Scholars in the courtyard

The Chinese New Year has just passed, and people in Sijiu City have already begun to rush for their livelihood for the next year.

Unlike in later generations, there is no vacation or going to school after fifteen. In this era, everyone is dedicating their youth, especially in an era when living conditions are facing severe challenges. Even people in the Forty-Nine Cities must prepare for life early. be prepared.

When Yang Xiaotao was in the second grade of junior high school, he called his brothers and sisters from the Zhou family, and also called several peers from the Wang family over.

Also coming along was the Wang family's aunt, who was asked to help with the cooking.

In this meal, braised pork, twice-cooked pork and roast chicken became the protagonists, which made Aunt Wang, the cook, speechless. The man in their family worked in a meat factory and had never had such a meal during the Chinese New Year.

The children didn't think much about it. They salivated at the sight of the large pieces of braised pork. Once stewed in the big pot, the whole house was filled with the aroma of meat, and then the whole yard was filled with aroma.

Naturally, there was another round of discussion.

Among them, Mrs. Jia Zhang stared with triangular eyes and spit out feces from her mouth, but she was eager to go in and take a bite.

In the end, Jia Dongxu couldn't help it and asked Qin Huairu to take two taels of pork and send it to Sha Zhu, and they had lunch at Sha Zhu's house.

After the second grade of junior high school, Yang Xiaotao continued to read at home and had a leisurely life.

Of course, it would be nice if someone cooked for him.

On the third day of junior high school, Yang Xiaotao and Zhou Peng went to Wang Fa and other workers together. Work had not started yet, so naturally they had plenty of time.

From then until the sixth day of the lunar month, I didn't have a meal these days. From time to time I went to Uncle Chen's house next door to have something to eat. Of course, I always brought something with me.

However, after this year, Yang Xiaotao has a good relationship with several families in the yard. Perhaps he was already on good terms with the Yang family, but he was frightened by Yang Xiaotao's explosion a year ago. This time, he just walked around during the New Year, which can be regarded as re-establishing the relationship. Start friendship.

At this point, Yang Xiaotao has his own small circle in this courtyard.

Uncle Chen's family and Wang Dashan's family are the core existence.

In addition, there are the Zhou family and the families of several workers.

These are not simple fair-weather friends.

The warm and simple society made Yang Xiaotao feel a different human flavor again. Unknowingly, the nostalgia for his previous life was fading in his mind, which Yang Xiaotao did not notice.

On the sixth day of the lunar month, Xiaowei was flying around the house all morning, feeling a little excited.

Today is a good day. The sun came out early and radiated warmth.

Xiaowei ran to the window for a while, and flew to the door frame for a while, greedily absorbing the energy in the light.

In the past few days, the entire house has been repaired by Xiaowei. After the original ventilation doors and windows were repaired, they were no worse than the double-glazed windows in the previous life. At least the cold wind could not blow in.

In addition, the mottled table has become smooth, and the musty smell on the bed has disappeared.

What's even more incredible is that the iron-cold quilt has become soft, like new cotton, covering the body very warmly.

Not only that, the cotton-padded jacket and trousers he wore remained the same on the outside, but the cotton inside seemed to have bloomed again, and the warmth was several times higher than before.

Yang Xiaotao got up, opened the door and looked at the courtyard. Feeling the excitement from Xiaowei, he thought about how to use this small courtyard.

After all, this is a courtyard house, except for this wing room, there is no other place.

Moreover, this was bought by my father and truly belongs to the Yang family.

Thinking of the value of such a small courtyard and such a house in this forty-nine cities decades later, Yang Xiaotao wanted to go back to the house and offer incense to his father.

"It's still a bit small. When it opens up, we must buy a few more courtyard houses."

"When the time comes, when I stand in front of my children and grandchildren, I can proudly say, look, this is the country I have laid for you."

Yang Xiaotao fell into a state of lust, but was awakened by the cold wind.

"Let's make money first to fill our stomachs."

Walking out the door, he took a bucket of water from the tap and carried it home.

After a simple wash, he walked out of the door with the people working in the yard.

In the crowd, the elders Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong walked together, behind them Jia Dongxu and Shazhu, and behind them Xu Damao with a gloomy face.

This year, Xu Damao and his father and mother went back to the countryside and came back on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. At this time, following Xu's father, he saw Yang Xiaotao's face full of hatred, but when he saw Silly Zhu, he was a little dodgy.

Silly Zhu hasn't settled the accounts with him yet for what happened last time.

He would not simply think that Shazhu would swallow this breath. He knew Shazhu well, and Shazhu was the kind of person who would definitely avenge himself.

It's just a matter of time.

Rumble

Walking into the workshop, a familiar voice sounded again.

As a fitter, you naturally have to be familiar with various related operations.

These mainly include carving, filing, sawing, scoring, drilling, reaming, tapping and threading (see thread processing), scraping, grinding, straightening, bending and riveting, etc.

Of course, the simple summary is machining parts and equipment maintenance.

For Yang Xiaotao, equipment maintenance is too far away and too mysterious.

In the entire steel rolling mill, there are only a few dozen people who can repair equipment. Those people are no longer fitters, but engineers above level eight fitters.

Already qualified to repair equipment.

Of course, there is a huge gap from level eight fitter to level nine engineer.

Otherwise, Yi Zhonghai would not have been an eighth-level worker for so many years.

Yang Xiaotao came to the workstation, wiped the vise clean, and then arranged the tools neatly and put them in a convenient place.

