Siheyuan: At the beginning, I can integrate everything!

In the dark backyard of the canteen, the cold wind blew so hard that the broken windows rattled loudly.

The fat man huddled in the shadows at the base of the wall.

His fat body was trembling like a sieve, and cold sweat soaked through his tattered dog-skin hat.

"It's over, it's over! It's all over now!"

The fat man trembled as he clutched tightly to the tattered bundle in his arms, which was full of cornmeal and a few pieces of cured meat that he had smuggled from the canteen.

Just now, I heard a deafening roar and commotion from the loudspeakers coming from the playground.

He heard everything clearly from here.

Deputy Factory Director Li! That powerful figure he finally managed to curry favor with turned out to be a traitor! And he was caught red-handed!

Fatty was a staunch informant planted by Deputy Factory Director Li in the No. 1 canteen.

He often reported on Deputy Factory Director Li behind his back, and even cooperated in trying to completely remove Sha Zhu from his position as head chef.

Now that Deputy Factory Director Li, that big tree, has fallen.

With Sha Zhu's explosive temper, and those ruthless security guards in the factory.

If we find out about his usual shady dealings...

Not to mention losing this coveted "iron rice bowl" job in the cafeteria, he might even end up spending a few days in jail!

"Of the thirty-six stratagems, running away is the best!"

The fat man gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

While the entire factory's attention is currently focused on the playground.

He had to quickly climb over the wall and run away. At worst, he could go back to the countryside to farm. It was better than being arrested and sent to a labor camp!

The fat man looked at the brick wall in front of him, which was more than two meters high.

He took a deep breath and threw the heavy bundle over the wall.

then.

He rubbed his frozen, chubby hands and, like a clumsy bear, huffed and puffed as he climbed up the wall.

This wall doesn't usually look very high, but now it's covered in snow and very slippery.

The fat man exerted a tremendous amount of effort.

With great difficulty, that enormous belly finally managed to get stuck on the top of the wall.

"Phew... finally made it up..."

The fat man was panting heavily, a relieved smile on his face.

Once he flips over, the fat guy will have a bright future ahead of him!

He was just about to step over.

however.

Just then.

"Bang!"

A muffled thud.

A size 42 foot wearing oversized leather shoes, accompanied by a sharp whistling sound.

Without any mercy.

He kicked the fat man hard across the wall, right onto his dusty, chubby face!

"Holy crap!"

The fat man let out a bloodcurdling scream, like a pig being slaughtered.

His body, which had just found its balance, instantly lost its center of gravity.

It looked like a large sack full of flour.

He fell straight backward from the top of the two-meter-high wall!

"thump!"

The fat man crashed heavily onto the cold, hard snow in the backyard.

The fall nearly shattered his internal organs.

I saw stars and couldn't catch my breath for a long time.

"Running away? You traitorous bastard, why aren't you running anymore?"

A rough voice, laced with deep sarcasm, rang out from above the wall.

The fat man endured the excruciating pain and opened his eyes.

Using the faint reflection of the snow.

He was horrified to see it on the high wall.

Sha Zhu stood with his hands on his hips, looking down at him.

That usually honest-looking face now wore a cold, extremely satisfying and contemptuous sneer.

And next to Shazhu.

Ma Hua, holding a rolling pin, also leaned halfway out, staring fiercely at the fat man on the ground.

"Master, that bastard really tried to slip away! Luckily, we listened to Consultant Zhang and waited for him here beforehand!"

Ma Hua spat fiercely.

Upon hearing this, the fat man was terrified.

Consultant Zhang?! That five-year-old prodigy?!

He even foresaw that I, a lowly cafeteria worker, would run away?!

This is simply a monster!

"Brother Zhu...it's a misunderstanding, it's all a misunderstanding..."

Ignoring the pain, the fat man scrambled to his feet.

He knelt down in the snow with a thud.

He bowed repeatedly to the silly pillar on the wall.

"I just... I really needed to pee, and I took the wrong route..."

This clumsy lie wouldn't even fool a three-year-old.

"You need to pee, so you climb over the wall? Do you think you're a stray cat?!"

Sha Zhu snorted coldly.

"Fatty, it's one thing for you to slack off in the cafeteria all the time."

"How dare you betray me and become Deputy Factory Director Li's lackey, stabbing me in the back every day!"

