The days of being a buyer in Siheyuan

The courtyard was particularly lively today, with many people discussing Xu Damao's affairs. He Yuzhu even ran to the door of Xu Damao's house and squatted for a while, intending to mock him after Xu Damao came out. Unfortunately, Xu Damao had not left the house since he returned home in the afternoon.

It seems that Xu Damao will be much more low-key during this period.

The next day, in the morning, Liu Minghui and Liu Dazhuang went to the steel rolling mill together, and Xu Damao was also with them. On the way, many people looked at Xu Damao and pointed at him, which made Xu Damao very angry.

"Da Mao, you are famous now."

"I'd rather not have that kind of reputation."

Xu Damao had a sad face as he looked at the workers walking on the road. He felt very disgusted with those gossiping aunties.

"It seems I should go live with my parents for a while."

Xu Damao thought of his father and mother who had divided a house in the cinema, and planned to go there after settling the matter.

"That's fine. As long as I don't see you for a few days, the rumors will slowly die down."

Fortunately, people outside did not know about Xu Damao's affairs, and under the suppression of Yi Zhonghai, the people in the hospital did not spread the whole story, otherwise Xu Damao would have been arrested for sure.

Nowadays, there are very strict investigations on promiscuous relationships between men and women.

When they arrived at the factory, Xu Damao first went to the Propaganda Department to ask for leave. Liu Minghui took Liu Dazhuang to the Personnel Department to help Liu Dazhuang get on the job and collect work clothes and other things.

Then he returned to the purchasing department. After Liu Minghui introduced the person to his colleagues in the department, he let Wang Wen take him around for a few days.

"Second brother, follow Wang Wen these few days and learn from him the purchasing process and so on."

Wang Wen, who was named, immediately said, "Okay, Chief."

After saying this, he still looked at Liu Dazhuang.

"Brother Liu, just follow me for the next few days."

He is the brother of our section chief, so we have to treat him well.

"Thank you, Brother Wang Wen."

Liu Dazhuang naturally knew that his younger brother must be very confident in letting someone lead him, and he would naturally establish a good relationship with him.

"Okay, let Wang Wen take you to get a bicycle."

"Dawei, come with me."

After Liu Minghui finished speaking, he left the purchasing department. He still had to go out with Xu Damao.

Taking Sun Dawei with him, they drove the truck out of the steel mill. Xu Damao was waiting outside.

"Da Mao, get in the car quickly."

After Xu Damao got in the car, he found that there was another person he didn't recognize in the car.

However, Xu Damao was also a very outgoing person, and he started smoking as soon as he picked up the cigarette.

"Here, what's this brother's name?"

"Comrade projectionist, my name is Sun Dawei."

Sun Dawei looked quite honest. He took the cigarette and spoke very honestly.

"I brought him with me to move the things. Otherwise, both of us would be exhausted to death."

Liu Minghui gave Xu Damao a blank look before speaking.

"Oh, so that's how it is. Thank you so much, brother."

After hearing this, Xu Damao said to Sun Dawei with a grateful look on his face.

After a while, the car arrived at the gate of the courtyard. After getting off the car, Liu Minghui took the two of them inside to move the food. Xu Damao was very surprised. He didn't expect that Liu Minghui could get him so much corn flour overnight.

Sun Dawei started moving very calmly.

"What are you looking at? Hurry up and help."

Liu Minghui kicked Xu Damao who was in a daze. Xu Damao was not angry. He just said with a grin: "Brother Minghui, you will be my brother from now on. I didn't expect you to be so awesome."

"Look at your behavior. If I had known, I would have let you marry that woman yesterday."

The three of them finished moving the things in less than half an hour. There were less than a hundred bags in total. After loading them into the car, Liu Minghui took the other two people and set off. Sun Dawei was also taken along. It would be safer with more people.

Then, under the guidance of Xu Damao, they arrived at Lijia Village. Old man Li was very surprised when he heard the corn flour was delivered. He didn't expect it to be done so quickly.

Finally, Xu Damao got out of the car and negotiated with them, and then Old Man Li asked people to unload the goods. Liu Minghui sat in the car with Sun Dawei, and had no intention of getting out.

After the matter was settled, they returned to the steel mill.

Time passed quickly, and two months went by in a hurry. One day, Liu Minghui saw a lot of slogans on his way home from get off work.

Something like "surpass Britain in three years and catch up with the United States in five years" made Liu Minghui realize that the era of mass steel production had arrived and that everyone in the countryside would have to eat from the same pot.

Afterwards, Liu Minghui returned to the courtyard with a worried look on his face. After entering the courtyard, the third uncle came up to Liu Minghui and told him that there would be a meeting in the evening and the street office had something to convey to everyone.

Liu Minghui said he went home after he found out.

Liu Minghui, who had just returned home, did not see Yu Li and did not know where she had gone. He probably went to visit someone's house again.

Liu Minghui could only pour himself a glass of water and drink it while thinking about what to do next. The most important thing now was to live his life well, Liu Minghui thought.

"It seems that we still need to go to the black market."

Liu Minghui talked to himself.

Liu Minghui's space is still missing a lot of things, so he plans to ask Lao Hu for help to collect some saplings from the south. Lao Hu and his people should have channels for these things.

Yu Li came back soon after, and before she even entered the house, she called out, "Minghui, you're off work."

"Yeah, where have you been?"

"I went to sit for a while at Aunt Lin's house in the Central Courtyard."

Yu Li said as she came closer and whispered.

"Do you know what happened to Qin Huairu from the Central Courtyard?"

Liu Minghui raised his eyebrows. What happened? Was Qin Huairu planning to hit on Yu Li?

Liu Minghui asked calmly: "What's wrong? How can I know if you don't explain it clearly?"

"Hey, I have a pretty good relationship with Aunt Lin. Today I heard her say that Qin Huairu washes clothes in the yard every day when she's about to get off work."

"She also said that Qin Huairu was waiting for He Yuzhu from the Central Court to return. Does the Jia family have any objection to her being like this?"

Yu Li was standing aside with a gossipy look on her face.

"I thought there was something. You've been here for so long and you still don't know."

Liu Minghui was a little speechless. Yu Li was not that smart now. Maybe Liu Minghui was too capable, so Yu Li just needed to stay at home and be a beautiful lady quietly.

"Hey, didn't you tell me not to get involved? I usually don't pay attention to them, how would I know?"

Yu Li pulled Liu Minghui's hand and shook it back and forth, acting like a little woman and being coquettish and cute.

"Alright, alright, I'm telling you, if you keep shaking me I'm going to get dizzy.

Yu Li immediately sat aside and calmed down, staring at Liu Minghui with her big eyes.

Liu Minghui had no choice but to talk to Yu Li.

“He Yuzhu brings lunch boxes to the Jia family every day, so the Jia family mother and son don’t mind that much.”

"It's that simple?"

Yu Li was a little bit unconvinced, because that was not what Aunt Lin said.