50s: Starting with a storage ring

Chapter 98 Sun Ailai's Home is Ruined to Make Steel 5
Starting this year, grain reserves in rural areas across the country began to decrease significantly, while the supply in cities began to increase significantly.

When Sun Zhiwei's family's grain supply for the second half of the year was issued, each person received an additional 3 kilograms of grain per month.

Because there is too much food to eat, we need to supply more to everyone.

In September, the daughter went to Yucai Middle School. Sun Zhiwei personally handed the daughter to Principal Yuan. The old principal patted his chest and promised that he would teach the child well.

Thanks to the care of the old principal, Nannan became the class monitor as soon as she entered school. She also performed very actively in class. Sun Zhiwei was very pleased with Nannan's growth.

Soon, a new task was issued from above to help the country increase steel production.

Because last month the authorities doubled this year's steel production target, requiring the completion of 1070 million tons of steel production before the end of the year.

However, only 8 million tons were produced in the first eight months, which is a significant gap.

With only four months left, it is too late for the steel mills to expand their production capacity and they can only ask for help from the whole country.

In mid-September, the order to start using small blast furnaces for steelmaking was sent to all schools, and small blast furnaces were also set up in various communities and schools.

There is also one at the entrance of Beihai Kindergarten. Fortunately, because it is a kindergarten, the number of students is small and the task is not heavy. Only 1 kilograms are required in one month.

The school's logistics department has some foundation and no task targets have been assigned to teachers and students.

Yucai is different. They have six grades in junior high and high school, with more than a thousand students and hundreds of teachers, and they were given the task of lifting 3 kilograms.

Teachers and students worked together and everyone started collecting scrap steel everywhere. Competitions were even held in different grades and classes.

In order to count the results, the school also marked points for various materials, with scrap steel worth 2 points per kilogram and firewood and coal worth 1 point per kilogram.

As the class monitor, Sun Ailai has the responsibility to lead his classmates to collect wood and scrap metal from nearby abandoned houses during their free time at noon every day.

But now everyone is collecting information, and the grades of Class 1 where Sun Ailai is located are not very impressive, which makes her very anxious and angry.

Although Sun Zhiwei knew about it, he was not prepared to help. It was the children's own business and he wanted her to solve it herself.

Unfortunately, the development of things often does not depend on human will.

One Friday night, Sun Zhiwei and Tong Jiajia returned home from get off work and started preparing dinner.

After a while, Tong Jiajia from the kitchen started calling him: "Zhiwei, have you seen the big soup spoon in the kitchen?"

"Spoon? I don't see it. Think about where you put it the last time you used it."

"I remember it was hanging here by the shovel. That's strange."

After a while, Jia Jia came out of the kitchen again: "Zhiwei, have you seen the lid of the frying pan?"

"Ah? The lid is missing too?" Sun Zhiwei realized something was wrong.

He turned to look at Sun Ailai, who was doing homework in the yard: "Nannan, did you take the pot lid to the war?"

"I don't have it. I didn't take it." Nannan didn't even turn her head and continued to do her homework.

Now even Tong Jiajia noticed that something was wrong with her. In the past, if Nannan was wronged, she would definitely make a big fuss. Why did she stop after just one rebuttal today?

Sun Zhiwei walked to the door and said to his daughter under the tree, "Tell me, what did you do with it? The battle has to be over, so bring the pot lid back after that."

"I don't. I handed it in and I can't get it back."

"What do you mean by handed it over? To whom did you hand it over?"

"Hand in the task, it weighs two kilograms, and I gave you 4 points."

Sun Zhiwei felt dizzy after hearing this. This little girl took the pot lids at home to make steel.

He suppressed his anger and continued to ask: "What else did you take? Tell me everything. I won't blame you."

"Gone."

"Really? Where's the big spoon?"

"Then there is another tablespoon, 1 pounds, 3 points." "And what's more, tell me everything." Sun Zhiwei's anger could be heard from his tone, and Nannan didn't dare to hide it anymore.

"Also, there's a small bucket."

Sun Zhiwei hurried to the well to check, and sure enough, the small iron bucket used to fetch water, which had just been replaced last year, was missing.

She was so considerate that she found the old wooden barrel and tied it to the rope, which almost made him laugh.

"Also, continue." Sun Zhiwei pointed at the table with his finger.

"spittoon."

"Don't waste time, just say it all, don't squeeze it like toothpaste."

"We'll talk about punishment later. You have to let me and your sister-in-law know what's missing from the house."

"A shovel, two dumbbells, six hangers, a biscuit barrel, a tea box, that's it."

The more Sun Zhiwei listened, the angrier he became. His anger was rising and he started to unbuckle his belt.

Tong Jiajia quickly stepped forward to stop them. Sun Ailai also knew that something was wrong, so he rushed into the bedroom and closed the door.

"Don't stop me. I must teach her a lesson this time. Otherwise, she will tear down our house next time."

"Brother, you don't keep your word. You just said you don't blame me." Student Sun Aila replied unconvincedly in the room.

"You dare to talk back." Sun Zhiwei was so angry that he couldn't suppress it anymore.

"Okay, okay, they are just small items, the loss is not big, just say a few words to him." Tong Jiajia tried to smooth things over.

"You still have to reason with the children and not hit them." Female teachers should be gentler.

"Yes, you are a teacher, you can't hit people." Sun Aila's voice came again.

"Come out here."

"I do not."

The two of them were in a stalemate for a while, and Sun Zhiwei's anger subsided a lot. In fact, he was not really that angry. He was just annoyed by the girl's reply just now.

Half an hour later, Tong Jiajia prepared the food and put it on the table, then called Nannan to come out for dinner.

Nannan carefully opened a corner of the door and saw that only her sister-in-law was outside. Then she whispered, "Sister-in-law, where is my brother?"

"He's in the living room. He's eating. He promised not to hit anyone anymore. Come out."

After hearing this, she cautiously walked to the living room and came to the dining table. Sun Zhiwei was sitting in the main seat, and when he saw her, he glared at her fiercely.

"sit down."

Student Sun Ailai sat down obediently like a quail.

"First of all, I shouldn't have said I was going to hit you today. I want to apologize for that."

"I don't blame my brother."

"Well, but what you did today was wrong."

"Helping the school complete its mission and strive for advancement is a good intention, but the method is wrong."

"Everything we have at home needs to be used, and buying new ones costs money. We can earn points in other ways."

"But all the scrap metal that could be collected outside has been snatched away, and our class is lagging behind in academic performance now."

"Don't you have to count points for firewood? There's so much firewood in the kitchen. Just carry as much as you can every day."

(End of this chapter)