"I'm graduating soon, what are your plans?"

"I haven't thought about staying in school or going to Yew Wah Seiko to do research, but I definitely have to do it."

"You've been studying mechanics for so many years, why don't you have enough. It's a pitfall, and there's no future. ”

"Brother, aren't you also a mechanic?"

"Just because I did this, I am qualified to persuade you, it's really unnecessary, let's listen to my aunt and enter the system."

When Xu Ruyi woke up, he was still thinking about this conversation with his cousin.

She is about to graduate with a doctorate and is ready to devote herself to scientific research, but her family is unwilling, and her father even sent her cousin, who also studies machinery, to persuade her - if there is no way out of machinery, it is better to take the public examination.

Xu Ruyi is naturally reluctant, she grew up in a machinery factory since she was a child, she grew up touching the machine, she likes the roar of the machine when it starts, and understands the meaning of those magnificent machines - it was our first TV, the first washing machine, the first car, the first airplane rocket, yes...... Our confidence.

It's just that she didn't expect her cousin, who once had the same dream as her, to be so pessimistic after working for several years.

Of course, she didn't expect that before she could refute it, she actually crossed over.

Now, she is standing at the gate of the Liaoyuan County Machinery Factory in Sunan City, Nam Ha Province, in July 1980.

In front of her stood two children, a boy and a girl, the eldest boy was fifteen or sixteen years old, and the younger girl was twelve or thirteen years old, both as thin as a firewood stick, and was calling her sister at this moment.

The boy was tanned like black charcoal, and at this time he grinned and showed a mouthful of big white teeth: "Sister, why did you arrive?" I've been waiting for you and Jixiang all morning? ”

The girl came over directly, grabbed her arm, and smiled like a flower: "Sister, you're finally back, you're hungry, I've made something delicious, let's go, go home and eat." ”

Xu Ruyi was stunned for a moment, and the memory came out, the boy in front of him was called Xu Weimin, 17 years old this year, in the third year of high school in Liaoyuan No. 1 Middle School, and the girl's name was Xu Jixiang, fifteen years old this year, and she was in the first year of high school in Liaoyuan No. 1 Middle School.

How old are these two children? But they don't look like each other at all.

And she, as a graduate of the first mechanical secondary school in Nanhe Province, just graduated yesterday, because it is a directional training, so she was assigned back to Liaoyuan County Machinery Factory.

Waiting for her to enter the house, she combined the poverty of the family in her mind with the reality, the Xu family's parents are both employees of the machinery factory, so the accommodation is very compliant - two bungalows, a small courtyard, almost all reclaimed into vegetable fields, leaving only a narrow slit through.

When you go in, you know that this is too poor.

Two bungalows, the outer room is Xu Weimin's bedroom and living room, and the inside is Xu Jixiang's bedroom.

A few patched clothes were folded and placed on the clay kang, a small square table with years old served as a dining table and a study table, a maza, two iron stools, one of which had lost its leg.

There are three bowls on the table, and three dishes are placed. One sautéed shredded potato, one cold tomato, one chicken cake.

Is this delicious?

Xu Jixiang directly pushed Xu Ruyi to wash her hands, and she chirped like a magpie: "Sister, you're hungry, hurry up and eat." ”

Xu Ruyi was pushed to wash her hands, and then pushed to sit down, and the two children sat beside her on the left and right—Xu Weimin sat on the broken stool and found two bricks to cushion.

Xu Ruyi was embarrassed when he saw it, stood up directly, and dragged out Xu Jun's old welding torch from under the bed with his memory - Xu Jun originally relied on this to earn money by doing private work for others, and later Xu Ruyi also relied on this to earn some living expenses every time he had a holiday, so he didn't sell it.

She skillfully welded it and handed it to Xu Weimin.

Xu squatted twice for the civil ass, which was naturally extremely reliable, and the fart was patted over: "Sister, you are still amazing." Let's eat. ”

Sitting at the table again, Xu Weimin and Xu Jixiang had no intention of moving the chopsticks, and Xu Ruyi realized that they didn't prepare chopsticks for themselves at all!

Xu Ruyi asked, "Don't you eat it?" ”

Xu Jixiang's throat pursed obviously, but she quickly shook her head: "We ate late, don't be hungry, sister, eat, I haven't been home for a long time, try my craft." ”

Xu Ruyi could see it, I am afraid that there is not much food in this house, the two children are reluctant, she stretched out her hand and pulled out her chopsticks and handed them to the two people: "Eat, I am a technician after the report, and I can open 24 yuan a month, which is enough for us to live." ”

Xu Ruyi's mother died of illness, and borrowed a lot of money in order to treat the disease, and his father Xu Jun originally wanted to pay it back slowly, but who would have thought that he would also leave a few years ago due to a sudden illness.

