Social industry is a new thing, the market, raw materials, labor is still relatively easy to solve, economic life has begun to have a lively pan energy, even the machine is easy to get, the elimination of large urban factories and the elimination of the machine should not be eliminated through the back door to get here is a new thing. At that time, in the business world, no matter how big or small, the common problem was to do and not to do the same, to do more and to do less, to do good and bad, to do more than others, to do less than others, not to take less than others, to be dissatisfied with the top and bottom, and to communicate poorly. Because the social industry is too new, it has just been established, and it is not yet qualified to contract the disease.

In this context, Wu Wei came to the brick factory. At that time, the brick making machine of the brick factory was obtained from the state-owned brick factory in the city by Secretary Li, the red bricks were marketable, the technical content was not high, and there were new machines, and it was just in time to hold the whole plant oath meeting for the new brick making machine to put into operation, and put forward the goal of annual output of bricks and output value. The brick factory implements the flow operation, feeding the brick machine is the first process, using a manual wheelbarrow, someone loads the car and someone pushes the cart, the requirements of the cart are young and strong laborers, and it needs to be pushed to the high place of the brick making machine into the mouth, and the high place is specially equipped with a hook to help the post, Wu Wei came here to be arranged to bulldoze the earth. At that time, the work of going to the soil and out of the kiln was composed of Shandong Han, and the locals were placed in positions with relatively light output. Wu Wei has a natural adaptability to work, especially heavy physical work, and does a particularly energetic job, like those Shandong men, in the summer, the lower body is only wearing single pants, the upper body is bare-chested, pushing a wheelbarrow, trying to push a few times to master the essentials, then ask the soil to load the car on the tip of the slip, like a small soil mountain, push up to grasp very steadily, to the high place of the soil mouth. Wu Wei seemed to have endless strength to do such work, and he went again and again, and others often stood to rest their legs and feet to catch their breath, or ran to the shed where the bricks were drying to rest and cool off. Once, he was pushing a cart of soil to a high place at the tip of the gang, and Mr. Zhao, who was teaching Chinese classes, was mowing grass for the sheep raised by his family nearby, and when he saw him bulldozing here, he came over, saw him sweating, and said with a smile, the exercise is good. At that time, Mr. Zhao often praised him in class, saying that he didn't need to study hard to the extent he did, but he was still studying hard there. Wu Wei just smiled at Teacher Zhao. Teacher Zhao encouraged him to work hard, and he will have great achievements in the future. He said very shyly, Xie Lu Xie teacher. Teacher Zhao left and looked back at him from time to time pushing the wheelbarrow towards Lu, thoughtfully.

Wu Wei did this kind of work, and within a few days, he won a good reputation in the pile of Shandong Dahan, saying that this young man was very physically strong and capable, and he admired it very much. The leaders came to see the operation of the brick machine, and also went to the back of the soil from time to time to visit these workers, every time they came to say some words of encouragement, Wu Wei's dry method was naturally transmitted to their ears.

One morning, Wu Wei was busy, looking at the crowd of people coming and going, two young girls dressed as cadres, talking and laughing, pointing around and walking towards them, their arrival attracted the attention of the people who were working, wondering how could such a young and beautiful girl come here, getting closer and closer, Wu Wei muttered a little, and heard a female voice shouting, Wu for you to see who came to see you?

Wu Wei estimated who was coming, turned his head and looked, and sure enough, it was Song Rou and Hu Xiaoyun who came. When the two approached, Wu Wei put down the car in his hand, greeted him and led it aside, and said apologetically, It's a hot day, why did you two come to this place, you see that we people are shirtless, it's too indecent.

Song Rou smiled and said, you can all work here, why can't we come, look over there. Then he pointed to those who pushed the bricks in their carts and those who stacked them in the pergola, and said, "There are many young girls there."

Hu Xiaoyun said, Song Rou took the opportunity of a business trip to the countryside to come to see you.

Wu Wei immediately smiled and said, Xie Lu, thank you, look, I went to Tuweizi to see me, and now I come here to see me, those male classmates are afraid of hurting my self-esteem, so they don't come here to see me.

Song Rou said disdainfully, what is there, what can a person who does not suffer a lot and is not tired of a lot.

Wu Wei said, you are very comforting, fortunately, now there are sometimes nights, you can commute to work normally, you can eat when you go home, and you have a sister to help your mother with housework, and you can often chat with your classmates, and you can read and study at night, which is much better than in the past. Thank you so much for caring about me.

Hu Xiaoyun snorted and said dissatisfiedly, what does Song Rou do to you, you still don't know what to do?

