After three rounds of wine and five flavors, a group of people ate and drank to their heart's content, and finally dispersed.

Zhou Shuo tightened his collar and walked slowly in the snow. Half a year after leaving the city, it has basically not changed.

The snow gradually grew a little bigger, and the goose-feathered snow flew through the sky, fluttering and suddenly appearing in the light of the street lamp, which had a dreamlike beauty.

He reached out and grabbed a snowflake, and a large swath of crystal white melted in the palm of his hand. In my previous life, I missed the goose feathers and snow when I was a child, but I didn't expect to see it again, how impermanent life is. With the sound of creaking footsteps, Zhou Shuo returned to the community where he lived at home.

At the entrance of the community, Zhou Shuo suddenly took off his clothes and ran faster.

Under the street lamp, Li Zhi, who was dressed in a white sweater, stomped his feet, exhaled a cloud of white vapor from his mouth, and there were shadows of snow everywhere on his head, eyebrows, and shoulders.

The close-fitting sweater did not obscure her curves because of the winter, but added a touch of purity to her in the snowflakes.

"Brother Zhou!" Li Zhi saw Zhou Shuo who suddenly came out of the darkness and shouted happily.

Zhou Shuo put his woolen coat on her body, and said distressedly: "You are stupid to wait here in such a cold." ”

Li Zhi let him sweep the snow off his body, stretched out his hand to wrap around his waist, leaned his head on his arms and said, "Brother Zhou, I miss you." ”

When Zhou Shuo heard this, although he took off his coat, his heart was warm at this moment......

The next day, when the heavy snow stopped, Zhou Shuo called Liu Gang and rushed to the keyboard factory to inspect.

The site of the keyboard factory is next to the Xiucheng Component Factory, covering an area of less than ten acres.

Zhou Shuo and Liu Gang took the car to the factory gate, and with a shout, the door slowly opened. The security guard trotted out of the mailroom and said, "Hello manager, do you want this comrade to be registered?" ”

Liu Gang's face was a little dark, and he shook his head and said, "This is the general manager of our keyboard factory, do you say that you need to register?" ”

"Uh-" The security guard was a little confused.

Zhou Shuo waved his hand and said, "Okay, Lao Liu, it's also my fault that I don't pay much attention to the keyboard factory, let's go in." ”

Liu Gang nodded, and took the lead in saying, "Then let's go." ”

The keyboard factory is not large, and it can be seen almost at a glance. In the open space of the factory area, a group of people are wielding shovels and brooms to clear the snow, and some people are sending the snow to the trees on the edge of the factory and piling it up into snowmen.

Liu Gang said as he walked: "The keyboard factory now has 50 employees, including accountants, logistics, procurement and other civilian personnel. The wages of front-line workers are 600 yuan plus overtime pay and piecework incentives, and they can get 8 or 900 yuan a month, which is a good benefit in the city. The income of civilian personnel is also five or six hundred yuan, and they still have to make a living. ”

Saying that, he sighed: "Now prices are rising too fast, and no amount of salary is almost enough to spend." ”

In the factory area, there is a building on the east, west and south sides. Directly opposite the factory gate is the production workshop to the south, the office building to the west, and the warehouse to the east. Zhou Shuo didn't answer Liu Gang's words, he pointed to the guide and said, "Let's go to the workshop first and have a look." ”

The production workshop is divided into several compartments, and various plastic and plastic raw materials are put into the injection molding machine and blow molding machine respectively, and through a series of processes to form keycaps, keyboard shells and rubber bowls and rubber pads, the keycaps and keyboard shells are sent to the spraying production line, and the plastic bowls and rubber pads are sent to the circuit printing production line.

The flexible silver paste PCB production line imported from the United States prints the plastic on the silver paste circuit and then sends it to the testing workshop.

These printed circuits are tested in the test shop to confirm that the product functions effectively and then sent to the assembly shop.

Painted keycaps and keyboard housings are also fed into the assembly shop, which is where the most workers use it. Twenty ingenious female workers sat on both sides of the long case, constantly assembling the keyboard step by step. These people assemble a total of 15 to 2,000 keyboards a day, with an average of 80 to 100 keyboards per person.

Liu Gang pointed at them and said: "If we can increase the number of employees, our output can easily be doubled, or even several times, but unfortunately the factory area is too small, and there is no place to put equipment and personnel to fill in." ”

The last thing the two of them visited was the quality inspection workshop, where all the keyboards were sent and plugged into the computer for actual testing. Only keyboards that have passed the test can be packaged and shipped to the United States.

After the visit, Zhou Shuo asked strangely: "Why didn't you see the packaging workshop?" Where is the packaging of our products done? ”

Liu Gang pursed his lips and said, "Hey, I was taken away by the city packaging factory." What should I do if the leader of the Commercial Bureau came to me in person and didn't agree? ”

"Microsoft isn't reacting to that, is it?" Zhou Shuo asked worriedly.

