Siheyuan: Breaking up with Shazhu at the beginning

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In fact, the Logistics Department is where he truly controls. Even though his apparent identity is the deputy director of the steel rolling mill, he also serves as the director of the Logistics Department.

Arranging Yang Jun to the Purchasing Department is like holding the Monkey King in Tathagata's palm, making it difficult for him to escape. This way, his "rear" will be more stable.

Yang Jun got the position as he wished, and Deputy Factory Director Li Huaide met his expectations, and the two smiled at each other.

“Just do it bro, I trust you.

I look forward to your outstanding achievements in your position.”

"The mission must be accomplished!"

After chatting with Deputy Factory Director Li Huaide about daily matters for a while, Yang Jun politely stepped aside.

With the care of Deputy Director Li, subsequent matters went smoothly.

Sister Cai took over the remaining chores.

In less than an hour, Yang Jun completed all the onboarding procedures.

At this moment, Yang Jun became a formal employee of the steel plant.

With the assistance of Sister Cai, Yang Jun received necessities such as work clothes, safety shoes and gloves, and meal tickets.

Seeing Sister Cai working so hard for him and sweating profusely, Yang Jun felt very sorry for her, so he quietly took out ten national food coupons weighing five kilograms from his small space and stuffed them into her hands.

"Sister Cai, it's just a small gift. You don't have to refuse."

"Oh... Director Yang, it's too expensive. We are already family, and this is how colleagues should help each other."

In fact, when Sister Cai received the food coupons, she took a quick glance at them. They were national food coupons weighing five kilograms each, and they were obviously at least ten pieces thick.

You know, that’s a total of 50 kilograms of national food coupons.

As for the family, Mr. Zhang no longer needs to go through the trouble of exchanging food coupons when he goes on business trips in the future.

Food coupons are divided into national food coupons and local food coupons. In essence, they are both food certificates. The difference lies in whether they can be circulated nationwide.

If someone in the family is away on business or visiting relatives or friends, they need to exchange national food coupons in advance.

The process is not simple: first, you need to get a travel certificate from your unit, and then go to the grain station to exchange it for grain coupons. Generally, local grain coupons of the same weight are exchanged for national grain coupons. At the same time, you also need to pay extra for some oil ration coupons.

Now there are a full fifty kilograms of national food coupons, and almost two kilograms of oil and fat ration coupons are needed.

You have to know that at that time, urban families only received an average of two kilograms of oil coupons per month, and a family had to go without food and drink to be able to scrape together that many coupons.

Not to mention the difficulty of exchanging the tickets, these 50 kilograms of food coupons alone are enough to provide a family with basic food rations for two months.

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Sister Cai secretly praised Section Chief Yang for his generosity. No wonder the factory's deputy director, Manager Li, wanted to win him over so much. She should have closer interactions with him in the future.

"Sister Cai, since you are one of our own, there is no need to be polite.

"

Seeing that Sister Cai looked reluctant to part with the food, Yang Jun struck while the iron was hot and stuffed the food coupons into her pocket.

"Then I won't refuse, Chief Yang.

I have some say in the personnel department. If you need anything, just tell me.

"

"Sister Cai, I'm naturally going to ask you to help me with my brother's matter.

I am the first person I met at the factory, so who else should I look for besides you?

Yang Jun took this opportunity to further improve his relationship with her.

The Sister Cai in front of me is from Deputy Director Yang's faction, and has a certain say in the personnel department. There will definitely be many requests in the future that require her help.

After all, one more friend means one more way.

As for food coupons, they had plenty of reserves, so they didn't take this little matter seriously.

(Because there is no unique number on the food stamp)

As the old saying goes, don't hit a smiling person, and don't be soft-hearted after eating someone's food.

Sister Cai secretly pressed the thick stack of food coupons in her pocket and suddenly felt inexplicably at ease.

As the saying goes, true love comes from returning a favor.

If you only ask for things without any response, friendship will disappear like flowing water.

Sister Cai thought for a moment and said cautiously:

"Our factory has a rule that section chiefs of your rank should be able to apply for a house, and there happens to be a house in the south of the city that is reserved for cadres.

