Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

After seeing Wu Lei off, Zhang Renkang finally had a few days of peace. Guoan had an explanation and they no longer had to worry about him every day. Lou Xiaoe had already arrived in Hong Kong Island. His main task now was to accompany Yu Li at home and secretly caress the delicate Qin Jingru. However, Zhang Renkang intuitively felt that Guoan had not completely given up their vigilance against him. These days, Zhang Renkang felt that someone was following him from time to time, and he didn't know if it was from Guoan.

That afternoon, Zhang Renkang was confused by the noisy noises as soon as he entered the courtyard with Yu Li after get off work. This was a rare scene in the courtyard. Since Yi Zhonghai was dismissed as the eldest uncle, the courtyard rarely held meetings. In addition, Sha Zhu, Xu Damao and Jia Zhangshi, the three most noisy people, were not there, and the atmosphere in the courtyard was much quieter.

Seeing Zhang Renkang and Yu Li and his wife coming back, Yan Bugui quickly came up and said nervously

"Renkang, you are finally back. Everyone is waiting for you to come back now."

Zhang Renkang asked doubtfully

"Second Uncle, what's going on? Are you still waiting for me?"

Yan Bugui sighed and said

"The subdistrict office just issued a notice that the jobs and support capacity in the city are limited, so all young people of appropriate age are asked to sign up to go to the countryside."

"Tell me, who would want their child to go there?"

Zhang Renkang looked at Yan Bugui and thought deeply. It seems that this large-scale going to the countryside to work as a production team has started this year. This is not a new thing. Since the natural disasters, unemployed young people in the city have been arranged to go to the countryside to work as production team members on a small scale to ease the supply pressure in the city. In 65, a large-scale going to the countryside movement began. At this time, the most glorious slogan is to go to the frontiers, go to the countryside, and build our great motherland.

Zhang Renkang said

"Didn't you say where it was going to be arranged this year?"

Yan Bugui sighed and said

"We are not talking about sending support to the grasslands and Hetao. If it was around Sijiu City, we wouldn't have felt any pain. But who would want to let the children suffer in this situation?"

"Renkang, you are the big leader of our hospital. Why don't you go to the street office and talk to them? We won't go there anymore."

Zhang Renkang glanced at Yan Bugui unhappily. This old man was just trying to figure out how to warm himself by the fire. Going to the countryside to join the production team was the highest policy from above, as well as the three-way support. Their steel mill specifically supported the two major projects of Northwest Steel and Southwest Steel. This year, they had sent more than a thousand skilled workers. How could he have the nerve to go against the highest policy?

Zhang Renkang said quietly

"Not to mention the subdistrict office, even the factory is sending people to support the steel construction in the northwest and southwest. I am still worried about how to solve the indicators on hand."

"Hey, Uncle, this is the highest instruction. You are not going to take the lead in doing something wrong, are you?"

Yan Bugui glanced at Zhang Renkang unhappily and said with a smile

"Look at what you said. I dare not go against the government."

Zhang Renkang looked up at the seven or eight women in the yard and said

"Now that Uncle Yi and his men haven't come back yet, you don't have to worry too much. I think we should have a meeting to discuss it in the evening when they come back. This is the highest policy from above, so everyone should be mentally prepared."

As he pushed his bicycle and took Yu Li back to the backyard, they saw Zhang Renkang leave, and several aunts in the yard started chattering. Now the only ones who met the requirements in the yard were Yan Bugui's two sons and Liu Haizhong's second son, Liu Donglai's eldest son, and Wang Gui's Wang Dafu. There were no other people of the right age, so they were not in a hurry.

Yan Bugui looked at Auntie One and Auntie Two helplessly, sighed and said

"Let's wait for Lao Liu to come back. We still need to discuss this matter."

At night, Liu Guangtian knocked on the door and shouted

"Brother Renkang, my dad wants you to go to the Intermediate Court for a meeting."

Zhang Renkang signaled to Yu Li and went out wearing his coat. After passing the moon gate, he saw that there were nearly 20 people gathered in the middle courtyard. Basically, every household had come. In the courtyard, there were also Liu Donglai and his mother and two sons from the front yard. The eldest was unemployed at 17 years old and the youngest was 24 years old and went to junior high school with Liu Guangfu and Yan Jiekuang. There was also Yan Bugui's family, Wang Gui and his wife, two sons and one daughter. The eldest, Wang Dafu, was unemployed at 18 years old, the second was only 10 years old, and the daughter was only 5 years old.

