"Brother, this man is so shameless. He only has one gold bar. He dared to steal four of them."
Lin Yilan watched Xu Damao leave the compound in disgrace, "Brother, tell me, he Will you send it over? You didn't tell me about your relationship with Professor Xu?"
Zhu Xuefeng smiled and said, "I didn't expect this bad guy to hide a gold bar in the old house. No wonder he went to copy Yan. Xie Cheng, it turned out that I was looking for this.”
“Don’t worry, if you give him the courage now, you don’t dare not send it to him. This kind of person is very clever. You can bring it back to Professor Xu when the time comes. Please hand over the gold bars and money to Professor Xu, don’t let Chen Rui know.”
Lin Yilan nodded, “Brother, you can’t trust her!”
"Yes, she is my classmate. However, there seems to be something wrong with her character. I have never noticed it before. Let's not talk about her. How about you? Are you interested in practicing with me? Let me see if you have improved."< br>
…
“You mean, this Zhu Xuefeng met No?”
“Leader, I can’t touch you. Let me tell you.”
The man leaning forward in front of the coffee table is Xu Damao, talking about yesterday with a look of grievance. When he was exhausted in the afternoon, his patron Li Huaide was sitting at the desk across from him.
Li Huaide also had a dark face and felt uneasy. This boy surnamed Zhu was so profound. He actually had contact with such a high-level person and was highly praised. It seemed that he couldn't be messed with.
When I was in Xiangjiang, during the Spring Festival, I was wandering around alone and accidentally met Lao Jintou, a tailor, whom he knew.
It was like meeting an old friend in a foreign country. After a few glasses of wine, he asked Lao Jintou how he came here. Lao Jintou hesitated for a while, then hesitantly told him that it was a young man named Zhu Xuefeng. The person who sent him here also had a big yard. Li Huaide became interested, and after careful questioning, he became more certain that this Zhu Xuefeng was the boy who had made a big name in the steel rolling mill.
I originally thought I would grab his pigtails and give him a slap this time so that I could vent my anger, but I didn’t expect that he hit the iron plate.
"Forget it, don't mess with him. He's not from the steel rolling mill now, so he can't affect us." Li Huaide decisively gave up this unhappiness.
"But the leader, he seems to have something to do with Xu Changqing. Yesterday he specially stayed with me and asked me to return the things copied from Xu Changqing's house and compensate their family for their losses."
Li Huaide stood up and turned around impatiently. After half a circle, "Then you should compensate him and don't provoke him in the future." "
Xu Damao just nodded in agreement and didn't know what he was thinking. He said nothing. Li Huaide was also silently thinking about his own thoughts. The atmosphere in the office was silent for a while. After a while, Li Huaide recovered his thoughts. Looking at the capable man standing aside.
During these days, Xu Damao was jumping up and down, making a lot of noise in the steel rolling mill and on the streets, but his superiors did not comment on the revolutionary work in the steel rolling mill during this period.
Xu Damao's setback this time should not make him cold-hearted. Thinking of this, Li Huaide lowered his attitude, sat down with a smile, and asked kindly.
"Xiao Xu, it has been half a year since you were wronged. During these days, you have been working hard for the revolutionary cause of the factory. Thank you for your hard work."
Xu Damao was a little frightened, and did not understand what the leader was doing. What kind of "leader," This is what I should do. As a member of the conscious working class, I have not done enough.”
The smile on Li Huaide’s face was even more peaceful, “It’s okay to have both work and life. Only when the problems in life are solved can we Why don't you do your revolutionary work wholeheartedly? I haven't cared enough about you during this period."
Xu Damao was confused. After he came out, the street office kept saying that there were no vacant houses, especially in the steel rolling mill. I won’t care, later Lai finally managed to find someone to enter the theater of the School of Drama, and infiltrated the joint defense team and the ZF faction, but he still had to live with his parents. After returning to the steel rolling mill, he also approached the logistics director Zhang, and director Zhang also said that it would be temporary There were some difficulties, so it was put off.
Li Huaide is concerned about himself now. Could it be that the leader finally remembered his housing problem? He was thinking about how to answer the leader's words when he heard Li Huaide continue.
"You are almost thirty this year, so you need to think about this problem. How are you now? Do you have a partner?"
"Thank you for your concern, leader. You have a really good memory. I have been in the past three or seven years. , I am turning thirty this year, my parents have urged me several times, I am not afraid You're joking, the old man at home has always been worried about this."
Xu Damao couldn't figure out Li Huaide's approach. It was not like simply caring for his subordinates and sending warmth, but since he wanted to express his concern, Xu Damao had an idea. Idea, he blinked his little eyes and said with a grateful look on his face.
