"Bitch, I think you're asking for death!"
Yi Zhonghai exploded on the spot. What man could stand such mockery?
Being "sarcastically attacked" by his own wife felt even more unbearable than Liu Kai Xuan beating his old face.
"What, you want to hit me now?"
"Come on?"
In his rage, Yi Zhonghai wanted to hit her, but Qin Huai Ru was not nervous at all. She retorted fearlessly.
"Don't hesitate, just do it!"
"If you hit me today, we'll divorce tomorrow, and you'll be without descendants!"
Yi Zhonghai's heart churned with anger, but in the end, he forcibly suppressed the turmoil in his heart.
To say that an elder lady's stomach was not producing children was not wrong!
Her stomach truly was not producing children; she hadn't conceived in 30 years.
To say that Qin Huai Ru's stomach was not producing children, even Yi Zhonghai himself felt it was hard to justify.
What Yi Zhonghai needed to do now was to try his best to help Qin Huai Ru conceive sooner, which was the proper course of action.
...
Deaf Old Lady stayed in the detention center for five days and finally regained her freedom.
On the day she left the detention center, Deaf Old Lady went to find Yi Zhonghai.
Subsequently, it's unknown by what method Deaf Old Lady persuaded Yi Zhonghai, but Yi Zhonghai took out 5 yuan as compensation to Liu Kai Xuan.
With the compensation fully paid, the grievances between Liu Kai Xuan and Deaf Old Lady could be considered to have ended here.
Yan Bu Gui's home.
While having dinner, Yan Bu Gui inquired, "Yan Jie Cheng, you've been an apprentice at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill for over a year!"
"How's your learning going? Do you have confidence in getting the qualification certificate?"
Yan Jie Cheng casually replied, "Dad, what are you so worked up about!"
"Apprentices generally need to go through a three-year apprenticeship before they can achieve a certain level of proficiency!"
"I'm just getting started now, so there's no use rushing!"
"What about Yan Jie Fang?"
Yan Bu Gui turned to look at his second son, Yan Jie Fang.
Yan Jie Fang replied with an awkward smile, "Dad... can you stop giving me such difficult questions?"
"My brother couldn't learn anything significant, so what significant thing can I learn?"
"Oh, right, Dad!"
"Why don't you let the third child go too? The apprentice's salary has already increased to 20 yuan a month!"
"And the apprentice's work is very simple, the third child can completely handle it!"
Yan Bu Gui shook his head repeatedly, "The third child is too young now, he can't go!"
At this moment, Yu Li, sitting on the other side of the dining table, suddenly said, "It shouldn't be a problem for me to be an apprentice at the factory, right?"
"Ah, you..." As soon as Yu Li spoke, all eyes on the dining table were drawn to her.
Yan Bu Gui raised a doubt, "The work in the machine repair workshop is all hard, dirty, and tiring work!"
"Even a strong, healthy man would find it unbearable, let alone a woman like you!"
However, Yan Jie Cheng had a different opinion, "I don't think that's necessarily true!"
"There are several female workers in our machine repair workshop now!"
"Although female workers are not very suitable for heavy physical labor, they can work as a file clerk in the workshop!"
"People like Liu Yu Qian and Li Ya have done file clerk work before!"
"So, if I go there, I can also do this job well?"
Originally, Yu Li had just said it casually with a "let's try" attitude.
Now, Yan Jie Cheng's words made Yu Li excited again.
In this era, a very typical situation was that there were too many people and too few jobs!
Many people wanted to find a stable "iron rice bowl" job but couldn't.
Although the apprentice's salary was not high, if Yan Jie Cheng and Yu Li both went to work, it would be two incomes.
One person's salary of 20 yuan, doubled for two people, would be 40 yuan.
In this era, this was not a small amount of income.
The next morning, Yan Bu Gui took Yan Jie Cheng and Yu Li to Liu Kai Xuan's house to discuss this matter.
This time, Liu Kai Xuan's reply was very straightforward, directly telling Yan Jie Cheng to take Yu Li to the factory to report for duty.
The Technical Section of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill had already been expanded into the Engineering Department.
The personnel quota of the Technical Section had more than tripled, and the shortage of personnel had long been completely resolved.
Liu Kai Xuan's management style was completely different from Liu Da Kui's.
Liu Da Kui's style was: make do if possible, and try not to burden the factory.
Liu Kai Xuan, on the other hand, believed: everyone performs their own duties, with clear tasks!
Each person only needed to complete their assigned work according to the job requirements, and there was no need for one person to undertake the workload of multiple people.
This resulted in reduced workload for the employees of the Engineering Department, while their benefits and treatment improved.
Naturally, this would help retain people.
...
As noon approached, Yi Zhonghai arrived at the courtyard with an old man in his seventies.
This old man was named Wu Wen Hou. Before liberation, he was a wandering doctor.
At his age now, he had long since retired from active duty and would occasionally come out to make a living and earn some "tea money."
After Yi Zhonghai brought Wu Wen Hou into the house, Qin Huai Ru was having lunch at home with her two daughters.
"Qin Huai Ru, quickly let Mr. Wu examine you!"
"I see that you've been weak in blood and prone to anger lately, which clearly indicates a physical problem. You need a thorough diagnosis!"
"Hmph!"
Qin Huai Ru snorted coldly, not bothering to pay attention to Yi Zhonghai.
She was perfectly aware of Yi Zhonghai's ulterior motives.
The reason Yi Zhonghai brought Wu Wen Hou over was to check the reason for her inability to conceive!
But the reality was: Qin Huai Ru hadn't gotten pregnant until now because she herself didn't want to be pregnant.
If she wanted to conceive, even if Yi Zhonghai was incapable, she could have an affair with other men to get pregnant.
"Xiao Ru, stop messing around!"
Yi Zhonghai shamelessly smiled, "Quickly let the doctor examine you!"
"Tonight, I'll take you to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy two new clothes for the girls!"
"Alright!" Qin Huai Ru nodded and agreed, "Then let's start the examination!"
The examination by a Chinese medicine doctor, of course, involved taking the pulse.
Based on Wu Wen Hou's experience, he judged that Qin Huai Ru had already given birth to three children, so her body definitely did not have any hidden ailments preventing conception.
If her body was the reason she couldn't conceive, it would most likely be due to weakness of blood and qi.
Whether Qin Huai Ru had weakness of blood and qi could be detected by taking her pulse.
Similarly, Qin Huai Ru was not afraid of Wu Wen Hou taking her pulse at all.
The reason she couldn't conceive had nothing to do with her physical condition; it was because she had an IUD inserted.
Could this old Chinese doctor really figure out that she had an IUD inside her body just by taking her pulse?