It was raining, and it was raining after autumn. In the factory area, the willow trees on both sides of the road were washed and stubborn green appeared in the air where the shallow clouds and mist were mixed with the gray factory building. Zhen Feng was not walking on the quiet factory road, and her mood seemed to be brought into the gloomy and cold winter by the autumn rain.

When she first came out of the workshop, countless buzzing sounds of various machine tools were like groups of sparrows in the woods in summer, forming two spaces with the silent weeping willow raindrops.

She took an umbrella and deliberately walked under the willow leaves. She even tried hard to scrape the hanging willow branches one by one, wanting to shake the willow branches. The dull willow branches fell down a series of raindrops. She thought that the willow branches were so listless.

She and Master Guo asked for leave and said that they would go to the Education Office again and hand in the registration photos. When they entered the gate of the simple building of the Education Office, two young women rubbed the mud on the soles of their shoes at the door. She shouted: "Li Meizhen!"

The young woman who lowered her head and rubbed her soles raised her head. One of them was a medium-sized woman wearing a work hat and said "ah", as if she was a little surprised, hesitated for a moment, and shouted: "Zhen Fengwei!"

"Have you signed up?" Zhen Fengwei asked with a smile.

"I've signed up." Li Meizhen pointed at a taller girl in the middle, "I'll help her sign up." Zhen Fengwei had never seen that girl before. She looked at it and it was not too beautiful, but her first impression was that these words were generous, dignified, elegant, and an indescribable temperament from the inside out. Zhen Fengwei was secretly surprised. She couldn't help but feel a good impression and laughed: "Ah, are you from the kinetic energy workshop?"

"No, my middle school classmate Mei Xue," Li Meizhen smiled, "She is from the Heavy Machinery Factory, hahaha."

The girl named Meixue smiled generously: "Meizhen and I are middle school classmates and live together."

"Ao, I thought it was from the kinetic energy workshop." Li Meizhen was from the dynamic class of the technical school and was assigned to the kinetic energy workshop. "Then, do you have to work on our machinery?" Zhen Feng was not curious and worked in the heavy machinery, but did not take the adult college entrance examination and school in the heavy machinery.

Li Meizhen spoke quickly and showed a full heart: "She could have taken the heavy machinery exam, but the University of Heavy Machinery and Television did not have a news class, and there was a news class in a machinery exam, so she took the mechanical exam."

Even Zhen Fengwei was surprised by Li Meizhen's well-informed knowledge and asked hurriedly: "Where is our factory and the TVU major in journalism?"

"Yes, the Provincial Department of Education has opened several majors in several major units, such as the enterprise management, law majors in heavy machinery, and business management and journalism majors in our factory. She likes liberal arts, and in high school, she is very good at liberal arts. If she is not too biased in subjects, she would have been admitted to the Normal University." Li Meizhen's accent is quite rustic, but she can't speak in words.

"Hi, we are all..." Mei Xue's expression was very calm, not as bright as Li Meizhen. She seemed to want to continue saying something, maybe she thought that she was all those who failed the college entrance examination. She smiled implicitly when she said that she was the one who failed the college entrance examination.

After going upstairs together, they went downstairs together. When the three of them broke up, Zhen Fengwei was already familiar with Mei Xue. Zhen Fengwei had a good impression of Mei Xue who was not in the same factory. This was her intuition. She opened the folding umbrella and cared about it: "You just have an umbrella and take mine. I'm close and I'll go back in a few steps." She said she would stuff the umbrella to Mei Xue. Mei Xue pushed and gave in and said embarrassedly: "No, no, no. When I took the bus from the heavy machine, it didn't rain yet, but I didn't expect it to be over now. No, Meizhen and I will arrive at the station in a while, don't...Oh..."

Zhen Feng had already stuffed the umbrella into Mei Xue's arms and turned around and left: "I'm close, come back quickly. If you have time to play!"

Mei Xue stood there and didn't know what to do: "Oh, look at you, thank you! We all strive to pass the exam, and we can meet frequently in the future... I'll bring it to you under the umbrella."

Zhen Fengwei covered his head with one hand like a small fan, and waved his hand behind him: "Oh! An umbrella, come back quickly, slow down!"

