thing, the old men and women who gathered at the alley seemed to have seen the backbone, they called "Chairman Zheng" loudly, and they all made a way out of the way, pushing him to the forefront of the group visit team. Wang Wenge really winked, so fucking filial!Immediately handed him a card and asked him to hold it up. The large characters on the card were shocking - the people's government is for the people, and I will return the hard-earned money of the Dafeng factory workers!Zheng Xipo felt that something was wrong. When did the government owe the workers of Dafeng Factory money?It doesn't make sense!He was determined not to lift it.Wang Wenge had no choice but to hold it up by himself, but put the card on his head, so that people could tell who was the leader of the group visit.In fact, Zheng Xipo knew that the leader of the group visit was Zhang Tiezui, a retired security worker.However, Wang Wenge said that the era of Zhang Tiezui is over. After Zhang Tiezui was detained three times, the government no longer wanted Zhang Tiezui, but only found Zhang Tiezui as the son and wife of a civil servant. Zhang Tiezui's son and wife took on the duty of guarding , keep the old man stricter than the police.Only then did Wang Wenge take over, laughing at himself that the waves behind the Yangtze River push forward the waves ahead.This back wave is big and thick, like an iron tower, and his face was burned again on the night of "September 16", and now he looks more ferocious.He said he wanted to be Zheng Xipo's bodyguard, but he didn't look like a bodyguard, but rather a hijacker.The prisoner held up an unreasonable card in one hand, and held Zheng Xipo's arm in the other, causing Zheng Xipo's thin arm to ache.As a result, Zheng Xipo walked out of the entrance of Santiao Alley in a historic way with half-push and half-push. That day, the front of the city hall was really lively, and there were three group visits at the same time.The most powerful one was the crowd interview team of Jingzhou Iron and Steel Group workers, with thousands of people.The other is a team of fund-raising victims, with one hundred and ten people.Then there is the team of their gale stockholding employees.The police seemed to have received the news long ago, and they blocked the square in front of the city hall with their shields.Wang Wenge has rich experience in group visits. While leading the team and dragging Zheng Xipo forward, he said comfortingly, "Master, don't be afraid. The police don't dare to do anything to us old men and women. They can push us back with shields at most... There was a commotion everywhere, and Zheng Xipo didn't hear what Wang Wenge said. Walking out of the three alleys, the gate of the Jingzhou Municipal People's Government with the national emblem hanging in front of him, as well as the police and police shields, made Zheng Xipo feel awe.Zheng Xipo felt that this world was a bit absurd.Before that, he never dreamed that he, an old party member, would appear in front of the Municipal People's Government in such a posture.He didn't want to get close to the gate with the national emblem hanging, but he couldn't help himself.His arm was firmly held by his tall and burly apprentice Wang Wenge, and the brothers and sisters behind him pressed on every step of the way. He had to go if he walked, and he had to go if he didn't...