Siheyuan: Pushing Huairu, the Prime Minister admits defeat

As if he had noticed the subtle change in Director Yang's expression, Zhou Tao's mouth twisted, and he glanced at the arrogant Director Yang with barely perceptible hatred, a sinister and cunning light flashing in his eyes.

He has always been a person who knows how to flatter the powerful and look down on the weak, and bully the weak and fear the strong. Although Li Huaide has treated him well over the years, when disaster strikes, everyone flees. Li Huaide is in trouble himself and is thinking about running to southern Yunnan to avoid the limelight. He has no time to care about others. Who would be stupid enough to accompany him to be buried alive?

Zhou Tao did not feel guilty, but the only thing that made him uncomfortable was that without Li Huaide's support and protection, the job of deputy director of logistics would definitely not be his turn. If there was a reshuffle at that time, Director Yang would definitely hand the job over to someone he trusted. This was almost a done deal and there was no doubt about it.

When Zhou Tao thought about the loss of his chance to make money, his heart ached as if it were being cut by a knife. However, he was at the mercy of others, and if he didn't know what was good for him at this moment, Director Yang might find a reason to get him fired.

After all, he is a cadre now, with a quota of food and plenty of welfare benefits. Although he no longer has the extra income from canteen logistics, he can still barely get by with food and drink. But if Director Yang abandons him and sends him to the road construction team for labor reform, one can imagine what kind of situation he would be in.

Zhou Tao is very clear about what is right and what is wrong, and what is important and what is not.

With a frown on his face, he patiently looked through the so-called ledger. As Director Yang had expected, all the evidence recorded by Zhou Tao, who had endured humiliation and made compromises, were accusations against Li Huaide.

The canteen's accounts are in deficit, meat and eggs are mysteriously missing, and in their pursuit of pleasure, they have to open a few bottles of Fenjiu at every dinner party to keep up the occasion. Getting drunk damages the image, and cooking for themselves harms the interests of all employees of the steel mill.

There are many evil deeds, but there is only one idea that runs through them, that is, all the bad things were done by Li Huaide himself, or at least Li Huaide forced Zhou Tao to do them, and Zhou Tao was helpless, so he became a minion, and so on...

Director Yang was used to this kind of behavior of drawing a line and blaming others. He glared at Zhou Tao coldly, which frightened him so much that he shrank his neck and forced a smile: "Director Yang, I didn't stop Li Huaide's decadent life in time. It was indeed a problem of my ability, but in terms of attitude, I stand on the side of Director Yang and all the employees. I hate his behavior of taking both food and money. I suggest that I take the initiative to give up the position of deputy director of logistics, and make a deep self-examination and self-blame during the meeting. Director Yang, what do you think?"

Seeing that Zhou Tao was sensible and readily chose to resign, Director Yang reluctantly snorted and did not continue to make trouble with the matter.

In his opinion, although Zhou Tao was a mediocre and ungrateful guy, he had been working in the steel mill for many years and had accumulated a lot of connections.

If you take too big a step, it will be difficult to end it.

What's more, King Zhao of Yan spent a huge sum of gold to buy horse bones, and Li Huaide's followers still accounted for the majority in the steel rolling mill. If he wanted to regain his position as factory director, he had to get the support of these Li Huaide's old subordinates.

The role Zhou Tao plays now is that of a small stone thrown to test the waters.

If this guy surrenders voluntarily and turns to the light without any good result, it will instead create a negative impact on himself by causing him to be mean, ungrateful, and moody.

It would be better to pardon a good-for-nothing like Zhou Tao. Although he will not be punished, his original bad behavior will be completely eliminated and he will become an ordinary cadre.

Seeing that Zhou Tao made a decisive move in time, drew a clear line between himself and Li Huaide, he threw himself into the arms of Director Yang.

Ma Tiejun, the HR chief who was also trembling with fear, quickly breathed a sigh of relief. In his opinion, even Zhou Tao, a close confidant of Li Huaide, could be cleared. He had been walking between Director Yang and Li Huaide over the years, trying his best not to offend each other.

Li Huaide did not dare to neglect Director Yang, and he always responded to every request. Being so tactful, it was believed that Director Yang would not care about the ambiguous relationship between him and Li Huaide over the years.

However, just when Ma Tiejun was about to righteously scold Li Huaide and unscrupulously place his cronies in positions of power, allowing those impoverished relatives who had no connections to him to work as workers in the steel mill.

Director Yang was the first to take action and slammed the water cup onto the table.

Then he pointed at Ma Tiejun and said indignantly, "Comrade Ma Tiejun, you have disappointed me so much. As the head of the personnel department, you have never taken me seriously. You have been willing to be Li Huaide's lackeys. You have brought all of Li Huaide's shitty relatives to the steel mill to work as guard dogs. You even brought the local dogs raised by Li Huaide to the factory to serve as factory guard dogs. You followed Li Huaide to do evil and are extremely arrogant!"

After saying that, Director Yang still glared at the confused Ma Tiejun, and added angrily: "Tell me the truth, how many benefits did Li Huaide give you over the years to make you so devoted to him..."

Zhou Tao, who was watching the show on the side, obviously also figured out what was going on. He knew that Director Yang wanted to use Ma Tiejun as a sacrifice to scare others.

So he quickly helped Director Yang and said, "Ma Tiejun, Ma Tiejun, we have been colleagues for all these years, but I didn't realize you were such a beast in human form. You were willing to be a lackey for a filthy fellow like Li Huaide, instead of reporting your thoughts to Director Yang. You really deserve to be killed!"

"Ah? Director Yang, this is not right, this is not right, have you forgotten that Li Huaide has been bullying you all these years, everyone treats you as a joke and ignores you, only I..."

Ma Tiejun was more than just confused. At this moment, he felt even more wronged than Dou E.

Thinking back over the years, he had been extremely smart in walking between Li Huaide and Director Yang. He did everything Li Huaide asked him to do, and he also completed the tasks entrusted by Director Yang with excellence.

His main goal is not to offend anyone. He is much cleaner than Zhou Tao, who is a close confidant of Li Huaide.

As a result, Li Huaide and Director Yang finally decided who was better, but in the end he was also implicated. This was too outrageous.

However, before he could finish his words, Director Yang interrupted him and said with a frown in extreme disappointment, "That's enough. I don't want to hear your explanations or excuses. Someone will naturally investigate and inquire about your situation. You have the right to remain silent now, but sooner or later, there will be an explanation for these evil deeds that have shamed everyone!"