Past events in the machine tool shop

The winter in Yuncheng is a typical northern winter climate. It is cold early, but snow falls late. For a long time, it is dry and cold. People come and go on the street, and their footsteps are hurried.This is the case when walking on the main street. Walking in the winding alleys of the old city, you can't walk fast even if you want to.

It is more than 200 kilometers away from the provincial capital. It is an underdeveloped fourth- and fifth-tier town. In recent years, real estate developers have gathered, lands have been auctioned piece by piece, and buildings have been built one after another. But these are all things in the new urban area. To the old urban area, this place is like a distant foreign land. The people in the old urban area do not know or understand it.

The whole city is divided into north and south parts by a road called Jiefang Road. To the south is the new urban area that is still in full swing, and to the north is the old urban area that is dirty, messy and congested.And the further north, the more unbearable it is, especially in the northwest where several state-owned agricultural and sideline product processing factories established in the last century have gathered. The Chengbei Industrial Zone has been turned into a well-known right and wrong area where bachelors are everywhere and fish and dragons are mixed.

In such a big environment, Cheng Yu seemed out of place among the young people in the north of the city. Like everyone else, he wore dark blue work clothes, commuted on time every day, and had to get off work three shifts when the production period was busy. Very nice.I feel so obedient and even a little cowardly.

Cheng Yu and everyone else did not recruit workers together. Each factory will recruit a group of new workers before the peak production season every year. They will start as temporary workers, and those who can persist will become full-time workers.The efficiency of the small factory is not very good. Although it is state-owned, there are not so many people trying to get in. Many people who come in go out. Most of the young people who stay in the factory are begging for a job and waiting to die. life.

The wages in the factory are not high, but the benefits are in accordance with the rules. Five social insurances and one housing fund are paid on time. There are some subsidies from the trade union during the holidays. There is a factory canteen for three meals a day. Equipment can almost satisfy the whole life of a young man who keeps his own life.

And some old buildings that have been closed can still barely see their original function: in the abandoned kindergarten yard full of weeds, the entertainment facilities have faded paint; a ring-shaped building locked by an iron chain lock is the factory itself It is said that there was the most fashionable round chandelier when it was still open; the factory living area has its own hospital, and now only the pharmacy at the entrance is still open, but it has been replaced by private contracting.

The outside world is developing rapidly, only the area around the factory seems to be in the 90s, the pace is very slow, so slow that it has derailed from the modern society.

The only place that does not derail is the young people squatting on the curb of the factory area. The young people who squatted here decades ago were wearing overalls, smoking cigarettes, whistling at beautiful girls passing by, and playing cards together when they had nothing to do. , when the playing cards land, you can throw a pair of threes, but the voice must be loud, showing the momentum of throwing double kings.

But now, young people in overalls are squatting on the side of the road and smoking, loudly playing the loud music on their mobile phones, and some will learn the exaggerated movements and plots in it.

Only Cheng Yu stood silently by the side, not being with them, but he didn't dare to avoid them from a distance.

The factory is a small society, Cheng Yu can be the silent majority, but he can't be the one who openly shows rebellion and escape, otherwise he will definitely become the target of public criticism.

He was a child who grew up in an orphanage, and he has a talent for this kind of subtle human relationship without a teacher, as well as a familiarity with it.

"Hey, are you going back to play pool together today?"

Someone nudged Cheng Yu with an elbow and asked him loudly.The person who spoke was Zhang Yongzhong, the leader of their new batch of workers. He looked like a social person. He had a very fashionable hairstyle and his bangs were neatly pressed against his forehead.This made him look a little silly, although the tone of his question was a bit fierce.

But he is not a bad person, Cheng Yu can feel it, so he said: "But I don't know how."

But I won't and I won't have two different meanings. The former implies a little regret that I want to go but can't go, while the latter is a complete rejection.

Sure enough, Zhang Yongzhong was amused when he heard it. He grinned and said: "What are you afraid of doing? I can't teach you. I started playing billiards before my case was high. I will teach you."

So Cheng Yu nodded lightly, Zhang Yongzhong bumped into him again, and said: "If you want to go, just say it, you are always so bored and silent, we still think you look down on us and don't like to play with us."

Cheng Yu and them did not come in at the same time. The production period started in September, and they have been able to work until March of the next year. In August, a large number of temporary workers were recruited one after another.Only Cheng Yu entered the factory in November. He was assigned to the machine tool workshop and is still working as an apprentice.Zhang Yongzhong was also in the machine tool workshop, and he probably had a lot of face-to-face fights on weekdays. Otherwise, there were so many taciturn newcomers in the factory, and Zhang Yongzhong, the boss, would have no reason to go to him first.

The wages in the machine tool workshop are not as high as those in the production workshop, but the advantage is that this is a craft job, which can support me better than most of the hard work in the production workshop.Many apprentices learned their skills from their masters, and then went out to work alone. This kind of thing happened a lot, and the masters and apprentices were also somewhat lacking in interest.

After lunch, they basked outside in the sun for a while, and then went back to their respective dormitories to take a nap.The pace of life in a small city is extremely slow. It takes less than 10 minutes to walk from the living area to the factory building, and the lunch break lasts up to two and a half hours, which is enough to take a happy afternoon nap after eating, drinking and chatting.

