Green River Regional Transportation Company.

At the door of the auto repair workshop, a slightly immature young man squatted next to a big tree, holding a branch in his hand, and was writing the four numbers "1984" on the ground.

"I really didn't expect that I was reborn and returned to 1984!"

Looking at a group of rustic-dressed guys walking into the workshop, Li Weidong couldn't help but sigh.

"I had just been demoted to the garage, and I remember being here for three years before I was transferred to another position. ”

In 1984, Li Weidong was sixteen years old, born in the late sixties, and he has such a name as "Weidong" with the characteristics of the times.

Touching his slightly thin body, Li Weidong couldn't help but fall into the memory.

Li Weidong's father was an accountant at the Qinghe Regional Transportation Company, so Li Weidong was born in the family home of the transportation company since he was a child.

In the seventies and eighties, the transport company was one of the largest enterprises in the Qinghe area, after all, where there were people, supplies were needed, and even in the more chaotic times, other companies could not guarantee production, and the business of the transport company did not stagnate.

From childhood to adulthood, Li Weidong lived in the family home of the transportation company, was born in the transportation company's hospital, and spent his childhood in the transportation company's kindergarten, primary and middle school, and also in the transportation company's children's school.

In those days, large state-owned enterprises could meet the entire needs of a person from birth to death.

For example, the Qinghe regional transportation company has its own hospital, its own school, and its own supply and marketing station, food, clothing, housing, transportation, life, old age, and death, except for the funeral home when cremating, other things can be solved by the transportation company.

After graduating from junior high school, Li Weidong did not continue to study, but directly participated in work.

Li Weidong's father has always been in poor health, so he simply retreated, and Li Weidong, who graduated from junior high school, took over his father's class and studied accounting with his master in the financial department of the transportation company.

The succession system of state-owned enterprises should be regarded as the most common way to fight for fathers in the seventies and eighties.

In the late 70's and early 80's, after their parents retired or retired, their children could replace the vacant places and work in their parents' original units, or even take up their parents' original positions.

Even in the 90s, the state has abolished this system, and there are still many state-owned enterprises secretly implementing succession.

Li Weidong's father is an accountant of a transportation company, and after Li Weidong took over the post, he naturally became an accountant, but Li Weidong was not an accountant, and he had only been working for three months, and Li Weidong had made a mistake in calculating an account of 100 yuan.

In '84, 100 yuan was equivalent to three months' basic salary for a regular worker, so Li Weidong was punished, and he was demoted to an auto repair workshop as an auto repair apprentice.

Although an auto mechanic is also a technical type of work, it is a manual worker after all, and being an accountant is sitting in the office, and the wind and rain cannot be wet, and it is a superior position in state-owned enterprises.

Li Weidong was demoted from sitting in the office to a workshop worker, and he was quite resistant in his heart, and he was in a rebellious period at the age of sixteen, so he picked his picks and wandered around the auto repair workshop every day, not doing any work, just watching others repair cars, looking like he was eating and waiting to die.

The bell rang for work, and the workers walked into the maintenance workshop quickly.

"Li Weidong, I'm at work, I'm still squatting here, don't hurry in!" a voice sounded.

"Leave him alone, anyway, he went into the workshop and didn't work. People are formal, and even if they don't work, no one cares. Another voice spoke.

The two people who spoke were also children of the transportation company. The children of these transportation companies grew up in a family home, and they all went to school in the children of the transportation company, and they all knew each other.

It's just that these two people don't have Li Weidong's luck, and their sons are still on the job, so even if they enter the transportation company, they can only be temporary workers.

In the early 80s, in addition to a large number of young intellectuals returning to the city one after another, there were also workers who had been downsized and returned to their hometowns in the 60s who asked to return to work, secondary school graduates who asked for distribution, and the unemployed people who had accumulated in the city.

However, there are not so many jobs in the cities at all, so there are a large number of unemployed people in society.

As a large state-owned enterprise, Qinghe Regional Transportation Company always has to take care of the children of its own workers, but the state-owned enterprises are also a turnip and a pit, and even the children of their own workers can only start as temporary workers.

It is better to be a temporary worker in a state-owned enterprise than to be a second-rate child in society, not to mention that these are the children of transportation companies, and when their parents retire, they will naturally be able to go up to the post and become regular workers.

From this point of view, Li Weidong was lucky, he took his father's post at the age of 16 and became a regular worker. It's much better than those who are still working as temporary workers in their twenties.

In the 80s, in state-owned enterprises, the treatment of regular and temporary workers was very different.

In addition to salary, promotion, and pension, regular workers can also enjoy various benefits of the company, and they will not be fired.

As for temporary workers, their wages are much less than that of regular workers, there is no way to be promoted, there is no pension, they basically do not enjoy the benefits of the enterprise, and they will be fired, basically there is no guarantee.

In the same workshop, dirty work, tiring work, and heavy work are all temporary workers, and the regular workers are assigned much more easily, and even many formal workers find a corner to squat, drink tea and chat, and hand over all the work to temporary workers.

