Chapter Seventy-Eight. Seek out the frost and get acquainted with the Skeke rat to calm the fire element
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I finally left my parents and ran to a city with countless beautiful legends on a night that no one knew, taking that broken card with that broken card. I fantasize that tall buildings, fast horses, machines, cards, money, beauties, and glory are welcoming me with open arms, but the only ones who really welcome me with open arms are beasts that go out to forage. The roar of the beast shattered my illusions in an instant, and I was so frightened that I peed my pants and stood stupidly and didn't dare to move. Probably because I was lucky, the beast didn't come and eat me, maybe it was full, or maybe I had too little, and it looked at me twice and left.
It took me ten days to get from the countryside to the city, but this was not my final destination, my parents would most likely come to look for me, and I had to go further and bigger to the city, and this small city was just a temporary base for me. The biggest advantage of the city is that as long as you are willing to pay for labor, you will not starve to death, and I desperately wanted to get a job, but I suffered a lot for it.
I started working as a porter because I thought I had a good job. After I performed the one-hand sack bag, the foreman refused to offer me a job because I didn't have a relevant work certificate or a letter of recommendation. I was a little frustrated when I got out of the recruitment location, and a person who looked like a confidant sister appeared next to me, and she earnestly said that she could help me forge fake recommendation letters, of course, at a certain price. When she learned that I was penniless, she smiled and said that she could fake it first and pay later, but the price was much higher. I thought her smile was genuine and wouldn't lie to me, so I signed a deed she pulled out. I didn't look at the contract closely, and I didn't know most of the words. After signing the contract, she took me to a hidden location, and a few minutes later I got a job recommendation. She also enthusiastically told me that people like me would not dare to accept them without certificates or letters of recommendation, and that if they wanted letters of recommendation in the future, they could continue to look for her. I asked her what her name was, and she said I could call her Sister Zhang, and I had a sister for the first time in my life.
I returned to the porter with the letter of recommendation and was immediately accepted, and the foreman happily patted me on the shoulder and said that I was flexible. I worked on the construction site for a month, and only got a pitiful ten silver coins, and I was sued by Sister Zhang for breach of contract before I had time to enjoy the happiness brought by these ten silver coins, and the case was quickly decided, and I almost didn't have to think about it to know that the contract that Sister Zhang gave me was a deed of sale at all. I became Sister Zhang's slave, and the judgment was enforced. How I wished my parents would find me, but no.
If you want to be free, you can redeem it by accumulating 300,000 points in the factory. It's a strange factory with a lot of workers, but no one knows what it's producing. Some say it's making new cards, others say it's making ordnance. There are many positions in the factory, and different positions lead to different points earned. There is no such thing as pay in the factory, everything is based on points, so that the workers can be firmly trapped in the factory, because the points are useless once they are out of the factory. The factory is very large, all kinds of things are complete, and everything you need to eat and wear can be exchanged for points. Each worker has a unique card, which stores points information, and all income and expenses are in this card.
On my first day in the factory, I was familiar with the working environment, learned about the differences in each position, and received my own point card, which was interesting because the card was pre-stocked with 500 points, which is almost a huge amount of money, because one point can be exchanged for four eggs. That night, I exchanged my 50 points for some necessities and food. Each worker has a small bedroom with a card on the roof of the bedroom to keep watch. The bedroom was small, but it was luxurious for me, because the bed was made of cotton instead of rice straw. As for that surveillance card, I really don't think it's necessary, who would want to go in such an environment. I spent my first night in the city stupidly excited, and I couldn't stop thinking, this is the city, this is the city, and everything is going to begin. Naturally, rainbows and flowers, sunshine and warmth appeared in my dreams.
I got up to the sound of the bell, and I didn't dare to lie in bed, so I immediately got dressed and rushed to the meeting point. The work is about to begin, the leader should preach to us newcomers about the rules and key points of the factory, all the words of the leader are very important, we must listen respectfully, and a lot of valuable experience will be revealed from the preaching, which is of great benefit to the newcomers. I didn't see any of the benefits, but the leader said there were benefits, and there must be benefits.
