The train driver in the courtyard

"Patriotic brother, I really want to thank you for what happened this time. If it weren't for you, my sheep would definitely not be recovered."

As she spoke, Liang Ladi wanted to hand the mutton to Chen Xueru.

That piece of mutton weighed at least four or five kilograms, and could be sold for five or six yuan on the black market.

Chen Xueru felt that the gift was too valuable. She looked at Li Aiguo and saw Li Aiguo nodded, so she took the mutton.

After sending the mutton, Nan Yi and Liang Ladi were going back to prepare dinner.

Li Aiguo stopped them: "It's just right, there is such a big piece of mutton. Nanyi, Liang Ladi, you bring the children, and call He Yuyu and Aunt Liu, we will have a delicious meal."

"Sorry, patriotic brother, you have a guest here."

Both Nan Yi and Liang Ladi looked a little embarrassed.

"This is not an outsider, he is my good brother Yang Xingzhai. He is from the capital city and is not familiar with the capital. You can just help him." Li Aiguo patted Yang Xingzhai on the shoulder and said.

Yang Xingzhai seemed particularly happy to be called 'brother' by Li Aiguo.

"Yes, yes, it's more lively to eat and drink together."

Nan Yi and Liang Ladi still wanted to refuse.

Li Aiguo made a serious face and wanted to return the mutton, and then they nodded and agreed.

With the arrival of the guests, the room quickly became lively.

The four children of the Liang family, He Yuyu, Aunt Liu, Chen Xueru, Chen Xingyi, plus Li Aiguo and Yang Xingzhai, filled the house to the brim.

This is not difficult for us, Li Aiguo.

He took out the key and opened the next door. The entire room here was decorated as a living room.

"That's four rooms." Yang Xingzhai nodded enviously.

Housing in the capital has always been very tight. As the deputy director of the workshop who was transferred from other places, he was assigned a single dormitory in one room.

There is a big gap between the four rooms in Li Ai's country.

As night falls, the courtyard is filled with smoke, and the air is filled with the smell of human fireworks.

Nan Yi used his special skills to make seven or eight plates and put them on the table.

The tempting smell of mutton slipped out through the cracks in the window.

Yi Zhonghai's home.

Yi Zhonghai looked at the cabbage leaves on the plate and scratched his head depressedly.

"Old lady, are you feeding sheep? I still have a salary of seventy or eighty yuan every month, so I just eat this."

The aunt brought out a bowl of stick noodle porridge from the kitchen and placed it in front of him angrily.

"We just paid a fine of twenty yuan for Jia Dongxu. How can we still have money to buy groceries? Let's make do with it."

When the fine was mentioned, Yi Zhonghai was speechless.

Last night, Aunt Ma calculated an account for him. In the past few years, the Jia family has borrowed hundreds of dollars from the Yi family, and they haven't paid back a penny.

"Old lady, you have to take a long-term view. Once Jia Zhang is killed, we will have a son for nothing." Yi Zhonghai said while drinking stick noodle porridge.

The eldest mother sighed and said, "Jia Zhang looks stronger than an ox. I'm afraid I won't be able to survive her."

Yi Zhonghai: "."

At this time, there was an attractive smell of mutton coming from outside.

The stick noodle porridge in Yi Zhonghai's mouth became even more unpalatable.

"Who is such a decent family that can afford to eat mutton?"

The eldest mother glanced at him sideways: "Who else could it be? It must be Li Aiguo."

"This afternoon I saw that Nan Yi brought a large piece of mutton to Li Aiguo. He must be thanking Li Aiguo for helping his family find the goat."

When he mentioned this, Yi Zhonghai couldn't eat anymore and put the bowls and chopsticks on the table.

When the Nan Yi family lost their sheep, Yi Zhonghai was criticized by many residents in the compound because he did not stand up for the Nan Yi family.

Li Aiguo retrieved the sheep and won praise from the residents. Now he can get the mutton for free.

After going back and forth, Yi Zhonghai felt that he was about to lose his pants.

