Siheyuan: There are three little cats at home

Chapter 542 Master and Father-in-law

"Xiao Qing, let's go and sit with your father-in-law."

Although it is still at work, Lao Zhang is not a person who does things without rules and regulations, but today the apprentice is here, and the master and apprentice naturally have to have a good chat.

After Lao Zhang finished speaking happily, he turned around and said to the workshop director that he was going to the head of the security department.

It's both a report and a request for instructions.

When the workshop director heard this, he was not unhappy at all and said directly:

"Master Zhang, go ahead. We will study the drawings in the afternoon."

Lao Zhang Tangtang is an eighth-level fitter, and his qualifications are very high in the entire No. 3 Factory. The director of the factory has to say hello when he sees him.

How dare the workshop director have any criticism?

Furthermore, Xu Qingren is no longer in the Third Factory, but his reputation is still spread in the Third Factory.

Also, the chief of the security department is Xu Qing's father-in-law. Ma Jiefang, who is also the chief of other departments and is about to be promoted to deputy factory director, is also Xu Qing's brother-in-law.

Regardless of whether it was for Lao Zhang's face or Xu Qing's face, the workshop director would not say an embarrassing word or even a single word.

What's more, if Xu Qing and Er Mazi come over, if they stay in the workshop, it will more or less affect the work progress of other people in the workshop.

It's better to follow Lao Zhang's wishes.

Lao Zhang took Xu Qing out of the workshop. Er Mazi, Wang Dequan and Zhou Pingtai were chatting and laughing shoulder to shoulder, holding a cigarette in their mouths and holding Xu Qing's black leather bag, and then ran out of the workshop.

Lao Zhang stood at the door of the workshop, glanced at Er Mazi, and said nothing.

It was naturally not possible for Er Mazi to stay in the workshop when it was not off-duty time.

Just let him follow me to Ma Guohua's office.

It was sunny, no wind, but a little cold.

This is often the case on snow days.

Lao Zhang took his apprentice and Er Mazi into Ma Guohua's office.

Ma Guohua was sitting alone inside working when he saw Lao Zhang coming with his son-in-law Xu Qing and Er Mazi, and he was startled.

"Old Zhang, what brought you here?"

Ma Guohua stood up from the chair behind his desk with a smile on his face. After looking at Lao Zhang, he then looked at Xu Qing.

"Xiaoqing, did the factory give you the payment?"

"Well, Er Mazi and I just went to the finance office to get it."

Xu Qing responded to what his father-in-law, Ma Guohua, said.

Lao Zhang was minding his own business and sat down on the sofa where the guests were waiting, while Er Mazi stood beside Xu Qing, not daring to be too casual.

Ma Guohua asked someone to make tea, sat next to Lao Zhang, and asked Xu Qing about the recent operations of the meat factory and grain station.

Xu Qing answered truthfully:

"Dad, Master, the business of my grain station has been very good these days. My wife and my sister Xiaoya are keeping an eye on them. They are busy from morning to night almost every day. The meat factory has been doing well in the past six months, and it doesn't make much money. , but it can be maintained.”

After hearing this, Ma Guohua smoked cigarettes with Lao Zhang, leaned on the sofa, nodded, and then said:

"Don't you want to talk about the motorcycle?"

When Xu Qing heard this, he smiled bitterly.

He knew that when he came to the Third Factory and saw his master and father-in-law, he would definitely be questioned about this matter. He thought about it secretly in his mind, held the enamel tea jar in his hand and said:

"Dad, Master, you should have all read the city newspaper of our Sijiu City a few days ago. That's what happened. Last year, in order for the business of the grain station to be booming, I held an event and said that if I won the first prize, I would give away motorcycles. That Li Laosi won the lottery, so I gave it to him."

Ma Guohua tilted his head and looked at Lao Zhang, then turned to look at Xu Qing, flicked the ash into the ashtray and said:

"Xiao Qing, you should have discussed this kind of thing with me and your master last year. That motorcycle is so expensive. You have only ridden it for a year and it belongs to someone else. You didn't throw away your money in vain."

Xu Qing smiled bitterly in his heart and explained:

"Dad, you're right! But the lottery I organized last year brought a lot of business to the grain station. A few days ago, the motorcycles were taken away. After the news was published in the newspaper, business has been booming again in the past few days. Bundle."

Ma Guohua puffed on his cigarette, looked at Xu Qing, remained silent, pondered for a moment and said:

"Is your motorcycle gone or is it gone?"

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy.

Lao Zhang, who didn't say much, turned around, raised his hand and pulled Ma Guohua's arm and said:

"Lao Ma, what are you asking about Xiaoqing's business affairs?

