Siheyuan: Fishing for All Things

"Minister Lin, I'm not feeling well."

"Me too, Minister Lin, I've had a stomachache lately."

"Minister Lin, come and see me."

...

A group of old ladies swarmed in, pushing Sophia out intentionally or unintentionally, and soon, Sophia was squeezed out of the infirmary.

"Minister Lin..." Sophia shouted in dissatisfaction.

"What are you shouting for?" Li Chunhua said with wide eyes, "Can't you see that Minister Lin has a patient? Leave as soon as you're done with the treatment."

The translator who was brought here by the group of old ladies hurriedly started working.

"You guys..."

Sophia stamped her feet in anger and turned around and ran away.

"No, we have to make a duty roster." Li Chunhua frowned and said, "From now on, someone will come to the infirmary every half an hour. If someone sees that Russian girl flirting here, Minister Lin won't be able to explain herself."

"Director, why don't we just work here during this period of time." Someone suggested.

"Good idea." Li Chunhua agreed, "Xiao Du and I will work here today, and we will replace two people tomorrow. I want to see what that Russian girl is capable of. She still wants to eat Tang Monk's flesh, bah..."

"Ladies, it's not that bad, it's not that bad." Lin Shaowen bowed his hands and begged for mercy.

"Minister Lin, we are not discussing with you." Li Chunhua glared, "This is the decision of the Women's Federation of our factory, please abide by it."

"Okay."

Lin Shaowen smiled bitterly and shook his head.

This is not a medical room, this is Pansi Cave...

Sophia came over again at noon, and after seeing Li Chunhua, she left with a bitter face.

In the afternoon, when it was almost time to get off work, Sophia came again. She wanted to invite Lin Shaowen to have dinner together, but Li Chunhua pulled the translator to angrily scold her, and finally ran away angrily.

Siheyuan

As soon as Lin Shaowen stepped into the door, he heard Liu Guangfu's wailing, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "Second uncle beat his son again?"

"That's right." Auntie frowned, "I don't know what's wrong with Guangfu. Today he quarreled with Second uncle."

"Oh, he still has the guts?" Lin Shaowen immediately became interested.

Liu Haizhong beat his son, and he did everything he could.

He used whatever he could get. A few days ago, he said something wrong in the yard, and he raised Yan Bugui's hoe and hit Liu Guangtian, almost splitting his head.

"It's all because of you." Auntie scolded, "I don't know what kind of love potion Qin Jingru gave Liu Guangfu, but he actually went to propose marriage by himself, and was caught by Sha Zhu, who laughed at him for being a street urchin..."

"Then what?"

"Then Liu Guangfu went back to quarrel with his father, and asked his father to find him a job, otherwise he would run away from home and never come back." Auntie sighed. . ,,

"But what does this have to do with me?" Lin Shaowen said dissatisfiedly.

"If you hadn't brought Qin Jingru back, the yard would have been in chaos." Auntie held back her laughter and said, "Isn't Yan Jiefang about to graduate? After seeing Qin Jingru last time, he kept asking Old Yan to come to the house to propose marriage."

"Wow, are you treating Qin Jingru as Tang Monk meat?" Lin Shaowen laughed.

"You have a wife, of course you are not in a hurry." Auntie laughed, "These days, girls in the city are very pretty, and the conditions of the second and third uncles are only like that... You can only think of ways to go to the countryside."

"Yu Li is not very good."

Lin Shaowen was not in a hurry to go back, but sat in the yard and chatted with Auntie.

Yu Li, who was cooking at the door, blushed and pricked up her ears when she heard Lin Shaowen talking about her.

"If you ask me, Yu Li is also unlucky. She married Yan Jiecheng. It would be great if she married you." Auntie sighed.

"Auntie, you better be careful when you say this. If Auntie Three hears, she will definitely come after you." Lin Shaowen waved his hand.

"Don't worry, they are all out." Auntie said cheerfully, "Today the street is releasing coal, so everyone is going to grab it."

"Grab coal?" Lin Shaowen was stunned.

The coal is bought by household, what is there to grab.

"You don't understand this?" Auntie suddenly became reserved.

"Please teach me, Auntie."

Lin Shaowen touched his pocket with his right hand, and when he took it out again, there was already a handful of candy in his hand.

"Ahem." Auntie wiped her right hand and took the candy away, then said with a smile, "It's true that coal is bought by household now, but coal is also divided into good and bad. The street office distributes coal to everyone, and it is basically a mixture of good and bad, but this is not absolute."

"It's too late to go, the good coal has been distributed, and only the inferior coal is left. Even the street office can't make coal, right?"

The difference between inferior coal and good coal is too big.

Poor quality coal is easy to extinguish and has a strong smell of smoke. It will choke people to death after it is lit.

Lin Shaowen tilted his head and thought about it, and he was too lazy to go to grab coal again.

When the time comes, he will find some connections and get some coal from the steel mill. The demand for coal in steelmaking is very large, and how much coal can he burn alone?

Nowadays, coal stoves all burn raw coal, and the honeycomb coal has not appeared yet, so it doesn’t matter where you get the coal.

The two were chatting.

Suddenly a group of people came back talking and laughing.

"Wow, Minister Lin is here too." Liu Haizhong laughed, "You don't go to the street office to grab coal, but you still have the mood to chat here?"

"It's useless to grab it now." Xu Damao teased, "I just looked and there are only some miscellaneous coal left. It doesn't matter whether I grab it or not. Anyway, no one will compete with him."

"Lin Shaowen, how about I give it to you equally? The price is negotiable." Yan Bugui said with a smile.

Yi Zhonghai and others did not speak, looking like they were watching a good show.

Seeing that Lin Shaowen had not come back for a long time, Lou Xiao'e also came to the yard. Seeing that he was ridiculed by everyone, she couldn't help but take two quick steps and whispered, "Shaowen, it's all my fault. I wanted to buy coal today, but I overslept."

"It's okay, a small problem." Lin Shaowen rubbed her head.

"But... our coal is almost gone, and the New Year is coming soon." Lou Xiao'e was a little sad.

She had never paid attention to these things before, and after she got married, she had never paid attention to coal. Anyway, there was coal at home, so she would burn it.

In fact, Lin Shaowen had never paid attention to these things either. The coal in his house was all made by Qin Huairu. How could he know what kind of coal to make? He didn't even know how to make a fire.

Everyone was just about to watch the show.

Suddenly someone outside the door shouted, "Xiao Lin, is Xiao Lin in the yard?"

"Director Wang, why are you here?" Lin Shaowen said in surprise.

"The street office has seen that you haven't come to get coal. It's not a good thing for your coal to be piled up in the street office, so I asked someone to help you deliver it." Director Wang said, and winked at Lin Shaowen.

Everyone looked at the gate of the yard.

A young man was pulling a cart with a bucket. The cart was filled with high-quality coal, which was shiny and oily.

"Look at me, I forgot about it when I was so busy." Lin Shaowen slapped his head and smiled bitterly, "Director Wang, I'll drag it in myself."

"Okay, stay aside, you are so weak, how can you do this kind of work?" Director Wang scolded with a smile, and shouted to the outside, "Xiao Liu and Xiao Zhang, drag the coal in for Minister Lin, and help him stack it..."