In 61 years, the central authorities adjusted their economic policies and implemented the principle of "readjusting, consolidating, enriching, and improving," and all the workers who entered the factories after five or eight years were sent back to their hometowns, and the newly built factories were closed one after another like dominoes.

Hongqi Printing Factory is an expansion of the old factory, according to the policy of the adjustment unit. It was not a simple task to send the fifteen apprentices back to their hometowns: although they had not yet completed the division rank, they had in fact become the backbone of the production in each workshop and had worked hard for the development of the factory. They have been in the factory for more than two years, proud to earn wages as workers, and returned to the countryside to earn worthless work, and the loss in their hearts can be imagined.

At the beginning, the scenery entered the city, but now he has returned to his hometown with a disgraced face, and he knew that he should not be a worker today. Boring!

It's easy to turn into a quantitative account, and I will return to my hometown with an order, alas, the life of the old cow's ass!

In the past few days, the branch secretary and Chairman Wang have been accompanying the smiling faces, doing ideological work separately, meeting their requirements to the greatest extent, and solemnly promised: Our factory will develop in the future, and the situation will improve and add you to the first, this matter will be on me!

The most tricky is Zheng Qiaoling in the plate-making workshop. The only adopted daughter of this brigade branch secretary, who was handsome at the beginning of Chinese, fell in love with her master soon after entering the factory. has made an appointment to hold a wedding in the Mid-Autumn Festival this year, who would have expected that Xiao Zheng would be sent back to his hometown on a sunny day, and this wedding knot will not be concluded?

Xiao Zheng and her boyfriend found the branch secretary and chairman of the trade union Wang who were in charge of the rectification work, knelt on the ground and cried: I ask the leader to be kind and virtuous, for the sake of our diligent work, to fulfill our marriage, and not to lose our conscience and beat the mandarin ducks.

The policy stipulates that the nature of the parents' household registration is different, and the household registration of the child born follows the mother's side. Xiao Zheng's master has an urban hukou, and his family does not allow him to marry Zheng Qiaoling from a rural hukou, otherwise the child will become a rural member of the rural community who is digging in the field!

Xiao Zheng's eyes were red and swollen like ripe peaches, and he gritted his teeth and was ruthless: If you don't force me to devolve, you will hang yourself at the gate of the factory.

The branch secretary and Chairman Wang were moved by the true feelings of the two, and even shed a lot of tears with them. I asked the leaders of the Industrial Bureau to get a reply: not a single opening is allowed, and ideological problems depend on doing work.

The party secretary discussed with Chairman Wang that this was a practical issue, not an ideological issue. Human life is at stake, who is responsible for what really happens? Asked the deputy county magistrate in charge, Xiao Zheng's father also secretly entrusted people to activities, and finally agreed to take a compromise method of "delegating people to retain household registration" as a special case: Zheng Qiaoling also went through the decentralization procedures, wearing saffron and leaving the factory on the honor list, but secretly did not move the household registration and retained the supply of grain and oil in the town.

The small city of Jiang'an was shrouded in an atmosphere of panic. A group of delegated personnel wore saffron-backed luggage rolls and left the factory to return to their hometowns, and the gongs and drums of the farewell shook people's hearts. Jiang Lesheng suddenly had a terrible premonition: I only take a half-cut class a year, and I am a dispensable person in the factory. Now that the factory is closed and transferred, is the Red School still open? The policy stipulates that after five or eight years, all people who will be recruited to move into the city will be decentralized, which is intended to reduce the ration of the supply of the population, am I among the decentralized? Can the job be kept?

He has been particularly sensitive to bad news over the years.

He went to the county staff school to inquire about the news. Asked if he would be coerced by the decentralization trend and lose his job, the principal affirmed: no way! You are assigned by the Education Bureau and are not among the delegates. The Red School of the Hongqi Printing House will also be opened. The principal comforted him: Why are you so thoughtful at such a young age? The factory has responded well to you.

