Chapter 329 How Can People Bear It
Snow day.

Bitter cold wind.

Chu Jian and Ji Ling go to school for class.

By the last month of 1994, the temperature had dropped drastically.

In such cold weather, Ji Ling was no longer able to get up early, and she always hummed under the covers when she got up. Although getting up early was also challenging for Chu Jian, she just changed the alarm clock from 5 o'clock to 5:30, insisted on reviewing her homework for half an hour in advance, and only woke Ji Ling up at 6:30.

When she went downstairs, Ji Ling wore a blue shirt and a white sweater, a black coat on the outside, and a hat on her head with soft white fur on the edges. She looked like a round alpaca, but she still hopped when she walked. Chu Jian kept telling her to be careful because the road was slippery.

Ji Ling is particularly afraid of winter. She feels extremely cold when winter comes, but she is always full of vitality, no matter it is spring, summer, autumn or winter.

Zhang Yunqi was already waiting for them downstairs to go to school together.

This has been a long-standing habit.

His head was covered with snowflakes, which looked particularly crystal clear against his black hair.

"Here." Chu Jian handed a pack of heated milk to Zhang Yunqi. Zhang Yunqi didn't have the habit of drinking milk, let alone heating it up. His biggest pursuit every morning was a bowl of Zhangji Qifengdu fish powder. However, if she prepared it, he would drink it.

The snowy road became particularly difficult to walk on, but fortunately it was not far from the school. The entire Jiangchuan No. 1 Middle School was covered in white, and the pure white looked particularly quiet and soft in the early morning. The snow was flying all over the sky and the ground, falling on the playground, the grass, the lake, the horizontal bar, the roof of the cafeteria, and the red running track, lifting the ground inch by inch.

No one was as excited as when the first snow fell. No one seemed to be able to stand the long freezing weather. The school suspended physical education classes and exercises. The students were having a hard time. Many of them had sores on their hands and feet. The tea room at the end of the school corridor had become particularly popular. When the get out of class was over, everyone rushed to the tea room to get hot water for the hand warmers.

In the morning reading class, students recited the poem "Fu on the Dead Tree" by Yu Xin, a writer from the Northern and Southern Dynasties: "In the past, I planted willows, which swayed in the south of the Han River. Now I see them withering, and I feel sad in the river. If trees are like this, how can people bear it?"

At this time, the first sight reminds me of the summer, when the sky was blue, the night was full of stars, the evening breeze blew over the elderly who were enjoying the cool on the dam, and there were children laughing around them, puppies were lying at the door and sticking out their tongues, and kittens were wagging their tails. At that time, I thought everything was far away, and the "future" was still an unattainable noun. In my confusion, the three years of high school had already come to an end.

"What are you thinking about?" Zhang Yunqi, who was sitting at the back, saw her staring at the snow outside the window in a daze.

When Chu Jian came back to his senses, he saw Zhang Yunqi's smiling face, and his heart was warmed. But he suddenly thought of some things about filling out the application form after the college entrance examination next year. He felt a little dazed, and thought about it and said, "It's nothing. I just heard everyone reading "Fu on the Dead Tree" and suddenly felt that time passed quickly."

Zhang Yunqi didn't know how to respond to Chu Jian's words. This girl was thoughtful. He thought for a moment and said, "How should I put it? Don't wait until the snow melts before you start to miss the snow of that winter. Time certainly passes quickly, but the present moment we are in is meaningful. Just now you mentioned "Fu on the Dead Tree". Before the sad river pool, there was "Yi Yi Han Nan". I think this is enough, but Yu Xin is too greedy. If it had always been "Yi Yi Han Nan", how many stimulants would he have taken? He would have become an old tree spirit."

Chu Jian smiled and said, "Yunqi, I think if you do well in the Chinese dictation part, your score will definitely be better than mine, because you understand the article more deeply and thoroughly."

Zhang Yunqi didn't think so at all, because his ideas came from the practice of social universities. Sometimes they were indeed very practical, and could even be said to be utilitarian and profound. But this was different from those seemingly reasonable but actually useless principles in textbooks, and would not be favored by the examiners who only read out the text.

He smiled and said, "You are the first in grades and I am the second, isn't that good? Besides, I never expected to be better than you."

I was startled when I first saw him: "Why?"

Zhang Yunqi scratched his head: "It's too strenuous."

Chu Jian always argues: "You are not focusing on your studies. Of course, I know you have a lot of things to do."

When she said this, Chu Jian felt a little disappointed. She had been determined to get into Tsinghua University or Peking University since she was a child, and she had great confidence, but Yunqi's grades...

At this time, the bell for the end of get out of class rang.

Chu Jian went to get hot water. As usual, she took two thermos cups, one for her and one for Zhang Yunqi. She put a few tea leaves in Zhang Yunqi's thermos cup. She knew that he had no other hobbies, rarely ate snacks or drank carbonated drinks, and his thermos cup was filled with tea leaves all year round. In short, this boy did not live like a boy.

After school at noon, the two went to Zhangji to eat together.

