The strong fisherman in the courtyard

Chapter 423 Jia Dongxu is offline

Early autumn.

Li Ming was walking around the courtyard like a street urchin. Wu Xuanxuan was curious for a long time and asked him why he was walking around the courtyard all day long.

How can we tell others about this? It would be a miracle if we don't arrest Xiao Li!

He was actually paying attention to Jia Dongxu. To be honest, he felt that his attention to Jia Dongxu this year was stronger than that to his own mother!

He didn't have any other intentions. The main reason was that this courtyard would be in chaos after Jia Dongxu was reincarnated, which was a good opportunity for Li Ming to fish in troubled waters. He was also curious about how much system rewards he, Li Ming, could get after Dongxu died. His purpose was very simple.

But Jia Dongxu never died. Instead, many neighbors in the courtyard looked unhappy. Well, the main reason was that food was becoming increasingly difficult to obtain, and the price of food on the black market was getting higher day by day.

The wild vegetables outside the city were dug up last year. Now most people are strolling in the Jinshui River, and even the chance of catching fish in the Jinshui River has become much smaller.

If Li Ming could catch 5 fish a day before, now he can only catch 3 at most.

"Brother, let's go. It's time to go to the steel mill today!"

"I'm coming!"

Li Ming stretched his muscles in the yard, and when he heard Yan Xing's voice, he hurried out with a bag of grain in his hand. The three brothers walked towards the steel rolling mill together.

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Steel Rolling Mill, Office of Section 3, Purchasing Department.

It was past ten o'clock in the morning when Li Ming finished his work. The steel rolling mill now needed more grain. The purchasing staff was required to produce 40 kilograms of grain per month. If they reached the target, they would receive a reward. If they did not, it was okay as there would be no deduction of money.

But the reward is very tempting! One of the rewards is to buy grain at the black market price, and then add 10% to the total price. This group of people work hard every day to buy grain.

"Okay, it's done!" Li Ming muttered as he stretched himself out on the chair. After he was done, he took out a pack of cigarettes from the drawer, broke it open and threw a box to each of them.

Including himself, there are now ten people in the three groups, and a pack of cigarettes per person is just right.

"Guys, are you going to leave after dinner or are you going to yo-yo now?" Li Ming tried to find a topic while smoking.

"Eat, and then leave after you finish eating!"

"It's better to save a meal every time. The food at the steel mill is still delicious if you only eat it once a month."

"That's for sure."

"Section Chief, you?"

"Well, I'll eat before I leave. I'll have to find my way back home, so I might as well have a meal at the factory!" Li Ming shook his head.

"By the way, how is Old Xu doing recently?" Li Ming asked curiously, mainly because this person hasn't come to Sangu to visit for some time.

"Old Xu hangs out in the cafeteria every day now. Damn, I feel like he's gained a lot of weight!"

"That's right. Not to mention that the cooks wouldn't starve to death in a famine, even the canteen director wouldn't starve to death!"

"Our purchasing staff is still in a miserable state. We don't know when the steel mill will provide us with dinner!"

"What the hell are you dreaming of? We have a hard time even getting lunch in our factory. I heard from the workers in their workshop that they haven't seen meat for two months."

"Now if those working in the workshop want to eat meat, well, they can only go home to eat it. There is no meat in our steel mill."

Li Ming listened to the chatter of his subordinates and basically knew all the gossips, big and small, within a ten-mile radius centered on the steel rolling mill. These people present could be considered capable people!

in the afternoon.

Everyone was in the room, and each of them was preparing to pack up and go home.

"Hey, where is Lao Zhou?" Li Ming looked around and found that someone was missing from his family.

"I'm going to the bathroom. I'll be back soon. We don't need to wait."

"Yes, it's not impossible to let him live in the toilet."

"Right, right. Let's go first and just hang his bag outside the door."

Before he finished speaking, the door of the Sangu office was knocked open from the outside. The group of people inside shuddered and turned to look at Zhou Tian.

"Fuck, you're going to die, Lao Zhou!"

"You scared me to death! Old Zhou, come and die!"

"I went to your house and knocked on the door in the middle of the night..."

Zhou Tian had no interest in following their topic, "I have some gossip, just now."

