The day after I returned from Wolonghu, it was my turn to work morning. Shortly after I arrived at the workshop in the morning, Squad Leader Xia came to inform me and went to the workshop office on the second floor for a meeting.

I felt strange in my heart, and couldn't figure out what happened: "I am a little electrician, not a cadre, where can I open a door?"

"Do you think they are all cadres in meetings?" Squad leader Xia glanced at me and said to Master Liu who was drinking tea, "Old Liu, I've notified you too."

Our master and apprentice went up the second floor and came to the workshop office. We saw that there were people sitting inside. In addition to the follower director, Director Tong and Xiao Li's uncle also came. Hu Xiumei was planning to pour water for everyone, raised her knife to cut her face. When she saw me standing at the door, she greeted her with a smile. She pulled the two people sitting in front of her to the side, and freed two seats for me and Master Liu.

"Everyone, let's be quiet. I'm asking you to come today because there is an important thing in the factory and I need to convey it to everyone who is sitting there. Please tell me the details of the situation." After the follower said the opening remark, he slapped hard a few times. Seeing everyone looking at each other, no one came to respond, and sat down with awkward face.

Director Tong stood up and looked around: "Let's just say a long story short, and I'll call you all today to implement the spirit of the last factory-wide conference and support the development of new products."

"We are going to create new products too?" Everyone knew that the trial production of corduroy in the weaving workshop was not going well, and thought they were going to start to make trouble, so they couldn't help but talk.

"Don't make a noise, listen to Director Tong's words." The follower quickly stood up and shook his hands, wanting to calm everyone down.

"Our workshop now weaves 21 yarns and 32 yarns, and we will also have high yarns in the future, but now we are mainly helping the cloth room to get the corduroy out." Director Tong's fat face turned red and couldn't help but amplify his voice. "However, now the weaving workshop has encountered some difficulties. The factory decided to transfer a group of technical backbones from our former spinning workshop with the strongest technical strength to support them."

"Transfer us to the cloth room?" a middle-aged female worker exclaimed.

"Isn't the piece-based salary now? If their corduroy can't be produced and we don't have the workload there, how should we get this bonus?" another female worker asked worriedly.

"Don't think about the bonus? Isn't the bonus cancelled? Now one-third of the salary is floating." The middle-aged female worker turned her face and interrupted her unhappily.

"Where... how do we calculate our salary?" Everyone's eyes turned to the short and fat Director Tong.

"This... this factory must have comprehensive considerations. I need to ask Director Hou for instructions to see if he can give you an average award." Director Tong blinked his mung bean's small eyes, and a layer of fine sweat oozed out of his fat face.

"You didn't think about it at all. Let's go to the bed room?" Someone took the lead and shouted.

"That's right, that's it, I'll give you an average prize? We won't go." The voices became messy again.

I didn't follow everyone to yell. I knew it was useless to yell. I just sat on the stool and watched everyone making noise. Secretary Li sat upright, drinking tea leisurely, and seemed to be unrelated to himself. Master Liu came to him.

"Secretary Li, don't you know that you can get there? With our current equipment, these 50-year-old goods can barely maintain operation. No matter how hard it is, it is difficult to innovate. I visited my relatives a while ago and went back to my hometown in the south. People's townships and enterprises are updating the equipment. Only in this way can the product quality be improved and the product can be upgraded." Master Liu said seriously.

"These are all Director Hou's ideas, and it was his decision." Secretary Li took a sip of tea and replied without a smile.

"You also tell Lao Hou that you can't let him mess around like this." Master Liu was a little anxious, and his voice changed from the peace of the past.

"Director Hou has his own ideas, and it's useless to say others. Is this a matter of this... Secretary Cui is more democratic in the past. Oh - by the way, are you and Director Hou fellow villagers? Go and tell him? Maybe he will listen to you." Secretary Li took another sip of tea and glanced at each other meaningfully.

"This..." Master Liu was immediately stopped by him, and he was stammering and couldn't speak for a while.

