At noon that day, Liu Ziguang suddenly received a call from home, saying that he was asked to come back quickly, and there was a distinguished guest at home, Liu Ziguang immediately drove home, went upstairs and opened the door to see that a middle-aged man about fifty years old was sitting on the sand in the living room, wearing green military pants and a black jacket, and his face was vaguely familiar.

Dad is sitting on the side to accompany the guests, there are ashtrays, cigarette boxes, fruit bowls and other things on the coffee table, the sound of frying and frying comes from the kitchen, the aroma of the dishes wafts out, which makes people feel appetizing, the father saw his son come back, stood up and said: "Xiaoguang, who do you think this is coming?" ”

The guest also stood up, his figure was quite burly, and his voice was like a Hong Zhong: "This is Xiaoguang, I haven't seen him for many years, and he has become an adult, hehe." ”

Liu Ziguang suddenly realized and said, "You are Uncle Ming?" ”

"Yes, it's your Uncle Ming who has come back from a job change, so I came to our house to see your father first." My mother came out with a plate of dishes and said with a smile.

Liu Ziguang remembered, this uncle's name is 6 Tianming, his ancestral home is in the Northeast, he was born in a military family, his father was the director of Chenguang Machinery Factory in the seventies, in the early eighties, 6 Tianming graduated from high school and entered Chenguang Factory as a worker, and his father had a workshop, and he also had a friendship between master and apprentice, and then 6 Tianming joined the army and enlisted in the army, and it was decades in a flash, but I didn't expect to meet again now.

"Hello Uncle Ming, sit down." Liu Ziguang shook hands with 6 Tianming very warmly, beckoned him to sit down, and took out the unopened soft China from his bag and smoked it for him.

"It's a good smoke, Xiaoguang is a good mix." 6 Tianming skillfully knocked the cigarette roll and lit it himself.

"Where, it's just a fool." Liu Ziguang said modestly.

"Can a blind fool be mixed with a ** representative? I heard that there are hundreds of people eating with you now, and you are promising, and you are worthy of being the children of our Chenguang Factory. ”

Liu Ziguang looked at his father, his father looked proud, obviously talking about himself just now.

"Uncle Ming, tell me about you, which unit have you been assigned to after changing jobs?" Liu Ziguang asked.

"I, where did I come from, I enlisted in the army from our factory, and I have to return to the factory after changing jobs, and I have already decided, and I will report to Chenguang Machinery Factory tomorrow and serve as the factory director and secretary." 6 Tianming said with a smile.

Liu Ziguang also smiled politely, but he muttered in his heart, Jiangbei Chenguang Machinery Factory used to be a military factory belonging to the General Logistics Department, and later the military was transferred to the local government, but the level is still very high, equivalent to a deputy municipal unit, but this kind of deputy municipal factory director is like an alternate road in the former Qing capital, and he can't be on the stage at all.

"Ahem, which army did Uncle Ming transfer from? It is said that now an officer of your level can be transferred to a government unit, why did he choose an enterprise? Liu Ziguang asked.

6 Tianming took a puff of cigarette and said with emotion: "The hardest soldier, the engineer, mixed with a deputy division level, can't climb up, it's better to go back to the place to show my strengths, I was born in Chenguang Factory, grew up in Chenguang Factory, and enlisted as a soldier in Chenguang Factory, if I don't go back here, where else can I go?" ”

"Okay, okay, don't talk about it, let's eat." Mom put the dishes together, beckoned three men to eat, Dad also deliberately took out the Moutai wine that people gave him during the New Year, everyone sat together and talked about the wine, the more they talked, the more sad they were, the Chenguang factory with unlimited scenery in the past actually fell to this step of the field, a large number of workers were laid off, and the factory could only rely on selling land and equipment, renting factories for a living, although it was not bankrupt, but it was also stormy.

