That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1023 Do You Think I Am a Good Person?

One day at the end of 1988, Li Ye was typing on the computer in the office when Huang Mengjia suddenly knocked on the door and came in.

"Director Li, please sign your name!"

Huang Mengjia put a note on Li Ye's desk with a smile, just as cautiously as when Li Ye asked his boss for leave in his previous life.

"What are you signing again?"

Li Ye took the note and took a look at it, and found that it was an application for the use of a small screening room in a branch factory.

Li Ye asked curiously, "Why do you want me to sign this? Can't you just go to the projection room to register and use it? Haven't you been rehearsing in the projection room for the past few days?"

In order to enrich the employees' spare time, the first branch has two projection rooms, one large and one small. The large projection room is a small auditorium that can accommodate hundreds of people and show movies.

The small screening room is about the size of a classroom, with only a TV and a VCR inside. It is sometimes used to study important instructions and sometimes to rehearse cultural programs.

New Year's Day is almost here. Huang Mengjia has already started preparing the program to celebrate New Year's Day. A few days ago, she told me that everything went well in the rehearsal. Why does she suddenly want to sign today?

Li Ye is not the kind of person who would use his power to the fullest, so why would he sign such a trivial matter?

In his previous life, Li Ye had seen those fawning subordinates who would always come to their superiors for approval on trivial matters, and that superior also enjoyed the feeling of "everything is under control". The two of them made each other successful and made the others miserable.

Everyone has the desire to control power, and Li Ye is no exception. But in this case, he is required to sign. Then, will he be required to sign for buying cups or changing tables in the future? Is this going to exhaust him to death?

Is it good that worrying too much will shorten your life?
"I don't want to trouble you, Director."

Huang Mengjia said helplessly: "Lai Jiayi suddenly sent a notice to the small screening room today, saying that any future cultural activities need to be reported to her. No one is allowed to use the screening room without her approval, let alone use the video recorder."

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Li Ye was stunned for a moment, then laughed and scolded: "Why doesn't she move the VCR to her own home!"

Huang Mengjia spread her hands and said with a smile: "Only you, the factory director, dare to say such things. If I said it, she would lecture me on the truth for a whole day, and she would never repeat herself."

"嘁~"

Li Ye picked up the pen and signed for Huang Mengjia.

Although Huang Mengjia volunteered to compete with Lai Jiayi at the beginning, it was also in line with Li Ye's interests, so this time he did not ask Lai Jiayi for instructions, but came to him for support. Of course, Li Ye had to support her.

Mass activities were indeed under the jurisdiction of the trade union in the past, but if the factory director Li Ye wanted to intervene, who would dare to stop him?

But a few minutes later, Huang Mengjia called back and said aggrievedly: "Director, your signature doesn't work well."

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Li Ye put down the phone and reviewed the situation carefully.

Huang Mengjia undoubtedly has experience in fighting, so she must have used others' skills to gain a bigger reputation. Otherwise, how could such a young girl command others?

As for the conflict with Lai Jiayi this time, is it because her behavior of pulling tiger skins is not working well recently? So she needs to show up and support her?
But no matter whether Lai Jiayi took the initiative to cause trouble, or Huang Mengjia plotted against him, Li Ye had to stand on Huang Mengjia's side, otherwise who would be willing to fight his opponents with bayonets for him in the future?

Who doesn’t want to save face?

Li Ye immediately walked towards the small screening room, but before he got there, he saw more than 20 employees who were participating in the rehearsal confronting Lai Jiayi and several other union members, and a very fierce argument had already broken out.

"Who do you think are the little hooligans? We are dancing openly, how does it bother you? Did I provoke you? Are you deliberately looking for trouble?"

"Were you deliberately picking a fight? Look at the clothes you are wearing, they are shameful and immoral. Those little hooligans arrested a few years ago were all the same as you."

"Who are you calling shameful? Are the MLGB people asking for a beating?"

"Take you for example. Look at how you look like a scoundrel now. How is it different from a street thug?"

"Fuck you."

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Li Ye took two steps at a time and rushed over.

Because the workers who were preparing for rehearsal were obviously no match for the union members, and they were about to start fighting with their fists.

It is the nature of many people to resort to violence when they cannot win an argument, and they are most likely to be taken advantage of by certain people.

"What are you doing? I want to see who dares to do it."

Li Ye shouted and stopped the escalation of the conflict at the last moment.

