Love in the Courtyard: Starting with Engineers

The news that Sha Zhu was a eunuch spread rapidly throughout the courtyard and the steel mill the next day.

Last night, when Sha Zhu woke up, he found his lower body completely naked, his pants gone, and so many people standing in the room.

He knew he could no longer hide the fact that he was a eunuch.

Sha Zhu didn't go to the steel mill all day; right now, all Sha Zhu wanted to do was end his own life.

Sha Zhu hadn't seen Qin Jingru all day, and he knew that she must have left as soon as she found out about his situation.

Upon hearing that Sha Zhu was a eunuch in the morning, Qin Jingru had a big argument with Qin Huairu and then left the courtyard with her luggage.

After lying at home all day, Shazhu was preoccupied with wondering who had knocked him unconscious.

After thinking it over, he was convinced that it must be Li Yu.

However, Bai Ling followed Li Yu wherever he went, so he couldn't find an opportunity to make a move.

He now truly wishes he could kill Li Yu.

In his mind, Li Yu not only made him like this, but also made him a laughingstock. Now he wants to take revenge.

In the following days, Sha Zhu would keep an eye on Li Yu whenever he had time, constantly looking for an opportunity.

These past few days, the people at the steel mill and the courtyard have been giving Sha Zhu strange looks, which has deeply wounded his pride.

His hatred for Li Yu grew even stronger.

He knew his chance had come when he saw Bai Ling go out with a bag on her back.

He returned to the courtyard house early in the afternoon before the steel rolling mill closed. He took a pig-slaughtering knife and a bag he had bought on the black market and climbed through the window into Li Yu's house.

Sha Zhu waited at Li Yu's house for him to come home from get off work so he could put a burlap sack over Li Yu's house and give him a good thrashing.

It wasn't until it was completely dark that Sha Zhu heard Li Yu pushing his bicycle back.

He gripped the handle of the butcher knife tightly in his hand, while also clenching his bag wide open.

As Li Yu's voice drew closer.

Sha Zhu felt his heart was about to jump out of his throat. He stared intently at the door, ready to act as soon as Li Yu opened it.

The moment Li Yu opened the door, Sha Zhu made his move.

As soon as Li Yu entered the room, he felt a dark figure rushing towards him.

Li Yu immediately raised his leg and kicked out.

"Bang!" Sha Zhu was kicked away like a broken sack.

Li Yu turned on the light and, by its glow, realized it was Sha Zhu.

The silly Zhu, lying on the ground, stared intently at Li Yu, wishing he could kill Li Yu with his gaze.

Standing before Sha Zhu, Li Yu stepped on Sha Zhu's chest and asked, "Do you really not know how to write the word 'death'?"

Give me a reason why you'll come and camp out at my house.

Sha Zhu coughed and said, "You were definitely the one who knocked me out that day!"

"You not only made me childless, you also utterly humiliated me!"

"You deserve to die!"

Li Yu picked up the pig-slaughtering knife that had fallen to the ground, slapped Sha Zhu's face, and said, "You brought this on yourself by being childless. I can tell you that I wasn't the one who knocked you out."

After saying that, Li Yu slapped Sha Zhu hard across the face, swelling up half of Sha Zhu's cheek.

Li Yu picked up Sha Zhu and threw him away, then casually tossed the pig-slaughtering knife in his hand into the air.

Sha Zhu watched helplessly as the butcher's knife fell towards him. He quickly closed his eyes, thinking he was about to die.

With a "thud," the butcher's knife pierced the ground, grazing Sha Zhu's face.

Sha Zhu felt a sharp pain on his face, but when he opened his eyes, he was fine.

Turning his head, he saw the knife stuck in the ground, and Sha Zhu was so scared he almost peed his pants.

"If there's a next time, the knife will definitely land on your head," Li Yu said, looking at the dumbfounded Zhu on the ground.

If it weren't for the trouble that killing someone would cause, Sha Zhu would already be a corpse today.

