With a word from Squad Leader Xu, I became Lu Yu's apprentice.

It was all noon that the master reads books on his own. I dared not speak beside him, so he sat there in fear and fear. It was not until when he was at work in the afternoon that Squad Leader Xu came back to arrange work, and the master put down the book in his hand.

Everyone stood up one after another. The fat man with red face had just grabbed a good hand of cards. He complained a little depressedly, and threw the cards in his hand into a chair that was used as a card table.

"You just follow me in the afternoon." The master raised his face and looked at me and said.

"Yeah." I quickly stood up.

A large group of people left the security room with tools and scattered in the large workshop. The master walked in front with a tool kit. I was holding a large oil barrel in my hand and followed him without a single step, for fear that I would lose any damage and lose it in this completely unfamiliar environment.

Several driving blockers came towards me, pointed at me and asked curiously, "Lu Yu, who is this?"

"My apprentice Xiao Wu." The master answered word by word.

"It's strange, are you... you bring your apprentice?" The drivers couldn't help but sigh.

"What, can't I take my apprentice?" The master raised his eyebrows and asked casually.

"Of course I can take you. You should have taken your apprentice with such good skills. Look at the guy who has a bunch of Mao Xiaoli, who is so bad and has a coquettish look all day long. It's really a misleading child to take on two apprentices alone." A middle-aged female worker with a whisper on the corner of her mouth said disdainfully.

"It's because his uncle is the director of the factory office. He feels great all day long. Seeing that the little girl is handsome, he deliberately puts her on her body, looking like a hooligan." Another tall female worker echoed angrily.

"Hmph——A person like this is still clamoring to find a wife all day long. I see who the little girl in our cotton mill would marry him." The middle-aged female worker hummed in dissatisfaction.

"Let's stop talking bad things behind the scenes." Seeing that the woman could not stop opening her mouth, the master quickly made a fuss.

"Hey... Lu Yu, what did I tell you? How are you thinking about it? My aunt works in the county cultural center. Last time the staff art performance, you go to help their band play cello, and they will fall in love with you at once." The tall female worker saw the master turn around and was about to leave, and hurriedly stepped forward and grabbed him.

"Sister, stop kidding. I am a little safeguard worker, and my family has historical problems. Your aunt is so beautiful and has such good conditions. How could she fall in love with me?" When the master said this, a humble smile appeared on her handsome face.

"Do you all know the situation in your family? Aren't you all rehabilitating unjust, false and wrong cases?" When the middle-aged female worker said this, she looked understanding.

"My good sister, let's not talk about this for now. I have to go to work. Xiao Wu, leave quickly." The master probably didn't want to talk about this anymore, so he hurriedly turned around and greeted me.

Seeing us turning around and leaving, the tall female worker seemed to be unwilling to give up: "Lu Yu, Lu Yu, think about it carefully."

"Thank you." The master waved his hand and responded perfunctorily.

The middle-aged female workers seemed a little reluctant to leave. I was surprised that their attitude towards the master was completely different from the jokes and squad leader Xu in the morning. The master's gentle and elegant appearance seemed to make people unable to be arrogant and had an instinctive awe.

This is my first time working with a master and apprentice. The job is to fill the machine with lubricating oil. The master opened the oil injection holes of different machines and guided me to fill the required oil. After adding oil to each machine, I still need to observe it. If there is no problem, the work is completed.

"This is called a charter machine, this is a carding machine, this is a stripping machine, this is a roving machine, this is a yarn machine..." The master took me to work all the way, patiently telling me about their different functions.

Walking through the rumbling machines, the flying catkins in the space stained our heads and bodies. After a while, my whole body seemed to be stained with frost. I was wearing my mother's big cotton jacket, and in this stuffy and wet environment, I was already sweating profusely. When the master saw my face flushed, sweating profusely, and his eyebrows were furrowed together.

"This Xu Changjiu didn't get you a job?" the master asked dissatisfiedly.

"Are you talking about Squad Leader Xu? What... patronage?" I was a little confused and replied carefully.

"This old Xu knew to flatter and do nothing serious." The master muttered, and then said to me, "Let's stop doing it now, I'll take you to get your clothes."

We returned to the security class, and there was no one in the room. The master walked to the iron cabinet beside the wall, opened the door on the left, and rummaged through a large number of various utility rooms for a long time, finding a blank sheet of material collection. Then, he took out a half-old military bag from another cabinet next to him, took out a thick black pen, unscrewed the cap, and filled it out in the sheet of material collection: a set of work clothes, a pair of fur shoes, and a cowhide belt. The master's handwriting was elegant and firm, and I think it was better than Wei Jingjing.

After writing the material collection form, the master thought calmly and then added two more items to the back: a labor protection towel and a Grand Canal soap.

"Let's go, find the workshop to sign." The master tore off the filled-in page and signaled me to follow him.

