In the news report of two to three thousand words, Fang Hanmin's name appeared thirty or forty times. The frequency of this name appeared second only to Director Yuan. It seems that the staff in the Publicity Department responsible for contacting reporters fully understood what Yuan said. the meaning of.
As expected, the cadres and employees of Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory quickly saw the content of the report. Colleagues who were familiar with Fang Hanmin thought that he should have been in the newspaper long ago. Those who were not familiar with him lamented that Fang Hanmin is very popular recently. !
One morning, the internal phone on Fang Hanmin's desk rang. He picked it up and a pleasant female voice came from the headset, "Hello! Are you Fang Hanmin from Guichun No. 2 Middle School?"
"Me? Guichun No. 2 Middle School?" Fang Hanmin thought the other party made a mistake. "I'm sorry, I'm Fang Hanmin, but this is the Technology Department of Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, not Guichun No. 2 Middle School."
"Sorry, I didn't make it clear just now. I know your company is Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory. I just want to ask, did you graduate from Guichun No. 2 Middle School?"
Fang Hanmin in his previous life didn't know what Guichun No. 2 Middle School was, but as the host, Fang Hanmin certainly couldn't forget his alma mater. After a moment of hesitation, he said with certainty: "Yes, I graduated from Guichun No. 2 Middle School."
"Are you from Class 3, Grade 7 or 9?"
"Yes, I am from Class 3, Grade 79. Who are you?" After talking for a long time, Fang Hanmin still didn't know who the other party was.
"That's right, Fang Hanmin, it's really you! Who am I? Can't you tell?" The other party deliberately let it slip.
"I didn't hear it. Who are you?"
"Forget it if you didn't hear it. Let's keep the suspense going. Old classmate, I also work in the city. If it's convenient for you, let's take some time to meet. Then won't you know who I am?"
According to the other party, Fang Hanmin and she were classmates who had not seen each other for many years, and they also worked in the same city. If they did not agree to meet, it would seem unkind, so Fang Hanmin thought it would be okay to meet, "Okay, then make time to meet." A meeting, you decide the time and place.”
At around six o'clock in the evening on the weekend, Fang Hanmin came to a small restaurant as scheduled. After entering, he saw a young and beautiful lady in fashionable clothes looking out the window at a seat by the window, as if she was waiting for someone. As the host, Fang Hanmin recognized it at a glance as Yu Dongmei, the entertainment committee member of his class. He hesitated for a moment and walked over, "Yu Dongmei, it's you!"
The other party turned his gaze and stood up, "Fang Hanmin? I'm not mistaken, you are our old squad leader!"
The two sat down face to face. After exchanging pleasantries, they had mixed feelings and seemed to have endless things to say. Fang Hanmin suggested that it would be better to order the dishes first and chat while eating.
Fang Hanmin usually doesn't drink. He specially ordered a bottle of local famous wine and poured a glass for Yu Dongmei. Perhaps because they had not seen each other for many years and met again in a foreign country, Yu Dongmei, who had never drunk liquor before, readily agreed, "Pour it on. It has been four or five years since I graduated from high school. Today is a very rare meeting."
After a while, the dishes were served, and the two raised glasses. Fang Hanmin suggested: "Cheers to this rare meeting!"
After putting down the cup, Fang Hanmin didn't move his chopsticks, but looked at the other person over and over again, and sighed in his heart. No wonder the host had a crush on her. Although the lady in front of him was not beautiful, she was beautiful.
Until the other party burst into laughter and said, "Fang Hanmin, why are you looking at me like this? Is it because you haven't seen me for many years and you don't recognize me anymore?"
"Here," Fang Hanmin blushed with embarrassment, "We know each other, how can we not? But we haven't seen each other for four or five years. You seem to be a little fatter than before?"
Yu Dongmei didn't take it seriously, "Yeah, high school was stressful and hard, and I'm a few pounds heavier now than I was then."
Fang Hanmin regained his composure, "Yu Dongmei, I have lost contact with my former classmates. How did you find me?"
Yu Dongmei took out a newspaper from her bag and handed it to Fang Hanmin, "Is this reporting on your unit's deeds?"
Fang Hanmin took it and looked at it. He had seen this newspaper a few days ago. "It's news about our unit. Why do you care about this kind of thing?"
"I didn't pay special attention to it. I had nothing to do in the office a few days ago, so I picked up the newspaper on the table and read it. I originally planned to browse it casually to kill time, but I accidentally saw Fang Hanmin and three people in this report. I thought it was a duplicate name. When I read down, the newspaper said that this person entered the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory as a temporary worker in the second half of 1979. I thought of Fang Hanmin, my classmate in Class 3, Grade 79, who followed the newspaper. Is it the same person who was reported?"
Yu Dongmei was always so lively and cheerful, and the more she talked, the happier she became, "After I put down the newspaper, I went to the school's academic affairs office to make an outside call. The old man in the academic affairs office was afraid that I would make long distance calls, so he was watching from the side, so I told him that I would call the boy My friend called me and asked, "Are you still interested in this kind of thing at your age?" The result made him very embarrassed. I dialed the switchboard of Hongxing Pharmaceutical Factory and asked the operator to call the technical department. She said that the technical department had two phones and asked me Which one to look for? I said Fang Hanmin, how interesting is that female operator? If you have to ask me who I am, I have to say that I am Fang Hanmin's girlfriend." After saying that, Yu Dongmei couldn't stop giggling.
