It was a county in the southwest of Shandong Province, rather than a small township, with almost no tall buildings to be seen except for the two two-story buildings in the county government. The streets of the city are narrow, some are still dirt pit roads, the sunny day is the ash, the rainy day is the cement, every lunar calendar is the first and sixth day, the people who rush to the market are crowded to the water, but usually it is so desolate and depressed. Due to the dense population of a village in Sanlidi, there are only two car roads in the traffic and the outside world, which are almost isolated from the outside world, and the people here seem to live in another world, living in extreme poverty.

Huazhuang is a village on the edge of the city, there are only more than 100 more than 600 people, the south is Xiaozhuang, the north is Liuwa, the three Zhuang houses are connected along the side as a whole, most of the families live in the broken earth houses left by several lifetimes. In the cold winter, the sun is only a few degrees below zero during the day, and most of the people bask in the sun outside the house, but the house is black and hollow, only the door is open, and the dark green wheat seedlings outside the village are sleeping and wintering. Because there is no electricity, people light oil lamps at night, and the house is as cold as an ice cellar and can't sleep all night.

Dapeng walked down the street with glasses, and people looked at him like a monster, as if they had taken him as a spy from somewhere, or an uninvited guest from an alien planet, staring at him in astonishment and confusion.

At first, Hua Ying settled down in a relative's house in the "courtyard" for a few days, and later her father-in-law borrowed a new brick house in the west of the house, with five large rooms and a large courtyard, which is said to be a new house that no one has ever lived in. Although it was borrowed, the Dapeng family of six people was finally reunited. During the Spring Festival, Dapeng bought a pig's head and gave it to the four generations, that is, for free to the heart, liver and lungs, water (intestines), and pig's trotters are also full of abundance.

After the Spring Festival, Dapeng bought steel plates, iron pens, wax paper and white printing paper for engraving in the county store. First, he engraved four pages of the complaint, borrowed a mimeograph machine from the primary school to print it, and delivered the letter in seven copies to the post office. In Beijing, only one and a half stamps were used for printing, and he saw that the mailbox read "Pay attention to anti-special affairs," and he used an eight-cent stamp, and the seven letters of accusation were all addressed to the central leaders.

Half a month after the letter was sent, a loudspeaker (nickname) in the front yard came in and shouted: "Lao Zhang! The central government has sent you seven documents!" According to her, all the documents were in Daling's house, and it was her brother-in-law who was also a cadre of the brigade. Dapeng went to Daling's house to ask for seven letters, and not only did the envelope be stamped with the words "overweight returned," but the cadres of the brigade tore up four more letters, and Dapeng took the tape recorder to find the secretary of the brigade, and when he entered the door, he threw the letter on the table and said: "Who opened my four letters? ”

Secretary Dabin said: "Because I don't know your surname is Zhang, I opened it." ”

Dapeng said: "Shouldn't the four letters be opened and the letter to the party Central Committee leaders invisible? This is a military secret." ”

The secretary said, "Don't worry, we will never say anything to the outside world." ”

Dapeng had no choice but to go home, and went to the post office again to paste double eight-cent stamps to send the letter, but the letter was like a stone sinking into the sea and was never heard from again. At present, it is good, that is, it is not the "real and false educated youth" that has completely fallen into the extremely backward small rural areas, but why is this the case? Is it the result of the intellectuals' return to the city? Or is it the result of designing and manufacturing those machines? Is it not right that the procuratorate is held? No matter which issue it is, it is not forced to go down the road of suing foreign journalists through money and bribery? Is it wrong to accuse foreign journalists? This visit to the rural areas of Shandong is regarded as the second time that the educated youths have gone to the countryside, but they have become fake educated youths for 29 years.

Although the two children go to school in the village primary school, their father-in-law is very concerned about life, even if they buy a dime of soy sauce, they have to take half of each. In order to make money, Dapeng and Shi Jun in the courtyard went to various brick factories to find jobs. On this day, they came to the office of the brick factory in Chengbei Village, where a white-haired mechanic was using a sledgehammer to install bearings, which had already broken three of them.

Dapeng said: "Don't smash it, you have to smash it as much as you want." Several factory directors came around and asked the white-haired mechanic: "How to install it?... How to install ?... Can you help put it on?"

Dapeng asked them to find diesel, rags and gloves, put the big bearing up with two bricks, the rag dipped in oil and ignited it under the bearing to bake the inner ring, only a little more than a minute to remove the cloth fire, with gloves to hug the bearing easily pushed into the shaft block, although this is a violation of the operating rules "red suit", but after all, it is better than smashing the three expensive big bearings with a sledgehammer.