You have to understand. If you don’t understand, just be like me and don’t ask anything. As long as Xiaoqing feels that there is no loss, the money will not be thrown away in vain! "

"Lao Zhang," Ma Guohua sighed, "I'm not doing this for his own good. This year, he spent all his family's savings to set up a meat factory. Now his motorcycle is gone. I am the father-in-law, so he said What’s wrong with those two sentences?!”

Lao Zhang ignored Ma Guohua's words, put out the cigarette butt in the ashtray and said:

"Lao Ma, it's true that Xiao Qing is your son-in-law, but he is also my apprentice. If you say that about him, why don't you take me as your master seriously?"

Master and apprentice are like father and son, son-in-law is half a son.

For a time, Lao Zhang and Ma Guohua were at odds with each other.

Er Mazi was drinking tea and sitting aside, too scared to interrupt.

One was Xu Qing's master and the other was Xu Qing's father-in-law. Even if he wanted to break up the fight, he didn't know who to persuade, so he had to wink at Xu Qing secretly.

Xu Qing looked at the two people who were thinking about him, one big and two big, and said hurriedly:

"Master, Dad, please calm down. I know what's going on with my motorcycle. I can assure you two that without the motorcycle, my family's situation will not be in chaos!"

When Ma Guohua heard what Xu Qing said, he sighed to himself:

"Xiao Qing, it's not that dad wants to say anything to you. It's that before you do anything, you have to think about your two children and your wife. I don't care if the motorcycle is gone. I also supported you when you set up a meat joint factory, but You can't let your family suffer. We are big men, with our heads in the sky and our feet on the ground. You should consider it."

Before Ma Guohua finished speaking, Lao Zhang raised his hand and interrupted:

"Old Ma, don't talk about your big ideas. I was the one who led Xiaoqing to our No. 3 Factory when I was my apprentice. I have never treated your daughter and your two grandsons badly in these years.

What is he like as a person?

Others don’t understand, so don’t you, the father-in-law, also understand? ! "

Ma Guohua turned his head away and did not look at Lao Zhang. He knew that Xu Qing was not a fool and acted steadily.

It's just that Xu Qing's motorcycle disappeared suddenly, which made him feel confused for the past few days.

Because in his opinion, doing business is not as good as working down-to-earth in the factory.

The factory pays wages every month when the time comes, and the income is guaranteed during droughts and floods, so there is no risk at all.

In business, you may earn more this year, but you may lose more next year.

When Xu Qing resigned as director of the fifth factory the year before last, he strongly opposed it.

Although he failed to dissuade him in the end, he was still not optimistic about it.

Of course he hopes that Xu Qing's business will get better and better.

But some time ago, Xu Qing's motorcycle was taken away, worth hundreds of dollars.

Worth several bikes.

Being taken away like this, he was the father-in-law, how could he not feel sorry for his son-in-law and daughter.

Xu Qing saw his father-in-law sighing. After thinking about it for a while, he slowly said:

"Dad, please be at ease. I listen to you and will never affect my family's situation because of business matters. You and my master both told me the year before last. I have a sense of discretion. Before I do anything, I will follow your teachings carefully."

Lao Zhang turned sideways and said to Ma Guohua:

"Old Ma, did you hear that? What am I saying? People who have studied in Xiaoqing are educated, smart and capable, so don't worry about it. The children's situation has to be dealt with by themselves. We, Just don’t cause trouble for the children.”

Ma Guohua hummed and looked out the office window at the blue sky. At this moment, Er Mazi finally lost his trepidation and felt that the pervasive smell of gunpowder had dissipated. He raised his head slightly and thought to himself:

"These two old men, really, they are very old, but they are still bickering, how can they act like two children?"

Xu Qing breathed a sigh of relief. He was even more nervous than Er Mazi just now.

I'm really afraid that my master and my father-in-law will get into trouble because of him.

At twelve o'clock at noon, Xu Qing and Er Mazi had lunch in the private room of the cafeteria of the third factory.

Private room No. 3 was specially reserved by Shazhu.

The dishes served were also cooked by Shazhu himself.

The taste was very good. Xu Qing took a bite with chopsticks and tasted it.

After eating and drinking, Xu Qing and Er Mazi left, and then went straight to the fifth factory of the Hongxing Steel Rolling Plant.

Xu Qing is also familiar with people from the fifth factory.

The top leader is Patriot, his younger brother.

Several deputy factory directors, Wang Minsheng, Sun Deyou, Liu Caigui. He has worked with them for several years.

For those below the section chief level, Xu Qing didn't have many impressions.

But those at the level of section chief and above can still call everyone by name accurately even though they have been away from the fifth factory for two years.

So, Xu Qing went to the Fifth Factory, took Er Mazi to see the canteen director, and then went to sit in the patriotic factory director's office.

Xu Aiguo asked his secretary Xiao Gaogang to make hot tea, and the financial section chief of the finance office of the fifth factory brought an accountant and a cashier over with the payment that should be paid to Xu Qing Grain Station and the Meat Factory. .

