On the second day of the first lunar month in the thirty-sixth year of Chengshun, Sun Xu, who had only rested for a day and a half, once again got on the public carriage and prepared to go to work at Anhua Textile Company.

Anhua Textile Company is currently in the process of equipment upgrading, which is a critical period for the production of new cotton yarns. All technical staff have been working overtime since December last year. Even during the statutory seven-day Spring Festival holiday, they can only rest for one and a half days.

Then it was back to work.

Although Sun Xu has only been employed for a month and is not considered a technical backbone, as a member of the mechanical maintenance department and a mechanic specially recruited to learn and maintain new equipment, he is naturally working overtime every day.

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So just after the first day of the Lunar New Year, he was going to work.

However, Sun Xu was obviously not the only one who went out on the second day of the Lunar New Year, there were many others.

As the most populous and densely populated city in the Chu Empire, Songjiang City quickly regained its vitality on the second day of the Lunar New Year after being deserted on New Year's Eve and the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Many people began to visit relatives and friends on this day, which also resulted in many people going out even though they did not go to work, causing public transportation to become quickly crowded.

At the same time, some factories with tight production tasks, many of which are like Anhua Textile Company, would rather pay three times the salary on statutory holidays and let workers come to work early. Sun Xu is one of them.

However, most of them are places in the service industry, which are even busier during the Chinese New Year. Ms. Meng goes to work early in the morning. The Huidong Department Store where she works belongs to the retail industry. During such major holidays,

It is very rare to have a day and a half off here. Business will be resumed as soon as the second day of the Lunar New Year arrives. Ms. Meng and other staff members have to go there in advance to prepare for the business.

Thinking of Miss Meng, Sun Xu couldn't help but curve the corners of his mouth slightly, revealing a smile.

Taking advantage of the rare one-and-a-half-day Spring Festival holiday, the relationship between him and Miss Meng achieved a great breakthrough.

The two people were like two fireflies flying alone in the city, attracted by each other's light, and then turned to each other.

After the New Year's Eve fireworks extravaganza, the relationship between the two finally broke the deadlock. When they came back from watching the fireworks, they were already holding hands when there was no one on the carriage... Well, they were still wearing leather gloves at the time.

, it’s not really a skin-to-skin relationship.

After going back in the evening, nothing happened out of the ordinary. After saying goodbye at the door, Sun Xu was so excited that night that he didn't sleep well all night.

The next day, while the rented carriage was still there, Sun Xu took Miss Meng to a garden park in the northern suburbs of Xicheng District. When it was time for dinner, the two of them once again joined forces to cook. At this time, they were already a real couple.

Hands holding hands...without gloves.

Thinking of the past day and a half, Sun Xu couldn't help but smile.

He likes this Songjiang City!

Although I have been in Songjiang City for a month, I know many bad things about Songjiang City, such as the bad air environment. When I first came here, I thought it was just caused by the occasional bad weather... But after living there for a long time, I realized that Songjiang City

The air in the center is so smelly every day...

Sun Xu also dislikes the traffic in the city center... It doesn't matter if there are many asphalt roads, cement roads, or many major roads. There are traffic jams every day. The average speed of the public carriages he rides is only five or six kilometers per hour. Sometimes

If you're stuck in a traffic jam, it's faster to just walk.

And the rent is expensive... Although the welfare apartment in the city center is cheap, it is actually relatively speaking. If the rent, water and coal bills are added together this month, the apartment he rents together will cost more than one yuan a month, and if you want to

Living in a slightly better apartment in the city center is even more expensive.

If it is a suburb with a better environment and a relatively close distance to work...the rent in those places is more expensive, and rents of two to three yuan or more are the norm.

This is naturally not a big problem for Sun Xu, but for most ordinary workers from other places, these rents are not cheap.

This is why the apartment Sun Xu and the others rent may not look good, but in fact the tenants renting there are mostly low-level technicians, managers, or dual-income working-class families. In fact, the income of singles or families is not bad.

That kind!

After living here for a month, Sun Xu also thought about moving away from here and living in a better place one day.

But the family is also short of money, and he still has to live to prepare for his younger brother's tuition, so he just thinks about it for a while, and it is impossible to move out in a short time.

This place is already pretty good for his income. If he wants to move up, the rent pressure is too great and it's not worth it.

Fortunately, he works in a large factory. The factory provides affordable canteens. He heard that some places where he works do not provide working meals. People who need to cook for themselves or eat out have to pay for every meal.

The cost is not small.

The expenses for many other daily necessities are not small either.

After coming to Songjiang City for a month, Sun Xu also has an overall understanding of Songjiang City. It is an immigrant industrial city with a poor living environment and high consumption pressure, but with many employment opportunities, great career prospects, and a very inclusive environment.

There are good ones and there are bad ones.

But in the past two days, Sun Xu feels better about Songjiang City... This change in feeling is naturally because of Miss Meng.

A person's impression of a city, good or bad, will most likely change because of one person.

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Sitting on the gently swaying public carriage, Sun Xu quickly arrived at the public platform of Bei'er Road in the Xicheng District Industrial Zone, where Anhua Textile Company is located.

However, the Xicheng District Industrial Zone is very large, with dozens of criss-crossing roads. There are a large number of factories on both sides of these roads. The industrial zone not only has a large number of factories, but also provides a large number of various services for the employees in these factories.

There are many shops serving daily life and even workers’ residences.

