After Li Zhenfu died, in the spring of the following year, the town enterprise office arranged for Li Qing to work in the town's oil mill.

The oil mill is a large enclosed courtyard house, surrounded by mud walls and grass roofs.

The east row is the kitchen, the south row is the oil mill and warehouse, the west is a small rice processing factory, the northwest corner is the big iron gate, and the north row is the store department and the enterprise dormitory.

Li Qing works as a salesperson in the store department, and there are usually three people in the store department.

Another girl, Xiao Lin, is in charge of the records, and Li Qing is in charge of the cash.

The villagers took the oil and recorded it in the oil book, how much oil was taken on a certain day in a certain month and a certain year, and how much oil was still stored in the next file.

The oil was originally exchanged for rapeseed by the villagers.

You can also buy it with cash, and pay as much as you want.

There is also a lean middle-aged man named Pu Shi in the sales department, who specializes in oiling and is responsible for transporting oil from the warehouse to the sales department.

The oil piers made of iron sheets have one catty, half a catty, two taels, and one tael.

Use the oil pier to scoop the oil into the funnel, and then leak it into the villager's own oil bottle or oil pot.

The whole oil mill has a factory director, an accountant, a cashier, a cook in the kitchen, two mechanical maintenance workers, and eight oil presses in the oil press workshop, but the oil pressers are all piece-rate zero-hour workers.

There are three people in the store department, and an old man surnamed Wu who is a gatekeeper.

In early summer, May, the sun was shining, it was the season of rape harvesting, and it was also the busiest time of the year in the oil mill, Li Qing and his colleagues came to the factory early.

The janitor of the oil mill was a white-haired old man, in his sixties, with a slightly hunched back, a burly figure, a red face, and a loud voice.

"Master Wu is early,"

Lao Wu held a bunch of keys in his hand, "Step!" Trample! ”

Strode to the middle of the big iron fence door, opened the iron lock, "grunted" to open the iron chain, grinned, and showed neat teeth,

"Haha.. Ay! Ah, I drank too much last night! ”

Raise your hand gently, pull the iron fence gate into the courtyard, under the iron fence door are two pulleys, the pulleys are rolling on the concrete floor, "lala~hulala~"

There was a cacophony of sounds,

Everyone talked and laughed and walked into the courtyard one after another.

Li Qing, Xiaolin, and Pu Shi opened the door and walked into the store, and Li Qing and Xiaolin sat opposite.

Xiao Lin has long hair and a shawl, a round face, is about one meter six tall, as tall as Li Qing, and is dressed very fashionably, taking out a mirror from a drawer from time to time, twisting his neck, and looking left and right.

Often a boy in his twenties, medium height, skinny, came to her, and it was estimated that the two were in a relationship.

Sometimes in the chair of the store department, in front of the public, the two of them sit together in their arms.

Everyone scoffed, and it became a joke in the factory for a while.

Pu Shi told Li Qing that the boy was the son of the deputy director of the town's finance office.

Next to it is a simple table, simple and neat put on blue overalls, wipe the table bench with a towel, and sweep the floor with a broom.

Look at the oil cylinder is not much oil, just pump oil into the cylinder in the iron drum next to it.

Plain is not tall, flat-headed, doesn't talk much, and gives people the impression of being a very honest person.

Li Qinggang cleaned up the table, and looked sideways at the courtyard to see that it was lively.

Two scales, have been pulled to the door of the kitchen, near the place of the oil mill, there is a row of pine trees at the door of the kitchen,

It can shade the sun, two square tables with drawers, and the factory director and the accountant are sitting on wooden chairs, fiddling with abacus and chatting about something.

Two cups of green tea had been brewed on the table, and the green tea leaves rose and fell to the bottom of the cups one by one.

Suddenly, I heard a shout, and the yard of the entire oil mill trembled.

"I've bought a snack and I'm going to have breakfast."

The chef with the tiger's back and the waist of the bear, holding a pot of dim sum "Tengteng"

Strode into the courtyard.

