Siheyuan: I am the seventh uncle of Banggen

"Director Zhang, we are here." Nan Yi and Feng Chunliu came over. Liang Ladi had almost packed her things. After talking to the neighbors, the adults and children got on the car and came to the capital.

First, they dropped Nan Yi and the other person off at Chunfeng Hutong, and made an appointment to meet at the factory tomorrow, and then went straight to the small courtyard where Yu Haitang used to live at the Mining Machinery Factory.

Yu Haitang had not been back for a long time because her mother often came to see her. The yard was full of leaves and dust. Liang Ladi came here, looked around first, then raised her head, trying not to let her tears flow. She had never dreamed that she would live in a separate yard in the capital, and that her three sons could live there when they got married.

"Mom, I don't dare to sleep in a room alone," Ermao came over and said.

"You three brothers will sleep in one room. Let's pack up quickly." Liang Ladi wiped her eyes and started to get busy, while Zhang Dabao moved her things from the car to the yard.

"Young man, why are you moving things in? Isn't this my daughter's house?" Yu Haitang's mother came again.

"I don't know who it belonged to before, but now I have bought it. You can go to the street office to ask. Don't come here again. If you come again, the police will arrest you," Zhang Dabao said to her.

"Sold it? Where's the money?" Yu Haitang's mother asked again.

"Of course it's held by the original owner. How can it be given to me? Get out of the way!" Zhang Dabao yelled at her. She thought about it and ran towards the mining machinery factory.

Now, when Yu Haitang's mother thought about the money her second daughter had for a small courtyard, which must be at least a thousand yuan, she felt very excited. She knew her daughter's unit and wanted to meet her and ask for the money.

"Comrade, please help me call Yu Haitang. I'm her mother and there's an emergency at home." In order to see her daughter, Yu's mother also thought of a way.

"Yu Haitang is no longer in the factory. I heard that he went to work in another place. He has been gone for three or four days," the security guard said to Yu's mother.

"Not working here anymore?" Yu's mother almost collapsed. What should she do if she couldn't find her daughter?

"Isn't she a formal employee? What's her position?" Yu's mother asked again.

"It's sold. The new announcer has reported in today." The security guard's words were simply unacceptable to Yu's mother. She sat down on the ground. She had been thinking about her daughter's house and her job, but in the end, all her efforts were in vain. She had nothing left.

She thought about it, and then thought about her eldest daughter, and then ran to the textile factory again. She got the same result. Yu Li also sold her job and left, also to another place.

"Beasts, two beasts..." No matter how much she wailed, the Yu sisters could not hear her.

While Liang Ladi and her three sons were cleaning up the place, Zhang Dabao took the opportunity to ride out on his motorcycle and brought back about ten kilograms of meat, more than twenty kilograms of flour, about twenty kilograms of rice, some daily necessities, and two cooked dishes.

"Let's have a drink tonight?" Zhang Dabao asked Liang Ladi.

"Drink it if you want. Why should I be afraid of you?" Liang Ladi said with a red face.

Two meat dishes, two green vegetables, and an egg soup, two adults, four children and three children started to eat. Xiu'er is still young and can only eat some complementary food, and still mainly drink milk. Thinking of this, Zhang Dabiao also specially prepared milk powder. In this way, when Liang Ladi doesn't have to come back from work all day, the child can just drink milk powder.

The night came quietly. Liang Ladi's three sons were tired today and had eaten a full meal at night, so they went to bed early. Liang Ladi also coaxed her daughter to sleep. She spent the rest of the night playing games with Zhang Dabao. Everything happened naturally and everything was done without words.

The lingering butterflies danced, and the free and graceful orioles chirped. Zhang Dabiao liked Liang Ladi's voice very much, which was particularly beautiful.

"Sister Liang, aren't you going back to your parents' home today? Get up quickly, the children will be waking up soon," said Zhang Dabao, patting Liang Ladi's butt.

"Is it dawn yet? I slept so well." The lazy look makes people like him from the bottom of their hearts.

"Get up, there is a long way to go," Zhang Dabao emphasized.

"Go away, am I afraid of you?" Liang Ladi was obviously unconvinced.

