Siheyuan: The Era of Struggle

Chapter 247 Liu Guangqi's Second Visit to the Imperial Palace (Subscription Request)

Yang Ning was not at all surprised that Liu Guangqi was unable to completely escape the clutches of his father, the Second Uncle.

After all, factories and units across the country now need knowledgeable and educated young people. How could the personnel department allow local graduates to be transferred out without special circumstances? Especially for scarce talents like Liu Guangqi who graduated with a CNC major, who are the talents that various units are vying for.

If the personnel department dared to agree to Liu Guangqi's application, I believe that the employers in the city who were waiting for their turn would dare to smash the door of the personnel department.

However, what surprised Yang Ning was that he, a traitor who escaped from the courtyard, and Liu Guangqi, a "traitor" who was determined to break free from the clutches of the second uncle, miraculously met together at the Aviation Research Institute.

"This is interesting. I wonder what Liu Guangqi's expression will be when he finds out my identity at the welcome ceremony in a few days?"

Yang Ning pinched his chin and smiled maliciously.

However, even if Liu Guangqi knew Yang Ning's identity, he would not be afraid.

After all, the institute has regulations that all matters related to the institute after get off work are not allowed to be mentioned to other irrelevant people.

Liu Guangqi, who had just received a disciplinary punishment, would not dare to reveal his identity to anyone in the hospital.

Ever since Liu Guangqi's classmate was expelled, he was lucky enough to get a single room in the dormitory because the dormitory had already been arranged and there were no new employees recently.

However, Liu Guangqi, who was living in a single room at the time, was not happy at all.

It would have been fine if my application for transfer after graduation was not approved, but at least I was assigned to a key scientific research unit in the city because of my excellent academic performance.

As a recent graduate, he was ambitious and wanted to make a name for himself in his new unit so that he could speak loudly to his father when he returned home.

Who would have thought that just because of a momentary impulse, after some instigation from his classmates, he followed him to the building.

Now, let alone making a name for myself, I’m lucky enough not to have been fired.

Not being able to participate in professional title evaluation for three years was a heavy blow to Liu Guangqi, who had just entered the society.

For a technician like him who graduated from a technical secondary school, a three-year delay means that three years later, other people who entered the unit at the same time as him will have a professional title one or two levels higher than him.

How could Liu Guangqi, who has always been ambitious, bear this? He had never suffered such injustice since he was a child.

Originally, after the incident, the first thing he wanted to do was run back home and ask his second uncle to use his connections to think of a solution.

But when he thought that his father was only a seventh-level blacksmith and that it was not his turn as a worker at a steel mill to have a say in the aerospace research institute, he just accepted his fate.

He accepted his fate, but he was unwilling to do so!
So, while Liu Guangqi was in this twisted state of mind, it was time for the welcome party at the Aerospace Research Institute to be held.

Different from other new colleagues who were excitedly preparing to attend the welcome meeting, Liu Guangqi followed the crowd listlessly, as if there was a faint barrier around him separating him from other colleagues.

After all, everyone in the unit now knows that it was this guy who was almost mistaken for a spy because he broke into the research department building on his first day at work.

So everyone has a secret aversion to him. He is a spy. Once confirmed as such, he is doomed to be shot. Who would dare to get involved?
"... Now, please allow Comrade Yang Ning, Director of the Aerospace Research Institute, to speak!"

Just when Liu Guangqi was ready to muddle through the rest of his life, he suddenly heard a familiar yet unfamiliar name.

"Who?"

At first Liu Guangqi thought he had heard it wrong, but after seeing the figure in military uniform walking up to him, he realized he had not heard it wrong.

"Yang Ning is the director of the research institute?"

Liu Guangqi could no longer remain calm. After a few days of understanding, he already knew that the factory he worked in was just a subsidiary of the Aviation Research Institute.

The Aerospace Research Institute is the direct leadership unit of their factory.

He knew before that Yang Ning's identity must be extraordinary, but it was not until this time that he realized how high Yang Ning's status was.

"Is he really the director of our institute?"

At this moment, Liu Guangqi seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw. He no longer cared about the isolation he had suffered from his previous colleagues. He grabbed a colleague next to him and asked excitedly.

The colleague was also frightened by Liu Guangqi's sudden move and thought that this guy had gone crazy after being hit hard.

