In the three years of high school, although I don't have much knowledge, after all, the environment has trained people.

Li Qing has changed a lot from the inside out, and Li Qing, who was originally jumping and jumping, has gradually become quiet, with an otherworldly elegance.

A boy in the upper grades stuffed Li Qing with a fountain pen copybook, and the title page read, "Clear water out of hibiscus, natural carving"

After graduating, Li Qing occasionally asked Zhang Mei to go out to play, but Zhang Mei often talked about Zhang Long between words.

Li Qing's impression of Zhang Long became more and more blurred, and when he heard Zhang Mei talk about Zhang Long, he just smiled slightly, and he no longer had that strong heartbeat.

Zhang Mei decided to repeat the study, and since then Li Qing and Zhang Mei have less and less contact.

Li Qing wandered around at home for two months, sometimes going to Li Yun's shop to have a look.

Business in Li Yun's store is booming, and when it is busy, the store is crowded, foot to foot, if it is small strength, it is difficult to squeeze in.

All three families ran to help.

On the first night of the brown sugar, weigh it one pound at a time, pour it on the newspaper, fold it into a triangle, and tie it up with a straw outside.

Li Zhenfu and Song Nanzhi didn't ask much,

Finally one day, Li Qing said to Li Zhenfu with a resolute attitude

"Dad, I want to go to work, I don't study anymore"

"Qing'er, have you really decided not to study?"

"Dad, I'm determined not to read"

Many years later, Li Qing realized how disappointed Li Zhenfu was at that time.

The eldest daughter graduated from junior high school and left the campus, and the younger daughter clearly had no hope.

pinned all his hopes on the second daughter, hoping that the second daughter could be admitted to a higher education school, serve an iron rice bowl, and live a stable and decent life.

At the crossroads of life, Li Qing gave up so easily.

I don't want to continue my education, and my family doesn't farm, so I have to have a job to do first, and I can't be idle.

After thinking about it, it is safer to learn a skill, and at least be able to support yourself at any time.

I often hear adults say

"In any era, the craftsman will not die of hunger"

Li Qingxing rushed to inform his father of his thoughts.

"Dad, I want to learn a skill."

"Oh? I'm talking to your mom about getting you a job these days. ”

"Do you want to learn technology, what technology do you want to learn?"

Li Zhenfu looked at his daughter with a smile and said.

"You have a good idea, I'll look for you in the next two days."

"I don't know exactly what to study now, anyway, tailoring I don't want to learn"

"Haha, I know, you don't know the vertical line,

Tailor, you're not going to learn."

Li Qing chuckled

"Qing'er, you don't have to worry, Dad will find it for you."

A week passes in the blink of an eye,

One afternoon, Li Zhenfu came back from work, pushed his bicycle, entered the courtyard door crookedly, put away the bicycle, picked up the briefcase, saw Li Qing was in the courtyard, and said to Li Qing with a smile

"Qing'er, come here, tomorrow, go to work in the tool factory and learn lathe technology."

Li Qing asked curiously,

"Lathe?"

Li Qing has nothing to do with the lathe. I know, I don't know what a lathe does.

At nine o'clock the next morning, Li Zhenfu wore a clean blue polyester tunic and led Li Qing out of the alley to the street, crossing the road, which was the gate of the tool factory.

The big iron gate was open, and the workers were already at work.

Li Zhenfu walked straight to the office of the tool factory, let Li Qing meet the factory director and accountant, and introduced Li Qing one by one, everyone was very enthusiastic, and all their eyes were smiling.

The crowd gossiped and said a bunch of polite words.

"Secretary Li, your second son?"

"Isn't the second son studying?"

"It's my second son, I don't study anymore, I have to go to work,"

"Secretary Li, the little second son looks like you,"

"Oh? Haha, some say it's like her mother."

Li Zhenfu was also very happy and kept smiling.

The factory director smiled and walked side by side with Li Zhenfu,

Li Qing followed behind the two curiously.

Looking up at the courtyard of the tool factory, he continued to walk unhurriedly to the workshop.

Walk past the expansive compound to a deep pool of square water, and bypass a pile of scrap machine parts and steel scraps.

The factory director accompanied Li Zhenfu as he walked loudly, laughing and chatting,

Stepping into the four-meter-wide iron door, inside is a wide and tall large open workshop, in the middle is a walkway more than one meter wide, and the welding master at the door is operating. On the left is the fitter's table, the drilling machine.

On the right are milling machines and planers. Neatly placed.

Finally, in front of a lathe in the innermost part of the workshop, before reaching the lathe, the factory director's eyes were fascinated, and he shouted at a woman in her thirties with fair skin, plump and beautiful standing in front of the lathe

"Master Chi, you're busy, hahaha",

Master Chi, with short ear-length hair, black and shiny, thin eyebrows and big eyes, thin lips, full facial skin, about 1.63 meters tall, wearing a slightly faded blue overalls, the overalls are very clean.

