The commotion in the Yan family was very loud, and the residents of the courtyard liked to join in the fun. Now they were alarmed and gathered around.
When they saw Yan Bugui carrying a big stick, they were so shocked that they couldn't close their mouths from ear to ear.
"Yan Bugui is an old teacher. When did he change his profession?"
"In the past two days, I have felt that Yan Bugui is different from before. He always speaks irritably, as if he has taken the wrong medicine!"
"Why did you take the wrong medicine? Yan Bugui must have been driven anxious by his bangs. Rabbits will bite people when they are anxious! What's more, they are alone!"
"Yeah, don't tell me, Yan Bugui is much better than before. In the past, Yan Bugui regarded himself as an old teacher, spoke politely, and had no masculine vibe at all!"
Listening to the residents' comments and feeling their shocked gazes, Yan Bugui raised his head proudly, feeling ecstatic in his heart.
In fact, before liberation, Yan Bugui was also a gangster when he was helping in his pawn shop.
If you think about it, you will understand that the customers who came to the pawn shop during the liberation were all kinds of people, including wealthy businessmen, ordinary people, and even those local gangsters.
Ruffians often take a cheap shabby cotton-padded jacket and pawn it as a fur in a pawn shop.
If the pawn shop doesn't comply, they will take the opportunity to cause trouble and destroy the pawn shop.
The price difference between a torn cotton-padded jacket and a fur coat is hundreds of times, and the price of a pawn is also hundreds of times different. For the sake of safety, ordinary pawnbrokers can only grit their teeth and endure it, and obediently offer money to those local gangsters. Just think of it as protection money.
However, the Yan family's family tradition is to never suffer losses. As a member of the Yan family, Yan Bugui has received Lao Yan's true heritage since he was a child.
Once, three or four local gangsters came to the door and used tattered cotton-padded jackets to extort money. Instead of giving the money, Yan Bugui rushed out from behind the wooden fence of the pawn shop.
He also carried a machete in his hand.
Yan Bugui was relatively thin at the time and seemed to have no strength in his hands. Logically speaking, he was no match for those gangsters. However, he knew that capturing the thief first captures the king. After rushing out, he forced himself to hold back the gangsters. The gangsters punched and kicked him, and rushed directly towards the leader with a machete.
The leader was a martial arts practitioner. It was said that he had previously learned boxing and kicking in a martial arts school. However, after the martial arts school was disbanded, he was working on the streets to earn a living.
Originally, facing someone like Yan Bugui who had never practiced kung fu, he should be able to capture him with ease.
However, no matter how skilled you are, you are still afraid of kitchen knives.
Not to mention a machete.
In just a moment, the leading man had several cuts on his body. Looking at Yan Bugui who was going crazy, he was frightened.
As long as people have fear, they lose courage.
The leading man didn't care about his face and ran away.
After he ran away, the remaining ruffians saw that the situation was not good and quietly slipped away.
Yan Bugui, who was only a teenager at the time, single-handedly drove away three or four local gangsters. This incident soon became a good story.
From then on, when those gangsters saw the Yan family's shop, they walked around it.
From then on, Yan Bugui continued to pursue martial arts. He soon made a name for himself in the surrounding area by virtue of his ability to fight and dare to fight. If anyone in the surrounding shops was targeted by local ruffians, they would invite Yan Bugui to come. To protect.
It was only after he was liberated that in order to hide his original identity, Yan Bugui suppressed the restlessness in his heart, hid in the courtyard, and became a polite and civilized person.
At this time, the bloodiness from the past surged up, and Yan Bugui felt that he was alive again.
"Cool!"
He waved his arms fiercely, only to hear a bang, and Yan Jiecheng fell down holding his nose.
Yan Bugui: "..."
The other side.
Liu Haizhong, who was driven out of the courtyard by Yan Bugui with a stick, became angrier and angrier as he thought about it.
It would be understandable if he was bullied by Sha Zhu and Wang Weidong, after all, those two people can fight.
But Yanbu is expensive... He is just an old teacher!
He wished he could turn around now and settle the score with Yan Bugui.
But thinking about Yan Bugui's scarlet eyes and bangs just now, he felt a little scared for some reason.
Liu Haizhong had seen that kind of look before, but that person was a desperate guy.
