Siheyuan: Security Office of Wude

Yi Zhonghai could only carry the old deaf man on his back and run to the steel mill. After registering with the gate guard, he carried the old deaf man to the security office.

After all this back and forth, the lunch break was over and the workers had returned to the workshop to start afternoon work, so there was no more "grand scene" of workers queuing up at the security department.

Yi Zhonghai stuffed a pack of cigarettes into the hands of the security guard outside the door, asking him to tell Bai Wanli that they wanted to see him for something.

The security guard took the cigarette and went to pass on the message, and came out after a while.

"The director agreed to see you, come with me."

Yi Zhonghai felt a little relieved. Bai Wanli didn't ask anyone to drive them away directly. There was always room for maneuver.

Yi Zhonghai carried the old deaf man on his back and walked into Bai Wanli's office. Bai Wanli looked at the two of them, but did not ask them to sit down. He took a puff of cigarette slowly and said lightly:

"What do you two want from me?"

The old deaf woman was put down by Yi Zhonghai. Because Bai Wanli did not ask her to sit down and asked questions again, she had missed the right opportunity to sit down. Now the atmosphere was not good to pull a chair over, so she could only stand awkwardly with her crutches.

"Director Bai, I am here to ask you about the pillars."

"Silly Zhu, didn't the radio say that you will be detained for seven days, and you will have to pay the steel mill and the security department 5,500 yuan in compensation for their losses, and you will also be fired? Yi Zhonghai has told you all this, right? What else do you have to ask?"

If the old deaf man still had a slight chance to save Sha Zhu before the broadcast, it was completely irreversible after the broadcast.

After all, the content of the broadcast represents the decision of the leaders of the steel mill and the security department.

If this is withdrawn, wouldn't it mean that all leaders are bastards who go back on their words and are fickle? In that case, the leaders' face and authority will be gone. Bai Wanli, Yang Guoming, Li Huaide and others will not pay such a heavy price for Sha Zhu.

"Director Bai, we accept the factory's punishment and will pay him the full amount of compensation, but can you please let Zhuzi off in other aspects? At least let him have food to eat every day. Otherwise, he will starve to death if he starves for seven days."

"It's okay. Chef He stole so much from the country and gained a lot of weight. He's very strong and healthy. He won't get sick from starvation."

"But if you want to let Shazhu have a good meal, it's easy."

Hearing Bai Wanli's change of tone, the old deaf man was slightly delighted.

She had seen many officials before, and knew that the other party's tone was to make conditions and get benefits.

She was not afraid that Bai Wanli would ask for too much, but she was afraid that Bai Wanli was really impartial and didn't want anything. That would be really difficult to deal with.

"Director Bai, please let me know if you have any requests."

"Everything has its cause and effect. Sha Zhu stole grain from the steel mill, leaving the workers hungry. As long as all the workers in the factory write a collective letter of apology, proving that they forgive Sha Zhu for making them hungry, the punishment of not giving them food can be removed."

"How about it? It's very simple, right?"

Bai Wanli said it lightly, but the old deaf man's face became completely gloomy.

Yi Zhonghai had already told her that at noon, hundreds of workers lined up to take revenge on Sha Zhu. Under such circumstances, it was impossible to ask them to write a letter of apology to forgive Sha Zhu.

Not to mention the letters of apology from all the factory workers, there are more than 10,000 of them. By the time they really go to each worker to ask them to sign the letters of apology, I'm afraid that before they have signed even half of them, the seven days will have passed.

The old deaf woman finally understood that Bai Wanli had no intention of letting Sha Zhu go. He was just playing a trick on her.

The old deaf man slammed his cane on the ground and said in a deep voice, "Director Bai, are you really going to do this?"

"How am I ruthless? He Yuzhu's theft of state-owned materials is a criminal act. I arrested him and dealt with him according to the law. The punishment was adjusted according to the severity of the case and did not exceed the scope of national laws and regulations. Now you say I was ruthless?"

"Do you have a problem with me personally, or with the laws of this country?"

The old deaf man was so angry at Bai Wanli's words that he couldn't breathe and was shaking all over, but he didn't dare to talk back, nor did he dare to knock on people's windows, take advantage of his age, and blackmail people like he usually did.

Normally she was not punished for doing these things because she was too old. She was too old to do any labor. If she was really sent to a labor camp or prison, the people in charge of guarding her would find it troublesome and fear that she would die in two days.

So unless the old deaf woman really commits any serious crime, it will be difficult for the police or the street office to deal with her.

But these two sentences of Bai Wanli are fatal

Bai Wanli himself comes from a family of loyal and meritorious service. Anyone who disagrees with the country's merits is an enemy.

If you have any objection to the laws of the country, you can be charged with being a reactionary.

If any of these two charges are proven, he will be dragged out for shooting. Although the old deaf man is very old, he does not want to die yet and wants to live a comfortable life for a few more years.

Yi Zhonghai didn't expect that the old deaf man would be so intimidated by Bai Wanli's words. He cursed inwardly: "This old man usually acts arrogantly and thinks he is very capable, but in the end he can't even deal with a young boy!"

There is no other way, Yi Zhonghai can only try to come forward himself

"Director Bai, the old lady is just worried about Zhuzi, she didn't mean that, don't bother with her"

Bai Wanli smoked a cigarette and did not comment.

Yi Zhonghai continued:

"Director Bai, I know the Security Department has its own rules, but since we are neighbors in the same courtyard, please understand Zhuzi's difficulties."

Bai Wanli looked at Yi Zhonghai with a look of despair in his eyes.

"Yi Zhonghai, don't you have any gratitude towards the country?"

