Siheyuan: Full of Love

"Zhang Quanyou!"

"Wang Jianguo!"

"Wang Jianjun!"

"Lin Dahe!"

"Jianguo and Jianjun are brothers. They also live near Luoguxiang. Quanyou and Dahe have also just started working not long ago." Li Quan introduced them one by one.

"Brother Quanyou! Brother Jianguo! Brother Jianjun! Brother Dahe!"

Zhang Dazhuang greeted people one by one. They were basically men around 30 or 40 years old, all of them were big and strong.

"Da Zhuang, do you live in Luoguxiang?" Wang Jianjun asked.

"Brother Jianjun, I'm at No. 27 Nanluoguxiang!"

"Oh! I see. Yi Zhonghai from your Siheyuan is also a level 5 fitter in our factory!" Wang Jianguo took over the conversation.

"Da Zhuang! You are so young, can you bear this hardship doing loading and unloading?"

"Hey! Jianguo, I won't say anything else." Li Quan stepped on the box under his feet.

"Da Zhuang weighed the box of steel parts three times in his hand. When he put it on the ground, not even a speck of dust flew up. You can figure out the rest yourself."

"hiss!..."

. . . . . .

A sound of gasps!

Everyone looked at Zhang Dazhuang differently again.

"Sure thing, buddy! As long as you're strong and willing to endure hardships, even though we're just loaders, we still have a future!"

Lin Dahe next to him also spoke.

"Hey! Brother Li, this new guy is really awesome. As long as he's not a relative, he won't hold our team back!"

"Forget it, you have everything. How can a person with connections be inserted into the stevedores? It takes a lot of fucked-up connections!"

. . . . . .

"Enough! Enough!" Li Quan interrupted everyone.

"Go, go, go, do what you need to do, Da Zhuang! Don't bother with them! Come on, I'll take you to see the workshop director first!"

Li Quan brought Zhang Dazhuang to the workshop office.

"Lao Zhang! Lao Zhang!" Li Quan started singing before he even entered the door.

"Li Quan, could you please stop yelling? It's so disrespectful!"

The workshop director was also a middle-aged man, wearing an oily work suit and holding a wrench in his hand.

"What a shame! When will you, Old Zhang, behave yourself? Let me introduce you to the new loader, Zhang Dazhuang!" Li Quan said carelessly.

"Da Zhuang! This is Director Zhang from our loading and unloading workshop. He is also the deputy director of the maintenance workshop. You both have the surname Zhang, so maybe you are relatives."

"Hello Director Zhang, my name is Zhang Dazhuang!" Zhang Dazhuang said modestly.

"Yes! Good! Youth means strength! All those who come to our workshop are fellow workers, and we are all contributing to the construction of our country. If you have any questions, ask Li Quan."

Director Zhang gave a few words of encouragement and then hurried off to work.

"Brother Li, has Director Zhang always been so impetuous? He's still working even though he's the director?" Zhang Dazhuang asked secretly.

"Our director is a retired soldier with injuries. He doesn't act like a director, but is very easy-going. He always gets along well with our workers."

"If I need anything in the future, I'll definitely ask him to do it."

Li Quan patted Zhang Dazhuang on the shoulder and said, "Let's go! I'll assign you today's task!"

He brought Zhang Dazhuang to the warehouse and pointed to a pile of steel boxes. "Today our team's task is to load 300 pieces."

"Jianjun and Jianguo will use a cart to move them to the workshop door. Dahe and I will load them onto the cart. Dazhuang, you and Quanyou will get on board. Stack them neatly. We will rotate them one hundred pieces at a time."

Li Quan assigned the loading and unloading tasks in an orderly manner.

. . . . . .

"Beep! Beep!" A military green truck slowly drove over.

"It's coming! It's coming! This great liberation looks so exciting!" Lin Dahe said excitedly.

"I say, Dahe, you have been doing loading and unloading for so long, and deal with him every day, why are you so excited?" Zhang Quanyou laughed.

