Chapter 84
Hard work and hard work 1
It would not be an exaggeration to say that college students in the 1980s were the cream of the crop. Some students entered the society after graduating from elementary school, not many graduated from junior high school and entered high school, and only a small number of them could enter college after graduating from high school.
Even getting admitted to a technical secondary school is a joyful thing. You have an iron rice bowl.
Compared with a few decades later, the proportion of college students from rural areas in the 1980s was higher, and there were also more poor students.
It took Professor Zhang a short time to find a dozen students who were willing to stay and work at the radio factory for a week after the winter vacation before going home.
These students are all students from the radio department, and Professor Zhang found them within a very small area.
February 1st was New Year's Eve, and Wang Weidong discussed with these students that they would work for a week starting from January 15th.
"Factory workers work until four o'clock in the afternoon during the day. You come here at four-thirty, the factory prepares a dinner for you, and then you start working." Wang Weidong said.
Wang Weidong first gave them a demonstration. The radio to be produced was very simple. It was only a box as big as two matchboxes put together. It had no pointers and only eight or nine components on the circuit board, a power switch and a headphone jack.
When listening, just plug in the headphones and turn on the power switch.
In the 1980s, those who could go to college were all clever kids, and they were from the radio department. Reading it once was enough for them.
After Wang Weidong assigned electronic components to each of them, he said: "I'll go back to the office. If you don't understand anything, just come in and ask me. Install a machine for two cents, more work, more reward!"
He returned to the office, closed the door, turned on the TV series, and watched TV with a low volume. He lay on the bed and fell asleep while watching.
I don’t know how much time passed before Wang Weidong was suddenly pushed twice by someone.
Wang Weidong opened his eyes and saw a student wearing glasses leaning over to look at him.
"What's wrong? Are you going back?" Wang Weidong asked.
"The components you assigned are almost used, please send another batch." The student said.
Wang Weidong looked at his watch, it was almost 9:30 pm.
"Didn't you say that the university closes at ten o'clock in the evening? If you don't go back, it will be too late!" Wang Weidong said.
"We have agreed that we will work all night tonight and go back to school to sleep tomorrow morning," the student replied.
Wang Weidong cleared his head and asked: "You all want to work all night without rest?"
"Yes!" the student replied.
Wang Weidong got out of bed and walked outside and asked a few students to help him move boxes containing electronic components from the warehouse.
After the move, Wang Weidong did not go back to the office to rest. Instead, he stood aside and watched a dozen students install radios.
He was surprised to find that the seventeen students were automatically divided into two groups. One group of fourteen soldered electronic components to the circuit board, and the other three were responsible for installing the soldered circuit board into a small plastic box.
In this way, the efficiency of division of labor and cooperation is greatly improved.
Wang Weidong lowered his head to count the installed radios, then checked the number with the students before moving the radios into the warehouse.
In order to save costs, these radios do not even come with packaging boxes.
Just wait until the single-ear headphones ordered from the south arrive and be shipped to the school together with these radios.
After doing these things well, Wang Weidong watched outside for a while. These college students worked much faster than the workers who worked during the day.
As Wang Weidong walked to the office, he lamented in his heart the ingenuity and hard work of college students in the 1980s.
Lying on the bed to sleep again, Wang Weidong slept very lightly, not sleeping at all.
At 5:30 in the morning, Wang Weidong walked out of the factory carrying a tin kettle for boiling water.
He came back with six or seven kilograms of fried dough sticks and an iron kettle of soy milk.
Starting at five o'clock in the afternoon, these college students worked for more than twelve hours!
"Let's stop here today. After finishing the food, the factory workers will come to work." Wang Weidong said.
After installing the radio in his hand, Wang Weidong was counting the radios while watching the students wolfing down their food.
After checking the number with the college students who woke him up last night, he politely sent these college students outside the gate.
Wang Weidong suddenly grabbed the college student wearing glasses and asked: "It's winter, why are you still wearing single shoes?"
High-top Jiefang shoes are also called farm shoes in the Northeast. When working, soil and sand will not fall into the shoes.
But those are single shoes, not winter shoes.
The student looked down at his feet and replied sheepishly: "Put on a few more pairs of insoles and wrap the foot wraps around it to keep it cool."
Watching the students leaving, Wang Weidong stood at the factory gate in silence for a long time.
Seventeen students did more work in twelve or thirteen hours that night than more than twenty workers in the factory did in two days.
Wang Weidong went out at noon and first went to the store to buy a pair of size 42 corduroy cotton shoes, and then bought three kilograms of meat and returned home.
Chen Jihong stewed two pieces of rice in the pressure cooker, and Wang Weidong stewed a large pot of pork and sauerkraut.
After the household responsibility system, farmers began to appear in the market selling grain. The relationship between Wang Weidong and the rest of the family's grain was still in the Xiangyang Chemical Factory. His father, Wang Haifu, received grain from the grain store and mailed it to them once, and the rest was bought from the market.
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Although the rice in the grain store is cheap, the two kilograms rationed for a month is not enough to eat. Now that he has money, Wang Weidong basically buys rice from the market.
Although it is more expensive than buying it from the grain store, you can buy it in unlimited quantities as long as you have money.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Wang Weidong and Chen Jihong rushed to the factory carrying two large basins.
When we arrived at the factory, the students had already arrived.
"Eat first! Eat when you're full and then do it!" Wang Weidong took out a few more heads of garlic from his schoolbag and put them on the table.
The students used the big teapots for drinking water to eat. After half an hour, Chen Jihong poured out the soup and water in the vegetable basins and stacked the two large basins together and took them home.
Wang Weidong was busy distributing electronic components. This time he distributed many more components than last night.
Wang Weidong returned to the office and took out a pair of cotton shoes from his schoolbag and placed them under his desk.
Wang Suzhen never left. She watched the students eat and watched Wang Weidong walk back to the office.
"Weidong, who did you buy those cotton shoes for?" Wang Suzhen asked.
"I saw a student wearing single shoes when he went out at noon and bought a pair. I will give it to him secretly when I find an opportunity in the evening." Wang Weidong said in a low voice.
Wang Suzhen smiled. She now likes this young man Wang Weidong more and more.
"Weidong, have you ever thought about finding an opportunity to work in a government agency or factory in the future? It would be a pity to hang out all the time!" Wang Suzhen said.
Wang Suzhen feels that Wang Weidong has good character and strong abilities, and such a person should go to government agencies, public institutions and state-owned factories.
In other words, as long as you are a talented person, you should enter the system. In Wang Suzhen's view, if you are a talented person and do not enter the system, it would be abnormal!
I remember that when I was in elementary school, the girl at my desk had a very difficult time at home. She didn’t have a small bicycle, so her father gave her the big and broken bicycle at home to ride. She could only hold the handlebar with her left hand and the beam with her right hand.
The two calves are pedaling underneath the large beam. The head is as high as the bicycle handlebars.
The eight or nine-year-old child travels 17 to 18 kilometers back and forth every day, rain or shine.
It was also very difficult when I was in college
Chapter completed!