The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

"Oh, what a sin."

The auntie whispered something and then stopped talking. After all, she couldn't do anything about it.

Jia Zhang saw the expression on the aunt's face.

"We are a poor Jia family. We are not like some people who can afford to feed their children with milk powder."

Jia Zhang was referring to Liu Minghui's family. She had seen it before. Liu Lin gave hot milk powder to little Bowen at noon every day. She immediately said this with a sour tone.

The old lady didn't respond to this and continued to mutter to herself.

What kind of income do they have? Can your Jia family compare to that?

Seeing that the old lady didn't react, Jia Zhang suddenly became angry and spoke harshly.

"Humph, there are not many good people in this courtyard. Not to mention the milk powder, there is another person next door who can breastfeed a child, but she doesn't know how to help our Jia family. They are not good people."

Jia Zhang spoke very loudly, and Liu Lin also heard it in the room at this time. She knew that Jia Zhang was talking about her, but Liu Lin ignored Jia Zhang and pretended not to hear it.

Jia Zhangshi became even angrier when she found no one responded. The sound of Sophora japonica flowers crying in her ears made her even more irritated.

"Why are you crying? Your mother will be back soon."

Qin Huairu came back from get off work and hurried into the central courtyard. As soon as she entered, she heard crying sounds coming from the Jia family.

"Mom, why don't you comfort the child when he's crying like this?"

Qin Huairu said anxiously, and hurriedly ran in to pick up the child. The crying only stopped when she was feeding the child.

"What's the use of coaxing her? Can I still feed her?"

Jia Zhang said this nonchalantly, as if Huaihua was not her biological granddaughter.

Jia Zhang's indifferent expression deeply irritated Qin Huairu.

"If that's the case, then I won't go to work."

"I'm afraid that one day the child will die and you won't care about him."

Qin Huairu said with a gloomy face that Jia Zhang really chilled her heart. You know, although she also liked Banggeng, Huaihua was also her own daughter, flesh and blood of her body, and she couldn't treat her the way Jia Zhang did.

"That won't work. How can I not go to work?"

Jia Zhang hurriedly tried to stop her, mainly because the Jia family was now entirely supported by Qin Huairu. If she also gave up, then everyone in the Jia family would just starve to death.

"Okay, okay, at worst I can take you to the steel mill and have someone call you out to breastfeed you, okay?"

In the end, Jia Zhang had no choice but to compromise and appease Qin Huairu.

In the canteen box of the steel rolling mill, Li Huaide invited a deputy director of the cement factory to have lunch at noon, and Liu Minghui was called over to join them. There was also another person, Xu Damao. Before, Xu Damao always asked Liu Minghui to introduce him to Li Huaide, and this time, by coincidence, Liu Minghui asked him to come as well.

"Director Ma, how about trying the cooking skills of our steel mill chef?"

Li Huaide enthusiastically asked Deputy Director Ma to start eating and taste the food.

"Okay, then I'm going to give it a try."

Deputy Director Ma was a strong middle-aged man, who was talking to Li Huaide with a smile.

Xu Damao sat at the serving position, responsible for serving dishes and pouring wine. He was very excited to have dinner with several people this time, and he kept thanking Liu Minghui who was sitting next to him.

Xu Damao picked up the bottle and filled up several people's glasses, then did something surprising.

"Dear leaders, I am honored to have dinner with you today. This is Director Li's appreciation. I would like to toast you with this cup. I'll drink it. You can do as you please."

After saying that, Xu Damao drank nearly one or two glasses of wine in one gulp.

Li Huaide was not disgusted, instead he thought Xu Damao was an interesting person.

He picked up the wine glass and took a sip.

"You have a good alcohol tolerance. I am not the protagonist today. Director Ma is still here. You have to make Director Ma feel comfortable with the drink."

Li Huaide said cheerfully, his words revealing his admiration for Xu Damao.

Xu Damao was overjoyed and quickly filled his glass.

"You are right, Director Ma, I offer you a toast."

Xu Damao just played a round like this, and he, who had a poor alcohol tolerance, became a little confused.

Seeing this, Liu Minghui also tried to persuade him.

"Da Mao, eat something to fill your stomach."

After saying that, he stood up and filled their glasses.

"My dear leaders, Xu Damao doesn't drink much. I will drink with you two from now on."

Li Huaide didn't react to this. After all, Liu Minghui had called him over, and he would not offend Liu Minghui.

"Haha, how can I get drunk? Just a little bit is fine. I still have work to do in the afternoon."

Li Huaide laughed twice and repeatedly invited Deputy Director Ma to eat.

After three rounds of drinks, Li Huaide got down to business.

"Alas, the steel mill now has nearly 8,000 employees, and the family housing is full. Now we need to build two more."

After saying this, Li Huaide looked at Deputy Director Ma with sharp eyes.

"What, are you having trouble?"

Deputy Director Ma asked.

Li Huaide nodded and said, "Yes, it's mainly because there is too little cement from above?"

The meaning was obvious. They wanted to ask him for help as he was the deputy director of the cement factory.

Deputy Director Ma thought for a moment and said.

"That's easy. You have what you want, and I have what I want. We can just make some adjustments."

Seeing this, Liu Minghui filled his glass with wine.

"Deputy Director Ma, I'd like to toast you."

After they finished drinking, Liu Minghui said.

"I think the cement factory is also going to build a residential building for its employees. What our steel mill lacks the most is steel bars, so we can complement each other."

After hearing this, Deputy Director Ma laughed and said to Li Huaide.

"Old Li, you really have a lot of talented people under you. This young man is quite knowledgeable."

After saying that, he nodded and said, "I knew you were going to build a family building, otherwise I wouldn't have come here."

"I came here to coordinate with you this time."

Li Huaide was overjoyed when he saw this. The matter was settled and he could give the workers a satisfactory answer.

Then the two of them started talking about specific things, such as how much cement to exchange for how many steel bars and when to hand over. These all required specific details, after all, no one wanted to suffer a loss.

After the meal, Li Huaide and Liu Minghui sent Deputy Director Ma away. At this time, Xu Damao was still lying under the table.

Xu Damao was brought to the purchasing department by Liu Minghui and casually settled on the sofa. He couldn't go off work at this time, so he could only take a nap here.

In the afternoon, when it was almost time to get off work, Xu Damao had not woken up yet, so Liu Minghui had to wake him up himself.

"Well, where is this?"

Xu Damao got up sleepily and looked around the room he had no impression of. Then he saw Liu Minghui sitting on his right.

I couldn't help but remember drinking at noon.

"Minghui, hehe."

Xu Damao laughed embarrassedly. He had been talking about how good his alcohol tolerance was, but he lay down in just a few minutes. Xu Damao also blushed a little.

"Now that you're awake, leave now. Everyone else has already gotten off work."

Liu Minghui said this unhappily, and then led Xu Damao away.