When the lilacs are in full bloom, chapter 1 preface
sequence
Author / Gossip
This is a true story that happened in the 80s of the last century.
The protagonist of the story, Li Dongmei (pseudonym), is a colleague of the author of this article. She once worked in an office for a period of time, and then she was transferred to another branch due to the adjustment of the unit. In the future, I have never been able to see Li Dongmei's cheerful smile and crisp singing voice when performing the show. Nearly 30 years have passed, and whenever I recall that short and unforgettable time, I can't help but feel surging, there will always be a group of young people in their early 30s, who are responsible for the introduction of national key projects, facing simple office equipment, various technical problems, overcoming all kinds of unexpected difficulties, their enthusiasm for work, and their vision of future life inspire everyone's youthful vitality and creativity. What is unforgettable is that Li Dongmei stepped into the office of the translation team and stood in front of Shangguan Lingfeng's desk, her charming face, the elegant charm of a woman in her early 30s, often flashed in her mind.
Shangguan Lingfeng deeply remembered that when Director Zhao of the Civilian Products Office of the Institute stepped into the spacious office of the Foreign Language Group with the sound of chirping birds outside the corridor window, a lady wearing a black dress came in closely. Director Zhao smiled and said in the weakened Tianjin dialect: "Shangguan, this time I sent you a good helper who knows foreign languages, don't you always say that there are many foreign language materials, and there are not enough people!" Shangguan Lingfeng glanced at Li Dongmei, who had a pair of "hairy" eyes under her neatly trimmed willow eyebrows, with a big wavy hair. When Director Zhao was introducing each other, Shangguan stood up and smiled and said, "Welcome, welcome!", he saw Li Dongmei's unusually bright eyes staring at him, and then stretched out her chubby, white hand to hold Shangguan Lingfeng's outstretched hand: "It's a pleasure to see you, please help me more in the future!" Li Dongmei flashed her long eyelashes and looked at Shangguan Lingfeng's long eyelashes with a smile, which was really tempting, as well as her surprisingly wide buttocks and high breasts that were impressive when she saw her.
In his later work, Shangguan found that Li Dongmei's foreign language skills were indeed not flattering, and the translations often deviated from the topic, which affected the quality of the translation and the progress of the work. After communicating with Director Zhao at the weekly team work meeting, I learned that Li Dongmei was sent to the institute by the leaders above. After consideration, Director Zhao decided that Li Dongmei would go to Shangguan Lingfeng's translation team.
In the Mid-Autumn Festival, Suishi on the north bank of the Yellow River is full of fruits that exude a strong fragrance and sweetness, and the locals call it "Hua Lanshi". It can be said that as soon as autumn begins, Suishi, the largest heavy industry city in Northwest China, is immersed in this strong aroma of fruits. The local people have been following the oldest way of buying and storing, every household uses large and small sacks to carry the yellow, orange and orange "Hua Lanshi" melons with a faint fragrance home, and put them under the bed and in the warehouse to store them for a winter! No matter whose home you walk into, you will be greeted by a room full of the unique aroma of "Hua Lanshi".
The clear blue sky is as deep as the sea, and the sky is characterized by the clear skies of the plateau in autumn, when there are few clouds, and if they do, they are immediately blown away by the wind blowing from the gray-green mountains in the north. With such an intoxicating blue sky overhead, it is inevitable that anyone will have the idea of jumping into this blue ocean to bathe and swim. Echoing with the majestic Daqing Mountains is the Yellow River, which is as old as the Chinese civilization, bathed in the warm autumn sun, the wide river surface, the Yellow River water that is rushing rapidly and whirling down, and it is constantly flowing eastward with a huge sound of "whoosh, whoa, whoosh".
