Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

While thinking about it, Zhou Tian asked, "Master, do you know the origin of this Director Yang?"

The master took out a match and lit the cigarette, took a deep breath, slowly blew out a smoke ring and said: "Who knows? After all, he is just a deputy factory director. What's more, the deputy factory director has nothing to do with us. We just need to do our job well!"

In the eyes of workers like Liu Wuming, the deputy factory director is just one more person above them, who is too far away from them who are doing the work.

"Well, Master, I'll go and ask the director to cancel my leave first, and we'll talk later!"

Seeing that he could not get any information about Director Yang's background from his master, Zhou Tian stopped talking. After all, many things were just his guesses, and he didn't want to say much to his master.

"Then you should go quickly. I think the director has been waiting anxiously. The factory has a lot of tasks during this period!"

Liu Wuming smiled and said that recently due to the large-scale outbreak of the war on the peninsula, many heavy industrial factories in the country have taken on a lot of tasks. It happened that his apprentice had asked for leave for the past three days, and the workshop director has been a little overwhelmed during this period.

"Well, Master, I'll be leaving first!"

Zhou Tian greeted his master, then left the workshop and walked towards the workshop director's office.

Arriving at the workshop director's office, Zhou Tian knocked on the door, then pushed it open and walked in. He saw the workshop director lowering his head and recording documents.

Seeing Zhou Tian coming in, joy flashed across his eyes, and he quickly stood up and greeted him, saying, "Master Zhou, you are finally back. If you don't come back, I will send someone to your village to pick you up!"

As he spoke, the workshop director shook Zhou Tian's hand, appearing extremely enthusiastic.

"Director, I'm sorry to bother you. I'm here to cancel my leave, right?"

Zhou Tian learned about what happened in the past few days from his master, so he was not surprised by the enthusiasm of the workshop director and said with a smile.

"Okay! Okay! Okay! Master Zhou, I'll cancel your leave right away, but since you've been on leave for three consecutive days, you've accumulated quite a lot of tasks during this time, so you have to keep that in mind!"

The workshop director said as a reminder.

"Don't worry, Director, I already know!"

Zhou Tian nodded. In fact, even if the director didn't say anything, he would have taken the initiative to work overtime. After all, this was to provide assistance to the battlefield on the peninsula. He naturally didn't want the soldiers on the front line to lose a gun because of his leave.

"That's great. Master Zhou, please go back to the workshop first. I'll have a few apprentices deliver the task to you in a bit!"

Hearing that Zhou Tian had no complaints, the workshop director also breathed a sigh of relief.

"Okay, Director, I'll go back to the workshop first!"

After saying that, Zhou Tian turned around and left the office and returned to the workshop. Before he could chat with his master for a while, he saw several apprentices bringing in rough pieces that had undergone simple processing.

Looking at the rough pieces piled up next to his workstation, Zhou Tian couldn't help but be shocked. There were really too many of them, at least twice his usual workload.

"Xiaotian, these rough pieces are a bit too much!"

Liu Wuming naturally also saw the rough workpiece next to his apprentice's workstation and was a little surprised. Although he knew that his apprentice had taken three days off and would have to work overtime after returning, when he saw the amount of work, he could only say that the workshop director was a little cruel.

"It's okay, Master. It's all for the country. I'll get busy now!"

Although Zhou Tian was somewhat surprised by the number of rough pieces, he calmed down in a short while. Although there were quite a few rough pieces, his benchwork skills were also improving, and this amount was not enough to shock him.

"Well, then go get busy! It's time for Master to get busy too!"

Liu Wuming didn't say much. After all, as his apprentice said, everything was for the country.

Zhou Tian nodded, then returned to his workstation, started the machine tool, warmed his hands as usual, tested the wear of the machine tool, checked for safety hazards, and then took a rough blank and began processing.

The processing of fitter is relatively complicated. It not only requires marking, but also requires the continuous use of various tools to polish it finely. If there is any mistake in any aspect, it can be said that the entire part will be scrapped.

Therefore, every time Zhou Tian was processing, he would be extremely careful and focused, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.

Fortunately, he had skills, and even though he hadn't worked for three days, his craft was still sharp. Soon, he had polished a gun barrel.

The whole process was smooth as flowing water, without any pause at all. Of course, the simplicity of the machine tool equipment also made him dare not speed up.

Even though he could obviously grind the barrel in the shortest time possible, due to the limitations of the machine tools, he could only maintain a relative time limit.

But even so, he was much faster in processing and polishing the gun barrel than the other master craftsmen in the workshop.

Time passed quickly as Zhou Tian continued to work on his work. In the blink of an eye, the bell for the end of get off work rang outside.

Zhou Tian didn't care and continued processing parts.

"Everyone, stop it!"

Just when he had just finished processing a gun barrel and was about to grind it, the workshop director hurried in and said to the workers who were about to leave work, "Don't be in a hurry to leave work. I have an announcement now. Since the tasks in the factory have increased recently, starting from tomorrow, anyone who is willing to work overtime can do so. In addition, in order to ensure that everyone has enough food and eats well, all workers who are willing to work overtime will be provided with at least one meat dish and a steamed bun made of two-grain flour in the evening! Those who are willing to work overtime can eat for free."

In addition, each person will receive an additional 50,000 yuan in overtime pay. Everything is voluntary. Those who want to work overtime should sign up with their respective team leaders. Tomorrow, each team leader will hand over the list to me! Do you understand?

"Understood!"

When the workers heard about the overtime treatment, which was much better than the usual overtime treatment, they immediately responded excitedly.

"Well, then we won't keep you all any longer. Everyone who should be off work can go home now!"

After saying this, the workshop director left in a hurry again.

After seeing the workshop director leave, the workers were not in a hurry to leave work and immediately started talking.

"Brother Wu, are you going to work overtime?"

A worker suddenly asked Wu Jiefang beside him.

"Of course I should work overtime. How can I not work overtime? Even if I go home after get off work, there is nothing else to do except sleep. If I work overtime, I can get overtime pay and a free dinner. Only a fool would not work overtime. Xiao Sun, what about you?"

The worker who was asked scratched his head and said a little embarrassedly: "I won't work overtime. Brother Wu, you know that I have a girlfriend recently, so I have to pick her up after get off work every day, so I won't work overtime!"

"Xiao Sun, you are really good. Tell Wu Ge how far you and your partner have progressed."

Facing the discussions of the crowd, Zhou Tian seemed calm and continued with his work. After he finished grinding the last gun barrel, he turned off the machine, checked it again, and replaced a few parts that were badly worn before leaving get off work and planning to go home.

The cafeteria doesn't provide dinner today. After all, we were just notified today that we would be working overtime, so if you want to have dinner, you probably have to wait until tomorrow.

After riding his bike back home, Zhou Tian simply did a little work, ate quickly and went to sleep. He knew that he would be busy in the next few days, so he had to ensure enough sleep!