Siheyuan: Sizhu starts blindly and takes a new path

Qin Jingru was confused by Xu Damao's sudden behavior and was a little worried. She asked, "Da Mao, are you okay?"

"What can happen to me? I'm fine. Thank you so much, wife. You woke me up with your words. Just wait and see. I will soon become someone more powerful than Sha Zhu."

"Then come on, I believe you can do it, Damao."

A new day began. Xu Damao received the work assigned by Chief Jin. He tied the projector to the back seat of his bicycle and prepared to set off to the village where he wanted to show the movie.

When they arrived at Liujiazhuang, the road was bumpy and inconvenient to ride, so Xu Damao pushed the bike into the village. Because Xu Damao rode fast on the road, it was not yet noon when he arrived at the place. When he arrived at the brigade headquarters, he even scared the brigade leader Liu Guohua, "Projectionist Xu, shouldn't you arrive at noon?"

Xu Damao replied casually: "I rode a little too fast just now, so I came early."

"Would you like to eat now or later?"

"I'll put up the curtain now, so that everyone in the village knows that there will be a movie in the evening, and they will be more motivated to work in the afternoon."

Liu Guohua was shocked by Xu Damao's answer. What was wrong with this projectionist Xu? In the past, he would never put up the machine and the screen before 4 pm, saying that he wanted to protect the machine and prevent the children from damaging it. Today, not only did he arrange it in advance, but he also let the villagers know about it, in order to increase everyone's enthusiasm for work. This was the first time in history.

"Projectionist Xu, aren't you afraid that the kids will break the machine?"

"Don't worry, I'm right next to you. It won't break. And if it does break, I can fix it."

After hearing this, Liu Guohua was not shocked but scared. Could it be that this projectionist Xu has taken a fancy to something special in the village and wants to give us benefits before he can ask for it? I don’t know what he has taken a fancy to? If the thing he wants is not too expensive, it’s fine, otherwise... Liu Guohua was thinking about it when Xu Damao urged him, "Team leader, quickly arrange for someone to help me set up the venue. I can’t do it alone." Liu Guohua didn’t dare to delay and called two members who were watching the excitement nearby, "Erniu, Heizi, you two go and help Xu to set up the venue. After you are done, one of you will take projectionist Xu back to the team for dinner, and the other one will watch the projector over there to make sure it is not broken by the children."

The two men happily took Xu Damao to the empty field where the team dried grain. Xu Damao followed behind and recalled Liu Guohua's expression just now: Are you stupid? I just used a little trick to shock these bastards. If I use a little more force later, will these people bow down to me?

Under Xu Damao's guidance, Erniu and Heizi quickly pulled up the screen and pulled up the electrical wires. Xu Damao debugged the machine and played a short clip for Erniu and Heizi. Although it was not very clear in the daytime, it was a clip specially played for the two of them, which made Erniu and Heizi very happy. They kept laughing at Xu Damao and said, "Projectionist Xu, you are really awesome. You can project movies to people." Xu Damao was very pleased with himself. He had only tried his hand at it, but he received two praises. It seems that doing good things is not difficult. Sha Zhu is no better than him.

Erniu and Heizi decided who would take projectionist Xu back to the team headquarters by playing rock-paper-scissors, and the loser would stay in the empty field to watch the machine.

In the team headquarters, there were four dishes on the table: fried cabbage with bacon, scrambled eggs, braised eggplant and pan-fried tofu. There was also a bottle of Lao Baigan next to the dishes.

When Liu Guohua saw Xu Damao entering the team headquarters, he asked him to wash his face, and then he led him to the table and said, "Projectionist Xu, do you think these dishes are okay?"

"Captain, what do you mean? Why are there four dishes?"

"Don't think it's too little. We can't make it in time for lunch. We'll treat Projectionist Xu well in the evening."

"I don't think it's too little, I just think it's too much. In fact, a bowl of noodles is enough. Please take away these dishes and wine."

"No, Projectionist Xu, if you think it's too little, I'll have someone make more now. You can eat these first." Liu Guohua was extremely dissatisfied when he heard Xu Damao asked for a bowl of noodles. If he was not satisfied with the food, he would not show the movie properly to the members in the evening. If the other party did not show the movie properly and left, the members would complain that they did not treat the projectionist well and vent their anger on themselves as the team leader.

Xu Damao knew what Liu Guohua was worried about, and said, "Captain, I am telling the truth. I just want a bowl of noodles. I don't need any wine or food. I am not dissatisfied. You don't need to arrange a big meal in the evening. Just a normal meal will do."

Liu Guohua scratched his bald head and looked at Xu Damao with doubt. Xu Damao tried to smile frankly. Liu Guohua didn't see anything, but he wanted to make a final effort or judgment, and said: "Projectionist Xu, this dish has been cooked. If you don't eat it, it will be wasted, right?"

"I won't eat it, but I can give it to others. I know we're not well off in the countryside, and some families may not have meat for a month or two. Give these to those families in poor conditions and let them eat them." After Xu Damao finished speaking, he ignored Liu Guohua and called Erniu who had just accompanied him. "Erniu, you should know which families in the team are in poor conditions, give these to them, and say that the team gave them these."

Erniu looked at Liu Guohua, meaning, Captain, please tell me something, what should I do?

"Why are you looking at him? If he doesn't agree, I won't show the movie today?"

Liu Guohua thought: A threat, finally a threat, they want something delicious, no, they want to send something out, if they can't send it out, they won't show the movie, how can they do this? "Projectionist Xu, what are you doing? Do you have any requests?"

"Captain, I really don't have any requests. I just want a bowl of noodles. I'm hungry. Really hungry."

Liu Guohua said he couldn't understand it, but Xu Damao's performance made him feel that Xu Damao must have some ulterior motive.

After a while, a bowl of meat noodles was served. Xu Damao looked at the bowl with more meat and very little noodles, and smiled: Forget it, change can't be made all at once. This is already much better than what I and others had before.

After dinner, Xu Damao started to wander around the village. He didn't have a fixed target and just greeted and chatted with people he met. Although he looked down on these villagers in his heart, he still had a smile on his face. The members wondered why the projectionist, who used to be aloof from people, came to talk to them?

Liu Guohua heard the members' report: There is no clear goal, is it to explore whether there is any good stuff? So he called a smart young man to follow Xu Damao to see what the other party is up to.