The strong fisherman in the courtyard

"With the relationship between our two families, you're still bringing things with you, isn't that nonsense?"

"That won't do. I can't be like that idiot, right?"

"Okay, no problem. When the time comes, just let Damao ride away and pack up. It's just a small matter!"

Li Weiguo just likes Xu Fugui's temper. At least when he asks someone to do something for him, it's not something that would make people feel embarrassed, right?

Moreover, they brought gifts and spoke nicely. Aren’t they much better than He Yuzhu’s three people?

Although He Yuzhu brought some things with him, the thing they wanted to do was so difficult that even a god would find it difficult to handle! He was just causing trouble for the Li family!

The relationship between the two families is not good, so why should the Li family help him?

Li Ming and Xu Damao did not participate in the whole process. Instead, they were outside smoking together.

Chapter 362 Yan Jiecheng

Besides, Xu Damao didn't think that the Li family wouldn't help with this matter. They weren't stupid! Besides, the two families had a good relationship. This time, he brought some things with him, just to keep in touch.

Although the Xu family's conditions were not the best among the courtyard houses, they were definitely not bad, and they were not short of these few things and money!

"Mingzi, no matter what, thank you for this time." Xu Damao said with a smile.

Bicycles are really rare items these days. If an average family has one, they can brag about it for three years. But the Li family has two. Although one is old and the other is new, it is not something that most people can afford.

If Xu Damao can get two bicycles for his wedding this time, then his wedding will be a grand occasion!

Li Ming waved his hand and said, "Brother Damao, our two families should stop being so polite. This is outrageous!"

"Hey, okay, I'll listen to you. But when my brother gets married, you have to come to the backyard to help!" Xu Damao rubbed his hands.

"Don't worry, we can't do anything else, but we can give people cigarettes." Li Ming looked calm. If you gave him any other task, he really couldn't do it.

It's easy to give away cigarettes. They're not your own cigarettes, so just give them away!

"Hey kid, hold on to some of it, don't let me smoke it all!" Xu Damao looked reluctant. Although they were all economy cigarettes, he bought quite a few of them. It would be nice if he could save some.

Li Ming nodded happily, "By the way, if you get married, will you have to take over my uncle Xu's job and go to the factory?"

Speaking of work, the blush on Xu Damao's face became even more intense. These days, getting a formal job in a state-owned factory and having a stable job as one of the eight major employees is simply amazing!

"That's right, I will take over the factory when the time comes, hehe!" Xu Damao's face was full of expectation. This year, not only could he marry a beautiful wife, but he could also get a stable job in the factory. That would be great!

"That's great, let's go to work together when we have time."

"Then I can't compare with you, a purchasing agent who stays in our courtyard all day long and never goes out." Speaking of Li Ming's current work situation, Xu Damao's face was filled with envy.

"It's not easy for us now. Every buyer has to buy 35 kilograms of food every month, which is a bit heavier than the previous 30 kilograms!"

"If we can't get the exact weight, we'll deduct money!" Li Ming pretended to be speechless.

Although this little bit of food is nothing to him, you can't show it in front of outsiders, right? It's better to keep a low profile and live a good life in silence.

Moreover, Li Huaide's cheap uncle also gave him some advice some time ago. Maybe there will be an opportunity in the future. Taking advantage of this special opportunity, Li Ming's position may be moved.

If it weren't for the special times, if Li Ming wanted to climb up, he wouldn't be able to do so in ten or eight years! Under normal circumstances, the steel mill also pays attention to seniority!

"It's not bad anyway, hehe, next I'll wait for you to get married!" Xu Damao squinted his eyes and said in a mean way.

Li Ming curled his lips. He really didn't have any plans to do it so quickly.

It was not until Xu Fugui left the Li family that Li Ming separated from Xu Damao. Now their relationship is the best in this courtyard.

In the outer courtyard, Yan Jiecheng's house.

Yan Jiecheng has been feeling uncomfortable ever since he found out that Xu Damao's blind date was Yu Li. Especially when he learned that Xu Damao was going to marry Yu Li soon, Yan Jiecheng felt even more uncomfortable.

He had met Yu Li before. In terms of appearance, she was no worse than Qin Huairu, and to be honest, her figure was also very good.

But for some reason, Yan Jiecheng failed to ask Yu Li out again. Maybe he knew the reason, but he just felt uncomfortable!

Especially since his marriage partner is Xu Damao, even if others don’t know Xu Damao’s character, how could these old neighbors in the same courtyard not know?

But it's too late to say anything now. As a result, this bastard Yan Jiecheng directly attributed the most fundamental reason to Li Ming.

