Chapter 31: Chinese New Year (Going Home)

On February 2, 1994, the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, Limin Machinery Repair Shop began to have a holiday. It was such an early holiday because, firstly, the flavor of the New Year in this era was very strong. The Little New Year in the north was on the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month. Starting from the New Year, people would

Cleaning the house and courtyard, killing New Year pigs and stewing New Year meat

, writing couplets, posting Spring Festival couplets, making fried noodles and steamed rice cakes, many companies also started to take holidays at this time. There are also more than 30 employees who were dug from Beigang mines. These people have been busy for more than three months, and few of them have returned.

Home, it’s time for everyone to go home and reunite early.

The factory rented a bus from the county passenger transportation company to take the employees back. February's salary and January's performance were paid out on the 25th, and everyone's pockets were very full. At this moment, Father Chen was again

They stuffed red envelopes one by one at the gate, 500 each, for a festive occasion.

I came out for 100 days, took care of food and housing, and took home six to seven thousand. In this day and age, some of them are worthless.

For those who are not married, the matchmaker will probably break the threshold. For those who are married, my daughter-in-law is not allowed to treat me as a master? Come and rub my legs, come and wash my feet...

Ren Zhigang sat on the bus, squinting for a while, unable to sleep, and thinking about things. During the National Day last year, he had a few words with the workshop section leader because of his duty. He graduated from a technical school and has been working for four years.

He was on duty every National Day. He was single for the past three years, but he got married on May Day last year, so having him on duty during National Day felt a bit like bullying an honest person.

After quarreling with Duan Zhang, he was forced to wear small shoes several times when he was on duty. It happened that Chen Lichun was recruiting people, so he got angry and took a leave of absence without pay and came to Nanchen Village.

These past few months have been really stressful. He can read drawings, use fixtures, and understands craftsmanship. He is doing the work of a senior technician, especially the factory's machines. Compared with the manual machine tools he used to use, they are like a car.

One is a donkey cart, and the efficiency is incomparable. Those salesmen are very capable and take a lot of orders. It is like fighting every day in the workshop. Chen Lichun posts the production tasks on the workshop bulletin board early every morning.

The warehouse staff has delivered the materials to be processed to the work station as planned. He is only responsible for completing the processing procedures he is responsible for. The factory's performance distribution is also reasonable. For each product and each process, how many working hours are counted and how much performance is given.

We all know very well that in this situation, no one is guarding the equipment. They are afraid of accidentally processing waste products. Those old men are not merciful at all, deducting money, fines, and causing human pain.

Haha, after returning to work after the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, I still have to come back and be trained by those old men. Those old men are very bad. The more work they complete, the more their performance will be, and they are all like Zhou Papi. Humph,

When I got through it, I started to work as a supervisor with my hands behind my back, training my grandson, and shearing wool. Thinking about it, I almost laughed.

"Why are you laughing? You miss your wife," Ren Jianfu next to him asked him.

"Well, I think about it. You should hurry up and find a partner this time when you go home. Why don't you ask your sister-in-law to help you find one?" Ren Zhigang and Ren Jianfu are from the same village. They live in the Yang family in Anxi County where the Beigang Mine is located.

Tuo applied for a technical school together with the high school entrance examination. He studied mechanical repair and Ren Jianfu studied casting.

Ren Jianfu once had a partner, even from a workshop, who was very good-looking. However, the year before last, a college technician came to the factory, poached his corner, and transferred his partner to the technical department as a data clerk. The story is a bit bloody, but

It's also very realistic.

Ren Jianfu studied casting and was a molding worker. He pounded sand to make shapes, sorted the sandbox, repaired the molds and closed the boxes. It was all arduous work, dirty and tiring. People said that this type of work was the coal kiln worker in the workshop.

His partner was assigned to the foundry workshop with him. At first, he drove an overhead crane in the foundry workshop, and his work was not idle. Of course, he was attracted to work as a document clerk, so the love between the two was defeated by reality.

Ren Jianfu was very manly. He would break up with his partner and wish him good luck. However, he regretted it a lot. He swallowed his tears mixed with the dust from the workshop, hating that he was incompetent and could not provide his partner with a comfortable life. I heard Ren Zhigang said that he wanted to come out.

Damn it, he gritted his teeth and resigned.

At Limin Machinery Repair Factory, Ren Jianfu is not engaged in casting. The electric furnace in the workshop has not been installed yet. The foundry workshop rarely receives work. If the customer's bid is high enough and the factory accepts casting, he has to go to Lixin Steel Rolling Plant to start the electric furnace.

He boils molten steel and pours castings. Usually, he can only work behind other lines of work, and the salary is much less than that of senior technicians. It is said that the boss wants to do precision casting, and he is a little hesitant but also looking forward to it.

When I was at Beigang, their workshop mainly made large castings, such as large rollers, valves, etc. If I switch to precision castings, can I use my previous skills? It is said that the boss is purchasing new sand molding equipment. Can I learn it myself?

meeting?

The bus drove for about three hours and arrived at the Mine Family Courtyard at noon. The family members got off here, and then the bus drove to Anxi County. People got off one after another in the middle. Yangjiatuo was basically the last stop.

. Ren Zhigang and Ren Jianfu got out of the car, put on their backpacks and said "see you in the new year" before going home.

Ren Jianfu's home consists of five brick-and-timber tile-roofed houses in one courtyard. His parents live in two rooms on the west side, and his eldest brother's family lives in three rooms. He used to live in the company's staff dormitory. As soon as he entered the hospital, he met his sister-in-law and fell outside the hospital.

