Scholars in the courtyard

As Wang Guodong made the topic clear, the room was silent, and no one knew what to say.

Previously, the machinery factory had achieved the status of "independence" in its work, but who would have thought that the other party would actually use the "righteousness" of earthquake relief to break the situation and take this opportunity to intervene in the affairs of the machinery factory again.

But they couldn't do anything about it.

It’s really hard to guard against.

Feeling the depression in the conference room, Yang Xiaotao took out a cigarette, preparing to relieve the pressure and relax his thoughts.

But before he could put it in his mouth, Liu Huaimin on the side reached out and took it.

Yang Xiaotao could only take out one more cigarette, and then Liang Zuoxin on the other side took the cigarette case.

Then the cigarette pack was passed around the house.

呲呲

The sound of flint rubbing was heard, the yellow flame quickly burned the tobacco in the rolling paper, and a circle of smoke was exhaled from the mouth.

Around the table, everyone was lighting cigarettes, and no one knew who had the cigarette box in their hands.

"Director Bai, you smoke too."

Zhou Shenghong suddenly smiled and spoke, holding the cigarette in his hand next to his ear, very free and easy.

After hearing this, everyone looked at Bai Jingshu.

Bai Jingshu held a cigarette in his hand, but his appearance was much more elegant than Zhou Shenghong's. He was not embarrassed when everyone looked at him.

"Why, are you allowed to smoke, but not me?"

Zhou Shenghong quickly smiled and apologized, "That's not true. I was just curious. I didn't expect you to smoke too."

"I used to smoke women's cigarettes. This kind of smoke has a strong smell and is generally not smokeable."

Bai Jingshu held the cigarette in his hand and glanced at it, then looked at Yang Xiaotao, "Mr. Yang, your status is a bit unsuitable for attracting all the heroes. You must be Hardman anyway."

Yang Xiaotao was stunned for a moment, then laughed, "There's nothing you can do. Look at these old smokers. If I took them out, they would be gone. Who can stand up to them?"

After the words fell, someone around him immediately retorted, "Xiao Tao, this is wrong. When it comes to smoking, who is better than you? You have never stopped smoking. You can have it whenever you want."

"Uncle Xu, I just carry a lot of cigarettes with me, but that doesn't mean I smoke a lot."

"I testify about this, Xiao Tao is right."

Wang Guodong immediately stepped forward to help Yang Xiaotao, "Because he only smokes two or three cigarettes from a pack of cigarettes."

"That's right, but I can't stand Mr. Yang's excessive smoke."

Zhou Shenghong answered from the side, "Every time I carry a cigarette in my pocket, I'm so envious."

"What are you envious of, a dignified factory director who can't even smoke?"

Ding Xiangjun joked, and Zhou Shenghong sighed, "I can afford it, but my family is very strict."

After the words fell, everyone laughed together.

"It's a pity that Lao Yang is not here, otherwise he would definitely be sympathetic to you."

"My opponent, Lao Yang also has tracheitis. You don't know. During the Chinese New Year, Lao Yang only had one pack a week and could only smoke three cigarettes a day. At that time, he followed us around every day. It was so cold. There were no cigarettes on the table."

Yang Xiaotao added something later and immediately brought the topic to Yang Youning, while Chen Gong talked about Yang Youning's embarrassing things.

Anyway, this guy isn't here.

After the atmosphere in the conference room eased and became calm again, Liu Huaimin looked at everyone seriously.

"Since we can't refuse this matter, we must cooperate well and not let others take advantage of us."

Everyone nodded, reaching a consensus.

Yang Xiaotao put out the cigarette butt, raised his head and looked dimly, "Actually, is this matter more complicated than we think?"

"The supervision team is just a supervisor, just like the eunuchs sent down by the ancient emperors. They were sent out to fight. They were used as liaisons and to keep an eye on them."

"There is no such position in our machinery factory."

"So, the people from the supervision team are here. At best, they are just liaison officers."

Liaison officer?

Xu Yuanshan and others looked at Yang Xiaotao. Hearing what he said, he really looked like a liaison officer.

