Scholars in the courtyard

"Director Zheng, I don't think all connections need to be like this, but you can try the parts that often cause problems..."

Yang Xiaotao's voice brought Ran's father back to reality, and then he looked at the drawings.

"The idea is very imaginative, and the point of action of this force is very accurate..."

Ran's father looked at the drawings and expressed his opinions. He even drew some parts and joined in the discussion.

Yang Xiaotao also began to think divergently and put forward his own opinions from time to time.

The two quickly found a common topic on the drawing design. Director Zheng on the side was holding an enamel jar and watching the group of young men discussing there.

I sighed in my heart, if we are not a family, we will not enter the same house.

Time passed quickly, and it was almost time for dinner. Seeing that the two were still discussing, Director Zheng said, "Let's eat first, and continue in the afternoon after eating."

Yang Xiaotao and Ran's father looked at each other and stopped what they were doing.

Director Zheng on the side said something to the guard on the side. The guard nodded and then left the room.

Yang Xiaotao and Ran's father looked at each other, feeling like they were working underground.

"Come on, let's go eat together."

Director Zheng said as he walked out the door, Ran's father got up, and Yang Xiaotao followed.

Seeing Director Zheng's deliberate distance, Ran's father slowed down.

"Is everything okay at home?"

It was a familiar question again, but this time Yang Xiaotao's answer was more straightforward.

"Everything is fine, don't worry about it."

"Um!"

Ran's father didn't know what to ask or say for a moment.

"Well, uncle, if I will go, do I need to tell Qiuye?"

Yang Xiaotao tried to speak, but he couldn't say "Dad", so he just called him "Uncle".

Anyway, many people call it that.

Ran's father didn't care about the title, just thinking about Yang Xiaotao's problem in his heart.

After a long time, he lowered his voice and said, "Better, stop talking."

"Say it, it will cause trouble. Wait..."

Ran's father didn't remain silent for a moment, "I'll explain it when I get back."

Yang Xiaotao nodded.

The two of them continued to move forward. When they reached the corner of the corridor, Yang Xiaotao took a quick step, then put his hand into Ran's father's pocket and quickly took it out.

Ran's father was surprised, and Yang Xiaotao lowered his voice to explain.

"Uncle, this is our family portrait, uh, that temporary family portrait."

After Yang Xiaotao finished speaking, Ran's father paused for a moment, a flash of excitement flashed across his face, and then continued to move forward.

When the two of them arrived at the canteen, a line of people were queuing up with lunch boxes to get food.

Director Zheng came over and handed a lunch box to Yang Xiaotao.

"Lao Huang and the others have already gone back. When it's over here, I'll have someone take you back."

"Okay, thank you, leader."

"It's not working time now, just call me Uncle Zheng."

Director Zheng waved his hand, very kindly.

"Okay, Uncle Zheng."

Yang Xiaotao shouted, but Ran's father beside him was coughing, and the three of them lined up to get food.

You don’t need to spend money or food stamps to eat here, and you can get what you eat.

Each person gets a two-faced steamed bun, and if that's not enough, there is also a steamed bun. Yang Xiaotao found that most people didn't ask for the steamed bun, and he was too embarrassed to take it.

Apart from the steamed buns, there was only a spoonful of potato chunks. It looked a little oily in the soup, but when I looked around with my chopsticks, there was no meat at all.

Yang Xiaotao and Ran's father were sitting on the bench, and several people came around to say hello.

Director Zheng and Father Ran greeted everyone. Many people saw Yang Xiaotao and nodded and smiled even though they didn't recognize him.

After finishing the meal, Yang Xiaotao followed Director Zheng back to the office, but Ran's father went to the toilet.

In the toilet, Ran's father heard that there was no one around, and then took out the photo from his pocket.

Over the years, local comrades have brought a lot of family information, but this is the first time I have seen the photos.

Looking at her one by one, I can see that my wife is older and has more wrinkles, but her appearance is still the same as before.

Is this little guy I’m holding Qiuye’s child?

He has a long head and a big head, and is really white.

