Chapter 31 A day in the life of a worker
The Chinese New Year has just passed, and people in Sijiu City have already begun to rush for their livelihood for the next year.
Unlike later generations, there is no holiday or going to school after fifteen. In this era, everyone is dedicating their youth, especially in an era when living conditions are facing severe challenges, even for people in the Forty-Nine Cities. , but also to prepare for life in advance.
Yang Xiaotao greeted the Zhou brothers and sisters when he was in the second grade of junior high school, and also called several peers from the Wang family over.
The Wang family’s aunt came with her and asked her to help with the cooking.
In this meal, braised pork, twice-cooked pork and roast chicken became the protagonists, which made Aunt Wang, the cook, speechless. The man in their family worked in a meat factory and had never had such a meal during the Chinese New Year.
The children didn't think much of it. They salivated at the sight of the large pieces of braised pork. Once stewed in the big pot, the whole house was filled with the aroma of meat, and then the whole yard was filled with aroma.
Naturally, it sparked another round of discussion.
Among them, Mrs. Jia Zhang stared with triangular eyes and sprayed feces from her mouth, but she was eager to go in and take a bite.
In the end, Jia Dongxu couldn't help it and asked Qin Huairu to take two taels of pork and deliver it to Sha Zhu, and they had lunch at Sha Zhu's house.
After the second grade of junior high school, Yang Xiaotao continued to read at home and had a leisurely life.
Of course, it would be nice if someone cooked for him.
On the third day of junior high school, Yang Xiaotao and Zhou Peng went to Wang Fa and other workers together. Work had not started yet, so naturally they had plenty of time.
From then on until the sixth day of the lunar month, I didn’t have a meal these days. I went to Uncle Chen’s house next door from time to time to have something to eat. Of course, I always brought something with me.
However, this year, Yang Xiaotao has a good relationship with several families in the yard. Maybe he and the Yang family have already been on good terms, but they were frightened by Yang Xiaotao's outbreak a year ago, so they happened to be walking around during the New Year. Next, it can be regarded as re-establishing friendship.
At this point, Yang Xiaotao has his own small circle in this courtyard.
Uncle Chen’s family and Wang Dashan’s family are the core existence.
In addition, there are the Zhou family and the families of several workers.
These are not just fair-weather friends.
The warm and simple society made Yang Xiaotao feel a different human flavor again. Unknowingly, the nostalgia for the past life in his mind was fading, but Yang Xiaotao did not notice these.
On the sixth day of the lunar month, Xiaowei was flying around the house all morning, feeling a little excited.
Today is a good day. The sun came out early and radiated warmth.
Xiao Wei ran to the window for a while, and flew to the door frame for a while, greedily absorbing the energy in the light.
In the past few days, the entire house has been repaired by Xiaowei. After the original ventilation doors and windows were repaired, they were no worse than the double-glazed windows in the previous life. At least the cold wind could not blow in.
In addition, the mottled table has become smooth, and the musty smell on the bed has disappeared.
What's even more incredible is that the iron-cold quilt has become soft, like new cotton, covering the body very warmly.
Not only that, the cotton clothes and trousers worn on the body have not changed on the outside, but the cotton on the inside seems to have bloomed again, and the warmth has been improved several times compared to before.
Yang Xiaotao got up, opened the door and looked at the yard. Feeling the excitement from Xiaowei, he thought about how to use this small yard.
After all, this is a courtyard house, except for this wing room, there is no other place.
Moreover, this was bought by my father, and it truly belongs to the Yang family.
Thinking of the value of such a small courtyard and such a house in this forty-nine cities decades later, Yang Xiaotao wanted to go back to the house and offer incense to his father.
“It’s still a little small. When it opens up, I must buy a few more courtyard houses.”
“When the time comes, I will be able to stand in front of my children and grandchildren and say with pride, look, this is my family. The country I have laid for you.”
Yang Xiaotao fell into a state of lust, but was awakened by the cold wind.
“Let’s make money to fill our stomachs first.”
Walking out the door, he took a bucket of water from the tap and carried it home.
After simply washing up, I walked out of the door with the people working in the yard.
In the crowd, the elders Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong walked together, behind them Jia Dongxu and Silly Zhu, and behind them was Xu Damao with a gloomy face.
This year, Xu Damao went back to the countryside with his father and mother, and did not come back until the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. At this time, following Xu's father, he saw Yang Xiaotao's face full of hatred, but when he saw Silly Zhu, he was a little dodgy. .
Si Zhu hasn’t settled the accounts with him yet for what happened last time.
He would not simply think that Shazhu would swallow this breath. He knew Shazhu well, and Shazhu was the kind of person who would definitely avenge himself.
It’s just sooner or later.
Rumble
Walking into the workshop, a familiar voice sounded again.
As a fitter, you naturally have to be familiar with various related operations.
These mainly include carving, filing, sawing, scoring, drilling, reaming, tapping and threading (see thread processing), scraping, grinding, correction, bending and riveting, etc.
Of course, a simple summary is machining parts and equipment maintenance.
For Yang Xiaotao, equipment maintenance is too far away and too mysterious.
In the entire steel rolling mill, there are only a few dozen people who can repair equipment. Those people are no longer fitters, but engineers above the eighth level fitter.
Already qualified to repair equipment.
Of course, there is a huge gap from level eight fitter to level nine engineer.
Otherwise, Yi Zhonghai would not have been an eighth-level worker for so many years.
Yang Xiaotao came to the workstation, wiped the vise clean, and then arranged the tools neatly and put them in a convenient place.
