"Model Lamor. [Ran^Text^Library] A small restaurant caught Qi Tianxiang's eyes, and he pointed to Li Zheng and said, "Let's eat in front!" ”

Li Zheng followed him into the small restaurant, saying that it was small, but it was really small, that is, the building facing the street opened a door, and it was time to eat, and there were already a few guests sitting in the restaurant, so they went to the inner room and found a small table in it and sat down.

"What do you want to eat?" The female owner of the restaurant followed them over and greeted the guests with a smile, "There are noodles, chaos, and buns, what do you eat?" ”

"How about a bowl of wontons for one person and a basket of steamed buns?" Li Zheng asked Qi Tianxiang for his intentions, and seeing that he had no objection, he repeated it to the boss again, and the female boss quickly agreed to go and prepare.

Qi Tianxiang looked around the small room, and suddenly his eyes froze on the frames hanging on the wall, stood up and approached, and saw that they were all awards, including those from Shuguang Factory and the Qinghe Municipal Government. Qi Tianxiang watched with interest, and involuntarily walked to another room, the wall was also hung with awards, and it was two floors, more than the rooms inside, and it was the names of two different people, obviously the husband and wife together.

"Good guy, with so many awards, it's just an advanced couple." Li Zheng also followed, looking at the award certificate on the wall, he couldn't help but sigh: "It's amazing, so much." ”

"I'm going to make you laugh, sit inside." The female boss held the tray and watched them look at the award certificate on the wall intently, and said embarrassedly: "These are all hung in the house before, and they were ready to be picked up when the restaurant was opened, but the workers who came to help said that it was good to hang it, so that it could be made a signboard." The female boss carefully put the buns and wontons on the small table, and said: "I don't think so, this is all more than ten years ago, where to put it can only explain the past, hanging on the wall is just to remind yourself at all times, I am an advanced worker, a good worker trusted by the factory, so I should be honest and natural in business, and I can't discredit these awards." ”

"The eldest sister is a laid-off worker of Shuguang Factory?" Qi Tianxiang was inexplicably moved, for the simplicity of this female boss, and for her sincerity, "Is it okay to open this small restaurant?" ”

"Don't call me eldest sister, the two of us look about the same age, I can't stand calling me eldest sister, let's follow my lover and call me sister-in-law Li." Sister-in-law Li's face flushed, smiled unnaturally, and said modestly: "Both of them have been laid off, and they have to have seven or eight years, and they have been doing everything, so they are running around flexibly, so they can just keep their mouths shut, but the year before last, my lover broke his leg when he went out to work, and he couldn't do heavy work. ”

"Big brother has a bad leg, there must be a lot of difficulties." Li Zheng took over and said, he saw that his sister-in-law was not very busy, so he asked with a stitch.

"Who doesn't have difficulties, there are tens of thousands of people in this factory, and it is rare to have no difficulties, but what to do with difficulties, you still have to move forward. Fortunately, we also opened a small restaurant in our house, and the house is not facing the street, and we are not satisfied without this condition, so we can be quite content. Sister-in-law Li took care of the business while talking back and forth.

"Then the house has a restaurant, where do you live?" Qi Tianxiang asked with concern.

"My father-in-law and mother-in-law live near here, the old couple live in two rooms, our house has opened a restaurant, just squeeze with them, anyway, the child is going to college in another place, and it will be so much time to come back from vacation, I will go to my mother's house to deal with it for a few days." Sister-in-law Li said happily: "Thanks to the policy in the past two years, we have been given this condition, and we are satisfied." ”

"Then you're usually alone, but it's hard enough." Li Zheng said with a sigh.

