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Entering the factory and watching the flowers, the friendship of the sub-workshop is secretly born

Ling Feng has liked the Chinese New Year since he was a child, and he still does. When I was a child, I looked forward to eating delicious food, wearing new clothes, and setting off firecrackers. Whenever the Spring Festival was over, Ling Feng's heart was a little lost. The Spring Festival of ninety-four years is coming to an end, but Ling Feng swept away the loss of previous years and became inexplicably excited, because it was time to report to work after the Spring Festival.

The half-year training ended quietly due to the fight incident, leaving only a report date after the year. Ling Feng thought about it day and night, and finally looked forward to that day. However, another cold registration date appeared on the blackboard in the training classroom. Thinking and looking forward to it, the enthusiasm was extinguished by a cold date. Think and hope again, and then shatter. This goes back and forth more than ten times, and there is no more excitement, only disappointment.

On the 17th of June, Ling Feng came to the registration location again without reporting hope, and he was greeted no longer by the cold date, but by two brand-new Huanghai buses. Happiness came too suddenly, the long-lost excitement was ignited again, and Ling Feng understood that the bus would set sail with his dreams.

The bus started, and for some reason Hongyun Bridge, after turning around, turned onto Zhonghua Road. Ling Feng stared intently at the popsicle stall on the side of the street and saw his busy mother. The mother is already close to the age of sixteen, and after many years of wind and sun, her kind face has been full of vicissitudes. Closer to the car, Ling Feng could already see the little sweat on his mother's forehead under the scorching sun, and the gray hair fluttered weakly, sticking to his forehead with fine willows. In a flash, it was like a knife and an axe, and Ling Feng's heart was full of tears.

The bus went out of the city all the way to the east, near Dongshan, and the asphalt road had come to an end, replaced by a potholed gravel road. The speed of the bus dropped significantly, and in the bumps and swaying, Ling Feng remembered that he and his father had come here to turn left not far ahead, and the coking plant could be seen by winding up the mountain beam along the mountain road. The mountain road is rugged and you have to climb the mountain, and you can't drive at all, so the car must turn right and find another way out. Sure enough, the car turned right into the quarry area under the east mountain, the green hills on the side of the road have been unrecognizable, the quarrying hollowed out half of the mountain, the bare mountain rocks stand as steep as cliffs, large machinery roars, shuttling back and forth to transport sand and gravel.

More than half of the quarry is facing a railway bridge. The gravel road descends under the railway bridge, and a small river flows from the west, first under the bluestone slabs that connect the gravel road, then turns south, crosses the railway bridge, and finally continues east.

Instead of crossing the railway bridge, the coach turned left onto a newly paved gravel road. The speed of the car increased, the gravel road retreated sharply along with the railway, the quarry soon came to an end, and the green hills were again continuous. The bus traveled for another five minutes, and when it saw that it had reached the end of the mountain, the gravel road turned sharply, and the eyes suddenly opened up, and it turned out that it had reached the entrance of the ravine.

This ravine is called Yangcao ditch, it is in the shape of a cow's horn, narrow inside and wide outside, at the mouth of the ditch by opening the mountain to fill in the gully to level out a large piece of land, and the coking plant of the gas company is built here. The gate of the coking plant is tall and magnificent, and the gravel road is cut off head-on, turning it into a cement road in the plant. The railway parallel to the gravel road has a fork on the side of the gate, which must be the connection between the railway in the factory and the outside railway. On the other side of the gate, a red brick wall passed the guardhouse, which grew higher and higher into the ravine, and a mountain road four or five meters wide outside the wall formed a large slope not far from the guardhouse. A stream on the other side of the slope flows slowly in a bluestone ditch built by artificial masonry, and since the stream does not follow the slope all the way down, it will drain at a greater angle at the mouth of the ditch, and if it is rainy, there should be a waterfall here. The stream that flows down the culvert flows through the gravel road and the railway, and the entrance to the culvert flies in a doorway shape across two sets of thick pipes, both ends of which are deep into the ground, which is supposed to be the gas pipeline from the coking plant to the city.

Ling Feng and all the students in the car watched with wide eyes, and the novelty and excitement filled between their eyebrows.

"Look at the newspaper wall there, it's too exaggerated. "I don't know who is admiring.

The bus drove into the gate of the coking plant, and the more than 50-meter-long newspaper wall not far away greeted it, like a shadow wall in the courtyard of the very old house. Ling Feng found through the window that there was a slightly narrow ramp at the gate of the coking plant to merge with the lane, and the right-angled triangle open space surrounded by the middle was overgrown with wild grass, lush and verdant, which was probably the original style of the sheep grass ditch.

"There's a truck scale on the other side of the ramp. "The two-story white building next to the office building is the cafeteria, where I had lunch when I came last week. "Those five cylindrical concrete buildings in the distance are coal bunkers. "The buildings are sloping between them and are coal and scorching corridors. ”......

According to the insider, the bus has stopped in front of the five-story office building, and Ling Feng has also seen the office buildings of several units, but none of them are as grand as this office building. However, what attracted Ling Feng even more was the courtyard wall more than 100 meters in front of the office building, or rather the location of the courtyard wall. The coking plant is located in a ravine, in order to maximize the use of land, the courtyard wall is built on a hillside more than 10 meters high, and four stone walls are built in turn like terraces on the slope of the plant, and four rows of fruit trees are planted with soil. It's the height of summer, and the branches are luxuriant and vibrant.

