Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life

Xu Damao came to the bathhouse at the corner of the street, took off his clothes and took a comfortable bath for more than half an hour. Then he found a bath scrubber with strong hands. It must be said that the master's skills were really good. He felt like his back was on fire. After a while, Xu Damao fell asleep directly because of the comfort.

After the bathing master woke him up, Xu Damao put on his clothes and went out of the bathhouse and returned to the courtyard. When he passed the front yard, he did not see the third uncle, but heard the third uncle's voice coming from his house. Xu Damao listened for a while and found out that they were holding a family meeting to help him with the work. Xu Damao did not listen and went home to sleep.

The next morning, Xu Damao was woken up on time by his biological clock that had been set for many years. He first washed up, heated up yesterday's leftovers, fried two eggs, had a delicious breakfast, and rode his bike to work.

He greeted his familiar co-workers along the way and soon arrived at the steel mill. As usual, he cleaned up the section chief's office and filled two pots of hot water to make tea. Xu Damao sat at his workstation, smoking a cigarette and drinking tea.

Xu Damao was feeling happy when he suddenly remembered that he had been punished and needed to clean the factory roads when he had no projection tasks. Thinking of this, Xu Damao did not hesitate and went directly to the logistics department to get the tools to work and started cleaning at the factory gate.

If you want to know why I started working before I officially started working, I can only say that I am still too young. Xu Damao wanted to clean the door before the factory leaders came. When the leaders came in, they would see me working hard! If the leaders didn't see me, why would I work?

Sure enough, after a while, the factory leaders came in through the gate one after another, and saw Xu Damao working there at a glance. Those who were familiar with Xu Damao started to joke with him.

"Hey, Damao, you're being punished for being so active today."

"Da Mao, you don't have any screening tasks today, right?"

"Comrade Xu Damao is great, he swept the place very clean!"

Xu Damao also responded one by one and laughed. After a while, Deputy Director Li arrived, and Xu Damao immediately trotted over to greet him, "Good morning, Director Li."

"Oh, it's Damao. It seems that you have implemented the decisions of the factory leaders very well! You are a good comrade." Deputy Director Li spoke in an official tone.

When Xu Damao saw Li Huaide yawning and looking a little depressed with dark circles under his eyes, he knew what was going on with Li Huaide, because Xu Damao used to be like this before. It seems that I should make a lot of money from you. It just so happens that I need money for renovation recently, and you, a fat sheep, bumped into me.

"Director, you don't look very well. Maybe you didn't sleep well last night? I have a secret recipe I got from an old Chinese doctor in the countryside. The pills made from it are specifically for this." After saying this, Xu Damao blinked.

It turned out that when Xu Damao was browsing the redemption items, he had seen a small blue pill that was specifically for treating kidney deficiency, nourishing yin and kidney, and making people as brave as a tiger and able to seduce three women at night without falling down. It was exactly what Li Huaide was experiencing. As for whether there were any sequelae, that was not something Xu Damao could control. The redemption price of this pill was quite cheap, 10 points for a bottle of 30 pills. He just made a lot of money from Li Huaide.

Li Huaide looked at Xu Damao blinking at him and his heart moved. He had also heard about Xu Damao's romantic affairs and felt that there must be something fishy about it, so he said, "Hey, I can't sleep well lately and often suffer from insomnia. If you have any secret recipe, please come to my office. You continue with your work, I have a meeting to attend later." After that, he pushed the cart towards the office building.

Xu Damao chuckled and continued sweeping. The roads in the factory area were usually cleaned by someone, so unless it was near the workshop, it wasn't particularly dirty, not to mention the factory gate and office building area that Xu Damao was responsible for.

Two hours passed in a blink of an eye, and Xu Damao had basically finished cleaning. He found a secluded corner and was sweeping the floor intermittently, with a cigarette in his mouth, looking around at the people passing by from time to time.

Suddenly, the security guard Xiao Li came running over with an anxious look on his face and shouted at him, "Hey, Brother Damao, why are you still sweeping the floor here? We are anxious to find you. A group of people came half an hour ago, saying that they are from Lantai Commune and came to thank you. They are now at the factory gate!"

Xu Damao knew it was the story of the previous trip to the countryside to show movies to save people. It seemed that the people of Lantai Commune were very sensible. He would show them more movies in the future. "Okay, Xiao Li, since it's urgent, let's go there quickly. Have you notified our factory leaders?"

"I've already made the call. Director Yang and Deputy Director Li are here. You're the only one missing," Xiao Li said.

"Then let's go quickly and don't keep the leaders and guests waiting for too long." Xu Damao said as he started to jog.

Soon they ran to the security duty room at the factory gate, where they saw the two factory directors and other leaders chatting cordially with Lantai Commune's Secretary Wang, Uncle Wang and his son.

"Leaders, I'm sorry, I'm late." Xu Damao said breathlessly.

"Xu Damao, you are not in the office. Where have you been? It's so easy for people to find you." Director Yang said.

Xu Damao replied, "Director, there is no screening today. I am cleaning the factory area."

Director Yang then remembered the punishment he had given Xu Damao at the previous meeting and coughed twice in embarrassment.

At this time, Secretary Wang of the commune saw Xu Damao coming, turned his head and glanced at Director Yang, then walked up quickly, shook Xu Damao's hand affectionately and said, "Comrade Xu, we came here today to thank you. We should have come a long time ago, but unfortunately the wild boars came down the mountain to look for food a few days ago, so we organized people to hunt wild boars. Gangzi, bring the things you brought here."

Upon hearing this, Gangzi called a few people to lift down a wild boar weighing about 200 pounds from the ox cart at the door. The wild boar was wearing a big red flower.

"Brother Damao, I shot this wild boar with my own hands. After discussion in the commune, we unanimously decided to give it to you to express our gratitude." After saying this, Gangzi took out a banner from the car and handed it to Xu Damao.

Xu Damao saw the banner that read: "Willing to help others and save the dying and the wounded, the grace of saving lives will never be forgotten." The signature was Wang Dazhuang and Wang Gang, father and son of Lantai Commune. Xu Damao experienced such a thing for the first time, and he touched his head in confusion.

At this time, Deputy Factory Director Li said, "Da Mao, why are you still standing there? We already know what happened. Just hurry up and continue. This is also a token of our fellow villagers' kindness."

Xu Damao then accepted the banner and said, "Gangzi, you are too polite. This banner is enough. The villagers are living in hardship, so you should take the wild boar back and share it with them."

Director Wang smiled and said, "Comrade Xu, please don't be polite and take it quickly. This time our commune killed a lot of wild boars when they came down the mountain, and the villagers got a lot of meat."

Uncle Wang also advised: "My benefactor, please accept it quickly. If it weren't for you, I would have died long ago. We don't have much good stuff in the countryside, and it just so happens that we killed a lot of wild boars this time."

Director Yang also said, "Xu Damao, you should accept it. You can't let down the kindness of your fellow villagers. It's almost noon now. Secretary Wang, you all should stay and try the canteen of our steel mill."

Seeing that everyone was persuading him, Xu Damao nodded and said, "Then let's use the wild boar meat to entertain the villagers at noon, and the rest will be used as a meal for our workers." Then he turned to Director Wang and others and said, "The villagers have come from afar and worked hard. Since they are here, let us show our hospitality and invite everyone to taste the cooking skills of our steel mill chef."

Secretary Wang and others also said a few polite words before nodding. Deputy Director Li called the canteen director over and asked him to take the wild boar to the canteen and arrange lunch. Then everyone walked towards the canteen while chatting.