Liu Hui Zhen read to the end, her voice choked with excitement!
She wouldn't have dared to dream that she would be in the newspaper?
You know, in this era, what kind of people get to be in the newspaper?
They are national model workers, combat heroes!
Someone like Yi Zhong Hai, a seventh-grade fitter, wouldn't even dare to say he could be in the newspaper, let alone Liu Hui Zhen!
But now, she's actually in the newspaper!
At this time, the people at the relief station heard Liu Hui Zhen reading the report, and all of them burst into warm applause!
“Director Wang, this...I...”
Director Wang: “Hui Zhen, you've helped me a lot. The relief station has always lacked manpower, but simply adding staff can't solve the problem from the root!
But while you're here, you're able to help them do what they can, and in the future, they'll have the opportunity to break away from relief and become self-sufficient!
You've helped them, and you've helped the new country a great deal!
The district office takes this very seriously and specifically asked me to apply for a bonus for you. Once the bonus arrives in a few days, I'll send it over to your courtyard!
By the way, your literacy class teacher said you've pretty much finished junior high! This is your junior high school diploma!”
Liu Hui Zhen took the diploma and was overjoyed: “Thank you, Director Wang!”
“What are you thanking me for? You earned this all by yourself, Hui Zhen. I really think that since you adopted Yuan Chao, you've changed!”
Liu Hui Zhen nodded: “Before Yuan Chao came, I wanted to follow my husband to his death. I felt that my husband died, leaving me behind, there was no point in me living anymore!
But Yuan Chao came, and I felt that I had to let Yuan Chao grow up!”
“That’s the right attitude. Now that we have equal rights for men and women, it’s certainly sad that your husband died, but Hui Zhen, women can hold up half the sky!
Now that we have equal rights for men and women, you can't be thinking like that anymore!”
“Ai, I won't from now on!”
Guo Da Niang: “Aiyo, Hui Zhen, you're incredible, you're actually in the newspaper. In the neighborhood office, let alone the women, even the men haven't seen anyone get in the newspaper!”
Wang Da Chu: “Who's saying that's not true, Hui Zhen, this is the fabric that people gave to my family, but I don't need it, take it back and make clothes for the child!”
Liu Hui Zhen quickly declined: “Wang Da Chu, really no need, this is too expensive!”
Wang Da Chu: “Take it. I have something to ask of you. In a few days, I have to go out to cook a banquet, and I'm a bit overwhelmed here at the relief station. I was thinking that you could help me out with this job!
I'll be back in three days at most!”
Liu Hui Zhen: “No problem, it's just making three days of big pot meals, I've been watching you make it all the time, Wang Da Chu, you go ahead, no need for the fabric!”
“Ai, that won't do, my mother said, people can't just focus on themselves. You're still raising a child, and you're helping me for three days. How could I let you do it for free? You have to take it!”
Wang Da Chu finished stuffing the fabric into Liu Hui Zhen's hands. Liu Hui Zhen couldn't refuse, so she had to take it!
Fortunately, the fabric wasn't very big. Liu Hui Zhen calculated that she could repay this favor, and only then did she dare to take it!
After finishing her work, Liu Hui Zhen went to the literacy class with Guo Da Niang. Sun Xiu Ju was already waiting at the literacy class.
“Sun Da Ma!”
Liu Hui Zhen was very happy today, she didn't expect that one day she would be in the newspaper. It was great. At least now she has a mother like her, and she won't embarrass Shen Yuan Chao in the future!
Sun Da Ma: “Hui Zhen, you look so happy, did something good happen?”
Liu Hui Zhen: “It's not settled yet, it'll be said in a few days. Sun Da Ma, you look happy too!”
Actually, Liu Hui Zhen being in the newspaper was basically settled, but Liu Hui Zhen is a reserved person. She felt embarrassed to directly say she was in the newspaper.
She'll wait until the neighborhood office gives out the reward to say it, so she said it wasn't settled!
Sun Xiu Ju smiled and said: “It's Yuan Chao, he can crawl now! I saw him crawling from one side of the kang to the window with my own eyes!”
Sun Xiu Ju described how Shen Yuan Chao was crawling and sitting on the windowsill looking outside. His cute look almost melted her heart!
Liu Hui Zhen was astonished: “He can crawl? That's too fast! Bang Geng hasn't learned to sit yet, only Yan Jie Di just learned to sit!”
“Who's saying that's not true? I saw him crawl so skillfully. This child Yuan Chao, I didn't misjudge him back then, he was smart from a young age!”
Liu Hui Zhen listened to Sun Da Ma praising Shen Yuan Chao, and her heart was filled with joy!
Today she was in the newspaper, and Shen Yuan Chao could crawl now. Her family was celebrating a double joy. When she went back, she would definitely make Shen Yuan Chao some malt extract!
Sure enough, Shen Yuan Chao is a lucky child. Not only is he lucky himself, but he also brings good fortune to her and her two daughters!
Also, the boss who gave her the Red Star powdered milk and malt extract last time, that boss is so good, didn't even charge her. If she gets the bonus this time, she'll buy some things to thank her!
If it wasn't for her, Shen Yuan Chao would probably still be malnourished. How could he grow to be so strong and healthy!
And the fabric Wang Da Chu gave her can be used to make a spring outfit for Yuan Chao. Let's see, in a few months, Shen Yuan Chao will be able to walk. I have to prepare some open-crotch pants!
Liu Hui Zhen was happily thinking about all these little things in her home, and felt that her life was full of hope!
Entering the literacy class.
“Let's give a warm round of applause to congratulate Comrade Liu Hui Zhen on receiving her junior high school diploma!”
The literacy class teacher was very happy. You know, most of the people in the big courtyard here on Nan Luo Gu Xiang are workers from the steel mill, and there are also rural women who have moved to the city.
The recognition rate for literacy classes learning to read and write has always been low!
Other neighborhood offices have literacy classes with impressive results, and have already received many awards!
But, strangely, many of the workers on Nan Luo Gu Xiang have to work during the day, and when they come home at night, it's dark after dinner.
Ask them to come to the literacy class, then they won't have energy during their day jobs!
It will affect their normal work!
The neighborhood office has tried every means possible to mobilize people's enthusiasm to participate in the literacy class, but the effect was not good!
But this time, Liu Hui Zhen, a poor woman struggling on the breadline, actually learned 2,000 commonly used characters!
This is already the level of a leading cadre!
Not only that, but Liu Hui Zhen also often consolidates her learning results, preventing half-baked knowledge from becoming a hindrance!
This kind of example is like a timely rain for Nan Luo Gu Xiang!
The literacy class teacher has already reported Liu Hui Zhen's matter and is going to use Liu Hui Zhen as an example and apply for a reward for her.
Doing so can greatly improve the enthusiasm of workers and housewives on Nan Luo Gu Xiang to learn to read and write!
“Comrade Liu Hui Zhen, would you be willing to share with everyone why you joined the literacy class?
Or what motivated you to persist in the literacy class?”