Siheyuan: Yan Jiekuang's carefree life

Watching the bus leave the station, Su Zihui said, "Your brother's wife seems to be a lot younger than him?!"

Yan Jiekuang replied: "He is just an old cow eating young grass."

Su Zihui smiled and said, "Only you dare to say that about him."

Yan Jiekuang said: "I only talk about him because I respect him. If he wasn't my biological elder brother, I would have ignored him long ago if it was someone else."

After waiting for a while, the bus arrived and Yan Jiekuang helped Su Zihui get on the bus.

At the same time, the cadre compound.

"Shazhu, the dish you cooked today is great! It's better than before." The big boss put down his chopsticks and said to He Yuzhu with a smile.

He Yuzhu added, "Big boss, you know that my family's craftsmanship is inherited from my family. I also learned from a master. After my father ran off with someone, I had to leave the restaurant to take care of my sister and make a living. I learned the skills I had before by myself. I took many detours. Now my father is back. He doesn't think highly of my craftsmanship, so I started learning from him again."

The big boss said: "You kid, you are just a fool with good fortune."

He Yuzhu scratched his head a little embarrassedly. The big boss looked at his wife and said, "Why are you still standing there like an idiot? Sit down and eat together."

"Hey!" He Yuzhu responded, pulled out a chair and sat down.

After lunch, He Yuzhu cleaned up the kitchen and went to the living room to say hello to the boss before leaving for home. The boss called He Yuzhu, patted the sofa next to him, and said, "Come and sit down. I have something to ask you."

He Yuzhu walked to the big boss and sat down, then asked, "Big boss, what do you want to ask me?!"

The big boss asked, "Do you know Yan Jiekuang?!"

"I know him!" He Yuzhu replied without thinking, and then said, "He used to live in the same courtyard as me. But he lived in the front courtyard, and I lived in the middle courtyard."

The big boss then asked, “How well do you know him?!”

He Yuzhu thought about it, then smiled bitterly and said, "Big leader, I won't hide it from you. In the whole courtyard, there is only this kid, I don't understand him."

"Oh?!" The big boss suddenly became interested and said, "Tell me why you don't understand?!"

He Yuzhu said, "Yan Jiekuang's style of doing things is completely different from their family. Yan Jiekuang's father was the third uncle in charge of our courtyard. We all called him Yan Laokou. Every day when he was free, he would stand at the gate, thinking about who to get some benefits from. To put it bluntly, even if a dung cart passed by him, he could taste the saltiness. But Yan Jiekuang did things uprightly. He didn't do any messy tricks." Then He Yuzhu told the big boss about Yan Jiekuang's making money with his family.

After listening to He Yuzhu's narration, the leader frowned unconsciously and thought to himself, "It seems that I really underestimated Yan Jiekuang."

He Yuzhu saw that the leader suddenly became dazed and couldn't help asking, "Boss, are you okay?!"

"Ah?!" The big boss came back to his senses and said perfunctorily, "It's okay! I just remembered something." Then he asked, "Zhu Zi, what do you think of your steel mill now?!"

He Yuzhu replied, "That's about it. With the tasks assigned by the higher-ups every month, I can't eat enough but I won't starve to death. Anyway, I'm not as good as the best, but better than the worst."

After hearing what He Yuzhu said, the leader fell into deep thought. He Yuzhu seemed not to notice the leader's strangeness, and said to himself: "I am not the factory director, but just a small canteen director. If our canteen doesn't cook well, we will be scolded by the workers. I don't know if the factory has been praised. Will the factory director be scolded?!"

The big boss turned his head to look at He Yuzhu and asked, "What do you mean by that?!"

He Yuzhu said: "There is no shortage of supplies now, and the workers still eat the same as before. But the leaders, according to their ranks, have three dishes and one soup every day, both meat and vegetables. The factory is in this state now. I really don't know how they can eat."

The big boss asked: "Lou Zhenhua, do you still remember?!"

"Lou Zhenhua?!" He Yuzhu muttered twice, then suddenly opened his eyes wide and asked, "Are you talking about Lou Bancheng from back then?!"

The big leader nodded and said, "That's him."

He Yuzhu said, "I heard from Yan Jiefang from our hospital that his brother started a business with the Lou family. The Lou family was not a simple family back then."

The big boss asked, "What do you think if the Lou family continues to run the steel mill?!"

"Not so good?!" He Yuzhu replied firmly, saying, "Capitalists are all man-eating tigers. But then again, when Lou Bancheng was the boss of the steel mill, he was really good to the workers." Then he asked, "Boss, is Lou Bancheng coming back?!"

The big boss smiled and said, "He is just an ordinary citizen when he comes back."

"Oh!" He Yuzhu responded, and then said: "Our factory hasn't replaced the equipment for a long time. Some of the equipment is older than me."

The speaker may not mean anything, but the listener may take it seriously. After hearing what He Yuzhu said, the leader's face changed instantly. A year ago, the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill submitted an application to the Ministry to replace its equipment. The Ministry not only approved their application, but also squeezed out money from the limited funds to replace the equipment for the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. If the equipment was not replaced, then the whereabouts of the money would be a big problem.

The senior leader asked: "Zhu Zi, your factory has really never replaced any equipment?!"

He Yuzhu thought about it carefully and shook his head: "No. We said we would replace the equipment last year. But we didn't do it. I don't know the reason."

The big boss said, "I understand. You can't make this public."

He Yuzhu said: "I'm just telling you, don't worry. I won't spread it around."

He Yuzhu stayed at the boss's house for a while, then said goodbye and left. After He Yuzhu left, the boss sighed unconsciously. The boss's wife appeared beside him and asked with concern, "What's wrong?!"

"Nothing?!" the big leader replied, and then said: "I was thinking about what He Yuzhu just said. I used to think that Li Huaide's problem was very serious. Now it seems that the current problems of the steel mill are more serious than when Li Huaide was here. I'll make a phone call. I'll go for a walk with you later." After that, the big leader stood up and walked towards the study.

At this moment, He Yuzhu was riding his bicycle back to the courtyard. He never thought that just because of his careless words, the steel rolling mill caused the biggest storm since its establishment.

On the third morning, Yan Jiekuang and Su Zihui got up early and rode their bicycles to the train station. Not long after, the train arrived. Lou Xiaoe got off the train with her suitcase. Yan Jiekuang saw Lou Xiaoe, patted Su Zihui, and the two immediately went to meet her.

When Lou Xiao'e saw Yan Jiekuang and Su Zihui, she excitedly gave them a big hug. After letting go, Lou Xiao'e smiled and said, "Xiaohui, I didn't expect you to come pick me up."

Su Zihui said: "You are my sister, how can I not come to pick you up?!"

Yan Jiekuang took the suitcase from Lou Xiaoe and said, "If you two want to reminisce about the past, go home. This is not the place to talk."

"Let's go! Let's talk outside!" Lou Xiao'e took Su Zihui's hand, and the two walked out of the station, talking and laughing. Yan Jiekuang could only turn into a shrew and follow behind obediently with his suitcase.