That afternoon, Master Liu and I, as support staff, went to the weaving workshop. The machine in front of us was also very loud, but the sound of the shuttle loom here was so loud that it was deafening. Before Master Liu and I had finished half the workshop, we were shocked and wanted to fuck. I really don’t know how the female workers who worked in this environment all year round could endure eight hours a day.

I wanted to look at Li Qin, but I looked it in the workshop, but I didn't find her figure. I thought I probably wouldn't go to the morning shift today. The weaving workshop used to weave 21 and 32 white grey cloths. Because we did not have the ability to print and dye, we would have to transport it to the printing and dyeing factory in the south after we weave it. During the planned economy period, the state issued production tasks and then uniformly distributed them, so there was no sales problem. Now the market is gradually relaxing, especially some township enterprises in the south have risen rapidly, which has a great impact on us. Product transformation and upgrading is imperative. However, can the corduroy in the factory be really successful in the experiment? The words of Master Liu and Uncle Li made me full of doubts.

Finally, I got off work. I quickly packed up my things and ran out of the weaving workshop. On the way to the bathroom to take a shower, I met Senior Brother Cai and his party who came out of the spinning workshop opposite.

"Today, I was arranged to go to the weaving workshop." I greeted Senior Brother Xiao Cai.

"I heard this in the morning. Have you seen Li Qin?" Senior Brother Xiao Cai asked at me.

"I also looked around in the workshop and didn't see her. Didn't I go to morning shift today?" I was a little confused.

"No? It's her turn to work today. How could she go to Wolong Lake yesterday? Do you think the cloth room is so tight now that she can really take a leave?" Senior Brother Cai was confused and his voice became urgent.

"Why... why didn't she come today?" I was also a little confused for a moment, "Don't I caught a cold in the lake yesterday?"

"Maybe, since she hit her last time... she has been saying that she is in poor health." Senior Brother Xiao Cai was really anxious.

"Then you go and have a look after get off work?" I felt a little strange, so I rushed to urge me.

After taking a shower, I broke up with Senior Brother Xiao Cai. I went to the cafeteria to drink a bowl of porridge and ate a steamed bun. Then I walked back slowly. When I passed by the cinema in the living area, I saw people walking in. It seemed that the next movie had not started yet. I looked at the movie poster next to the ticket window with curious look. It was Chen Chong's iconic big eyes. Today's film was called "Abroad Celestial". Chen Chong's family and experience were an enviable legend back then, and it was enough to become the idol of many young men. According to rumors, men with fantasies in all walks of life wrote love letters to her and could be packed in sacks every day.

I followed the crowd and found an empty seat in the front row near the corridor. After the movie started, a man and a woman came in in the dark and sat behind me. The man was watching the movie while chattering with the woman. The plot of the film continued to develop and the female singer's crisp and gentle singing voice could not stop the two of them from being dirty. I glanced back angrily, and with the light projected by the projector, I found that it was Veterinarian Yang who was carrying a hot one.

The curly-haired pancake-faced woman felt even more disgusted. Later, she couldn't stand it, so she stood up and continued to walk forward. Because it was a newly released movie, the cinema was almost full. Finally, I found an empty seat on the front row and watched the whole movie with my neck tilted. To be honest, this movie didn't have any deep impression on me, but the song "I Love You, China" was so exciting that it has spread to this day.

The spring night is very charming, with blue stars blinking mysteriously in the sky, and the mirror-like moonlight pouring brightly onto the vast earth. I returned to the courtyard of the guesthouse and stood under the old ginkgo tree in the front yard. The songs in the movie echoed in my heart, and looked up at the sky. I suddenly remembered a famous saying that Yuan Yuan told me: There are only two kinds of things in the world that can shake our hearts the most, one is the noble moral law in our hearts, and the other is the brilliant starry sky above our heads. At this moment, under the vast starry sky, I felt a strong shock, the depression during the day gradually faded, and my heart felt a sense of purity and open-mindedness.

In the night, a crisp knock on the door sounded, awakening me from my fantasy and sighs, and I walked towards the iron gate of the courtyard in confusion.
Chapter completed!