The Prosperous Years of Wang Xiaohuo

After a long time, Wang Xiaohuo has gradually adapted to the working environment. There are four people in the political engineering department sitting together to work. In addition to him and Section Chief Xiong, there is also a company party secretary and a female worker director. The party secretary's surname is Li. A woman in her early 50s, the female worker director surnamed Rao is about the same age as Section Chief Xiong.Because they are all lesbians and their senior positions are higher than Wang Xiaohuo's, so the daily office cleaning and tidying up tasks should be shouldered by him.

Every morning, Wang Xiaohuo would start from home on time, and ride his rattling [-] bicycle through the streets and alleys. He would be the first to arrive at the office in the morning sun or in the drizzle. , because whenever he went up to the corridor entrance of the office, Ouyang Lin's figure would appear there one step earlier than him.

Since Wang Xiaohuo vented his anger that day, although Ouyang Lin's attitude towards him was not as concerned as at the beginning, he would still nod and smile when he saw him, but he talked a lot less.Wang Xiaohuo couldn't wish for this change in him. In his opinion, the reason why Ouyang Lin cared about him was to show his amiable leadership image. Sensitive to capture the slightest strangeness.

"What is he trying to hide?" Wang Xiaohuo was very puzzled.

Regarding the division of labor for cleaning and preparing before going to work in the morning, the two seem to have secretly reached an agreement. As long as Ouyang Lin is cleaning, Wang Xiaohuo will take the initiative to fetch water, and Wang Xiaohuo counts, except for the time when Ouyang Lin is away. The only thing I have to do is turn on the water every day.

Because there are water bottles in two offices, Wang Xiaohuo usually runs up and down twice. The first time he fills up the water bottles in Ouyang Lin’s office, and it’s his turn on the second trip. After cleaning the ground of the political and engineering department, carefully mop and wash it with a wet mop.

At the beginning, Wang Xiaohuo didn't dare to accept his behavior. At first, he tried to clean the political engineering department after filling Ouyang Lin with boiling water, but he was stopped by Ouyang Lin. After that, he tried to clean the toilet first. He went to turn on the water again, but before he touched the mop and broom, he was pushed away by Ouyang Lin.After coming down several times, Wang Xiaohuo couldn't force it.

The person who boils the water in the boiler room is named Zhao. He is in his 50s and has a burly body. Unfortunately, he only has one hand to work. The missing hand was caused by an accident at work a few years ago, which injured his left arm below the wrist and was amputated. , fell down with a disability.People who know him jokingly call him "No. [-]" or "No. [-] Zhao", but he doesn't take it seriously, and laughs all day long.Wang Xiaohuo didn't dare to call him that, and always referred to him as Uncle Zhao.

Lao Zhao also liked him very much. Since he met him, when he saw him come to open the water, he always raised his healthy palm and greeted him from afar.

On this day, Wang Xiaohuo was carrying five hot water bottles as before. He had just turned around the root of the building when he heard old Zhao shouting from a distance: "Hey! Wang Xiaohuo!"

Wang Xiaohuo looked up, his iconic arm was raised high again, Wang Xiaohuo smiled and replied loudly: "Good morning, Mr. Zhao!"

"It's late, the water in this stove has been boiled twice!" Old Zhao laughed loudly.

Boiled water costs [-] cents a bottle, and Lao Zhao boils it twice every morning, the first time for the employees who live in the company’s yard, and the second time for each department after work.

Wang Xiaoshui walked up to him, put down the bottle, handed over five water tickets, and said, "Five bottles."

"Forget it!" Old Zhao pushed his hand away and said.

"This or that? Your monthly salary is all based on the money collected from the water ticket. Wouldn't it be a disadvantage if you don't accept it? Besides, it's a public matter. Why do you have to be so polite every time?" Wang Xiaohuo said, throwing the water ticket into the In a shoe box on the windowsill.

"I don't care about this one or two."

"You don't care, but I feel sorry."

Old Zhao laughed twice and didn't stop him.

It was still early before working hours, and the peak time for internal workers to collect water was staggered, so there were not many people when Wang Xiaohuo went.

After he filled the five bottles of water, he carried two bottles, and confessed to Lao Zhao, "I'll carry two bottles first, and I'll trouble you to keep an eye on the rest."

"It's okay!" Old Zhao said while sitting on a chair by the door, smoking a cigarette.

Wang Xiaohuo smiled at him, and walked away quickly. When he came back, there was only a little bit of cigarette butt left on Lao Zhao's mouth. Seeing that he was still reluctant to throw it away, Wang Xiaohuo made fun of him and said: "Uncle Zhao, the fire is on your mouth. Still reluctant to pinch it off?"

"What do you know, the more you smoke this cigarette, the more fragrant it will be."

"is it?"

"If you don't believe me, why don't you try one?"

Wang Xiaohuo stopped him from taking out the cigarette case with a smile and said, "I won't."

Maybe it was because he was in a hurry to leave, but a few beads of sweat ooze from Wang Xiaohuo's forehead, Lao Zhao said: "Sit down and rest, it's still early anyway."

"Alright!" Sitting on a stool beside him, Wang Xiaohuo habitually raised his head and glanced in the direction of the office. He happened to see Ouyang Lin's figure passing by the glass window, and asked Lao Zhao, " "Uncle Zhao, I have a question in my mind, I just don't know whether to ask or not."

"tell me the story."

"It is reasonable to say that Manager Ouyang looks handsome and is one of the main persons in charge of the unit. Why should his lover divorce him when he is so good?"

"Why are you asking about this all of a sudden?"

"It wasn't sudden. It's just that when I sorted out the files a few days ago, I saw divorce was written on his resume, and I found it strange." Wang Xiaohuo said in a concealed manner.

"Actually, we shouldn't talk about other people's private affairs behind their backs, but since you talked about it here, I won't hide it."

"Oh? Do you know why?"

"do not know."

"I don't know?" Wang Xiaohuo repeated with some disappointment.

"but……"

"But what?"

"I heard someone whispering about it."

"What did they say?"

"Don't look down on this boiler room, it's actually the place where news comes and spreads the fastest."

Wang Xiaohuo smiled knowingly after hearing this.