Scholars in the courtyard

Chapter 31

Just after the New Year's Eve, people in Sijiu City have already started to make a living for the next year.

It’s not as fake as in the later generations, what is going to school after the fifteenth day, everyone in this era is dedicating their youth, especially in the era when the living conditions are facing severe challenges, even people in the forty-nine cities have to start early be ready.

Yang Xiaotao greeted the Zhou family brothers and sisters in the second year of junior high school, and at the same time called several Wang family peers over.

The Wang family's aunt also came with her and asked her to help cook.

In this meal, braised pork, twice-cooked pork and roast chicken became the protagonists, which made Aunt Wang, who was cooking, speechless. The man in their family worked in a meat joint factory and had never eaten such a meal during Chinese New Year.

The children didn't think much about it. The large piece of braised pork swallowed their mouths when they saw it. After stewing in a large pot, the whole room was filled with the smell of meat, and then the whole yard was filled with aroma.

Naturally, another round of discussions arose.

Among them, Mrs. Jia Zhang stared with triangular eyes and sprayed feces in her mouth, but she was eager to go in and have a bite.

In the end, Jia Dongxu couldn't help it, and asked Qin Huairu to take two taels of pork and send it to Sha Zhu, who ate lunch at Sha Zhu's house.

After the second day of junior high school, Yang Xiaotao continued to read at home, but his life was leisurely.

Of course, it would be nice if someone cooked for him.

In the third day of junior high school, Yang Xiaotao and Zhou Peng went to Wang Fa and other workers together. Work has not started yet, so there is plenty of time.

From then until the sixth day, there was a meal without a meal these days, and I went to Uncle Chen's next door to eat something from time to time, of course I always took things with me.

However, after this year, Yang Xiaotao has a good relationship with several families in the yard. Maybe it is because he and the Yang family have good friends, but he was frightened by the outbreak of Yang Xiaotao years ago. friendship.

So far, 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 Zhou's family and several workers' families.

These are not pure wine and meat friends.

The warm and simple society made Yang Xiaotao feel a different flavor of humanity again. Unknowingly, the nostalgia for the past life in his mind was fading, and Yang Xiaotao didn't pay attention to these.

On the sixth day, Xiaowei was flying around the room early in the morning, a little excited.

Today is a fine day, the sun came out early and exudes warmth.

Xiaowei 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 whole house has been repaired by Xiaowei. After repairing the doors and windows that were originally ventilated, they are no worse than the double-glazed glass in the previous life. At least the cold wind can't blow in.

In addition, the mottled table has also become flat, and the musty smell on the bed has disappeared.

What's even more incredible is that the quilt, which was as cold as iron, became soft, like new cotton, and it was very warm to cover the body.

Not only that, the cotton coat and trousers on the body have not changed on the outside, but the cotton inside seems to have bloomed again, and the degree of warmth has increased several times compared to before.

Yang Xiaotao got up, opened the door to look at the courtyard, felt the excitement from Xiaowei, and thought about how to use this small courtyard.

After all, this is in the courtyard, except for this side room, there is no other place.

Moreover, this was bought by my father, and it truly belongs to the Yang family's property.

Thinking of the value of such a small courtyard and such a room in Forty-Nine City decades later, Yang Xiaotao wanted to go back to the house and offer incense to his father.

"It's still a bit small. When it opens, we must buy more courtyard houses."

"At that time, standing in front of your children and grandchildren, you can also proudly say, look, this is the country that I have laid down for you."

Yang Xiaotao fell into a state of lust, but was awakened by the cold wind.

"Let's earn money to fill our stomachs first."

Walk out the door, take a bucket of water from the tap and bring it home.

After simply washing up, he walked out of the gate with the people who went to work in the yard.

In the crowd, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong walked together, Jia Dongxu and Sha Zhu were behind him, and Xu Damao was behind him with a gloomy face.

This year, Xu Damao went back to the countryside with his father and mother, and he came back on the fifth day of the lunar new year. At this time, he was following Xu's father, looking at Yang Xiaotao with hatred on his face, but he was a little dodging when he saw Silly Zhu.

Silly Zhu hasn't settled with him for what happened last time.

He wouldn't simply think that Sha Zhu swallowed this breath, because he knew Sha Zhu well, and Sha Zhu was the kind of person who had revenge.

Just sooner or later.

Rumble

Walking into the workshop, the familiar voice sounded again.

As a fitter, it is natural to be familiar with various related operations.

These mainly include chiseling, filing, sawing, scoring, drilling, reaming, tapping and threading (see threading), scraping, grinding, straightening, bending and riveting, etc.

Of course, the simple summary is machining parts and equipment maintenance.

For Yang Xiaotao, equipment maintenance is too far away and too mysterious.

In the entire rolling mill, there are only dozens of people who can repair equipment, and those people are no longer fitters, but engineers above the eighth level of fitter.

Already qualified to repair equipment.

Of course, going from an eighth-level fitter to a ninth-level engineer is a natural barrier.

Otherwise, Yi Zhonghai wouldn't have been an eighth-level worker for so many years.

Yang Xiaotao came to the work station, wiped the vise clean, and then arranged the tools neatly and put them in a convenient place.