"Your eldest brother's legs and feet are not good, that is, he comes to help when he is busy at night, and he has to cook for the two old ones at home at noon, and he can't do without him." Sister-in-law Li said with a smile: "The lunch meal is basically quite simple, that is, buns, wontons, and noodles, prepare a little earlier, hurry up the morning time to pack it out, guests can be served at any time when they come, and this family area is all old households, everyone is not outside, sometimes wait for a long time and do not complain, they are all very good." ”

"See, this is our laid-off workers, laid-off without complaining, no food ruts to find by themselves, difficult to be so grateful, always with their past honors to spur themselves, but also always full of gratitude, in comparison, don't we feel ashamed?" Qi Tianxiang looked at Li Zheng and said in a low voice: "In the face of such good enterprise employees, shouldn't we do something for them?" ”

"What your brother said is not right, although I don't know how to say it, but the enterprise is a big guy's enterprise, the enterprise is yellow is not because we don't work hard, there are many reasons, and the enterprise is not good, but the big guy still has to live, the enterprise is already difficult, how to rely on the enterprise, isn't it unreasonable?" Sister-in-law Li looked at Qi Tianxiang and Li Zheng and said: "Life is actually simple, just get by, the key is to feel comfortable or not, just like a cotton jacket, no matter how bright it is outside, there is no good cotton inside, and it is uncomfortable inside, so it can't be comfortable." ”

"Sister-in-law Li, this is true insight." After finishing the meal unconsciously, Qi Tianxiang took out the money to pay the bill to Sister-in-law Li, and because he didn't know how much it was, he directly gave twenty yuan.

"No need to look for it, he has money." Li Zheng looked at Sister-in-law Li and said with a smile.

"That's the line, you eat in my small shop, just to give me face, it's too late for me to be grateful, how can I take advantage of your convenience." As Sister-in-law Li spoke, she quickly found six yuan and handed it to Qi Tianxiang, and said quickly: "Eight yuan for two bowls of wontons, six yuan for one basket of steamed buns, a total of fourteen yuan, six yuan for you." ”

"I really don't need to look for it, I'm happy to listen to your conversation." Qi Tianxiang pushed Sister-in-law Li's hand, said sincerely, and stood up to leave.

"That's not going to work." Sister-in-law Li stopped Qi Tianxiang and said resolutely: "Looking at your eyes, it is estimated that you are not from Shuguang Factory." You see that I am in difficulty and want to help me, thank you for this heart, sister-in-law, but I am in business and earn money, how can I ask you more. ”

At the insistence of Sister-in-law Li, Qi Tianxiang had no choice but to take the money, and seeing that Li Zheng had no intention of leaving, he urged: "Let's go, what's the matter, the dog Heizi is full and doesn't fight!" ”

"You sit down first and let me think about it." Li Zheng suddenly remembered something, took out a cigarette, handed it to Qi Tianxiang and lit it, took a deep breath and said: "I remember Wang Jin, the old secretary of this factory, I have interviewed him before, and we can talk to him in the afternoon." It's just that now his old man is over seventy, and he doesn't know if he's still there, and he doesn't know where he lives! ”

"Secretary Wang, I know where his family lives." Sister-in-law Li interjected: "The old man's body is tough! You sit down for a while, and I'll take you there when I'm done with this. ”

"Thank you, Sister-in-law Li, for causing you trouble." Li Zheng thanked him sincerely, and suddenly remembered something and said, "We booked this small table in the evening, and we will have a few drinks when the eldest brother comes over." ”

"Which relationship is good, the two of us will invite the two of you in the evening." Sister-in-law Li smiled and went to work.

"It's time for us to really change our mindset and really do something for them, because there are too many debts owed in previous years, and it's time to make up for it." Qi Tianxiang said with emotion: "The prime minister asks for salary, the press appeals, the management urges, and all departments work together, but they are all aimed at the problem of migrant workers. The migrant workers raised their eyebrows, and their waists stiffened a lot. But calm down and think about it, owing migrant workers wages is all malicious? Isn't there a deeper reason? Nowadays, in many departments and units in the city, in order to reduce staff and increase efficiency, many posts or temporary work are done by migrant workers, and they generally adopt phased payment or total payment, which is to control the short-term behavior of migrant workers, and second, to control the quality and rewards and punishments, which is also a kind of 'management' as a last resort. 'Migrant workers', which workers used to use as 'peasants', is not demeaning or discriminatory, but specifically refers to the characteristics, habits and characteristics of migrant workers. When peasant workers go to the city to work, their casual habits, their own quality, traditional concepts, and inherent bad habits have not changed because of their move to the city, but have increased unabated. 'Short-term behavior', 'making efforts to earn money', and 'hugging gangs' have seriously affected the development of migrant workers in cities. ”

