When I was 17 years old, I was assigned to a street factory in Beijing: Fusuijing Paper Mill. At that time, the old carpenter was in his 60s. Gray goatee, shaved bald, black and red face. The daimyo Wang Cun, but no one in the factory called him that. The first time I saw it, I learned that a senior brother also honored "Uncle Wang", who knew that he was annoyed: "You have to call me Grandpa Wang!" My grandchildren are older than you! ”。 I froze: That senior brother is not much older than me, he can be called Uncle Wang, but I can't? The old carpenter eased down again, saying that he would either call him Master Wang and Lao Wang Yecheng. I was confused again: Aren't the master and the uncle the same generation? If you want to call Lao Wang, won't you be his equal? Later, I called him Master Wang. The people in the factory called him Uncle Wang, Master Wang, and Lao Wang in person, and all called him Old Carpenter behind his back.
The old carpenter must have been a rural man, and when did he enter Beijing later. His peasant outfit remained the same: pants and homemade cloth shoes on the bottom, and white cloth gowns in the summer, not store-bought shirts, but homemade gowns. In winter, the cotton pants and cotton jackets are also homemade, the cotton pants are still crotch, and the legs are tied tightly with straps. There is never any overcoat on the outside of the cotton pants and jacket, and the bare board. Is it a "hollow cotton jacket" or "hollow cotton pants"? I don't know, most likely it is.
Just such an old carpenter who had fallen off the soil had actually seen Deng Xiaoping. But it was not by chance in public that Deng Xiaoping personally came to his house! What's going on? Sell it first, and then go slowly.
Old carpenters are definitely working people. This is not only based on his background, but also because of his "labor attitude": diligent work, never lazy. At that time, during the Cultural Revolution, workers really became the leading class, no one dared to care, and laziness became the practice. When I first entered the factory, I was still working honestly, but later I was ripe and oiled, and I was in the idle maintenance group, of course, I was often lazy. The woodworking house has a separate courtyard, away from the eyes of others, so it has become a good place for idlers to hang out. But when we were all idle, the old carpenter was always working.
Such a diligent old worker should be respected, right? Nothing like that. Are people bullying him honestly? Even more wrong. It was he who asked for himself, for old disrespect, often with dirty words in his mouth, not mantras like "fuck", but yellow, meaty. Back then, regardless of the cities and villages, many working people, especially adult men, had this problem, right? Of course, this is not the case, and some masters in the factory never talk about meat. People who love to talk also divide the occasion, and when it is time to be serious, they are also serious. But the old carpenter does not distinguish between occasions, and the yellow meat comes out casually.
Once I saw it with my own eyes: he was building the pulp trough of the paper machine in the workshop, and a young female worker who had recently entered the factory was watching. Probably admired the old man's age for working still unambiguously, squealing, wood chips splashed on his beard, so he praised him: "Uncle Wang!" You're tough! ”。 She probably also admires herself and speaks the language of working people. Who knew that the old carpenter stopped and smiled badly at her: "Hehehe, I'm hard and wave!" ”。 I don't know if the female young worker understood, anyway, there was no words.
But there are also those that can be heard clearly. For example, a master of the maintenance team called Li Jiaji, usually likes to fight with the old carpenter, the old carpenter changed "jiajia" to "clamp chicken", and when they met, they called "clamp chicken, clamp chicken". Master Li fought back on the "old mongrel" and "old Wang Ba". There is also a Xiaoji who also likes to tease the old carpenter, and the old carpenter calls him "Little Chicken". Once Xiao Ji quarreled with his wife, who ran away for several days, but did not return to her mother's house, but stayed at a friend's house. So, in those days, the old carpenter smiled when he saw Xiao Ji: "Where does my wife live?" Can people let her live in vain? There is not a single dirty word about this, and it comes out of the mouth of the hippie smiling old carpenter, and the meaning is not good. Xiao Ji immediately responded: "You old rabbit cub! ”。 But the most infuriating thing about the old carpenter was that he didn't seem to hear others scold him, and he still chanted enthusiastically while working: "Huh? Who is that stupid? Let your little ladies in their twenties eat for nothing? Well? Is there such a beautiful thing? Don't you want something? ”
However, like Master Li and Xiao Ji, they are not easy to mess with, and they can't do it with the old carpenter. Of course, the old man is so old that no one dares to make a heavy move, it is nothing more than pulling off his hat, scratching his bald head, or swatting him on the butt. And the old man immediately confessed and shouted: Don't make trouble! Don't mess around! Although I don't know what a "gentleman" is, the old carpenter has always advocated "not moving his mouth". Really, I've never heard of the old man doing anything to anyone.
However, I have really seen the old carpenter do it, but to a man named Jade Rabbit. Our paper mill only made toilet paper, there were rolls of universal ones, and there were packs of women's special ones, and the packaging and labeling of these products were all done by hand, which was very labor-intensive (at that time, the machines in the factory were very old and backward). So these jobs are outsourced, called external processing. At that time, there were many large and small factories in Beijing, and there were many external processing, and nearby residents could earn some money to subsidize their families, and the factory also solved the shortage of factory land and manpower. Anyway, every three forks and five, there are people who pack the work to the factory, send bundles of finished products, and then pull away semi-finished products. There were a few women pulling the cart, but the leader was a man, in his forties, very thin. And the old carpenter, as long as he ran into it, he rushed over, hehe smiled and shouted: "Jade rabbit! Moon! ”。 And this jade rabbit is "Lao Wang Ba!" Old immortal! "Return.
