That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1062 Why don’t you find a piece of tofu and kill yourself?
"It's really outrageous. Self-employed people are self-employed people. They are selfish, have no sense of solidarity, and are only interested in enjoying themselves. How could such a unit appear in the newspapers and receive awards repeatedly? When the country is in trouble, can we count on them?"

"So comrades, we must be vigilant and not associate with those people in Fenghua Clothing, because they may look prosperous on the surface, but in fact they are a group of scattered sand. If it were a war era, they would all be Pu Zhigao."

When Li Ye found Niu Hongzhang angrily, he was giving an ideological lesson to the people in the main factory's test fleet. His voice was hoarse and his tone was stern. He was filled with grief and spit. It reminded Li Ye of some life mentors he had met in his previous life.

Seeing Li Ye coming, Niu Hongzhang's eyes condensed and he asked seriously: "Li Ye, you came at the right time. I want to ask you a question. When were the three Hino buses of our unit donated to Fenghua Clothing?"

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Li Ye was so angry that he was about to question Niu Hongzhang, but he didn't expect that he was the first to speak. He was so shocked that he didn't know what was going on.

The head factory did not have reliable buses, so even though Li Ye was not happy about it, he still lent the three Hino buses he had just bought last year to Niu Hongzhang. After all, with so many elderly people going to visit their ancestors' graves, reliability must be guaranteed.

But now listening to what Niu Hongzhang said, how come something went wrong when I borrowed the car myself?

"Secretary Niu, what do you mean by asking this?"

"What do you mean?"

Niu Hongzhang said angrily: "I took my people and cars to Golmud, and those people in Fenghua Clothing requisitioned the three buses just like the White Bandits, and we were not allowed to use them even if we wanted to."

"For the sake of the martyrs' relatives, I didn't bother with them, but when our car broke down on the way, they actually wanted to take the three buses and leave first.

I'm confused, whose car is it? And is it up to the Fenghua Clothing people to decide?"

"That's a car from a branch factory, assigned to the relatives of martyrs who come to visit the graves."

Li Ye said coldly: "Comrade Niu Hongzhang, I was just looking for you! You were the one who insisted on leading the team to the snowy area. Why didn't you ensure the safety of the martyrs' relatives along the way? Why did you let more than a dozen people go to the hospital?

Don’t you have experience in organizing large-scale group activities? What do you do for a living?”

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Niu Hongzhang was stunned. He really didn't expect that Li Ye would dare to ask him "what you do for a living".

Are you, Li Ye, qualified to say this to me? What level are you?
But Li Ye said it anyway, which showed how angry he was.

Just now, the people from Fenghua Clothing reported to Li Yue that more than a dozen elderly people who came to sweep the graves were admitted to the hospital. Li Ye's head buzzed and almost exploded.

What if someone dies?
What if someone dies on the way to visit the grave?
Let’s not talk about who will take responsibility or how bad the impact will be, just ask yourself whether you can live with it in your conscience?
Li Ye felt scared just thinking about it.

If that happens, even strangling Niu Hongzhang to death won’t be enough to save the situation!
He brought a medical team and an imported bus with relatively the best road conditions, but he still sent more than a dozen people to the hospital. Is it too much to scold him, "What are you doing?"
But Niu Hongzhang couldn't accept it.

"Li Ye, pay attention to your identity and your attitude!"

Niu Hongzhang stared with bloodshot eyes. The scars on his face burned by ultraviolet rays opened and closed like the stripes on a tiger's face.

"No wonder those bus drivers didn't listen to instructions along the way. It turns out that you, Li Ye, spoiled them!"

Niu Hongzhang gnashed his teeth and said, "When climbing the snowy mountain, our car encountered difficulties. I asked everyone to work together to push the car.
But several drivers from your first branch actually conspired with the people from Fenghua Clothing to close the car doors and prevent passengers from getting out. We used ropes to pull them all night! If I hadn’t stopped them with the car, they would have left on their own.”

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Niu Hongzhang was talking with saliva flying all over the place, and Li Ye was stunned.

