Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

People do not blame.

Although it was a simple matter of asking a workshop director to "take care" of Yan Jiefang, just a matter of a word from the other party, Wang Dong still brought him a cured chicken.

Although he was the deputy director of the steel mill's kitchen, he was a cook after all, so no one would object if he sent a cured chicken.

Although the director of a workshop is not Deputy Director Li's man, he does not want to offend Deputy Director Li. After all, Deputy Director Li's prestige in the steel rolling mill has surpassed Director Yang.

Maybe one day he will replace Director Yang and become the real boss of the steel mill.

Wang Dong was Deputy Director Li's confidant and deputy director of the steel mill's kitchen. He came to ask Wang Dong for a small favor. If he refused even such a small favor, and the news got out, it would be tantamount to not giving face to Deputy Director Li.

Moreover, the other party brought a cured chicken that made one drool. The workshop director had no reason to refuse and agreed on the spot.

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A workshop in a steel rolling mill.

According to regulations, all apprentices must gather at the workshop entrance ten minutes before they officially start work.

Apprentices with a master will follow their master to work.

Apprentices who do not have a master will have their work assigned by the workshop director and several team leaders.

Yan Jiefang was as stingy as his father. No experienced fitter would be willing to take him as an apprentice. He could only work in a workshop and do whatever his leader asked him to do.

I plan to become a regular employee by mixing my qualifications.

When my salary increases in the future and I have more spare money, I will try to find a free master to teach me locksmithing skills.

Yan Jiefang’s plan is sound, but only God knows whether it can be realized in the end.

Looking at the twenty or so apprentices who had not yet found a master, the team leader in charge of directing them couldn't help but take another look at Yan Jiefang. He wondered how he had offended the workshop director that he was asked by the workshop director to "take care of" them.

The team leader dared not disobey the director's orders at all.

The director has the final say in the entire workshop. If he is not satisfied with what you do, he may remove you from your position as team leader the next day and replace you with someone else.

Being the team leader would give him a five-dollar subsidy. Even for the five-dollar subsidy, he would severely punish Yan Jiefang.

Moreover.

Yan Jiefang is a well-known stingy person in the workshop.

In order to find a master earlier or get some care when assigning tasks, other apprentices would give themselves some benefits more or less. They surrounded Yan Jiefang and kept giving themselves gifts. Normally, they never even saw him smoking a cigarette.

The team leader had been displeased with him for a long time.

But he didn't dare to deal with him openly, for fear that he would report him and affect his position as team leader.

Now with the sword given by the director, the team leader can finally take revenge on Yan Jiefang.

After a little thought, he made a decision in his mind: "Today's transportation task is a bit heavy. The factory will deliver more than 100 boxes of various raw materials. The transportation task is a bit heavy. Yan Jiefang will also join the transportation team today."

Yan Jiefang's brows immediately frowned.

Perhaps because Yan Fugui limited their daily food rations, the three brothers of the Yan family all grew up to be very thin and weak, and their strength was far less than that of other people.

Because of this reason, Yan Jiefang has never been assigned to move materials by the workshop.

One workshop is responsible for processing various parts using rough blanks. Some of the rough blanks are small and weigh only a few pounds.

But some of the rough pieces are very large, weighing at least forty or fifty kilograms.

Asking a person who does not have much strength to transport these rough pieces will not only waste time but also easily lead to production accidents.

I didn't expect that the team leader would arrange for me to move the rough pieces today. Could he have made a mistake? I subconsciously asked, "Team leader..."

"You want me to move the rough pieces?"

"Is it not possible?" the team leader asked back unhappily.

Yan Jiefang didn't dare to offend his direct superior without being promoted, so he quickly shook his head: "Of course, of course..."

"I was just worried that I was not strong enough and would delay my co-workers and affect their getting off work."

The team leader answered confidently: "I have already thought about this question for everyone."

"There are more than a hundred boxes of rough embryos. Each person is responsible for twenty boxes. When we finish moving them, we can leave."

"If there are other apprentices who are free and you have a good relationship, you can ask them for help."

"If I can't find any workers to help me, I'll just move the things slowly by myself, and I'll go home when I finish the task."

"We are all apprentices. We cannot let some people do heavy physical work every day just because they are strong, and let those with less strength do easy work."

"This is obviously unfair to those workers who are strong."

"From today on, all apprentices will have to move rough pieces. It will be a rotation, and there will be no fixed selection."

"Of course, if an apprentice finds a master, learns benchwork skills from the master, and helps the master, then he doesn't have to move the rough pieces."

The team leader's words sounded righteous and very fair. Although Yan Jiefang didn't want to move the rough pieces, he couldn't find any reason to refute and had to accept the task.

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Once they arrived at the place, several apprentices who were responsible for carrying the rough pieces quickly received their own tasks.

They deal with these rough blanks every day, and can tell at a glance which box contains the heavy rough blanks and which box contains the light rough blanks.

And these people are very familiar with each other and have a good relationship.

After a brief discussion, they decided to do the same as before, with the two of them cooperating with each other to carry the rough pieces. This not only saved effort but also was very fast.

Yan Jiefang was a newcomer who had just joined the team, and because he was too stingy, he couldn't find any apprentices who got along with him.

He saw other apprentices working in pairs, carrying boxes weighing more than 100 kilograms to the workshop. He had no partner, so he definitely couldn't move the boxes weighing more than 100 kilograms by himself.

There was no other choice but to open the boxes and move the rough pieces one by one.

But soon he was shocked by the rough embryo in the box.

A box contains three rough pieces, each weighing forty to fifty kilograms.

Twenty boxes mean sixty rough pieces of similar size. If he were to transport them to the workshop bit by bit, that would be the end of him.

Subconsciously, I went to find the team leader to see if I could be given a different task.

But I quickly gave up the idea.

The team leader just said it clearly, from now on all apprentices without a master will take turns carrying these rough pieces.

If I go to him now, not only will I fail to achieve my goal, but I will also be scolded by him, which will annoy the team leader and will not be worth it in the end.

I could only grit my teeth and move these rough pieces to the workshop.

In less than an hour, Yan Jiefang was sweating profusely, and he had only moved six rough pieces, which was just 10% of the task.

At this speed, even if he skipped lunch, he would have to wait until eight or nine in the evening to complete the task. (End of this chapter)