Dashan Makes a Living 1984

Wang Tianxiao got what he wanted, and Mijia Village finally received the electric poles he needed, and started the formal construction.

As for their previous Wangjia Village, household registration has already begun.

At the stage of household entry, the engineering personnel of the power supply station come to the door to do it. In addition to sending electricity in, they also need to install electricity meters for each household.

Used to measure how much electricity each household uses.

Speaking of it, electricity bills have really changed very little over the past few decades.

Now the electricity consumption is thirty-five cents, but forty years later, it will be five or six cents.

Because some people did not pay, it was Wang Tianxiao’s temporary advance payment for the line transmission fee, so they are temporarily not eligible to use electricity. When they are willing to use it, they will give the money to Wang Tianxiao before they can bring electricity into their homes.

People are always curious about new things.

Don't look at the time when the electricity is being pulled, many people seem to be not very attentive and enthusiastic, but when the engineers of the power supply station connect the electricity, install the light bulb, and the light turns on, many people are stunned on the spot. shocked.

They didn't expect the lights to be so bright.

It completely illuminates the night like the day, not just a little brighter than the kerosene lamp as imagined.

Although, the lamps used in this era are still the most traditional tungsten filament bulbs, and they are all small wattages of 25 watts.

If the room is too big, it is not very bright.

But compared to the previous kerosene lamps, it is really heaven and earth.

With these people as role models, many people who did not pull electricity began to move around and joined the team of pulling electricity one after another.

In less than half a month, 70 or 80 of the 100 families who hadn't connected electricity were willing to connect, and handed over the money to Wang Tianxiao, without waiting for the previously agreed three months.

This situation is naturally within Wang Tianxiao's plan.

The most important feature of our country, especially the rural people, is comparison.

Comparison of food, comparison of businessmen, comparison of how much money children make, comparison of food in the field and so on.

Anyway, as long as I can think of it, I want to compare it with others. It is best to be able to suppress others, so that I can feel more noble and happier.

Right now, seeing other people's house is brightly lit at night, and my own house is dark, who can stand it.

Especially for many people, neighbors and brothers are not in harmony. If one family has electricity and the other family does not, it will be more uncomfortable than killing them. power ups.

And in this case, the first television appeared in the village.

It was a Yellow River brand black and white TV that Wang Tianxiao bought.

Fourteen inches.

When Wang Tianxiao erected a tall TV antenna pole on the side of the pit yard, with a few aluminum rods on it, and a long antenna pulled down from above to the pit yard, people in the village were curious. Incredible.

Everyone is guessing what it is.

They all ran to Wang's pit yard to see it.

As a result, they saw someone moving and talking inside a small box, and everyone's three views were completely destroyed. They could hardly understand how this kind of thing works, it is no different from imagining gods.

Although the TV can only receive one CCTV now, and what they can watch is very simple TV series and some news programs, but people still watch it with gusto.

The children don't want to go back to do their homework, the women don't want to go back to cook, and the men are embarrassed to keep watching, but they feel itchy.

Everyone was very envious, and felt that the TV placed in Zhang Yufeng's room made Zhang Yufeng's room a sacred place.

Many people naturally thought about buying one for themselves, but the price is really not affordable for ordinary people, so they are both envious and regretful.

Many people have a goal since then, to make good money, and when they make enough money, let’s buy a big TV and watch it at home. Look at those people above. So good-looking, and so nice to speak.

Unlike the people in the village, everyone is talking in the dirt, talking and talking, wishing to shake the sky down.

As for Zhang Yufeng, an old lady, because her son put the first TV in the village in her house, she not only had the opportunity to watch TV, but also made other old ladies in the village envious, and praised her for having such a promising and good son. , she is also very happy.

Laughing from ear to ear all day.

I used to like to keep a straight face, but now I gradually smile a lot.

Especially every evening, when the day's work is done and the children and grandchildren,

Sitting around, everyone watched TV talking and laughing together, which seemed very lively.

This made her a lot happier.

Before it was dark every day, kerosene lamps were lit, and the dim light didn't last long before people dispersed.

She can only see her lonely back.

It's fine now.

A group of people is like a big family.

At this time, she was very grateful to Wang Tianxiao in her heart, and felt that she had treated her son too badly before.

It's just because he is more sensible than other children and works hard without complaint, so I don't pay much attention to him, and most of the time it's his own self-destruction.

Whether you are getting married or going out to live, you have to rely on yourself.

