Scholars in the courtyard.

The two entered the cafeteria and quickly lined up. It was Sister Meng who was eating at the window. Yang Xiaotao went up to her and hadn't spoken yet. Sister Meng had sharp eyes and immediately spoke enthusiastically.

"Brother Yang, are you back? I haven't seen you for a while."

Yang Xiaotao smiled and said he was on a business trip, and then ordered a meat dish and a vegetarian dish, and two steamed buns with old noodles.

Sister Meng took a spoon and put a layer of meat on it, covering it firmly in the lunch box.

Both of them knew that it was inconvenient to talk, so they just said a few polite words.

"See you later, Big Brother Zhang."

"it is good!"

Yang Xiaotao left with the lunch box, Lou Xiaoe also went up to cook, and Sister Meng politely filled another spoonful.

As soon as Yang Xiaotao found Wang Fa and the others and sat down, Wang Guodong beside him squeezed in with a lunch box and pushed Wang Fa aside.

Li Nan, Xing Jiaqi and the others at the same table were all wondering, when did the director come over for lunch?
It's just that they didn't dare to say it. Now the third workshop is busy and earns a lot. If you offend the director and transfer you out with a word, it will be a big loss.

Several people distanced themselves, knowing that the director was looking for Yang Xiaotao, so they all listened.

Taking the chili sauce on the table and buckling his chopsticks, Wang Guodong started talking about steamed buns.

"I heard you're going to do something again?"

Yang Xiaotao was not surprised, and guessed in his heart that this was the case.

"Well, but the horoscope hasn't been written yet, it's a bit early now."

"Early? It's getting late. Old Sun is looking for you in a cafeteria. Thanks to my carefulness, I knew you would come here."

"I won't say much else, Lao Sun is a nice guy, if you can help him."

Now it was Yang Xiaotao's turn to be surprised, and he was surprised to see Wang Guodong.

"What are you looking at, do you think I will eat alone? Adding insult to injury?"

"Uh, isn't it?"

"Grandma! Who do you think I am?"

Wang Guodong blew his beard and stared, dissatisfied with Yang Xiaotao's answer.

After a long time, he stuffed a mouthful of steamed buns into his mouth, "This heating stove is enough for our third workshop to work on. I still understand this."

"Besides, the eighth workshop has already got pressurized water wells. If Lao Sun misses this time, even the workshop workers will have opinions on how to raise his head in the workshop..."

Wang Guodong said, Yang Xiaotao nodded silently.

"I can't guarantee it, but as long as the factory manager agrees, I have no objection."

Yang Xiaotao thought about it, although there were a few people in the first workshop who were difficult to deal with, but Sun Guo was worth making friends with.

"You just have to figure it out."

Wang Guodong hurried back to work in the workshop, and left the cafeteria after dinner.

In the cafeteria, Liu Lan looked at the diners. Familiar faces were rarely seen, and even the diners were not as lively as before.

After giving Xu Damao a spoonful of food, Liu Lan wanted to say a few words to Xu Damao. After all, they had worked together for so long and they knew each other.

Unexpectedly, Xu Damao ignored her at all, and was polite to the woman behind him, even grabbed the lunch box and ordered another meat dish.

Yu Haitang.

Liu Lan recognized who this woman was.

Seeing Xu Damao graciously following Yu Haitang around, Liu Lan threw the spoon away and immediately changed.

Back in the back kitchen, Liu Lan looked at Shazhu lying there leisurely and said something angrily.

"Silly Zhu, you didn't see Xu Damao getting together with Yu Haitang, that virtue is disgusting!"

Silly Zhu frowned after hearing this, "Who? Xu Damao and Yu Haitang?"

"Is this woman stupid or stupid? Can a bad guy like Xu Damao fall in love with her?"

Liu Lan fanned the flames, "What's the matter, Xu Damao has a sweet mouth and a little money, that woman doesn't like it?"

Silly Zhu was taken aback for a moment, then misfired.

"Xu Damao, the dog day."

Silly Zhu cursed, and then heard the surrounding chefs talk about today's meals. The ingredients received by the cafeteria these days are much less than before, and the most important thing is that there is less meat.

The big guys are here to help, with a salary that is less than that of the workshop workers. The reason why they can continue to work is that they can make money here?

