Back to the past: Spring and Autumn Siheyuan

Chapter 12
"Old Zhang, I will stay here one more night tonight. I just have a rest tomorrow, so I will move back."

Back in the office, Li Heng talked to Station Master Zhang.

"Is everything in order at home?"

"It's packed, and I'll go buy food and coal tomorrow."

"Why, are you still going to cook by yourself?"

"Even if you don't cook, you have to have it. Besides, we don't open the door on Sundays. I don't cook what to eat."

"Hey, if you didn't mention this, I would have forgotten that there is still Sunday." Zhang Zhang raised his hand and patted his forehead.

"Ha, every day of your old man is similar to Sunday, so of course I can't remember."

Stationmaster Zhang often goes to his house when he is on the job, as long as he is there when the car comes to pick up the waste, so it doesn't matter what day of the week it is.

Now that Li Heng is here again, it doesn't matter if he comes or not, look, isn't he coming.

"You are a young man, what's the matter with doing more, what's the matter with taking care of me, an old comrade? From next week, I won't come here if there is nothing to do. You look after this place for us, and now you know the process. I rest assured of you."

Well, you have the final say on your age.

What else can Li Heng say, just agree.

"Hey, Erheng, I also said to discuss something with you. Do you think it is necessary for us to keep someone on duty every night? In fact, it is on duty, which means sleeping in another place."

"Huh? How did you think of this?"

"I went to the office for a meeting this morning. When I came back to catch up with dinner, I forgot to tell you that the Xidan District Supply and Marketing Cooperative was stolen last night and lost a lot of things. The higher-ups asked all our units to strengthen prevention and control."

Did you agree that no one would steal anything?Why is it still there!

"Is there no guard in their unit?"

"There must be, but the person who stole something first climbed in through the wall, and second, he didn't pry open the door, but cut the steel bars on an open window and entered the hall."

Ok?
"They don't close the windows after get off work?"

"This... I don't know about this. The leader didn't say anything at the meeting. What's wrong?"

Well, the occupational disease from the previous life happened again, so what happened.

"No, no, just ask casually, let's talk about our place, Lao Zhang, do you think we need to keep someone on duty? Are you sure someone will want to steal our things?"

As Li Heng spoke, he raised his right thumb and pointed backwards. The direction was their backyard.

Uh... Stationmaster Zhang was stunned by the question.

It's true, they are all waste products here, who wants this, although these waste products are also valuable, but the question is how do you steal them?The pile of waste in the backyard is like a hill. If you steal one or two pieces, no one will be able to find them, not to mention one or two pieces, even ten or eight pieces will not be found.

But taking less is of no value. If you want to take more, you must first have a car to be able to take it away.

Even if you pull a cart and take it away, you can't sell it for a few dollars.

"That's right." Zhang Zhang nodded knowingly: "We really don't need to watch here. Instead of torturing everyone, it's better to pretend that nothing happened, and Lao Zheng is enough."

"Yes, just tell the cashier Lao Liu to deposit the business funds on time every day. If you leave change, keep a little less, and remember to lock the safe. If this is not the case, it will be fine. Take ten thousand steps back, even if the change is lost , and you won’t lose a few coins.”

After listening to what Li Heng said, Station Master Zhang thought about it for a while and then stood up directly.

"Okay, let's do it like this. I'll go to the financial office and tell Lao Liu and Lao Zhao."

After he finished speaking, he walked out of the office. It was almost time to get off work, and he was still resting tomorrow, so he had to ask the financial office to take precautions today.

After Zhang Zhang went out, Li Heng didn't continue to sit in the office. He got up and walked outside, squatted under the eaves and lit a cigarette for himself, and unconsciously glanced at the guard room in the direction of the gate.

Lao Zheng was also sitting at the door with a chair at this time, and there was a wooden-wrapped radio on the window sill behind him. He didn't know what it was playing. Seeing him shaking his head with his eyes closed, he seemed to be listening to an opera.

He seemed to feel that someone was looking at him again, and suddenly opened his eyes and looked over.

And Li Heng had just looked down at the ground just before he opened his eyes, and poked the ground twice with his cigarette-holding hand, standing over Old Zheng, as if he was burning ants on the ground with cigarettes Play the same.

Lao Zheng stared at this side with some doubts for a while, and then turned his head to look at the backyard. Several people who packed and sorted out the waste were ready to call it a day, and they were gathering together to talk about it.

When he looked towards Li Heng again, he found that he had stood up and looked towards him at the same time.

"Old Zheng, let's continue after dinner."

"No problem, I will definitely win today."

At this moment, stationmaster Zhang just came out from the financial office next door, and he heard their conversation and said with some disdain: "The two stinky chess baskets still love to play."

"Stationmaster, what you said is that no one can play from being unable to play, and then getting better and better, and I have improved very fast during this period of time."

"Just you? I can't let a car, a horse, and a gun go to you."

"If you have the ability, let the two go." Li Heng didn't feel embarrassed at all, and put forward his request with the stick on the snake.

"You might as well just say I'll just admit defeat when the chess is set."

"That's fine, I have no objection."

"Comrade Li Heng, how did I find out that your skin is thicker than that of a city gate building?"

Lao Zhang was so confused by his shameless performance that he didn't know what to say, so he was taken aback for a while before he said it.

"Hey, station master, you don't know this. If my skin is thinner, you may not see me now. You don't know how many times you will be beaten to death on the battlefield."

Well, stationmaster Zhang didn't want to talk to this shameless guy any more, so he turned and walked into the office.

Li Heng smiled and squatted down again, keeping his head down, as if he was playing with ants again.

Until the cafeteria opened at six o'clock, everyone packed up their things and went to the cafeteria to eat. Lao Zheng stood up and put the chairs and radio in the house, and then walked out with the lunch box.

Today, he deliberately walked to the station master's office first, and then walked all the way under the eaves to the easternmost canteen.

In the cafeteria, Li Heng, who had been watching outside from the corner of his eye, let out a long breath after seeing Lao Zheng's movements, lowered his head and began to eat.

There was a burst of doubt in my heart, what was the situation, and how could I encounter such a thing when I came to this unit by myself.

The doorman, Old Zheng, must have a problem and didn't run away, but what he wants to do and what he wants to do is still unknown at present, and we have to continue to observe.

(End of this chapter)