His idea was very simple. If the Li family had lent grain to the Yan family, he would not have developed a reputation for killing chickens in the middle of the night!

If it weren't for this reputation, it would probably be him, Yan Jiecheng, who would be getting married now, instead of Xu Damao! And he always felt that he had lost a lot of luck since he killed the chicken.

I have been unlucky all the time, and it is only recently that things have gotten a little better.

"Damn it, this damn Li Ming, Zhuo!" Yan Jiecheng cursed viciously and pressed the cigarette butt on the table. In addition, there was no electricity in his back room and the lantern was still lit. Yan Jiecheng's vicious face now looked quite ferocious!

Front yard, Li's house.

Following his habit before going to bed, Li Ming subconsciously brought up the system's personal interface and hatred value interface. As for the friendly value interface, to be honest, there was nothing much to pay attention to.

【Host】: Li Ming

[Skills Possessing]: Pistol mastery (top level), Bajiquan (top level), Fishing (great accomplishment), Weakness attack (language-oriented), Art of language, Wall climbing, Locust stone throwing technique (top level), Sichuan cuisine (great accomplishment), Shandong cuisine (great accomplishment), Antique identification skills (great accomplishment), Lock picking (great accomplishment).

【Number of draws】:2.

[Physique Template]: Li Yuanba [Development Progress 90%]

[System Items]: 5 one-click task completion cards, 1860 Colt m1 revolver, a box of 0.44-inch black powder bullets, a gun license, a set of locust stone production lines, a set of disguise masks, a voice-changing button, 2 pounds of Anxi Tieguanyin, 1 kitchen knife, 1 baseball bat, 2 Jerry's firecrackers, 1 watch ticket, 1 sewing ticket, 1 radio ticket, 2 malted milk tickets, a set of house deeds for the second courtyard {Paoju Hutong), a set of house deeds for the first courtyard (Qianer Hutong).

Li Ming was quite silent as he watched the progress of the body. He did expect that the development progress would be slower as time went on, but he did not expect that it would only increase by 1% in more than two months! You know, this is not just a 1% increase in two months, it has been more than three months!

However, Li Ming is quite satisfied with the 90% level of physical development. He can intuitively feel that the current 90% level of physical development is much better than the previous 89%!

For example, he could deal with He Yuzhu with one hand before, but now he only needs half a hand to deal with He Yuzhu.

Although it is impossible to use only half a hand, this is just an analogy!

Chapter 363 Monthly Steel Mill Gathering

【Hate Value】

Yi Zhonghai (30)

Auntie (10)

He Yuzhu (45)

He Yushui (10)

Jia Zhang (30)

Jia Dongxu (40)

Qin Huairu (5)

Yan Jiecheng (50)

Yan Fugui (21)

Deaf old lady (20)

Li Ming continued to fall into deep thought as he looked at someone's skyrocketing hatred value. He needed to use his brain more or less today.

If he remembered correctly, he shouldn't have offended the Yan family or Yan Jiecheng recently, right? Then where did this sudden increase in hatred come from?

Could it be that Yan Jiecheng has undergone gender reassignment surgery? Does he have those days every month when he is in a bad mood?

Li Ming thought about it for a while but couldn't figure it out, so he stopped worrying about it. To be honest, it would be fine if Yan Jiecheng's hatred value didn't skyrocket, but if it was rising faster and faster, it could only mean that he was not far from reincarnation.

If Li Ming really wanted to do something in this era, ordinary people would not be able to detect it, but he just had a red line in his heart.

. . . . . .

Office of the purchasing department of the steel rolling mill.

Li Ming and the four salted fish who had not appeared for a long time were sitting together and chatting. After all, they only saw each other once or twice a month, so they had quite a lot of common topics at this moment.

It was just a corner of the office where the piles of food were quite eye-catching. There were five piles of 35 kilograms of food and a slightly smaller pile of 20 kilograms.

But now Xu Qiang is attending a meeting. Basically, the monthly logistics meeting is held on the last day of every month. After all, most members of the purchasing department usually come to the steel mill on the last day.

"These 35 kilograms of food this month made me more or less worried. In the end, I still went to the black market to buy two kilograms." Zhou Tian complained while smoking.

"Me too, I bought 5 kilograms on the black market." Wu Gang looked helpless.

Although they made some money from buying food on the black market, it was not as much as they made from buying food themselves. And now the food problem is difficult to deal with, and it will definitely be more difficult for them to buy food in the future.

"I hope that this time when Old Xu returns from the meeting, he won't bring any bad news."

"That's right, otherwise I really have to go to the river to catch fish."