"Thump, thump, thump." A chaotic sound of footsteps was heard in the office.

After the footsteps, Zhou Tian had already sat down, with a cigarette in his left hand and a glass of water in his right hand. He sat in the middle of the office with his legs crossed.

Li Ming looked at the scene which was like a magic trick numbly, "Okay, we've got you covered, hurry up!"

The newcomers around were seeing this scene for the first time as well, and they were all laughing.

"Someone died in our factory, Jia Dongxu from the fitter workshop."

The surroundings fell silent, and everyone looked at Zhou Tian with burning eyes.

"Really? Why would I lie to you?" Zhou Tian spread his hands helplessly.

As soon as he finished speaking, the group of people in the office rushed out. They looked upstairs and saw that many people were gathering there.

"Let's go, let's hurry." Li Ming shouted, and ran towards the workshop where Jia Dongxu had the accident with his men.

The brothers Yan Xing and Yan Wang also looked incredulous. Of course, the main reason was that this was their neighbor, and they saw him when they came in the morning.

Although he didn't look like someone who would live long, they didn't expect that Jia Dongxu could only live for the morning!

The workshop is now surrounded by people. When Li Ming and his team arrived, Director Yang of the steel rolling mill had already arrived here with a group of leaders and security personnel.

"Everyone, make way, we need to protect the scene!"

"My fellow workers, please make way, please make way!"

"Retreat, retreat, retreat! Retreat quickly!"

Li Ming and the Yan brothers left very consciously. They also lived in a courtyard house, so it was only a matter of time, so there was no need to rush to take a look.

In the workshop.

Director Yang entered the workshop with a group of leaders. What caught their eyes was a sea of ​​blood red. Jia Dongxu was still hanging on a machine in the steel rolling mill, but he didn't look very alive.

Fortunately, many people these days have served in the military and have seen blood, otherwise it would have been a lot of trouble if these leaders fainted one after another.

Director Yang suppressed his uncomfortable feeling and waved to the dazed workshop director standing beside him, and waved again.

In the end, it was the security guard who brought the workshop director to the factory director.

"What's going on? What's the reason?"

Director Guo has now recovered, but when he thought of Jia Dongxu, his face turned pale again and he was full of worries about his future.

"Director, I heard from the workers that Jia Dongxu didn't do a good job of debugging and preheating the machine before he went to start working, so the machine got stuck after grinding a few parts. Someone told Jia Dongxu to wait for the engineer to come and repair it, but he just started shooting, and then..."

“And only half is left?”

Chapter 424 Yi Zhonghai's Death

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Chapter 425 Harvest +1

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Chapter 426: Different Thoughts

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Chapter 427: He Yuzhu, the Substitute

Middle courtyard, Jia's house.

There are not only Jia Zhang and Qin Huairu in the Jia family now, but also Yi Zhonghai, Aunt Yi and He Yuzhu. This group of people have gathered together.

"Sister-in-law Jia, now that things have developed to this point, we still have to consider what to do next. We can't let Dongxu stay in the funeral home forever, right?" Yi Zhonghai consoled her kindly.

Jia Dongxu's death is also a huge sunk cost for Yi Zhonghai, but fortunately, it still has the second candidate for retirement support, He Yuzhu, who has now successfully become Yi Zhonghai's major investor.

Therefore, Yi Zhonghai was able to get over the pain of losing his "godson" relatively easily, but Jia Dongxu's attitude towards their Jia family was different.

Now the two of them looked sad, and they had no appetite. They leaned on the kang, looking as if they had lost their souls.

Aunt Yi was accompanying Qin Huairu. After all, she was pregnant with a child, a posthumous child, which was very important at this critical moment.

After a long silence, Jia Zhang finally spoke in a hoarse voice. Now the only hope of their Jia family is Jia Dongxu's cheap master. So even if Jia Zhang has resentment in her heart, she cannot vent it on Yi Zhonghai.

Not to mention that their family will lose their source of income in the future, and they still have a lot to rely on Yi Zhonghai for!

"Okay, I'll go to the countryside tomorrow to announce the death, and call the relatives there. My wife is pregnant, so I'll leave the rest to you, my master."

