Talking about the events of the year, my mother also sighed with emotion: "What a good pair, it was broken up, since then, Lu Tianming left as a soldier, and Wei Shumin also went to the provincial capital for further study. ”

Liu Ziguang asked: "How do you know that the two of them are not secretly in contact, maybe they will break the thread." ”

My mother pouted: "At that time, there was no mobile phone, no computer, no QQ, and you had to let people go to the workshop to find a long-distance call, how could it be so convenient now, the elders of their family formed a feud during the Cultural Revolution, but it will not be resolved for a while, alas, it is evil, don't say it, don't say it." ”

"Mom, let's talk about it, idle is idle, I want to hear it."

In the early eighties, Lu Tianming, an intern worker in Chenguang Factory, and Wei Shumin, a female technician who had just graduated from a secondary school in Hongqi Factory, fell in love, which was originally a good marriage, but because of the old grudges between the parents of both sides during the ten years of turmoil, he had to cut it in two, and then Lu Tianming was a soldier for more than 20 years, and he started a family and gave birth to a son in other places, and he didn't even go home for the Spring Festival, Wei Shumin also married, and he was also an engineer in the factory. Later, the workshop accident fell into the molten steel and died, Wei Shumin pulled her daughter up alone, and became the deputy chief engineer of the factory.

"Uncle Ming's wife also passed away, and I think it is a good story to match them." Liu Ziguang said with a look of longing.

"That's good, if you have this heart, mom will help you."

"Is there the phone address of the chief engineer of Wei?"

"I don't have any, but I can ask someone to ask."

"Mom, how is your factory doing now?"

Speaking of the factory, my mother sighed deeply, and even her tone became painful: "The factory collapsed, not even the subsistence allowance came out, the reorganization and reorganization, the more the group collapsed, our Hongqi Iron and Steel Plant was launched in five or eight years, Soviet experts participated in the design, thousands of workers lived in grass huts in the wasteland on the edge of the Huai River, sleeping in the open air, climbing ice and snow, before the steel plant was built, the hard work of a whole generation, it was over, and it makes people cry when they think about it." ”

"What are the workers doing in the factory?"

"What else can you do, do some odd jobs to support your family, do a small business if you have the capital, and pull three wheels if you have the strength, send pure water, or sweep the streets, repair bicycles, watch night duty, anyway, you can do whatever you can eat, the eldest sister who died in a car accident some time ago is not a colleague in our factory, but her child is still in college, and it is when she needs money, so she went."

The solemnity in the house became solemn, and the father who had just come home felt that the atmosphere was not right, so he asked with a smile: "What did your mother say, why did the tears come down." ”

My mother said: "Talking about our Hongqi Factory, by the way, what has happened to your Chenguang Factory recently." ”

"Thriving, export orders to Africa are working overtime to catch up, it is estimated that it will come out tomorrow evening, if you don't wait for that batch of steel, it will be good today, 10,000 tools and knives, this has to be put aside, our factory will not even look at the eyes, what is our Chenguang factory doing, even armored vehicles can be produced......"

"Okay, okay, the rice is in the pot, eat it yourself, don't brag here." The mother beat the father away angrily, and asked her son again: "Guang, can you think of a way to make our Hongqi Factory come back to life, so many people drag their families to take care of it, it's not easy." ”

Liu Ziguang said: "Mom, I have this plan, but it's just a preliminary idea, and the eight characters haven't been skimmed yet, so don't talk nonsense everywhere." ”

"This child, mom knows it." The smile on the mother's face bloomed, the son has great powers, and what he promised will definitely be done.

……

The next day, Liu Ziguang first went to Chenguang Factory to find Lu Tianming, and made further feasible discussions on the issue of injecting capital into Hongqi Factory, and then the two drove to Hongqi Factory to find the relevant person in charge for preliminary contact.

Hongqi factory is also located on the edge of the Huaijiang River, to obtain the convenience of waterway transportation, but because the enterprise itself has a little pollution, so when the site was originally selected from the city is far away, the workers commute to and from work are to take a commuter car, now the city has expanded, Hongqi factory has also changed from a remote suburb to the edge of the city.

From a long distance, you can see the buildings of the steel plant, blast furnaces, chimneys, cooling towers, and steel buildings full of power and beauty, which make people feel the greatness and grandeur of the industry, and be amazed by it.

The management of the Hongqi factory is very lax, basically no one cares about the door, Liu Ziguang's car drove straight in, driving on the potholed main road in the factory area, the trees on both sides are full of dust, even the green leaves have turned gray, and the air is full of pungent smell, so everything is gray, and people's hearts have become gray.

The factory office building is a tall building with mosaics and vines, looking at the latest fashion design in the eighties, the ground is paved with terrazzo, the iron-framed windows are painted with green paint, the corridor is dimly lit, and there is a wooden sign at the door of each office, on which there is black paint with the name of the department.

I found the chief engineer's office and knocked on the door for a long time, but no one answered, so I found the office and asked where the deputy chief engineer Wei went, and a big sister who was knitting sweaters in the office told them enthusiastically: "Mr. Wei is at the back door." ”

"Back door?" Lu Tianming was stunned.