When he reached the school gate, Zhang Yunqi met his secretary Yang Jin. The girl was wearing a big cotton jacket and standing in the snow. When she saw him, she shouted and waved anxiously. Zhang Yunqi walked over and said, "Let's talk while we walk."

Yang Jin followed him and told him that today, under the leadership of the factory director Liu Dongsheng, all the workers of Red Star went to the headquarters of Senhai Group. The incident was a big deal. The workers refused to eat, drink or make trouble, and just stood on the road in front of the gate of Senhai, blocking the whole street. Liu Dongsheng had already gone in to negotiate with Zhao Shiming of Senhai, and the result was not clear at the moment.

Of course, Yang Jin didn't know this, but Zhang Yunqi knew it very well. The negotiations between Liu Dongsheng and Zhao Shiming would definitely not produce any results in a short period of time. How could Zhao Shiming surrender easily?
However, since the situation has developed to this point, the process is no longer important, and Zhao Shiming's attitude is no longer important. The outcome is already determined. From the forced demolition of the factory many times to the fire in the factory, and then to the workers taking to the streets this time, they blocked the main road and the entire street was directly paralyzed. The news will spread like dry grass in autumn, a spark igniting the wilderness, and it will not take long for it to spread throughout the streets and alleys of Jiangchuan City.

Such public pressure is enormous, and few people can withstand it. Moreover, as time goes by, the pressure will become greater and greater. If more people are killed, the situation will develop in an unimaginable direction, just like the fire at the Red Star Factory. The city must respond at the first time to prevent public opinion from spreading to the entire province and the country.

As for the reaction, there is no doubt that the first priority is to meet the employees' demands for resettlement fees, but the low-price land sale money that Senhai got from Phoenix City is not enough. There is still a big deficit. So, who should pay for this money?
It is impossible for Phoenix City to pay. The contract has been signed in black and white. It has paid all the money it is supposed to pay. Why would Gaoshan be so kind as to pay this huge amount of money? What a joke!
Sennheiser wanted to pay but could not afford it. Sennheiser itself was a company on the verge of bankruptcy and was heavily in debt. This time it took advantage of the city's mechanical and electrical industry restructuring to revive through a backdoor listing. Its tactics were clever, but it still had no money. If it had money, the situation would not have developed to the current situation. Therefore, Zhang Yunqi concluded that the city was forced to do so and would ask the city's finances to make up the money first, but the account would be charged to Sennheiser.

In this way, the city will lose money and lose its reputation, and some people may not have a good ending. The first one to bear the brunt is Liu Dongsheng, who is the director of Red Star Electronics! How can he get away with such a thing with his employees? But the problem is that if he doesn't do this, the employees will not give up and will make trouble, and he will not get away with it either.

To some extent, Liu Dongsheng was facing a very difficult situation. As the person in charge of Red Star, he had no other options except to save the situation. He didn't even know that Red Star was being sold at a low price. He obviously did nothing wrong, but the situation forced him to do something wrong. It can be said that Liu Dongsheng had already walked into a dead end. However, after wavering, he was able to stand up and plead for the employees, which was commendable.

Another person who has reached a dead end is Zhao Shiming.

The situation he faced was the same as Liu Dongsheng's. He was a chess piece, caught in a dilemma. There was no way to deal with this mess, but since something had happened, he had to take the blame! It was a high probability event that he would be removed. However, Zhang Yunqi wanted to make this high probability event a fait accompli.

The drama has just begun. Yang Jiarong has already made his position clear to him. However, it will not be easy to get Gao Shan to give up the 133 acres of Red Star land that is already in his hands.

After Yang Jin finished his report, Zhang Yunqi already had an idea in his mind and asked Yang Jin to stay for dinner.

Yang Jin was anxious and said, "Boss Zhang, I'm not hungry, but the weather is so cold, and the employees are staying at Senhai without eating. The situation is very bad. Many of them are elderly uncles and aunts, and they are holding on with their last breath. Also, Director Liu has been in Zhao Shiming's office for several hours, but there has been no movement. Something might have happened..."

Zhang Yunqi couldn't care less whether anything happened or not.

Cruel? Cruel!

But what can be done?

For people at the bottom of society, resistance always comes at a price.

To put it bluntly, at such a critical moment, no one can take a step back! Otherwise, not only will the workers' demands be wasted, but his overall plan will also be ruined.

Because if Zhao Shiming cannot be stopped this time, then Red Star will really be handed over to Gao Shan, and Yang Jiarong will definitely be furious! Because this involves not only Red Star, but also the direction of the reform of state-owned enterprises in the whole city! Structural problems!
This is why Zhang Yunqi promised to accept all the Red Star employees, but the condition was that Liu Dongsheng must lead the employees to ask Senhai for full layoff resettlement fees. But he couldn't say these words to Yang Jin, a girl who didn't have much social experience.

There is also a first meeting next to it.

There was already a hint of worry on her little face.

Zhang Yunqi tried to be calm and said to Yang Jin: "Don't worry about what happened in Senhai. Liu Dongsheng will take care of it. Just pass the news to me as soon as possible. Let's take care of the rest. Come over after dinner."

Yang Jin hesitated to speak.

******
(End of this chapter)