The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 357 Interlude
Andingmen Iron and Steel Works.

At the beginning of the year, it was decided to form a picket team, and the factory leader specially circled a piece of land in the southeast corner. Inside the high courtyard wall were row dormitories on one side and two independent small courtyards on the other.

One of the small courtyards belonged to Feng Chen, the military representative, but he had another family to live outside, and he usually only came here for lunch occasionally; while the other courtyard was assigned to the two new adjutants—Chen Wansan and Li Qing.

Because the selection of members will be officially started in a few days, in the current picket brigade that has been registered, only those who do chores and sweep the floor can make up enough, and only the small courtyard where Chen Wansan and Li Qing are located can be counted. There is so much smoke and fire.

However, it was said that on the morning of the fourth day of June, Chen Wansan had sorted out his internal affairs early, put on the uniform he had ironed last night, and tidied up his appearance in front of a palm-sized mercury mirror.

At this time, Li Qing came in with his hands behind his back, and teased when he saw this: "Hey, you are a real person today! Hey~ When did you buy the mirrors, didn't you use mine before? What, you are Have you moved your heart?"

Chen Wansan turned his head and gave him a blank look, carefully wrapped the mirror with a cloth, and explained: "This is for my mother and my sister-in-law."

After a pause, he couldn't help asking: "Are you really not going home?"

In a few days, the team members would be selected and closed military training would begin, so Feng Chen specially gave the two of them three days off and allowed them to go home and visit their relatives.

Unexpectedly, Li Qing flatly refused, expressing that he would stay in the picket brigade.

"Do you think I'm as stupid as you are?"

Li Qing also rolled his eyes, and said angrily: "After listening to Yang Hongqing's words, I really haven't been home for half a month and smashed these two sets of uniforms; now it's time for us to show off, and we are rushing home again. !"

Chen Wansan smiled foolishly and was about to touch his head, but when he thought that the hat he had just washed was still on his head, he quickly put his hand down again and said with a grin, "Didn't Yang Hongqing go home? Besides, this time he went home was also given by Representative Feng." .”

Yang Hongqing, who won the task arranged by Jiao Shun, No. 1 overall score and the only official position, called on all the work-students not to rush home and work together to make the two sets of uniforms the best.

Chen Wansan is an honest man, and he really insisted on not going home for half a month. Counting the internship before graduation and the recent days in the steel factory, he has not seen his parents, brother and sister-in-law for two full months, so he can't wait to go back after he got a vacation. home to visit relatives.

As for Li Qing, he quietly went back when designing the uniform.

"Compare you to someone surnamed Yang?"

Li Qing said disdainfully: "He's an official now! All eyes are on him. Everyone knows that he didn't go home. Who knows that you didn't go home except us?! Besides, Representative Feng Giving a fake is to be considerate of us, but we... Forget it, it's useless to tell you!"

He stopped talking halfway through, and threw away the things that had been hiding behind him.

Chen Wansan frantically picked it up in his hand, but found that it was a white picket uniform with Huang Sui'er epaulets. He couldn't help but wondered, "Isn't this the official uniform of Representative Feng? Why..."

According to the current rules and regulations, the uniforms of ordinary members of the picket team are dark blue, and the first-level adjutants are light blue. Only military representatives have white uniforms with epaulets.

"Aren't you going to return to your hometown?"

Li Qing walked over triumphantly, and flicked the Huang Sui'er epaulettes with his fingers: "Our adjutant's clothes, how can this look eye-catching? I pestered Representative Feng for a long time yesterday before I replaced this clothes for you." I borrowed it—how about it, brother, am I a friend?"

"This……"

Chen Wansan frowned bitterly and said: "Is this appropriate? If you are caught pretending to be an officer, it is not a joke."

"You are stubborn!"

Li Qing said angrily: "We are not serious military uniforms. Not to mention the different styles, there is not even a badge representing the rank. As long as Representative Feng doesn't care, who can take the initiative to provoke you?"

Only then did Chen Wansan heave a sigh of relief, and scratched his head again with a foolish smile, his fingers touched the brim of the hat before he hurriedly lowered it again, and said with a chuckle, "Then, then I'll bring you something delicious when I come back."

"what ever."

Li Qing lay lazily on the bed, and said in his mouth: "Don't rush to work when you go back, when the military training begins to be closed and we suffer, now you can lie down, don't sit, you can sit Just don't lie down, you can train those recruits when you have enough energy."

"I'm mainly restless."

As Chen Wansan was talking, he noticed that Li Qing's feet were up on the edge of the bed, he opened his mouth to speak but felt embarrassed, and his facial features were all tangled up in one place.

"Look at what?"

Li Qing knew that he was afraid that he would stain the bed sheet, but he didn't intend to correct it at all. He raised his eyebrows and said, "You don't need to wash it yourself! When you get home, I'll have someone change it from the inside to the outside. I promise to wait for you to come back." It was spotlessly clean."

Chen Wansan wanted to scratch his head for the third time, but this time he finally couldn't help taking off his hat, scratched the top of the head twice, and said embarrassingly: "It's up to someone to wash it, but we can't make it dirty on purpose. "

Although he was not considered sloppy when he was at home, he didn't like to clean it that much, but now that he has such a good house and such a good silk bedding, it always feels like a crime if he doesn't cherish it.

