The booming era begins with private customization

Chapter 428 [ words] Kicked into a rotten cake

"Ah."

He snorted coldly, with a somewhat unhappy look on his face.

In the final analysis, these were all the troubles caused by Qin Huairu.

After hearing what Lou Xiao'e said, Liu Haizhong, who had just changed the topic, looked embarrassed.

His calloused hands clenched and his eyes became a little wandering.

This... this is just too coincidental.

"Director, how about I take care of this?
This He Daqing is really something, how can he be so ignorant even when he is still at work. "

Liu Haizhong muttered to himself, but he was secretly looking at Li Mao out of the corner of his eye.

"Hey, Director Liu, don't take it so seriously. Go over and try to persuade him. If that doesn't work, take He Daqing to the steel mill in the name of the machinery factory to ask.

As long as you don't make a big deal and discuss it with each other, I think there shouldn't be any problem.

After all, what Cui Dake and his men did this time was somewhat unkind.

Besides, some things are only known to the old neighbors in the yard. With Sha Zhu’s brain, he might not be able to think of such a thing.

Director Liu, you go with him and take a look. If it really doesn’t work, ask someone to ask for a sick leave for Sha Zhu, and let He Daqing take the man back to the hospital to beat him up.

Oh, yes, I have already clearly refused.

Even if there are new people around Jia Zhang, the Jia family and I are still not planning to leave.

Of course, this is just my personal opinion. If the factory workers want to go because they can’t save face, they don’t have to consider my opinion.”

Li Mao waved his hand, signaling Liu Haizhong to handle the matter.

Anyway, Qin Huairu had already left the room, so there was no one in the room that she needed to avoid.

When Liu Haizhong left and Lou Xiao'e returned to the office door, Li Mao discovered that Bai Ling, who was supposed to be with Lou Xiao'e, was nowhere to be seen.

"Secretary Lou, where is Sister Bai Ling?"

Li Mao shouted and asked.

We had originally agreed to have lunch at the factory today.

"Hey, Comrade Bai Ling was just called over by someone from the steel mill. They said that Deputy Director Nie wanted to see her about something.

But Comrade Bai Ling also said that we should still have lunch at our factory at noon."

Lou Xiao'e didn't pause as she spoke, but a meaningful smile was on her face.

This smile was so strange that Li Mao was a little confused.

"You are smiling like you are picking up money?"

Li Mao tilted his head and asked casually.

They were all on the same boat, and Li Mao didn't think there was anything he couldn't ask them.

"Eh? I didn't pick up any money, I didn't pick up any money, I just feel that life now is much easier than when I was in that house before.

There is no need to worry or consider this or that.

There's no need to think about being sent out by that person one day.

I work hard when I am at work, and do whatever I want after get off work. Even if I am too full, Yu Li will chat with me in the yard.

Sometimes Yu Li eats too much and takes a walk until late at night.

Seriously, Director, you really need to take Yu Li's joke seriously.

You don’t know, one time it was already one or two o’clock, and I saw Yu Li still walking outside alone to eat.

The yard is not a house, it is empty and there is not much light. Even if I want to read a book to kill time, I can't find a place to stay."

Lou Xiao'e's face showed seriousness, concentration, and perseverance. Anyone else would not be able to hear the sarcasm in her expression.

One or two o'clock in the night?

Well, Li Mao sometimes has to admit that there is nothing to kill time these days, and the only entertainment at night is that thing.

In addition, Li Mao is young, has a good living condition, and is not short of money. He can also collect high-quality materials around him. He does not have to consider this or that prohibition, so it is inevitable that he is generous in using the materials.

Li Mao was generous, so the ones who suffered were naturally Yu Haitang and He Yushui.

"Ahem, what Secretary Lou said makes sense. I'll talk to Yu Haitang later and ask her to persuade Yu Li.

Even if you have indigestion, sometimes you don’t have to take a walk.

It's not impossible to sit in the house and read a book by the window with a light on."

Li Mao is neither shy nor timid.

Anyway, we gave Yu Li so much hush money, so what's wrong with working harder every day?
Anyway, Yu Li herself didn’t say anything.