"Maybe I misunderstood, Yan Bugui is an old teacher... Forget it, let's not argue with him for the time being. Maybe it won't be long before Yan Bugui will be arrested!"
Thinking of this, Liu Haizhong puffed up his chest and strode towards the steel rolling mill.
It was already past working hours, so workers could not enter the factory. Even if they wanted to go in, they would have to write down their names, which would be considered late.
However, the current steel rolling mill is in disgrace. Although the main door is closed, the side door next to it is still open.
Liu Haizhong walked inside in a swaggering manner. When he passed the gate, he took a special look inside.
Seeing that there were only two security officers on duty inside, Liu Hai felt a burst of ecstasy.
There are only two people on duty. By noon, they will definitely not be able to check every employee leaving the factory.
Then his chance has come.
Liu Haizhong is a blacksmith. After work every day, the workstation
According to the regulations of the workshop, these metal scraps must be recycled. Every day after get off work, the comrades in the logistics department will lead people to clean up the metal scraps.
But this is not a problem for Liu Haizhong, because his work station is relatively remote, and he can secretly hide some metal scraps every day when others are not paying attention.
After a few days of accumulation, after enough quantity has been accumulated, they will be secretly shipped out of the factory.
Without anyone noticing, he was able to earn money to buy wine.
Sometimes when encountering precious metal scraps, Liu Haizhong would work extra hard and try to knock down more scraps. In this way, in addition to buying wine, he could also save money and buy a plate of peanuts.
Liu Haizhong entered the workshop and secretly opened a wooden box behind the work station while others were not paying attention. Looking at the golden copper scraps in the wooden box, he felt excited.
Copper is considered a relatively expensive metal these days. The few kilograms of copper in it can be exchanged for two pieces.
At this time, a voice came from behind: "Master, you are at work."
Liu Haizhong turned his head and saw that it was his apprentice Zhang Dachui who was saying hello. He quickly pretended to be nonchalant and closed the lid of the box.
He nodded slightly: "Sledgehammer, have you learned all the forging techniques I taught you yesterday?"
When Zhang Dakui heard this, he smiled naively and scratched his head: "Master, what's the trick? I just remember to pick up the hammer and pound it on the metal!"
Seeing him like this, there was a feeling of annoyance in the center of his bangs.
Why is this guy so unimproved?
If he were an ordinary disciple, Liu Haizhong would really not care at all.
On weekdays, the apprentices are just asked to serve tea and water, and they don't care whether they have learned the craft or not.
But Zhang Dakui's uncle is the deputy section chief of the security department of the steel rolling mill.
Liu Haizhong knew Zhang Dakui's identity at the beginning, so he chose him as his apprentice for free.
The reason why it is said to be free is because Liu Haizhong is now a seventh-level blacksmith. Although he is not as good as the eighth-level blacksmith, he can be regarded as the top senior worker in the entire steel rolling mill.
Those workers who are just starting out want to find a master as their master when they enter the steel rolling mill. In this way, they can not only quickly improve their technical level under the guidance of the master, but also be promoted to senior workers as soon as possible.
In addition, there are also various circles in the factory. The apprentices of a master are even brothers in the same discipline. These brothers will take care of each other in life and work. As long as they are their own senior brothers or junior brothers, then what will happen? It's easy to say, but if it's an outsider, it would be embarrassing.
This is actually a small circle culture. People in the circle try their best to unite with each other, help each other, and monopolize all interests.
Those who cannot squeeze into the small circle can only follow these people and eat some scraps.
The fastest and most convenient way to join these circles is to find a master as a master.
As a result, the masters in the steel rolling mill have become a scarce resource. Since ancient times, no matter where you are, you have to pay a certain price to obtain scarce resources.
Those master masters also hold the price, and when accepting apprentices, they will put forward all kinds of unreasonable requirements, such as apprenticeship ceremony, three-year-old birthday ceremony and the like. No matter what the name is, in the final analysis, they just want money. Want food stamps, need food.
Life is difficult for everyone these days. It is difficult for those young workers who have just entered the factory to pay such a large fee to the masters without the support of their families.
Therefore, those workers who cannot afford to pay will have opinions in their hearts. They cannot just watch their opportunities being taken away by unfair means by small workers who are far inferior to them.
