Siheyuan: Bringing Warehouses to 1959

Every factory has its own landscape, called factory flower.

Even though this era is very conservative, men still feel the same way about beautiful girls.

There are more men than women in the steel rolling mill. Before Zhang Xiuzhi, the most beautiful girl in the factory was Yu Haitang from the broadcasting room. She graduated from high school and was young and energetic.

Later, Zhang Xiuzhi came and Yu Haitang lost her title of factory beauty.

There were many young men in the steel rolling mill, about 17 or 18 years old, just like high school students. Some of them were too timid and shy to look for Zhang Xiuzhi, and could only watch her from afar. Some of them were bold and tried to look for her several times, but to no avail. Rumors began to spread in the factory about the relationship between Zhang Xiuzhi and Zeng Wangcai.

If time goes on for a while, no matter who they are, they will just watch from afar.

Every day during meals, the path leading to the cafeteria becomes the best opportunity to see beautiful girls up close. Almost all young workers will not miss this opportunity because they can always see two at a time.

As Zeng Wangcai walked to the road in front of the cafeteria, countless pairs of eyes looked at him. On both sides, countless people were leaning on each other's shoulders, holding their lunch boxes and looking at him.

That’s right, she was looking at him, because he was too close to Zhang Xiuzhi, and Lou Xiao’e would also glance at him from time to time.

"Who is this black guy?"

"I don't know, I've never seen it before!"

"Good guy, so dark, having a meal with two beautiful girls..."

"Could it be Zhang Xiuzhi's brother?"

"Impossible, absolutely impossible. They don't look alike. She's so white and he's so dark. If they were thrown into a pile of coal, we would never be able to find them."

"What is their relationship?"

"It looks a bit like an object..."

These people whisper as if they were holding a loudspeaker, afraid that others couldn't hear them.

Zhang Xiuzhi raised her head and looked at Zeng Wangcai: "They are right, you are indeed very dark!"

puff!

Lou Xiao'e couldn't help laughing, but didn't interrupt.

"There's nothing we can do. You're stuck with a black guy like me. You can't run away!" Zeng Wangcai said jokingly.

"Who got you into trouble? You're talking as if I have to marry you, humph!" Zhang Xiuzhi snorted, "Xiao'e, let's go, ignore him, and let him be happy."

Xiao Bao came up with his bag on his back, panting: "Brother, what does sister-in-law mean? Are you two not getting married?"

"Bullshit, don't eavesdrop on our conversation!" Zeng Wangcai was speechless. His brother's emotional development... was really backward.

"Brother, why aren't you worried? My sister-in-law said so..."

"Shut up!" Zeng Wangcai turned around and hooked his hands around Xiaobao's shoulders, whispering, "Xiaobao, let me teach you, you have to listen to women's words the other way around, do you understand?"

"Listen the other way around?"

"Correct!"

"What do you mean?"

"That is to say, when a woman says no, it means yes, and when a woman says yes, it means no..."

"I understand. What sister-in-law said just now was a sarcastic remark. It means that she will not marry anyone but you."

"clever!"

"Hey hey hey..."

Zeng Wangcai didn’t know whether his younger brother really understood or was just pretending to understand. Anyway, it was a cramming-style education. He would understand it one day in the future. He was just instilling the knowledge points first.

The two brothers came to the cafeteria and saw that Zhang Xiuzhi and Lou Xiao'e had already occupied an 8-person table.

There are many workers in the steel rolling mill and their eating habits are different. Some like to eat in the lobby after getting their meals, some like to go back to the workshop after getting their meals, and some like to squat and eat somewhere outside the cafeteria after getting their meals.

People like Zhang Xiuzhi and Lou Xiao'e, as well as some middle-level cadres, such as Section Chief Chen, usually go back to their offices after lunch and don't make any noise.

So, Zhang Xiuzhi and her partner occupied a table, and eight hundred people had already come over and wanted to sit down, but they were all told that the table was occupied.

"Here!" Zhang Xiuzhi waved to Zeng Wangcai when she saw him coming in.

"Zhang Xiuzhi, is this your friend?" Two brave young workers came over and said, "There are only four of you. Add the two of us and sit together."

This is the kind of persistent one.

"Dude, I'm her friend, her boyfriend!" Zeng Wangcai came over, declared domineeringly, and put his arm around Zhang Xiuzhi's shoulders, "We're getting married, this table is taken, you guys find another place..."

"Damn it, who are you?" He was a little angry and embarrassed in public.

"There are eight people sitting at the table, and there are only four of you. Why can't you let us sit?"

"That's right, let me tell you, the head of the security department is my brother..."