When he was at the Qiqihar Aviation School, Chief of Staff Li Yunlong once drove with Dapeng to visit the newly built airport made of waste bricks and concrete, and it was also for the purpose of taking incriminating evidence, and when he came back, he came to the repair shop. That was because when the Jian-7 plane was flying in Datushan, Jilin Province, the command asked for the altitude, and the pilot misreported 3,000 meters and commanded the descent altitude, that is, because the actual 300 meters caused the head of the plane to plunge into the farmland, although the pilot was safe and sound, and the engine failed.

Dapeng suggested in front of Gu Junshan that if you want to load and unload the main bearing of the engine, you must use heated diesel engine oil, because this is a tight fit of excessive cold shrinkage and heat expansion. Gu Junshan let Dapeng complete the assembly of the main bearing of the engine with the process, for which it has also won wide praise from Gu Junshan and Zhang Yuchun.

In Dongcheng County, most of the brick factories are so backward in the production of hand buckle blanks, especially the old man in his sixties actually used a sledgehammer to install bearings, and the big bearing has been damaged for seventy or eighty yuan. For this reason, Dapeng only has to assemble it on the spot, bake the inner ring directly with the soil method, and easily install the bearing on the bearing table with gloves.

The seven factory directors were dumbfounded, and finally asked Dapeng to take 1,000 yuan to join the company, but Dapeng could not participate if he had no money. The factory director gave him the highest salary of 120 yuan per month, and Dapeng did not work with little spare money, and asked for a monthly salary of 400 yuan, also because the old technician was present Dapeng left. In the afternoon, the two factory directors each carried a bag of white flour to Dapeng's house, and maintained the brick machine with a monthly salary of 300 yuan or a verbal agreement. Because the mechanical drawbacks of the motor start directly must be improved, and the foundation needs to be laid for the processing of dead and live wheels, Dapeng promised to improve the equipment and officially start up half a month later.

The cadres of the brigades of Hua and Xiao villages approached Dapeng to accuse the three factories in the south of illegally occupying 124 land, and Dapeng said: "Do you want to touch your black gauze hat?"

The secretary asked, "What do you mean by that?"

Dapeng said: "These three factories are under the leadership of the county party committee, and if you dare to sue the central government, I can write about it." ”

The cadres said: "You can write boldly, Xiao Zhuang is responsible for your family's life, and Huazhuang will solve your residence." ”

Dapeng drove a brick machine in the brick factory and wrote materials, but those cadres of the brigade received 70,000 yuan from the factory but did not tell him, is this for the fundamental interests of the villagers? The brick factory not only produced bricks but also sold 400,000 yuan of red bricks, and deposited 20,000 yuan of the brick sales money in the bank and did not pay the workers. Seven factory directors took shifts every day to give gifts and said, "If you are given 300 yuan in advance every month, why do you still care about the wages of workers?"

Dapeng said: "It's all the villagers who work for you, why don't you pay for the bricks sold?"

The factory director said: "If you don't cheat people, you won't make money, and you won't have a lot of money, and every time you come to the guest you will be allowed to sit down." ”

Dapeng said: "Okay, I have a stomach ache and a disease, as long as I don't pay the workers, my illness will not be cured, you can go." ”

Why did the brick factory cheat money? Isn't it wrong for Dapeng to sacrifice his monthly salary of 300 yuan in order to protect the workers? The workers were grateful to Dapeng, and they surrounded the brick factory office for three days without solving the problem, and they all left for their own land. Since then, the brick factory machine brick-making machine has closed down, which is also the consequence of harming others and themselves.

It is true that the brick factory pays Dapeng a salary of 300 yuan less than a day, which is higher than the salary of the secretary of the county and municipal party committees, and whether the workers can open the capital or not has nothing to do with Dapeng, and why should there be a black brick factory with pit people? Not only should the workers be paid in a timely manner, and those who do a good job should also be given bonuses, but they should also be sympathetic to the workers' hard work and appropriately increase their treatment.

Why don't you ask God for money? Why don't you ask for money from nature? Why don't you cheat money out of the workers who are working? If you don't pay for the first month, it's just that, and if you don't pay wages for two months, then there is a problem, and Dapeng can't be selfish and ignore the workers, make a wage schedule for the workers and hand it over to the factory, and decide that as long as the workers are not paid, stop working.

Beicheng brick factory invested 6,000 yuan for mechanical brick making, plus a total investment of 10,000 yuan in tomato, carts, etc., even if the income of 20,000 yuan is equivalent to no profit, this is the final result of the pit people.

See Chapter 108: Reflections on the Contented Man Not Being Satisfied.