Jia Zhang from the Jia family also smelled the aroma of mutton.

She stood at the door and her nose twitched twice, and her face suddenly darkened.

"It's Li Aiguo who's eating mutton. Damn it, Li Aiguo cooked the mutton and didn't even know how to give my old lady a bowl."

Qin Huairu said: "If Dongxu had taken the initiative to help and exposed those bandits, maybe we could eat mutton now.

It's better now. Dongxu still has to make a self-examination in front of the residents, which is embarrassing. "

"Snapped"

As soon as she finished speaking, Jia Zhang turned around and slapped her.

"Is there a wife like you? How can I speak ill of my own master!"

Qin Huairu was stunned, covering her face with tears streaming down her face.

She said to Jia Dongxu: "Don't you care about your mother?"

"I think Mom beat you well. Even if Mom doesn't hit you, I still have to hit you."

Jia Dongxu leaned on the chair with a cold face: "My father said back then that if a woman is disobedient, she will be beaten!"

If Jia Zhang's slap broke Qin Huairu's heart, Jia Dongxu's words were like a sharp knife, piercing Qin Huairu's heart.

She feels like she will always be an outsider in this family!

Because of Jia Dongxu's plan to mend the sky, the Jia family is in a state of turmoil these days, and Qin Huairu has long been holding back her anger.

Qin Huairu said nothing, raised her sleeves and wiped her tears, turned around and went into the back room to pack her luggage, picked up the stick and left the house.

When Jia Dongxu saw Qin Huairu going back to her parents' home, he suddenly panicked and wanted to step forward to stop her.

Jia Zhang took Jia Dongxu's arm.

"Let her go back! I don't believe that a little girl from the countryside can turn the world upside down."

Curses came from behind, and Qin Huairu felt that the whole world became dim.

After leaving the middle courtyard, I bumped into the third aunt face to face.

"Qin Huairu, it's going to be dark soon, where are you going?"

Qin Huairu didn't answer, she lowered her head and sobbed quietly as she walked outside.

The third aunt felt something was wrong, so she ran home in a panic and called the third uncle.

"Old man, it's not good. Qin Huairu seems to be angry with the Jia family and is going back to her parents' house."

"Just go back. She is an adult, who can stop her." The third uncle didn't care.

The third aunt said, "It's so late now, the roads in the countryside are hard to walk on, and Qin Huairu is holding the child. What if something happens?"

Hearing this, the third uncle can no longer sit idly by.

Although he looked down upon the Jia family's character, he couldn't just watch Qin Huairu have any problems.

But the third uncle also knew that he would definitely not be able to stop Qin Huairu, and Jia Zhang would not listen to him.

The third uncle came to Yi Zhonghai's house and told Yi Zhonghai about Qin Huairu's return to her parents' home.

Qin Huairu and Banggen were an important part of Yi Zhonghai's retirement plan. Naturally, Yi Zhonghai couldn't just sit back and ignore them, so he aggressively approached the Jia family.

Faced with Yi Zhonghai's questioning, Jia Zhang still said, "If a woman is disobedient, she should be beaten and taught a lesson."

Yi Zhonghai ignored Jia Zhang, glared at Jia Dongxu and said, "Dongxu, go find your wife quickly!"

Although Jia Dongxu agreed with Jia Zhang's statement in his heart, he did not dare to resist in the face of Yi Zhonghai.

He hesitated for a moment, stood up and walked outside.

Seeing Jia Dongxu being so obedient, Jia Zhang slapped the table and cried: "Dongxu, you are my son, how can you listen to outsiders?"

Yi Zhonghai scolded her with a straight face: "Jia Zhang, if you dare to mess around again, I will report your behavior these days to the street office and send you back to Jiajiazhuang."

Thinking of what she had experienced in the commune, Jia Zhang was so frightened that she was speechless.

Qin Huairu actually didn't go far while holding the stick in her arms.

She knew that the third aunt was soft-hearted and would definitely tell Yi Zhonghai about her.

