Siheyuan: I am different He Yuzhu

After all the property certificates for the courtyard houses were completed, Wang Caifeng called He Yuzhu and said, "Xiao He, I'm Director Wang from the Nanluoguxiang Subdistrict Office. Your wife Lou Xiao'e's property certificate has been completed and is now in my office. You can come and pick it up at any time."

"Thank you, Director Wang. I'll pick it up after get off work this afternoon."

"Okay then. I'll wait for you then."

After get off work in the afternoon, He Yuzhu came to Director Wang’s office as scheduled.

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"Please come in."

He Yuzhu pushed open the door of Director Wang's office and said, "Director Wang, I'm here to get the property certificate."

"Xiao He, you're here. Look, that pile is your wife's property certificates." Director Wang smiled and pointed to the bundle of property certificates on the ground. "There are 465 in total. I have checked them carefully and there is not one missing. Please check them later. If there is no problem, just sign this paper for me and we will have completed the handover."

"Okay, let me take a look." He Yuzhu bent down and casually opened the bundle of property certificates. "Director Wang, do you have that list? If so, can you give me a copy? There are so many of them that I can't remember which one is which, so it's hard to check."

"I've prepared it for you a long time ago. Here, this is the list of all the houses under your wife's name. You just need to follow this list, okay?" Director Wang smiled and picked up a list on the table and handed it to He Yuzhu.

He Yuzhu took the list and quickly checked it. After checking, He Yuzhu re-bundled the property certificates and said to Director Wang: "Director Wang, there are exactly 465 property certificates, and they are all correct."

"Xiao He, now that you have finished checking, please sign this form for me." After saying that, Director Wang handed a pen to He Yuzhu.

"Okay, I'll sign it right away." He Yuzhu took the pen and signed his name on the handover form. After signing, he returned the pen to Director Wang, "Director Wang, there is one more thing I want to trouble you with."

"What's the matter, Xiao He, tell me."

"Now the house is built and rented out, so we have to come to the street office every month to collect the rent. According to what my father-in-law and you agreed before, the rent is 1 yuan per square meter, so my wife can get more every month. We can't spend all this money. My wife and I have discussed it and plan to take out yuan of the rent collected every month and ask the comrades in the street office to buy national construction bonds. We can take the remaining change."

"That's great. Xiao He, you and your wife are really conscious. You actually want to use so much money to support the country's construction. I will arrange someone to do it when the time comes."

"Oh, Director Wang, there is one more thing. In addition to the Nanluoguxiang you manage, there are also houses in the other five street offices. Do you think it is possible to centralize the rent to your street office? This way, when I collect the rent, I only need to come to our street office, and I don't have to run from street to street."

"Well, it's just a small matter. No problem. After you get the money back, we can go buy national construction bonds together." Director Wang agreed readily.

"Then I'll trouble you, Director Wang."

"It's okay. By the way, Xiao He, can you take all those bonds? Otherwise, I'll have someone send them directly to your home."

"That's not a problem. I'll just go to the street office to get it. I have a bicycle anyway, so I can just put it on the back seat. It's not a problem at all."

"That's fine. Since you're so big, you must be strong." Director Wang said with a laugh.

"Then Director Wang, I'll leave first. I'm sorry for delaying your get off work."

"It's okay. The subdistrict office is different from your factory. It's not possible for everyone to leave work on time. Overtime is common."

He Yuzhu picked up the property certificate on the ground and put it into the pocket he had prepared in advance, then walked out of Director Wang's office.

After He Yuzhu returned home, he casually put the pocket containing the property certificate on the ground.

Lou Xiao'e looked at the pocket on the ground curiously and asked, "Brother He, what did you buy?"

"I didn't buy anything. I just got the property certificates for the courtyard houses in our house. The certificates are placed in here." He Yuzhu said casually.

"Brother He, you don't take it seriously. This is the property certificate. Keep it for now. I haven't seen what the property certificate looks like yet." After saying that, Lou Xiao'e curiously opened her pocket, took out the property certificate and began to look at it.

"It's just a piece of paper. There's nothing interesting to see. You can take a look at it if you want. After you're done reading it, I'll put it in the attic. In a few days, I'll find time to put it in the basement of the courtyard in Qudeng Hutong."

