Chapter 45 Understanding
When he arrived at the place, Yu Zhiyuan saw Hao Yingjuan and Lou Xiao'e sitting on the bench in front and chatting.

Xu Damao was packing up the projector in the middle of the room. When he saw Yu Zhiyuan's family of three, he quickly said, "Zhiyuan, there's a stool reserved for your sister-in-law. Take Xuemei over there."

Yu Zhiyuan asked Xuemei and the two women to sit on a stool, while Yu Zhiyuan held Qiaoqiao and sat on a stool alone.

The three girls were talking and laughing, and Yu Zhiyuan could only tease his daughter.

When Sha Zhu came over, Yu Zhiyuan stood up and took a look.

Everywhere there were crowds of people, white breath, and flickering cigarette butts.

That must be several thousand people.

Seeing Director Li coming, Yu Zhiyuan couldn't help but hold him and said, "Director Li, there are so many people here, and it's still dark. You should quickly transfer the security department over. If it's not enough, notify the local police station. You also need to bring the factory's lighting equipment over for use when the event ends. There are elderly people and children here, and if something unexpected happens, it will have a bad impact on the factory."

Director Li looked at Yu Zhiyuan deeply, then went to the front to discuss with a few people, and then their secretaries left.

Don't blame Yu Zhiyuan for being nosy. As far as he can remember, due to the natural disasters in previous years, the factory hasn't had such a large-scale event for several years.

In this day and age, showing movies is considered a large-scale event.

After a while, several secretaries came back.

Yu Zhiyuan was called over by Director Li's secretary.

Director Li then gave an introduction.

"This is a senior Party official in the factory, the factory director."

"The young man is very vigilant and his suggestions are very good. This is how you take the factory as your own, and you should praise him."

Then, Yu Zhiyuan returned to the bench and sat down.

"Sure, Zhiyuan, you can show up in front of the factory leaders with just a few words, which is much better than me working in the kitchen for half a day." Sha Zhu said.

"Brother Zhuzi, let me teach you something. The division of labor in the revolution is different. You eat delicious food in the kitchen every day. Didn't I tell you that?"

After saying that, they both laughed.

Before the start, the factory leader gave another speech: "Our factory has exceeded its targets this year and fulfilled the trust of the Party and the people."

Then, Xu Damao took the microphone and said, "Today we are going to show a new movie, Ashima! It was shot by Shanghai Film Studio. It tells the story of Ashima, a beautiful girl from the Sani ethnic group of the Yi ethnic group, and Ahei, a brave young man, who are not afraid of money or power and bravely pursue love."

After saying that, he put away the microphone and went over to start showing the movie.

The buzz in the crowd never stopped even after the one and a half hour movie was over.

Then the car lights behind the crowd turned on, and Director Li's voice was heard coming from the speakers.

"Please don't move around, keep an eye on your children, help the elderly, and take your belongings. Follow the instructions of the security department and disperse in an orderly manner. Don't crowd or fight in the crowd."

Yu Zhiyuan was in the front row and waited for half an hour before starting to move. Then he saw bright spots of flashlights everywhere in the distance.

Comrades from the Security Department can be seen standing guard everywhere.

Outside the factory, there are police officers on duty at the street intersection.

This gave Yu Zhiyuan a deeper understanding of the coordination and organizational capabilities of the factory and the street.

Listening to people excitedly discussing the content of the movie, Yu Zhiyuan didn't feel much.

It's just a black and white movie, telling the story of two young people.

Back in the courtyard, I could still hear the neighbors discussing the details of the movie, which showed the lack of entertainment and the yearning for all kinds of new things among people of that era.

It is also understandable why every household has so many children.

Yu Zhiyuan brought the mother and daughter, Jijizha and Xuemei, who were chatting, back home. He went to the kitchen to boil some ginger soup for them to drink before washing up and going to bed.

In January 1964, there was heavy snow.

Early in the morning, I opened the door and saw that the snow in the yard was already above my ankles.

The snow shows no sign of stopping.

Yu Zhiyuan checked that the chickens in the coop were fine, so he went back to the house, got the bucket for feeding chickens, mixed some chicken feed with hot water, and fed the chickens.

Seeing how cold it was, Yu Zhiyuan also kept Qiaoqiao from going out and asked her to stay in the study room to study with him.

