Tianqu City's No. 1 cotton textile factory is a large state-owned enterprise built in the 1950s. In the 1980s and 1990s, Tianquyi Cotton was really popular for nearly 20 years. At its peak, the factory had more than 6,000 employees, and its production capacity and profit ranked second in the national textile industry.

At that time, because of the high profits, the good welfare benefits of the National Cotton Factory could make most of the people in Tianqu City look down upon. The factory built dormitory buildings for employees, and the factory had its own hospitals, kindergartens, primary schools, middle schools and employee technical schools. The canteens in the factory and the canteen outside the factory could provide employees and their families with delicious and cheap food every day. This was definitely the only one for scorpion to shit in Tianqu City in the 1980s and 1990s.

At that time, most of the people in Tianqu City were full of envy when they mentioned the National Cotton Factory. At that time, even if Huaneng Power Plant built a factory in Tianqu, no one chose to go to the National Cotton Factory but chose to go to the National Cotton Factory. As a result, these people later regretted it.

Yang Jing’s aunt is one of this group of people.

Yang Jing's aunt graduated from high school in 1988. With his aunt's academic performance, she didn't even have a window when she got into college, so she had to start working after graduation.

At that time, because of the particularly convenient railway transportation in Tianqu City, the two railway lines, the Beijing-Shanghai Line and the Shide Line, intersected in Tianqu City. Later, the famous listed company Huaneng International planned to build a large thermal power plant in the west of Tianqu City near the junction of Shandong and Hebei Provinces.

If this project had been put to this day, I'm afraid that the project had not started yet, and various relationships would have filled the employees of the new factory. But at that time, even if the power plant was almost built, the workers couldn't help it.

Why? It is because there was a first cotton mill in Tianqu City at that time. The first choice for qualified and fresh graduates was the national cotton mill rather than the thermal power plant.

In the words of people of that era, why do you do in that kind of factory? Do you look at the boiler? That is where uneducated talents go.

If Yang Jing's aunt had gone to the power plant at that time, she would not even have to take the exam and could go in and become a power generator. As a result, because the whole family worked in the National Cotton Factory, and the salary of the National Cotton Factory at that time was indeed the best in Tianqu City, my aunt went to the National Cotton Factory.

Then, when Huaneng Power Plant was built, the benefits were simply breaking through the sky. The employees of Huaneng Power Plant became the most enviable group of people in Tianqu City. Due to the influence of the international environment, and the successors of the cotton mills were always taking things into their arms, the once glorious national cotton mill began to gradually decline.

At that time, if you had the opportunity to enter the power plant without going to, those who chose the National Cotton Factory would regret it for the rest of their lives.

Yang Jing’s aunt is one of this group of people.

Yang Jing's grandfather and grandmother's hometown were not from Tianqu City. His grandfather's ancestral home was in the capital, and his grandmother's ancestral home was in the next door Hebei Province. Later, Hengshui, Hebei Province, once produced a nationally renowned Dengzhuang Commune, and his grandmother's hometown was from Dengzhuang Commune...

Grandpa came out of the army back then, but he was in the army in 54th. The place where he joined the army was at the 26th Army Hospital in Tianqu City. After he was discharged from the army, Grandpa did not return to his ancestral home. The capital at that time was not like the current capital. In addition, it was a natural disaster that happened for three years, so Grandpa took the initiative to stay in Tianqu City to help the country build the first cotton textile factory in Tianqu City.

Although my grandmother was not a soldier, she was a martyr with a strong family. My grandmother's father died when Tianqu City was liberated, so after she finished high school in Tianqu City, she stayed in Tianqu City. When the cotton mill was building the factory, she also participated in the construction of the factory.

The old couple came here when they were building a cotton factory in China. They met and fell in love here, and eventually formed a family and had four children. Yang Jing's mother was the second, with an older sister above her, a younger brother below her.

At that time, except for Yang Jing's grandfather and his uncle who did not work in the National Cotton Factory because they were young, the other six people worked in the National Cotton Factory. Even Yang Jing's uncle was an employee of the factory. It can be said that the whole family was a textile worker.

Yang Jing was born in the Guo Cotton Mill Hospital. He was born there, went to kindergarten, elementary school, middle school, and did not leave the Guo Cotton Mill until high school. It is no exaggeration to say that Guo Cotton Mill occupies an unsurpassable position in Yang Jing's childhood and youth memories.

When Yang Jing was a child, the benefits of the Guo Cotton Mill were still at the best, so he lived a very good life in the Guo Cotton Mill during his childhood.

When his family moved out of the Guo Cotton Factory after he went to high school, the Guo Cotton Factory began to decline. When Yang Jing went to college, the once glorious Tianquyi Cotton could not even pay the wages of workers. The large factory that once had more than 6,000 people had been left, but there were less than 1,500 people left.

Even when Yang Jing was studying in the UK, he talked about the factory on the phone, but the mother and the two of them sighed for a while on the phone. In the past two years, the national cotton mill can't even make money from paying insurance to workers. The factory is about to close.

But the factory is no longer able to do it. The old employees who made great contributions to the prosperity of the factory back then could not leave the factory. Their home is in the dormitory area of ​​the factory and they can't go anywhere.

Yang Jing’s grandfather and grandmother are typical representatives of this group of old employees.

The 67-square-meter-sized three-bedroom apartment in which Yang Jing's grandfather and grandmother lived was moved into the year when Yang Jing was born. Now it seems that the layout of the building is very unreasonable and the area is very small, but in that era, such a house was considered a top-notch building.

In 1992, there were not many dormitory buildings in Tianqu City, and most of the people still lived in bungalows.

However, with the rapid development of the times, buildings that were originally envied by everyone have gradually become synonymous with backwardness. If it weren't for the fact that there were still very famous kindergartens, primary and middle schools, primary and secondary schools, were truly high-quality school district houses, the houses here would have become worthless long ago.

Yang Jing grew up in the building where his grandparents lived since childhood. Of course, Yang Jing was full of emotions about that building.

The car quickly got off the outer ring road and stopped at the entrance of the Guo Cotton Factory Hospital in a short while. The Guo Cotton Factory Hospital is on the south side of the once glorious Guo Cotton Factory gate.

After Yang Jing paid to get off the car, he looked at the once glorious door. Although the golden words "Tianqu No. 1 Cotton Textile Factory" written by Mr. Qi Gong were still there, the glory in it was like this factory and could no longer be seen.

After taking his gaze back, Yang Jing pulled the suitcase and did not go to the hospital first, but went to the rural credit union opposite the hospital. After staying there for a while, he then pulled the suitcase to the hospital.

The closer he got to the hospital, the more timid Yang Jing became.

Although this place is not home, I will soon see my relatives I have never seen for two years. This is what the so-called close family relationship is about...
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