When the workers who were impulsive and furious just a moment ago saw Li Ye, they immediately hid aside like mice seeing a cat, and dared not say a word.

Li Ye, a good kid who likes to fight, is now a head of the family who does not allow fighting.

Seeing several workers hiding to one side, Lai Jiayi became even more angry and said to Li Ye: "Director Li, you came at the right time. You just saw it. These employees are too outrageous. They actually beat up their colleagues in broad daylight."

“I didn’t see them trying to beat up their colleagues”

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Li Ye's words almost choked Lai Jiayi, and then he walked to the door of the small screening room and pushed it, but it wouldn't open.

Li Ye turned around and asked Huang Mengjia: "Didn't you say you wanted to rehearse? What are so many people doing blocking the door? Isn't it lively to squeeze in this aisle?"

Huang Mengjia's face twitched and she said awkwardly, "Master Wang won't open the door for me."

Li Ye turned around and looked at Wang Dazhen, who was in charge of the small screening room: "Why don't you open the door?"

Wang Dazheng's face turned green and he secretly glanced at Lai Jiayi.

"I'm asking you! Why don't you open the door?"

Of course Li Ye knew who prevented Wang Dazhen from opening the door, but that's how it is in the workplace. I wrote a note, and if you don't listen, I'm going to deal with you first.

Lai Jiayi said with a sullen face, "I was the one who didn't let him open the door. Director Li, I want to talk to you."

Li Ye turned to look at Lai Jiayi and said coldly: "What are you talking about? Tell me!"

Lai Jiayi frowned and said, "Let's go to my office to talk!"

Li Ye immediately refused: "Don't bother, just talk here!"

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Lai Jiayi was panting so hard that her breathing became uneven. After a long while, she said seriously, "Director Li, there are some very bad trends in our factory now.
Some workers do not work properly, but instead act like the vagrant youth in society, playing some hooligan music with loud speakers, which hurts everyone's ears, and performing some weird dances.

Director Li, this is no small matter. It is related to the spiritual civilization construction of our unit. We are a formal production unit, not a comfortable nest of vulgar culture."

"So you won't let them rehearse?"

Li Ye interrupted Lai Jiayi, who was heartbroken, and said seriously, "I have seen the program of the New Year's Eve party. If you mean breakdancing, then I can tell you that there is nothing wrong with this kind of dance, and the workers who do breakdancing are not hooligans."

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In fact, when the two sides were arguing just now, Li Ye guessed what was going on.

Lai Jiayi is an old-school person and has a strong resistance to some of the spiritual imports from the 1980s and 1990s.

In the early 1980s, disco began to become popular in mainland China. Young people wearing bell-bottom pants and carrying tape recorders raised the banner of "rebellion" and specifically went against a group of old-school people. The more you opposed them, the more they got angry.

Li Ye neither supports nor opposes this phenomenon.

The reason for not supporting it is that according to the experience of those who have experienced it, those who dance every day without doing their job basically end up with a "difficult life", and only a few people struggle and finally make a name for themselves. However, Li Ye believes that "breakdancing" is different from disco, and the difference is not small.

Disco is just like that, shaking the hips, waving the arms, wearing sunglasses and bell-bottom pants, the image is always moving in the direction of "originality" and "exaggeration", and it is easy to go astray.

But breakdancing is a little different. If you want to be good at it, it takes real effort.

You should know that breakdancing is an event in the 2024 Olympics. When Li Ye saw those girls competing on the field, he thought they were really cool from the bottom of his heart.

Please note that I mean "handsome" in a serious sense, because those girls are usually not good-looking.

This is the charm of breakdancing. You are usually quiet and plain-looking, but when the music starts, whether you are handsome or not is all up to you.

"Breakdancing is okay? Director Li, you have to be responsible for your words."

After hearing what Li Ye said, Lai Jiayi shouted like a chicken with blood injected: "Look at the strange clothes they are wearing. One young man has a red ribbon tied on his head. He squats on the ground and swings back and forth like a hen. He looks weird and doesn't feel ashamed.
In addition, they cut off the fingers of the good labor protection gloves. Is this how they treat the labor protection products issued by our company?"

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Li Ye looked at the workers who were rehearsing and sighed softly.

They don't have real breakdancing gloves, so they can only modify work gloves. They don't have authentic breakdancing shoes, so they can only use high-top Warrior shoes instead. Compared with their monthly salary of a few hundred yuan, this outfit is really shabby.