Master Chi raised his head and saw that the factory director was coming with Li Zhenfu and Li Qing, he was not in a hurry, stopped the work in his hand, wore soft-soled black cloth shoes with a large belt, walked over from behind the lathe gently, and said with a smile on his face

"Director, Secretary Li"

"Master Chi, bring you an apprentice, the second son of Secretary Li's family, who just graduated from high school, and Secretary Li wants her to learn lathe with you. In terms of lathe technology, your skills are the best in the town, so I want to worship you as a teacher, hahaha"

Several workers next to him twisted their necks to look at this side and whispered

"This is the second daughter of Secretary Li's family?"

"She looks very handsome, white and tender"

"People's father has the ability, it is the pen of our town, you see the attitude of the factory director towards them, tsk, tsk"

"It seems that the pen words on our ID card are written by Secretary Li"

"Last time, I wanted to learn lathes, but Master Chi didn't want to."

All of them showed envious eyes.

The factory director turned his head and said to Li Qing with a smile

"Li Qing, Master Chi's skills are good, your father used to be an accountant in a tool factory, your father knows it, follow Master Chi to learn hard, and strive to surpass Master Chi, ah"

Master Chi laughed and said a polite and modest word.

Li Qing said goodbye to the factory director with Li Zhenfu and walked out of the gate of the tool factory.

Li Zhenfu said to Li Qing

"Qing'er, get to know me today, and you'll come to work directly tomorrow,"

"Hmm"

Li Zhenfu rode to the town judicial office to work, and Li Qing returned to the small courtyard.

The next day, Li Qing came to the tool factory at 7:50,

"Li Qing~"

The cashier grinned,

Standing at the door of the factory office, he shouted affectionately and handed it to Li Qing, a new set of blue overalls.

Before leaving work in the afternoon,

The factory director walked into the workshop and said excitedly, "Today, we get together in the factory, and everyone has a meal together, which can be regarded as Li Qing's apprenticeship banquet." ”

On the wine table, everyone pushes the glass and changes the lamp, you come and go, Master Chi has a good amount of wine, and the person is also easy-going and bold, he can be regarded as a satisfied apprentice, he is happy, he drank a few more glasses, and his face was flushed.

On the third day, Master Chi came to the factory in the morning, changed into work clothes, and said to Li Qing with a smile

"Li Qing, I'm not busy in the morning, I'll give you a brief lecture and take a notebook to write it down,"

Master Chi officially began to teach Li Qing a lesson,

"Li Qing, your hair should be coiled up, and your hair should be cut short when you really operate."

"Oh"

Li Qing tied his hair up tightly.

Master Chi spoke more seriously and carefully

"This is a C620 ordinary lathe, all of which are mechanically driven.."

Master Chi bent down and opened a tin box, which contained her own set of tools.

Pick up a wrench, loosen the screws neatly, open the headstock box, inside are the big gear and pinion, one by one part carefully explained,

Talked about the principle of lathe structure, how to operate, performance, precautions...

Welding master: In his forties, he has a Chinese face, his hair stands on end, his face is full of beard, he is burly, he grins and shows his neat white teeth, and he said with a smile

"Master Chi, take your apprentice?"

Master Chi had a smug smile on his face.

Although Master Chi looked very easy-going, Li Qing was a little stunned, and always felt that he couldn't get into Master Chi.

When the lathe workers in the factory were not busy, Master Chi asked Li Qing to operate the machine for practice, and Li Qing could also play a few times simply.

Dealing with machinery, it is inevitable that there are oil stains all over the body every day, and it is difficult to wash between the fingernails, so Li Qing and his co-workers wash their hands carefully with laundry detergent every day after work.

A month later, the salary was paid, and Li Qing pinched the salary of fifty-five yuan and happily handed it over to Song Nanzhi.

Song Nanzhi smiled and took out five yuan to Li Qing and said with satisfaction

"Qing'er, you keep this for yourself, Feng'er also works in the canvas factory, with a monthly salary of forty-five yuan, I also give her five yuan a month for my own use, and your eldest sister gives the family three hundred yuan a month."

"Oh! Feng'er canvas factory is working. Okay, haha"

Li Qing responded to his mother's words, took the five yuan, put it in his pocket, turned around and walked away, and did not hear the last half of Song Nanzhi's words.

Li Qing and the others actually didn't spend much money themselves, they all ate, drank and lived at home, and their clothes were all pulled by their mothers on the street, and they called Li Qing to measure their size.

That year, Song Nanzhi had resigned from her job as a primary school teacher and was idle at home to take care of housework.

Two months have passed, and one day, Li Qing was operating in front of the lathe, and the triangular chuck was clamping a section of steel pipe, with a thimble on one end, spinning rapidly.

The knives are rolled up, and the thin, sharp wires, get longer and longer, all the way down to the bottom of the lathe.

Li Qing accidentally pulled the tightrope out of the car with his left hand, and suddenly the middle finger of his left hand was covered

A small crack was cut, and red blood kept oozing out of the crack, dripping down.

