Siheyuan: Xu Damao's New Life

The meeting lasted for more than half an hour before it ended. Xu Damao asked everyone to clean the warehouse thoroughly, after all, they would be working here for a long time. Before, they had just cleaned and decorated it simply, and it was barely acceptable.

Cui Yong, Xu Damao and Yang Weimin did not work, but discussed the division of labor in the future. Cui Yong was in charge of the overall work, Yang Weimin was mainly responsible for drafting documents, personnel attendance and connecting with the factory office, and Xu Damao was responsible for the easiest part of logistics, and then assisted Cui Yong in handling things. There was no other way, there was really not enough time, and I guess I won't be here for long, just to help Cui Yong open up the situation, and I still have to go back to my own propaganda department in the future.

The three of them discussed and decided that each of the three groups would be responsible for one group and appoint their own team leaders. The self-recommendation and recommendation mentioned before were all nonsense, and the leaders would have the final say.

Seeing that it was almost noon, Xu Damao asked everyone to gather their meal tickets, lunch boxes and other things, and then called Fan Sizhe and two others to carry their things to the cafeteria.

When they arrived at the cafeteria, they happened to see the kitchen putting out pots of rice and staple dishes at the window. Xu Damao asked Fan Sizhe to wait with his money and receipts for his meal, while he went upstairs to find Xu Dabao.

Xu Dabao didn't know that Xu Damao had already put the blame on him. Seeing him coming over, he was very enthusiastic, offering cigarettes and pouring water. Xu Damao was a favorite of Deputy Director Li, and he was not comparable to a small deputy-section-level canteen director like him. You should know that there are six canteens in the steel rolling mill, and each canteen has a canteen director.

"Director Xu, our inspection department will have a lunch party today. Please prepare some delicious dishes for the brothers to enjoy."

Xu Dabao hesitated for a moment but still nodded, "Okay, no problem. I'll arrange for someone to go to the small warehouse to see if there are any good things." The small warehouse is where the ingredients for the leaders' special meals are kept. There used to be a lot of good things in it, but now is a difficult time and supplies are very tight, so the leaders have to take it easy.

Xu Damao saw his dilemma and didn't want to leave any evidence because of this, so he took out twenty yuan and some meat tickets from his pocket and put them on the table. "I still have some money and tickets. You can arrange them. If it's not enough, I can make up for it. But you have to write me a note. We have to go through the formal process."

Xu Dabao felt relieved when he heard that the formal process was being followed. Xu Damao was quite particular. He was not like other leaders who only knew how to eat and drink for free and had to clean up the bills for them. So he quickly wrote out a receipt and handed it to Xu Damao.

Xu Damao said, "Director Xu, I'll leave first. Please arrange it as soon as possible. Our people are waiting for the food downstairs. Just ask them to take it over after it's ready." After saying that, Xu Damao left the office. He also had to go to the logistics department to see if there was any heating. If not, he would ask the processing workshop to make it just like the one at home. However, he would have to pay some material and processing fees.

Xu Damao then went to the logistics department, but there was no spare earth heating. After all, it was not a common item, and each office in the factory had already installed it. However, Xu Damao did not make this trip in vain, but asked for a lot of cabinets from the logistics department. The logistics department said that someone would be sent over in the afternoon. These cabinets can be used to store some documents and some personal belongings.

Xu Damao reluctantly went back to the cafeteria, just in time to catch up with Fan Sizhe and others coming out of the cafeteria with a lot of lunch boxes. He took a few lunch boxes and the four of them walked towards the small warehouse together.

The small warehouse was cleaned up by now, and the men were quite efficient in cleaning. Cui Yong had already directed everyone to put the tables together, waiting for Xu Damao and the others to come back.

Xu Damao and his four companions pushed the door open and put their lunch boxes on the table without hesitation. The aroma of pork stewed with vermicelli and chicken stewed with mushrooms made people salivate. No one was hiding anything at this time. Everyone took out a handful of peanuts and melon seeds and put them on the table. Cui Yong even took out two bottles of Lotus White, which he brought from the security department's office when he moved.

Management was relatively lax at this time, and drinking was still allowed at noon, but one still had to be careful, as getting drunk was not good. Except for a few people who didn't drink, everyone else drank a little more than one or two glasses of wine each, which didn't affect work.

After a lively meal, work officially started in the afternoon. After finishing his meal, Xu Damao returned to the Propaganda Department, but before leaving, he appointed Fan Sizhe as the leader of his team and asked him to take his team to various workshops to try to catch a few typical examples to establish his authority.

Xu Damao spent the whole afternoon thinking about how to hold this party. The steel mill held a party every year before, and Xu Damao had participated in it before. But in Xu Damao's opinion, it was nothing new, of course, this also had a lot to do with the times. Xu Damao was thinking about whether he could introduce some foreign aid, such as an art troupe, so that the military and civilians could have fun together! Another thing is whether he could bring in some crosstalk and skits from the future that were suitable for this era. After all, although the times are different, people's emotions are common.

Seeing that there was only half an hour left before the end of the workday, Xu Damao planned to go to the third workshop to solve the problem of the earth heating. The third workshop was a comprehensive assembly workshop with a relatively complete range of jobs. The workshop director Meng Weiheng was a bald middle-aged man in his forties. His wife died of illness, and then he married a beautiful young widow who was ten years younger than him. How could Old Meng bear to work hard every day, but time was unforgiving and he gradually became unable to do it. He had heard from Li Huaide before that he had bought that kind of medicine from Xu Damao, and their relationship was pretty good.

Xu Damao entered the third workshop and saw Meng Weiheng walking around the workshop, so he shouted at the door: "Old Meng, Old Meng, I have something to ask you."

Meng Weiheng heard someone calling him, and when he looked up, he found it was Xu Damao, and happily came to the door of the workshop. "Damo, what do you want to talk to me about? Are the new pills ready?"

"Well, it's ready. I brought it to you specially." Xu Damao was a little embarrassed. He pretended to take out two bottles of pills from his pocket and handed them over. Then he said, "But this time, I have something to ask you for help."

"We are brothers. As long as it doesn't violate the rules, I promise to get it for you. But I don't have that much money on me. I'll send it to you tomorrow." Meng Weiheng was so happy to get the pills that he couldn't stop smiling. He patted his chest and promised.