In the original teaching area of the peasant secondary school in the newly hung Meiling Jewelry Factory, Yi Hui's uncle took them to the factory office.

The peasant secondary school is about to close down, with only one class in the first grade, less than 30 students, and two or three classes in the second and third grades, with a total of less than 200 students. Seeing that the school was empty and wasteful, the headmaster brought in the jewel factory. In order to facilitate management, the original old campus was temporarily walled with asbestos tiles, which was separated from the school.

The factory office is the original communication room, and there are 2 rooms that are quite spacious. There were three desks in each room, two of which were empty and empty, and the other sat a man in his mid-fifties, slightly bald, reading a newspaper wearing reading glasses.

When he saw Yi Hui's eldest uncle, he quickly got up and gave up his seat, looked at Yi Hui and the two of them, and said, "Tao Zhishu, this is ......"

"Director Liu, this is my cousin's nephew, and a companion on his team. I want them to see if it'......"

"Hey, you Tao Zhishu introduced, don't want it, the posterity, how old is ......?"

"16 years old,...... ...... graduating from junior high school, Yi Hui's voice was loud when he reported his age, but his voice was very small when he reported his degree, and he was afraid of being suspected as a thief.

Yi Hui's graduation certificate was a make-up examination, and it was only received in the first two months, and he became a laborer of Liang Dai during the make-up examination. At that time, this kind of make-up examination was very loose, there was no current ID card and no face recognition, and anyone who was about the same age could get a form to fill in and enter the examination room. Cheng Liang also made a joke when he took the exam, habitually filling in his name on the answer sheet, and later found out that he had made a mistake when he handed in the paper. At that time, he was anxious to smear the changes with his saliva-stained fingers, but he couldn't wipe them off. At that time, the invigilator was collecting the papers next to him, urging: "Hurry up, hurry up, I want you not to read when you are studying, catch a frog as a gelding, and now I know that I am in a hurry𠼦......"

Cheng Liang was in a hurry, and the force was too strong, and he made a hole in the name of the smear. When he saw the teacher's urging, he simply got rid of the name with paper, and deliberately wrote Yi Hui's name on it crookedly......

Later, Yi Hui made up for the certificate, and specially spent the five yuan he earned by digging turmeric to invite him to play billiards and eat meat noodles.

Director Liu glanced at Yi Hui and said with a smile: "Your uncle is in the same unit as me, and we are usually two families, so you can come whenever you want." You fill out a form, you have money and go through the formalities, and you are a person in the factory......"

When Yi Hui filled out the form, Director Liu pulled his glasses down, stared at Cheng Liang and asked, "What about you?" Did you bring your graduation certificate? ……”

Before Cheng Liang could answer, Yi Hui, who was filling out the form, immediately replied: "We all took it, his grades are good, and he is only a few points short of the first middle school ......."

Director Liu smiled and said to Yi Hui: "Okay, good, good, he will be a workshop supervisor in the future, and your nephew will sit in the position of Uncle Liu's deputy factory director in the future......"

In this way, Cheng Liang also followed Yi Hui to fill in the form in a daze.

On the way back, Cheng Liang joked about Yi Hui taking his graduation certificate, "Damn, I'm a genuine junior high school student who wants to see his graduation certificate, and your fake style is waived, and there is still an uncle who takes care of things......"

As soon as he said that the graduation certificate had arrived at Yi Hui again, he hurriedly begged Cheng Liang and said, "Don't tell anyone else about the graduation certificate...... Otherwise, I will ask you to come back again, and from now on, I will never talk about it again......"

A few days later, Cheng Liang took a deposit of 300 yuan, and for the first time in his life, he took so much money to go through the procedures for entering the factory alone.

Cheng Liang: Under the leadership of Deputy Director Liu, they entered the workshop that was converted from a classroom. The workshop director is a former employee of the Agricultural Science Institute in his 30s, who was shunted here to take charge. He took Cheng Liang's group of boys and girls of one or twenty years old to familiarize themselves with the situation of the workshop, introduced the process of making products, and with the assistance of the deputy director Liu, completed a milky white pebble made into angular and colorful small diamonds. He took a magnifying glass and asked everyone to see what the diamond looked like.

It was the first time for Cheng Liang to see such a beautiful diamond, and he was eager to try to make one himself......

After two days of simple training, Cheng Liang was finally able to independently make the stones into colorful diamonds, and he was very excited at that moment, as if he had won the first place when he was studying......

On the fourth day, Chengliang and they were divided into groups of 20 or so in groups of three, each completing the bottom, surface and other processes. After a few days of training, he got to know many workers, most of whom were young workers of the same age, except for the female family members of the peasant secondary school teachers.

At night, I slept in the dormitory of the original secondary school, with a bunk iron bed for one person. Because there are not many peasant secondary school students, there are many vacant dormitories. Putting things on the top and sleeping people on the bottom bunk is much better than the dormitory where you can live when you study.

Eat is self-care, eat a 1 cent bun in the morning, and take the tea that the factory department boils for free. For lunch, I went to the school cafeteria run by the sister of Yang, the former secretary of the peasant secondary school and the current director of the jewelry factory, to buy food freely. 6 cents with meat, 4 cents for vegetarian dishes.

Director Yang is the director of the factory, and everyone has just arrived, and they are all buying food in his sister's canteen. Later, some family members of the employees of the Agricultural Science Institute were red-eyed, and secretly cooked meals at home to solicit acquaintances to eat. As a result, the factory director's sister also quarreled with the families of those workers. The family members of those employees are not easy to mess with, saying that this is a distant cousin, that is a nephew of the mother's family, and their relatives are not allowed to get food, and they are not students, so why let them care. Later, Director Yang and his sister did the work and asked her to forget it. Aunt Yi Hui also got into this business, and took Yi Hui, Chengliang's food for six or seven people, 1 yuan or 1 yuan and 2 jiao a day, and several dishes, which were much stronger than the canteen cauldron dishes of the factory director's sister.

The factory is an eight-hour system every day, no overtime, and free time is free.

When he first came to that meal, Cheng Liang was a little restrained, and slowly, under the leadership of Yi Hui, he got to know many employees of the Agricultural Science Institute outside the factory and the surrounding neighbors.

Yi Hui is a fun-loving master, not good at reading, and his emotional intelligence is not bad. In addition to running a beard and playing cards at home, he also learned mahjong in the city.

Later, Cheng Liang also learned mahjong, and in the evening he went to the fish farm of the Agricultural Science Institute to play mahjong with those people. In one night, I won or lost three cents and five cents, sometimes one or two yuan. It's only 75 yuan a month, it's easy to say if you win, let alone save money if you lose, and even the basic living expenses of more than 30 yuan a month are a problem.

At the beginning, Cheng Liang lost two or three times, losing more than two yuan, he was heartbroken, and he didn't serve the table for two nights. Later, there was a poor person, and he couldn't stand the persuasion and went to the table again, and he won more than one yuan that night. Since then, there have been wins and losses, and gradually Cheng Liang has also become obsessed with this way......

Slowly, he completely walked out of the shadow of dropping out of school.

End of Chapter 19