Li Meizhen seemed a little neglected on the side, and hugged Mei Xue's waist and said, "Oh, Zhen Fengwei is like this. She is very enthusiastic about people. She is very nice... that's that... that, I heard that I was not good with a male classmate just now. Hi, some said it was her problem, and some said it was Xiong Erbo's problem--boy both of them are uniquely talented. Is her man named Xiong Erbo, and she is also an old classmate in our technical school. That man is not very tall, but he is very talented, singing, performing dramas, conducting, and eloquence. He can be said to be the most powerful one of us. Now he is not in a machine, and it seems he was transferred as soon as he graduated. It seems to be a pharmaceutical company..."

Li Meizhen sent Mei Xue to the factory gate. Mei Xue kept listening and didn't say anything. When she arrived at the gate, she quickly said, "Don't send it, go back, thank you! I'll bring the umbrella next time, please hand it over to your classmate."

Zhen Feng didn't jog back to the workshop. As soon as he approached the lathe next to the factory, Master Guo said tepidly: "I said, Xiao Zhen, it seems that your heart is no longer on the lathe."

Zhen Feng didn't pass by carefully and quickly put on a work hat from the cabinet beside him. When he found that the master's face was not good, he stammered several times and did not dare to speak easily. He didn't know what happened. Master Guo was a burly man with square faces, always bent over and stared at the rotating lathe. Zhen Feng didn't know that Master Guo had always been serious and his thoughts were all on the lathe. But today was a little different. She went to the Education Office just now and said hello to Master Guo, and he didn't say anything. Now, after a while, Master Guo looked unhappy, and it was cloudy.

She was uneasy. She thought to herself that she had learned skills from Master Guo. At the beginning, everyone said that I was lucky because Master Guo was one of the few seventh-level turning workers in the factory, and there were only a handful of eighth-level workers. It is said that there were only two in the factory. Master Guo said that Zhen Fengwei was very smart and a good turning worker. However, just a few months ago, he started running around and was always uneasy and was not in the workshop. Until Zhen Fengwei made it clear to his master two days ago that he wanted to take the adult college entrance examination at the end of this year. Master Guo did not express his displeasure at the beginning.

Zhen Fengwei stood beside Master Guo, and glanced at the turning knife of the lathe and the face of Master Guo, like a newborn kitten, pitiful and pitiful. Master Guo kept silent until Master Chen came from behind the toolbox, and rubbed it back and forth on his hands with a bunch of gauze, while saying, "Oh, Master Guo, are you getting off work soon? Do you still have to work for a while?"

Master Guo didn't look back and his eyes didn't leave the turning knife: "It's almost done."

"Master Guo, where was that from the factory just now?" Master Chen leaned closer and continued to wipe the yarn.

"Ao, from the factory union." Master Guo did not stop his work. He looked back at the ground and was neatly arranged in two stacks of round metal plates with moon-white glowing moon, like a wheel hub, and a figure reflected on the smooth surface.

"Did you be the referee of the technical competition again?" Master Chen asked, the veil was still being kneaded by the mobile phone.

"Yes. I mean, I don't want to be a referee anymore, do you know why?" Master Guo pressed and pressed the lathe under the lathe, and the even rotation sound of the lathe weakened. When the rapidly rotating turning tool weakened to gradually appear the edges and corners of the turning tool, it turned out like a bee-like buzzing sound disappeared with the wings retracted.

"Why?" Master Chen's ball of cotton yarn didn't stop at all.

"Oh, it's because no one wants to do this in the future." Master Guo didn't go to see Zhen Fengwei, he could guess Zhen Fengwei's embarrassing expression at this time.

"..." Master Chen is an fitter, what can he say? He can only say: "Of course we can't compare with us at that time, Xiao Zhen," Master Chen didn't know whether it was to make it clear for Zhen Feng, or to show off his former glory. "At that time, well, let's talk about your master. Master Guo's work in the past few years has reached the 21st century. What's the concept?" Master Chen saw that Zhen Feng had not opened his eyes wide and said, "You must have heard that your master has completed more than ten years of tasks?"

"Oh, forget it, Master Chen, please stop talking about those old things. It's not worth mentioning, not worth mentioning." Master Guo waved his hand.

