Chapter 49 Hope
After get off work, Yu Zhiyuan went to the grain store to get grain coupons and wine coupons from Fan Changjun.

As soon as he heard this, he decided to go to Sichuan.

"Get some Wuliangye and Luzhou Laojiao and send them back."

After entering the courtyard, she strolled to Xu Damao's house with her son in her arms. When she walked over, she saw that the door was not closed.

Looking at Xu Damao holding a bowl and drinking it with his eyes closed.

After knocking on the door, Xu Damao frowned and gestured for someone to come in. He drank the wine in one gulp before putting down the bowl.

"Why did you two come to my place? What's the matter?"

"Brother Damao, I need you to exchange some national food coupons for me. Give me a few wine coupons, the more the better. I won't let you down when I come back."

"Where are you going?"

“Sichuan.”

Xu Damao went into the room and said something to Lou Xiaoe, and came out and gave Yu Zhiyuan twelve drink tickets.

"For this, just give me five bottles of Wuliangye."

He also handed Yu Zhiyuan 200 kilograms of national food coupons.

"We'll figure this out when we get back."

"Row."

Yu Zhiyuan took the ticket and left.

Is Xu Damao drinking Chinese medicine?

This expression is amazing.

I collected the bills and arranged the house.

On the afternoon of the 9th, Yu Zhiyuan took the two large bags that Xuemei had packed and put them at the door of his house. He squatted down and kissed Qiaoqiao: "Listen to your mother at home and take good care of your brother. Dad will bring you some delicious food when he comes back."

After saying that, he touched his daughter's little face, then stood up and kissed Wenwen in Xuemei's arms.

He said to Xuemei, "Thank you for your hard work again, my wife!"

After Yu Zhiyuan finished speaking, he didn't know what he was talking about.

Hugged Xuemei.

She put the bag in the car, told Yang Zhiqiang that the car keys were in the message room, and then pushed the car out of the courtyard.

I rode my bike to the steel mill, locked it in the garage, and left the key in the switchboard room.

Carrying the two bags, he walked towards the dispatching yard at the northernmost end of the factory.

He was allowed to pass only after his documents were checked.

When I arrived at the lounge, Master Wu was the only one who hadn't arrived.

He gave a few people cigarettes, lit them up, and then just sat there in a daze.

It was not until Director Guo led Master Wu into the lounge that he came to his senses.

Director Guo handed the letters of introduction to Master Wu.

"When you go out, you must pay attention to your safety. If you have any problems, call me. If not, send me a telegram. The train will leave at 12 o'clock at night. You will get into the carriage in a while. It is a soft sleeper carriage specially added for you. There are four comrades from the security department accompanying us. But they will return with the train when they reach the county. Okay, everyone get into the carriage."

Yu Zhiyuan followed a few people towards the train and arrived at the sleeper car that could be seen at a glance.

A comrade from the Security Department asked to check his work permit.

Only after their documents were checked were they allowed to board the bus.

When we got on the train, a comrade from the security department said, "Comrades, you can choose from the five berths in the middle. Two berths must be reserved for our security department. I am the person in charge of security this time, Feng Jinguang."

After shaking hands and waiting for several workers to enter the sleeper room, Yu Zhiyuan carried his bag and entered a room that no one had chosen.

There were two sleeper beds, and only the lower one was covered with a green sheet and a neatly folded quilt with a green duvet cover.

Yu Zhiyuan put the bag on the upper bunk, then sat on the bed and watched the trucks outside pulling wooden square boxes back and forth.

I took out the book I had prepared in advance and started reading.

When it got dark, the lights in the carriage were only a little bright and very dim.

At about ten o'clock there was a knock on the door.

"Comrade Yu, we are about to start the journey. If you need to relieve yourself, please go and do it now."

Yu Zhiyuan went out and asked the security comrade, "Is there water for washing in the car?"