And because I didn't want to make the family restless at the time, knowing that the members of the third child's family were all of that kind of virtue, they often thought of ways to bully the second daughter-in-law.

Thinking about it now, on that snowy night last year, when his son came home and saw his wife lying on the kang with a high fever, he felt so uncomfortable. Ken didn't know how to blame himself anymore.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be holding a knife, he was so angry at that time.

Just when she thought that she and this child were going to be completely indifferent, the child gave her steps, almost helping her step by step, and let her walk down from it.

In the days that followed, although the two of them were still a little estranged, they would never let go of or throw away any of the things that the child should be responsible for.

But the other sons and daughters who seem to be quite talkative on weekdays have not really done anything good to her. Although they each have their own lives, she can still tell who is filial and who is indifferent.

After all, she is an old man in her sixties or seventies.

Time is the best book, if you don't read it carefully, you will become full of wisdom when you reach a certain age.

She just doesn't force it.

As long as it's not too much, it's fine.

Raising children never expects to get anything in return.

Let's treat the second child better in the future.

My own child knows that the second child, no matter how promising he is, actually longs for family affection deep down in his heart.

This family has hurt him for ten or twenty years, so they can't let him down forever.

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Wang Tianxiao was not clear about the change in his mother's psychological state.

But seeing his mother smile, he thought it was worth it.

What's more, there are other nephews, nieces, and sisters, so they can also learn foreign knowledge from TV, which is also a good model to expand their horizons.

He attributed many conflicts in his family's previous life to the fact that some people were born with bad seeds on the one hand, and on the other hand it was due to lack of knowledge.

I only know fighting in the nest.

If you know that there are many more interesting and important things to do in the world, you won't be staring at the three-acre land in front of you all day long.

In the same way, children must know how big and amazing the outside world is, so that they can set their own goals well, instead of only knowing the two life modes of working and farming.

How important is human knowledge?

You can see it from him.

He doesn't have any academic qualifications, nor does he have advanced knowledge. It is purely because he has more knowledge that he can do well in this world.

If the children study hard and absorb more knowledge, they will definitely go further than him in the future.

After they go out, this bullshit thing at home will no longer be a cage that binds their bodies, but will turn into a kind of autumn leaves, providing them with good nutrients for their thriving growth.

By the end of May, the project in Mijia Village was coming to an end, and Wang Tianxiao was about to see the substation he had dreamed of.

This time, stationmaster Li tactfully did not let him go, and the transformer station was built very well according to the agreement.

And it is guaranteed that by mid-June, he will be able to watch TV.

Wang Tianxiao saw that the other party was very polite, so he accepted it as soon as he saw it.

Originally, the power station said that the line would be sent to the mountain for free, but Wang Tianxiao paid an installation fee of more than 300 yuan for the distance required by Ann on the grounds that the station would be reimbursed.

He didn't even bother to take advantage of this little advantage.

There is no such thing as a free lunch in the world, and taking advantage of a small advantage often results in a big loss.

Even if there is no obvious loss now, the temperament of the person will change because he likes to take advantage of it. He is no longer an upright person, and the disaster will naturally follow.

Wang Tianxiao has always remembered his wife's words, at any time, he must behave properly.

In this way, it is not a false name.

However, Wang Tianxiao is willing to be a good person, but some people in the team are not.

At the end of May, the power station came to collect electricity bills in the village, but something went wrong.

According to the line configuration, the entire three teams have a total electricity meter, which shows the total amount of points used by all the people in the team, and each household has a household sub-meter, which shows the electricity consumption of each household.

If nothing else, the sum of the power usage of the sub-meters is the total meter usage.

But when the meter readers read the meters separately, they found that there was a power shortage of more than 300 kilowatt-hours.

This is outrageous.

Because the electricity has just been brought in, many people don't know how to use electricity yet, so most people just use an electric light.

Even if there are electric lights in every room in the house, each light is 25 watts, and it is used for four hours a day, then the electricity consumption of each family is about ten kilowatt-hours a month, and the entire natural team is only more than two thousand kilowatt-hours. .

But this difference is more than 300 degrees, accounting for more than 10%.

This is simply not possible.

Even if the line is slightly consumed, it can be ignored.

When the meter reader left, he spoke very cryptically, but other people could not understand the words between the lines because they did not understand. Wang Tianxiao was very familiar with electricity, and he knew exactly what the meter reader meant.

On the team, someone was actually stealing electricity.

When it comes to stealing electricity, it has basically decreased in recent years, but it was very common in rural areas in the early years.

