Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

After Xu Damao secretly slipped the note into Deputy Director Wang's office that morning, he went to another unit to show a movie. At night, he did not return to the steel mill, but went home directly. After entering the yard, he went to Second Uncle's house instead of his own home. As soon as he entered the house, he asked, "Second Uncle, has Sha Zhu been arrested and interrogated by the factory security department?"

The second uncle got angry when he saw Xu Damao's smug look and said, "Xu Damao, you've killed me."

Xu Damao retorted, "What's wrong, Second Uncle? I'm helping you. Sha Zhu has been dealt with, and you're still not happy?"

"Don't say nice things. You helped me, but you wanted to harm Sha Zhu and avenge yourself. Now you have to take the responsibility for what happened, and you won't be in any trouble."

"What could have happened? Sha Zhu had a job as a private chef. It is a foregone conclusion that he has taken the capitalist road. How can he overturn the verdict? Whoever is so bold as to cover up for him, I will sue him." When Xu Damao heard that Sha Zhu was fine, he was furious and wanted to beat or kill him.

The second uncle looked at his jumping appearance and said disdainfully: "No one is protecting him. Shazhu gave the money I gave him for the banquet to the finance department in advance, and he was praised for it. The factory wants to make him a role model."

"He paid the money, more than ten yuan, half a month's salary. He was really willing to spend it." Xu Damao couldn't believe it and said, "He paid it when he said so."

"You don't have to struggle. The factory leaders are smarter than you. Sha Zhu has the receipt. And Sha Zhu is now the deputy director of the cafeteria. He was appointed this afternoon. I will bring my own lunch from home from now on. You can take care of yourself."

"Tsk, I don't believe that everyone in the factory cafeteria listens to him. Damn, I was away from the factory for just one day, and something so bad happened today. Second uncle, do you want to go to my place for a drink, and let's have a good discussion." Xu Damao wanted to win over the second uncle. "Just because we didn't seize the opportunity this time doesn't mean we can't defeat Sha Zhu in the future, you can't be discouraged."

"Da Mao, listen to my advice. Stop it. We can't beat him. He is an official now. He has the power. He doesn't even have to do anything himself to deal with you and me. You'd better stop it." The second uncle waved his hand to refuse and kindly advised the other party.

"Impossible. How can he, an uneducated bastard cook, be better off than me, a projectionist who just graduated from junior high school?" After saying that, Xu Damao left angrily.

"He's a bastard, you're a bastard, and you're not a good person either." The second uncle lowered his head and muttered to himself, "From now on, you guys fight your own battles, I won't get involved, I don't want to be targeted."

Sure enough, what Liu Haizhong said was right. When Xu Damao went to the second canteen to get food the next day, he was taken care of. He asked for a portion of fried cabbage. When the chef was digging hard under the vegetable basin, Xu Damao was quite happy. However, after the spoon came up and shook inadvertently, only half a spoonful of vegetable and half a spoonful of soup were left in the spoon.

"What are you doing? Don't you want people to eat their fill? Did I not pay for my meal ticket?" Xu Damao shouted while holding up his lunch box, trying to make a big fuss. "Your cafeteria is not Sha Zhu's private territory. You can't target me."

The chef who was serving the food shouted, "Hey, you so-and-so, what are you yelling about? Someone is targeting you."

"You, that means you and the people in your cafeteria."

"How did we target you?" One of the chefs in the cafeteria had already left the kitchen and grabbed Xu Damao by the collar. "If you don't explain me clearly, I will beat you to a pulp."

"It's wrong to hit people. You will be punished. Let go." Xu Damao's voice was vague, and his face changed color.

Ma Hua also came out and stopped the master who was arresting the man, saying, "Master Peng, please let go first. Let the bastard speak first. If he can't explain clearly, we will beat him up. Anyway, we are all here, he can't run away. Even if he leaves the cafeteria, he can't escape from the factory."

Master Peng let go of his hand and pointed at Xu Damao, "Go ahead, Grandpa is waiting for you to speak."