Hearing the commotion, Liu Haizhong helped Sha Zhu up from the ground and said to him:

"You're looking for Li Yu because of that time I knocked you out, right?"

Sha Zhu said viciously, "It must be Li Yuqian. He's the only one in the courtyard who doesn't get along with me."

"That day I saw a masked person run out of the toilet, and from behind, I thought the person looked like Xu Damao."

Sha Zhu suddenly remembered that he had mocked Xu Damao that day, and that must be why Xu Damao had come to retaliate against him.

Sha Zhu clenched his fists tightly and kept muttering, "Xu Damao, Li Yu, you both deserve to die!"

Liu Haizhong saw that although Sha Zhu looked disheveled, he seemed to be alright.

It has to be said that Sha Zhu is really tough; he was kicked by Li Yu and now he seems to be completely unaffected.

In fact, Li Yu didn't even need to guess to know that it was Xu Damao who did it.

With the steelmaking furnace nearing completion, Li Yu is now preparing for his next major project.

Those are four-axis and five-axis machine tools, while the global market is now dominated by three-axis and two-axis machines with relatively low precision.

Li Yu plans to use five shafts for his own purposes and export four shafts.

Li Yu had actually finished the steelmaking furnace long ago, except for the part on special steel processing, but he didn't mention it at all in order to trick Zheng Qiushi.

Two days ago, Li Huaide mentioned to Li Yu that Zheng Qiushi's father had paid a considerable price to quell the Ministry of Industry's anger.

The next day, Li Yu arrived at the steel rolling mill but did not go to the workshop; instead, he went directly to Li Huaide's office.

When Li Yu arrived at Li Huaide's office, he found that Li Huaide was not there.

He brewed himself a cup of tea, took out a cigarette from Li Huaide's drawer, lit it, and then sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, reading the newspaper.

Li Huaide only pushed the door open and came in after Li Yu had almost finished smoking his cigarette.

"Brother Li, why are you here so early today, trying to freeload?"

Li Huaide said as he took off his coat.

"I came to see Brother Li today to tell you that our steel furnace is ready to be fired up today."

"Ask the leaders of the Ministry of Industry if they want to come and take a look today."

Li Huaide knew that Li Yu's visit was definitely not just about this matter.

"Brother Li, is this all there is to it?"

Li Yu took out some of the drawings he had organized the night before.

Li Huaide took it and looked at it for a long time, but it was too complicated and he couldn't figure it out for a while.

"What is this?" Li Huaide asked.

After Li Yu finished his last puff and put the cigarette in the ashtray, he said, word by word:

"A five-axis machine tool!"

"What?" Li Huaide asked incredulously.

"You're not kidding me, are you?! Five axes!"

"You should know that the best ones in the world right now are only three-axis," Li Huaide said.

Li Yu nodded: "Yes, it is the five axes."

Looking at the blueprints in his hand, Li Huaide suddenly felt an immense weight on them.

Immediately afterwards, he called his father-in-law's office right in front of Li Yu.

After listening to Li Huaide's report, Vice Minister Wang immediately went to find Minister Liu Jie.

Vice Minister Wang hurriedly said, "Minister, the steel mill just called. They say the steelmaking furnace is finished!"

Looking at the hurried Vice Minister Wang, Liu Jie said, "Old Wang, what's the rush? Didn't you already know it would be in the next few days?"

"No, no, they also said that Li Yu, that little guy, has come up with another five-axis machine tool," said Vice Minister Wang.

Liu Jie jumped up and exclaimed, "How many axes? Five axes? Old Wang, did you hear me right?!"

Vice Minister Wang said, "I have confirmed it repeatedly, it is indeed a five-axis system. By the way, they also asked if we wanted to go see the steel furnace 'fired up' today."

"Go, let's go now!" After saying that, Liu Jie called several accompanying personnel and Vice Minister Wang and rushed to the steel rolling mill.