Chapter 49 Chapter Thirteen

Well, next, we have nothing to remember.Hans still took Feng Liang to install the WC.Zhao Xinshu still goes to the mine twenty miles away every day to "guidance work", but along the way, he is always anxious to find out who Chen Shuzhen is, and he will unconsciously stare at a woman in her forties.Production at the General Machinery Factory continued as usual, and Factory Director Li was still busy with corporate reorganization and daily affairs.Secretary Wu continued to do his political and ideological work; Zhou, Zheng, and Wang were all as usual.The days passed quietly like this.In ordinary days, we still choose an unusual person to write about.In this valley, the only unusual person is Hans.

Hans is a patriot, but unfortunately he loves their Germany, not China.When he and Feng Liangcai came out of Director Li's office that day, doubts arose in their hearts: What happened?For a while it was said that Mr. Zhao had been transferred, and for a while it was said that Mr. Zhao was still in the factory.In Germany, he had heard that many intellectuals in China had some bizarre encounters in the past few years. So, did his old friend encounter similar misfortunes?In this way, Hans stopped working seriously, but he also stopped losing his temper with Feng Liangcai.When Feng Liangcai mistranslated, he just stood aside and watched coldly, or did it himself, and did not tell Feng Liangcai the multiple meanings of the word. The WC is not a precise machine, the parts are very clumsy, even without Feng Liangcai, he can assemble it with his fingers - the Tower of Babel can be built by people with different languages, let alone a WC?In a few days, the WC was installed and started up and running in the mine, and everything was normal.The people in the bureau came to check and accept it, and they were very satisfied and signed the contract. Hans packed his bags and left the next day.This time, he was obviously not as happy as the last time.Not to mention that Hans went to the south of the Yangtze River to visit mountains and rivers, and Feng Liangcai returned to the Provincial Academy of Social Sciences with a good appraisal and a thank you letter. Let's take a look at this WC.

The WC had just been running for half a month, and the whole machine was shaking as if suffering from a disease. Later, the shaking became more and more severe, and it almost fell apart immediately. The mine manager had to order to turn off the machine. WC became a pile of scrap metal piled there. This time, things got serious, and the production plan of the second mine was totally messed up.The bureau leader immediately ordered to check the reason. If it was the fault of the Germans, he would demand compensation from the German company.This task, of course, fell on the head of the General Machinery Factory.

Li Renzhong rushed to the scene with several technicians and a dozen workers.This is the first time he has seen an assembled WC. Looking at it from a distance, he knows that this is not an "advanced" thing, at most it is a product of the 1960s.This kind of thing is also manufactured in China, and it is even smarter than it.But what can I do?You went to buy it yourself, and it wasn't forced into your hands by others.Now, this huge waste is blocking the entrance of the tunnel, and all the workers who come in and out don't scold.Li Renzhong was dejected and thought, if he had listened to Zhao Xinshu's words, how could he have come to this point?The accident was quickly found out: there was nothing wrong with it, but all the bearings of the WC were worn out and deformed.How can it work if a person has arthritis in every joint in his body? "What a joke! What a joke!" Li Renzhong kicked the removed bearing and said angrily, "WC installs sliding bearings instead of rolling bearings. What kind of 'introduction' is this? According to this standard, we can all go west Germany has exported technology!"

The next step, is to examine the responsibilities.The bureau ordered to collect the contracts signed with the German company, the start-up records of each shift in the mine, and the precautions left by Hans, etc., and hand them over to the General Machinery Factory for analysis. "We must quickly find out who is responsible!" The director shouted to Wu Kegong on the phone, "This involves a large amount of foreign exchange! The person concerned, the engineer surnamed Zhao who understands German, was brought in overnight. Your report. You come to the meeting tomorrow morning with the report.” The director hung up the phone with a click, and Wu Kegong hurriedly sent someone to notify the party committee to hold. . "Oh, not all here!" Wu Kegong rolled his eyes. "There is also Mr. Zhao, hurry up and call Mr. Zhao. At this moment, only he can solve the problem!"

The car in the factory flew quickly to the single dormitory building, and the correspondent hurriedly stuffed Zhao Xinshu into the car.After a while, he came to the silent conference room. "Ah, come here!" Wu Kegong went up to meet him. "Mr. Zhao, take a quick look and compare our records with the instructions and precautions of the German company to see who is responsible for the damage to the WC." He put a lot of materials in front of Zhao Xinshu.Zhao Xinshu had already heard that there was a problem with WC, looked at everyone present, then sat down slowly, spread out the materials, and proofread word by word.Li Renzhong was a technician and knew foreign languages. He also checked out the accident. He was helping Zhao Xinshu.Everyone else anxiously walked around the conference room, smoking and drinking tea.If the responsibility cannot be checked out, they will not even think about going to sleep this night.

