Chapter Four
At this moment, at the entrance of the alley outside the Dongfang Daily Chemical Factory, five or six workshop workers were gathered together, waiting with great agitation.
The skinny guy just got the news that one of their brothers had been bullied by that group of factory cadres' children, and his chin was even swollen from being beaten.
How could I possibly swallow this insult!
In this Oriental Daily Chemical Factory, there has always been a division into two groups: 'children of factory cadres' and 'lower-level workshop workers'.
These two groups of people, due to their different backgrounds and family circumstances, have developed different social circles and habits.
The factory kids looked down on the factory slackers from the bottom of society, and the factory slackers looked down on the pretentious factory kids who acted arrogantly and domineeringly just because their parents had secured a small or medium-sized position in the factory.
The two groups have never gotten along, but at least they have never had a direct conflict before.
This time it's different. Those factory kids actually dared to physically assault people! They'll have to teach them a lesson, or they'll think they're easy to bully.
The factory thugs, armed with weapons and riding bicycles, stood menacingly on the roadside outside the main gate, waiting for their boss to arrive so they could lead them into battle to get revenge.
But after waiting and waiting, their leader, Lei Tingjun, never showed up.
After a while, Zhou Peng and the skinny guy walked over from the alley entrance, exchanging knowing glances. Liu Dagang craned his neck to look at them and went up to ask, "What's going on? Why are only the two of you here? Where's the boss?"
The skinny man, with his hands in the pockets of an old brown jacket, hunched his neck and chuckled ambiguously: "The boss is busy right now, he's on a date with the Oriental Pearl Tower."
"Oriental Pearl?" Liu Dagang asked in surprise, "You mean Director Ji's precious daughter? How could she possibly be dating Boss Lei? You're just making things up. Hurry up and go find the boss. So many of our brothers are waiting for him!"
"I said the boss is busy, and that means he's busy." Zhou Peng was the one who understood Boss Lei's thoughts best among them.
Although Boss Lei came from a humble background and had a poor family, he was naturally arrogant and had high standards, unlike these unambitious bachelors.
In their view, as long as the girl doesn't look down on them, they wouldn't dare to make any demands on her. They'd be lucky to find a partner in the factory to take home and get married.
But Boss Lei is not like that.
Sometimes, there would be female factory workers who didn't mind that he had nothing, but were attracted to his strength, and would subtly ask him through intermediaries if he wanted to date.
But Boss Lei refused without even asking the man's name.
Not to mention that when they went out to play, some girls who didn't know about Boss Lei's background were attracted by his tall and handsome appearance and expressed their desire to get to know him, but Boss Lei was not even willing to play along.
If it were a playboy like skinny Sun Xiaojun, if a girl was willing to come to him, he'd be happy to pursue her!
It wasn't until that time when Zhou Peng and Lei Tingjun went to the county to drive a car that Zhou Peng saw Lei Boss secretly take out money to buy an expensive crystal hair clip and put it on his body.
Then it was discovered that every time he appeared at the factory gate of the Oriental Pearl Tower, he would silently stare at people for a long time.
Zhou Peng secretly guessed that Boss Lei might really be interested in the factory director's daughter.
No wonder he has high standards; he only looks for the best.
Otherwise, I'd rather stay single.
But she is, after all, the factory director's daughter; how could she possibly be interested in him?
I recently heard that the son of Deputy Factory Director Yang, who had been studying away from home, has returned. He is young, promising, and educated, and is about the same age as Director Ji's daughter. They are childhood sweethearts who grew up together, so it would be only natural if they became a couple, making their relationship even closer!
Just now, Zhou Peng didn't expect that Director Ji's daughter would take the initiative to come and talk to Boss Lei.
Zhou Peng wondered to himself, could it be that something else is going on?
Zhou Peng pulled himself together and shouted, "Boss Lei is busy right now. It's just dealing with a few weak factory kids. We're enough for him. Come on, lead the way. Where are they? Take us there!"
A group of people grabbed their gear, got on their bicycles, and sped off toward the back gate of the staff compound.
The streets here are mostly occupied by employees or their families of the Dongfang Factory. When passersby see this group of factory thugs acting like this, they quickly walk around them, afraid of being targeted by them.
It was precisely because these factory loafers always appeared in such a boisterous and disorderly manner, in groups of three or five, that they left a very bad impression on the other employees in the factory.
They were seen as a bunch of good-for-nothing hooligans, the rotten apples in the factory, and no girl would want to date one of these good-for-nothing lads.
Meanwhile, the brothers over there went off to fight and cause trouble.
Meanwhile, Lei Tingjun rushed back to the staff dormitory without stopping after parting ways with Ji Wanmei.
This was in 1988. The factory's staff dormitories were still shared by multiple people in bunk beds, similar to the conditions of student dormitories in schools.
Entering from either side of the factory canteen leads to the dormitory area; the right side is the female staff dormitory, and the left side is the male staff dormitory.
A drab, six-story dormitory building with old brick walls. The stairs lead up to a long corridor with a room every twenty meters.
The brownish-yellow paint on the doors and window frames had long been worn away. Occasionally, a few dorm rooms that were a bit more particular would use a piece of cloth tied with a rope as a curtain.
Pushing open the door, I saw four bunk beds neatly arranged in the dormitory room, which was only for eight people.
There were also rooms for ten or twelve people.
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