Comfortable life in Siheyuan

The Third Steel Rolling Mill, also known as the Kyoto Third Steel Rolling Mill.

It is said that it was originally a private factory owned by a big capitalist, but at that time the factory was not very big and only employed a few hundred people.

However, as the public-private partnership reform unfolded, the steel rolling mill also gradually developed, during which time it merged and swallowed up many surrounding steel and manufacturing plants.

As time goes by, the Third Steel Rolling Mill has now grown to a huge scale with nearly 10,000 employees.

It has its own workers' hospital, workers' children's primary school, security department, technical department, logistics department, medical department... five workshops and four canteens.

Arriving at the gate, the old man said hello to the guard: "Captain Yang, this is my son. He is here to report today. Here is his letter of introduction. I will take him to the personnel department."

Captain Yang took a look at the letter of introduction and said, "Not bad. You're still a college student. You're lucky, Lao Liu."

Dad smiled and said, "Hey, he just loves to study. What do we, the rough guys, know? Let's talk later. Send him there early. I have to go to the electrician class later."

Captain Yang handed over the letter of introduction, waved his hand, and said, "Let's talk later."

When we arrived at the personnel department, my dad knocked on the door, "Knock knock knock."

"Please come in".

Liu Qingshan pushed the door open and walked in. A woman in her forties stood up and asked, "Old Liu, what do you want?"

"Hello, I'm here to report with my son."

As he spoke, Liu Qingshan handed the letter of recommendation to the other party.

The other party looked at me for a while and said, "Hello, my name is Liu Mei, and I'm a clerk in the personnel department."

Dad Liu Yaohui said with a smile: "Call Aunt Liu, you and Aunt Liu will report in later. I'm leaving first, I have to go to the electrician team. Sorry to bother you, Sister Liu."

"Hey, don't be polite, this is my job." He said, took the letter of introduction and walked out of the office. Liu Qingshan followed behind him and came to a room opposite the personnel department.

The doorplate reads, Deputy Section Chief's Office.

"Dong dong dong..."

"Please come in."

A woman's voice came from inside.

Liu Mei led Liu Qingshan into the office. The office was spacious and there was a woman in her thirties looking at documents behind the desk.

"Chief, this is a college student who has just graduated and has been assigned to the technical department of our unit."

The other party looked up at Liu Qingshan, stood up, shook hands with Liu Qingshan, and then said: "Hello Comrade Liu Qingshan, I am Song Jinxia, ​​the deputy director of the Personnel Department. Your job has been explained by the factory. You are the director of the Technical Department, Qin, and we finally asked for a college student from above."

"Section Chief Qin has instructed that when someone arrives, we must send them to the Technical Department as soon as possible. I'll help you with the formalities quickly."

"You are a college graduate. During your internship, you were a Level 14 technician with a salary of 48.5 yuan. After becoming a regular employee, you will be a Level 13 technician with a corresponding salary of 55 yuan. Your documents also include your Party membership card, and your Party membership will also be transferred. I will give you the card first, and I will register the other materials."

"Then I'll have to trouble Chief Song," said Liu Qingshan.

"You are a cadre. According to the regulations, you are eligible for housing allocation, but the factory's tube-shaped buildings are full and there is no room for allocation. You should decide whether to wait for the next batch of tube-shaped buildings to be built, or get a courtyard house."

"I still live with my parents and I'm used to living in a bungalow." Liu Qingshan thought that the tube-shaped buildings nowadays are not as comfortable to live in as bungalows, they just have a good reputation.

At that time, there was a policy to convert public housing into private housing, but many people thought it was unnecessary. Liu Qingshan actively persuaded his parents and cooperated with the street work, spending a little money to buy out the house. At that time, the street was persuading everyone to privatize their houses, but many people felt that the monthly rent was not expensive, and they were unwilling to pay hundreds of yuan at once.

"I'd rather not wait for a building, I'll just live in a courtyard house."

“Most of our steel rolling mills are occupied, and there are not many vacancies left.”

"We live in No. 95, Nanluoguxiang. There is an east-crossing yard next to the backyard of that yard. It has been abandoned there. Is that the building of our steel mill?"

"That house, let me take a look... Yes, that house has two rooms. It was dilapidated before the founding of the People's Republic of China. It is connected to a small yard. The yard is not big, just a little more than two mu of land. More than half of the wall has collapsed, and only the four walls of the house are left. Many employees have visited it several times. The cost of repairing it is too high, so it is just left there empty."

"Can I have that yard? I want to live closer to my parents. There's a door over there that connects to my parents' house."

There is a small alley on the east side of this house, the alley in front of Courtyard No. 95. If you open a door on the east side, you don't have to go into this courtyard when you buy something.

"Are you sure? A simple repair on that house might cost several hundred dollars. You just started working and haven't gotten married yet, so you'll have a lot of things to spend money on later."

"It's okay, Chief Song. My parents are both working and my brother is in the army. I can just clean up the place. I'll fix up the yard and the factory will take it back. How will I pay for it?"