Pu Shi had just finished cleaning, came in with a water bottle of boiling water, brewed a cup of green tea, sat on a chair, looked at the tea leaves in the teacup, and was happy.

When he heard the shouting, he looked up into the courtyard

After a moment, he immediately got up from his chair and walked into the courtyard.

After a while, a few snacks came in, and greeted Li Qing and Xiaolin with a smile

"Li Qing and Xiaolin have breakfast"

"Eat fried snacks"

"Fried dim sum is so delicious"

Just after breakfast, some villagers wore straw hats and carried baskets and walked towards the courtyard.

There are also bicycles carried, carried by two people, flatbed trucks, and the cement yard of the factory is suddenly noisy, men, women and children are tall, short, fat and thin

"Oh, you're going to exchange for rapeseed too?" ”

yes, Director,"

"This year is good, the rape is growing well. Hah

"Yes, yes, I planted several acres last year, and my family can't eat so much, so I plan to sell some this year, hahaha, how much is a pound of vegetable oil now?" Director"

"$25 per catty"

"Oh, the price has gone up a bit,"

Everyone waited in line while chatting.

The factory director grinned, stretched out his hand to the basket on the scale, grabbed a handful of rapeseed, spread it out in the palm of his hand, and looked up at the villagers.

"It's not very dry."

"Haha, director, I've been basking in the sun for days."

"You can only exchange a pound of rapeseed for two taels and six dollars of oil, and if you go somewhere else, people may not give you two or six dollars."

The villager grinned, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out a few, and handed one to the factory director and the accountant.

"Factory director, smoke a cigarette, two or six dollars, factory director, how can you say this, we have been here for so many years, and besides, this place is close to our home, and it is convenient to get oil, hehe"

The director took the cigarette and put it on the table,

"I haven't finished smoking this cigarette in my hand, hehe, you can't dry this rapeseed,"

"Okay~ I picked it all the way from home, I can't pick it back, it's such a hot day, hahaha"

"Okay, I'll help you weigh it"

The factory director stretched out his right index finger and middle finger and gently moved it left and right on the weighing rod, and the villagers also lowered their heads, stretched their necks, and stared intently at the numbers on the scale.

"You call it so flat"

"It's all the same."

The factory director said with a smile, and when the rod was slightly warped, he shouted at the accountant

"Ninety pounds!"

The villagers picked up the baskets, swung their arms, walked towards the warehouse, and poured it into the warehouse.

Carrying two empty baskets,

Walking to the accounting table, the accountant took out a small folio book about the size of the household registration book, and fiddled with the abacus.

The accountant fills in the time, name, and how much oil it is folded into.

After the villagers picked it up and checked it carefully, they put the small notebook in it and picked up the empty basket

"Factory director and accountant, you are busy, let's go"

Say hello to someone familiar and walk out of the oil mill gate.

In the blink of an eye, it was noon, and there were fewer villagers.

The chef cooked the meal, packed it on several large plates, and everyone hurried to eat.

Li Qing They have to bring the bowl to the store to eat, and if someone comes to fetch oil, they will put down the bowl in their hands and have to work.

The mechanical maintenance worker is two people, a father and son, and the father's name is Ouyang Lei. The son's name is Ouyang Chenggong

(hereinafter referred to as Ouyang)

The father is tall and thin, the son is of medium stature, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, slightly curly hair, occasionally wearing eyes, the degree is not very high, like flat eyes, and the clothes he wears are clean and neat.

A grinning, ordinary-looking guy.

Ouyang and Li Qing were classmates in different classes in the same class, and Li Qing was not impressed.

I hadn't spoken before, but after entering the factory, we began to have face-to-face conversations.

The young people in the factory like to play in the store when they are not busy.

Ouyang also and another guy carried the bowl, one after the other, and walked into the store department.

Ouyang saw at a glance that there were not many dishes in Li Qing's bowl, so he picked up a large piece of meat from his bowl and stuffed it into Li Qing's bowl.