Not long ago, the director and secretary of the Chenguang factory was arrested by the procuratorate for embezzling laid-off workers' resettlement fees, and as soon as the news came out, the factory was even more panicked, and the most precious years of Liu Ziguang's father were spent in the Chenguang factory, where their memories and youth were condensed, and who could not cry sadly when they saw the factory collapse like this.

6 Tianming as a generation that grew up in the factory, the feelings for the Chenguang factory are extremely deep, so he gave up the favorable resettlement conditions, and took the initiative to ask to transfer to the Chenguang factory, and now the Chenguang factory is already an old state-owned enterprise unit that has been abandoned in the city, no one wants to wade into this troubled water, and some people are stunned that it is the best, so the deputy division level of 6 Tianming naturally became the new director and secretary of the Chenguang factory.

After talking about things in the factory for a while, everyone was a little depressed, and my mother diverted the topic and said: "Little 6, how old is the child this year, is he married?" ”

6 Tianming said: "It's more than twenty, and I don't obey it, I can't wait for the day I hold my grandson." ”

Dad said: "My family is not the same, thirty-year-old people are not married, it is useless to say more, young people now, it is really not as good as we were then." ”

6 Tianming said: "Xiaoguang is a person who does business, it is better to get married later, so as not to be dragged down by the family, my family is also a boy, otherwise our two families can still be a family of children." ”

Everyone laughed, after being full of wine and food, 6 Tianming proposed to go to the factory to have a look, and my father was the first to respond, Liu Ziguang saw that they were full of interest, and he was also happy to express his willingness to accompany them.

Quan took a walk after dinner, Liu Ziguang and his son accompanied 6 Tianming all the way to the gate of Chenguang Machinery Factory, this gate was built in the early nineties, the mosaics on it were peeled off, revealing the gray cement background inside, and there were four faded red papers pasted on the door, with four big words written on it "Happy New Year's Day".

In the communication room, a few men are throwing poker, the door is open and no one cares about no one asks, anyone can enter, the factory is overgrown, the tall workshop is crawling with dead vines, the glass is broken, the door is locked, and there is a scene of decay.

There are also some workshops in full swing of production, but those are all contracted workshops, Chenguang factory along the street fence are all built into façade rooms for rent, the equipment is relatively new workshops are also contracted out, the production of some iron fences, anti-theft doors and other low-level products.

There is even a scrap collection department in the factory, garbage is everywhere, the smell is stinking, beer bottles, cardboard boxes, plastic sheets, old iron sheets are thrown on the ground, and a bunch of manhole covers are also thrown there, and a few thieves are bargaining with the owner of the acquisition department.

6 Tianming's face became more and more gloomy, and he walked directly to the direction of the factory.

The factory is in a gray complex building, and there are a few Jetta and pickup trucks parked horizontally on the parking lot downstairs. ”

The corridor of the factory building is very dark, the wall skin is peeling off, full of an old smell, the corridor is terrazzo floor, the door of the office is an old-fashioned wooden door, with a wooden sign nailed on it, what is the arrears office, the resettlement office, the women's federation, the Youth League Committee, the family planning office, the security department, the production department, the quality inspection department, everything, all the organs, but most of the office doors are closed.

6 Tianming walked to one of the open offices and saw several men sitting inside, concentrating on operating in front of the computer, feeling a little relieved, and suddenly heard one of them slap his thigh and shout: "Damn, when I went to the toilet, the food was stolen!" ”

6 Tianming shook his head and went up to the second floor, there were a few retired old workers standing at the door of the finance room, it seemed that they were coming to reimburse medical expenses or something, but the iron door was closed, and there was a note on it that said "Go to work at three o'clock"

How can there be a reason to go to work at three o'clock, 6 Tianming went straight over and banged on the iron door of the financial room, and after the old meeting, there was a half-old MILF who rubbed her sleepy eyes and came to open the door, and scolded angrily: "Knock knock, knock your mother's head, and let people not take a nap." ”

