The steel mill has a two-hour lunch break, and the old factory unions who have eaten lunch usually get together to chat and fart, and tell some small stories that the factory likes to see.

In the past few days, all kinds of topics about the open and secret struggle between the factory director and the deputy factory director have spread out of their mouths, and topics such as what the deputy factory director wants to retaliate against the factory director and the factory director having an affair with a certain woman have become their after-dinner conversations.

"Lao Chen, have you seen it, I haven't seen the factory director in the past few days, if you want me to see it, there will definitely be a fight between him and the deputy factory director." A middle-aged man in blue overalls, who was slightly older than him, smiled and said, "If the high-level fights, I don't know if it will affect us." ”

The old worker called Lao Chen shook his head and waved his hand and said: "No, they fight them, we pay wages on a monthly basis, and we will go to settle the bill when we reach the end of each month, and we can't do anything. ”

Another old foreman nodded and said: "Lao Chen is right, I don't know where the news came from, it is better to say less if there is no basis, so as not to get into trouble." ”

The man smirked and said, "Isn't our relationship good, just chatting, don't sell me." ”

Lao Chen shook his head with a smile, smoking a cigarette in his mouth, at first glance, he was very addicted to smoking, and he couldn't smoke during working hours, so he could only smoke a few more cigarettes during the break, "However, the atmosphere in the factory is really a little wrong in the past few days, the more times like this, the more we have to show our excellence, otherwise maybe the leader will give someone if he is uncomfortable." ”

"Then let's stop chatting here, it's too conspicuous, let's go back to the dormitory for a lunch break." One of them stood up, dusted his buttocks, and said with a smile.

Several people stood up and walked towards the dormitory, only the middle-aged man named Lao Chen just now did not follow them, turned his head and said to Yao Ze who was not far away: "I listened to it for a long time just now, what do you want to inquire?" ”

Yao Zele walked up to Lao Chen, took out a cigarette and handed it to Lao Chen, but Lao Chen didn't answer it, and continued to ask: "You are not an employee in our factory, are you?" Look at your face is very raw. ”

Yao Ze took back his cigarette and said with a smile: "I just came, it's only been a few days, and I'm a college intern. ”

"Oh, no wonder, you're from that factory?" Lao Chen asked Yao Ze with a smile.

Yao Ze didn't know that there was a factory building inside, so he casually pointed to a factory building directly opposite him, and said with a smile: "That factory." ”

"Oh." Lao Chen nodded, and then said with a smile: "I saw that you listened to it quite energetically just now, young people had better not gossip so much, otherwise it is not a good thing, you just came out of society and don't understand a lot of things, especially in this kind of place, you can keep a low profile." ”

Yao Ze smiled and nodded yes.

Lao Chen instructed: "Don't talk about the words you heard just now, everyone is talking and playing, don't take it to heart, you know?" ”

Yao Ze saw that Lao Chen sniffed, and it seemed that the addiction to smoking was about to come up again, so he handed Lao Chen a cigarette again, this time he was willing to take the cigarette, looked at the Yellow Crane Tower in his hand, looked at Yao Ze curiously, and said: "Such a high grade, the rich second generation, right?" ”

Yao Ze smiled bitterly: "The family is quite solid." ”

"No wonder." Lao Chen nodded, then lit a cigarette and smoked.

Yao Ze smiled and asked, "Master, what's your surname?" ”

Lao Chen said: "My name is Chen Dafu, you can just call me Lao Chen." ”

Yao Ze waved his hand and said: "That's not possible, it's too rude, I'll call you Master Chen, by the way, Master Chen, I've only been in the factory for a few days and I don't know much about the things here, can you introduce me to the situation of this steel plant?" ”

Lao Chen said confidently: "You are asking the right person, I have been working here for almost ten years, and it can be said that no one knows this place better than me, but what do you want to know?" ”

Yao Ze smiled stupidly: "If you want to mix here, of course you have to understand the leader, you tell me what kind of character the leaders here are, what taboos and so on." ”

Lao Chen saw that Yao Ze looked like a student, although he was dressed well, but his face was delicate, and he didn't have any wariness of Yao Ze, he looked around, and he said to Yao Ze: "It's not convenient to chat here, you go to the dormitory with me, let's talk slowly there." ”

Yao Ze hurriedly smiled and nodded and followed Lao Chen towards his dormitory, Lao Chen only noticed Xiang Chengdong who was not far away and not close to Yao Ze, so he pointed to Xiang Chengdong and asked, "Who is he?" ”

Yao Ze said with a smile: "This is my college classmate, and I am in the same factory, and we came in together." ”

Lao Chen opened the door of the dormitory, and Yao Ze and Xiang Chengdong followed in.

The dormitory was very simple, with only two bunker-style beds like a university dormitory, and a few chairs, and four people lived in one dormitory, Yao Ze saw that the other three were not there, so he asked where these people went.

Lao Chen explained with a smile that those guys like to play mahjong, and they will go out to play cards for two hours every day with the empty time of the noon break.