The sun is nearly noon on the cold and damp loess bank embankment on the bank of the Yellow River warms up, stepping on the soft sand under your feet, looking at the water of the Yellow River mixed with a large amount of muddy sand, rolling eastward, looking at the sky, as if the water of the Yellow River is flowing to the sky in the distanceγγγγγ Suddenly, a plump woman in black clothes and trousers staggered and staggered, one foot deep and one shallow, and came to the damp and cracked bank of the Yellow River, looking like a drunk drunk. As she walked, she kept combing her hair that was hanging low and blocked her vision, and from time to time she wiped her cheeks with the back of her hand, as if wiping the tears that flowed, and staggered closer to the Yellow Riverγγγγγγ
At this moment, a tall man, dressed in a faded dark blue tunic, with a pen pinned to his left jacket pocket, the arrow pin of the cap of the pen glittered in the sun, and the man with his hair in the middle of the hair flew down the embankment of the Yellow River with one bare foot, and rushed over several potholed beaches to the woman in black tights, and her leather shoes were thrown far away on the river beach, and when the woman was about to step into the Yellow River, he pulled her in his arms and shouted at the woman in his arms: Meizi, what are you really doingWith the voice, the two of them collapsed heavily at the same time and fell on the bank of the Yellow River.
I don't know where it flowed down, a thin white reed root was constantly pushed to the shore by the turbid Yellow River water, pushed to the place where they fell, turned a few times and then rushed quickly towards the Yellow River Bridge along the current, as if indifferent to the scene that had just happened, the head of the white reed root kept floating up and down in the turbid Yellow River water, as if helplessly shaking his head frequently for the tragic and heroic things that happened to save people. The man with the middle hair and the woman in his arms suddenly hugged each other tightly and wailed loudly, and the woman screamed and flew to the river and into the blue sky with a heart-rending howlγγγγγ
One
Standing on the north bank of the Yellow River, the majestic Daqing Mountain resembles a lion squatting there sitting in the north and facing south, proudly looking at the Yellow River that winds and turns eastward under its feet and Suishi, an important industrial town in the northwest of the country. At this moment, the fertile Tumut River Plain has entered the most glorious season of the year - autumn. The solar terms of summer and autumn on the Loess Plateau are not as obvious as those in the mainland, even in the hot summer, the temperature difference between morning and evening is still very large, and the climate is very cool, just like the early autumn solar terms in the mainland. So when the seasons sneak up on you, you may not be aware of it.
On the wide square in front of the state-owned Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Factory, broad-leaved poplars planted around four rectangular lawns sway back and forth in the autumn wind. Shaded by the trees, the oval-shaped fountain in the shape of a lotus-shaped deep purple marble shoots a series of sparkling jets of water into the cloudless sky, forming a beautiful rainbow of seven colors in the sunlight. Directly north of the fountain is a small building made of red bricks in the style of the Soviet style, and in the middle hangs a large banner with yellow characters and a red background with a length of 15 meters, on which are pasted with the words "Dou Da": Warmly welcome the leaders of the department to come to inspect and guide! The colorful flags planted around the grassland flutter in the wind and make the sound of hunting, and this strong atmosphere highlights the majestic posture of several office buildings of the Inner Mongolia State-owned Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory.
The festive office building was built in 1956 and is built entirely in the style of Soviet-style red brick high-roofed buildings. It can be said that two of the Red Mansions are the management, command and coordination centers of this factory, which has tens of thousands of workers and technicians and an annual output value of several hundred million. Building 1 is the place where the directors of Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory concentrate their offices, as well as the material department, the finance office, the post office and other units. Building 2 is the office unit of the Party Committee, Technical Department and Factory Trade Union of Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing General Factory. More than half a century has passed, and despite the ups and downs, the vicissitudes of personnel and politics have gone through tremendous changes, but the two red brick buildings are still magnificent unscathed, and they sit relatively majestically, staring at the people coming and going in this huge factory.