At that time, state-owned enterprises ate a big pot of rice, and the so-called idea of doing more and doing less is the same, doing good and doing bad is the same, and doing and not doing the same has begun to spread among state-owned enterprises.

Therefore, even if Li Weidong squatted under the tree to draw circles during work hours, the workshop director had nothing to do with him except for criticizing him.

Who made Li Weidong a regular worker!

If Li Weidong was a temporary worker, this kind of work attitude would have been fired a long time ago.

Looking at the 1984 he wrote on the ground, Li Weidong had mixed feelings in his heart.

Li Weidong had too many regrets before he was reborn, but now that he has been reborn, he finally has the opportunity to make up for those regrets.

"When I was demoted to the auto repair workshop, I gave up on myself for a long time, and I almost became a second-rate person, and then my dad found out about it and beat me hard, and then I changed my past mistakes and seriously learned repair techniques. ”

Thinking of this, Li Weidong had an urge to go home, he really wanted to see his parents again.

At this moment, a voice sounded from Li Weidong's side:

"Li Weidong, during work hours, hurry up and roll me into the workshop! Even if you are an idle fart, you have to put me in the workshop!"

Li Weidong looked up, and a sturdy man was standing behind him.

The man looked like he was in his fifties, with the most common blue overalls on his upper body, the kind with four pockets, and a pair of army-green pants with many unwashed oil stains on them.

This person is Li Weidong's immediate boss, Cui Dashan, the workshop director of the repair workshop.

When Cui Dashan was young, he participated in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, and also captured a Dodge truck of the US military and a cart of American canned food. After the end of the Korean War, Choi Dashan worked as an auto repairman in the army for several years, and also repaired the Type 59 tank.

After being discharged from the army and changing jobs, Cui Dashan was assigned to the Qinghe Regional Transportation Company, and was promoted to the director of the auto repair workshop by virtue of the excellent auto repair skills he had experienced in the army.

According to the situation on weekdays, Li Weidong, who was in the rebellious period, must talk to Cui Dashan, and then be kicked by Cui Dashan before obediently returning to the workshop.

But now that Li Weidong has been reborn, he is no longer the rebellious teenager who gave up on himself. I saw Li Weidong immediately stand up and walked into the auto repair workshop without saying a word.

"Why didn't you talk back to me today? This kid shouldn't be sick!" Cui Dashan thought with a puzzled expression.

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Li Weidong walked into the auto repair workshop, looked at the "antique" cars, and felt a kind of warmth in his heart reminiscent of the past.

"Old Jiefang, Old Gasi, Da Yifa, Nanqi's Old Yuejin, Second Automobile's Small Glass, and BAIC's No. 2 Factory's Unit 30 are really nostalgic! Why is there an American Dodge truck, which was captured in the Liberation War, can this car still be repaired, it is better to send it directly to the museum!" Li Weidong muttered in his heart.

At the beginning of the eighties, there were all kinds of vehicles in domestic transport enterprises, some of which were independently produced, some were imported from abroad, and some were captured during the war years.

This situation continued until after 1986, when FAW's second-generation liberation was listed, which solved the dilemma of the domestic transportation enterprise Wanguo.

Li Weidong wandered around the repair workshop, stopping in front of an old car from time to time, looking like he was visiting a museum.

Everyone knows that Li Weidong is a bastard, since he came to the auto repair workshop, he only knows how to wander around, and he is not even willing to do sweeping work. As long as Li Weidong doesn't make trouble, no one will take care of Li Weidong.

At this moment, the roar of an engine sounded from outside the workshop, and I saw an old Jiefang, dragging another old Jiefang, into the repair workshop.

A driver jumped out of the cockpit of the old liberation behind him, and shouted at the workshop in a hurry: "Director Cui, quickly find someone to show me, my car can't catch fire!"

Hearing someone shouting to himself, Cui Dashan, the workshop director, walked out.

"It's Master Cai, your car won't catch fire?" Cui Dashan asked.

The Master Cai nodded, handed Cui Dashan a cigarette, and then said: "The list just given by the dispatcher was in a hurry to go to the train station to pull a batch of goods, but it didn't catch fire." This car was fine yesterday!"

"Okay, get the car over there, I'll get someone to show you. Cui Dashan took the cigarette and did not light it, but stuffed it into his ear.

In this repair workshop, gasoline engine oil often leaks, so smoking is prohibited in the workshop to avoid fire accidents. If anyone is addicted to cigarettes and wants to smoke, they have to go outside under the big tree, and there must be no sparks in the workshop.

Cui Dashan looked around the workshop, then pointed to a twenty-six or seventeen-year-old young man, and instructed: "Xiao Zhao, you go and show Master Cai first, if you can't fix it, go to your master." ”

"Okay!" Xiao Zhao agreed and immediately ran over.

"Apprentices who don't have any work in their hands, go over and give them a shot!" Cui Dashan continued.

Immediately, three or four apprentices came along.

These apprentices are all temporary workers, and they all want to learn the craft of car repair as soon as possible, so that the chances of becoming regular workers will be greater. Giving a hand to the mechanic is an opportunity to learn.

Li Weidong, who was bored, also quietly walked over.