"You're so right," Li Zheng immediately became excited, "Let's tell the truth, two years ago, when I built a road near my house, I dug a road and broke the water pipe, and the people who dug the road were afraid to be held accountable." So much so that we and the two nearby buildings stopped the water, reported for repairs, checked the reason, and a few workers came, and after working for a day, they disappeared. After stopping for two more days, a few more workers came, but they did it to the end, but they came with tools on three poles in the day, and they left without getting dark, and they had to rest at noon. Because of the water outage for many days, I was impatient, and I paid attention to it every day, and I was also familiar with the plumber of the water company, chatted a lot, and knew some inside information. The workers who dug the road were afraid of deducting money, so they piled up the asphalt fragments into the landfill, and the workers who came for the first time saw these things, and after working for a day and paying their wages, they had to add money, and they did not agree to leave the next day. Workers who came for the second time were required to pay the bill every day instead of working on a daily basis. He also has no choice, it is difficult to find suitable workers now, and he does not sign a contract or inspect the work, he settles the accounts every day, and leaves if he is not satisfied, or he will sue, or he will sue again, or a group of migrant workers will make trouble, which is a real headache. It seems inappropriate to blame all this on the low quality of migrant workers, but can it be said that there is no peasant habit in it? In addition to money, people still have to have some spirit, this is an old saying, but even older: forget to sleep and eat, stay up all night, work day and night, and help others, the formation of these idioms must always have examples to prove it! When migrant workers go to the city, they don't just patronize to earn money, take care of their own rights and interests, but also think of obligations and responsibilities. ”

"This is going to talk about industrial workers, these ordinary and ordinary workers have been closely linked to the fate of the enterprise since they entered the factory, doing ordinary and ordinary work, and decades of hard work and dedication. Workers, especially industrial workers, are the hardest and hardest to find joy in their work. Industrial workers, especially urban cleaners, bus drivers, and even operators on the assembly line, work day after day is simply repeated, and the mechanical labor can not see the results after paying, but the steadfastness, the persistence is derived from a kind of consciousness and responsibility, the conscience of being a person and the seriousness and responsibility of doing things have given birth to consciousness, the sense of responsibility of the master, the sense of mission and pride of the working class, and "We workers have power", "I am looking for oil for the motherland", "Golden Shuttle and Silver Shuttle" and other loud, It is the heroic songs that inject joy into labor. Today, labor has not changed, the nature has not changed, but happiness no longer exists, and the reason for this is that our values have changed. Graduated college students, the primary choice to the enterprise is not their own professional play, but the salary, the treatment of geometry, who will pay the three golds, the unsatisfactory work, the position is not adaptable, not to work hard to adapt, to change, not to do a line, learn a line, love a line, but to be young as the capital of a jump, frequent jumping around, jumping out of fatigue, but also naturally away from happiness. Ordinary work, ordinary occupation, lack of a minimum of respect, and even dignity, often become the rhetoric of educating children or reprimanding the backward, the direction of education is to encourage students to go on to higher education or become rich, ordinary work becomes a necessity for losers, I really don't know what went wrong. ”

Li Zheng looked at Qi Tianxiang and didn't answer for a long time, he didn't know what to say, what he could say to relieve Qi Tianxiang's worries, and he didn't know if what he said could convince himself. The atmosphere was at an impasse for a while, but fortunately, Sister-in-law Li was also busy with her work, and asked the owner of the neighbor's shop to help take care of it, so she took off her apron and took them out.

"Should I buy something?" Li Zheng kindly reminded.

"No, the old secretary won't accept it, he has very firm rules and is very screwed." Before Qi Tianxiang could answer, Sister-in-law Li spoke first, and her tone was unquestionably firm.

"Of course you should buy some gifts, the younger generation goes to visit the elders, how can you be empty-handed." Qi Tianxiang's tone was more resolute, "It is his principle to accept or not, and it is our etiquette to buy or not, and this rule should still be observed." Qi Tianxiang walked into a convenience supermarket as he spoke, and discussed with Li Zheng while looking at the goods, "Is it good to buy something practical, a pot of oil, a box of milk, and then buy some nutritional products for the elderly." ”

Saying that, let the boss take it, and soon it was ready, and he was very resolute to pay the bill, Li Zheng didn't want to insist on anything, so he had to carry oil and milk out of the supermarket.