"I think you just can't enjoy the blessing!"

Li Qing stared at the words: "Hurry up and change your clothes, if you keep nagging, I'll take them away!"

Chen Wansan couldn't say anything more, so he could only put on the uniform with a silly smile.

Li Qing just got up at this moment, helped him tidy up carefully, and saluted with a smile: "Captain Chen, go early and return early."

Chen Wansan hurriedly returned the salute, but he couldn't speak clumsily when he wanted to say something.

Li Qing also knew what he was like, so he helped him carry his luggage and said, "Let's go."

The two left the small courtyard one after the other, and walked along the empty playground for a while before arriving at the gate of the picket team.

While handing the luggage to Chen Wansan, Li Qing explained: "Remember to prepare a generous gift when you come back, and we will send it to Lord Jiao together."

Chen Wansan's hand froze to pick up the luggage, and he said in a puzzled way, "It's not that the teacher doesn't need to say anything, as long as we do our own things well."

"That's all official talk, you'll believe it too!"

Li Qing snorted, stuffed the luggage over, and said solemnly: "Don't be careless about this matter, we will point to Mr. Jiao in the future, and you are the first one to go up to get your graduation certificate, he must be right You have an impression, if you didn't go, hehe..."

Hearing what he said, Chen Wansan couldn't argue any more, nodded silently, and left with his luggage.

For fear of soiling his uniform, Chen Wansan borrowed a horse from the factory. Originally, the man in charge of animal power wanted to set up a cart for him, and then provide him with a driver alone, but he had a hard time refusing it.

Although he had learned how to ride a horse during military training, this was the first time he had been ostentatious in the market. Apart from his nervousness, he also had an indescribable shyness—the more people were attracted by his uniform, the less he dared to face it. The eyes of people looking over.

Fortunately, he was riding a horse and could see the road ahead with his head down, so he arrived outside the city without any danger.

Chen Wansan heaved a sigh of relief after passing through the Guanxiang area, and then he felt nostalgia for his hometown, so he rushed straight to Red Sandalwood Fort.

Because the Chen family is near the glue factory, there is always a faint smell around it, and outsiders respect it at a distance, but Chen Wansan, a child of the glue factory, only feels inexplicably kind.

Taking a deep breath, he was about to head straight home, when he suddenly found his little nephew playing with people on the side of the road. He hurriedly reined in the reins, and got off his horse neatly, shouting: "Dog, dog, hurry up!" Look who's coming!"

Unexpectedly, the dog looked up at him, then turned around and ran away.

Chen Wansan took a few steps subconsciously, only to realize that he came on a horse, and hurried back to hold the rein. When he looked for his nephew again, there was no sign of this child?

He led the horse back home in a bit of bewilderment. Before he entered the door, he heard his nephew Gou'er crying from inside: "Mother, mother! It's terrible, a strange person came outside and wanted to arrest me!"

"What nonsense!"

Hearing Mrs. Chen yelling in the kitchen, she became nervous again: "Could it be that you met a human trafficker? Child with his father, child with his father!"

Chen Wansan didn't know whether to laugh or cry, fearing that it would make a joke if it went on like this, he hurriedly led the horse and walked inside, saying, "Sister-in-law, I'm the one who's back!"

Mrs. Chen was wiping her hands on her apron while questioning her son nervously. When she heard Chen Wansan's voice, she raised her head and looked outside the door, only to see her uncle wearing strange but neat clothes and leading a tall horse in.

She opened her mouth wide in shock for a moment, not knowing how to react.

It was the dog who finally recognized his uncle at this moment, yelling and jumping up.

Chen Wansan laughed loudly, and opened his arms to hug him, but when he saw the white sleeves on his arms, he remembered that he was still wearing the representative's clothes, and hurriedly grabbed his nephew's arms with both hands, and said with a smile: "You Mud monkey, be careful not to dirty this military uniform!"

At this moment, Mrs. Chen regained her composure, and asked falteringly, "Second brother, you, have you really become an officer?"

"This……"

Chen Wansan originally wanted to explain clearly, but after all, the young man has a good face, and besides, the adjutant of the picket team can barely be regarded as an officer, so he nodded vaguely: "That's right."

Unexpectedly, the expression on Mrs. Chen's face became more and more weird. Ai Ai wanted to say something, but suddenly turned around and shouted into the room: "Father, the head of the family, the second child is back!"

Before the words finished, Father Chen and the boss of the Chen family greeted him from the house.

Mrs. Chen added another sentence: "The second child has indeed become an officer."

Then he pulled his son back to the kitchen.

Father Chen and Boss Chen looked at each other, and they both squeezed out the creases on their faces.

"Father, brother."

Chen Wansan was happy to see his father and brother patronizing him, but he didn't find anything wrong. He swiftly took off the luggage from the horse, dug out a few small bundles with three layers inside and three layers outside, and handed them to the two of them, saying, "This is what I gave to the family. The things I bought include soap, glass mirrors, smoking pipes... and toys for the dog!"

