Siheyuan: How the Little People Live

Early in the morning, Ye Wenwu took his cousin to work at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill.

As usual, he first dropped his cousin Zhang Xingbang off at the door of a workshop, and then rode his bike towards the Propaganda Department.

There was no commotion outside his house yesterday, so Ye Wenwu knew that Yi Zhonghai had resolved the matter.

He also thought about going to Deputy Director Li and asking him to decide on this matter.

But there is no need for this. It is not worthwhile to spend so much money just for Jia Dongxu.

Moreover, Ye Wenwu also believed that Yi Zhonghai and his men must have paid a huge price.

But Ye Wenwu also knew that even if Yi Zhonghai and his team did not look for the factory director and his team, the factory would most likely not fire Jia Dongxu. Unfortunately, Yi Zhonghai and his team did not know this.

"Good morning, my beautiful Master Xu."

Sure enough, the first person to arrive was the silly girl Xu Ying. Ye Wenwu pushed open the door, said hello and came in.

"Hmph, you're so smooth-talking so early in the morning. I can tell from the first glance that you're not a good person."

Xu Ying responded directly.

"Wow, it's only been one day since we last met, and our beauty has improved so much! I admire her so much."

Ye Wenwu put the things in his hand on the desk and said jokingly.

"Go to hell, Ye Wenwu, can't you just talk properly?"

The two of them had another verbal fight in the office.

Suddenly at this moment, Section Chief Zhao Shujie walked in, and frowned when he saw Ye Wenwu and Xu Ying arriving.

"Ye Wenwu, go get a notice from Director Yang now. I need it urgently."

Ye Wenwu was also wondering why Zhao Shujie came so early today. It turned out that the factory director had a notification document.

Normally, the notification documents are picked up on Monday afternoon and then sent to the radio station for the announcer to play.

"Okay, Chief. I'll go right away."

Anyway, this place was not far from Director Yang’s office, so Ye Wenwu said hello to Xu Ying and hurried out of the office.

Director Yang’s office is also on the second floor. Although Ye Wenwu has never been there, he still knows the rules.

He first knocked on a clerk's office next to Director Yang.

"Dong dong dong."

"Hello, comrade. I am Ye Wenwu from the Propaganda Department. Our section chief asked me to go to Director Yang to get a notice document."

A well-built man walked out of the office with a notice in his hand.

"Comrade Ye Wenwu, hello, this is the notification document from the factory director. Take it back and give it to your section chief. He knows about it."

Ye Wenwu nodded, then returned the same way with the notification document.

While walking on the road, I suddenly became curious about what this notification document was. So when I saw that no one was around, I quietly opened it and took a look.

"Hey, it's actually a notice about Jia Dongxu's punishment."

Seeing the penalty notice for Jia Dongxu, which came out so early, it seems that Yi Zhonghai contacted Director Yang, otherwise this matter should have been brought up directly by Director Feng at the meeting in the morning.

Now that Director Yang has directly announced the penalty notice, there is no need to report to Director Feng.

When Ye Wenwu returned to the office, he found that Section Chief Zhao Shujie's two lackeys had returned.

"Chief, this is the notification document. I'll put it here."

Ye Wenwu walked in directly, placed the notification document on the desk, and then walked out.

Anyway, Zhao Zhijie doesn't like me, so there is no need for me to be so polite. It's enough to just save face.

Zhao Zhijie frowned and glanced at Ye Wenwu who walked out.

Perhaps he thought of something, and a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Xu Ying, come here for a moment. There's something in the department that needs you to do."

Ye Wenwu had just sat down next to Xu Ying when Zhao Shujie started shouting again.

Xu Ying looked at Ye Wenwu in surprise. She had been in the Propaganda Department for more than a year, and the Section Chief Zhao Shujie had never assigned her a task. What happened today?

Ye Wenwu quickly made way for him and watched Xu Ying hurriedly walk towards the section chief's office, lying on the table in boredom.

"Boring, boring, now we have something to do, we can finally go out and move around."

Xu Ying walked over and patted Ye Wenwu on the shoulder and said happily.

"what!"

"The section chief actually assigned us a task?"

Ye Wenwu was a little confused. The section chief had clearly never cared about the two of them, so why did he suddenly lock them up?

"Um"

Xu Ying squinted her eyes and hummed.

"The section chief said that our propaganda department has recently made some changes to the screening schedules for each commune, and asked me to take you to each commune to notify them, so that when the higher-ups make the changes, the lower-ups won't be aware of the situation."

Hearing Xu Ying's words, Ye Wenwu felt something was wrong. Xu Ying didn't know how many communes there were under the Sijiu City, but he, Ye Wenwu, knew that it would take the two of them several days to run through them all. You have to know that there were no private cars at that time, and they had to rely on cars and bicycles.

"Did the section chief say there was a time limit?"

"That doesn't mean there's a time limit. What's the matter? Ye Wenwu, why don't I go ask the section chief right now? After all, this is the first job he has assigned to me, and I must do it well."

Seeing Xu Ying so happy, Ye Wenwu couldn't bear to interrupt her naive thoughts.

"Then you should ask the section chief. This is quite important. Don't let us fail to complete it in time. Then it will be all our responsibility."

Hearing Ye Wenwu's support, Xu Ying nodded and agreed.

"Okay, I'll go ask the section chief right away."

Then Xu Ying ran over happily again.

"Ye Wenwu, the section chief has given us three full days. I believe I can complete it."

Well, this naive girl was deceived by the section chief. Three days, it's good enough to run one side in three days. If two people run down, it will take seven or eight days, and this is without rest time.

As for telling this silly girl the relationship between the two now, she might not believe me.

Forget it. I stay in the office every day anyway. I can get familiar with each commune by going out for a walk.

"Let's go, Master Xu. Why are you standing here? You just need to know that this only lasts three days."

"Oh, Ye Wenwu, wait for me, I'll pack my bag."

After saying that, he quickly packed his bag, put it on his back, and ran outside with the materials and documents.

At this time, Ye Wenwu had already ridden his bicycle over. When Xu Ying saw Ye Wenwu riding his bicycle over, she ran over and wanted to sit on the back.

"No, don't tell me you don't have a bicycle."

"Oh, do we need two bicycles? We only have one bicycle. Besides, I don't use a bicycle to go to get off work every day. How can I find a bicycle at this time? Wow, it's more labor-saving for two of us to use one bicycle."

After saying that, he jumped behind Ye Wenwu's bicycle and grabbed Ye Wenwu's clothes with both hands.

Ye Wenwu smiled helplessly. Did he really think that he, Ye Wenwu, was a fool? He couldn't see that she had a bicycle. He only gave it to her because she was a girl.

"Then you better sit still and hold on to my clothes, or you'll be thrown out by a bump. If you break your butt in two, I won't care."

"Humph, if you break this girl's butt in half, you'll be dead."

Xu Ying sat happily behind Ye Wenwu, swinging her long legs.

"Then I didn't see that I was going to die. Don't you know that the buttocks are made of two halves?"

Ye Wenwu started to tease directly and exerted more strength on his feet.

"You idiot Wenwu, are you a man? Can't you give way to this girl?"

Xu Ying pinched Ye Wenwu's waist in annoyance, and the whole bicycle twisted because of it.

"Oh shit, don't move. Do you want both of us to fall to the ground?"

"Wow, Ye Wenwu, don't scare me."

The two of them walked out of the gate of the Red Star Steel Mill while playing and joking, but they did not notice that there was a pair of eyes staring at them with resentment in the distance, and they did not look away until the two disappeared from the door.