MDMP Chapter 30.2

Listening to Zhang Taohua’s complaints, Feng He smiled: “It’s only a few steps, so it doesn’t matter. Just go ahead and let us go up first.”

Feng He was about to say goodbye, but Zhang Taohua stopped her again.

“Hey, wait a minute, Sister Feng He, I just remembered it! Can you tell me what’s going on in the textile factory? I’m going to work there tomorrow, and I feel very unsure.”

Zhang Taohua said with some anxiety in her tone as she quickly pulled off her clothes hanging on the clothesline with both hands.

“I heard that there are some in there, what are they called? Anyway, they are just some machines that need to be used. I don’t know anything about them, so how can I do it?”

Zhang Taohua was really worried. She spent the past few decades crawling around in the fields, how could she do any textile work?

Feng He also stopped holding the clothes and said to her: “Don’t worry about this. After you go there, someone will teach you how to use it. It’s not difficult.”

However, Zhang Taohua was not comforted. She said with a bit of embarrassment on her dark face: “This, this is easy for you, but I don’t know a few Chinese characters. What if I can’t learn it?”

Zhang Taohua now knew the importance of education.

“I heard Sister Liu say that there are not many machines in the textile factory, and most of the production is still manual. The cotton has just been picked not long ago, and it is a busy time. You should be assigned to divide the cotton.” Feng He thought for a while and said, dispelling Zhang Taohua’s doubts.

“That’s fine, that’s fine. I’m afraid that I’ll be assigned to work on that machine, but I’m willing to grow cotton and pick cotton!” Zhang Taohua breathed a sigh of relief.

Feng He and Zhang Taohua, who had already put away their clothes, walked side by side to the stairs. Zhao Suisui wanted to wait for her mother to go back together, so she was also waiting for them there.

“Oh, Sister Lin Juan is lucky. She is fine. She doesn’t have to go to the textile factory but helps in the canteen!” There was a bit of envy in Zhang Taohua’s tone, “The canteen is great. If there are any leftover dishes, you can bring them back. It would be great if I could have such good cooking skills as her!”

Upon hearing Lin Juan’s name, Zhao Suisui, who was playing in the corner with her clothes in her arms, suddenly turned around.

Suppressing the surprise in his heart, Zhao Suisui ran to Feng He and Zhang Taohua, pretending to be curious, and asked: “Canteen? Who went to the canteen?”

Zhang Taohua looked down at the curious Zhao Suisui and couldn’t help teasing her: “You are a little kid and still know how to inquire about adults?”

Zhao Suisui puffed up her cheeks.

Fortunately, Zhang Taohua just joked and then started talking to herself.

“Sister Feng He, don’t you know? I thought everyone knew it!”

Feng He didn’t know it was because she had been very busy in the workshop recently. After finishing her work, she went home to take care of her three children and had no time to chat with anyone.

But Zhao Suisui didn’t know, wasn’t that natural? She hung out with children every day. How could children discuss adult matters?

Zhao Suisui pricked up her ears and listened attentively to Zhang Taohua’s story. The more she listened, the tighter her mouth became.

The thing was actually very simple.

Just this afternoon, Lin Juan went to the canteen for some reason and happened to encounter a cook who injured his hand.

At that time, everyone was busy preparing the food supply for the canteen in the evening. The canteen of the family compound was already short of manpower, and now there was one less person, and it was almost too late.

At that time, Lin Juan took the initiative and said that she could help.

In line with the attitude of treating a dead horse as a living horse¹死馬當活馬醫, sǐmǎ dàng huómǎ yī: (lit.) to medically treat a dead horse as a living horse; (idiom) to keep trying everything in a desperate situation; to resort to desperate measures in desperate times, the cooking team asked Lin Juan to join in.

As a result, Lin Juan’s good knife skills and crisp movements conquered the other cooks.

Considering that there might not be anyone for a while and that Lin Juan did not have a job yet, the cooking team leader asked her to stay and help in the canteen.

 

 

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