Siheyuan: Since 1962

Chapter 146 Worry
After reading it carefully, Zhou Weimin found that the report was written in great detail, recording the ways and times Liu Lan stole things several times. It seemed that it was not done on a whim.

This is interesting, basically all the people in the kitchen will have some of this kind of behavior.

However, everyone agreed that they could only take some odds and ends, sometimes it was some meat crumbs stuck on the meat cutting knife, sometimes it was a layer of oil that had not been emptied clean from the bottom of the oil bottle, and sometimes it was the last bit of dough left over from making steamed buns. Anyway, they would just take the big bargains instead of the small ones.

There weren't many people like Liu Lan who took steamed buns and corn bread directly, but it was just a small amount, and no one would report it unless they were targeted. After all, it would not benefit anyone to rectify it.

This is an interesting matter. If we say that Li Huaide wanted to use him to coerce Liu Lan, or that he was using this matter to test him, it would be a bit too much of an insult to Li Huaide.

Li Huaide is just lustful. He only looks for Liu Lan in the play because Liu Lan knows her place and won't cause any trouble.

The cost of maintaining a relationship with her is relatively low, and she looks passable in the steel mill.

Instead of not being able to find a woman around him, he tried his best to force Liu Lan to submit.

Not to mention others, even someone like Qin Huairu, after suffering a big loss, didn't bother to do anything, let alone Liu Lan.

Then there is only one possibility left, that is, someone in the third cafeteria wants to get promoted by reporting him and become his lackey.

This letter of denunciation was a token of allegiance, handing Liu Lan's leverage into his hands in order to please him.

Zhou Weimin's fingers tapped the table unconsciously and his eyes narrowed.

After a long time, the bell for work rang outside. He smiled helplessly, rubbed his eyebrows, put away the letter of complaint, and stood up and walked towards Li Huaide's office.

A person's bottom line cannot be touched at will. Once an exception is made, the bottom line will only get lower and lower. He doesn't want to become that kind of person.

……

About ten minutes later.

In Li Huaide's office.

"Are you here? How was your rest yesterday?"

Li Huaide was watering the flowers with great interest and motioned Zhou Weimin to sit wherever he wanted.

"Director, I didn't sleep well yesterday. I don't even know if I messed up Mr. Duan's business."

Zhou Weimin had a bitter face and sat down on the sofa awkwardly.

"Hey, the tea is ready for you, just pour it yourself. Not everyone can get Mr. Duan's flowers. It's just that the dish is a little bland. Next time, just focus on the flavor."

Li Huaide looked at the flowers blooming in the pot and smiled contentedly.

He put down the shower head and wiped his hands, then sat down next to Zhou Weimin.

Seeing that he didn't move, she took the teapot, poured a cup of tea, and pushed it in front of him.

"Wei Min, when I have a reception here in the future, I will ask Old Wu to call you. Come over to have a meal with me when you have nothing to do, and get in touch with the leaders of other factories. You have been in the position of cadre for a short time after all. Many things are different from when you were a procuring person, and they are not so straightforward."

"I... Director... Are you saying that I didn't mess up yesterday? But when Mr. Duan gave me the flowers, he was watering them when I went there."

Zhou Weimin said hesitantly, then slapped his forehead and said excitedly: "You mean the basin that Secretary Yu brought is Lou..."

"Oh, that's all you need to know. It's just what you think."

Li Huaide stretched out his hand to stop Zhou Weimin from continuing speaking, and patted his shoulder with a smile.

"That's good, that's good, Director. You don't know how worried I was yesterday."

Zhou Weimin breathed a sigh of relief, and his whole body relaxed, returning to the state he was in when communicating with Li Huaide before.

Li Huaide poured himself a cup of tea and said casually, "Hahahaha, you have troubles sometimes too. Lao Liang applied for sick leave today and will be leaving in the next two days. You should hand over the work to him in the next two days." "Okay, Director, I will hand over the work to Director Liang."

Zhou Weimin was slightly surprised, but did not react much. He continued, "Director, I have something to report."

"If you have something to say, just say it. There is nothing bad to say between us."

Li Huaide smiled when he heard this and sat up slightly.

After Zhou Weimin was promoted, this guy has never reported his work so seriously. This time it is so formal, he wants to see what it is about.

"When I went to Mr. Duan's place yesterday, I remembered that you said that Mr. Duan just liked to eat something, so I asked Nan Yi to make some snacks and bring them over. Mr. Duan liked them very much and thought that when distributing benefits to the workers during festivals, we could make more snacks as benefits. Look at this..."

Zhou Weimin had no choice. Without Li Huaide's approval, he would not be able to implement this matter at all.

The welfare of a large company with tens of thousands of employees is never a trivial matter. Even if it is just some snacks, the number will be tens of thousands.

In this age of material scarcity, this is already a big deal.

"Since Mr. Duan has said so, then of course we have to do it. Just go ahead and do it. If you need any cooperation, go find Old Wu. When the plan comes out, just let me know."

Li Huaide agreed without much thought.

He also understood why Zhou Weimin was able to get in touch with Duan Weihong so quickly. This kid was really lucky. He accidentally did something that caught Duan Weihong's attention.

Zhou Weimin stood up and said with a smile: "Director, I will go back first. I feel uneasy because there is no set rules for this matter."

"Go ahead, go ahead. Take your time with this matter. There aren't any benefits to be distributed recently. Take your time."

Li Huaide nodded and said something to comfort her.

"Well, slow work makes fine work, Director. I will do this job beautifully."

Zhou Weimin smiled and said something polite, then turned and walked out of the office.

After closing the office door, he rubbed his face and headed towards the third cafeteria.

After leaving Li Huaide's office, Zhou Weimin did not go directly to Liang Shaoyou, but went straight to the third canteen.

When they arrived at the third canteen, everyone was busy with their own things. After He Yuzhu stopped serving as a receptionist, these people became more well-behaved than before.

Zhou Weimin spotted Liu Lan who was kneading dough, waved his hand and shouted, "Liu Lan, come out for a moment."

"Hey, I'll be right there."

Liu Lan put down the work in her hands, wiped her hands on her apron, and quickly followed Zhou Weimin out of the kitchen.

"Hey, what do you think Deputy Director Zhou could want from Liu Lan?"

"How would I know? Why not just ask her when she comes back?"

"Okay, Shazhu isn't here today, and there's a lot more to do, so stop talking nonsense."

Master Yang stopped what he was doing and shouted to everyone.

Seeing that there was nothing to talk about, everyone just continued to work.

Only the fat man who was squatting on the side rolled his eyes and showed a hint of joy, but he quickly concealed it.

(End of this chapter)