“Not necessarily. I see that all the dead-end alleys next to our hospital have been opened up. Anyway, our hospital can’t get along with the people in other hospitals.

It just so happens that there are only a few of us living in the backyard. If things really don’t work, we can just lock the backyard.

As for the deaf old lady, if the factory manager is at ease, I can talk to her.

The house in the front yard is almost the same as what we have coordinated with the steel mill.

I will discuss with Zhang Meng, Liang Ladi and others to see if we can move the house to the front yard.

When the time comes, we can exchange the property rights of the central courtyard with those of the back house, so that we won't be considered to have treated the old lady unfairly.

I've always heard people say that Shazhu, Yi Zhonghai and others are very close to the old lady.

Those who have difficulty walking find it difficult to leave the yard.

Bringing him to the middle court will also help them fulfill their filial duty."

Lou Xiao'e appeared calm and composed on the surface, but Li Mao could never imagine what she was actually thinking.

After all, who would have thought that a grown-up girl like Lou Xiao'e would feel that the second half of the night was too desolate every now and then after listening to the wall at the port for a while.

She looked miserable, just like a widow who had lost her job.

Sometimes when I was so uncomfortable that I couldn't sleep, I would drink a glass of boiled water. When I went to the yard to chat with Yu Li, all kinds of random things would run through my mind.

Yu Li saw through it several times and started to make jokes, almost making Lou Xiao'e lose face.

After all, she is still a virgin, and she pales in comparison to Yu Li, who has had sex.

"Oh? Old lady in the back room, can you make the final decision?"

Li Mao returned to his desk, took out a notebook and prepared to write something on it, then raised his head in surprise.

This is not the first time that someone has proposed the idea of ​​enclosing the backyard and the back house and using it as a housing compound for the machinery factory's staff.

Yu Haitang had said this many times before, but every time she saw the deaf old lady, the idea came to nothing.

After all, no matter how good Li Mao and his friends' ideas were, the title deed to the rear house was in the hands of the deaf old lady.

If the old lady doesn't nod, it would be inconvenient for Li Mao to use force.

"You can try it."

Lou Xiao'e's pupils flickered, she was thinking about something but didn't show it on her face: "When I was there before, I heard some things about the old lady from my family.

Whether it works or not, it doesn’t hurt to give it a try.”

Hearing what Lou Xiao'e said, Li Mao didn't say anything. He just paused the pen in his hand, and the tip of the pen rubbed against the paper, making a rustling sound:

"Then give it a try. If it doesn't work, then it doesn't work. It's not a big deal anyway.

One thing is important to remember: when we in the machinery factory do things, we negotiate with people, not threaten them.

In the spirit of fairness and justice, even if we change houses, the deaf old lady will definitely not suffer any loss.

If it really doesn't work, we will negotiate with the steel mill and take over all the houses under the name of the steel mill.

If there are unoccupied houses at that time, our machinery factory will step in and help entrust them to the street office.

With the help of the street office to collect the rent, I think even the Jia family would not be able to afford to default on their debts."

"Well, when I get off work tonight, I'll go discuss it with the old lady in the back room.

Even if the deal fails, the friendship remains. I understand this.

Even if it doesn’t work out, it will definitely not bring shame to our factory.”

Lou Xiao'e nodded and agreed immediately.

Returning to the desk at the door, Lou Xiao'e took out a book about economics from the drawer and began to read it with relish.

Inside the house, Li Mao had been writing and drawing on a notebook. It was so quiet that the only sound was his breathing mixed with rustling sounds.

In the blink of an eye, it was noon. He took Bai Ling to have lunch at the machinery factory. During the process, he did not find out why Deputy Director Nie called people over.

Thinking of Bai Ling's secretive expression, Li Mao became somewhat wary.

Deputy Director Nie is much more difficult to deal with than Li Huaide and Yang Weihua.

After getting through the afternoon, before leaving get off work, I took Liu Haizhong and the others to check on the factory's expansion progress.

By the time we returned to the courtyard, it was already past seven o'clock.

As the weather gets warmer, the sun sets later and later.

Even at this moment, there is still a golden afterglow, pouring down on the eaves and blue-grey tiles of the courtyard.

