Chapter 72 9 Labor and optimism

After this visit, I firmly believe that the door to the new society is open to me, and the problem is up to me. I entered 1958 with hope.At this point I already had optimism.This sentiment first appeared in the autumn of 1957 when coal was being lifted. Every autumn, the management office transports a large amount of coal, some of which are prepared for heating in winter, and some of which are made into briquettes for use in vegetable greenhouses.The vegetables we eat in winter are all grown in our own greenhouses. In the past, we were not needed to carry coal and make coal bricks every time. We only started to participate in this labor from this year.At this time, my physique was very different from previous years.In this group, Laowang, Mongolian Laozheng, and a puppet general are younger, and all the heavy work is done by the four of us, so I have been exercised, and my physical fitness has been significantly improved. The previous problems have all been eliminated. disappear.In the labor of making coal bricks, I was responsible for the laborious work of lifting coal.This day, because the director and some cadres came to participate in the production of coal bricks, everyone worked very hard.Before the completion of the work, Lao Xian and I carried three more full baskets.

While handing over the tools, I heard Warden Wang say to a companion: "I think Puyi's work is real. He doesn't choose conspicuous things." Lao Xian and I put down the coal basket and went to the tree to get clothes to wear. The director smiled and asked me: "Puyi, is your shoulder okay?" I looked at my shoulder and replied, "No pain, no swelling, just a little red." "How's your appetite now?" "Three big bowls of dry rice, and more than thirty big dumplings." "No more insomnia?" "Lie down and fall asleep without any illness."

All the people present, whether they were staff from the institute or partners, all cheered at me.Obviously, this is a completely different laugh than before.I feel that the days of being ridiculed are over. At this time, I also made progress in other aspects, such as studying "Political Economics" and "Historical Materialism", which was not as difficult as before, and the distance between myself and others was greatly reduced in terms of tidy clothes.However, what I am most confident about is labor.As long as I'm not asked to do delicate work like making paper flowers, my grades are always top-notch.Even those with the best theoretical grades can't help but envy me in this respect.

The envy of my colleagues and the growth of my confidence are not so much due to the establishment of the concept of labor, but rather the enlightenment of the new labor atmosphere in society.Since the end of 1957, we have noticed a new trend from the newspapers, letters from home, and various new developments of the personnel in the institute. It seems that everyone is vying to participate in physical labor and regards manual labor as the most important thing. glorious thing.Tens of thousands of cadres have gone to the mountains and countryside, labor classes have been added to schools, and various short-term voluntary labor teams have emerged.In the institute, we not only saw the cadres making coal briquettes, but also saw the director and section chiefs washing vegetables in the kitchen, lighting a fire, and picking and delivering food in Nandao.Every morning, before we got up, the sound of wooden wheels and the clashing of picks and shovels came from the yard.This voice tells us that the director and cadres have gone out to open up wasteland in the back mountains.All this enlightens us that in the new society, labor is a standard for measuring people, and of course, there is no exception in transformation.

I forgot who told me that many people mistakenly regard labor as God's punishment for human beings, but only the Communist Party correctly regards labor as human beings' own rights.At that time, I had lost interest in any gods and Buddhas, and I couldn't see the relationship between labor and God.Each of us can see that labor is indeed a natural thing for Communists.I remember one time when we cleared a pile of rubbish, the well-mannered officer Li walked by, picked up a shovel and started working. He did it faster and more quickly than us, and he didn't feel redundant at all.

In 1958, the emphasis on labor and the upsurge in labor made us feel even more deeply.I learned many new things from the letters from Beijing.The second younger sister, who has never been bored at home and does not care about foreign affairs, participated in the activities on the street, happily preparing for the street nursery, and prepared to help the mothers who took part in labor to take care of their children.The fourth sister who worked in the Forbidden City participated in the voluntary labor of repairing the lake outside Deshengmen, and was named a "five good" activists.Both the third brother-in-law and the third younger sister participated in the study of the District Political Consultative Conference.Laorun and the old men of the District Political Consultative Conference participated in the labor of the Ming Tombs Reservoir Project. The combined age of these people is 766 years old. They are called "766 Huangzhong Team" on the construction site. The creation of advanced experience has been praised.The fifth brother-in-law Lao Wan and the fifth younger sister proudly reported the news about their eldest son. This geology college student participated in the scientific research work on the utilization of ice and snow. As a vanguard marching towards nature, he was exploring and climbing a snow peak in the northwest of the motherland. .Several nephews and Da Li have jobs, and have worked as production team leaders on the suburban farm.Labor is everywhere, jubilation is everywhere, and the sound of war drums marching towards nature is everywhere.Everyone contributes to the great historical movement to change the backwardness of the motherland.Such was the atmosphere reflected in the letters home the partners had received.Later, when everyone found out that Chairman Mao, Premier Zhou and the ministers had all participated in the labor of the Ming Tombs Reservoir, they could not calm down. They unanimously proposed to the institute and the academic committee to organize productive labor.