After a long while, Li Ye said in disbelief: "You actually want a group of sixty-year-old men to help you push the cart? Why don't you find a piece of tofu and kill yourself!"

After the people from Fenghua Clothing complained to Li Yue, Li Ye still didn't understand why Niu Hongzhang stopped them when they wanted to leave first. As a result, even though they had the best car and a medical team, they were hospitalized due to illness due to the delay on the road.

Now I understand, completely.

Niu Hongzhang is a firm believer in "strength in numbers". He does not regard the elderly people who come to sweep the graves as guests, but as a labor force that can be used at any time for emergencies.

Let dozens of people push your cart together?
Although in rural areas, there are indeed elderly people in their sixties and seventies working in the fields, and their enthusiasm is even as good as that of some young men.

Nowadays, it is normal for long-distance buses to break down on the road and ask passengers to get off and push the carts.

A car slipped into a ditch, and the scene of dozens of people pulling the car together with a big rope was very spectacular, which really demonstrated the power of unity.

But this is the plateau! Treating people over 60 like cattle and horses on the plateau, isn't that just like animals?
Niu Hongzhang couldn't believe it when he heard Li Ye swearing.

We are all human beings. Those who come to visit the graves are just "hitchhiking". Why can't they be allowed to push the carts?

So Niu Hongzhang sneered and said, "Li Ye, I know you have a good relationship with the people at Fenghua Clothing, but you have to remember your identity. Those three buses are the property of our unit and must be under my command, so those drivers must be dealt with seriously."

"As for you saying that people over sixty can't push carts? What's the logic behind that? I'm over fifty, and I still push carts with the young guys. Even if I'm sixty or seventy years old."

Seeing Niu Hongzhang blabbering on and on about to make another long speech, Li Ye became furious and blurted out something.

"You might die before you reach your sixties!"

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Shocked, everyone at the scene was shocked.

Although Li Ye had some "brutal and violent" deeds in the Light Automobile Company, he was, after all, an intellectual who graduated from Peking University. No one could have imagined that he would curse people to death like those rough people.

This is already the rhythm of becoming complete enemies with Niu Hongzhang.

The last time Li Ye and Niu Hongzhang had a falling out, it happened in the office and no one saw it, but this time, he didn’t even want to pretend.

This tomb-sweeping activity was planned by Yang Yumin, with the assistance of Fenghua Garment and Light Automobile Company. If a major accident occurred, Li Ye and his sister Li Yue would be fine, but Yang Yumin's future would definitely be affected.

Otherwise, why would the elder sister curse her mother immediately after she found out? And Niu Hongzhang was inserted into the matter halfway. If we think about it from the perspective of conspiracy theory, is this guy deliberately trying to ruin someone's future?

Niu Hongzhang may not be good at other things, but he has rich experience in fighting.

“Tuk-tuk-tuk~”

Just when Li Ye rolled up his sleeves and prepared to fight back after Niu Hongzhang got angry, someone knocked on the door.

A driver from the main factory opened the door reluctantly, secretly cursing why the people outside were knocking on the door at this time. If it was a little later, he might have seen a good show.

But after opening the door, the man didn't dare to curse anymore because someone from the department was standing outside the door.

The other party did not enter the room and directly said: "The director has arrived. Now notify Comrade Niu Hongzhang and Comrade Li Ye from your unit to come over."

"Okay, we'll go right away."

Li Ye and Niu Hongzhang did not dare to delay and quickly followed the other party.

After arriving at the place, Li Ye found that it was not a small meeting room of the guesthouse, but just an ordinary room.
This is not the rhythm of a meeting, this is about accountability!

Moreover, Li Ye discovered that there were not only leaders from the Ministry of Machine Building in the room, but also cadres from the Propaganda Department.

Seeing Li Ye and Niu Hongzhang coming in, the other party said directly: "You two have worked hard on the journey. We won't waste time talking. Please report your respective situations!"

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Niu Hongzhang did not seem to have anticipated that the people above would hold him directly accountable, so he did not know how to speak for a while.

