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The New Year's Day of 1993 arrived as scheduled. This New Year's Day had epoch-making significance for Zi Peng.
Before New Year's Day was his rural career; after New Year's Day, he would take up new jobs; he would completely leave the countryside; he would leave the peasants. Join the ranks of the working class with a new attitude, and become a Tonggang worker.
4 January was the day he would report to the Tonggang Steel Co. Ltd for work. Some people would ask: Didn't they say that four Village cadres s were recruited as public contract workers? Why were they assigned to a collective enterprise? For this problem, it was just a temporary overstatement. He would first arrange for it to be transferred to the second cement factory of the enterprise before he could transfer the workers to a national contract system.
That day, Zi Peng finished his breakfast and arrived at the second cement factory at the company at seven o'clock. It was the first day of work after New Year's Day.
The Second cement factory was located on the west side of the Tonggang's coke plant, on the north side of the oxygen factory. The office is a four-storey building with a broken workshop, drying workshop, kiln workshop, finished products workshop; annual production capacity of 40 thousand tons.
Zi Peng had arrived very early, and no one from the office had come to work yet. At 7: 20 PM, plant leader finally arrived at his office. Zi Peng came to the office of the plant director and said that it was a worker allocated over from the Tonggang.
The plant director was a famous political figure who was in his 30s. He sized up Zi Peng and asked,
”You must be Wang Zipeng?”
Zi Peng felt his heart warm up as he looked at Director of Lv, who was so young, had so much arrogance, and was so passionate. After hearing the plant director's question, he said:
”Yes, I am Wang Zipeng.”
Director of Lv politely nodded his head, then said:
”You can sit here for a while. Let's have a meeting to study your work.”
After Director of Lv said this, he walked out of the office and went to the secretary's office. He gathered the vice plant director, President of the Trade Union and the kiln Car director to discuss and research Zi Peng's work.
After about 15 minutes, Director of Lv returned. He said:
”Master Wang, after our research, we allocated you to the workshop. Car director is called Xu Chang Zai, go and find him, he will tell you the details. ”
Zi Peng was moved when he saw how concerned the Director of Lv was towards him. So he said,
”Thank you, Director of Lv. I'll be going now.”
Thus, Zi Peng went to the kiln workshop and the Car director, Xu Chang, warmly welcomed him.
Xu Chang asked Zi Peng to sit down, then she poured a cup of hot water for him and passed it to him.
”I heard you are the secretary of the Taoyuan Village?”
He was around 30 years old, 1.8m tall, with a square face, small eyes, but full of spirit.
Zi Peng felt a little embarrassed to see a Car director being so polite to him. So he said,
”Yes.”
Director Xu pulled a chair and sat opposite to Zi Peng, then told him the idea of the plant director meeting from before:
”Master Wang, when the Secretary and the plant director were in a meeting earlier, they welcomed you for being assigned to the cement factory and paid great attention to you. They assigned you to the kiln workshop and assigned you to be in charge of the workshop's statistical work, workshop Comptroller s, President of the Workshop Trade Union s, and Deputy Director s. ”
Zi Peng was deeply moved by Director Xu's words. He did not expect that when he arrived at a new unit, the leaders would trust him so much, value him so much, and think so highly of him. He took a sip of water and said truthfully:
”The plant leader is so concerned about me; takes care of me; loves me so much; values me so much, I'm afraid I won't do well. You know, I work in agriculture and I don't know anything about industrial production and management. ”
When Director Xu heard what Zi Peng said, he smiled. He explained to him with a big smile:
”You can rest assured that I will do whatever it takes.” After you familiarize yourself with your work here, you can take your time. ”As time passes, you will naturally learn it as well.”
Hearing Director Xu's words, Zi Peng finally had a plan in his heart. He smiled and said to Director Xu:
”Then I'll first thank you Director Xu, and thank you plant leader.”
Director Xu was very welcoming of Zi Peng's arrival. He pointed to the room next door and said,
”Your office is right next door. The previous Comptroller, from today onwards, will be transferred to the drying workshop. You just have to walk around for a few days, take a look, and get down to work. ”
Zi Peng never thought that the Leader would appreciate him so much after coming to this strange place, and would value him so much. Hearing Director Xu's words, he humbly said:
”Well then, I'll have to learn all this from the beginning anyway. Since plant leader is so concerned about me, I will definitely live up to everyone's expectations. I will definitely do my job well. ”
After Director Xu and the other children peng said this, he said:
”Now, you can go back. Go back and rest. Come back to work tomorrow.”
When Zi Peng heard that Director Xu allowed him to go home now, he couldn't believe it was true. So he said,
”How can that be? Will it work if I go back as soon as I enter the door? ”
When Director Xu saw Zi Peng's puzzled face, he explained to him:
”No problem, come back tomorrow. I'll register today.”
Hearing how sincere Director Xu was, Zi Peng did not persist anymore. So he said,
”Director Xu, thank you. I'll be leaving first.”
With that, Zi Peng walked out of the director's office …
January 6th. Today was the fourteenth day of the Lunar New Year. It was the 80th birthday of Zi Peng's mother. The suffering mother never thought she would live to the age of 80. She was born in the old society and married to a peasant. Who knew that her husband got an eye disease on the way and lost 70% of his sight? She dragged her little feet. Not only did she have to do the housework and pull the children, but she also had to do the laundry, sew the clothes, and other odd jobs for the rich. Earning a few insignificant amounts of money to support his family, and also having to provide education for the two children, Wen Tian and Zi Peng. She thought: Even if I die of exhaustion and starvation, I have to let the children go to school. He had no culture in his life and could not blind his children.
Because of her strong perseverance; because of her hard work; because of her tireless efforts. Finally, Wen Tian finished his junior high, while Zi Peng finished his sixth grade …
In 1960, it was followed by three years of natural disasters. Only then did her whole family go to Heilonggang to seek refuge with her eldest son, Wen Tian. Due to the loss of certificate of migration of hukou, no hukou was found. Hence, he came to generalization to seek help from Master Third Uncle. On the way from Heilongjiang to generalization, he had no money left. He would eat elm leaf s to quench his hunger and drink some cold water to quench his thirst. It was all thanks to the kind conductor; the kind station master, who took the train for free; and the kind people, who gave money and food tickets, who helped the family through the crisis. Only then did he turn sideways and arrived at generalization …
His mother, though only in her forties, had a face full of vicissitudes. She thought: I'll be satisfied if I can live to be in my fifties. Unexpectedly, he was already 80 years old. She was happy for this; she was happy for having a filial son like Zi Peng; she was also happy for having a good policy of the Party …
The weather was especially good today, and there were no clouds in the sky. The sun shone on the snow, reflecting the light like a white diamond. However, the weather was very cold. The north wind was bone-chilling, the water freezing and the temperature reaching -30 degrees Celsius.
At 8 in the morning, Zi Peng's big brother's family of six arrived; Chun Lan's family of five also arrived. Around 9 in the morning, Wen Zhan's family of three arrived as well.