Yi Zhonghai and his wife from the Intermediate Court, along with his deaf old lady, Qin Huairu and their three children. Sha Zhu is in jail and will probably be out for a few years. Master Sun, a level 6 welder who used to live in the flip house, was just sent to Southwest Steel for support last month and moved away with his wife and ten-year-old son. In the backyard, there are the two families of Zhang Renkang and Liu Haizhong and the Wang family next door to Liu Haizhong, a lame man and an old woman with two children. Xu Damao is now living with his parents.

Seeing Zhang Renkang coming out, everyone shut up and waited for the show to start. Liu Haizhong coughed a few times and said

"Now that everyone is here, I will just say a few words. This aid to the border areas is an important instruction from above, and we must firmly support it without any ambiguity. I have thought about it. In our courtyard, there are only two people from the Yan family, Guangtian from our family, and Wang Dafu and Liu Xin."

Yan Bugui coughed a few times and interrupted Liu Haizhong and said

"His uncle, Xie Cheng from my family is also a worker in the steel mill and has a job."

Liu Haizhong was stunned for a moment before he remembered that Yan Jiecheng worked in the patrol team. It was not that he forgot, but that Liu Haizhong was too busy during this period. He was so busy that he fell asleep as soon as he got home. Liu Haizhong is no longer the Liu Haizhong he used to be.

He is now a new member of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, an outstanding worker representative, the deputy leader of the forging ideological committee of the second workshop, and a member of the advanced production technology seminar (teaching technology). The workshop director has to offer him a cigarette when he sees him. Zhang Renkang also promised him that he would be the leader when the workshop patrol team is formed. Now Liu Haizhong is busy every day. Not only does he lead his five apprentices to learn technology, but he also has to put his hands behind his back to inspect the work of more than 200 people assigned to him, and he also has to take the lead in learning new policy instructions.

Although Liu Haizhong can't read, it doesn't stop his apprentices from reading to him what they know. Liu Haizhong teaches his apprentices generously and seriously, and is strict but not secretive. His reputation and prestige among his apprentices are not low. Everyone knows that Master Liu will teach real kung fu as long as they are coaxed a little, and no one will compete to read newspapers and documents to Liu Haizhong.

Liu Haizhong explained with a cough

"Yes, Jie Cheng is also a worker now. Look at my memory. The factory has been too busy recently. All the big and small meetings have to ask me to attend. I really didn't remember it for a moment."

Then Liu Haizhong said

"Since there are only four of them, let's talk about how to deal with it."

Turning around and smiling, he asked Zhang Renkang:

"President Zhang, how do you think this matter can be handled better?"

Zhang Renkang said with a smile

"The important matters in the hospital should be decided by the eldest uncle. I think the eldest uncle is selfless and fair in his work, and everyone is convinced by him."

Liu Haizhong was so excited by his words that he was about to send the four people to the street office. Since no one was suitable, let them all go. My son has already gone, what else can you say? This is also a positive response to the call of the country. The higher-ups will definitely look at him with a higher eye and give him a praise.

Liu Haizhong was about to shout, but Yan Bugui interrupted him. They had been neighbors for more than ten years, but he still didn't know what Liu Haizhong was. He didn't care about his son, but Yan Bugui did. He didn't want Yan Jiefang to go to the northwest to eat sand and suffer, so he quickly said

"Should we just choose one of the four children to go and explain to the street office? We can't let all four go, right? What about next year? What about the year after? Who should we send if there are other quotas?"

Liu Haizhong thought about it and realized that this quota would be the compound's turn next year. He couldn't let Yan Jiekuang and Liu Guangfu and the others go, right?

Yan Bugui couldn't think of any good solution for a while, but when he saw Zhang Renkang, he suddenly asked

"Renkang, can you arrange for all the children in your patrol team? This will prevent the street office from targeting us."

