On the eve of the Spring Festival, more than 10 branches, workshops and departments of the state-owned Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory fell into a tense and busy year-end summary work.

Submit all kinds of documents to the material department, financial statements, need to be reviewed and signed by the leaders to approve the annual settlement and the budget statement of the new year, the personal year-end summary of the grassroots leaders, the development of energy consumption and energy-saving indicators for the new year, review the consumption of auxiliary materials in the warehouse of each branch of the main plant, approve and sort out the consumption of spare parts, inventory and equipment for the new year, zero, parts of the procurement report, employee attendance summary and so on in the material department of each director, The Deputy Commissioner's desk was piled up with a mountain of materials waiting to be reviewed. Wang Qingquan, the first deputy director of the materials department, even went to the scene to inspect and did not dare to be sloppy, which is his consistent work style.

In addition, Wang Qingquan wanted to attend the trade union on behalf of Director Xiao of the Material Department, and some large workshops that overfulfilled the task held a summary meeting to express encouragement, and also accepted the invitation of the Communist Youth League, female workers and other organizations to participate in the summary and commendation meeting and the political and ideological work experience promotion conference of the factory party committee and so on.

Wang Qingquan, who has to attend several meetings in one day, blames himself for not having a doppelganger technique, and he doesn't have the time and mind to take care of his daily work. In order to timely report the summary of the department to the head office and other relevant cooperative branch leaders before the Spring Festival, it is necessary to occupy the spare time after work.

Wang Qingquan and several other leaders of the payment department have already worked extra nights and driven out many cooperative branches, and the outsourcing units are anxious to review and approve the documents. Tian Xiaoman, the director of the office, was duty-bound to accompany and assist in the processing of the documents and original files that the leaders needed to find.

After a few days, his small eyes were like "pink eye", and the white eyes turned into red eyes, which were covered with bloodshots. The head is also drooping, and there is no vigor in front of people in the past, and every opportunity during the day is to lie on the desk and take a nap. When I slept soundly, I snored and disturbed everyone to work with peace of mind.

Coincidentally, his 5-year-old daughter Tian Juanjuan was taken to the factory bathhouse by her mother the day before yesterday to take a bath. When she got out of the bathhouse, her mother put Tian Juanjuan, who was tightly wrapped, on the back seat of her bicycle, braved the cold of more than minus 20 degrees, and quickly pedaled home against the northwest wind.

The winter temperature in Inner Mongolia is generally kept at about minus 20-25 degrees, and when there is no wind, the mask, eyebrows and fur hat are all white and white frost when returning home. Not to mention Tian Juanjuan, who has been thin since childhood.

Late at night, the child began to cough incessantly, his face was flushed, and his body temperature reached 39 degrees Celsius at one test.8 The two were frightened and hurriedly sent their daughter to the children's ward of Suishi People's Hospital overnight. The doctor on night duty diagnosed acute pneumonia and was admitted to the pediatric ward on the fourth floor for infusion.

At dawn, the sky outside the window of the warm pediatric ward was still pitch black, and there was no light at all, and the winter nights were long! The northwest wind outside the window blew the glass window, and the two sat listlessly around the baby daughter lying on the hospital bed, and the daughter whose body temperature had dropped fell asleep peacefully. Juanjuan's mother, who was mentally tired, said to Tian Xiaoman with a tired face:

"Xiaoman, I'm on night duty today, my job there is a turnip and a pit, there can't be no one for a moment, the inspector is to follow the shift, no one is on duty for you." ”

"Well, I know, when I get to work, I'll go to the unit and say okay to Director Wang! Anyway, I'm not too busy with work there, unlike you who can't do without people on the front line. ”

Tian Xiaoman said helplessly. On the other hand, Tian Xiaoman knew what his wife meant, and there was an attendance record in the leave workshop. If you take 3 days off a month, the workshop will deduct all the bonuses of the month, although the bonus is only 5 yuan, but it will affect the year-end bonus. Therefore, no matter what happens to his parents' family and his father-in-law's family, Tian Xiaoman is always the one who asks for leave.