"When will I not get excited after sitting on one?" Lin Dahe said seriously.

"Let's do it! Stop wasting time!"

. . . . . .

One hundred pieces!

"Huh! Huh! Let's take a break! I'm so fucking tired!" Zhang Quan sat down in the car and wiped the sweat off his face with the towel around his neck.

"Hey Da Zhuang, why are you acting like nothing happened? You're not even sweating!"

"Brother Quanyou, this may be because I didn't move well enough?" Zhang Dazhuang replied.

Zhang Quanyou...

"Pfft...hahaha..." A group of big men laughed so hard after hearing what Zhang Dazhuang said.

"Yes, I have it all. Dazhuang can't even move, but you can't! You were afraid that he would hold you back just now." Lin Dahe said with a smile.

Zhang Quan's face turned red. "Well! I can't beat Da Zhuang, but I can't beat you either? Da He, do you dare to draw a line on me?"

. . . . . .

noon.

"Da Zhuang, I'm impressed. You're really strong! Two hundred pieces."

"We who work in loading and unloading all year round are exhausted as hell, but you have nothing to worry about!"

Li Quan sighed, it is just like what Lao Zhang said, young people are strong!

"Brother Li, I'm just stronger, nothing to say." Zhang Dazhuang said modestly.

"With such strength, he can be a hero wherever he goes!" The Wang Jianguo brothers also admire him very much.

"Let's go, it's noon, let's go to the cafeteria. Today, I'll treat Da Zhuang! Plenty of white flour buns!" Li Quan said generously.

"Brother Li is generous!"

"Brother Li is such a man!"

. . .

"Thank you, Brother Li!" Zhang Dazhuang expressed his sincere gratitude. He could finally have a full meal.

"Oh? By the way, Da Zhuang! I heard that He Daqing who ran away with the young widow also lives in Luoguxiang?" Zhang Quanyou gossiped.

Zhang Dazhuang nodded: "Yes! We are from the same compound, and his son and I have a good relationship."

"Did he really elope with the young widow? And abandoned his children?" Lin Dahe also asked.

"Probably not! He probably has some unspeakable secret. He Daqing has a good reputation in our hospital and he is a very upright person." Zhang Dazhuang shook his head.

For the sake of Sha Zhu's future partner, he has to help Sha Zhu maintain his image so that he can at least get past the first round of inquiries in the future.

"Oh! I told you, you can't believe rumors!"

"Let's go! Let's get some food."

. . . . . .

"Comrade! Give me three steamed buns and ten steamed corn bread! And one serving of potatoes."

Zhang Dazhuang took out a pound of food coupons and two cents.

"Hey! Da Zhuang, I said it's my treat, why are you paying for it yourself?" Li Quan said unhappily.

"What's the matter? I've treated you to dinner too!" When I saw Zhang Dazhuang bought ten steamed buns, I thought he had already prepared dinner.

"Um! Okay, thank you Brother Li." Zhang Dazhuang pulled back the hand holding the money.

"Hurry! Those behind us, build a country and an army, hurry up!" Li Quan urged.

. . . . . .

Seeing Zhang Dazhuang finish eating three steamed buns before starting to eat vegetables, Li Quan walked over and said, "Dazhuang, why did you finish eating the steamed buns before eating vegetables? How do you eat like that?"

Zhang Dazhuang picked up the steamed bread and took a bite. "Brother Li? What's wrong?"

"Oh! It's okay! Da Zhuang, you have a big appetite!"

Afterwards, Li Quan watched as the ten steamed buns at the back slowly went into Zhang Dazhuang's stomach.

He opened his mouth in disbelief and said, "Da Zhuang, you really can eat!"

"Uh!" Zhang Dazhuang nodded. There was nothing to be embarrassed about.

"Da Zhuang, how much can you eat in one meal?" Li Quan asked curiously.

"Brother Li, I've never been full!" Zhang Dazhuang said lightly.

"Then you are still alive today! It's really God's gift to you!"