After I was promoted to technical supervisor, I became a so-called "team member" in the unit, so that many colleagues in the unit had a more active relationship with me, and my circle of friends became more and more expanded. But there is one person, I took the initiative to befriend, he is the custodian and outside squad leader Zhao Shigang, he is two years older than me, his father is the head of the general affairs section of the machine tool factory, in charge of all the logistics and life support affairs of the whole factory, so Zhao Shigang is also one of the most popular young people in our power supply department, everyone calls him Gangzi.

Gangzi is a very enthusiastic person, but whenever there is a task in the factory, he can work hard and take the lead, plus junior high school graduation recruited workers into the factory, although the age is only two years older than me, but the working experience is nine years more than me. Before I was promoted, he had already completed the preparations for the promotion of joining the party and hiring cadres, but because of academic qualifications, he was not further promoted, and I, as an undergraduate student, was promoted to a deputy section-level cadre two years after graduation, which was logical.

In addition to the production of electricity in the plant, we also transfer power to the residents of the family area inside and outside the plant area and the surrounding commercial shops and individual coal mines, for a more than 50-year-old factory, there are more than 1,000 retired workers alone, so there are more than 3,000 households in the jurisdiction, before the eighties, the factory management is lax and chaotic, the power supply network is very complicated, the power loss is serious, and power outages often occur. In recent years, with the standardization of enterprise safety production management, the system status has been improved step by step through upgrading. However, after all, there are many problems left over from history, the intact rate of equipment and facilities cannot reach 100%, and power supply failures still occur from time to time. At present, all the power supply lines in the factory are repaired and maintained by the external line team in charge of Gangzi, and Gangzi also lives up to expectations, as long as the fault occurs, he will definitely rush to the scene for disposal at the first time no matter where he is.

After I was promoted to technical director, I had the permission to look through all kinds of relevant materials, and I saw a factory newspaper a few years ago, which published an article called "Rainy Night" that reported Gangzi's deeds.

It is written like this:

In the low coal shed, the raindrops of beans slapped rapidly on the shed cover, the rain rushed down the eaves, the thunder was stronger than the other, and the dark sky slid violently one after another, as if to split the sky.

Gangzi sat on the coal pile in the shed, his feet in slippers soaked in the rainwater. The big black dog meekly sat with him in the rain, and gazed with him at the master's house across the shed on a rainy night. Gangzi's left hand was on the big black dog's broad back, and his right hand continued to put the cigarette butt that was about to be extinguished into his mouth and sucked it violently.

The lights in the opposite room were dim, and Gangzi's daughter-in-law was screaming and scolding in the house. "I know that I am worried about your broken line, and the machine tool factory will not turn away from you?! I've been married to you for a year, when did you make your home home?! Don't you want to see the line to go? I'll let you watch from the outside forever and never go back to this home again! Woo woo...... "The more the daughter-in-law scolded, the more angry she became, she couldn't help crying sadly, picked up the pillow on the kang and smashed it towards the window.

Gangzi regretted that he had just stiffened with his wife. He knew that every rainy night like this, he always insisted on going to the unit to check and repair the line, and let his timid wife stay at home alone, most of which was his fault. And whenever his wife stopped him, he would fight hard with her, so that this time she finally couldn't bear it anymore and kicked herself out of the house.

Gangzi was depressed, suddenly mixed with his wife's aggrieved crying, another lightning bolt lit up the night sky, a deafening thunder slashed down, and the big poplar trees in the courtyard waved their sparkling forks, swaying violently with the wind in the rainy night.

The thunder startled Gangzi, he glanced at the back of his wife sitting on the kang and crying in the window, snuffed out the cigarette butt in his hand, and shouted into the house, "I'm leaving!" , so he wore slippers and resolutely got into the rainy night that rushed to the unit.

Dajun and Wang Cai on the night shift were about to get into the car and rush to the scene with foot buckles and seat belts. Dajun looked up and saw Gangzi striding in shirtless, and paused for a moment: "Gangzi, why are you not wearing clothes?" "Ah, trouble, don't you wear work clothes directly from the unit!" The king and the king glanced at each other, a little inexplicable. But they know that at this time, there will inevitably be a gang on the scene, and with the gang on the scene, any faulty line will not cause too much trouble for everyone, and any problem will be solved.

