February 5, Chinese New Year's Eve......

As soon as I got to work in the morning, everyone began to be busy pasting couplets and hanging lanterns, a joyful scene. Several workers put a large couplet on the main door of the operation workshop, Xiao Yuanhang commanded the position of pasting, and at the same time admired the big characters on the couplet......

Today's couplet Xiao Yuanhang did not go to the market to buy as in previous years, but the result of cooperation with Wang Zhengxiang, a well-known calligrapher in the operation workshop, the content of the couplet is Xiao Yuanhang personally wrote, and the words are Wang Zhengxiang's proud. Wang Zhengxiang is a statistician in the third class, has been practicing calligraphy for more than 20 years, won the bronze and gold medals in the calligraphy competition organized by the Ministry of Railways and the Liaodong Railway Bureau, and is a member of the Songjiang Calligraphers Association.

The position of the couplet is placed and pasted, Xiao Yuanhang admires this couplet that exudes a strong ink fragrance from afar, and the upper couplet is: the whistle sound plays a touching hymn. The next link is: the wheels are rolling and swaying the moving melody of the next road, and the horizontal batch is: Celebrate the New Year!

When Xiao Yuanhang was directing the personnel to hang the red lantern, Deputy Director Tang Zhenglin hurriedly walked over from the operation room, saw Xiao Yuanhang and said, "Director, I just have something to discuss with you." ”

Xiao Yuanhang asked: "Have the couplets between the operation room and the shunting areas been pasted?" ”

Tang Zhenglin said: "It's all pasted, I also let them hang the lanterns, and the firecrackers have to be sent after the night shift at night, otherwise they will have to let these boys go." ”

Xiao Yuanhang said: "Okay, when you take over the night shift at night, send firecrackers and condolences together." "This year's Chinese New Year's Eve night shift is the second shift of operation, due to the three-shift system implemented in the operation workshop, the second shift of operation has caught up with the night shift of the Chinese New Year's Eve for three consecutive years, and the night shift of the Chinese New Year's Eve means that the night shift of the fifteenth night is also the night shift, which is no way to do it, under normal circumstances, this situation has to be four consecutive years, and it can only be poured out after catching up with the leap month year.

The two of them were talking. While entering the operation workshop and going upstairs, Tan Yingjun, secretary of the general branch of the Youth League, was sharing condolences with several off-duty young workers who came to help, melon seeds, peanuts and sugar cubes, as well as apples and oranges.

The large team is like one to five tunes, there are more than a dozen people, and they need to be divided into large portions. Small ones are like station dispatch rooms. Even if there is only one person, one share is also scored. Attendant room, signal building, car number group, car maintenance group, etc.

The units of the junction department have the cargo dispatch room and commodity inspection room of the goods workshop in the operation room, and the infrared duty room of the depot inspection workshop in the operation, the confirmation room of the operation room of the electrical service section, and the signal work area located in the signal building. In addition, there are also the crew members of the 5 shunting units of the locomotive depot, etc., who need to contact each other for the New Year.

Xiao Yuanhang saw that everyone was busy, and he stepped forward to reach out to help. Tan Yingjun hurriedly stepped forward to stop him when he saw it, and said, "Director, you have so many things to do during the Chinese New Year, so you can do this work." We'll finish this little work in a few moments, so go and get busy. With that, he pushed Xiao Yuanhang out of the deputy director's office.

"That's right, Zhenglin. Didn't you just say there was something? Xiao Yuanhang suddenly remembered that Tang Zhenglin said that he had something to talk to him about just now, and asked as he walked towards his director's office.

Tang Zhenglin said: "Yes. I just wanted to talk to you about tonight's duty. ”

"Isn't the duty work already scheduled, why do you have something to do tomorrow?" Xiao Yuanhang said and sat down at his desk, opened the drawer, took out a soft Chinese cigarette, threw it at Tang Zhenglin, and said, "You will be on duty tomorrow to comfort those boys!" ”

The three-day holiday for the Spring Festival, plus two Sundays, is a total of five days from the first day of the new year to the fifth day of the new year, plus the Chinese New Year's Eve, a total of six people are required to be on duty. On the 30th day of the railway, the tradition is that the administrative leader of each unit is on duty, Xiao Yuanhang is the director of the operation workshop, and he is on duty on the 30th day of the Chinese New Year's Eve. The first year of junior high school is Tang Zhenglin, the second year is Jiang Hong, the third year is Li Qiang, the fourth year is Tan Yingjun, and the day of the fifth year is the day when Wang Gang, the secretary of the party branch, is on duty.

Tang Zhenglin said: "It's not that I have something to do tomorrow, and I want to be on duty for you tonight, you see, you are not married, and there are few people in your family, so you can't let Uncle Xiao and Aunt Xiao live alone, so you can go back in the evening, accompany them to make dumplings and watch the Spring Festival Gala, and I will be on duty for you tonight." ”

Xiao Yuanhang said: "Zhenglin, I understand your kindness, but tonight's shift must be on duty by me, this is an unwritten rule formed by the railway for so many years, and I can't break it." Besides, tonight's station is the stationmaster Zhou on duty, and he will definitely go to several important parts of the operation side at night, if I don't look like anything, besides, what will the cadres and workers on duty tonight think if they can't see me? ”

Tang Zhenglin hurriedly said, "Director, I didn't mean that. For example, the station leader came down to offer condolences at seven o'clock in the evening, and went back after walking around. After you accompany Stationmaster Zhou for a walk, then go to each team to take a walk and condolences, and then you go home for the New Year, and I will be there when you set off firecrackers and eat dumplings in the middle of the night. ”

Tang Zhenglin thinks about himself everywhere, Xiao Yuanhang's heart is very moved, but since he has entered the railway industry and sat in this position, he must have the consciousness that he cannot reunite with his family every year.

Xiao Yuanhang said: "Zhenglin, you don't need to say it anymore. I'll have to be on duty for tonight's shift. Besides, it was more than 11 o'clock to set off firecrackers and eat dumplings at night, and it was half past 11 o'clock after eating dumplings with the staff, and it was too late for me to rush home to eat dumplings with my parents at 12 o'clock. ”

When Tang Zhenglin saw Xiao Yuanhang insisting on his own duty, he had to say: "Okay, I'll come over to accompany you on duty tonight, Secretary Wang and Director Jiang both said they want to come, let's set off firecrackers and eat Chinese New Year's Eve dumplings with the staff!" ”

Xiao Yuanhang said: "It's good, they can come here if they want to, and we will celebrate the New Year with the employees this year." ”

Saying that, Xiao Yuanhang stood up and said, "Zhenglin, let's go, let's go down to the cafeteria to see how the dumplings are wrapped." ”

The two went downstairs to the staff canteen at the back, and in the canteen, Deputy Director Li Qiang was wrapping dumplings with more than 20 resting employees. Although they are usually big men with signal lights or iron shoes and forks, the thick hands that wrap dumplings are also very dexterous. (To be continued......)