"Squeak—"

A crisp whistle sounded in the workshop, interrupting Cen Xinrui's memories. He looked up and saw that the workers had almost arrived, and they were all in place.

Cen Xinrui stood up, stuffed Wen Yiqing's letter into his jacket pocket, and began to load iron into the bucket truck. The iron was heavy, but he loaded it quickly. This is of course related to the fact that he has cultivated a good strength in Baling Lake, but also because he is not opportunistic by nature.

The whistle blew again, and the reloading began. Under the dispatch of Li Gong, Cen Xinrui and the workers of the filling class dumped truckloads of pig iron and coke into the cupola in proportion. The stove is so large that it takes an hour and a half to complete the refill.

In order to be in a hurry, even if the labor intensity is very high, the workers have to hurry up the loading materials, and they cannot take a break in the middle, even drinking water and urinating. Fortunately, the work came to an end after the installation, and the section leader pushed the bucket truck with everyone from beginning to end, so everyone had no complaints.

If you want to say that there is any discomfort in your heart, it is to blame yourself for your bad luck, after recruiting workers into the factory, I was assigned to this section, not to mention tiredness, it is difficult to find even a girlfriend. Ben too, as soon as I heard that you were in the foundry workshop, the first thing the girls thought of was that they had no technology, no emotion, and a stupid big man, who would be so stupid that they couldn't be stupid anymore to fall in love with such a person! No wonder the most popular joke in the factory was "Turning tongs and milling, there is no comparison; punching and riveting welding, making do with dry; learning to turn sand, it is better to go home." ”

Finally, the stove was full. With the order of the section chief, the furnace worker closed the furnace door and lit the fire. In the loud roar of the blower, the flame in the furnace rose, and although the furnace wall was very thick, the huge heat emitted by the burning of a lot of coke still came out, so that the workers sitting far away seemed to feel the violent oxidation reaction and the heat emitted by the furnace.

The workers began to take a nap and waited for the next round of filling after the molten iron was baked. Li Gong and the female inspectors of the factory inspection department observed at the eye of the cupola. Seeing Li Gong's satisfied expression, the section leader knew that everything was normal, so he walked towards the material yard with confidence.

Seeing the section leader walking up to him, Cen Xinrui handed him the small iron bench under his buttocks, and he sat on the handlebars of the bucket truck.

Witnessing Cen Xinrui's move, a shallow smile appeared at the corner of the section leader's mouth. He appreciates this very much, not only because other workers rarely do this, but also because Cen Xinrui does it very naturally, without any deliberate flattery, and at a glance it is clear that it is due to cultivation.

"How is this Sunday arranged?" the section leader sat down, took out a cigarette, and handed Cen Xinrui one. Seeing that he waved his hand and refused, he lit it himself and took a big sip.

"Ah, I'm going to go home and see my mom and dad and grandma. Cen Xinrui looked at the section leader and replied casually. He wondered why the section leader still smoked when there was enough smoke in the workshop.

"It's right to look at your parents, mothers and grandmothers, and to be a man, you have to be filial to your elders. The section leader looked at the stove and agreed.

Seeing the section look like this, Cen Xinrui smiled in response. In his opinion, the section leader is undoubtedly a good person who is responsible for his work and cares about the workers, but if you really think about his behavior, you will feel that he is not a person with whom he can have a deep friendship. Because although he can treat every worker fairly, he doesn't know what they want and want. It seems that he was criticized without naming him because he looked at the hard study questions written on the paper before going to work on a few occasions during breaks.

Thinking of these, Cen Xinrui couldn't help but sigh: Although they are all good people, there are still big differences between people. Like the people I met, Hao Zhiguo, Wen Yiqing, etc. are not good people in the general sense, but can give directions to their life choices, or can comfort their lonely and depressed souls, and interestingly, they are all residents of Yahou Street, which shows that the rumors in Lichuan County are true, and this place is indeed a place where the cultural context gathers.

As soon as he thought of this, Cen Xinrui felt a little excited in his heart. The reason why he wanted to go home this Sunday was that in addition to bringing good eggs for his grandmother and Coco, there was one more thing, that is, to tell his parents that he unexpectedly saw Aunt Ma when he left Baling Lake, and she was picked up by his son Wen Yiqing, who had settled here earlier, especially Wen Yiqing, who treated him very well.

"Cen Xinrui, someone is looking for you!" Chen Li's call again, interrupting Cen Xinrui's contemplation.

"Who's looking for me?" Cen Xinrui stood up from the handlebars of the bucket truck and followed the prestige. He felt a little strange: not long after he entered the factory, there were no acquaintances in the factory, and as for the original partner, he would not find it for a while.

