Love in the Courtyard: Starting with Engineers

In the following days, Liu Haizhong and his group began spreading rumors about Li Yu everywhere.

In the past few days, Li Yu has also begun to notice that the people around him are deliberately distancing themselves from him.

Even the system would occasionally emit a series of notification sounds to collect emotion points.

That day, while Li Yu was inspecting the workshop, Zhou Qiming came over and pulled Li Yu to his office.

Li Yu looked at Zhou Qiming, who was closing the door, with a puzzled expression: "What are you doing, sneaking around like that?"

Zhou Qiming whispered to Li Yu, "Haven't you heard any news about it these past two days?"

Li Yu looked at Zhou Qiming, who had a mysterious expression, and said, "What news? I don't know anything about it."

Zhou Qiming shook his head and sighed, saying, "These past two days, there have been rumors that you embezzled the factory's production funds! Not only that, but they also say that you're so bureaucratic that you always have a bodyguard with you wherever you go."

"What? You say I have bodyguards? I accept that, but where did this embezzlement come from?"

"Do you know where this came from?"

Zhou Qiming stroked his chin and frowned, saying, "As far as I know, the news first came from the forging workshop and the propaganda department."

"The forging workshop and the publicity department?"

"Could it be Liu Haizhong and Xu Damao?"

Li Yu muttered to himself.

Li Yu then said to Zhou Qiming, "I know about this. Inquire around these next couple of days and see if you can find out who's spreading this rumor."

Zhou Qiming patted Li Yu on the shoulder and said, "Leave the small problem to me! When it comes to getting information in Beijing, I'm second to none."

"Okay, I'll treat you to dinner if you find out!" Li Yu said.

Zhou Qiming laughed and said, "Alright! Just you wait!"

Li Yu returned to his office, exchanged two bad luck charms, wrote Liu Haizhong's and Xu Damao's names on them, and then they disappeared.

Liu Haizhong, who was polishing a workpiece, suddenly felt a chill run through his body and shivered.

Xu Damao was riding his bicycle towards the countryside. The weather was gloomy and the road was full of mud. Xu Damao pedaled his bicycle pedals very hard the whole way.

As I was passing a hillside, the bicycle chain suddenly slipped off.

Xu Damao was pressing down on the pedal when he suddenly missed a step, causing the entire bicycle to lose its balance instantly.

"Hey!" Xu Damao cried out, then rolled down the hillside with his bicycle.

"Ouch~ That hurts!"

Xu Damao's face was covered in scratches from the pebbles, and his clothes were not only covered in mud but also had several holes in them.

Xu Damao groaned as he got up, looked at the twisted bicycle and the projector scattered on the ground, and grinned, saying:

"What the hell is wrong with me!"

It took Xu Damao a while to pick up the projection equipment from the ground.

"Luckily there was a box, otherwise everything would have been broken."

I tidied up the things on the floor.

After glancing at the village not far away, Xu Damao decided to rest for the night before returning to the steel rolling mill.

Xu Damao limped along, pushing his barely functional bicycle step by step.

The village militiamen saw a dirty man limping as he pushed a bicycle toward their village.

He immediately raised his gun and asked, "Who goes there!"

Upon seeing this, Xu Damao quickly said, "I am a projectionist from the steel rolling mill. I'm here to show a movie in your village."

The militiamen looked at the filthy Xu Damao, and then noticed the projection equipment in Xu Damao's car.

Only then did they take him to see the village chief.

In the forging workshop, Liu Haizhong noticed that he was out of materials and was about to ask his apprentice to bring some more.

Unfortunately, it seemed that the guy had gone to the toilet, so Liu Haizhong decided to move the workpiece himself.

As Liu Haizhong approached the workpiece and lifted the raw material, he tripped over a part on the ground.

He fell backward, and all the wool fabric hit Liu Haizhong's face.

"Bang!" The people in the workshop saw Liu Haizhong being knocked to the ground by a part.

"Master Liu! Are you alright?!" an employee shouted, looking at Liu Haizhong, whose face was covered in blood.

Unexpectedly, Liu Haizhong then said, "Call me Team Leader Liu! Team Leader!"

A group of people looked at Liu Haizhong with disdain.

Afterwards, the group took Liu Haizhong to the infirmary for basic treatment.

Nothing serious happened except that my face was slightly scratched by the splinter.

Li Yu went to Li Huaide's office and briefly explained to him about the rumors that had been spread against him.

Then Li Yu said to Li Huaide, "I have already prepared the accounts. Now I plan to have you take the people from the finance department to check them."

"Then clarify it for me on the radio later."

Li Huaide thought for a moment and said, "That's no problem. But what do you plan to do with the people who spread the rumors?"

Li Yu smiled and said, "I have my own way of doing things. Let's clarify things first."

"Okay, go to the office and prepare the materials first. I'll go to the finance department with a few people to check it out."

A short while later, Li Huaide led several people to Li Yu's office.

Li Yu presented the prepared materials to the group.

They finished checking just before they were about to leave work.

One of them said to Li Yu, "Director Li, we have finished our inspection, and we have not found any problems."

"Then I'll trouble you to provide a certificate," Li Yu said with a smile.

The man took out a pen, picked up a piece of paper from Li Yu's desk, wrote a statement, and signed his name.

After Li Yu put away the certificate, he gave each of the finance department staff a pack of cigarettes and then joked:

"Thank you all for your hard work. I'm forced to prove myself."

After accepting the cigarettes, the men all said, "It's all part of our job. If there's anything you need in the future, Director Li can contact us anytime."

After the group left, Li Yu gave the certificate to Li Huaide.

"Brother Li, we'll have to trouble you with the publicity department again!"

Li Huaide joked, "Although Zheng Qiushi is in charge over there now, I still have a say in things."

Although several departments in the logistics department have now sided with Zheng Qiushi, they are still nominally under Li Huaide's jurisdiction.

Therefore, everyone gives Li Huaide some face.

Seeing that it was almost time to get off work, Li Yu arrived at the forging workshop and saw Liu Haizhong with several pieces of gauze wrapped around his head, grinding a workpiece with great effort.

Li Yu approached Liu Haizhong: "Wow~ Master Liu's skills are pretty good, his hands are still so steady even with the head wrapped!"

Upon hearing someone call him "Master Liu," Liu Haizhong instinctively replied, "Why are you calling me Master Liu! You should call me Team Leader Liu!"

After speaking, he looked up and found it was Li Yu.

So, feeling awkward, he said, "You... what brings you here? What are you doing in our workshop?"

"I came to check on you. I heard you were injured, so I wanted to see if you were dead." With that, Li Yu used his spatial abilities to put a blueprint of a machine tool into Liu Haizhong's shirt pocket.

"You...you, humph! What's it to you!" Liu Haizhong said angrily.

Li Yu looked at Liu Haizhong with a smile but didn't say anything.

Just as Liu Haizhong felt uneasy from being stared at, Li Yu turned and left.

Just as Li Yu was leaving, Liu Haizhong wiped imaginary sweat from his face and muttered, "He wouldn't know, would he?"