When the snow stopped in the afternoon, Yu Zhiyuan and Yang Zhiqiang worked together to clear the snow off the roof.

Then I started to clean the snow in the yard with the people in the yard. It was dark when we finished.

The first day of the two-day New Year’s Day holiday has passed just like this.

The next day, Qiaoqiao clamored to go ice skating with Zicheng, but Yu Zhiyuan ignored her.

Yu Zhiyuan studies at home with peace of mind.

It was not until lunch that I didn't see Zhiqiang and his father-in-law, and then I realized that I had gone back to Fangshan to check on the house and prepare to bring back another cart of firewood, saying that honeycomb coal was not durable.

Let them do whatever they want, my father-in-law just can't stay here.

During the winter, all the broken baskets, baskets, dustpans and benches in the house were cleaned up.

The firewood was chopped into half thickness.

The first thing to do at work in the new year is to clear the snow, and then Director Guo announces the tasks for January.

Cleaning the lathe and the operating table. Yu Zhiyuan looked at it carefully and there was no need to clean and maintain the operating table.

As soon as I walked out of the workshop and was about to leave work and go home, I was stopped by two young men in security uniforms.

This made Yu Zhiyuan's heart skip a beat. What happened? Was he reported for trading?

He followed the two men into the small second floor of the Security Department, and they said that their section chief was looking for him.

The two men entered the section chief's office and came out after a few words, saying that the section chief wanted them in.

As soon as he entered the room, the head of the security department came over from behind his desk and shook Yu Zhiyuan's hand: "You must be Comrade Yu Zhiyuan. I'm Yu Weijun, the head of the security department. We are from the same family. Are you coming here out of curiosity?"

After saying that, Yu Weijun pulled Yu Zhiyuan to sit on the sofa and handed him a cigarette.

As long as it wasn't an interrogation room, Yu Zhiyuan would feel much more at ease.

"I know that you were the one who reminded me about the safety of the last movie screening. I called you here not only to see you, but also to express my gratitude to you."

"Chief Yu, you scared me. I thought I had done something wrong and was brought in for investigation."

"Don't say Chief Yu, Chief Yu. I'm a few years older than you. You can call me brother or Brother Jun."

Yu Zhiyuan had no choice but to take advantage of the situation: "Brother Jun!"

Yu Weijun patted Yu Zhiyuan on the shoulder: "That's right."

Then he took a puff of cigarette and said, "You were right to remind me about the movie last time. If anything goes wrong, I will have to take the blame. I get scared when I think about it now. There were three thousand people there."

"I discovered it unexpectedly as well. I'd like to remind you by the way. I don't dare to take credit for it. It's the hard work of the comrades in the security department."

"Why are you still so obsessed with studying? I know very well the consequences of this kind of thing."

After that, Yu Weijun went behind the desk and took out two packs of cigarettes and threw them to Yu Zhiyuan: "Take them and smoke them. I need your help with something else."

Yu Zhiyuan took the cigarette and put it beside him: "Brother Jun, you are too polite. Tell me what you want and I will definitely do it for you."

"A young buddy of mine from the former army was relocated to Jiaodaokou Police Station after his retirement. The house was allocated to your master's family compound, and they just separated not long ago. Aren't they going to get married now?"

This even found out about my master and others.

You soldiers treat everyone as an enemy, right?

"Brother Jun, just tell me what you need and I'll get it for you."

"Great. Give me fifteen big carps and eight chickens. Can you get some beef and mutton?"

"Is ten kilograms of beef enough?"

"Okay, that's all. He's holding a banquet at your master's courtyard on January 1th. Tell me in advance and I'll take you there."

"One more thing. He Yuzhu from the cafeteria is from your school, right? How's your relationship with him?"

"You want my brother Zhuzi to be the chef, right? I'll ask him if he's free when I get home, and I'll write you a reply tomorrow."

"That's great. Thank you so much. I'll tell the guys at the gate that they won't register when you come over in the evening. Let's have a drink together when we're free."

"Brother Jun, when you have time I'll invite you to our courtyard for a drink and ask Brother Zhuzi to show you some of his skills."

"Okay, I'll follow your arrangements! I won't delay your return home for dinner. I'll take you out so you don't have to explain yourself later."

(End of this chapter)