Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

Holding the approval note from Director Qi, Wang Jianjun went to the purchasing department.

The Purchasing Department is under the management of the Logistics Department, but the director of the Logistics Department is not Li Huaide at this time.

Even Director Yang is only a deputy director now.

The head of the purchasing department is also surnamed Wang. He is in his forties or fifties and has a Mediterranean hairstyle.

Because he had just arrived and was unsure of his immediate superior's temper, Wang Jianjun greeted him politely and didn't say much.

Section Chief Wang looked at Wang Jianjun's information and said with a smile:

"Xiao Wang, welcome to work in our purchasing department.

Let me briefly tell you about the work of our purchasing department. Our purchasing department has three groups, and each group has different responsibilities.

Since you just arrived, I will arrange for you to go to Group 3 to familiarize yourself with the work. Forget about today and you will start to work formally from tomorrow."

Wang Jianjun thought it was really simple. Saying it was not the same as not saying it.

But thinking that it was still early, he could use the remaining time to do his own things, so he was happy with it.

After saying goodbye to his immediate superior, Wang Jianjun left.

Before leaving, he went to the material reserve department to collect his own labor protection items: two sets of winter and summer labor protection clothes, and two pairs of labor protection gloves.

Although the things are few, they are considered very good welfare in this era.

After receiving the supplies, Wang Jianjun prepared to leave the steel mill to buy some necessities for his family.

He doesn't even have a bed to sleep in now.

I said hello to my colleagues in the security department before leaving.

Zhao Yong also suggested that he stay and eat in the cafeteria before leaving.

Because meals in the cafeteria are subsidized, the food coupons for one steamed bun or two corn breads can be exempted for the lunch meal.

As long as conditions permit, employees in the factory will choose to eat in the cafeteria at noon. They will eat half of the steamed buns and corn bread and leave the other half to take back home for their families. This way they can save a lot of food coupons throughout the year.

Wang Jianjun gave up after hearing several people describe the food in the cafeteria.

It's either radish, cabbage, potato or pumpkin, and the staple food is steamed buns and wowotou, no rice.

Rather than waiting for hours for the cafeteria to open, he might as well go out and find something else to eat.

After saying goodbye to his colleagues in the security department, Wang Jianjun found a remote and deserted place near the steel rolling mill, left a transmission coordinate, and then walked towards the nearest supply and marketing cooperative.

He wanted to go to the department store in Wangfujing.

In this era, department stores are landmark buildings. Considering that they have only been open for two years this year, the items inside must be more complete than those in the supply and marketing cooperatives.

But considering that the journey was too long and I didn’t have a bicycle, I had to give up.

On the other side, Yi Zhonghai, who had just found the workshop director, returned to the workshop with a happy face.

Seeing his master's happy face, Jia Dongxu, who was dawdling at his workstation, hurried over and said attentively:

"Master, what are you so happy about?"

Yi Zhonghai did not hide it from him and told him his plan.

He just found the workshop director and asked him to help get Wang Jianjun to his workshop.

Yi Zhonghai knew the process for apprentices to enter the factory.

Generally, the personnel department distributes the list of apprentices to the directors of each workshop according to their job types.

The workshop director will then arrange for the master to guide the apprentice according to the situation.

This is how Jia Dongxu was originally arranged to be his apprentice.

Although Yi Zhonghai is not yet a level 8 fitter, a level 7 fitter is already the highest-level worker in the workshop.

Therefore, several workers in the same workshop who are qualified to take apprentices will give him some face.

When the time comes, he just needs to give a warning, and no matter which master Wang Jianjun works for, he will have no good life.

Not only will you not be able to learn the skills, but you will also have no chance of getting a work grade assessment.

I guess he will just be a first-level worker when he retires.

Yi Zhonghai's method can be said to be extremely vicious, and it is aimed directly at destroying Wang Jianjun's future.

When the workshop director heard Yi Zhonghai say that Wang Jianjun and he were from the same hospital, he thought Yi Zhonghai wanted to take care of him so he agreed without hesitation.

Even if he knew later that Yi Zhonghai was seeking revenge on Wang Jianjun, he would not offend Yi Zhonghai, a seventh-level worker, for the sake of a first-level worker.

High-level technical workers still have a very high status in the workshop. After all, they are needed to make some high-precision parts in the steel rolling mill.

After listening to Yi Zhonghai's plan, Jia Dongxu gave Yi Zhonghai a thumbs up and said with a sly smile:

"Master, you still have a solution. Let's see if that kid dares to act so arrogantly in the yard again."

Yi Zhonghai waved his hand and said righteously:

"I'm doing this for his own good. Wang Jianjun has developed a bad temper in the army. He needs to experience some setbacks to temper his temper."

But Yi Zhonghai could never have imagined that the plan he thought was foolproof would end up in vain.

On the other side, after leaving the steel rolling mill, Wang Jianjun asked someone and found out about a carpentry company where he was planning to buy some furniture.

A woodworking cooperative is a wood production cooperative that mainly produces agricultural tools, furniture, office desks and chairs and other products.

Individuals are not allowed to do business these days, so most of the craftsmen who used to run small workshops now work in this kind of production cooperatives, and the products they produce are also purchased and sold here in a unified manner.

But when he got there and asked people, he found out that there was such a thing as furniture tickets.

Then forget it, there is nothing he can do without a ticket.

This gave Wang Jianjun a deeper impression of this era of bills.

No wonder those people in the courtyard would rather throw the broken furniture into their own rooms than get rid of it.

Since he was already here, Wang Jianjun might as well shamelessly watch a few craftsmen making furniture to see if he could learn some skills.

Several carpenters thought Wang Jianjun was just a street kid with a special hobby, and didn't think he could learn all the skills just by taking a few glances.

There were even idle masters who took the time to explain some basic questions to him.

Wang Jianjun studied very hard and he actually planned to get a set of furniture of his own.

The auxiliary functions in the space can process things in the space, and cutting wood is just a small matter.

After gaining a general understanding of the structure of the furniture he was going to make, he got up and left.

When I go to the countryside in a while, I can see if there is any wood. Then I can get some and try to make a set of furniture myself.

Wang Jianjun didn't buy any furniture and seeing that it was still early, he simply went to a bookstore to have a look.

There are too few entertainment options when traveling to this time, and he has nothing to do at night. He even starts thinking about getting married.

I might as well buy a few books to kill time in the evening.

Wang Jianjun thinks that people of this generation love to read because they have too much free time.

He once forgot to bring his cell phone when he went to the toilet, and even read the formula of the toilet shower gel with great interest.

After some selection in the bookstore, I finally chose some picture books with text and pictures. The comic strips in them can be used as comics.

In addition to the picture books, Wang Jianjun found a few books that interested him on the bookshelf.

The censorship of literary works was not so strict in this era.

Some banned books of later generations can be openly displayed on bookshelves and sold in this era.

For example, the Water Margin Extra: Jin Moumei, he flipped through it casually and found that it was actually the unabridged version, even with illustrations.

You have to know that these books will be destroyed when the storm comes, and even in later generations you may not be able to see the uncensored version.

With the idea of ​​protecting cultural heritage, Wang Jianjun specially selected several books of this kind.