On the morning of the ninth day of the Lunar New Year, the weather was a little dry, and Liu Xi wore an old military coat and stood straight at the factory gate of the labor service company.

Today is Liu Xi's first day at work, and he has an irrepressible joy in his heart, rubbing his somewhat reddened face with his hands from time to time, and a pair of black pupils are shining a little bright.

In fact, being able to work in a labor service company has always been something that Liu Xi wants to wear, before Liu Xi went home to farm before finishing junior high school, and last year he began to follow his father and second brother to help the village collect waste plastics.

As the plastic factory in Majunying Village became more and more prosperous, the price of waste products also rose a little, Liu Xi ran from morning to night, and at the highest time, he once earned 2 yuan and 5 cents a day, which is a very high income for a family like them whose annual income has never exceeded 150 yuan.

But as more and more people collect waste plastics in the village, there is no longer anything to collect in the surrounding ten miles and eight villages, and if you want to make money, you have to run farther, so that Liu Xi takes two corn tortillas from home at 5 o'clock every day, and can't go home until seven or eight o'clock in the evening, which is twenty or thirty yuan a month.

Seeing that many people in the village work in plastic factories to earn wages, and their income is two or three times higher than his, this can't help but make Liu Xi a little blushing.

However, the number of workers in the village's plastic factory is limited, and most of the workers inside are relatives of the village chief, the village party secretary, and the five guarantee households, so it is impossible for Liu Xi to work in the village.

And he later heard that Duan Yun's labor service company recruited a lot of security guards from the village, and he also wanted to sign up, but age became the threshold, Duan Yun wanted to be over 18 years old, and although Liu Xi was also 18 years old, he was a virtual age, and the police station couldn't register him at all, so he had no choice but to give up.

At the beginning of January this year, Liu Xi finally officially became an adult at the age of 18, and during the Chinese New Year, his father carried a few bottles of old wine that had been hidden for many years to Xu Fugui, the village party secretary, to pay New Year's greetings, and Xu Fugui finally agreed to help Liu Xi recommend it to Duan Yun and occupy a place in their factory in the security department.

Duan Yun had already agreed to this matter a few years ago, and on the eighth day of the new year, Liu Xi was finally able to work in the security department of the labor service company, which was a great joy for their family.

Liu Xi has long heard that the security department of the labor service company has a high salary and many benefits, and he has also made up his mind to work hard here for a few years, and when the time comes, he will marry a good-looking daughter-in-law and build a new house, and the future will be better and better.

Just when Liu Xi's heart was full of joy and looking forward to a better life in the future, a middle-aged man with a short head in the distance rode a dilapidated 28 car to the factory gate.

"Comrade, work permit!" Liu Xi saw this and greeted him as soon as possible.

Liu Xi felt a little strange in his heart, it was already more than 9 o'clock in the morning, and the workers in the factory had already entered the factory to start work, and no one should come to the big collective at this time.

And this middle-aged man doesn't look like a worker, wearing a washed and somewhat whitish green military uniform, a pair of liberation rubber shoes under his feet, his hair is a standard board size, his face is dark and angular, but his eyes are unusually bright, and he looks a little not angry and arrogant.

"I didn't bring my work permit, I just came here to find your factory director. The middle-aged man said to Liu Xi.

"Are you looking for our factory director?" Liu Xi asked, and then asked, "Who are you and which unit are you from?"

"I'm not from this factory, I just want to meet your manager Duan......"

"You can't enter without a work permit!" Liu Xi said very dryly.

It was not easy to come to work in the security department of the labor service company, and Liu Xi couldn't mess up this job no matter what, so his face showed a bit of seriousness.

"Little comrade, don't be nervous, I used to be comrades-in-arms with your Manager Duan, and this time I just want to ......catch up with him," the middle-aged man said with a smile.

"Comrade-in-arms, it seems that our Manager Duan has never been a soldier, right?" Liu Xi was stunned for a moment when he heard this.

"Eh, do you still know about your manager?" The middle-aged man's eyes suddenly lit up, and then he asked, "You young man looks quite young, you shouldn't have been in this factory for a long time, right?"

"Our Manager Duan is so famous, who doesn't know?" Liu Xi raised his eyebrows, and then said: "Our Manager Duan is a powerful person, and the whole city is famous......

"Go on. As he spoke, the middle-aged man parked his bicycle next to the communication room and said with interest.

"Our manager used to be a small apprentice in the main factory, he knew technology, good brain, it only took one year, he was admitted to the university, and he also became the deputy chief of the technical department of the main factory, and he was a serious cultural person...... "Liu Xi paused, and then said: "Later, after becoming a manager in this labor service company, it only took two months to turn the factory into a profit, and also set up a small workshop in our village to produce antennas, and now the business is getting bigger and bigger, and an electronics factory ......has been opened."

These "legendary experiences" about Duan Yun are well-known in the two villages of Ma Junying and Xintianbao, basically no one does not know, and the villagers of these two villages worship Duan Yun very much, and there are still many legends about Duan Yun that are still circulating in the village, and Liu Xi has heard about Duan Yun's deeds from his fellow villagers more than once, so Liu Xi can also casually say a lot about Duan Yun's past.

The middle-aged man listened very carefully, and nodded from time to time, always with a little smile on his face, and seemed to be very appreciative of Duan Yun's matter.

“...... Now the business of our own electronics factory run by Manager Duan is quite good, and it is said that it has also been advertised on CCTV, and everyone in the whole country knows it......" Liu Xi said that the spittle is flying, young people of his age already like to chase stars, and Duan Yun is undoubtedly his idol, so when Duan Yun's deeds are mentioned, Liu Xi's face is also a little proud.

"Then what time does your manager Duan usually get off work at noon?" the flat-headed middle-aged man suddenly asked.

"I can't say for sure, I heard our captain say that Manager Duan has been receiving customers from the electronics factory for the past two days, and he rarely goes to the large collective workshop recently......"

"Then if he usually goes to the electronics factory to receive merchants, doesn't he care about your labor service company?

"The electronics factory is making a lot of money now, Manager Duan, he must be busy receiving those merchants first. Liu Xi pursed his lips, and then said: "How much salary does the labor service company give him, and now he must take care of the electronics factory first......

After all, Liu Xi is young and has a relatively simple temperament, and when he heard the other party say that he and Manager Duan were comrades-in-arms, he had no scruples to speak freely.

"I see. The flat-headed man nodded, and then said to Liu Xi: "Since you Manager Duan is so busy, then I'll find him another day." ”

After the flat-headed man finished speaking, a gloom flashed on his face, got on his bicycle, turned and left......