The institute met everyone's requirements and first set up a pilot motor factory to manufacture small motors.Later, because this kind of production was very promising, and our first institute had weak and few manpower, it was handed over to the war criminals of the Chiang Kai-shek clique in the third and fourth institutes, and other labor was arranged for us.The arrangement this time is based on the conditions of each person's physique and knowledge, and focuses on cultivating production skills.We have compiled five professional groups, namely animal husbandry group, food processing group, gardening group, vegetable and greenhouse group and medical group.I, Lao Yuan, Lao Xian, Lao Qu (Governor of Siping of the Puppet Manchukuo), and Lao Luo (Puppet Manchukuo's envoy stationed abroad) were assigned to the medical team.Our job is to clean the infirmary every day, undertake all chores and part of the work of medical assistants, and learn by doing. In addition, there are two hours of medical courses every day. Under the guidance of the medical room temperature doctor, we read books and discuss together.All four of my classmates had been doctors, three of them studied Western medicine, and Lao Luo and I studied Chinese medicine.In addition, acupuncture is a common class for five people.After working in groups for a while, I gained new confidence.

When I first arrived in the medical team, the medical assistant business was far inferior to those four students.When I made surgical cotton balls, I made them look like they were plucked from old cotton wool; At first, I was always in a hurry, and I couldn't get it right.Only when doing chores and using physical strength, I am better than each of them.Later, I made up my mind that I must learn business well.Doctors or nurses have taught me, and I will ask my classmates for advice, and my classmates have taught me, but I am alone and keep practicing.After studying like this for a period of time, I gradually got acquainted with the medical assistant business.At that time, a Japanese war criminal came to electrotherapy every day. After each session, he always bowed deeply to me and said, "Thank you, Mr. Doctor." It caused a misunderstanding, but it also shows that my operation technique has been trusted by patients.At the end of the first course, Dr. Wen gave us a test, and I got a perfect score just like everyone else.

When I was trial-manufacturing the motor, I encountered a very troublesome thing.The production group list of electric motors was proposed by the academic committee.After the release of Lao Wan, Xiao Rui and others, everyone newly elected Lao Wei, Pu Jie, Lao Wang and two puppet generals as the committee members, with Lao Wei as the chief committee member.The academic committee does not allow me to do any technical work, nor do I do any dangerous work. I am afraid that I will damage the coil, and I am afraid that I will have an accident with cast iron. As a result, I only entrust the simplest work to Me, let me pound coke with some old men--pound big coke into small pieces.I took this as a contempt for me, and I negotiated several times to no avail.Now, I have learned the job of medical assistant like everyone else. Even the Japanese who treats high blood pressure mistook me for a doctor. I got a perfect score in the first test. I believe that I am not very stupid. Confidence is bound to be able to learn a skill, without four hundred and sixty-eight treasures, self-confidence can still live.

One day, I asked to see the director.At this time, the old director had already transferred his job, and this place became his part-time unit, so he didn't come to work often. I was interviewed by a deputy director named Jin.The young deputy director was proficient in Japanese and was originally in charge of Japanese war criminals. After a large number of Japanese war criminals were repatriated, he took care of the work of the whole institute.I told him: "The government should have officially accepted the batch of jewelry I handed over. I have already thrown away the deposit note."

I thought the deputy director might not be clear about the process of this matter, so I wanted to repeat it from the beginning, but he immediately smiled and said: "I know about this. Why, you already have the confidence to support yourself?" On this day, I spent a whole day telling the history of each of the 468 treasures (which later entered the showroom), and a clerk made a record.Having finished this work, I went out into the yard, feeling relaxed and thinking: "The words of the deputy director are undoubtedly a valuable appraisal. It seems that I have made good progress, right? Is it almost time to be a decent person?"