Wu Weiyi heard that this was not right, how could he talk about these words in such a place. He had noticed that the people who were working looked here from time to time, and he had heard people talking from time to time. He hurriedly said, I'm really sorry, I'm not driving you away, you see, it's not the right time for you to come, I'm here to stand with you for a while, those people who push the cart on the soil will be extremely busy for a while, and stopping a car will affect the whole process.

Hearing this, Hu Xiaoyun was a little unhappy, and said, Song Rou heard that you came back from Tuweizi to work here, and came here to see you on a hot day, is it too rude for you to say these words. After a pause, he said, besides, who doesn't have a relative or friend to come and see.

Song Ruite understands people, and immediately smiled and said, Then don't bother, let's go immediately.

Hu Xiaoyun said in a hurry, didn't you come to invite him to dinner?

Song Rou said, don't you see how busy he is?

Hu Xiaoyun said that he could go to eat at noon.

Song Rou said very considerately, for such a heavy physical work, let him rest at noon.

When Wu Wei heard this, he immediately took over the conversation and asked, where is it, I will definitely go, and I will come back before going to work in the afternoon.

Song Rou said, it's in that restaurant in the town, okay, see you then. Hey, I almost forgot, your diary, it's good.

Wu Wei said, I'll show you then. Wu Wei smiled again, I will show you the scenery by the way. When the two female classmates heard this, they looked left and right, and wondered in their hearts, what is the beautiful scenery in this place. As he spoke, Wu Wei had already led them to the two female workers who were stacking bricks in the nearby pergola, and saw that they were busy carrying the long wooden planks with newly made bricks from the cart to the ground, Wu Wei smiled and said, Do you two see any doorway? Song Rou and Hu Xiaoyun took a closer look and shook their heads. Wu Weidao, what do you think of her two yards?

The two of them listened carefully and walked around and looked, and sure enough, they looked at the horizontal and vertical rows and vertically into lines, and it did become a beautiful landscape, and then looked at the brick stacks on the left and right that looked twisted and crooked, and they all exclaimed in unison, the hands were too skillful, just like a machine placed, too wonderful.

Wu Wei smiled and introduced to the busy female worker, this is my classmate, come to appreciate your masterpiece, and pointed to a very delicate female worker who was busy, this is Lei Xiaoyan, or our League secretary. Lei Xiaoyan nodded with a smile and continued to be busy. The two girls said in unison, I really have a lot of knowledge here, don't bother, I'll see you in a while! After speaking, he waved his hand to say goodbye to Wu Wei and turned to leave, discussing something as he walked. Wu Wei also turned around and pushed the cart to dry, as if he had become extraordinarily strong. The bulldozers all laughed and joked to him, your object is so beautiful, where do you work? Wu Wei said, where is it, it is a classmate. It seems that he feels inadequate for such an answer, and asks enviously, I see that you are quite affectionate, not like ordinary classmates, right? Wu Wei didn't want to say anything, just worked silently.

After getting off work at noon, Wu Wei rushed to the restaurant in the street, they had already found a table, there were a few classmates who wanted to be good, the dishes had come up, the wine cup was already full of wine, Song Rou left a good place for him, and on the other side of him was Xu Dong, Xu Dong had arranged to be a clerk in the supply and marketing cooperatives through his father's relationship.

Song Rou said, everyone is waiting for you, let's move the chopsticks to eat something first. Everyone picked up their chopsticks and took a few bites of their favorites. Song Rou picked up the wine glass and said, I took the opportunity to take advantage of a business trip this time to come and see a few classmates, your work has changed a little, congratulations. After saying that, everyone drank it all, and everyone followed suit. Then they each brought a glass of wine, thanked Song Rou for thinking about everyone, and congratulated her.

Xu Dong whispered to Wu Wei, you see how much Song Rou cares about you, some people give her courtesy, she doesn't treat them like you, she is really interesting to you.

Wu Wei nodded, then turned his head to Song Rou and asked, are you okay there? Song Rou replied, I just feel busier and have more contact with things, but reading and studying are a little wasted, and I am not like you, who can still insist on reading and writing notes when you do such tiring work. I also often tell my classmates about you, we have been with you for so many years, although the family conditions are not very good, but you study hard, work hard and willing to endure hardships, people are real, quite talented, self-motivated, have ideals and pursuits, and now there is a person like you in the class. Wu Wei said with a smile, I think the classmates are very good, a while ago when I was a postman, I saw the classmates in the village, some were teachers and barefoot doctors, and some drove tractors, and those who were in the commune were better, those who were soldiers were salesmen in the bank, and Hu Xiaoyun also became the secretary of the commune, not to mention you. Song Rou said with a very serious look, it's okay to watch it now, how many years later, I'm afraid it will be up to you then. Xu Dong, Jiang Wen, Wang Feng, and Wang Xuesong also nodded in approval. Talking and eating and drinking, the time was coming soon, Wu Wei said apologetically, you continue to drink, I will go back to work quickly. Song Rou said with concern, I will ask you for a bowl of rice to eat before leaving, otherwise you can still be hungry in the afternoon? Wu Wei said, no problem. After saying that, I got up and said goodbye to my classmates.

