Siheyuan Great Craftsmen

"What's wrong? So many food coupons?"

Liu Wu came over, but when he saw the food coupons on the table, he immediately understood what was going on and couldn't help but laugh and curse, "This stinky boy!"

After returning home, Zhou Tian first sent the children, Zhou Yu and Zhou Ting back home to wash up and go to bed early, and then he and Shen Yulin returned to his room.

Shen Yulin fetched a basin of water for washing feet and brought it out. Seeing her husband lying on the bed, she couldn't help but smile and said, "Okay, get up and wash your feet first."

"I see. I'm so tired. I feel like the most tiring thing every year is not work, but New Year's greetings!"

Zhou Tian complained as he propped himself up.

When he thought about going to his second uncle's house and his leader's house tomorrow, he couldn't help but feel tired. He really hated visiting relatives and using connections, but he also knew that it was a necessary social interaction.

"Okay, stop complaining and wash your feet!"

Shen Yulin rolled her eyes at her husband in annoyance, took off his socks, pulled them down, put them in the foot basin, and began to rub his feet slowly with her delicate hands.

"So comfortable!"

Zhou Tian closed his eyes and enjoyed his wife's foot washing and massage, but he felt extremely warm in his heart.

"Wife, to be honest, your foot-washing skills are getting better and better!"

"Just keep talking nonsense!"

Shen Yulin rolled her eyes but did not stop what she was doing. Half an hour later, she got up, poured out the foot washing water, and turned back into the house.

On the third day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Tian took his family to visit his second uncle's home to pay New Year's greetings. Although Yan Bugui took advantage of him a little, Zhou Tian did not care too much about it as it was the New Year.

However, when Zhou Tian met Yi Zhonghai when passing by the Central Courtyard, he found that Yi Zhonghai looked tired and seemed to have aged a lot.

"Did something happen?"

Zhou Tian didn't think much about it for a moment, and the family came to the backyard. He first greeted his second uncle and aunt. Seeing his wife and second aunt chatting enthusiastically, and the children playing with Zhou Min's youngest son, he remembered the strangeness of Yi Zhonghai in the middle courtyard, and couldn't help asking about his second uncle.

"Uncle, when I came here, I saw that Yi Zhonghai in the middle courtyard looked a little off. What's wrong? Did something happen?"

"Hey, it's nothing. To be honest, it can only be blamed on the bad luck of the Jia family. It may also be the retribution of that abusive old woman in the Jia family. You know Jia Dongxu from the Jia family, right?"

Zhou Tian nodded. How could he not know the famous protagonist in this courtyard?

"A few days before the New Year, a machine tool in the factory broke down. However, due to the carelessness of the technician, he forgot to remind the workshop director. As a result, Jia Dongxu had an accident while operating the machine tool the next day, and one of his arms was scrapped!"

"And Jia Dongxu was hospitalized because of this. Jia Dongxu was Yi Zhonghai's elderly caregiver. After losing an arm, his ability to work as a fitter is almost useless. Do you think Yi Zhonghai will look good?"

Listening to his second uncle's words, Zhou Tian's heart skipped a beat. You know, everything in the courtyard in his previous life started after Jia Dongxu's accident. Although it might be due to his arrival, many machine tools in the country have been updated.

Therefore, it is definitely safer than the old-fashioned machine tools, but it does not mean that there will be no problems due to operating errors.

Jia Dongxu is definitely better off now than when he lost his life in his previous life, but he doesn't know how Yi Zhonghai will treat the Jia family in the future. However, he suddenly thought that he had already left the Siheyuan, and these things had nothing to do with him, so he stopped thinking about it.

As for my second uncle, although he looks very honest, he is actually not someone you can easily mess with. Otherwise, he would not have lived in peace in the courtyard for so many years.

However, Zhou Tian still reminded him: "Second Uncle, Jia Dongxu lost his arm. I'm afraid Yi Zhonghai will drag the whole hospital to support the Jia family in the future. You must be mentally prepared!"

"Bah, don't worry, it's just Yi Zhonghai's little trick, who can't see it? But normally, as long as it doesn't involve everyone's interests, no one will say anything. But if Yi Zhonghai dares to do that, the compound will not agree!"

The second uncle first said this with disdain, and then said: "Besides, the second uncle is not a fool, he will definitely not suffer any loss, don't worry!"

"Then Second Uncle, just be careful in the future!"

Since he had already been reminded, Zhou Tian didn’t talk much with his uncle.

At lunch time, He Daqing brought his wife, child and He Yushui to the backyard. When they were at the table, Second Uncle and He Daqing talked about Yi Zhonghai, but He Daqing shook his head. It was obvious that He Daqing also disdained Yi Zhonghai.

After dinner, Zhou Tian and his family left the courtyard. He first sent his younger brother and sister, wife and children back to Qianmen Street, and then drove to the leaders' homes one by one to wish them a happy new year.

He dared not leave out any of the leaders who had helped him, and even visited the home of the director of the Qianmen Street Sub-district Office.

Even though his current position is higher than some of his past leadership positions, Zhou Tian still has to visit him.

On the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Tian went to his leader's house early in the morning. He was supposed to be the first one to go to yesterday, but before he reached the door, he saw people coming in and out to pay New Year's greetings. The leader's house was already crowded with people. He could only tell the leader's secretary that he would come again today, and then turned and left.

After all, given his relationship with his leader, he wouldn't be scolded by his leader if he delayed for a day.

Sure enough, early this morning, when he arrived at the leader's house again, he saw the leader's secretary waiting for him at the door. When he entered the leader's house, there was no one there, only the leader sitting on the sofa reading a newspaper.

"Xiaotian is here, Xiaowu, pour Xiaotian a cup of tea!"

"Good leadership!"

Xiao Wu responded, turned around and went to prepare tea.

"Sit down, kid. You came here yesterday but left when you saw there were so many people. If I hadn't heard Xiao Wu talk about you, I would have thought you were too proud and didn't plan to come anymore!"

Seeing Zhou Tian sit down, the leader put down the newspaper in his hand and spoke jokingly.

"Please don't wrongly accuse me, Boss. I saw there were so many people yesterday, so I didn't disturb your rest. Look, I came early today, didn't I?"

Zhou Tian looked at the leader's expression and naturally knew that the leader was not angry about what happened yesterday, so he also said it jokingly.

"Okay, stop talking nonsense. I was originally planning to contact you after the New Year, and since you are here, I want to ask you, Xiaotian, have you ever thought about changing jobs?"

"Change jobs?"

Zhou Tian was stunned by his leader's question, but when he saw that the leader looked very serious, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. He knew that something big might have happened, otherwise the leader would not have spoken to him in such a serious tone!