Restarting life in Siheyuan

Qiu Hong was left to continue to instruct the team members and he once again inquired about the development of the situation in the Strait. After listening to the report and future plans, Zhu Xuefeng did not hang around any longer and returned to the capital alone. News came from the capital that he had to go back.

A meeting was being held in the conference room of the steel mill's office building. The chairman was Old Chen, Deputy Minister Chen, who had left the steel mill for several years. However, Deputy Minister Chen's face did not look very good and he looked very serious. He came here as the leader of a working group to preside over a period of work. Old Yang had just finished his self-criticism.

"Old Yang, I would like to take this opportunity to say a few words."

Deputy Secretary Gu first conducted a deep review of his own failure to point out the mistakes of the leadership, and then criticized Lao Yang for being self-willed, arbitrary, unwilling to accept opinions and supervision from the masses, and being out of touch with the masses in his work.

"I accept everyone's criticism, and I will actively make corrections." Old Yang no longer has the high spirits he had a few months ago, and his hair is now more gray.

"Now, please ask the person in charge of the vehicle factory to conduct self-criticism..."

The meeting at the steel mill lasted for a long time. The notice issued a few days later made the employees of the steel mill realize that the steel mill had changed unconsciously. The workers also quickly split into several groups due to different understandings and divided opinions.

In the compound, Zhu Xuefeng was listening to the two women talking about what had happened in recent days.

"You mean, your dad is coming down again? Old Yang is coming down too."

"Well, not only did my dad come down, my mom was also affected because of him..." Xia Yuhong was a little depressed, but she was not affected for the time being.

"Don't worry, we can just quit. We have a place to go. There are many things waiting for you two." After comforting her for a few words, he turned around and asked Lin Na, "How is your mother now?"

Lin Na's eyes were red. "My mom said that the first batch of the library will go to the farm soon. She estimated that she would be in the next batch and would go too. My dad..."

After learning about Professor Lin's situation, he should return to Beijing in the near future. He is still in Yunnan University and cannot take care of him for the time being. Professor Xu is fine now, so Zhu Xuefeng decided to go to the steel rolling mill dormitory area first to check on Xia Yuhong's parents.

Xia Yuhong shook her head. "My dad said that his problem is not serious right now. He and my mom are at home, so there's no problem. You should go see Sister Na's mom first."

As he recalled, the school was the hot spot. Although the factory was also affected, it seemed to be better. Zhu Xuefeng accepted Xia Yuhong's suggestion. Xia Yuhong stayed, and Zhu Xuefeng and Lin Na rushed to Lin Na's house together.

"How's my little sister?"

"It is said that she has fought with others twice at school. Now she has returned home and does not want to go to school. She has been staying at No. 95 these days. Xiaohong and I often go home now and rarely accompany her. Don't be angry."

"Why are you so angry? If I ask your mother to go to the autonomous region, is it possible for her to go?"

"Maybe. My parents have discussed it a long time ago. If it doesn't work out, they will just quit their jobs and live in the countryside for a while. But now this movement happened too quickly, probably beyond their expectations."

I have to say that Professor Lin and Teacher Xu have a very keen sense of smell. They had concerns a few years ago, but it seems that they were worried in the wrong direction. The current situation is completely different from what they imagined.

Zhu Xuefeng breathed a sigh of relief. It was fine as long as the two of them were willing to move. Unlike Director Shao, who refused to leave and even refused to accept the invitation from Dongsheng Company. He was still holding on. People of this generation all have their own persistence.

There were already many students with red headbands in the duty room at the school gate. The two men were not much older than the students, so no one checked them too carefully. After entering the campus, Zhu Xuefeng looked at the large white notices in the bulletin board and the black and white art on the wall without taking a closer look. The two of them drove to the staff building and soon arrived at the corridor. The entire corridor was silent, and there were also notices on the doors of several houses.

Teacher Xu was at home, seemingly unaffected, and greeted her son-in-law cordially. She briefly talked about the changes in the outside world and what happened in the unit, and her mood was always calm. Teacher Xu expressed her persistence in a gentle voice, and Zhu Xuefeng and Lin Na could only express their understanding.

"Mom, why don't you move in with us for a while so we can take care of you. You don't have to go to work anyway. Nana, you don't have to go to work either. Just stay at home with mom."

Lin Na naturally nodded in agreement. Teacher Xu hesitated for a moment, but seeing that his daughter and son-in-law insisted, he had to nod in agreement. After they packed up their daily necessities, Teacher Xu left a note on the dining table and pressed it with a teacup.

