Siheyuan: Start with a Truck Driver

The closing bell of Orchid Automobile Factory rang.

The workers left the workshop one after another. Wang Weidong also packed up the work documents and handed them to Yu Li who was standing beside him. He smiled and said: "I have read these research plans and signed them on the back. Comrade Yu Li." , please send it to the laboratory and hand it over to Director Fang Mu."

When Yu Li heard this, a hint of joy appeared on her face, and she quickly took the document: "Don't worry, Director Fang and the others must be working overtime at this meeting. I'll go give it to them right away. But... you got off work so early today, shall we?" "

As she spoke, Yu Li's little face suddenly turned red with embarrassment, and her hands and feet became a little weak.

She had been looking forward to this opportunity for a long time.

Recently, as the minicomputer project has been put on the agenda, Wang Weidong, who is the project leader, has also become busy.

In Wang Weidong's original plan, after the minicomputer drawings were redeemed from the system with points, as long as he found a way to obtain relevant equipment, all minicomputer projects could be handed over to the research team led by Fang Mu.

He only needs to wander around the laboratory from time to time to ensure that the researchers don't come up with anything weird.

However, as the project developed, Wang Weidong found that his ideas were a bit simplistic and he underestimated the difficulties of this era.

Although they have world-class research equipment, researchers still always have various troubles, especially in the built-in system. Those researchers have not yet formed a programming mindset, and they always seem helpless when faced with programmable objects.

The progress of the project was greatly delayed.

In the past, Wang Weidong would not have been in a hurry. Anyway, as long as enough time was given, the researchers would be able to successfully develop the project after conducting in-depth study of the project.

However, detailed information came from the team sent overseas. IBM in North America has started a minicomputer project and is currently recruiting people.

In his previous life, foreign minicomputers rose because of IBM. Wang Weidong never underestimated this company, which had a special status in the history of computers, so he sent one of his family members early to apply for a job in IBM.

Of course, before departure, Wang Weidong told this person that he did not need to send back any news, but only needed to send back IBM's project progress occasionally.

In the promotion of this new project, the first minicomputer to appear on the market will have epoch-making significance and become the real winner, and the second one, I'm sorry, who will remember you?

Based on its previous experience, IBM convened several great figures and used their familiarity with programming languages ​​to quickly develop a series of standards. It took only half a year to launch a market-oriented minicomputer system.

Therefore, the time left for the Orchid Automobile Factory laboratory is only half a year.

At present, the progress of the laboratory is far behind, and Wang Weidong can only go into battle in person. After finishing the daily work of the Orchid Laboratory every day, he has to go to the laboratory in person to guide the researchers in their research.

Today was the first time this month that he got off work so early, so Yu Li thought that the two of them could have a meal together and then go back to the dormitory to talk.

Wang Weidong had already stood up. When he saw Yu Li's expression, he remembered that he had neglected this cute little girl for a while.

He said a little apologetically: "Yu Li, I have to go back to the courtyard tonight. Let's wait until next time."

"Okay, okay." The hope that had just risen in Yu Li's heart disappeared immediately after hearing this, but she also understood that Wang Weidong was still serving as the first master of the courtyard and had not shown up in the courtyard for several months. Not quite right.

Yu Li bit her lip and said softly: "Then next time, I will get off work soon. I have to send the documents to the laboratory quickly."

After saying that, she turned around and ran out of the office quickly.

Looking at Yu Li's desolate back, Wang Weidong smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If you do this, you will break a girl's heart, alas."

Wang Weidong really had no choice today. The reason was not that he had to go to the courtyard and show up in front of the residents. After all, the residents in the courtyard knew that he was the director of the Orchid Automobile Factory. Compared with the small courtyard, the Orchid Automobile Factory was obviously more important. .

The only reason is that Qin Jingru's son is one month old today.

Wang Weidong has already adopted the child as his godfather. As a godfather, it would definitely be unjustifiable if he didn't attend.

Qin Jingru had asked Wang Weidong to go over to celebrate in the evening more than ten days ago.

Wang Weidong looked away, shook his head with a wry smile, stood up and left the office.