When the leader finished speaking, we applauded warmly. The leader spoke about a few hundred sentences, each of which I understood when it was broken down, but I couldn't understand the words together. The leader nodded in satisfaction amid the applause, and then numbered us, the factory was not allowed to have names.
"Fantao, you are one hundred and twenty." The leader said.
I suddenly remembered the one hundred and thirty-seven I had received when I drew lots, and the demon said, "Chief, I want the number one hundred and thirty-seven." ”
The leader looked at me twice, clearly dissatisfied with me, a newcomer who was delusional and disobedient to his will. The leader wiped his mouth and said, "For the sake of your newcomer, then you will be one hundred and thirty-seventh." ”
I took the uniform with the number 137 printed on it and smiled at the sun. Fathers and mothers, children have found long-term and stable jobs, and maybe they will be more productive in the future. With that in mind, I followed the crowd. Those of us young and strong were assigned a special room full of quirky seats.
A few veteran workers got up from their seats and explained to us how to use these seats, which was very simple, just sit on them and keep stepping on the pedals on both sides of the seat with both feet. There are no fixed points for this job, you can get more for more work, get less for less, and you can't do it if you don't do it. As far as I learned yesterday, the cleaners in the cleaning department can get a fixed 15 points a day, and in addition to daily expenses, they can have 5 to 8 points left over every day, so if the cleaners want to be free, they may have to do it for more than 100 years. Our workers earn points on a per-count basis, earning one point for every 1,000 pedals. A strong man like me can step on it 50,000 times a day, but the physical supplement needed for this cost at least thirty-five points, and at most fifteen points left every day, and if you want to be free, you need to step on it for fifty or sixty years, which is still ideal, regardless of my old age and weakness.
It took me a while to figure out the balance between income and expenses, and eventually I found that stepping on 41,000 times a day was the most reasonable solution. Under this program, the income is forty-one and the expenditure is twenty, which is ten years closer to freedom. I have a schedule and follow a strict schedule every day, and I crave freedom. The work on time every day was regarded as good performance by the leader, and the leader specially rewarded me with 500 points at the commendation meeting, and I accepted everyone's applause like a hero.
I was rewarded with 500 points, and several of my co-workers, who usually do well with me, asked me to have a meal. Naturally, I agreed, and we got together for dinner that day, chatting while eating, and I don't know how, the topic became what would happen if one day I was promoted and made a fortune. Everyone said that they would eat and drink well, and they would never treat themselves badly. I stood up and said that if I was promoted, I would never dare to remember the brothers, and I would definitely lead the brothers to fight against the leaders who usually oppressed us.
"Foolish dreams, you." Others scoffed.
"Whoa, the bird's ambition?" I borrowed an old saying that Mr. Ou likes to say in return.
In order to achieve my ambition, I want to study despite other objections. In the short time I had to come into contact with him, I found that No. 57 had a wide range of knowledge and experience, and that he could occasionally be heard reciting a few lines of poetry. I decided to ask him to be my teacher, and the 500 points were the tuition. The deal with Fifty-Seven was a success, and 500 points bought a year of study. It's said to be a year, but it's actually just a moment squeezed out of lunchtime. For a year, I lived like a machine, numb and accurate. Over the course of the year, I learned the meaning of sounds, shapes, and meanings, and although there were still many words I didn't know, I learned to look through the dictionary. In the last class, Fifty-Seven suggested that I exchange a dictionary, something like a dictionary with words is not something that can be exchanged casually, not only does it cost a lot of points, but it may also be called into a conversation, but I decided to give it a try.
