Chapter 39 first quarter

1 After the winter vacation, we ushered in the second semester of our junior year.The school arranged for us to visit a machine tool factory in Changping for a one-month internship. In the early morning of the first Monday, I was woken up by a loud noise. When I opened my eyes, everyone was scrambling to get up, get dressed, brush their teeth and wash their faces, and complain about the brutal violence at the school, which broke everyone’s routine of getting up at 10 o’clock. , Many students took the morning bus while half asleep and half awake, and rushed on the expressway leading to Changping.

The internship content on the first morning was very simple. A college student who had just graduated and was assigned here led us to visit the factory.This man's surname is Zhang. There is no big age difference between us and we have a common language, so we call him affectionately: Lao Zhang. At noon, Lao Zhang took us to the restaurant inside the factory for dinner. The food was richer than we expected. Yang Yang, Qi Sixin and I not only drank a few bottles of beer, but also smoked a few sticks of "Marlboro". We were a little flattered by this . I asked Lao Zhang, "Shall we eat here every day in the future?"

Lao Zhang chewed peanuts and said: "How can such a good thing happen, we will all have to eat in the cafeteria in the future, today is special."He pointed to a big dilapidated house outside the window and said, "That's right there." Outside the window, a female employee was pouring the food in the lunch box into the large vat at the door, and a group of black flying insects flew out of the vat in fright. In the afternoon, we had an internship group. Yang Yang and I were assigned to the painting workshop, and Qi Sixin was assigned to the forging workshop. Yang Yang and I stayed in the workshop with nothing to do, so we decided to visit other students.As soon as we walked out of the painting workshop, we saw Qi Sixin pushing a small cart full of bricks and passed by with difficulty. We stopped him and asked, "What are you pushing bricks for?"

Qi Sixin pointed to the forging workshop and said: "Those bastards are playing cards in the workshop and asked me to come out and push bricks, what a fucking grandson!" Yang Yang said: "You put the car aside and don't care about them!" Qi Sixin stacked the bricks that were about to fall and said: "They said that I would not be allowed to leave work if I could not finish pushing five carts of bricks!" After speaking, he roared, pushed the cart and rushed forward. At night, Qi Sixin was so tired that his back ached, he lay down on the bed early to rest, and moaned, "I won't go tomorrow no matter what!"

"Why?" I asked. Qi Sixin said that when he got off work, he saw some trucks full of bricks driving into the factory continuously. On the second day, Qi Sixin did not go to the factory for an internship.A week later, none of the classmates showed up at the factory. The internship these days is only boring. Everyone sits in a huge room all day long, waiting for the bell to ring at noon from the morning, and then rushes to the cafeteria with a lunch box, grabbing it before the engineers and workers. lunch.After lunch, everyone lay on the table or leaned against the wall or stood up to take a nap until the bell rang and disappeared quickly with their schoolbags on their backs.

2 One morning in the second week, the Beijing area was cooled by strong winds.I was woken up by the ringing of the phone in my sweet dreamland. When I opened my eyes, I saw Qi Sixin looking at me with bright eyes. I pretended to be extremely sleepy and told him to answer the phone. He lay on the bed shaking his head and said: : "No." I was going to answer the phone, but as soon as I lifted the corner of the quilt, I felt chilly, so I wrapped the quilt tightly again and lay down inside, hoping that Qi Sixin couldn't stand it anymore or the ringing of the phone would disappear automatically.

At this time, Yang Yang poked his head out from the upper bunk and saw us lying indifferently with our eyes open, so he said, "Why don't you answer the phone?" No one paid attention to him, and the ringing continued. "Fuck, I'll pick it up, you're so fucking lazy!" Yang Yang relied on his abs, which he was proud of all day, without using his hands to support him, so he sat up in a lying position. of violent tremors. "Okay, let me pick it up! I stopped Yang Yang in time, because every time he got out of bed, he didn't see clearly the situation below. He stretched out his foot and stepped on it. Several times he stepped on my face to complete the movement of getting out of bed. Yes, and every time he would smile and say to me after landing smoothly: "Oh, I didn't see it again. "I am very sure that Yang Yang's behavior was not unintentional. Once, I knew he was going to get out of bed, so I quickly hugged his head with my hands, but my stomach became the first place for him to get out of bed. I just finished eating. I was about to go to bed with a big bowl of noodles. The stepping almost caused my life to be in danger. Afterwards, Yang Yang said: "I didn't want to step on your belly, but what kind of head are you holding on to! "So, in order to avoid the suffering of air raids, I took the initiative to answer the phone, and the caller was patient enough. During the time I put on my shoes and walked to the phone, the bell rang no less than a dozen times .

