Chapter Eighty-Four: Hardship and Endurance I
It is not too much to say that college students in the 80s are one in a hundred. After graduating from elementary school, some students enter the society, but not many can enter high school after graduating from junior high school, and only a small number of people can be admitted to university after graduating from high school.
Even being admitted to a secondary school is also a happy thing, and the iron rice bowl is in hand.
In the 80s, compared to a few decades later, the proportion of college students from rural areas was higher, and there were more poor students.
In a short period of time, Professor Zhang was able to identify a dozen students who were willing to stay in the radio factory for a week after the winter break and then go home.
These students are all students of the radio department, and Professor Zhang found them in a very small range.
February 1 was the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and Wang Weidong discussed with these students to work for a week starting on January 15.
"During the day, the factory workers work until four o'clock in the afternoon, and you come here at half-past four, and the factory prepares a dinner for you, and then you start working." Wang Weidong said.
Wang Weidong first demonstrated to them, the radio to be produced is very simple, only two matchboxes put together a box the size of a box, no pointers, only eight or nine components on the circuit board, a power switch and a headphone jack.
When listening, plug in the headphones and turn on the power switch.
The people who were able to go to college in the eighties were all ingenious children, and they were in the radio department, and it was enough for them to watch it once.
After assigning electronic components to each of them, Wang Weidong said: "I'll go back to the office, and if you don't understand anything, come in and ask me." Install a two-cent, more work and more rewards! ”
He went back to his office, closed the door, turned on the TV series, and watched the TV in a very small voice. He lay on the bed and watched and fell asleep.
I don't know how long it took, Wang Weidong was suddenly pushed twice by a person.
Wang Weidong opened his eyes and saw a bespectacled student leaning over to look at him.
"What's wrong? Are you going back? Wang Weidong asked.
"You're almost done with the components you assigned, let's send another batch." The student said.
Wang Weidong looked at his watch, it was almost half past nine in the evening.
"Didn't you say that the university closes at 10 p.m.? If you don't go back, it's too late! Wang Weidong said.
"We've all discussed, we'll work all night tonight and go back to school tomorrow morning to sleep." The student replied.
Wang Weidong cleared his head and asked, "You all want to work all night without resting?" ”
"Yes!" The student replied.
Wang Weidong got out of bed and walked outside, then beckoned a few students to help him move the boxes of electronic components out of the warehouse.
After moving in, Wang Weidong did not go back to the office to rest, but stood by and watched more than a dozen students install radios.
He was surprised to find that the seventeen students were automatically divided into two groups, one group of fourteen people soldered the electronic components to the circuit board, and the other three were responsible for installing the soldered circuit board into a small plastic box.
In this way, the efficiency of division of labor and cooperation has been greatly improved at once.
Wang Weidong looked down and counted the radios that had been installed, then checked the numbers with the students and moved the radios into the warehouse.
In order to save costs, these radios do not even come in a box.
When the monoaural headphones ordered from the south arrive, they will be shipped to the school with these radios.
To do these things well, Wang Weidong looked outside for a while, and the speed at which these college students worked was much higher than that of workers who worked during the day.
As Wang Weidong walked to the office, he sighed in his heart at the ingenuity and hard-working nature of college students in the 80s.
Lying on the bed again, Wang Weidong slept very lightly and couldn't sleep at all.
At half past five in the morning, Wang Weidong walked out of the factory with an iron kettle for boiling water.
He bought six or seven catties of fried dough sticks and a tin pot of soy milk.
Starting at 5 p.m., these college students worked for more than twelve hours!
"That's it for today, the factory workers are coming to work after eating and tidying up." Wang Weidong said.
After installing the radio in his hand and watching the students gobble up, Wang Weidong counted the radio on the side.
After checking the number of college students who woke him up last night, he politely sent them outside the gate.
Wang Weidong suddenly grabbed the bespectacled college student and asked, "It's winter, why are you still wearing single shoes?" ”
High-top liberation shoes are also called farmland shoes in the Northeast, and soil clods and sand particles will not fall into the shoes when working.
But they were single shoes, not winter shoes.
The student looked down at his feet and replied embarrassedly, "Put a few more pairs of insoles on the footcloth, and wrap the footcloth on the bag is not cold." ”
Looking at the students who were far away, Wang Weidong stood at the gate of the factory for a long time.
Twelve or thirteen hours in the evening, 17 students did more work than the 20 or so workers in the factory did in two days.
Wang Weidong went out at noon to buy a pair of No. 42 cotton shoes, and then bought three catties of meat and returned home.
Let Chen Jihong stew two pressure cookers of rice, and Wang Weidong stewed a large pot with pork and sauerkraut.
Farmers began to sell grain in the market. Wang Weidong's grain relationship with the rest of the family is still in the Xiangyang Chemical Factory, and his father Wang Haifu received grain from the grain store and mailed it to them once, and the rest was bought from the market.
Although the rice in the grain store is cheap, the two catties of a month's ration are not enough to eat, and now that he has money, Wang Weidong basically buys rice from the market to eat.
It's more expensive than buying it from a grain store, but it's an unlimited amount that you can buy as long as you have money.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Weidong and Chen Jihong rushed to the factory with two large basins.
By the time we arrived at the factory, the students had already arrived.
"Eat first! Eat and do it again! Wang Weidong took out a few more heads of garlic from his schoolbag and put them on the table and said.
Half an hour later, Chen Jihong poured out the soup and water in the vegetable bowl and brought the two large pots together and took them home.
Wang Weidong was busy distributing electronic components, and this time he allocated a lot more components than he did last night.
Wang Weidong returned to the office, took out a pair of cotton shoes from his schoolbag and put them under the desk.
Wang Suzhen never left, she watched the students eat, and watched Wang Weidong walk back to the office.
"Weidong, who did you buy those cotton shoes for?" Wang Suzhen asked.
"I saw a student who was still wearing a single pair of shoes, so he went out at noon and bought a pair of them, and then found an opportunity to give them to him quietly in the evening." Wang Weidong whispered.
Wang Suzhen smiled, she now likes Wang Weidong more and more as a young man.
"Weidong, have you ever thought about finding an opportunity to work in an agency or factory in the future, it's a pity to always hang outside!" Wang Suzhen said.
Wang Suzhen felt that Wang Weidong had a good character and strong ability, and such a person should go to government agencies, public institutions and state-owned factories.
In other words, as long as it is a talent, it should enter the system, in Wang Suzhen's concept, as long as it is a talent, if it does not enter the system, it is not normal!