Xun Dong eased up and gave Xu Feng and Ma Ling two days off.
Li Qiao took over their work, organizing reports at one moment, and being asked by the police unit next door to print documents in the printing room at another.
In that era, there were no printers connected to computers.
The unit's manual typewriter was the most advanced typographic equipment in China.
Inside a square frame lay a dense array of Chinese characters, all of them upside down.
When copying, one had to use the manual typewriter to print the characters onto wax paper, which was quite a test of one's eyesight.
After that, copies were made with the mimeograph machine, the printed characters carrying a strong scent of ink, but the process was quite labor-intensive.
There weren't more than two people in the unit who knew how to operate it, and it was slow, so knowing she was Top Scholar, they notified her to come and learn.