However, when they look back on the past decades later, they will definitely remember this moment clearly.

Young and naive, but full of energy and yearning for the future.

Everyone is looking for something worth indulging in in life to escape the boring life day after day. These shining bits and pieces are the most important and beautiful memories in life.

Li Ye waved his hand and said, "First of all, our country has introduced the movie "Breakdance", so our cultural department must have conducted a strict review of this movie.
Since the cultural department has determined that this film does not have a wrong cultural orientation and has allowed it to be openly released in the mainland, what is wrong with it? Is the judgment of the cultural department not as important as your personal subjective perception, Sister Lai? "

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Lai Jiayi remained silent.

Because "Breakdance" was introduced to the mainland in 1987, and it has been a year now, the official has not given any bad reviews, on the contrary, many cinemas have repeatedly played this movie.

So in 1988, the streets were full of kids practicing the "moonwalk" and "window-wiping", but in school if you knew how to breakdance, you would get everyone's cheers.

In such an environment, Lai Jiayi used this issue to make trouble. It has to be said that her rigid thinking has reached a very serious level.

Of course, this may be related to Lai Jiayi's personal situation.

Lai Jiayi was very good at singing model operas. She often communicated with her colleagues in private and also took in several apprentices.

As a result, young people nowadays actually start breakdancing. Don’t you think it’s infuriating?
Middle-aged and elderly people cannot do breakdancing. If you make a few big moves, your ankle tendons will be torn.

Young people can dance, but she can’t. What do you think we should do?

Lai Jiayi took several deep breaths before she said firmly, "It's one thing for the cultural department to agree to the release of the film, but public opinion is another. Director Li, you should ask those old leaders whether those breakdancers are good people."

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As soon as these words were spoken, the people around were thrown into confusion.

How can dancing make you not a good person?
Huang Mengjia was so angry that her teeth were itching, and she wanted to pounce on Lai Jiayi and bite her.

Because she felt that Lai Jiayi was being a rogue.

If Li Ye really went to ask those old leaders, there would definitely be no good result.

A group of old men and women may not necessarily say that those who do thunder dance are bad people, but they are also unlikely to say that they are good people.

But Li Ye smiled faintly, pointed at his chest and asked: "Sister Lai, do you think I am a good person?"

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Lai Jiayi looked at Li Ye angrily, unable to answer.

Because Li Ye is acting like a rogue.

"If you have the guts, just say I'm not a good person!"

Does she dare to say that Li Ye is not a good person?

Why does she say that Li Ye is not a good person?

But Huang Mengjia's eyes next to her suddenly lit up.

"Director Li, what you said is true. If you are not a good person, then there are really no good people in the world."

Li Ye is a good person, and this is a consensus recognized by everyone in the first branch.

If you say that Li Ye is not a good person, I'm afraid all the workers in the entire factory will not agree.

"Humph~"

Li Ye sneered, turned around and kicked the door of the small screening room.

"Bang~"

How strong was Li Ye's leg? The door lock was broken immediately.

Li Ye walked in with a heartless pace, unbuttoning his suit and saying, "Play some music for me."

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Everyone was stunned until Huang Mengjia quickly put the tape in place and deliberately turned up the volume. Then the young people with red ribbons tied around their heads started howling like wolves.

"Director Li, are you going to dance?"

"Isn't that nonsense? Is there any need to ask this?"

"I really admire our Director Li. I will admire him for the rest of my life."

"Everyone, pay attention! When Director Li starts dancing, we have to applaud. Do you hear me?"

"I heard it, I heard it. Director Li just takes a figure eight step, and that's the best."

A group of young men in their twenties quickly reached a consensus that even if Li Ye's dance was a piece of shit, they would still praise it and shout that it smelled great.

Because it was obvious that Li Ye had joined the game with his own strength to fight for everyone.

So everyone thought that Li Ye didn't know how to breakdance, or only knew a few simple dance moves.

But when the music started, everyone was stunned.

Li Ye danced better than anyone else, and he used many footwork moves that they had never seen before, not even in the movie "Breakdance".

What’s even worse is that Li Ye was wearing a suit today.

A man in a suit is breakdancing, and he dances very beautifully. This completely subverts everyone's impression of breakdancing.

Nowadays, suits and breakdancing just don't go together!

One worker was stunned and murmured, "It turns out that good people can also breakdance!"

"Fuck, shut up!"

(End of this chapter)