Siheyuan: Start with a big car

As the sun sets, Li Weidong, who has been busy all day, rides his bicycle to the tavern.

He had been busy with work for a while and had no time to meet Xu Huizhen. Today, the production of motorcycles was going very smoothly, and the first batch of motorcycles had been shipped out of the factory, so he had an hour or two to meet with Xu Huizhen.

Xu Huizhen, the proprietress of the tavern, was greeting guests in the lobby at this time. When she saw Li Weidong coming in, she quickly called a waiter and said, "Xiao Liu, I have something to do now. Can you help me take care of things here?"

The waiter Xiao Liu nodded and said, "Sister Xu, you can go ahead. I'm here so you don't have to worry."

Xu Huizhen followed Li Weidong's advice and changed the previous system in the tavern.

Now the monthly salary of waiters in taverns is at least 20% higher than that in other taverns.
And Xu Huizhen was not like other tavern owners who yelled at them. If a waiter had any problems at home, Xu Huizhen would always be the first to help. So the waiters in the tavern admired Xu Huizhen very much, and they would naturally come forward to help when they encountered such a small matter.
Besides, who in Beijing doesn’t know the name of the tavern? The old wine brewed by Xu Huizhen with her ancestral winemaking skills is now well-known throughout Beijing. Many people who like to drink would rather travel more than ten miles to the tavern to taste the old wine.
Of course, there was once a drunkard who caused trouble in the tavern. He relied on his strength and the alcohol he had drunk to smash the chairs in the tavern.

In this case, the pub would usually send someone to notify the police station to take the person away, but Xu Huizhen did not do so.
He just told those who came to drink that the tavern needed to be closed for at least a week because of the damage to the facilities.
Those drinkers now rely on Xu Huizhen's tavern for their living. After a hard day's work, they can have a glass of delicious wine every night and sleep well at night. Now they heard that the tavern was going to close, and those drinkers were immediately angry.
In this era, people who like to drink are generally more irritable and strong. Those drinkers rushed over and beat up the guy who smashed the tavern chair, and then threw him on the street.

Then the troublemaker was permanently banned by Xu Huizhen from entering the tavern. This was a real blow.

After this incident spread out, all the guests who came to the tavern knew that they must not cause trouble here. If they did, they would not only be beaten up by other drinkers, but they would not be able to drink such delicious old wine in the future.

Therefore, as the boss lady in charge, you don’t need to do anything at all. You just need to collect the money according to the price on the bill.
After Xu Huizhen handed over the affairs of the small supervisor to Xiao Liu, she turned around and followed Li Weidong to the second floor of the patina.

Xu Huizhen took out the key, opened the innermost box and pulled Li Weidong in. After she closed the door, she threw herself into Li Weidong's arms.
"You damned bastard, why haven't you come to see me for such a long time? Have you met another girl and forgotten about me, your ugly wife?"

Hearing this, Li Weidong said with a smile: "Xu Huizhen, what nonsense are you talking about? You are so beautiful, even if I meet other girls, I can't forget you. Don't you know that I have been too busy recently?"

Although Xu Huizhen is now in her thirties, she is still more beautiful than the average girl, and she has the unique charm of a mature woman.
Xu Huizhen also knew that the motorcycle workshop had become the most important production workshop in the country. As the workshop director of the motorcycle workshop, Weidong must be very busy on weekdays, so he didn't say anything more.
After the two chatted for a while, Xu Huizhen whispered: "Brother Weidong, there is something I forgot to tell you. A while ago, when I was on duty in the tavern, I met two people. One of them I know, Liu Haidong from your courtyard. This person likes to drink and often comes to our tavern to drink. The other person seems to be from your courtyard, but I don’t know his name."

"It seems like the two of them are planning to deal with you.
When I heard it, I wanted to get closer to listen, but they were both very alert. Every time I walked up to them, they stopped talking. You have to be careful."

Hearing Xu Huizhen's words, Li Weidong frowned.
He and Liu Haizhong did have some conflicts. After all, Liu Haizhong used to be the second uncle in the compound. It was because of Li Weidong that his position as the second uncle was taken away by Sha Zhu.
And in the factory, because the Dagang Steel Plant has implemented the vocational education method formulated by Li Weidong, masters like Liu Haizhong no longer have the good life they used to have.

No matter how you look at it, bangs are a hindrance to yourself.

But who is the other person?
According to Xu Huizhen, the other person was a short man with a very wretched appearance.
Li Weidong couldn't remember for a moment that there was such a person in the courtyard, but he didn't take it lightly.

Li Weidong knew the nature of these beasts very well. Even though they seemed friendly on the surface, once they had evil intentions, they would resort to any means.
And now there is that old man Yi Zhonghai watching over him.
Since Yi Zhonghai was released from prison, he has always wanted to resume his position as the head of the compound.
Li Weidong knew all these things clearly, but Yi Zhonghai's previous actions were blocked by Li Weidong.

If Yi Zhonghai takes advantage of Liu Haizhong's actions to cause trouble again, it will be troublesome.

Li Weidong knew very well that although Yi Zhonghai was already a criminal

But after all, he has been the boss in the compound for so many years, and he is also very good at morally blackmailing others, so many residents in the compound will still stand on his side.
So Liu Weidong also decided to take some preventive measures

On the way home, Li Weidong rode his bicycle to a scrap shop in the suburbs.
These days, black scrap shops like this not only buy scrap but also sell it to the public, just like a big grocery market.

The boss of the scrap yard is named Zhang. Customers call him Old Man Zhang. Compared with other scrap yards, Old Man Zhang is honest and his prices are fair, so his business is very good.
Li Weidong had bought scrap materials from the scrap shop several times before, so he knew Old Man Zhang. At this time, Old Man Zhang was helping customers in the scrap shop weigh their items. Seeing Li Weidong coming over, Old Man Zhang greeted him and said, "Comrade Weidong, please wait a moment. I will come over to greet you when I am done."