She got up, cooked, and washed the faces of the two children. Zhang Dabao gave her 500 yuan and asked her to report to the factory the next day. He would contact the nearby schools. There was a nursery in the factory, so she could bring Ermao and Sanmao to the factory, and let someone from her hometown take care of the younger daughter.

He sent them to the car and told her to take a tricycle when she came back, and then went to the steel rolling mill. He had two things to do in the factory today. One was to handle the procedures for Nan Yi's girlfriend Feng Chunliu; the other was to go to the newly built workshop to see if there was anything that was easy to destroy.

346. Problems in the New Workshop

When we arrived at the gate of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill, we found Nan Yi and Feng Chunliu squatting on one side of the gate. It seemed that the two had been there for a while.

"Master Nan, let's go." Zhang Dabao called out to the two people and took them into the factory. He first found Xu Sinian, who was the chairman of the factory's trade union, director of logistics, and office director. He continued to work without feeling tired or anxious.

"Brother Xu, so busy?" Xu Sinian's office door was open, and there were four or five people inside reporting on their work.

"Da Biao, wait a few more minutes. You said that the factory still wants me to manage the office. There are too many things to do and I am a bit overwhelmed," said Xu Sinian.

After waiting for about ten minutes, all the people who had reported on their work had left. Zhang Dabao said, "Brother Xu, don't you have an assistant to take charge of the work? You are too busy. The office and logistics department have the most miscellaneous tasks in the entire factory."

"Who said it wasn't? The factory director has a plan. I just need to hold on for two more days. Who are these two?" Xu Sinian saw Nan Yi and Feng Chunliu.

"This is Nan Yi, Master Nan, the chef I transferred here from the machine repair factory. This is his fiancée. The two of them came here and wanted the factory to issue a letter. They will go to get their marriage certificate first; and then they have to go through the formalities for Feng Chunliu, whom I will take out together," Zhang Dabao explained the purpose of this trip.

"This must be Master Nan. I don't really know him, but I've heard of your name for a long time. You're an expert at cooking imperial cuisine." Xu Sinian had an impression of the name as soon as he heard it. He was the one who handled the transfer from the machine repair factory to the main factory. How could he not know him?

"Director Xu" Nan Yi also hurriedly greeted.

"Congratulations, Master Nan." Xu Sinian returned to his desk, took out two wine tickets and two food tickets and gave them to Nan Yi. "I may not be able to attend your wedding to congratulate you. This is my personal token of appreciation." Then he stuffed the tickets into Nan Yi's hands.

"Director Xu, this is inappropriate." Nan Yi felt a little embarrassed. He was a deputy director, such a high-ranking leader. He cooked for the branch factory when things were good, and cleaned the toilets when things were bad. The two of them didn't even know each other today, and he even gave himself a gift. He was really at a loss as to what to do.

"It's suitable. The factory is busy now and I have a lot of things to do, otherwise I would definitely go and ask for a glass of wedding wine. Master Nan, follow Da Biao and work hard when you go out. That place is not where we are. You must not lose your temper or make disagreements. We are all away from home, so we must be united and listen to Da Biao's arrangements." Xu Sinian gave Nan Yi a few instructions, wrote letters of introduction for the two of them, wrote down Feng Chunliu's information, and hurried to complete the formalities for her.

"Master Nan, go ahead. I will personally sponsor a few cloth coupons and another fifty yuan. After you get the certificate, take your sister-in-law out for a good meal and buy her two sets of clothes. Both of your parents are not around, so you two must be nice to each other," Zhang Dabao also made a personal statement.

"Director Zhang..." Nan Yi's eyes were a little red. He felt that he had never been valued so much in all these years since he joined the factory. He also knew that Deputy Director Xu gave the gift out of respect for Director Zhang.

"We will be together for a long time in the future, go quickly." Zhang Dabao patted Nan Yi's shoulder, and Nan Yi and Feng Chunliu left the steel mill.

"Brother Nan, what's wrong with you?" Feng Chunliu asked when he saw Nan Yi crying.

"Chunliu, I am touched. I am just an ordinary worker in the factory, and I have ended up cleaning toilets. But Director Zhang didn't look down on me. He transferred me out and gave me a resettlement allowance. Now he is giving me money and tickets. You don't know what to say?" Nan Yi said.

