The train driver in the courtyard

To disturb the interests of those with vested interests is to take away their lifeblood!

The relationships within the instant noodle factory were complicated. Seeing that Li Aiguo was going to take action on them, the leaders asked people to find connections.

However, those people were all blocked by Duan Chang Xing.

In the words of Duan Chang Xing, that is: "Instant noodles are related to the future of the locomotive depot. Anyone who dares to jump out and cause trouble will be shot!"

Only then did the leaders cease their activities and honestly accepted the adjustment plan.

Of course, the most important reason is that those people have a guilty conscience and are afraid of making things worse.

The workers, however, are in favor of the transformation plan. According to the adjusted plan, the workers' wages will be at least five yuan more per month.

As the days passed, the transformation of the instant noodle factory gradually got on the right track, and Li Aiguo breathed a sigh of relief.

But there was one more thing that confused him, and that was that Deputy Director Liu's resignation procedures had not been completed for a long time.

Factory Director Huang also urged him several times, but was blocked by the Logistics Department on the grounds that there were too many accounts and needed to be clarified.

Factory Director Huang is a good old man.

Considering that Deputy Director Liu had made a lot of contributions to the factory, he did not rush him in order to avoid the situation being too ugly.

Li Aiguo felt something was wrong.

He has never understood why Deputy Director Liu strongly opposed the renovation of the production workshop.

For this reason, Li Aiguo invited Zhou Ke to the office.

As the factory representative, Li Aiguo has a separate office in the instant noodle factory for his convenience.

The office is not big, only about twenty square meters.

The office equipment was only a table with broken legs, two broken chairs, and a piece of glass in the window was broken. The thrifty logistics department officer covered it with torn newspapers, which were whistling in the wind at this time!

Even such a simple office attracted Zhou Ke's praise.

"Brother Patriot, I don't know when I can get an office."

"How about I give it to you?"

"Forget it"

Zhou Ke sat on the only chair and waved his hands repeatedly: "Making instant noodles is not as refreshing as solving a crime."

After Zhou Ke finished speaking, his eyes suddenly widened and he looked at Li Aiguo: "Aiguo, you called me here today. Isn't there a case?"

What does it mean to be a good brother? This is it!
As a brother who once nursed together, Zhou Ke could instantly understand Li Aiguo's intentions, and Li Aiguo was really moved.

Seeing Li Aiguo nodding, Zhou Ke became excited.

"Patriot, who is the suspect?"

"Deputy Director Liu of the instant noodle factory. He is now the former deputy director." Li Aiguo said slowly.

Most of the employees in the instant noodle factory are their family members, so they are almost like a family, and gossip spreads very quickly.

Before Zhou Ke came, he had already heard the third daughter of his aunt's second uncle's family talk about the great things Li Aiguo had done.

On the way here, Zhou Ke lamented over and over again that they were all good brothers who worked together, so why was Li Aiguo able to remove the deputy director?

And he had to be trained like a dog in front of the director.

Zhou Ke finally came to the result, that is, the one on the left is more nutritious than the one on the right.

"Vice Factory Director Liu is suspected of committing a crime?" Zhou Ke frowned: "Patriot, we can't just doubt people randomly."

Li Aiguo was about to confess his doubts when an exclamation came from outside.

"Oops, there's a fire!"

Hear the words.

The two of them opened the door and ran out, bumping into Factory Director Huang who was about to knock on the door.

"Old Huang, why are you here?"

"I want to talk to you about Liu Haishan."

When he heard the shouting and turned around to see where the black smoke was coming from, Director Huang's expression suddenly changed.

"No, it's the office over there in the Logistics Department. Let's go there quickly!"

When the three people arrived at the scene, they saw flames and smoke billowing everywhere.

After receiving the news, the workers came from afar, carrying iron buckets and enamel basins. They took water from the faucet and were putting out the fire.

The person responsible for the on-site firefighting work was Captain Zhang of the instant noodle factory’s factory protection team.

The instant noodle factory does not have a security department and is under the jurisdiction of the security department of the Qianmen locomotive depot and the railway police station. The factory protection team is a unit organized voluntarily by the workers.

Captain Zhang is a tall man of 1.7 meters with a strong build. He is a neighbor of Zhou Ke. Li Aiguo has met him twice.