This is Qiuye, she’s a big girl, she’s a mother, so good!

Xinrui has also grown up, she looks like her mother, and she smiles really well.

Also, red soldiers.

I tried hard to recall the face in my mind, but I still couldn't match it with the one in the photo.

Wrapped in tears, his vision began to blur.

When he left, the red soldier didn't know how to call him daddy. Now that he's grown so tall, he heard that he wasn't studying well, so he had to take care of this.

I just don’t know what will happen if I see myself?

Will you call me daddy?

Probably, yes.

Tears flowed down uncontrollably.

A family photo with one person missing is right in front of you.

Ran's father watched quietly, letting his tears fall.

When Yang Xiaotao saw Ran's father again, the latter had regained his composure, but his eyes were a little red.

Director Zheng didn't say anything, and the guards on guard didn't pay attention either. The two continued to discuss design issues.

Throughout the afternoon, Yang Xiaotao could feel the change in Ran's father's mentality. His voice became louder and softer.

Start doing something with all your energy.

When the discussion between the two ended at three o'clock in the afternoon, Ran's father put away the drawings, glanced at Yang Xiaotao, and nodded silently.

There was a look of relief in his eyes.

Director Zheng was talking to the guards on the side, and Father Ran took the opportunity to hand the photo to Yang Xiaotao.

In Yang Xiaotao's surprise, he whispered.

"Contented."

Yang Xiaotao was stunned for a moment, and when he saw Ran's father wink at the guard, he immediately understood what was going on and immediately put the photo into the space.

The guard glanced away, not noticing anything unusual, and nodded to Director Zheng.

After a while, Yang Xiaotao left the base under the leadership of the guards.

After Yang Xiaotao left, Ran's father returned to his chair, and Director Zheng took out his collection of cigarettes.

"This guy is good."

"You don't need to tell me, how can my daughter's taste be so bad?"

"Hey, I'm talking about work."

Director Zheng looked at the changed drawings, and Father Ran nodded.

"If the previous plan doesn't work, then try another way."

"Didn't the Commander-in-Chief say that what works well abroad may not be good for us? Whatever they look like, we must have our own look."

Father Ran nodded, "Then give it a try."

"I'm going back to change the drawings."

Director Zheng nodded, and Ran's father walked to the door, "By the way, they call me uncle, but now I am my uncle?"

"You have to be kind."

After that, he left.

Director Zheng was stunned for a long time, and then he smiled helplessly, "This Lao Ran!"

They are both the same age, but he is one month younger.

However, hearing Yang Xiaotao call him uncle, it was indeed a head start against Lao Ran.

Ha ha

Feeling happy, Director Zheng took out the letter paper from the drawer and wrote the words "Memo".

He needs to explain clearly the cause, process and results of the incident, especially the aspects involved in Yang Xiaotao's behavior.

Then it goes through layers of approval and confirmation until there are no problems.

Otherwise it will be of no benefit to Yang Xiaotao.

When Yang Xiaotao returned to his residence, Zhang Dedao came over and walked around Yang Xiaotao, making Yang Xiaotao look disgusted.

"Niubi, what are you doing?"

"Oh, you just came back empty-handed?"

Zhang Dedao said nonchalantly, and raised his head and sighed.

"Well, I came back empty-handed."

"No fun. What's for lunch?"

“Good food!”

"It's boring."

After sending Zhang Dedao away, Yang Xiaotao took out the photo from the space, looked at it, and suddenly found words on the back.

"May your family be healthy and everything goes well."

No signature, no time.

But Yang Xiaotao was sure that this was left by Ran's father.

After putting the photos away, Yang Xiaotao felt that he still had to tell Ran Mu and Qiu Ye about this.

After all, this has been their spiritual sustenance for many years.

After putting away the photos, Yang Xiaotao cleaned up, looked at the gloomy sky outside the window, and tightened the collar of his coat.

"This weather is so cold!"

Xiaowei crawled out from the bed board, jumped into Yang Xiaotao's pocket, and then screamed twice, very unhappy.