Gangzi is in his twenties, and his big eyes are strong on his water-chestnut face, revealing the fortitude of the Northeast man. In his role, he is in charge of 43 kilometers of 10KV high-voltage power supply lines and 37 kilometers of low-voltage lighting lines throughout the plant. He knows that these power lines are the source of the production efficiency of the whole plant; It is the lifeblood of worker safety; It is the guarantee of the lighting of the residents' life and the economic development of the mining area. Therefore, every time there was a possible failure of the line, he had to rush to the unit in advance to command and deploy, and since he was the squad leader for five years, he has never stopped.

Due to the heavy wind and rain tonight, the power supply line of the No. 1 switch has a short circuit trip fault, and it is necessary to find out the fault point overnight and repair it to ensure the safe production of the plant and the normal electricity consumption of residents and merchants.

Don't hesitate to go. Gangzi quickly changed into work clothes and raincoats, and brought two workers to rush to the scene of the failure on a rainy night again.

The fault line is one of the power supplies to the machine tool factory by the superior substation, formed in the 60s, the path is long, the terrain is poor, the whole line is up to 6 kilometers, and 80% of the part is in the deep mountains, woods, ditches through it, so there is great difficulty in finding the fault.

The wind mixed with the rain hit people's faces, blowing people can't open their eyes, Gangzi took a lantern in the front of the meadow full of water, and carefully observed the situation along the line with one electric pole after another, completely ignoring the rain filling his boots and wetting his pants.

After nearly 20 minutes of trekking, they finally found three consecutive empty wires in the muddy depression like drying ropes, each intercepting and hanging a few broken branches and trunks, they were heavily attached to the wire, and with the violent wind swaying, a wire had been crushed. Seeing this scene, Gangzi felt an indescribable pain in his heart. He hurriedly contacted the unit dispatch to arrange emergency repairs. After that, Gangzi led everyone to use various tools to pluck down the branches, but because most of the branches were built in the middle of the line, it was difficult to reach, and a large amount of rainwater accumulated in the low-lying areas along the line, which was already up to one meter deep, and they had to drip muddy water that barely reached their thighs, and their heads were covered with torrential rain that made people unable to lift their faces and open their eyes.

After the branches were cleared, in order to ensure the safety and stability of the night construction, Gangzi personally climbed the pole to connect the wires. Due to the continuous rain and rain, there were many inconveniences in the construction work, and he had to slow down the operation. Twenty minutes passed, Gangzi held on to the pole, the rain flowed down his face and neck and into his body, and the raincoat was no longer effective. Gangzi took off his uncomfortable wet clothes, smiled and threw them to the prince below, saying, "This ghost weather should be naked!" Haha". Looking at Gangzi who was standing on the pole bare-chested and wearing a raincoat and laughing and working, colleagues were moved: What a good squad leader! Isn't this the cutest person in the new era?

After another 20 minutes, Gangzi tied up all the nodes on the line, the line resumed power transmission, and the factory resumed production. The raging storm also gradually subsided. It was already one o'clock at night when I returned to the factory, and Gangzi temporarily lived in the office.

It's dawn. The summer weather is on the child's face, the storm at night seems to have never happened, and the morning sun shows the morning light as always.

Gangzi looked at his watch, it was five o'clock.

It's time to get up, he thought.

With his hands squeezing his clenched face and stretching, he rolled over and sat up. "I don't know if my little sister's anger has disappeared or not." He muttered to himself. He knew that this was the time for his wife and sister to get up and cook on weekdays.

