Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life

The next morning, Xu Damao drove to the steel mill on time to work. It was almost the end of the year and there was nothing to do in the publicity department, so Xu Damao lay on the chair in his office and slacked off. As for the inspection team, he was too lazy to go. Anyway, he would no longer be in charge of the work there after the new year, so why bother about it.

Office building, Deputy Director Wu’s office.

Wu Changzheng frowned as he looked at the information in his bangs. Yesterday he had promised to promote this old master who worked diligently and used his spare time to selflessly teach technology. He himself was a technician by background and he had come this way, so he also admired people like him.

But after checking Liu Haizhong's information today, I was a little worried - Liu Haizhong's education level is too low, and his age is also too low, so it is impossible for him to be promoted to a high position.

However, he quickly made up his mind. He needed the support of his subordinates no matter what he did. Although Liu Haizhong had various defects, his strengths and achievements were obvious. The last forging workshop assessment of Liu Haizhong had a much higher passing rate than other workshops. Wu Changzheng decided to buy a good job. If he didn't have enough education, he would work instead of work. If there was no suitable position, he would create one.

So Wu Changzheng started writing. After about an hour, Wu Changzheng stopped writing and stretched. Then he took the plan he had just written and went to see Director Yang and Deputy Director Li.

The plan calls for the establishment of a workers' technical mutual aid group, in which senior workers of different trades are drawn from various workshops to serve as masters. They will use lunch breaks and some time after get off work to specifically teach apprentices and junior workers techniques. The factory will then provide certain subsidies to quickly improve the work grades of apprentices and junior workers, thereby increasing the factory's production efficiency.

This was obviously a good thing for the factory. Yang Wenjing and Li Huaide had no reason to refuse. Moreover, a new official had to make three big moves upon taking office, so they had to give him some face. If they made enemies because of this, how would they carry out their future work?

Since it was not a formal organization, the three factory managers simply convened the chief and deputy chiefs of the technical department and engineers for a brief meeting to finalize the matter.

Sure enough, before the end of get off work at noon, the document issued by the factory office on the establishment of a technical mutual aid group and Liu Haizhong's appointment notice were delivered to Xu Damao's desk.

Xu Damao read it carefully several times and then put it in his pocket. He planned to go eat first and then give a surprise to the official-fan Liu Haizhong. It was not easy for him to wait for so many years.

After cooking today, Nan Yi also came to the food window to help. From a distance, he saw Xu Damao carrying a lunch box into the cafeteria.

"Brother Damao, come here." After Nan Yi shouted, he called the fat man next to him to come and serve the food, and he came to the door of the back kitchen.

When Xu Damao heard Nan Yi calling him, he went straight to the kitchen. "What's the matter, Brother Yi?"

"I want to invite you to my house for dinner tonight and thank you. Come, bring the lunch box and ticket, and I'll get you some food."

Xu Damao was not polite when he heard this and handed over the meal ticket and lunch box. This was not the first time. Nan Yi prepared some exquisite big pot dishes for the leaders in advance every day, and then left some for his wife and Xu Damao. These two people were the only ones in the factory who enjoyed this treatment.

"Here, go eat, and remember to come in the evening!"

"Okay, but my wife is still at her parents' house, so I can go by myself. When your house is renovated and you move in, we can have a few good meals together." Xu Damao said with a smile.

Nan Yi nodded. He had also heard some stories about Xu Damao from the workers in the factory, and he admired this brother's abilities very much.

Xu Damao took his lunch box and found a random seat to eat. The worker eating next to him was familiar with him and said with a smile: "Chief Xu, your treatment is exactly the same as that of Master Nan's wife. You eat the dishes cooked by Master Nan every day. I envy you so much."

"Hey, if you want to eat, just say it directly. Don't beat around the bush. Come, let's eat together." Xu Damao was not a stingy person. He pushed the lunch box directly to the center of the table.

"Hey, then I won't be polite." The man decisively stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the food, and deliberately smacked his lips, causing the people around him to glare at him.

After finishing his meal, Xu Damao washed the lunch box. He missed the time when his two apprentices were around. He didn't need to do this job himself. But he could understand that it was almost the New Year and the task of going to the countryside to show movies was heavy. His two apprentices had been out for a long time and hadn't come back.

Xu Damao strolled to the second workshop where Liu Haizhong was with his hands behind his back, and immediately saw Liu Haizhong talking to someone with his hands and feet gesticulating. There was nothing he could do because Liu Haizhong's big belly was too conspicuous and it was hard not to see it.

When Xu Damao approached and listened, he heard Liu Haizhong talking to his co-workers and apprentices with saliva flying about his plan to become an official.

"Uncle, uncle!" Xu Damao called out twice before Liu Haizhong heard him and stopped talking.

"Oh, Damao, what's the matter? Why do you come to the workshop to see me?" Liu Haizhong stepped forward and patted Xu Damao on the shoulder to show his intimacy. He had boasted before that Section Chief Xu Xu was from the same compound as him and that he was particularly respectful to him.

"Good news, of course it's very good news. If you don't believe me, take a look." Xu Damao took out the two notices from his pocket and handed them to the second uncle.

Liu Haizhong took the notice and put on a pair of glasses from his pocket. He read it three times carefully, word by word, and then he raised his head and laughed, shouting, "I'm an official, I'm finally an official!" Liu Haizhong ran around the workshop excitedly, his excitement had gone to his head, and he wanted to vent.

An old man next to him was also curious about him, so he reached out and snatched the notice and started reading it. Wow, Liu Haizhong is really an official, but he is just working instead of working. That's right, with Liu's education, he can just be an official to satisfy his desire to be an official, and the treatment is the same anyway.

"Congratulations, Lao Liu, you've finally got what you've been waiting for for so many years!"

Everyone around congratulated Liu Haizhong. This Master Liu was very serious about his work and never kept anything to himself when teaching his apprentices. Recently, he even used his spare time to teach his apprentices skills for free. Everyone saw this. It can be said that Liu Haizhong's reputation in the workshop is pretty good, except that he likes to act like an official. Everyone was convinced that he could be an official, and they sincerely congratulated him at this moment.

Xu Damao looked at Liu Haizhong's crazy running and shook his head. He stopped disturbing him from venting his excitement and took back the two notices and walked out of the workshop with his hands behind his back. He also had to go to the broadcasting station to deliver the notice so that the announcer could broadcast the news in the afternoon.