Siheyuan: My Northeastern Farmhouse

Chapter 357 Time Bomb
People feel refreshed during happy events. When he went to work on Monday, Gu Weijun walked into the office with a cheerful face.

"Good morning, Sister Zheng."

Deputy Director Zheng, who was cleaning the table, looked up and said, "Hey, Junzi, what good things did you experience last Sunday?"

"The corners of my mouth would be raised to the sky."

"Haha!" Gu Weijun couldn't hide his joy, and he didn't hide it from Deputy Director Zheng, "I took my partner home yesterday, and I will officially visit my partner's house on the 20th of this month."

"Hey, it seems like something good is about to happen for you? Which girl is she from?"

Gu Weijun waved his hand proudly, then took the rag from Deputy Director Zheng and wiped the table randomly a few times. "It's just an ordinary family. We have to wait a little longer to get married. The girl is not old yet."

"Oh, you can do it, kid. Now that you have a master, some girls in our department will be very sad." Deputy Director Zheng joked, "I don't know what kind of girl can take advantage of you." ? There have been so many freshly graduated female college students in the ministry in the past two years, but you haven’t even taken a fancy to them."

"Haha, fate, it's all fate."

"Director Gu!" An excited voice interrupted the chat between Gu Weijun and Deputy Director Zheng.

Gu Weijun patted Chen Kai on the shoulder and said comfortingly: "Xiao Chen, work hard when you come back!"

Gu Weijun looked back and raised his voice, "Chen Kai?"

"The party and organizations will one day be able to recognize his true colors and punish him severely!"

"And there is one most important thing to prepare for in the near future: Mr. Ni from the United States will come to China for an official visit in February. We need to make various plans, connections and preparations."

Immediately, a faint fake smile appeared on Gu Weijun's face, pretending to be a little excited, "When did you come back?"

Gu Weijun pinched his shoulder hard, stopping him from speaking, and turned the topic to work, "You just happened to be back, help us share more work."

"Unite! We must follow the teachings of the old man: Unite!"

"Director Zheng, Director Gu, the director has asked you two to go to a meeting." Director Miao's secretary suddenly appeared at the door and came to announce the meeting.

"Bang!" Yu Qiang moved the bucket heavily and hit it on the cement floor.

"Eh~" Gu Weijun waved his hand, "We are all revolutionary comrades, there is no distinction between us!"

"Hmph!" Chen Kai let out a cold snort and deliberately raised his voice, "Director Gu, the fact that I can successfully return to work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs proves that the dirty ideas and actions of some sneaky villains have failed. Got it!"

"I" Chen Kai was just about to speak.

"You sit back in your original position first, and I will discuss with Deputy Director Zheng to see what work to assign to you."

"Okay, Director Gu."

There was a hint of complacency on Chen Kai's face, pretending to be modest, "I came back last week and reported again, and I'm officially back to work today!"

Deputy Director Zheng replied with the same helplessness, "We are in trouble again."

"Director Gu, I also want to thank you for your help before."

"The work of our ministry is now very complicated. We just successfully regained our seat in the United Nations last month, and the work has suddenly increased a lot."

So Gu Weijun and Deputy Director Zheng suspended their discussion, and each left the office with a notebook under his arm. Before leaving, the two of them smiled and nodded to their comrades in the office, especially Chen Kai.

Gu Weijun returned to his desk. Facing the questioning look from Deputy Director Zheng, Gu Weijun picked up his workbook and turned his back to Chen Kai and Yu Qiang. He made a silent mouth gesture with a grimace and shook his head slightly, "I don't know. .”

At this time, Yu Qiang, who had returned from fetching water with a bucket and was about to mop the floor, came in. After taking a look at Chen Kai and Gu Weijun, he started mopping the floor silently without saying a word.

"Okay, that's the focus of this week's work. Do you two have any questions?" Director Miao closed his workbook and ordered with a serious face.

Gu Weijun and Deputy Director Zheng stopped writing and looked at each other and shook their heads.

"By the way, that Chen Kai has been transferred back, and you two will watch over and reassign him work."

"I won't tell you the specific reasons. I guess you know it in your heart."

"What you need to pay attention to is, especially the unity within the office!" When talking about this, Director Miao specially tapped the table with his pen and emphasized the word "unity".

"Okay, Director." They both replied in unison.

After leaving the director's office, Gu Weijun and Deputy Director Zheng smiled bitterly and shook their heads at each other. Deputy Director Zheng was particularly dissatisfied. She was responsible for the daily work in the office. Wasn't this putting the trouble on her?
"The conflict between Yu Qiang and Chen Kai is obvious, and they are put in our office. Isn't this because they are afraid that nothing will happen? What does the leader think?"

"Looking at the director, he must have been caught off guard, right? There must be an office to receive Chen Kai when he suddenly comes back." Gu Weijun accompanied Deputy Director Zheng to the office, replying while looking around. Pay attention to your colleagues as they pass by in the hallway.

"Is there no place to receive it or did he ask for it?" "Director Zheng, Director Gu, morning."

"morning."

"morning."