"Hey, who are you looking for?" This is our common way of answering the phone. If the other party says that we are looking for a classmate, and we judge from the voice that this person is the parent of the student, we will say calmly, "Wait a moment." Then hand the phone to the classmate you are looking for, and add a sentence: "Your old man." If the classmate you are looking for is not in the dormitory, we will shout in the corridor: "So-and-so, so-and-so!" A head poked out from the door of a certain dormitory and asked, "Why?"If the classmate still didn’t show up after we shouted for a long time, we would say to the person on the phone: “So-and-so is not in the dormitory.” Thank you!"

However, this time there was an unbelievable voice on the other end of the phone: "Who are you?" I was speechless for a while, not knowing how to answer. Fortunately, the other party said: "I am Lao Zhang from the machine tool factory." This made me suddenly enlightened. Taking this call was a fatal mistake.It turned out that the employees of the machine tool factory found that the line was not so chaotic when they lined up to buy food at noon. Only then did they realize that we had not arrived for many days. Our attendance, so the factory manager asked us to show up at the factory no matter what happened or not.

The next day, we had to squeeze the bus to Changping. 3 There are many private houses around the school, where a large number of migrant workers live temporarily. They go out early and return late every day, and squeeze the bus with us.Migrant workers were stared at by many women in Beijing. They were considered dirty, barbaric, and uneducated. Here I am willing to fight for the migrant workers. Although they will also grab seats on the bus, they are definitely not as aggressive as those in Beijing. The women fought fiercely, and the migrant workers sat for a while just to relieve their fatigue, and there were still many heavy jobs waiting for them to do.They are not savage, and they will not be like Beijingers, who will be scolded because of a little thing. They will sit motionless on a chair like a well-behaved elementary school student, with their hands crossed between their legs, and their upper body slightly bent , like a little girl with dysmenorrhea.They stared blankly out the window, at the busy streets and modern buildings.Without them, these skyscrapers would not have risen.If someone compares migrant workers to big manure, I would liken Beijing to a barren land where all the crops and flowers depend on manure.

There are also white-collar ladies who squeeze the bus with us every day. They always arrive at the station a few minutes before the scheduled time for work. There was a crisp sound, and the leather bags were swinging on their shoulders or hands, and they stretched out their wrists to check the time from time to time. I think most of these white-collar women are so embarrassed to get more sleep. Compared with white-collar beauties, our internship is much easier. The engineers and technicians are busy with the division of units and have no time to take care of us. They just occasionally lead us to visit the production in the workshop, and then let us move freely.We have a special liking for the gear workshop, because there is a female employee who looks a lot like Gong Li, and whenever we have nothing to do, we will go there to chat with her.At the beginning, she was very enthusiastic about us, she always put down her work and chatted with us openly, but when she was fined by the factory manager because of the reduction in the number of gears produced and the quality of the gears, she was no longer the same to us. At the beginning, whenever we went to find her, she always had a half-shadowed face and a look of indifference, so we had no choice but to stop looking for her and just sit in the office with nothing to do.Sometimes we would buy a few packs of cigarettes, sit around a table and smoke one after another until the smoke filled the room so that we couldn't tell each other apart. Finally at noon, the students couldn't wait to rush to the cafeteria with their lunch boxes. Lunch has become the most important part of our daily life.After lunch, we will play football with the workers on the playground for a while. They use a rough style of total attack and total defense. When we were playing football, the factory’s radio station would play prose written by some literary lovers among the workers. The announcer’s non-standard Mandarin was uttered through a high-power speaker hanging from a tree, resounding throughout the factory.The content of the prose often first describes the beauty of spring in a straight-to-the-point form, and then associates the development of the factory itself with the wicker that has just sprouted or the bright sunshine, and then sublimates to the fact that the motherland is flourishing under the spring breeze of reform and opening up, and the whole country is thriving. , Every time an essay reads the finishing touch, we will be poured into a goal by our opponent because we can't lift our spirits. The one-month production practice is coming to an end in the midst of boredom. The school requires us to keep weekly diaries during the practice. We thought the teacher was just talking, but the day before the end of the internship, the teacher asked everyone to submit five weekly diaries , otherwise it will be treated as absenteeism, so everyone carried their schoolbags and rushed to the classroom to write weekly diaries.