In July 1969, I went to work at the woodware factory in Jiutai Town. This is a town-run enterprise with more than 20 workers in total. There are two factory directors, old head Li and head Liu. The director Li is in charge of production and the director Liu is in charge of political studies.
The factory is in the backyard of the town commune, which is a courtyard house. There are furniture workshops, model workshops, paint workshops, and a large saw for processing round logs. Mainly in the furniture workshop, there are more than ten carpenters, and the workshop director is Master Li.
Master Li is in his thirties. He is a tall man with good furniture-making skills and a big temper. Apprentices are not accepted here, and the conditions for applying are to process a small table for eating, and hire if the quality of the table is qualified.
As I said in the previous article, I taught myself to be a carpenter in 1967 and made three small kang tables to sell in the market. This time I am familiar with the cooking table, from the stitching of the mirrors to the installation of the hoarding and the inlays.
The quality of the small kang table I made is up to standard. I work in a wood factory and earn 35 yuan a month. There are also several young people in the workshop who are about my age. Some earn 29 yuan, some earn 27 yuan, and the workshop director earns 68 yuan.
There are three masters in the model workshop. The person in charge of the workshop is arguing with his wife. His wife is very beautiful and savvy, and he comes to the factory to quarrel every other time. There are three middle-aged women in the paint shop, and my sister-in-law is also there.
There are two people in the big saw house, and they also process wood. Director Li does not go to work, and Director Liu runs around every day when he arrives. Master Wang in the furniture workshop is neighbors with me. I go to see him every day and walk with him to the factory to go to work.
Master Wang is twenty-four or five years old, he is tall and burly, with a beard and a handsome face. Colleagues told me from behind that Master Wang had made mistakes in the past because of playing hooligans. What did he do exactly because of what? I have no idea.
His wife works as a teacher in a technical school, and the two children in his family are boys. Master Wang is very temperamental. I have met several times and he is scolding his wife. I bring lunch when I go to work, most of which are coarse and fine grains.
At that time I was very edible, and everyone else could eat it too. Bring a large lunch box at noon sorghum rice ,There are no vegetables and a little soy sauce. It tastes very delicious. When I first started working, the workshop processed a batch of cable broadcasting boxes.
Jiutai Town requires every household to broadcast. We made this batch of broadcasting boxes for a month. First, use 1cm thick wooden boards to sew together. The length of the boards is about 1m. Our cases all have clips for holding wooden boards, which are used for joints.
On this day, Director Li came, and saw a few of us stitching together, so let us stop. He took out the tools from his toolbox, he stitched together by himself, let us make the glue next to him, his work efficiency of stitching was very high.
Director Li has another method. He lays the wooden board flat on the case and puts the plane up to make the joints. You don’t need to look at the stitched boards, just glue them directly. Director Li's plane was used for work, and the plane was longer than others' planes.
Colleagues said that Director Li learned techniques from Japanese, and his tools are all made in Japan. At that time, I was very concerned about carpentry work, and I also bought some tools made in Japan at a high price, including the "Sanjoding" brand clip-back knives and saws.
There is also a planer, which costs 50 yuan for a knife and more than 30 yuan for a planer. After processing the broadcasting box and finishing the seam, when the glue is dry, start to use a plane to mirror the surface, and then use a crutcher to process the shape according to the size.
On the front of the broadcast box, use a wire saw to process a five-pointed star. When it is done, the paint shop starts to paint. After this batch of broadcast boxes was processed, our workshop processed another batch of hand-cranked wind wheels.
The working procedure is similar to that of processing the broadcast box, but it is much more complicated than processing the broadcast box. Later, the bellows for fire were processed. The common people live in the kang. When the fire is fired, if there are wind wheels or bellows to help, it will get twice the result with half the effort.
The products we process are becoming more and more complex, processing school desks and chairs for students, and processing desks and chairs for units. It processed wooden boxes used by ordinary people at home, kangqin and standing cabinets, and made large coffins for dead people, and made all kinds of furniture.
Master Li, the director of the workshop, sees that I have good working skills and good character. On October 1st, let me stop by at his house and tell me to introduce someone to me.I went home and told my mother about this, so I went to his house with a gift.
Master Li's house lives in the east end of Jiutai. The two lower houses facing east are in the lower house. The outer house is a kitchen. Master Li's parents, the old man and the old lady lived on the pot table. The hot kang where I live is connected to the pot table, and there are two sliding doors on the edge of the kang.
Master Li and his wife live in the back room. There are five boys in his family. The eldest is less than ten years old, and the fifth is not born long. There are three generations in his family, a total of nine people, it seems that the living conditions of Master Li and his family will not be good.
The factory is on holiday on October 1, and I brought a gift to Master Li's house to stop by. At home, my mother told me that it was not easy for me to find a job. And I earn 35 yuan a month, so I must have a good relationship with the workshop director.
As for the introduction, my mom and I have the same opinion. That is to say, I am not busy looking for someone now, I am only 17 years old. And I still have Yuanyuan. Regarding things between me and Yuanyuan, the adults of the two families agreed, and my mother told me to adapt to changes.
My mother said that I can’t offend Master Li, if he introduces me to his relatives or a very important person. I will agree to it first, lest Master Li is unhappy, if the person introduced is not important, just do it casually.
I brought a gift to Master Li's house. His wife was very happy. This woman is in her thirties and looks like a city. She asked about my family's family status, then changed the conversation and said that she would introduce her little sister to me, her little sister named Wu Jie.
Do not change your name, sit and do not change your surname. In the article I wrote, the names of my wife and I are real. My name is Liu Jinglong, and my wife’s name is Wu Jie. When I had an ID card, I applied for an ID card in 1987 and I changed my name to Liu Jinglong.
Master Li's wife wants to introduce me to the younger sister. This is a key figure, not insignificant. I was thinking at the time that if I did not agree to this marriage, Master Li’s wife would be upset, and Master Li might give me small shoes.
I remembered what my mother said to me. When Master Li's wife asked me for advice, I nodded to her. They left me to eat at his house. From then on, I often went to his house to help him with his work, and he made some furniture to sell.
is not to say that I am willing to go to his house to help with work,It was Master Li who always told me to go. I was young at that time, and I had some strength. In order to please Master Li and his wife, I brought gifts to his house every Chinese New Year. They also had a good impression of me.
Although my partner Wu Jie and I have not met yet, our marriage will be settled. During the Spring Festival in 1970, Master Li told me that his sister-in-law, my partner, had come to his house. I treated it as a trifling matter at the time, thinking whether it counted.
I went to Master Li's house and saw Wu Jie in his house, helping them with housework, cleaning the house and washing the bedding. New Year's Eve is coming. There are many people in his family, many things, and many children. There are nine people, young and old, and their laundry is hung all over the yard.
When I saw this girl, she had a good-looking face, a tall stature, she was neither humble nor overbearing, she was upright, and she was loyal and honest. I stayed at Master Li’s house for a while, and Master Li’s wife asked me to take Wu Jie home.
In the next article, after my dad and my mom saw Wu Jie, they matched it at a glance. My mother said that we, an ordinary citizen, should find such a wife. I thought in my heart that Yuanyuan and Yaqin are better.
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