"Not really." Liu Gang shook his head: "We are used for export, and the packaging factory doesn't dare to fool it." ”

Zhou Shuo patted him on the shoulder and said, "That's okay, no one is having a good time now, just help if you can." ”

Liu Gang spread his hands and said helplessly: "Okay, listen to you." ”

The two came out of the workshop and turned around and walked towards the office building.

The bell rang at noon, and the workers poured out of the workshop and from the office building, giggling and walking towards the boiler room. At this time, the small factory did not have any canteens, and the workers did not have so much money to eat in restaurants outside. They all packed their meals in aluminum lunch boxes and put them in the steamer drawer in the boiler room when they went to work in the morning. By noon, whether you put it raw or cooked in the morning, it's guaranteed to be a delicious treat.

Zhou Shuo saw the water vapor in the steamer drawer of the boiler room, and his saliva couldn't help but flow out. In his previous life, when he was working at the grassroots level, his favorite thing was the potato roast beef that came out of this. Unlike the beef pressed out of the pressure cooker, it has no taste at all, and when you bite into it, it is soft, juicy, and layered, which is really indescribably delicious.

It's a pity that this kind of taste can no longer be found with the changes of factory production equipment and the times.

The workers passed by Zhou Shuo and Liu Gang and greeted each other. At this time, the working class had not yet formed a worship of capital. Talking and laughing, I don't see any restraint in Liu Gang's attitude.

"Hello Manager Liu."

"Did Manager Liu eat at noon? Why don't you have a bite with us? ”

Liu Gang smiled and waved his hand, not only the workers have not yet formed the fear of capital, but the emerging capitalists have not yet formed the habit of acting as a prestige.

"Yo, this is ...... Principal Zhou, right? ”

A voice in the crowd suddenly said, "It's really President Zhou, you have come back from the United States?" ”

Zhou Shuo looked at him in confusion and asked, "Are you?" ”

"Hi, you don't know me. I am the brother of Liu Guifang's object, and I always hear her mention you. ”

Zhou Shuo suddenly realized: "Oh, hello, hello! ”

Someone next to him dragged him and asked, "This is Principal Zhou, the boss of our keyboard factory?" ”

Liu Guifang's brother-in-law said proudly: "No, I've been in the United States for several months, so I didn't catch up with the relocation of our keyboard factory." I heard that in a few months, he has laid a huge family business in the United States! ”

The man who asked him blinked his eyes and asked Zhou Shuo wistfully, "Can you tell us what the United States is like?" ”

"yes, tell us about American life!"

Several people coaxed together, and more and more people surrounded them, and everyone asked about their questions about the United States.

"Principal Zhou, tell us about it." Liu Guifang's brother-in-law opened the lunch box and revealed the food inside: "If you don't dislike it, you can eat me, let's talk while eating?" ”

Zhou Shuo raised his eyes and saw that the lunch box was actually made of potato roast beef, and saliva flowed out.

"This ...... All right. Zhou Shuo nodded and agreed.

At this time, the Chinese can say that the whole people are cents, which is not the meaning that everyone wants to sell the country, but that the yearning for the life of Americans has formed a big climate. Go abroad, go to the United States, go to Europe, go to Japan, and the Chinese at this time are proud to be able to go abroad. Whether it's the normal way of applying for a visa, immigrating after the most difficult green card, or smuggling people to the death, there are countless people who are trying hard.

Even in junior high school, English teachers teach students to learn English by telling them that everyone in the United States has a car at home; Tell them that American shirts are thrown away when they are dirty, and they don't need to be washed at all; Tell them how free and equal Americans are;

Historically, we have even followed in the footsteps of the former Soviet Union......

Liu Guifang's brother-in-law saw that Zhou Shuo had come down, and greeted him a few times: "Hey, a few brothers are coming, hurry up and make a few more dishes for Principal Zhou, you can't let people talk in vain, right?" ”

Zhou Shuo smiled bitterly: "Don't worry, everyone, let's go back to the office and say, it's freezing this day." ”

"Oh, yes, yes! Hehe, I forgot about it in a hurry. ”

A group of people moved back to the office building, and even Liu Gang gathered around Zhou Shuo with great interest. Although he has worked at Microsoft for a while, he has never been to the United States, and he said that he was not curious, which was false.

"Americans, life is indeed good. Their workers are generally paid thousands of dollars a month, which is more than what we earn in a month! Not to mention that every family has a car, and you can live in a small cottage with a lawn in front of the house......"

Zhou Shuo talked about the lives of some Americans, and suddenly the words changed: "But, comrades, have you ever thought about it, you are also working hard, for what Americans can easily earn more than we work hard?"

In the past, we said that the capitalists want to exploit the workers. In my opinion, the current world is the exploitation of the whole world by Americans. Americans are so rich, could it be that they created it themselves? The production efficiency of the Americans is indeed high, but it is not thirty or fifty times higher than ours, right? For what can they live a good life? It was plundered from the whole world by virtue of their skill and scissors! We, China, are also within the scope of this plunder......"