Because he was promoted to level one fitter, the tasks assigned were naturally heavier and more difficult.

From this aspect, the work of a fitter is more like distribution according to work. If you do well, your salary will be high.

It was much earlier than the later household responsibility system.

Before the start of work, director Wang Guodong said a lot of words as usual, and then everyone shouted slogans in excitement.

The entire third workshop is full of energy and a group of workers are full of passion.

Yang Xiaotao took over the tasks assigned by Wang Fa and started to work.

For a fitter, this is a physically demanding job.

Fortunately, after Xiaowei's continuous energy feedback these days, his physical fitness has steadily improved. As long as he can keep up with his meals, Yang Xiaotao estimates that in another year, his physical fitness will be considered first-rate in this workshop.

The morning passed quickly, and Yang Xiaotao walked into the canteen with his coworkers.

The factory also knows that the workers work hard, so the food contains a lot of oil and water. Although the taste is worse than that of other restaurants, the ingredients used will never be saved.

Yang Xiaotao was at the back, holding in his hand a 2-tael vegetable ticket, a 1-tael meat ticket and a 1-tael steamed bun ticket.

These are all paid together with wages, but they vary according to different positions and levels.

But purchasing power is universal in these 49 cities.

Of course, there is also a kind of food stamps called national food stamps.

This kind of food stamps can be used across the country as you can see from the literal meaning.

Because this kind of food stamps can be exchanged for cooking oil, you must exchange a certain number of national food stamps if you want to go out.

And this exchange ratio is not one to one. Sometimes it is common for two local food stamps of the same value to be exchanged for one national food stamp.

Yang Xiaotao took the food stamps, and with his salary as a fitter and the single ticket, he could not only eat meat every day, but also eat meat in the factory.

But before I even got close to the meal, I saw the silly pillar standing by the window.

Something came to mind, which made me a little nauseous, but I didn't take it seriously.

If you really want to disgust yourself, then don't blame him for taking revenge in the future.

At this time, Shazhu was not the chef yet, so he still had to do the cooking.

Silly Zhu also saw Yang Xiaotao and raised the corner of his mouth.

The team quickly moved forward, and finally it was Yang Xiaotao's turn.

Seeing Silly Zhu's proud look, Yang Xiaotao ignored him, put the lunch box away, and shouted loudly, "One portion of potatoes, one portion of meat and vegetables. Two steamed buns."

Silly Zhu pulled up the corner of his mouth and snorted coldly, then took out a spoon accurately, and brought it down with a flat spoon. There was a layer of meat on the spoon.

Fat and thin, looking very tempting.

Silly Zhu raised the spoon in the air, pointed it at Yang Xiaotao's lunch box and put it down. But the moment it fell, his wrist shook slightly, and the top meat slices fell down.

When the rice spoon is placed in the lunch box, there is a layer of oily cabbage leaves on top, but there are only one or two pieces of meat from the upper layer, which are stuck at the bottom. Others can't see it. Only the lifted spoon can be seen covered with meat. There was no meat, but Yang Xiaotao could see clearly that there were three pieces of meat in this meal because Silly Zhu’s conscience discovered it.

Yang Xiaotao didn't say much, took the lunch box and left.

Shazhu felt happy in front of the window. When Yang Xiaotao ate it, he realized that there was not much meat, would it be uncomfortable?

Feeling happy in my heart, I continued to make meals for others.

When you meet someone you are acquainted with, hit him more; when you meet someone who is an eyesore, start shaking the spoon.

Especially Xu Damao, who received the same treatment as Yang Xiaotao at Shazhu's window, looked at Shazhu and smiled proudly. Xu Damao could only return to his seat with a stinky look on his face, picking up the food and feeling a bad taste in his mouth.

Looking at Yang Xiaotao on the other side, Xu Damao rolled his eyes and picked up his lunch box and came to the opposite side.

"Xiao Tao, this silly Zhu is so useless. If you give me a piece of meat for one or two meat coupons, you are so useless."

Xu Damao said while looking at Yang Xiaotao.

Yang Xiaotao ignored him, finished eating quickly, stood up, covered the lunch box and cleaned it.

Xu Damao said something about loneliness, and angrily inserted his chopsticks into the lunch box, and his whole person became gloomy.

Yang Xiaotao ignored Xu Damao because he knew that Xu Damao was not a good person, and was even worse than Silly Zhu.

If you are with such a person, you may be betrayed at some point.

After dinner, I found a place to sit in the sun next to the vehicle. There is no central air conditioning yet, and the workshop is ventilated everywhere, so I can keep myself warm when I start working, but I still feel cold when I am idle.

There was an hour and a half meal break at noon. Yang Xiaotao, Wang Fa and the others chatted for a while, then took out a book from their arms and started reading.

He also knows that to improve his fitter skills now, it is better to rely on the system than to rely on himself.

As long as you have enough credits, your abilities can be improved.

There is another grading assessment in March this year, and he wants to eat more meat.

I continued working in the afternoon and it was another busy afternoon.

When the sun set and the factory bell rang, Yang Xiaotao put down his work, tidied up the work station, and then walked out of the workshop.

The sky was gloomy and dark, as if rain and snow were brewing overhead again, which made Yang Xiaotao speed up his return home.

Back in the courtyard, lights were lit in every house, the aroma of rice began to rise, and it looked like fireworks in the world.

Yang Xiaotao opened the door and looked at the small traps set up before leaving. No one entered his room.

Make a fire, warm the house, read a book, and entertain Xiaowei.

sleep after.