It's raining, it's autumn rain. In the factory area, the willow trees on both sides of the road have been washed and painted, and they are stubbornly green in the air mixed with light clouds and mist and gray factories. Zhen Fengwei walked on the quiet factory road, and her mood seemed to have been brought into the gloomy and cold winter day by the autumn rain early.

When she first came out of the workshop, the humming of countless machine tools, like a flock of sparrows in the summer woods, formed two spaces with the silent weeping willow rain.

She took an umbrella, deliberately walked under the willow leaves, and even tried her best to scrape the hanging willow branches one by one, trying to make the willow branches shake. The dreary willow branches were falling and ticking a string of raindrops, and she thought that the willow branches were so listless.

She asked Master Guo for a leave of absence, saying that she would go to the education office again and hand in the registration photo. When entering the gate of the simple building of the Education Department, two young women rubbed the mud on the soles of their shoes at the door, and she shouted: "Li Meizhen! ”

The young woman who lowered her head and rubbed the soles of her shoes raised her head, and one of them, a medium-sized, female worker wearing a work cap said "Ah", seemed to be a little surprised, hesitated slightly, and shouted: "Zhen Fengwei!" ”

"Didn't you sign up?" Zhen Fengwei asked with a smile.

"I did." Li Meizhen pointed to the middle-high girl on the side, "I'll help her register." Zhen Fengwei has never seen that girl, at a glance, it is not too beautiful, but the first impression is these words, generous, dignified, elegant, an indescribable temperament from the inside out. Zhen Fengwei was secretly surprised. She couldn't help but have a good impression and laughed: "Hey, you're also from the kinetic energy workshop?" ”

"No, my middle school classmate Mei Xue," Li Meizhen smiled, "She's from the Heavy Machinery Factory, hehehe." ”

The girl named Mei Xue smiled generously: "Meizhen and I are middle school classmates and live together. ”

"Hey, I thought it was a kinetic energy workshop." Li Meizhen is in the power class of the technical school and is assigned to the kinetic energy workshop. "So, you're going to be on one of our machines too?" Zhen Fengwei was not curious, he worked in the heavy machine, but he did not take the adult college entrance examination and go to school in the heavy machine.

Li Meizhen spoke quickly, showing a full enthusiasm: "She could have taken the heavy machine test, but there was no journalism class at the Heavy Mechanical and Electrical University, and there was a journalism class at the First Machinery University, so she was in the first mechanical exam." ”

Even Zhen Fengwei was surprised that Li Meizhen was well-informed. Busy asking: "What about our factory and journalism major?" ”

"Yes, the Provincial Department of Education has opened several majors in several large units, such as enterprise management and law majors opened by heavy machinery, and business management and journalism majors opened by our factory. She likes liberal arts, and in high school, she was very good at liberal arts. If it weren't too biased, I would have been admitted to Normal University. Li Meizhen's accent is quite earthy, but when she speaks, she can make others unable to interject.

"Hi college entrance examination, we are all ......" Mei Xue's expression was very calm, not as frowning as Li Meizhen. She seemed to want to continue to say something, and she probably thought for a moment that they were all college entrance examination losers, and when the words came to her mouth, she smiled implicitly.

We went upstairs together to finish our errands, and then went downstairs together. When the three broke up, Zhen Fengwei was already familiar with Mei Xue. Zhen Fengwei has a good impression of Mei Xuete, who is not in the same factory. It was her instinct. She opened the folding umbrella and cared: "You just have an umbrella, take mine, I'm close, I'll go back in a few steps." She said that she would also stuff the umbrella to Mei Xue. Mei Xue pushed hard, and said embarrassedly: "No, no." When I took the bus from the heavy plane, it wasn't raining yet, but I didn't expect it to be over now. Don't do it, Meizhen and I will be at the station in a while, don't ...... Oops......"

Zhen Fengwei had already stuffed the umbrella into Mei Xue's arms, turned around and left: "I'm close, go back quickly." There's time to play! ”

Mei Xue stood in place and didn't know what to do: "Oh, look at you, thank you!" Let's all strive to get in, and we can see each other often in the future...... I'll bring the umbrella next time. ”

Zhen Fengwei covered his head with one hand like a small fan, and waved one hand behind his back: "Oops! An umbrella, come back, slow down! ”

Li Meizhen looked a little neglected on the side, hugged Mei Xue's waist, and said: "Alas, Zhen Fengwei is like this, he is enthusiastic about people, and he is very good." …… It is...... What's that?,I heard.,Just got bad with one of our male classmates.。 Hi, some say it's her problem, some say it's Xiong Erbo's problem——— both of them are very talented, her man's name is Xiong Erbo, and he is also a classmate of one age in our technical school. The man was not very tall, but he was very talented, singing, acting in dramas, conducting, and his eloquence could be said to be the most powerful one of us. Now I'm not in a machine, it seems that I was transferred as soon as I graduated, it seems to be some kind of pharmaceutical company......"