"Brother Nan, is Director Zhang a high-ranking official?" Feng Chunliu asked.

"Director Zhang is at the deputy county magistrate level, and Deputy Director Xu is at the county magistrate level. Do you think it's a big deal?" Nan Yi said.

"County magistrate? That's too big!" Feng Chunliu's jaw almost dropped in shock.

"So, we have to give others the best of themselves and do our jobs well. I will talk to Director Zhang when the time comes and arrange a cleaning job for you," said Nan Yi.

"I will definitely clean it thoroughly," Feng Chunliu quickly stated.

"That's good to know. Let's get the certificate first, then buy you clothes and some delicious food. How about we go to a restaurant?" Nan Yi said.

"Go to a restaurant? I've never been to a restaurant before. Is the food good? Is it expensive?" Feng Chunliu took Nan Yi's arm.

"Just listen to me, I have money..." Nan Yi and his partner went to the street office, and there was another couple. After Zhang Dabiao came out of Xu Sinian's office, he came to the new workshop and listened to the experts sent by the department. "The foundation of this place must be solid. If something unexpected happens during the pouring of molten steel, it will be a big accident," said an expert.

"Isn't this water pipe too close? The ground should be a little higher. This is molten steel. It can't be used if there is any water on the ground. Molten steel will explode when it comes into contact with water," said another expert.

Liu Le and Wang Cheng were writing something in their notebooks.

"Who moved here? Why are the embedded parts in the wrong position?" An expert discovered the problem.

"Director Wang, Director Liu, I'm sure someone has moved here. Look, it's twenty centimeters higher. How much is left inside? How much force is left? There may be no problems during installation, but there will definitely be problems during operation. We need to redo it," an expert said to Wang Cheng and Liu Le.

"Chen Yong, hold a meeting with the workers and emphasize again that no one can move. Do you hear me?" Wang Cheng said to Chen Yong, the director of infrastructure.

"Okay, Director Wang," Chen Yong wrote it down.

The experts got angry and continued to move forward. Zhang Dabao took a look and saw that this was an equipment foundation with a pre-buried steel cage and a steel plate on top, which was poured with concrete. What the experts said was true. When the concrete had not yet solidified, someone pulled the cage upwards a large distance, and it could not play its due fixing role. It cannot be seen when the equipment is not running, but something serious may happen when it is running. Fortunately, the experts checked it carefully and discovered it in time, otherwise the consequences would be unimaginable.

It wasn't Liu Haizhong, he hadn't come to the workshop in the past few days, so who was it? There should be someone else in the factory. Was the saboteurs the same group as Liu Haizhong? Or was it another group? Zhang Dabiao couldn't figure it out, so he decided to put his other crow on the tree opposite the new workshop.

After solidification, concrete is very hard. If you want to remake it, you must first clean up the solidified concrete and re-pour it. The workshop sent four people to clean it up. At present, there are no advanced crushing tools, so they can only use the most primitive method, using steel chisels and hammers to clean it up. Among these four people are Zhang Dabiao’s two nephews, Zhang Shouan and Zhang Shouying.

After the two men worked for a while, they took over as the other two. At this time, Zhang Dabao came over and said, "Shou'an, Shouying, you two come here, I want to talk to you."

Chapter 347 Liang Ladi Returns to Her Parents' Home

Zhang Dabao called his two nephews to a corner and said, "Shou'an, Anying, you have seen it. The cage must have been pulled up by someone when the concrete was not yet solidified. I feel he will pull it up again. After the pouring, come and take a look at it during the evening training. Bring some weapons with you. If you can catch the person, it should be good for you two," Zhang Dabao said to them.

"I understand Uncle Dabia. This is an enemy sabotage, right? Brother Shouan and I will bring steel drills over at night and beat whoever we see pulling it out." Zhang Shouying was smarter than Zhang Shouan and understood what Zhang Dabia meant immediately.

"Shouying is right. We can't let others destroy the fruits of our labor. Just come up and knock them down first. These people have weapons in their hands. If you two can't do it, go find two more people to help. Remember, you must protect yourself," Zhang Dabao reminded the two again and again.

Zhang Shouan and Zhang Shouying nodded and returned to the work site.

