The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

Liu Minghui came to the purchasing department and found that most of his colleagues had arrived. No one was going to the countryside today, and they were all waiting to eat meat at the steel mill.

After Liu Minghui reported to the department, he went to find Li Huaide.

When he arrived at Li Huaide's office, he knocked on the door and saw Li Huaide on the phone. Liu Minghui did not disturb him and took out Li Huaide's tea to make water.

After a while, Li Huaide finished his phone call and came over.

"Nephew, thank you for your help this time." Li Huaide walked over and said to Liu Minghui with a smile.

"Is it settled?" Liu Minghui asked.

Li Huaide walked over with a small bag in his hand. Li Huaide handed the bag to Liu Minghui.

"This is the payment for yesterday's batch of live pigs. It's 1,400 yuan. Please count it."

Liu Minghui took it, nodded, and put it away.

"What do you want? As an uncle, you will never cheat your nephew." Liu Minghui looked at Li Huaide and smiled.

"Haha, you kid." Li Huaide laughed.

Li Huaide would definitely not betray Liu Minghui. After all, Liu Minghui is now his trump card.

Liu Minghui sat with Li Huaide for a while and then ran away. In his words, he went to collect the payment for the goods.

Liu Minghui returned to the purchasing department. As soon as he entered the room, he saw many people gathered together and whispering. When they saw him coming, someone came up and said, "Liu Minghui. Are you from the Red Star Courtyard?"

Liu Minghui asked doubtfully: "Yes, what's the matter?"

The person who came was Wang Dali from the Purchasing Department. He was a warm-hearted person, but a little gossipy.

Wang Dali looked at Liu Minghui and asked, "Do you know Sha Zhu?"

Liu Minghui was even more confused: "I know him, but not very well."

At this time, several people nearby also gathered around.

Several people chattered and told the story one after another.

It turned out that someone in the factory spread the rumor today that Sha Zhu had fallen in love with Jia Dongxu's wife, who lived in the same courtyard, and he had been staring at her and drooling over her the whole day.

As soon as Liu Minghui heard it, he knew that someone had leaked what happened in the morning.

"Liu Minghui, do you know if this idiot Zhu is having an affair with Jia Dongxu's wife?"

What does this have to do with anything? It's obvious that someone is spreading rumors about Sha Zhu. I don't need to think to know that it's Xu Damao.

"How would I know this? But Sha Zhu had a fight with Xu Damao over this this morning."

Hearing this, everyone suddenly became excited.

"What's going on? Liu Minghui, can you please tell me?"

Seeing that everyone wanted to know, Liu Minghui told everyone about how Sha Zhu peeped at Qin Huairu in the morning and was exposed by Xu Damao, and then beat Xu Damao in anger. After everyone in the purchasing department heard the gossip, they all went out to share it with people they knew well. After all, this rumor in the morning had no beginning or end.

Liu Minghui watched the few people leave and laughed. He also looked down on Sha Zhu, so he didn't plan to clarify things for Sha Zhu.

In the workshop, Jia Dongxu was making parts under the guidance of Yi Zhonghai, but suddenly he found that many people were secretly watching him.

So he asked Yi Zhonghai with a puzzled look: "Master, what's wrong with my face?"

Yi Zhonghai was confused and said, "No, what's wrong?"

Jia Dongxu quietly pointed at the people nearby: "Master, do you think they are all secretly watching me?"

Yi Zhonghai looked at it and felt that there was nothing wrong. He said, "No, Dongxu, are you too tired? If you are tired, take a break and have a cigarette."

After hearing what Yi Zhonghai said, Jia Dongxu stopped the machine tool, talked to the team leader, and left the workshop.

Jia Dongxu was planning to go to the bathroom, but when he turned a corner he heard someone talking.

"Hey, do you know Jia Dongxu from the fitter workshop?"

When Jia Dongxu heard this, he stopped quietly and wanted to see what the man wanted to say.

"Yes, he's the first-level fitter who failed the assessment for five consecutive years, right?"

The first person who spoke said, "Yes, that's him. Today I heard that Jia Dongxu's wife is having an affair with Sha Zhu from the cafeteria. Did you know that?"

Another person was surprised: "That's impossible. Didn't Jia Dongxu's wife give birth to two children for him?"

"Hey, that's hard to say..."

Jia Dongxu jumped out before the man finished speaking, pounced on him and the two started fighting.

At this time, Yi Zhonghai, who came out of the workshop, saw this scene and hurried over to separate the fight.

"Dongxu, what are you doing? Don't you know that fighting is not allowed in the factory?" Yi Zhonghai said to several people.

Jia Dongxu looked at the two workers opposite him angrily and said, "Master, they actually said that Huairu and Shazhu were having an affair. How can I tolerate this?"

The two workers on the opposite side quickly explained: "We didn't say that. We just heard it from others."

Then the two men ran away. Jia Dongxu wanted to chase them but was stopped by Yi Zhonghai.

"Dongxu, wait a minute, it's useless to chase after him. This news was not spread by others." Yi Zhonghai said.

"Then Master, what do you say we should do? No wonder I felt like someone was always looking at me in the workshop just now. It turns out they were all laughing at me."

Yi Zhonghai thought about it and realized that only people in the yard knew what happened in the morning, so it must have been spread by some big mouth.

"Dongxu, these rumors cannot be stopped. After get off work today, I will hold a meeting of the entire hospital to warn them and tell people not to spread them everywhere. The rumors will disappear in a few days." Yi Zhonghai comforted Jia Dongxu.

Jia Dongxu had no other choice but to do this. After all, he relied on Yi Zhonghai in the factory, and there was nothing he could do if Yi Zhonghai didn't help him.

In the afternoon, Liu Minghui planned to go fishing after having lunch at the factory. He had always liked fishing.

Liu Minghui left the steel rolling mill and ran to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a fishing rod for RMB 1.2. There was no bait for sale, so everyone usually used earthworms they dug themselves.

Liu Minghui came to a small river near the courtyard. Looking up, he saw many people fishing. Liu Minghui also chose a spot.

There was a tree on Liu Minghui's right that blocked the sunlight, so Liu Minghui chose this place.

After Liu Minghui sat down, he took out a pound of corn kernels from his pocket, but he didn't make a bait. Nowadays, people don't make a bait when fishing. If they use grain to make a bait, they will definitely be criticized.

Liu Minghui hung a few corn kernels on the fishhook and threw it out. An old man nearby looked at Liu Minghui's movements and thought that he was a novice and was probably just out to play around out of boredom.

Liu Minghui didn't expect to catch any fish, so he took out the book he bought and started reading. The old man next to him looked at him and felt that Liu Minghui was just there for fun.

Liu Minghui fell asleep while leaning against a tree reading a book without realizing it.

Two hours later, the old man next to him woke him up.

"Hey, kid, are you here to fish or to sleep?"

Liu Minghui felt a little dazed when he was woken up, and was completely confused.