Siheyuan: Start with a big car

"Liang Ladi, get out of here
Hey, Comrade Li Weidong, do you know Liang Ladi? "

Deputy Director Huang's angry expression froze on his face, his fingers froze in mid-air, and he looked at Li Weidong in disbelief.

"Yes, last year I drove a truck to Nanshi Town to deliver relief food. On the way back, the wheels got stuck in the mud."

"Comrade Liang Ladi from your machinery factory and the driver Xiao Meng happened to pass by."

"Thanks to their kind help, the truck was towed out and we were able to get back to the rolling mill in time."

"When I went to the latrine just now, I met Comrade Liang Ladi."

As he said that, Li Weidong turned his attention to Director Liu Feng, and smiled: "I thought about borrowing flowers to present Buddha, and invited Comrade Liang Ladi to have a meal together. Director Liu, do you mind?"

"I don't mind! I didn't expect Comrade Wei Dong to have this relationship with our Comrade Liang Ladi." Liu Feng smiled and waved to Liang Ladi: "Come on, Comrade Liang Ladi, sit down quickly and wait You should respect Comrade Wei Dong."

Liang Ladi actually recognized Li Weidong when he entered the door.

It's just that she had resentment in her heart, so she didn't come forward to talk to her.

Back then, the machinery factory sent them to Nanshi Commune for the purpose of repairing agricultural machinery and bringing back a big fat pig along the way.

Big fat pig, drooling just thinking about it.

Unexpectedly, when she arrived at Nanshi Commune, Liang Ladi discovered that the agricultural machinery in Nanshi Commune had been repaired by the driver of the rolling mill.

And in order to thank the driver, Nanshi Commune gave the big fat pig that was going to be given to the machinery factory to the rolling mill.

Thinking of helping that nasty driver pull the truck out of the mud pit on the road, Liang Ladi was so angry that her heart ached.

What made her even more angry was that after returning to the machinery factory, deputy director Huang took advantage of the problem and severely criticized Liang Ladi on the grounds that she had not completed the task.

Damn, it's so damn bad.

It's just, why did such a hateful person become a distinguished guest in the factory.

He even took the initiative to cover it up for himself!
Although she couldn't figure it out, Liang Ladi sat down and said with a smile, "That's right, I was outside the hut just now, and I didn't expect that Driver Li still remembered me."

"Hey, don't call me Driver Li, now Comrade Wei Dong is the workshop director of the poverty alleviation workshop of the rolling mill." Liu Feng said.

"Workshop Director!"

Liang Ladi Muran's eyes widened, and she looked at Li Weidong with admiration.

The workshop director is already the middle-level leader in the factory, and it is also the lifelong dream of ordinary workers.

Li Weidong looks like he is only in his 20s, and he has become the workshop director. His future is boundless.

"Hey, big brother, now that you are the leader, you have to pull out your sister in the future."

Liang Ladi rolled her eyes, looked at Li Weidong, and seemed to think of something.

The deputy director Huang who was next to him didn't expect that Li Weidong really knew Liang Ladi.

While shouting in his heart that something was wrong, he quickly sat down, picked up his glass and said, "Misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding, come on, I'll punish myself with a drink."

Naturally, Li Weidong would not make Deputy Director Huang look bad because of this.

The best way to deal with this kind of insidious villain is to kill him once.

Otherwise, he will hide in the dark and keep making trouble for you.

"Come on, Director Huang, I'll pay back that cup too."

"you are welcome."

Deputy Factory Manager Huang picked up the wine glass and thought, this kid seems quite sensible!
A noise disappeared without a trace.

A luncheon, the guests enjoyed themselves.

The report in the afternoon was similar to the situation in the morning. Those leaders who were well fed and drunk sat under the stage and were depressed.

To Li Weidong's surprise, Liang Ladi also sneaked in.

The way she held her chin and listened carefully to the lecture was in stark contrast to the yawning leaders next to her.

At the end of the meeting, Li Weidong originally planned to take Yu Haitang back to the rolling mill.

As soon as he went out, he was stopped by the factory manager Liu Feng, and there was a short gay man standing behind him.

The work uniform of the gay man was stained with dirt from organic oil. He had thick eyebrows and big eyes, and there were marks of frost cracks on his cheeks. Those big eyes were piercing.

When he saw Li Weidong, pure joy bloomed on his face, and he rushed over with open arms: "Brother Weidong."

"Xiao Meng!" Li Weidong widened his eyes excitedly, opened his arms, and gave him a bear hug.

