Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

During lunch, many workers from the first workshop saw Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang helping to serve food and dishes in the cafeteria.

In their opinion, Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang must have been transferred to the canteen by Wang Dong to suffer.

But they did not see the scene of Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang suffering. Instead, they stood behind the food window to help collect money and take the steamed buns.

Many people had puzzled expressions on their faces.

Isn’t it said that Director Yang doesn’t get along with Deputy Director Zhang and Director Li? And the head of the kitchen, Wang Dong, is Director Li’s man.

After finally getting his old rival to work for him, how could he not take the opportunity to retaliate and suppress him?

If Wang Dong transferred Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang to the same canteen to enjoy their lives, it would cause dissatisfaction in Director Li even though Wang Dong was his confidant.

Faced with these questions, some workers began to speculate in their hearts: "It must be that the noise made in a workshop this morning was too loud and the news got out."

Wang Dong was worried that suppressing Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang now was going against the wind. If he was unlucky, not only would he not be able to curry favor with Director Li and take advantage of the opportunity to rise to power, but it might also affect his own future.

In order to avoid attracting attention, they must want to wait until the storm has died down before suppressing Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang.

Don't even say it.

After this idea came out, many people believed it to be true, including Yi Zhonghai and Bang Geng.

They really lost face in workshop one this morning.

As the instigator of this incident, Wang Dong was hated by Yi Zhonghai and Banggeng to the core.

But they are just ordinary workers in the steel mill, and Bang Geng is not even a formal worker. Wang Dong is the kitchen manager of the steel mill, a genuine section-level cadre, and behind him stands the giant Director Li to help support him.

Even if they were both very upset, they could only hold it in and had no way of taking revenge.

We can only blame them for being unlucky.

However, Yi Zhonghai is not the kind of person who would suffer losses without taking revenge.

He does not have the strength to take revenge on Wang Dong now, but he will hide this hatred in his heart and take revenge when he has time in the future.

But these are all things for later.

After more than an hour of busy work, the kitchen finally had a short break.

Director Yang and Deputy Director Zhang did not join everyone in bragging and chatting after the meal. After all, they were the former director and deputy director of a steel rolling mill and were at different levels. Even if they wanted to get along with the workers, they had no topics to talk about.

The two of them sat in the corner of the kitchen, talking about what happened today, still with expressions of disbelief and shock on their faces.

Deputy Factory Director Zhang was the first to speak: "Old Yang..."

"Do you think what Wang Dong told us today is true?"

"Is it true that Lao Li has no intention of taking revenge on us during our labor reform period?"

Director Yang thought for a moment and replied, "I think it's true."

"We are already in this situation now. There is no need for Wang Dong to deceive us."

"If Lao Li really intends to take this opportunity to suppress us and retaliate against us, and just assign us to work under his trusted subordinates, perhaps the two of us won't be able to hold out for even five days and will collapse from exhaustion."

"Yi Zhonghai was once my confidant and a senior technician in a workshop who was supported by me."

"Old Li must have seen this and that's why he put us under Yi Zhonghai's control."

"In order to take care of us, a fifth production team was specially set up in the first workshop, and Yi Zhonghai was appointed as the team leader right away."

"Originally, I wanted Yi Zhonghai to take care of us because of our past friendship. But Yi Zhonghai turned out to be so stubborn." "Seeing that we had lost our status and were being reformed by those below us, and that we had no power, he immediately changed sides."

"Of course, if Yi Zhonghai changed his job and curried favor with Lao Li just to gain a foothold in the steel mill, I can still understand him."

"But this old guy actually stepped on us to get to the top."

"He completely disregarded the past and forgot the care I had given him. He retaliated against us and tried to cling to Lao Li. This is simply shameful."

"I used to think Yi Zhonghai was worth training, but now it seems I was wrong."

"We must stay away from people who are fickle, who are willing to betray others at any time for their own benefit, or even step on others."

Deputy Factory Director Zhang followed up: "It seems that I misunderstood Lao Li."

"Although we have different ideas about managing the steel mill from him, as Wang Dong said, we don't have any deep hatred in private."

"Now that we have failed, the differences between us and Director Li are over."

"But speaking of this Wang Dong, today is the first time I really get to know this person."

"I used to think that Wang Dong was young and incompetent, and that he probably became the kitchen manager of the steel mill by currying favor with Old Li."

"But after a morning of getting to know him, I found that every worker in the kitchen was convinced by Wang Dong."

“The various systems in the kitchen are better than I thought.”

"I heard that these systems were formulated by Wang Dong himself after he entered the kitchen."

"From this alone, we can tell that this guy is a talented person. It's just that he got a good deal on Old Li."

"If only we had discovered it earlier..."

Director Yang shook his head and replied: "You are wrong..."

"Even if we two discovered a talent like Wang Dong, we wouldn't be as bold as Lao Li to use him."

"This kid is too young. Even if we know he has the ability, we dare not use him given our personalities."

"I was working this morning and chatting with the workers around me and found out that there are a total of 19 chefs in the kitchen of the steel mill."

"Including nine level 10 chefs, six level 9 chefs, three level 8 chefs, and one level 6 chef."

"The Level 6 chef is Wang Dong himself."

"One of the three level eight chefs is Wang Dong's apprentice. Although the other two are not apprentices, they were also trained by Wang Dong. It's just that they are not in the title of master and apprentice."

"Among the six level nine chefs: one is Wang Dong's apprentice, one is Sha Zhu, and the other four were also trained by Wang Dong himself, and they also don't have the title of master and apprentice."

"Half of the remaining ten level 10 chefs were trained by Wang Dong, and there is no master-apprentice relationship between them."

"I also heard that when Wang Dong was cooking in the kitchen, no matter if he was an apprentice or a kitchen helper, as long as they had time, they could learn to cook beside him."

"If you have any questions about cooking, just ask Wang Dong and he will definitely help you solve your doubts."

"That's why there are so many more chefs in the steel mill kitchen in just a few years."

"Based on this point alone, Yi Zhonghai, who is a conservative worker who values ​​his locksmithing skills more than his life, cannot compare to Wang Dong."

"So we all underestimated him." (End of this chapter)