Siheyuan: Fishing for All Things.

Lin Shaowen spread his hands indifferently and rode his bike to the factory.

He did not go to the infirmary, but went to the personnel department first.

"Wow, what brings Minister Lin here?" Lin Chunhua said with a smile.

"Xiao'e is getting older and older. I feel that the fetal position is a little unstable, so I let her stay at home and come to work after the baby is born." Lin Shaowen said happily.

"This is no small matter. We need to take good care of it."

After saying this, Li Chunhua wrote a handwritten leave note to Lou Xiao'e, signed her name on it and put it in the drawer.

"Thank you, Sister Li. I'll go to work now." Lin Shaowen was about to retreat, but was stopped by Li Chunhua.

"Don't worry, I'll go with you." Li Chunhua said with a smile.

"The treatment won't start until ten o'clock." Lin Shaowen said with a wry smile.

"Ten o'clock? That Russian woman is not a good person. Let's make a bet. She must be waiting at the door of the infirmary now." Li Chunhua said affirmatively.

"Shouldn't it be?" Lin Shaowen was a little unconvinced.

"Minister Lin, when it comes to talent, we can't compare with you, but when it comes to judging people, especially old women... you have to learn from the director." Someone cheered.

"Minister Lin, let's make a bet." Li Chunhua said with a smile, "The factory is going to distribute New Year's goods. If we go to the infirmary now and that Russian girl is not here, I will lose you a piece of meat. You can choose any..."

"A gentleman's word is his bond." Lin Shaowen stretched out his hand.

"Horse faster with a whip." Li Chunhua reached out and patted his hand.

The HR department saw that what the two were talking about was interesting, so they all started to follow suit. These old ladies were really idle at work, and they spent most of their time sitting in the office chatting and knitting sweaters.

Lin Shaowen and Li Chunhua walked in front, and the others followed behind them. Before they reached the infirmary, they found that Sophia was indeed standing at the door.

"Oh~"

A group of old ladies immediately started to make a noise, looking at Lin Shaowen with a mocking look on their faces.

"Minister Lin, what do you say?" Li Chunhua said proudly.

"Okay, when the New Year's goods come, you can choose my things first." Lin Shaowen was willing to admit defeat.

"This woman is not a good person." Li Chunhua frowned and shouted to the group of people behind her, "Sisters, go to the infirmary whenever you have time. Xiao E has asked for leave, so we have to keep an eye on her."

"Director, are you still not confident in Minister Lin?" someone asked with a smile.

"This 'a good girl is afraid of a clingy man'. Maozi is very bold. It would be bad if he damages Minister Lin's reputation." Li Chunhua said seriously.

"Then we have to keep a close eye on it." Everyone also became serious.

Infirmary.

"Sophia, didn't we agree on ten o'clock?" Lin Shaowen asked.

"It's okay, I just came here earlier." Sophia smiled and completely ignored Li Chunhua beside her.

"Let's start, lie down on the bed." Lin Shaowen gestured.

"it is good."

Sophia lay on the bed, and whether intentionally or unintentionally, she pulled up her shirt, exposing half of her breasts.

Seeing this, Li Chunhua took a step forward and lifted up her clothes.

Before Sophia could speak, Li Chunhua took the lead and said, "Minister Lin, I will hold the massage for you, and you can give me the acupuncture."

Lin Shaowen glanced at the resentful Sophia, then immediately calmed down and started treatment.

After half an hour.

The treatment is over.

Sophia supported her chin with both hands, sat down next to Lin Shaowen, and said with a smile, "Minister Lin, your medical skills are really great. I found a very good restaurant. Do you want to have dinner together after get off work?"

"What is she talking about?" Li Chunhua frowned.

"She invited me to have dinner with her after get off work." Lin Shaowen said honestly.

"You really have bad intentions." Li Chunhua was furious and rushed to the door and shouted, "Come here..."

Chapter 161 Protecting Minister Lin

"Minister Lin, I'm not feeling well."