This was the first time that Yi Zhonghai knew what it was like for ivory to come out of a dog's mouth, but he didn't care much about it. After all, to be honest, he could also know what Jia Zhang was thinking at the moment.

"Okay, I'll go get Dongxu's death certificate tomorrow. I won't worry about the funeral home for now. Once we're done, we can arrange the wake." Yi Zhonghai turned his head and looked at He Yuzhu, "Zhuzi, can I leave this banquet to you?"

He Yuzhu patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, sir, leave it to me. Is this the dish?"

Yi Zhonghai paused. He thought that he was still his disciple after all, so he might as well see him off for the last time. If he didn't want to agree, he had no choice. Jia Zhang in front of him wouldn't agree either, so he might as well just do it.

"I'll take care of it. You can ask Jia's sister-in-law to take care of the odds and ends. Can Jia's sister-in-law do it?"

Jia Zhang looked at Yi Zhonghai gratefully and nodded, "Okay, let Zhuzi come to me when the time comes."

This was the first time that she didn't call He Yuzhu "Shazhu" in front of him, which made He Yuzhu very happy.

"I estimate that the steel mill will come in the next few days. Huairu should wait at home. We will talk about it then. Let's see what the steel mill says first."

Qin Huairu also nodded. She was in a mess right now. She couldn't arrange anything even if you asked her to. She needed a man in the family who could take responsibility, such as Yi Zhonghai. At least he could arrange things properly, right?

After Yi Zhonghai had almost arranged everything, he took Aunt Yi back home, and He Yuzhu also rolled back the same way he came.

Zhongyuan, Yi Zhonghai's house.

Yi Zhonghai returned home and sat down on the kang. It seemed as if all the strength in his body was drained away at that moment. With a slightly trembling arm, he took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath. Only then did he feel some strength coming back.

Aunt Yi couldn't bear it after seeing this, "Thank you for your hard work today, Old Yi."

Yi Zhonghai smiled bitterly, "There's nothing we can do about it. Dongxu was fine in the morning. Who would have thought... who would have thought that he would be gone in the afternoon. Sigh!"

"Okay, finish this cigarette and go to bed early. You still have a lot of things to do tomorrow. Fortunately, we still have a pillar, hey." Aunt Yi nodded.

Yi Zhonghai was naturally not stupid. He knew how to treat He Yuzhu in the future without her saying anything.

"Don't worry, it's just this once. Next time, let's just go for the pillar. The deaf old lady in the backyard has said this many times before. Next time, let's just lean towards the pillar."

"Although this child is a little straightforward and silly sometimes, this is also an advantage."

"It's all up to you."

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The next day.

Li Ming staggered off the bed, washed up, and then sat down in the corridor with a stool in his hand. From the corner of his eye, he could just see He Yuzhu who was busy in the middle courtyard and Qin Huairu who occasionally appeared with a big belly.

But this time the two of them were not in a state of chatting and laughing, which was a pity.

"It looks like they are preparing a banquet! Wow, Yi Zhonghai is really generous. I guess this guy will take care of all of Jia Dongxu's banquet!" Li Ming looked at He Yuzhu who was moving like an ant, going to Yi Zhonghai's house, the cellar, his own house, and then moving to Jia's house. It was a complete mess!

"What the warm-hearted man said afterwards actually makes a lot of sense!"

Li Ming happily watched He Yuzhu, who was standing behind the dog, busying himself for the whole morning. It was not until Yi Zhonghai came back from outside with a paper in his hand that he went home and started cooking.

"What Yi Zhonghai is holding should be the death certificate. Now that the death certificate has been issued, the rest will be done soon. I just don't know when Jia Zhang will go to the steel mill to cause trouble. I have to pay more attention and go over to watch the fun when the time comes!"

Li Ming muttered to himself while eating the braised noodles he made. It was his lunch today. There was no point in cooking for himself, so he might as well just eat some noodles for his own good intentions.

Middle courtyard, Jia's house.

It was not until the evening that Jia Zhang returned to the courtyard, exhausted from a long journey. The first thing she did as she entered the house was drink a large jar of boiled water.

"I'm so tired. My legs are so thin after running so many times that I just finished notifying everyone. How's things going with your uncle Yi?" Jia Zhang's voice was as hoarse and piercing as a night owl howling in the middle of the night.