The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

After a busy afternoon, the three returned to the courtyard, and Liu Minghui and the other two went home separately.

Yu Li was waiting for him at this time. When she saw him come back, she immediately handed him a bowl of ginger tea.

"Well, drink it quickly. Nothing serious happened at the steel mill, right?"

Yu Li said with concern.

"It's okay. Judging from the situation, we will probably be able to start work tomorrow or the day after tomorrow."

Liu Minghui said after he finished drinking it in one breath.

"Well, that's fine, but the New Year will be here in a few days."

Liu Minghui smiled and said, indeed, it is already the tenth day of the twelfth lunar month, and we will probably have a holiday again in less than a week.

"You may not know this, but the deaf old lady came back this afternoon, and I heard she was making a lot of noise."

Yu Li suddenly spoke mysteriously to Liu Minghui.

"Oh, what do you say?"

Liu Minghui was very curious about what kind of trouble this deaf old lady could cause.

“It’s not a question of where to live.”

Yu Li sneered when she heard this and began to explain.

"I heard from Xiaolin that the deaf old lady still wants to live in our house, but the aunt and her friends didn't come. Otherwise, I would have made them suffer."

Yu Li's face looked very unhappy, as she was very dissatisfied with the old lady. If it weren't for the fact that the aunties were smart and knew that their trip was in vain, Yu Li would have to scold them today.

"Okay, she didn't succeed anyway. She's just a greedy old lady. Why are you angry with her?"

Liu Minghui hurriedly comforted Yu Li. In his opinion, the deaf old lady was just a little clever and a little greedy. After all, everyone in the hospital knew that Liu Minghui's family had good food, and that was probably the reason.

Yu Li was angry for a long time before she calmed down.

"Forget it, I'd better go prepare dinner. Make something delicious tonight to annoy people."

Yu Li smiled mischievously, then took out a large piece of bacon from the house and went to the kitchen. Liu Minghui could only shake his head and smile bitterly when he saw this. He didn't know when Yu Li became so vindictive.

"Tsk, who's eating meat? Especially bacon, it's so delicious."

The aroma of fried pork with peppers filled the yard, and the Yan family who lived opposite was the first to smell it. Yan Jiecheng was outside, looking out and taking a deep breath from time to time.

"Who else could it be? Of course it's the other side."

The third aunt said this unhappily, as if she looked down on Yan Jiecheng.

Yan Jiecheng seemed not to hear anything and was looking at the opposite side with envy. Jiang Jingwan, who was sitting in the room, suddenly felt so embarrassed that her husband was like this.

"Don't look at it anymore. You won't get a share if you look at it again."

Yan Bugui, who was reading a newspaper, gave a reminder, and the third aunt was also very curious after hearing it.

"It's not a festival, why are we eating meat?"

The three aunts did not go to the Intermediate Court in the afternoon and did not know what had happened.

Yan Bugui smiled mysteriously at this.

"We are trying to tempt certain people."

Yan Bugui was also at Yi Zhonghai's house in the afternoon, and of course he knew that the deaf old lady wanted to live at Liu Minghui's house.

After hearing this, several people were very curious, but Yan Bugui didn't say anything and looked mysterious.

In the middle courtyard, at Yi Zhonghai's house, several people who were eating smelled the fragrance and their faces suddenly became much uglier, especially the deaf old lady. Looking at the simple meal on the table, she had no appetite at all.

"Don't eat."

The deaf old lady put down her bowl and chopsticks, and left the table with a cane. Yi Zhonghai was a little confused and didn't know what had happened. He looked at the old lady, wanting to ask her something.

Then the aunt told Yi Zhonghai what happened in the afternoon. After understanding what happened, Yi Zhonghai was also helpless. Although the deaf old lady was old, she was still picky. Not only did she always need to buy meat for her, but now she wanted to live in Liu Minghui's house. Yi Zhonghai could not help with this matter.

"Never mind, let's just live like this. It will be fine after the old lady's house is repaired in a few days."

Finally, Yi Zhonghai said this. There was no other way. He didn't want to offend Liu Minghui because of the old lady. Auntie nodded after hearing this. She thought so too, otherwise she would not have stopped it in the afternoon.

On the third day, the heavy snow that had been falling for several days stopped yesterday. After a day, the snow outside was piled on both sides of the road, and pedestrians began to appear on the road. The New Year is approaching, and everyone needs to buy New Year's goods. People on the road are in a hurry.

The steel rolling mill resumed operations today. Liu Minghui arrived at the steel rolling mill early in the morning, and Xu Damao accompanied him.

As a projectionist, Xu Damao had a very leisurely time during this period. He could not go to the countryside, so he just hung around the steel rolling mill every day. Occasionally, some factories would invite him to show a movie.

Of course, it had to be approved by the steel mill. After Xu Damao went there, he could not say that he would be provided with good food and drink, but at least he could have a drink.

"Hey, it's really cold."

Xu Damao spoke tremblingly with his hands in his pockets and wearing a thick hat.

In fact, everyone who understands knows that it is not the coldest when it snows, but it will be colder after the snow.

"Your body is not good. You can't even stand this temperature."

Liu Minghui followed Xu Damao and said to him with contempt.

"No, I'm not cold at all."

A man can't say no, Xu Damao immediately said with his head raised and chest puffed out.

But his handsomeness did not last for more than three seconds, as Xu Damao accidentally slipped and fell to the ground.

"Ouch, it hurts so much, help me up quickly."

Liu Minghui pulled Xu Damao up with amusement.

"See if you can still pretend."

“I didn’t see it.”

Xu Damao felt a little ashamed and could only make a few excuses.

Then the two of them quickened their pace and walked towards the steel mill.

The two men came to the steel rolling mill and separated after entering. Xu Damao was going to report to the Propaganda Department, which was a different direction from the Purchasing Department.

"Section Chief, you are here."

In the purchasing department, everyone was discussing something in the room. When they saw Liu Minghui come in, they all shouted.

"What are you doing? What are you talking about?"

Liu Minghui asked curiously.

Several buyers looked at each other, and then one of them started to explain.

"Section Chief, aren't we discussing the task that was just issued?"

Liu Minghui was puzzled. He seemed not to know this yet, so he looked at Wang Wen, waiting for his explanation.

Wang Wen immediately responded: "Section Chief, this is a request from the logistics department, please take a look."

Wang Wen is no fool. He doesn't want to leave a bad impression on Liu Minghui, so he immediately explains the whole story.

Liu Minghui took it and looked at it. It turned out that the steel rolling mill had run out of grain reserves, so they asked everyone to purchase more grain.

"Well, I remember the steel mill had quite a bit of food reserves, and wasn't there a planned purchase?"

Liu Minghui was puzzled and immediately asked Wang Wen, because Wang Wen was in charge of all the planned purchases.

Wang Wen explained awkwardly, "Of course it's because the planned quota is not enough. It is said that it will drop a lot after the new year, so the leaders above are planning to prepare for a rainy day and purchase more."