Siheyuan: My name is Cao Xing, and I have a strong background

When these aunties saw Cao Xing carrying a brand new bicycle, they all came over to him.

"Xiao Cao, is this the bicycle you just bought?"

"Oh, it's so beautiful, it's the Phoenix brand."

"Xiao Cao, why don't your parents come live with you?"

The series of questions made Cao Xing feel overwhelmed, and he quickly said, "Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to take some people to check out the house and paint it, so please get out of the way."

The aunties were reluctant to take their hands off the bicycles and wished the bicycles were theirs.

Cao Xing walked in quickly, and just as he entered the middle courtyard, he ran into Qin Huairu carrying out a basin of clothes.

His eyes lit up. This girl and I were just meeting by chance. She must have come out after hearing the noise in the front yard.

"Sister-in-law Jia, you're out washing clothes again."

Qin Huairu looked at him with her beautiful eyes, and when she thought of his sturdy figure yesterday, her whole body softened again.

Cao Xing did not try to please her and directly took Li Xiu and Zhao He to the two houses in the backyard.

The two of them went into the house, took a look, and came out not long after.

Zhao He stepped forward and asked, "Comrade Cao, do you want to paint the wall alone or change the whole thing?"

Cao Xing thought for a moment and said to them, "First, I need to connect the two rooms and leave a door on the side. The wires need to be rerouted, the floor needs to be pried up and tiled, and the coal stove, stove, and electric lights need to be installed. I also need to replace this broken door. Name a price."

When Zhao He heard that this was a big customer, he realized that if he could get this order, he wouldn't have to open the store for March!

He quickly calculated and said, "Comrade Cao, this is a big project. How about this? The construction period is half a month. I will charge you two hundred. You just need to provide lunch at noon, and you don't have to worry about anything else."

Two hundred for labor and materials is indeed not a lot, normally it would be around two hundred and thirty.

Cao Xing shook his head and said, "I'll give you 260 yuan, and you can take care of your own lunch. The construction period will be shortened to one week."

"This……"

Zhao He thought for a moment. It was nothing special. The price offered by Cao Xing was reasonable. However, he could not guarantee the construction period.

"Okay, I took it."

Then he told Li Xiu to make all the tables, chairs, benches, kitchen cabinets, beds, cabinets, dressing tables, etc.

Li Xiu measured again and again and finally quoted a price of 150 yuan. It was all made of solid wood and would also be completed in a week.

Cao Xing gave each of them a deposit of 100 yuan, told them to find him at the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill if they had any business, and then left on his bicycle.

Wang Xingguo gave him a full five hundred yuan, enough for him to do his thing.

He first went to the supply and marketing cooperative and bought wheat and rice seeds worth a hundred yuan.

He also bought a lot of vegetable seeds, borrowed a large cart and pulled them back and forth ten times. Each time he found an deserted place and moved them into the space, and then sowed the seeds according to his mind.

It only took a few bags of seeds to make use of the 100-meter space. All that was left was to take care of it every day, and you could get a harvest in just over ten days.

After handling the matter, Cao Xing went directly to the steel rolling mill, handed the letter of introduction to the guard, and went straight to Yang Weimin's office.

"Director, this is my first day at work. Please take care of me."

Yang Weimin looked at his smiling face and felt helpless.

He couldn't afford to offend the ancestors in front of him.

He took the letter of introduction handed to him by Cao Xing, and felt a sigh in his heart when he thought that he had personally issued the letter to him yesterday.

With a flick of the pen, he quickly signed his name and handed it to Cao Xing.

"Go to the purchasing department yourself. I've already informed the head of the purchasing department, Lu Mingyuan. You can choose any position you want when you get there."

Cao Xing smiled and said, "Okay, thank you very much, Director."

After saying this, he left in a leisurely manner, leaving Yang Weimin there sighing.

What he didn't know was that he thought Cao Xing was just a scoundrel, but this scoundrel brought him so many surprises.

When Cao Xing arrived at the building where the Purchasing Department was located, he discovered that the Purchasing Department occupied an entire floor!

He looked at them one by one and saw that there were five or six people sitting in each office. There were at least twenty or thirty rooms on this floor. How many people were there?

There must be about a hundred workers in the purchasing department alone!

He found the office of Section Chief Lu Mingyuan, and before he knocked on the door, he heard scolding from inside.

"Git Bucks! What do you all do for a living? Your monthly ration quota can be snatched away by others?!"

"Section...Section Chief, this is not our fault. The First Machine Repair Factory must have given gifts to the people in the Logistics Department. Otherwise, how come they are fine, while our monthly quota is reduced by so much!"

"Nonsense! Do you even need to say that? They're giving gifts, why don't you give one?"

"You are all trash! Get out of here now!"

In this day and age, swearing is not popular, especially between superiors and subordinates. Such swearing rarely occurs unless one is really angry.

Soon the door of the section chief's office was opened, and five people came out one after another, all of them looking dejected. When they saw Cao Xing, they just glanced at him indifferently and left.

Seeing this, Cao Xing was not afraid that the section chief was angry and simply reached out and knocked on the door.

"What's up with you guys?!"

A middle-aged man turned around and shouted angrily, but when he saw Cao Xing, he quickly stopped talking.

"Comrade, what do you want to do in the purchasing department?"

Cao Xing brought the letter of introduction signed by Yang Weimin directly to him and said, "Section Chief, I'm here to report."

Originally, his letter of introduction should have been recorded in the personnel department before he could go to Lu Mingyuan to take up the position.

But Yang Weimin directly asked him to find Lu Mingyuan first, so that he could choose any position he wanted, and finally Lu Mingyuan would report it to the Personnel Department.

Lu Mingyuan looked at the letter of introduction and said with some dissatisfaction: "I don't care what your relationship is. Anyway, the purchasing department does not keep idle people. Those who do not do a good job will be sent to the front-line workshops."

He showed off his power for a moment, then said, "Where do you want to go?"

Cao Xing didn't care about his attitude just now at all. After all, he had been working in the workplace for so many years in his previous life, and he knew that this was the leader's consistent style.

"Section Chief, why don't you first introduce me to the composition of the purchasing department."

Lu Mingyuan knew that this guy had the factory director's endorsement and he couldn't afford to offend him, so he immediately replied: "Our purchasing department is divided into three parts."

"One group has the largest number of people, and is mainly responsible for the purchase of low-value consumables within the factory."

"You saw the second group, the five people who just left. They are responsible for the supplies distributed by the logistics department. To put it bluntly, they are mainly food and drink."

"The three groups are ostensibly connected to the logistics department, but they are actually responsible for unplanned supplies. Do you understand?"

Some things are better known than spoken, and Lu Mingyuan is well aware of this.

Of course Cao Xing also understood that the so-called unplanned materials were food and drink that one got by oneself, which was an illegal transaction. The country was implementing a planned economy, and private transactions were not allowed. Moreover, there were only so many materials. If you got more, others would get less, which could easily lead to vicious competition.

However, it is not only the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill that does this. Now, all units and even the street offices have started to do this, and the higher-ups have turned a blind eye to this.

After all, the supplies allocated by the Logistics Department are getting less and less, and each household does not get enough. If you don’t do it secretly, do you want to let others starve to death?