The two were showing off their strength and talking about their relationship in front of Zeng Wangcai, when suddenly Zhao Hongqing came over and slapped one of them on the back of the head: "Brother, who is your brother? Didn't they say there's someone here? You're still begging for mercy, don't you have any sense? Get out!"

The two men looked back and saw that their backer had come. They immediately shrank their necks, became cowardly, and retreated with an apologetic smile.

After this commotion, everyone in the cafeteria focused their attention more closely, wanting to know who this guy was who was accompanied by two beautiful girls in the factory and who was supported by the head of the factory security department.

"Why are you eating here?" Zhao Hongqing grabbed Zeng Wangcai's arm, "Let's go to the back. I promised to treat you."

"Brother Zhao, that's not necessary. This is good enough. We can talk to each other easily." Zeng Wangcai glanced at Zhang Xiuzhi who was blushing.

Zhang Xiuzhi was just put her arm around Zeng Wangcai's shoulders. She was shy but did not refuse. This proved to everyone that Zeng Wangcai was right.

At that moment, countless young workers who had a crush on Zhang Xiuzhi had their hearts broken.

"I see!" Zhao Hongqing understood. "Then I won't bother you anymore. We can talk later. You won't be returning to the army for the time being, right?"

"No! At least I won't go back until after the Chinese New Year!"

"Okay, let's drink later!"

He waved goodbye and left. Zhao Hongqing no longer wanted to be a third wheel.

Zhang Xiuzhi and Lou Xiao'e went to get food and the table was empty. Within a few minutes, a few young ladies came in from outside the cafeteria.

The people from the Personnel Department have arrived.

"Wangcai, look who I caught for you?" Section Chief Chen saw Zeng Wangcai and revealed Section Chief Wu of the Propaganda Department who was feeling uneasy behind him.

Section Chief Wu was being pulled by two young girls from the Personnel Department, his face full of embarrassment.

In this kind of situation, only some people would find it funny, and no one would think of anything wrong. One reason is that Section Chief Wu is old, and another is that Section Chief Wu is an introverted person with a good reputation, so no one would think in that direction.

A group of people sat down and two seats were left vacant.

After a while, the meal arrived and everyone ate together.

Zeng Wangcai gave a vest to Section Chief Wu, which made Section Chief Wu feel deeply moved. He was a person who never accepted gifts, but today he made an exception and accepted the vest from Zeng Wangcai.

It was winter and there was nothing good to eat. The food in the steel mill canteen was just so-so, with only cabbage and radish, and not much oil.

Zeng Wangcai took out two boxes of canned fish from his tool bag. These were things he always had on hand when he worked in a steel mill.

"Xiaobao, serve the food!" Zeng Wangcai winked at Xiaobao, asking him to take the initiative to serve the food.

He thought the two girls in the personnel department were pretty good and wanted Xiao Bao to show his face and get close to them, maybe there would be sparks.

Little Leopard gave his elder brother a look that said "I understand, you look at mine", and he took the can and opened it.

"Haha, I haven't eaten your canned fish for a long time..."

"Yeah, my big brother's canned fish is delicious!" Little Leopard picked up the girl's words and asked casually while holding up the canned fish, "Do you want some?"

“Eat…”

"Oh, you don't eat!"

The little leopard turned around and looked for the next one.

"Give it to me!" Zeng Wangcai was so embarrassed. That's all you knew. What a joke. It seems that it's too early to teach you about matters between men and women.

"Don't pay attention to him, he's just joking!" Zeng Wangcai explained with an awkward smile.

Section Chief Chen understood Zeng Wangcai's actions, and his face turned red due to Xiao Bao's teasing, and he was too embarrassed to laugh.

"Sister, please help me and give me some snacks!"

"Alright, alright!" Section Chief Chen held up a can of fish and said, "I want to ask about this matter. Is it okay to take a can of fish from you?"

"It's not too much, take them all, I have more here!"

"That's all."

Section Chief Chen and several people from the Personnel Department left, but Xiao Bao was still there patting his head. I don't know what happened.

Section Chief Wu also left muttering, telling Zeng Wangcai to talk to him when he had time.

People came and left quickly, and in a blink of an eye, half of the octagonal table was empty, but this time no one came to ask.

Zeng Wangcai and his friends continued eating when he suddenly saw three familiar faces in the queue - Xu Damao, Qin Huairu and Qin Jingru.

How did the three of them get mixed up together?

Zeng Wangcai's mind flashed with the scene in the original novel where Xu Damao queued up to take advantage of Qin Huairu, but from the scene before him, it was obvious that Xu Damao was not going after Qin Huairu, but Qin Jingru.

His mind was in a mess. Xu Damao failed to catch up with Lou Xiaoe, so he changed his target and tried to steal Sha Zhu's girl?