Lou Xiao'e picked up a property certificate and looked at it. She felt that there was nothing unusual about it, and then asked, "Are all these property certificates written in my name?"

"Yeah, they're all your names."

"Put it away, Brother He. I've finished reading it. There's really nothing to see. It's just an ordinary piece of paper."

He Yuzhu took the property certificate to the attic on the roof, found a box to put it in, and then locked the box.

As the weather turned colder, winter came to the city. The workers in the maintenance workshop of the Red Star Steel Mill were working hard. After more than half a year of hard work, they finally copied the first complete Dodge truck. Although the overall appearance was simpler than that of the America, after all, there was no shell, only a body, which looked like a skeleton.

After the workers started the truck's engine, the driver sitting in the driving seat stepped on the clutch to shift into forward gear, then slowly started the car. After driving the simple truck around the steel mill, he finally parked the truck steadily in the maintenance workshop.

After the truck stopped, the workers immediately surrounded the truck and cheered, "We succeeded..."

Teacher Li Yang and students beside He Yuzhu were also infected by the workers' excitement and cheered. He Yuzhu looked at the cheering crowd with a smile on his face and said to Teacher Li Yang beside him: "Teacher Li, thank you and your classmates for your hard work. Without your help, we would not have been able to copy the truck so quickly."

"Team Leader He, you are too polite. It is more due to the concerted efforts of everyone. Without everyone's hard work, it would not be possible to build it so quickly." Li Yang said modestly, "Team Leader He, what do you think this truck we copied is called? Please give it a name."

"Our factory is called Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. Since it is produced by our factory, let's call it Red Star brand truck." He Yuzhu said after thinking for a while.

"Team Leader He, there is something I want to tell you, but I don't know whether I should say it or not." Li Yang said as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.

"What's the matter, Teacher Li? Just tell me."

"Although we have successfully copied the Dodge truck, I don't recommend starting production now. This truck still has big problems." Li Yang said courageously.

"Teacher Li, what you want to say is that the steel used in truck frames is not good, right?" He Yuzhu asked directly.

"Well, we are now using ordinary steel. The performance of this steel cannot meet the performance requirements of the truck body. Especially now that the road conditions in the country are relatively poor. If we really use this steel to produce trucks, then once they are only used to transport goods a few times, the truck frame will be seriously deformed, which will cause a waste of resources. So I suggest that we wait until we have developed higher performance steel before we carry out mass production of trucks." Li Yang spoke his thoughts out in one breath.

"Teacher Li, now is indeed not a good time to produce this truck. Our country currently lacks oil resources. Even if it is produced, there will be a shortage of fuel. Teacher Li, what kind of steel do you think can meet the requirements of the truck frame?" He Yuzhu asked.

"At least Q345 steel should be used. Trucks are different from cars. They need to carry loads and goods. If the steel performance is too low, the body of the car will be severely deformed when it goes on the road. Of course, the greater the strength, the better. It's a pity that the country cannot even produce Q345 steel at present." Li Yang said with regret.

"The largest steel plant in the Northeast can't produce it either?" He Yuzhu asked in disbelief.

"As far as I know, there is no steel mill in China that can produce this steel. Our foundation is still too weak."

"Well, since there is a steel plant producing it, let's try to produce it. We can first use a small crucible to test the formula little by little. Once the formula is determined, we can start large-scale production."

"This is the only way. Unless there is a ready-made recipe, we can only try it little by little."

"Don't worry. We have already successfully copied the truck. We are not a truck manufacturer and do not have any truck production tasks. We can try slowly. We can take this opportunity to improve the performance of various parts of the truck. To be honest, the fuel consumption of this engine is too high now. I think it would be good if it can be reduced by half."

"Team Leader He, reducing it by half is not an easy task. It requires major improvements to the engine speed and the gearbox. It's basically the same as inventing a new engine and gearbox. If you want to achieve the fuel consumption you want, it probably won't be achieved without several years of effort."

"As the saying goes, hard work pays off. As long as we can achieve the fuel consumption I mentioned, it will be worth it even if it takes ten years, not to mention a few years."