Scholars in the courtyard

Middle Court.

Yang Xiaotao looked at the father and son who came over to share the meal, and looked at each other speechlessly with the old Taoist.

This is how wronged I have been at home.

"This is braised pork."

Yu Zecheng put a piece of soft, glutinous and plump braised pork on the plate into his mouth, chewed it slowly and swallowed it, and then spoke out what was in his heart.

As for the small stones, I am still eating them.

Seeing this, the old Taoist handed over his share. Xiao Shitou raised his head and smiled, then lowered his head and continued to cook.

"Lao Yu, it's not like that."

Yang Xiaotao couldn't stand it, why did Cuiping come from a housewife these years, isn't she just a braised pork, that's all.

Yu Zecheng looked up after hearing this. Before he could speak, he heard footsteps and shut up immediately.

He would never forget the sound of his wife's footsteps.

Yu Zecheng suddenly changed his appearance, put his chopsticks aside, and sat there with a serious look on his face.

Yang Xiaotao knew something was wrong with the sudden change.

Sure enough, Cuiping appeared at the door the next second, and then he saw Xiao Shitou who was cooking rice, and beside him was the serious Yu Zecheng.

Seeing Cuiping walking in, Yu Zecheng stood up quickly, and then said with a smile, "This brat is not at home to eat, so he comes here to eat."

"You came just in time. Take him back and I'll talk to Xiaotao about work."

Cuiping stepped forward and placed the braised pork in the bowl on the table. He first smiled apologetically at Yang Xiaotao, then ignored Xiao Shitou and lowered his head to eat, and looked at Yu Zecheng, "If you didn't have that greasy mouth, I really believe it.”

After hearing this, Yu Zecheng subconsciously stuck out his tongue and licked it, but the next second he felt that he had been cheated and quickly smiled awkwardly.

When Yang Xiaotao saw Cuiping, he hurriedly asked Cuiping to sit down, then took out the braised pork reserved for tomorrow in the kitchen and invited him to eat together.

"Well, this is braised pork."

After a while, Cuiping sat aside, eating braised pork and mumbling.

On the other side, Yu Zecheng also picked up the chopsticks.

Yang Xiaotao glanced at Lao Tao and suddenly felt that this family had a premeditated plan.

After eating, Xiao Shitou ran to play in the yard again. Cuiping helped clear the table and returned to the table to sit down.

Yang Xiaotao poured tea for the three of them, and the four of them sat together to discuss the next action.

"When will the people from Shanghai come?"

Yang Xiaotao was the first to ask, and Yu Zecheng shook his head, "I have had no news at home in the past two days. If there is news, Xiaobo and the others will inform me."

Yang Xiaotao nodded, and then asked, "Then what are your plans?"

"Not yet. It depends on the progress made by the comrades in Shanghai, and then we can proceed according to the situation."

"Where are the people? Are there any suspects?"

"No, if there were, they would have been under control long ago."

After hearing this, Yang Xiaotao spread his hands helplessly, "Okay, you are just asking three questions and you don't know."

Yu Zecheng didn't say anything, but asked, "If everyone knew, why would they use us?"

The veteran next to him nodded and said, "The enemy will not give you time to prepare, nor will he tell you the exact time."

"All we can do is be ourselves and not give the enemy any chance."

Yang Xiaotao picked up the teapot and refilled the water for several people, "You are all right, but as the old saying goes, it takes a thousand days to be a thief, but a thousand days to guard against a thief."

"If this continues for a year and a half, who can sustain it?"

After speaking, he looked at Yu Zecheng and said, "Lao Yu, think of a way to find those mice."

"If I can help it."

Yu Zecheng rolled his eyes and just in the middle of his words, Yang Xiaotao interrupted, "The great man once said that there are always more solutions than difficulties."

"Comrade Lao Yu, you need to study hard."

Yu Zecheng didn't say anything more, but what Yang Xiaotao said made sense. You couldn't live in idle dreams, you had to find something to do at home.

"I've been thinking about it at home these two days."

Cuiping also nodded. Although she was not a good cook, in terms of fighting ability, she was no worse than men.