I happily spent a thousand points redeeming the dictionary, and before I could look through it, the leader called me into a conversation. The chief's meaning is very clear, hard labor like me does not need to be studied, and the word "hard work" should only be in the dictionary of life. The leaders like to praise us for our hard work, but I know that we are not working hard but earning our lives, and if we don't do it, we will die. True diligence should be a love of work even when life is fully guaranteed, but I don't think there are such people in the empire. I wanted to refute the leader's words, but I was afraid of the leader's majesty. The leader clearly saw my fear, and he smiled triumphantly.
"While hard labor doesn't need to learn, managers need knowledge." The leader changed his words, "I see that you are conscientious and have been doing well, so I decided to promote you to my deputy." It's just that you're too young to convince the public. I'm planning to show the fools when you get to the show. ”
When the leader had finished speaking, he sent me away, and I was overjoyed that I was about to become a leader, and I could not believe this change of status. The first thing I had to do to be a leader was that my mind immediately came alive and I threw the dictionary aside and didn't use it. First of all, I have to take care of the thirty-eight who often bullied me, this is the idea I came up with after a long period of thinking.
The leader quickly planned a good show, and I actively cooperated with the hard work and showed my face in front of the whole factory. The leader's plan was brilliant as he first loosened the parts inside the machine, and the machine stopped working after a while. The leader deliberately lashed out, and then offered a bounty saying that whoever could fix the machinery would be promoted. Many people are eager to try, but they all fail because they don't know what the fault is. When everyone was helpless, I came on and deftly drew a horizontal line at the fault. The leader ordered repairs to be made along the lines of the line, and sure enough, the machine was back to work, and I succeeded in getting the rank of deputy.
A lot of people were dissatisfied, they said I was promoted just by drawing a horizontal line, which is not fair. The leader responds that drawing a horizontal line is nothing, and knowing where to draw a line is the skill. Everyone was in an uproar, and they did not dare to oppose it anymore. Everyone looked at me differently, and immediately turned from contempt to admiration.
"Thirty-eight." As soon as I was promoted to deputy, I wanted to give this group of workers a dismissal, and No. 38 was my best target, and the whole factory knew that he had a grudge against me. Thirty-Eight knew it himself, so when I read his name, the flesh on his face kept shaking.
"Thirty-eight." I repeat it again.
"Here." He replied resignedly.
"Due to the staffing problem, there is still a shortage of manpower in the cleaning department, so you will go to the cleaning department tomorrow to report for a month." I'm making things up at will.
"I ......," he wanted to protest.
"The factory staff is a family, the cleaning department and our labor department are all a family, you go to the cleaning department is only temporary, this kind of deployment is also the internal needs of the factory, as a member of the factory, you have to fight for the cause of the factory for life, don't you want to?" I said a bunch of things that I didn't like to hear.
"I do." When it comes to this, he doesn't dare to object, and to oppose is to betray the factory.
Before I could fill the pleasure of the thirty-eighth, the leader called me to talk again.
"I heard you transferred Thirty-Eight to the Cleaning Department?" The leader said nonchalantly.
I couldn't figure out what the leader meant when he said this, so I could only answer truthfully, "Yes." ”
The leader suddenly laughed and said, "Good job. I'm still trying to help you consolidate your position, but I didn't expect you to set an example for me one step ahead of me, do a good job, and have a future. The young man is young and has brains. ”
The leader praised me, and I touched my head and couldn't help but smile even more. "It's all the cultivation of the leader, it's all the cultivation of the leader." I nodded and said.
"Nonsense." The leader's voice tightened but immediately relaxed, "It should be said that it is all factory cultivation. ”
"Yes, yes......" I said hurriedly, "it's all up to the factory's cultivation of me, and it's all the bosses who know me well." ”
The leader took a sip of tea in satisfaction.
In fact, becoming a deputy does not have a particularly big power, and he still has to step on the pedal every day to earn points, but there is an advantage that he can get out of the factory to get in touch with the outside world, which is unimaginable for ordinary workers. After being promoted to deputy, my house has also expanded a little, and it is no longer the kind of small single room that can touch the wall when you turn around, but now the room is enough to turn around twice.