At night, when everyone went to bed, he entered the space and started reading the two books about car repair.

Although he could find the reason before because of his thoughts, he could only say that he knew it but didn't know why.

Now that he had the annotations in the book, coupled with Guo Tuozi's previous explanation, he suddenly felt enlightened.

The next morning I started reporting to the mechanic class.

When he arrived at the place, he saw Wang Jianmin playing with a cloth bag.

"Brother Wang, happy New Year! When will you come back?"

Hearing the voice behind him, he smiled and said, "I knew you would come today. You'll be back in the second grade of junior high school!"

Zhou Xiaochuan hung the backpack in his hand on the wall, "Then you are spending the New Year in Kyoto!"

Hearing Zhou Xiaochuan's words, Wang Jianmin complained: "Forget it, we set off on the morning of the 30th. Everyone in the car on the road felt like falling apart."

Then he put the bag in his hand in front of him and asked strangely:

"Hey..., this is what you want! The gold inlaid jade you mentioned costs 3 yuan each, but you can't buy it. If Brother Dong didn't know someone in the army compound over there, you probably wouldn't have the gold inlaid jade.

I’m counting on it.”

Zhou Xiaochuan heard what he said and opened the bag in front of him. He saw six or seven gold and jade items inside, as well as more than twenty other varieties, ten of gold and fifteen of silver.

"Why did you spend so much money to buy these? Gold inlaid with jade for 3 yuan, gold for 1 yuan and 5 yuan, and silver for 1 yuan. All the money you gave me has been spent."

Zhou Xiaochuan didn't care when he heard what he said and put the things away.

He took out a gold and jade one and put it on his chest.

"Brother Wang, this is a good thing. Don't you think that with this, my support for *** becomes more firm?"

Wang Jianmin touched it and said with a click of his tongue: "Don't tell me, if it is paired with a military coat, it will really look like that."

He took off the badge and threw it to him. "Brother Wang, I'll give this to you. Please bring it to me so far away."

Wang Jianmin hurriedly took it, "Can't you be more careful! Are you really giving this to me? Then I'll accept it."

He was not polite to Zhou Xiaochuan and put the things away. But what he didn't know was that this small badge would save him from a disaster in the future.

"Brother Wang, you didn't bring anything delicious when you went to Kyoto?"

"Hey, what are you buying? The rations in Kyoto have also been reduced. The food in the grocery stores, as long as they don't require tickets, are all sold out as soon as they come out. Even the famous Kyoto eight items in Kyoto have been robbed.

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"Beijing Eight Pieces" is also called "Big Eight Pieces", which are eight kinds of Beijing-style pastries with different flavors. They were court pastries in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and later spread to the people. They are made with date paste, green plums, raisins, roses, bean paste, white sugar, and bananas.

, pepper, salt and other eight raw materials are used as the filling, lard, water and flour are used to make the skin, the filling is wrapped in the skin, and baked.

At that time, when supplies were extremely scarce, this ingredient was scary enough, so the price was more than ten yuan a piece, which was more than half a month's salary of an ordinary person.

Zhou Xiaochuan pondered for a moment after hearing this. He rarely went out to buy food. Even when he did, he just pretended to buy as much as he could. So now he doesn't feel much about this reduction in rations.

While thinking, Guo Tuozi and others also walked in one after another.

"Uncle Guo, Master Li, Master Chen... Happy New Year!"

Zhou Xiaochuan greeted the few people who came in, and some of them responded with smiles.

The hunchback smiled and nodded when he heard this.

Several people had already been working for a few days, so there was no chatting together. When Zhou Xiaochuan saw this, he started working directly.

Guo Tuozi, who was working, suddenly said: "Xiaochuan, Jianmin is going to learn to drive tomorrow. It will probably take a few months, so he may not be busy. If you have nothing to do, try not to ask for leave."

Zhou Xiaochuan was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then nodded.

He is really not used to Wang Jianmin leaving. He is not a talkative person either. He will definitely be bored by then.

However, Guo Tuozi said something else that surprised him, "There will be an organic repair assessment in April. If you can pass it, I can give you a temporary job."

"Am I not old enough?"

"You don't have to worry about this."

Wang Jianmin smiled beside him and said, "Don't be surprised, there are quite a few 13-year-old workers in the factory. That's why you are asked to take the assessment."

Zhou Xiaochuan nodded when he heard this. As long as he doesn't use the back door to cause trouble to Guo Tuozi and Zhao Qinian.

In the morning, I followed Guo Tuozi to deal with some simple problems. But at this time, I looked at the problem from a different perspective.

There is a feeling of enlightenment.

In the busy time, it soon came time for lunch.

However, he found that most people in the workshop put some of the food they had brought in into lunch boxes and kept it to take back to eat.

But what surprised Zhou Xiaochuan was that Wang Jianmin actually did the same thing. In his opinion, Wang Jianmin didn't look like someone who was short of food.

Seeing Zhou Xiaochuan's strange look, he smiled and said, "I can't help it. There are many people in my family, and now the ration has been reduced too much."

After saying that, he put away his lunch box and started to eat the food from his other lunch box.

Seeing this, Guo Tuozi opened his lunch box and gave him some of his own rice. Wang Jianmin quickly stopped him and said, "That's enough, master!"

"What's enough? I'm an old man who eats in the factory at noon. Those rations are enough for me to eat at night."

Wang Jianmin didn't say anything when he heard this, and ate the rice in his lunch box silently.

Guo Tuozi saw the half-dried corn and sweet potato rice in Zhou Xiaochuan's lunch box and asked strangely: "Why do you feel like you are not short of food? Do you have any ideas?"

Zhou Xiaochuan was embarrassed when he heard this.

"If you have it, you can help me. If you don't have it, I can't pull you down. How can you be so coy?"

Zhou Xiaochuan thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Guo, have you ever thought about one thing? Since we can buy grain in the factory, why not buy more?"

Guo Tuozi thought for a moment after hearing this, "How can this be done? We can't buy grain from the factory and sell it to them. Something will happen."

Zhou Xiaochuan touched his head and said helplessly: "Uncle Guo, look at how thin the rice in the factory is. They can all take it home. Wouldn't it be better to make it dryer and take it back to cook porridge?"

Seeing that Guo Tuozi still didn't react, he said, "Go and talk to Grandpa Zhao. He should be able to understand."

No matter how small a factory is, it has its own small treasury. It is not impossible to operate it properly. However, some of the risks that need to be avoided can only be solved by their own meetings.

Hearing this, Guo Tuozi rolled his eyes and said, "You mean I'm not as smart as Old Zhao?"

Zhou Xiaochuan laughed when he heard this.

However, Guo Tuozi went to find Zhao Qinian after dinner.

When I got off work in the evening, the factory posted an announcement that overtime would start tomorrow, but at the same time, I also informed that I would be given an extra dinner.

All the employees who heard the news were very excited, knowing that this is equivalent to solving one person's quota.
Chapter completed!