Master, That's My Wife and My House! - Chapter 24

Regardless of the type, it demonstrates how popular this fabric was. You could say that in the 1970s, a dress made of Dacron was more useful to a girl than an LV bag decades later.

A girl who accepts your LV bag may not remember your kindness, but a girl who takes your polyester clothing is basically aiming to marry you.

“Dacron?” Lin Youwei was surprised because this material was very rare. Some girls in the factory wore clothes made of dacron, but those were from well-off families and ordinary people couldn’t afford it.

“Do you like it?” Chen Feng asked.

Lin Youwei asked in surprise, “Where did you get this? This fabric is hard to find. Are you planning to make clothes with it?”

“Yes, I’m going to make you a set of clothes. Five meters of fabric should be enough for summer clothes, top and bottom.” Chen Feng looked Lin Youwei up and down to make sure there was enough fabric.

Lin Youwei quickly shook her head and said, “No, no, such good material, how can you make clothes for me? You make them yourself! Make a shirt and some trousers.”

Chen Feng laughed and said, “It’s just the two of us in the family. If I don’t give you the fabric, I’ll wear it myself. If people find out, they’ll laugh at me for not knowing how to cherish my wife.”

Lin Youwei blushed, and at the same time felt empty inside, wondering why she was worth Chen Feng’s concern.

“Forget it, you should make clothes for yourself! I really don’t need any.” Lin Youwei shook her head and sat silently on the edge of the bed.

Seeing this, Chen Feng roughly understood what was going on. After all, Zhou Zhenglong was still around, and Lin Youwei couldn’t get over this mental hurdle.

“If you don’t like it… just leave it for now and we’ll talk about it later.” Chen Feng didn’t force her; that was Lin Youwei’s personality, and she couldn’t be forced.

In the evening, Wu Wenhua packed his things, got up and left his office, and went to the office of the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department.

“Put down what you’re doing for a moment, let’s have a pre-shift meeting, and then get ready to go down the mine,” Wu Wenhua said.

The electromechanical department doesn’t have a high requirement for the number of times someone goes down into the mine. Especially as the head of the electromechanical department, you only need to go down into the mine six times a month. Basically, you only need to work four shifts and then go down one mine.

After the pre-shift meeting, Deputy Section Chief Qiao Yu came to Wu Wenhua’s side and said, “Section Chief, I’ll take over today’s shift. You’ve been busy all morning and afternoon, so get some rest!”

Wu Wenhua smiled and said, “No need. I haven’t been down the mine for two days either. Besides, I didn’t go down much at the beginning of the month. If I don’t go down by the end of the month, will I have enough?”

Qiao Yu chuckled and said, “With your relationship with our mine manager, who can criticize you for anything, right?”

Wu Wenhua shook his head and said, “Forget it, let’s not cause trouble for the mine manager. Besides, we’re just going down there to take a look around. There’s not much work to do, so it’s good enough.”

Seeing that Wu Wenhua was determined, Qiao Yu stopped trying to persuade him and packed his things to change into his work clothes and go down the mine.

Wu Wenhua was also about to go to the changing room to change into her work clothes when she suddenly remembered the self-rescue device that Chen Feng had made when she reached the door.

“Bring it?” Wu Wenhua hesitated for a moment. The thing was big and heavy. He was already working the night shift, which was exhausting, so he didn’t necessarily have to bring it today.

Thinking of this, Wu Wenhua turned to leave, but before he had taken more than a few steps, he turned back and took out the self-rescue device.

“Sigh! I have no other flaws, except that I take promises too seriously.” Wu Wenhua clicked his tongue a couple of times, weighed the self-rescue device in his hand, shook his head, and went to the changing room to change his clothes.

Upon arriving at the locker room, some people noticed Wu Wenhua’s self-rescue device and were filled with curiosity, asking what it was.

“It was made by a young man from Wanhuai Machinery Factory. He said it was oxygen-generating and asked me to take it with me to check out its performance,” Wu Wenhua said with a smile.

Someone said, “Section Chief Wu, if you find it too heavy, I’ll carry it! We’re all underground anyway, so it doesn’t matter who carries it!”

Wu Wenhua’s eyes lit up, thinking that this was indeed a good idea. However, after thinking about it again, he realized that Chen Feng was willing to share some of the credit with him. If he didn’t do any work at all, it would be too unfair of him.

“Forget it, it’s not heavy anyway, let’s change our clothes and go down the well!” Wu Wenhua said, shaking his head, and urged everyone to quickly change their clothes and go down the well.

Inside the cage at the bottom of the mine, it was unbearably hot and humid. The summer heat was slowly descending, scorching the entire earth.

However, workers are generally willing to go down into the mine because it is usually warm in winter and cool in summer, which is more comfortable than staying in an air-conditioned room.

Of course, this refers to the main tunnels. When you get to the production area, the temperature depends on the quality of the ventilation system, the depth of the well, and the amount of geothermal heat. Most of the time, it is mainly stuffy and hot.

Some deep wells, more than a kilometer deep, have poor ventilation and are uninhabitable in the summer, with temperatures often reaching forty degrees Celsius, enough to deter most people.

In some mines, even into the 21st century, and even into 2025, people are still being carried out every summer, all suffering from heatstroke.

Production should not come at the cost of human life and safety. Unfortunately, the workers understand this, but the leaders basically do not, or rather, they disdain to understand it. It is the coal miners who die from exhaustion and heat, what does it have to do with the leaders?

The cage descends slowly, and at a depth of several hundred meters, it usually takes a little over two minutes to reach the bottom.

Once the cage came to a complete stop, everyone stepped out and breathed a sigh of relief.

“Section Chief Wu, where are you headed?” someone from the Mechanical and Electrical Engineering Department asked.

Wu Wenhua glanced ahead and then said, “I’m going to check on the second coal mining team. You all go about your business! Old Qiao is coming with me.”

The lineup of section chiefs and deputy section chiefs is already quite large. If the mine leaders don’t go down, the section chiefs are the highest-ranking. And these days, mine leaders rarely go down the mine on their own initiative; they only go down when something happens underground.

Wu Wenhua led Deputy Section Chief Qiao Yu forward, from the main wellhead all the way to the production head. The journey was not short, and it took the two of them about an hour to reach their destination.

“Walking like this every day is really taking a toll on my knees, Section Chief. Wouldn’t it be great if we could ride bicycles down here someday?” Qiao Yu said with a smile.

Wu Wenhua smiled and nodded, saying, “Maybe it will come true someday. Things are changing rapidly these days, and you’ll definitely have the opportunity to do what you’re thinking about in the future.”

In fact, Wu Wenhua was absolutely right. Decades later, many mines did indeed have bicycles as a means of transportation, and there were even special passenger vehicles operating underground.

The two chatted and laughed as they arrived at the production line. The production unit was already prepared and ready to begin production.

“Section Chief Wu, what brings you here?” The captain of the No. 2 coal mining team saw Wu Wenhua and quickly walked over, shaking Wu Wenhua’s hand and saying, “Look, you should have told me before you came! I wasn’t prepared at all.”