Siheyuan: Garbage King

That night, Li Fang had a very uncomfortable sleep. He felt sore and weak all over his body and his mind was groggy.

wake up.

Go to sleep.

wake up.

Go to sleep.

Li Fang kept repeating this process, and he would be woken up every time by the bullet that passed by his sleeve at night.

The bullet sometimes penetrated his heart and sometimes hit his head directly.

It was dawn when Li Fang felt a hazy light in front of his eyes. He exhaled a big breath and touched his forehead. It was so hot.

He sighed, this was the first time he had a fever in the past few years.

These days, people eat pollution-free food, work hard, and are in good health. If adults or children have a headache or fever, they will most likely go to the health center to take two pills and rely on themselves.

Immunity is hard to resist.

Li Fang moved his limbs, heated up two steamed buns, and cooked himself an egg, getting ready to go to work.

There is no mobile phone now. If he wants to take a leave, he has to send someone a message.

Fortunately, he was not seriously ill and could still drag himself to the hospital in the factory to get some medicine.

...

Li Fang used an old-fashioned mercury thermometer and saw that it was thirty-seven degrees nine.

The doctor saw that he was young and reassured him that nothing was wrong. He prescribed two pills and told Li Fang to drink more hot water and he would be fine.

The body of this teenage boy is extremely strong. Before noon, Li broke out into a sweat and his fever subsided.

Shen Xiaoyi didn't come today. Fortunately, the New Year was not over yet and there was no work. Li Fang just lay down on his desk and dozed off.

At noon, Li Fang took his lunch box to the cafeteria to eat, and happened to meet Shen Xiaozheng.

"Thank you very much for what happened yesterday." Shen Xiaozheng thanked him sincerely.

Li Fang ate his own cabbage stewed with tofu and shook his head: "It's okay, just be good. By the way, why didn't Section Chief Shen come today?"

Shen Xiaozheng was chewing a steamed bun and said, "This is not over yet. My brother still has to clean up this mess. By the way, my brother is treating me to dinner tonight. Let's go have dinner together."

Li Fang had just recovered from his illness and his appetite had improved. He was not polite when seeing Shen Xiaoyi's treat.

"Okay, let's go have a big dinner with Section Chief Shen." Li Fang joked.

Shen Xiaozheng was also happy when he heard this.

He quite liked Li Fang's cheerful and straightforward character.

...

The place Shen Xiaoyi was looking for was the same restaurant as yesterday.

He had a smile on his face and his expression was obviously much more relaxed than yesterday.

However, he was still cautious and found a remote corner to eat where he could talk.

"Come on, eat. I ate this roasted chicken yesterday. It was delicious." Shen Xiaoyi brought a big chicken drumstick to Li Fang.

Li Fang was not polite. As soon as he took his mouthful, the aroma of the chicken legs filled his entire mouth.

The juices of the chicken exploded in his mouth. Li Fang chewed the chicken and felt like he was resurrected with blood.

"It's really good." Li Fang gave a thumbs up. Today's chickens are all native chickens, and their meat quality and taste are much better than those of later generations that were raised for a hundred days and then cooked.

Shen Xiaoyi watched Li Fang eating happily, and started to enjoy it himself.

"By the way, Chief Shen, you've finished all your work." After dinner, Li Fang looked at Shen Xiaoyi.

Shen Xiaoyi hummed and said, "The whereabouts of this group of people haven't been found out yet, but yesterday during the first trial, something else came out."

His tone paused.

Li Fang and Shen Xiaozheng were both curiously waiting for his next words.

Shen Xiaoyi coughed twice and said: "The man who ran away yesterday was the leader among them, his name is Da Yan'er. The police have records of him. In the past few years, this kid did a labor camp at Qinghe Farm for several years.

The crime he committed was not serious, so he was released after a few years. Later, he stayed in Jincheng and just returned to Beijing during the Spring Festival last year."

Qinghe Farm is a labor reform farm affiliated with Beijing, but it was built in Jincheng and is also known as Chadian Farm.

The personnel inside are complex.

There are cadres and employees responsible for discipline and their families, as well as reform-through-labor personnel, and contract workers who have been released from labor reform and become on-site employment.

Li Fang thought deeply for a moment and said, "Is there anything suspicious about his records during his stay in Jincheng?"

Shen Xiaoyi glanced at Li Fang appreciatively, and Li Fang immediately grasped the key point.

"My friend in Jincheng said that his records are blank. It looks like someone has deliberately erased them," Shen Xiaoyi said.

Li Fang knew that being able to find a person in Jincheng within one day showed that Shen Xiaoyi's magical powers were beyond his imagination.

And Big Eye, the key figure in this small group, may know more than these little miscellaneous fish put together.

Shen Xiaozheng interjected: "What should we do? We can't find him anymore. We told him that we caught up with him yesterday."

He regretted why he didn't catch up with him in one go yesterday.

Shen Xiaoyi glanced at him and said, "Then what we are eating today is the meal at your funeral. If it hadn't been for Li Fang yesterday, your life would have been taken away long ago."

After saying that, he felt scared for a while.

Shen Xiaozheng's impulsive nature really caused a lot of trouble.

If something really happened yesterday, he would have no way to explain it to his family, especially his grandma.

Shen Xiaozheng said oh and continued to eat.

