The days at work are boring and happy.

Because this is to create wealth with his own hands, it is a change that can be seen, every time Yang Xiaotao looks at the credits, he is one step closer to a good life.

A peaceful life is always very fast, fifteen years have passed in a blink of an eye, and it has been almost half a month of work, and Yang Xiaotao's work ability has also been recognized by everyone in the workshop.

Even because of his outstanding performance, some workpieces that can only be made by second-level fitters were handed over to him, which made the work efficiency of the whole group skyrocket, and also drove the people in the same group to complete the work better.

At this time, Yang Xiaotao had a total of six people in his group.

Among them, the team leader Wang Fa is a fifth-level fitter, as well as the third-level fitter Che Wenwei, the second-level fitter Li Wei, and the rest of Yang Xiaotao, Li Nan and Xing Jiaqi are all first-level fitters.

This can only be regarded as standard in the entire workshop and even the entire factory.

After all, there are more first-level and second-level junior workers in the factory, and being able to become a third-level worker is already an intermediate standard, and only those above the fifth level can be regarded as senior workers.

Now, the group is equivalent to one more secondary fitter, the efficiency will naturally improve, when the workshop assigns tasks, it will also tilt resources to the group, and this is not only exercise, but also the evaluation of advanced credentials.

For such an important unit as a rolling mill, there will be appraisal activities every quarter, every month and even every important festival in recent years.

What are the outstanding pacesetters, advanced groups, progressive collectives, advanced workshops, and so on, in order to respond to the instructions of the superiors, drum up enthusiasm, strive for the upstream, and build the great motherland as quickly as possible.

Every time it comes down, the people who choose will get the benefits of the benefits, which is also an important motivation for everyone to work.

In the face of Yang Xiaotao's outstanding ability, the whole team also improved efficiency in the run-in.

Wang Fa, the leader of the group, is very happy about this, according to his estimate, even if he can't get the advanced group, he can be rated as a progressive collective, which is somewhat beneficial.

During the lunch break, Yang Xiaotao sat aside and read the book as usual, and Wang Fa and the other team members were already surprised.

Other people in the same workshop also regarded Yang Xiaotao's "good habit" as a novelty.

Even the workshop director heard about it and praised this attitude of hard work.

Everyone also knew that Yang Xiaotao dropped out of school and entered the factory, if it wasn't for something at home, he should have taken the university entrance examination at this time.

In these years, it is not easy to be able to go to high school, and cultural people are still very popular.

"Xiao Tao, finished reading? Take a break! ”

Wang Fa sat aside, holding a box of green soft box spring ploughing in his hand, and gave one to Yang Xiaotao.

In his previous life, Yang Xiaotao would eat cigarettes, but he was not obsessed, and he would only eat when he needed to.

This world, formerly in school, was not infected.

Yang Xiaotao took the cigarette and pinned it to his ear, Wang Fa lit it by himself, and spit out the smoke ring in his mouth.

"Brother Wang, if you have something, just say it."

"Well, I'm looking for you to ask, in a few days, the factory will organize a grading assessment. Do you have an idea? ”

"Are there any conditions?"

"No, this time it was supposed to be a normal promotion assessment, but it was facing the junior and intermediate assessments, you are just right, I will ask you to sign up!"

"Well, it should be fine."

Yang Xiaotao glanced at the credits, and was only 50 points away from being a second-level fitter, and he should be able to catch up in the next few days.

"Okay, I know you're fine, then I'll sign you up."

"Thank you, Brother Wang."

"Are we still polite?"

"Hey, hey"

Soon, the news of the assessment spread throughout the factory.

Jia Dongxu put down the tools in the first workshop, gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

In the kitchen, Silly Zhu put the kitchen knife away, "Damn Silly Mao, if you dare to make trouble again, Lao Tzu will chop you." ”

Time flies by in the busyness, the sun has not yet set, the sky has already darkened.

In the past few days, it has snowed twice, although it is snow foam, blown by the wind, and there is no snow on the ground, but the temperature is getting lower and lower day by day.