It is not as good as the light flashing inside a ring, like the rippling light on the lake. If you savor it carefully, it has another flavor.

When I entered the courtyard, I saw two round tables set up in the middle courtyard.

On a borrowed chopping board nearby, a cook who didn't look very old was chopping cabbages with a chopping knife, making "crunch" sounds as if he was feeding chickens.

In addition to the cabbage, there were two black fish that had not yet been slaughtered kept in a basin next to the faucet.

The door of the old Jia's house nearby was open. I don't know when he changed into clean clothes and washed his face, just like an old street artist who sewed people's faces with thread.

I can't say that the flour is as rosy as spring, but at least it is a lot brighter than before yesterday.

When he saw Li Mao coming back, he had already known from Qin Huairu that he would not attend the banquet.

Jia Zhangshi didn't even say hello. Not only did she not even raise her eyes, but she also put on airs and started to make indirect accusations:

"You old bastard, hurry up! All the people living in our courtyard are respectable people.

You're just feeding pigs in an iron fence.

If Sha Zhu hadn't been beaten by his father and quit, I would never have let you take over this banquet.

Food is precious these days, and I got these things with great difficulty!"

"Bah, Zhang, what are you talking about? What do you mean by feeding the pigs or not? I am a real cook!
Speaking of feeding pigs, I never made do with this when I was cooking for people behind an iron fence!

Look at what you have prepared, except for the cabbage stalks, there are rotten vegetable leaves that you picked up from somewhere!
With so little food, you only want to make four dishes and one soup for each table? Isn't this really embarrassing for me? It would be fine if it was just this, but look at the fish you cooked.

It would be fine if I didn’t add oil when cooking the fish, at most I sliced ​​the fish and made fish soup.

But listen to what you said! You don't like the fish soup, but you want me to make pickled fish?
Not to mention that when preparing a banquet, the chef will decide the dishes based on the ingredients. For example, let’s take the pickled fish. The fish is here, but where is the pickled cabbage?!
As for the seasoning, they don’t allow the use of chili peppers because they say it’s too spicy and will stimulate appetite and make people eat more.

Instead of giving me good wine, you just use the cheapest liquor from the supply and marketing cooperative, and you even asked me to add water to it!

Fifty cents per table! We talked about five tables at the beginning, and two tables in the afternoon, but now you tell me to open one table first?!

So I did all this by myself, without even a helping hand, just to take your 50 cents per table fee? !

Okay, stop being such a bad old man.

I don't want to do this kind of job!

As for these vegetables coming out of this gate, just treat me as if I were blind and I will feed them all to you, you shameless morning glory.

Can't I just not take the money for the hard work I've done for these few hours?
Blah blah blah, I really don’t know where you get the nerve to do that!
If Old Jia and Little Jia knew that they were gone, and you, Zhang, did such a cowardly thing, I'm afraid they would crawl out at night to look for you!"

The old bad guy is also a person who cares about his reputation.

When I was a cook behind the iron fence, I would be teased for having no skills and the meals I cooked could only be fed to chickens.

But the person on the other side of the iron fence is on the other side of the iron fence. It’s time to prepare the banquet, but Jia Zhangshi still doesn’t give him the face. How can he not be angry?

Originally, the bad old man wanted to form a master-apprentice team with his mediocre skills.

Try opening one or two tables in the city, and after gaining a little fame, focus on the countryside.

Who would have thought that I would have a boss like Jia Zhang.

Not only is he picky, he also doesn't provide all the necessary items.

It is said that a skilled cook cannot cook without rice. Even if she is a skilled cook, she cannot cook anything without ingredients.

Thinking that he couldn't gain a good reputation, he might as well take this opportunity to break up with Jia Zhangshi to avoid ruining his own reputation.

As time passed, the Jia Zhang family was still standing there in a daze, while the old bad guy was already packing up his things with clangs and clams.

It’s no wonder that this cleanup really opened Li Mao’s eyes.

I thought the guillotine with a plate was just a hobby, but upon closer inspection, I saw that in addition to the guillotine, there were also various types of kitchen knives.

What’s even funnier is that Li Mao also saw a pair of oddly shaped pointed pliers inside. Judging from the position they were placed in, it seemed like they were specifically used to remove fish bones.