Once, while the jade rabbit was concentrating on bundling the cart, the old carpenter leaned over from behind and touched someone's butt. The jade rabbit was clever, turned around and cursed and fought back: Scratch the old man's head. So the old carpenter immediately retreated. Probably very proud of touching the jade rabbit, the old carpenter laughed and explained to me, who happened to be next to me: "Chen'er! (At this point, I have to explain two sentences.) At that time, the old workers in the factory did not call the young workers "Xiao Chen'er, Xiao Wang'er, Xiao Liu'er", but removed the word "Xiao" and called them more cordially. However, it is written in two characters "Chen'er", but the pronunciation is one word. You have to call it according to two words: "Chen-er-", I am anxious with you. ）
The old carpenter explained to me: "Chen'er! Know not? His stage name is Jade Rabbit! Sing Tsing Yi's! Know not? Those who sing Tsing Yi are the ladies! His eye has to be used by our grandfathers! ”。 I didn't say anything, but my heart said: This fucking old man, what a rogue!
The old carpenter's problem of not speaking cleanly was once cured by Sun Da's mother and son, which made the people in the factory laugh. Sun Da is only in his 20s, 1.91 meters tall. He was young when the paper mill was founded in 1958, but his mother was a worker when the mill was first built. When Sun grew up, he also entered the paper mill. Sun's father died early. His mother, don't look at the 50s, the person is quite sharp, the waist is straight, and the voice is not small. For such a good-looking widow, can the old carpenter's mouth be honest? When they meet, they are called eldest sisters, and sometimes they are simply called daughters-in-law. If the grandson is big, he is called a son, and he is a son in a mouthful. It had to be Big Sun coming over and scratching his head before he was willing to shut his mouth. But Big Sun's mother is not good at it, so she can only "old rabbit cub!" Old stuff! ". But how can this cure the old carpenter?
She finally came up with a trick. One day, the old carpenter said "our son" to her again, and Sun's mother said sharply: "You call him son, do you want to feed him?" Yes! He told you daddy to eat you! "The old carpenter didn't care much. But as soon as he went to work the next day, Sun Da entered the carpentry room and really called the old carpenter's father, and then immediately started, grabbed the old carpenter's lunch box and opened it to eat. There was a canteen in the factory, but the old carpenter never went and always brought his own food, and the largest lunch box was full, flapjacks, steamed buns, or two rice and bean rice (rice mixed with millet or beans), and of course, vegetables. There is a steamer in the boiler room that specializes in hot rice, and the lunch box is taken to heat it at noon, and then it is eaten in the woodworking room. Don't look at the old man who is more than 60, the amount of food is not small.
But Sun Da'er has a larger amount of rice, and he doesn't care about the cold, and a large box of lunch dries up in a while. It is said that I didn't eat that morning, so I waited to eat the old man's. And the old carpenter watched without a turn, people called "daddy", and the son ate Laozi naturally. What about the old man's lunch? He found someone to borrow a meal ticket (he never had a penny on him) and went to the factory cafeteria to eat. Others wondered, and he explained happily: The food he brought let his son eat! So everyone knew, and Sun called the old carpenter to dad. But don't look at the old man's still he's music, the person who really touched the bottom asked his sore spot: How to find the big grandma to report the account for this meal money? The old carpenter's monthly salary of more than 50 yuan is all entrusted to the old wife and children, and the old wife is said to be very tight, the old man has no one in his hands, and he has to spend a penny. What did the old man say when he came home that day? Also said that the meal was eaten by the son? Can't you?
Immediately after another day, Sun Da still entered the woodworking room as soon as he went to work, called his father, and then searched out the lunch box and opened it to eat. This time, the old carpenter Coke could not come out, and he went to the cafeteria to eat at noon with a look of embarrassment and helplessness.
Another morning, before the old carpenter rode to work, he saw Sun Da waiting at the door. The old man quickly got out of the car, did not go forward, and tore open his voice from the old man and shouted: "Don't shout!" Don't call me Daddy! Is it okay if I call you daddy?! ”。 After that, the old carpenter never dared to call Sun Da a son again.
Just talked about the old carpenter riding a bike. His bike is also very old, the paint and plating have turned rust, I don't know how many years he has ridden. Every day, regardless of the wind and rain, the old man rode this old car to and from work, and there was a jacket on the back rack. One day, the maintenance team leader Zhang was in the carpentry workshop, and he wanted to go out immediately when he encountered something, and he was very anxious, so he wanted to borrow the old carpenter's bicycle to ride. Who wants to be very submissive to Lao Zhang, but the old carpenter who usually replied very simply: Don't borrow!. Old Zhang Leng said: Just your broken car, what's wrong with riding? Come back in a while, it's not bad to ride! But the old carpenter smacked his neck: "Don't borrow!" Your wife can borrow you to ride, but the car can't! ”。 So, another famous saying from the old carpenter spread in the factory.
The top is mostly the old carpenter's undignified business. But he has another side: as mentioned earlier, work is not lazy. He obviously didn't want to see us idlers, often pouted his beard, and didn't have a good face. But he can't bombard us, and the carpentry house is not his. But he must have found a leader, and Lao Zhang conveyed it more than once: Don't go to the woodworking room to stay in the woodworking room when it's okay!