After more than ten years of hard study, in the end he got nothing, Fang Hanmin didn't seem so depressed, it was a big deal to go back to his hometown to farm, just to share the burden of the family for his parents, but his mother and sister were not reconciled, and strongly advocated that Fang Hanmin repeat his studies and prepare for the next year.

Fang Hanmin is grateful for the kindness of his family, but he cannot turn a blind eye to the poor family situation, and he is noncommittal about the suggestion to repeat the study.

One morning in mid-August, Fang Hanmin and a group of villagers went to the county seat to sell vegetables, and at a farmer's market, he accidentally met Liu Gong, who had met at the reservoir construction site headquarters during the winter vacation, and the two couldn't help but inquire about each other.

"Xiao Fang, I think you are very smart, if you weren't injured at the reservoir construction site and delayed your review, you would definitely be admitted to a good university, don't you want to go back to school and repeat your studies and prepare for the exam next year?"

Thinking of his poor family background, Fang Hanmin smiled bitterly, "I don't plan to repeat my studies, I just want to go home and farm." ”

Lao Liu said very regretfully: "People like you go back to the countryside to farm, it's like burying talents!" ”

"What talent? I'm just a loser, what else can I do if I don't go home to farm? Speaking of which, Fang Hanmin's mood was not high.

"It's not that farming is bad, it's just that I think it's a bit overkill for you to go back to the village to be a farmer."

"Liu Gong, what do you think I am suitable for?" Fang Hanmin looked cynical.

It was originally a half-joking sentence, but it made Lao Liu take it seriously, "Let me think about it and tell me your mailing address." ”

Lao Liu is really a kind person! Through the contact with the reservoir construction site during that time, Fang Hanmin left a deep impression on him, and he felt that he should help this young man.

Although Lao Liu is very enthusiastic, he is only a technical cadre of the county water conservancy bureau, he has no post and no power, and the water conservancy bureau is an organ and institution within the establishment, so it is impossible for him to help Fang Hanmin in his unit and system, but he still emphasized in his letter to Fang Hanmin, "You have to come to the city, and if you stay in the countryside, you will be abolished!" ”

"The point is, what can I do when I go to the city?" Fang Hanmin was very calm, although he thanked Lao Liu for his concern for him, he couldn't have no purpose.

After thinking about it, Lao Liu thought of his brother-in-law who was the head of the personnel section of the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, and after explaining the situation, his brother-in-law promised to let Fang Hanmin go to the pharmaceutical factory as a temporary worker.

Because he didn't know if Fang Hanmin was interested in being a temporary worker, Lao Liu only said in the second letter that he had something to interview him, but did not specify the specific situation. After receiving the second letter, Fang Hanmin decided to go to the county seat to meet Lao Liu.

At the reservoir construction site, Fang Hanmin has always called Lao Liu Liu Gong, but Lao Liu is also in his forties, only a few years younger than Fang Hanmin's father, but more than ten years older than Fang Hanmin, after meeting, Lao Liu's warm words made Fang Hanmin very grateful, in order to get closer to him, Fang Hanmin even changed his title, "Uncle Liu, the city is full of people with units, what can I do when I enter the city?" ”

"I asked someone to help you find a temporary worker position in the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, are you willing to be a temporary worker? In the production line, it may be harder, although the salary is worse than that of regular employees, but there are more than 20 yuan per month. ”

Fang Hanmin's poor family needs money so much! Earning work in the village, tired and tired, he can't earn a few dollars all year round, and when he heard that he has a salary of more than 20 yuan a month, Fang Hanmin agreed without hesitation, and couldn't wait to ask: "Uncle Liu, when can I go to work?" ”

"Listen to my brother-in-law, you can go to work at any time."

When he returned home that day, Fang Hanmin explained to his parents, and the next day he went to the county seat with his luggage, and under the recommendation of Lao Liu, he saw Lao Hou, the head of the personnel department of the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory in Shuangling City, more than 30 kilometers away, "Brother-in-law, this is the Fang Hanmin I told you on the phone, he unexpectedly failed the college entrance examination, but he is absolutely smart." ”

"The production line needs operators, go to the second workshop." Section Chief Hou of the Personnel Department had already arranged a position for Fang Hanmin, and he didn't care whether this young man was smart or not.

The second workshop of Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory is producing an API called acetaminophen, due to backward technology, not only the production cost is high, the product quality is unstable, and the production environment is very poor, the monthly bonus is the lowest in the whole factory, the workers are not willing to work here, and the workers who can find a way to find a way to trust the relationship have been transferred, so the second workshop has a dilemma of having no one to work, so they have to recruit temporary workers.

After Fang Hanmin arrived at the post, the workshop director assigned him to the "acylation" post to shift three shifts, although he also felt that the workshop environment was very bad, considering that he had a salary of more than 20 yuan per month, he had no other choice.

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Dong Xinliang did what he said, and at noon on the sixth day, he came to his old father-in-law's house again and gave a detailed report to the family about what he had learned in the past few days.

Xiao Min's parents have not been idle these days, they are all old employees of the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, and when they found their former apprentices or colleagues, they quickly inquired about Fang Hanmin's work situation.