“Thank you for your concern, the leader. It’s just a personal matter for me. I can’t think about it for a while. Now I don’t have the conditions, so I still live at my parents’ house. The place at home is small and I can’t live there at all.”
Li Huaide looked a little angry when he heard this, "You haven't got a house yet?" Solve it? What happened to this old Zhang? I have already promised to solve your house problem, but you, the deputy section chief, have been in office for more than a week and have not yet implemented it. So, if I press him again, I must solve it for you. It’s too shameful. , bureaucracy, this is typical bureaucracy!”
"Thank you, leader, thank you, leader!"
Knowing that Li Huaide's words were full of water, Xu Damao still stood up quickly to express his gratitude. During these days, he actually had another place to live, so he was not really worried about the house problem. As the deputy section chief, there is no way this issue will remain unsolved.
"Sit down and talk, sit down and talk." Li Huaide waved his hand cordially, and Xu Damao sat down again.
"Do you have a partner now? Or is there a lesbian you like?"
Hearing that the leader was really starting to care about his personal problems, Xu Damao frowned even though he didn't know the leader's intention. "Leader, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I feel a little fond of Xiao Xiao when I saw him in our Publicity Department. It's just that my reputation has been ruined and I'm old, so people look down on me."
Xu Damao's words made Li Huaide feel relieved. He smiled and took out a cigarette to signal. Xu Damao hurriedly took it with a bow, took out a match from his pocket and lit it for the leader, and then lit it for himself.
Li Huaide took a deep breath, exhaled it lightly, held the cigarette in his right hand, and thought for a while, "You are less than, well, I have an impression that she is the lesbian who is good at writing promotional materials...".
"It's her, it's her!" Xu Damao looked at the leader expectantly. This Yu Haitang made him feel itchy, but it seemed difficult to get started. He came close to her several times, but she was still polite at first. He wanted to say hello, maybe because he had lied to her once, and it was difficult for the two of them to chat. The more times the conversation happened, the other party would hide away whenever he found an opportunity, and he would shy away from him, which made Xu Damao feel itchy and uneasy.
"I have heard about this comrade Xiao. She has very high requirements for revolutionary partners."
Li Huaide glanced at Xu Damao meaningfully, "Xiao Xu, it's not me who said that, There is also great knowledge in finding a revolutionary partner..."
Half of Li Huaide's words made Xu Damao's newly raised hope disappear in an instant. There was no need to beat the drum again. He understood what Li Huaide meant.
For a long time, Li Huaide lit a cigarette in the corridor again, watching Xu Damao leave lonely downstairs, with a smile on his lips.
Zhu Xuefeng had just left Leader Hao’s office. No one knew what he had discussed specifically. However, in the following days, Zhu Xuefeng disappeared from the capital for more than two months. No one knew what he was doing during these days. place. In the study room of the compound, Zhu Xuefeng was listening to Lin Yilan describe the changes during this period. A lot of things happened in more than two months. Xu Damao and his gang at the steel rolling mill were all beaten up in the dark. Xu Damao was seriously injured and it took him nearly a month to go to work.
“This kid has done too many bad things these days and offended many people. Have you found out who did it?”
Lin Yilan shook her head, "I didn't find out. It is said that there were more than a dozen people who did it. The police station didn't have the energy to take care of it. Xu Damao found someone to fiddle with, but in the end nothing happened."
"What else happened? Lao Yang Are you okay with Professor Xu?"< br>
"The factory director has nothing to do. After you made trouble twice, no one has troubled him now. Professor Xu has something to do."
Zhu Xuefeng frowned. He had never defended Xu publicly. Professor, is there really someone looking for trouble for him? "Tell me, what's going on?"
"Professor Xu left. After being criticized again last month, your classmate drew a clear line with him and left."
I really didn’t expect that classmate Chen Rui had changed so much, which was a good thing. Zhu Xuefeng planned to visit again.
"Husbands and wives are birds of the same forest, and they fly separately when disaster strikes. During these days, many couples divorced and formed several couples in the steel rolling mill. There is one couple you would never expect."
"Who is it? ?" Zhu Xuefeng knew that one of the couples must be his classmate Chen Zhihe, but Lin Yilan said that he could not imagine that it was not these two.
"It's Xu Damao. He and Chief Qin of your compound received their certificates as soon as they recovered last month."
Xu Damao and Qin Huairu? Zhu Xuefeng was confused now. What were they, a gangster and a widow? But let alone, no one could dislike the other. One of them was the deputy section chief and the other was the section chief, so they were a perfect match.
Shaking his head and putting these messy things aside, Zhu Xuefeng lowered his voice.
"Don't worry about this, you have to prepare. It is estimated that we will have to leave after a while."