Looking at the beautiful, generous, lively and lovely Yu Dongmei, Fang Hanmin also laughed, "Sometimes you are your boyfriend, and now you are your girlfriend. You are really good at fooling people."
"I didn't fool you. If I didn't fool them, how could I get through to you?"
"Yeah, sometimes you can't be too realistic. Don't some people say that honest people suffer? Maybe this is the reason. Um, Yu Dongmei, it seems that you work in a school just now, right? Did you get admitted to a normal college during the college entrance examination? ?”
"Don't you know yet? My studies are not that good. After the college entrance examination results came out, my score was only enough to attend a normal college. Because I like music and dance, I chose the music teaching major of a normal college in the province."
It turned out that after Yu Dongmei graduated from the teachers' college, she was assigned to be a music teacher in a middle school in Shuangling City. Because she was good at singing and dancing, lively and generous, easy-going personality, and beautiful, after joining the job, although she could not He worked his way up to an official position, but within a short period of time, he accumulated a lot of connections in society.
"You are now a human soul engineer, and your work is easy. You are already very good!" Fang Hanmin praised.
At this time, Fang Hanmin had finished the first glass of wine, and Yu Dongmei also drank nearly half of the glass. It seemed that it was her first time to drink liquor. Not only did her face flush, but she also spoke more casually, "Human Soul Engineer, hahaha!" Are you making fun of me? Can I compare with you? We are in the same class, and you haven’t gone to college yet. According to what the newspaper says, you are not only a talent at Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, but you were also promoted at a young age. As the deputy chief of the technical section, what do I do? As a music teacher, our statuses are very different!"
"Don't say that. You are a state cadre now. My identity is still a work-for-work job within the company. To put it bluntly, I am still a worker."
"Fang Hanmin, please stop being humble in front of me. Don't you remember this sentence? Excessive modesty is pride. We are old classmates. Congratulations on your achievements! Uh, how did you end up working at the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory? And where did you start from? Where did you learn so much scientific knowledge? You know, several of our classmates who were admitted to key universities in that generation have accomplished nothing now."
In order to satisfy Dongmei's curiosity, Fang Hanmin told the story of how he introduced a friend he met through the water conservancy construction site to work as a temporary worker at the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory. Can't talk! Of course, the idea that he had mastered a large amount of scientific and technological knowledge through self-study did not arouse much interest in Yu Dongmei.
"No wonder you came to work as a worker in the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory. It turns out that you met a noble person. In those few years, it was basically a fantasy for rural people to want to work in a company in the city!"
"In the first two or three years, my rural household registration has not changed. It is only in the past two years that it has been changed to an urban household registration. It is not like you. When you enter a higher education institution, your household registration moves from the countryside to the city."
"Isn't everything fine now? What else are you saying!"
"Yes, everything is over. In fact, when I didn't register in the city, I wasn't depressed. The worst was to go back to the countryside to farm."
"For a person like you, you go to the reservoir construction site to provide labor services, and are appreciated by the construction site leaders. You work as a temporary worker at the Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory, and you make so many contributions to their company. I don't think you will be satisfied with being mediocre wherever you go. That’s why you can’t go back to the countryside to farm.” Yu Dongmei’s summary is just right as she is a classmate and works with her on the class committee.
"Who knows, maybe it's not impossible to go back to the countryside and become a village party secretary or village committee director or something."
"What a wonderful idea! Even if you want to go back to the countryside now, Red Star Pharmaceutical Factory won't let you go. Okay, let's not go too far. Can I ask you a private question?"
Fang Hanmin made a gesture of invitation, "I have no secrets, just ask."
"I have been working for four or five years, and now I have been promoted to deputy section chief. Do you have a soft spot for any girl? Tell me the truth." Yu Dongmei looked at Fang Hanmin with a smile. This may be the reason why she met tonight One of the main purposes.
Fang Hanmin replied without hesitation: "No, absolutely not!"
"Is it the truth? Didn't you lie to me?"
"It's absolutely true! There's not even a lie. Don't think about it. With my family conditions, which city girl would like a poor guy like me? I have a soft spot for others. Isn't that unrequited love? I just Don’t torture yourself by doing stupid things like that!”
"After so many years, times have changed. I didn't expect that your self-esteem is still so strong! Do you admit that you thought the same way in high school?" Perhaps she was afraid that she would get drunk, so Yu Dongmei put the remaining half glass of wine on the table. He stopped drinking and focused on chatting with Fang Hanmin.
"High school stage?" How did Fang Hanmin, who came from time-travel, know that Yu Dongmei had a crush on the host Fang Hanmin at that time, but because of his poor family conditions and introverted personality, he had no feeling for some of Dongmei's hints, "High school stage?" What's the matter?"
Yu Dongmei said angrily: "It's nothing. Just call you a nerd. It seems that you haven't stayed to that extent. Okay, let's not talk about the past."
"Don't mention it? Okay, I was immature at that time, and it's been several years, so I don't mind mentioning it." Fang Hanmin wished he could turn the page earlier.
"Well, tell me, what are your plans for the next step?"
Yu Dongmei's meaning was very clear, but Fang Hanmin asked knowingly, "What's the next step? Our pilot plant will be installed soon, and the next step is to carry out a scale-up test of hydrogenation and reduction."
"Who talked about work with you? Fang Hanmin, did you do it on purpose? If you do this again, I will ignore you!" Yu Dongmei pretended to be angry, but in fact she was blaming Fang Hanmin for not understanding the style.
Fang Hanmin was a little confused. He was fine just now. What's going on?
