Old Liu first said that they were a family, and then asked him if he had a wife. This was already obvious.
"I already have a wife, and I have a rural household registration." Wan Feng said a little shyly.
It seems a bit embarrassing for him to say that he has a wife at his age. It is normal in the countryside, but it is undoubtedly an anomaly in the city.
Liu Wanli was stunned for a moment, then burst into laughter: "This kid."
There was a factory guesthouse right at the entrance of the Shijiazhuang Tractor Parts Factory. Wan Feng and his two companions booked a four-person room and stayed there to wait for the piston rings from Liu Wanli and his son.
Liu Wanli said it would take at least two days to complete.
The basic materials of piston rings are usually steel and ductile gray cast iron. The piston rings of Shijiazhuang Tractor Parts Factory are almost all steel rings.
Steel rings offer higher tensile and fatigue strength, solving a host of problems in highly stressed engines. They are stronger, stiffer, seal better, and resist wear and tear under load, making them ideal for any application involving high combustion temperatures, high compressive loads, and stringent emissions standards.
Wan Feng and his group will have to stay here for at least two days.
After dinner, Liu Wanli and his son went into the factory with the dimensions of the parts.
Wan Feng and the other two, accompanied by Liu Xiyuan, first enjoyed the scenery in the city and its surroundings.
Shijiazhuang still has many historical sites, such as the revolutionary holy land of Xibaipo; the Zhaozhou Bridge that we learned about in elementary school textbooks; Zhangshiyan, known as the essence of Taihang Mountain Forest Park; as well as some famous temples and the Qinhuang Ancient Road.
These attractions are all within tens to hundreds of kilometers around Shijiazhuang.
Wan Feng and his friends had limited time in the afternoon, so they only went to Zhao Yun's hometown, Zhengding.
If you say Zhengding, few people will know what it is, but if you say its other name is Changshan, anyone who has read the Romance of the Three Kingdoms will be enlightened.
You read that right, this is the hometown of Zhao Zilong of Changshan.
At that time, Zhengding was not yet a city area of Shijiazhuang. It could only be said to be a small ancient city in the suburbs of Shijiazhuang. The three of them followed Liu Xiyuan on the bus to the ancient city of Zhengding and visited the hometown of Zhao Yun.
There is an old Zhao Yun Temple here, but unfortunately it is not open to the public. It was not opened to the public until the new temple was completed in 1997, but that was more than ten years later.
Another famous historical site in Zhengding is Longxing Temple.
It is said that Longxing Temple was first built in the sixth year of Kaihuang in the Sui Dynasty, and was rebuilt in the Song Dynasty and Qing Dynasty.
Wan Feng was not very interested in temples. He wandered around Longxing Temple out of boredom and the afternoon was almost over.
When he returned to his residence, Luo Zhongxing kept complaining about leg pain and threatened that he would not go for a walk with you two guys tomorrow.
This is normal. It is unrealistic to ask a man in his fifties or sixties to run all over the mountains with two young men.
After dinner, Liu Xiyuan and his brother Liu Yang came to the guesthouse. Liu Yang brought a girl with him, who seemed to be his girlfriend.
Liu Yang told Luo Zhongxing that he and his father had already made ten pairs of piston ring blanks, and all they had to do was carry out the final processing and treatment tomorrow.
"Little brother Wan, where are you going to play tomorrow?"
Liu Xiyuan is very concerned about Wan Feng, his savior.
"Tomorrow? Let's go to Xibaipo tomorrow. Now that we're here, Xibaipo is a must-see."
As the last rural command center before liberation, Wan Feng believed that this was a place he absolutely had to visit. In his previous life, he had never been to Beihe Province and had never been to Xibaipo, so this time he had to go and see it.
"Then I'll come at half past six tomorrow morning."
"Wait, Sister Yuanyuan, aren't you going to work? You don't have to miss work just to hang out with us. We won't get lost."
Taking leave or being absent from work at random is not a trivial matter.
"I don't have a job. I'm an unemployed young person." Liu Xiyuan said a little embarrassedly.
What is there to be embarrassed about for unemployed young people? There are not many unemployed young people in that big city. If you don’t have the nerve to come out and say hello!
“Is it difficult to find a job in Shijiazhuang?”
Liu Xiyuan nodded: "Many factories are not doing well now. They can't pay wages even if you go there, and the good ones are hard to get into."
"Then why don't you start your own business? If you can't find a good project, come to Wahou. We have the largest wholesale market in the three northeastern provinces."
Liu Yang's eyes lit up instantly. "I heard some business people here say that the Wahou Market is where you are?"
Of course, I am the founder of that grand gathering.
"You can get some goods from us and sell them, which will guarantee you a day's income..." Wan Feng's voice became softer and softer, and he finally stopped talking weakly.
She is road-blind, and if she goes to pick up the goods, she might even be kidnapped.
"Why don't you come work for us? I guarantee you'll get 800 yuan a year. How about that?"
"Eight hundred!"
Even Liu Yang was surprised by this figure. Their tractor parts factory was considered a well-performing factory in Shijiazhuang. The current salary plus bonus was only 43 or 44 yuan a month, which was only about 500 yuan a year.
But Wan Feng easily said eight hundred, and it was the amount of money he took home. Based on this calculation, his annual income would be at least a thousand.
Not to mention a household with an annual income of 10,000 yuan, even a household with an annual income of 1,000 yuan in 1983 was something to be envied.
Liu Xiyuan also became jealous: "Can you really make that much?"
The number of households with annual income of 1,000 yuan in our area is counted in hundreds.
Wan Feng glanced at Liu Xiyuan and sighed again: "No way, even if you follow me when we go, you might get lost when you come back for the New Year, and I can't come to see you off."
"What if the two of us go?" Liu Yang's girlfriend couldn't help but interrupt.
"Ah, sister-in-law, are you going too?"
"Go! Your brother and I haven't gotten married yet, who knows who she is." Liu Yang's girlfriend is also a very interesting person.
"Shu Ying, your factory..."
"Our shabby factory is on the brink of collapse. It might even go bankrupt one day. Didn't the government introduce unpaid leave last month? I'm planning to be one of the first people in Shijiazhuang to receive such a leave."
On June 11, 1983, the then Ministry of Labor and Personnel and the State Economic Commission jointly issued the "Notice on Enterprise Employees' Requests for 'Paid Leave'." The notice stipulated that unpaid leave generally would not last more than two years, and employees would not receive promotions or various allowances, subsidies, or labor insurance benefits during the period.
It can be said that this policy at that time changed the fate of many people.
When this policy was first introduced, many people didn't understand what it was for, but this woman named Shu Ying was already prepared to take advantage of it. She was no ordinary woman.
However, unpaid leave is also very troublesome. It is not something that can be approved the next day if you apply today. Don’t even think about being successful without ten days or half a month.
"I'll go back to the factory tomorrow to apply for unpaid leave, but Yuanyuan's savior, are you telling the truth?"
Wan Feng was questioned.
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