Wu Wei insisted on studying the works of Ma Enlie Mao, he went to the house of his second brother in Furao County, the second sister-in-law was the secretary of the party committee of the county organ, and there were many books on political theory at home. His studies were not only catered to the political climate, but also to a keen interest. Learning from the things of the Marne-Les-Mao gives one a natural political interest and enthusiasm for participation. How did the title comrade come about, is it that he is like-minded under the banner of Ma Enlesmao, he is closer than his classmates, he has no external ambitions with each other, he does not feel separated from the leaders or the masses, and there is no taboo when he speaks. In the past, in order to supplement the family, he worked in the reed field of the commune to carry sugar beet baskets to the station, and the money earned by doing odd jobs and doing odd jobs was handed over to his mother, and he did not leave any pocket money, let alone save for himself, as if he was born indifferent to his own self-interest. His interest in labor, study, and politics is very high, and he only blindly and passively copes with the emotions conveyed by Song Rou. He is slowly changing his destiny by relying on real learning and real labor.

Wu Wei longed for the ideal life of solitude and comfort. In the summer, he took two days off to enjoy the comfortable life. In the open space of his barnhouse, he used bricks and wooden blocks as pillars to put a broken wooden bed on top of it, and then took out his own bedding from the house and spread it on, and lay on it to read the few books he had accumulated, which was cool and comfortable and could immerse himself in the life described in the book. In addition to the books of Ma Enlesmao, what can be read is nothing more than model drama scripts, and then there are the few popular novels, although there are few things to read, but they can also enrich their spiritual life.

Wu Wei especially likes to hike alone to the north mountain of the town at nine or ten o'clock in the morning, and sit on a high place to overlook the tender water, a branch of the tender water comes from east to west. Wu Wei felt the pure nature of the purification of people's state of mind, and looked at the green cow hair grass on the other side of the river, growing more than half a foot high, spreading out like a carpet, and the fresh grass fragrance rippled with the wind, refreshing people's hearts. The crystal clear water below the high slope pushes wave after wave on the fine sand and gravel, groups of small fish play in the water, a few stripped little boys chase and shout and play in the shallow water, and pass through the splashing water curtain, the grass on the other side of the river is full of flowers, a few women with baskets on their arms pick daylilies and leek flowers there, and white clouds like cotton wool float in the clear blue sky. A barrage about a kilometre upstream of the river raises the water level in order to divert water through an artificial river to distant oil fields; The lower reaches of the river are endless swampy terrains. The two banks of the river grow dense wicker, there are red, gray, because of the river and grow four or five meters high, people call the wicker forest wicker pass, inlaid on both sides of the river, it is difficult for people to pass through from inside, only rabbits and rats and other small animals leave traces of fine activities, wicker pass can protect the river embankment, beautify the environment, and can decorate life, people can use wicker baskets, weave hoards to load food, weave curtains to make courtyard walls, weave houses to build houses. Clusters of dry willow also grow everywhere on the vast meadows along the riverside, which are natural barriers to prevent wind and fix sand and protect grasslands and wildlife.

Looking at the scenery in front of him, Wu Wei was very intoxicated. At the moment of the great flood, the small river in front of you will become an ocean that cannot be seen at a glance, imagine why people can't build a huge reservoir to store the water that flows in vain, divert water for irrigation in drought years, or build an artificial river to divert abundant water to the distant desert, and turn the myth of changing the world into an oasis into reality. Wu Wei sometimes asked Wang Feng, who was the deputy director of the wire factory, to come to the river to chat, saying that he had a feeling that he could not use his strength, and Wang Feng said that it was very good to have such a feeling. Later, the wire factory disintegrated, Wang Feng went to the county, successively founded a feed factory, and baked flatbread, and also asked a classmate who was the president of the bank to take out a loan, the classmate saw that he did not have the ability to repay the loan, he took out 5,000 yuan to let him do something, but it was unsuccessful, he suddenly suffered from cerebral congestion on the mahjong table, and just grabbed a deadly red in his hand and hung in the air and passed away.