The tall glass windows of Room 312 of the Materials Department on the 3rd floor of Building 1 are wide open, and behind the large desk of the director sits Wang Qingquan, the deputy director in charge of the procurement and sales of the Materials Department. He changed his usual gentle and elegant gentlemanly style, held the direct telephone in the factory with one hand, and subconsciously turned his head into the phone with the other hand, and asked the director of the Houshan Treasury of the Materials Department Guan Yongshan for help in a high-pitched tone, so as to temporarily solve the temporary shortage of personnel in the department, and more importantly, to cope with the inspection of the superior leaders.
The material department has jurisdiction over more than 10 branches and warehouses scattered throughout the state-owned Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory, with nearly 200 warehouse personnel. So why did Wang Qingquan ask Director Guan of the Houshan Treasury for someone alone! Guan Yongshan of the Houshan Treasury was very clear about Director Wang's intentions.
First, they are old superiors and subordinates, and they know each other's personalities and work styles very well.
Second, Wang Qingquan often went to the warehouse of the material department he was in charge of to inspect the work, and he had a clear understanding of the personnel situation in the warehouse, especially the warehouse in the back mountain. After each inspection, when Wang Qingquan and Guan Yongshan exchanged inspection results and problems found, he talked about the work performance of a person - Li Dongmei many times, and praised her for her meticulous and organized work, and answered questions quickly, and Li Dongmei is now studying enterprise management at the secondary school of Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory, and is facing graduation assignment.
Every year, the material department is at the peak of personnel going out in autumn, and it is naturally a time of shortage of personnel. At this time, people with conditions naturally want to visit the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland in the name of a business trip in a grand manner, and unconditionally want to create conditions and find out all kinds of reasons for business trips. They are all relatives and relationships of old comrades, old faces, old connections, and old superiors, and face is important! In desperation, I had no choice but to drop the word "agree" with a big stroke of the pen.
If it was in the past, it would have dealt with this lack of manpower in the golden autumn, but now it is just in time for the superior leaders to inspect the factory, according to the past experience, the material department is the place where the leaders visited. This time, I may have to go to the materials department to check, not to mention that it is even more stretched when there is one less person in the staff. Because it is necessary to sort out a large number of documents submitted by various units of the department, complete the collection, filling, sorting and archiving of the QPE quality report this month, and check whether there are any missing items in the previous archived materials, these tasks require irritating work that can only be completed by responsible people.
Houku is the name that people are used to, and I don't know if the leader called it casually. In fact, there are still ten miles and eight miles away from the majestic Daqing Mountain. The rear warehouse is a distribution center for the supply of materials for more than 10 departments and branches of Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory. The huge dome-shaped warehouse is arranged from east to west for 5 or 600 meters, and there are often trains from the transportation department to send the purchased parts and components to the back warehouse, and its system is a section-level organization unit under the material department. In order to cope with the inspection of the leaders of the department, the leaders of the general factory and the leaders of the department, the director Guan Yongshan has not rested for several nights, and he can be seen in the office and in the warehouse commanding a group of people, and he is busy sorting out the current year, last month, this month and even a few months ago in and out of the warehouse, various picking vouchers, account books and various records of warehouse QPE quality management.
Li Dongmei, the warehouse manager, is busy checking whether the specifications and quantities of the hundreds of parts, parts and labels on the shelves of warehouse C in her charge are accurate, and whether the number of parts out of the warehouse has been registered. She holds a large string of warehouse keys in her left hand, a pen and an inspection record book in her right hand, a dark blue coat with various labels bulging in her pocket, and the fat coat does not cover her 1.63 meters plump waist, and her big wavy hair highlights her pair of watery smiling eyes, and the older women call these eyes behind their backs: "hairy eyes", and discuss: All women with such eyes have a cheerful personality, are not willing to live a dull life, and like passion and romance.......
