Countercurrent 1982

Chapter 8 Rent
After the meal, my sister cleaned up the dishes and started to take a nap. After all, studying is also a very labor-intensive thing.

On the other hand, Duan Yun, who was bored in bed, didn't feel sleepy at all. After tossing and turning for a while, he put on his clothes and walked out of the house directly.

The tools for repairing electrical appliances have been bought, but Duan Yun has to solve another thing, that is, renting a house.

The house is too small. The only place that can be used to repair electrical appliances is the sewing machine. But in that place, my mother does private work at night, and my sister uses it for her homework. Duan Yun can’t use it on her bed. A soldering iron, so he must have his own place for repairs.

There is no concept of commercial housing these days. Even if there is, Duan Yun can't afford it with the money in his hand, so renting is the only option.

However, it is basically impossible to rent a good house in the factory area. The workers’ houses are allocated by the factory, and no one is rich.

As for the equal distribution of houses, that is even more out of reach. There are still many older young people in the factory waiting to be divided into houses and get married. The factory director has been calling for a batch of new buildings to alleviate the housing problem of the employees since the previous year. Now there is not even a shadow of a foundation!

However, although renting a residential house is no good, Duan Yun still found a solution to the maintenance location.

It turned out that in front of the residential building in the factory living area, there were many small bungalows that were simply built.

These houses were built privately by some workers in the factory. They are not large, only about ten square meters. However, the grounds are not paved and cannot be used to live in people. They are usually used to store bicycles or sundries.

After wandering around the factory, Duan Yun finally settled on a small bungalow. Although the house is not big, the important thing is that this small room is connected to a private wire. This is Duan Yun's top priority for renting a house.

After inquiring with several nearby residents, Duan Yun quickly found the owner.

"We don't rent this house." After learning that Duan Yun wanted to rent his own small house, an old woman who opened the door shook her head.

"Three dollars a month!" Duan Yun said with three fingers.

"It's not about the money..."

"Five dollars!"

"Wait, I'll get the key..."

A few minutes later, under the leadership of the owner, Duan Yun finally saw the inside of the house.

There are a lot of debris inside, basically some waste wood, rusted pots and face plates and the like, occupying most of the space.

This generation of middle-aged people has really experienced what is called real poverty, so they are reluctant to throw away anything, even if it is impossible to use in the future.

"The wires are connected from under the meter of my appliance. You have to pay for it... The things have to be stored for two days for the time being. I will find a tricycle and pull it to the waste warehouse for sale. In addition, if you want to rent it, you will need to rent it for at least three months. It's not worth it without me, plus the deposit is exactly [-]!" After seeing the room, the old lady of the landlord said to Duan Yun.

"It's done! It's settled." Duan Yun said, took out two big unity from his pocket, and said, "Then let's rent for three months."

In fact, the rent of such a small house is not worth so much, but most of the small houses in this factory area have no power supply, so Duan Yun also recognized it by spending a little more money.

The next moment, the two simply wrote a receipt, and Duan Yun got the key to the small room.

Then, in an afternoon, Duan Yun cleaned up the small room, and then went to the flea market next to the factory to buy a square table and chairs, and let the owner push the bicycle to the rental room. At the same time, the hardware in the factory The store bought a high-wattage light bulb and a socket, and pressed it in the rental room.

Before the factory's off-duty announcement at 05:30 in the afternoon, Duan Yun finally finished the arrangement, and he can repair electrical appliances here in the future.

After dinner in the evening, Duan Yun, who was already exhausted after a busy day, lay directly on the bed.

Although very tired, Duan Yun was still very excited.

Thinking about his new life and future career plans, Duan Yun has an indescribable drive.

He doesn't seem to have such a burning passion for a long time...

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The next day Duan Yun was very early. After washing up, he started to run outside in the morning.

The current body is really good. Even if he is tired after a busy day, his spirit will be refreshed after a good night's sleep. This is completely incomparable to the sub-healthy body he had in his previous life.

The breakfast was still very simple, but this time his mother fried two eggs in meat oil for him and his sister alone, while he nibbled on the steamed bread and pickled vegetables and drank the battered rice.

This scene made Duan Yun feel warm in his heart, but he was not hypocritical, and went to work after eating.

According to the agreement, today Zhao Dongsheng will arrange for Duan Yun to work in a workshop.

Just as soon as Duan Yun arrived at the door of the first workshop, he immediately became the focus of everyone.

Now basically the whole factory already knows about Duan Yun's attempted suicide after being rejected by the female worker He Xiaoli. All the employees who passed by him looked at him strangely.

The factory area is so big, and there are many girls with broken mouths. Some people who know the Duan family have a low evaluation of Duan Yun. He is just a stupid stupid boy with a dull mind, and he has nothing to say.

And He Xiaoli is also considered to be a bit beautiful among the female workers who do not account for a high proportion of the factory, so almost everyone's evaluation of Duan Yun is that the toad wants to eat swan meat, no one sympathizes with Duan Yun, some are just for him Disdain and ridicule.

However, Duan Yun didn't see He Xiaoli today, but he didn't take it seriously. After all, his current soul has no feelings for this woman, and he only loves Luo Yanjun, his fiancee in his previous life.

After standing at the door of the workshop for half an hour, Duan Yun finally saw Secretary Zhao coming over in a white shirt.

Zhao Dongsheng did not come to the first workshop specifically to arrange work for Duan Yun. In fact, he often went to various workshops in the morning to check the work, and it was just a matter of time for Duan Yun to change positions.

Unlike the factory director responsibility system in later generations, the dual responsibility system of state-owned enterprises is now the dual leadership system of the director and secretary, and the dual responsibility system of the factory party senior officials and the factory director.

On the bright side, the factory director and senior party officials still do not see a particularly obvious contradiction.

"Hello, Secretary Zhao." Duan Yun greeted Zhao Dongsheng when he saw him.

"It's very early." Secretary Zhao smiled slightly after seeing Duan Yun, waved his hand, and motioned to follow him into the workshop.

Seeing Secretary Zhao walking into the workshop, the employees inside smiled and said hello. It can be seen that Zhao Dongsheng still has a high prestige in the factory.

Secretary Zhao greeted the workers with a smile, while Duan Yun looked around to observe the equipment in the workshop.

There are dozens of lathes and milling machines in the huge factory building. Although he has already prepared for it, Duan Yun is still a little emotional about the oldness of these equipment.

Compared with the CNC machine tools he often came into contact with in his previous life, the equipment here is obviously too backward, but it is also understandable, there were not many CNC machine tools in the country in the 80s, and even if there were, military enterprises were given priority. Hongxing Gear Factory obviously did not have such treatment .

At present, all the products used in the factory are the products of the Northeast "Eighteen Arhats" in the 70s, and the processing speed and precision are not high.

In a corner of the workshop, Duan Yun actually found a very primitive old belt-driven machine tool. When he saw the Russian nameplate and the date of manufacture marked after 1951, he couldn't help rubbing his eyes...

(End of this chapter)