"Ah, let's not talk about these things, people don't care much about working hours and quality now. Ah, just talk about quality," Master Chen took off his reading glasses, holding the ball of cotton yarn in his other hand. "When your master was young, this was the technique," Master Chen raised his thumb and shook it back and forth, "Super, I can do three years of work a year." Master Guo wanted to interrupt him, "Oh, Xiao Zhen, I almost forgot that the people from the electrician team in front came and said that you have your phone number and you will be able to reply later."

But Master Chen refused to give in and continued: "He used to use a 3-meter-long and 8-mm diameter bare rod on the lathe, which even experts said was amazing."

"My master?" Zhen Feng asked in surprise without hearing clearly.

"Ao, it's Master Guo, don't you know? If you don't know, go to our workshop trade union to find out if what I'm saying is true. If I'm telling half a lie, I'm this..." Master Chen gestured with his fingers again, facing downwards, like a running animal.

"Really? Oh, I only know that Master Guo is an old model worker in the factory, but I really don't know these." Zhen Fengwei is a smart person. She went from Master Guo's displeasure just now to Master Chen's nagging and roughly guessed the reason for Zhongyuan. One must be that the union just came to invite Master Guo to be the referee of this year's technical competition. In contrast, the technical school student who had just arrived for less than a year, who had called and then took the adult college entrance examination. He was uneasy and absent-minded. Master Guo had an objection, that is, he was disappointed. Moreover, Master Guo had just talked about these with Master Chen.

Zhen Fengwei's little mouth was very sweet, and his head was turning quickly. He immediately said, "Master Chen, I know, when I first came, the workshop told me that in our class, I was lucky and apprenticed to Master Guo, but others couldn't keep up. Really, when I went home and talked to my parents, they were so happy."

"What do you do? Do you still have to take the adult college entrance examination?" Master Chen's words were actually Master Guo's words.

Sure enough, since Master Chen’s outspokenness, there is no problem. Master Guo must have talked to Master Chen about his joking attempt to take an adult university in just half a year.

Zhen Fengwei was speechless for a moment. At this time, Master Guo wiped the countertops and corners of the test lathe with cotton yarn, and explained: "No, I think, the trade union will let us be the referee, and the workshop also said that we would recommend the young people who participated in the competition by the turning workers. You said, Master Chen, why did I recommend it? Ah?" Master Guo, who has always been a little sensible, suddenly felt a little excited. He was like a hibernating animal, activated by Master Chen's words. Zhen Fengwei was really a sensitive girl. He immediately heard the master's voice, and her cheeks flushed. She felt that the master's words were like thorns, and his face hurt.

Master Guo did not look at his apprentice and continued to say to Master Chen: "Do you think so? Master Chen, I asked me to recommend him to participate in the car team competition, but my own apprentice couldn't get on the table. How do you think I would recommend it?" Master Chen had already seen Zhen Fengwei's embarrassment. He quickly said: "Okay, young people just need to know the masters' hard work."

However, Master Guo was like a big balloon that was blown up. He would explode if he didn't immediately breathe, and he was still saying, "Tell me, Master Chen, what did we say? Nowadays, young people have been studying technical school for a long time and come out. They either need to be transferred or take the exam. Then, no one should do the work of these workers in the future. Everyone is in the office. No one is doing the turning machine, fitter, boring and milling machine. I think how can this factory be opened!"

Zhen Feng didn't see Master Guo get angry for no reason for the first time. Why did he just say it was a good old man? It was because he wanted to take an adult university. What's wrong with this? Everyone has their own ambitions? Besides, he just told Master Guo to go to the Education Department, but he didn't say objection. These masters are sometimes quite puzzling. She looked aggrieved and was seen by Master Chen. Master Chen said: "Okay, okay, Master Guo's meaning is also to consider you young people. At the same time, Master Chen's voice suddenly lowered, and he looked mysterious. "Xiao Zhen, have you heard that our workshop will be changed to a coal mining machine workshop, and it is said that it is called the coal mining machine branch directly. By then, hey, that's too awesome. The most important product in the factory is in our workshop. Do you think it's exciting?" As he was saying, someone hurried over and said: "Xiao Zhen, your phone number."

Xiao Zhen looked at Master Guo hesitantly, and Master Guo waved his hand. Master Chen said, "Go quickly, it's almost time to get off work. Hi, just say you, my apprentices are the same - well, I choke in the middle of winter..."
Chapter completed!