We arrived at the southmost point of the workshop and went up the second floor along the stairs. In front of the workshop office door I came to this morning, the master did not knock on the door, but pushed the door and walked in, which scared the couple inside who were whispering.

"How come you, Lu Yu, are you rashly?" The short and fat Director Tong raised his round head and shouted in surprise.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't know you're doing ideological work for others again?" The master looked at the woman sitting opposite Director Tong and with a fox-like knife cut off her face, and said deliberately teasingly.

"Don't talk nonsense! What kind of ideological work is done? It's Xiao Hu, Hu Xiumei, who will report the situation." After hearing the master's joke, Director Tong was a little embarrassed. He pointed to the knife opposite and said seriously.

"Aren't you doing ideological work?" The master smiled and ignored Director Tong's trouble.

"You damn Lu Yu, people are talking about serious business." The woman named Hu Xiumei rolled her eyes with a coquettish look on her face, and shook her deliberately twice with her extremely plump breasts.

"Is there anything you have to do?" Director Tong saw that the master was holding the material receipt in his hand, and stopped Hu Xiumei's words, looking like he wanted to send us away quickly.

"Director Tong, sign a letter and get a set of work clothes for Xiao Wu." The master walked forward and slapped the material pickup sheet in his hand on the table.

"Why are you doing this? You're just a fool. There are many new comrades in our workshop recently. Please let Xu Changjiu count it. After the statistics are completed, sign it together to collect it." Director Tong glanced at the table and pushed the material order out.

"You have to arrange the work of the senior squad leader, how can I care about his business? However, since I asked me to take my apprentice, I will just care about my apprentice's business. You can sign a letter. New workers enter the factory to get work clothes and must wear work clothes during work. This is the factory's regulations and also a need for safe production." The master refused to give in and pushed the material collection sheet to Director Tong's face.

"Will you, Lu Yu, make individualistic mistakes?" A hint of unhappiness flashed in Director Tong's eyes with his little mung beans.

"Sign it quickly. Look at a rural child who is wearing a big cotton coat in the workshop. He is so hot that he doesn't have any clothes to change." The master simply picked up a dipping pen on the table that was inserted into an ink bottle and stuffed it directly into Director Tong's fat hand.

Director Tong shook his fat head helplessly, took the material receipt list, and drew his name with a flying phoenix. Seeing that he had signed it, the master said thank you and took it over.

"Let's go, don't delay our Director Tong's important work." The master deliberately glanced at Hu Xiumei, turned around and greeted me, "Didn't you see it? The Director still has to do ideological work for people."

"You Lu Yu, let's talk nonsense. I'll take the material receipt back." Director Tong slapped the table and pointed at the master and said in anger.

"Hey—Lu Yu—" Hu Xiumei saw that we were about to leave, so she stood up and shouted coquettishly, "My uncle wants to invite you to have a drink and introduce my cousin to you."

"Your uncle is so amazing, your cousin is so good, what do you know about me, a little worker?" The master shrugged innocently like Vasily in "Lenin in October", and turned around and walked out the door.

"This dead Lu Yu is really a dog biting Lu Dongbin, not knowing the good people's hearts!" I heard the resentment of a knife behind my back, "Oh, Director Tong... How do you solve this problem? Why did she occupy my position? I was arranged by Secretary Cui himself..."

When I heard Hu Xiumei's cute appearance, I couldn't help but glance back and saw her lying beside Director Tong's head, and a pair of huge breasts rubbed against his shoulders.

"But... Ye Hong has also arranged it in the factory for you to replace you. If you go home and have a baby, this position... cannot be empty either, right?" Director Tong was obviously irritated by her, and his voice was a little trembling.

"Okay, you boy, you fuck me. You said that the person in the factory asked her to beat me. I'll ask him to judge now!" Knife cut his face and howled angrily, and suddenly changed his face, scaring Director Tong so much that he almost jumped up. I wanted to take a closer look, but the master pulled him out of the door.

When I heard someone mentioned Ye Hong again, my heart couldn't help but hop a few times. Ye Hong should be the "fox fairy" I met. When I was excited, I almost screamed.

"Master, that...Where did she work just now?" I wanted to find out about Ye Hong's news, and I was so arrogant that I took a few steps to catch up with the master:

"Who did you say..." The master turned his face in surprise, "Are you talking about Hu Xiumei? She-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

"No... I don't know each other, I just ask casually." My face turned red and I didn't dare to ask any more. I quickly shook my head and denied.

The warehouse where we are harvesting the east and west is in the southeast corner of the factory area. The tall houses are a bit like the huge grain warehouse of our commune grain station. There is an office desk in the door opening of the warehouse. Two women, one fat and one thin, are both in their early thirties and look quite beautiful.

"Come and get your work clothes." The master handed over the material pickup form.

