Chapter 25 Assessment
"Zhiyuan, do you have any bicycle tickets? Give one to Uncle Three."

"Hey, Uncle Third, you have upgraded your weapons to new ones!" Sha Zhu was a little surprised.

"How about going aside, Zhiyuan?"

"Yes, I do. Forty-one copies. Can you afford it?"

Yan Bugui glared at him and said, "Zhiyuan, why don't you go and grab some? The pigeon market is only 32 per ticket."

"Then why are you talking so much? Just go to the pigeon market and buy it."

"No, did you really?"

"Didn't I say that? No."

"Give me 25."

"Uncle, you are so great. I'll take as many as you want for 25 yuan a piece. Is that ok?"

Yan Bugui scratched his nose and said, "Zhiyuan, tell me how much it costs."

"32, no bargaining."

"Okay, when will you give it to me?"

"Tomorrow night, money in one hand and ticket in the other."

After Yu Zhiyuan finished speaking, he said hello to Sha Zhu and left.

"Silly Zhu, what methods do you think Zhiyuan has? I just asked casually and he really has them."

Sha Zhu looked at Yan Bugui and said, "Uncle, you are asking too many questions. You can easily reveal your way of making a living. Are you considered a cultured person?"

Yan Buguiwan was so angry that he glared, stood up, opened the door and left.

"You old man Yan, if I don't get rid of you, you'll be thinking about my leftovers later. Ha!"

After entering the backyard, the light in the old lady's room was still on, so she went to carry the sleeping Qiaoqiao back home, and asked He Yushui and Yang Xuemei to go back to their own homes before sitting down at the head of the old lady's kang.

Yu Zhiyuan told the old lady what happened tonight.

"It would be good to find a wife for this stupid Zhuzi, so that he doesn't have to keep an eye on Qin Huairu all day. Marrying him would allow him to be far away from his family. You did a good job. Anything else?"

Then he told the old lady what Yan Bugui had said: "This Yan Bugui spends all his time thinking about the compound and those trifles. Let him think about good things for two more days. I can push them away. You don't have to worry about it."

After hearing what the old lady said, Yu Zhiyuan felt relieved.

An elementary school teacher is still complaining about this and that, huh!

He pulled a radio ticket out of his jacket pocket and handed it to the old lady.

The old lady took a look at it and handed it back to Yu Zhiyuan. She took out a small wooden box from under her pillow, opened the small padlock with the key on her wrist, and counted out 150 yuan for Yu Zhiyuan in front of him.

"I'm too old to go out and buy a ticket. Please buy it for me when you have time. I'll say it was given to me by an old friend."

"Okay, tomorrow Brother Zhuzi and I will go to Dongdan to buy a bicycle, and we will also buy you a radio so you can listen to it at home."

"That's thoughtful of you, Zhiyuan. You should go back to sleep soon. You reek of alcohol. Take a shower before going to bed. Let Xuemei inhale the incense."

The next day, they put Qiaoqiao on a small wooden stool and set off for Dongdan with Shazhu.

When I got there, I realized how crowded it was on weekends.

After pushing and shoving, I finally got in, took a look at the ladies' bicycle, and paid the money and the ticket.

I'll pick up the car in the back later.

The three of them went to the place where radios were sold, selected a radio, paid for it and got the ticket.

140 with a radio ticket, and an extra ten yuan, Yu Zhiyuan accepted it with a smile.

The old lady doesn't mind this.

The two men took their things and rode their bikes to the police station.

I waited until Sha Zhu got the license plate number before returning to the compound.

As soon as I entered the courtyard, Yan Bugui came over.

"Zhu Zi, is this the car you bought? Not only is it expensive, but it's also not as practical as a big-bar car. Isn't that a loss?"

After hearing this, Sha Zhu didn't say a word and pushed the cart back to the backyard.

"Zhiyuan, what happened to Shazhu? He just left without saying anything!"

"Uncle, you are in charge of so many things. If someone doesn't know you, they would think you are the Prime Minister."

"Zhiyuan, this is not the right way to talk nonsense!"

"Brother Zhuzi bought a bicycle for his sister. You are too much of a fool. Come on, you have angered silly Zhuzi again. Hehe."

