Chapter 1 Rebirth One thousand nine hundred and eighty-four

Qinghe District Transportation Company.

At the door of the auto repair workshop, a slightly immature young man squatted beside a big tree, holding a branch in his hand, and wrote the four numbers 1984 on the ground.

I didn't expect that I was reborn, back to 1984!

Li Weidong couldn't help sighing as he watched a group of guys in rustic clothes walk into the workshop.

I was just demoted to the auto repair shop, and I remember being here for three years before I was transferred to other positions.

In 1984, Li Weidong was sixteen years old. He was born in the late 1960s and had the name Weidong with the characteristics of the times.

Touching his slightly thin body, Li Weidong couldn't help but fall into memory.

Li Weidong's father was an accountant of the transportation company in Qinghe area, so Li Weidong was born in the family yard of the transportation company since he was a child.

In the 1970s and 1980s, the transportation company was one of the largest state-owned enterprises in the Qinghe area. After all, where there were people, materials were needed. Even in a relatively chaotic era, other companies could not guarantee production, and the business of the transportation company did not stagnate.

From childhood to adulthood, Li Weidong lived in the transportation company's family yard. He was born in the transportation company's hospital. He was in the transportation company's kindergarten as a child. The primary and secondary schools are also in the transportation company's children's school.

In those days, large state-owned enterprises could meet a person's needs from birth to death.

For example, the transportation company in the Qinghe area has its own hospital, its own school, and its own supply and marketing station. The transportation company can handle everything except the funeral home for cremation.

After graduating from junior high school, Li Weidong did not continue to study, but directly participated in the work.

Li Weidong's father's health has always been bad, so he decided to retire. Li Weidong, who graduated from junior high school, took over his father's class and studied accounting with his master in the finance department of the transportation company.

The succession system of state-owned enterprises should be regarded as the most common way of fighting fathers in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, after the parents retire and resign, their children can replace the vacant places and work in their parents' original units, or even take up their parents' original positions. Before the 1990s, this was the most important job for state-owned enterprises. The way.

Even in the 1990s, the country has abolished this system, and many state-owned enterprises are still secretly implementing succession.

Li Weidong's father was an accountant in a transportation company. After Li Weidong took over, he naturally became an accountant, but Li Weidong was not expected to be an accountant. He had only been working for three months, so Li Weidong made a mistake of a hundred yuan in the account.

In 1984, 100 yuan was equivalent to three months' basic wages for regular workers, so Li Weidong was punished, and he was demoted to an auto repair workshop as an auto repair apprentice.

Although an auto mechanic can be regarded as a technical type of work, it is a manual worker after all; and an accountant is sitting in an office, not exposed to the wind and rain, and is a superior position in a state-owned enterprise.

Li Weidong was demoted from an office worker to a workshop worker, and he was quite conflicted in his heart. At the age of sixteen, he was in a period of rebellion, so he gave up his skills and wandered around the auto repair workshop every day, doing nothing but watching other people repair cars. It's like eating and waiting to die.

The bell rang for work, and the workers hurried into the maintenance workshop.

Li Weidong, I'm at work, and I'm still squatting here, don't hurry in! A voice sounded.

Don't worry about him, anyway, he went into the workshop and didn't work. It's official, no one cares even if he doesn't work. Another voice said.

The two people who spoke were also children of the transportation company. The children of these transportation companies grew up in a family home, and they all went to school in the school for children of the transportation company, and they all knew each other.

It's just that these two people do not have the luck of Li Weidong,

Their fathers are still on the job, so even if they join the transportation company, they can only be temporary workers.

In the early 1980s, in addition to a large number of educated youth returning to the city one after another, there were also workers who had been streamlined and returned to their hometowns in the 1960s and asked to return to work, graduates of technical secondary schools asked to be assigned, and the unemployed people originally accumulated in the city.

However, there are not so many jobs in the city at all, so there are a large number of unemployed people in the society.

As a large state-owned enterprise, the Qinghe District Transportation Company always has to take care of the children of its own workers, but the state-owned enterprise is also full of carrots and pits. Even the children of its own workers can only start from temporary jobs.

It is better to be a temporary worker in a state-owned enterprise than to be a second-rate in the society, not to mention that these are the children of the transportation company.

From this point of view, Li Weidong is lucky, he took up his father's post at the age of sixteen and became a regular worker. Much better than those in their twenties who still work as temporary workers.

In the state-owned enterprises in the 1980s, the treatment of regular workers and temporary workers was very different.

Regular workers are iron rice bowls. In addition to wages, promotions and pensions, they can also enjoy various benefits of the company, and they will not be fired.

As for temporary workers, the salary is much lower than that of regular workers, there is no way for promotion, no pension, basically no benefits from the company, and they will be fired. Basically, there is no guarantee.

In the same workshop, dirty work, tiring work, and heavy work are all temporary workers, and regular workers are assigned much more easily. Many formal workers even find a corner to squat, drink tea and chat, and hand over all the work to temporary workers. work.