Before four o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Qing and Er Mazi collected the payment from the third and fifth factories.

Early the next morning, all payments for goods from other branches were recovered.

The money received was only for grain, which was much less than the No. 3 and No. 5 factories.

But it still costs a few thousand dollars.

The total amount of money added up to nearly thirty thousand.

Not much, but not much.

Just calculate it carefully, excluding the monthly taxes paid in advance, workers' wages, and the operating costs of grain stations and meat processing plants, etc.

There are only a little over two thousand left.

And this is settled.

The meat processing plant needs to operate, and the grain station business must also operate accordingly. Both parties have to spend money every day.

If it were a large state-owned factory, the cost would be more than 30,000 yuan a day.

Xu Qing hasn’t paid back the money to Sha Zhu and Xu Damao.

My father-in-law and brother-in-law paid half back last time, and there is still half left to pay.

The younger brothers and sisters in front of me haven't even paid back a single point.

Even though my younger siblings said there was no need to pay it back.

But as the eldest brother, how can he take advantage of them?

What's more, Aiguo, Xiaoya, and Fengming are all married.

They all have their own families and situations.

On the morning of New Year's Day, the weather was still cold and freezing, but the sky was bright and the sun came out very early, making the eastern sky red.

After Xu Qing got up early in the morning, he did not go to the meat factory.

In the new year, the whole country is celebrating New Year's Day and taking a break.

Xu Qing also gave holidays to workers in suburban meat factories and grain station warehouses.

81 years later, new life has taken another step forward.

Xu Qing had breakfast in the house, then took the money and the foreign exchange certificates he had obtained in the past two days and went to the house of Xu Damao, who lived with him in the backyard.

"Brother Damao."

Xu Qing did not see Xu Damao leave the compound early in the morning, and the bicycle Xu Damao rode was left outside the door.

Knowing that he was at home, he shouted as soon as he opened the curtain of Xu Damao's door.

Xu Damao was looking at the mirror in the room at this time, constantly grooming himself, holding Qin Jingru's plastic comb, combing his hair into a bun. There was also a small metal box beside him, open, with a razor inside.

It's very exquisite, copper-plated, and it doesn't look cheap.

In fact, these days, razors that can be packed in a small metal box are really expensive.

You can't buy it for less than ten or twenty yuan.

Like the 1960s, when food and clothing were a problem for most people.

Everyone in the courtyard, the men, buy a razor blade and shave in front of the mirror.

Until now, Yi Zhonghai is still used to using a razor blade, as he feels that shaving is cleaner than using a razor.

But everyone in the courtyard knew that the elder was reluctant to buy a razor.

The blades only cost a few cents each, and even the cheapest razor costs several pieces.

Yi Zhonghai, who has no children, would not spend a few dollars to buy a razor.

Xu Qing walked into Xu Damao's house and saw him packing up. He sat at a table nearby, smoking and waiting.

Xu Damao turned around and said, "Qingzi, please sit down for a while, brother, I'll be there soon."

Xu Damao said and looked towards Qin Jingru.

"Qingzi is here, go make some tea."

Qin Jingru was wearing a women's suit and her hair was permed into big waves. She was standing next to Xu Damao. While looking at herself in the mirror, she touched the hand cream she bought from the department store and said in response:

"Qingzi, the teapot is on the table. It's all clean. You can pour the water yourself. The thermos is in the kitchen."

Before Xu Qing could speak, Xu Damao glared at Qin Jingru, feeling that Qin Jingru was too disrespectful to him.

He threw the comb in his hand and said:

"Qin Jingru, I asked you to make tea, didn't you hear me?!"

Qin Jingru turned her head, snorted, rolled her eyes at Xu Damao, rubbed the hand cream she had just applied with her hands and said:

"Qingzi is not an outsider. They didn't say anything. Why are you anxious about me? Why don't you go make tea for Qingzi."

Qin Jingru choked Xu Damao, ignored Xu Damao's angry look, turned around, faced Xu Qing and said:

"Qingzi, why did you come to my house so early in the morning?"

Xu Qing wanted to say that he was paying back the money, but he glanced at Xu Damao from the corner of his eye and said:

"I bought hearing aids for my grandparents before. I didn't have enough foreign exchange coupons, so I borrowed sixty-nine yuan from Brother Damao. I got them in the past few days. I'll deliver them to you today."

Qin Jingru walked up to Xu Qing with a happy face and said, "Qingzi, just give it to me. I'm planning to go to the Friendship Store today."

"Qin Jingru, Qingzi returned the foreign exchange coupons to me. You can go ahead!"

Xu Damao was afraid that the foreign exchange coupons he had worked so hard to obtain would fall into Qin Jingru's hands as soon as Xu Qing returned them.

Immediately not thinking about dressing up, he walked to Xu Qing in two steps and pushed Qin Jingru away.

(End of this chapter)