"It's a woman. Chen Li, who walked over from the gate of the workshop, grinned, "It's your girlfriend, she looks pretty too." ”

"Don't look for me-" Cen Xinrui didn't believe it, but before he could say the word "happy" below, he stopped, because he clearly saw that behind Chen Li, Zou Ying, a foreign language teacher from Balinghu Commune Middle School, was already standing at the gate of the workshop and was looking inside the workshop.

Cen Xinrui was a little surprised. He didn't expect the woman to come looking for him, even though she had been to his dormitory the night before he left Balinghu Middle School, saying that she would come to the Qingjiang Tractor Factory to find him in the future, but in his opinion, it was just a polite remark.

Under the watchful eyes of many workers, Cen Xinrui looked back at the section leader, and he knew that he could not receive visitors when he went to work.

The section leader hesitated for a moment, but finally said to him: "You take her to the section office, and hurry up and say something about it."

"Okay. Hearing what the section leader said, Cen Xinrui walked towards Zou Ying. He knew that this matter would not be feasible at all during the "rectification" period, and according to the regulations, not only could not enter the workshop if they were not employees of the factory, but they would be stopped by the guards at the gate of the factory. But nowadays, we are fighting back against the "right-leaning resurgence" and criticizing the "theory of productive forces", and the rules are not so strict.

"Mr. Zou, I'm here. Seeing that Zou Ying was still looking around, Cen Xinrui raised his hand to her.

"Gee, I don't really recognize you. Looking at Cen Xinrui, who was wearing work clothes and suede boots, Zou Ying felt a little bit goodbye for three days.

"Teacher Zou, why did you remember to come to me? Cen Xinrui asked while taking Zou Ying to the office of the section.

"Weren't we ever colleagues?" Zou Ying looked at everything in the workshop curiously, from cupola furnaces and ladles to cranes and grinders, etc., and her mouth was full of Cen Xinrui's questions.

"Come, let's sit here for a while, and we'll go for lunch when we're done in the morning." Cen Xinrui took out his jar and poured Zou Ying a glass of water. Knowing that she was very particular, she first soaked her with boiling water.

"This is your office?" Zou Ying took the teapot and looked around.

"How can I have an office?" Cen Xinrui was a little surprised when he heard this, "This is where our section holds meetings, and usually the section leader works here." ”

"Then you're here—"

"I'm just a general worker, responsible for feeding the cupola, those technical work, such as what to make wood molds, modeling, pouring, etc., are not in the turn, especially the calculation and control of the charge ratio, smelting time, etc., it is a matter of technical personnel, and it has nothing to do with us. ”

Hearing this, Zou Ying obviously showed a look of disappointment on her face.

At this moment, the outside world remembered Li Gong's call: "Xiao Cen, Cen Xinrui!"

"You sit down first, our workshop Li Gong is calling me, I'll come over as soon as it's over." Cen Xinrui made an sorry gesture to Zou Ying and walked out.

Looking at Cen Xinrui's back in a hurry, Zou Ying felt that it was not a taste, but she couldn't say why. After sitting in the office for a while, she walked to the door and looked into the workshop, and found that in front of the cupola, a middle-aged man who looked like a technician was saying something to Cen Xinrui, and Cen Xinrui nodded again and again.

I'm afraid it's Li Gong he just said, Zou Ying secretly guessed. At this time, she found that after Li Gong finished speaking, Cen Xinrui turned around and walked towards the door of the workshop.

Where is he going, and when will he turn around? Looking at this, Zou Ying was a little uncomfortable.

Time passed minute by minute, and after a while, Cen Xinrui still did not come back. Zou Ying thought about it and felt that she couldn't wait here anymore. She took out a notepad from the bag she was carrying, tore off a page, wrote a few sentences, pressed it under the tea jar, and walked out of the workshop.

When Zou Ying went out, it happened that Chen Li came over from the wood mold section. Seeing this, she was a little surprised. I wanted to step forward and ask, but when I saw Zou Ying's unhappy expression, I swallowed what I wanted to say in my throat.

Not long after Zou Ying left, Cen Xinrui walked back from outside the workshop, holding a pile of drawings and materials in his hand.

"Hurry up to the office, the female compatriot who came earlier is just afraid that she will be impatient to wait. After receiving the information Cen Xinrui received from the technical department, Li Gong was a little embarrassed. Supposedly, he should have gone by himself, but he couldn't go away from the stove, and he didn't feel at ease when he told the others.

"Okay. Cen Xinrui agreed, and walked towards the office under his feet. But what he didn't expect was that when he walked into the small cubicle, he found that Zou Ying was no longer there, and the pieces of paper pressed under the tea jar on the table were obviously left by her.

Looking at this situation, Cen Xinrui was a little surprised. He walked over and picked up the piece of paper, only to see a small line written on it:

Cen Xinrui: You're too busy, I shouldn't bother, so don't leave it at all. I hope there will be a period later. Zou Ying on the same day

"What, gone?" At this moment, Li Gong walked in with drawings and materials. In fact, as soon as Zou Ying came, he saw it.

