Gao Shujing: "Okay, there just happened to be a bicycle and two watches that have been repaired. Captain, take them back together."
Captain Huang: "Wow, you've already produced three items so quickly. You're quite something."
Gao Shujing: "Guojing came and helped me a lot, which made things a bit faster."
Gao Guojing took over most of the housework, allowing Gao Shujing to spend more time on repairs.
Before making snail sauce, Gao Guojing would sometimes come over to help with the preparations and chores.
Gao Shujing's repair speed increased.
Captain Huang: "Brother Guojing can do repairs too?"
Gao Shujing: "He can do some simple tasks, but he doesn't know much about the more skill-based ones. He still has a lot to learn."
Captain Huang: "If Guojing decides to go to the countryside after graduating from high school, you must let him come here."
Although Gao Shujing said that Gao Guojing's skills were not up to par, with Gao Shujing around, Gao Guojing's skills would improve sooner or later.
Another technician, we have to bring him into our own pot.
Gao Shujing: "He just graduated from junior high school, so we'll have to wait."
After seeing Captain Huang off, Yu Rujia said, "With it burned like this, it must have been arson by someone. Maybe those people are involved too. Be careful when you go to the textile factory."
The factory is now a state-owned enterprise, with a security department that patrols 24 hours a day. Even if a fire accidentally starts, it will be discovered when it gets going.
For a large factory with one or two thousand employees to burn so thoroughly, someone must have poured oil beforehand to make the fire burn more fiercely, thus increasing the difficulty for the firefighters.
And those few who sacrificed their lives—someone among them must have discovered something, which is why they were silenced.
Gao Shujing came out of the bicycle shed: "Everything will be alright, don't worry."
As soon as Gao Shujing arrived at the commune, he was called into the office by the commune leader, Liu: "Shujing, the textile factory already has a heavy workload. With this fire, we won't be able to complete this year's tasks. I'll have to trouble you to work harder and put in extra hours during this period."
Gao Shujing: "President, I'm ready and can start working at any time."
President Liu nodded in satisfaction and said, "Very good, that's the spirit of serving the people we need. I've already spoken to Director Zhao, you can just go over and give your name."
On his first day at the textile factory, Gao Shujing didn't return until 10 p.m., and by the time he finished tidying up and went into his room it was already 11 p.m.
Seeing that Yu Rujia's eyes were half-open, Gao Shujing said softly, "Did I wake you up?"
Yu Rujia: "You didn't bring anything with you today. I was thinking you would come back, so I didn't sleep."
Gao Shujing's eyes softened a little as he lay down on the bed: "You don't need to wait anymore. I'm a grown man, I'll be fine."
Yu Rujia: "Shujing, it's too dangerous to come back so late. Why don't you see if you can apply for a bed at the factory and make do for now?"
No matter how skilled someone is in martial arts, they're still afraid of a kitchen knife. Saboteurs have weapons, and if they want to continue causing trouble, technicians like Gao Shujing will be their targets.
Gao Shujing: "You know my skills, it's alright. I'll try to come back earlier next time."
Yu Rujia didn't believe him at all. Did he think he could do whatever he wanted in this situation?
Yu Rujia: "With the textile factory in this state, the factory would love for you to stay there 24 hours a day to fix the machines. They wouldn't want you to come back early, so don't try to fool me."
"Bring some changes of clothes and daily necessities tomorrow. If there's a bed available, stay there for now. It's easy to dodge an open arrow, but hard to guard against a hidden one, especially with those people around."
“Even if you don’t think about yourself, you have to think about us. There are a lot of things waiting for you at home, and you can’t afford to get hurt.”
Gao Shujing felt a warmth in his heart. In fact, the situation at the textile factory was far worse than they had imagined. Those people had spilled oil in many important places, and there were hardly any good machines left in the factory.
The textile factory had an accident, and the original Party Secretary and Factory Director were dismissed. The current Factory Director, Zhao, was just appointed this morning. Seeing the terrible state of the textile factory, he has been calling technicians all day.
For the technicians who repair things in the workshop, they wished they could just stay in the workshop.
Factory Director Zhao also told them that he could arrange rooms for these visiting technicians.
Gao Shujing declined the room arranged by Director Zhao because he had left in a hurry and had things to do at home that he hadn't made proper arrangements.
Gao Shujing was confident in his skills, but Yu Rujia was right. If he came home late every night, it would indeed worry his family.
Gao Shujing: "I'll listen to you. I'll bring my personal belongings tomorrow morning and finish my work at the factory as soon as possible before coming back."
That being said, he still felt uneasy. Just over ten days into their marriage, when they were deeply in love, he had to move out for work.
The next day, Gao Shujing took his things to the textile factory and told Director Zhao that he would stay at the factory until production resumed.
Factory Director Zhao said with delight, "Thank you for your support, Officer Gao. I'll have someone arrange a room for you right away, and I'll make sure you stay comfortably."
Director Zhao was well aware of the state of the factory. When he was urgently transferred here yesterday, the town's only level-nine engineer had already told him that half of the machines were beyond repair.
However, resources are in short supply everywhere right now, and the cost of buying machines is too high. If all the machines that cannot be repaired were to be bought again, the amount of money required would be enormous. Even if the funds were finally raised, it would be difficult to buy the machines.
That's why he's been making calls everywhere, trying to find some skilled engineers to come and fix as many machines as possible.
When Gao Shujing came over yesterday, everyone was so busy that Director Zhao just randomly picked someone to take him to the workshop.
The man led Gao Shujing over, pointed to a broken machine and told him to choose which one to repair.
Gao Shujing, unaware of what had happened before, unintentionally picked a machine that the engineer had determined was unrepairable and started repairing it. By evening, the machine actually started working, astonishing the engineer and other knowledgeable people in the factory.
Factory Director Zhao was overjoyed, thinking that as expected of someone sent by the commune, his skills were truly top-notch, which was why he was so enthusiastic towards Gao Shujing.
Gao Shujing: "Director Zhao, don't rush. I spent the whole day at the factory yesterday, and I have an idea I'd like to discuss with you."
Factory Director Zhao: "Please feel free to share your thoughts, Officer Gao."
Gao Shujing: "Most of the machines in the factory are too badly damaged to be worth repairing. I thought it would be better to take a different approach and disassemble these machines for major modifications."
"Perhaps we can make them work in another form."
Although Gao Shujing was technically skilled, he was unable to get the machine, which was more than half damaged, working again. He racked his brains and came up with some new feasibility ideas, but to operate according to his plan, he needed the approval of Director Zhao.
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