It is estimated that the current minimum temperature has dropped to below minus 10 degrees, especially at night, and he does not dare to leave the bed at all.

At lunchtime, I heard people in the radio room say that this kind of weather will continue for more than a week, and it may be extended in the future.

"It's too cold."

Yang Xiaotao put his hand in his pocket, his face was still red from the cold, and he separated from his co-workers, so he walked to the courtyard against the wind.

Tomorrow is Saturday, and he is going to go to the scrapyard to see if Huang Da Niu has received the book.

As soon as I walked to the door of the courtyard, I saw an anxious face on my aunt's face, and saw that Yang Xiaotao wanted to speak, but hesitated for a moment and didn't say it.

Yang Xiaotao didn't ask much, and the two were not good enough to get together, so he went straight through the front yard and returned to the house.

The entire courtyard became deserted because of the cold weather, and even Jia Zhang, who used to sit at the door and stared, also hid in the house, obviously afraid of freezing.

Make a fire for cooking.

Yang Xiaotao took out a little bit of the leftover braised pork, then threw two cabbage leaves, plus a few nests, and it was ready for dinner.

Under the lamplight, Xiaowei turned her head on the table, and Yang Xiaotao set up the basin and began to eat.

Tuk-tuk

There was a knock on the door, and Yang Xiaotao could only put down his chopsticks and get up to open the door.

It was Yan Jiefang who came, seeing that Yang Xiaotao just glanced into the room, he saw the meat on the plate, and saliva almost flowed out in the cold wind, and then reacted, "Brother Tao, the first master asked the notice to convene a general meeting of the whole hospital." ”

"Now? On such a cold day, standing in the yard, Uncle Yi is not sick. ”

"This, it seems that there is something important to say, and it is quite urgent."

Yang Xiaotao frowned, "Are everyone going to go?" ”

"No, it's okay for one family to be in charge, and everyone else can go if they want."

"Okay, I know, you can tell the other family."

"Oh, good, good"

Yan Jiefang took two steps back, and Yang Xiaotao had already closed the door and began to continue eating.

After a while, the food was already a little cold.

In the middle courtyard, people came over one after another with their arms in their hands, standing in a sheltered place, waiting for the meeting to begin.

Gradually, more and more people began to wonder what was going on this time.

After a while, the silly pillar carried a table, and regardless of whether it was cold or not, he put it directly in the middle, and then placed three wooden stools as seats for the three masters.

As soon as it was put away, the three masters walked out of the house of one uncle together, and it was obvious that the three of them had already discussed it.

In the crowd, Xu Damao squatted behind the locust tree, his face was red from the cold, and when he saw the three of them, he hurriedly urged, "Three masters, what kind of conference is held on such a cold day, if you freeze your body and delay the production plan, you will have to bear the responsibility." ”

The three uncles listened, Yi Zhonghai and Yan Fugui could still restrain it, but Liu Haizhong couldn't bear his temper, and scolded Xu Damao back, "Xu Damao, if you have an opinion, you can not participate, but when something goes wrong, don't blame me for not reminding you." ”

Xu Damao was speechless and continued to squat under the tree.

"Silly pillar, are you here?"

Silly Zhu had long paid attention to manpower, and at this time he replied, "Three masters, it's just Yang Xiaotao." ”

The corners of Yi Zhonghai's eyebrows furrowed, and finally let the stupid pillar urge.

"No, I'm here."

At this time, a voice sounded at the corner of the middle courtyard, which was Yang Xiaotao's voice.

At this moment, Yang Xiaotao's location is far away from the Intermediate Court, but it does not mean that he did not participate.

And Yi Zhonghai also knew this, and did not hold on to it.

Yang Xiaotao's voice fell, and everyone looked at it in unison, and then retracted his gaze and put it on the three masters.

Directly ahead, Silly Zhu glanced at Yang Xiaotao and spat out.

Jia Zhang hid in the house, it was warmer at home on such a cold day, listening to the conversation outside through the doors and windows.

She heard some of the content of this conference from an uncle, and she was thinking about how to get some benefits.