On weekdays, as long as it is leisure, everyone chats in groups in the large lounge outside Director Guan's office, and Meizi is always the center of the bustle. As long as Umeko is present, the atmosphere is lively, and the laughter like silver bells and the occasional crisp singing voice are always echoed by colleagues, and people affectionately call her "Umeko". Because Meizi has a pair of round and slender thighs, her buttocks are not only plump, but also much wider than the buttocks of ordinary women, so it often attracts the peep of men's eyes.
"Knock, knock, knock" Li Dongmei knocked lightly three times on the door of the director's office as usual.
"Come in" came from the room, Guan Yongshan's thick and gentle Shanxi accent.
"Ah, here you are! Meizi sat down and said, yes, I just received a call from Director Wang, asking us to send someone to the factory to help, it's a coincidence, you see this month is the bureau to check, and it's the end of the month (Shanxi's colloquialism), the quarterly summary can't be helped, and it's also busy here. Well, I still think it's appropriate for you to go, don't you know Director Wang. Director Guan deliberately paused in his words, and a pair of small gray eyes swept over the plum in the blue coat, and said helplessly. Then, with his left hand, he brushed his dry, dull hair, and with his right hand, he pinched the smoking homemade cigarette, and the strong smell of smoke enveloped the entire office. The cigarette was an untreated green, locally known as the "Little Orchid" tobacco leaf, and the finely chopped tobacco leaves were scattered on the desk top. Li Dongmei almost held her breath, and a feeling of suffocation made her mind swell and almost faint.
"How long will it take, people are doing parts statistics and accounting!" Meizi's expression was a little difficult.
"Well, uh, it's estimated that it will be half a month at most!" Director Guan said hesitantly.
"Okay, what time is it going?" asked Umeko again. Then he lowered his head and said, "It's not enough for them to have so many people, so they came to us to ask for someone!"
"Let's go tomorrow" This time, Director Guan did not hesitate. Li Dongmei turned around and was about to leave after hearing this, when Director Guan suddenly remembered something: "Oh, by the way, Meizi, don't forget to go to Director Wang to say it first!"
Two
When a lilac was in full bloom, Wang Qingquan, as a graduate of a prestigious university, and his companions came to the state-owned Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory for an internship. In the street gardens on both sides of the wide road in front of the factory, he saw clusters of white lilacs blooming on rows of lilac trees more than one person high, and the fragrance of the flowers filled the air and penetrated the hearts of everyone who passed by. The peculiar aroma of cloves stirred at his every nerve, and he almost frantically smelled the fragrance that was different from other floral scents, and reveled in it.
Wang Qingquan's soft spot for lilacs is still influenced by his mother, in those bright days of spring in childhood, his mother often took him and his sister to the nearby park to step on the spring, in front of the fragrant lilac tree Wang Qingquan will stop for a long time, it is his mother who told him: every year in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the seven cowherds will carry a pair of burdens on their shoulders, and there are two children of the seven fairies in the baskets at both ends of the flat shoulders, and they will meet the seven fairies on the magpie bridge built by the Milky Way magpies. When the Seven Fairies and the Cowherd embraced each other, tears flowed like a fountain, and the crystal tears scattered into the world and turned into lilacs with a unique fragrance. Although the story is short, it has set off a lot of waves in his heart, he sympathizes with the poor Seven Fairies, and at the same time hates her mother, the Queen Mother, who ruthlessly blocked the pure love between the Seven Fairies and Dong Yong. Although the lilacs are small, not as showy as peonies and roses, the lilacs have a white texture, and the petals are small and the aura is on top of the flowers. The fragrance is strong and the other flowers are not bad, and you should be as low-key as the lilacs, and do things in a down-to-earth manner.
Wang Qingquan is not smelling the fragrance of lilacs or admiring the unique lilacs, but secretly accepting the aura of lilacs. Practice has proved that this inexplicable aura allows him to achieve good results in every exam, and he believes that lilacs are his lucky flowers, and he is convinced of this.