Because I have been promoted to the first level of fitter, the tasks assigned are naturally heavier and more difficult.
From this aspect, the work of a fitter is more like distribution according to work. If you do well, your salary will be high. It was much earlier than the later household responsibility system.
Before the construction started, director Wang Guodong said a lot of words as usual, and then everyone shouted slogans in excitement.
The entire third workshop is full of energy and a group of workers are full of passion.
Yang Xiaotao took over the task assigned by Wang Fa and started to work.
For a fitter, this is a physical job.
Fortunately, after Xiaowei's continuous energy feedback these days, his physical fitness has steadily improved. As long as he can keep up with his meals, Yang Xiaotao estimates that in another year, his physical fitness will be considered first-rate in this workshop.
The morning passed quickly, and Yang Xiaotao walked into the canteen with his coworkers.
The factory also knows that the workers work hard, so the food contains a lot of oil and water. Although the taste is worse than that of other restaurants, the ingredients used will never be saved.
Yang Xiaotao was at the back, holding a 20-tael vegetable ticket, a 1-tael meat ticket, and a 1-tael steamed bun ticket.
These are all paid together with the salary, but they vary according to different positions and levels.
But purchasing power is universal in these 49 cities.
Of course, there is also a kind of food stamps called national food stamps.
This kind of food stamps can be used across the country.
Because this kind of food stamps can be exchanged for cooking oil, you must exchange a certain number of national food stamps if you want to go out.
And this exchange ratio is not one to one. Sometimes it is common for two local food stamps of the same value to be exchanged for one national food stamp.
Yang Xiaotao took the food stamps, and with his salary as a fitter and the single ticket, he could not only eat meat every day, but also eat meat in the factory.
But before I even got close to the meal, I saw the silly pillar standing by the window.
I thought of something, which made me a little tired, but I didn’t take it seriously.
If you really want to disgust yourself, then don’t blame him for taking revenge in the future.
At this time, Shazhu was not the chef yet, so he still had to do the cooking.
Silly Zhu also saw Yang Xiaotao and raised the corner of his mouth.
The team quickly stepped forward, and finally it was Yang Xiaotao’s turn.
Looking at Silly Zhu's proud look, Yang Xiaotao ignored him, took the lunch box, put it down, and shouted, "One portion of potatoes, one portion of meat and vegetables. Two steamed buns."
Silly Zhu pulled the corner of his mouth and snorted coldly, then took out a spoon accurately, and a flat spoon came down, with a layer of meat piled on the spoon.
The combination of fat and thin looks full of temptation.
Silly Zhu raised the spoon in the air, pointed it at Yang Xiaotao's lunch box and put it down. But the moment it fell, his wrist shook slightly, and the top meat slices fell down.
When the rice spoon is placed in the lunch box, there is a layer of oily cabbage leaves on top, but there are only one or two pieces of meat from the upper layer, which are placed at the bottom. Others cannot see it, only the lifting The spoon he picked up was covered with meat, but Yang Xiaotao could see clearly that there were three pieces of meat in this meal because Silly Zhu's conscience discovered it.
Yang Xiaotao didn’t say much, took the lunch box and left.
Sinzhu in front of the window was filled with joy. When Yang Xiaotao ate it, he realized that there was not much meat, would he feel uncomfortable?
I felt happy and continued to feed others.
When you meet someone you are acquainted with, hit him more; when you meet someone who is an eyesore, start shaking the spoon.
Especially Xu Damao, who received the same treatment as Yang Xiaotao at Shazhu's window, looked at Shazhu and smiled proudly. Xu Damao could only return to his seat with a stinky look on his face, picking up the food and feeling a bad taste in his mouth.
Looking at Yang Xiaotao on the other side, Xu Damao rolled his eyes and picked up his lunch box and came to the opposite side.
"Xiao Tao, this silly Zhu is too useless. Give me a piece of meat for one or two meat coupons. He is too useless."
Xu Damao said while looking at Yang Xiaotao.
Yang Xiaotao ignored him, finished eating quickly, stood up, covered the lunch box and cleaned it.
Xu Damao said something about loneliness, angrily inserted his chopsticks into the lunch box, and his whole person became gloomy.
Yang Xiaotao ignored Xu Damao because he knew that Xu Damao was not a good person, even worse than Silly Zhu.
When you are with such a person, you may be betrayed at some point.
After dinner, I found a sunny place to sit next to the vehicle. There is no central air conditioning yet, and the workshop is ventilated everywhere, so I can keep myself warm when I start working. Once I am idle, I am still very cold.
There was an hour and a half meal break at noon. Yang Xiaotao, Wang Fa and the others chatted for a while, then took out a book from their arms and started reading.
He also knows that it is better to rely on the system to improve the fitter ability now than relying on oneself.
As long as you have enough credits, your ability can be improved.
There will be a grading assessment in March this year, and he wants to eat more meat.
I continued working in the afternoon, and it was another busy afternoon.
When the sun set and the factory bell rang, Yang Xiaotao put down his work, tidied up the work station, and then walked out of the workshop.
The sky was gloomy and dark, as if rain and snow were brewing overhead again, which made Yang Xiaotao speed up his return home.
Back in the courtyard, lights were lit in every house, the smell of rice began to rise, and it looked like fireworks in the world.
Yang Xiaotao opened the door and looked at the small traps set up before leaving. No one entered his room.
Make a fire, warm the house, read a book, and amuse Xiaowei.
Then, sleep.
(End of this chapter)