For such orphans, the factory naturally takes care of them, and gives them 15 yuan a month for living expenses. Enough to eat, but what about their debts?

Although the uncles and aunts take good care of them, not only do they not ask for money, but they also send some food from time to time, but everyone is an ordinary worker, and no one has more than two or two meters, how can they not pay it back?

As soon as the three sisters, brothers and sisters discussed, they repaid five yuan a month, and the lives of the three of them were stretched. waited for Xu Ruyi to go to secondary school, and with the subsidy, he was even more frugal, and sent the rest of the money to his younger siblings to pay off his debts.

Therefore, Xu Ruyi's outstretched arm was also skinny, and she guessed that this was how the original body went.

Xu Ruyi originally wanted to let the two children eat with confidence, but where did he think that when he mentioned this, the faces of the two children became heavy.

"Sister, the factory is not good now." Although Xu Weimin didn't look big, he spoke calmly, frowning like a little old man at this time, "Didn't we change to boiler production this year?" ”

Xu Ruyi knows that Liaoyuan Machinery Factory was originally for the production of spare parts for the lathe factory in the province, and the benefits have been average, in the past two years, people have bought imported equipment, Liaoyuan factory has a limited technical level, can not meet the requirements of others, orders are getting fewer and fewer, and the factory director Guo Peisheng decided to switch to boilers.

When she came back during the Chinese New Year, she said that it was selling very well.

Is this something wrong?

Sure enough, Xu Weimin said: "There is a problem with our boiler welding, some time ago, the boiler of Kunxian Dacheng Screw Factory leaked, and the factory went three times, but it was not solved. After inspection by the Labor Bureau, it was found that the welding quality of the boiler we produced was not up to standard, the structure was unreasonable, and the evaporation as described could not be achieved. ”

When Xu Ruyi was an undergraduate intern, he went to a boiler factory, and when he heard it, he understood that this boiler problem was quite big.

Who would have thought that it was not over, Xu Jixiang could actually say that the head of the sentence was: "People asked for a boiler with a reasonable structure and a usable boiler." But where can we get this one product in total? It angered them. ”

"The other party's factory director's surname is Su, which is very powerful, and he actually wrote a letter of denunciation to the "Boiler" newspaper and published it on it, and now the whole country knows about it, and we are completely famous."

Xu Ruyi has to say that this Director Su is too powerful.

At this time, the press was not like her time, and as the concept of everyone being a media was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, the soil for survival had been lost.

In those days, television was not popular, radio was limited, newspapers and magazines were an important window for people to understand the world, and many magazines sold millions of people in a single issue, and readers were all over the country.

Especially for professional newspapers such as "Boiler", almost all units involved in boiler manufacturing and use will order a copy, isn't this stinky all over the country?

Xu Ruyi already understood what Xu Weimin meant: "The factory has been having a hard time recently." Is it still an expense? ”

Xu Weimin shook his head: "No one buys boilers, and there are many refunds, which have not been opened for two months." ”

The 24 yuan obviously can't be obtained, no wonder the two children are not happy.

Xu Jixiang also made up the knife: "Sister, it was a big joy for you to come back, you should have scrambled a few more eggs, but it was too expensive, so I steamed a chicken cake, don't blame me." But I put more oil in these two dishes, they must be very fragrant, you can taste them. ”

Xu Ruyi found out that even if she went back to the 80s, she could not immediately devote herself to the research and development of machine tools, and her first priority was to fill her stomach.

Fortunately, she is not a person who only reads the books of sages, she doesn't believe it, she has advanced knowledge and vision, and has good skills (originally brought), in this era of vigorous development, can she still be hungry?

Xu Ruyi heroically gave each of his younger siblings a big spoon of chicken cakes, "Don't worry, I'm back, let you eat chicken cakes every day in the future, eat enough!" ”

The eldest sister is obviously the pillar of this family, obviously there is no way to do it, the two children are a little relieved, holding the bowl, pursing their mouths and eating a little bit of chicken cake, and said.

"It smells so good!"

"Sister, hurry up and eat, I put two drops of sesame oil, it won't taste good when it's cold."

Xu Ruyi was also hungry, she lowered her head and almost cried after taking a bite - this girl must have put a lot of water in order to show more, what is delicious this water is not bad, she has to make money.