Quick Travel: The Long Road to Resurrection

Yesterday, I worked a night shift with Wang Zhiping. Li Shengli didn't have to go to work during the day today. I was thinking about my mother's birthday. I haven't bought anything for her in so many years. I must give her something rare this time so that others can get it. Look, he is a filial son.

So, I planned to go to the department store to have a look. After washing up, I put on a white shirt and walked out.

Department store

Li Shengli walked back and forth from various counters, bringing only 20 yuan with him. He couldn't afford the expensive ones, and he couldn't afford the cheap ones.

Then, I walked to the Doliang counter and saw a military green skirt. I thought this was it. This rare thing has never been worn by anyone in the Hongqi Brigade!

He walked forward, pointed at the army green dress and asked, "Comrade, how much does that dress cost?"

The waiter was a little girl. Seeing Li Shengli's thick eyebrows and big eyes, her attitude was better than usual and she said, "It's 16 yuan, and this is all I have left."

"Then please, comrade, help me issue the ticket!" Li Shengli said to the waiter.

I saw that the waiter collected the money, issued an invoice, folded the skirt, and wrapped it in a department store-specific wrapping paper with the address, phone number, and business scope printed on it.

After getting the skirt, he went to buy a big front door for Li's father. The money was almost spent, and then he remembered that he didn't buy anything for Lao Gao. He thought it would be better next time!

Li Shengli was so happy that he returned to his dormitory, opened his cabinet with the key, and put away the things he just bought, thinking that the factory would give out holiday gifts tomorrow, so he would take them home together.

The next day, August [-]th, Friday.

This Mid-Autumn Festival welfare includes sugar, cakes and washbasins.

The factory distributed Mid-Autumn Festival benefits early in the morning.

For example, the newcomers who just arrived this year received an enamel basin, a pound of sugar, and two pounds of moon cakes. Old employees received better and more gifts based on their position and length of service.

Li Shengli was very happy to receive the Mid-Autumn Festival gift from the factory. He thought, no wonder people want to work in the factory!

Working in the factory not only provides benefits during the New Year, but also provides regular distribution of work clothes, gloves, and towels every year. Free bathing in the bathhouse and free haircuts. You must know that bathing outside and haircuts are not allowed to cost money. I will spend another two years. As soon as they got married, they waited until the factory assigned them a house in the family courtyard.

Everyone was walking back to the dormitory. Brother Yang looked at Li Shengli getting the things and laughed so hard that he joked: "Haha, our success is just this, a few mooncakes will make you smile from ear to ear." Well, if the house is divided into equal parts, then you can’t grin to the back of your head!”

Li Shengli said happily: "Brother Yang is joking again, it's too early for me to divide the house! It's like Brother Yang, the house is being renovated. I am very satisfied with a few mooncakes. The boys in our brigade, if you see The Mid-Autumn Festival benefits given out by the factory will make them jealous to death."

Before Brother Yang could speak, Xu Jianguo said: "Even if you have already entered the city, mud-legged people are mud-legged people. You will never be able to wash away the sour smell of poverty. I don't know what you are so happy about. I advise you to be a little self-aware. Stop being clever, Xiao Xiang shouldn’t think about it.”

As soon as these words came out, the people in the third team looked sideways, wondering what was wrong with Xu Jianguo. He always had trouble with Li Shengli. He usually just criticized Sang and Huai. Fortunately, the boy Shengli had a good temper, but he had always been a big mouth. Slap him.

This time, I was stunned and even scolded all the farmers. Whoever's family was not born in the countryside for three generations or more, and whose family didn't have any relatives from the countryside, said that there were many people in the factory who were from the countryside.

Many people around looked at Xu Jianguo with sullen faces, including the deputy factory director and others.

After hearing this, Li Shengli was not angry at all, and said to him expressionlessly: "I, Li Shengli, are a third-generation poor farmer with a good family background and a good young man who relies on his own labor to support himself. Today is the last chance for you. If you If Xu Jianguo dares to slander you again and you can't keep your mouth shut, I will beat you to death."

Brother Yang said seriously: "Comrade Xu Jianguo, everyone is equal. If this continues, don't blame us for not being able to tolerate you."

The remaining people all agreed, making Xu Jianguo very aggrieved and confused. Everyone pointed at him, and the people in the team also sternly accused him, so forget it, but Brother Yang, who had the best relationship with him, actually helped Li Shengli. , and said that he would not be able to tolerate himself.

After finishing the conversation, the members of the third team, without waiting for Xu Jianguo's reaction, walked forward arm in arm with Li Shengli.

Team [-] dormitory

Li Shengli and the team members put their things into the dormitory and went on patrol again.

Today is the last day of work for the three teams, and they will start their vacation tomorrow. However, it coincides with the three-day holiday during the Mid-Autumn Festival, so with four days of rest, they can have a total of seven days of vacation.

This makes other teams envious, especially teams five and six who are on duty during the Mid-Autumn Festival. When others are reunited during the Mid-Autumn Festival, they have to cheer up and work two shifts.

in the afternoon

Because the security department works in two shifts, the day shift is from [-] am to [-] pm, and the night shift is from [-] pm to [-] am.

Because Li Shengli had helped him before, Wang Zhiping thought of changing shifts with Li Shengli early so that he could go back to the Red Flag Brigade this afternoon.

"Shengli, hurry up and pack your things and go back after get off work! Otherwise, you have to wait until tomorrow." Wang Zhiping said.

Li Shengli knew that he was thanking him for giving up half of the beds, so he didn't refuse.

"Okay, then you can step in and I'll go back first," Li Shengli said.

After saying that, I went to the dormitory, opened the cabinet, found the commonly used net bag, first put the ceramic basin, the moon cakes wrapped in oil paper, sugar, a large front door and the skirt I bought yesterday into the basin, and put the last Lift the net bag outside and tie the opening tightly.

Lock the door, pick up the net bag and walk out of the factory.

We arrived at the station and got on the last bus back to town.

Li Shengli quickly ran to where Uncle Chang parked the bullock cart.

Fortunately, the bullock cart was still there. Uncle Chang was squatting on the ground smoking a cigarette. When he saw Li Shengli coming, he immediately stood up and said with a kind smile: "The boy Shengli is back. How long will he be released this time?"

"There are three days of Mid-Autumn Festival, plus four days of rest, so we can stay at home for seven days." Li Shengli said happily.

"Oh, it's time to get paid. Why did you buy so many things?" Uncle Chang asked curiously, pointing to the net bag.

"How can it be possible? Wages are paid at the end of the month. These are the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts given by the factory, as well as cigarettes bought for my father and birthday gifts for my mother." Li Shengli said.

After speaking, Li Shengli untied the net bag, took out the straw paper bag containing the moon cake, untied the straw rope, took out a piece of moon cake, and handed it to Uncle Chang.

Uncle Chang couldn't refuse, so he took it and said with a strange look on his face: "You have to be in the factory, it's a holiday, and it's a holiday gift. How can we have such benefits in our team? I heard from the captain that we have a day off tomorrow because of the holiday. , our brigade is just pointing out that we have taken a day and a half off to save energy over the years, don’t you think it’s irritating!”