What does it mean that poor students have more stationery? This is it!

Not to mention anything else, just the gate knife with a plate, Li Mao had never seen it anywhere other than chopping grass for livestock.

In this age where a chef can go anywhere with just one square knife, Lao Huaitou's cooking is truly extraordinary.

"Hey? Go! You can't leave! My table has already arrived at the restaurant, and I'm waiting for the guests to eat soon. If you leave now, where will I put my face?!
no! You can't leave!
Unless you compensate me three dollars per table, I will use the three dollars to buy a table of food from a restaurant outside!"

Seeing that the bad old man was serious about his actions, Jia Zhang not only did not think about giving him some hard work money, but she jumped up suddenly.

He quickly stood in front of the bad old man, opened his arms, and tried his best to stop him from leaving.

"Bah! You old hag! Three bucks? Why don't you just go and rob?!

Still want to eat?
Don't say I look down on you. With your popularity, let alone a whole table, you'd be lucky to have three people come!"

As he spoke, the bad old man raised his hand to wipe the bag on his body.

It was tied up neatly and there were one or two kitchen knives inside that were easy to take out.

"Jia Zhang, will you please move aside?"

The old bad guy hardened his heart and looked at Cui Dake who walked out of Old Jia's house, feeling somewhat anxious.

While touching the sack, he lifted his foot and pressed forward.

As an old bad guy who lived only three alleys away from the courtyard, he had heard of the bad reputation of the Jia family before, but he never expected it.

Jia Zhangshi could actually do such a thing!
"What are you doing?!"

Seeing the old bad guy's actions, Jia Zhang trembled all over, staggered back two steps, then pounced on the ground, grabbed the old bad guy's trouser leg and yelled in the yard:
"Neighbors, come and take a look! People from the outer courtyard are bullying people from our courtyard!
Ahhh, I, an old woman, have been bullied. I can’t live anymore.

Young and old men, please come out quickly. This bad old man took the money but didn't do the job. He is now going to attack the owner!"

After hearing Jia Zhang's howl, the old bad guy, who had originally had some courage, thought to himself that it was bad.

While cold sweat broke out on his head, he was dragging his feet desperately, trying to shake off Jia Zhang's pull.

"You old hag! You have no shame, but I still have some!
What host or not, I came here with good intentions to help you prepare the banquet, not only did I waste my time and energy, but you even want to extort money from me!

How can there be such a truth in the world? !
Get out of my way! If you don't, I'll kick your rotten bun into a rotten pancake!

Let go! Let go!"

The old bad guy was shaking his legs desperately, but he found that Jia Zhang had relaxed her hands and no longer held his legs, but instead held his trouser legs tightly.

While pulling, he also climbed up.

It looks like he's going to just pull down the old bad guy's pants.

"Director Li, please help us talk to them. We are all neighbors. How can someone with the surname Zhang work like this?!

I know that Jia Zhang is not under the management of the machinery factory, but they live in the same courtyard. Please help and speak to them!"

The old bad guy, who was reluctant to leave only half of his trouser leg and didn't dare to really pull out the kitchen knife, turned to Li Mao for help with a bitter look on his face.

Knowing that Li Mao could not manage the people in the steel rolling mill, he did not make things difficult for Li Mao. He just thought about whether he could help say a few good words so that Jia Zhang would let go.

Well, after letting go, that bad guy will definitely run away!
“What’s the use of being a factory director or not? This title only sounds good in a machinery factory.

Once I walked out of the gate of the machinery factory, I was just an ordinary worker.

Besides, you guys are such a mess, I can’t let all the neighbors know about this. I have severed my relationship with the Jia family.

But we are neighbors, so I can give you some advice.

There are people from the same industry around you, and you are shouting at Sha Zhu's name.

Shout a few times. If no one is in charge of the steel mill, I will ask someone to call the security department for you!
When the security department comes over, they will definitely not let you lose your pants."

Seeing that the old bad guy had evil intentions, Li Mao shook his shoulders and pushed the tricycle around.

As Li Mao spoke, many neighbors who had been hiding in their houses, enduring the lack of ventilation despite the hot weather, leaned against their windows one by one.