Wu Wei's attitude towards a comfortable and comfortable life is contradictory, he is eager to read and write, and needs leisure and comfort; However, he also believed that a comfortable and comfortable life is a corrosive agent that can easily make people complacent and self-sufficient, that it is a sugar-coated cannonball that disintegrates the revolutionary will, that it will imperceptibly corrode people's souls, that they lose their sense of revolutionary responsibility, and that they contradict the concept of struggle in life. The pursuit of the enjoyment of life and the covetousness of personal comfort are manifestations of the decline of the revolutionary will and a sign of the decline of the road. The pursuit of comfort is equated with a bourgeois way of life, and if it continues to develop, it will become the object of revolution.

What is a corrosive agent? When the revolutionary movement comes, it will inevitably lead to political weakness, the lack of a thorough revolutionary spirit, and the fear that a comfortable life will be taken away from you.

The brick factory is a seasonal factory, how to solve the problem of half a year of leisure, the leaders of the social industry are also anxious, in the past is to buy timber to build scaffolds, buy reeds and straw curtains, now to organize their own workers to cut timber, with tractors to prepare soil, so that workers have work in autumn and winter, reduce costs and increase workers' income. After the leaders actively sought the consent of the commune, they began to put on a number of factory projects, bricks are produced by themselves, they can also contact the forest farm to cut timber, the problem of land occupation is better said, in the courtyard of the community industry to build a circle of factories, the yard gradually towered up a magnificent blast furnace, full of scrap copper and iron ingots waiting to be processed, a slippery flour mill, machining workshop, sand turning workshop, oil mill, pickle factory, popsicle factory, blacksmith shop, and the suburbs of the town are expanding the brick factory echo each other, but also to expand the team to run the market and run materials, There was the roar of the machine one after another, and there was a scene of prosperity and development.

Young people with high political enthusiasm like Wu Wei are naturally encouraged and motivated by the situation. Wu Wei took the initiative to go deep among the masses to understand the ideological trends, went to almost all the workers' families, and actively reported the situation to Secretary Li, which slowly enabled him to discover the problem. Through his frequent contact with leaders, he also found that leadership was not what he imagined it to be.

Almost at the same time, the same new thing, the social industry in the south is also starting to take off, fortunately through the difficult stage of wandering, we are not so lucky here, what is the reason? People are struggling to think and explore, and they are struggling to find a suitable way out and a solution. Workers' incomes are low, and no matter how they do, they can't improve their lives; Leaders can't find a suitable way to mobilize the enthusiasm of employees, and it is difficult to develop stereotyped products to occupy and consolidate the market; Young people have no hope for the future, and their minds about learning skills have been diluted by the awareness of the way, and they can't rely on any of the farmers to turn into non-donkeys and non-horses, and they seek to be leisurely and comfortable in their bones, and many people from the countryside have retreated, and there is no encouragement and attraction of successful models, and the idea of reform is not easy to be noticed at the beginning of its development, and the old routines are still shackling people's thoughts and behaviors.

The leaders used the set of political factories to run factories, or to engage in industry like agricultural production, and were eager to achieve success and value superficial articles, keen to pave the way, and put on a lot of projects with great fanfare, which seemed to be in full swing, but the market was not opened, and the technology, talents, and management could not keep up, the original design was very good, and the follow-up work could not keep up. Parts that had already come in had to be put on hold; When the promises made in the distribution were fulfilled, they were overturned at the sight of some of the workers who had made a great effort to take more than the secretary and director of the commune, and the labor quota was raised again and again; Simply grasp the concept of production, do not pay attention to the cultivation and protection of technical and technical strength, gang up, and the leading masters who were finally recruited are easily squeezed out, and one branch after another gradually falls into paralysis. These problems have been realized to varying degrees, people's thoughts have become complex, and Wu Wei's thoughts and spirit are also undergoing complex changes.

In the autumn of 1976, according to the plan proposed by the pledge meeting, to evaluate and select model workers, Wu Wei was very recognized from top to bottom, and at the commendation meeting, he was honored to speak on behalf of young workers. He knew that he would also need to make an off-script speech in the future, and he should start from now, finish the rolling melons on the back of the manuscript in advance, and finish it in one go after taking the stage, which won the praise of the audience on and off the stage.

After the meeting, Secretary Li convened a meeting of the team, proposed to cultivate Wu Wei as a seedling, and decided to adjust his position, let him learn to be familiar with the management position, and first arrange him to be the custodian of the brick factory, which made it more convenient for him to contact up and down. At the end of the year, he was honored to be elected to attend the county's socially run industrial model worker commendation conference, and followed Secretary Li to attend the meeting.