Alley entrance.

Yang Xiaotao drove to a slow stop.

Looking up at the sky, the red round face now only has a little bit of forehead left, and the rest is covered by the courtyard not far away.

Taking a deep breath, Yang Xiaotao walked into the courtyard carrying a piece of pork.

Things at the pharmaceutical factory kept him busy until midnight, so he spent the night at the chemical factory.

In the morning, I had to see Yang Youning off again. I got up early and finally saw him off.

I originally thought of finding time to take a rest after lunch, but I was called to a meeting again, and it was not a good meeting.

After the meeting was over, people were convened for another meeting to discuss matters. When the meeting was over, it was time to get off work.

Yang Xiaotao didn't want to work overtime anymore, so he drove back and prepared to have something to eat and rest early.

I don’t know what will happen tomorrow.

Carrying the pork, he walked to the courtyard.

After passing the Chuihua Gate, Yang Xiaotao was stunned.

"This house collapsed?"

After taking two steps, Yang Xiaotao approached the big locust tree and then looked at the collapsed house.

"Xiao Tao!"

Wang Dashan saw Yang Xiaotao step forward to speak, "The Xu family has also arrived in the backyard of this earthquake."

"The wall in Silly Zhu's house was not repaired last time, so it has collapsed."

As he spoke, there was a mocking smile on his face.

Last time, there were cracks in the walls of several houses in the courtyard, but they repaired them carefully. They not only replaced the cracked bricks in the cracks, but also poured cement into them, making the repairs solid.

But Silhu not only delayed the repair time, but also only did superficial work. It seemed that the repair was completed, but no cement was poured at all, and the cracks inside still existed.

In this case, it’s strange that I can’t think of it.

Yang Xiaotao nodded. When Silly Zhu fooled him like this, Yang Xiaotao had guessed that such a day would come.

I just didn't expect it to happen so quickly, ten years ahead of schedule.

"Uncle Dashan, come over for a drink later?"

Yang Xiaotao held up the pork, and Wang Dashan looked at it. It was at least a pound.

Fat and thin, based on his understanding of Yang Xiaotao, he must be making pork belly.

"In a moment, I'll bring you some wine."

Yang Xiaotao looked at the collapsed house again, and then walked home.

Ran Qiuye and Miaomiao were still in Yangjiazhuang. Yang Xiaotao originally wanted to go back to the village last night to have a look, but he was too busy to spare time.

Fortunately, the phone line was connected this afternoon, and Yang Xiaotao called to ask about the situation.

Generally speaking, the impact of this earthquake on Yangjiazhuang was greater than the first time. Fortunately, there were no casualties.

However, Yang Dazhuang called and said that he wanted to donate supplies. Every household in the village took out their stored grain and wanted to use the machinery factory to send it to the disaster area.

Yang Xiaotao was not in a hurry to agree.

Wait and see what happens.

As for the three Dragon Boat Festival brothers and sisters, he felt relieved that Ran's mother was helping to take care of them.

Back home, Yang Xiaotao started cooking.

A mother's house.

Yi Zhonghai was sitting on the bedside, and the aunt beside him was packing things.

I saw some commonly used clothes washed and folded and placed in the baggage. Finally, the baggage was tied tightly and put aside.

"Lao Yi, take a look and see what else you want to bring with you. I'll prepare some for you."

After Auntie finished speaking, Yi Zhonghai remained silent.

The weather is getting warmer, spring plowing has begun in the countryside, and he is going to Caojiagou to report.

"You don't need to bring too much. You can come back when this busy period is over."

After Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, he thought of something and looked at the aunt again, "Don't you have two boxes of cigarettes at home? Put them in so I can use them later."

Auntie nodded and went to look for the two boxes of cigarettes. She had given them to Yi Zhonghai's apprentice during the Chinese New Year.

"Zhuzi, Huairu, come and get off."

Yi Zhonghai looked at Silhu who was busy cooking and Qin Huairu who was working on the sewing machine next to him, and shouted twice.

"Master, I didn't notice that he was busy."