Li Meizhen sent Mei Xue to the factory gate, but Mei Xue kept listening and didn't speak. When I arrived at the gate, I hurriedly said, "Don't send it away, go back, thank you!" Umbrella, I'll bring it next time, please pass it on to your classmates. ”

Zhen Fengwei trotted back to the workshop, and as soon as he approached the lathe next to the factory, he heard Master Guo say tepidly: "I said, Xiao Zhen, it seems that your heart is not on the lathe." ”

Zhen Feng didn't go over cautiously, and hurriedly took the work hat from the cabinet on the side and put it on, and found that the master's face was not good-looking, so he snorted several times, not daring to speak easily, not knowing what was going on. Master Guo is a burly man with a square face, always bent over and staring at the spinning lathe. Zhen Fengwei didn't know that Master Guo had always been unsmiling, and his mind was all on the lathe. But today is a little different. When she went to the education office just now, she greeted Master Guo, and he didn't say anything. Now after a while, Master Guo is displeased, and it is cloudy.

She was uneasy. I thought to myself, I followed Master Guo to learn technology, and everyone said that I was lucky, because Master Guo was one of the few seventh-level lathes in the factory, and there were only a handful of eighth-level workers, and it was said that there were only two in the whole factory. Master Guo said that Zhen Fengwei's doll is quite clever, and she is a good lathe worker. However, just a few months ago, I started to run and run, and I was always uneasy, and my heart was not in the workshop. Until Zhen Fengwei made it clear to his master two days ago that he wanted to take the adult college entrance examination at the end of this year. Master Guo didn't show displeasure at first.

Zhen Fengwei stood beside Master Guo, glancing at the spinning knife on the lathe and the face of the master, like a newborn kitten, pitiful and pitiful. Master Guo remained silent until Master Chen from behind the toolbox came over, wiping a lump of gauze back and forth on his hand while saying, "Alas, Master Guo, it's about to get off work, right?" Do you want to do it for a while? ”

Master Guo didn't look back, and his eyes didn't take off the turning knife: "It's almost over." ”

"Master Guo, where was that in the factory just now?" Master Chen approached and continued to wipe the yarn.

"Hey, from the factory union." Master Guo did not stop what he was doing, he looked back at the ground, and there were already two stacks of moon-white round metal disks, like the hub of a wheel, and the smooth surface reflected the human figure.

"Are you going to be a technical referee again?" Master Chen asked, the veil was still rubbing on his mobile phone.

"Yes. I mean, I don't want to be a referee anymore, you know why? Master Guo twisted the bottom of the lathe, and the sound of the lathe's uniform rotation was weakened. When the rapidly rotating turning tool weakens to the point where the edges and corners of the turning tool gradually appear, the buzzing sound of the bee disappears as the wings are retracted.

"Why?" Master Chen's ball of cotton yarn didn't stop at all.

"Alas, just because of the future...... Nobody wants to do this anymore. Master Guo didn't look at Zhen Fengwei, he could guess Zhen Fengwei's embarrassed expression at this time.

"...... "Master Chen is a fitter, what can he say?" He could only say: "Of course it can't be compared with us back then, Xiao Zhen," Master Chen didn't know if it was to relieve Zhen Fengwei, or to shake off the glory of the past, "At that time, well, let's just talk about your master, Master Guo's work in the past few years has been done in the 21st century." What's the concept? Seeing that Zhen Feng's eyes didn't widen, Master Chen said, "You must have heard about your master's overfulfilled task for more than ten years?" ”

"Oh, forget it, Master Chen, don't talk about those old things. Not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning. Master Guo waved his hand.

