The factory is located near the intersection of National Highway 107 and Fenghuang Road, when Wu Kai and I first came to Shenzhen. After going around for half a year, I returned to this place where I once set off with my dreams, and everything seemed to have been arranged in the dark.

On the first day of work, when I walked into the workshop for the first time with the beautiful HR lady, I was full of novelties. Strictly speaking, this is my first full-fledged job. Although I spent a few months in a mold factory, it was not strictly a job, it was more like studying, so it was not a job in theory.

Looking at the neat assembly line and the workers who are constantly walking on the edge of the assembly line, there is a trace of joy in my heart.

The supervisor was a middle-aged man who was not very tall, wearing light blue overalls, which was clearly different from the green overalls worn by the others on the workshop. After a brief handover with HR's sister, the supervisor took me to a girl without any hesitation and explained two sentences to her in a dialect I didn't understand.

Then he told me, "You can learn from her first, and she will teach you." ”

Then I sat down in a seat behind the girl, and I made a brief observation as I passed her. Because she was sitting, she couldn't see her height, but she was thin, and her wide overalls were loosely draped over her body, giving people a feeling of malnutrition.

With a childish look on his face, he should not be as old as me when he looks at it. There were light freckles on my face, and I had short shoulder-length hair, and my hair was a little yellow and bifurcated, which confirmed my judgment at the beginning.

After the supervisor left, she turned around and took the row of parts she was working on and placed them on the countertop in front of me, then handed me a roll of white tape and told me how to apply the tape to the ends of the parts. After pasting, put it into a small blue box, and the process is complete.

After saying that, let me try, looking at a simple action, it stumped me at first, because I couldn't find a suitable force point, and the adhesive tape was always crooked on the parts.

She patiently corrected my mistakes and told me the specifications and techniques of sticking tape. Her voice is small, with a bit of youthful shyness, and her Mandarin sounds strange, because she speaks every word correctly, a bit like reading a text aloud when she is reading.

In this way, after she corrected me several times, I finally found some feeling. Although it is still clumsy, it finally meets the technical specifications. She saw that I was slowly getting used to it, so she asked me to take the whole box of parts from the assembly line next to me and paste it according to this requirement.

The assembly line is definitely another great invention after the steam engine since the Industrial Revolution. It is precisely because of the invention of the assembly line that the production efficiency of modern industry and the standardization of products have made a qualitative leap, and it has also made a better implementation scenario for division of labor and cooperation.

The assembly line in front of me is about 40 meters long, and there are more than a dozen operating tables on each side along the direction of the assembly line. In front of each operating table, there is a worker in green overalls, who is seriously doing the work at hand.

I saw that they kept taking down boxes of parts from the assembly line, and after completing the process in their hands, they put the boxes back on the assembly line and flowed to the next process. When a part flows through the entire assembly line, it has become a strangely shaped keyboard.

The whole assembly line is flowing rapidly, and the people in each process are busy in an orderly manner, which looks tense but very efficient. In this way, my first day at the factory was spent in this hectic and hectic way. The hectic work made me sweep away the haze in my heart in the past, and I finally felt a trace of peace and tranquility in my heart.

When he was about to leave work, the supervisor suddenly announced with a smile that he would work overtime at night and complete the day's production tasks before he could get off work. Looking at the boxes of parts piled up like small bags in front of the assembly line, I vaguely felt that something was wrong.

I can feel it, and working as a veteran is naturally clearer to others. I only heard a woman in my thirties in front of me, who was already obviously fat, shouting at the supervisor: "Boss, you won't be done, are you?" An all-nighter today may not be finished. ”

The supervisor could only laugh twice and said: "Everyone work hard, this batch of goods will be shipped to the customer tomorrow, so I have to work overtime to drive it out today no matter what." Everyone went to eat first, and then came back to work overtime after eating. ”

After speaking, he hurriedly turned around and left, not knowing whether he was in a hurry to go back to dinner, or if he didn't want to face everyone's next grievances against him.

