Siheyuan: Starting from 1958

The kitchen of a canteen in a steel rolling mill.

After yesterday's lesson, Squad Leader Lin was very honest today, fearing that he would be slapped in the face again without realizing it.

And yesterday the sales of wild vegetable steamed bread in a canteen were very good.

Not only was there nothing left, but a large number of workers wanted to buy wild vegetable steamed buns but had none.

In this situation, there was no reason for Lin Tao to organize his men to help in the kitchen to make wild vegetable steamed bread.

As for stopping Wang Dong from promoting wild vegetable steamed bread in the steel rolling mill, he no longer holds out any hope.

After a night of fermentation, some workers in the factory still slandered the wild vegetable steamed bread in private, believing that it was a conspiracy by the kitchen staff to withhold everyone's food rations.

But most workers believe that wild vegetable steamed bread is a welfare provided by the steel mill to the workers.

Everyone has a scale in their heart and knows how to do the math.

For the same price, you can buy more wild vegetable steamed buns, and the flour content in them has not decreased, which means that the wild vegetables in the steamed buns are equivalent to giving them away for free.

Such a good thing happened in the steel mill. Unless someone was crazy, no one would refuse it.

Wang Dong was very satisfied as he saw the order in the cafeteria had been restored and even Lin Tao was much more obedient than yesterday.

Just as I was about to take a break, I saw the deputy director of the logistics department walking towards me in a hurry.

"Xiao Wang..."

"The leader wants to see you. Let's go to his office right away..."

Wang Dong couldn't understand why Deputy Director Li would come to him at this time, so he asked his direct superior as he walked away, "Director..."

"I guess I have made some mistake and will be criticized soon..."

To be honest, Director Zhou likes Wang Dong more than Deputy Director Li.

No ambition, no threat to your position.

He is willing to work and will basically complete the tasks assigned by him without fail.

More importantly, he respected me very much and did not look down on me just because Deputy Director Li was standing behind me. He would always come to me for instructions first if there was anything.

Meeting such a subordinate is like pie in the sky.

Although Deputy Director Li treated Wang Dong as his own, he did not regard Wang Dong as his confidant because of the huge difference in rank between the two.

Director Zhou is different. He is only two levels lower than Wang Dong, who was promoted to deputy director of logistics. Wang Dong has long been cultivating him as his confidant.

Seeing Wang Dong looking at him with worry on his face, he just laughed and scolded.

"what are you thinking?"

"I've just been the deputy director of logistics for two days. What could go wrong..."

"If I really talk about what you did after becoming the deputy director of logistics, the leader will only praise you and will never scold you..."

"I don't know what it was specifically, but it certainly wasn't scolding you..."

At this point, Director Zhou seemed to have thought of something and continued, "By the way..."

"More than an hour ago, I went to report to my leader. I seemed to see Yi Zhonghai from the first workshop go to the leader's office. I don't know what he did specifically."

"I heard that you don't get along with Yi Zhonghai..."

"Besides, Yi Zhonghai is from the production workshop and has nothing to do with our logistics department. He would definitely not come to the leader for no reason."

"Who knows, maybe the reason why the leader is looking for you is related to this Yi Zhonghai."

Wang Dong's brows immediately wrinkled into a "川" shape, and he racked his brains to recall everything he had done during this period of time. It seemed that he had not offended Yi Zhonghai in any way.

Finally, he could only shake his head and walked into Deputy Director Li's office with a puzzled look on his face. "Boss, you want to see me..."

“You’ve done a great job promoting wild vegetable steamed bread…” Deputy Director Li praised with a smile.

"I heard about it as soon as I arrived at the steel mill. Not only did the workers not reject the wild vegetable steamed bread, but they were looking forward to it. They thought the wild vegetable steamed bread was a welfare provided by the steel mill. Even I, the deputy director in charge of logistics, benefited a lot from it..."

Wang Dong quickly responded: "Leader, this matter is originally your credit."

"Without your approval and support, I would not be able to implement the idea of ​​making wild vegetable steamed bread."

Deputy Director Li was very satisfied with Wang Dong's answer, and then changed the subject: "I'm looking for you today for another matter..."

"How has He Yuzhu from Canteen 1 been doing recently? Has he made any mistakes again..."

Wang Dong didn't know why Deputy Director Li suddenly mentioned He Yuzhu, but he still told the truth: "He Yuzhu hasn't made any mistakes for more than half a year..."

"I cook big pots of food in the kitchen every day, and my performance is pretty good..."

"That's good..." Deputy Director Li obviously breathed a sigh of relief.

He had just received a thank-you fee of one thousand yuan from Yi Zhonghai. If He Yuzhu made a mistake recently and he failed to help Yi Zhonghai get things done, he would have to return the one thousand yuan in bribes.

Although Deputy Director Li is not short of money, one thousand yuan is still a considerable income.

Facing Wang Dong's puzzled look, he replied: "Since he didn't make any mistakes, it means Comrade He Yuzhu corrected his mistakes as soon as he knew them."

"In the spirit of curing illness and saving lives, the factory leaders want to cancel all the punishments against Comrade He Yuzhu."

"You are the deputy director of logistics and also the monitor of the cafeteria. He Yuzhu is your man. What do you think?"

Wang Dong immediately showed an expression of sudden enlightenment.

It turned out that Yi Zhonghai came to see Deputy Director Li not to cause trouble for himself, but to cancel the punishment on He Yuzhu.

I have to admit that he chose the timing very well.

Now the whole factory is paying attention to the wild vegetable steamed buns. Deputy Director Li also hopes that after the wild vegetable steamed buns are promoted throughout the factory, he will be favored by his superiors and strive to make further progress.

Yi Zhonghai took a different approach. He came to see Deputy Director Li at this time, gave him a gift, and took the opportunity to bring up the matter of He Yuzhu.

Since no one wants to cause any trouble, they will definitely agree to cancel the punishment on He Yuzhu.

Moreover, those penalties were originally decided by the factory. He Yuzhu had not made any mistakes for more than half a year. Now that those penalties have been rescinded, no one can say anything.

Looking at the expression on Deputy Director Li’s face, Wang Dong knew that he had just received a lot of benefits.

Although he was very reluctant and very unhappy with Deputy Director Li's decision, he had no choice but to bow his head in order not to leave a bad impression on Deputy Director Li.

At the same time, I also had another understanding of Deputy Director Li.

He is a man who lives for profit.

Don't be fooled by the fact that he is very nice to me now, acting like his confidant.

If one day someone brings him more benefits than himself and asks him to deal with himself, Deputy Director Li will definitely kick him away and won't even look at him.

Thinking of this, when Wang Dong looked at Deputy Director Li again, he no longer had the same respect for him as before.

He knew very well how great the hatred between him, He Yuzhu and Yi Zhonghai was, so he accepted some benefits from Yi Zhonghai and agreed to help Yi Zhonghai without even saying hello to him.

It was obvious that he was called here just to go through the formalities. In fact, he had already made the decision in his mind to help He Yuzhu cancel the punishment.

At the same time, a bold idea popped up in my mind: from now on, I can rely on Deputy Director Li, but I also have to find ways to improve my own strength.

If Deputy Director Li ever stabs me in the back, I must at least have some ability to protect myself.

We should not be like vassals, who can be kicked away at will by others. (End of this chapter)