When people reach middle age, they have more and more memories. Busy running for a living during the day, in the dead of night, the complicated affairs have been dealt with. Finally, with a little free time, I can sit down and drink a cup of tea slowly. In the aroma, the aftersound of ancient songs, three or two cups of tea into the belly, the experience of working in Dongguan will come to mind. Although twenty years have passed, many of the details are still alive.
Like most of my peers, my purpose in going south to Dongguan was nothing more than to earn some broken silver, and when the conditions were ripe, I would return to my hometown to live a peaceful life. The dream of going south was thought of before departure. You can open a shop and live the life of a wife and children. Even if you can't do a small business, you can also consider doing some farming, as long as you don't have to be like your fathers, with your back to the loess and facing the sky.
Of course, in the end I didn't make that dream come true. Because Dongguan has changed me, not only me, Dongguan has also changed thousands of rural youths who, like me, went south with simple dreams and gave birth to more new ideas. Sorry, I'm a little far away, but let's go straight to the subject and talk about the people and things in the factory.
I came to Dongguan one day in the autumn of 1997, at first at an embossing factory in Wanjiang. The embossing factory is small and employs fewer than a hundred people. The work assigned to me is flower arrangement, the salary is piece-rate, and the work is more. It seems fair, however, once you are familiar with all the processes and improve efficiency, the boss will lower the unit price. I work for more than ten hours a day, non-stop, and the income will be enough to make ends meet.
Fortunately, two months later, my fate took a turn for the better. At the recommendation of a fellow villager, I went to Chang'an Town and became a material clerk in an electronics factory. In the 1990s, the electronics factory was the work unit that all migrant workers aspired to, which was clean, easy to work, and the income was not bad. Especially the most enviable, the electronics factory can be called "daughter country", gathering beautiful women from all over the world. Men enter the factory, even if the conditions are no longer good, want to fall in love and find a wife, it is easy to backhand.
In our workshop, there were three pulls, each of which had forty or fifty people, and the employees on the pullers were almost all girls. And they are all young, I have looked for a job in an industrial area before, and when I see the conditions on the recruitment notice, there is basically a unified standard: female, aged 17-25 years old. I don't know who set this standard and recruited these young and beautiful girls to the factory production line.
Each pull has an material clerk, and the material clerk is naturally a man, because he has to do some dirty work and miscellaneous vitality. Material clerk is actually a good name, in fact, it is more appropriate to say that it is a handyman. However, even if it is a handyman, it is easy to enter the factory, if there is no relationship, or not a relationship, there is a backstage in the factory, and entering the factory is a delusional thing.
The reason why I was able to enter the factory was entirely because the compatriot who introduced me into the factory had a very hard relationship, and his wife worked as an accountant in the factory. This is a white-collar worker, blowing air conditioning, envied, and the salary is much higher than that of us on the assembly line.
I was lucky that the pull I was in, stretched, was a fellow of my city, and I remembered his name, and his name was Liu Anding. He was twenty-five years old. Half a year ago, he was just promoted to elongated. Elongation is somewhat authoritative, not only can arrange your workstation, but also can assess your grades, if the conditions are advantageous, when recruiting inside the factory, elongated has the right to recommend you. If you have offended the elongation, then sorry, it is almost impossible to recommend such a thing as a salary increase.
However, Liu Anding's elongation is different from other elongations, it is said that he is three points behind in the college entrance examination, but it is these three points that have changed his life. When he first arrived in Dongguan, he was depressed and depraved, living the life of being a monk hitting a bell one day. The change in his fate stemmed from the fact that he met a female worker. The woman, willow eyebrows, big eyes, extremely white complexion, especially her lips, extremely sexy.
He was hopelessly in love with her, but she already had a boyfriend by then. Liu Anding did not die, exerting his strengths in writing, one love letter a day, launching a fierce attack. The girl was not motivated, but her boyfriend was shaken, and many questions arose in his heart, believing that there was a problem between them.
The girl was angry and left her job. The two men remained, looking at each other. The two ordered fried rice noodles at the food stall at the entrance of the factory, and two fried snails, and drank five bottles of beer. Liu Anding drank four bottles, and the man was overwhelmed with wine and drank only one bottle. After the supper, both of them were drunk. They talked a lot of heartfelt words to each other, and there was a feeling that they didn't fight or don't know each other. Since then, they have become friends. The girl with the big lips, go away. After all, there is a lot of shortage in the factory, but there is no shortage of girls.
The man soon made another girlfriend, Liu Anding, who couldn't let go of her in his heart, and was embarrassed to say it. Since then, I have no intention of falling in love and began to study work. One after another, they won the trust of their supervisors. In addition, Liu Anding went to high school, somewhat cultured, and had many ideas in his heart, and the supervisor promoted him to be the supervisor in an internal recruitment.
At that time, Liu Anding was already 24 years old. Now it seems that this is really too young. As mentioned earlier, Liu Anding is different from other elongations, he is not the kind of person with majesty, he advocates happy work and happy life. At first, the girls on the pull thought he was deliberately plotting to see who was a thorn in the head and disobedient. After finding out his bottom line, he was naturally bold and bold, and his words were not big or small. However, for Liu Anding, this is all within the permission.
The female workers are only about to become adults, mostly 18 years old, but at most 22 years old. Often, they will joke with elongated Liu Anding, elongated, how old are you? Liu Anding said proudly, 24. The girls said, wow, 24 years old, so old.