Father Chen and Boss Chen watched him show off once more, and then began to look at each other again.

"Ah~"

Finally, Father Chen sighed, and said with a bitter face, "Go in and talk."

Only then did Chen Wansan see that something was wrong, and while walking inside, he wondered, "Father, what happened at home? Where's my mother?"

Thinking of a possibility, his face immediately changed.

But I heard Chen Laodao said: "Mother went to get dad a drink."

Only then did Chen Wansan heave a sigh of relief, and after sitting around the square table in the living room, he asked again: "Then what happened? Why are you still...what's wrong when I come back?"

Chen's father picked up the cigarette bag on the side and puffed out the clouds, while Chen Boss also remained silent.

The impatient Chen Wansan didn't know what to say.

At this time, they suddenly heard a crisp sound of "Dang Clang" in the yard, and the three of them turned their heads to look around, only to see Aunt Chen and Mother Chen standing in the middle of the yard, and they didn't know what to say. It fell to the ground.

"mother?"

Chen Wansan hurriedly went out to inquire: "Are you not hurt?"

Unexpectedly, when Chen's mother saw his white uniform, she immediately burst into tears, complaining and cursing vaguely, which made Chen Wansan dumbfounded.

Sister-in-law Chen couldn't persuade her no matter what, it was Chen's father who came out and scolded her, which forced her to stop her grief.

"My son!"

I saw Chen's mother stepped forward to hold the second son's hand, and said with tears: "When are you going to fight, I, your father and I will send you there."

Chen Wansan became more and more confused, looked around, and said suspiciously: "Father, brother, what are you fighting for? When am I going to fight? What's going on here?"

Father Chen and Boss Chen also sensed something was wrong at this time, and hurriedly dragged him into the room to discuss it.

But it turned out that Chen Wansan hadn't come back for more than two months, and his family was worried, so he asked someone to go to the city to inquire, but when the man came back, he said that Chen Wansan had become an officer and would soon be sent to Qianxiang Country to fight yellow-haired ghosts.

Chen Wansan didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this, and while supporting his mother to sit down at the table, he explained: "I went to the picket team, which is the same as the Shuntian government office servants, mainly for fire prevention and theft prevention in the steel factory, and then to take care of it." Workers fight and make troubles, and occasionally go to spot check whether the workpieces are up to standard, and usually don’t even go out of the factory, let alone go to the Qianxiang country!”

Only then did the members of the Chen family know that there was an oolong, and while they all breathed a sigh of relief, they began to wonder who Chen Wansan is now, how much money he pays every month, and what extra money he has.

Chen Wansan didn't know how to respond to this chatter, so he heard the dog lying on the edge of the table ask: "Second Uncle, have you ever shot?"

"Naturally."

Chen Wansan stretched out his hand to touch his head and said with a smile: "At first I didn't know what to do. I was trembling and didn't know where to shoot the bullets. Later, I was afraid of being laughed at, so I practiced hard with a wooden gun behind my back for half a month. That’s enough—now in the steel factory, even the military representatives praise me for my marksmanship.”

Boss Chen wondered, "What is a military representative?"

"It's the officers who have made great contributions in the army, but are injured and can't serve in the army. The court arranges them to work as supervisors in the workshop, mainly responsible for safety and quality inspection - safety is in charge of fire prevention and theft prevention, quality inspection is He has the final say on whether the manufactured things are up to standard.”

When Chen Wansan said this, he added another sentence: "The captain of our picket team is also the representative of the army-Representative Feng is a member of seven ranks and one hundred households, and I can be regarded as his adjutant."

Father Chen knocked on the pipe and pot, and asked curiously, "Then why didn't we hear that there is such a representative of Lao Shizi in our rubber workshop?"

"It's usually found in factories with more than 200 employees. Just like our small rubber breaking workshop, we can't even make up a fraction of it."

Mother Chen immediately asked: "Then how many people are there in your steel plant?"

Chen Wansan originally wanted to say more than 3000, but seeing his mother's eager eyes, he changed his words temporarily: "If you count all men, women, and children, it should be about seven or eight thousand."

"Be good!"

Mother Chen's eyes widened: "My son is in charge of so many people?!"

Chen Wansan raised his hand in embarrassment, touched the brim of his hat and shrank back quickly, and said awkwardly: "You can't say that, but except for those who have official positions, Daqing and I don't need to be ordered by others."

Boss Chen asked: "Who is Daqing?"

"It's a classmate who went to school with me. He used to work in the brush factory and used the glue from our rubber workshop. He was originally a small manager in his family. He went to elementary school before. He learned things much faster than me, and he was also righteous. ..."

Chen Wansan continued to talk about several interesting things related to Li Qing, and everyone else listened with great interest, but Mother Chen was a little absent-minded, not as cheerful as she was just now.

Chen Wansan didn't know why at first, but that night, two cousins ​​from his uncle's family showed up at Chen's house.

The next day, even my uncle and uncle's family came...

By the time the three-day holiday was over, the number of relatives who wanted to go to the steel factory with him to have a good meal had already swelled to thirteen!
(End of this chapter)