Combining the two aspects of information, the family expressed their opinions, Xiao Min's parents and two elder brothers firmly disagreed with her friends with Fang Hanmin, although they also felt that Fang Hanmin's character was good and very smart, but his family conditions were too poor! The salary he earns is less than that of a regular worker, and he has to take care of his hometown, relying on Fang Hanmin's own efforts, who knows that he will be able to settle down in the city in the Year of the Monkey?

The eldest sister and her family do not hold an opinion on this, they think that Xiao Min's marriage should respect her own choice, and human intervention may be counterproductive. But the words of her parents and brothers, "We are also for her good", made Xiao Mei and Dong Xinliang have nothing to say.

Knowing that her family did not agree with her relationship with Fang Hanmin, Xiao Min was of course very frustrated, but she was essentially a good girl, and only after taking her mother's class did she have the opportunity to enter the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory as a regular employee, she couldn't hurt her parents' hearts, and in the future contact with Fang Hanmin, she intended to keep an appropriate distance from him.

Xiao Min secretly rejoiced, fortunately she didn't take the initiative to confess her feelings to Fang Hanmin at that time, if the matter had spread, and now she regretted it, Fang Hanmin might be nothing, she would be embarrassed! I'm afraid I don't have the face to continue to stay in the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory!

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The news of the success of the process improvement of the "acylation" post soon spread throughout the factory, and the departments and leaders related to technology of the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory were happy with the success of the technical transformation of the second workshop, but they were also very curious, how could such a big technological breakthrough be made with the technical strength of the second workshop?

In particular, people finally learned that the technical solution of the new process came from the hands of a temporary worker who had entered the factory for more than a year, and everyone felt even more unbelievable. Even if he delayed his review on the eve of the college entrance examination and became a failed student, no matter how good he is, he is only a high school graduate, with no higher education and no contact with professional knowledge, how can he propose such an advanced technical solution? ”

Of course, professionals at the end of the seventies did not know that in Fang Hanmin's previous life, the process technology for the production of acetaminophen had developed to the green stage of high yield, high purity and low pollution, and the new process adopted in the technical transformation just completed by the second workshop was only one of the small branches.

The suspicion or curiosity of the leaders disappeared after a while, but the colleagues around him were impressed by Fang Hanmin, and those regular employees who looked down on him in the past now took the initiative to associate with him, after all, because of his contribution, not only improved the production environment, but also increased the bonus of the acylation chemical section by 50% in one fell swoop, ranking first in the second workshop, even if it is compared with the whole plant, it also belongs to the middle and upper class.

Not only that, Lao Wu, a workshop technician, tried every possible way to get close to Fang Hanmin, and took the opportunity of mutual communication to discuss other technical problems in the second workshop, which was actually to ask Fang Hanmin for solutions. At first, Fang Hanmin didn't want to discuss with Lao Wu about things that had nothing to do with him, he was an employee of the acylation chemical section, and what did it have to do with him if the other sections were doing well?

Who let Fang Hanmin kill time with this book whenever he has time, although it is not a bluffing "pharmaceutical process development", but Liang Yusheng's martial arts novel, but he left a deep impression on Lao Wu of the hard work of developing the pharmaceutical process, especially the great success of the new process of the acylation chemical section, Lao Wu is even more convinced of Fang Hanmin's research spirit.

In his previous life, Fang Hanmin was the project director of the new drug creation center of RGP company, and he was originally open to technical exchanges, and Lao Wu was to the extent that he was not ashamed to ask, and he was also a workshop technician, and he took the initiative to lower his posture in front of a temporary worker, which moved Fang Hanmin, and he decided to seriously discuss with Lao Wu.

In contact with Fang Hanmin, Lao Wu tentatively discussed this matter, and Fang Hanmin told him that the key to iron powder reduction lies in the fineness and mixing process of iron powder.

According to Fang Hanmin's suggestion, the process conditions and operation methods were improved, which not only eliminated the unsafe factors in the iron powder reduction section, but also significantly improved the product quality.

Because of this contribution, Lao Wu won the title of the city's technological innovation pacesetter and advanced scientific and technological worker, in addition to receiving the municipal award, the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory also gave him a salary increase. However, Lao Wu never thanked Fang Hanmin, and on any occasion, he did not mention Fang Hanmin's contribution.

Because Lao Wu discussed technical issues with Fang Hanmin in the simple office of the chemical section, some employees were present at the time, although they could not understand Fang Hanmin's theoretical analysis, but they could basically understand Fang Hanmin's process improvement methods and practical operation suggestions. In addition, these workers believe that the technical problems in the second workshop have existed for three or four years, and Lao Wu has not been able to solve them, and after communicating and discussing with Fang Hanmin, Lao Wu has solved the problem, which cannot be unrelated to Fang Hanmin's suggestion.

Afterwards, the workers of the chemical industry section were unhappy for Fang Hanmin, and they scolded Lao Wu for eating alone, not being kind, and taking other people's contributions as their own, "This person is too treacherous!" How can he be like this? got Fang Hanmin's help, he didn't appreciate it or thank him, and he was still arrogant. ”

"The higher-level departments are also eccentric, Xiucai's contribution to the process transformation of the 'acylation' post is much more than that of Lao Wu's minor repairs, but he only got a workshop reward of 20 yuan, who to reason with?"

"Don't forget, Xiucai is just a temporary worker, and Lao Wu is a workshop technician, and there is no comparison between people and people!"