Siheyuan, my new life

At noon today, because Deputy Director Li Huaide wanted to invite Lin Yu to dinner, He Daqing did not go to the front canteen to cook the big pot dishes, but carefully cooked the dishes in the kitchen of the small canteen. His son He Yuzhu helped him today, starting with the preparation of ingredients. While He Daqing was working, he explained to his son the various matters that needed to be paid attention to. The father and son taught each other and the other studied hard, and they had no intention of paying attention to what was happening outside.

This morning, Xu Fugui came to the Propaganda Department early. As a projectionist at the steel mill, Xu Fugui rarely stayed in the Propaganda Department's office. Instead, he stayed in the projection room alone, under the pretext of organizing film reels and maintaining projection equipment. As for whether he was working or sleeping, no one in the Propaganda Department really cared. The reason was simple: although Xu Fugui was not very popular in the No. 95 courtyard, he was very popular in the Propaganda Department of the steel mill. Every time he went to the countryside to show movies, Xu Fugui would receive a lot of local specialties from the villages below, such as various dried mushrooms, dried beans, peanuts, melon seeds, and sometimes even some bacon, sausages, and big roosters.

Xu Fugui had been in the society for so many years, especially as a driver for Lou Bancheng for several years, so he was very good at handling various relationships. Every time he brought back local specialties from the countryside, he would divide one into three parts, one for the leader of the Propaganda Department, another for his colleagues in the Propaganda Department, and the last for himself to enjoy at home.

Therefore, Xu Fugui was considered a very popular person in the Propaganda Department. There were only twelve people in the entire Propaganda Department, including the department chief Wang Yongjun, and nine of them were female comrades, which could definitely be said to be more female than male. Moreover, most of these nine female soldiers were family members and children of the factory leaders. After finishing their work, these female soldiers, in addition to knitting sweaters and scarves, had a great hobby of gossiping about other people's affairs.

As the section chief, Wang Yongjun turned a blind eye to this. As long as these ladies could finish the work assigned to him, he would not bother to provoke them. You know, the power of pillow talk should not be underestimated. What if he made one of the ladies unhappy and she went home to complain? Wouldn't he just wait to be harassed?

Sometimes Wang Yongjun would even walk out of his small office, sit aside with a handful of melon seeds and a cigarette and listen to gossip.

When Xu Fugui walked into the Propaganda University office carrying a small cloth bag, four or five colleagues were already gathered together talking in low voices, and Yi Zhonghai's name could be vaguely heard.

Xu Fugui couldn't help but feel happy. Apparently, what happened last night had already spread. He could just add fuel to the fire and make Yi Zhonghai, this hypocritical sanctimonious man, suffer at least some death.

Originally Xu Fugui lived in the backyard and had little interaction with Yi Zhonghai in the middle yard. Normally they would just say hello when they met.

However, ever since Liu Haizhong became the second uncle in charge, he has often deliberately targeted the Xu family. It is obvious that he could not let go of the fact that Xu Fugui competed with him for the position of steward, and he wanted to deliberately suppress Xu Fugui.

Unfortunately, Xu Fugui was not a soft persimmon that could be easily bullied. Facing Liu Haizhong's deliberate targeting, Xu Fugui also fought back without hesitation. With Liu Haizhong's stupidity, how could he be Xu Fugui's opponent? Almost every time, he was made to look humiliated and embarrassed.

I don't know if Yi Zhonghai took the wrong medicine. Originally, the matter between Liu Haizhong and Xu Fugui had nothing to do with him, but Yi Zhonghai actually took the initiative to stand up and support Liu Haizhong, implying that Xu Fugui was not united with the neighbors in the courtyard and did not respect the leadership of the manager.

To be honest, with Xu Fugui's knowledge, he really didn't take these three managers seriously. Since Yi Zhonghai took the initiative to jump out to support Liu Haizhong, Xu Fugui simply took Yi Zhonghai with him. He didn't openly tear his face in the courtyard. After all, Xu Fugui also knew himself well. He knew that his family was alone and weak in the No. 95 courtyard, and was no match for Yi Zhonghai, Liu Haizhong and others. But Xu Fugui would not suffer this loss in silence, so he paid for the director of the fitter workshop where Yi Zhonghai worked and the director of the forging workshop where Liu Haizhong worked to have a drink. After three rounds of drinks, he began to cry about being bullied by Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong in the courtyard. The two directors were also smart people who knew the meaning of the music, and of course they knew the purpose of Xu Fugui's invitation.

Although Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong were both mid-level technicians in their respective workshops, they were far inferior to Xu Fugui, a driver originally from Lou Bancheng, in the eyes of the two workshop directors. So they smiled at each other and continued drinking.

However, starting from the next day, Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong had a hard time in their respective workshops. Not only were they often picked on and deliberately found fault with by quality inspectors, but they were also fined and criticized by the workshop directors for various reasons.

At first, the two did not realize that something was wrong, but after this situation lasted for nearly a month, Yi Zhonghai was the first to react. He realized that he was being deliberately targeted. Combined with Liu Haizhong's recent experience that was exactly the same as his, he became more certain of his judgment.

So Yi Zhonghai asked a senior technician in the fitter workshop, with whom he had a good relationship, to come forward and ask the workshop director for the specific reasons.

The director of the fitter workshop was unwilling to offend the senior technician, but also unwilling to offend Xu Fugui. Finally, he had to tell the senior technician vaguely and let Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong think for themselves who they had offended in the courtyard recently.

Yi Zhonghai immediately thought of Xu Fugui. As for the other neighbors in Courtyard No. 95, except He Daqing, no one else had the ability to persuade the two workshop directors to target them at the same time. However, He Daqing had a good relationship with him, and he and Liu Haizhong had never offended him. Therefore, it must be Xu Fugui who was behind the scenes.

When Yi Zhonghai told Liu Haizhong the results of his analysis, this idiot flew into a rage and jumped up, wanting to deal with Xu Fugui. You have to know that Liu Haizhong has been living a miserable life in the workshop recently, and if he is not careful, he will be scolded by the workshop director.

Yi Zhonghai quickly grabbed this idiot. He had only said a few harmless words to Xu Fugui, but he had already invited his revenge. If he let this guy Liu Haizhong beat Xu Fugui again, he would most likely be the one to take revenge on him.

After Yi Zhonghai's explanation, Liu Haizhong also realized the seriousness of the problem. Finally, the two of them went to the deaf old lady and cried for help, asking the deaf old lady to come forward and let Yi Zhonghai and Liu Haizhong set up a banquet and bow to Xu Fugui. Only then was the problem solved.

However, although there have been no conflicts between the two sides since then, they both keep a record of each other in their hearts and are looking for opportunities to deal with each other.