After dinner, Lao Zhao and Ah Guang were a little tired, they rested in the dormitory of the cultural station, and Da Niu also went home and told me to rest early. I couldn't sleep, so I went to the Kapok tree at the Hangang Pier again, where I had my first date with Cher.

The Hanjiang River at night is very quiet, and the boats docked on the edge of the pier seem to be interesting not to destroy the poetry of the night. People with quiet hearts can also vaguely hear the intermittent and flirting words floating over from the moored boat, which is the happy little home of the boatman, and the person who fishes for a living takes the boat as his home.

I also like this free and easy life, which is so simple that people can live easily, but it is not easy to live!

This night, under the kapok tree at the Hanjiang Wharf, I revisited the old place for thousands of miles, and my heart was relaxed, and this riverside scenery really made people feel very comfortable.

The wharf has not changed, the kapok tree is still there, and there are a few more stone benches under the kapok tree, which are for people to enjoy the cool in summer. In this season, no one came at night, but I secretly rejoiced, glad that the bull did not come with me, and did not disturb my thoughts.

This night, this river, this wharf, and this kapok tree allow me to taste it quietly! It can make me feel at ease, and slowly reminisce about the distant years——

One day in August in the early 80s of the last century, I got on a bus bound for Pengcheng Special Economic Zone.

Since that time Xue'er's mother found out that Xue'er and I were in love, Xue'er and her father finally couldn't resist Xue'er's mother and decided to let me go to Pengcheng. He asked Xue'er's uncle to send a certificate of acceptance from Pengcheng and asked me to apply for a border pass by myself, so I crossed the Hanjiang River and went to the Haiyang County Public Security Bureau to get a border permit. In one afternoon, I put on a backpack with a few pieces of clothes, took 50 yuan from the Dongmen Bus Station in Haiyang County, took a long-distance car, and arrived at the Dongmen Bus Station in Pengcheng on the afternoon of the second day.

At that time, the ticket was only a dozen yuan for the whole journey, and I had to wait for the ferry when I arrived in Rongcheng halfway, and the big boat of the ferry carried the bus and the people on the car across the river, and sometimes it took time to wait. When the car arrives at the back door, it has to stop to let the passengers take a breath, or to relieve themselves, or to eat, some people bring their own food, and after parking, they find a corner, squatting on the ground and taking out their own food to satisfy their hunger. Because these restaurants on the way, there is no shop in front of Buba Village, and there is no store in the back, each restaurant is like a black shop depicting the three forks in the Water Margin, specializing in hungry passengers, and the bosses are all locals of Hai and Lufeng. The food sold in the restaurant is ridiculously expensive, and the driver who drives the car does not need money to eat, and the restaurant owner has to stuff a red envelope into the two drivers when people are not paying attention. What's more, some restaurants that specialize in long-distance truck driver business also bring some girls to sleep with the driver, of course, the driver has to give money to sleep with.

On both sides of the door of the restaurant, there are many smuggled yellow videotapes, as well as kung fu movie videotapes, Taiwanese-made watches, or RB video recorders and audio equipment, all of which are smuggled in by water in the area from Huidong to Hailufeng. In front of the restaurant, there are several gambling stalls that deceive people, and there are generally two to three people who do the bank, and there are three Puke cards, and there are also those who roll dice, and there are fish, shrimp and crabs. In each gambling stall, there are some "water feet", pretending to be gamblers joining in the fun, and some fashionably dressed and nondescript young people, shouting and greeting passengers, allowing passengers to gamble.

The car carrying people is like a car carrying pigs, the car only has more covers around and above, and the dilapidated car glass windows cannot be closed, and the "gurgling" sound keeps making people's hearts quiet, and they are very irritable to hear. The seats are rows of hard seats, people sit on them, and the car drives on a rough road, and the potholed road makes it impossible to sleep. Not to mention the roaring noise and the hard seats, it is very uncomfortable for people to sit, because the car will accidentally hit the potholes on the road at any time, and people will jump up at any time when they sit on the chair, which makes people feel miserable. It takes a day and a night to travel a long distance by a car that crosses mountains and seas for hundreds of kilometers, and it goes without saying that the hard work......

Although it is such a dilapidated road, there is still an endless stream of buses driving in the special economic zone that has just been reformed and opened up, and the cars carry a carload of dreamers to the Pengcheng Special Economic Zone.

The Pengcheng Special Economic Zone, in that era when everything was in ruins, was the forefront of reform and opening up.

When I arrived in Pengcheng, there were construction sites everywhere in front of me, and construction was going on everywhere. Pengcheng in the early eighties was not like Pengcheng now, not a world-class modern and prosperous city. From the East Gate to Futian, just take a two-dimes bus, Shennan Middle Road is still a dirt road, and the lively ones are only Luohu, Wenjindu, Renmin Road and East Gate. Huishi Street is the most prosperous place at night, there is a restaurant that sells snakes called Snake Restaurant, which is relatively famous, in Renmin North Road. I remember that at that time, Mr. Qin Mu had an essay in "Picking Shells in the Sea of Art", which specifically wrote about this snake restaurant, and he said that the name of the snake restaurant was not good, and it was a language disease. If it's a restaurant that sells pork and dog meat, isn't it a pig restaurant and a dog restaurant?

