The Fiery Era: Becoming an Industrial Giant

Chapter 35 Project Conclusion
After getting off work, Guo Yuting had just pushed her bicycle into the backyard when she saw some neatly arranged coal blocks piled up under the eaves in the south corner of the house.

Seeing this, Guo Yuting knew that her husband had come home early today and had even bought coal, not to mention the aroma of food wafting from the kitchen.

Thinking of all this, Guo Yuting felt a surge of pride. What did Gu Jiayu have to compare with her? How could she find such a good husband?

He spends all day in the pharmacy department bragging about the people he met at the dance, which company they work for, what their parents do, and what they have.

After marriage, can Gu Jiayu ask her husband to cook for her?
Thinking of this, a smile appeared on Guo Yuting's pretty face. After parking her bicycle, she walked towards the kitchen.

Upon entering the kitchen, Guo Yuting saw Zhou Zhiqiang cooking noodles with fried sauce next to him, which immediately caught her eye. She asked, "Are we having fried sauce noodles today?"

"Yeah, you haven't gone back to your room yet, have you? Go back and check."

Zhou Zhiqiang said with a smile, "Today we're not just having noodles with soybean paste, we have other things too."

"Anything else? What did you buy?"

Guo Yuting asked curiously, but seeing Zhou Zhiqiang smiling without saying anything, she turned and walked towards the main house.

Upon entering the room, Guo Yuting saw a box on the table. She opened it and found a pair of women's leather shoes inside, which made her very happy. She took them out and looked at them from all angles.

Last month she mentioned wanting a pair of leather shoes, and to her surprise, her husband bought them for her today.

After her initial excitement, Guo Yuting put down her shoes and turned to walk outside. As she came out, she saw Zhou Zhiqiang carrying a basin towards the main house.

It's getting cold outside now, and it even snowed a while ago, so they're eating in the inner room.

Guo Yuting followed Zhou Zhiqiang, and after he put down the noodles in his hand, she couldn't help but hug Zhou Zhiqiang and say, "Zhiqiang, I really like these leather shoes, I like them so much."

"If you like it, that's fine. I just happened to exchange a ticket with a colleague, so I bought it."

Zhou Zhiqiang said with a smile, "My work is almost finished, and then I'll be able to go to get off work and leave work normally."

"You've been working so hard lately, you've lost weight. Eat more noodles."

As Guo Yuting spoke words of sympathy, she picked up a bowl and began to serve Zhou Zhiqiang noodles.

Zhou Zhiqiang has been so busy for the past three months that he's often working overtime until after 9 p.m.

Every time Guo Yuting saw her husband come home so late, she felt bad about letting Zhou Zhiqiang work so hard.

Moreover, their family hasn't been eating refined grains every day lately, and they don't even eat mixed noodles every day.

Ten days of whole grains, sixteen days of mixed flour, and only the last four or five days are for refined grains to improve the diet.

Their dual-income family is indeed not short of money. Their combined salaries are nearly 100,000 yuan. In particular, Zhou Zhiqiang was promoted to a permanent position last month and is now a level 13 technician.

Fifty-five yuan a month is quite a lot.

Guo Yuting didn't quite understand why her husband saved up food coupons every month, but she felt that Zhou Zhiqiang wouldn't do anything wrong and wasn't very willing to take care of things at home.

So she let Zhou Zhiqiang do whatever he wanted, and Guo Yuting even gave him her salary savings book.

"Zhiqiang, now that this matter is over, how many levels will you be promoted to?"

Guo Yuting asked hopefully, having recently heard enough of Gu Jiayu praising how wonderful her boyfriend was.

She's just a level six clerk. How can she compare to her husband just because her family is well-off?

"At least two levels. Uncle Liu told me that in private too, mainly because the higher-ups have seen my achievements." Zhou Zhiqiang thought for a moment and then said, "It's almost over. Now we're just waiting for notification from the higher-ups. Logically, there should be a reward after the test."

In mid-last month, the project team successfully transformed a new furnace steelmaking production line and conducted many tests; at the beginning of the month, the project team successfully produced high-temperature alloy steel and sent it for experimental testing.

Logically speaking, it's been almost a month, and they should be giving us the results soon.

Based on Zhou Zhiqiang's understanding of the technology and his close monitoring of the entire process, there were no problems with the process flow, and the alloy steel produced would definitely be greatly improved.

The reason they took so long to test over there is probably because they even considered the lifespan of the alloy steel.

The result will definitely be successful. If the performance of the new alloy steel is not good, the results will be given a few days after it is sent for testing.

If one test fails, the subsequent tests don't even need to be conducted.

Everyone on the project team knew this, so the later the test results were given to them, the happier they were.

"If I get the permanent position, that's a promotion of three levels. But the factory manager and the others got the permanent position processed for me in advance, so I can get two more months of permanent salary."

After finishing a bite of noodles, Zhou Zhiqiang put a piece of vegetables on his wife's plate and continued, "This is already very good. Although the contribution is great, it must be kept secret. Besides, very few people can advance in rank consecutively. I only told you about this."

It must be kept secret, after all, it's been five or six years now, and the enemy agents who have been lying in wait are really capable of causing trouble.

In the past few years, enemy agents were crazy and dared to do anything, such as bombing railways, assassinating people, and burning down factories.

Although things haven't been as rampant in the last two years, we still occasionally hear about enemy agents being arrested for sabotage.

It will probably take several years before the enemy agents are gradually eliminated.

"You've surpassed me by far after just one year of work, Zhiqiang. My judgment back then was indeed excellent!"

Guo Yuting said with a smile, but under Zhou Zhiqiang's gaze, she quickly remembered that she was not happy when her father proposed marriage, and she immediately felt a little embarrassed.

However, since the two had been married for several months now, Guo Yuting's embarrassment quickly disappeared, and she looked up at Zhou Zhiqiang and said...

"Zhiqiang, there's something you need to help me with."

"What is it?"

"Regarding the medication I mentioned to you last time, didn't you talk to me about cutting costs last night? I discussed it with our director today."

When Guo Yuting got home, she was thinking about this matter. She only parroted Zhou Zhiqiang's words, and it really stumped her to put them into words.

“Our director is quite interested in that method. She asked me to organize it and give it to her. Can you talk to me about it again today?”

"Sure, I'll take a look after we finish eating."

Zhou Zhiqiang agreed without much hesitation, as it wasn't a big deal.

"In fact, it would be best to combine traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine to compile prescriptions and treatment methods that most people can use."

After all, it's very difficult for our country to produce Western medicines, but we have a lot of traditional Chinese medicines. If we could compile them all, it would be a great contribution.

Zhou Zhiqiang paused for a moment, then continued, "However, your hospital can't do this, not even your hospital's superior health bureau. At the very least, the Ministry of Health needs to take the lead."

"But it's okay for you to suggest a direction. As for whether it's adopted or not, that's up to the higher-ups. Anyway, you won't lose anything!"

(End of this chapter)