August 58.

The national steelmaking movement began. In order to surpass Britain in fifteen years, a steelmaking trend emerged across the country. The neighborhood committee under Zhengyang also had its own earth blast furnace, mobilizing everyone on the street to donate steel and contribute to the steelmaking.

Chen Xueru had already given birth to a fat boy at this time. Zhao Shucheng named him Zhao Suhu, who is now two years old. However, Chen Xueru is pregnant again now. However, seeing Xu Huizhen, who is also pregnant, is busy driving a tractor to collect steel every day, she is also strong. She is unable to move, so she just sits in the silk shop and asks Qiu Guangpu to collect waste steel.

Zhao Shucheng and Cai Quanwu became dads directly. They took care of their children at home and had to help them find ways to improve their contributions.

When others saw this scene, they were very curious, especially the neighborhood aunt, who asked directly: "Huizhen, what is the situation between you and Xueru's family? It's really OK to have the strength to take care of your children at home and let you two little women come out to work."

Xu Huizhen smiled and said, "I don't know what the situation in Chen Xueru's family is, but in our family, Cai Quan is so good at taking care of the children, so I'm outside, he takes care of the children."

The aunt smiled and said, "The same should be true for Xueru and their family. Zhao Shucheng has become a full-time dad. It's been so many years since then, and the job in the silk shop is almost gone. I'm always around the children at home all day. I really don't understand what you think."

"I don't know this, but we can't have no one without a child in our family."

The director said this and called Aunt Hu directly and said, "Go and tell Chen Xueru, what's the point of having only three and a half pounds more? Xu Hui is really at least five hundred pounds more than her."

Aunt Hu agreed and left. Xu Huizhen quickly said, "Director, this is more than five hundred kilograms."

The aunt said directly: "If I say too much, I'm afraid she won't dare to continue to struggle."

Xu Huizhen smiled and said, "You are so good, let us both fight to the death."

The aunt smiled and said, "I can see that if you two don't fight, where will our neighborhood committee compete for the first place? You have to do this. It's better to have one car or two cars again."

Chen Xueru sat on the sofa, constantly looking at the collected steel. She had little thoughts and didn't want to make her contribution too high. She was only three or five kilograms more than Xu Huizhen. When she caught up, she would take the things herself. Not only did she catch up easily, she still sat firmly on the top throne.

The silk shop has changed a lot in recent years. Liao Yucheng was directly dismissed from his job due to his lifestyle and left the silk shop. Before, the student had a difficult life, so the neighborhood committee arranged for him to work in the silk shop.

Although the film master Qiu Guangpu is a little confused about doing business, he knows that he only needs to check the accounts and leave the business to Chen Xueru. The two of them get along well for the time being.

Qiu Guangpu took the guys to search for scrap steel in the surrounding cities, but they all ran with their own legs, so they had to come back to unload the goods after getting dozens of kilograms.

Lao Zhang looked at the broken steel on the ground and said, "There are at least 100 kilograms on the ground. According to me, it's enough for Xu Hui to chase after her for a while."

Chen Xueru said, "That's so boring. I have to let him give me three or five kilograms. If they don't remove their stove, he will definitely not be able to catch up with me."

Zhao Shucheng took Hou Kui and pushed the stroller to the silk shop. He happened to see Chen Xueru planning something.

Aunt Hu came in directly and said, "Xueru, Director, please tell you that Xu Hui is five hundred kilograms more than you."

Chen Xueru asked curiously: "Do they have that many?"

Aunt Hu said, "Xueru, don't be angry. The director means to cheer you up. Do you understand?"

Chen Xueru said, "I understand, I will definitely dare to go up. Just tell the director and just let her rest assured."

When Aunt Hu left, Chen Xueru sat down and said angrily: "Honey, you have to help me, I can't lose to Xu Huizhen."

Zhao Shucheng looked at the scrap steel on the ground and said, "Don't worry, the child is still there. Besides, you will definitely not be able to catch up with it by relying on human resources. This requires another way, such as using funds to acquire old iron, etc."

"Oh, why didn't I expect it?" Chen Xueru said suddenly.

"Wait, don't rush to act first, and you have to pay attention to things. Only then can we continue to acquire it, but we can't use the money from the silk shop. It can only be our private property, so that people won't have any other opinions."

Chen Xueru said indifferently: "I thought why? No problem, our family can still afford it."

"Wait, don't leave, there is another point. Do you ask the guys to walk with hundreds of kilograms of steel? You have to find a car."

Chen Xueru thought for a while and said, "Good husband, why don't you contribute our tricycle? Isn't it a problem?"

Zhao Shucheng said: "No, the tricycle can't pull much pounds, it must be a big car."

Chen Xueru: "You are not nonsense. If I can get a bike ride, would I still have to worry?"