Jiang Lesheng took a reassuring pill, and when he returned to the factory, it was already dark. Under the street lamp at the entrance of the factory, Chairman Wang is holding his back and saying goodbye, much like Wang Huaibing, the production captain!

Chairman Wang met him unexpectedly, hurriedly stuffed something in his hand into his trouser pocket, and accosted him: Little Teacher Jiang? Where have you been?

He thought in his heart: What is Wang Huaibing doing in the factory? What's so unsightly about them?

What Chairman Wang stuffed into his trouser pocket was a joint letter brought by Wang Huaibing, asking for Jiang Lesheng to return to his hometown! There are finger prints of more than a dozen names from his own hand.

A few years ago, the county people's committee approved the implementation of militarized management in "Jiangzhong." The high school has unified accommodation and boarding, and rural students have a household registration in the city to enjoy a rationed supply of grain and oil. Xu Qihu saw Jiang Lesheng move his household registration, and secretly swore in his heart: Sooner or later, you will be allowed to move back to the archway brigade!

In the college entrance examination last year, Jiang Lesheng's sentence "resolutely disagreeing with admission" on the external transfer form shattered his college dream.

Xu Qihu was proud, Jiang Lesheng unexpectedly did not go back to the archway to earn work, but stayed in the city as a substitute teacher!

This year, the life of the Jiang family gradually improved, and the money for grain and grass for the production team was settled, and the four dilapidated thatched houses were renovated. And his own ingots house is gray-faced, and the roof ridge is broken into a few pieces, and there is no money to repair it. - Xu Qihu is jealous!

His son Xu Xiaohu made him even more angry! Xiaohu is thirteen years old, and he is so tall and big that he just refuses to study hard. In the fifth year of school, I only read the third grade, and I have to repeat a grade every other year, which has become a famous repeater treasure in the whole school. This kid is naughty and mischievous in class, bullying female classmates after class, the teacher criticizes him and scolds the teacher, the teacher can't control it and hand it over to the principal, the principal He Shun who can play the flute, he doesn't buy it, and points to his nose to warn: Be careful that I say bad things about you in front of my father, it's useless for you to pat yourself again!

Xiaohu's ambition is to grow up and join the army. He told his father that reading is useless, and you don't have to read a day to join the army? The same as a brigade cadre? Which one of the whole team is not afraid of you? -- This is also called ambition not to be old.

The idea of getting Jiang Lesheng back to earn work made Xu Qihu unable to sleep. He vowed to hold his son in the palm of his hand as he had done to Jiang Qingyu. At night, he lay in bed, and was most willing to listen to the squeak and scream of the mouse being bitten under the cat's paws, and he got great pleasure and satisfaction from it.

A godsend! The state has adjusted its economic policies to reduce the urban population. As soon as Xu Qihu heard about this topic in the commune and had no intention of holding a meeting, he immediately thought of Jiang Lesheng and was extremely excited. He foresaw that in a few days, Jiang Lesheng would go home with a bunk on his back, go to the brigade to register with his eyebrows down, and accept supervision and transformation in the archway brigade under his control.

Seeing that the rectification was nearing the end, the decentralized personnel returned to their hometowns one after another, but there was still no trace of Jiang Lesheng. Xu Qihu was restless and sent Wang Huaibing into the city to inquire about the news. asked him to write a joint letter in the name of the poor middle peasants and bring it to him, Jiang Lesheng was not among the compressions, so he handed it over and strongly asked him to return to his hometown to farm! The reason is that his family lacks labor, his mother is sick, his younger siblings are young, and he has to go home to earn work. "In the current situation, it is better to decentralize one more, and we are tantamount to helping the factory in doing so, and they naturally can't ask for it." Wang Huaibing came in accordance with this intention.

This joint letter was a relief for the Hongqi Printing House. The county food bureau is investigating why the roster of 15 people has been delegated and one less population has been moved out of the ration supply. The factory leaders explained that Zheng Qiaoling's situation was special, and claimed that the matter had been reported to the county leaders for approval, but the grain bureau was very resolute: the reduction of the rationed supply of population is a hard target, and no one has the right to be accommodating. The leaders of the factory are falling into the dilemma of "mountains and rivers are doubtful and there is no way", and Wang Huaibing sent a "willow and a bright flower": Jiang Lesheng was an urban quantitative household registration before entering the factory, and wouldn't it be just right to vacate an indicator and top Zheng Qiaoling's gap in the relationship between not moving the household registration and not transferring the grain?