When the door didn't open, he opened the window and shouted towards the yard.

As for why not open the door?

Well, that's just to avoid the shameless Jia Zhang from squeezing into the house and going door to door asking people to pay for a cabbage and plain food feast.

Everyone in the courtyard heard about it. If anyone wanted to join in the meal, they had to pay 30 cents per person for a table full of cabbage and plain noodles!

It's not a big deal to just pay thirty cents, and with the whole family joining in, at most you can eat your way back to the table.

Who would have thought of the outcome.

Before the neighbors could take any action, Jia Zhang stopped them with words.

Even if money was paid, only two people from a family, one adult and one child, could sit at the table.

The smaller one is less than one foot tall!
One foot?!

It would be better to just say it's a baby, it sounds better!

More importantly, can a baby eat at the banquet?
Not to mention that the table only comes with four dishes and one soup, and they are all pure vegetarian dishes without even a drop of oil!

No oil? Maybe the food you eat won’t be as delicious as the one you make at home!

It would be strange if the neighbors in the yard would do such a business that would only lose money!
As for the workers in the steel mill?

Cui Dake was just a temporary worker and had no status in the cafeteria.

In addition, during the day, Liu Haizhong led He Daqing and the security department to negotiate with the director of the steel mill canteen.

After reaching a consensus that beating his son would be in vain.

Sha Zhu was beaten up right in the canteen of the steel mill.

That guy is not very harmful, but very insulting.

Just as Liu Haizhong said, Sha Zhu, who was beaten up, couldn't save his face, so he went to a pharmacy outside to see a doctor at his own expense.

As for why it is a pharmacy instead of a big hospital?

Ahem, the injury wasn't very severe, at most there were some bruises on my body.

I was injured and took to the hospital, where they prescribed some ointment at best.

But if he went to the pharmacy? As long as Sha Zhu was willing to pay, it would be no big deal to put a few bandages on his arms and a splint on his waist.

It was precisely because of this incident that no one at the steel mill would be willing to eat Cui Dake's banquet.

"Security department? Go and call them if you have the guts! Everyone in this courtyard is our Jia family's neighbor!

I wonder who will help you, a bad old man!
Not to mention the security department, even if the leaders of the factory came, I wouldn't be afraid!

You are an outsider, and you still want to fight with us? Do you know that my family is also from the steel mill? "

Jia Zhang was muttering something to herself while grabbing the old bad guy's trousers tightly, trying her best to tear off one trouser leg.

"You old hag!"*2
Two synchronized but different voices were heard, one from the old bad guy who was grabbed, and the other from Cui Dake who rushed out of the house with red eyes after hearing the words "Security Department".

"Shameless old hag! Don't you think I'm shameless enough?
Let go! Let go!

Old hag! You've tricked me into this state, what else do you want me to do? ! If I had no evidence, I wouldn't be able to produce anything to prove that you were the one who drugged the animal yesterday.

Just wait and see whether I can teach you a lesson or not!
Let go, let go!"

Cui Dake rushed out of the house and kicked towards Jia Zhang's buns.

As happy as he was biting and rubbing the animal medicine yesterday, Cui Dake felt disgusted now.

The neighbors in the courtyard watched Cui Dake beating and kicking Jia Zhang, and no one said a word. Everyone had an expression of enjoying the fun in their eyes.

On the other hand, Li Mao.

After Cui Dake rushed out of the house, Li Mao had already come to his senses.

What a bunch of this and that! It sounds nice to say, but in the final analysis, Cui Dake is just afraid of the Security Department!
Otherwise, why didn't he come out earlier or later, but had to wait until Li Mao said the word "Security Department" before running out frantically?

Just when this farce in the Intermediate Court was about to end with Jia Zhang being beaten.

In the back room, inside the deaf old lady's room.

I don't know where I got a set of tea sets from. Lou Xiao'e, who was sitting opposite the deaf old lady and brewing tea with a kettle, suddenly said:

"Old lady, this is our first official dealings."

The dim light above their heads fell on the profiles of the two people, and the expressions pulled by the shadows seemed to be a little distorted in a trance.

(End of this chapter)