"I also bought 3 kilograms of food from the black market this month." Li Ming spread his hands and said. Of course, he did this purely to make himself appear more sociable.

If you try to show off at this critical moment, it will definitely work, but you will regret it when others find out about it.

Several people continued to chat about this and that, all waiting for Xu Qiang to come back. After all, their boss had gone out for a meeting, and they also wanted to hear if there was any good news. After all, their procurement had been quite difficult in the past few months.

Although the people next door were even more furious, there was nothing they could do! When these bastards were relaxed, they were really relaxed!

After lunch, several people returned to the office. It was already past one o'clock in the afternoon when Xu Qiang pushed the door open with a smile on his face.

Several people had been waiting for Xu Qiang for a long time and were already tired of waiting. Now when they saw Xu Qiang coming back with a smile on his face, they could no longer contain themselves.

"Old Xu, is there something good?"

"Tell me something quickly. We haven't heard much good news recently. We need good news to motivate us!"

"Hurry up, don't keep us in suspense." Zhou Tian directly moved a chair and pressed Xu Qiang onto it.

Zheng Ping was very tactful and handed a cigarette to Section Chief Xu and lit it.

The people in the office looked at Xu Qiang with sharp eyes, as if to say, we have served you so well, if you dare to keep us in suspense again, then you can just get punished!

"Okay, since you're so diligent this time, I'll tell you something." Xu Qiang cleared his throat and took a puff of cigarette happily.

"It is a good thing, but it has little to do with you. However, if you are lucky, I think you can get a lot of benefits."

"Speak quickly!"

"Do not talk nonsense!"

"Water, drink water, drink it quickly!"

Xu Qiang's face twitched, and he pushed the enamel pot that hit his face aside. "Actually, this is what happened. The steel mill is running low on food, and the factory leaders hope to have more."

"But they also know that this kind of thing can't be forced, so they formulated an incentive plan. Each department is different, but there is a basic one, that is, if you collect more than 35 kilograms of grain every month, our steel mill will double it!"

Xu Qiang stretched out two fingers and gestured, "But there is one requirement, that is, it cannot be food from the black market. If the amount of food is huge, you will need to provide the source. Do you understand?"

A few people smacked their lips. They were thinking that this was a good opportunity to make money, but it turned out that they could only make a small profit.

No wonder Xu Qiang said it had little to do with them. It would be crazy if they could make a fortune from this!

"Okay, it's better than nothing."

"That's right. If not, why not go to the black market and buy an extra 5 kilograms every month? You can make some money anyway. It doesn't matter whether you make a little or a lot."

"That's right. Besides, we can also try it slowly. The factory said the quantity is huge, but they didn't say the specific weight, right? Let's try the 5-jin one next month. If the 5-jin one is fine, we will get the 10-jin one. We will increase the price little by little, so that it won't fall into our hands by then!" Zhou Tian thought for a moment and found a suitable response strategy. He would increase the price slowly and measure your limit to see how much is considered a huge quantity!

The steel mill doesn't dare to say it directly, because it's afraid that these people will catch a sheep and pull it to death, right?

They are a large state-owned factory and cannot personally go out to purchase grain on the black market. After all, to be honest, they still have to save their face!

But it’s much easier to deal with the buyers under me, just break the whole into parts!

Li Ming looked at his section chief who was keeping things in suspense. This man must have something bigger to say, which was the one he just mentioned, the one that had little to do with them, the small employees.

Since it has nothing to do with them, then it must be related to this group of leaders. It might be another step for promotion!

"Chief, can you tell me something else?"

Yes, the others also reacted, looking at the lustful face of Old Xu in front of them, damn, maybe this bitch is going to have good things happen! If he has good things happen, we brothers will kill him for it, no matter what.

Chapter 364 Li Ming's Benefits

Xu Qiang's grinning mouth slowly widened, revealing all his teeth, and then he burst into laughter.

"Haha, I can't say now. Let's wait a little longer." Although Xu Qiang wanted to show off immediately, the matter had not yet been put into practice. As a veteran who had worked in a steel mill for so many years, he naturally knew what to prioritize.

But he was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, a veteran like him should not have the opportunity to make further progress. Even if he did, he would have to wait until he was about to retire, and the steel mill would give him a half-level promotion as a token of appreciation, and then he could retire and enjoy his pension. This was a qualified process.

However, he didn't know why this time, but it was definitely a good thing. After all, the boss specially kept him here after the meeting of the logistics department.

Li Huaide said that the director of the second canteen would step down soon, and he would take over the job. Although the director of this canteen didn't sound as good as a section chief, it was still much better than his current position as a small section chief.