"In a moment, follow me out."

Turning back to Qin Huairu, who was leaping in expression, Qin Huairu was also lying on the window, very concerned about the affairs of the compound.

The same is true for the other people in the middle courtyard, although they have not come out, they are always paying attention, for fear of pulling down a little benefit.

Yang Xiaotao and Uncle Chen are next to each other, and now they are hiding from the cold wind under the eaves, in fact, on his chest, Xiaowei is sticking to it and emitting warm energy, like a warm baby, so that Yang Xiaotao's body is not so cold.

"Uncle Chen, what's going on?"

"What kind of conference is there on such a cold day. Freeze to death an individual. ”

Yang Xiaotao asked, Uncle Chen also shook his head, the old couple also walked around the yard on weekdays, and they could only stay at home if it was too cold these days.

"I haven't heard anything about it, let's take a look."

Uncle Chen couldn't stand the cold when he was old, so he stomped his feet on the spot.

When the three masters saw that everyone was coming, they stopped talking.

The second master took the lead in standing up, which is also the fixed process of the courtyard meeting.

Generally, the second master opens, the first uncle talks about things, and then the third master follows and agrees.

"Uh-huh!"

The second uncle cleared his throat in the bangs, "Folks in the courtyard, today is the first plenary meeting of our compound, you can participate in such a cold day, it is the support of our three masters, is..."

"Second uncle, it's a cold day, don't talk about what you have, it's all freezing."

Silly Zhu's lips were frozen underneath, but he didn't want to listen to the official words in his bangs.

Bangs were interrupted by a stupid pillar, and he was always angry, but seeing that the people around him were also impatient, he immediately rubbed his hands together, "Well, it's cold, then let Uncle Yi say a few words." ”

He sat down with bangs, and his eyes swept over the stupid pillar.

Yi Zhonghai, an uncle, was holding a hot water jar, and his buttocks were cold. But in order to maintain the influence of the uncle, he still said unhurriedly, "This morning, there was bad news from the alley next door, the old Wang Tou's house, the stove went out at night, and the two female dolls were frozen and are still living in the hospital." ”

Hearing the news, everyone present was shocked, just after this year, this incident occurred, and their hearts were heavy.

Uncle Chen sighed, seeing that Yang Xiaotao was not clear about the situation, he explained.

"Lao Wang's family has a son who is a truck driver, and later the car overturned during transportation, and the person is gone."

"My daughter-in-law gave birth to two daughters, and she remarried at a young age, leaving two children for Lao Wang and his wife to support."

"It's not easy for the old couple to take two girls at home, they do odd jobs for the street office on weekdays, and barely make ends meet on pensions."

"This time, I guess the family ran out of coal, otherwise it wouldn't have happened."

Uncle Chen said, sighing again.

Yang Xiaotao understands that this coal is also an important living material, and the state is also controlling it in this regard, which is not expensive, but it is not cheap.

Many people spend the winter at home, and only use briquettes to warm up when they sleep at night, and they can only rely on basking in the sun during the day.

Yi Zhonghai saw that everyone was talking, coughed twice, and continued to speak, "I heard the news from the Propaganda Department that it will continue to be cold in the next few days, even colder than now. ”

As soon as these words were said, many people were shocked again, and they were terrified.

Because, these people don't have much coal.

And I don't have much money left at home.

Originally, the Chinese New Year was a lively time, and many families took out a lot of savings for the New Year, and to put it mildly, most of them are now waiting for their salaries.

Originally, according to the usual situation of the year, it warmed up after fifteen or six.

Who would have thought that this year would be so abnormal.

For a while, many people showed apprehension on their faces.

"Don't talk about it."

Yi Zhonghai spoke again.

"The second and third uncles and I think so, there are twenty-one households in our yard, and it is inevitable that some people will not have enough coal at home, so in order not to have a bad situation."

Speaking of this, Yi Zhonghai got up and swept the audience, "We are going to organize a donation to buy coal and deliver it to families in need." ”

"Donate?"

"Donation ......"