"It's the north gate where scrap metal is delivered." The eldest sister explained.

The two then got in the car and came to the north gate of the Hongqi factory, I don't know, the factory area of the Hongqi factory is really big, when I was a child, Liu Ziguang often played in the Chenguang factory at the door of my home, the Hongqi factory has not been to the few times, if it is not for Lu Tianming's familiar command direction, he can't figure out the southeast and northwest. “

Uncle Ming, you are very familiar with the Hongqi Factory, you have not come to visit the door before, right? Liu Ziguang asked with something in his words.

Lu Tianming said: "The steel plant was designed by Soviet experts, and the distance and location between each building are exquisite, and it will not change easily, although I have not been here for more than 20 years, but these layouts will not change, which is also part of industrial design." ”

Liu Ziguang didn't say anything, he smiled and stepped on the accelerator, and came to the north of the factory along the dusty road, where there is a huge open-air coal storage yard, the paint on various giant machinery is peeling, and the railroad tracks in the factory area are also rusty, which looks quite vicissitudes.

The north gate is a special door for freight, the trucks that send coke and transport steel all go from here, there is a thick layer of coal ash on the ground, and the workers are dirty, and you can see a truck stopped at the door from a distance, stretching to the road outside, and weighing one by one on the weighbridge scale at the north gate, these trucks are all scrap iron.

A female comrade wearing work clothes and a hard hat stood at the door, personally directing the weighing, Liu Ziguang stopped the car and glanced at Lu Tianming, now his eyes were frozen, his lips trembled slightly, he took out a cigarette from his pocket, and the lighter was not lit several times.

"Uncle Ming, smoking is not allowed in the factory." Liu Ziguang reminded Lu Tianming that he realized that he quickly put away the cigarette, his expression was very unnatural, looking at him like this, Liu Ziguang knew that he had seen the old man.

"Let's go and say hi." Liu Ziguang suggested.

"Not busy." Lu Tianming sat in the car like this, looking at the elderly female comrade in the distance directing back and forth, working hard, and suddenly, something shiny appeared in his eyes.

"After many years, she still hasn't changed." Lu Tianming's tone was a bit of a vicissitudes of life.

"Uncle Ming, you haven't changed much, I've seen photos of you when you were young, and to be honest, you're not as handsome as you are now." Liu Ziguang quipped.

Suddenly, he saw something strange at the gate, and several truck drivers jumped out of the cab, looking arrogant, as if looking for trouble.

"Something's wrong, go over and take a look." Liu Ziguang stepped on the accelerator, and the car swooped out.

……

"Don't, resolutely retreat!" Wei Shumin said coldly, on the truck parked in front of her, there were a large number of stones and bricks mixed in the mess of scrap metal.

Two truck drivers with a horizontal face came over, one of them rolled up in a T-shirt, revealing the fat Rou on his stomach, and the other was stabbing Guan Erye on his back, with sunglasses stuck on his face, and at first glance it was an old fritter who had been in the society for many years, and they opened their loud voices and shouted: "Why return the goods, collect it when Manager Li is there, why don't you accept it if you change it, we have come all the way, and the gasoline fee alone is several thousand, you say you will return, you play with us!" ”

The menacing appearance did not frighten Wei Shumin, she raised her head and said undoubtedly: "If I say retreat, I will retreat, Hongqi Factory does not accept scrap iron with this kind of mixture." ”

"Ouch, you old is still grumpy!" Guan Gongnan put his finger in his mouth and whistled, and suddenly more than a dozen drivers got down from the truck behind, all of them were dressed as dragons and tigers, and at a glance, they knew that they had been eating this bowl of rice for a while.

"I repeat, we won't accept your scrap metal, drive away immediately! Otherwise, you will bear all the consequences! Wei Shumin said categorically, although he was surrounded by a group of strong men, he had no fear.

"Damn, you're still energetic, tell you, you won't leave today, don't think about it, brothers, smash me!" As soon as Guan Gongnan waved his hand, this group of hooligans came up with the guys.

Wei Shumin remained silent, raised her right hand high, and then waved it down suddenly, and suddenly rushed out from the abandoned pump room not far from the communication room, more than 30 young steelworkers with wooden sticks, helmets, and red armbands wrapped around their arms, surrounded the gang of hooligans with a hula.

Guan Gongnan was startled, obviously he didn't expect the other party to be defensive, he spat on the ground stupidly and said, "Count you ruthless, let's go!" ”

"Let's go? To put it lightly, tie me up! Lock it up overnight and send it to the Public Security Bureau tomorrow! Wei Shumin gave an order, and the steel workers rushed up, subduing these guys without much effort, tying them up and escorting them to the factory.

At this time, Ziguang's car also drove to the door, Wei Shumin glanced at the strange car suspiciously, and was just about to order someone to come over for interrogation, when he saw Lu Tianming jumping from the co-pilot's seat.

For a while, the two of them were stunned, looking at each other speechless for a long time, time turned back at this moment, as if returning to twenty-six years ago, one was a handsome and dashing young worker, the other was a beautiful and generous female technician, the sun was shining, the mountains were full of flowers, and the song sounded, on the field of hope......