Siheyuan: Survival Guide for Courtyard No. 95

PS: This chapter is almost entirely nonsense, but it has to be explained clearly.

Three days passed in a flash and Xu Damao was discharged from the hospital. That was because he was young and in good health. If it were Yan Bugui, he would have had to stay in the hospital for at least half a month.

Because of this beating incident, the relationship between Lao Xu's family and other residents in the yard has reached a freezing point. It's no wonder. He was knocked unconscious at the time, and the residents in the yard just watched from the side without anyone to help. Who would dare to make close friends with this group of people?

Xu Damao now only greeted the two families in the front yard, Yan Bugui and Zhao Shanhe. He greeted the Yan family because when he was beaten, only the third uncle spoke up for him. Although it was useless, he had to accept the favor. He had a good relationship with Zhao Shanhe purely because of Lou Xiaoe. After seeing the beasts in the yard, this young lady only interacted with Chen Xueru because she knew that Chen Xueru would not plot against her. As for other families? It's better to never interact with them!

Zhao Shanhe heard Xu Damao tell him that Lou Xiao'e wanted to move, but his father-in-law did not agree. Zhao Shanhe knew everything about this. The reason why Lou Bancheng married his daughter to Xu Damao was to label his family as a working class family.

If you move out and go back to live in the small western-style building, with fine clothes and delicious food, servants and cars every day, then Lou Bancheng's plan will be ruined, right? So Zhao Shanhe just smiled and comforted Xu Damao.

Because of this incident, Sha Zhu became closer to Yi Zhonghai's family, and because the deaf old lady was raised by Qin Huairu, he was even more attentive to this sister Qin. The lunch boxes he brought back every now and then were basically served on the Jia family's dining table, making He Yushui's face droopy every day. Sometimes she wondered if her brother was possessed by a ghost.

Yi Zhonghai saw that Sha Zhu was actively approaching him and felt that the beating was worth it. If anyone in the yard dared to argue with him again in the future, he could just close the door and release Sha Zhu.

Time passed slowly, and the factory held several meetings in a row, and finally discussed the matter clearly. Trucks borrowed from other brother units in Sijiucheng also arrived at the steel rolling mill one after another. Food, various iron tools, and some miscellaneous things allocated by the department were basically in place, and they were just waiting to set off.

It was only then that Zhao Shanhe learned from Li Huaide that this could be considered a linkage of a large number of factories in the city of Sijiu, because not only the steel rolling mill, but other factories were also in serious shortage of meat. The meat processing plant was empty. They couldn't just wait for meat to fall from the sky. If they didn't save themselves, they would have to wait for the employees to make trouble.

The number of vehicles in the convoy was also increased from the originally planned 20 to 64 at once. One of the vehicles was loaded with vehicle spare parts to ensure that any vehicle problems along the way could be repaired in time, and the other three were for refueling. The road from Sijiucheng to Zhangjiakou was relatively easy to travel, but once passing Zhangjiakou, it would be difficult to refuel.

Except for three oil trucks, each truck carried spare gasoline and tires. This was also calculated repeatedly by the higher-ups. If it weren't for so many statisticians repeatedly calculating, who knows whether they could have reached Abaga Banner (now Xilinhot City).

The security work was handed over to the security departments of several large factories in Sijiu City. The person who went to the steel rolling mill this time happened to be Zhao Shanhe's old acquaintance Shen Li. When the other party heard the news, he was very happy. This was a good job. After arriving at the grassland, he could get some specialties of Sijiu City and exchange them for some good things with the local herdsmen. You know, many things there don't require tickets.

Since it was a linkage of several factories, Zhao Shanhe could no longer be the team leader. He was too young and was only a deputy section chief. The person who led the team in the end was a deputy secretary of the First Machine Tool Factory in Sijiu City. He was a deputy department-level cadre, much higher in rank than Zhao Shanhe.

January 11, light snow.

Zhao Shanhe felt like his waist was about to break after he got up. Chen Xueru knew that he was going to leave today, so she unlocked a lot of new moves and practiced with him for almost a whole night. Even while he was at work, she told him not to pick wild flowers on the roadside.

Zhao Shanhe's family knows about their own affairs, and there is really not a single drop left.

At 7:50, Zhao Shanhe arrived at the factory. Vehicles ready to depart were already lined up in front of the factory gate. Not only were people from the factory watching the excitement, but many people from nearby also came. The last time he saw so many trucks was when the troops were returning from fighting South Korea. Such a lively scene is very rare.

He went to report to the deputy factory director Li Huaide first. Actually, there was nothing to report. Everything that needed to be said had been said eight times in the past two days. It was nothing more than following orders in all actions, not leaving the team at will, not doing anything that would bring discredit to the city, integrating with the grassland herdsmen, etc. However, before leaving, Captain Shen took him to the armory of the security department and got him an M3 submachine gun and 500 rounds of bullets.

"Brother, although it's unlikely that we'll encounter bandits this time, there are many wolves on the grassland. It's better to keep this gun for self-defense. Come back to me when you run out of bullets."

Zhao Shanhe guessed that this big brother should have already boarded Li Huaide's boat, otherwise he would not have taken such good care of him. Didn't he see that the other security guards were still holding Type 38 rifles?

However, he is very good at using public resources to repay favors, which can be compared with Li Huaide, Li Lianjie and others. It is no wonder that he came over as soon as Li Huaide tried to win him over. No one can say who is black, they are all the same kind of people.

At 8:20, the leaders of all factories went to the large conference room of the steel rolling mill for a meeting. The person who presided over the meeting was Li Huaide's father-in-law. He also took this opportunity to show his face to the superiors. You know, the superiors were also troubled by the shortage of meat. This trip to the grassland by him solved the big problem.

The deputy minister spoke for 22 minutes, and then gave the seat to Yang Liming, the head of the steel rolling mill. Yang Liming, on the pretext of being the initiator of this grassland trip, spoke for more than 10 minutes. When Zhao Shanhe was about to fall asleep from listening, it was finally the turn of Gan Ronghua, the team leader, to take the stage to speak.

"Comrades, our trip to the grassland to deliver supplies to the herdsmen is the Party's care for the grassland people and fully reflects our Party's care for ethnic minorities..."

Zhao Shanhe thought that the other party would say something far-sighted, but he didn't know that these people all spoke in the same routine. Fortunately, this person also knew the rules of officialdom. He spoke for only 3 minutes, and then asked everyone to return to the car and prepare to depart.

The purchasing staff from the steel rolling mill who went to the grassland this time included Wang Gang and Zhang Li. Zhao Chunjiang originally wanted to go, but the organization rejected his application considering his mother's situation.

Purchasing Group 20 also sent two people to follow. Zhao Shanhe didn't know these two people very well. He only knew that one of them was named Zhou Kangzhan, a very energetic young man in his 40s, and the other was named Liang Baoguo, who was in his s and was the oldest among the people from the Purchasing Department. It was said that this person had been to many places in addition to the grassland and was very experienced. So Zhao Shanhe privately held a meeting with a few people and asked everyone to listen to Liang Baoguo on the way.