He knew that his eldest brother was very angry now, and if he contradicted him again, he might not even be able to leave the house in the future.

Li Fang said: "Since he has returned to Kyoto for a year, he must have left clues, Chief Shen, what do you think?"

Li Fang feels that nothing is perfect.

Even if there is, it rarely appears in characters like Big Eye.

"Big Eyes has a cousin named Yu Si'er. He is the person you have met. Their stronghold is Yu Si'er's home."

Shen Xiaoyi said.

Li Fang was stunned for a moment, could it be that Yu Si'er was still a key figure.

Shen Xiaoyi took a sip of tea and said: "The people from the police station told me that this Yu Si'er is an orphan, but he is too greedy and is notoriously greedy. The big-eyed boy dislikes his cousin for causing trouble, and he usually doesn't love her. I ignored him and loved hanging out with a bunch of people like him who had been released from prison."

Li Fang nodded: "Did you go to Si'er's house later?"

Shen Xiaoyi smiled.

"We went. Yu Si'er ran away and took nothing with him. But we also found some things in the house that are related to a leak case that happened last year."

Li Fang didn't ask any more questions. After all, this kind of leak case involved too many things.

Sometimes, if you know too much, you will die quickly.

This is Li Fang’s survival rule.

"Do you think Yu Si'er will come back?" Li Fang pondered for a moment and asked.

After saying that, Shen Xiaoyi looked at him, and the two of them looked at each other and smiled.

As Shen Xiaoyi said, Yu Si'er didn't take away any of his money. For a greedy person, this was even more uncomfortable than killing him.

Yu Si'er will definitely come back.

This is what Shen Xiaoyi and Li Fang thought. Shen Xiaoyi also sent people to squat in front of Yu Si'er's house.

Now that the snake has been alerted, they take a bet on whether this greedy prey will turn back.

"It's interesting to wait and see."

Li Fang bit the other chicken leg and thought carefully.

In this matter, it seemed that more things could be dug out, so Li Fang and others did not relax.

Although, Li Fang is not a party to this matter.

But he understands that no one can survive this storm alone.

Instead of just watching, it is better to earn more capital for yourself to live and settle down, at least with your back against a big tree so you can enjoy the shade.

As long as nothing happens to Shen Xiaoyi, he will live a better life.

...

When he got home in the evening, Shen Xiaoyi took another pill and wrote an article for a while before falling asleep.

Tomorrow, a batch of supplies would arrive, and he would have to pick it up with Lao Chang.

This batch of grain was transferred by Section Chief Wu Bing from his comrades. To say that Section Chief Wu was really powerful, it was no wonder that Li Huaide valued him so highly.

However, as for how good the relationship between Wu Bing and Li Huaide was, Li Taiping did not see it.

On the contrary, one time, Li Fang saw Wu Bing and Director Yang of the steel rolling mill talking together. The two seemed to have a good relationship.

However, who can say for sure how good it is on the surface.

Everyone has two faces, and no one knows what the other person is thinking.

Li lay on the bed and thought wildly. The more he thought about it, the more his head hurt, so he simply wrapped himself in a quilt and fell asleep.

The next day, when Li Fang arrived at the factory, he saw Lao Chang, who was usually cheerful, looking absent-minded.

"Brother Chang, are you worried?" Li Fang picked up a handful of tea leaves with his hands and poured them into his cup.

Since he arrived at the steel rolling mill, he has learned from Shen Xiaoyi, Wu Bing and others, and he also likes to make a cup of tea in the early morning.

Lao Chang sighed.

"Fangzi, tell me, this person, sometimes you want to live a normal life, but God just doesn't follow your wishes."

Lao Chang complained.

It turned out that yesterday, Lao Chang's brother-in-law had a struggle with someone and gave him a good beating.

Not everyone has the good fortune of Shen Xiaozheng and has someone to wipe his ass.

Lao Chang's brother-in-law is about the same age as Li Fang. He dropped out of school and usually wanders around the streets.

Lao Chang's father-in-law's family is an ordinary single-earner family. Lao Chang's wife worked hard on her own, passed the technical secondary school examination, and became an employee of a supply and marketing cooperative.

But this brother-in-law has nothing to do and makes trouble all day long.

Lao Chang's father-in-law works in a food factory. He originally wanted to give his son the job in advance, but he still couldn't let it go, for fear that something would happen to his son and he would lose his job.

At that time, the whole family really couldn't even eat.

As a result, something happened.

"What do they say?" Li Fang asked. The person who tied the bell must also be tied to untie the bell. If you want to resolve this matter privately, you can only start with the person who was beaten.

Lao Chang smiled bitterly and said: "This kid has broken the sky. He is not beating ordinary people. We can't even get into that family's door."

When Li Fang heard this, he knew that Lao Chang, his brother-in-law, didn't know the importance and was afraid that he might offend the people in the compound.

"Otherwise, try asking Section Chief Shen." Shen Xiaoyi is also in that circle. If he comes forward, there may be a chance of success.

Otherwise, Lao Chang, his brother-in-law, would never be able to change his fate in the labor camp.

"Oh, this is the only way." Lao Chang nodded. He didn't expect Shen Xiaoyi to help him much. He would be grateful if Shen Xiaoyi could talk to him.

After all, we are just colleagues. It is our duty to help him, but it is our duty not to help him.

At least I have an explanation with my wife and father-in-law.

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