They talked about the heat for a while, drank the water, and then went home.

The night is quiet, and the insects sing happily in the corner. The males even use their voices as weapons. After defeating their competitors, they enjoy the rights of the winner.

The next day, Yang Xiaotao went out and sent Lao Dao to the bus station before driving to the machinery factory.

When she came to the office, Lou Xiao'e was combing her hair. When she saw Yang Xiaotao come in, she quickly put down the comb. The smile on her face faded, and she looked like she was working seriously.

Yang Xiaotao glanced at it, then sat back at the table and put down his backpack, "You got a haircut."

Lou Xiao'e hummed, "I'm going to grow a ponytail."

"Why?"

"You look younger."

Lou Xiao'e said seriously, Yang Xiaotao raised his head and took a closer look, "Well, it's just showing off."

Lou Xiao'e heard the meaning behind the words, "What do you mean it's just showing off? I'm only twenty-six, okay?"

"Twenty-seven."

"You! Well, you're only twenty-seven years old, so that's not a big deal."

"Haha, my Qiuye is only twenty-five!"

Yang Xiaotao took out a cucumber from the drawer and chewed it, then raised three fingers and said, "What a great mother of three children."

When Lou Xiao'e heard Yang Xiaotao talking about Ran Qiuye, her face was filled with praise. She snorted coldly, turned around and picked up the documents on the table and flipped through them. She muttered in her mouth, "Who doesn't know how to do this?"

Yang Xiaotao smiled smugly when he heard it, which made Lou Xiao'e even more angry.

"I'm out."

Unable to stand Yang Xiaotao's clicking sound, Lou Xiao'e got up directly and prepared to go out.

But after just two steps, he stepped back and walked directly to Yang Xiaotao. He moved his head forward and stared at Yang Xiaotao with his two big eyes.

The distance was a bit close, so Yang Xiaotao leaned back subconsciously, "What are you going to do? I'm warning you, don't act like a hooligan."

Lou Xiao'e remained unmoved and looked straight at Yang Xiaotao. After a moment, she narrowed her eyes and licked her lips, "If you want to act like a gangster, then you are the one."

"Are you embarrassed to bully a weak woman like me all day long?"

After saying that, he reached out and took out two cucumbers from his backpack, turned around and left.

Only then did Yang Xiaotao come to his senses, and then smiled at the empty office door, "Is this girl still the same Lou Xiao'e as before?"

The scene in the courtyard in the past came to mind, and then he waved it away.

The past is like passing clouds, some can leave unforgettable traces, and some can only be the breeze blowing on the face, except for a little coolness, there is nothing else.

Yang Xiaotao took out the pen, then twisted the pen tip and looked at it. He took out a bottle of ink from the drawer and filled it up. Then he took the document from the table and started to review the document.

Many of these are reports about the Yanzhou branch.

Because personnel need to be deployed from the machinery factory, some personnel must be transferred from each workshop. As for whether these people will stay, it depends on personal wishes.

For those who want to stay, the factory will help arrange family members, and for those who don't want to, they will be rotated.

But if this is the case, the machinery factory will inevitably need to increase its manpower.

In addition, the machines prepared for the branch factory, including various types of machines such as machine tools and rolling mills, are all in the plan.

Fortunately, this is not the first time this has happened. We all experienced it once when the second branch factory was established last time.

And this time Yang Youning is taking the lead. He will also go to Yanzhou with Zhan Lei and come back after things are sorted out there.

The specific time has not yet been determined, but personnel and materials have already been dispatched.

Yang Xiaotao wrote his own opinions on the reviewed documents and put them aside if there were no problems and put them on the other side if they needed to be considered.

Well

Xiaowei is in the middle.

And just when Yang Xiaotao was immersed in processing documents, there was a sudden knock on the door.

"Please come in."

Yang Xiaotao knew that most people would not knock on the door when they came in.

And the person who knocked on the door was definitely not an ordinary person.

At least it won't be Yang Youning, Chen Gong and the others.

Putting down the pen, Yang Xiaotao looked up and found Zhang Guanyu standing at the door holding a roll of drawings.