As we all know, you can't mess with a madman. If he hits you, who can you turn to for justice?

Resisting the resistance in his heart, the colleague replied softly, "Yes, that's the director of our institute."

"His name is Yang Ning, right?" Liu Guangqi continued to ask.

The colleague cursed in his heart: "Why am I so unlucky today that I have to sit with this lunatic?"

But he still smiled and replied: "I heard on the radio just now that our director is indeed called Yang Ning!"

This colleague made up his mind that after the welcome party was over, he would report the current situation to his superiors as soon as possible.

It would be bad if Liu Guangqi was resentful of the previous punishment and wanted to retaliate against the institute's leaders, and he was regarded as an accomplice.

"Great!" Liu Guangqi ignored the thoughts of his colleagues and confirmed that Yang Ning was indeed the Yang Ning he knew and was also the director of the institute.

He let go of his colleague beside him and stared at Yang Ning who was speaking with burning eyes.

His career was finally saved. As Yang Ning was the superior of their factory, they had lived in the same factory for nearly twenty years. Helping him eliminate the punishment was no big deal for Yang Ning, right?
At this time, Yang Ning also noticed Liu Guangqi sitting below. After all, no matter whether others listened or not, he always pretended to listen carefully when he spoke.

Only Liu Guangqi and the colleague beside him made some noise, and it was hard for Yang Ning not to notice.

If he knew what Liu Guangqi was planning at this time, he could only sigh: "There are no ordinary people in the courtyard!"

He didn't even think about how close he was to him in the past, and he wanted Yang Ning to help him settle the matter right away.

This kind of self-righteous attitude is something that ordinary people cannot learn unless they are from the Siheyuan area.

The welcome meeting was actually a mobilization meeting. After the leaders of the institute gave passionate speeches, several representatives of new employees came up to express their determination, and the welcome meeting ended.

Liu Guangqi had originally planned to go to Yang Ning to plead for him as soon as the welcome meeting was over. However, he did not expect that after the meeting, everyone was in a hurry to rest and he was unable to catch up with Yang Ning due to the crowded situation. He had to give up this idea temporarily.

"Forget it. We are all in the same unit anyway. We will meet again sooner or later."

Liu Guangqi walked back while thinking: "I am Yang Ning's childhood friend after all. If he can take good care of me in the future, then my future in the company will definitely be much smoother."

Thinking of this, Liu Guangqi couldn't sit still any longer: "No, I have to let Yang Ning know as soon as possible that he and I work in the same unit!"

Although he didn't know the exact address of Yang Ning's home, the road was right under his nose, so this was not a problem for him.

"It was him. He was the one who asked me about Director Yang's situation during the meeting just now." "I seriously suspect that he is dissatisfied with the punishment he received from the factory before, and wants to retaliate against the leader of the institute."

Liu Guangqi's sweet dream had not yet begun when he was awakened by a loud shout.

He looked up and saw that the colleague who had just sat next to him, now with a few soldiers from the security department, was standing not far away and pointing at him.

"Misunderstanding...misunderstanding!"

When Liu Guangqi heard the accusation against him by his colleague, he was grabbed by the soldiers from the Security Department just as he was about to explain.

"Here it comes again..." Liu Guangqi wailed in his heart!
"It's really a misunderstanding. Director Yang and I live in the same courtyard and have been neighbors for more than ten years."

"He moved out of our institute before, so we had less contact. This time I suddenly found out that he is the director of our institute, and I was a little excited for a while!"

In the interrogation room of the Security Department, Liu Guangqi, who was imprisoned for the second time, sat on a chair, looking at the serious-looking leader of the Security Department opposite him, and tried to explain.

The leader of the Security Department was also having a headache at this time. As the leader in charge of the security work of the Aerospace Research Institute, he certainly knew that Liu Guangqi was not lying.

After all, when every person comes into the unit, their information will be thoroughly investigated, so there is no point in lying here.

But it is precisely because what Liu Guangqi said is very likely to be true that the leaders of the Security Department feel a headache.

With rich work experience, he can naturally make a rough judgement of what kind of person Liu Guangqi is.

Once Yang Ning is entangled by such a person, although it will not cause much impact on Yang Ning, it will be disgusting to death.