"There's a restroom in the back. There's water in the bucket. You can wash your face and brush your teeth. Please be frugal. You can only carry two buckets when you get to the station. The water in the thermos in the room is boiled water."

Yu Zhiyuan washed up and went to bed to sleep.

Just as day broke, there was a knock on the door.

"Comrade Yu, please get ready. We will be in Shijiazhuang in an hour. Go buy breakfast." After washing up, Yu Zhiyuan returned to the room, smoked a cigarette, and then took the lunch box to buy breakfast.

When I left the room, I saw everyone carrying thermoses.

Yu Zhiyuan hurried back to get the thermos.

Then it took 40 hours to reach Daxian Station.

Several old Jiefang trucks pulled out of the train station carrying equipment boxes.

There is a factory area in the middle of the fields. When we arrived at the gate, Master Wu and four other people walked towards the crowd at the gate.

"You are the comrades who came from the old city to support the construction of our factory, right? Welcome, welcome." He almost cried as he said this.

Then they started beating gongs and drums.

In the evening, we had dinner in the simple factory canteen.

Very rich, river fish and shrimp, and a stewed goose.

It was only when we were drinking that we learned that the Daxian Steel Plant had been shut down for four years.

More than 3000 workers were laid off and less than 300 were left.

They were only notified this year to prepare to resume production.

At the beginning, many workers reclaimed wasteland and cultivated land nearby and built their own houses.

Hearing about the resumption of production, many people returned to steel production.

The food we eat tonight is all caught and raised by our own employees.

The most valuable things in the factory now are several blast furnaces and trucks.

The factory building will be completed soon and can be installed and debugged in two days.

At night, several people stayed at the homes of several leaders because the factory could not afford the entertainment expenses.

In the morning, after Yu Zhiyuan washed up, he wanted to go for a walk around the factory, so the leader who was staying there asked his son to take him there.

When Yu Zhiyuan walked to the factory under construction, he saw a group of young men and women carrying baskets filled with blue bricks on their shoulders, and some carrying buckets filled with cement mortar.

The more than four-meter-long scaffolding is made of bamboo and iron sheets. The front wheel of a hand tractor is used as the power, and blue bricks and cement mortar are dropped upwards through pulleys and the only iron frame.

No one complained, they laughed and shouted!

After breakfast, Yu Zhiyuan went to the factory with several workers to assemble the lathe according to the requirements of Dazhou Steel Plant.

A group of workers carried the equipment into the workshop by hand.

It took five trucks twenty hours to haul all the equipment.

Feng Jinguang from the Security Department came to say goodbye to Master Wu before returning with the car.

Yu Zhiyuan works with these positive workers every day, and their eyes are full of hope.

Eight days later, Dazhou Steel regained power and the coking plant started up.

In ten days, all the machinery was installed and awaiting further fine-tuning.

Yu Zhiyuan also had time to visit the countryside below, so he asked for leave from Master Wu and strolled down the village.

I secretly bought a lot of day lily and peach blossom rice.

In two days, we visited many villages near Da County.

He even bought two cured geese.

Seeing that it would take several days for the first batch of steel to come out, the leaders of Dazhou Steel arranged for a driver to take a few people to Chongqing for a few days to relax.

A group of six people traveled in Chongqing for three days. Yu Zhiyuan had almost used up his tickets, so he went to the post office to check in his luggage.

After returning to Da County, there was still no steel produced.

Yu Zhiyuan simply borrowed a bicycle and went to a village farther away.

When I sat down to rest at a farmer's house, I found a pair of large scrolls with a diameter of 30 cm and a height of more than 40 cm.

The old farmer said that these two jars were there when his grandfather was a child.

Yu Zhiyuan really liked it and spent two dollars to buy it.

They tied the things up with straw ropes, carried them on a thick wooden stick and left the village.

When it is no longer needed, use space to put it away.

It took about 20 days to debug and use all the machines.

Future consumable parts will be sent to them after they return.

(End of this chapter)