His wife was his neighbor in the East Courtyard when he was a child, and he called him Xiaomei since he was a child, until now. Gangzi doesn't know that it's a childhood sweetheart, but he knows that he has been with his little sister since he was a child, and he was later matched into a husband and wife, and they will be together forever. Over the years, in addition to worrying too much about the unit, he will let this little sister know everything, which the little sister knows, so every time the little sister gets angry with him because of this, she will soon be angry. Because she knows that Gangzi loves herself.

remembered that he had made his wife angry for the work of the unit again and again, but every time he came home from work, as soon as he saw him tired and exhausted, his wife acted as if nothing had happened, and quickly scalded a pot of wine for him, fried a plate of his favorite pepper eggs, smacked him with a smile, stared at his eyes and said, "It seems that I owe you in my last life!" ”

Thinking of this, Gangzi was relieved again.

"It's long overdue, I guess I've finished the wine, hehe." Gangzi was happy thinking about himself, and couldn't help muttering again. "I have to go home and get dressed before anyone gets up, otherwise everyone else will know that I can't go to work shirtless." So Gangzi hurriedly grabbed his slippers and walked on the way home.

Facing the rising sun, Gangzi believed that what was waiting for him would still be the familiar pot of hot wine, and the fist that his wife pretended to be angry and thumped over.

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Through this article, I had a good impression of Gangzi, and began to take the initiative to approach him, in the process of interacting with him, I did find that he has outstanding advantages and strengths, he is down-to-earth, hard-working, and dare to take responsibility; Helpful, united, friendly, optimistic, and the virtues that an excellent young man should have are always showing me all the time, and I can think of words to describe a person's good character, and I can find them in him. In the past few years, he has won many honors such as advanced producer, outstanding party member, and excellent team leader.

In this way, I got closer and closer to Gangzi, who was full of halos, and he also felt very honored to be able to make friends with me, the youngest section-level cadre in the factory, and took me to his friend's party every once in a while, and every time I formally introduced my resume to everyone, and then we became buddies who talked about everything, and our two families also became a place where each other could patronize and drink and chat at any time. For example, when eating in the canteen of the unit, no matter which person who cooks will definitely pick out a lot of meat and put it into his lunch box, he always takes me to enjoy this special treatment.

In the past few years, we have a common figure, all over the work or activity site of the unit, the most memorable thing for me is that in 1997 to celebrate the return of **, the city held a cultural street activity, in the southernmost end of Shanhu Road in the center of the city to the northernmost end, a total of 3 kilometers, closed for 24 hours, built a cultural corridor, a total of more than 300 units in the city participated, each unit is responsible for a few meters to more than ten meters of the road section on one side, around the theme of the return to free play, can perform programs, can form a propaganda board, The purpose is to disseminate the century-old history, praise the strong and prosperous unity, promote patriotism, and unite spiritual strength through various eclectic forms.

Our city machine tool factory is located on the west side of the middle section of the south end of the road, and we not only made a propaganda board, but also performed a cultural program. Because Gangzi and I are both 1.8 meters tall, and our overall appearance is exaggerated by the trade union cadres as tall and straight, handsome and handsome. As I grew older, my face became square and round after taking off the baby fat, and the proportion of my nose that looked too large when I was a child became just right, matching the standard sword eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and the overall image looked heroic and calm. So we were drawn to the theatrical performance team at the same time, in addition to participating in the chorus of the whole unit, we also specially asked the two of us to imitate the dress of the best male star and sang several songs such as "Great China" and "Asian Heroes", and I played the guitar and he played the gong. This combination effect is really as everyone expected, on that street we successfully attracted a large number of audiences to stop, can be said to have made a very outstanding contribution to the promotion of the machine tool factory, we also sang and became popular.

In fact, Gangzi doesn't understand music, and the shovel in his hand is nothing more than to make a loud sound to attract passers-by. I don't know if it was the sound of a different gong, or the singing of our chorus, or the same unprofessional guitar sound I played, but when we performed, most of the floating audience stopped and basically didn't go any further. The crowd continued to grow, so much so that Gao Jiangjiang, who was watching with our one-year-old son in his arms, was squeezed out of my sight.

Videos and photos of us singing together have also appeared on TV and in newspapers, and I always keep them in my home album.