This is a common way of greeting old drivers.

Yu Haitang next to him watched this scene with a look of surprise on his face. The two big men embraced, feeling a little weird.

After a warm hug, Li Weidong looked at Xiaomeng carefully.

I haven't seen her for more than a year, and the immaturity on Xiao Meng's face has disappeared without a trace, replaced by a confident tenacity.

He is like a pine tree on the hillside, even in the face of the most violent mountain wind, he is not afraid.

Liu Feng, the factory director, explained next to him: "Comrade Xiaomeng happened to be out of the car today, and when he heard you were coming, he insisted on coming over, saying that he wanted to catch up with you."

It seems that this guy is still not giving up. Li Weidong understands what the director Liu Feng is thinking.

He admires from the bottom of his heart the factory director who is determined to revive the machinery factory.

However, he has decided not to step into this quagmire.

I could only pretend to smile without knowing it, and nodded to Liu Feng: "Thank you, Xiaomeng and I haven't seen each other for a long time, and you also know that we are truck drivers and drive around all day long. Run west."

"That's just right, you can use this opportunity to catch up on the old days." Liu Feng said with a smile: "It just so happens that you will continue to give a report tomorrow, and you can stay in the guest house of our machinery factory at night."

Li Weidong looked at Yu Haitang with some embarrassment: "Director Liu, your idea is very good, but Comrade Yu Haitang has to rush back and write what he saw and heard today into a press release. Send her back."

"What's the matter, isn't it just a gift, I'll just ask my driver to deliver Comrade Yu Haitang."

After listening to the two reports, the factory director Liu Feng was sure that the workshop director in front of him was the officer he had been waiting for for a long time.

Yu Haitang originally planned to spend a while alone with Li Weidong on the way back, but now seeing Director Liu's firm attitude, he could only nod in agreement.

"Director Li, I'll go now."

"Bon Voyage."

After seeing off Yu Haitang, Li Weidong, led by Xiao Meng, came to the guest house of the machinery factory.

It is said to be a guest house, but it is actually a dilapidated tube building. Judging from the degree of obsolete, it should have been built for experts from the Soviet Union back then.

Due to the lack of cleaning all year round, the corridors are covered with substances, dark, and even a little sticky to shoes.The wax-yellow door and window frames are made of wood, and some of them have been cracked. If they were placed in the countryside, they might have been split and burned as firewood.

The room is also very small, less than twenty square meters, and the furnishings are standard for guest houses, including a bed, a table, and a cabinet.

To Li Weidong's relief, the room had been cleaned in advance, and the bedding was newly changed, and it smelled like sunshine.

Little Mengla pulled the light cord, and the incandescent bulb hanging from the roof flickered twice before it stabilized.

Under the dim light, the furnishings in the house looked even more outdated.

Xiaomeng smiled embarrassedly: "Our machinery factory has limited conditions, please don't be surprised."

"Heh, what's the matter? When we were drivers, we used to be beds all the time. It's heaven!"

Li Weidong sat down on a chair and poured a cup of tea.

When the matter of being a driver was mentioned, Xiao Meng also became excited.

"Hey, Brother Weidong, let me tell you a strange thing." A strange look appeared on Xiaomeng's face, and he lowered his voice: "Last summer, the transportation task in the factory was heavy, and there were no extra drivers to follow the car, so the team sent me One person went to Xiangxi to deliver a batch of tractor parts."

"It was summer, and you also know that the weather over there is very hot. Sitting in the cab during the day is like staying in a steamer."

"Also, due to the high temperature, the water tank would often boil over."

"So, I thought of a way to find a forest to sleep during the day, and then travel overnight after the sun goes down."

"In western Hunan, there are mountains everywhere, and when driving on the mountain road in the dark, the only light on the mountain road is the headlight of the car.

"However, there are few people on the road, and my speed is not high, so there is no danger."

"Just when I was secretly glad that I could earn a few more dollars this time, suddenly there was an old lady on the side of the road ahead."

"The old grandma was wearing that old-fashioned gown, with a basket in one hand and a cane in the other, and she staggered forward."

"The location at that time was not in front of the village or in the back of the store. Seeing how difficult it was for the old lady, I stopped the car and walked over."

"At first, I wanted to invite the old lady into the car and take her for a while, but after hearing what I said, the old lady went straight to the middle of the road, put the basket and crutches beside her, and lay down."

"I was a little dazed at the time, thinking of trying to persuade the old lady to leave, but who knew she would close her eyes and fall asleep."