Ling Feng and the students lined up into the office building, turned left and entered the large conference room connected to the office building. After a long while, several middle-aged people who looked like leaders came in one after another, and a symbolic welcome meeting was held. After the meeting, each person was given a safety helmet and a special person led a team to visit the plant, and the coke oven must be visited when visiting the coking plant. Go out of the office building and turn to the cement road on the side of the conference room, go about 200 meters, turn left on a 30-degree slope, and a huge 30-meter-high greenhouse will appear in front of you.

"In the greenhouse is the coke oven of our factory, which has entered the final stage, and will produce coke and gas after completion, coke will be supplied to steel mills in other provinces, and gas will be supplied to urban residents. ”

"This is the foundation of the running track of the coke pushing car, the coke quenching car and the coke blocking car behind the coke cart and the coke oven, plus the coal refueling car on the top of the furnace are the four major cars necessary for the coke oven. ”

"The whole basement under the coke oven is similar to the underground parking lot of a shopping mall, and this is where the heating system of the coke oven is located. ”

"Look there, the square cement tube on the top, the train tunnel-like building below doesn't look like an inverted funnel, it's a quenching tower. ”

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The leader of the team chattered endlessly, and Ling Feng listened like falling into the clouds, not knowing why. In the slow march, Ling Feng noticed that there were many staff wearing hard hats coming in and out of the entrance and exit on both sides of the greenhouse. Ling Feng's eyes widened to find Honghao's figure, but he couldn't do so after going around the coke oven.

After handing in the helmet before returning to the office building, Ling Feng and his party were taken to the basketball court behind the office building to wait for the bus to go out. The office building and the canteen are connected at 90 degrees, opposite the canteen is a three-story tiled white building, and opposite the office building is a four-story red building. Ling Feng looked at the sky leisurely, and a white cloud in the sky was changing its posture, showing its ethereal temperament.

In the first few days of his work, Ling Feng felt very tired when he came home from work every day, just like when he went to school and went on a spring outing. It's not that it's hard work, it's because of hanging out after work. When the factory yard was almost out of the courtyard, and the novelty disappeared, the workshop was divided. The five first-line workshops of the coking plant, including the transportation workshop, the coal preparation workshop, the coking workshop, the purification workshop, the storage and distribution station, the power workshop, the machine repair workshop, the measurement workshop, the laboratory, the fire brigade, the greening office, the fleet, the canteen, the warehouse and other auxiliary departments, are all assigned.

Ling Feng and other ten men and two women, a total of 12 people, were assigned to the storage and distribution station, one of the two girls was the brave girl with a ponytail, her name was Xiuying, and the other girl was called Ruiying. The role of the storage and distribution station is the head and tail of the phoenix, which is the location of the coking plant to store gas and deliver gas to the urban area under pressure, because there is a cylindrical gas cabinet in the station that can be lifted and lowered and becomes a courtyard of its own.

The storage and distribution station is on the westernmost side of the coking plant, and after the storage and distribution station, there is a large open space to the west. Walking along the main road of the factory to the direction of the ditch, you have to walk a slope of more than 100 meters, and you will reach the gate of the storage and distribution station on the top of the slope. The courtyard walls on both sides of the gate are about 100 meters to the west against a bluestone wall more than three meters high, and another hundred meters to the east to stop at the top of another bluestone wall more than three meters high. Looking at the storage and distribution station from a distance, it is like a step in the staircase, and the bluestone wall more than three meters high on the west side is upward, naturally cutting off the open space on the west side. The bluestone wall on the east side, which is more than three meters high, is downward, and a fence is welded on the top of the wall. Standing in the courtyard of the storage and distribution station to the north, it is already a green mountain, and the bluestone slope protection of about 45 degrees is built artificially at the border of the station. Climb to the top of the bluestone slope and look west, you can see a bluestone dam between the two mountains at the end of the coking plant wall. At the top of the slope protection, you can jump over the flood ditch more than one meter wide to go up the mountain, or you can follow the trail in front of the mountain to explore the bluestone dam.

Divided into workshops, more and more odd jobs. On the one hand, we must obey the unified dispatch of the factory, do some chores such as digging ditches and flat roads, and on the other hand, we must find time to repair our own one-third of an acre. In the days when sweat and joy flew together, Ling Feng lived a very fulfilling life. The twelve people who came with them became more and more emotional, although they did not make a blood alliance, they also divided the eldest according to their age and birthday. Ling Feng is the fourth, Ruiying is the seventh, and Xiuying is the old.

Since he met a new friend, Chenlu, last year, the correspondence has not stopped, but Ling Feng often feels that there is nothing new to write and is slow to reply. Now, when I enter a new environment, I have a new feeling, and the emotional desolation after work is diluted by letters. After going back and forth, Chen Lu asked a very realistic question in the letter, "Where does your motivation come from? Can a salary of 50 yuan a month allow you to face life calmly?"

When Ling Feng entered the factory, the unit set a monthly salary standard of 50 yuan for the second batch of workers on the grounds that the probation period was half a year, and the salary was set according to the position after the probation period expired. At the same time, the wages of the first batch of recruited workers were around 150 yuan, while the wages of the leaders and some transferred workers were still in line with the standards of the original units, or even higher.

The difference in salary did not affect Ling Feng, and he still showed his sweat and youth as always. In Ling Feng's mind, all of this was temporary. Or rather, it is fate to enter a long-awaited state-owned enterprise just after graduation, and the amount of income and whether the income is proportional to the effort is not in Ling Feng's consideration.