Uncle Xue'er's factory, in the industrial building of Shangbu Shaputou Village, a six-story factory, has two floors of our workshop, one of which is computer embroidery, and the whole floor is full of more than 20 sets of RB Tajima brand computer embroidery equipment with 18 heads, which was very advanced at that time. In addition, the upper floor is an office building and a design room, which are bright and bright separated by glass, and you can see the workshop of more than 100 RB Brothers embroidery cars and clothing cars outside. I am the only designer in the design room, who is responsible for the design of all embroidery patterns in the whole factory. The design room also has an imported pattern to put it

The big machine, specially for the computer embroidery tape enlargement, at that time the computer embroidery tape was pinhole type, the mainland still few people understand, just the embroidery pattern enlarged to draw the number of stitches, and then take Hong Kong to the master to play the belt.

The entrance of the office building has made a large fish tank more than two meters long, which contains nine Arowana, and the boss said that Hong Kong people talk about feng shui. On the wall above the fish tank is the company's name "Yusheng Computer Embroidery Co., Ltd.", which was a well-known company in the Pengcheng area at that time.

I've started a new life here!

Xue'er's uncle only came to Pengcheng Company on Saturdays and Sundays, and she is a beautiful woman who manages the company's business on a daily basis. This woman's name is Lin Jiahua, she is about 30 years old, she is very fashionable, she really looks a little like the smash hit Hong Kong singer Anita Mui in the 80s and 90s. is also a thin person, wearing heavy makeup, as soon as she approaches her, there is a smell of cologne, which is quite fragrant. She likes to wear black dresses, and I don't know if she doesn't like to wear panties like Anita Mui? She always makes up her eye sockets to make people feel that her eyes are big and bright, and her lips are typical of Shu Qi's thick and sexy kind, and she always uses thick lipstick to make her bloody. As the saying goes, people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles, this Miss Lin changes her fashionable hairstyle every two or three days, and likes to wear high heels with heels that are more than ten centimeters high, pointed, and nailed to iron soles. There was a loud bang on the way to walk, especially when going up the stairs, she began to step on the stairs downstairs, and the people in our office building already knew that it was Miss Lin who arrived, and really heard her before seeing her. In short, at a cursory glance, she feels that she is also quite beautiful, but the powder on her face can also cut a bowl. In addition, her biggest disadvantage is that she walks a little barrel and feet, and she is very thin, if she wears a suit skirt, it is like a two-legged walk, and what is worse is that she speaks hoarsely, if she reprimands the female worker a little loudly, she feels that she is hoarse.

She is our company manager.

Everyone calls her Miss Lin.

She is the junior of our boss mainland.

Miss Lin's impression on me is okay, but I vaguely feel that there is always a resentment on her face, and it is very difficult to see her smile, she is always cold and very serious to people, and her face is always tied tightly with a little sadness.

There is another little sister in the office building that must be mentioned, her name is Dandan. This is the daughter of the boss's younger brother, a native of Chengcheng, and also Xue'er's cousin, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old little sister, who is also beautiful, pure and lovely, but she doesn't speak forgivingly, but she is a typical little head, and the ghosts and elves have a lot of ghost thoughts. Before graduating from junior high school, she came to Pengcheng and followed her uncle to mix in the factory. She has a short-haired man's head, relying on the boss to be her uncle, and she never gives people affection when she speaks, so it is said that Miss Lin is afraid of her. She doesn't have any identity in the company, but she can take care of everything and supervise anyone, just like a little princess. She walked around the company every day, observed some people and things very carefully, and then waited for her uncle to come back and told her uncle that Xue'er's uncle, although he only came over two days a week, knew everything about the company. Miss Lin's younger brother did something that harmed the public and self-interest, and Xue'er's uncle also knew about it, so no one in the company wanted to offend this little girl. Before I came to the company, Xue'er had already mentioned Dandan to me, so I wasn't afraid of her, just my sister, Xue'er seemed to have a letter with her, so Dandan and I really felt like they were at first sight, and they were also a little bit of a relationship.

The office building has Miss Lin and Dandan, which makes the company's personnel relationship a little complicated.

There are two other people in the office building who must be mentioned: one is Lao Zhou, the representative of the local faction of the Chinese side, that is, the representative of the partner Party A. Lao Zhou benefited from the establishment of the Special Economic Zone, in the early 80s, the chief designer waved his hand, and all three divisions were assigned to Pengcheng to engage in construction, and Lao Zhou was a member of this group of people. He is mainly responsible for serving the company's personnel's temporary residence permit, border defense permit, some work of accommodation, daily cultural life, etc., he does not participate in the company's production management, but has the right to supervise, after all, he represents Party A.

