When he arrived in Tanglin, it was more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and Hu Youmin took a bus to the military service club of the Tanglin Military Region, which was the place where the third grandmother worked, and the place where the third grandfather worked could not enter. After listening to his self-introduction, the first thing a thin, 50-year-old lady said was: "Why did you come so soon?" and was about to reply to ask you not to come!" Hu Youmin could only stand and smirk. After all, it was her nephew, the old lady complained a few words, explained her work to her colleagues, and then got off work early and took him home.

Their home is less than a kilometer from where they work, it is a military compound, a two-story villa, but there are four families, two downstairs and two upstairs. The third grandmother's family lives upstairs, a three-bedroom house with wooden floors, and the home is full of old-fashioned furniture.

While cooking, the old lady asked about the situation at home: "Are your grandparents in good health? Did your second uncle get married? Where did your second aunt get married? I haven't been back to my hometown for more than ten years, so I have to take some time to go back to my hometown to see ......" The old lady chattered endlessly, and wiped her tears after speaking. Hu Youmin supported while helping the old lady pick vegetables, and there was no strangeness to the third grandmother who met for the first time, except for the embarrassment when they first met.

At six o'clock, the third grandfather returned, and a military jeep drove him downstairs. He didn't say anything about Hu Youmin's arrival, asked about the situation at home, and asked him to rest for a few days, don't worry about work, and look for it slowly.

The third grandfather has a son and a daughter, both of whom are active soldiers, and they are all married and do not live with them. The daughter and son-in-law are both soldiers, and in a unit in neighboring Tieling City, the son is an officer at the Tanglin City Artillery Academy, the daughter-in-law works in an insurance company, and the son and daughter-in-law generally see the second elder in Zhou Future. It was almost seven o'clock after dinner, and the old man watched the news broadcast, which he had been doing for many years. Hu Youmin, who was a little sleepy, washed up and went to bed early.

Three days later, the third grandfather told him that he had found a job, and that he was working as a warehouse keeper in a factory owned by the son of a colleague who had changed his job, with a salary of 120 yuan a month, and a bonus for doing a good job. The salary of 120 yuan was very attractive to Hu Youmin, and he had a cousin who was a teacher in a township middle school, and his salary was only 68 yuan.

Thinking about it, he felt excited, and the next morning, he rode an old bicycle from the third grandfather's house, carried his big backpack, and followed his comrades to report to the Tanglin Changxing Electric Furnace Factory to replace Tian Yumei as a warehouse keeper. The handover work is also simple, some warehousing orders, outbound orders, account books, inventory inventory is completed. Tian Yumei asked her if she didn't understand, and she would also take the time to guide him, he kept nodding his head, like a chicken cutting rice, but unfortunately Tian Meinu never came to guide him once, and he was not embarrassed to ask.

Tian Yumei is two years older than him, about 1.68 meters tall, with a goose egg face, two small dimples when he smiles, a ponytail, a slender figure, but the two peaks are very majestic and upright, walking like two naughty rabbits, the skin is also very good, white and smooth, is the most beautiful girl Hu Youmin has seen so far.

The factory does not have a special dormitory, so Hu Youmin can only live in a warehouse. There is a small office in the warehouse, about 12 square meters, separated by a cloth curtain, outside the curtain is placed a desk, a wooden filing cabinet, for office work during the day, and a 1.2 meter wooden bed behind the curtain is the dormitory where Hu Youmin sleeps at night. There is no running water, no air conditioning, and no heating in the office, only an electric heater, and Hu Youmin plugs it in when it is too cold to stand. Although the conditions are very simple, it is already a paradise for Hu Youmin, who has just come from the countryside, and he is very satisfied.

wrote a letter to his family to report his safety, Hu Youmin put his mind on work, he is a strong person, he wants to do a good job, and he doesn't want others to despise him. The bold Northeast people are familiar with themselves, and Hu Youmin got acquainted with the workers in two or three days. At first, he didn't know the materials and accessories at all, so he asked the workers to go to the warehouse to find them by themselves, and then memorize what they were called and what they were used for. The workers were very enthusiastic, and took the initiative and patiently introduced him to the materials and accessories.

Hu Youmin, who has the habit of morning exercises, trots a few laps in the factory every morning, and then practices a set of boxing. This set of boxing was taught to him by his grandfather, and he didn't know what the name was, but he asked his grandfather, and his grandfather said that he didn't know either. When my grandfather was young, he was captured as a strong man to pick up arms for the Kuomintang-Kuomintang army, and was hit by a stray bullet in a battle, the bullet entered the right side of the face, and came out from the left side of the face near the chin position, penetrating the wound.

After his grandfather was injured, no one cared about him, and he was rescued by a Taoist priest who traveled all over the world and taught him a set of boxing techniques, saying that it was to strengthen the body, and there were some small spells: drawing eight characters, collecting shocks, drawing stuck water, curing corns, etc. Hu Youmin has been frail and sickly since he was a child, and after practicing this set of boxing techniques, his body has become much stronger. Since then, he has liked this set of boxing techniques and insisted on practicing, and this practice has been more than six years, and he has not had a single illness in the middle, not even a small cold.

There is a small alley next to the factory, the alley is very miscellaneous, there are noodle doors, stalls, vegetable sellers, clothes sellers, and breakfast ....... Hu Youmin came here every day for breakfast, and after a long time, he fell in love with a stall selling haggis soup and pies. This is Hu Youmin's favorite food, the haggis soup is already very fresh, and some coriander is removed from the noodles, which can be drunk to the bones, the pie is soft and fragrant, and he can eat seven or eight at a time, but he doesn't have so much money to eat, so he can only endure the gluttony and eat two pads to cushion his stomach, and then drink a bowl of haggis soup.

