February 5th, New Year's Eve...

As soon as we started to work in the morning, we started to busy paste couplets and hang lanterns, which was a joyful scene. Several employees put large couplets on the main entrance of the operation workshop in a manner. Xiao Yuanhang was directing the paste position while admiring the lines of the couplets with round and round words...

Today's couplets are not bought at the market like in previous years, but are the result of cooperation with Wang Zhengxiang, a well-known calligrapher in the operation workshop. The content of the couplets was written by Xiao Yuanhang himself, and his name was Wang Zhengxiang. Wang Zhengxiang is a statistician in the third class of Operations. He has been practicing calligraphy for more than 20 years. He has won the bronze and gold medals in the calligraphy competition organized by the Ministry of Railways and the Liaodong Railway Bureau. He is a member of the Songjiang Calligraphers Association.

The couplets are placed in a straight position and pasted. Xiao Yuanhang admires this couplet with a strong ink fragrance from afar. The first couplet is: The sound of the whistle sounds and touching hymns. The second couplet is: The wheels roll and the moving melody along the way. The horizontal banner is: Festive New Year!

While Xiao Yuanhang was commanding the personnel to hang big red lanterns, Deputy Director Tang Zhenglin hurried over from the operation room and saw Xiao Yuanhang saying, "Director, I happened to have something to discuss with you."

Xiao Yuanhang asked: "Have you finished pasting the couplets in the operation room and the shunting areas?"

Tang Zhenglin said: "All posts are finished, and I have to let them hang the lanterns. Firecrackers have to be taken over by the night shift at night before sending them, otherwise they might have to let these kids release them."

Xiao Yuanhang said: "Okay, when you take over night shifts at night, send firecrackers and condolences together." This year, the second shift on the night shift on New Year's Eve is the second shift. Due to the three shift system implemented in the operation workshop, the second shift has been on the night shift on New Year's Eve for three consecutive years. The night shift on New Year's Eve means that it is also a night shift on the fifteenth night. This is impossible. Generally, this situation must be for four consecutive years, and it can only be poured out after the leap month.

While talking, the two entered the operation workshop and went upstairs. The Party Secretary Tan Yingjun was packing gifts with several young workers who came to help him off duty. Melon seeds, peanuts and candy cubes, as well as apples and oranges. Each team in the head shift this year has one. There are more than ten teams under one team to operate. If you need to contact the stationed departments of other units, the gifts will be inspected for more than twenty.

The large teams are like one to five. There are more than a dozen people, and they need to be divided into large parts. The small ones are like the station dispatch room. Although there is only one person, they can also be divided into one part. The duty room, signal building, vehicle number group, cavalry preparation group, etc.

The units at the joint part include a freight transfer room, a commercial inspection room in the operation room, and a vehicle depot train inspection room in the operational infrared duty room. The electric service section is located in the operational reporting room, and a signal work area in the signal building. In addition, there are crew members of the five shunt units in the locomotive section, etc., and they need to contact each other during the Chinese New Year.

Seeing that everyone was busy, Xiao Yuanhang was about to help. When Tan Yingjun saw that he hurriedly stepped forward and stopped him and said, "Director. You have so many things to do during the Chinese New Year, so how can you do this work? We will finish this little work in a short while. Go and do your business." As he said that, Xiao Yuanhang was pushed out of the deputy director's room.

"By the way, Zhenglin, didn't you say there was something wrong?" Xiao Yuanhang suddenly remembered that Tang Zhenglin had something to talk to him, and asked while walking towards his director's office.

Tang Zhenglin said: "Yes, I just want to discuss with you what to do on duty tonight."

"Has the duty work been arranged? Why do you have something to do tomorrow?" Xiao Yuanhang said as he sat at his desk, opened the drawer and took out a soft chinese cigarette and threw it away. He said, "You can comfort those kids on duty tomorrow!"

The three-day holiday of the Spring Festival, plus two Sundays. There are five days to the first day of the lunar month to the fifth day of the lunar month, and six people are required to be on duty. On the thirty day of the railway tradition is the top administrative leaders of each unit on duty. Xiao Yuanhang is the director of the operation workshop and he is responsible for it. On the thirty day, he is on duty. On the thirty day, he is on duty. On the first day of the lunar month, he is on duty, Jiang Hong, the third day of the lunar month, Li Qiang, Tan Yingjun, the fourth day of the lunar month, and on the fifth day of the lunar month, Wang Gang, the secretary of the party branch.

Tang Zhenglin said: "It's not that I have something to do tomorrow, but I want to be on duty for you tonight. Look, you are not married yet and you have few people in your family. You can't let Uncle Xiao and Aunt Xiao live alone during the New Year. In this way, you will go back until the evening and accompany them to make dumplings and watch the Spring Festival Gala. I will be on duty for you tonight."

Xiao Yuanhang said: "Zhenglin, I appreciate your kindness, but I must be on duty tonight's shift. This is an unwritten rule formed by the railway over the years, and I cannot destroy it. Besides, the station is on duty tonight, and I will definitely go to several important parts on the side of the operation tonight. If I don't look like anything, what will the cadres and staff on duty tonight think if they can't see me?"

Tang Zhenglin hurriedly said, "Director, I don't mean that. For example, the station leaders come to express their condolences at more than 7 o'clock in the evening, and they will go back after walking around. After you walk around, you will go to various teams to express your condolences. Then you will go home for the New Year and set off firecrackers and eat dumplings in the middle of the night."

Tang Zhenglin thought about himself everywhere, and Xiao Yuanhang was very moved, but since he entered the railway line and sat in this position, he had to be unable to reunite with his family every year. Usually, people like Tang Zhenglin and Jiang Hong can take a walk, but on such an important festival in the Spring Festival, he must stick to his post.

Xiao Yuanhang said: "Zhenglin, you don't have to say anything more. I must be on duty for the shift tonight. Besides, it's past 11 o'clock to set off firecrackers and eat dumplings in the evening. After setting off firecrackers and eating dumplings with the staff, it's only 11 o'clock. At 12 o'clock, I rushed home and had time to eat dumplings with my parents."

When Tang Zhenglin saw Xiao Yuanhang insisting on duty, he had to say, "Okay, I'll come here to accompany you tonight. Secretary Wang and Director Jiang and others said they were going to come over. Let's set off firecrackers and eat dumplings with the staff!"

Xiao Yuanhang said: "Okay, if they want to come, they will come here. This year we will celebrate the New Year with our employees."

As he said that, Xiao Yuanhang stood up and said, "Zhenglin, let's go down to the cafeteria to see how the dumplings are being made."

The two went downstairs to the staff canteen behind. In the canteen, the deputy director Li Qiang brought more than 20 resting employees to make dumplings. Although they usually hold signal lights or iron shoes and forks, their thick hands were also very adept when making dumplings.
Chapter completed!