Yao Ze nodded, sat on the bed, and then handed Lao Chen a cigarette, and said, "I heard about the factory director just now, is this matter credible?" ”

Lao Chen lit the cigarette and said angrily: "You kid just took it, ask why do you do this kind of thing, don't you have nothing to do." Don't ask. ”

Yao Ze smiled and said: "It's just curiosity, of course, asking about this kind of thing is also to have a spectrum in my heart, after all, I just came, if you don't know anything, it will definitely be easy to suffer, Master Chen, you can sue me, and I will invite you to drink when you are free." ”

Lao Chen felt that Yao Ze had a good temperament and respected himself, but he felt that this young man was a good person, and it didn't hurt to talk about it, so he turned his head to look at the door, and then smiled at Xiang Chengdong beside Yao Ze: "Please trouble this young man to close the door tightly." ”

Xiang Chengdong nodded, got up and locked the door from the inside.

Lao Chen sighed and said: "Actually, you don't know, the factory director and the deputy factory director have long had a deep grudge, and they don't like each other. As for some recent rumors, there is no real evidence for these, and the words did come out of the mouth of the deputy factory director, but who knows if he deliberately spread rumors? ”

Yao Ze nodded and said: "Even if the factory director wants to find a mistress, it shouldn't be so easy for the factory director to find out, I think this matter should be the deputy director's angry words." ”

"Not necessarily." Lao Chen waved his hand, threw the cigarette butt on the ground, twisted it with his toes, and then said: "If the deputy factory director doesn't have a little handle in his hand, how dare he be so arrogant?" Moreover, the most strange thing is that the deputy director Xu Dagui said that the factory director had a mistress, but the factory director chose to remain silent, and he has been deliberately avoiding Xu Dagui in the past few days. ”

"I heard that the mistress of the factory director is the wife of the workshop director of our factory?" Yao Ze asked tentatively.

Lao Chen nodded and said: "It's just a rumor, but it's really possible, the daughter-in-law of the workshop director Wei Mingda is indeed quite Peugeot, and it is not impossible to hook up with the factory director, and Wei Mingda is honest and not good at expressing himself, it was very strange to be able to be the workshop director at that time, judging from the current rumors, maybe Wei Mingda used his daughter-in-law's beauty to hook up with Li Daye, and asked his daughter-in-law to help him seek the position of director." ”

Seeing Yao Ze smiling and silent, Old Chen grinned, showed his yellow teeth, squinted his eyes and said, "Have you seen Wei Mingda's daughter-in-law?" ”

Yao Ze shook his head suspiciously, and said, "I haven't seen it, what's the matter?" ”

Lao Chen said with an indecent expression: "It's very beautiful, and every time you dress up, what do you say you are doing when you dress up so beautifully in the factory, now it seems that it must be to please Li Daye, the woman's means of seducing men are clever, the young man in our factory many years ago was fascinated by her, you don't follow in their footsteps." ”

Yao Ze smiled and shook his head and said: No, I have a girlfriend. ”

Lao Chen said angrily: "You haven't seen her, how do you know that she won't, this woman is born with a look to tempt men, you have thoughts about her when you see it." ”

"......" Yao Ze smiled helplessly, then changed the topic and continued to ask: "Is there any corruption and bribery in the factory leaders?" ”

Lao Chen said angrily: "Do you think that leader will not be corrupt?" It's just a lot. ”

Yao Ze Zhengse said: "Master Chen said this is too absolute, no matter what things and people are, there is no absolute good or bad, and the leading cadres are not all ideologically corrupt, many leading cadres are still bent on finding for the people, and a small number of black sheep are normal." ”

"Your kid has a set of skills in speaking official language, and he has the potential to be an official." Laughing jokingly, Lao Chen pouted and continued: "The annual income of the steel plant is extremely high, those high-level people must not know whether there is corruption in our low-level workers, even if it is to be corrupt, it is difficult to get out, the steel plant has a lot of money in and out of the account every year, who can find out if you deduct a little bit in that link, if you want to say that those high-level people have no corruption, it is absolutely impossible, let's talk about the factory director, his daughter was sent by him to study abroad a year ago, you think about it, just his dead salary, can her daughter go to the United States such a high-consumption country?" He publicized that his daughter's expenses for going abroad were made up by their relatives, and this kind of thing, if you think about it with your brain, you know that it's all nonsense. ”

In the afternoon, I chatted with Lao Chen for two hours, and Yao Ze also knew the general situation of the steel plant, and when Lao Chen was about to start, Yao Ze got up to say goodbye.

Lao Chen asked Yao Ze, "Who is the worker who took you for the internship?" I'll go say hello to you and ask him to teach you more. ”

Yao Ze hurriedly waved his hand and smiled, "Don't bother you, I took leave in the afternoon, and there are still some things to deal with, so I'll leave first." Without waiting for Lao Chen to speak, he glanced at Cheng Dong, and the two walked out of Lao Chen's dormitory quickly, leaving Lao Chen with a puzzled face.