plum city

Chapter 23 Little Grandpa

The little grandpa sat down and asked Fang Yan: "What do you want to find out?"

Fang Yan took out the map of Meicheng from his bag and handed it to the young grandfather. The young grandfather held it in his hand and looked at it. Fang Yan said apologetically:

"Sorry, I found this online and printed it out, so it may not be very clear."

"I can see clearly, I can see clearly, I am an owl and my eyes are very good." The little grandfather waved his hand vigorously and said to Fang Yan.

Fang Yan felt happy and felt that this old man was easy to deal with. He asked, "Does Grandpa know that there is a Meicheng Knitting Factory?"

"I know, how could I not know this." The little grandpa said, turning around and shouting at the door: "Short-lived bitch, bring me a pen and come in!"

When Fang Yan heard this, he not only smiled, but he also knew the custom of the older generation in Meicheng. When calling a junior, the meaner and more unpleasant the name is, which is more auspicious to the junior and the stronger the body will be. Even his own parents call him children the same way. , they call boys "short-lived ghosts" and "debt collectors", and girls are called "short-lived bitches" and "bitch heads".

Fang Yan had just arrived in Meicheng at that time. He was startled when he heard them shouting like this. He thought they were swearing, but later he found out that it was a custom.

Fang Yan quickly took out the pen from his bag and said to the little grandpa, "I have it here."

The little grandpa yelled at the door again: "I want it, I have it!"

The little grandfather picked up the pen, drew a circle on Dongmen Street's head, and said to the dialect:
"The Meicheng Knitting Factory is right here, at the foot of the dam. This side is the coal cake factory, and this side is the district testing team. After the district testing team moved away, Meicheng Low Voltage Electrical Appliance Factory moved there. Here, you can see No, there is a large vegetable field next to the East Lake. We often go there to steal cucumbers to eat... Hey, when are you asking? I remembered that Meicheng Knitting Factory has two locations. "

The dialect said: "Eighty-eight years."

"Eight years?" The little grandpa waved his hand, "Wait a minute, I want to think about it carefully in eight years."

The little grandfather lowered his head and thought for a while. When he raised his head, he said to Fang Yan and at the same time picked up a pen and drew on the map:
"I think about it, and I can guarantee that in [-], the Meicheng Knitting Factory was no longer at the foot of the dam, but here."

The little grandpa's pen tip was parked at the cross street where Zheng Street and Ximen Street meet Zongfu Street. Opposite the main street, walking up is Fuqian Street. At the end of Fuqian Street, the little grandpa used the pen tip to point on the map:

"The Meicheng Knitting Factory moved here in [-]. They wanted to build a house at the foot of the dam, so they moved here. This used to be the Ye School, but the Ye School moved away."

"Ye school?" Fang Yan asked.

"ZJ Provincial Metallurgical College moved to Jiaxing, which is now Jiaxing College. When the Metallurgical School was here, there were several teachers there who played with us and fished, I know very well. The Metallurgical School was established in [-] The move started in [-] and was completed in [-]. The entire school was vacant, and the Meicheng Knitting Factory moved there."

Fang Yan laughed: "Little grandpa, you are really a living dictionary, you know everything."

The little grandpa smiled proudly: "It was fun when I was young. I had nothing to do all day long. I went to work to report in the morning and then came out. I rode around everywhere and had many friends."

"Which unit did Grandpa work in at that time?" Fang Yan asked.

"New watches, Xin'anjiang Electric Meter Factory. At that time, the factory was in ruins. There was no profit and there was no work to do. Everyone was just playing." The young grandfather said and remembered, "By the way, Meicheng Knitting Factory, at that time, it was already there. We don’t have knitting machines, so we don’t do knitting anymore, they just have sewing machines, and we can’t do knitting well for Tongxiang people, so we make clothes instead.”

"My little grandpa often went to Meicheng Knitting Factory at that time?" Fang Yan asked.

"I don't go there often. I've been there a few times and just dropped by. Aren't they in Ye School? There is a playground in Ye School. We often played football at that time. When we got tired, we went to the knitting factory nearby to play. . Next to the playground is the original teaching building of Ye School and the workshop of the knitting factory. In the teaching building, the original classrooms have become their workshops." "Then do you know that there is Jiangxi Where do people work?”