At that time, the state-owned enterprises ate a big pot of rice. The so-called “doing more and doing less” is the same, doing good or bad, and doing or not doing it is the same idea, which has begun to spread among state-owned enterprises.

Therefore, even if Li Weidong crouches under the tree and draws circles during work hours, the workshop director has nothing to do with him except to criticize him.

Who made Li Weidong a regular worker!

If Li Weidong was a temporary worker, this attitude would have been fired long ago.

Looking at the 1984 he wrote on the ground, Li Weidong had mixed feelings in his heart.

Before his rebirth, Li Weidong had too many regrets. Now that he is reborn, he finally has a chance to make up for those regrets.

Back then, I was demoted to an auto repair shop, and I gave up on myself for a long time, and almost became a second-rate. Later, my dad found out about this and beat me hard, and then I changed my mind and studied repairs seriously. technology.

Thinking of this, Li Weidong had an urge to go home. He really wanted to see his parents again.

At this moment, a voice sounded from Li Weidong's side:

Li Weidong, during work hours, hurry up and get me into the workshop! Even if you are free to fart, you have to put me in the workshop!

Li Weidong looked up and saw a strong man standing behind him.

This man looked in his fifties, his upper body was the most common blue workwear, the one with four pockets, and his lower body was a pair of army green trousers with many unwashed oil stains on them.

This person is Li Weidong's immediate boss, Cui Dashan, the workshop director of the repair workshop.

When Cui Dashan was young, he participated in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea, and also seized an American Dodge truck and a truck of American canned food. After the Korean War, Cui Dashan worked as an auto repair soldier in the army for several years, and also repaired Type 59 tanks.

After retiring from the army and changing jobs, Cui Dashan was assigned to a transportation company in the Qinghe area, and was promoted to the director of the auto repair workshop with the excellent auto repair skills he had acquired in the army.

According to the usual situation, Li Weidong, who was in the rebellious period, would definitely have to talk to Cui Dashan, and then be kicked by Cui Dashan before returning to the workshop obediently.

But now Li Weidong has been reborn, and he is no longer the rebellious teenager who gave up on himself. Li Weidong immediately stood up and walked into the auto repair workshop without saying a word.

Why didn't you talk back to me today? Could this kid be sick! Cui Dashan thought with a puzzled look.

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Li Weidong walked into the auto repair workshop, looked at the antique cars, and felt a warm aftertaste of the past in his heart.

Old Jiefang, Lao Gas, Dayifa, Nanqi's Lao Yuejin, Second Automobile's Xiaoglass, and Beiqi No. 2 Factory's Yaosan0 are really nostalgic! Why is there an American Dodge truck, this is the war of liberation If it was seized, can this car still be repaired, why don't you send it directly to the museum! Li Weidong muttered in his heart.

In the early 1980s, domestic transportation companies had a variety of vehicles, including self-produced vehicles, imported vehicles, and products seized during the war. It is no exaggeration to say that they were made by all countries.

This situation continued until after 1986, when FAW's second-generation Jiefang was listed, which solved the predicament of the domestic transportation company Wanguo.

Li Weidong wandered around in the repair workshop, stopping in front of an old antique car from time to time, as if he was visiting a museum.

Everyone knows that Li Weidong is a jerk. Since he came to the auto repair workshop, he has only known about wandering around, and he is not even willing to do the work of sweeping the floor. As long as Li Weidong doesn't cause trouble, no one will take care of Li Weidong.

At this moment, UU reading www.uukanshu. com A roar of the engine sounded from outside the workshop, and I saw an old Jiefang dragging another old Jiefang into the repair shop.

A driver jumped out of the old Jiefang cockpit at the back, and shouted into the workshop in a hurry: Director Cui, find someone to show me, my car can't catch fire!

Hearing someone calling him, Cui Dashan, the workshop director, came out.

It's Master Cai, your car can't catch fire? Cui Dashan asked.

The master Cai nodded, handed a cigarette to Cui Dashan, and then said: The list just given by the team members, I rushed to the train station to pick up a batch of goods, but the car failed to catch fire. It was fine yesterday!

Okay, take the car over there, and I'll find someone to show you. Cui Dashan took the cigarette, but instead of lighting it, he stuffed it into his ear.

In this repair workshop, gasoline and oil are often leaked everywhere, so smoking is prohibited in the workshop to avoid fire accidents. Anyone who is addicted to smoking has to go under a big tree outside if they want to smoke. There must be no sparks in the workshop.

Cui Dashan looked around in the workshop, then pointed to a young man of twenty-six or seven years old, and said, Xiao Zhao, you go to see Master Cai first, and if you can't fix it, I'll come to you. master.

Okay! Xiao Zhao agreed and ran over immediately.

The apprentices who are not alive, let's fight in the past! Cui Dashan continued.

Immediately, three or four apprentices approached.

These apprentices are all temporary workers, and they all want to learn the craft of repairing cars as soon as possible, so the chances of becoming a regular will be higher. Starting with a car mechanic is an opportunity to learn.

The bored Li Weidong also walked over quietly.