So those small workers mustered up the courage to report what the masters were doing to the steel rolling mill. The steel rolling mill also realized that once this trend was formed, it would not only affect the reputation of the factory, but also slow down the speed of talent training. After all, those poor people Among the workers at home, there are many people with extraordinary talents.
Therefore, an investigation team was set up to investigate the behavior of the masters, and interviewed several masters, hoping that they would abandon their past practices and stop engaging in such messy things when recruiting apprentices in the future.
However, what the investigation team never expected was that instead of obeying, the masters kept saying that as masters, they had the right to choose their apprentices. They knew that the leaders of the steel rolling mills had no power to stop them.
The leaders of the steel rolling mill felt that their dignity had been challenged and adopted corresponding response strategies. In order to avoid intensifying conflicts, the steel rolling mill conducted a plant-wide report on several typical masters.
It was just a notification without any substantial punishment. After all, they did not want to arouse the anger of the masters.
However, even so, the masters still felt that their dignity had been challenged, so they united and took the initiative to slow down their work.
The so-called slack work is not the same as the strikes of later generations. The Anxi masters did not stop production, nor did they ask for leave. They just adopted a slow-moving method in their work. One piece should have been completed in 2 hours, but now it takes four or five hours to complete. Completed, and the accuracy and quality of the workpiece have deteriorated a lot.
As a result, not only were the tasks undertaken by the steel rolling mill unable to be delivered on time, but the factory leaders would also be criticized by their superiors because the quality could not meet the standards. In just one month, the leaders of the steel rolling mill were so distressed that they had no choice in the end. He could only choose to retreat and withdraw his notification to the masters.
The reason is simple. In those days, workers were the directors of the factory. As long as there were no serious violations of law and discipline, even the factory director could not fire the workers, let alone the high-level masters. There is no limit to the output in the workshop, and the masters will not be punished for slowing down production.
After the notice was withdrawn, the masters' charging of apprentice fees became increasingly arrogant, and even reached the point where if a master did not accept apprentices, he would be looked down upon and considered to have inadequate technical skills.
Liu Haizhong has made a lot of money by recruiting apprentices over the years, otherwise he wouldn't be able to live like a big fat pig.
Liu Haizhong naturally had to take care of Zhang Dakui, a close relative, and kept teaching him how to lift the hammer and how to drop the hammer. He almost taught Zhang Dakui step by step. This made the few apprentices next to him envious, especially One is named Zhao Fangde.
In fact, Zhao Fangde can no longer be called a young apprentice. He is twenty-five years old this year and has been working in the steel rolling mill for five or six years. The reason why he is called a young apprentice is because he is still a first-class forger. .
It's not that Zhao Fangde is not motivated, but that Yi Zhonghai doesn't teach him at all on weekdays.
Zhao Fangde saw that Liu Haizhong had such a good attitude towards Zhang Dakui, a well-connected person, and felt envious. He secretly approached Liu Haizhong, licked his face and smiled at Liu Haizhong: "Master, I am in the process of forging."
There are some things that I don’t understand. I wonder if you are free. I want to ask you now. "
"No time!" Liu Haizhong turned around and saw that it was Zhao Fangde who suddenly lost his good expression. He was holding an enamel jar, sitting on a chair and drinking leisurely.
His legs were raised high and shaking slightly, and he was humming a little tune. Zhao Fangde was so angry when he saw how much he was playing like that.
When he first entered the steel rolling mill, he actually introduced Liu Haizhong as a famous forger master in the steel rolling mill. After some hesitation, he took out five yuan as a apprenticeship ceremony and gave it to Liu Haizhong.
You know, Zhao Fangde's family is very poor. Although his father is an old worker, he retired early because of his frailty and illness. The monthly pension is just enough to take medicine.
As for his mother, she was also sick all year round, and the family had to rely on cardboard boxes to survive.
Zhao Fangde had to carry a large bag at the train station for more than a month in order to collect the five yuan to pay for his apprenticeship, and he lost a lot of weight.
It can be said that these five yuan are equivalent to Zhao Fangde's hard-earned money.
Zhao Fangde originally thought that after spending the money to become Liu Haizhong's master, he would be promoted to a senior worker after studying hard for a while.
Who would have thought that Liu Haizhong is a person who only knows how to collect money and not do anything.
His apprentice is just a handyman on weekdays.
