1977.
The country's economy is underdeveloped, and many families still cannot get enough to eat.
But for Hongqi Factory, the conditions were much better than those in the surrounding villages and among the local people. Not only did they have dormitory buildings for employees to live in, but the living facilities were also very good. There was a bathhouse in the factory area and a bathroom in the living area, and all of this was free. They could take a bath for free with the bath tickets issued monthly by the logistics department.
Upon entering the bathroom, Qiu Jingwen immediately stepped into the tub and plopped down in the hot water.
Several naked men sat around the pool, staring blankly at Qiu Jingwen with distorted and horrified expressions.
Veteran fitter He Mingde gave Qiu Jingwen a thumbs-up.
"Director Qiu, are you serious?! This pool is so deep you could wash away pig bristles, how could you even go down there?!"
Hearing He Mingde say that, Qiu Jingwen's skin seemed to finally feel something.
He immediately realized that the water in the pool was indeed too hot.
However, Qiu Jingwen's body seemed to have gone numb, and he was no longer afraid.
In fact, Qiu Jingwen had a very strange idea.
So what if it's hot? I'll just scald myself to death in this pool and be done with it.
This way, I won't have to think about Liu Han or that Kuomintang agent from over twenty years ago who suddenly appeared.
"I feel alright. I just got caught in the rain, and besides, my skin is thick and tough, it won't burn me."
Qiu Jingwen forced a smile at He Mingde, but secretly gritted his teeth and endured it.
He didn't even consider whether it would be hot or not.
What he is urgently considering now is how to deal with Liu Han's appearance.
Qiu Jingwen glanced around, slowly closed his eyes, and took a deep breath.
But Liu Han's old face appeared in his mind, especially that scar, which made him feel that it was somewhat dangerous.
As Liu Han's image surfaced in his mind, many events from twenty-seven years ago surged forth like a tide.
It's as if time is flowing backwards.
Qiu Jingwen felt as if she had traveled back to her childhood decades ago.
Speaking of which, Qiu Jingwen's family was quite wealthy when he was a child.
My parents were business owners; they ran a cloth shop, dealing in fabrics, and also worked as tailors.
In particular, her mother, Zhang Wenjuan, was a well-known tailor and sewing expert in a lane in Jing'an, Shanghai, and she also had two apprentices.
When Qiu Jingwen was about ten years old, he remembers that his parents donated a lot of cloth and money to the front lines during the war against the Japanese.
However, one day later,
An uncle surnamed Cheng, carrying a letter written by his father Qiu Zhongjing, suddenly took him and his sister Qiu Jingxuan in a rickshaw to an alley, then stuffed them into a black sedan. He drove them out of Shanghai overnight, put them on a train, and then took them to Nanjing, where they were picked up in Duliang, a small town in northern Jiangsu.
In Duliang County, Uncle Cheng also arranged accommodation for him and his sister, and not long after, he also helped them enroll in school in Duliang.
What Qiu Jingwen couldn't understand was that when he and his sister enrolled in school, the middle-aged man changed his name to Sun Jiadong and his sister's name to Sun Jiahui.
"Uncle Cheng, why did you change our names?"
On the way back to his residence from school, Qiu Jingwen asked the middle-aged man.
"Xiao Qiu, don't ask so many questions. Don't easily tell others your real names. This is for your safety as a sibling, and also for the safety of your parents. You should understand, right?"
"Where are my parents now?"
"Xiao Qiu, your parents have important work to do. I estimate that the whole country will be liberated in a few years, and you should be able to see each other soon."
"Uncle Cheng, don't my parents run a cloth shop?"
"Yes, they run a cloth shop, but there are wars going on everywhere, and they have a lot of things to deal with in their business."
Later, Uncle Cheng left them, and a middle-aged woman took over to take care of the siblings.
In the second year of the Liberation War, on the eve of liberation, the aunt who took care of them suddenly disappeared.
Later, he and his sister depended on each other for survival. The money their aunt left them was quickly used up, and the siblings' livelihood became a problem.
Just then, Qiu Jingwen, who had just graduated from junior high school, was suddenly dragged to an office at the school by Liu Han.
Liu Han first told Qiu Jingwen that he was the school's Chinese language teacher, and then he instilled many ideals and beliefs in him, and even said that he...
Their organization and army allowed him to live a life of luxury, with several silver dollars every month.
Upon hearing that there was a foreign territory, Qiu Jingwen followed Liu Han to a secret residence without hesitation.
Later, Qiu Jingwen learned that he had been recruited as a Kuomintang agent, and that the Kuomintang had given him intensive training, codenamed him Cobra, and that he and several others belonged to a so-called "hidden" group.
The naive Qiu Jingwen gradually came to understand that Liu Han was an enemy agent hiding in Duliang School.
Not long after Duliang was liberated, Uncle Cheng, who had taken him and his sister to Duliang, reappeared.
Uncle Cheng took him to the mountains and arranged for him to work in a company, while his sister Qiu Jingxuan was told that she had been sent to work in another place.
And so, Qiu Jingwen started working in the factory before he was even sixteen. He first apprenticed under his master and was later promoted step by step.
Over the years, he has done all sorts of jobs: fitter, lathe operator, milling machine operator, welder, boiler operator.
He became an all-rounder at the Hongqi Factory. It was through his hard work that the factory leaders appreciated him and promoted him step by step to his current position as workshop director.
The water in the pool is no longer so hot.
The naked men who had been sitting around the pool platform also went into the pool one by one.
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