Cen Xinrui looked at him and nodded.

"It's all my fault, I shouldn't have sent you to the technical department. Li Gong was a little apologetic.

"It has nothing to do with this," Cen Xinrui shook his head, "Besides, it's time to go to work, and it's not the right time for her to come." ”

"Is that your girlfriend?" asked Li Gong with concern.

"No," Cen Xinrui said truthfully, "it was a few days when I was a private teacher in the commune middle school. ”

"I don't look like it," Li Gong looked at him, said, paused, and said: "Xiao Cen, don't blame me for being straightforward, even if she is intentional, it is not suitable for you." ”

"Why?" Cen Xinrui thought his words were a little interesting.

"Feel it. Li Gong said quite experiencedly: "A person who treats people with sincerity, since she is visiting for a special purpose and has no urgent matters, can she leave like this? To put it mildly, if you have a decent job at this time, no matter how busy you are, you won't leave without saying goodbye. Fortunately, she also knew a little politeness and left a note. ”

Hearing Li Gong say this, Cen Xinrui felt quite reasonable. He remembered that when he was in Balinghu Commune Middle School, Mr. He once warned himself that when talking about girlfriends, he must weigh whether they are like-minded with each other, and they must not just see whether each other is beautiful or not, or even blindly enjoy each other's coquettishness, forgetting that he and the other party are to be a husband and wife, and even be ready to face all kinds of unexpected difficulties and setbacks.

Forget it, don't think about it, Cen Xinrui said to himself. To be honest, when it comes to finding a girlfriend, he is already twenty-five or sixteen years old, and no one believes him to say that he has no idea at all. When I was in the countryside, I didn't have the conditions, and I didn't dare to accept it even if there were girls who took the initiative, so it can be said that I didn't have the idea of this aspect.

After entering the factory, it seems that there are conditions for falling in love, and the eldest sister Huimin also introduced him, but as soon as those girls heard that he was working as a general worker in the foundry, they were reluctant to date. It inevitably made him feel a little hurt. Although he has seldom talked to his co-workers about marrying a wife, he still hears what they say during their conversations. They say that as long as a man is not too poor, he will eventually find a wife, which is called a deflated stove and can also set up a crooked pot. Think about it, whether others don't look down on him, or he doesn't like others, he Cen Xinrui still has to find a wife after all, but, what kind of person will that be? Where is she?

After thinking about it, Cen Xinrui finally came to the conclusion that a girlfriend would eventually be found, but it was not like Zou Ying. Let's talk about her, although she is beautiful and highly educated, for herself, she is just a passerby in the journey of life, and she doesn't need a little more attention. To be honest, the most important thing to do now is to see if the eldest sister can say one or two items in the factory infrastructure section of Xu Gong, if she can be transferred over, even if she does the simplest work, she can be regarded as applying what she has learned. And there really was a day when I couldn't find a girlfriend.

But Cen Xinrui didn't expect that Zou Ying at this time did not go far. Walking on the factory avenue leading to the gate, her feelings are very complicated. To be honest, she plucked up a lot of courage when she came to the tractor factory this time. Because she and he have worked together for more than four months, the relationship is far from close. After he left, he wrote letters to Director Zhu and Teacher He, greeting many people in them, but he didn't mention her, which couldn't help but make her a little disappointed.

To say, not only does he have a figure and face that meet her aesthetic standards, but he is also very kind, plus the tractor factory he went to is a good state-owned factory, if he can find such a man, it is still okay. It's just that she never imagined that in this factory with thousands of people, he would be just an ordinary worker who filled the furnace with pig iron and coke, and had no status and no future. You have to know that you are a college student, not to mention that she is also very beautiful, and you will have a return rate wherever you go.

Zou Ying thought silently, but how could she leave the poor and remote area of Baling Lake and build a warm and happy little family that she had always longed for? Looking at Balinghu Commune Middle School, Cen Xinrui had not been gone for a long time, and great changes had taken place: Teacher He had been transferred back to his hometown, Director Zhu had gone to the county education bureau as deputy director, and they all went to the place they wanted to go. Of course, there are also those who have been transferred, like last month the county assigned a man named Wu Zhengsheng. At first, everyone wondered how a college student from the Beijing Institute of Chemical Technology could be assigned to the commune middle school, but later it was learned that he had made a serious mistake in the Cultural Revolution and was listed as a "rectification" object very early.

Forget it, don't think about these useless things, when she was about to walk out of the gate of Qingjiang Tractor Factory, Zou Ying looked back at the foundry workshop. She felt that the top priority was to find an opportunity to transfer out of Balinghu Commune Middle School, and the way was naturally to find a man who could help her achieve her goals. As for Cen Xinrui, he can only say that he has no chance with him, although his quality in all aspects is indeed good, just as Director Zhu praised him at the farewell party.