There is no need to say much about Yang Ning's importance. As people from the Security Department, their main job is to solve the worries of the experts in the institute.

But what Liu Guangqi did this time is indeed not enough to warrant expulsion.

At this time, the leader of the Security Department felt a little regretful. If he had known this would happen, he should have expelled this guy and his classmate together.

In order to prevent this guy from harassing Yang Ning in the future, the leader of the Security Department had to be the bad guy for once.

So he said with a straight face: "We have no right to control what your relationship with Comrade Yang Ning is, but Comrade Yang Ning has no right to change the decision made by our Security Department. Our Security Department is directly under the Air Force and is not in the same system as the Institute."

"So, you are bringing up Comrade Yang Ning now. Are you trying to use him to threaten me?"

"No... not!"

Liu Guangqi had never seen such a senior leader get angry at him. When he saw the attitude of the security department leader, he was almost scared to death and couldn't speak clearly.

"I just want to say that I really have no intention of harming Director Yang. We are childhood friends. How could I possibly take revenge on him?" Liu Guangqi said in a low voice.

"So you want to use Comrade Yang Ning's relationship to benefit yourself?"

The leader of the Security Department glared at him, slammed the table in front of him, and shouted.

"No, I don't have that idea..."

Liu Guangqi didn't dare to have any other thoughts at this moment. He just wanted to leave here quickly.

He swore that he would work hard in the future and never have any evil thoughts again.

This is so terrible. If I had known this would happen, I would have just found a job in an ordinary company.

"It would be better if there weren't any!" After the leader of the Security Department severely intimidated Liu Guangqi, he notified the leader of the technical department of their factory to come and pick up the person.

"Director Yang, your childhood friend is really a talent. He learned to use his connections right after graduation!"

The next day after Yang Ning came to work, Director Zheng said with a smile.

"Childhood friend, which childhood friend?" When Yang Ning heard what Director Zheng said, he initially thought that it was He Yuzhu or Xu Damao who used their relationship with him to find the Aviation Research Institute.

"Who else could it be?" Director Zheng felt relieved when he saw that Yang Ning really didn't know what happened yesterday.

After all, he didn't want Yang Ning to be influenced by some bad habits.

"Among the group of people we just recruited, there is one named Liu Guangqi, who was criticized in the previous notice. The information shows that you lived in the same hospital with him before. According to him, he was your childhood friend."

"Bullshit childhood friend!" Yang Ning was furious when he heard it was Liu Guangqi.

He took a deep breath, calmed himself down, and asked worriedly, "What has this kid done again?"

"Not yet. I just asked others about your situation during the meeting yesterday."

"At first, Director Li of the Security Department thought he was planning to retaliate against you, but when I asked him, he said he was your childhood friend."

"Haha, even though he has repeatedly denied that he wants to establish a relationship with you, anyone with a discerning eye can see what he is up to."

"So how did Director Li handle this matter in the end?"

Yang Ning knew too well the weird thoughts of those people in the courtyard. Once he was entangled by them, he would be sick to death.

"Can it be handled this way?" Director Zheng said with a smile. Since Yang Ning had no intention of helping Liu Guangqi, there was no need for Director Zheng to hide it.

"His crime was not serious enough to warrant expulsion, so Director Li had no choice but to let him go after giving him a warning."

"If you don't want to have anything to do with him, I'll arrange for him to go to another unit."

"Forget it! Just follow the rules and procedures. There's no need to be too deliberate." Yang Ning shook his head and said.

"If I fire him for such a small matter, it would make me look petty."

Yang Ning felt that since Liu Guangqi already knew his identity, it would be better to keep him under his nose.

If I fire this guy, he will go back and make a fuss, and then it will be hard for me to have a peaceful life in the future.

Given the character of those people in Siheyuan, it would be strange if they didn't try to climb up if they knew my specific position and work unit.

It's impossible for Yang Ning to kill them all for this reason, right?
Liu Guangqi is okay, after all, he has attended a technical secondary school. I believe that after realizing the gap between himself and him, and with Director Li's admonition, he should be able to behave himself for a while.

Director Zheng just came to see Yang Ning's attitude towards Liu Guangqi. After learning about Yang Ning's attitude, he said goodbye and left.

(End of this chapter)