Captain Zhang just rushed out of the room. His face was black from smoke, half of his eyebrows were burned off, and black smoke was rising all over his body.

Li Aiguo took a closer look and saw that this guy's butt was on fire.

"Wow!"

Several team members did not care about entering the house to put out the fire. They had to save Captain Zhang first.

After the fire on Captain Zhang's body was extinguished, he looked like a bonfire soaked by heavy rain, with patches of black and white on his body.

Seeing a few people coming, Captain Zhang came over, raised his wet sleeves and wiped his face, and reported: "Representative Li, factory director, a fire broke out in the Finance Office of the Logistics Section, and now our factory protection team is organizing manpower to put out the fire. "

"Finance Office" Director Huang's face turned ugly, "How about the losses?"

Captain Zhang didn't answer. Li Aiguo already understood the result when he looked at the house that was almost burned to the ground.

The house was burned down to this level. If Monkey Sun lived in this house, he would probably be burned out.

The unexpected fire broke the normal order of the instant noodle factory.

Li Aiguo was originally going to explain food hygiene precautions to the workers in the afternoon, but now he stayed at the scene of the incident with Factory Director Huang.

Because one or two hundred workers participated in putting out the fire, the fire was extinguished after about 20 minutes, and no greater disaster occurred.

Zhou Ke and Captain Zhang led the team members to venture into the room to investigate the cause of the fire and look for the account books that had not been burned.

At this time, a lesbian came over carrying a lunch box.

Seeing the fire in the office, shock appeared on her fair face and she staggered over.

"Oh, why did it catch on fire?"

Factory Director Huang said: "Finance Liu, I have to ask you this."

Li Aiguo had just learned that the burned office belonged to Liu Finance, and her current job was to find out the accounts of Deputy Director Liu.

Liu Finance is probably in his thirties this year. He has a plump figure, but he is wearing a thin floral dress.

The pants are also waist-cinching, which makes her thighs extra thick and her peaches extra big, giving Li Aiguo a wolf-like and tiger-like feeling.

This woman can probably sit on the ground and absorb dirt.

Faced with Factory Director Huang's question, Finance Manager Liu calmly replied: "Director, how could I know? I went to the cafeteria for lunch and it looked like this when I came back. Maybe the wiring is aging. You also know that our house It was built before liberation, and there are many rats. Rats often chew on the wires.”

In recent years, due to carelessness in using electricity, fires often occurred. Factory Director Huang was speechless for a while.

Zhou Ke and Captain Zhang came out of the scene after investigating.

"Representative Li and Factory Director Huang, it seems that it is because the current load is too large that the wires burned the outer covering and produced sparks. There are many ledgers in the finance room, so it burned so quickly. Now all the ledgers in the house have been burned. Empty"

Upon hearing this result, Finance Liu breathed a sigh of relief.

Factory Director Huang is also preparing to have his office cleaned out.

Li Aiguo stepped forward and said with a smile: "Old Huang, I haven't seen a fire scene yet. I need to broaden my horizons today."

"Representative Li, there is danger inside." Director Huang quickly stopped him.

Liu Finance also said: "Yes, Representative Li, you are the factory representative. It is related to the future of our instant noodle factory, so you cannot be involved in risks."

Li Aiguo: "Are the factory representatives a head taller than the workers? Zhou Ke and Captain Zhang can get in, why can't I?"

Liu Finance's obstruction aroused Li Aiguo's suspicion even more.

After Deputy Director Liu was fired, the factory had to audit the accounts, and the office where the financial department kept the account books immediately caught fire. This kind of coincidence had been common in previous lives.

People of this era were relatively simple, so they might not have noticed, but it aroused Li Aiguo's vigilance.

Thinking of the doubts about Deputy Factory Director Liu, Li Aiguo decided to find out about this matter.

Zhou Ke and Captain Zhang led the way, and Li Aiguo entered the burnt-black office.

The smell of charcoal grilling filled the air.

Fire-damaged desks and filing cabinets littered the floor.

The glass windows were all broken, the walls were faded, and the floor was covered with ashes and bricks.

The footsteps made a rustling sound on the ground.

It seemed that everything in front of me was silently telling the indelible mark left by the fire.

"Brother Patriot, this fire is indeed a bit strange!"

