"A wrench, is it used to repair machines, or is it used to beat people?"
In 1978, on the first day when Ning Zheng turned from a porter to a technician in a machinery factory, he threw the security section chief who had molested female workers into the scrap heap.
The factory director sneered: "Your father is a traitor, how dare you touch the state machinery?"
She threw out the corruption ledger with her backhand: "What a coincidence, every penny you embezzled is in this machine!"
When Cheng Mo from the Provincial Department of Industry arrived with an investigation team, everyone was waiting to see Ning Zheng suffer misfortune.
But I saw this cold and ascetic Chief Cheng blocking Ning Zheng in the corner of the workshop late at night: "Comrade Ning, teach me... How to dismantle this rotten machine?"
