I listened and covered my mouth and smiled, "Got caught?" ” Liu Yan skimmed his lips and said, "No, just by hearing a burst of footsteps, there is no sound." ” I couldn't help but laugh and told her to find a boyfriend sooner.
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Many people say this: "Men are afraid to enter the steel mill, women are afraid to enter the textile." "It's about steel mill workers and textile workers working hard. But a few of our sisters chose to work as textile women. I heard that there are many textile factories in Zhejiang, and the wages are also higher, so we ran there. Who told us to grow up in the poor ditches of remote mountainous areas, the outside world is very exciting, some young people in the village have been out for a few years, their mental outlook has changed, and their families have become rich.
Liu Yan and Wang Xiaoling from the same village came to my house that day and asked me to go to Zhejiang to work together. I am older than them, and I have a three-year-old child, my husband is already working in Guangdong, and I usually live with my in-laws and are busy taking care of the children and the work in the farmland.
Liu Yan and Wang Xiaoling blew in front of me, under their encouragement, I was moved, my in-laws heard that I wanted to go out, and I had no opinion and was willing to help me with my children. I called my husband to go to Zhejiang, but my husband said that he had become accustomed to it in Dongguan, Guangdong, and that he had now been promoted to the head of the workshop, and asked me to go to Guangdong as well. Liu Yan and Wang Xiaoling resolutely opposed it and must have asked me to go to Zhejiang with them. On weekdays, we are all good sisters, and I can't always emphasize my friends, so the three of us bumped all the way to Jiaxing, Zhejiang.
After reporting to a textile mill, we were assigned to a 5 rows of 4-story dormitories on the west side of the living area behind the cotton mill. Here is the factory single textile female workers concentrated residential area, each dormitory lives six people, three double small iron beds, although crowded, but we are all girls from the countryside, is out to work, there is this small world, built into a comfortable nest, feel very satisfied and warm, after all, living in a rental house is very expensive.
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We also lived in the room with two sisters from a small county town in Gannan, Jiangxi, named Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin, and a sister named Li Fang from the Hengyang Mountains of Hunan Province, who was thin, beautiful, and introverted and did not speak much. Liu Yan and Wang Xiaoling and I are all from Jiangxi Leadshan, except for Li Fang, who is from Hunan, and we and Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin from Gannan are all from Jiangxi, and we can also be called Jiangxi compatriots. I greeted them warmly, but Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin were reluctant to pay more attention to us, because they were from a small county town and were a little dismissive of those of us who came out of the mountains.
As soon as they entered the room, they preemptively put their luggage on the two lower bunk beds by the window. Liu Yan and Wang Xiaoling saw the situation and said to me: Sister Huang Qian, you are a little older, there is still a lower bunk, just sleep, the three of us sleep on the upper bunk. I looked at Li Fang and wanted to give her the bottom bunk, but she said politely, "No, no, you are older than us, or you sleep on the bottom bunk, we sleep on the top bunk." ”
After settling in, I proposed: whether the six of us should go out for dinner, everyone is here to work, live in a dormitory, and will be sisters from now on. Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin did not want to go with us, and the two of them bowed their heads and only cared about sorting things out. So the four of us ate at a small restaurant nearby. Back at the dormitory, Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin had already gone out.
Li Fang's expression always seemed very melancholy, and there were few words, but she was very close to us. It turned out that her family had a younger brother and a younger sister in school, when her father was working outside, he accidentally fell off the construction site, leaving a disability, unable to straighten up, the family mainly relied on her mother to work in the field, life was very hard, she did not finish the second year of high school and ran out to find something to do.
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At 7:30 a.m. the next morning, we walked through the factory door like our old employees. Since it was the first day of work, the person in charge of personnel took us to the cloth machine workshop of the textile factory and handed us over to the workshop director, who in turn took us to the production group of three, and the six of us were assigned to a team. We made a record of the day's attendance at the attendance machine, and from then on, we began the life of a textile worker.
The work of textile women workers is very hard, they work in the noisy and hot workshop for many years, one person has to manage 6 machines, walking in front of the loom every day, and walking dozens of kilometers at the end of the day. Joints, cleaning, yarn changing... Hands and feet are used together, eyes and hands are one, and the action of that one terminal is like magic, requiring it to be very fast, otherwise it will affect production.
