Yichuan City, Linhe Province, administrative family district of Lengshui Iron Mine.

This is a courtyard covering an area of ​​thousands of acres, and it is not an exaggeration to say it is a small city. In fact, Yichuan City itself developed based on the administrative family district of the Cold Water Iron Mine. In this city, more than half of the residents are destined to beg for iron ore, or mine employees, or relatives of employees. Mayor Yichuan once claimed on a certain occasion that in Yichuan City, he was far less effective than the mine manager of the iron ore. When encountering something like natural disasters and man-made disasters, he had to run to the iron ore to beg for alms and ask for help.

As the name suggests, administrative family members are divided into two parts: administrative district and family district. Administrative districts are office locations for iron ore administrative agencies and mining, transportation, warehousing, mechanic repair and other departments, as well as supporting service facilities such as auditoriums, hospitals, canteens, guesthouses, kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools, etc., providing iron ore employees with a full life cycle service from delivery rooms to graves. The family district is composed of hundreds of buildings and almost the same number of bungalows. The construction dates of houses range from 1953 to 1981. Some are not yet capped. The types of houses are so large that they can be called museums for contemporary residential construction.

The mining farm of the cold water iron ore is not in Yichuan city, but in the mountains more than 20 kilometers away from the city. As the scale of mining continues to expand, the mining farm is still extending further away. Some simple housing has been built next to the mining area for workers to live temporarily. Their wives and children are all in the administrative and family district. During the turnover, they will also return to the city to enjoy modern life.

On this day, the wind was sunny and cloudless. Early in the morning, the old mine manager Pan Caishan led a group of mine leaders and middle-level cadres to wait in front of the office building. The afternoon before yesterday, he received a call from Beijing, informing him that the working group of the Metallurgical Bureau would go to the Cold Water Iron Mine to inspect the work under the leadership of Chang Min, the director of the Mine Department. The train Chang Min and his party took arrived in Yichuan this morning. The small car in the mine had already gone to the train station to pick up people and would arrive soon.

A discussion meeting on how to promote industrial experiments was held in the Metallurgical Bureau for several days, and many various opinions emerged, but none of them were reliable.

Some people think that the key to the current problem is that the Metallurgical Bureau is too weak, and they should be forced to accept it through the Economic Commission's death order to force them to accept it; some people think that forced melons are not sweet, and that the grassroots should carry out their work happily. It is best to invite the mine managers to the capital, solicit their opinions, see what their requirements are, and then satisfy them as appropriate; some radicals attribute this situation to the poor quality of the Chinese, saying that if this matter is put in Europe, the United States or Japan, there will be no such problem; some crooked parties have begun to talk about how delicious steamed buns in Linshui Province are. Once they are pinched, they will become a ball, and when they are relaxed, they will become a football...

Chang Min was patient at first, but in the end she became angry. She really deserved to have come out of the mine. She was like a cannon twister, and scolded everyone, making the old people from the Metallurgical Bureau like Ji Ming dare not speak up. After a storm, Chang Min announced that some people would stay in contact with the mines at the Metallurgical Bureau. She personally led a group to visit several key mines. According to her words, this is called "If you don't enter the tiger's den, you won't get a tiger's son."

Feng Xiaochen sat down and listened, and couldn't help but feel chills for a while. From Luo Xiang to Chang Min, leaders and middle-level cadres of the Metallurgical Bureau all regarded the mine as poisonous insects and beasts.

The rural group led by Chang Min includes Wang Weilong, Feng Xiaochen and another clerk of the mining department named Lu Zhidong. According to Chang Min's original idea, she did not want to bring Feng Xiaochen with her. Feng Xiaochen did not have a sense of existence in the eyes of some people in the Metallurgical Bureau, only people who have been to Germany with him are familiar with him. In Chang Min's opinion, Feng Xiaochen is just a young man who knows a little foreign language. He has no education and no qualifications. Somehow he climbed up the high branch of Luo Xiangfei and climbed the sycamore tree of the Metallurgical Bureau. Chang Min complained a lot about Luo Xiangfei's stuffing Feng Xiaochen into the working group. When she was about to select someone to go to the mine, she naturally excluded Feng Xiaochen.

But unexpectedly, when she went to report to Luo Xiangfei to report the list of members of the group he had selected, Luo Xiangfei solemnly suggested that she bring Feng Xiaochen with her. The top leader of the unit made a special suggestion, so that he could not call it any more. Instead, it was an order. No matter how stubborn Chang Min had a temper, he was a person who had been in the agency, so how could he challenge Luo Xiangfei? So Feng Xiaochen took the bus and came to Yichuan together.

"Sister, you are here. We have to have not met for more than a year, right? But I'm so confused about it."

Seeing Chang Min and his party get off the train that was picking up the station, Pan Caishan strode forward, stretched out his two wide big hands, held Chang Min's little hands, shook them hard, and said enthusiastic words.