"You gave me too little food. Why did you only give me this much for a dish? You just want to support Sha Zhu and vent your anger." Xu Damaoping held the lunch box and showed it to the people in the cafeteria and the people waiting in line, "Look, everyone, isn't it too little?

The rectangular lunch box has a large bottom area and is flat, so the soup is spread out inside and can't be seen, which highlights that there is not much cabbage. The employees in the queue also expressed their support for Xu Damao's statement, saying that the amount of vegetables was a bit small.

Liu Lan saw what the lunch chef did just now, took Xu Damao's lunch box, and asked with a smile: "Then how much do you think is enough for one serving?"

When Xu Damao saw the pretty Liu Lan asking him with a smile, he was also in high spirits and said, "At least one ladle is enough. Our factory has always stipulated that one ladle is one serving of food. My request is very reasonable. Right?" Xu Damao gestured to the employees again, trying to show that he was not being unreasonable.

The workers all nodded, "Yes, the factory has always used one spoonful for each serving of food. People in the cafeteria were beaten if they got less food. This is definitely wrong."

"Oh, one spoonful, not much, wait." Liu Lan walked to the dish basin with her lunch box and picked up the ladle. When everyone thought she was going to serve Xu Damao more food and Xu Damao was about to ask her to stop, Liu Lan poured the food in the lunch box into the ladle. The ladle was full little by little. Liu Lan extended the ladle out the window so that the employees in line could see it and said, "See? One spoonful, our chef served him one spoonful."

"But this spoonful is only half a spoonful of soup." Xu Damao objected.

"Oh, you mean we have to drain it all for you, then what will the workers behind us do if they don't have any vegetables? They can only eat vegetable soup? They also spent the same meal tickets, why do you eat vegetables while others eat vegetable soup? Because you are a movie projectionist, because you are one of the eight major members, because you don't have to work hard, and because you wear a fashionable Zhongshan suit?" Liu Lan said, pouring the vegetables in the ladle back into the lunch box, "It's just the food, you can eat it if you want, if you don't want to eat it, get out."

"Yes, why do you ask for so much? You don't have to work hard, and you even want to snatch food from us workers. Just now you used us as a gun, making us think that the people in the cafeteria really made a mistake."

"Hurry up and take your lunch boxes and get out of here. Don't block the road." The employees cursed.

Xu Damao glared and picked up his lunch box to leave, but Ma Hua stopped him, "Wait, you wrongly accused someone and you want to leave without saying anything, do you really think there is no one in our cafeteria?"

"What do you want? You still want to hit me? Be careful or I'll sue you. I'm just making reasonable suggestions." Xu Damao was not afraid. This was in the factory and no one dared to hit someone in broad daylight.

Ma Hua said: "I want you to apologize, apologize to the people in our cafeteria."

"Impossible." Xu Damao pushed Ma Hua away and tried to walk out.

The fat man rushed out from the side and knocked over Xu Damao's lunch box, spilling the food all over the floor. Xu Damao pulled the fat man and said, "You knocked over my food, you have to compensate me."

The fat man swung his arm and threw Xu Damao far away, saying, "Who knocked over your lunch box? Your lunch box was in your hand and you dropped it yourself. How can you falsely accuse a good person?"

"You bumped into me and knocked me over when you came over just now."

"Who saw it?" asked the fat man.

"Everyone saw it. If you don't believe me, ask them." Xu Damao looked at the workers in line. They saw that Xu Damao said it was too little even though it was clearly one spoonful of food. After hearing what Liu Lan said, they all felt that Xu Damao ate too much and slandered the chef in the cafeteria without apologizing. No one was willing to testify for him. Even those who wanted to speak out for justice, thinking that they hadn't gotten their meals yet, decided to shut up.

"I saw it, but no one said it was me who knocked it over. So you are accusing us again. Do you really think we are made of mud?" The fat man slapped Xu Damao on the head. "Get lost, and don't come to our second canteen next time. I won't serve you food even if you come. I'll starve you to death, you stinky bastard."