Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 289 New Year's Day
Although it is temporarily impossible to establish its own private enterprise, the workshop still needs to be carefully managed.

Now that New Year's Day is approaching, the workers in the factory are all given things, mainly apples and some non-staple foods such as meat and eggs. At this time of the year, the factory has already begun to send people to the goods station to entrust the relationship to purchase a large number of things.

In fact, the wages of these young workers in Duanyun Workshop are far higher than their wages in the factory. If you have money, you can buy food and drink, even food stamps and meat stamps. You can also use the money to go directly to the black market. Change.

But people's hearts are very delicate. Duan Yun knows that now Cui Linleizi and his group of young workers abandon their iron jobs in the factory and follow them. .

Therefore, in addition to guaranteeing their wages, Duan Yun also needs to pay some benefits regularly. Although it doesn’t cost much to give out some fruits, meat and eggs during the holidays, but they can take things home, which will also make their families look different. This is also a very face-saving thing, and it will improve the morale and sense of belonging of the team.

As for how much to distribute, Duan Yun's standard for comparison is the factory. If the factory distributed ten catties of apples this time, Duan Yun would distribute twenty catties each!Anyway, compared to Duan Yun's money, these things are just a small amount of money, not worth mentioning.

In fact, when Duan Yun passed by the factory these days, he already felt the festive atmosphere of New Year's Day.

A row of red flags had been neatly planted at the gates of the Red Star Gear Factory and the Staff Club, and the banner of "Celebrating New Year's Day" was hung in the most conspicuous position.

In the early 80s, China's economy began to pick up.Organizations of various units will take the lead in organizing lively gala parties and cultural and sports activities.The Chinese New Year Tea Party is also one of them.

All over the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, Artists Association, Calligraphers Association, etc. will hold a New Year tea party on New Year's Day.Everyone took advantage of this annual opportunity to gather together to drink tea, exchange ideas, and learn from each other. At that time, when we went to the Calligraphers Association, everyone was writing calligraphy and writing Spring Festival couplets for free.

For the people of later generations, they will choose to go out on holidays and other activities, but in today's era when material and entertainment activities are relatively scarce, festivals like New Year's Day are particularly warm and joyful.

The trade union of Red Star Gear Factory also held a lot of New Year's Day activities. Movie tickets were handed out. In addition, there were tug-of-war in various workshops, basketball, table tennis and other sports competitions.

Employees from all workshops signed up to participate in the event very enthusiastically, and the reason is very simple, because as long as they participate in the competition, at least there will be a commemorative prize, soap, shampoo, and Chinese toothpaste are still available.

Duan Yun also decided to close the workshop for two days on New Year's Day. After hearing the news, Cui Linleizi and others cheered.

You know, Duan Yun's team has been in a high-intensity work since the broadcast of "Blood Doubt" in September. Although it has eased for a while, these young workers still come to various factories to install and Sales, basically no rest on Sunday.

This New Year's Day holiday is also the first holiday for the small workshop in the past two months. Duan Yun wants them to have time to hang out with each other. After all, making money is not the whole of life.

Similarly, the correspondence station of Duan Yunye University is also closed on New Year's Day, so Duan Yun doesn't have to send Cheng Qingyan to night school during this period.

The weather was a little bit cold. On New Year's Day, Duan Yun woke up early, and when he arrived at the hospital, he had to go through the transfer procedures for his mother.

Now that Gao Xiuzhi's body has recovered a bit, she can get out of bed and go to the bathroom by herself, and the incision healed very quickly. After several dressing changes, the wound has obviously begun to heal.

The third hospital is a bit far away, and my younger sister Duan Fang also misses her mother very much. In order to take care of her, Duan Yun finally decided to transfer her mother to the employee inpatient building in the factory area. Although the medical facilities of the employee hospital in the factory area are far worse than those of the third hospital, But there is no problem with infusion in the hospital. In addition, after the mother moved to the factory area, it is convenient for me and my sister to take care of me.

Duan Yun's mother put on a thick military overcoat, then helped her out of the inpatient building, sat on the cot, and left the hospital slowly.

At the beginning, Duan Yun wanted to find a quiet single room for his mother, but his mother liked to be lively, so Duan Yun had no choice but to change his mother to a triple room.

In the ward besides Gao Xiuzhi, there were two other middle-aged women who were hospitalized, both of whom were more talkative. In just one morning, Gao Xiuzhi had already chatted with these two about their parents like sisters.

These two are pure housewives, their husbands work in a factory, and they have many children at home, and they have never met Duan Yun before.

Gao Xiuzhi can now eat normally. When Duan Yun was at home, he would cook porridge and boil eggs and send them to the hospital for his mother to eat. Sometimes Duan Yun would lead Duan Fang to deliver meals to his mother.

At five o'clock this afternoon, it was almost time for dinner, and the family members of the other two patients in the ward had already come to deliver meals.

"Xiao Gao, my son's food is a bit too much today. If you are hungry, I will share with you. You can't finish it anyway." A fat woman on the bed next to her said to Gao Xiuzhi.

"No, my son will be here soon." Gao Xiuzhi said with a smile.

"We all work in the same factory, and it's fate that we can live in the same ward. In the future, we will have to travel more..." The fat woman sighed softly and said, "I have finally survived these two years. Both sons have entered the steel casting workshop, and the director of the workshop also thinks highly of my eldest son. Some time ago, he was planning to promote him to be the supervisor, and his salary has also increased by several dollars..."

"Either sister Liu, you are lucky." The middle-aged woman by the window also interjected, and said, "Actually, my son is not bad. My eldest son has been in the army for three years. Promote him to become a platoon leader... I thought about waiting for him to come back professionally, and he would be a professional local cadre, so I have to find him a wife who is well-matched..."

"Speaking of my son's marriage, I have a headache. There are too many people in the factory who tell my son that they are married. Last month, a girl came into the house with my son. She insisted on staying at my house, but I drove her away in the end." Now... You said why girls nowadays are so shameless, and don't look at their own conditions, just a contract worker in a factory, always thinking about climbing high..."

"There are so many girls like this now, so it's no surprise." The woman by the window smiled, and then asked Gao Xiuzhi: "By the way, Xiao Gao, isn't your son also a regular worker in our factory? Is there a target?"

"No, there's no rush." ​​Gao Xiuzhi said with a smile.

In the past, Gao Xiuzhi would definitely praise her son, but now Gao Xiuzhi has learned to be good. In the past two months, there are too many people who have introduced Duan Yun. Well, the woman wanted to post her daughter upside down. After a long time, Gao Xiuzhi finally knew how to keep a low profile, so now she doesn't easily talk about her son in front of outsiders.

"Actually, Xiao Gao, let me tell you that although your son is a regular worker, the regular workers and female workers in our factory have high vision. They all want to find a junior cadre who is a technical secondary school student, and they don't like ordinary workers at all... I said, the most important thing is to find a wife to live at home, our factory has many female contract workers in the village, as long as they are diligent in their hands and feet, do housework well, and look good..." said the fat woman.

"Yes, Sister Liu is right. Many young men who have jobs in the factory can't find a suitable partner. Your son has not been in the factory for a long time, and you are the only one supporting your family. Find a A more virtuous daughter-in-law is fine, as long as you leave the house and have a grandson..." The woman beside the bed also said.

"Squeak."

At this moment, the door of the ward was suddenly pushed open, and Duan Yun and Cheng Qingyan walked in together.

"Aunt……"

Cheng Qingyan walked to Gao Xiuzhi's bed with an insulated lunch box in her hand, and greeted Gao Xiuzhi with a smile.

(End of this chapter)