When he came to the Loess Plateau at an altitude of more than 1,200 meters, he suffered from the disease of not adapting to the water and soil, his mouth was dry, his lips were chapped and bleeding, and he felt thirsty no matter how much water he drank. At the age of 21 or 22, he was not only attracted by the blue sky of the plateau, even bluer than the sea, but also the novel, local native language expression, and this kind of phonetic and linguistic way that resembles the ups and downs of musical notes is not a typical local characteristic among the ethnic groups in the northwest with national customs in the language and culture of the Han nationality in China!
Whether it's a group conversation or a one-on-one conversation, the softness of the tone reaches the limit, and even the tone of the spoken language of both parties during the quarrel is good. The questions in the dialogue, the imperatives, and the interrogative sentences at the end of the voice are all high, four-tone tones, which make you feel weird and funny. Especially when the young woman spoke the local dialect, her voice was like a pearl falling on a jade plate, and the sound quality was crisp and fascinating. Taste it carefully, like a stream of meandering babbling water, and like a folk music accompanied by percussion. And the flow and speed of the woman in her 40s is as fast as the splash of a water gun, which dazzles you to hear.
With the end of the internship period, Wang Qingquan's young heart has been established, and after graduation, he will work in this largest military industrial unit in the country and even in Asia. No matter how difficult the local life and living conditions are, it cannot change his determination. Wang Qingquan is like an eagle about to spread its wings and fly, not afraid of any hardships and hardships in the future, adding a colorful picture to the blueprint of his dreams.
During this period, there were serious ideological differences between the leaders of China and the Soviet Union, and the CCP issued a criticism of Khrushchev's revisionist line. Socialist China under the leadership of the Party is facing severe tests and challenges both internationally and within the socialist camp.
Under pressure from all sides, the state began to vigorously build a third-line defense industry, and many military enterprises in cities were relocated to Shanxi, Shaanxi's big mountain valleys, and the desert areas of western Inner Mongolia. Wang Qingquan, who was about to graduate, was naturally involved in the tide of supporting the construction of the third line of the frontier. Full of ambition to serve the country, he accepted: As a promising young man, he resolutely responded to the state's call to support the construction of the third line, gave up the job of staying in school, and resolutely submitted an application to obey the organization's assignment and arrangement and work in the motherland's third-line military factory. He solemnly wrote in the column of filling in the volunteer: state-owned Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory.
The father, who was born in the military, was very supportive of his son's decision, and he often taught his son that the needs of the country are your choice, and a good man should resolutely obey the needs of the motherland, just like a soldier on the battlefield, and resolutely obey the party's command. His father's lifelong dedication to the party's cause and his incomparable loyalty to the party undoubtedly infected Wang Qingquan, who was immature in his youth. It's just that the mother watched her son silently, tears rolling in her eyes, she had worked hard for her son for most of her life. Late at night, he accompanied his son to review his homework under the lamp, took care of his son's life meticulously, and was willing to give everything for his son. The great mother's love permeates the blood of her son, and it can be said that Wang Qingquan has been bathed in a happy childhood since he came to the world, wandering in the kind eyes of his mother.
Without hesitation, Wang Qingquan put on the simple bag that his mother had prepared for him, bid farewell to his elderly parents, hugged his sister and girlfriend Ruan Xiaohong, who had been accompanying and taking care of him, and came to Suishi, which was still desolate at that time. After many years, he never regretted his choice, and even thought that his original choice could be compared with Ban Gu, who was in the Han Dynasty.
At that time, as long as the wind was blowing in Suishi, it was full of yellow sand, and the high green mountains in the north could not block the strong monsoon winds from Siberia in spring and autumn. The local people jokingly told Wang Qingquan that there is only one strong wind in Suishi once a year, hehe, from the beginning of spring to winter. The northwest wind whistling over the Daqing Mountains blew the fine sand streams on the ground like snakes diagonally across the asphalt road, and sand and white plastic bags ran all over the streets with the wind. The yellow sand surrounds everyone, as well as this new heavy industrial city. Wang Qingquan went to Inner Mongolia Qingshan Machinery Manufacturing Factory and became a boring machine processor in the equipment department.