Sha Zhu got angrier and angrier as he spoke.

"I've taught you a skill all this time, how have I ever wronged you?"

"You ungrateful wretch!"

Just then.

The iron gate to the backyard was kicked open.

Three security officers, flashlights in hand, stormed in, looking menacing.

"Master He! Where is he?!"

The leader of the team asked loudly.

Sha Zhu jumped down from the wall and pointed at the fat man kneeling on the ground, trembling like a sieve.

"Look, they're just about to climb over the wall and run away; they've even thrown the stolen goods outside the wall."

The security officer stepped forward and lifted the fat man up like a chick.

The blinding beam of the flashlight shone directly into the fat man's face.

"Fatty, you've gotten yourself into trouble!"

The officer announced sternly, his voice sounding particularly cold in the wind and snow.

"This has been verified by the factory's security department!"

"During your time working in the cafeteria, you consistently stole public rice, noodles, and meat for your own enrichment!"

"Furthermore, as an accomplice of Li Lixin's corrupt clique, you have repeatedly participated in framing long-time factory workers!"

"I now officially announce on behalf of the factory committee!"

The clerk took out two documents stamped with the official seal.

"Immediately dismiss your employee status from Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill!"

"All your illegal gains and dormitory bedding are confiscated!"

"You're out of the steel mill by tomorrow morning! You'll never be hired again!"

He's out of the company! Never to be hired again!

These eight large characters were like a bolt from the blue, striking the fat man until he was charred and cracked.

In this era.

Losing a secure job at a state-owned factory is like losing your life!

They had no urban household registration and no food coupons.

Once back in the countryside, all you can do is dig in the yellow earth and live that kind of hard life, facing the soil with your back to the sky!

"No...please don't!"

The fat man completely broke down.

His legs buckled, and he knelt heavily on the ground once again.

This time, he was truly terrified, and tears and snot instantly streamed down his face.

He crawled on his knees to Sha Zhu and grabbed Sha Zhu's leg tightly.

"Slap! Slap! Slap!"

The fat man raised his thick hands and slapped himself repeatedly across the face, seemingly without regard for his own safety.

The crisp sound of the slaps was especially loud in the night, and in just a few moments, his face swelled up like a pig's head.

"Brother Zhu! I was wrong! I was really wrong!"

"I must have been blind to listen to that Li Lixin's nonsense!"

"Please, don't hold a grudge against me. Please go and plead with Director Yang for me!"

"I have an 80-year-old mother to support. If I lose this job, my whole family will starve!"

The fat man cried his eyes out, his head banging against the snow.

They attempted to use this last resort, a "bitter trick," to awaken Sha Zhu's famously soft heart.

however.

If it were the old, foolish Zhu, perhaps he would have truly felt pity.

But ever since Zhang Huaimin enlightened me.

After witnessing the true colors of the Jia family and these ungrateful wretches.

The current Sha Zhu has hardened his heart to the point of being as hard as a rock.

"If only I had known then what I know now, I wouldn't have done it in the first place."

Sha Zhu coldly stared at the fat man at his feet, who looked like a dog, without a trace of pity in his eyes.

He kicked the fat man's hand away without any mercy.

"Your mother needs to eat, but does that mean the workers whose food you stole don't need to eat?"

"When you were working for Deputy Factory Director Li and framing me, why didn't you think about today?"

Sha Zhu turned his head and spat fiercely on the ground.

"Pooh!"

"You two-faced traitor, you deserve this fate!"

"Get out of here! Don't dirty my cafeteria!"

The security officer stopped arguing.

The two men stepped forward, lifted the wailing fat man, and dragged him like a dead pig.

They dragged him out of the cafeteria's backyard without any mercy.

"Let me go... Brother Zhu, help me... I don't want to go back to the countryside..."

The fat man's desperate howls gradually faded into the distance in the wind and snow until they disappeared completely.

The backyard was quiet again.

Only a few withered grasses in the corner swayed slightly in the wind.

After cleaning up the house, Sha Zhu felt an unprecedented sense of relief.

It felt like a poisonous thorn had been pulled out of the flesh, leaving the whole body feeling refreshed.

He turned his head and looked at the MCA who had been standing beside him, looking at him with admiration.

Sha Zhu grinned, revealing two rows of white teeth.

He stepped forward and patted MCA on the shoulder forcefully.