About the past of elongating Liu Anding, it was the female worker who pulled up to tell me. Because Liu and I are fellow countrymen. In addition, we pulled up, except for Liu Anding, me, and another male worker, all the others were female workers. The two of us also became allies, and I was closest to Liu Anding because of my fellow countrymen.
Privately, I asked Liu Anding if there were any female workers who liked him? Every now and then, Liu Anding was a little embarrassed. He didn't say it directly, only gave an example. We pulled up another male worker, surnamed Zhong. The clock has no rank, just the general workers in the workshop. On the contrary, we pulled up the Hebei girl with a loud voice and obeyed him. Zhong actually belongs to nothing, but the Hebei girl is bold, and she does not care what others think, she takes the initiative to pursue Zhong. Faced with the girl's active pursuit, Zhong quickly fell drunk under her pomegranate skirt.
There are several layers of meaning in Liu Anding's words, one is the story of Zhong, indicating that the female workers in the factory take the initiative to chase after the male workers. The second suggests that if I have an idea about which female worker, I just have to be bold and confident to chase it. Third, since male general workers have people who take the initiative to pursue, then, as a male elongator, he is definitely more favored by girls. Later, I learned that there are indeed female workers who like Liu Anding, not the team members' liking for elongation, but the joy of men and women. And not only one, but three or four female workers have clearly expressed such ideas. However, our elongated Comrade Liu Anding refused. Why? Because after the girl with the big lips left, after another six months, his soul was taken away by a female clerk in the office.
Liu Anding knew the female clerk, but the female clerk did not know her. Not only did Liu Ding'an know the female clerk, but many male and female workers in the factory knew the female clerk. Because she was the runner-up in the model contest in the factory. It stands to reason that the championship should be more concerned. However, the champion of the competition is the boss's gold. Even if Liu Anding liked it, he didn't dare to hit the boss's daughter's idea. Like many others, he turned to the second place and focused on female clerks.
The model contest in the factory can only be regarded as self-amusement. Because, to get a ranking, in addition to a few hundred cash prizes, there is no other benefit, let alone change the fate. However, even so, the white-collar workers who blow air conditioners in the office are still far away from Liu Anding, who works as a coolie in the workshop.
Finally, one day, Liu Anding plucked up the courage to write a heartfelt love letter to the runner-up female model, however, as soon as the letter was sent, Liu Anding was asked by the head of the personnel department to talk. It turns out that female models have long been supervisors. Although it is well known that supervisors have marriages.
Liu Anding has since completely died and devoted all his energy to his work. Two years later, he left for an electronics factory in Humen, where he became a supervisor and later promoted to manager. Of course, this is an afterthought and has nothing to do with this article.
Although the work of material clerk is tiring, it is indeed an enviable profession as Liu Anding said. Because of this kind of work, there are many opportunities to contact girls. I know a lot of girls, and no matter how tired I am at work, it is not easy to feel relaxed. It's just that at that time, I was still young, I didn't understand many things, and now that I think about it, I missed a lot of true feelings.
There was no overtime this night, and the workers almost poured out. Pat drag, date date, eat supper, look at the projection to see the projection, shopping to buy clothes shopping for clothes. I had nothing to do, so I lay down on my dorm bed and listened to the radio. Only the music on the radio can soothe my homesickness.
I was listening to it fascinatingly, when suddenly there was a knock at the door. Looking up, it was Xiaoying who we pulled up. Calling Xiaoying is actually not accurate, because she is a year older than me. But I've been working outside the home for three years and know all kinds of things in the factory.
She said she wanted to go to Evergreen Road to buy something, but she was afraid to walk at night and asked if I could give her a courage. I was originally reluctant, but in the end I was soft-hearted, and looking at her like that, I felt that it was a sin not to help her again. So, get up and accompany her to Changqing Road.
From the factory to Changqing Road, there are twenty-three meters of road, in the dark. Halfway through, Xiaoying suddenly took my hand, and I panicked at once, and my heart was pounding. I wanted to let go of my hand, but I felt that letting go at the moment was a bit unsatisfactory, not like the actions of a man. After all, she told me explicitly that she was afraid. I took her hand and walked the whole way, and I'm sure she must have felt my heart pounding.
Since that night, all of a sudden, I've become her boyfriend. The news was spread by her, and I was at a loss for words, wanting to deny it and feeling that if a girl dared to announce that you were her boyfriend. And you deny it, and the consequences must be very serious, and it may bring unimaginable harm to her.
I was silent. And my silence hurt myself, and I hurt another girl named Ah Ping.
Ah Ping is the assistant pull on our pull, I like her, but my heart is afraid, after all, I am only a material clerk, and she is a helper, the next step, is to stretch, I think I go after her, will be said to be high climbing. This is still a nice saying, ugly, and people will say that ugly toads want to eat swan meat.
But in fact, I can also feel Ah Ping's care for me. It's just that I can't believe it. And the reason why I am so sure now is because after Xiaoying announced the relationship between the two of us, her attitude towards me was obviously much colder. After another three months, she left the electronics factory. Listening to her fellow villagers, she went to Qiaotou Town.
My relationship with Xiaoying did not last long. At the end of that year, we went home for the New Year, and after that, she never came back. I don't know why. But at the time, it was a common phenomenon. After all, transportation was not convenient at that time, and the chances of success of love in other provinces were pitifully low.
To be honest, I don't miss Xiaoying, but I miss Ah Ping all the time. I will never see her again, here, I wish her all the best, a sweet life, and I wish all the migrant workers in the world happiness and health, and all the best. (Dictation: Netizens "caress the wind and listen to the rain", written by: Three Frightened Fat Grandpa)
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