On the periphery of the industrial zone, there are various commercial streets and residential areas with a better environment for various middle and low-level managers and technical personnel.

Sun Xu lives in Dongqi Lane, Shenjia Village, which is this kind of place. The overall environment is actually pretty good for a run-down place like the city center. Most of the residents have an income of above average. The apartment seems small, but it is basically

It is a small apartment with one bedroom and one living room or two bedrooms and one living room.

If it is the workers' apartments in industrial areas, many of them are single-room apartments, with only a small room alone. There are no toilets and kitchens, only shared toilets and kitchens. Moreover, such workers' apartments often use bunk beds.

Four or even six single workers.

In their Anhua Textile Company, they rented many workers' apartments like this and used them as dormitories for ordinary workers...

Anhua Textile Company is on Bei'er Road. After getting off the public carriage, Sun Xu walked for about ten minutes and arrived at the company's entrance.

The guard at the company entrance was obviously familiar with Sun Xu, a technician who came to work overtime every day during the Chinese New Year. After seeing Sun Xu, he did not go up to ask like when Sun Xu first came. Instead, he looked up and then lowered his head to fiddle with it.

Know what's gone.

After Sun Xu entered the company's administrative building, he saw a middle-aged man in business attire in front of him. He immediately took two steps forward and greeted: "Chief Wang, happy New Year!"

Section Chief Wang turned around and nodded slightly to Sun Xu: "Sun Xu, happy New Year, how have you been during the past two days of rest?"

Sun Xu said: "Thank you section chief for your concern, I rested well!"

Section Chief Wang said: "That's good. Starting today, we have to work overtime again!"

After thinking about it, Section Chief Wang added: "Today, the manufacturer's engineers came to install and debug the several pieces of equipment that were shipped a year ago. Today you will be responsible for one of the pieces of equipment and assist the manufacturer's engineers in the installation and debugging!"

"Keep your eyes open and carefully observe the operations of the manufacturer's engineers. If you don't understand anything, write down questions and ask me in time!"

When Sun Xu heard this, he immediately said: "Thank you, Section Chief Wang, for your cultivation. I will definitely study hard and there will definitely be no problems!"

Sun Xu has been working at Anhua Textile Company for a month. Naturally, he knows the importance. Anhua Textile Company is upgrading and transforming to produce new cotton yarn. In the future, it will gradually replace the new spinning machines produced by Hantian Machinery Company... And

He and six or seven other newly recruited young mechanics learned the maintenance of these new spinning machines.

But so far, no one else can independently assist in the installation and debugging of new equipment.

Many people haven't even figured out the new equipment yet and are still in the learning stage.

Sun Xu was also one of them, and he studied very hard. In addition, his theoretical foundation was very solid, and his learning progress was very fast. When he started, he was already doing well.

Now Section Chief Wang has given him sole responsibility for the installation and debugging of a piece of equipment. Even if he is only assisting the engineers of the equipment manufacturer in the installation and debugging, it is still a great affirmation of his ability... because so far, the new recruits

He is the first among the young mechanics!

Seeing the joy on Sun Xu's face, Section Chief Wang also said with a smile on his face: "Also, your inspection period has ended, and you will be officially working on a monthly basis starting from this month."

"I said at the beginning that as long as you study hard and can quickly master new equipment, I will give you a salary increase of one yuan."

"Your performance is good, so starting from this month, you will receive an additional RMB 1 yuan subsidy on your salary!"

"Don't talk about salary matters, remember to keep it confidential!"

At this time, Sun Xu's face became even more joyful, and he immediately bowed slightly to Section Chief Wang and said, "Thank you, Section Chief, for your training. I will keep it in my heart!"

Section Chief Wang looked satisfied, nodded slightly and said, "Do a good job, I'm still very optimistic about you!"

Section Chief Wang is indeed very optimistic about Sun Xu. In his opinion, although Sun Xu has an average academic qualification, he has very solid basic mechanical theory. The most important thing is that he is smart and studious. He has mastered the operation of a new cotton yarn machine within a few days of going to work. The various parameters of the equipment and the maintenance manual are almost gone through... You don’t need to think about it all, you must have worked hard after get off work.

At the same time, although the hands-on experience is a little worse, what they are doing is not the old model of equipment, but the new equipment. In this regard, the difference between novices and veterans is actually not big, and the hands-on experience is not very good... Who are you looking at?

Acceptance and academic abilities are higher.

Obviously, Sun Xu won the first place among the six or seven new mechanics who entered the factory at the same time.

I have good basic skills, I am smart and eager to learn, my attitude is sincere, I am proactive in my work, I am quite cheerful and good-looking, I should be praised by my boss, and I get along well with my colleagues, especially those veteran mechanics.

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Of course, Section Chief Wang will not ignore such talents.

He was offered a full-time position early and received a salary increase.

If Sun Xu can continue to maintain this pace of hard work in the future and make great progress in technology, it is not impossible for Section Chief Wang to continue to be promoted.

After all, Anhua Textile Company is in the process of upgrading. New equipment will be purchased one after another in the next year, and all equipment will eventually be replaced one year later.

In this case, the requirements for technicians who understand new equipment are also higher, more!

If there were more people like Sun Xu, Section Chief Wang wouldn't have to work overtime every day to do things himself like he did recently, and he would be as tired as a dog.

He, Section Chief Wang, is a technical manager and a senior technical backbone in the factory... He usually does not go out personally when it is not necessary, but only provides technical guidance.
To be continued...