Zhou Ke had no suspicion at first, but now he inspected the scene again and immediately discovered something strange.

Captain Zhang also nodded: "The fire burned too fast and was too big. The worker who noticed the smoke coming from the window was a worker in the packaging workshop. After receiving the report, it only took us less than three minutes to arrive.

The fire was all ignited, and we couldn't rush in at all. We could only watch the documents being burned. "

According to his speculation, someone should have set the fire deliberately.

"But there was no one in the room at that time! The office window was closed from the inside." Zhou Ke walked to the window and pulled the latch. The latch was deformed in the fire and there was no way to open it at this time.

Captain Zhang scratched his head in annoyance: "Yes, there is no one in the house. Who lit the fire? Could it be that the fire was caused by the wire catching fire?"

Li Aiguo thought for a moment and said, "Call in the worker who first discovered the fire."

After a while.

The aunt in work clothes followed Captain Zhang in.

Her hair was gray and her expression was a little reserved. She looked at Li Aiguo and quickly lowered her head. She put her hands in her pockets and took them out again, as if she didn't know how to place them.

"Comrade, don't be nervous, I am Li Aiguo, the factory representative."

"I know you. You are the driver Li who invented the dump car. I am from the old Zhou family. I used to do odd jobs in the locomotive depot. When the dump train was being tested, I was at the scene, but you didn't see me. ."

Li Aiguo's warm attitude made Mrs. Zhou relax. She raised her head and said gratefully, "It was because of you that we didn't fall off the carriage."

Zhou Ke was filled with admiration. The most difficult thing in the world is to receive heartfelt gratitude from others.

Li Aiguo burst into laughter, "Aunt Zhou, please tell me how you discovered the fire from beginning to end."

"Huh? Let's start from the beginning."

Aunt Zhou hesitated for a moment, a trace of embarrassment appeared on her face.

"I'm not afraid of your jokes. I ate in the cafeteria at noon.

The food in the cafeteria is so good, there are even big white steamed buns.

I was reluctant to eat it and wanted to take it home to give to my children. I put the steamed buns into my purse, drank only a bowl of porridge, and prepared to go back to the workshop to continue learning calligraphy.

I haven't been to school since I was a child, and I'm stupid. I can't write those few words in the morning. That's no good. I need to know how to write before I can be a worker.

As soon as I walked to the door of the finance room, I heard a strange sound inside, and then there was a fire.

The fire was really scary. When I started calling people, the whole house was on fire. "

Li Aiguo then asked: "Did you smell anything suspicious?"

"If you didn't mention it, I really wouldn't have thought of it."

Aunt Zhou raised her eyelids, frowned and said, "I smelled a smell of "foreign oil" (kerosene) at that time, and thought there was something wrong with my nose."

kerosene!

As soon as these words came out, the expressions of Zhou Ke and Captain Zhang changed.

The presence of kerosene meant that the fire was not an accident, but a man-made arson.

Li Aiguo asked Aunt Zhou to leave first.

And told her not to tell anyone else about it.

Aunt Zhou agreed immediately, "Representative Li, you are my great benefactor, I will listen to you."

After Aunt Zhou left, Zhou Ke lowered his voice and said, "Brother Patriot, I think Finance Liu is very suspicious. Let's arrest her first."

"Arrest someone? Where's the evidence?"

Li Aiguo said with a straight face: "Zhou Ke, this is not before liberation. You can arrest people casually. We have to pay attention to the evidence."

Zhou Ke also knew that Finance Liu was an important leader of the instant noodle factory. If he arrested people without any evidence, it would be easy to attract criticism.

As for the kerosene smell mentioned by Aunt Zhou, it can only be regarded as her subjective feeling and cannot be used as evidence.

"what"

At this moment, Li Aiguo suddenly looked at the top of the cabinet and saw a bunch of black wires there.

"Zhou Ke, bring a pair of pliers."

After taking the pliers, Li Aiguo found a stool and climbed up, cut off the wire, and found that the wire was not a complete wire.

The wire was cut off in the middle and something like an iron wire was connected.

The wire was wound around and around to form a coil.

"Isn't the wire a copper wire? Why is there an iron wire in the middle?" Zhou Ke scratched his head in confusion.

Yes, in these days, most electrical wires were copper.