"Ouch! I crushed my hands!" Chang Min shouted exaggeratedly, pulled out her hand, and shook it gently, and scolded with a smile: "What is Brother Pan doing? Are you teasing me, an old woman? You are not afraid that your sister-in-law will punish you to kneel down in the living room when you go back tonight."

"Haha, it's worth it to be able to hold my sister's hands and kneel all night." Pan Caishan smiled heartily, joking with Chang Min with half meat and half vegetable.

"Is that right? Well, come on, come on, my sister-in-law asks you to hug one to see if my sister-in-law will break your legs..." Chang Min said and leaned in front of Pan Caishan. Pan Caishan dared not really let her hug her, so she quickly retreated, causing a burst of laughter around her.

In units mainly men, such as mines, steel mills, and construction teams, the atmosphere has always been vulgar. It is normal for men and women to say some "lustful" jokes. Chang Min went to work in the mine at the age of 18. When she first heard a male miner say such crazy words to her, she was also blushing and embarrassed. But within two years, if someone said such words, she could be calm and comfortable.

According to the experience she taught to the young girls later, in this environment, if you cannot withstand such verbal harassment, you will not be able to survive. If you want others to dare not make jokes, you have to be more secular and lustful than the other party. If you are angry, you might as well greet the other party’s eight generations of women and men. There have been a few times when people know your proportion and will respect you more.

Chang Min did this, so she was able to make a great fortune in the mine she had in the original mine. After being transferred to work at the Metallurgical Bureau, there were some "civilized people" around her, so she naturally learned not to speak swear words. However, whenever she went to the mine to inspect the work, she would still be cute and flirt with the leaders of these mines in order to bring the relationship between the two parties closer.

For mining leaders like Pan Caishan, it doesn't matter if they kiss and fight with their female subordinates on weekdays. It's common to hug them while drinking. As long as you grasp the final measure, your wife won't say anything. But if Chang Min wants to rub against him, he has to run away. No matter how much everyone jokes, the superiors and inferiors still have to be clear.

Cold-shui iron ore is a large mine. Pan Caishan's level is the same as Luo Xiangfei, and Chang Min is one level lower than him. Chang Min represents the Metallurgical Bureau, and the Metallurgical Bureau is the Economic Commission above. No matter how high Pan Caishan is, he is just a cadre of a subordinate enterprise, so how dare he slander it casually?

After the fight, Chang Min began to introduce his escort to Pan Caishan. Wang Weilong was from Luo Ye and had met Pan Caishan in the past. After the two sides shook hands, Pan Caishan praised Luo Ye's level and each made a few fights haha. Lu Zhidong is a young clerk. In Pan Caishan's eyes, he is just a passerby. Pan Caishan said "Okay, okay" and said hello.

The last person to shake hands with Pan Caishan was Feng Xiaochen. Chang Min introduced him to him as a German translator in the office. Perhaps his unusual youth attracted Pan Caishan's attention. Pan Caishan actually asked him a few gossips about his hometown and family, and said falsely, asking him to guide the translation of German materials in the mine, which was also a shameful way.

After meeting with other leaders of the mine, Pan Caishan accompanied everyone to the guesthouse, saying that everyone had been taking the train for a day and two nights, and they had worked hard. They went to the guesthouse to rest first, and then held a banquet to wash everyone at noon. The crowd surrounded several people from the Metallurgical Bureau, and Pan Caishan and Chang Min walked in front, talking about Chang Min and their arrangements for the trip.

"Director Chang, what is your main task this time?" Pan Caishan asked. Chang Min did not inform him of the purpose of this trip before he set off, so he had this question.

Chang Min smiled and said, "I'm tired of staying in the capital. I think of coming to Mine Manager Pan to change the air, right?"

"Welcome at any time. Director Chang can stay as long as he wants. If he wants to go out and play, I will arrange a car for you." Pan Caishan said while patting his chest. After saying that, he laughed and said, "But you don't have to lie to me. Are you the kind of person who can get idle? As soon as I saw Luo Ye's Xiao Wang, I understood that you came for the dump truck, aren't you?"

Chang Min also smiled and said, "I knew I could not hide it from Director Pan. In fact, this matter was obvious. Luo Ye's 120-ton electric wheel dump truck has been offline for two years. The industrial test site has not been implemented yet. How can Director Luo not be anxious? You think that Director Luo just became the director of the big bureau and has to open up the work situation. The dump truck made him very passive. So, I sent a few of us to ask Director Pan for help. If we say that Director Luo has been good with the cold water mines over the years, you have to bear to watch him sit on wax for such a small matter?"

"Look at what Director Chang said, Director Luo and your Director Chang have always taken good care of our Lengshui Mine. I, Lao Pan, don't give you any face, and I can't help but give you face. However, I do have some practical difficulties here..."
Chapter completed!