"Aren't the work clothes distributed uniformly? Once a year, you can't get them randomly." The fat face looked at the material receipt and glanced at the master with a little suspicious look.

"That's normal. Nowadays, new people take over the factory every day. You can't wait until next year to send them a unified delivery. There are no work clothes. How do you work in the workshop?" The master explained patiently.

"These rural people really hate it. They are rustic and ungrateful. You say that who has made this broken policy now and what kind of shift is coming to take over again." The sitting slimming face was knitting a rusty red sweater, and his lips curled disdainfully.

When I heard someone humiliating myself, my blood suddenly surged onto my face. I felt extremely angry, but I lowered my head timidly.

"What's wrong with rural people? I'm from the countryside too." The master's face suddenly became tense, and his palm slapped the table twice.

The slimming face who was wearing sweaters raised his eyes in panic. When the fat face saw the master's face turned pale, he quickly stood up and asked calmly, "Who is wearing the work clothes?"

"He, he is a little older, 1.85 meters away, he can wear it next year." The master pointed at me and said in a tight voice.

"Where...you come with me and try it." A pair of beautiful smiles flashed out of her fat face, and she waved her hand and asked her master to follow her.

As soon as the master followed Fat Face to the warehouse, I was immediately shocked by its momentum. Rows of iron racks towered the roofs, and the things on them were so diverse, including machine accessories, hardware and electrical materials, various tools, as well as washbasins, towels, soap and other daily necessities. In the mid-twentieth century, state-owned enterprises were all small societies with all kinds of internal organs, which was the first time I had my eyes open.

"Your name is Lu Yu, right?" asked with a fat face with a smile on his face, completely different from his impatient appearance just now.

"Do you know me?" the master asked in confusion.

"You are so famous, who doesn't know you in the factory?" The fat face turned a little red with a hint of tenderness.

"Can I be so famous? If I am really famous, Is it also a bad reputation?" The master shook his agile body and replied self-deprecatingly as he walked.

"You don't have a partner yet, right? Let me tell you one. My sister is typing at the county personnel bureau. She looks more beautiful than me and has very white skin." When Fat Father said this, she deliberately turned her face to the master's side, and her eyes flashed with lightning.

This is really strange. In just half a day, three people wanted to introduce their partner to the master. Could it be that the wife in this city is so easy to marry? I was filled with emotion and couldn't help but become active.

"Don't do this! I'm just a security worker, and I'm afraid to find a cadre in the agency even if I beat him to death. The two are apart from each other." The master quickly shook his head and stopped talking about it.

Fat face carefully searched in a lot of clothes, and finally found two sets of 1.85 meters. The master asked me to take off my cotton coat on the spot and try it out when I put it on. I felt that my hands and feet were a little long.

"It's great. I'll be more energetic like this. I rolled up my pants first. After a year, I'll probably not be too big." The master walked around me and said with joy.

After such a struggle, we returned to the security class and it was almost time to get off work. The fat man in red face organized a group of people and was playing poker lively. The thin man with a vulgar face wanted to join in several times, but he was chased down by a bearded master. Seeing me coming in with a new work clothes, a belt, towel, soap, and a pair of fur shoes, everyone was surprised, and several apprentices looked even more envious.

"Where can you get your work clothes?" The fat red-faced apprentice, the thin young man, came to my ear and asked in a low voice.

"It was the master who took me to the warehouse to collect it." I answered truthfully.

"You are so lucky that you have found a good master as soon as you come." The little apprentice glanced at the fat man who was playing cards and sighed softly.

"What's your surname?" The fat man's apprentice gave me a sense of intimacy, and I asked with a friendly look on my face.

"My surname is Cai, just call me Xiao Cai." The fat man's apprentice grinned and showed a pair of tiger teeth.

"You entered the factory earlier than me, I have to call you Senior Brother, Senior Brother Xiao Cai." I remembered my father's teachings and quickly responded with a readily.

The bell rang for get off work, and everyone stood up, packed their things, and prepared to take a shower with towels and soap. The master took out the familiar military bag from the iron cabinet beside the wall, stuffed the book in his hand, and turned around to greet me: "Let's go, take a shower together."

I took the towel and soap that the master had picked me up, and followed the master to go out when the tuft of hair suddenly came up and hit my back hard.

"Ouch--" I almost staggered in pain.

"If you don't pay attention, what are you calling?" Yituo Mao's eyes glared at me with gloomy expression.

I was a little confused when I was hit. This scene happened to be seen by Senior Brother Xiao Cai, and I quickly winked at me: "Go away quickly, don't block the door, there will be more people in the bathhouse in a while."

The sky became gloomy at some point. Everyone walked out of the workshop together, and a few drops of light rain fell above their heads. The master raised his face and looked at it: "This ghost weather has just been sunny for a few days, why is it going to rain again?"

"That's it." I followed the master and said in a pleasing manner.
Chapter completed!