That year the flowers bloomed 1981

Chapter 1119: Abandoned Child of the Times

September 13, Wednesday, the 14th day of the eighth lunar month, moderate rain, and a sudden drop in temperature.

It started raining in the capital city since last night. The dense raindrops brought with them the chill of autumn, dispelling the last traces of summer heat.

Many horses and cows couldn't help shivering in the cold when they got up to go to work in the morning. Some middle-aged people in their forties even had back pain, leg pain, and knee pain.

This is God's kind reminder to the cattle and horses in the world that autumn is coming and they should prepare sweaters and cotton-padded jackets, otherwise they will freeze to death in the winter.

This is not superstition. If you don't believe it, ask the old people in the village, isn't winter the hardest time to endure? Once you survive the winter, you can live another year without any illness.

Lao Dai walked out of the General Affairs Department holding an umbrella and headed towards a branch factory. On the way, he met several colleagues who were moving things in the rain, and he did not forget to smile and tease them.

"I say, Lao Zhang, take it easy. Don't let your backache come back. Otherwise, Lao Li will have to cup you again and make the whole office smell like alcohol."

"Old Li, you too, why are you in such a hurry on a rainy day? Why don't you wait until the sun comes out tomorrow? What? Your legs don't hurt anymore?"

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Lao Dai is 43 years old this year. He has no problems with his waist, legs, and knees. When it is cloudy or rainy, he likes to laugh at his fellow workers who have done hard labor, saying that they are "weak in body, lack of yang energy", etc.
But he didn't think about it. Since he started working, his father had never done a day of heavy work. How could he have injured his waist, disabled his legs, or worn out his knees?

After Lao Dai left, Lao Li spat and cursed: "What's the point of being so arrogant all day long, you cunning, lazy guy? Do you have the nerve to do that?"

Lao Zhang rubbed his lower back and said with a gloomy face: "They are doing work in exchange for work. Compared with us, aren't they impressive?"

Old Li said angrily, "Should he be proud of doing the work instead of the work? In the past, people like him would take the initiative to do any hard work, but now he is like this."

Lao Zhang stood up and said, "Don't say that. Times have changed. If he really becomes the sales manager of a branch factory this time, it will be even more impressive."

Old Li snorted coldly and said, "He wishes. When we passed the boiler room just now, I turned a corner and went to the gate of the first branch factory to check. His name was not on the red list at all. Instead, he was very famous on the white list, ranked last. Hahahaha."

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Old Zhang was stunned for a moment, and said in surprise: "Didn't you just say you were going to pee? Besides, Old Dai and Lu Zhizhang used to live in the same room, how could he not take care of him?"

Old Li chuckled and said, "It's just a side job! The first branch posted the red list at 7:30. I looked through it twice and found that Old Dai was not on the list, but Xiao Wang next door was on the list."

"So that's why! In the First Branch, relationships are not important, but ability is. As for Lao Dai's face, Lu Zhizhang simply ignored him."

Lao Zhang was stunned for a long time, then suddenly laughed and scolded: "Oh my god, you just said you were going to pee, but it turns out you were just being lazy and asked me to load the truck by myself."

Old Li also said proudly: "Don't worry! I will cup you later. I tell you, this ancestral skill of mine is free for you. If I set up a stall outside, it would be at least five yuan per session."

"Stop bragging. If you practice medicine without a license, you will be fined to death."

"Don't be so ungrateful! Otherwise I won't serve you anymore."

"Come on! You're just itching to practice your skills on me."

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The two men left cursing, but their tone was very relaxed and they were in a very good mood.

Lao Dai was also cursing at the gate of a factory, his tone was very aggressive and he was in a very bad mood.

He came in the rain, but did not see his name on the red list, but saw his results on the white list.

The last one! Don’t you think it’s eye-catching?
So he had to go into a branch factory to find Lu Zhizhang, but the security guard arranged for him to go to the reception room at the door, sign and register, and then wait for Lu Zhizhang to come out for a "meeting".

"Are you meeting a prisoner? Or are you meeting a foreign dignitary?"

Lao Dai said bluntly: "Lu Zhizhang and I are friends. You can just call him and let me in. Why are you leaving me here to wait? I'm from the General Affairs Department of the main factory."

"I'm sorry, we are a high-tech unit with foreign involvement. Foreign investors and our superiors have explicitly asked us to abide by the confidentiality system. No non-essential personnel are allowed to enter the factory."

The person in charge of the reception room is a newly hired female security guard. She repeats the rules word for word with a stern face, which makes the irritable old man very angry, but he is helpless.

You can't be violent towards a woman, right? Why don't you try to touch her with a finger?

The security guard of the first branch was in the guard room more than ten meters away. If he heard a woman's scream, he would probably take out even the BIU BIU from the safe, right?

After more than an hour, the anxiously waiting Lao Dai finally saw Lu Zhizhang.

Lu Zhizhang said with a smile: "Oh, I had a meeting this morning. A lot of questions made me dizzy and anxious. Two hours passed in a blink of an eye. After I finished, I rushed here."

Lao Dai swallowed and forced a smile.

Usually when Lao Dai was sitting in the office, he used this method to deal with the workers, so how could he not know that Lu Zhizhang was lying?

But the situation was stronger than the person, so Lao Dai could only smile and say, "Yes, yes, yes, I said that you have too few cadres in the first branch. It's a large unit with 7,000 to 8,000 people, and you are the only one working. How can it not be urgent? By the way, I have something to talk to you about. Let's go out and talk."