"I don't know, but at that time, the knitting factory had a lot of people from out of town. Wasn't it converted into a garment factory? How many people in Meicheng knew how to use a sewing machine? As a result, they went out to recruit a lot of people from out of town. By the way, I I remember there was a woman who was in charge of the warehouse. She was very beautiful and she seemed to be from out of town."

"Do you know where she is from?"

"How would I know? I'm not a flower ghost. Others said she was very beautiful, so I went over to take a look. At that time in the warehouse, I remember being in the back, in the auditorium of the original school. After I went to take a look, Just come back, I won’t take advantage of others. Besides, I heard that she is married and her husband is also in the knitting factory. "

When Fang Yan heard this, his heartbeat suddenly accelerated. The couple were both in the knitting factory, and they were from other places. Aren't they very similar to their biological parents?

Hope instantly ignited in Fang Yan's heart, and he quickly asked: "Then if I want to find the people who were at the Meicheng Knitting Factory at that time, can I find them?"

The young grandfather's next answer made Fang Yan a little disappointed. He said:
"It's difficult. The knitting factory has no connection with other local units. They are engaged in foreign trade. There are many people from outside the factory in the factory. These outsiders all left when the factory collapsed. The knitting factory was probably in 20. They fell down in [-], and it’s been more than [-] years now. Where can you find these people?”

Fang Yan refused to give up and asked, "What about the management staff, the factory director, etc. These are always locals, right?"

"Not necessarily, the possibility of being from Meicheng is very small." said the little grandfather.

"How come?" Fang Yan was surprised.

The little grandpa took the map, picked up the pen, drew circles, and explained in dialect:

"Let me tell you, even though our Meicheng is a small town, there were a lot of factories at that time, and the factories were very complicated. There were town-run enterprises, county collectives, local state-owned enterprises, and there were also factories from a few years ago. The people in the companies that moved here from Hangzhou are even more diverse.

"Here, by the East Lake, I told you about the district survey team before. What is the district survey team? I forgot whether it is the sixth or third place in East China. It is the surveying and mapping team in East China. This side of East Lake is the survey team of China. Survey and East China Regional Survey Team, both units are composed of outsiders, and the people inside are from all over the country.

"Next, here, at the head of the dam, here at the Qiling Temple, is the Hongwei Chemical Factory, and here, here on Beimen Street, is Hangzhou Meter, Hangzhou Electric Meter Factory, and here, at the bus station, is Hangzhou Pioneer Bearing factory, these units are basically made up of outsiders, mostly from Hangzhou. They are not under the control of the county. The factory directors are also appointed by Hangzhou.

"Especially this Hongwei Chemical Factory. All the people inside are from Hangzhou, haha..."

When the little grandpa said this, he thought of fun things, and his words began to branch out:

"At that time, people from the Hongwei Chemical Factory would be beaten when they went out on the street. People from Hangzhou always thought they were great and looked very impressive when they were on the street. People from Meicheng couldn't stand it, so they beat them.

"As soon as I heard that we were beating people from Hangzhou, haha, that's okay. People on the street came rushing over. When they came, they took advantage of it. They got into the crowd and punched twice to get the pleasure. Sometimes one punch When he went out, the other party scolded him, "Damn it!" Only then did he realize that he had hit the wrong person. The person being hit was also from Meicheng, so he pretended to be fine and turned around to hide. There were so many people anyway, and he didn't know where the black punch came from.

"Haha, people at that time had very strong local concepts and did not distinguish between right and wrong. As long as they heard people from Hangzhou being beaten, they would go up to help. Segu (poor) who was beaten by people from Hangcheng, knelt down and lay there On the ground, crying and begging for mercy. Every time, the old guard (police) came and stopped.

"It's useless for the old school to come. At that time, it was not like now. There were surveillance cameras everywhere. The old school would stop someone and ask them what was going on, who instigated it, which people punched, and who was asked People always say they don’t know or don’t know. Don’t ask me. I just came to see the excitement, but I didn’t see it clearly.

"The old school asked for a long time, but nothing came out. In the end, it was the Hangcheng guys who were unlucky. They didn't even dare to go to Meicheng Hospital. They went back to the factory to see their own factory doctor."

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