Siheyuan: After traveling through time, who can still be an honest person?

"Xiao Yue, if you miss your hometown, I'll take you back. Our two families are not far away. I've been to your town a few years ago."

"Okay, aunt, it's settled. I'll go back and take a look when I have a chance."

Ma Weijun shook his head: "I don't have many relatives in my hometown, what's so good about it?"

"Besides, I'm leaving after the New Year, and your sister-in-law is about to give birth, so I don't have time to go back home."

Cao Yue said: "Master, let's talk about it when you come back."

……

On the way home, Cao Yue felt anxious.

Some people in later generations joked that ordinary people could only have the opportunity to personally participate in large projects worth billions of dollars by being with women or buying lottery tickets.

Today, Cao Yue has indeed made a huge fortune.

Back at the courtyard, the door god Yan Bugui heard the noise and came out of his house.

"Chief Cao, you're back. I've been waiting for you for a long time."

"What's up?"

"It's not about Jia Dongxu's funeral. After get off work today, Sha Zhu found me and asked me to call a meeting of the whole hospital to help the Jia family."

"You agreed?" Cao Yue said in a light tone.

The people of the Jia family are too greedy.

They were not satisfied even after receiving several hundred yuan in pension, and they thought that this was still the time when Yi Zhonghai was still the boss.

On second thought, Qin Huairu was so smart that she couldn't have been unaware of the result. She might be testing me.

This woman is just not honest.

Some people just need to pinch them often, uh, that’s not right, it’s tapping.

"I'm discussing this with you," Yan Bugui whispered. "Shazhu wants the residents of the courtyard to donate money to the Jia family. I said this must be approved by Section Chief Cao."

Cao Yue glanced at Yan Bugui. Although Yan Laokou seemed to respect him, he actually had his own plans in mind.

He wants fame but is reluctant to donate money.

This is using yourself as a shield.

Cao Yue looked at Yan Bugui with a half-smile: "Uncle, I'll listen to you on this matter. I'll donate as much as you donate."

"Hey~"

Yan Bugui smiled awkwardly, knowing that Cao Yue had seen through his little thoughts.

"Well, everyone is not well off. Jia Dongxu must have received compensation for the accident at the factory. I will reject Shazhu tomorrow."

Yan Bugui would feel heartbroken for half a night if he donated a penny.

In his eyes, money is more important than face.

Cao Yue nodded and rode away on his bicycle.

"Chief Cao, how much pension did the steel mill give Jia Dongxu?"

Yan Bugui caught up from behind and asked.

"Four hundred."

Cao Yue said without turning his head.

"Four hundred! That's a lot."

Yan Bugui stopped and murmured.

……

Until Jia Dongxu was buried outside the city, Cao Yue still did not show up.

It’s not that people gossip about him, but Cao Yue doesn’t care at all.

After work that day, Cao Yue brought a man in his fifties into the courtyard.

The old man’s surname is Yang. He is the decorator introduced to Cao Yue by Director Wang from the Street Office.

After entering the house, Cao Yue asked Master Yang to sit down and took out the design plan that he had drawn long ago.

"Master Yang, please help me connect the two houses, including the bathroom, toilet, study, bedroom, and boiler room. We also need to install radiators in each room and separate them again..."

Cao Yue pointed at the design drawing and introduced the decoration of each place to Master Yang.

"The ground is frozen now, so we'll have to wait until the toilet pipes thaw next year."

Cao Yue plans to connect the toilet to the public toilet outside through a pipe.

He was fed up with the dry toilets of this era.

Fortunately, it is winter now.

In the summer, not only does the food taste sour, but there are flies flying everywhere and wriggling maggots, which makes people feel sick.

Cao Yue couldn't stand the visual stimulation.

After listening to Cao Yue's request, Master Yang calculated it in his mind and said carefully: "Chief Cao, according to your requirements, the renovation of five rooms will cost at least one or two thousand yuan for all materials and labor costs, including the purchase of boilers and cast iron radiators."

"No problem, I'm sure you'll get paid for your work then."

Money is a man’s waist!

There are antiques worth hundreds of millions in Cao Yue's space, and he speaks with great confidence and pomp.

Master Yang was relieved and asked again: "Chief Cao, are you going to prepare the decoration materials or should we buy them?"

"You are familiar with this business. You can take care of it all."

Things now are different from later times. These decoration masters are not so cunning, and they dare not fool him with fake and shoddy materials. Therefore, Cao Yue is very confident in handing the decoration over to them.

After leaving home, Cao Yue took Master Yang to the next door.

Boom boom boom!

Lou Xiao'e, who looked radiant, opened the door, looked at Cao Yue and the master behind him, and said with a smile: "Xiao Yue, this is the master who is doing the decoration, please come in."

"Sister Xiao'e, this is Master Yang."

Cao Yue winked at Lou Xiao'e and went into the house tacitly.

