Siheyuan: Fishing for All Things

In the evening.

Qin Huairu was cooking, and Lin Shaowen was warming himself in the yard, even though it was already February. But in fact, the ice and snow had no intention of melting. Although there was no heavy snowfall, some snowflakes would fall from the sky from time to time.

Although many leaders were organizing people to clear the ice on the river, the situation was still quite worrying.

"Let's eat."

After Qin Huairu put the food on the table, she went to the study and took out a bottle of Moutai and poured him two taels.

"Why do you want to drink today?" Lin Shaowen asked in surprise.

"Isn't it because I saw you were busy all day and tired?" Qin Huairu smiled.

Although she was not in the personnel department, she also heard that Lin Shaowen took Director Zhao of the textile factory to promote tampons everywhere. Moreover, Li Chunhua and others began to give them trial packs in the workshops and back kitchens to let them experience it.

Many people in the steel rolling mill laughed at Lin Shaowen behind his back. A good man would actually do such a thing.

"Would you like to drink some too?" Lin Shaowen shook the bottle.

"Okay."

Qin Huairu agreed without hesitation.

She actually didn't like drinking, but it would be so lonely for Lin Shaowen to drink alone.

So.

The two of them ate by the brazier under the not-so-bright light.

They clinked their glasses from time to time, which made it seem very quiet.

"Shaowen, where did Xiao'e go?" Qin Huairu asked suddenly.

"I don't know." Lin Shaowen shrugged.

"Have you named the child?" Qin Huairu said with a little concern, "What if Lou Bancheng forces Xiao'e to give the child his surname?"

"It's okay to give him his surname." Lin Shaowen said indifferently.

"Nonsense." Qin Huairu said with a rare straight face, "You are the only child of the old Lin family. If the child has the surname Lou Bancheng, the Lin family will have no descendants..."

Lin Shaowen looked at Qin Huairu and couldn't help but smile. He joked, "What's the big deal? Otherwise, let's get married and have another child."

"No." Qin Huairu refused at once.

She wanted to marry Lin Shaowen very much, even in her dreams.

But reality did not allow it. Lin Shaowen was in a high position and there were countless eyes watching him. When he married Lou Xiao'e, Qin Zhong, Zhang Yuyang, Yang Weiguo, and even Director Wang... They all complained about it.

But Lin Shaowen insisted on it, and Lou Xiao'e was a virgin, so they just accepted it. If Lin Shaowen really wanted to marry Qin Huairu, who knows how big a mess it would cause. The gossip behind their backs alone would drown the two of them.

"I don't care." Lin Shaowen chuckled, "I dare to marry Lou Xiao'e, so I dare to marry you..."

Qin Huairu's eyes immediately turned red when she heard this, but she still refused, "No, with your conditions, if you marry a divorced woman, people will talk about you."

Lin Shaowen wanted to say something, but the door was knocked.

Qin Huairu frowned immediately. Who is this? So rude.

"Who is it?"

"Lin Shaowen, meeting."

Sha Zhu's hoarse voice sounded outside the door.

"I'm busy, you guys start it."

Lin Shaowen refused at once.

It's late at night, and I'm really bored.

Sha Zhu's voice disappeared immediately, but in a few minutes.

There was a knock on the door outside.

"Lin Shaowen, do you want us to invite you?"

Yi Zhonghai's resentful voice sounded.

Lin Shaowen looked at Qin Huairu who had already walked to the small door, and couldn't help sighing.

After opening the door, before Yi Zhonghai and others could speak, they heard the angry Lin Shaowen say, "I say, are you sick? Why are you holding a meeting so late at night? And if you have a meeting, just hold a meeting. Why do you keep calling me?"

"Lin Shaowen, what's your attitude?" Liu Haizhong said angrily.

"Liu Haizhong, don't put on airs in front of me." Lin Shaowen said coldly, "You don't do your work every day, but do these crooked ways. Believe it or not, I will go to the street office to sue you."

"You..."

Liu Haizhong was shocked and angry.

"Brother, calm down." Yan Bugui immediately came up to smooth things over. "Didn't you tell those old ladies this afternoon that the textile factory was hiring? We just wanted to find out what was going on..."

"Old Yan, that sounds like human language." Lin Shaowen closed the door. "Okay, since you're all here, I'll tell you about it, so you don't have to take care of the people in our courtyard."

"How could that be possible?" Yan Bugui said with a big smile on his face.

The courtyard.

Almost everyone was there.

The three old men sat in the center. Liu Haizhong was about to show off his status as an old man, but he heard Yi Zhonghai cough twice, signaling him not to speak.

Yan Bugui smiled and invited Lin Shaowen to the center., which is considered to be giving enough face.

"It's cold, I'll make it short." Lin Shaowen lit a cigarette and said leisurely, "Now the Dongcheng Textile Factory needs to recruit a group of salesmen to sell some products around the city. They will be treated as temporary workers. If the performance is good, they can be converted to regular employees. Those who are interested can tell me..."

"Selling products?" Xu Damao turned his head and suddenly raised his voice, "Lin Shaowen, are you selling sanitary tampons... the ones used by old women."

"Yes." Lin Shaowen nodded frankly.

Liu Guangfu, who was originally very excited, suddenly collapsed. Although he was not a worker in the steel mill, he knew about this thing. A group of old women from the street office came to the yard to promote it in the evening and gave some trial products.

Temporary workers in the textile factory are good, but this thing is used by old women. Who is willing to promote this thing?

Not only the street urchins in the yard hesitated, but also the second and third aunts and others hesitated. In their limited thinking, a grown man went to talk to an old woman about this thing, and the treatment of temporary workers was not enough to make him lose face.

"I thought it was something else." Liu Haizhong sneered, "Lin Shaowen, you let a bunch of old men sell tampons, are you good enough?"

"If you don't want to, then don't want to, I don't care." Lin Shaowen shrugged.

"Brother, selling this thing... is really embarrassing." Yan Bugui also advised, "If you really have a way, you can let these young people in the courtyard work in the factory."

Before Lin Shaowen could speak, he heard someone raise his hand below.

"Brother Lin, I do."

The speaker was Aunt Li's son Li Zhuang.

Aunt Li's family was not well off. Old Li died early, leaving only Li Zhuang as a child. He was thin, 1.65 meters tall, but as thin as a bamboo pole. He was usually taciturn and not very sociable. He was considered a marginal person among the young people in the courtyard.

The mother and son of the Li family usually make a living by taking some jobs from the street office, such as pasting matchboxes, and their life is very poor.

However, although Aunt Li is poor, she is very strong-willed.

She never shows her weakness in front of others. Of course, Yi Zhonghai and others don't bother to pay attention to this orphan and widow.

The mother and son live in a small house of less than 20 square meters in the corner of the middle courtyard.

"Okay, you are one." Lin Shaowen laughed and looked around and said, "Who else can sign up? No one will be accepted after the deadline."

Seeing this, Liu Guangfu and others remained silent.

"I... Brother Lin, I want to go."

Yu Li raised her hand, and everyone in the room was shocked.