"Look, let's find a way to separate their work first, and try not to let them work together." Gu Weijun suggested in a low voice, "Let Yu Qiang go out to work first. We can't let Chen Kai work together." When he comes back, we will send him out. It will be easy for others to say that we are ostracizing him, and he will also be prone to emotions."

The two of them walked to the water room which was still some distance away from the office door. When they saw that there was no one inside, Deputy Director Zheng stopped and frowned and sighed, "That's all for now."

"By the way, Junzi, I saw Chen Kai was grateful to you as soon as he came back. What's going on?"

"Oh, that's it." Gu Weijun briefly described in a low voice what happened when Chen Kai sneaked back and was taken in by him, and then Chen Kai secretly went to report it himself, "I told Chen Kai before I went abroad last time, Let him continue to find his own way, I can't take care of him anymore."

"Who would have thought that he could be a blind cat and meet a dead mouse?"

"The report was successful, and I just turned around."

Deputy Director Zheng looked at Gu Weijun thoughtfully for a while and said, "You want to borrow a knife, right?" Without waiting for Gu Weijun's reply, he said thoughtfully: "Junzi, help me watch it. Click on Chen Kai, don’t let him do anything stupid.”

"However, such people are time bombs. Let's try to appease them as long as possible."

"It would be best if things were calm on the surface before Yu Jieqiang left."

"Okay, Sister Zheng, don't worry," Gu Weijun promised solemnly, "I will treat Chen Kai to dinner tonight and help you find out first."

"Well," the two of them walked back slowly like a walk, Deputy Director Zheng's voice was almost inaudible, "Tell him, times have changed."

"After all, we are not in the feudal era, and the party and organizations are still very tolerant."

After returning to the office, Deputy Director Zheng and Gu Weijun studied for a while and then announced the adjustments to Chen Kai's work arrangements and Yu Qiang's work. Chen Kai joined the emergency document translation team, while Yu Qiang was responsible for external communication with other departments such as CCTV and the State Guesthouse.

When announcing the news, Chen Kai gave Yu Qiang a provocative look, causing the latter to clench his teeth and clenched his fingers into fists.
At noon in the cafeteria, Chen Kai occupied a table alone. No other colleagues who were confused about the situation dared to get involved. Chen Kai bit into the white-flour steamed bun fiercely and lowered his head to eat.

At this time, Gu Weijun came over with a lunch box, took a look at his lunch box, and said easily: "You have a lion's head today, why don't you get a portion?"

"Come on, I happened to hit two of them, and I'll give you one, and we'll eliminate them together."

When Chen Kai saw it was Gu Weijun, he quickly swallowed the food in his mouth with gratitude and wanted to stand up, "Director Gu"

Gu Weijun waved his hand and said no, then he moved the lion head from his lunch box to one of Chen Kai's lunch boxes and began to sit down to eat. While eating, he also paid attention to the accommodation issue when he returned.

After having lunch together and making an appointment to drink together in the evening, Gu Weijun got up and went to the tap to line up to wash the lunch boxes. After returning to the office, he nodded to Deputy Director Zheng and went to work at his desk.

In the evening, in the Shichahai Siheyuan, Gu Weijun directly set up a casserole on the stove in the main hall of the courtyard, cut a few slices of pork belly to add some oil and water, then cut up the old tofu and pickle dumplings and put them in.

There was a plate of peanuts and Liubiju pickles on the small table beside the stove. After opening a bottle of Niulanshan, he asked Chen Kai to start it together. The two of them sat by the stove, warming themselves by the fire and drinking.

"Hey, why didn't you respond in advance when you came back?" Gu Weijun touched Chen Kai, took a sip of Erguotou, and picked up a peanut while asking.

"Hey, didn't you go abroad and never come back? I came back to report last week and wanted to find you, but you weren't here and you weren't here." Chen Kai looked around the room and replied with emotion, "It seems like a world away."

"Yes. Xiao Chen, what are your plans? Even if you come back, there is no need to go back to our office, right?"

Upon hearing Gu Weijun ask this question, Chen Kai's expression immediately became a little fierce. He raised his neck and drank the remaining one or two wines in the glass. "Cough, cough," he coughed a few times because he drank too quickly. Next, he gritted his teeth and said, "I just want to make some people feel uncomfortable when they see me!"

"I just want them to know that the mistakes they made will be paid back to them one day!"

"Drink slowly, take a bite of tofu first," Gu Weijun quickly scooped a spoonful of tofu for Chen Kai and followed his words: "Xiao Chen, I understand you."

"However, for the sake of your personal future, you still have to look forward. Isn't it worth it just to argue for words like this?"

"I don't believe it. I don't believe that I have reported their close relationship in private before. The organization will be indifferent?" Chen Kai was unmoved. "The organization must be looking for other problems with them and then deal with them together. I Just watch them fall!"

Gu Weijun continued to speak sincerely, "Xiao Chen, times have changed. Our party and organizations have always been very tolerant to comrades who have made mistakes."

"The so-called correcting one's mistakes after one's mistakes is a good comrade!"

"What? Could it be that he is a traitor?"

"Silence!" "There are some things you know, so don't say them out loud."

"I do not believe"

(End of this chapter)