We watched those skilled female workers concentrate on the operation, and felt very fresh, after all, it was the first day of work, for us, everything was fresh.
Due to the noisy and sweltering heat in the workshop, Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin from the county town were a little uncomfortable, and the two of them had beads of sweat on their faces and wanted to throw up. Li Fang and I quickly helped them to the outside of the workshop to inhale the fresh air, and I told them that this will be our future work place, and we must be mentally prepared and must adapt to the environment here. They bowed their heads and whispered, "We'll adapt, but since we're here, what can we do without doing this?" ”
In the cloth machine workshop of the textile factory, if you want to weave more cloth and weave cloth well, you must have a strong technical level, and once the "warp break" occurs in the weaving process, the loom will stop. Skilled female workers can tie 26 knots in a minute, and within 40 seconds, they can process the "warp break" and let the loom work again.
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At the beginning, we followed the master and found that the broken wire was dealt with in time. But in a few days, we can only tie a maximum of 7 knots a minute, which seriously affects production. Therefore, there is no less criticism from the master, several of us often leave work with a depressed mood, and Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin are scolded by the master and have tears.
Back at the dormitory, Li Fang, from Hunan, silently looked out the window and thought about something. I asked her, "What do you think?" She said, "Sister Huang Qian, why am I so stupid?" I said, "No hurry, we've only been here for half a month, take your time." But she said: "That can't work, you can't always be criticized, you have to do it as soon as possible." Hands up, a look of disobedience. She took my hand and went back to the master for advice.
I often saw her stay in the group after work, one person secretly observing the operation of the next shift of workers. At night, everyone slept, but she repeatedly practiced knotting in the dormitory corridor, and when I saw her working so hard, I was touched and practiced with her.
Two months later, Li Fang quickly mastered the technique of knotting, and she could tie 26 knots in one minute, reaching the speed of a skilled female worker, and I could also tie 24 knots. But she was not satisfied, continued to study and practice hard, three months later, the final minute can play 36 knots, the fastest processing of "warp" only 23 seconds, breaking the historical record of the whole plant "break" stop station processing.
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Soon, Li Fang was transferred to the fifth shift of the cloth machine workshop as a shift leader, and she became a fast operator of the whole factory.
Every day, she always arrives at the workshop in advance, does a good job of handing over the shift before going to work, and then, on time, participates in the collective roll call of the team and the safety study before the class. When the rumbling machine sounded, she walked back and forth on the side of the machine table of each operation position in the team, checked the production situation of the entire team, carefully listened to every sound up and down the machine, looked for small problems, and guided the processing in time. At work, she looked very serious and did not have the slightest sloppiness. Under her leadership, the fifth class completed the most production tasks, and the salaries of the team workers were also the largest.
After work, the sisters in the whole dormitory came to her for advice, and she took the trouble to patiently say that our room had become the most lively place.
Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin, girls in Jiangxi County, who are in the same room, have been working for more than four months because the level of operation has not been up to standard, and the output and quality have not been able to go up, and the wages are naturally very low, and they want to resign and not do it. Li Fang took the initiative to find the two of them, enthusiastically helped them, and practiced with them over and over again in the room, guiding them to improve the speed of knotting and shorten the time for processing "broken menstruation".
Half a year later, the operational level of Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin has been greatly improved, and they have also dispelled the idea of resigning and not doing it. Over the past 5 years of work, Li Fang has brought more than 130 apprentices, 26 of whom have been rated as fast hands in post operation, and the speed of "knotting" and processing "breaks" has exceeded the level of the original skilled female workers. Of course, among the 26 people, Liu Yan and Wang Xiaoling were also among them, and there were photos of us with big red flowers hanging in the publicity window.
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The management system of the factory dormitory is very strict, every night the female workers' dormitory is like a walled city, it is difficult for people outside to enter casually, and people inside can't get out when it comes to work and rest time. During the day, girls can come and go as they please. Lao Wang of the Security Section is an extremely serious and responsible person, usually silent, there is no smiley face, but he attaches great importance to the safety of the female workers' dormitory, especially when patrolling at night, with a few security personnel, holding a shiny flashlight, dangling around under the collective dormitory, so that the female workers who live in it are very assured.
