Siheyuan, Me and the Yu Sisters

When Xu Damao heard that Yi Zhonghai dared not to come, he took two members of the labor reform team and rode his bicycle to the courtyard to ask for his help.

Yi Zhonghai sighed when he saw Xu Damao and the two young men in the courtyard. This Xu Damao was really determined to do it to the extreme and show no mercy at all.

He walked into the yard with his crutches under the gaze of the two young men. Seeing that all the women at home had come out and gathered around to watch, Yi Zhonghai said sadly:

"Xu Damao, after all, I watched you grow up, so I am your elder, right?"

"Do you really want to kill me?"

"How can you bear it?"

Xu Damao laughed

"Yi Zhonghai, Yi Zhonghai, you are still so hypocritical"

"What did I force you to do?"

"If you don't want to go, that's fine. I won't chase you away to the factory for reform."

"As long as you say you are sure you don't want to go to the factory, I will leave immediately."

Yi Zhonghai thought Xu Damao had a change of heart, or that he didn't dare to do anything to him because so many neighbors were watching him. He snorted and said

"My leg needs to rest for a hundred days. Zhang Renkang also knew this this morning."

"Just report it to the factory."

Xu Damao sneered

"Okay, Yi Zhonghai, since you are sure you don't want to go to the factory, I will go to the personnel department to talk to you."

"Yi Zhonghai voluntarily left the steel mill management and was removed from the list"

Xu Damao said to the two people who came with him

"Since Master Yi wants to leave the factory, we won't rush him. Let's go back to the factory."

When Yi Zhonghai heard Xu Damao's words, he immediately shouted

"Xu Damao, when did I say I wanted to leave the factory?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?"

Xu Damao said

"Just now, didn't you say you weren't going to the factory?"

“Many people here have heard it.”

Yi Zhonghai said

"What I meant was that my leg was injured and I needed to rest. When did I say I would leave the factory?"

Xu Damao sneered

"Yi Zhonghai, your leg is injured, why bother with your ideological transformation?"

"I think you are resisting the ideas of the new society and still clinging to your feudal remnants."

"You either go to the factory today to undergo ideological transformation"

"Or just give me a definite answer, and I'll go back and ask the HR department to fire you."

Yi Zhonghai was so angry that he was shaking. He pointed at Xu Damao and could not say a word.

Yi Zhonghai's wife knelt down and cried and said

"Da Mao, please spare Zhong Hai"

"I kowtow to you"

As he spoke, he began to kowtow to the ground. Seeing Yi Zhonghai's wife crying miserably, the courtyard people sympathized with him. Yi Zhonghai himself had never done anything bad in the courtyard, and sometimes he even pulled everyone over a few times. This time Xu Damao aroused public anger, and Liu Donglai's wife accused him of

"Xu Damao, are you still a human being?"

"Master Yi is already in this state, why are you asking him to go to the factory to make changes?"

"Can he work?"

Xu Damao panicked. If Yi Zhonghai caused public outrage, it would be difficult to deal with. He summoned his strength and shouted:

"Liu Donglai's wife, right?"

"Do you mean to shield these new social diehards?"

"Or does Liu Donglai also have complaints about the factory?"

Liu Donglai's wife was frightened when she heard this.

"I, my family's Donglai has always been the most supportive of the factory's work, I..."

“We have no objection”

Liu Donglai was doing well in the factory. She didn't dare to accept Xu Damao's words. If Xu Damao labeled Liu Donglai a backward element, who would she go to for justice?

Seeing that he had frightened the people in the courtyard, Xu Damao said with a smile:

"Yi Zhonghai, I didn't ask you to go to the factory for labor reform"

"Can you read?"

"If the legs are broken, then the eyes and mouth can't be broken too, right?"

"I'll find you an easy job and let you be a clerk."

“Responsible for reading newspapers and writing documents for everyone”

Then he turned to Yi Zhonghai's wife and smiled

"Why, Auntie, am I not taking care of your family?"

"You're making it difficult for me."

"Are you asking me to take care of you or not?"

When Yi Zhonghai's wife heard Xu Damao's words, she was stunned for a moment and asked

"Da Mao, do you mean to ask our Jia Hai to read the newspaper? Is that what he does?"

Xu Damao said with a smile

"My words are trustworthy. Besides, there are so many neighbors watching us."

"Yi Zhonghai has ideological problems. Labor reform is to let him reflect on his mistakes through labor and get redemption."

"Since your body is not suitable for manual labor, your mindset should still be reformed, right?"

"Everyone thinks there's nothing wrong with me, right?"

Xu Damao's words caused the women in the courtyard to talk about it. What knowledge did they have? When they heard that Xu Damao asked Yi Zhonghai to read the newspaper or something, what did this mean? Liu Donglai's wife said embarrassedly

"Da Mao, my sister-in-law is being tactless. Don't argue with her."

"Look at my stinky mouth"

As he spoke, he slapped himself in the face. Xu Damao said with a smile:

"Sister-in-law Liu is joking."

Turning to Yi Zhonghai, he said

"Yi Zhonghai, the factory has given you a chance. If you don't show up this afternoon, you will have to leave the factory on your own. Don't say that I, Xu Damao, don't take care of you."

Then he turned around and took the two of them away.

Yi Zhonghai felt uneasy after seeing Xu Damao leave. He didn't believe that Xu Damao would be so kind as to let him go. He just didn't know what Xu Damao was up to.