Liang Ladi, who was here, brought her four children, holding her daughter in her arms and carrying a bag on her back. She returned to her parents' home, Liangjia Village in Changping, around noon.

"Second sister, is that you?" Liang Guang, the younger brother of Liang Ladi's third uncle, saw his cousin with four children.

"Xiaoguang, didn't you go to work in the fields today?" Liang Ladi asked her brother.

"I didn't feel well today, so I didn't go. Are these your three sons?" Liang Guang asked his second sister.

"Da Mao, Er Mao, San Mao, call me uncle," Liang Ladi said to her sons.

Her children were all very polite, so they called him uncle.

"Let's go home. My second uncle is at home. He just came back from the fields," said Liang Guang.

Liang Ladi said a few words to her cousin and returned to her mother's home. "Dad, call grandpa." She first called her father and then asked the children to call him grandpa.

"Old Second, why are you back?" Liang Old Second looked embarrassed.

"Dad, I came back for something. Here is food. Where is my mother? Let her cook some. We will leave after eating." Liang Ladi took off the bag on her back. There were two or three kilograms of flour, two or three kilograms of rice, and seven or eight kilograms of cornmeal.

"Second sister, why did you bring back so much food? Aren't you going to survive?" her father asked her.

"Dad, I was transferred to Beijing. I took the factory director's wife as my teacher. They both took good care of me. My salary also increased a lot. Please accept it." While Liang Ladi was talking to her father, her mother also came out of the house.

"What's the matter?" Seeing her mother hunched over, Liang Ladi felt bad, but her mother couldn't go out. She had three younger brothers, two of whom were married and had children, so her mother had to stay at home to take care of her grandchildren.

"Mom, I want to find someone to look after Xiu'er for me. I have three older children to send to school, and I can't leave the younger one alone." Liang Ladi and her mother went to cook, while the three children and their grandfather played in the yard.

"What do you mean by looking for someone?" asked the mother.

"I want to find my third uncle's wife, Aihua. Her husband died of illness before she got married. People over there think she is unlucky, and people here say she has this and that flaws. I will take her to the capital, provide her with food and lodging, and give her five dollars a month. If she meets a good family in a few years, I will let her get married so she doesn't have to be left alone at home," said Liang Ladi.

"It's nice that she loves flowers, but don't even mention giving money. If you say you have money, your third aunt won't let her go. It won't be good if your two brothers' wives find out," said Liang's mother.

"Okay then. I'll just take care of her food and lodging. I'll go over now and ask her to come for dinner, and then we'll leave. Here's ten yuan. Keep it safe and don't let them see it." Liang Ladi gave her mother another ten yuan. She knew that the family was poor, so she couldn't give more because the people in the village couldn't be tested. If she tried, there would be problems.

While her mother was cooking, Liang Ladi came to her third uncle and told his and her aunt her request. When they heard it, they were very happy and quickly packed up Liang Aihua's things and asked her to follow Liang Ladi out.

When Liang Aihua cried, the rumors in the village made her, a girl, unable to bear it. Her boyfriend died of illness. What did it have to do with her? Why was it me who killed him? Wouldn't he have died without me? Did I want him to die? Although they had only met twice, there was no communication, let alone feelings, but she didn't want him to die. His death would bring her too many troubles.

"Okay, after dinner, we'll leave. No one knows you there. I'll find you a worker in a few years," said Liang Ladi.

Liang Aihua nodded and followed him to his second uncle's house. After eating, the six of them left in a hurry again.

"Mom, my second sister is back?" Not long after Liang Ladi left, her two sisters-in-law came.

"She came and took Aihua away, asking her to look after the child. She couldn't go to work without someone to look after the child," said Liang's mother.

"Did my second sister bring the rice we eat?" The two daughters-in-law knew very well the situation at home. Rice was not seen all year round.

"Yes, your second sister knows the situation at home and brought some food. What about Dabao and Erbao? I left some for them," Liang's mother asked the two daughters-in-law.

"He's at home, let's go get him." The two daughters-in-law were very happy when they saw that their second sister-in-law didn't take advantage of them and brought back some food. Then they went home to get the child. The child hadn't eaten rice yet, and of course they hadn't eaten it either. It was great that they could eat a little while feeding the child.