Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 2
Walking out of the factory gate, Duan Yuncai saw the era he had traveled to for the first time with his own eyes.

In his previous life, Duan Yun was born in 85. As a child, he had no memory of the entire 80s.

The sky was gray, and the surrounding buildings were very simple, and the tones were a little dull, making Duan Yun feel like he was in the nostalgic old photos on the Internet in the past.

The memory of the predecessor became clearer and clearer, and Duan Yun quickly learned about the factory.

Red Star Gear Factory was built in the ancient city of Daxing under the guidance of experts from the former Soviet Union during the country's "Second Five-Year Plan". Today, the factory has more than 700 formal employees, and it is regarded as one of the key state-owned enterprises in Daxing.

The factory area of ​​the gear factory is small. There is only a street of more than 500 meters in front of the factory gate. On both sides of the street, there are grain stores, restaurants, police stations, health centers, department stores, bathhouses, newsstands, etc. It is a small ecology of its own. society.

In fact, Duan Yun’s predecessor has only just entered the factory for less than a month. Before that, he had been to the countryside in northern Shaanxi for six years. At the beginning of the year, he received a notice to return to his hometown and returned to work at the Red Star Gear Factory.

From a promising doctoral researcher to an ordinary worker 40 years ago, the speed of the fall is as fast as a free body.

The only thing that makes Duan Yun happy is that the difference between his current body and his previous life is not too big. He has been in the countryside for six years and spends most of his time picking dung to earn work points. You can clearly see the eight-pack abs that Duan Yun dreamed of in his previous life!
With a strong body, strong energy, and the memory and mind of his previous life, Duan Yun's heart surged for a moment, and there was an indescribable excitement.

At this moment, Duan Yun even felt that the air was full of the smell of banknotes.

"Brother!" At this moment, Duan Yun heard a shout and looked after the sound, and saw a handsome, thin, [-]-year-old girl wearing a blue school uniform with two oil-black braids. ran over.

With the memory of his previous life, Duan Yun quickly recognized that this girl was his 'sister' Duan Fang, who is currently in the second year of high school in a factory-run middle school, and will take the college entrance examination next year.

In this era, ordinary families have many brothers and sisters. Family planning was only proposed in the early 70s. Before that, the national slogan was "the strength of a large number of people", so it is normal for an ordinary family to have three, four or even more children. matter.

But the situation of Duan Yun's family is a bit special. Duan Yun's father was originally a math teacher in a factory-run middle school. He eventually died of a heart attack on the stage of Theater Street. At that time, his sister was just four years old...

In the following years, the family of three relied on their mother, Gao Xiuzhi, to make a living on the meager wages of her mother, Gao Xiuzhi.

"Brother, I heard you... You have an accident?" Duan Fang, the younger sister, asked with concern before and after Duan Yun on the runway.

"It's okay, isn't it okay for me?" Duan Yun heard a warm heart, and then said with a smile.

"Then just now, Xiao Li from your workshop came to our house to tell you..."

"I just choked on the water and almost didn't come up in one breath." Duan Yun said casually.

"But they say you..."

"They're all bullshit, don't listen to them!" Duan Yun didn't want his sister to be frightened.

"So that's what happened. I was so frightened just now... Go home quickly, fortunately Mom hasn't gotten off work, otherwise Mom wouldn't be sure what happened." Duan Fang grabbed her brother's arm, Go straight to the living area.

Most of the family buildings in the living area of ​​the gear factory are the kind of bungalows built with the aid of the Soviet Union. A long, dimly lit corridor is strung with many single rooms of about 10 square meters. Each floor has a public water room, toilet, and corridor. It was full of miscellaneous items from various households, and it looked mottled and outdated.

Some women who got off work early had already started to cook in the corridors. The fumes that rolled from time to time made Duan Yun feel a sense of suffocation. As a person from a previous life, Duan Yun was obviously not quite used to the environment here.

Several neighbors in the aisle looked at the Duan Yun brothers and sisters with strange eyes.

For a long time, many neighbors and relatives thought that the Duan family was almost over, the father died young, the mother had a meager income in the sewing club, and the son was an uneducated fool. I can't stand this door.

Therefore, the surrounding neighbors hardly interact with the Duan family, but Duan Yun returned to his hometown and entered the factory this time, and everyone took a look at their family.

However, Duan Yun doesn't care about the strange eyes of his neighbors looking at him. It is human nature to dislike the poor and love the rich, even in this era when the proletariat is the master of the house.