"Me too, Minister Lin. I've had a stomachache lately."

"Minister Lin, please show it to me quickly."

……

A group of old women swarmed in and pushed Sophia outside intentionally or unintentionally. Soon, Sophia was squeezed out of the infirmary.

"Minister Lin..." Sophia shouted in dissatisfaction.

"Why are you shouting?" Li Chunhua said with eyes wide open, "Can't you see Minister Lin has a patient? Once you're done with the treatment, leave immediately."

The translator who was brought here by these old women hurriedly started to work.

"you……"

Sophia stomped her feet in anger and turned around and ran away.

"No, we have to make a duty roster." Li Chunhua frowned and said, "From now on, every half an hour, someone will go to the infirmary to check on us. If someone sees that Russian girl flirting here, Minister Lin won't be able to explain himself even if he has eight mouths."

"Director, why don't we just work here for a while?" someone suggested.

"Good idea." Li Chunhua agreed. "Xiao Du and I will work here today, and we'll have two more people come here tomorrow. I want to see what that Russian girl is capable of. She still wants to eat Tang Monk's flesh. Ugh..."

"Sisters, it's not necessary, it's not necessary." Lin Shaowen bowed and begged for mercy.

"Minister Lin, we are not discussing this with you." Li Chunhua glared, "This is the decision of the Women's Federation of our factory, please abide by it."

"Ok."

Lin Shaowen smiled bitterly and shook his head.

How can this be called a medical room? This is Pansi Cave...

Sophia came over again at noon, and after seeing Li Chunhua, she left with a bitter face.

In the afternoon, when it was almost time to get off work, Sophia came again. She wanted to invite Lin Shaowen to have dinner together, but Li Chunhua pulled the translator and they started to argue with each other, and finally she ran away angrily.

Siheyuan.

As soon as Lin Shaowen stepped into the door, he heard Liu Guangfu's wailing and asked curiously, "Is the second uncle beating his son again?"

"That's right." Auntie frowned and said, "I don't know what's wrong with Guangfu. He actually quarreled with Uncle Er today."

"Oh, he still has the courage to do this?" Lin Shaowen suddenly became interested.

Liu Haizhong used every possible means to beat his son.

He uses whatever he can get. A few days ago, because of a wrong word in the yard, he raised Yan Bugui's hoe and hit Liu Guangtian, almost cutting his head off.

"It's you." The auntie scolded, "I don't know what kind of love potion Qin Jingru gave Liu Guangfu. He actually went to propose marriage on his own and was caught by Sha Zhu. Sha Zhu laughed at him and said he was a street urchin..."

"and then?"

"Then Liu Guangfu went back to quarrel with his father, insisting that his father find him a job, or else he would run away from home and never come back." The aunt sighed.

"But what does this have to do with me?" Lin Shaowen said dissatisfiedly.

"If you hadn't brought Qin Jingru back, the whole yard would have been in chaos." Auntie suppressed her laughter and said, "Yan Jiefang is about to graduate, and after seeing Qin Jingru last time, he kept asking Old Yan to come to the house to propose marriage."

"Wow, are you treating Qin Jingru as Tang Monk's meat?" Lin Shaowen said with a smile.

"You have a wife, so of course you are not in a hurry." The first aunt laughed, "These days, the girls in the city are very pretty, and the conditions of the second and third uncles are so limited... We can only think of ways to go to the countryside."

"Yu Li is doing fine."

Lin Shaowen was not in a hurry to go back. Instead, he sat in the yard and chatted with an old lady.

Yu Li, who was cooking at the door, blushed and pricked up her ears when she heard Lin Shaowen talking about her.

"If you ask me, Yu Li is unlucky to marry Yan Jiecheng. It would have been great if she had married you." The aunt sighed.

"First aunt, you'd better be careful when you say this. If third aunt hears it, she will definitely come after you." Lin Shaowen waved his hand.

"Don't worry, they are all out." An old lady said cheerfully, "Today the streets are releasing coal, so everyone is rushing to grab it."