"You can also buy this house directly for 200 yuan. I will write a receipt and hand it over to the factory's finance department. Then you can go to the street office to complete the formalities. If you continue to work in the factory and rent it for a long time, the factory will not take it back."

"I'm afraid that if I have to change jobs in the future, this house is close to my parents. I'm quite satisfied with the location. When they get old, if my eldest brother is still in the army, I can take care of them conveniently."

"Okay, I'll write you a bill. Let's confirm the house first. If you really want to buy it, take this bill and go directly to the Finance Department to pay the money. Then go to the Street Office to complete the formalities."

"Okay, thank you, Chief Song, I'm sure I'll buy it." I had about 400 yuan but less than yuan on me, and I could borrow some from my parents.

After a while, after completing the formalities, Section Chief Song stood up and said, "Come, I'll take you to Section Chief Qin. Section Chief Qin is looking forward to it."

Liu Qingshan scratched his head in embarrassment.

After leaving the Personnel Department, the two walked for a while and came to a two-story building. They went up to the second floor and walked towards an office on the left.

"Knock, knock, knock!" Song Ke knocked on the door.

"Come in!" A middle-aged man's voice came from inside the door.

Section Chief Song opened the door and said as he walked in, "Section Chief Qin, I brought you your precious baby."

Liu Qingshan was so embarrassed that he could dig out a three-bedroom apartment with his toes.

"Hello, Section Chief Qin!" I asked reluctantly.

Section Chief Qin came over and held Liu Qingshan's hand tightly. "Welcome, Comrade Qingshan. I had to apply for you to come here with great difficulty. Our section is so short of people right now. There are so many machines in the five workshops in the factory, and the equipment is old and has a high failure rate. There are only five technicians including me. It's great that you are here. You can share some of our pressure."

After hearing this, Liu Qingshan understood the situation in the factory and said to me, "Chief Qin, you are welcome. I am also a member of our factory. When I enter the factory, I will work hard to do my job well."

"Oh, you are a member of the factory? Then we are family!" Section Chief Qin laughed.

Section Chief Song also said at this time: "His father is Master Liu from the electrician team, Liu Yaohui, you are also familiar with him."

"Yes, my father is Liu Yaohui." Liu Qingshan replied.

"Then you've made the right decision to come here. You can work with your father and go home together, so you can take care of each other. Our technical department often works with the electrician team to handle faults. You and your son are on the battlefield together." Section Chief Qin said happily.

"Chief Qin, I'm going to go back first. You guys chat first." Section Chief Song pushed open the door and walked out.

"Thank you, Chief Song."

"Thank you!" Qin Ke waved.

"Come, I'll take you to your desk." Section Chief Qin called Liu Qingshan out and entered a large office on the right side of the stairs, where two people were sitting, a man and a woman.

"This is our new technician Liu Qingshan, let's get to know each other."

The man was wearing glasses and was in his 20s. He looked a little unkempt. He stood up and shook hands with Liu Qingshan: "Hello, my name is Wang Lei, and I'm a technician in our factory."

"Hello, my name is Tang Xiaoling." Another tall and beautiful woman stretched out her hand and shook hands gently with Liu Qingshan.

"Hello, I'm Liu Qingshan, who just graduated this year and was assigned here. I'm 20 years old. Please take care of me in the future."

"You will sit at this desk over here. That big desk is used for meetings. A technician named Xiao Li has gone to the factory to help with maintenance. Next door is the office of Zhang Yejun, the deputy section chief and deputy chief engineer of the factory. I'll take you there to meet him. Xiao Tang, Xiao Wang, you guys go ahead and take care of the new comrades."

"Okay, Chief." The two agreed.

I knocked on the door next door and saw a middle-aged man, probably in his 40s, wearing old-fashioned glasses. He greeted the section chief and then lowered his head to read the materials.

The section chief and Liu Qingshan returned to the office.

"Go get your work clothes later. We technical staff have some office and daily supplies. Go get them. There are cabinets and drawers under your desk. You can put some things there directly. You can also make a lock yourself. Sometimes the information distributed to you will be confidential. It's best to bring it with you. That's it for today. I'll give you a day off tomorrow. You'll officially start work the day after tomorrow. Is that okay?"

"No problem, thank you Chief."

I went out, got some stuff from the logistics department, had a meal at the factory, and went home directly. I also bought a lock on the way. It was just past one o'clock when I got home, and there were not many people in the yard.

I put my stuff at home, walked to the side room and looked through a rusty iron door to the east side yard. The place was indeed shabby, but the area was not small. The house and yard were about 200 square meters, with two south-facing rooms, about the same size as the east wing of the house. The yard was overgrown with weeds. The wall was dilapidated.

Looking at this house, my heart is filled with joy. This is a house that is worth every penny in the future, so I have to buy it quickly. If I don't buy it, I will regret it.

This yard was often used for playing in the past, and many bricks were kicked over by the children in the yard.