Zhang Renkang looked at Yan Bugui coldly. This guy used all his brains except for calculations. He said

"Second uncle, you are really calculating. You really think the people in the surrounding yards are fools. Can't they see what's going on? The factory patrol team is formed by the workers in the factory. If your Jie Cheng hadn't been there to carry some heavy materials for a few days before, which would be considered a good thing, do you think Yan Jie Cheng could join the patrol team?"

"Do you believe me? If I arrest someone today, the subdistrict office will ask the factory to get him out tomorrow. I, the director, will be fired. This is against the policy instructions from above. How many lives do you have to live to dare to do this?"

Zhang Renkang's words made Yan Bugui speechless and he dared not talk nonsense anymore. Zhang Renkang stood up and said

"My dear neighbors, it's not that I don't want to help. Everyone knows where this policy directive comes from. Who has the best luck if they go against the higher-ups? I think it's better to do this. Since no one is suitable to be sent, let's draw lots. Whoever is lucky enough to contribute to the motherland, we will all wish them well and help take care of them at home, okay?"

After Zhang Renkang finished speaking, he sat back down. Yan Bugui, Liu Donglai, and Wang Gui pondered for a long time, and finally decided that this was the only way. This was the fairest way. Whoever got the lottery ticket had bad luck, and no one else could blame them.

Liu Haizhong found a few pieces of paper for Yan Bugui to write on and three pieces of paper without writing on them, crumpled them up and handed them to Wang Gui, saying:

"This is a fair lottery invented by our factory. After Second Uncle writes the words, he asks Fugui to put them in a box, and Donglai takes it and lets the four children draw. It's the fairest thing."

"Who will come first?"

Liu Donglai held the box, looked at his son and said

"Liu Xin, grab it!" Liu Xin stood forward as if accepting his fate, closed his eyes, stretched out his hand, grabbed a ball of paper and opened it.

Then he jumped up excitedly and shouted

"No, I'm not going, hahahaha"

Liu Donglai was relieved to see that Liu Xin had caught someone who would not go. This had nothing to do with his family. He looked at the others and said with a smile.

"Whoever comes, come quickly"

Liu Guangtian groaned and walked forward and said

"Uncle Liu, I'll catch you."

Liu Guangtian didn't care. He knew that his father was addicted to being an official. In order to maintain his image, if he really did something that would make him go to the northwest, he might as well take a chance. If he was unlucky, he could just go for a walk.

Liu Guangtian reached out and grabbed a paper ball and opened it, then shouted excitedly:

“Me too, I’m not going, hahahaha”

Liu Guangtian was about to jump up happily when Liu Haizhong came up and kicked him on the head, shouting

"If you don't want to go, get out of here. What are you dancing for? Get out of here."

Liu Guangtian touched his head and went down quickly. When Yan Bugui saw that the two were not going, he felt disappointed. If Wang Dafu was not chosen again, Yan Jiefang would have to go. He sat weakly on the chair, holding onto the eight-immortal table and staring nervously at the box in Liu Donglai's hand. Wang Dafu sighed and stepped forward and said

"I'm the third one? Should I capture you first to liberate you?"

The sons of the Yan family all imitated Yan Bugui. They panicked when things got big, but excited when things got small. Yan Jiefang was already at a loss. Seeing that Liu Xin and Liu Guangtian didn't want to go, how could he dare to catch them now that he had to choose between him and Wang Dafu? He said in a trembling voice

"You can catch me, I accept my fate"

Wang Dafu took out a piece of paper with trembling hands, and first put his hands together and bowed to the sky. Wang Gui, who was below, was also very nervous and prayed to his ancestors in heaven to bless Wang Dafu, who must be a blessed person.

Wang Dafu opened the paper ball with trembling hands, and instantly he sat on the ground as if his spine had been pulled out. Liu Haizhong hurried forward to help him up. As a blacksmith, he was quite strong, but he couldn't lift Wang Dafu up. He looked at the note in Wang Dafu's hand, which had a bright word written on it.

"go"

Wang Gui saw that Wang Dafu had also lost his strength and sat on the ground. Yan Bugui and Yan Jiefang over there were relieved. The two looked at each other excitedly. Yan Bugui shook his head and signaled Yan Jiefang to go home first. He looked at Wang Gui and Wang Dafu on the ground with a forced smile. The smugness in the corner of his eyes could not be concealed.

This is inspired by the Thai military service, but it really happened, and it is a tumultuous history.

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