Chen Xueru thought for a while, and she was a little worried, so she ran to the ground blast furnace to ask the director how much Xu Hui was more than her. The director seemed to be able to tell the truth.

Chen Xueru wanted to see where Xu Huizhen made so much scrap steel, so she went straight into the tavern and asked, "Xu Huizhen, tell me the truth, how much more are you than me?"

Xu Huizhen looked at her with a big belly and could only say, "Director and auntie told you everything?"

Chen Xueru understood the wooden basket he was making and said, "I said, tell me the truth, where did you get so many? If you said that, I asked Zhao Shucheng to make a baby basket for you, which is much better than what you are behind you."

"This is what you said. I don't want a small backpack. I want a stroller. It's the one he pushed and took the kids everywhere."

"Okay, no problem, tell me!"

Xu Huizhen then spoke, "It's better to sell it in all the alleys around the Beijing platform."

Chen Xueru said with satisfaction: "Let's agree first, if you win, you can't get two pounds more than me. If I win, I can't get one and a half pounds more than you."

"Okay, no problem."

Chen Xueru said, "Okay, I'll ask Shucheng to bring the stroller here when I look back. I'll leave."

Chen Xueru returned to the silk shop, and Qiu Guangpu was counting the data.

Chen Xueru asked: "Qiu Guangpu, the tavern is 800 kilograms more than us, do you know?"

Qiu Guangpu said indifferently: "Look at what you said, can we compare with the tavern? Hey, there are tractors. We can't compare to the ones carrying the shoulders."

Chen Xueru said unhappily: "I'll ask you one thing, why are you talking so much nonsense? Are people in the capital so poor?"

Chen Xueru was about to find a car as Zhao Shucheng said, and Elena came to her to buy silk.

She grabbed Ilena and said, "Don't worry about purchasing goods. Defeating Xu Huizhen is the most important thing. Ilena, I rely on you all. You have to find a truck for me. I must beat Xu Huizhen."

"As long as I can beat Xu Huizhen, I can let Suzhou merchants make it for you any silk you want."

Elena smiled and said, "Can you ask your husband to accompany me to Suzhou?"

Chen Xueru was not happy. If Zhao Shucheng left, she would not be able to take care of her two children and one of her belly.

"Let him go? This doesn't work. Our family must starve to death."

When Zhao Shucheng heard this, he suddenly thought that just a few years after the great steelmaking, three years of natural disasters occurred, and no one could eat enough. Although he was incapable of changing the situation of the entire Guo family, he still had to solve the problem of having enough food for his family.

Of course, if you buy grain, the check is very strict now. You can only go to the grain store to buy grain. However, Zhao Shucheng is not helpless. He found that the current sweet potatoes are not limited to quantity, so he can buy more. He made dried sweet potatoes by himself, and when there is a shortage of food in the future, this is ready-made grain.

Besides, my yard is still very large, and in order to survive, I cannot plant some crops by myself, such as pumpkin, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. These can be planted in the yard. Isn’t it enough to wait until this time period of time before I can restore the courtyard to its original state.

Zhao Shucheng doesn't care what others think of him. As long as he has food and drink, it is not better than anything else. Of course, all this has to be done secretly, just talk about food such as sweet potatoes. Zhao Shucheng is going to put it in his portable space at that time and only leaves a small part at home, so that there can be excuses and can be preserved for a longer time.

Chen Xueru didn't know that Zhao Shucheng had thought of what happened a few years later, and she was discussing with Yilena about collecting scrap steel.

Qiu Guangpu thought of something and said, "By the way, I forgot something important, this donation will be until twelve o'clock tomorrow."

Chen Xueru asked, "Why?"

"If you seal the furnace at twelve o'clock tomorrow, and if you delay it, all the pots and pans of each household will be donated, so you will have no way to eat."

Chen Xueru was thinking something, and Zhao Shucheng said directly: "Xueru, I think we should just donate things at 11:30. It will take a few minutes to wait for the director and the others to weigh it. Xu Huizhen and the others will receive the message, so they will have no time to find things."

"In order to prevent them from taking out their own iron pots, I think we can delay it for a while, just 1:45 minutes."

Qiu Guangpu looked at Zhao Shucheng and Chen Xueru and said, "Zhao Xiucai, I didn't think that you scholars were really too bad. You can do such things, but I think it's good, we can also get the first place."

Chen Xueru also felt that Zhao Shucheng's suggestions were very good, which also avoided vicious competition. Unfortunately, she looked up to her popularity. By the evening, Xu Huizhen learned about Zhao Shucheng's suggestions from the tavern.

She discussed countermeasures with Fan Jinyou and Cai Quanwu. In order to avoid unexpected situations, they removed the stove in their own homes and brought things directly to the tractor. They only waited for Chen Xueru to finish weighing tomorrow and won overwhelmingly.
Chapter completed!