"The mountain roads on the west side of Xiangxi are very narrow, and you can barely pass a truck. If the old lady blocks you, the truck can't move forward."

"There is really no other way. I can only get out of the car again and prepare to invite the old lady to the side of the road."

Speaking of this, Xiao Meng took a deep breath, an indescribable fear appeared on his face, and his voice became trembling.

"I, I reached out and grabbed the old grandma's wrist, and found that her wrist was icy cold, without any warmth, just like before my father was buried."

"At that time, I was so frightened that I peed out. When I woke up, I found that there was nothing in front of me."

"What old grandma, what crutches, all disappeared."

"Where have I seen such a thing? I jumped into the driver's seat, started the truck, and fell back for more than a mile before stopping."

"That night, I didn't bat an eye."

"It wasn't until the next day, when it was bright, that I was ready to drive forward."

"At this time, a pedestrian passing by on a bicycle told me that a section of the road ahead collapsed last night and it was impossible to pass."

Xiaomeng paused for a moment, then looked up at Li Weidong: "Brother Weidong, do you think if I hadn't been stopped by that old woman and kept driving, would I have fallen off the mountain road?"

When driving at night, what drivers fear most is deep potholes on the road.

In poor lighting conditions, it is difficult to detect the existence of deep pits with the naked eye.

Especially Xiaomeng was still in a hurry to hurry.

Li Weidong pondered for a moment, then shook his head: "It's hard."

"Yeah, I think so too." Xiao Meng looked a little dazed: "After realizing this, in order to thank the old lady for saving her life, I deliberately described her appearance and clothes to passers-by."

"After the passer-by heard this, he was so frightened that he rode his bicycle and ran away."

"Seeing the panicked expressions of passers-by, I realized the problem no matter how slow my reaction was."

"Kneeling beside the road, kowtowed to the distant mountain, then turned the car around and left there."

"Since then, I have buried this matter in my heart."

"When I meet you today, I dare to say it."

After Xiaomeng finished speaking, he let out a long sigh of relief, picked up the enamel jar and took a few gulps.

The stone that weighed on his heart was finally removed.

"You did the right thing." Li Weidong couldn't help but think highly of Xiaomeng.

Drivers run sports cars on the road and often encounter many strange things.

Once these things are shouted everywhere, it will inevitably lead to unnecessary troubles.

Xiaomeng seemed very excited in the following time, and told the experience of the past two years.

After he became a truck driver, he brought his wife and children to Beijing, and his wife is still pregnant.

Li Weidong was a little surprised when he heard the news: "I remember you seem to have three children?"

"Yes, I am only 23 years old this year. I am a single heir of three generations. Before my father passed away, I swore in front of my father that I would have at least seven children." Xiao Meng looked proud.

Li Weidong couldn't help giving a thumbs up.

As the night was getting late, Xiao Meng saw that Li Weidong was looking tired, so he offered to leave.

"Brother Weidong, you have to give a report tomorrow, go to bed early."

"Okay, then I won't see you off."

Li Weidong was indeed a little sleepy. After Xiaomeng left, he closed the door, lay on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

In the dimness, it seemed to hear a knock on the door.

"Who?"

He turned on the lights and yelled.

There was no echo from outside the door, but the knocking continued.

Li Weidong thought of the story Xiao Meng told, and looked at the window paper that was blown by the cold wind, and felt a little scared in his heart.

He took out a pistol from under the pillow, carried it behind his back, walked over, and opened the door.

Liang Ladi was standing outside the door with a hot water bottle in her hand.

She stared at her big watery eyes, pursed her lips and smiled: "Comrade Wei Dong, I'm here to bring you water for washing your feet."

Send footwash water?

Li Weidong knew Liang Ladi Liang Ladi's character well.

Everything she does has a purpose.

"Comrade Liang Ladi, if you want me to help you, please go back. I have a lot of things to do and I don't have time." Li Weidong said bluntly.

Liang Ladi seemed to have been taken into consideration, and the smile froze on her face, looking very weird.

"Ha ha."

She smiled awkwardly: "You think too much, I'm here to bring you water for washing your feet. Let me go inside first, it's too cold outside."

Li Weidong took a deep look at her, turned sideways, and Liang Ladi got into the house like a loach.

She looked at the furnishings in the house with surprise on her face: "This is the guest house, it's really rich."

Li Weidong didn't close the door, turned around and looked at Liang Ladi: "Comrade Liang Ladi, if you need anything, just tell me, I don't like to hide things."