Siheyuan: I stand for Xu Damao because he is my brother

Liu Haizhong came back to Wang Wu with a dusty face, scratching his nose, and his bare feet almost tore the soles of his leather shoes apart...

He asked guiltily, "You, what do you want me to do in exchange for moving this soda?"

Wang Wu was determined to make him pay back: "We two brothers don't care how much you ask, we'll pay one yuan for a box, and you can also treat us to three bottles of soda each."

3 bottles? Not afraid of being stuffed to death! But the situation was stronger than the person, Liu Haizhong still gritted his teeth and agreed to their request.

Then he went back and said, "Excuse me, can you bring me 7 more bottles of soda? Here's the money."

The worker took the money and said, "Take it yourself."

Liu Haizhong sighed and waved to Wang Wu and the others. This time, they didn't need Liu Haizhong to do anything as they went in happily and got out 7 bottles of soda.

Didn't we agree to drink 3 bottles per person? How did it become 7 bottles? Nonsense, isn't Liu Haizhong a human being? Isn't he allowed to pay for a bottle himself?

"..."

The Fifth Workers' Club, this place appears quite frequently in the entire TV series.

Before, Director Yang swept the floor here, and later Xu Damao checked tickets here. Later, it was directly converted into a coffee shop. It was here that You Fengxia and Xu Damao drank coffee.

But nowadays, it is still an important place for the Red Star Factory to hold general staff meetings, commendations, or cultural performances and other activities.

On the rostrum, Li Huaide sat upright, watching the actors rehearsing in unison and with deep voices under the direction of Xu Damao.

Sitting next to him were Xu Dacan, the former head of the Labor and Personnel Section who had asked him "Xiao Xu, have you ever done a job with a gun?", and Old Wang, now deputy director of the Revolutionary Committee of the steel rolling mill, and Deputy Director Wang.

Deputy Director Wang praised: "The singing was really good, and it perfectly displayed the spirit of our factory."

As the saying goes, a beautiful sedan chair is carried by everyone, Lao Wang is also very happy to have a good relationship with Xu Lao Da and Xu Lao Er.

Director Li also nodded with satisfaction: "Well, this Xu Damao is quite capable. It is not easy to arrange the program like this in such a short time."

Lao Wang chimed in, "Xiao Xu, you have only worked for a short time, so you may not know that our director used to be the main force in the singing competition. Her voice..."

Before he could finish, Li Huaide humbly waved his hand and said, "Alright, alright. A good man doesn't brag about his past achievements."

As they were talking, a song came to an end. After the actors took their bows, Li Huaide was the first to stand up and applaud.

Others also applauded and cheered.

Li Huaide strode onto the stage, and Xu Damao immediately rushed up to shake his hand: "Director Li, how is it, I didn't let you down, did I?"

Li Huaide pointed at Xu Damao with satisfaction and said, "You did a great job! As long as we can perform at the same level as today in the competition, the prize will definitely be ours! Keep up the good work."

Xu Dacan then gave Liu Haizhong an eye drop: "What's wrong with Liu Haizhong?"

Li Huaide looked puzzled: "What does he have to do with it?"

Xu Dacan said, "I told him early in the morning that you would come to the Fifth Workers' Club at noon to check on the rehearsal, and asked him to get a few boxes of soda as a benefit for the actors. But you see, it's already this late, and there's no sign of him."

When Li Huaide looked at his watch, his face suddenly darkened. This bangs was too outrageous!

He said to Deputy Director Wang, "Old Wang, call the soda factory right now and ask them to drive a few boxes of soda over. Right now, right away!"

Just as Lao Wang was about to leave, he saw three people running in hurriedly from the door. Liu Haizhong was running in front with a big belly, and Da Que'er and Wang Wu were following behind carrying a box of soda.

Seeing Li Huaide looking at him angrily, Liu Haizhong quickly wiped the sweat off his face, ran over breathlessly and said, "Li, Director Li, I have this, this..."

Before he could finish, Director Li scolded him in dissatisfaction: "Liu Haizhong, look at the time. The actors have been rehearsing for such a long time, and they can't even drink water. How do you do things?"

After saying that, Li Huaide took a look. There was ice in the box of soda, but now, the ice had melted!

The soda bottles were all soaked in water. Li Huaide was so angry that he kicked the box and said, "There is no cool air at all. Liu Haizhong, you disappoint me so much!"

After saying that, he turned around and left, even canceling the previously agreed upon conversation with the actors!

Lao Wang and Xu Dacan hurried to catch up. Liu Haizhong wanted to catch up to explain himself, but Xu Damao grabbed him and said, "Uncle, what you did is really unfair! There are 16 actors in our group, including me, a total of 17 people, and you only gave us one box of soda?"

Sweat was pouring down his neck from his bangs. Seeing that the actors were all looking at him, he quickly explained, "There are more outside. I bought three boxes in total. I..."

Before he could finish, Xu Damao said, "What are you waiting for? Go get two people to help move it."

Two male actors, eager to perform, quickly stood up and pushed his bangs aside because they thought they were in the way.

Xu Damao was a good person and even took two bottles of soda to Wang Wu and Da Que'er: "You two have worked hard. Have a bottle of soda to quench your thirst."

Liu Haizhong was so angry. It turned out that he bought the soda with his own money, but he didn't feel any favor was owed. Instead, he was blamed?

Wang Wu and Da Que'er, these two bastards, not only beat him up, but also asked him to thank them for drinking soda?

This was the first time that Liu Haizhong felt that being an official was not as impressive as he had imagined.

When others are officials, like Xu Lao Da and Xu Lao Er, they are like fish in water; and their workshop director usually has the final say, and everyone has to do whatever he tells them to do.

Why does it happen that when it comes to him, everyone is against him? This is not right!

"..."

Just before getting off work, Xu Dacan came to call Yang Damazi and said that Director Li wanted to invite several cadres to dinner.

When Yang Damazi heard this, his face broke with laughter. He stood up and was about to leave with Xu Dacan.

As a result, Liu Haizhong couldn't sit still anymore, so he stood up and followed them outside.

Xu Dacan deliberately glanced at his watch: "Liu Haizhong, it's not time to get off work yet, but it's only 15 minutes, forget it, you can go."

What does "leave now" mean? Liu Haizhong stopped him angrily: "Didn't Director Li invite you to dinner?"

Yang Damazi also came to his senses: "Yeah, what does it have to do with you? Liu Haizhong, I heard that you made trouble again today and made Director Li very angry!"

When Liu Haizhong heard this, the last glimmer of hope in his heart was shattered. He took several steps back with lifeless eyes before he could stand firm.

Xu Dacan smiled, and walked away arm in arm with Yang Damazi.