But now, with so much less oil and water, the kitchen assistant already has some opinions.

Silly Zhu naturally knew what was going on. He used to be the best cook in this rolling mill, but now that there is an extra fighter in the ring, he lost his former enthusiasm.

"damn it…"

Silly Zhu didn't say who it was, after all, there were too many people involved.

He wanted to go out to trouble Xu Damao, but thinking of the old lady's instructions in a blink of an eye, Sha Zhu calmed down his psychological anger again.

"Let you be proud first, after a while, I will deal with you."

Liu Lan originally thought that Sha Zhu would find trouble with Xu Damao when he heard about this, but he didn't expect to hold back.

Can't help looking at Sha Zhu curiously, it seems that Sha Zhu is a little different today.

In the afternoon, Yang Xiaotao continued to work in the office. The design and structure of the steam engine had already been laid out. What Yang Xiaotao had to do now was to thoroughly understand the principles and transform the steam engine.

The pencil kept drawing on the blueprint, and the parameters were calculated one by one. The busy and serious appearance made Lou Xiao'e look over from time to time, and then carefully avoided his eyes.

It wasn't until Lou Xiao'e told him that he was off work that Yang Xiaotao raised his head, moved his neck, and rattled.

"Go first, I'll be busy later."

Yang Xiaotao picked up the enamel jar, the water inside was still warm, presumably it was Lou Xiaoe who arrived.

"Okay." Lou Xiaoe responded, and then said, "Go back early, don't get tired."

Yang Xiaotao waved his hand indifferently, and Lou Xiaoe couldn't say much, the relationship between the two of them was not that close yet.

When Yang Xiaotao left the office, it was already dark. After walking out of the office building, Yang Xiaotao found his bicycle and walked to the courtyard.

Back in the courtyard, Yang Xiaotao made some food by himself, and read books on the desk.

Now reading books can not only earn credits, but also learn the structure of the steam engine, which kills two birds with one stone. Yang Xiaotao reads it very seriously.

……

After returning to Sijiu City, Team Leader Yu was not idle.

One will come here today, another will go there tomorrow, time is running out, and the top is still pressing, so he has to do everything by himself.

No, as soon as I got some news, I came to the section chief's office.

"Old Yu, have you asked?"

Team leader Yu nodded, took a sip of water from the mug, pushed his glasses, "Speak."

"But it's not a woman, but a man?"

The section chief was a little surprised when he heard the words. He didn't expect that Ding Junhong, who seemed determined to die, was not as good as the female Li Man. Really, people are not judged by appearances.

"They are the action team, under the command of Butterfly. This time, the incident happened suddenly. After getting the target to leave Forty-Nine City, the design began..."

Team leader Yu told the other party about the situation, from their identities to hiding places, how to contact, and how to connect.

"What do you want to do next?"

The section chief asked Team Leader Yu, who had more experience in dealing with these rats.

"Section Chief, I want to follow the vine..."

"I agree in principle, but the protection of No. 46 cannot be relaxed."

"I know, I will arrange this matter."

"Ok!"

……

In the next few days, Yang Xiaotao focused on blueprint design, got up early and went to bed late, ran between the rolling mill and the courtyard house, not only finished the two books, but also gained more than 300 credits, even the design and structure of the steam engine had a clue.

As for the rolling mill, when Liu Huaimin came back and heard Yang Youning talk about this matter, the two did not urge Yang Xiaotao, but just waited for the progress of the matter.

It's March in a blink of an eye.

On Friday, Yang Xiaotao said something to Xu Yuanshan in the afternoon and left work early.

Cycling back to Yangjiazhuang, ready to pick up Ran Qiuye, but didn't want to run into an acquaintance just after entering the village.

"Director Gao!"

This person is Gao Yufeng from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, who is leading a group of people in the village to survey the terrain.

Although I have seen it a long time ago, but now that spring is starting and the land is thawing, the people of the Academy of Agricultural Sciences are very concerned about this matter.

"I heard you were on a business trip?"

"Well, I came back last Saturday."

Yang Xiaotao took out his cigarette politely, Gao Yufeng nodded, "In the coming period, this place will be quite busy, you'd better go out less."

