Scholars in the courtyard

Yang family

Back home, Yang Xiaotao looked calm, but his heart was filled with ups and downs.

It’s not just a matter of listening to what the deaf old lady says.

Especially the threat in the words, no one has dared to say that for many years.

Silly Zhu, who threatened him last time, was not only beaten to the point of being speechless, but his background was also wiped out.

A good hand of cards was beaten to pieces, and no one in the courtyard dared to provoke him face to face after seeing it.

But now, this old woman can threaten him because she is old and not afraid of death?

joke.

If he wanted her to die, Yang Xiaotao had many ways to do it without involving him.

However, killing her as soon as there was a conflict would inevitably make people angry.

Even if others don't tell you, there will still be some estrangement in your heart.

Yang Xiaotao would not be so stupid and leave a narrow-minded impression on the people in the courtyard.

Ran Qiuye came over with a cup of water to drink.

"There's something wrong with the guy in the backyard today."

Yang Xiaotao took a sip from the water glass and was a little surprised.

Seeing this, Ran Qiuye expressed his thoughts.

"The deaf old lady used to give people the impression that she was a good lady. She said she was deaf, but she didn't mean to be deaf at all!"

"She just turned a deaf ear to what she didn't want to hear."

"She knew very well in her heart that she would not force herself to come forward. Just last time, even if you, Silly Zhu, suffered a loss, she just let Silly Zhu leave on his back to avoid the conflict from expanding. But today, the deaf old lady seems to have changed. Like a person."

Yang Xiaotao frowned and felt that something was wrong with the deaf old lady. Although she had disliked them before and even made some sarcastic remarks, this kind of hostility had never appeared before.

"Could it be that you know you don't have much time, so you don't have any worries?"

Yang Xiaotao guessed, but Ran Qiuye shook his head.

"That's why it's strange."

Ran Qiuye sat aside, stroking her belly with her hand.

"There is a saying that even when a person is about to die, he speaks kindly. What he said is telling the truth. How could he not consider future generations?"

"She was so kind to Si Zhu, even leaving her house to Si Zhu. This is not an exaggeration when talking about her own grandson."

"so…"

"So, if she wants Silly Zhu to live well in this courtyard, she must not offend others. In other words, she should avoid conflicts instead of creating conflicts like today!"

After Yang Xiaotao finished speaking for Ran Qiuye, his eyes became deep.

Unexpectedly before, now that Ran Qiuye mentioned it, Yang Xiaotao also realized that something was wrong with the deaf old lady.

Especially the hostility shown recently seems to have suddenly left.

recent?

It can be said that what happened recently is not trivial, but what left the most profound memory for Yang Xiaotao was the last explosion!

The enemy is special!

A familiar word came to Yang Xiaotao's mind.

I didn't think about it before, but now it seems that I was deceived by the other person's age.

The enemy is special! You will also get older.

"You're right, there's something strange about this."

Yang Xiaotao didn't tell his guess, but just comforted Ran Qiuye to have a good rest at home and leave other things to him.

Soon, the two went to bed to rest.

And as Ran Qiuye's steady breathing came, Yang Xiaotao suddenly opened his eyes.

After a while, Xiaowei appeared in the backyard and disappeared into the deaf old lady's house in a flash.

Yang Xiaotao will not touch the deaf old lady these two days, but will always pay attention to her.

In the middle of the night, Xiaowei lay on the window sill, always paying attention to what was going on in the house.

The master told me to always pay attention to this person's every move.

The little eyes looked at the person on the bed in the dark night, the moonlight shining on the body, absorbing the energy in the moonlight.

Just when Xiaowei felt bored and wanted to practice her unique skill of flying needles to skewer mosquitoes, the person on the bed suddenly moved.

The deaf old lady was lying on the bed and her eyes suddenly opened.

My body lay down for half the night and ate something, and now I feel better.

Looking at the familiar environment, she did not turn on the light. Instead, she used the moonlight to slowly walk down the familiar environment at home.

One step at a time, two steps, walk to the side and stop accurately.

When I came to the small box, I fumbled for a while and found a black button. After looking at it for a while, I buttoned it at the bottom of my clothes.

This thing has been around for many years and I thought I would never use it.

But with the current situation, she couldn't guarantee that an accident would happen.

And once an accident occurs, in order to ensure the safety of the little butterfly, she must

He patted the buttons, then continued to touch, and took out the group photo.

This is the only photo of her and the little butterfly.

Back then, in order to keep a souvenir, they took the risk of violating the regulations, and the three of them left images together.

And it was this photo that became her reminder.

It now appears that the original request was correct.

Unfortunately, they woke up too late.

However, if this photo is destroyed, when she dies, no one will know what the little butterfly looks like.

Holding the photo, the deaf old lady turned around and walked towards the stove.

On the windowsill, a group of black dots moved quickly and silently in the dark night.

One step, two steps.

In the darkness, the deaf old lady closed her eyes and walked forward entirely relying on the route in her memory.

When she came to the stove, the deaf old lady rubbed the photo with her hands, and all the worries in her heart turned into reluctance.

After a long while, I reached out to find the matchbox and placed the photo on the pot stand.

Then he took out a match and tried it with his finger. The big end was on the bottom.

Cha

Chacha

It may be that it hasn't been a fire for a long time, the matches are a little damp and there are no sparks.

The deaf old lady threw the match away and took out another one.

Cha~~

This time, the match was lit, a puff of black smoke came out, and then a yellow flame lit up.

The deaf old lady had a smile on her face, but for a second her eyes widened.

The photo is missing.

Frowning her brows, the deaf old lady leaned over to search. The match burned to the end and her fingers felt hot even without realizing it.

No.