Yi Zhonghai considered himself Jia Dongxu's father and could not tolerate Jia Dongxu driving her and Banggeng away.

Sure enough, seeing Jia Dongxu chasing after him, Qin Huairu's lips curled up with a hint of pride.

After Jia Dongxu apologized to her and surrendered, Qin Huairu returned to the courtyard again holding the stick in her arms.

The Jia family returned to its previous appearance, as if nothing had happened.

Li Aiguo didn't know that a meal of mutton would cause such a big disturbance in the courtyard.

But even if he knew, he wouldn't care.

Because now the dishes are all on the table.

There is no feast without wine.

Just as Li Aiguo was about to open the cabinet and take out the wine, Chen Xueru stopped him: "That girl Xu Huizhen gave me a jar of old wine. Let's drink this today."

Xu Huizhen? Only then did Li Aiguo remember that she was the little widow from Zhengyangmen who knew how to make wine.

He asked casually: "Is the business of the tavern okay?"

"Business is pretty good. That girl Xu Huizhen knows how to do business and makes good wine. People have to queue up to buy wine every day."

Chen Xueru opened the wine jar and said nonchalantly:

"That girl's marriage didn't go well, and the director of our subdistrict office introduced her to several partners.

Either she doesn't like others, or they don't like her. "

In the eyes of future generations, Xu Huizhen's conditions were quite good.

She is pretty, has a good figure, and is the proprietress of a tavern, so she can be considered rich and beautiful.

But in this day and age, in the eyes of the public, Xu Huizhen is a divorced woman, a capitalist, and a wine seller.
When these BUFFs are added up, it will be more difficult for Xu Huizhen to find an excellent partner.

Otherwise, in the original work, Xu Huizhen would not be able to marry a temporary worker in the street office.

Chen Xueru touched Li Aiguo's arm: "Brother Aiguo, if you meet a suitable partner, you can introduce him to Xu Huizhen."

"Don't worry." Li Aiguo had a good impression of Xu Huizhen and agreed immediately.

The old wine brewed by Xu Huizhen tastes delicious. Yang Xingzhai is a wine lover. After drinking two glasses, he asked: "Aiguo, where does this wine come from?" "In a small tavern in the capital, if you have the skills, I'll take you there." Li Aiguo picked up a peanut and stuffed it into his mouth.

Yang Xingzhai seems to be single. He is the deputy director of the workshop. Xu Huizhen should be enough.

It's just that this kind of relationship between men and women is all about fate, and Li Aiguo doesn't have the bad habit of being a matchmaker.

A dinner party for all the guests.

After seeing Yang Xingzhai away.

The weather was hot, and Li Aiguo unbuttoned his collar and was about to go back to the house.

I saw Nan Yi and Liang Ladi moving mutton onto the flatbed truck.

"Nanyi, what's going on, where are you going to sell this mutton?"

"We can only sell it to food stations. If we sell it on the black market, we might get into trouble."

Looking at the somewhat depressed Nan Yi, Li Aiguo pondered for a moment and said, "Let's do this. Tomorrow morning I will go to the logistics department of the locomotive depot to help you ask where mutton may be purchased."

"Oh, thank you so much, brother Patriot." Nan Yi held Li Aiguo's hand with gratitude.

The price given by the logistics department of the locomotive depot will definitely be higher than that of the food station.

"You're welcome."

After Chen Xingyi returned to Chen's house, Chen Fangxuan was a little dissatisfied when he saw that he came back so late and still smelled of alcohol.

"Xing Yi, you have just started working. You need to perform well in the workshop. You can't fool around with those bad friends outside."

Chen Xingyi explained with a smile: "Dad, you misunderstood. I had dinner at my brother-in-law's house, and Deputy Director Yang of our workshop is also there."

"Deputy Director Yang, this is a good thing. You should love the country more in the future."

The sister-in-law heard about this and gave Chen Xingyi advice.