"Let's go." He took another lingering look before turning around and going out. Zhu Xuefeng followed behind with the package, and went downstairs with Lin Na and Teacher Xu.

"You send mom over first, I'll go to the school to check."

"Be careful." Zhu Xuefeng is now a teacher in the Physics Department, although he has never taught a class and no students know him. His profile doesn't even have a chance to appear in front of the department's teaching building. His teaching career died before it even began.

"Well, I'm fine. Just be careful on the road." After seeing off Lin Na and her daughter, Zhu Xuefeng took a walk and came to Professor Luo's house disappointedly. He knocked on the door and a vigilant voice came from inside.

"Who?"

"It's me, Zhu Xuefeng!"

The door was opened a crack, and a slightly surprised face looked around the corridor, then quickly pulled Zhu Xuefeng in.

"How's school going?"

Professor Luo smiled bitterly, "What else can I do? Didn't you see that the first batch of more than 20 schools have already gone to Jiangxi, and most of the remaining faculty and staff are being concentrated for board and lodging, and are not allowed to leave. Didn't you see that I don't even have hot water here?"

"How is Director Jiang doing now? No one was there when I went to his house."

As a physics teacher, Professor Luo must know the answer. Sure enough, after hesitating for a moment, he spoke.

"As the department head, he bore the brunt of the consequences. He even tried to persuade students to return to class with a righteous look on his face, but the students...

Zhu Xuefeng also sighed. Now the higher-ups asked to suspend classes, and Director Jiang wanted to persuade everyone to go back to class. Well, he had to find a way to get rid of him quickly. Otherwise, just because of Director Jiang's words, his life would be difficult in the future.

"You have taken advantage of this. Until now, no students know that there is a teacher like you whom they have never met. Haha."

Zhu Xuefeng also smiled. It felt good to be forgotten. Just like Leader Hao, he might be very busy now, but he seemed to have forgotten him.

"Professor Luo, let's not beat around the bush. I came here this time with an idea. Please take a look..."

The two chatted for a long time behind closed doors. When it was almost time for dinner, Professor Luo had to take his rice bowl to the canteen to report, and Zhu Xuefeng left quietly. In the evening, I went to see the old Xia couple again. The atmosphere in the family area was much more lively than in the school. It was not much different from the past. The family members in the family area were still doing what they were supposed to do.

"Don't worry about our affairs, just live your own lives well. It will be the same as last time, and it will be over in a few months." Old Xia was still mysteriously confident. Zhu Xuefeng just smiled and told them to wait and see if they didn't want to move. He learned about the changes in the factory and found that none of them were beyond Zhu Xuefeng's expectations.

The arrival of Teacher Xu finally brought some changes to the compound. Xia Yuhong was too embarrassed to go into the main bedroom, so she went to the back room and rented a separate room.

Seeing that it was already the late night, Zhu Xuefeng jumped up, Xia Yuhong also got up and got dressed, and Lin Na also got up and helped the man find his coat.

"Are you going now?"

"Well, it's past three o'clock. If we don't go now, it will be dawn. Nana, you should sleep for a while."

"Sister Na is so lucky. What would the three of us do if I brought my parents over as well?" Xia Yuhong sneaked back to the back room before dawn, muttering and pinching the man.

"Then both of you can go to the back room, and I will stay alone in the empty room like a monk."

In the Guoming office, Zhu Xuefeng checked the message left by Yang Maosheng, left his request, gave a few instructions and left quietly.

Yang Maosheng's affairs went smoothly, and his family expressed understanding and appreciation for Zhu Xuefeng's foreign policy.

"Hey, it feels like playing Infernal Affairs." Zhu Xuefeng muttered to himself. On the surface, his strategy was to waver between the two camps, hoping to gain some benefits from both sides, but now he had contacted the bald eagle, which was the first step. The next step depended on whether Da Mao would take the initiative to contact him.

Now that it has started to go against Coconut City, the strength of the autonomous region will inevitably be exposed. After the exposure, the autonomous region's collusion with the Bald Eagle should attract the attention of Big Mao.

The arrival of the elder brother made the younger sister very happy. Zhu Xuefeng sneaked back when everyone went to work.

"Brother, when did you come back?"

Zhu Xuefeng looked at his sister and found that she was fine, except that she seemed a little depressed.

"I arrived in Beijing at noon yesterday and ran around the city all day."