I am quite familiar with Section Chief Liao of the Housing Management Department. I wonder if you would consider...”

"Cadre housing? Am I still qualified to have a cadre housing?"

Hearing this suggestion, Yang Jun was secretly delighted.

I was worried about not being able to find a reason to ask about housing, and this is like a timely help.

It seems that the 50 kilograms of national food coupons were not given away for nothing.

According to regulations, leaders like him can be allocated a house, but if they go directly to the Housing Management Department to ask for it, they may encounter various obstacles.

They will say no, or that the house is not yet due for distribution, and ask you to wait.

"Sister Cai, to be honest, our place is really too crowded. When I came home last night, there was no place to sleep, so I could only sleep on the floor in the living room.

I would be very grateful if my housing problem could be solved.

"

"But I want to ask if I can change the assigned cadre housing to staff housing? I am currently living in a vacant quadrangle room for steel mill employees. Can you ask Sister Cai to ask Section Chief Liao to let those two rooms become my staff housing?"

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[When I heard that Yang Jun gave up allocating housing to cadres,

Sister Liao looked at him in astonishment.

Why don’t you want the cadres’ housing and insist on picking the employee housing?

Looking at Yang Jun's tall figure and energetic face, doesn't he look like a fool?

Who would give up the solid brick and cement cadre housing in exchange for an old-style house in the city?

But it was Yang Jun's choice, and she couldn't say much.

“If it were normal times, it would be almost impossible for you to ask for a cadre room.

But if you can take the initiative to choose to change to staff housing, that’s another matter. Just choose the one you like.

"

Let’s just decide it. I have to trouble Sister Cai again, Yang Jun said embarrassedly.

“No trouble, I’ll take you to handle the formalities now.

"

In less than half an hour, Yang Jun left with the housing allocation certificate provided by the factory, and all that was left was to negotiate with the street office.

After a busy morning, it was already past lunch time.

Feeling that time was almost up, Yang Jun dragged Sister Cai to the street guesthouse restaurant for dinner and specially ordered four hard dishes.

Considering that Sister Cai had to work in the afternoon, no drinking was arranged.

The meal was a great pleasure for both hosts and guests, and both sides had a pleasant conversation.

From this we learned that Sister Cai's surname was Cai Yufen, and she was the deputy chief of the personnel department. Her husband worked in a dairy factory, and she had five children. Their family was quite poor, but they lived fairly well.

After the meal, Yang Jun said goodbye to Sister Cai and went straight home.

In order to quickly solve the housing problem, he didn't want to curl up on the ground and sleep on a simple bed.

It is vital to retain that decency.

The staff of the street office were very enthusiastic about his arrival. They asked about the specific situation, verified the housing allocation certificate from the steel plant, and then called to verify it again.

Finally, for a small fee of two cents, he got the key to the house in the backyard.

It should be noted that employee housing was originally allocated free of charge, but a housing management fee of 20 cents was required each year.

After getting the keys, decoration is naturally the first priority.

I used to live in towering steel buildings, but now I live in narrow alley courtyards with hundreds of years of history. The visual experience is very different.

The winter in Beijing is freezing cold, especially when going to the toilet in the middle of the night. You have to walk dozens of meters in the severe cold to the public toilet outside. It is dim there and it is common to accidentally step on landmines.

In fact, these are all small challenges. I go to bed a little earlier and go to the toilet once before going to bed, and I can barely get through the night.

What Yang Jun found hard to accept was the problem with the public toilet. The environment was filthy, and the floor and walls were filled with unspeakable debris.

You may even have to squat for a long time before a seat becomes available, and sometimes you have to bend your knees and endure it, and if you are not careful you can come into close contact with the odor.

There are only a few public toilets shared by the more than 90 courtyard houses around Nanluoguxiang. There are often long queues for using the toilet in the morning, and sometimes the waiting time is as long as half an hour.

Although there are always crowds in front of public toilets in the morning, the number of people who actually use the toilet is far greater than the number you see.

For example, the situation at Yang Jun’s family.

Every day, my mother would get up at least half an hour earlier and queue up for the opportunity to use the toilet, but when it was her turn, a group of sisters would rush out.

This phenomenon is common to everyone, with every household taking turns to use the same public toilet.