"Yang, Mr. Yang."

Zhang Guanyu stood at the door, with some sweat on his forehead. When he saw Yang Xiaotao, he seemed a little nervous, "I have something to do with you. I don't know if it's troublesome."

"It's no trouble. If you have anything to say, come in and tell me."

Yang Xiaotao cast his eyes on the drawing in the opponent's hand and knew that there was something going on this time.

He said hello, and then saw that Lou Xiao'e hadn't come back yet, "Where has this guy gone? He's not doing business."

"Sit down, sit down!"

Yang Xiaotao stood up, came to the side and picked up a kettle to pour water for the other party.

"Mr. Yang, no need to trouble."

Zhang Guanyu walked in and sat on a chair, watching Yang Xiaotao busy and talking.

"No trouble, it's nothing to drink a glass of water."

"You are just afraid of causing trouble to others."

Hearing Yang Xiaotao say this, Zhang Guanyu was even more embarrassed.

After Yang Xiaotao finished speaking, he put the cup in front of him, "Tell me, what's the matter that requires you, a busy person, to go there in person?"

Zhang Guanyu smiled after hearing this, and then said, "Mr. Yang, the workshop is not busy producing threshers recently. The research and manufacturing of the aircraft engine is slightly delayed, so we thought we would take advantage of this time to study the design drawings of the turbine. "

"Well, that's good. You did a good job on this."

Yang Xiaotao first praised him, and then seeing Zhang Guanyu's serious expression, he asked again, "How is your research going?"

Zhang Guanyu swallowed, then took a deep breath, and then said, "Mr. Yang, after several calculations, we found that the data of this turbine can be changed again."

"Huh? Change it again?"

Yang Xiaotao was a little surprised. Before manufacturing, he had said that the data on the design drawings must be produced in strict accordance with the requirements. He did not want to change the drawing design because the technology was not available. What he made in that way was not his own.

He has emphasized this matter many times and no one should have any objections.

But now, Zhang Guanyu actually said that the designed data needs to be changed. Doesn't this mean that there is a problem with the data?

Is it possible that the drawings given by the system are also wrong?

It’s impossible. It’s been so many years since the system has given out so many design drawings, but I’ve never missed one.

The system cannot be wrong, it must be the person who raises the objection.

Just seeing Zhang Guanyu's serious look, Yang Xiaotao suppressed his scolding. He wanted to hear what was wrong with this data.

Seeing that Yang Xiaotao didn't speak, Zhang Guanyu's heart skipped a beat.

Mr. Yang is not wrong!

This is the prestige that Yang Xiaotao has built step by step over the years with his strength.

There is no doubt about it.

After getting the design drawings given by Yang Xiaotao, he would conduct careful and comprehensive research on each one, and each study would bring him great inspiration. When he sighed at the exquisiteness of the design, he also admired Yang Xiaotao in his heart. Full of admiration.

Even if the entire R\u0026D department worked together, let alone him, it might not be possible to create such an exquisite design.

Yang Xiaotao could do it alone, which was beyond their reach.

So, when he first suspected that Yang Xiaotao had made a design error, he was also questioned by his colleagues in the R\u0026D department, and he himself thought it was his own fault.

But after multiple verifications, it was indeed as he thought, which made him uneasy.

On one side was Mr. Yang's authority, and on the other side was a better engine improvement.

The two were like a rope, pulling back and forth in his mind.

He had not eaten or slept well in the past few days, and did not know how to choose. It was not until today that he mustered up the courage to come here.

It was not to attack Yang Xiaotao's authority, nor to slap him in the face.

With Mr. Yang's ability, this matter was not even a flaw.

He came here purely to follow his inner choice.

Moreover, deep down, he did not think that Mr. Yang was an unreasonable person. As long as he was reasonable, then, there would be no problem.

"How do you change it?"

Yang Xiaotao calmed down and said seriously. Zhang Guanyu took a deep breath and spread the drawings he brought on the table.

Yang Xiaotao took a look and found that it was the design drawing of the turbine.

"Boss Yang, I, I found out when I was studying the drawing."