It should be noted here that Wang Qingquan was a member of the organizing committee of the student union during his time at the school, and he was also an active participant in student activities. Under his initiative, he has held many special lectures and cultural and sports activities of student associations. Not only did he show his eloquence to the students and teachers who came to the University of Engineering and Technology to participate in the sorority, but he also showed off his bright singing voice and dancing talent in front of the beauties, which may have inherited the genes of his mother who worked in the art troupe. The most prominent thing is that Wang Qingquan's 1.80-meter-tall dance at the dance won the admiration of the beauties. His girlfriend, now his wife, Ruan Xiaohong, met at a dance.
One of the signs that best reflects Wang Qingquan's personality is his thin and thick black split head to the left. Why did Wang Qingquan keep his head on the left side of the side? There is another little secret that no one knows.
It all started with his father. Wang Qingquan's father was a regimental rank when he retired, and he participated in the Pingjin Campaign and the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to defend the country, and he was wounded many times, and his right leg that has been baptized by artillery fire has left a few pieces of shrapnel masterpieces.
In the bookcase in Dad's study, piles of old documents and newspapers were piled up on the wooden bookcase in the corner. At the age of twelve or thirteen, when his father went out to visit his comrades-in-arms' house, he secretly carried his mother to his father's study to look through the pile of "treasures" that he had been thinking about for a long time. The newspaper was turned over by him like a song. Suddenly, a shabby, yellowed photograph of a soldier resembling a great man appeared in front of him. Although the photos in the newspaper have turned yellow and blurred, you can still clearly see a pair of piercing eyes on the white face against the background of the mighty military uniform, and those sword-like eyes seem to tell you: I am the mainstay and conqueror of the future China. The broad forehead is combed with the left side of the parted hair. That arrogant gentlemanly smell infected him, and he preferred his silky and shiny hair. Since then, Wang Qingquan has combed his one-sided split hair.
After more than ten years of training at the grassroots level, Wang Qingquan's influence on workshop leaders, workers and even department leaders has become more and more influential. Especially in terms of technology, he has completely mastered the machining process of a variety of machine tools in the workshop, and has made remarkable improvements to the machining technology that affects the next processing program. For example, after solving the overhaul of imported German precision cylindrical grinding machine tools that have existed for many years, the grinding accuracy is always unable to improve, which directly affects the quality of military products. The workshop has formed a research team with the participation of leaders for many times, and even a leading group composed of leaders and engineers of the general plant has failed to overcome this headache that has existed for many years.
It is mainly fixed on the broach head with a narrow smoothness like a mirror-like blade cutting edge with a very slight water splash that directly affects the accuracy of the gun chamber. Wang Qingquan worked with the grinder's workers, tool inspectors and experienced section leaders. From machining to heat treatment, one process by one process was inspected and discussed, and finally found that in the process of overhaul of the machine tool, the mechanic master scraped and studied the concentricity of the front and rear bearings of the machine tool headstock with an error of three thousandths, and the maximum clearance was three thousandths and a half. After using the ductile iron rod grinding method recommended by Wang Qingquan instead of the old scraping method, the concentricity accuracy of the grinding machine is increased to 2 thousandths, and the maximum error is not more than 2 thousandths or even 1.5 thousandths. In this way, it not only eliminates the hidden corrugation on the broach cutting edge, but also improves the ergonomics and grinding accuracy of the machine tool, and the product meets the factory accuracy requirements, which solves the old and difficult problem that the equipment department has been difficult to solve for many years. This has attracted considerable attention from the equipment department and the factory leaders. This achievement was quickly reported to the factory leaders by the leaders of the equipment department, and Wang Yuquan won the technological innovation award issued by the factory.