Yang Jun was determined to solve the toilet problem.

After getting the key, he specially inspected the back street of his courtyard house. The house assigned to him was located at the end of the courtyard. There was also a toilet at the back of the courtyard, about 20 meters away.

When he plans to renovate his house, he will use pipes to connect the bathroom to this public fertilizer tank to avoid sewage problems.

However, the key issue is that digging a 20-meter-long pipeline requires approval from the street office.

Seeing that it was almost time to get off work, I decided to come back another day.

Yang Jun asked several residents at the entrance of the alley, and most of them recommended a craftsman named Lao Wu.

This guy has good skills and does most of the decoration work nearby. He has a good reputation. The only drawback is that the prices he quotes are usually the highest.

Technical excellence must be accompanied by charges of corresponding value.

If his price is the same as others, how can he prove his technical strength and unique value?

According to the address provided by passers-by, Yang Jun came to a courtyard house and gave a little boy two candies. The boy led him to a house in the courtyard.

He knocked on the door.

The person who came out to greet them was a woman in her early forties, with a tired look and red and swollen eyes, as if she had just experienced something tragic.

"Excuse me, is this the residence of Master Laowu?"

Facing his question, the middle-aged woman glared at him and said in a dissatisfied tone:

"Bad luck! You guys are in the wrong place. The person is gone."

Someone died? How could it be such a coincidence?

Seeing how calm you are, I almost believe it.

Realizing that the other party might have misunderstood something, she approached Yang Jun with a suspicious look and whispered:

"You...are not here to collect a debt?"

"Debt collection? What debt do I want?"

Yang Jun realized that the sister might have misunderstood him, so he immediately clarified his purpose: "Sister, I'm not here to collect debts. I'm here to ask Master Laowu to renovate my house."

"Renovation? What house?"

On the way, Yang Jun described his decoration intentions to Lao Wu, but Lao Wu did not provide much substantive suggestions. He said it would be better to discuss it after an on-site inspection of the house.

Yang Jun agreed with this view and believed that it was indeed rash to talk about style and layout before seeing the actual house, so he valued the craftsmanship of people like Lao Wu even more.

From their conversation, I learned that Lao Wu’s name was Lao Wu. This was his real name, not a nickname, and it came from the fact that he was the fifth in his family.

The surname "Lao" is not common among the Hundred Family Surnames and is mainly distributed in the Northeast region, as well as ethnic minority communities in Foshan, Xinhui and Gaoyao.

Lao Wu inherited the tradition of the Xiangshan Gang. He studied under famous masters and has superb skills. He has more than a dozen subordinates who depend on him for their livelihood. He has a warm and righteous personality, and his subordinates trust and respect him.

Recently, one of my subordinates encountered financial difficulties at home and needed a large amount of cash.

Although he felt distressed, Lao Wu still took it upon himself to use some customers' renovation advance payments to help his brother.

As a result, that brother's problem was solved, but the fifth brother faced a shortage of funds for renovation and was came by his main customer to claim debt repayment.

These days he has been worrying about how to resolve this crisis.

It is the end of the year and job opportunities are scarce. For Yang Jun, taking over this business will help alleviate some of his debts.

After they returned to the courtyard, Yang Jun first greeted Wang Yuying who was cooking, and then led Lao Wu to observe the house.

They took out the key provided by the street office and tried to insert it into the keyhole.

However, after several attempts, the key could not be inserted.

Seeing Yang Jun's random attempts, Lao Wu's eyes changed subtly.

"Fifth brother, you misunderstood. This is my house." Yang Jun's face was gloomy and his tone was firm. He couldn't understand why his key couldn't open the door. "The new address that the street office just assigned to me, take a look at this for yourself."

As he spoke, Yang Jun showed Lao Wu the housing allocation documents he had just received today.

After reading the document, Lao Wu's doubts disappeared.

He looked around, picked up a green brick from the brick wall in the corner, and asked Yang Jun to step back a few steps.

With a "bang" sound, the lock was opened precisely.

……

In front of the mansion, Jia Zhang was sitting and weaving shoe soles, occasionally looking up and looking around.

It was time to get off work, and she was waiting here for Zhuzi to return.