The Security Section is tasked with ensuring security, and all female dormitories do not allow men to enter casually, especially mixed sex. But there are also bold boys who hide in their girlfriends' dormitories during the day, live in them at night, and then sneak out of the wall the next day, before dawn, when the patrols are vigilantly relaxed. Sisters in the same dormitory will not betray their friends, and even feel that sisters and boyfriends are very envious. Especially when there is a slight creaking sound and an unsentimental moan from the small iron bed in the middle of the night, the spirit of the girls in the spring period will also be excited.
However, there are also times when the security department occasionally finds, in the middle of the night, when the men and women look at each other, suddenly the heavenly soldiers, the fierce knock on the door frightens the people in the room to death, the man naturally panicked up, saw the security department personnel begging for forgiveness, after other female workers proved that they were boyfriend and girlfriend, and finally the man was expelled, and the original fairytale dream in the dormitory was shattered in an instant. The next day, what happened in the evening became the laughing stock at everyone's dinner table.
One day, the boyfriends of Wang Guihua and Zhong Xiaomin came, and during the day they secretly hid in the room, and they did not want to go out at night. On that day, I went to the night shift with Li Fang and Wang Xiaoling, and Liu Yan stayed in the dormitory. The next morning we left the night shift, when I was doing the handover shift with Liu Yan, Liu Yan said to me with a frustrated head: "Sister Huang Qian, I didn't sleep well last night, let the two beds quarrel and upset, the sky was not yet light, the two men went over the wall and left, I didn't expect the guards to see, Lao Wang pulled his throat, stand still!" Catch the thief! ......”
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Time passed so fast, and five years passed in a flash, and a group of little girls from the original advanced factory had reached the time when it was time to talk about marriage. Although the work of textile women workers is very hard, but the road of life is walking, it is inevitable for men to marry women, everyone is living their own life, but everyone's life is different.
There are many female workers in textile factories, which always attracts the attention of some boys. One day, Li Fang and Liu Yan were walking on the road after work, and a young man came up to talk, "Little girl, I invited you to dinner, how about it?" He said and took Liu Yan's hand. The two girls were frightened by this sudden situation and stayed there, and as they broke free, they shouted: "We don't know you, who wants to eat with you?" At this time, the old king of the security section was just passing by there, heard the girl shouting, he rushed up with an arrow, a slap hit the young man's face, the boy was knocked to the ground, saw the old king take out the handcuffs, the young man quickly got up, fell into the wilderness and fled.
Wang Guihua had been in love for five years, and the boyfriend who worked in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, had not contacted her much since that time, and later heard that she had been dumped by the man. When she saw Zhong Xiaomin, who came with her, marry her boyfriend, she cried all night and resigned the next day to go home. Later, I heard Zhong Xiaomin say that when she returned home, she was insane, and finally jumped off the building to commit suicide, just turning twenty-seven.
Liu Yan and Wang Xiaoling found two young men in the same factory machine repair workshop, and after a year of love, they were married. After returning from their hometown, they invited the sisters of the same team and the people in the machine workshop to dinner, and the wedding banquet was in a big hotel on the street, and everyone sincerely wished them happiness. After marriage, they rented out the house and left the dormitory in the factory.
Li Fang was favored by the boss's son, li Fangchang was the most beautiful of several girls, and industrious, hardworking, quiet, and after marrying the boss's son, she went to the factory department and was responsible for the production and operation management of the factory. The owner also liked the daughter-in-law. Li Fang and her husband followed behind the boss's father-in-law, operating the development of the textile factory, and the position of the boss lady was that she sat. Although her identity has changed, she has not forgotten to stay with us often, and will often invite us to sit at her house during breaks.
We still work backwards every day and night, around the loom, working hard in order to make more money, but our days are very stable and happy, and in life, although there is no earth-shattering shock, there is the warmth of the sun. I think that as long as the life is stable, healthy, and the family is happy, that is the greatest happiness. "If you're all right, it's sunny." This is my little happiness, and it is also my happiness and my own concept of happiness.
That's the true story of my roommates.
Text | starry sky
About the author: A migrant girl who likes literature, with novels, stories, essays, and photographic works. I like to write the bitterness, bitterness and saltiness of the day into the text, and express the voice of the heart.