As soon as the supervisor walked out of the workshop, the workshop was just a little noisy, and suddenly it was as if it had been ignited by something, and there was a deafening scolding sound in an instant.

I can probably tell from everyone's complaints where their grievances come from, the company's orders have increased sharply recently, so they are working overtime almost every day. Eleven or twelve o'clock is the norm, and one or two o'clock is also the norm, and occasionally I have to bite the bullet and catch up with the progress all night.

Because I had been sticking adhesive tape all day, it was only at this time that I had time to observe the employees who gathered in clusters to show the great quintessence of the Chinese nation.

Looking around, I already had a rough judgment, and almost the entire workshop was made up of young people of seventeen or eighteen years old. I'm guessing they're all like me, a few months ago when they were protected in an ivory tower by their parents, and now they're having to stock up for the upcoming all-night work.

Watching everyone walk outside in groups of three or five, I suddenly felt a little dazed, I just arrived here today, and the surrounding environment is not yet familiar. I could only follow everyone out of the workshop, and then I felt that someone behind me pulled my clothes, and when I turned around, I saw that the girl who taught me to stick tape in the morning was looking at me with a red face.

Seeing that I turned around, she asked me in her characteristic voice, "Don't you know where to eat?" ”

I first paused, then nodded hurriedly, and said with some embarrassment: "I just came here today, and the surrounding environment is not familiar yet." ”

I feel a little emotional, the girl is really more delicate, if it were me, I probably wouldn't have thought of it. She pointed to a building in the depths of the industrial zone and said, "There is a canteen in the industrial zone, you can go there to eat, but the food there is very bad." ”

Then he pointed to a row of small buildings across the road and said, "There are a lot of fast food restaurants down there, you can go there, there's everything." ”

At this time, a small boy came over and greeted her: "The little apprentices have started to take apprentices, not bad." ”

The girl glared at the little boy viciously, and then said to me, "We're going to eat on the other side, why don't you come with us?" ”

Of course, I gladly agreed, when I first came here, I was not familiar with life, and someone was willing to take it, and my heart was naturally full of security.

So I walked across the road with them, and the three of us introduced each other as we went. It turned out that the girl's name was Li Xiuying, a native of Zhaoqing. And the little boy who greeted him and called him an apprentice was called Chen Kun, and the two of them naturally had a sense of closeness when they entered the factory on the same day.

Although they are the same age, Chen Kun is an old man who has been in the rivers and lakes for almost five years. His academic performance was proportional to his height, but he dropped out of school early before he completed compulsory education, and came to Shenzhen with his sister to start working.

I quipped and said, "Who would dare to use you when you came out?" ”

He smiled and said, "Just borrow an ID card." ”

Looking at his relaxed tone, it seems that he has done this kind of thing less. It also makes me respect this old Jianghu who is a few months younger than me, looking at him who is thin and small, but what is revealed in his tone is Lao Cheng and philistine who are completely inconsistent with his age.

followed them into a small fast food restaurant called Xiangcheng Xiangfu opposite, watched them all greet the boss skillfully, and then ordered their favorite dishes. As a first-time visitor, looking at their ease and ease as if they were coming home, suddenly something felt like something had been played with in my heart.

There was a little more sourness in my heart, and I was grateful to them a little more, and I took the menu handed to me by Chen Kun, I flipped through it casually, and ordered a pot of meat. As a Sichuanese, I have a deep obsession with this dish, so I will order it wherever I go.

First, in order to find the taste of home, but also to avoid the embarrassment of not being able to order. Chen Kun is a very cheerful Cantonese, with five years of experience in the rivers and lakes, and he has all kinds of jokes in his head. A meal was enjoyed under his activity.

At night, because it is overtime, the atmosphere is much happier than during the day, and everyone is chatting naturally across the assembly line and the workbench. I just had this meal together, and when I worked overtime at night, Chen Kun naturally became familiar with me.