A bowl of haggis soup with Wu Mao, a pie with Wu Mao, and a piece of Wu for breakfast, which is already a luxury for Hu Youmin. A piece of wool is a day's living expenses for Hu Youmin's high school students, but there is no way to feel distressed, and he will be hungry and unbearable. In fact, Hu Youmin only had to pay for breakfast, and Chinese food was eaten in the factory, and only Hu Youmin lived alone in the factory at night, and dinner was eaten with leftovers from noon.

Hu Youmin eats very slowly, he enjoys the process very much, and it is a very happy thing for him, who rarely eats a full meal, to eat such a delicious thing. The stall owner saw that he came to eat every day, and he was also familiar with him, and when he saw that he ate so little, he once laughed at him eating like a big girl. After eating and drinking slowly, Hu Youmin returned to the factory and prepared to start the day's work.

When there was nothing to do in the warehouse, Hu Youmin went to see the workers working. Everything in the factory was something he had never seen before, sheet metal workers, fitters, turners, welders, riveters, he knew these types of work for the first time, and it was also the first time he saw those hard metals in their hands into all kinds of necessary shapes.

He likes to watch the sheet metal worker Xiao Li Zi work, and those iron plates are like spirituality in his hands, and he can become whatever he wants. The first time I saw Meng Youwei put bricks in the furnace, he asked him if he was the kind of mason in the countryside? Meng Youwei smiled: "It's okay to call me a mason, but unlike the masons in the countryside, I can't do their work, they can't do my work, we use different materials, the masonry methods are different, and the requirements are even more different." ”

The women of the Northeast are also bold, not inferior to men when they joke, and dare to say anything. There are five or six female workers in the factory, two of the younger ones are more reserved, and the sisters-in-law in their thirties can joke, and Hu Youmin is often blushing by them, so he often walks around when he sees them.

I didn't dodge once, a slightly fat one is called Sister Li, and a thin and tall one is called Sister Shan, Sister Li asked with a smile: "Xiaohu, do you have a girlfriend? Do you want to introduce one to you?" Hu Youmin didn't speak, Sister Shan answered: "But I have to let my sister see if Mao Changqi is there first!" "Hehe" "Haha" Hu Youmin was about to escape, and a cold voice came from behind: "What about it? Do you still have to go to work?" Looking back and seeing that it was Tian Yumei, Sister Li and Sister Shan laughed dryly and walked away.

Tian Yumei looked at him with a straight face: "It's cool to chat with the old ladies, isn't it? Hu Youmin was depressed: Where is this? Is it that my brother didn't have time to hide? After thinking about it, I felt that something was wrong, why did she teach me a lesson? Looking at Tian Yumei's distant arms, she glanced at it fiercely.

Since Hu Youmin came here, Tian Yumei has been quite good to him. I often come to the warehouse, chat with him for a while, and sometimes sit for a while, tell him some interesting things she encountered, and make him happy. I haven't seen her meddling in her business before, but today I don't know what's wrong?

It's been almost a month since I came to Tanglin, the days of working in the factory are simple and happy, and Hu Youmin has also grown much whiter. Young people also have a strong ability to imitate, and Hu Youmin's Northeast dialect has been learned seven or eight points.

Salary in the afternoon, this is the first time Hu Youmin received his salary after going to work, he worked for 20 days last month, only 80 yuan, he was about to go to the financial office, Tian Yumei came, took a stack of money and said to him: "Your salary, I will help you collect it." Hu Youmin was a little puzzled why she had to collect the salary on her behalf and reached out to receive the money, but unexpectedly, Tian Yumei retracted her hand, hid the money behind her back, tilted her head and asked, "Help you receive your salary, how do you want to thank me?"

"How can I thank you?"

"Invite me to dinner in the evening!"

Hu Youmin's heart was galloping by, this was the first salary he earned, and it was only eighty yuan, did he want his brother to be a moonlight clan just after work? But this aunt couldn't afford to provoke her, so she had to ask pitifully, "What do you want to eat?" "Go for supper?" She handed him the money. Looking at the two white rabbits jumping in front of him, Hu Youmin's injured mind seemed to have been somewhat balanced.

It may have come early, the supper stall had just opened, and there was no one yet, so he ordered ten skewers of mutton, a grilled eggplant, a grilled fish, a crispy bone, two bottles of beer, he poured beer and Tian Yumei touched one: "Thank you for the beauty to receive the salary on my behalf!"

"You're welcome, I'll leave the matter of receiving wages in the future, so that I can knock you every month, hehe. ”

"Okay, the salary is also handed over to you for safekeeping, hehe. ”

Tian Yumei was stunned, as if she had thought of something, her face turned red all of a sudden, and she glared at him fiercely: "You think beautifully!"

"Okay, I wish you more and more beautiful!" Hu Youmin also felt a little frivolous and diverted the topic.

The two chatted while drinking, Tian Yumei, who was usually proud like a princess, was like a happy bird at this time, chattering non-stop, Hu Youmin occasionally teased her, and she was not annoyed. She asked him curiously how he ran so far to do things? Hu Youmin told her some of his own situation, Tian Yumei had not suffered much, and began to feel novel, and then some tears were hazy, she asked softly: "You failed the college entrance examination in the story test, right?" He nodded bitterly.

After eating and drinking, Hu Youmin went to settle the bill, a total of twelve yuan, he was just about to pay the money, Tian Yumei had already handed over the money: "I'm in for a treat, next time you invite, you have to invite twice." Hu Youmin's hidden heart was plucked, although Hu Youmin was a little out of his body when he saw Tian Yumei, but he didn't dare to dream of a toad eating swan meat.