Siheyuan: Big City, Small Love

"Grandma Zhou, don't worry. Grandpa Zhou is fine. I'll be watching over him. After a good night's sleep, he will definitely be full of energy tomorrow."

He Lai looked at how nervous Old Lady Zhou was and comforted her.

"It's all right, it's all right. This damn old man always wants to drink every time he sees his comrades. I can't stop him. If I don't let him drink, he gets angry with me. Sigh... He's like a child."

Old Mrs. Zhou sighed and lifted the quilt up for Old Mr. Zhou.

I have been living in fear these years, fearing that Mr. Zhou would never wake up after getting drunk.

"It's okay. Grandpa Zhou is in good health now. I'll bring the deer antler wine I brought from Sijiu City over in a few days. Drinking that wine is good for your health."

He Lai said.

"Thank you, Xiao Laizi. I love your wine. I have to drink a little every day."

"Grandma Zhou, why should we thank each other? It's too formal."

"Yes, yes, yes, grandma, it was a slip of the tongue, a slip of the tongue."

……

Time passed quickly, and He Lai brought a lot of things to Mr. Zhou. After all, they would have fewer opportunities to meet in the future, so the more he could give him, the better.

He Lai took advantage of the fact that the Canton Fair was almost over, explained things to Zhang Zhiwen, and followed Lu Zixuan to Gangcheng.

He Lai first followed Lu Zixuan to the factory and inspected it.

The wages of the workers in Helai's factory are the best in the port city. Food and accommodation are included, and the average monthly salary is nearly 300 yuan.

With such conditions, there is no other place like this in the whole city.

So the workers are very grateful to He Lai, the boss. Although most of the workers do not know He Lai, the boss, they know Lu Zixuan more as the manager.

At noon, He Lai suddenly felt like having a meal in the workers' canteen and experiencing the workers' meals.

He Lai walked into the cafeteria, looked at the workers' meals, and immediately frowned.

There was no oil in the food, just some potatoes, cabbage, and a little watery rice.

"Zixuan, what's going on?" He Lai asked.

"This... this, this is not right. I clearly instructed that every meal should have one meat and two vegetables. How could this happen?" Lu Zixuan was also very embarrassed. He didn't expect the meals of the canteen workers to be like this!

He turned around and shouted to his assistant, "Go, call Old Wu over here!"

Upon hearing this, the assistant immediately went to the kitchen to call for help.

He Lai ignored all this and sat opposite the workers who were eating. He asked, "Let me ask you, is your food always like this?"

The worker who was asked looked at He Lai, then at the group of people behind He Lai, and was a little afraid to speak.

"Don't be afraid, just tell me the truth. I guarantee they won't dare to do anything to you."

He Lai said to him with a smile.

"What do you do?" the worker asked tremblingly.

"As for me, I'm your boss. I just want to know about your food situation. Relax. When did you come to work in the factory?"

He Lai smiled.

"I came here this time last year, just under a year ago."

The worker replied truthfully.

"Is the food always like this?"

"Yes, it's good. I'm full." The worker was afraid of saying something wrong. After all, the meal was free and he could have two meals a day, lunch and dinner. He was very satisfied.

"Well, okay, then you take your time eating, I'll take a walk."

He Lai said this with a smile, and then left the cafeteria without waiting for the assistant to bring people back.

"Boss, this..." Lu Zixuan was also embarrassed at this time.

"Let's go to the next cafeteria." He said and walked into the car.

……

This industrial park is quite large, with a total of six large canteens. He Lai discovered that the situation was the same in all of them. It was obvious that there were problems in these canteens, and corruption was rampant.

Back in the president's office, He Lai had a sullen face and said nothing.

"Zixuan, call all the management staff here. I want to hold a meeting."

He Lai exhaled and gave his first order.

"Okay, boss." Lu Zixuan nodded in agreement and walked out.

"Where is the meeting room? Lead the way," He Lai continued.

Soon an assistant took He Lai to the largest conference room in the office building.

He Lai waited in the conference room for more than an hour. Many people came in one after another, and they all looked at He Lai who was sitting in the main seat. Some of them knew He Lai and knew that He Lai was the big boss, but more people did not know He Lai and were whispering.

As Lu Zixuan walked in and whispered a few words into He Lai's ear.

He Lai nodded to indicate that he understood. Except for some salesmen who were not there as they were discussing business outside and could not come back for the time being, the managers of the rest of the workers had arrived, so he instructed Lu Zixuan to arrange for everyone to take their seats.

The large conference room was packed with two to three hundred people, many of whom were sitting at the back with plastic chairs.

He Lai didn't waste any words and started speaking.

"Hello everyone, maybe many of you don't know me yet, so let me introduce myself. My name is Wu Qiang, and I'm the boss of Lai Xin Industrial, and also your boss."

As soon as the voice fell, many people made sounds of surprise. They did not expect that their boss was so young.

"Haha, don't be surprised. If you have any questions, you can ask Zixuan after the meeting."

He Lai smiled.

"Yes, the person sitting there is our boss, Mr. Wu Qiang. Now keep quiet."

Lu Zixuan stood behind He Lai and said something.

As soon as Lu Zixuan opened his mouth, he immediately fell silent. After all, he said that He Lai was the boss, so that must be the case. After all, Lu Zixuan had the final say in the company.

"Okay, next, let me tell you the purpose of this meeting."

He said, and then looked at everyone, "Those cafeteria managers, please stand up."

As soon as the words came out, more than a dozen managers from the six cafeterias stood up.

"Well, I won't ask too much, but what's the matter with the food in the cafeteria?"

He Lai didn't bother to ask their names, he just said it directly.

“This…this…” A dozen people looked at each other, speechless.

"Oh? You're all silent? Then there's no need to say anything. Zixuan, you personally take people to investigate how much money has been embezzled. The money must be fully repaid. If it's not fully repaid, you make it up, and all the staff in the cafeteria will be fired."

He Lai said casually.

"Okay, boss." Lu Zixuan replied.

"What, you want to fire us? Do you know who we follow?" A person jumped out.

"Oh? With whom?" He Lai asked curiously.

"We are following Brother Hao! Wu Shihao from Yiqun! You better think carefully about whether you can afford to offend him!"

The man said mockingly.

"Oh, Brother Hao, OK, I get it. But don't worry, I believe Brother Hao will definitely give me face for this little thing. You should think about how to return the money you embezzled."

He Lai said nonchalantly.

"What!" Seeing that He Lai was indifferent, the man still wanted to fire them and asked them to return the money.

He Lai ignored him and said to Lu Zixuan, "Call Brother Hao for me and tell him I want to talk to him."

"Ok."

Lu Zixuan turned around, picked up the phone and started dialing, and the call was quickly connected.

"Hey!"

After a while, Bo Hao's voice sounded from the other end of the phone.

He Lai took the phone and started talking to Bo Hao.