"Go out and talk?"

Lu Zhizhang looked at Lao Dai and said with a smile: "It's raining outside! Isn't it inconvenient to go out and talk?"

Lao Dai said: "I brought an umbrella! Let's go out and talk." "Okay."

Lu Zhizhang didn't seem to be impatient at all and went outside with Lao Dai in a very easy-going manner.

After they got outside, Lao Dai didn't beat around the bush and asked directly, "Lao Lu, we are brothers who shared the same quilt. I haven't asked you for anything in all these years, right? Why did you make me lose face this time?"

Lu Zhizhang was surprised and said, "Shame on you? What shame on you? I don't know!"

Lao Dai almost bit his teeth and wanted to curse loudly.

But he still said: "Didn't I tell you in advance that I would participate in the selection of sales manager?
After the exam, I went to your house and explained to your sister-in-law again, but I just checked and found that I was not on the list. I have already boasted about my achievements. What do you think I should do now?"

"Hey, you're talking about this! You've wronged me. I went out to do some work on Monday and specifically asked the people below to pay attention to your paper.

But I never thought that this time when we took the sales department as a pilot reform, not only did Hong Kong investors pay attention to it, but people from COFCO also came to learn from our experience.
A group of people are looking at each test paper one by one. I know you handed in a blank paper, so I asked someone to pick out your test paper in advance, but with so many people surrounding it, it’s really impossible to pick it out.”

Lu Zhizhang said awkwardly: "Old Dai, what can I say about you? You can't do those questions, but can't you just write nonsense? The white paper is too eye-catching."

Lao Dai blinked his eyes and said helplessly, "Lao Lu, who knew you would come up with that kind of questions? If you had told me the questions in advance,
Forget it, I don’t want a sales manager now, just hire me as a salesperson first.”

[Fuck you! How shameless! Be a salesperson first, and then do some work as a replacement? You are very familiar with this routine! ]

You couldn’t tell from Lu Zhizhang’s face, but he was already annoyed.

After this old man handed in a blank paper, he called me. Since I was not at the factory and no one answered the phone, he ran home and told his wife about his blank paper, and shamelessly asked Lu Zhizhang to handle it.

And the problem is that when Lao Dai went to Lu Zhizhang's house, he only brought two kinds of fruits.

Although Lu Zhizhang has been hiding outside and not accepting gifts these days, but you've come to his house and just brought two pieces of fruit. Who are you insulting?

"Tsk, old Dai! This branch factory is not my personal business. So many people are eyeing my position. I am walking on thin ice every day. Do you think I can tell you the answer?

Don’t say I didn’t know the questions in advance. Even if I knew them, it wouldn’t work if I gave them to you! There are interviews later! Didn’t you see that there were so many people on the red list? In the end, there were only 23 people.”

"What a joke. He's just a salesperson, but you still have to take a written test and an interview. You're just picking animals. You don't want the old ones, the skinny ones, or the ones with weak legs."

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Lu Zhizhang looked at the old Dai who was complaining, and the annoyance in his heart suddenly disappeared.

【This generation will be abandoned by the times. 】

The old generation was once the most popular group of smart people in the last era. They always took advantage of others in the company and pushed all the hard work to others. So over time, they no longer had the concept of "making a living by one's own ability".

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Lao Dai tried to build relationships with Lu Zhizhang for a long time, but finally returned to the General Affairs Department in a huff.

Lu Zhizhang didn't care about their old friendship at all. The two of them held an umbrella and soaked Lao Dai's back and pants, making him look wet and miserable.

When he returned to the General Affairs Department, he saw Lao Li applying cupping to Lao Zhang. The smell of alcohol almost made his rhinitis flare up.

But when Lao Li saw that Lao Dai's back was all wet, he laughed and said, "Lao Dai, where did you go to take a half-rain bath? This autumn rain is very harmful. Hurry up and I will give you a cupping jar to get rid of the cold."

Lao Dai was already annoyed, and he immediately vented as if he had found a breakthrough: "Old Li, I have told you so many times, don't do cupping in the office. This is where we work, not a hospital or clinic."

“Tsk tsk tsk~”

Old Li clicked his tongue a few times, then said, "Don't be so angry. You're about to be promoted to a manager at a branch factory, so why are you still meddling in things here?"

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As soon as Lao Li said the word "manager", Lao Dai felt like his head was exploding.

He stretched out his arm and knocked several fire cups to the ground, where they shattered into pieces.

"I've been fed up with you for a long time, fiddling with all this clutter all day long."

Now everyone in the office was shocked, and then they waited to see what was going to happen.

Old Li had a frosty look on his face, and suddenly he performed a martial arts move similar to the "Wu Long Pan Da".

"Dai, this is a treasure passed down from my ancestors who traveled around the country performing arts. You smashed my stuff. Are you slapping me in the face or destroying my place? Come on! According to the rules of the martial arts world, let's fight and see who wins."

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Lao Dai was stunned. He didn’t expect that he would get into trouble with the “rules of the underworld” just by smashing a few cupping jars.

Although he was younger, taller and stronger than Lao Li, he really had no intention of competing with the old man.

Because people like him are used to bullying the weak and fearing the strong, they will not put themselves in danger.

(End of this chapter)