Yang Xiaotao understands the situation, and the matter of the farm must be treated with caution.

Now Yangjiazhuang can have such conditions, naturally because of Yangcun No. [-].

If the results are not achieved this time, it is hard to say whether the farm can continue to exist.

Yang Xiaotao knew about this matter, the grandfather and the others knew it, and Gao Yufeng knew it even more.

Moreover, Gao Yufeng looked further away. Although the relationship with Mao Xiong was a little tense now, it was not that he had stopped communicating.

News came from above that if this Yangcun No. [-] works, it will become an important export resource, not only in exchange for foreign exchange, but also in exchange for machinery and equipment and other materials.

This is currently a rare export resource.

The two talked for a while, and walked to a pressurized well. At this moment, there were several people gathered here, and they were setting up wooden shelves one by one.

Gao Yufeng walked up to look at the pressurized well, with a happy expression on his face, "This pressurized well is very good. All of our villages have installed pressurized wells, and it will be more convenient to use water when we plow in spring."

Yang Xiaotao nodded. When he came back, he saw many pressurized wells in the surrounding villages.

"If the time had been earlier, we would have dug two more wells, and that area could have been planted."

Gao Yufeng pointed to the land to the north of the village. There was a high slope where it was not easy to drill a well.

Yang Xiaotao wondered if he should tell him about the well drilling machine. If he had a well drilling machine, a well could be drilled in less than two days.

At that time, with the pressurized well, the planting volume of Yangcun No. [-] in this piece of land will double.

But Yang Xiaotao thought about it, but still didn't tell Gao Yufeng.

After all, the steam engine hasn't been solved yet, saying it now is tantamount to painting a cake, and if it fails, it will be a slap in the face.

Yang Xiaotao didn't say much. After dinner in the evening, he and Gao Yufeng checked the terrain in the village the next day, sorted out the farm tools, and prepared to start working.

After entering March, the weather in Forty-Nine City has also become cold in the morning and evening, and extremely hot at noon.

The land became soft, and the surrounding villages began to prepare for farming. The cows and donkeys were pulled out and began to plow the ground.

Even those who grow winter wheat are already thinking about how to irrigate the wheat.

It's been a year, and it hasn't rained yet.

Siheyuan.

As the sun shines into the central courtyard, the sleeping people wake up and start their day's work.

Workers who are not at work are not idle either, helping to clean up the house.

Silly Zhu got up early in the morning to fetch water to wash his face, and fell asleep in the middle of the night last night, but the excitement on his face was still there.

I finally received news from my third aunt yesterday, and today a girl agrees with her opinion, whether it will be successful or not depends on today's decision.

After dinner, Shazhu found a gray sweater from the cabinet, and put it on regardless of whether it was cold outside, with a white shirt underneath, his hair was washed, his nails were cut, and the beard that was not much on his face was pretended to be I made a copy and repaired it.

In fact, Shazhu wanted to grow a beard, at least it was a sign to prove a man, so that those doubts in the courtyard would be self-evident.

But in order to look young, Shazhu still shaved without hesitation.

As for whether a man is a man or not, as long as you are married, your wife will naturally know.

The mind is happy, and everyone is smiling.

As usual, Qin Huairu got up to clean up for Jia Dongxu, and opened the door of the house to let the air in, so as to save any moths.

When I went out, I saw Shazhu walking towards the backyard beamingly, and he almost had the word "good thing" written on his face, for fear that others would not know.

"Zhuzi, go to the old lady's so early."

Qin Huairu said hello.

Silly Zhu is a person who is in good spirits on happy occasions. Seeing that it was Qin Huairu, he originally wanted to share the good news, but these days he has to listen to the old lady, and deliberately keeps a distance from Qin Huairu, in order to be able to find a wife.

Now that I'm going to meet my partner right away, Silly Zhu doesn't want to make any extra troubles, so he took a look at Qin Huairu and suppressed his psychological secrets, grinning, "Ah, this old lady is going out for a walk, staying at home is easy to get sick."

Saying that, Silly Zhu walked towards the backyard.

Seeing Shazhu like this, Qin Huairu completely lost the hospitality of the past, and there was no desire to look at her in his eyes.

Hesitating to speak but stopped, he could only fiddle with his clothes preoccupied.