Ballroom dancing was all the rage in China in the 80s.

In 1979, on the Chinese New Year's Eve, the first year of reform and opening up, ballroom dance, which had disappeared for many years, appeared for the first time at the party in the Great Hall of the People, and people smelled the beginning of the dance ban. The long-term closure has made young people feel new and curious about such a new thing as ballroom dancing.

Some organs, organizations, enterprises and institutions were the first to revive ballroom dance parties, and their trade unions and league organizations not only organized dance parties but also taught dance, and their other purpose was to create a marriage and love platform for young men and women.

Many government agencies and institutions will paint the conference room or canteen again, pave the terrazzo floor, hang a devil's lamp in the center of the lobby, hang a colorful ribbon rope, install stereo sound, and install spotlights around it, just like a dance floor.

Red Star Gear Factory began to hold this kind of ballroom dance at the beginning of this year, but because the conference hall of the factory office building is under the stage, can not accommodate too many workers, so Red Star Gear Factory finally chose to decorate the underground civil air defense hall not far from the factory into the scene of the ballroom ballroom, the built-in is also very beautiful, just the purchase of high-end audio and dance hall lighting props, it cost nearly 10,000 yuan.

In the beginning, this kind of ballroom dance organized by the factory would only be open on festivals such as "March 8" and "May Day", but because it was so popular, many young employees asked the union to ask the leaders to hold more balls, and the factory leaders decided to change the dance party to once a week.

However, although the young people in the factory like to participate in such dance activities, the young men and women in these years are still relatively conservative, usually dancing is men and men, women and women, and there are relatively few men and women who dare to dance together.

Although Yu Shulan is a relatively extroverted woman, her family conditions are good, and she usually dresses up quite fashionably, but even so, she usually doesn't dance with male employees, and today I found Cheng Qingyan to let her be her dance partner.

"Can't really go today. Cheng Qingyan looked apologetic and said, "There is a class in the night school tonight, and I have to go over after dinner......"

"Your grades are so good, it's not a big deal to miss one class, right?" Yu Shulan was obviously unwilling to give up.

"This really doesn't work, the night school requirements for the employees of our factory are stricter, and those who miss class without reason will be expelled. Cheng Qingyan said with a slight frown.

"It's really boring!" Yu Shulan pursed her lips and said, "You don't live like a young man in the new era at all, and you don't ...... fashionable at all."

"Either that's fine. Feeling that Yu Shulan was not very happy, Cheng Qingyan smiled and said: "When I get out of night school in the evening, I will go to the civil air defense to find you, if you have time, you can teach me to dance." ”

After all, they have been best friends for many years, and Cheng Qingyan still cherishes the friendship between the two very much, and she doesn't want to make her best friend unhappy because of this trivial matter.

"That's pretty much it. When Yu Shulan heard this, a smile appeared on her face, and then she said to Cheng Qingyan: "Then let's see you at night, I'll wait for you in the dance hall." ”

"Hmm. Cheng Qingyan nodded when she heard this.

Subsequently, seeing Yu Shulan leaving, Cheng Qingyan also put the car away, and returned home with the borrowed tool book.

took out the key to open the door, and Cheng Qingyan was stunned as soon as she walked to her room.

It turned out that at this time, his father Cheng Changlin was sitting in front of his desk, carefully drawing a mechanical drawing.

"Dad, you came back early today. Cheng Qingyan said to her father with some surprise.

"Hmm. Cheng Changlin glanced up at his daughter and said, "Dad is a little busy with work today, so he uses a writing desk and drawing tools." ”

"It's okay, I'm going to night school tonight anyway. Cheng Qingyan put the borrowed books into the bookshelf, and her face showed a little doubt.

Because in Cheng Qingyan's memory, her father hadn't brought his work home to draw drawings for several years.

Since his father became the chief engineer of the factory, he has long lost his enthusiasm for technical work.

In the past, when the father and daughter communicated together, the three sentences were inseparable from technical things, and it was precisely because of her father's indoctrination in her that Cheng Qingyan is now so obsessed with mechanical technology, so that in the more than half a year since she entered the factory, Cheng Qingyan rarely participated in the social activities held by the factory for young workers, and only occasionally went into the city with her best friend Yu Shulan on Sunday to go shopping or watch a movie or something, and the rest of the time was either in the library or at home to gnaw on various mechanical materials.

In the past two years, father and daughter usually only occasionally chat at dinner, but basically Cheng Changlin doesn't talk much about technical things, and talks more about the intrigue between several factory leaders.

So today, when Cheng Qingyan saw her father go home to draw mechanical drawings for the first time, it made her feel a little surprised.

But soon, Cheng Qingyan remembered something, so she asked her father: "Dad, are you going to participate in the technical improvement competition held in that factory?"

Now after the announcement of the factory's decision to hold a technical transformation competition, especially the first prize bonus was set to 800 yuan, as well as the nomination meeting of the model worker, which caused a huge sensation among the employees of the whole factory, and now no one in the factory knows about it.

It's just that she heard that her father had already stated that she would not participate in this competition, but she didn't expect her father to suddenly change his mind.

"I don't participate in that competition, it's just my daily job. Cheng Changlin replied without raising his head.

"Dad, in fact, I think you should participate, this prize is quite high, with your skill level, you should be able to ......" Cheng Qingyan glanced at the mechanical diagram that her father was drawing, and said with a smile.

"I'm the chief engineer, and if I participate in this kind of competition, even if I get a ranking based on my strength, others will say that I have an insider behind my back. Cheng Changlin interrupted his daughter's words, and then said: "I'm avoiding suspicion, besides, as a chief engineer, I have such a monthly salary, there is no need to let people gossip behind my back for those hundreds of yuan!"

"Uh, I see. Cheng Qingyan nodded lightly when she heard this, and then said, "Then Dad, you're busy, I'll go to the kitchen to wash the vegetables first." ”

"Hmm. Cheng Changlin responded, and after seeing his daughter walk into the kitchen, the corners of his mouth hooked up a touch......