Although Yi Zhonghai had seen Bai Wanli's ability to put accusations on others yesterday, this sentence still frightened him so much that he went cold all over and screamed:

"Director Bai, don't say that! I have always been grateful to the country!"

"Grateful? But I can't tell from your words and actions that you are grateful to the country at all."

"You keep asking me to be considerate of Shazhu's difficulties, but why don't you be considerate of the country's difficulties?!"

"Three years of famine, how difficult life is for the country?! There are powerful enemies all around us, many countries are eyeing us covetously, and the army is still expanding. We don't know when the war will start!"

"He is a fool. He stole food at a time like this, starved the workers and affected production. This is disloyalty to the country!"

"Where are you, Yi Zhonghai? Your job is given by the state, your salary is paid by the state, and the house you live in is allocated by the state! Everything you have is given by the state, but you don't remember the kindness the state has shown you at all, and you use the name of your neighbor to help a traitor like Sha Zhu."

"In your mind, does the country still have to be placed behind the so-called neighborly relations?"

"Yi Zhonghai, it seems that you are just like He Yuzhu, disloyal to the country!"

Chapter 32: Final Boss: The Deaf Old Man? That's it?

Yi Zhonghai and the old deaf man ran away in disgrace

I have to run, Bai Wanli's mouth is too scary

After just a few minutes of talking, they were already accused of collaborating with the enemy, being a reactionary, and being a treasonous person. If they continued to argue, if any of the three accusations fell on them, they would no longer have to worry about their retirement.

Just drag him out for shooting, and scatter his ashes. What's the point of keeping an old man?

Yi Zhonghai and the old deaf man left, but Bai Wanli's expression was very strange

In his impression, in various Siheyuan novels, the old deaf man basically exists as a mastermind + final BOSS level.

The result... is this? That's it?

Bai Wanli even wanted to see the old deaf man use his glass-breaking skills to smash the glass of the security office.

And then he ran away?

“I waited so long for nothing!”

Bai Wanli curled his lips in a bad mood, took the last puff of his cigarette, put out the cigarette butt, and picked up the phone on the table.

Some people want to stand out for others, but they have to be prepared to have their heads chopped off. It's reasonable, isn't it?

"Hello, Secretary Zhao, I am Bai Wanli"

"I want to report to you the ideological problems of some workers in our factory."

In this era, because the country was established not long ago, everyone had little experience, so there were many small problems, plus there were enemy spies lurking and sabotaging, so the country strongly encouraged reporting such behavior.

But reporting is different from reporting

Secretary Zhao also took it very seriously, as Director Bai Wanli personally called to explain the situation.

Before Yi Zhonghai could even leave the steel mill carrying the old deaf man, he was invited over by Secretary Zhao's secretary.

After Secretary Zhao, Yi Zhonghai and the Security Department understood the situation, they quickly figured out the whole story. The matter itself was simple. It was just to plead for He Yuzhu who had just been punished.

This matter is big and small.

To put it mildly, it doesn't seem like a big deal to ask for mercy for the sake of neighborliness.

But to put it in a broader sense, what He Yuzhu did was too serious. He didn't allow the workers to have enough food.

In this era, anyone who is not mentally retarded will not get involved in such issues. If the matter gets out of hand and someone is accused of exploiting and oppressing workers, the secretary can be dragged out and shot at.

You, Yi Zhonghai, are pleading for mercy for such people. Do you think that workers not having enough food to eat is a small matter?

From this perspective, it is not nonsense to say that you have a problem with your thinking.

Although the secretary is mainly responsible for the ideological and work style construction of the leadership team, if workers have serious ideological problems and report them to the secretary, the secretary can also handle them.

After understanding what happened, Secretary Zhao picked up the phone and called Lao Yang.

Old Yang's head is about to explode. In order to raise the money he promised to give to the Security Department, he has called all his old friends this morning and used all his connections and relationships, but the result is still far from enough. Now he is still worried about how to fill the remaining gap. At this moment, Secretary Zhao called.

"Lao Yang, it's me"

"Old Zhao, what do you want?"

"The guy from the security department just called me and reported a worker with ideological problems. This is someone from your production department. I'll let you know right away."

When Lao Yang heard that another of his men had fallen into the hands of the Security Department, he almost exploded.

"Lao Zhao! Which worker is it? What's the problem?"

"Old Yang, don't worry, this is what happened..."

Secretary Zhao told Lao Yang about Yi Zhonghai's problem. Lao Yang was furious when he heard that it was another incident caused by Sha Zhu. He no longer admired Sha Zhu, and was left with only anger and hatred.

"That bastard Shazhu caused me to lose so much, and now that he's fired he's still causing me trouble!"

But facing Secretary Zhao, Lao Yang could only suppress his anger.

"What is the attitude of the Security Department?"

"Since Director Bai handed the person over to me and didn't deal with it privately, it probably means that I have the final say. However, it is definitely inappropriate for him, the director, to cover up the incident and pretend it never happened. I think we should follow the general process, demote Yi Zhonghai by one level, and criticize him once. What do you think?"

"Okay, that's it."

Old Yang didn't fight for anything in vain. The main reason was that he was busy raising supplies and had no mood to care about Yi Zhonghai's affairs.

Although Lao Yang, the factory director, follows the workers’ line and cares about his reputation among the workers, this worker refers to the entire factory’s workers.

It's not worth it to go against the security department just for Yi Zhonghai. Moreover, Yi Zhonghai is involved in Sha Zhu's affairs. Sha Zhu's reputation in the steel mill is completely rotten. If Lao Yang dares to favor Sha Zhu again, he, the factory director, will be criticized.