The method of stealing electricity is also very simple. It is to hang a hook from the front of the meter and directly introduce electricity into the home. Because it does not pass through the meter, the meter naturally has no record.

But the total meter is displayed.

There is a high-voltage line in front of the master meter, which has not undergone voltage transformation treatment, and ordinary people can't use it.

The reason for stealing electricity is because people in this era generally have little money, and electricity bills are relatively expensive.

One kilowatt-hour of electricity is more than three cents, and ten kilowatt-hours of electricity is more than three yuan.

The average person is about the same amount.

But the problem is that what is lacking now is not a matter of several kilowatt-hours. From the meter reading data, there are more than 300 kilowatt-hours.

What kind of concept is this.

If each household is more than ten degrees Celsius, there are twenty or thirty households stealing electricity together.

After thinking about it, Wang Tianxiao thought it was basically impossible.

Stealing electricity is a technical job, and these people in the village don't understand the principle, so it is impossible to do things beyond knowledge.

And even if they steal, just use that little electricity, how much can they count.

Wang Tianxiao is more inclined to a household with a certain level of knowledge and understanding of what electricity is, and consumes a lot of electricity.

He looked over the people on the electricity bill, and finally locked on a few people.

These people all have a characteristic. Some of them have done work outside and may have seen the usage of electricity, and doing some things at home is easy to consume electricity.

Follow this direction to filter, and you will be able to lock it soon.

After all, there are only those people on the team, and it's no secret what kind of family they look like, everyone knows it.

It was getting late, and Wang Tianxiao was still at Wang Dabao's house.

There were several dishes on the table, Wang Dabao said with some embarrassment: "Tian Xiao, look at this incident, I didn't expect that there are such people in our team, it really embarrasses our team. "

"That's not normal. It's strange. We don't have any kind of people in this team. Since we can steal other things, why can't we steal electricity? It's not the same, it's all stealing anyway."

"Are you suspicious...?" Wang Dabao seemed to have realized something.

"Well, I think it's them," Wang Tianxiao smiled.

The reason why Wang Dabao is embarrassed is because those users who don't have an internal watch are all listed under the name of Wang Tianxiao. Since everyone who has a watch is fine, those who don't have a watch will be the first to be suspected.

Although there is also the possibility that someone with a watch will steal electricity from the front of the watch, but at this time, who would believe it.

Since it is under Wang Tianxiao's name, he needs to fill in this gap.

For more than 300 kilowatt-hours of electricity, he gave away more than 100 yuan for nothing.

Although he is not short of this money now, the money didn't just fall from the sky.

And more importantly, it made him very unhappy.

Asking you to install electricity, if you don't install it, I will advance the money for you, but you are still stealing the wool in secret, it is really too much.

"Then what should we do, why don't we go and have a look together?"

"Don't worry," Wang Tianxiao smiled, "those who catch electricity are different from other people. Electricity is an intangible thing. You can't steal it from others. To catch them, we have to find another way. "

"Then what should I do? If you don't catch it all day, you will have to pay three or four yuan for nothing. I'm in a panic on your behalf," Wang Dabao said awkwardly and helplessly, "These people are also, why don't they know how to deal with it?" Bad, this kind of electricity stealing is the same as stealing things.”

Wang Tianxiao looked at the sky outside the window, it was basically dark.

"Brother Dabao, since you are anxious, let's catch the person who stole the electricity tomorrow night."

"Why not tonight? Why wait until tomorrow night? When I think of that thief kid who is still secretly using electricity, I wish I could get him out now and ask him why he is so shameless and whether his conscience has been eaten by a dog. "

"Well, I have my own reasons. Of course, we are not idle tonight. If you want to check, you just need to tell these people to check the readings of the electric meter tonight. Check it tomorrow and tell you the data. .”

Wang Tianxiao named some names.

"that's all?"

"It's that simple." Wang Tianxiao was confident.

Wang Dabao still didn't understand why Wang Tianxiao did this, but seeing how confident he was, it was hard to say anything. He originally asked Wang Tianxiao to have dinner at home, but the dishes were cold, and Wang Tianxiao didn't move his mouth.

"This dish makes your sister-in-law warm up, so let's eat it at our house. Now that you order this, you probably won't have anything to eat when you go back."

"No, I'd better go back and eat, or my daughter-in-law will be worried. Things are like this here, as long as you count the two tables clearly, it will serve as proof."

"Okay, don't worry."

Wang Tianxiao went out and went back to see his mother. When he came to his mother's room, he saw that the kang was full of people, and he felt very good.