Qi Tianxiang carried a few bags of nutritional products, followed Sister-in-law Li, that is, a distance of a few hundred meters, and stopped in front of a four-story red brick house, which was obviously an old building, and the red bricks on the floor were slightly mottled, like a weathered old man.

"The old secretary lives here?" Li Zheng looked at Sister-in-law Li suspiciously, turned to Qi Tianxiang and said: "The old secretary who came back to interview in the factory didn't come to the house. ”

"Originally, I could have lived in the cadre building, that is, a newer building, but the old secretary didn't do it, insisted on living in this old house, and the children got married and went out to live in separate rooms, and when he retired, he was arranged to move, but he still said that he couldn't move him, and as a result, he and his wife have been living here all the time." Sister-in-law Li said admiringly, "Living in such a house with the old secretary, we are also down-to-earth, people have such a great contribution, such a high honor, and like this, others are even more embarrassed to reach out." ”

"The old secretary is a national model worker in the sixties and seventies, and also served as a representative of the National People's Congress, before his retirement was a representative of the Provincial People's Congress, a well-known technical pacesetter in the country, starting from a front-line worker, team leader, workshop director, branch factory director, secretary of the party committee of the general factory, has witnessed the glory of Shuguang Factory for decades, and has also witnessed the decline of the factory after retirement." Li Zheng introduced to Qi Tianxiang in a low voice, muttering with some concern: "I just don't know if the old man still remembers me." ”

Sister-in-law Li knocked on the door and called out sweetly to the old lady who opened the door, "Aunt Wang, I came to see you." When he entered the house, he shouted to the old man sitting on the sofa watching TV: "Uncle Wang, watching TV, I'll bring you two guests, see if you know each other?" ”

"Old secretary, do you remember reporter Xiao Li?" Li Zheng walked a few steps, walked up to the old man, and called respectfully.

Maybe the light in the room was a little dim, maybe the old man really couldn't remember, looked at Li Zheng suspiciously, shook his head slowly, and said to Sister-in-law Li: "I can't remember." ”

"It's been more than ten years, no wonder you can't remember, I'm Xiao Li reporter of Qinghe Daily!" Li Zheng smiled and emphasized, "I interviewed you in the factory that year. ”

"It seems to be a little impression, I was still a young man at that time, and I really didn't dare to admit it." The old secretary seemed to have some impressions, but he still didn't dare to say with great certainty, stood up and asked Li Zheng and Qi Tianxiang to sit, and ordered his wife to pour tea, but was stopped by Sister-in-law Li.

Sister-in-law Li quickly poured two cups of tea, put them in front of the two, and said to the old man with a smile: "I'll go first, there is no one in the store, I'll come to see you in a few days." Saying goodbye to Li Zheng and Qi Tianxiang, he walked out the door while talking to Aunt Wang.

Watching Sister-in-law Li leave, Qi Tianxiang introduced Li Zheng and said: "Reporter Xiao Li is no longer in the newspaper, and now he is the deputy secretary of the Pingyuan County Party Committee. ”

"Okay, okay, thank you Xiao Li for coming to see me." The old secretary looked at Li Zheng and Qi Tianxiang gratefully.

Li Zheng took the opportunity to point at Qi Tianxiang and said, "His name is Qi Tianxiang, he is from our province, and he wants to come over to chat with you." ”

The old man nodded politely at Qi Tianxiang, "You are all busy, you still come to see me, the old man, and you also buy things, this is not good, you will take it together after a while." ”

"I can't take it." Li Zheng smiled and said to the old man: "I eat in the canteen in the county, Lao Qi came from the province, where do you get it?" ”

"Thank you then, thank you for being so kind." The old secretary understood what Li Zheng meant, so he no longer insisted, looked at the two with a smile, and waited for their questioning.

"I have time today, I walked around the factory, and I want to come over to ask you for advice." Qi Tianxiang smiled modestly and said to the old secretary: "You have always watched the Shuguang Factory prosper step by step, and you must have your own views and ideas on the development and current situation of the factory. ”

"Toss, it's all toss." Speaking of enterprises, the old secretary seemed to have a belly of words, and said with a trembling mouth: "A good large enterprise, more than ten years of work to make it like this, what a loser!" ”