6 Tianming Zhengse said: "Who stipulates that you go to work at three o'clock?" Don't you know that there are so many retired workers out there waiting for reimbursement? ”

The half-old glanced at him with squinted eyes, and asked disdainfully, "Which unit are you from?" ”

6 Tianming said: "You don't have a unit, you answer my question." ”

The half-old sneered: "I should be the new factory director, it turned out to be an idle old man, where to squat and where to go, this is a financial powerhouse, if you make trouble again, I will be called the security department." ”

6 Tianming didn't say anything more, turned around and went downstairs, and met a group of department cadres going upstairs, all with red faces, open clothes, and chess boxes and teacups in their hands, probably going up to play chess and rest.

When he came downstairs, 6 Tianming sighed, his face was ugly, and said to Liu's father: "Master, I didn't expect the factory to become like this, is this still our Chenguang Machinery Factory at that time?" ”

Dad said: "Little 6, the factory has been like this for many years, not dead or alive, and I can't complain about them, the factory director has changed one after another, just know how to make money in his own pocket, who cares about the life and death of the workers, but it's a pity that the old workers in our factory have unique skills, I heard that senior welders can get more than 8,000 yuan a month in the southern factory, and they can only eat subsistence allowance and relief in our factory, what do you say is this." ”

6 Tianming heard this, but his eyes suddenly lit up, and he said: "Our factory can't die!" Everything counts now, talent! ”

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The next day, the new director and secretary of the factory 6 Tianming accompanied by the leaders of the SASAC went to Chenguang Machinery Factory, after reading out the letter of appointment of the organization, 6 Tianming locked himself in the factory director's office, every day is to look at the documents, on the Internet, and there is no action of three axes.

In this way, the cadres of the department were relieved and began to live like in the past, arriving late and leaving early every day, and people were overwhelmed, anyway, the factory was like this, except for collecting rent and reimbursing medical and labor insurance, there was really no other work to do.

6 Tianming didn't even deal with the old lady in the finance room who dared to contradict him, he was like a good old man with great kindness, he didn't touch anyone's interests, just being an idle factory director who didn't care about anything.

A week later, 6 Tianming came to Liu Ziguang's house again, and had a long talk with his master, until Liu Ziguang came home at ten o'clock in the evening, 6 Tianming was still sitting in the living room, and the cigarette butts were already piled up in the ashtray on the coffee table.

The room was full of smoke, but the expressions on the faces of the two fathers were very focused, and Liu Ziguang joked: "Uncle Ming, don't you want to visit the thatched house three times and invite my father out of the mountain?" ”

6 Tianming said with a smile: "Boy, you guessed right, your father has promised me to rehire as the workshop director of the first workshop." ”

Liu Ziguang looked at his father, and his father nodded extremely seriously.

"How can there be any first workshop in our factory, they are all rented out, and I also rented one, so that Deng Yunfeng can produce some simple machinery and equipment, and the business is not bad, by the way, Uncle Ming, you won't take back all these rented out workshops, right?" Liu Ziguang asked.

"It won't be one-size-fits-all, I've read all those contracts, some are rented normally, some are simply given away for nothing, thousands of square meters of large workshops, rented out for 5,000 yuan a year, this is simply dereliction of duty! In a word, from now on, the Chenguang factory will be on the right track, this is a big project, it is not enough to rely on me alone, it depends on the joint efforts of the old and young masters of our factory. ”

6 Tianming's eyes shone with a determined brilliance, and his fingerprints holding the cigarette did not move, as if he was immersed in a vision for the future.

Immediately, he smiled again, stood up and said, "It's not early, I'll go first, I'll go to the Red Star Company tomorrow to talk to you about something, don't send it." ”

Dad still insisted on sending 6 Tianming out of the community, and after coming back, Liu Ziguang asked him: "Dad, it's not enough for you to go to class all your life, you really want to help 6 Tianming clean up this mess?" ”

Dad sighed: "In these years, there are few people who can stick to their beliefs, so I'll help him!" ”