He walked to the car shed and was about to push his bicycle when he happened to meet Liu Changyi, the chief of the security department.

"Changyi, how are you doing?" Wang Weidong has been working in the office and workshop these days, so he has hardly met Liu Changyi.

Liu Changyi walked over quickly and reported: "Hong Chang, everything is going well. Now the name of our Lanhua Automobile Factory has been announced. The green men around us also know that we are not easy to mess with, so no one dares to make trouble. "

Wang Weidong knew what Liu Changyi meant. Not long ago, some people in the surrounding area saw that the Orchid Automobile Factory was booming, so they stopped the transport truck of the Orchid Automobile Factory on the grounds that the truck transporting goods had damaged the road, saying that they needed to pay road repair fees before they could leave. .

When Wang Weidong learned about this situation, he almost laughed out loud. When the Lanhua Automobile Factory was built, this place was a wilderness.

It was Orchid Automobile Factory that funded the construction of the road leading to the city. These green men jumped out now just to extort some money.

At that time, Liu Changyi advocated reporting the matter to the authorities because Lanhua Automobile Factory was a key factory and the authorities would definitely come forward to resolve the matter.

But he was stopped by Wang Weidong.

Wang Weidong is very aware of the virtues of these green men. They are a bunch of rogues. As long as the official comes forward, they will act rogue and pretend to be pitiful.

This kind of thing is a trivial matter. Besides, those people didn't do anything. They just blocked the road and yelled at the drivers a few times. It was not considered a crime.

Wang Weidong handed the matter over to Liu Changyi.

Of course Liu Changyi understood what Chu Li meant. He led more than a dozen team members to hide in the truck. When the gang of green men blocked the road again, he jumped out of the truck and gave the gang a severe lesson.

The method was crude and simple, but the effect was surprisingly good. From then on, those green men walked around the trucks of Lanhua Automobile Factory.

And this operation also produced additional side effects. From then on, the nearby Qingpi people no longer dared to bring trouble to the Lanhua Automobile Factory. In their view, the Lanhua Automobile Factory did not respect martial ethics and actually dared to take action.

The answer Liu Changyi gave did not exceed Wang Weidong's expectation. He smiled and said, "Changyi, you know that's not what I asked."

Liu Changyi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled shyly when he came to his senses: "Hong Chang, my partner is also very good. He is very gentle and never loses his temper. When he comes home every day, he tidies up the house." A while ago, my parents came to the capital to live for a while, and they were quite satisfied with her."

Wang Weidong felt a little regretful when he mentioned that his uncle and the others came to the capital.

After Liu Changyi got married, his uncle and aunt were both curious about his daughter-in-law, so they preferred to endure the long journey and came to the capital.

After Wang Weidong learned the news at that time, he immediately sent someone to buy tickets for the two elderly people, but because he was busy with work, he could not accompany them in person.

After chatting with Liu Changyi for a few words, Wang Weidong pushed out his bicycle, put it on his long legs, rode on the bicycle and left the Lanhua Automobile Factory.

Orchid Automobile Factory originally produced cars. As the director of the automobile factory, Wang Weidong certainly had his own special car. However, driving on the street these days is too conspicuous and it is inconvenient to do many things, so Wang Weidong has been Use a bicycle to get around.

After riding his bicycle, Wang Weidong did not return to the courtyard immediately, but came to the trust store near Xinjiekou.

Trust shops were a feature of this era. Residents would send items of high value, such as bicycles, radios, and televisions, to trust shops for consignment.

In addition, the trust store is also responsible for selling some antiques. Of course, the antiques here cannot be relatively old national treasures, but they are enough for a child's birthday gift.

It was almost time to get off work, and the employees of the trust store suddenly became unhappy when they saw someone coming in.

One of the little men sitting behind the counter raised his head and snorted: "Comrade, it's time to get off work. Go back quickly. Please be early tomorrow!"

Hearing these indifferent words, even though Wang Weidong had been in this era for some time, he couldn't help but frown. He raised his wrist and glanced at the time: "I just looked at the nameplate of the trust store. Yours The working hours are from 09:30 in the morning to 05:30 in the afternoon, and it’s just five o’clock now, which is a full half hour, enough for me to buy something.”