He also took the initiative to bring me with him during the chat, and enthusiastically introduced me to everyone, all of whom were young people, so it was natural that I had successfully entered the organization after an all-nighter.

When the first rays of sunlight in the morning shine through the window to the workshop, the machine, which had been roaring all night, seemed to be as tired as everyone else and stopped spinning. When everything stopped, the feeling of exhaustion finally began to awaken in my body, and my eyelids seemed to be pulled closer by two huge forces, and I used all my strength to resist in vain.

After counting the fruits of our overnight labor and making sure that it was enough to hand over to the customer, the supervisor waved his hand to let everyone go back to rest after work. I had lost the ability to think, and I had forgotten how I got back to my dorm. I only knew that when I dragged my heavy body and fell on the big bed in the dormitory, Chen Kun, who was sleeping next to me, had already made a burst of snoring, and I was also asleep in the company of his snoring.

When I opened my eyes again, it was already in the west, and my colleagues on the day shift had already come out of the workshop gate one after another. Watching a group of peers with youthful faces walking from the workshop to the dormitory on their shoulders, at that moment, I suddenly felt a burst of steadfastness in my heart.

From them, I felt a strong upward energy, the energy of the sun, which was full of infinite potential, and it made my heart feel like it was filled with an invisible force.

sat silently on the edge of the bed for a while, and Chen Kun next to him also woke up happily the moment his colleague entered the dormitory and made a noise. Then he let out a feeble moan, and spat out a national curse from his throat. But it was clear that his limited resistance was of no avail to his colleagues who had finished the day and regained their freedom.

I laughed silently in my heart, then took a deep breath and went to the balcony to wash up.

It happened that Chen Kun also came out of the toilet and asked me, "Do you want to go out to eat together?" ”

I happened to be hungry, so I agreed, and when I agreed, he quickly washed up, put a piece of clothing on his body, and dragged me outside.

As soon as he walked out of the dormitory door, he shouted loudly to the girls' dormitory opposite: "Little apprentice, are you up?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Li Xiuying walking out of the dormitory with wet hair, and kept wiping her head with a towel in her hand. Seeing that the colleagues who got off work were standing in the aisle staring at her, a few good things had already whistled.

Her face flushed and she said, "I just got up and washed my hair, what's wrong?" ”

Chen Kun had a big personality, probably didn't hear the embarrassment in her tone, and shouted at the top of his voice: "We are going out to eat, do you want to go together?" ”

At this time, there were more and more people who were coaxing, and they were even unwilling to coax, and began to ask Chen Kun for "sugar". I also went to Shenzhen to know that there is such a thing, Cantonese people call love a drag, "drag sugar" is probably similar to something like candy.

At this time, Chen Kun seemed to have finally reacted, and whispered to the other side: "Let's go and wait for you below." ”

Then I hurriedly turned around and walked downstairs, and I hurriedly followed him. It feels like he's my backbone, and I feel like I'm going to have a very down-to-earth feeling with him. We finished smoking two cigarettes downstairs, and Li Xiuying was finally late.

His damp hair was casually draped behind him, and he wore a pale yellow long-sleeved T-shirt, jeans, and a pair of white sneakers with a little yellowish color on his feet. His face was crimson, his eyes were lowered, and he didn't dare to look at us.

I saw her discomfort, and I also felt the trace of affection in the hearts of the two of them, and asked seriously, "Are you looking for something?" ”

She froze visibly, then looked up at me in bewilderment, and finally made sure I had a malicious smile on my face and walked briskly outside.

Seeing this, Chen Kun hurriedly followed, gently tugged at her sleeve, slowed down her pace, and walked forward side by side with her. I followed behind the two of them not far away, listening to them chatting in a language I didn't understand, and after a while, Li Xiuying let out a hearty voice.

also pushed Chen Kun with his hand from time to time, Chen Kun did not resist, but every time he pushed him, he leaned towards Li Xiuying, and gradually the two of them were already side by side. I couldn't help but laugh again in the back, and I thought to myself, this is probably what love looks like when it sprouts.