Later, when copper prices soared, aluminum wires were used to replace copper wires. In later generations, aluminum wires were not as stable as all-copper wires in electrical conductivity, so they were replaced again by copper wires.

The history of the development of electric wires is actually the history of China's industrialization.

Li Aiguo pointed to the iron wire ring and said: "This thing is not as simple as iron wire. It is also a simple heating device, a heating wire."

Heating wires can be seen everywhere in later generations, such as heaters and electric kettles in student dormitories.

Li Aiguo also wanted to study heating wires to produce heat quickly, but considering the voltage of these years, he gave up.

Li Aiguo explained the principle of heating wire, and Zhou Ke's expression changed.

Furthermore, it was linked to the fact that the iron wire ring was located above the material cabinet. At this time, there was finally evidence of arson.

Zhou Ke sealed off the scene at that time and had Liu Finance temporarily detained.

"What are you doing? The fire was just an accident. It has nothing to do with me! Let me go quickly!"

Liu Finance's plump body was trembling in panic. She hugged the door frame tightly, unwilling to leave.

"Look, guys, our new factory representative, in order to clean up us old people, actually framed me for setting fire!"

The comrades at the police station were not used to little fairies these days, so two of them rolled up their sleeves and rushed forward.

Liu Finance roared in a hoarse voice, and the sweat on his body soaked through his clothes.

He glared at them hard and said, "I'm telling you, you have arrested the wrong person! Let me go!"

Director Huang also felt that something was wrong and stepped forward and said, "Patriot, have you made a mistake? Finance Liu is an old finance person and there is no way he would do this."

Originally, Li Aiguo did not plan to release the relevant details before the case was solved, but he could not allow Liu Finance to confuse instant noodle workers.

"I saw it. This thing was found at the fire scene. It is a simple heating wire."

Looking at the wire coil in Li Aiguo's hand, the workers who were watching all took a breath and looked at Finance Liu with disdain.

The office is owned by Liu Finance, which has something to do with the wire coil.

After losing the support of the workers, Liu Finance was eventually forced to the ground, his hands were tied with ropes, and he was taken to the locomotive depot police station.

Before leaving, she cursed and yelled ruthlessly: "You are all villains! You will get retribution!"

The harsh sound subsided and was drowned in the discussions of the workers.

Director Huang felt that this matter was a bit difficult to handle, so he looked at Li Aiguo and said, "Comrade Patriot, what should we do now?"

"Detain Deputy Director Liu now!"

Li Aiguo also knows that the current evidence is not enough to charge Deputy Factory Director Liu and Finance Liu.

However, it is always right to strike three poles first if there are dates or not.

Also, this can also prevent Deputy Director Liu from absconding.

Factory Director Huang also looked a little embarrassed, "Deputy Factory Director Liu's uncle is Director Zhang of the General Administration. I'm afraid."

Li Aiguo finally understood why third-tier factories like instant noodle factories were always underperforming.

With Deputy Director Liu having such a backer, Director Huang would have to be somewhat wary of him on weekdays.

However, what Li Aiguo is determined to do must be accomplished!

Li Aiguo pondered for a moment and said: "Please ask the Armed Forces Department of the Locomotive Maintenance Section to intervene and arrest Deputy Director Liu for maliciously damaging the instant noodle factory and attempting to undermine economic construction!"

As soon as these words came out, Zhou Ke's eyes lit up: "In this case, even if Director Zhang wants to intervene, he has to take the overall situation into consideration."

Because the Armed Forces Department of the Locomotive Depot often performs some special tasks, it is not under the direct management of the General Administration and can avoid interference from outsiders to the greatest extent.

Factory Director Huang did not expect that Li Aiguo would be able to use the Armed Forces Department of the Locomotive Maintenance Section. After being stunned for a moment, he handed over the home address of Deputy Factory Director Liu to Li Aiguo.

Housing in Beijing has always been tight.

In order to alleviate the housing shortage, after 49, the East and West courtyards in the inner city became larger courtyards, with a family of seven or eight often crowded into two rooms.

Various military compounds are also being constructed in the western suburbs.

These air, sea, general logistics... compounds are all located in open areas in the suburbs. The facilities in the compounds are complete and self-contained, which solves the housing problem of most military cadres who come to Beijing.