Because he was promoted to the first-level fitter, the tasks assigned were naturally heavier and more difficult.

In this respect, the work of a fitter is more like distribution according to work, and the wages are high if you do a good job.

It is much earlier than the family contract responsibility system later.

Before the start of work, Director Wang Guodong said a lot of words as usual, and then everyone shouted slogans in excitement.

The whole 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 then started to work.

For fitters, this is a physical job.

Fortunately, after these few days of Xiaowei's continuous energy feeding back, her physical fitness has steadily improved. As long as she can keep up with her meals, Yang Xiaotao estimates that in another year, her physical fitness will be considered top-notch in this workshop.

The morning passed quickly, and Yang Xiaotao walked into the cafeteria with his workers.

The factory also knows that the workers work hard, so the food is rich in oil and water. Although the taste is not as good as that of restaurants outside, the ingredients will never be saved.

Yang Xiaotao was at the back in line, holding a two tael vegetable ticket, a one tael meat ticket and a one tael steamed bun ticket in his hand.

These are all paid together with the salary, but there are differences in different positions and levels.

But purchasing power is universal in these four or nine cities.

Of course, there is also a food stamp, called the national food stamp.

This kind of food stamp can be seen from the literal meaning and can be used throughout the country.

Because this kind of food stamps can be exchanged for cooking oil, if you want to go out, you must exchange a certain number of national food stamps.

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 the wages and bills of his [-]st fitter, he could afford to eat meat even in the factory, not to mention eating meat every now and then.

It's just that before I got close to Dafan, I saw the silly pillar standing by the window.

Thinking of something in my heart, I was a little tired, but I didn't take it seriously.

If you really want to disgust yourself, then don't blame him for rectifying and retaliating in the future.

At this time, Shazhu is not yet a chef, so he has to do things like cooking.

Silly Zhu also saw Yang Xiaotao, and the corner of his mouth twitched.

The team stepped forward quickly, and finally it was Yang Xiaotao's turn.

Seeing Shazhu's proud look, Yang Xiaotao ignored him, took the lunch box and put it away, and shouted, "One portion of potatoes, one portion of meat and vegetables. Two steamed buns."

Sha Zhu pulled the corner of his mouth, snorted coldly, then scooped it out accurately with a spoon, and scooped it down evenly, with a layer of meat piled up on the spoon.

Fat and thin, looking at it is 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 piece of meat fell down.

When the rice spoon is put in the lunch box, there is a layer of oily cabbage leaves on the top, but there are only one or two slices of meat on the top layer, which are buckled at the bottom, so that others can't see it, only the raised spoon is covered with meat. But Yang Xiaotao could see clearly that there could be three pieces of meat in this meal, that's because Sha Zhu's conscience discovered it.

Yang Xiaotao didn't say much, and left with his lunch box.

Silly Zhu in front of the window was happy, and when Yang Xiaotao ate it, he found that there was not much meat, would it be uncomfortable?

Feeling happy in my heart, I continued to cook for others.

When you meet a good friend, hit more; when you encounter an eyesore, start shaking the spoon.

Especially Xu Damao, who received the same treatment as Yang Xiaotao at Shazhu's window, looked at Shazhu with a smug smile.Xu Damao could only return to his seat with a stinky donkey's face, pawing at the food, with a bad taste in his mouth.

Looking at Yang Xiaotao on the other side, Xu Damao picked up the lunch box and came to the opposite side as soon as he rolled his eyes.

"Xiaotao, this idiot is not a thing. I will give me a piece of meat for one or two meat tickets. It is not a thing."

Xu Damao looked at Yang Xiaotao while talking.

Yang Xiaotao ignored him, finished eating quickly, got up and covered the lunch box to clean it.

Xu Damao said he was lonely, and angrily inserted his chopsticks into the lunch box, his whole person became gloomy.

Yang Xiaotao ignored Xu Damao, because he knew that Xu Damao was not a good person, even worse than Shazhu.

With such a person, you may be betrayed at any time.

After eating, I sat down next to the vehicle in a sunny place. There is no central air conditioner yet, and the workshop is ventilated everywhere, so I can work to keep my body warm. Once I am idle, I will still feel cold.

There was an hour and a half for lunch break, Yang Xiaotao, Wang Fa and the others chatted for a while, then took out a book from their arms and read it.

He also knows that to improve the fitter's ability now, it is better to rely on the system than relying on himself.

As long as the credits are enough, the ability can be improved.

There will be a grading assessment in March this year, and he wants to eat more meat.

Continue to work in the afternoon, another busy afternoon.

When the sun set and the bell rang for the factory to leave work, Yang Xiaotao put down his work and tidied up the workstations before leaving the workshop.

The sky was gloomy, dark and oppressive, as if rain and snow were brewing overhead again, which made Yang Xiaotao speed up his return home.

Back in the courtyard, the lights in every house were lit, and the smell of rice began to rise, giving off a worldly atmosphere.

Yang Xiaotao pushed open the door and looked at the small mechanism that had been set up before leaving. No one entered his room.

Light a fire, warm up the house, read a book, and tease Xiaowei.

then sleep.

(End of this chapter)