But Li Ye said succinctly: "We will set out from Chengdu on the 24th and arrive at the Linzhi Martyrs Cemetery on the 1st to pay homage.
Afterwards, except for seven relatives who stayed in Linzhi to recuperate due to excessive grief during the worship, the rest had all arrived in Shannan.

During this journey, we received great assistance from the medical system, transportation forces, cultural and other departments."

Li Ye took one minute to recount his hard work over the past ten days, taking all aspects into consideration.

When it was Niu Hongzhang's turn to report, Li Ye was finally enlightened.

"We will meet up with comrades from other units in Golmud on March 20th and set out on the 21st."

"The traffic conditions on the Qinghai-Tibet line were very bad. We encountered an emergency on the road and were unable to strictly follow the original plan.

In addition, because Fenghua Garment and I were not subordinate to each other and had different work styles and habits, it took a lot of time. But we finally overcame the difficulties and arrived at the destination successfully."

Niu Hongzhang was obviously very good at reporting. He did not accuse anyone throughout the report, but he clearly expressed his intention to accuse.

That is, Fenghua Clothing, a semi-private unit that is affiliated with the company, is unreliable and has a huge difference from the "high consciousness" of the state-owned units. Along the way, because of Fenghua Clothing's selfishness, we almost failed to arrive in Shannan on schedule.

Li Ye now understood that although Fenghua Garment was a star enterprise, in the eyes of Niu Hongzhang, it was still an "unsighted" self-employed person. Only people like him who were in the promotion system were the pillars of the country.

But I have to say, Li Ye really admires his ability to shirk responsibility.

Of course, perhaps in Niu Hongzhang's eyes, when his people were struggling to push the cart below, the families of the martyrs were hiding in the bus and refusing to get off to help. This was an unjustifiable crime!
But when Niu Hongzhang finished speaking, he heard a question as cold as a knife.

"Comrade Niu Hongzhang, has anyone from your team been admitted to the hospital?"

Niu Hongzhang was stunned for a moment and said, "Yes, they are all over 60 years old, and the doctor said they are not suitable for the special environment of high altitude areas."

Niu Hongzhang is innocent. More than a dozen people were admitted to the hospital. Isn't that normal? The planners should be responsible for letting people in their sixties go to the plateau, right?

But at this moment, Niu Hongzhang had not yet realized the seriousness of the matter, because based on his past experience, he believed that if he could overcome the harsh conditions on the road and arrive in Shannan on time, he would not be blamed.

Because this kind of situation where people are reduced in number during the journey is too common in this era, he has seen it many times along the way.

Didn’t you see that some people from Li Ye’s team stayed in Linzhi?
Rest? That sounds nice, but I'm afraid you're sick!

"Then did you know that two relatives of martyrs have developed pulmonary edema in the hospital and are in critical condition?"

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Niu Hongzhang and Li Ye's faces suddenly changed and they became nervous.

Li Ye quickly said: "I'm sorry, leaders. I will try to contact the aviation department immediately to send the patient down the mountain for emergency treatment."

When Niu Hongzhang came, he first arrived in Riguang City and then came to Shannan, so Li Ye hoped that the two patients would be in the hospital in Riguang City, otherwise.
"No need. We have already arranged for the patient to leave. However, such a serious problem must be taken seriously. Comrade Niu Hongzhang, you must rush to the hospital immediately to take care of the patient and ensure the safety of everyone."

"Xu~"

Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief and felt relieved.

But Niu Hongzhang's heart sank.

This is an era that emphasizes levels and rules, and we can urgently send people on planes to the mainland for treatment.

Looking at the current situation, perhaps some of the martyrs' relatives in our team are not ordinary people.

They don't need to hold any position. As long as they have some powerful comrades or colleagues, it will be enough to give Niu Hongzhang a hard time.

Niu Hongzhang was determined to get into Li Ye's team, wanting to take command, show his strong organizational skills, and show his face in the documentary.

Who would have thought that one wrong step would lead to another and end up like this. If I had known this would happen, I would not have done it in the first place.

(End of this chapter)