It seemed like this was the first time that the little man encountered a customer questioning him face to face.

He was stunned for a moment, then his face quickly darkened. He threw the newspaper in his hand heavily on the table and said coldly: "Are you an office worker or am I an office worker? I just told you that it's time to get off work. You It's best to get out of here."

At this time, a gray-haired old comrade opened the cotton curtain and came in. When he heard this, he turned pale with fright and stood quietly at the door.

Wang Weidong turned around to look at him, crossed his arms, and walked up to the little man: "Office worker? You are just a salesperson, what are you pretending to be!"

In these days, the staff in trust stores were all formal and had the power to sell goods. No one had ever dared to talk to him like this.

The little man rolled up his sleeves and stood up. The lady next to him was knitting a sweater. She felt something was wrong and quickly stopped the little man.

"Xiao Liu, don't worry. Is there anything we can't discuss slowly?"

As she spoke, she looked up and down at Wang Weidong. This young man was wearing a well-dressed gray tunic suit, his hair was meticulously styled, his wrists were shiny, and his shoes were made of lambskin.

Dressed like this, he is at least a junior leader of some unit.

She secretly winked at the little man, then put down the knitting needle, stood up and looked at Wang Weidong: "Comrade, it is indeed not the end of the day, but we have to sort out the goods in the trust store, so we will close the store half an hour in advance. Can you It’s not the right time.”

The saleswoman's meaning was very obvious. She was unwilling to admit her mistake and gave Wang Weidong a step down. As long as Wang Weidong nodded in agreement with her statement, he could turn around and leave.

but.

Wang Weidong has long been intolerable to this phenomenon.

These salespeople don't even realize that because customers come to buy things, the store will make profits to pay them wages.

Instead, he relies on the little power he has in his hands to treat customers' noses, not noses, and eyes.

Of course, limited by the limitations of the times, Wang Weidong does not expect salespeople in this era to treat customers as God like later generations.

But you should also fulfill your duties as a salesperson.

Wang Weidong said coldly: "Are you kidding? The things in your trust store don't need to be put away or rearranged at all. Why do you need to organize them! I just want to buy something today."

"Oh, you kid really doesn't want to drink wine as a penalty." Seeing that Wang Weidong didn't give in at all, the little man suddenly became angry.

He stood up and said coldly: "Believe it or not, I will be able to call the comrades from the street office over now and deal with you immediately!"

In this era, the power of the street office was far greater than that of later generations. When most people heard this, they would leave obediently in order not to get into trouble.

But Wang Weidong has already made up his mind.

He pulled a chair over and sat down slowly, crossing his left leg over his right leg to make a posture.

"Okay, okay, you wait with me, I'm going to call the comrades from the street office to come over now." The little man was also furious at this moment, turned around and ran out of the trust store.

At this time, the old gentleman who had been standing at the door walked over tremblingly, looked at Wang Weidong and said: "Little comrade, you'd better leave quickly. These people are well-established and we can't afford to offend them."

Well-founded, the old man is right about what he said. Units like trust stores are free and have high wages. The employees here are generally related households.

"Old sir, you've been bullied by this guy a lot." Wang Weidong stood up and pulled out another chair and placed it there.

The old gentleman hesitated for a moment, sat down slowly, and said with a long sigh: "Who says it's not the case! But what can we do? After all, if you want to buy antiques, you have to go through them."

"Antiques. Mr., are you reselling antiques?" Wang Weidong was surprised.

"Reselling, oh, you wouldn't dare!" The old man was so frightened that his gray hair stood on end, and he waved his hands and said, "I am just a collector."

"Antique collector?"

"Not really, just a hobbyist." Seeing Wang Weidong's kind attitude, the old man said with a smile: "I am an old teacher in a nearby junior high school. I have been interested in antiques since I was a child. Of course, I am only interested in the antiques themselves, not the antiques. The meaning. To me, those antiques with a long history are not as beautiful as an exquisite bowl and plate from the Qing Dynasty."

(End of this chapter)