Yang Xiaotao guessed that it was the cloudy weather that delayed her ability to absorb energy.

When we came here, there was enough sunshine for Xiaowei to jump around for a long time.

The most direct manifestation is that the time Yang Xiaotao watches "Video Peeping" has doubled, and the sufficient sunshine has increased the frequency from once every half month to once every ten days.

"It's going to snow. When it passes, we'll go home."

Yang Xiaotao said to Xiaowei, and responded with two hisses.

Get up and prepare to go next door to see Liu Daming.

The weather has changed so much recently. It's okay to have the sun during the day, but it can freeze to death at night.

At Liu Daming's age, he couldn't stand the cold.

If there are heating stoves that can be used in Sijiucheng, there are not many stoves here, let alone heating stoves.

Moreover, when supplies are scarce, even coal must be used sparingly.

Sometimes, Yang Xiaotao can't wait to take out the things in the storage space to improve life here.

Reason told him, no.

Because this is a materialistic world.

Take it out, it would be strange if you don't die.

…

Sijiucheng, Siheyuan.

The sun was shining brightly, and the sun was setting in the west, reflecting half of the sky in red.

In the yard, under the big locust tree, Ran Qiuye drove his bicycle out.

Little Dragon Boat Festival sat on a special small chair, which Yang Xiaotao specially gave Little Dragon Boat Festival to sit on.

The small chair was fixed to the beam, surrounded by wood, and had two strips of cloth behind it to serve as safety belts.

At this time, Little Dragon Boat Festival was fixed on the chair, with two small hands wearing gloves made by Ran Qiuye, pressing on the wooden board to stand up.

Wearing a small hat on his head, his big round eyes looked at the bicycle bell, which was very novel.

"Qiuye, are you going home?"

Liu Yulan saw the rice noodles carried on the back of Ran Qiuye's car and a piece of pork hanging on the handlebar, and asked curiously.

"Well, let's go back to my parents' house and visit."

"I'll go back to school tomorrow."

"I haven't been back for a long time. There have been too many things going on in the factory these days. You don't know. The pressure cooker that was making a fuss this time has been taken away. I heard that it was used by the machine repair shop to copy it. Alas, this happened. , it was all good, but it’s all those guys’ fault, they obviously don’t have the ability but they still show off..."

Liu Yulan got angry when she talked about this.

Ran Qiuye was not in a hurry and soon understood what was going on.

Since the pressure cooker exploded and killed a person, even if it only lasted one night, it alarmed many people.

These days, the death of a worker is not a trivial matter, and the superiors have even sent an investigation team to identify the circumstances of the accident.

At first, people in the workshop thought there was a problem with the design of the pressure cooker itself, and many workshops abandoned the semi-finished pressure cooker.

Unexpectedly, the end result was that people from Workshop 10 modified the parameters without authorization and made operational errors, which led to the tragedy.

At this time, I even heard that the superior leaders assigned the pressure cooker project to the machine repair shop, and the machine repair shop would carry out copy production.

After everyone found out, they felt so hateful in their hearts.

As an honorable member of the steel rolling mill, even if there is competition between several internal workshops, the meat and potatoes belong to the steel rolling mill itself. Who would have thought that this time, outsiders would be given the advantage.

"These people are like rat shit. They can't do good things, but they can only do disgusting things."

Liu Yulan glanced at the Jia family and felt unhappy. If it weren't for them, the steel rolling mill would have another income.

I heard Mr. Chen Bin say that it was a big deal, even worse than a tractor.

pity…

"It's a pity. If Brother Tao were here, we wouldn't have to go to such trouble, and we wouldn't have to take advantage of outsiders."

Liu Yulan said, Ran Qiuye felt a sense of longing in his heart after hearing this, but it was quickly suppressed in his heart.

Men should not be house sparrows staying at home, but eagles soaring high.

The two of them wanted to continue talking, and Wangcai barked twice as a reminder to leave. Liu Yulan then stopped and watched Ran Qiuye push the car away.

I was still upset, "What a great opportunity, it was wasted like this."

"well!"