Li Weidong didn't care, waved at him, and then found a clean place to sit down.

After a while, Old Man Zhang finished his work and walked over quickly.
He took out a big front door from his pocket and handed it to Li Weidong, saying embarrassedly: "Brother Weidong, I'm really sorry. I'm so busy today and I made you wait for so long."

There is a reason why old man Zhang treats Li Weidong so well.

Although Li Weidong does not sell scrap, the materials he needs are all very remote materials. At the beginning, Li Weidong came to the scrap point and found those materials. Those materials were not valuable to Old Man Zhang at all. Old Man Zhang originally planned to sell those materials to Li Weidong at the price of scrap.

Li Weidong told Zhang that these materials were not ordinary materials. If they were purchased from a supply and marketing cooperative or a specialized material store, each material would cost several yuan per pound.

So Li Weidong offered Old Man Zhang a very high price, which made Old Man Zhang feel very incredible.
Old man Zhang has been working in the scrap shop for many years and has seen all kinds of people. In his opinion, when customers encounter such bargains, they will definitely not take the initiative to tell him the real price, and they will even pretend to lower the price. Only after they have taken advantage of the bargain will they pay for the materials.
This was the first time that Old Man Zhang had seen someone like Li Weidong actively raising the price for others.

Old man Zhang is not the kind of person who is greedy for money. He said that he is just a businessman.

Since the price has been announced, there is no need to change it. So Old Man Zhang insisted on giving the materials to Li Weidong at the price of scrap iron.
Li Weidong was not the kind of person who took advantage of others, so he argued with the old man. In the end, Liu Weidong also bought the materials at the price of one yuan per pound.
After this incident, both of them felt that the other was someone they could get along with, so in the days that followed, Li Weidong would always go to Zhang Lao's scrap shop to buy materials, and the two became friends.

At this time last year, Mr. Zhang's son graduated from junior high school. In those days, junior high school graduates were already responsible for arranging jobs.
However, there are good and bad jobs, especially for Zhang Laotou, whose family background is not very good. His family used to collect rent for the landlord. Logically speaking, they are also poor people, but in this era, they are considered rent collectors.
Zhang Laotou's son had such a background. So when assigning jobs, naturally there was no good job for him.

Zhang's son was not afraid of hardship or low wages, but he was assigned to live in a mountain hundreds of kilometers away from the capital.
Zhang's wife died early, and he and his son depended on each other for survival. How could Zhang bear to let his son be so far away from him? And at this age, it is very easy to be in danger in the mountains.
So Mr. Zhang decided to let his son reject the arrangement, and then he tried to find a temporary job for his son in Beijing.

This idea is not a good one. You have to know that in those days, people were assigned jobs, but they only had one chance. If you refused, it would mean you were not obeying the organization's decision, and that would leave a stain on your file.
It will be impossible for you to find a suitable job in the future.
Just when Zhang felt he was in a dilemma, Li Weidong learned about it. It happened that the motorcycle workshop was expanding at that time. He needed those outstanding young people.
Compared with the old hands in the factory, Li Weidong prefers the young people who have just graduated. The reason is very simple. The old hands have lost their ambition due to the bad atmosphere in the steel mill. When they work every day, they think about how to be lazy.
However, those young people are different. They are full of vigor and vitality, and they dream of doing something big. If they are trained, they are likely to become outstanding technical talents.

Of course, Liu Weidong did not give the job directly to Zhang Laotou's son. He just asked him to attend the interview in the motorcycle workshop of the steel rolling mill according to the regulations. Only if he passed the interview could he enter the factory to work.
But this is very rare for someone like Zhang Laotou's son. You know, the motorcycle workshop of the steel plant is a national key workshop with very high wages and very high requirements for workers.
People generally wouldn't consider someone with a background like Zhang Laotou's son.
Zhang's son is indeed an outstanding young man. He participated in the interview under Li Weidong's introduction and soon passed the interview with excellent results.

In the following period of time, he performed very well and was soon transferred to a formal worker. Last month, he received more than 50 yuan in salary.
So when Old Man Zhang saw Li Weidong now, it was like seeing his benefactor.
Old man Zhang looked at Li Weidong with a smile and said, "Director Li, are you here to buy those materials again? I am really a little embarrassed today. I haven't collected all the materials yet. Don't worry, I will send them to your motorcycle workshop when I have collected them.

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Li Weidong smiled and smoked a cigarette: "Uncle, you misunderstood. I didn't come here to buy those materials today. I wanted to buy you some mousetraps."

After hearing this, Old Man Zhang was a little confused.
You know, a few years ago, Beijing and Rio exterminated rats in large numbers, so many mousetraps were produced.
But as time went on, the rats in the capital soon disappeared, and the mousetraps became useless. Residents sold the mousetraps to junk shops.

Old man Zhang bought a lot of mousetraps at a very low price. He originally planned to make some money from the mousetraps, but what he didn't expect was that these mice and ducks couldn't be sold at all.
You should know that although there is some iron on the mousetrap, it is very small.

If he dismantled the rats and ducks and sold them as scrap metal, he would lose money. So Mr. Zhang simply put the mousetrap in the warehouse.

"Director Li, do you have rats in your house? Let me tell you, mousetraps don't work. Rats are too smart. As soon as they see the mousetraps, they turn their heads and run away. I'll teach you a way. That is to buy rat poison. Just mix the rat poison with white flour buns, and the rats will definitely be fooled.
By then, no matter how many rats there are, they will be eliminated."

Old man Zhang felt that if he sold the mousetrap to Li Weidong now, it would be like selling money against his conscience.
...(End of chapter)