It's just that his mother asked him to sit on the kang, but he refused.

On the pretext that his wife was still waiting, he left the pit yard.

That's fine, mother and child, he can basically do everything.

Not too thirsty either.

When he got back to the station, the children were already asleep, but his wife was still waiting for him.

Seeing him coming back, he got up to help him heat up the meal. He smiled and asked, "Why didn't you ask me if I had eaten?"

Li Yali glanced at him and smiled, "You must not have eaten. If you had eaten, you wouldn't be so weak and weak. You must be hungry."

"Haha, you know me well, and you really didn't eat it. Originally, Brother Dabao had cooked meals at home, and he wanted to leave me to eat, but I thought I didn't tell you in advance, how can I eat other people's meals casually, so I still Hungry, insist on coming home, do you think I am fine?"

"Very good...you let me go, I'm going to the kitchen."

"Why, are you in a hurry to escape from your husband?"

"What, didn't I warm up your meal... Oh, you, don't wake up the child."

"Haha, thank you for your hard work."

Wang Tianxiao had to grab his wife and beat her hard on the face a few times before letting her out.

He poured some hot water himself, and after washing his feet, he sat back on the kang, looked at the woman, and then at his son. The two little guys were sleeping very soundly, pink and tender.

Although they are in the mountains, because of the good care and protection of their wife, the two children have hardly been exposed to the wind and sun, and they are as delicate as dolls in the city.

He lay gently beside his daughter, looked at her face, and slowly closed his eyes.

When Li Yali came back with the plate, she saw that Wang Tianxiao had already fallen asleep.

She gently shook him awake, "Eat something, you have a bad stomach, go to bed with an empty stomach, what if your stomach hurts in the middle of the night?"

Only then did Wang Tianxiao get up tiredly, and after a few casual sips, he lay back under the blanket.

"Thank you, Lili."

"What's the hard work, it's my business..."

Li Yali was still talking, but saw Wang Tianxiao fell into a deep sleep again, and soon let out a slight snoring sound.

She swallowed the remaining half of the words into her stomach, and gently helped her husband cover the quilt, in a daze, but her hand was held in the palm of his hand.

"Lili, I miss you a little bit."

Li Yali was baffled.

Isn't he right by his side, how can he fight back and think about himself? This person doesn't know what nonsense he is talking about.

There is no beginning and no end, even in a dream.

I really don't know what he is thinking every day, and often there will be one or two holy ghost words, so that I can't understand what he means for a long time.

Now that her hands were tightly held, she had no choice but to sit on the edge of the kang and look at her husband and children affectionately.

There is tenderness in the eyes.

It is said that the outside world is very big, but her world is very small.

That's enough for now.

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Wang Tianxiao woke up the next day feeling refreshed.

In the morning, he first went to the prefabrication factory to look at the reports of the last few days, the implementation of some systems, the distribution of labor protection equipment and safety equipment for employees, and even the hygiene of the factory area...

He remembered seeing a broken window theory before.

It is said that if people break one glass in a house, there is a high probability that the second glass will be broken soon.

Because people subconsciously have a desire to destroy, and when they see such damaged things, they will not pay special attention to and respect them, and will often blindly follow or aggravate this destructive state.

He also has the same attitude towards Wenyuan Precast Factory.

Although the factory area is made of prefabricated products, it is a bit difficult to clean it thoroughly, but he still asks that it should not be too messy as much as possible.

A messy environment will not be respected by everyone, and any rules and regulations will also not be enforced.

Only by maintaining a good environment can all employees realize the uniqueness of this place.

Doing things will be more serious.

In addition, he mentioned to both Zhang Wenyuan and Wu Ping about caring for employees.

All employees must be equipped with labor protection supplies and safety supplies, and employees must not be allowed to carry them with their bodies.

The cement industry is very dusty, and it is very easy to produce pneumoconiosis, which is commonly known as asbestosis. Once this kind of asbestosis is contracted, life will be worse than death. When the pain is severe, every breath is like burning the vocal tract with fire.

Moreover, asbestosis has no hope of treatment and can only wait for death.

Therefore, he requires all employees to wear masks. If the concentration is high, there are special masks. If it is too harmful, people can not rush to work for the time being, and wait for the environment to improve a little before entering.

This is all the responsibility of the employees.

Wang Tianxiao himself used to be a grassroots employee, and he knows that many leaders don't regard employees as human beings at all for the sake of performance.

In their eyes, employees are a tool and a stepping stone for their own performance.

As long as you get the results you want, employees are nothing.