Lou Xiao'e took the two to the bedroom and said, "Master Yang, I want to divide the bedroom into two rooms and then install doors."

Master Yang took a look and nodded, "This is simple. I wonder if the middle partition is made of wood or solid bricks?"

Lou Xiao'e said: "Just use solid bricks."

Master Yang said, "This price is a bit high."

"The price is fine, the sooner the better."

At this point, Lou Xiao'e looked at Cao Yue with a sweet smile, "Xiao Yue, sister-in-law wants to ask you a favor. Can you let Master Yang help me with the work first? I will come to decorate for you after I finish my work at home."

Cao Yue pretended to be very embarrassed and hesitated for a while, and then seemed to have no choice but to agree out of consideration for his neighbor.

Lou Xiao'e quickly thanked him: "Xiao Yue, thank you so much."

Cao Yue waved his hand to indicate that it was nothing.

After the two of them pretended for a while, Cao Yue did not stay and led Master Yang out.

"Chief Cao, if you have no other questions, I will bring people here to start the construction the day after tomorrow," said Master Yang.

"no problem."

Cao Yue nodded in agreement and politely escorted Master Yang out of the courtyard.

Just after sending Master Yang away, Yan Bugui came out of the house at some point and looked at Master Yang's back. "Isn't this Old Yang, the street decorator? Chief Cao, do you want to decorate?"

Cao Yue said "hmm".

At this time, Sha Zhu walked in from outside carrying two lunch boxes.

Yan Bugui smiled and said, "Shazhu, what delicious food do you bring in your lunch box?"

Sha Zhu glanced at Cao Yue and said coldly, "You are meddling in other people's business and colluding with others!"

Yan Bugui looked unhappy. When Sha Zhu entered the Intermediate Court, he angrily said to Cao Yue, "Chief Cao, look how arrogant Sha Zhu is. He doesn't even care about you standing here. He doesn't take you seriously. He really has no respect for his leader."

"What do you mean by 'in cahoots with each other'? He is scolding both of us together!"

Cao Yue would naturally not be fooled by such a clumsy provocation.

Seeing this, Yan Bugui continued, "Chief Cao, Sha Zhu has been talking nonsense outside these days. He said bad things about you because you didn't help the Jia family."

"Oh, really? What did he say?" Cao Yue sneered.

Seeing that Cao Yue was angry, Yan Bugui immediately added fuel to the fire: "He told people that what the Jia family did in the past was wrong, but the dead are the greatest. As a senior official, you should repay evil with kindness, but you are narrow-minded and vindictive, just like a woman..."

Cao Yue patted his chest and said, "This is nonsense. My chest is flat, how can it be the same size as a woman's!"

Yan Bugui echoed: "He is just talking nonsense. Now everyone in and out of the hospital knows that he and Qin Huairu are having an affair. I secretly observed that he brought back two or three lunch boxes after get off work every day, and gave them all to Qin Huairu."

"What do you think is in Shazhu's lunch box? It must be food stolen from your factory cafeteria."

"Chief Cao, you have to take care of him."

Cao Yue looked at Yan Bugui strangely.

Yan Laoxi has been trying to persuade me to deal with Sha Zhu today. Did some conflict happen between them?

He would never be used as a gunman.

Because the food that Sha Zhu took was the leftovers from the dinner party hosted by the factory leaders.

The big pot meals that ordinary workers eat have little oil or water, and Sha Zhu simply doesn't like them.

If Cao Yue arrested Sha Zhu, he would incur public wrath and offend all the factory leaders.

Cao Yue has a backer, so he’s not afraid of the people in the factory, he just thinks it’s unnecessary.

And it also depends on He Yushui's relationship.

Therefore, if you want to deal with Sha Zhu, you can only find his faults secretly or hit him directly with a club.

"Uncle, I know about this. I will deal with him when I have the chance."

After perfunctorily dealing with Yan Bugui, Cao Yue entered the central courtyard and happened to see Sha Zhu whispering with Qin Huairu.

Sha Zhu handed the lunch box in his hand to Qin Huairu.

Qin Huairu's eyes were full of gratitude, and her pitiful pupils carried a hint of charm, which made Shazhu blush.

When Qin Huairu took the lunch box, Sha Zhu wanted to take the opportunity to touch Qin Huairu's little hand, but he was afraid of offending the goddess, and his shy look was hilarious.

Qin Huairu naturally knew what Sha Zhu was thinking, and she deliberately patted Sha Zhu's hand coquettishly.

Shazhu seemed to have an electric shock. He looked down at the back of his hand that had been slapped and laughed foolishly.

Qin Huairu was taming the dog while keeping an eye on all directions and listening carefully. As soon as Cao Yue came in, she immediately restrained her expression, whispered something to Sha Zhu, then turned around and quickly returned to the Jia family.