Out of the courtyard door

one person asked

"Captain, are we just going to let Yi Zhonghai go?"

“It’s not cheap for him.”

Xu Damao smiled grimly

"Let him go, haha"

"I want to let Yi Zhonghai know the consequences of going against us"

"Wouldn't he write a report letter?"

"Go back and find a book for him to copy, and then use a rope to hang something on the pen. I want him to write as much as he wants."

Xu Damao said viciously

"Let him read the newspaper to everyone at noon, let him be exposed to the sun and dry off the feudal smell on his body."

Xu Damao is indeed a genius in torturing people. Just now, he was thinking about how to let Yi Zhonghai have a taste of his power, and he couldn't let people say that they tortured Yi Zhonghai. Since his legs are not good, he can do some easy work, such as reading newspapers and writing. Can he still be said to be not caring about Yi Zhonghai?

In the courtyard, Yi Zhonghai saw Xu Damao leave, and was anxiously thinking about Xu Damao's tricks. At this time, a 40-year-old man came in with a woman in her 30s and two children, following Director Wang.

When Director Wang came in and saw Yi Zhonghai leaning on a cane and Yi Zhonghai's wife sitting on the ground with tears on her face, he was puzzled at first and then angrily said

"Yi Zhonghai, what's wrong with you?"

"Did you hit your wife?"

Then he stepped forward and helped Yi Zhonghai's wife up. At this time, Yi Zhonghai's wife hurriedly explained

"Director Wang, it's not Zhonghai"

Director Wang said doubtfully

"What are you doing?"

Yan Bugui's wife said

"Xu Damao just came back from the Yi family and asked him to go to the factory to participate in the reform, otherwise he would be fired."

Director Wang nodded and said seriously

"I think your thinking needs to be reformed, Yi Zhonghai. There are many problems with you as a comrade. You need to reflect on these situations carefully."

"I am planning to launch an ideological study activity in the subdistrict office during this period. You should reflect on it carefully at that time."

Then he said to Yan Bugui's wife

"Let me introduce it to you"

"This comrade is Chen Jie, his wife Chen Juan, and their two children"

"Comrade Chen Jie is a retired soldier who was assigned to your steel mill patrol team as the team leader. He is a section-level cadre. His house is the two front rooms in your front yard."

Then he turned to Chen Jie and said

"Comrade Chen Jie, this is the lover of Yan Bugui, the manager of this courtyard. Please meet him."

"If you have any questions in the future, please report to Yan Bugui. Renkang is in the backyard. You will see him after get off work in the evening."

Yan Bugui's wife was stunned for a moment and forced a smile.

"Director Wang, is this the leader of the steel mill?"

Chen Jie stood at attention and said

"Hello, Sister-in-law Yan, I am Chen Jie, the captain of the patrol team of our steel mill."

"Please take care of me in the future"

The second aunt smiled and said

"Yes, Captain Chen, my son is with you."

"Captain Chen needs your care."

Director Wang smiled

"Comrade Chen Jie, her son is Yan Jiecheng, and I heard he is also working in your factory."

Chen Jie said with a smile

"I know, there is a team working in our patrol team."

Director Wang said to Auntie

"Daughter-in-law of the Yan family, your Yan Bugui is the second uncle, and the uncle in charge of the front yard. The arrangements for Section Chief Chen are now in your hands."

"Take Chief Chen to familiarize himself with the environment. I have something else to do, so I won't bother you any more."

Said to Chen Jie

"Chief Chen, let the wife of the Yan family introduce the situation in the hospital to you, and then I will go back."

Chen Jie said politely

"Thank you Director Wang, we can do it ourselves"

“Thank you for your hard work”

Director Wang left with a smile

The second aunt smiled and looked at Chen Jie and said

"Chief Chen, welcome to our compound. May I introduce this to you?"

Chen Jie laughed

"Don't worry, let's clean up."

"My room is one of those two rooms, right?"

"I'll open the door and clean up first."

The second aunt said with a smile

"Okay, I'll help you."

Shouting

"Everyone, if you have nothing to do, come and help. We have a new household in our yard."

He called Auntie, Liu Donglai's wife and a few other women to help Chen Jie clean up. The front house was occupied by an electrician named Tang two years ago. Later, he went to the northeast to support construction and never came back. The steel mill took it back and it has been empty until now.

Originally, Yan Bugui had been eyeing him. He had wanted to wait until the end of the year when Yan Jiecheng was hired as a regular employee, and then use Zhang Renkang's connections to get the factory to give Yan Jiecheng a job to marry. But it seems that there is no hope now.

As for whether Second Aunt and Yan Bugui had any objections, they were not stupid. Didn't they hear that Chen Jie was the leader of the patrol team? Yan Jiecheng's immediate superior, and it would be too easy for a fool to offend him.

Chen Jie smiled and thanked the neighbors for their help, but he was still confused.

"Didn't President Zhang say that there are a lot of things going on in this hospital?"

“They look so enthusiastic anyway.”

“These neighbors are all fine.”

"I heard that besides Chairman Zhang, there are also some model workers and advanced worker representatives from the factory living here."

"The other one is the fitter and Yi Zhonghai, a stubborn member of the reform team."

Chen Jie was confused as he watched his neighbors and his wife enthusiastically helping to clean the house.