Chapter 35: One Family's Daughter Asked by Hundreds of Families

Liu Siying parked her bike downstairs and walked into her family building in the "Great World".

The living area of ​​the entire Shengli Machinery Factory is divided into Da'ao, Dashijie, Shuangbanqiao, Xialiu and Forty Households. Among them, Forty Households is the best living area, which was newly built in the last one or two days. It belongs to the "Model Worker Building" with a total of forty units. Only the model workers and advanced workers in the factory can move in first.

The second is Shuangbanqiao, which is also a new building. Part of it has been converted into a factory guesthouse. Most of the time, only married couples and military representatives are assigned here.

Shengli Machinery Factory has a "Model Worker Building" and a dual-use building, but no cadre building.

Including Liu Siying's family, they still live in the "Khrushchev building" built in the 1960s, also known as the tube-shaped building. Each household has only 30 to 40 square meters, the toilet is shared, and they can only cook in the corridor. Every night after get off work, the corridor is filled with the smell of smoke and fire, the real smell of fireworks.

"mom!"

As soon as she entered the house, Liu Siying saw her mother bringing food to the table, so she greeted her.

Liu Siying's mother, Zhao Xiufang, was also a teacher at a middle school in Shanghai. Later, her husband was assigned to Jiangxi. Considering that the family was too far apart, the organization also wanted to transfer Zhao Xiufang to the Shengli Machinery Factory.

In fact, at that time, Liu Biao's family had a multi-room house near Hongkou Park in Shanghai. The environment was elegant, spacious and comfortable. For the sake of the Third Front Construction, Liu Biao resolutely gave it up, but his wife Zhao Xiufang was always reluctant to leave her hometown.

It was only after Liu Biao had worked for a long time that Zhao Xiufang agreed to follow her husband to Jiangxi. Now she has become a teacher in a factory-run middle school.

"Hurry up and eat." Zhao Xiufang glanced at her daughter and asked her to come over and eat.

"Dad hasn't come back yet?"

"When has your dad ever come home on time? You don't need to worry about him, just eat your food."

"Yeah." Liu Siying responded, then hung up the bag on her shoulder and sat down at the dining table.

Whenever Liu Siying thought of her father, she always felt an inexplicable sadness.

When Liu Biao was sent to Jiangxi, Liu Siying was just four years old. In her memory at that time, she could only see her father once or twice a year. Every time she came home, she was dressed in tattered clothes, a people's uniform and Liberation shoes, which could be regarded as the "mantle" inherited from the old revolutionary. She looked dark and thin, so much so that even her old neighbors could not recognize her and thought that an old beggar had come to her house.

It was not until she was thirteen years old that Liu Siying followed her mother to Jiangxi. Only then did she know what her father had experienced over the years.

Although he is the director of a factory with tens of thousands of employees, Liu Biao himself is not arrogant at all. When he first came to Jiangxi, he led the "Eighteen Warriors" and, with the belief of "serving the country through military industry", traveled through mountains and rivers, cut through thorns and bushes, and slept in the open air. In less than two years, he transformed a barren mountain into the largest third-line arsenal in the entire JX Province. The hardships involved are difficult for outsiders to imagine.

After the factory was built, Liu Biao personally took care of everything. Whenever there was a new project or new materials were delivered to the factory, he would be present and would not leave until everything was arranged properly. There was never an exception.

Moreover, since following my mother to the machinery factory, I remember that my father almost never got off work on time, and the meals prepared at home were always reheated.

Who would have thought that Liu Biao usually worked in the factory during the day, and had to deal with some documents at night. Occasionally, he had to play the role of a "mediator" to deal with marital disputes and neighborhood disputes between employees, so that many employees in the factory would respectfully call him "Mr. Liu" when they saw him.

For the factory, having such a director is a blessing for the whole factory, but for the mother and daughter, it is a kind of happy loss... "Xiaoying, I met Secretary Xu's mother when I was buying vegetables today. She talked to me about Xiao Xu's recent affairs and said that Xiao Xu plans to sign up for the electronic class of our factory's TV University... I think Xiao Xu is an honest and motivated child. He is tall and not ugly." Zhao Xiufang glanced at her daughter and then said, "If you have time, I will let Xiao Xu come to our house for a visit..."

"Why are you sitting here? Secretary Xu and his Propaganda Department are right on the floor above us, but they never dare to come to our department to find me. Forget about a man like him." Liu Siying said with some disdain.

"So...you mean, if he takes the initiative to find you, you'd be willing to be with him?"

"If he is willing to come to me on his own initiative, I can at least make him give up sooner!"

"…You kid!"

"Mom, I'm only 20 years old. Are you so heartless that you want to marry your daughter off quickly?" Liu Siying said in a coquettish tone. She continued, "Besides, I graduated from a technical secondary school after all. It's not too much to want to find a college student, right? Secretary Xu only graduated from high school. We don't have much in common."

"What if Xiao Xu really gets into college?"

"Let's wait until he passes the exam. Maybe by then he won't look down on me anymore." Liu Siying said with a smile.

"Hey……"

Zhao Xiufang sighed and said no more.

As the saying goes, a girl from one family is sought after by hundreds of families.

Liu Siying has been a "good girl" who is the center of attention since she was young.

Since elementary school, she had pigtails and a copper key tied around her neck with a woolen rope. She went to and from school by herself and her family never had to worry about her. Her grades were always among the best in school. In middle school, she participated in the Olympic Mathematics Competition and won second place in the city. The walls of her home were almost covered with awards for being a three-good student and an outstanding class leader.

Like many outstanding students of that year, after graduating from middle school, Liu Siying did not go to high school, but was admitted to a technical secondary school.

In that era, it was quite difficult to get into a technical secondary school, so much so that the saying "If you can't get into a technical secondary school, you can go to high school" was popular.

As for choosing a major, because the manufacturing industry was very popular in that era, it combined well with the studies of technical secondary school students. After graduation, technical secondary school students could get a job and have official cadre status within the state establishment!
After being formally assigned a grade (assigned a job), you can be promoted step by step to deputy section chief, section chief, deputy director...
In addition, in the 1980s, one could take the postgraduate entrance examination directly a few years after graduating from technical secondary school. This does not mean directly "studying for a master's degree", but having the ability to participate in the competition and take the "exam". The level of technical secondary school students at that time can be seen. Therefore, there are masters and doctoral students who have experienced that era who have written the school they went to as an academic degree in their resumes, but in fact it was technical secondary school.

From this point of view, although technical secondary schools nowadays do not have the halo of being the chosen ones like college students, there is not much difference in the difficulty of the exams and the employment benefits after graduation, and graduates from technical secondary schools can still continue their studies.

Today, Liu Siying is the leader of the sixth group of the technical department and also the youngest leader of the technical department in Shengli Machinery Factory. In the eyes of outsiders, Liu Siying may have been promoted out of turn because of his father.

But in fact, Liu Siying was promoted out of turn because he successfully solved the 2 electronic fuze upgrade and modification plan of the LZ-130, which was verified and commended by the JX Provincial Defense Industry Office.

It can be said that Liu Siying, who is only 20 years old, has gradually become the backbone of the technical department of Shengli Machinery Factory...

(End of this chapter)