Chapter 43: First Employee Safety Production Manual

He Yuzhu rode to the classroom, found that class had already ended, He Yuzhu turned around and rode toward the girls' dormitory; upon reaching the dormitory he ran into Ding Suyun downstairs, He Yuzhu hurried over and shouted, "Ding Suyun, wait a moment," He Yuzhu shouted, when He Yuzhu came to Ding Suyun's side he said, "Ding Suyun, please trouble you to call Xiao Yue down."

Ding Suyun looked at He Yuzhu and said, "You don't know? Xiao Yue was picked up by her brother yesterday, she looked quite anxious."

"I don't know, I've been at the Yagangchang these two days; when I came back yesterday it was already very late, and this morning I left early so I haven't seen Xiao Yue," He Yuzhu said, pulling his bike to the side.

"By the way, Ding Suyun, do you know what's going on?"

"I don't know either, anyway she looked quite anxious, I thought you knew," Ding Suyun said after glancing at He Yuzhu again, "Nothing much, I'm heading up first."

"Okay, thanks," after Ding Suyun left, He Yuzhu pushed his bike toward the boys' dormitory area; being anxious was useless, he simply didn't know where Gao Yue lived, he thought to himself, "I'll ask her when I get back, anyway her brother picking her up means nothing will happen," thinking that, He Yuzhu got back on his bike and rode to the dormitory.

One week later, Gao Yue returned, but when He Yuzhu saw her she looked very worn out, which pained He Yuzhu greatly; the two came to sit by the small river, after which He Yuzhu asked.

"Xiao Yue, what's wrong? What exactly happened?" He Yuzhu asked concernedly.

Hearing He Yuzhu's words, Gao Yue wailed and flung herself onto He Yuzhu, crying out, "Zhuzi, my grandmother passed away; I've been raised by her since I was little, and now she's gone."

He Yuzhu gently patted Gao Yue's back and said, "Xiao Yue, don't be sad; your grandmother has already left, if you keep like this she'll see it from heaven and be sad too, you still have me, don't you?" He Yuzhu comforted her for a while, after Gao Yue's emotions stabilized he took out a bottle of milk from his bag and handed it to her; this was originally meant to make biscuits for He Yushui, he had managed to get only two bottles, and he gave one of them to Gao Yue.

He Yuzhu opened the lid and handed it to Gao Yue, saying, "Thirsty? Have a sip of milk," Gao Yue took the milk and drank a sip; He Yuzhu stared at the milk residue on Gao Yue's mouth corner, blankly gazing at her in a daze, Gao Yue took another sip, seeing He Yuzhu still staring at her blankly, she swayed her arms twice in front of his eyes and said, "Zhuzi, what are you spacing out about?"

He Yuzhu then reacted, coughing, and said, "Nothing much, just thinking about something; how is the milk, tasty?"

But Gao Yue saw He Yuzhu's gaze and felt things weren't that simple; she spat and said, "Not tasty, I'll give it back to you," as she went to hand the milk bottle to He Yuzhu, though he had intended to take it, Gao Yue quickly pulled her hand back and said, "What's up, you really want it back? Tell me what bad thing you were just up to."

He Yuzhu scratched his head embarrassedly, laughing and said, "Oh, what could I be thinking about? It's just about the safety production manual; I just had an idea."

"Pah, who would believe you, you have no good intentions," after saying that Gao Yue gulped down the milk and returned the bottle to He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu saw Gao Yue had finished, took the bottle and took another out of his bag to hand to her, saying, "Here, there's still one more, drink it all."

Gao Yue gave He Yuzhu a look and said, "You think I'm a pig? Drink two bottles?" Still, she took the milk from He Yuzhu's hand.

He Yuzhu muttered quietly, "How come I'm surrounded by a bunch of little gluttonous cats."

"What are you saying, Zhuzi?" Gao Yue asked. "Oh, nothing, I was saying two bottles might not be enough," He Yuzhu said, smiling and looking at Gao Yue.

"He Yuzhu, you really think I'm a pig, I'm going to wrestle you," after saying that Gao Yue twisted her hand toward He Yuzhu's waist.

After more than two months of writing, on November 3 the Red Star Yagangchang First Employee Safety Production Manual was completed; He Yuzhu took the manuscript in hand, flipped through it page by page, after finishing he said to Secretary Liu and Director Yang, "Secretary, Director, our factory's safety production manual has been completed, totaling fifty-one thousand two hundred thirty-one characters," after saying that He Yuzhu handed the manuscript to Secretary Liu.

This safety manual, although only fifty thousand words, was written after more than two months of investigation and visits to surrounding cities, districts, and counties, adding many examples; it can be said that this employee manual embodies the whole office team's effort, in order to find cases He Yuzhu led people to the farthest point, Shicheng, and turned the heard safety incidents into a bloody case study.

He Yuzhu felt that if merely writing the employee manual and giving it to workers to read, they might just glance at it once and either remember or not, that would be pointless; therefore, to make workers remember, he added an accident case to nearly every clause, and also included the post-incident resettlement work and the current situation of the victims and their families; He Yuzhu didn't believe they would just see it and forget.

"At a certain factory, a certain person died due to operational error of production equipment, his family received 300 yuan in consolation money, his wife remarried with her son and the son took the stepfather's surname"—this kind of thing that spends your money, sleeps with your wife, and beats your children could happen to them; would they still violate regulations?

After Secretary Liu finished reading, he handed the manuscript to Director Yang and said, "Comrade He Yuzhu, thank you for your dedication and effort to the Yagangchang; this time I will surely recommend you for merit, I will immediately arrange printing and send the first employee safety production manual to the ministry," after saying that Secretary Liu patted He Yuzhu once.

That evening, to celebrate the release of the employee manual, Secretary Liu specially arranged for the entire safety production team and factory leadership to attend the banquet; of course, only Director Wang and He Yuzhu sat at the leadership table, during which He Yuzhu was plied with a lot of alcohol, as for how he got back home that is unknown; when he woke up the sky was already bright, he was lying on the bed of the guesthouse.

Shaking his sore head, he went downstairs to the guesthouse, glanced at the wall clock showing it was already ten o'clock, went out to eat something, feeling refreshed, he headed toward the Yagangchang; arriving at Director Yang's office, after bidding farewell to Director Yang, He Yuzhu got on his bike and had already arrived at Huaxia University.

While He Yuzhu was biking to Huaxia University, Secretary Liu brought the first employee safety manual to the Ministry of Metallurgy, saying, "Minister Liang, take a look, our factory's safety manual has been released."

Minister Liang took the manual handed over by Secretary Liu; seeing the white cover with black text reading "Red Star Yagangchang Employee Safety Production Manual," Minister Liang flipped through a few pages and said, "Good, Jiujiang, you didn't know last time I went to the State Council meeting, I mentioned in passing that you were compiling the production manual, and the leaders asked about it several times; now I'll send it to them." After saying that, Minister Liang stood up, taking Secretary Liu out of the office.

In the State Council leadership office, after the leader finished reading the entire manual he said, "Zhaoxin, you've been waiting a while, huh?" After taking a sip of water he added, "Not bad, the cases above are written very realistically and also brutally, but only this way can we make our worker comrades remember these bloody accidents." After saying that he picked up a pen and wrote on it, "Presented to Comrade He Yuzhu xxx 52nd year, November 4."

After the leader finished writing, he handed the manual to Minister Liang and said, "Zhaoxin, please help me deliver this manual to this young comrade He Yuzhu."