What many people don’t know is that in addition to building military compounds that year.

On some open spaces outside the city wall and at the gate of the city, a number of bungalows were built imitating the row houses of barracks.

There are rows of bright tile-roofed houses. In front of the houses is a yard shared by several families. In the middle of the yard is a water pipe. This should be regarded as a small villa at that time.

Most of the people who can live here are old skilled workers and senior leaders from large factories.

In the bungalow located in the corner of the second row, Deputy Director Liu's fat body pressed the sofa squeaking.

He was as depressed as the sofa under his butt.

Deputy Director Liu, whose real name is Liu Haishan, was a boy at the "Wild Teahouse" before liberation.

"Wild teahouses" are mostly located at three-way intersections near Guanxiang in the outskirts of the city or near large driveways.

Houses in the village build three or four tile-roofed houses or thatched cottages facing the street. In summer, they set up simple reed mat pavilions and teahouses outside.

Liu Haishan's main job is to greet guests when they arrive, hand them a handful of cloth, wipe the dirt off their bodies and shoes, and help them serve tea and water.

The most important thing is to serve the teahouse owner and his family, eat, drink and sleep.

It can be said that he is both a clerk and a servant, but he has no wages and only takes care of food and housing.

This kind of bitter experience after liberation made Liu Haishan stand up.

More importantly, he married a young widow whose brother turned out to be the leader of the Railway Bureau.

Relying on this relationship, Liu Haishan turned over and became the deputy director of the biscuit factory.

The biscuit factory had less work but more money. Liu Haishan lived a good life for a few years and made up for the hard days he had lived before.

Who would have thought that the biscuit factory is now going to be converted into an instant noodle factory.

Liu Haishan didn't understand this, or was unwilling to understand it.

The biscuit factory is originally a welfare unit and has support from the maintenance department every year. Why do we still do all those messy things!

That factory director Huang is also a fool. Doesn't he know that big trees attract wind?

Once the factory expands in scale, it will attract the attention of others. How can they, the factory leaders, live a good life?

When the reconstruction was about to be carried out, Liu Haishan had objections, but his arms could not hold his thighs, so Li Aiguo eventually became the factory representative.

Liu Haishan didn't care at first. How could a factory representative who was a worker know how to manage a factory?

Who would have thought that on the first day of his inspection, Li Aiguo proposed to rectify the factory's hygiene and renovate the workshop.

This directly hit Liu Haishan's weakness.

Over the years, the biscuit factory has invested a lot of money in renovating the workshop every year, but there has not been much change in the workshop. The reason is known only to Liu Haishan, the executive deputy director.

That's why Liu Haishan attacked Li Aiguo in front of all the leaders.

He originally thought that he had close connections in the factory, and Li Aiguo was just a new worker, and the leaders and workers would be on his side.

Unexpectedly, the little worker was so sharp that he defeated his offensive with just a few words.

Seeing that it was imperative to rebuild the workshop, Liu Haishan also panicked, because once the leader in charge of the reconstruction project checked the previous reconstruction records and account books, what he had done would be exposed.

What's more serious is that Factory Director Huang actually agreed to remove him from his post and ordered the logistics department to audit the accounts.

This is to force him to die.

Fortunately, Liu Haishan had a back-up plan. Liu Caiwu, who was responsible for checking the accounts, had a close relationship with him.

"Those account books should have been burned by now!" Liu Haishan couldn't raise his wrist to look at the time, with a cold smile on his lips.

At this time, Liu Haishan's daughter-in-law Zhang Yuehua came out of the back room.

"Haishan, we are going to be guests at my brother's house tonight, so hurry up and prepare the gifts."

"Okay." Liu Haishan behaved like a well-behaved baby in front of his wife.

For no other reason, he had already asked his uncle to find out. The General Administration Brewery lacked a director of the logistics department.

The brewery is a large third-tier factory with more than 3,000 employees. The beer sells well in the capital. When the time comes to control the liquor sales, will you still worry about having no money?

"This is called someone in the court who wants to be an official!"

"Liu Haishan, you were so poor that you couldn't even afford to wear trousers. You never thought that you would be able to live the good life you have today."

Liu Haishan hummed a tune, took out five bottles of Maotai liquor from the cabinet, and put them into a canvas bag. (End of chapter)