"Rob the coal?" Lin Shaowen was stunned.

This coal is bought on a household basis, there is nothing to grab.

"You don't understand this, do you?" The auntie suddenly became reserved.

"Please teach me, Auntie."

Lin Shaowen reached into his pocket with his right hand, and when he took it out again, there was a handful of candies in his hand.

"Ahem." The lady wiped the candy with her right hand and said with a smile, "It's true that coal is purchased by household now, but coal is also divided into good and bad. The street office distributes coal to everyone, and it's basically a mixture of good and bad, but this is not absolute."

"If you go there too late, the good coal will have been distributed, and only the low-quality coal will be left. Even the subdistrict office won't be able to produce coal, right?"

The difference between low-quality coal and good coal is huge.

Low-quality coal is easy to extinguish and produces a strong smell of smoke, which can choke people to death when lit.

Lin Shaowen tilted his head and thought about it, and was too lazy to grab the coal anymore.

When the time comes, he can find some connections and get some coal from the steel mill's account. Steelmaking requires a lot of coal, and how much coal can he burn alone?

Today's coal stoves all burn raw coal, and honeycomb coal has not yet appeared, so it doesn't matter where you get the coal.

The two were chatting.

Suddenly a group of people came back talking and laughing.

"Wow, Minister Lin is here too." Liu Haizhong laughed, "You're not going to the street office to grab coal, but you're still in the mood to chat here?"

"It's no use trying to grab it now." Xu Damao said teasingly, "I just checked and there's only some miscellaneous coal left. It doesn't matter whether we grab it or not. No one will compete with him anyway."

"Lin Shaowen, how about I give it to you equally? The price is negotiable." Yan Bugui said with a smile.

Yi Zhonghai and others didn't say anything, looking like they were enjoying the show.

Seeing that Lin Shaowen had not returned for a long time, Lou Xiao'e also came to the yard. After seeing him being ridiculed by everyone, she hurried two steps and whispered, "Shaowen, it's all my fault. I wanted to buy coal today, but I overslept."

"It's okay, just a small problem." Lin Shaowen rubbed her head.

"But... our coal supply is almost gone, and the New Year is coming soon." Lou Xiao'e was a little sad.

She had never paid attention to these things before, and after she got married, she never paid attention to coal. She just burned coal as long as there was coal at home.

In fact, Lin Shaowen had never paid attention to these things. The coal in his house was all made by Qin Huairu. How would he know what kind of coal to make? He didn't even know how to make a fire.

Everyone was just about to watch the show.

Suddenly someone outside the door called out, "Xiao Lin, is Xiao Lin in the yard?"

"Director Wang, why are you here?" Lin Shaowen asked in surprise.

"The street office has noticed that you haven't come to get the coal. It's not a good idea to keep your coal piled up at the street office, so I asked someone to deliver it to you." Director Wang said, winking at Lin Shaowen.

Everyone looked towards the gate of the courtyard.

A young man was pulling a cart with a bucket, which was filled with high-quality coal, shiny and oily.

"Look at me, I forgot about it when I was so busy." Lin Shaowen slapped his head and said with a wry smile, "Director Wang, I'll drag it in myself."

"Okay, just stay aside. You are so weak, you don't look like someone who can do this kind of work." Director Wang scolded with a smile, then shouted to the outside, "Xiao Liu and Xiao Zhang, bring the coal in for Minister Lin, and help him stack it up..."

Chapter 162 The Great Change of Qin Jingru

In the west courtyard.

Sha Zhu and others reluctantly helped push the coal cart. If Director Wang hadn't been watching, they would have wanted to overturn the coal cart.

Grabbing coal is a physical job.

The old women in the family would queue up before dawn, buy the coal first, and pile it up in the truck bed. They would then go and fetch the coal after the men came back.

Even with this, you may not be able to get good coal.

After Lin Shaowen's cart of coal was poured onto the ground, there was almost no miscellaneous coal left, and many people were eager to grab a few pieces to take home.