Li Qing panicked for a moment and didn't know to turn off the machine.

Master Chi was laughing and talking with another master next to him while doing chores.

I looked at Li Qing from time to time, and when I saw that Li Qing was out of state, I was so frightened that I hurriedly came up and turned off the machine.

Pulled Li Qing straight to the gate of the factory, turned a corner, ran to the health center in the back street, did disinfection and hemostasis bandaging, pricked a tetanus injection, and the master and apprentice went back to the factory.

Master Chi looked at Li Qing and said with concern

"Li Qing, either you go home and rest for two days first, and I'll help you ask for leave from the factory."

"Oh, okay, Master Chi."

Li Qing endured the faint pain in his fingers and returned to Li Zhenfu's dormitory.

Li Zhenfu has a dormitory in the town's enterprise office, and Li Qing rests there after lunch and sometimes lives there.

After two days of rest and returning to the factory, Li Qing didn't seem to want to go to the lathe anymore, and he only went to the lathe once.

Standing on the side of the lathe, looking at the chuck that rotates at high speed,

Feeling dizzy and dizzy.

Master Chi seemed to feel something, in the workshop, suddenly not as much as he used to laugh, sometimes when he was not busy, he looked at Li Qing standing in front of the fitter's desk with the welding master, and muttered quietly.

In this way, half a month has passed, and Li Qing has been rubbing beside the fitter's table, drilling a hole, and pulling saws.

A temporary boy named Zhao Long was two years younger than Li Qing, thin and small, with fair skin and deep eyes.

It is said that his parents went to the south very early to do business, leaving him to live with his grandmother.

My grandmother and the factory manager lived in a village.

When Zhao Long was fourteen years old, he dropped out of school, and his grandmother had no choice but to ask the factory director to arrange Zhao Long to do chores in the workshop first, and he also had a year of experience.

Zhao Long circled around Li Qing every day, talking a lot, and one day, he suddenly bypassed the fitter's table, slowly approached Li Qing's side, and looked at Li Qing intently

"Li Qing, do you want to watch a movie together at night?"

Li glanced at him innocently, thinking to himself, you little brat?

The boy stuck out his tongue mischievously.

Although Li Qing was wearing blue overalls, his skin was whiter and clearer, like a flower ready to bloom.

After a few more days, Li Qing lowered his head, slowly walked to Li Zhenfu's side, and whispered

"Dad, I, I don't want to learn lathes anymore,"

A trace of worry flashed on Li Zhenfu's face, and he said while smoking a cigarette

"Qing'er, if you really don't want to learn, then don't study, let's rest at home first"

Sister Li Yun got married in this year, because her in-laws' family was far away, so she temporarily lived in Li Zhenfu's dormitory.

Li Qing lived alone in the West House, and the hall was divided into one room for Li Feng to live in.

Li Qing and Li Feng are very good when they get along, but when they make trouble, they can't see centipedes.

Once, the two sisters were at home, and they sang together at the beginning, and it was good to talk and laugh, and after a while, Li Feng

"Two Skinny Men"

Li Qing

"Three Fat Men"

called each other nicknames, picked up each other's clothes and twisted them together, don't look at Li Qing's thin and thin, Li Feng is taller and fatter than Li Qing, and he can't beat Li Qing in a fight, so he scares him with fake crying, Li Feng for a while

"Wow... Ahh

Crying, Li Qing saw Li Feng pretending to cry, rotated to Li Feng, deliberately stretched out his right hand quickly, swiped it in front of Li Feng, turned around and left, Li Feng cried louder.

Song Nanzhi came back and saw Li Feng crying, and scolded Li Qing,

"You can't see a centipede"

"I didn't hit her."

Li Qing pursed his lips and smiled vigorously.

Li Feng raised his head, and there was not a single tear on his face.

Song Nanzhi was also angry.

Li Feng twisted his buttocks, snapped, and ran to help Song Nanzhi pick vegetables.

This is much stronger than Li Qing, Li Feng,

also often helps Song Nanzhi stir-fry fried vegetables.

Li Qing didn't reach out for anything in housework, he was not interested at all, and he had never touched the needle and thread.

Song Nanzhi looked at Li Qing and said

"A girl's family, she doesn't know anything about housework, what should you do when you come to see you? I'm worried about you."

The innocent Li Qing smirked

"There's the eldest sister to help us do it."

"Eldest sister, can your eldest sister help you for a lifetime?"

Song Nanzhi smiled bitterly.

As the eldest in the family, Li Yun is an early mature and a good helper of Song Nanzhi.

Song Nanzhi worked as a civilian teacher in the village primary school in the early years, and Li Yun helped Song Nanzhi take his sisters, and learned to cook at a very young age, and was proficient in knitting sweaters.

A mantra from Song Nam-chi

"Your eldest sister Li Yun is seven years old! I can't reach the pot, so I stand on a stool and cook, you look at you."

In Song Nanzhi's heart, he really likes Li Yun the most.