The contract was translated by Zhao Xinshu, and there were no mistakes, but he still checked it carefully from beginning to end.After checking the instructions and precautions left by Hans, he corrected Feng Liangcai's mistranslations one by one.The Chinese text translated by Feng Liangcai is densely filled with his words, just like a corrected primary school student's composition. "Oh, this is really, this is really..." Li Renzhong was so angry that he couldn't speak, he just shook his head and sighed.But Feng Liangcai's above translation has nothing to do with the accident. "Ah, here it is!" Zhao Xinshu raised his head suddenly, his dull eyes glowing.Zhou, Wu, Zheng, and Wang hurriedly gathered behind him. Even though they didn't understand German, they all stared at the manual on the table.

"It's like this," Zhao Xinshu held the manual to Secretary Wu's eyes, "the 27th sentence in the precautions of the manual: 'Ander Maschine sollenalle Lagergeschmiertwerden,' the correct translation should be 'All bearings on the machine should be lubricated '. But the Chinese text is translated as: 'All machine warehouses should be oiled'. This, this, people have already made it very clear..." "Hey!" Wu Kegong said in amazement, "How can you make such a big mistake?" Zhao Xinshu tilted his head and thought for a while, then said in an unsure tone: "It may be like this, the word 'Lager' has three meanings in German, one is 'camp' - the socialist camp, the capitalist camp, The 'camp' of the camp; one is the 'warehouse'; the other is the 'bearing'. This translator probably rarely touches the machine, so he considers it in terms of 'camp' and 'warehouse'. It is obviously outrageous to translate by 'camp' , It is more appropriate to translate it according to "warehouse". Since it is "warehouse", there is no problem of applying "lubricating oil", so he translated "lubricating oil" into "oil". This, this is just my immature If you have an opinion, please ask the leader to consider it.”

"Damn it!" Deputy Factory Manager Wang scolded angrily. "Fortunately, he only said 'oil', but didn't say what kind of sesame oil, sesame oil, cottonseed oil..." Deputy Director Zheng sat heavily on the sofa against the wall, without saying a word.Li Renzhong frowned and pulled the records of the mine to him, flipping through them page by page. "Yes!" Li Renzhong tapped the record with his knuckles. "We just ignore the most common things. We think that if others are advanced, then everything is advanced; who knows that WC is installed with sliding bearings. Since there is no notice on the precautions that it is necessary to apply lubricating oil, we can't think of it. Apply lubricating oil to it, because the most advanced bearings can not be lubricated. You can see this record, from the start to the shutdown, the bearing has never been lubricated.

There are three shifts a day, the machine keeps turning, and there is still a sliding bearing that does not wear out! " "So," Secretary Wu also sat down feebly, "the responsibility is not on the Germans, but on the translation?" "What's 'translating'?! I think it's on us!" Deputy Director Zheng threw angrily behind them One sentence. "We're still solving problems 'back to back'!" "Hey! In this way, we will lose 300,000 to 400,000 yuan even with the shutdown and maintenance!" Deputy Factory Director Wang, who is in charge of finance, immediately thought of the financial loss. "Hmph! It's just happened when the company was being reorganized and economic benefits were emphasized..."

The conference room fell silent all of a sudden, and the members of the party committee were all wondering: what is the reason for the loss of these hundreds of thousands?In whose name should this account be hung?Zhao Xinshu shrunk his head nervously, as if he was the culprit. "Hey! Mr. Zhao." Suddenly, Secretary Wu broke the dullness, "Think about it, have you sent a telegram to a man surnamed Qian, saying 'Look for 301'?" He is the secretary of the party committee, After all, he has the courage and courage to expose the problem without discussion by the party committee. "Well, well," Zhao Xinshu said in surprise, "Yes, yes, there is such a thing!" "Oh! What kind of telegram did you send that surnamed Qian? What does that telegram mean!" Secretary Wu sighed anxiously. "Me, he and I met in a hotel in City L. We played chess all night. When I arrived in City C the next day, I found a black cannon in my chess, so I gave him a copy." Telegram. Is there a problem with this?" "Ah! 'What's the problem', 'what's the problem'," Secretary Wu shook his head in amazement, "For you, there is no problem at all! But..." "'But', but it's too late for us to ask! We should have talked face-to-face with Lao Zhao long ago!" Li Renzhong stood up abruptly, walked to the window and stared at the light, lost in thought. "What is it that makes us never trust our comrades, and we have to wait to see his 'new situation'!" "Hey, Mr. Zhao," Zhou Shaowen, who had been silent all this time, asked, "Why did you spend a few cents to send a telegram to find that worthless chess piece? With that money, if you add some more, you can buy a new pair of chess pieces." Is it?" He still wanted to figure out what he suspected. The nerd watched the five party committee members suddenly put aside important WCs to ask about his telegram, and seemed to understand the connection between his telegram and the responsibility for the damage to the WC, and was so anxious that sweat broke out on his forehead.But he is quick-witted, and he knows that friendship, subtle secrets in the soul and other romantic things are unbelievable.In this case, the relationship between people and things is more convincing than the relationship between people.So, this nerd who had never lied in his life also lied, and said in a low voice, "I, I just, just got used to using the chess pieces I used to use... So I, I'm used to using this chess set." "Oh!" Secretary Wu patted the table, "Really, really... your habit! It's such a harmful thing!"