"If you can get along well with Deputy Director Yang, you might be able to become the team leader in the workshop!"

Chen Xingyi still prefers to be a worker.

Seeing Li Aiguo chatting and laughing with Yang Zhaishan, he felt a little restless just sitting next to them.

But in the face of my sister-in-law's kindness, I still said: "Thank you, sister-in-law."

"You, don't be like your brother, who only knows how to work on technology." The sister-in-law saw his thoughts and shook her head helplessly.

Although Chen Xingjia has been promoted now, because of a bad relationship with the workshop leader, he has not become a team leader in the workshop. He has lost five yuan a month!

The next day.

Li Aiguo has two things to do.

The first thing is to help Nanyi sell mutton.

The second thing is to go to Hongqi Umbrella Factory to contact the production of automatic umbrellas.

He decided to do the first thing first, for no other reason than that mutton would stink if left for too long.

This is the first time that the logistics section chief of the Qianmen Locomotive Depot has heard of someone selling just one sheep.

"Driver Li, you mean there are only seventy or eighty pounds of mutton?" Section Chief Zhang rubbed his ears.

"It's a neighbor of mine whose sheep was stolen"

Li Aiguo also knew that such a small amount of mutton was not worth the logistics department's intervention.

He held out a cigarette and told the whole story. Section Chief Zhang was amazed.

“It’s not against the rules, but there’s no need to put it in the freezer.

Aiguo, I will write you a note. You ask that Nanyi to deliver the mutton directly to the canteen. "

Li Aiguo: "."

Good guy, let’s go straight to the pot.

But the price given is quite good, a full one dollar and twenty cents per catty, which is the same as the selling price at the food station.

Nan Yi sent the mutton to the canteen to be weighed and received more than 80 yuan.

Clutching a thick stack of banknotes, the stone weighing on Nan Yi's heart finally fell to the ground.

With this money, I can buy food and nutritional supplements for Liang Ladi.

Nan Xiaoying needs to be breastfed when she is still young, and Liang Ladi has to work in the workshop while breastfeeding, which is very hard. She has lost four or five kilograms during this time.

Nan Yi wanted to thank Li Aiguo, but found that Li Aiguo had already left the locomotive depot on his own.

"Can't Driver Li drive?" he asked the canteen cook curiously.

The cook laughed and said, "Don't you understand this? Driver Li from our locomotive depot is a special driver. The driving time on weekdays is shorter than the time on missions."

Does the train driver still have to do his job?
Nan Yi couldn't understand it either, but he could detect his admiration for Li Aiguo from the cook's tone.

The Hongqi Umbrella Factory is located in Fangshan County, which is far less prosperous than later generations and is still a wilderness.

The umbrella factory, like the instant noodle factory, is a third-line railway factory, and its main purpose is to accommodate the families of railway employees.

Similarly, like the instant noodle factory, the old-fashioned umbrellas produced by the Hongqi Umbrella Factory are not popular.

It’s not that the Hongqi umbrella is not strong, on the contrary, it is too strong.

The umbrella handle is a steel pipe as thick as a thumb. The umbrella's cloth is three centimeters thick, and the entire umbrella weighs more than ten kilograms.

Staff leaders in the capital like to buy umbrellas from the south, which are lighter.

Therefore, Hongqi umbrellas can only be sold within the railway department.

Soon the railway workers developed a new use. This thing could be used as a weapon.

If you are working in the field, it will give you a lot of confidence to carry a red flag umbrella with you.

A road construction worker once used a red flag umbrella to poke away a big black bear. Since then, the red flag umbrella has become famous within the railway.

Therefore, Hongqi Umbrella Factory can live a life without enough food or hunger.

A day like this is a good day.

Yan Guangzhong, director of the Hongqi Umbrella Factory, felt a little confused after receiving a call from Chief Xing of the Qianmen Locomotive Department.

"Why did the Qianmen Locomotive Depot order a batch of umbrellas at a high price?"

Generally speaking, the production tasks of such third-tier factories are planned on a quarterly basis, and additional orders are rarely added midway.