Duan Yun's house is located on the innermost position on the left side of the second floor. The room is more than ten square meters. The furniture arrangement inside is simply shabby. Except for the two beds and three folding chairs separated by curtains, there is only a single stand and a cabinet. A sewing machine.

There are also some books on the sewing machine. Usually, my mother will take some private work of making clothes. In the evening, she will use it as a writing desk for Duan Fang when she does not need it.

In the memory of the previous life, Duan Yun was very stupid and dropped out of middle school before finishing high school, while his younger sister Duan Fang was very smart, and the rows of three excellent student awards hanging on the wall were all hers.

"Is this your English textbook?" Duan Yun asked after picking up a book from the sewing machine and flipping through it.

"Yeah." Duan Fang nodded when she heard the words, then took out a few potatoes from the bag under the bed, and said, "I'll cut the vegetables first."

Taking advantage of the few people in the corridor, Duan Fang wanted to wash and cut the vegetables before her mother got off work.

Duan Yun flipped through the English book and suddenly thought.

It has been five years since the official resumption of the college entrance examination in 1977, and now there is a craze for college entrance examination tutoring across the country.

It is difficult for people in later generations to imagine the enthusiasm of young people for the college entrance examination in the 80s. In an era when there were no mobile phones and computers and various entertainment activities were barren, many young people chose to devote their time and energy to tutoring and college entrance examinations. The halo of the 'Pride of Heaven' on the heads of many college students and the admirable job assignments have greatly stimulated many young people who are dissatisfied with real life and want to change their destiny through reading.

As a doctoral student in a previous life, Duan Yun's professional knowledge and educational background may be difficult to find a second person in the whole country. After all, in his brain, he has electronic engineering technology that is decades ahead of this era.

But Duan Yun now has knowledge and no education. If he wants to regain his education, everything has to start from scratch.

Compared with the college entrance examination of later generations, the college entrance examination in this era is much easier. With Duan Yun's ability, he can naturally go to college without any suspense.

However, this month should have passed the college entrance examination, and Duan Yun can only wait another year if he wants to go to university.

Moreover, the Red Star Gear Factory where Duan Yun is currently located is also a professional counterpart to Duan Yun, and maybe he can find a new starting point for his life and career from here.

Putting down Duan Fang's textbook in his hand, Duan Yun glanced at the radio on the trunk.

"Brother! You went into the city this Sunday to fix the radio. It hasn't been turned on for a few days." At this time, Fang, carrying a pot of freshly cut shredded potatoes, walked in and took a look at Duan Yun and said.

"Does this thing still need to be repaired in the city?" Duan Yun smiled when he heard this, and then said, "I'll try it."

After all, Duan Yun is a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. Repairing such an old-fashioned radio is no problem at all, and Duan Yun himself has a special obsession with electrical technology, so naturally he will not miss this opportunity to display his talents.

"Brother, can you fix it? Don't fix it." Duan Fang said with a frown.

These days, a small radio costs at least 100 yuan, which is almost two or three months' wages for a worker. Naturally, Duan Fang is very worried that her brother will ruin him.

"Don't worry." Duan Yun replied casually, then took out the screwdriver and gauze from the small drawer on the left side of the sewing machine, and sat down in front of the bed with the radio in his arms and studied.

Generally, tools such as a multimeter and an electric soldering iron are needed to repair this kind of radio, but Duan Yun plans to look at the internal structure of this radio first, and then do other processing.

Seeing this, Duan Fang pouted and walked away. Although she didn't believe that her stupid brother could really repair the radio, she had to go to the city to fix it anyway, so she simply turned around and continued to wash the dishes. .

After taking apart the back cover of the radio, Duan Yun blew off the dust inside with his mouth and wiped it with a dry cloth. At a glance, he saw obvious rust on the link switch coil.

Duan Yun was overjoyed when he saw this, it seemed that he no longer needed other tools to handle this radio.

After gently scraping off the rust with a flat-head screwdriver, Duan Yun re-installed the battery, turned the switch, and suddenly there was a rustling sound inside.

"There's a sound!?" Hearing the sound of the radio, Duan Fang immediately ran back to the house, looking at Duan Yun with a look of surprise.

"It's all trivial." Duan Yun smiled and said, "Your brother, I'm an electronic technology expert..."

"Bragging! It must be your blind cat who met a dead mouse and fixed it." Duan Fang gave his brother a white look, and then a smile appeared on his face, and said, "Now you can continue to learn English!"

"Learn English?" Duan Yun was taken aback when he heard the words.

(End of this chapter)