"That's him. This is a new radio of yours. It must have cost a lot of money."

"Yes, it's 140 yuan including the money and the ticket. I can't afford it. The old lady paid for it and I bought it. Uncle, you are busy, I have to deliver it to the old lady quickly."

After adjusting the radio for the old lady, Yu Zhiyuan didn't want to move at all. He just lay there and wanted to sleep for a while, and his daughter wouldn't wake up even if she made a fuss.

The days pass by like flowing water.

Until one day when he was getting his lunch, Sha Zhu said, "I just prepared a banquet for Director Li. He even invited me in for a drink. The guests were all skilled workers from other factories."

Yu Zhiyuan knew that these were people invited from outside factories to conduct the upgrade assessment.

February 2th arrived in the busyness.

As soon as we entered the workshop in the morning, Director Guo announced that everyone should go to the administrative building.

Those who participated in the assessment from Workshop 2 set off together to the administrative building.

As people of different levels were taken away one by one, those who took the third-level worker exam were also taken into a large conference room.

Everyone found a seat and sat down, and started taking the theory test.

The exam took an hour and a half and the paper was handed in.

Yu Zhiyuan and his senior brother returned to workshop 2 together.

Bi Zhengliang took two people to carefully check the workbench, buttered what needed to be buttered, and cleaned what needed to be cleaned.

He sat aside and listened to Bi Zhengliang talk about the factory's assessment arrangements and the things to pay attention to during the assessment.

When Yu Zhiyuan was getting lunch at noon, he saw Sha Zhu's big mouth almost reaching his ears, and he knew that this kid had been upgraded.

He bowed and carried the net bag back to the workshop to eat.

After dinner, Yu Zhiyuan found a place to take a nap to recuperate for the afternoon exam.

We start work in the afternoon and begin assessment from those who have been transferred to first-level workers.

An hour and a half later, there will be the assessment from level one to level two, and then from level two to level three.

As for future assessments, they will be conducted together.

Yu Zhiyuan and other workers watched the assessment site together.

If someone has poor mental strength, he would be scared when being watched by such a large group of people.

What’s more, the teacher conducting the assessment was a technical worker who was present.

Looking at my fellow workers in the same workshop, some are happy and some are frustrated. This will affect my life for this year or even two years.

It is inevitable to be under great pressure.

At three o'clock, Yu Zhiyuan walked to the operating table. After distributing the drawings, Yu Zhiyuan went to the material table in front to get the required originals.

There were six pieces in total, and they were moved back in two batches.

Fix the original, measure it with a ruler and caliper, and mark it with a pen.

Yu Zhiyuan started the machine to cut, drill, grind and polish.

Proceeding step by step in an orderly manner.

Wait until all six workpieces are completed.

He raised his hand to indicate that the work was done. Looking to the side, Yin Tiemin was also finishing his work.

After the teacher in charge of the assessment came over to measure the workpieces and heard that they had reported six qualified results in a row, Yu Zhiyuan finally breathed a sigh of relief.

From now on you will be someone who earns 44.5 yuan a month.

Yu Zhiyuan turned around happily and shared his joy with Bi Zhengliang.

When Yin Tiemin came over with a happy look on his face, Bi Zhengliang laughed triumphantly.

After the assessment of the entire workshop was completed, Director Guo came to congratulate the comrades who passed the assessment and encouraged the comrades who failed to continue to work hard to improve themselves.

After announcing that it was time to go home after get off work, he left in a hurry.

Yu Zhiyuan and Yin Tiemin cleaned their workbenches before walking out of the workshop and going home together.

We also agreed to go to the master's house for dinner after receiving our wages on March 1st.

Yu Zhiyuan went to the vegetable market and took a look around. There wasn’t much left, so he strolled back home carrying two pork leg bones.

Soak the bones in a basin of water, pick a radish without core from the vegetable cellar to stew the bones, take out the coreless radish, chop it up and feed the chickens.

Now that the chicken has been raised for a winter, it should be able to lay eggs.

Sweep up the chicken manure and shovel it into the alley next to the ear room and pile it against the wall.

Fill the water tank with water.

Chop the leg bones and put them in the pot to simmer slowly.

Wait until the time is almost up before putting the radish in.

(End of this chapter)