After closing the door, the brother and sister talked about the younger sister's school situation. Zhu Xuefeng frowned, he didn't expect that the younger sister had been wronged. It turned out that the younger sister was blamed and criticized because of the foreign clothes that her eldest brother brought back. She became more cautious and secretly found Zhu Fu, asking him to bring a group of people with red armbands to sneak into the school. He vented her anger for her and then sneaked away.

"Little Jufu?"

"Well, he's not a kid anymore, he's seventeen, he's a grown man. You know what, I haven't seen him for a few years, he's not the kid he used to be, he's quite energetic, just like the students in our school."

Of course Zhu Xuefeng had seen Zhu Fu. This kid had very good kung fu, unlike others. Although the school stopped teaching martial arts in the past few years, he did not stop. His father was the school's martial arts teacher. After the sports school stopped teaching, he found a way to go to the drama academy to study martial arts, which was considered a suitable major. Unexpectedly, he was still in contact with his younger sister. He couldn't help but become interested and asked casually.

"Where did you find him? He hasn't been to our house, and you probably haven't been to his either."

"I ran into him in the alley in front several times on weekends after school. I brought him to our house. Hehe, brother, are you okay? He also went to the big yard over there."

That's right. The drama academy is also nearby, so it's not difficult to run into them. Zhu Xuefeng didn't worry about it anymore. He thought that there was something going on between the younger sister and Zhu Fu. In fact, it was nothing. They were of similar age, and the younger sister was several months older than Zhu Fu. Zhu Xuefeng was quite satisfied with this little guy Zhu Fu. He had a good character and a sharp mind.

Zhu Xuefeng smiled and pressed his little sister's nose. "You are so cunning. Why did you drag little Zhu Fu into trouble? Now that you are afraid to stay in school after being beaten up, you sneak back home. How about the plan I told you last time? Do you have any idea about it?"

Zhu Xuemei lowered her head and thought for a while, seeming to be struggling, but finally she raised her head and looked at her elder brother seriously.

"Brother, I agree. I'll do as you say."

Zhu Xuefeng was overjoyed when he heard this, and his younger sister finally nodded, "I've really thought it through, and I can't regret it."

Zhu Xuemei nodded solemnly, "Well, I don't regret it, I've thought it through. I was disobedient before, and big brother is doing this for my own good. From now on, I will listen to big brother and do whatever he tells me to do." The little sister's seriousness made Zhu Xuefeng laugh.

"It's not that serious. You should make your own decision. Big brother may give you some advice sometimes, but he won't interfere with your decision."

"Brother, I was wrong. I knew you were doing this for my own good, but I still acted so willfully."

Zhu Xuefeng patted his little sister gently, "It's nothing, cheer up, let's go to Hong Kong University to continue our studies, and you'll have the opportunity to learn acupuncture and Taiyi medical skills. Uncle Yang has read you many times."

Speaking of acupuncture and Taiyi medicine, Zhu Xuemei became interested again and pulled her brother to inquire carefully. She had not received any systematic training and it was difficult for her to learn. Although Zhu Xuefeng was also a half-baked person, he was obviously much better than her, especially in acupuncture. He could really explain many questions. He also checked the progress of his younger sister's practice, which was only so-so and the progress was very slow. She still had not broken through the fourth level.

"Little sister, you can't do this. If you want to improve your medical skills and acupuncture skills in the future, it will be difficult for you to achieve good results without the support of the corresponding exercises."

The youngest sister and the second oldest brother have both taken medicinal pills to improve their physical fitness, so they should have made smooth progress. According to their own experience, the first few levels of the beginner level are easy to break through, but they both seem to lack some interest in this area, and it seems that we were too relaxed with them in the past.

Zhu Xuemei stuck out her tongue and made an embarrassed expression to her elder brother. "Brother, it's really not my fault. There was no chance to practice at school. It's not easy for me to make progress instead of regress. Don't worry, I will work hard in the future. Brother, you have to believe me."

Seeing his sister's naughty look, Zhu Xuefeng rubbed her head unhappily and said, "Keep your word, but if you don't keep your word, it may not be your fault. When the time comes, Master Yang will teach you personally, and you won't be able to not take it seriously even if you want to."

Zhu Xuemei tilted her head with a look of disbelief, "Master Yang is so kind, and you can tell at a glance that he is a great man. He's not like you, big brother. Haha, I'm not afraid."

"Believe it or not, Master Yang is very strict when teaching people. I advise you to be less cautious when the time comes, so as not to suffer losses."

Zhu Xuemei wanted to refute, but she saw her elder brother put his index finger to his mouth, so she had to shut up. There were noises and men talking in the yard. It should be the workers who came back from get off work. (End of this chapter)