Cha

The fire lights up again, then goes out~

Chachacha~~

The sound of friction kept coming, the fire light came on and then went out again and again, and the deaf old lady looked down.

At this moment, the deaf old lady seemed to be in a daze. Although the electric light was right in front of her, she struck matches one by one until all the matches in the box were struck, leaving match heads all over the floor and nothing else.

It's as if that photo has never appeared, but it really exists.

When the last bit of firelight dissipated, the pale old deaf lady could no longer hold on, howled miserably, and lay on the ground.

Next door, Xu Damao was beaten so badly by Silly Zhu that he could not sleep in pain. At this time, he only felt someone howling, but he was too lazy to pay attention.

"Isn't that stupid idiot relying on the support of an ignorant old lady?"

"I can get rid of you three generations of farm laborers, and I can also get rid of the old lady."

"What a fool, Yang Xiaotao, you know so much."

Early the next morning.

Yang Xiaotao got up as usual, had breakfast with Ran Qiuye, and then took some things and went out.

Yang Xiaotao sent Ran Qiuye to Ran's house and then reported to the steel rolling mill.

I heard some news from Liu Yuhua last night. A lot of tractors were produced in the steel rolling mill workshop, but apart from sending them out for trial use, there have been no orders so far.

This made Yang Xiaotao a little strange.

With the performance of the Red Star tractor, it shouldn’t be like this.

Full of doubts, Yang Xiaotao walked into the office.

Lou Xiao'e was packing up documents. When Yang Xiaotao came in, he saw piles on his desk, and he didn't pay attention to what was going on behind him.

Ahem

Lou Xiao'e stood up in excitement, turned around and saw Yang Xiaotao, and immediately became happy.

"Section Chief, you are back."

When I came to Yang Xiaotao and looked around, I felt like I hadn't seen him for a long time.

"I've only been away for a few days, so many things happened?"

Yang Xiaotao nodded and pointed to the files on the desktop.

Lou Xiao'e walked up with a smile and pointed to the pile on the left, "These require the signature of the workshop director, and you must sign the raw materials you receive."

"You need to give this pile to the factory director and let him review it before issuing it."

"This pile..."

Lou Xiao'e pointed at the files organized into categories on the desktop, confidently and without any mistakes.

Yang Xiaotao looked at Lou Xiao'e's eloquent words and recalled that in movies and TV series, Lou Xiao'e finally became a strong career woman.

There is no sign of a strong woman yet, but this carefulness has begun to take shape.

Yang Xiaotao stood aside, his mind filled with confusion.

"Which one do you think should be dealt with first?"

Lou Xiao'e was stunned for a moment, then lowered her head and thought for a moment, "It's better to go to the factory director first. He needs to look at this."

"good!"

After putting down his things, Yang Xiaotao took the documents and headed to the factory director's office.

After knocking on the door and going in, Yang Youning was standing by the window. He turned around and saw Yang Xiaotao, "Are you back?"

"I went home yesterday."

The two sat down, Yang Xiaotao put the documents aside, coughed lightly and asked about the tractor.

Yang Youning did not hide anything when talking about recent events.

"We touched someone else's cake."

Yang Youning frowned and said.

It turns out that it is true that there is a shortage of mechanical vehicles in the country, but it does not mean that people will buy the tractors they produce.

In terms of overall planning, although Guo Jia knows macro-control, the controls are all existing, mature, and stable machinery.

Just like now, after part of the funds are invested in the military industry, the limited funds must be calculated carefully.

At this time, the closeness of the relationship becomes an important weight for emotional tilt.

"The performance of the tractors we produce is very good, even surpassing more than 90% of domestic tractors in some aspects."

Yang Youning said this with a wry smile, and Yang Xiaotao frowned, "If it's so good, why not purchase it."

“It’s not that I can’t, but that I dare not.”

"Don't you dare?"

"right!"

"If the tractors we launch occupy a large number of orders, it will inevitably affect the production of other factories. You know the consequences of this."

Yang Xiaotao instantly understood that this was very common in later generations of industries. When a factory made a technological breakthrough and became the leader in the industry, other peers would either follow suit or join forces to suppress it.

It's just that Yang Xiaotao didn't expect that in this era of national unified procurement, there would be such a thing.

Shouldn't it be encouraged to increase productivity?

Shouldn't we just work hard?

Seeing Yang Xiaotao's helplessness, he should have understood.

Yang Youning picked up the cigarette and opened it.

"This is also a common problem in our country. It's not good to be too backward, but it's not good to be too advanced."

"The stall in the middle is too big. If we were taken care of, would those factories still survive?"

“How can we solve the food problem for so many workers?”

"The above is considering the overall situation, we, alas"

Yang Youning was a little helpless. He originally wanted to do something big to impress his superiors and realize his ambition.

But now, reality is always cruel.

"Secretary Liu has gone up to give feedback, but there has been no news, and he hasn't come back yet."

"Even the wages of newly recruited workers in the workshop have not been determined. Alas, this matter is a bit tricky."

Yang Xiaotao was speechless, and his understanding of this era was still insufficient.

Sometimes, people will not accept what you do well.

In this era when people generally don't have enough to eat, too many people need stability and peace of mind.

Being radical will always lead to hostility.

"Are we going to continue production?"

Yang Xiaotao picked up the documents. These days, the workshop has assembled about fifty tractors. This is still half-work. If the work is started at full capacity, this number will be doubled.

It's just made and has no place to go. Could it be left to rust?

That is not only a waste of manpower, but also a waste of steel.

"Production."

"I believe it will be solved."

Yang Youning told himself.

Yang Xiaotao received the instructions, and after leaving the factory office, he went to the workshop to check the situation.