Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life

"Okay, Lao Zhou, you are still playing tricks on me, right?" Li Huaide said to Zhou Zhiguo.

"Director, how can that be possible? Isn't food more precious? I know that the factory has been short of food for so long. Of course we have to transport our food first." Zhou Zhiguo said with a serious face.

"Okay, okay, stop arguing with me. When will the car arrive?"

"Five vehicles are in our fleet parking lot. The remaining ten are expected to return in the afternoon. We originally planned to send them to the south tomorrow, but it doesn't matter if they are sent a few days later."

"Go back quickly to arrange a car and gather at the gate later. I will arrange some more people to go and load the car." Li Huaide said.

Zhou Zhiguo responded and left the office, going back to the fleet to arrange a car. Wang Jinshan saw the neutral party leave and then said, "Should we use food to settle accounts with the units that need to pay? I think they should be very happy to do so. In this way, we should be able to save some money."

After listening to this, Li Huaide was considering the pros and cons of this method, but then he heard Xu Damao say, "This method looks good. Both of us will benefit, but it will bring us unnecessary trouble. An innocent man is guilty of possessing a treasure! If they know that we have food, they will come to us, and then there will be endless trouble."

Li Huaide and Wang Jinshan nodded after hearing this. It was indeed what Xu Damao said. Grain was so precious these days. After the related units knew the news, they all came to the steel mill to ask for it. So who should they give it to and who should they not? That would offend people.

"Brother Damao is right. I was too one-sided in my thinking. I only thought about saving some money for the factory." Wang Jinshan said sincerely.

"Let's do this. Damao will take people to familiarize themselves with the road and bring back a small amount of food first. Then we will secretly transport the food at night. This way we can reduce the chance of being discovered." Li Huaide is worthy of being the factory director. His brain is really quick.

Xu Damao and Wang Jinshan both nodded in agreement with this method. In this era, keeping a low profile is the right way to go, especially when there is such a large amount of grain in hand.

"Then I'll go wait at the door first. Corey and the workshop won't go there for now. I guess the truck will be here soon." Xu Damao said.

"Go ahead. I'll leave the matters over there to you. In the past, I was worried that you were too young and inexperienced, but with such a great contribution this time, I guess no one would dare to say anything. This is a good opportunity to raise your rank. From now on, you will be Director Xu of the Propaganda Department!"

"Okay, then I won't refuse. Thank you very much, Brother Li and Brother Wang, for your care." Xu Damao said.

"Okay, go ahead, kid. After you finish this, I'll give you three days off to have a good rest. You've really worked hard this time." Li Huaide said with a smile.

"Then I'll leave." Xu Damao very naturally put the cigarettes and lighters on the table into his pocket, then got up and walked out.

"Isn't Damao's promotion too fast, which may cause his foundation to be unstable? After all, he is only in his twenties, and I have been at the deputy director level for many years." Wang Jinshan said with some concern.

"I think he is not interested in a career in politics. He has made a lot of contributions during this period. I pushed him to this position. Otherwise, he would not have married Director Lou's daughter. He brought a large amount of food this time. If anyone in the factory is dissatisfied and brings so much food, I will promote him immediately!"

Then Li Huaide lowered his voice and said, "I'm only telling you this, don't say anything nonsense. Damao has a deep background."

"Relationships in the department?" Wang Jinshan remembered the last time they had a meeting about speed bicycles, several senior leaders, academicians, chief engineers and the like looked at Xu Damao differently.

Li Huaide shook his head. "It's even higher than that. I once heard Minister Chen calling him sir! Although Damao didn't admit it, not everyone can be called sir by the minister!"

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Wang Jinshan took a deep breath. What kind of person could be called "sir" by the minister? Damao's background was really far-reaching.

Li Huaide ignored his shocked look and continued, "You also know that Damao's first application to join the organization was rejected by the higher-ups, but later the higher-ups called me personally and asked me to submit Damao's application again.

And Damao also told me that the class issue of his wife has been resolved! I guess it was Damao who sent Mr. Lou to Hong Kong. It seems that he is working for the country. Damao said that he brought thirteen boats back this time. Can you imagine how much stuff they can hold? They are all the country's stuff. Our factory has benefited from Damao's help."

Wang Jinshan thought to himself that it was a good thing that he and Damao were from the same faction, otherwise he would have died without knowing how he had offended him. Oh, that's not right, I seem to have received gifts from Damao before, he wouldn't have a problem with me because of this, right? It seems that he still needs to find a way to get closer to him.

At that moment, Wang Jinshan was in no mood to chat with Li Huaide. After chatting for a few words, he said that he was going to clean the warehouse to load the grain and left first.

Here, Xu Damao just arrived at the factory gate and saw Zhou Zhiguo, the first car, driving towards the factory gate himself. This is really an interesting person, and Xu Damao also wants to get in touch with him more.

"Brother Damao, come up quickly, let's load the food, I can't wait any longer." Zhou Zhiguo stopped the car and said loudly.

Xu Damao didn't hesitate to open the passenger door and got into the car.

"Brother Damao, come and have a smoke. Where is our destination?"

Xu Damao took the cigarette, lit it, and then gave an address.

"Well, the distance is not too far. Sit tight, brother, let's go."

More than 20 minutes later, the convoy arrived at the warehouse where the grain was stored. There were some people arranged by Zhang Long and Lou San guarding it. After all, it would be unsafe if no one was guarding so much grain.

Xu Damao jumped off the car first and said to Zhang Long, "This is our steel mill transport team. Let's first familiarize ourselves with the route and transport some grain. Large quantities of grain still have to be transported secretly at night, so we should arrange more people at night."

Zhang Long nodded and said, "Okay, after these cars leave, I'll arrange for someone to notify Lou San and the others."

Xu Damao nodded. He trusted Zhang Long and Zhao Hu to do the job. They were not like those two people in Hong Kong who only knew how to fight and kill. "Who has the key? What are you still doing? Hurry up and open the door first!"

After hearing what happened, the people around came to a warehouse, took out their keys and opened the lock. With the efforts of several people, the heavy door slowly opened.

“Captain Zhou, hurry up and drive the car in to load it. These are my people, and they will help.”

Captain Zhou chuckled and said, "I've been waiting for you to say that. I promise to deliver the food to the factory safely."

He glanced at the warehouse full of grain, and then took the lead in backing the car into the warehouse, so that it would be more convenient to get out.

Since there were fewer cars this time and more people loading the cars, it took about half an hour to load all five cars. After Xu Damao gave a few more instructions, he followed the car back to the steel mill.