The other is a company car driver who looks a little obscene and has a sharp beak and monkey gills, which is dedicated to serving the boss and Miss Lin. Because he has more contact with Miss Lin than with the boss, he can be regarded as Miss Lin's person, and Dandan hates him more! This person likes to tell right and wrong, and sometimes Xiao Pepper can be said to be a big crow pear.

I also count the staffing of the office building, plus the financial sister Haiying, we people get a fixed salary. In the computerized embroidery workshop, there are two masters invited by the boss in Hong Kong, Lao Hong and Fat Tsai are in management, and they are directly responsible to the boss, and they are not under the leadership of Miss Lin.

In the eighties and nineties, many companies in Pengcheng were in this form, and Xue'er's uncle's factory was also like this, which was a three-to-one supplement enterprise. In addition to those of us who received fixed wages, more than 100 female car workers were on a piecework basis, and it was difficult to enter our company at that time. Because our boss has an office building in Hong Kong, he receives a lot of processing orders, and the salary is relatively higher than that of other companies, so there are some more skilled female workers who jump to our company every day. In this way, the technical quality of our company is better, and a virtuous circle has been formed in receiving orders, and the boss is more confident. Of course, the advantages are sometimes also disadvantages, the price is high at the beginning, and once it is hit by the price of other companies, the more it will lose its advantage in the future. This is a later story, so I won't mention it for the time being.

Miss Lin also has a close confidant she brought, Sister Na, who is in charge of making bead samples. People are fat, with round eyes, a lot of freckles on the face, rough skin, slightly dark, and short body; they like to wear a slightly tight T-shirt, and they expose their weaknesses, and the middle waist is like a gourd intestine in the large intestine of a pig, and it is like a meat ball rolling over. She is extremely flattering, and she is obedient to Miss Lin, but for the people in her own group, it is a different set, doing a good job in making samples is her achievement, and if she doesn't do well, she will put the responsibility on other female workers. Every time I see Miss Lin, she is a low-level and courteous person, and she has a lot of flattering words, and she is a real two-faced person.

There is a very special person among the female workers in the car, she is Xue'er's other cousin Ah Zhen, the only daughter of Xue'er's second aunt, that is, the daughter of the company's boss's sister and the boss's niece. She is the same age as Cher, just a few months younger. This Miss Ah Zhen is the person who has influenced my and Xue'er's lives...... Her mother is married to Haicheng, and it seems that she has little contact with Xue'er.

When we arrived in Shapotou Village, I had to talk about where we lived, at that time, the factory did not have a dormitory, so we built a temporary tin house in the village for the workers to live, low and low, but also bunk beds, and the ground was damp, in summer, it was really bitter. It's like a steaming house, the wind from the fan is hot and spicy. The old man in charge of the dormitory slammed into the tin roof, and the water leaked to the ground, and the moisture rose. Hot and wet at the bottom, it is a natural steam room, sweat flows like rain, and only after twelve o'clock in the evening can you barely sleep. Or is it because the workers work overtime day and night, and the dormitory is the place where they spend the least amount of time, so the boss doesn't need to pay attention to it?

My brothers and sisters who work in our factories live and work in such an environment! I often work overtime until 11 or 2 o'clock in the evening, because the conditions in the dormitory are really too poor to stay.

We all have a common goal, to earn a few hundred yuan or even thousands of yuan a month to send home, which at that time, was the most wanted to do by migrant workers in China, so it doesn't matter whether the accommodation conditions are good or bad, people just need to keep working like a machine, don't be fired by the boss and lose their jobs. At that time, Yusheng Company was the factory with the largest volume of goods in the Special Economic Zone, and it was really difficult to enter our company, so the environment of this dormitory was acceptable to anyone.

As for the canteen, since it was contracted by Miss Lin's younger brother, it was really a dish like feeding pigs, and it was ridiculously expensive. In short, after I arrived at that time, I felt that the work and life of the employees, the requirements of the boss for the workers, etc., were just like the situation of those female factory workers in the RB film "Wild Wheat Ridge" released at that time, and the conditions were so poor that people were undignified.

In that era, this type of processing enterprises were basically like this. All kinds of processing enterprises with supplied materials and making up for them do not pay attention to caring about workers, and a large number of surplus labor in rural areas are waiting for a way out. At the time of the reform and opening up, people were so poor that they only dreamed of making money, and it didn't matter if the food and housing conditions were good or bad, as long as there was a job to do, and even many young men joined the ranks of car and flower workers, which was much better than having nothing to do in the countryside. As soon as people come out, they can earn a few hundred yuan a month, and when they get three or two thousand yuan to go back to the countryside during the Chinese New Year, it is very good. At that time, there was a child working in the Special Administrative Region, and his parents were in front of the villagers, but their faces were bright! It was equivalent to having overseas Chinese in the family overseas in those days.