Siheyuan: The Counterattack of Passerby

Lin Geng was very satisfied with the job assigned to him by the factory and the level he was assigned. Although it was an administrative level, it was actually not much different from a worker. Even if there was a storm in the future, it would not affect him too much. As long as no one was keeping an eye on him and wanted to deal with him, he could just stay there peacefully until the storm stopped and the reform and opening up took place. At worst, he could resign and do whatever he wanted.

"I am very grateful to the factory leaders for their care and love for me. I am very satisfied with the factory's arrangements for me! Please rest assured, Director Liu, after I arrive at the Fourth Section, I will work hard and strive to complete the tasks assigned to me by the factory. I will not let you and the factory leaders down! Please take a look at my performance, Director Liu!" Lin Geng showed a face full of gratitude and said to Director Liu seriously.

Director Liu looked at Lin Geng's appearance, his speech and behavior, and his attitude. He was very satisfied with Lin Geng's performance, so he nodded with a smile on his face and said, "Not bad, not bad, Xiao Lin, you are a very good young comrade. You can see at a glance that you are very motivated. I am very pleased that you think so!

But since you have come to our purchasing department, then as your leader, I have to remind you that society is not very stable now, especially when going to the countryside for purchasing, there are still some risks. After all, sometimes the purchasers of your four departments have to go out of the city to purchase in faraway places. In remote places, you may encounter wild animals or gangsters on the road, so you must pay special attention to safety!"

After listening to this, Lin Geng had a favorable impression of Director Liu. The fact that he could tell him these things showed that he really cared about him and informed him in advance of the dangers he would face in the future. This could be considered a kind reminder!

"Director Liu, I've heard about these things as well. Please don't worry, I'm in good health. I've learned some boxing and kicking before, so dealing with three or five strong men is basically no problem! At worst, if I can't beat them, I'll just run away. I'm pretty fast too! Hehe!" Lin Geng took out a box of Daqianmen from his pocket and handed a cigarette to Director Liu, then patted his chest and said to Director Liu.

Director Liu took the cigarette and lit it. He looked at Lin Geng's well-proportioned and strong figure with a smile and said, "If that's the case, then I'm relieved. But don't be careless. If you really encounter criminals in the countryside, you must be careful and don't fight them easily. Ensure your safety first! Run if you can, and fight them to the death if you can't!"

Lin Geng thanked Director Liu again.

Afterwards, Director Liu personally took Lin Geng to the Fourth Purchasing Section and handed Lin Geng over to the Section Chief.

The head of the fourth section is a man who looks to be in his thirties and is in good health. His surname is Wu and his given name is Wu Tieshan. He is also a retired military cadre and speaks with a bit of a Tangshan accent.

After seeing Lin Geng, he was also very enthusiastic. He patted Lin Geng on the shoulder and said to Director Liu: "This young man is good! Director Liu, just leave him to me. I will treat him well! Don't worry! I will definitely not treat Xiao Lin unfairly!"

Old Liu briefed Section Chief Wu on Lin Geng's situation and told him to treat Lin Geng well and not let anyone bully him. After getting Section Chief Wu's assurance, Director Liu went back to work and handed Lin Geng over to Section Chief Wu.

When Section Chief Wu saw Sha Zhu who was following Lin Geng, he didn't give him a good face. He snorted coldly and wanted to say something to Sha Zhu, but Lin Geng quickly stopped Section Chief Wu and explained the relationship between him and Sha Zhu again, telling Section Chief Wu that they had reconciled their past grudges and were still good brothers. This time when he came to take over, it was Sha Zhu who ran around to take him here to handle the procedures.

After hearing what Lin Geng said, Section Chief Wu's face looked much better. He glanced at Sha Zhu and nodded, "So that's how it is! Sha Zhu, your story has spread all over the factory now. No wonder everyone calls you Sha Zhu! What you did was really stupid!"

Forget it, since Xiaolin doesn't care about you anymore, I won't say anything. Just be nicer to Xiaolin in the future! Our four departments are actually related to your logistics canteen, so you two brothers will have to deal with each other in the future!

Just leave it to me, Xiaolin. You should also hurry back to the cafeteria to resume work! Otherwise, I'm afraid your salary for this month will be deducted!

"Shazhu, for Xiaolin's sake, I'm telling you one thing. If you come back to work this time, you will probably be punished by the factory. Be careful! Don't be stupid and let others use you as a gun again!"

After hearing this, Sha Zhu's face immediately turned bitter. When he thought of the stupid things he had done, he wanted to slap himself a few more times. After returning to the factory this time, he felt like a rat crossing the street, everyone was shouting at him, and anyone who saw him wanted to say something to him. If it were in the past, he would have exploded long ago, but now he just felt so ashamed that he wished he could find a crack in the ground to crawl into and bury himself alive. It was so embarrassing!

But Section Chief Wu had good intentions in reminding him, and he could see that he was doing this for his own good, so Sha Zhu had no choice but to thank Section Chief Wu with a gloomy face, then turned around and went back to the cafeteria with his head down.

After Chief Wu drove Sha Zhu away, he pulled Lin Geng to sit down and introduced to him the main purchasing tasks of their department. In fact, as Director Liu said, their department was mainly responsible for supplying the factory with various agricultural products, such as fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs, etc. As long as they were edible, they would take them.

As for the tasks given to Lin Geng, they were actually not that many. During the one-month probation period, his task was to produce 100 kilograms of various meats, eggs and duck eggs, and vegetables and grains. The grain allocated by the factory was barely enough, and if he could get some more, the more the better.

However, they did not have tickets for purchasing meat, eggs, vegetables, fruits and grains, but they could give the Purchasing Department 4 some industrial tickets or cloth tickets, sugar tickets, salt tickets, tobacco tickets and the like, so that they could use these tickets to build relationships and make friends with the people in the village after going to the countryside, making it easier for them to purchase some non-planned items for rural family production in the future.

After all, the factory still has some surplus tickets in this regard, which can be used to give them to the purchasing agents of the fourth department to use in the countryside, and the factory can also purchase more meat or grain.

As a result, the people in the fourth purchasing department would have a lot of such tickets, which almost made Lin Geng faint with joy again.

You have to know that in this era, money is not the most difficult thing to get, but these various types of tickets are the most difficult things to get. Urban residents usually have a certain amount of supply every month, but the supply of such tickets in rural areas is very small. Therefore, if rural people want to buy some industrial products and the like, they often have neither money nor tickets, which is really difficult.

Lin Geng now has a lot of supplies in his small world, at least there is no problem in completing his usual tasks, and it is more than enough. In the future, he can keep these industrial tickets and other tickets for his own use. Moreover, the source is legal and they are given by the factory. He does not need to go to the pigeon market to exchange them, so as to avoid being targeted and reported by the jealous beasts in the yard.

Section Chief Wu reminded Lin Geng to be careful about safety when going to the countryside, and repeatedly told Lin Geng that if he encountered robbers on the road, he should not fight them on his own. Those robbers on the road in the countryside often carried weapons. Knives and sticks were okay, but there were also many guns in the civilian population, and muskets and homemade guns were everywhere. The robbers might even have guns in their hands.

Therefore, Section Chief Wu repeatedly reminded Lin Geng that if the situation became bad, he could give up his belongings and property, but should save his life first. If he could run, he should run. If he really couldn't run away, it would not be too late to consider fighting for his life.

After all, there are still cases of buyers being killed when going to the countryside to purchase goods these days. Even last year, a buyer from the steel rolling mill was stopped by gangsters while going to the countryside. He was robbed and beaten up, and almost lost his life.

So Section Chief Wu repeatedly told Lin Geng to be careful.