It was almost ten o'clock, Wang Qingquan was holding a big black notebook under his arm, and hurriedly walked from the conference room to room 312, just sat down and took a sip of tea from the teacup, and exhaled a long breath from his chest, feeling comfortable and about to open the file, Tian Xiaoman knocked on the door and walked into the office, before he could speak, Wang Qingquan looked at Tian Xiaoman, who was tired and listless, and said:

"Director Tian, your face hasn't looked good lately! Are you not feeling well? It's better to go to the hospital to have a look! Or are you too tired from work these days!"

"Director Wang is not, it is Juanjuan who had a high fever of 39 degrees 8 last night, coughing all the time, and her little face is red. In the middle of the night, he was sent to the emergency room of our hospital and the doctor let him be hospitalized, and the examination result was pneumonia again. Yesterday I tossed and turned all night and barely slept all night. Tian Xiaoman stood in front of the desk and said while snorting.

"Juanjuan, this kid's physique is too weak, his body is so thin, I remember that he has been hospitalized since he was a child!"

"No, I've been used to it since I was a child, and I don't eat this or that, I don't eat pork, I don't eat beef and mutton, I just eat some chicken and fish, and I have to peel off the skin when I eat. Tian Xiaoman continued Wang Qingquan's words.

"Then you should take a few days off to take good care of Juanjuan! I'm so distressed!"

Wang Qingquan looked at the tired Tian Xiaoman in front of him and said sympathetically.

"Oh, by the way, you can hand over the work you have to do in the next few days to Meizi!" Wang Qingquan reminded Tian Xiaoman.

"Well, Director Wang, before coming to you, I explained to Meizi, according to the temporary work arrangement in the past few days, I took out the documents that should be read in advance and handed them to Meizi to wait for your approval. In addition, I also told her about overtime, Meizi said that there was no problem, but the overtime time at night was not long in the past few days, and if it was too late, let Dr. Zhang pick it up. Today is Saturday, and I've already handed over the content of overtime in the evening to Meizi. Do you agree!" Tian Xiaoman confidently finished his arrangement in one breath and asked carefully.

The city has ushered in a long winter of six months, and it can be said that from mid-October to mid-April of the following year, the severe cold surrounds the city mercilessly. Less than 30 miles from the city, the majestic blue-gray green mountains are like screens that spread out into the clouds, but they have not been able to block the powerful cold snap from Siberia.

The obscenity of this cold current swept through every corner of Suishi wantonly, bringing a severe cold of more than minus 20 degrees, just one night is enough to make the glass windows of every family hang a thick layer of hoarfrost, this layer of snow-white frost will not damage it even in the middle of the winter sun.

In this white country, there are all kinds of strange flowers and plants and fairyland-like beautiful pictures that no one has ever seen, and even those who are art experts and those with rich imaginations are amazed and ashamed that it is the work of God.

The most spectacular is the heavy snow in Inner Mongolia in winter, the irregular pentagonal, coin-like goose feather snow is overwhelming, fluttering and swirling and falling quickly to the ground, gently kissing the faces of the people walking on the road, and burrowing into your warm neck without any scruples.

The ground that has been embroidered again and again with snow is like a huge cake with thick and fluffy snow, waiting for people to taste it at any time. This weaving and continuous snow not only covered the Yellow River Hetao Plain on the Loess Plateau of Inner Mongolia, but also covered the streets and alleys of Suishi, filling in the broken walls, ditches and ditches that are out of people's sight and ignored on weekdays.

The sun hanging high in the blue sky glows brightly, and if you don't stand in the corner, you can hardly feel the warmth of the sun. Snow, white snow, like a blanket covered the potholed ground, and covered all the dirt on the ground, the world of snow was so dazzling and quiet. The strong wind blew up the fine snow on the ground and rooftops, throwing them into the sky like scattered flowers, and carrying them across the road and the snowy field.

The offices of the directors of the material department on the 3rd floor of Building 1, the party committee, the trade union and other entrances have been brightly lit for almost a week, and the overtime work since the seventh day of the lunar month has basically come to an end. Only Director Wang Qingquan's office is still brightly lit after work. Although the temperature outside the window is more than minus 20 degrees, the temperature inside is as warm as spring.