Silly Zhu was stir-frying with a shovel. Hearing Yi Zhonghai's words, he didn't move at all.

However, Qin Huairu stopped the needle after hearing this and came over, "Master, what can I do for you?"

Yi Zhonghai stared at Qin Huairu again and again, and the other party boldly let him look at her, and even puffed up his chest unconsciously, convinced that he was weak-minded.

Under Qin Huairu's gaze, Yi Zhonghai helplessly lowered his head and picked up the jar and took a sip of cold water.

Ahem

"I think it's not good for you to do this."

When Yi Zhonghai talked about business, his face was serious.

"What's wrong?"

Shazhu asked after hearing this, and Qin Huairu also frowned.

"I mean, it's not good for you to use your house to earn street subsidies."

"What's wrong? The house belongs to us. It did collapse due to the earthquake. Since there are policies from above, we didn't do anything wrong."

Silly Zhu was making distinctions at the side, and Qin Huairu also nodded secretly after hearing this.

Seeing the two people's reactions, Yi Zhonghai didn't know how to persuade them.

But deep down in his heart, he always felt that this kind of thing was a crooked way. He didn't believe it in the past, but now, he somewhat believed in fate.

The more crooked and evil things you do, the more retribution you will get.

"I just advise you, once or twice is enough. We are all not fools. Don't let anyone break the window paper. It will not end well at that time."

Yi Zhonghai persuaded them again, hoping that the two of them would stop as soon as they got along.

Silly Zhu was busy cooking and pretended not to understand.

Qin Huairu lowered his head and said nothing.

Last time, Qin Jingru received a subsidy of fifty yuan for her house, which was higher than Si Zhu's original salary.

Although they only got ten yuan in the end, it was a rare gain.

What's more, this time, their house collapsed even more severely. It must have been sixty.

With this money, a large part will be left after building it.

Then, continue

Seeing the expressions of the two of them, Yi Zhonghai said no more.

As expected, Yang Xiaotao cooked braised pork for dinner, but the old Taoist was satisfied with the meal, and he felt less complaining about his work in the steel factory.

Silly Zhu smelled the meaty aroma coming from the Yang family, and his mouth felt sour.

"The work is average, not as good as half of my hand."

Although he said this, he knew clearly that Yang Xiaotao could buy a pound of pork at will, but would they be able to afford it?

‘You still have to make money. ’

The next day, Yang Xiaotao came to the machinery factory and processed documents in the office while waiting for news.

At about ten o'clock, Liu Huaimin's voice came from outside the door, and Yang Xiaotao got up and walked into the office.

"I just called from above. The supervision team is already on the way. Let us be ready to greet them."

Yang Xiaotao sneered, "Should we welcome them? How proud they are."

Liu Huaimin turned the pen in his hand and looked at Yang Xiaotao, "What do you think?"

Yang Xiaotao leaned back on the chair, "Since you know you can't pee in a pot, why are you doing this?"

"Let's just do business directly and follow the regulations."

"What kind of by-laws? At yesterday's meeting, they said that difficulties should be eliminated and guarantees should be given priority. Don't tear your eyes out now."

Yang Xiaotao crossed his legs and said, "Of course I know this."

"So, I plan to ask Guo Liang to greet him on behalf of the machinery factory."

Guo Liang used to work in the rolling mill as an assessment worker, but later he came to the machinery factory and was promoted to director.

He was in charge of receiving tasks assigned by superiors.

"He is just a liaison officer. Compared with our machinery factory, he is only a director. We can't lower our status."

"Otherwise, if we develop bad habits, this team leader and that team leader will dare to come to the machinery factory to step on us."

Liu Huaimin nodded silently after hearing this.

They are not the previous rolling mill, but the Red Star Manufacturing Plant directly under the headquarters.

Their status is incomparable.

Moreover, if these people are promoted to the same level as themselves, how can Xu Yuanshan and others face it?

This will not restrict the branch factory.

The two thought it through and waited in the office.

As for the other factory leaders, they were also notified by Liu Huaimin to be in place and stick to their posts.