Liu Gang said: "Gong Aiping, Chen Qinglian, you two also enter the factory, right?" Girls work in the factory, it is easier, there is no need to be with us male intellectuals, those who come and go in the wind and rain, who have tanned their skin and are in the middle of winter, the working class and the poor middle peasants are the masters of socialism! ”

Li Keyuan, Zhao Xiangming, He Guoliang and other ten male and female educated youths all signed up to enter the factory, and Liu Gang, Cao Jian, Wu Wenhao and other twelve young men still stayed in the educated youth point. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In this way, the cultivation of fifteen acres of farmland by the twelve educated youths also reduced the labor force of reinforcements in the valley, and when the farming was busy, even the ploughing cattle and farm implements were transferred from the valley, and the commune secretary also took this problem into account.

When Zhang Shaoqiang entered the factory, Director Cai assigned him to the mason class, but also to test his will and perseverance, the squad leader is called Luo Qingyun, is a native of Taohua Street, in his forties, pragmatic work, kind, treat more than a dozen masons in the class, just like his own brothers.

"Squad Leader Luo! From now on, I am your soldier, I hope you can take care of it, if you don't do enough, please criticize and correct, if you don't understand, I hope you can give more guidance! Zhang Shaoqiang said sincerely.

Squad Leader Luo said, "Come on! You are a young man from the provincial capital, knowledgeable, educated, we are all coarse, there are places where you speak excessively, I hope you can understand, more than a dozen brothers under my command, all of them are rectum, there is that sentence to say that, it is easy to offend people, but it is not malicious, technical problems, as long as you are willing to ask, they will tell you! ”

The so-called masonry is responsible for digging the porcelain clay from the mountain, putting it in the pool and rinsing it with clean water after grinding, removing the sand, and then putting it into the mold to cast it into a statue after the mud settles, and then putting it into the kiln for calcination, it becomes a handicraft.

Squad Leader Luo took the masons to a cat's ear hole on the col and said, "Zhang Shaoqiang! Let the big brothers go in and dig the mud first, and you and I will be in the back, and when they pick them up, I will teach you how to dig the safest! ”

After a while, the two entered the cave, the light inside was very dim, it was better when there was a sun, the light came in from the cave, and they could distinguish the hazy cave, the soil at the end was gray-white, but on a cloudy day, they had to stay for a long time, and when the eyes got used to the glimmer inside, they could excavate.

Zhang Shaoqiang picked up a short-handled hoe and said, "Squad leader! You're watching from behind, I'm going to dig the mud! ”

"Do you see clearly? We have to dig the top of the cave into an arch, this shape has the highest safety factor and will not collapse, which is also common sense of safety production, don't remember! Squad Leader Luo said.

Zhang Shaoqiang knows: This is the knowledge of mechanics, many people understand, is the vast number of working people in the long-term work practice, summed up experience, such as Yan'an caves, drainage culverts under the highway, engineering construction, many places to use this principle.

After the electricity, the mud training method of the craft factory has been changed to the stone grinding mud method, that is, the stone grinding is driven by a motor, the porcelain clay dug down from the mountain is crushed, and then put into the pool to clean with water.

But the traditional clay method, due to the low cost, has not been completely eliminated, when the two picked the porcelain clay to the old workshop, Zhang Shaoqiang felt that it was fresh, this is the clay practice method he has never seen.

But I saw a waterwheel made of wooden planks, constantly rotating, and the axle was loaded with twelve different thick planks, which happened to be 360 degrees when the circular waterwheel rotated, driving six wooden pairs, hitting the porcelain clay below up and down, which was called mud training.

Its magic is that it can automatically turn over the soil, the porcelain clay is practiced again and again, and when the workers go to work the next day, they dig up the good soil and put the new soil into the kanli to practice, because the water is used as the power, there is no need to pay the electricity bill, so the cost is low, and the director of Cai is reluctant to dismantle these water wheels.

The plucked porcelain clay is picked up and returned to the pulp washing pool, poured down, put in clean water, and then began to wash the pulp, the masons grabbed the long-handled wooden gas, and vigorously pushed it underwater, with the buoyancy of the water, let the soil flood up, turn into mud, and the sand and stone sank.

Although this washing method is simple, it also has a certain degree of difficulty, and it is not possible to pull the wooden hammer out of the water, and it is necessary to beat it hard to let the mud below come up.

At the beginning, Zhang Shaoqiang thought it was very studious, grabbed a long wooden stalk, dragged it away from the water, and pushed it down hard, but when he saw the water splashing and the mud flowing sideways, all splashed on his body, he had already become a mud man, his clothes were also soaked, and his face was like a big face, which made the masons bend down with laughter.

After the demonstration of squad leader Luo, he let him try a few more times, and then said: "You are the first day of work, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, go back to the dormitory to change your clothes first, right?" ”

Li Keyuan, Zhao Xiangming and He Guoliang were assigned to the pulp casting workshop, and the work was not easier than when planting seedlings, but at this time, they could wear aprons and overalls, so that they would not stain their clothes.

Their job is to pour the mud into the plaster mold, after a certain period of time, the mud sticks to the mold, and then pour out the excess mud, open the mold, and get the blank of the statue, after polishing and trimming, it can be loaded into the kiln to be calcined.

Casting pulp work, it seems comfortable, but in fact it is quite hard, all day standing work, and a job is half a day, after lunch, in the collective dormitory for two hours, in the afternoon to continue to work.

Fortunately, in the actual labor of farming, the educated youths have long been tempered like the masses of the people, have a healthy physique and perseverance, and can persevere to the end until the task is completed in the arduous and simple life.

Gong Aiping and Chen Qinglian were assigned to the painting workshop, the work was relatively easy, but the technical requirements were also higher, their job was to use the calcined statues to paint the eyes, eyebrows and clothes with colored pens, and after calcination again, these statues were beautiful and lifelike.

At the beginning, the two of them did not draw well, the coloring was uneven, a little shrunken, and wanted to work in other workshops, and the painting master encouraged: "Who can work in the world at birth?" Didn't you learn it slowly? You will learn faster than the girls recruited from other villages, learn well, learn with your heart, do it with your heart, and you will succeed! ”

In fact, these new workers are young men and women recruited from various villages, and they are good at farming, but where do they do these manual work? Pick up a colored pen, and still tremble!

The two female intellectuals are indeed faster learners than those girls, and after four or five days, they will be able to draw well.