Upon hearing this, Deputy Factory Director Zhang said cheerfully: "Old Yan, why do you care so much? As long as there are orders, we can pay bonuses to the workers this month.

Besides, the Qianmen Locomotive Depot also promised to deliver production materials without using our factory quota. This is a steamed bun falling from the sky. "

Yan Guangzhong thought about it carefully and realized that this was really the case.

The third-tier factories are also having a hard time these days.

In order to provide employees with meat, the factory even purchased piglets from rural areas and sent several employees to raise pigs.

So when Li Aiguo and Deputy Section Chief Liu came to the factory, they seemed very enthusiastic.

"Driver Li, don't worry. As long as you give me the drawings, our factory will make two thousand umbrellas in just ten days."

After Li Aiguo shook hands with Yan Guangzhong, he handed him the drawing: "I have some special requirements for the umbrella. The umbrella surface is made of nylon cloth and the umbrella handle is made of aluminum."

"Nylon cloth? The kind of nylon cloth made from industrial yarn?"

"That's right, it's nylon 66 industrial yarn."

Li Aiguo said in a deep voice, "This time, the superiors have allocated a batch of nylon 66 industrial yarn, which is enough to produce two thousand umbrellas. It will be delivered to your factory tomorrow."

When it comes to aluminum umbrella handles, Yan Guangzhong is not surprised.

There are factories affiliated to the railway that specialize in the production of aluminum materials and can be used at any time.

But nylon 66 is different.

In 6, China independently developed nylon yarn, which was divided into two types: nylon 66 and nylon .

Due to the backward domestic industrial base, there is no way to produce nylon materials on a large scale. There are only a few nylon manufacturers in the Northeast.

Under normal circumstances, it is very difficult to get the quota for nylon.

Driver Li actually planned to use nylon thread to make an umbrella cover. Yan Guangzhong couldn't help but become interested.

The smile on his face became even brighter. After pouring tea for Li Aiguo and Deputy Chief Liu, he studied the drawings carefully.

Yan Guangzhong was an experienced technician and quickly understood the principles of automatic umbrellas. He was quite in favor of the design of automatic umbrellas, but he felt that the cost was too high.

It's just that they are the customers who paid the money, and Yan Guangzhong will not stop him.

After half an hour, Yan Guangzhong narrowed his eyes slightly: "Driver Li, you still have to draw patterns on the umbrella, and the umbrella handle has a complicated process, which greatly increases the difficulty of production.

Also, this kind of umbrella is completely different from our Hongqi umbrella, and our workers have to learn it all over again when making it."

No matter how powerful you are, Yan Guangzhong, as the factory director, must always seek benefits for the workers.

"I'll add more money," Li Aiguo said.

"what?!"

Yan Guangzhong didn't expect him to be so cheerful. He was stunned for a moment, then suddenly laughed and held Li Aiguo's hand: "Driver Li, don't worry, just give us ten days to complete the manufacturing of the umbrella."

Li Aiguo: "."

Deputy Chief Liu: "."

Deputy Chief Liu calculated it carefully and found that after adding the money, the price of a single umbrella reached three yuan and twenty cents.

Who can afford such a high cost?

Deputy Chief Liu deliberately reminded Li Aiguo not to mess around.

But if you think about it carefully, Li Aiguo has no choice but to give up now that he has money.

This is true. Now the studio can earn more than 10,000 yuan every month through the instant noodle factory.

In addition, Li Aiguo also holds the domestic sales quota of instant noodles. These quotas are not money, but they are far more useful than money.

Take this time's nylon quota as an example. Li Aiguo used instant noodle quotas to get them from factories in the Northeast.

There is nothing we can do, Li Aiguo is very wealthy.

We, Li Aiguo, have a lot of money and resources, so there is nothing we can do.

After telling the Hongqi Umbrella Factory about the work of manufacturing umbrellas, Li Aiguo resumed his driving duties.

(End of this chapter)