"Oh, don't talk about this, people don't seem to pay much attention to working hours and quality. Hey, let's talk about quality," Master Chen took off his reading glasses, and still held the ball of cotton yarn in his other hand, "When your master was young, this was the technique," Master Chen raised his thumb and shook it back and forth, "Excellent, you can do three years of work a year." Master Guo wanted to interrupt him, "Alas, Xiao Zhen, I almost forgot, someone from the electrician team in front of me came and said that there was your phone number, and I would let you come back later." ”

But Master Chen didn't give up, and hurriedly continued: "He once drove a 3-meter-long and 8-millimeter-diameter smooth rod on a lathe, and even experts said it was amazing. ”

"My master?" Zhen Fengwei didn't seem to hear clearly, and asked in surprise.

"Hey, it's Master Guo, don't you know? If you don't know, go to our workshop trade union to ask the chairman of the trade union to see if what I said is true. If what I'm saying is half false, I'm this ......" Master Chen gestured with his fingers again, five fingers pointing down, like a small animal running.

"Really? Oh, I only know that Master Guo is an old model worker in the factory, but I really don't know this. "Zhen Fengwei is a smart person, she roughly guessed the reason from Master Guo's unhappy face just now to Master Chen's chatter. One must have been the union just now to ask Master Guo to be the referee of this year's technical competition, and in contrast, the technical school student in front of him, who had just come for less than a year, was on the phone for a while, and was going to take the adult college entrance examination for a while, and he was uncertain and absent-minded. Moreover, Master Guo had just talked to Master Chen about this.

Zhen Fengwei's little mouth was very sweet, his head turned quickly, and he immediately said: "Master Chen, I know, when I first came here, the workshop told me that among our classmates, I was lucky to be apprenticed with Master Guo, and others couldn't keep up if they wanted to." Really, when I went home and talked to my mom and dad, they were so happy. ”

"So what do you do? Do you still have to take the adult college entrance examination? "Master Chen's words are actually Master Guo's words.

Sure enough, judging from Master Chen's outspokenness, no problem, Master Guo must have chatted with Master Chen about being admitted to adult university for just half a year.

Zhen Fengwei was a little speechless for a while. At this time, Master Guo explained while wiping the table top and a few corners of the test lathe with cotton yarn: "No, I think that the trade union asked us to be the referee, and the workshop said that we should recommend the young people who participated in the lathe competition. Yes? Master Guo, who has always said little, was suddenly a little excited, like a hibernating animal, activated by Master Chen's words. Zhen Fengwei was really a sensitive girl, and immediately heard the master's words, and her cheeks flushed. She felt that her master's words were like thorns, and her face hurt.

Master Guo didn't look at his apprentice, and continued to say to Master Chen, "Did you say that? Master Chen, people asked me to recommend to participate in the competition of the lathe group, but my own apprentice can't get on the stage, why do you say I recommend it? Master Chen had already seen Zhen Fengwei's embarrassment. Hurriedly said: "Okay, the young man just knows the hard work of the masters." ”

However, Master Guo was like a big balloon that had been blown up, as if it would explode if it was not immediately dispersed, and he was still saying, "Tell me, Master Chen, what did we old guys say?" Today's young people, who have studied technical school for half a day and come out, either want to be transferred or take the examination, and then no one will come to do the work of these workers in the future. Everyone sits in the office, wow, no one does lathes, fitters, boring and milling, I see how this factory is still open! ”

Zhen Fengwei saw Master Guo inexplicably angry for the first time, a teacher who is usually very kind, how can he say that it will be blown up? It's all because I want to be admitted to an adult university, what's wrong with this, everyone has their own ambitions. Besides, just now I told Master Guo to go to the Education Department, and he didn't say anything against it. These masters are sometimes quite puzzling. Her aggrieved appearance was seen by Master Chen, Master Chen said: "Okay, okay, Master Guo's meaning is also for you young people, at the same time," Master Chen's voice suddenly lowered, mysterious, "Xiao Zhen, have you heard, our workshop is about to be changed to a shearer workshop, and it is said that it is directly called a shearer branch, at that time, hey, that's too good, the most important product of the whole factory, is in our workshop, do you say it's hard?" As he was talking, someone hurriedly came over and said, "Xiao Zhen, your phone." ”

Xiao Zhen looked at Master Guo hesitantly, Master Guo waved his hand, and Master Chen said, "Go quickly, it's almost time to get off work." Hey, just talking about you, my apprentices are the same——— well, don't choke ...... in the middle of winter"

Zhen Feng didn't answer Xu Li's call. Zhen Fengwei just fed it, and Xu Li immediately said on the phone: "Xiao Zhen, don't go back at noon, I'll give you food in the cafeteria, and say something by the way." ”