Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"Xiaotian, are you really sure you want to negotiate with Big Brother's top management at this price?"

After listening to Zhou Tian's words, Xie Yuanchang still asked with some trepidation.

"Yes, Minister, just quote this price. No matter what others say, our machine tools are worth this price!"

Zhou Tian nodded affirmatively.

"Okay, then I'll report your situation. Okay, let's not talk any more. You go ahead and get busy!"

After saying that, Xie Yuanchang hung up the phone.

“It seems that everyone doesn’t have a deep understanding of machine tools!”

After hanging up the phone, Zhou Tian couldn't help but sigh and said to himself, if it were in his previous life, the price of the most advanced machine tools in the world would be more than several times higher than this.

But thinking about the time now, he understood what the minister and the others were thinking.

I don’t know if Big Brother was scared by the price of machine tools in the machinery factory. In any case, until the end of February, there was still no news from above.

Zhou Tian was also happy to see this. After this period of construction, the construction of the four branches was getting faster and faster. As for the agricultural machinery factory, he had sent Xie Weijun to take over it for nearly a week.

During this week, Xie Weijun also initially established WeChat at the agricultural machinery factory.

New machine tools were constantly being produced and transported to the agricultural machinery factory, replacing all the machine tools in the workshop that were about to be eliminated.

In the blink of an eye, it is March. The weather in March has warmed up, and the whole city has entered the late spring. The trees on both sides of the street have begun to sprout.

The spring breeze blowing on my face seems especially gentle.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, after Zhou Tian finished his work at the factory, he rode his bike back home. As soon as he entered the backyard, he heard a strange sound coming from the house.

"Is there someone at home?"

Hearing the voice, his figure paused slightly. Since he moved into this courtyard, he had received only a handful of people. Apart from Song Lian, Wu Lang, Song Weiguo, He Daqing and his second uncle's family, basically no one else had come.

But from the voice, he knew it was not Song Lian and the others.

He thought, but his feet did not stop. He strode into the main room and asked, "Grandma, who's here?"

As soon as he entered the room, Zhou Tian saw two strange men and women sitting by the bed chatting with grandma. The woman looked to be in her thirties, with short hair that made her look very neat and tidy, and an olive green military uniform, which made her look very heroic.

The man was a young man in his twenties, wearing a military cap and a green military uniform. His clear eyes gave people a feeling of inexperience.

"Grandson, are you back?"

The grandmother, who was chatting with the girl, heard Zhou Tian's words and immediately stood up and took Zhou Tian's hand and said, "Grandson, are you tired? Grandma will cook for you right away!"

"Grandma, it's not tiring. I don't need you. Just sit down and I'll do it myself!"

Upon hearing this, Zhou Tian immediately stopped his grandmother, pushed her to sit on the bed again, and looked at the man and woman in front of him curiously.

"Hello, comrades. Who are you?"

"Hello, Chief. I'm Chang Hui, the director of the subdistrict office that we're about to establish. You can just call me Xiao Chang. This is my colleague Liu Yu!"

Upon hearing this, the woman stood up and saluted Zhou Tian. Liu Yu, who was standing beside her, also saluted Zhou Tian with a confused look on his face.

"Oh, hello! Sit down, sit down!"

Seeing the two people saluting, Zhou Tian also returned a salute and motioned for them to sit down again.

Then he asked curiously, "Why are you here today?"

"Chief, it's like this. The higher-ups recently promulgated an election law and asked us to conduct a population census. Since I'm in charge of Mianhua Hutong, I'll be the one to conduct the census in Mianhua Hutong!"

"That's it. I know about this. Okay, then you can ask me. As long as I know the answer, I will answer it seriously!"

Zhou Tian was naturally aware of the election law, which was a national policy passed on March 1st, but he did not know the specific details.

Then one question was asked and one answer was given, and soon, he told the situation in Zhou Tian's family one by one.

Only after Chang Hui had investigated Zhou Tian's family situation did he stand up with Liu Yu, saluted Zhou Tian and said, "Commander, we know about your family situation. Thank you for your cooperation!"

"Haha, you're welcome. This is what I should do!"

Zhou Tian said quickly with a smile.

"Then you are busy, we will leave first!"

After that, Chang Hui and the other person left the courtyard with Zhou Tian’s farewell.

"Xiaotian, why don't you let Director Chang and the others stay for dinner before leaving?"

Returning to the main room, grandma couldn't help but ask in confusion. Just now when Chang Hui and the others were about to leave, grandma wanted to ask them to stay, but was stopped by Zhou Tian. Now that they are leaving, grandma is naturally a little curious.

After all, he knew that his eldest grandson was not such a stingy person.

"Grandma, it's not that I don't want to keep them, but I can't!"

Zhou Tian held his grandmother's hand and explained with a smile: "My rank is higher than theirs. If I invite them to dinner, they won't feel at ease and will definitely feel restrained. So, it's better not to invite them to dinner!"

"Is that so? Oh, that's all. But Xiaotian, I heard from Director Chang that our Mianhua Hutong will soon establish a street office? Xiaotian, what do you think this street office does?"

When grandma heard this, although she was confused, she could only nod and then asked again.

"Street Office, so early?"

He knew a lot about the Street Office from his previous life, but in his memory, the Street Office should have been established in 54, and at the beginning, it was established by merging the three townships of Dongtiejiangying, Zuoanmen and Puhuangyu.

But it's only 1953. Could it be that he caused the butterfly effect? ​​However, Zhou Tian only had doubts in his heart, but he said, "Grandma, the so-called street office is the grassroots organization that manages our area!"

"Isn't that the same as in the village?"

When the grandmother heard her eldest grandson’s explanation, she suddenly seemed to understand something.

"It's the same and different, but you'll know when the time comes!"

Zhou Tian said with a smile, but he let go of his grandmother's hand and looked at the three money-eating beasts who were still in the crib with their mouths agape.

"By the way, grandma, where is my mother-in-law? Why haven't I seen her since I came back for so long?"

He hadn't noticed it just now, but after sending Chang Hui away, he realized that his grandfather and mother-in-law were missing from the house.

"Your mother-in-law, she went to buy groceries!"

Speaking of Li Yuling, grandma immediately smiled and said, "Look, Aunt Li next door said that there is fresh spinach in the vegetable market today, so they ate lunch and went out to buy vegetables together!"

"But don't we have vegetables at home? Why do we need to buy some?"

After hearing what his grandmother said, Zhou Tian couldn't help but ask. He remembered that he had added a lot of vegetables and meat to the kitchen some time ago. Logically, there should be no shortage of vegetables at home for the time being.