Cheng Yu came late, so he was the only one to live in the dormitory. This is a very old-fashioned factory dormitory with thick walls. The insulation layer has been strengthened in the past two years. You can’t see anything from the outside, but you can still feel the rush when you go in. The taste of the years.The dormitory building is a back-shaped building, connected by corridors, with five floors, only one is the girls' dormitory, and the corridor in the girls' dormitory is locked to prevent male and female workers from escaping and causing any unseemly things. , Inconvenient for factory management.

The front door of the dormitory is the living room, but it actually integrates the functions of the kitchen and dining room. On the left hand side is the window, facing the corridor. There is a large vegetable sink under the window. The gas stove is placed side by side with the vegetable sink, and it is placed on the old-fashioned student desk. , but rarely used, the chimney of the range hood leads directly out of the window.

There is no dining table, just a simple coffee table, and there is another window on the other side of the dormitory, facing the downstairs. Below the window is an old-fashioned radiator, and Cheng Yu's washed socks the day before are hanging out to dry.

On the right hand side of the dormitory entrance is a smaller washbasin. Along the right hand side are three rooms, which are the master bedroom, bathroom, and guest bedroom.The wall is in a very early style, with a white wall on the top and green paint on the other half, and some simple furniture inside.Cheng Yu lives in the guest bedroom, and the bed only has Cheng Yu's thin mattress, which is the kind of black heart cotton sold in the market.

But it doesn't matter, the heating is hot in winter, and the room is steaming. Cheng Yu puts the lunch box in his hand into the vegetable sink to wash it, shakes off the water droplets on his hands, and then puts his hands on the heating to bake for a while.

There was some fog outside the window, Cheng Yu stood by the window to warm up the heater, his eyes were downcast, looking at the bare trees downstairs.He lives on the second floor, which is neither high nor low, so he can see the situation downstairs very clearly.

A taxi stopped at the door of the unit, and a young man got off the taxi. He opened the trunk and took out the suitcase. Three large suitcases and a travel bag were stacked together. He stood downstairs unhurriedly. On the phone, the voice fell into Cheng Yu's ears verbatim.

"Uncle, I'm here. I got the key in the morning. Yes, yes, it's the second floor. Okay, let me tell you, I'll go up first, and I'll visit you after I'm settled."

Looks like he's new here too.Cheng Yu thought silently.

He was thinking wildly, when he suddenly found that his eyes met with that person's, Cheng Yu hurriedly looked away, left the heater by the window and sat back on his bed.

After a while, the sound of dragging the suitcase was heard in the corridor, and the two suitcases were pushed at the same time, making a loud rolling sound, and then the sound stopped at the door of Cheng Yu's dormitory.

The sound of the key turning into the lock cylinder seemed to fall next to Cheng Yu's ears, and he stared at the door with wide eyes.

The door opened, and the person who was downstairs just now was in front of him. He looked at the dormitory, together with Cheng Yu who was in the dormitory, poked his head to look at the bedroom, and finally chose the vacant master bedroom.

"Since there is no one in this room, I will live here." He patted the suitcase and said, "It just so happens that I have a lot of things."

Dormitories are the same as residential buildings, only denser and smaller in size than residential buildings.But at least the master bedroom and the second bedroom are separated. Cheng Yu has no objection to this, but he has a keen sense that this person is very proud and difficult to get along with.

Therefore, Cheng Yu did not show any futile favors to him, nor did he express his willingness to help him with his things. It just so happened that the man didn't seem to need Cheng Yu's help, so he put the suitcase in the room, turned around and left to go upstairs. Get another thing.

Cheng Yu rushed into his room and lay down before the man came up again. He heard the door being opened again, and the wheels of the suitcase made a dull sound on the floor.Cheng Yu thought, and hoped that this person would not be too difficult to get along with. There was no movement over there, and Cheng Yu soon fell asleep.

He got up according to the alarm clock, and he had 10 minutes to go to work, enough for him to pack up and go to the workshop.Cheng Yu got up and went to the sink to wash his face. After washing, he passed by the master bedroom and saw a figure in it. He was startled, and then he remembered that he already had an extra roommate before going to bed.

Cheng Yu's roommate also noticed him. He didn't open his suitcases, but threw them in the room, while he walked out of the room, stood in front of Cheng Yu's room, looked at him, and said approvingly : "You are quite clean, the room is much tidier than most men's."

Cheng Yu looked up at him, pursed his lips and cautiously entered the room, and stretched out the crumpled sheets during his afternoon nap.That person didn't need Cheng Yu's response, he took a few more glances, then sat on the sofa in the living room and swiped his phone.

Cheng Yu didn't like the tone of this roommate's speech just now, he seemed to be considering him, and there was a sense of testing whether Cheng Yu was worthy of being his roommate, and he spoke in a condescending and well-informed manner, The superiority is too strong, Cheng Yu usually does not like to associate with such people.

Despite this, Cheng Yu still maintained the basic politeness of being a roommate, he had already ignored his roommate once just now, and he could not ignore him again, otherwise it would be blatant hostility.Cheng Yu doesn't need an overly intimate relationship, but he doesn't want to create an enemy for himself either.

Before going out, Cheng Yu deliberately stood at the door and said, "Well... I'm going to work, you can put things away as you like, if there are too many, I can help you after I get off work."

The man didn't say whether it was good or bad, he just looked up at Cheng Yu, and then said, "Wu Weiran."

After he finished speaking, he raised his eyebrows at Cheng Yu, and Cheng Yu realized that he was asking for his own name, so he quickly said, "Hello, my name is Cheng Yu."

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