Chapter 8: Red Star Fertilizer Plant

  "It's okay, didn't miss it, finally made it!" Along with the slowing down of the car, Fu Xin finally stopped in front of the guard room.

  "Huh, Fuxin, when did you come back? You came back but didn't even visit your brother's house, isn't that a bit too much?! You go out and get rich, then forget about your brother." The security guard had changed, but it was just the original security guard Liu Shu's son, Liu Yi, Fuxin's sworn brother.

  During this period, many parents would retire early and give up their positions to arrange for their children to work in the factory. The leaders of the factory also did not oppose this situation, turning a blind eye, after all, everyone basically lived together, seeing each other every day.

  Liu Yi obviously took over his father's job, and his father retired ahead of schedule.

  "Liu Ge, I... uh... I just got back last night, and now I need to go in and find my dad. There's something going on, do you know where he is?" Fu Xin let out a helpless sigh.

  After joining the new army, he has matured a lot. Now, as a reborn person, those old friends who used to hang out together before joining the army would not be close to Fu Xin again. However, there is an exception - Liu Yi. Liu Yi is Fu Xin's lifesaver. The reason why Fu Xin joined the army was that he had a fierce fight with someone before joining the army and almost got killed. Fortunately, it was Liu Yi who risked his life to save Fu Xin, which allowed him to escape.

  In his previous life, Liu Yi was arrested and sentenced to thirty years in prison during the strict crackdown in '83. At that time, Fu Xin was still in school, but had already heard some rumors. Unfortunately, Fu Xin didn't manage to warn Liu Yi in time, resulting in him being imprisoned for life. This lifetime, Fu Xin secretly decided that this scenario must not be repeated. A friend through thick and thin cannot be counted among fair-weather friends; although Liu Yi was a rascal, this kind of friendship still had to be cherished.

  "Oh, you're talking about Uncle Fu? I just saw him walking past that building in front of us. He should be in the dormitory now. If you want to find him, go to the living quarters over there." Liu Yi pointed to a two-story Soviet-style small building not far away and said.

  Hongxing Fertilizer Plant is a provincial-level unit and a large factory. During this period, the general layout of a large factory usually includes production areas, administrative areas, and living quarters.

  The living area is the dormitory, or the family quarters, where workers live. At that time, there were no high-rise buildings, only rows of bungalows, with about 70-80 rows, each row having around 10 rooms, which could accommodate five families.

  However, Fu Xin's new home is not far from the factory, and it only takes half an hour to ride a bike there. Moreover, Fu Zhenbang is a relatively honest person and did not take advantage of the factory's allocated housing, choosing instead to live in his own home.

  Administrative area generally has bungalows or small buildings, and the small buildings are about two stories high. The administrative area is more tidy than the residential area, with three two-story small buildings, including the factory director's office, administrative department, supply and marketing department, technical department, financial department, labor relations department, etc.

  The production area is divided into several workshops, and the workshops are connected by pipelines. The process of fertilizer production is a connection of one workshop after another.

  Right, and there will also be fleets of cars. The factory department has a small car class, a thousand-person factory is not small, it can have four or five small cars, usually jeeps.

  Fu Xin still remembers that the Hongxing Fertilizer Plant was a medium-sized enterprise with 500 people, directly under the provincial government. There were three jeeps: one was a JX-produced Jinggangshan brand, which several deputy factory directors took turns driving; one was a BJ brand, usually driven by the factory director; and another was an authentic Jeep original product from the 1940s, captured from the US battlefield by the volunteer army, used by the party secretary.

  "Think about it, this car has been used from the Korean War to the early 1980s. How can such good equipment be found in the 21st century?" Fu Xin couldn't help but sigh inwardly.

  Large factories often have a grand auditorium, staff hospital, club, and cafeteria. Sometimes there are single dormitories, also known as tube buildings. However, Hongxing Fertilizer Factory does not have these.

  "Okay, Liu Ge, I'll find you after I'm done with my business. Let's have a good drink together, just the two of us. Hehe, this time I got some bonuses and haven't handed them over yet, perfect timing..." Fu Xin gave him a knowing look.

  "Go quickly, I reckon Uncle Fu has gone to eat breakfast on the other side. It's said that under his leadership, they're working on some technical issues in the factory, and no one is allowed to pass through that area casually. You'd better hurry up, or it'll be hard to find him if you go late." Liu Yi instructed, not asking whether Fu Xin had eaten breakfast or not, because he didn't care about this matter at all.

  "Alright, I'm off then, see you later." With that, Fu Xin got on his bicycle and sped off in the direction of the residential area.

  Along the way, familiar faces greeted him one after another. After all, Fuxin was a "celebrity" in the factory two years ago, and his bad reputation wasn't for bullying people, but for being too impulsive and loving to fight, so these adults didn't have much prejudice against Fuxin either.

  He finally arrived at the entrance of the large cafeteria, put down his bike and walked in.

  "Dad!" As soon as he entered, Fu Xin saw from afar Fu Zhenbang chewing on rice, and this scene was like something he hadn't seen in decades - his own father. He excitedly called out. At this time, there weren't so many rules, public places didn't allow loud shouting.

  "What? How did you come back? Did something happen in the army and got kicked out?" Fuzhen Bang heard the shout, hastily put down the chopsticks in his hand, chewed the food in his mouth a few times before swallowing it, looked up at Fu Xin, and asked seriously.

  "No... no, I'm retired due to injury." Seeing his father's serious expression, despite being quite old in heart, Pei Xin still instinctively felt a little afraid, and immediately walked closer, saying timidly.

  "Have you had breakfast? If not, use this meal ticket to get some. I'll collect it from you later!" Perhaps Fù Zhènbāng felt a bit embarrassed about "disciplining" his son in public, so he immediately put on a stern face and pulled out a crumpled meal ticket from his pocket and handed it over to Fù Xīn. It was still early, and he had already guessed that Fù Xīn hadn't eaten breakfast yet.

  "Ah...... I haven't eaten yet...... I'll go get it now." After finishing speaking, Fu Xin took the meal ticket from Fu Zhenbang's hand and ran off quickly.

  "Director Fu, your son is still quite afraid of you. It seems that you have disciplined him well!" A colleague who was eating with Fu Xin on the side joked without considering their superior and subordinate relationship.

  "That's right! When it comes to disciplining kids, you have to use a bit of force, otherwise they won't listen to you!" Fu Zhenbang happily picked up his coworker's topic, held his head high and proudly laughed.

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