I don't know whether it is a natural endowment or affected by the national conditions of our country in the nineties when all the people go to the sea to do business, Gangzi later began to be keen on business, not only ran a barbecue restaurant, but also co-founded a small rolling mill, every morning to the unit after a mao, the warehouse key and account book to my desk a pluck, on the slip away, and then the day's materials out of the warehouse and into the warehouse, by me to handle the account, the next morning to explain the situation to him, he also took the answer without listening, continue to go home to get people to bake skewers and roll steel.

Although every time he goes back from work, he is afraid that the leader will see it, but in fact, the leader knows that he not only uses his working hours to do business outside, but also often dumps large and small materials and accessories from the warehouse, and everyone knows it.

I found out that Gangzi and Wang Fengji, the leader of the section, conspired to steal materials from outside, which was a relatively accidental incident.

My mother-in-law's condition is stabilising and she is normally able to go out on her own and will return home in about the same time, in which case we will have to allow her to go out for a walk on her own if my wife and I are busy with work.

For a while, for three days in a row, my mother-in-law came home and brought back a U-shaped hoop with a cross arm fixed on the pole, because I had asked for one from the unit to make a flower stand support.

I recognized at a glance that this was the material we used for our work, but my mother-in-law had been extremely reticent since she became ill, and I could not tell her the source of the hoop, so I took leave on the fourth day to follow her, wondering where I got it. As a result, I found a large number of various materials that had not had time to be sorted out in the warehouse in the yard of Gangzi Rolling Mill, including cross arms, hoops, flat iron, watt-hour meters, and even more than 10 12-meter poles and a 100KVA transformer.

Because these materials were manually reviewed and approved by me when making the plan, I can be sure that they were all stolen from the unit's engineering materials.

I saw Gangzi and asked him what was going on? From Gangzi's squeaky prevarication, I could hear that it was section chief Wang Fengji who had something to say.

I didn't tell anyone about it, including my wife, Gao Jiangjiang.

At that time, I didn't comment too much on Gangzi's behavior, and I didn't think about stopping him. At that time, I was not upright and selfless, I only paid attention to learning business knowledge when I went to school, and I did not formally receive any education on party style and clean government when I arrived at the unit, and I also came into contact with and heard about many people and things that took advantage of the public to make a fortune, and it was generally commonplace. Because my family is not short of money, I have neither envy, nor blush, nor interest in other people's family history. This kind of neglect has led me to ignore the intrinsic nature of this kind of behavior.

I only supervised my mother-in-law for a short time, and after a while, she forgot about this place where she could get the tress back. If I had known that I would have incurred all kinds of constant retaliation for discovering this, perhaps I could have made the decision to denounce it.

Although I didn't care about it, Gangzi didn't think so.

After that, when he left the unit, he no longer gave me the key to the treasury and the ledger.

One night, Gangzi asked me to go to a more high-end restaurant in the city, I thought it was a dinner with his friends, but when I arrived, I found that there were only three of us, Wang Fengji, the section chief. Wang Fengji was very straightforward, and said to me directly: "Qiangzi, those things are indeed in our library."

"Ah, I know, Section Chief Wang."

"Haha, you kid, you're very smart! I can't hide anything from you! ”

"Hehe......"

"I know, but I know, but don't expand it anymore, you are also a cadre, and cadres have to talk about politics, and they must focus on harmony, hahaha! Come to Hadron, don't just look at it, do one! ”

Section Chief Wang poured wine into my cup while laughing, Gangzi stood up and grabbed the wine bottle and said, "Section Chief Wang, I'm coming!" I got it! ”

Again, I don't really have a position on what they do, and one of the reasons I don't know how much they do, I think it's only what I see. So, I behaved very casually, so casually that they thought I had a ghost in my heart, so, obviously, this meal was not satisfactory, Section Chief Wang thought I was an unstable factor, Gangzi thought I was not buddy enough, I thought they were making a big fuss.

After that, Gangzi and I were still buddies on the surface, but we were obviously estranged in our hearts.

I don't have time for that. On the one hand, because I have never been a person who likes to explain, on the other hand, I have to face the big ups and downs of my life.