When Lin Yilan heard this, her eyes were full of excitement, "Senior brother, are you really sure? "
Zhu Xuefeng nodded, "I have traveled to many places during these days and made several friends. See you too. All the things that need to be done have been done. When our second child graduates, we will go together. It’s no problem for you.”
Since we have decided to stay outside for the next few years, the second child will go away together. Simply take them away together. The autonomous region's navy is currently short of serious commanders and cannot always be commanded by a half-assed Li Xiaojun.
"No problem, senior brother, I can leave at any time."
"Okay, this time I go out, it may take ten or eight years to come back. Do you want to go and see your home?"
Lin Yilan shook her head, with a sad look on her face, "I have saved several hundred here, and I will leave them all to him when the time comes." We, I think, they should like it more."
"It's okay, it's just a way of repaying the kindness of raising you. There's no need to take these away."
"Senior brother, if I go out, I can do something better. What?" Since it was urgent, Lin Yilan mustered up the courage to ask.
Zhu Xuefeng smiled and said, "I've already thought about it for you. Come and listen to me..."
The senior brother and sister were murmuring, and the Jia family in the courtyard was also murmuring. Since Xu Damao and Qin Huairu quietly received the certificates last month, Xu Damao moved to the Jia family justifiably, and the Jia family's house became more It was so crowded that a total of seven adults and children could fit into the two small rooms.
There is also an extra girl Sophora japonica on Jia Zhang’s Kang. In front of the Kang, there is also a temporary wooden bed built with benches and wooden boards. This is awesome. Xiaodang and her sister-in-law A temporary bed was also set up in the front of the wing opposite, barely coping.
"Grandma, I can't sleep." Banggeng turned over, and the wooden boards and benches underneath also shook and made a creaking sound.
"Close your eyes, stop turning over the pancakes, and fall asleep soon." Mrs. Jia Zhang also moved, with her little granddaughter Sophora japonica squeezing next to her, which was quite comfortable. , just a bit crowded.
"Grandma, I..." Banggeng couldn't help but panic. He was fourteen years old, but he had a stepfather. He couldn't even lift his head when he went out. But as soon as he opened his mouth, he was interrupted by Jia Zhang.
"Stop talking and go to bed quickly. Your two sisters are already asleep. If you don't sleep, grandma still has to sleep. So go to bed quickly."
Jia Zhang knew what Bangge was thinking in her heart, and she was not too happy about it at first, but Qin Huairu explained the facts and reasoned, and it was the intention of the higher-ups. Seeing that Xu Damao was willing to hand over his salary to supplement the family income, He also gave her 20 yuan to replenish her health, and her monthly pension would also increase from three yuan to five yuan, so Jia Zhang could just turn a blind eye.
“But grandma, I really can’t sleep. There are no mattresses on this wooden board. I’m so scared. Didn’t that person named Xu say he can have a house? When will he have one? How long will I have to sleep on this wooden board? Ah."
" What kind of mattress do you need in this weather? You don't mind the heat. You have to ask him about the house. If this can be done, our house will be bigger in the future. Just like the Zhu family in the front yard, it can have three wing rooms and one wing. Big.”
Banggan looked at the roof and listened to the rustling noises in the wing opposite. He was very upset. He covered his head with the quilt, and his ears suddenly became clear. He had to sleep quickly, otherwise grandma's snoring would start, and he would sleep if he wanted to. Difficult.
"Don't let me move, Sister Qin, my biological sister..." Xu Damao was still trying hard to search up and down, but Qin Huairu firmly held the right to guard the portal while letting go of the airspace.
"Stop making trouble, haven't I told you already? I haven't had any trouble this month. I might be pregnant already. This period is very critical. You don't want to leave a seed for your Xu family? "
Qin Huairu pretended to smile and whispered in Xu Damao's ear. Xu Damao obviously stopped commotion and looked extremely excited. This is a big deal. He didn't expect to achieve success in one go. Who said he couldn't be born with it? .
“Really?”
"Probably, I've already given birth to three children, so I can still fool you. Let's do this. I'll go to the hospital to check tomorrow, so that I can put your mind at ease."
Xu Damao rubbed his hands excitedly, carefully. Caressing her belly, "Sister Qin, you are really a treasure of Feng Shui, tsk tsk..."
Qin Huairu pushed Xu Damao's hand away, turned sideways, and turned her back to Xu Damao. Damao, "It's late. Let's rest. I'll go to the hospital tomorrow..."
Xu Damao looked at the woman's back. She couldn't be touched anymore, but he just got up and wanted to sleep again. In the front room, Qin Jingru was even more tormented and begged in a low voice, "I say you are being too dishonest. You are digging but not burying..." (End of Chapter)