Rubbish, the sister-in-law was stunned for a moment, then greeted, "Grenfell is back? Have you eaten yet?"

"I just sat in the car for a long time and haven't eaten yet." Ren Jianfu responded casually. My eldest sister-in-law is from the next village. She and her eldest brother gave birth to a son. He should be 3 years old this year. He is also fine with his parents-in-law. He has never blushed or done anything.

Living a war means living carefully and calculating very shrewdly. "The steamed buns that Mom steamed today should still be warm." After the sister-in-law finished speaking, she walked straight out of the hospital.

Ren Jianfu entered his parents' two-room house. There was no back door in the outer house. There was a stove in the entrance area, and various sundries were piled in other areas. He opened the door curtain and went inside. His father sat on a stool and cleared the corn, and his mother was lying on the kang.

When he saw him come in and get up from the kang, he said, "Second brother is back." His father turned to him and said, "There is rice in the pot, it should still be hot," and stopped talking to him.

Ren Jianfu put down his backpack, went to the outhouse, opened the lid of the pot, and there was an enamel basin sitting in the pot. Inside was steamed buns mixed with bran, which looked very dark. He took a bowl from the cabinet next to the stove and picked it out.

After ordering the steamed buns, he saw pickles and boiled cabbage in the cupboard. The cabbage was already cold, so he didn't care about the hot dishes. He took a stool and ate on the stove.

After eating two steamed buns, I went into the house and asked, "Mom, your waist still hurts?"

"It's still the same, it's not getting better, and I can't do heavy work anymore." The mother went to cut branches and collect firewood the winter before last and twisted her waist. She applied plaster at that time, but she didn't treat it much after that, and the root of the disease was found.

"My brother is back too, right?" Ren Jianfu's eldest brother studied as a mason. He worked outside with others and rarely went home.

"I'm back. You didn't give me a penny this time. We haven't separated our families yet, so we won't be cared about. Hey...". In rural areas at this time, people with poor conditions did not separate their families and lived together.

The sons of the family also have to give their income to their parents. When the eldest brother Ren Jianfu was not married, all the money he earned from working outside was paid in full. After getting married, he paid less and less. This situation is normal, as the eldest brother has a son.

Now, you have to figure out your own life.

Ren Jianfu quickly took his backpack, took out 5,000 yuan from it, and handed it to his mother, "Mom, this is my salary for the past few months, please keep it." Ren Jianfu's salary level is considered low in Limin Factory

, plus one yuan is more than 4,000, and including the 500 yuan red envelope sent by the boss, 5,000 is still surplus.

"So much? Three months' worth?" My mother looked at the money handed over. They were all new banknotes and smelled like ink.

"Our factory is very profitable, the boss is very generous, and everyone's salary is quite high." Ren Jianfu felt a little proud.

"Then you can make a salary of 20,000 yuan a year. Dad, we don't have to ask anyone to borrow money. The second brother can earn enough by himself to build a house." The mother's face was full of smiles. Ren Jianfu was not young anymore.

, it’s time to get married, but without a new house, it’s difficult to find a partner. I wanted to borrow some money from the boss before, and then borrow it from relatives, but now I don’t have to worry.

The father put down the corn in his hand and also smiled. "It seems that you did the right thing by going out to work for the boss. The house can be built after the Chinese New Year. I will save money in the spring, decorate it in the autumn, and arrange your marriage by the end of the year."

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"Dad, Mom, my partner is cheating on me." Ren Jianfu's partner was 5. One day later, he said goodbye to him. He felt embarrassed and was afraid that his parents would worry, so he never said anything. Now the discomfort is over, and his waist

It's hard on the outside, that's all.

"Why is it pornographic?" the mother asked in surprise, wondering if it was because the second son left the factory to work outside, and the two of them were having trouble.

"It was bad on May 1st. She found a college technician to take care of the information, and we broke up." Ren Jianfu explained. He deliberately didn't think about it before, but this time he mentioned the matter of broken love, but he didn't think about it.

How uncomfortable I feel.

"If you are old, you will be old. My second brother is down-to-earth and willing to work. Are you afraid that you won't be able to become a wife? Damn it, during these New Year days, find someone to help you. Second child, you go buy some whips, and we will put some whips, too. Beng Bengqiong."

, Go away the bad luck." Old Man Ren said domineeringly.

"Yeah," Ren Jianfu quickly responded, this family has to change.

At this time, Lao Yin's house was also very lively. I heard that the old man was back, and Yin Fude's family of three came to see him. Old Yin gave his grandson a big red envelope of two hundred yuan, and his grandson was so happy that he couldn't get off him. Speaking of

Regarding working in Binhai County, Yin Lishan said to his son, "Your apprentice's family is not simple. It doesn't look like he just started his business. He has a lot of money in his hands."

I have saved enough money, the equipment is top-notch, and the management is good. Dachun also acts like a factory manager. He always thinks about how to improve production efficiency when he has nothing to do. He calls it fixed management, but to put it bluntly, he uses people as machines.

They are not allowed to leave their posts or visit other posts, they are not allowed to chat and play around, they are not allowed to nap, they are not allowed to drink alcohol at noon, and they are not allowed to spit everywhere. The management is very strict."

Yin Fudou asked, "Dad, at your age, can you stand being controlled like this?"

"I am in charge of this. The factory has not yet started casting. Dachun asked me to be the production director. I have been going around several workshops. When I see problems, I have to take care of them, criticize them, report them, and fine them. You and I are the boss.
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