Xiao Zheng's master is a veteran worker, the technical backbone of the typesetting workshop, and her father's secret activities, the county leaders have tacitly agreed to make special workarounds. In contrast, Jiang Lesheng has only been in the factory for a year, which is shorter than those apprenticeships. Although it is generally accepted that the young man is a good person, the Red School has been unable to open classes for a long time, and the teachers are redundant. Whether it is from the perspective of the interests of the factory or the fulfillment of Zheng Qiaoling's marriage, it is logical to delegate Jiang Lesheng.

It is impossible to recruit workers into the factory with a bad background, so there is no discriminatory rule on family origin in this decentralization. However, people have already formed a mindset -- the unfortunate and difficult things should be "given priority" if they come from a bad background, not to mention that the cadres of his family's brigade came forward to ask for someone, and the local poor middle peasants strongly demanded that he go back to earn work? Jiang Lesheng is like a grain of sediment, it is normal for him to be carried into the sea by the wave of decentralization.

Chairman Wang has a good understanding of Jiang Lesheng's family and the causes and consequences of getting this job, and knows that this practice of stealing beams and changing pillars is very immoral and unconscionable, and will push Jiang Lesheng and his family into the abyss of disaster again. Wang Huaibing's expression was mysterious when he handed over the joint letter that day, and Chairman Wang realized that there must be a mystery in it, and he couldn't help but feel pity and sympathy in his heart. However, it is important to take into account the overall situation and solve problems for the factory leaders.

Jiang Lesheng's personnel relations are in the county staff school, and the school must come forward to send him back to his hometown. The factory director sent Chairman Wang to go to the staff school to explain like this.

The principal was surprised by the factory's request. According to the policy, Jiang Lesheng is not a decentralized. Chairman Wang said to the principal with a bitter face: Our factory relies on printing books and newspapers to eat, and the apprentices who are sent back to their hometowns are compared with him, scolding the leaders of our factory for being blind, and delegating the backbone of production to raise idlers!

As he was talking, the factory director suddenly called, saying that the apprentices were making trouble in the factory, and asked Jiang Lesheng why he didn't decentralize when he entered the factory later than them? The factory director said in a helpless tone: I have no choice but to promise to let Mr. Jiang leave the factory and stop paying wages next month. Teacher Jiang has the ability, why don't you think of a way to arrange for him to go to other factories? The people returned to you anyway!

The double reed of the factory director and Chairman Wang played realistically, throwing Jiang Lesheng out of the factory door like a burden.

The Hongqi Printing Factory used the resolute means of stopping the payment of wages to retire and retire. In the wave of decentralization of factory dismissal personnel, where did the principal arrange Jiang Lesheng? He braved the scorching sun to go to the Secretary for Education.

The director had just woken up from his nap, and there was a mat mark on his cheek. Listening to the confusion for a long time, he yawned and asked: Which Jiang Lesheng? The principal said that it was the unfortunate young man who graduated from "Jiangzhong" last year, failed the college entrance examination, and cracked his forehead. There are 100 schools in the county, can you help rearrange them? The director waved his hand with an "oh": Forget it, let's decentralize, I gave Xu Yuanshao a face.

The law of the jungle is a universal law in the animal world. How many contradictions in the world are resolved, and they end with the interests of the weak. The fate of the little people often depends on the words of the big people.

After losing his "job" for a year, Jiang Lesheng's reaction was very calm, unlike last year's college entrance examination and the pain of not wanting to live. He became numb and sluggish, maybe he believed Secretary Ma's words - it's better to be confused and not know the reason?

Wang Huaibing calls the factory every day. Jiang Lesheng did not arrive at home, and the news of decentralization spread throughout the village.