Siheyuan: Struggle Begins in the 1950s

A group of people ate and drank, and from time to time they listened to Li Huaide's comments on the dishes cooked tonight.

By the way, everyone praised Li Huaide.

Only Xu Damao felt unhappy because the dishes for tonight were prepared by Sha Zhu.

Praising a dish for its deliciousness is like praising Shazhu.

Xu Damao wanted to go after Sha Zhu, but Li Huaide needed Sha Zhu's cooking skills, and he had no place to find someone to replace Sha Zhu, so he didn't dare to do it for the time being.

The last time Sha Zhu was arrested, Li Huaide severely criticized Liu Haizhong for this matter.

Xu Damao didn't want to get into trouble.

Just as Xu Damao was thinking about how to make trouble for Sha Zhu, a deputy director at the table suddenly said:

"If we talk about the dozens of directors and deputy directors present here, most of them were promoted from junior leaders. That means the person before Director Li was the most senior official!

"We, the small leaders, have never seen the world. Just like our Deputy Director Xu, we only know how to eat big fish and meat. Wild boars can't eat fine bran!"

As soon as the man finished speaking, another deputy director beside him also laughed and said:

"Director Zhao is right. None of the directors here can be compared with Director Li. I propose that we use this glass of wine from our steel mill to toast our chief director!"

These two people usually look down on Xu Damao, and they seem to be praising Li Huaide by singing the same tune.

In fact, it was an implicit criticism that Xu Damao had a shallow foundation and no knowledge.

Xu Damao could naturally hear it, and he wanted to strangle the two deputy directors to death.

But it’s not a good idea to get angry at the dinner table.

I could only write this matter down with a gloomy face.

Just waiting for revenge one day in the future.

Li Huaide naturally also heard the subtext of the two directors.

But he pretended not to understand and continued drinking with a few directors with a smile.

As a leader, he naturally hopes that his subordinates do not get along with each other, so that he can check and balance each other.

No matter how much he admired Xu Damao, he would not let him dominate the world. It just so happened that the Li family incident required him to be suppressed.

Among all the people present, only Cui Dake was looking at Xu Damao and Li Huaide thoughtfully.

After the reception was over, the leaders finished eating and drinking and left.

Xu Damao was about to go back when Cui Dake suddenly ran over and stopped Xu Damao, holding out his hand and saying with a smile:

"Is this Director Xu? Let me formally introduce myself. I am Cui Dake, Director of the Machinery Repair Factory Committee."

As the saying goes, don't hit a smiling person. Although Xu Damao is a little wary of Cui Dake, there is no conflict between the two at present.

With Cui Dake, Director Xu was very helpful to him, so he smiled and shook hands with Cui Dake and introduced him:

"Hello Director Cui, my name is Xu Damao. You can just call me Damao."

"What a coincidence! We are both considered to be of a senior generation."

Xu Damao also thought it was quite a coincidence. One was named Damao and the other was named Dake, which seemed like a fate.

"Brother Damao, we didn't drink enough at the table just now. How about we find a place to have a few more drinks?"

Xu Damao didn't know what Cui Dake was up to. He thought about it and then said:

"Since Director Cui has honored us, let's have a few more drinks. I happen to have a bottle of Fenjiu in my office. Shall we go?"

The two of them immediately packed up some leftovers and went to Xu Damao's office to drink and chat.

Xu Damao was already in a bad mood today because he was humiliated by someone, and since Cui Dake was with him, he couldn't help but drink a few more glasses.

In just a short while, the two of them started to treat each other as brothers.

Xu Damao, who was drunk, was not so polite when he spoke.

He kept cursing and complaining about those deputy directors being good-for-nothings.

"I'm telling you, brother Dake. When I take over Director Li's position, I'll fire all six deputy directors and make them clean toilets!"

Cui Dake laughed inwardly. Xu Damao had no self-control after drinking and dared to speak out whatever was on his mind.

But this is just right, Cui Dake just wants to make friends with someone like Xu Damao.

He understood everything from the conversation between Xu Damao and several deputy directors just now.

Xu Damao is the same as him.

Both of them started from the bottom and relied on opportunism to get to their current positions.

But both men faced a problem.

He has a shallow foundation and is ostracized by others.

Don’t underestimate Cui Dake, who is now the committee chairman of the machine repair factory.

But among all the directors just now, he was the least popular.

Even though those people were not good people, it did not prevent them from not being able to see through Cui Dake.

So when Li Huaide proposed to merge the factories just now, Cui Dake was the first to stand up and express his support.

Cui Dake has no special abilities. All he can do is flatter and curry favor with his superiors.

When he saw Xu Damao being excluded, he thought about joining forces with Xu Damao to gain a firm foothold in the committee.

Although Cui Dake came from a grassroots background, he also had great ambitions.

"Brother Damao, although this is the first time we meet, I feel like I've known you for a long time. In my opinion, your ability far exceeds that of the other deputy directors. Our Director Li has a keen eye for talent!"

Cui Dake's words made Xu Damao feel elated.

If this era had not allowed it, he would have been ready to chop off a chicken's head and burn yellow paper with Cui Dake.

"Brother Dake, you really understand me! Director Li said that my greatest talent is to bring down anyone I want to bring down! If I were to say, among all the factory directors tonight, you, brother Dake, are the most capable, otherwise Director Li would not have looked at you with such admiration in the meeting just now!"

The two of them got along better and better as they talked, and it felt like they had a lot in common.

Especially when he heard Cui Dake say that the person he hated most was a cook named Nan Yi in the machine repair factory, Xu Damao felt that he and Cui Dake were simply brothers from their previous life.

He inexplicably felt that this person named Nan Yi sounded familiar, as if he had heard this name somewhere before.

"Brother Dake! How could we be destined to be together? You said that the guy named Nan Yi whom you hate the most is the cook in your factory, right? Isn't this a coincidence? The person I hate the most also happens to be a cook in our factory!"

"Hmm? That cook dared to offend you, brother Damao?"

Xu Damao said bitterly:

"That's right. That big idiot used to beat me up because he had so much strength! But now that I'm the deputy director, that guy doesn't dare to mess with me! If it wasn't for Director Li needing to cook for him, he would be the first one I would deal with!"

Cui Dake also said indignantly:

"That Nan Yi from our factory is not a good guy either. That bastard actually married the woman I liked! And he even made her give birth to a child for him! That's the woman I liked! So I suspended his wife from being a doctor! If it weren't for Nan Yi's cooking skills, I would have kicked him out to clean the toilet!"