Chapter 101

Li Jiandong didn't believe that he really couldn't learn it, because he had similar experiences when he was a child.

He Daqing looked aggrieved, shrugged his shoulders and said:

"Smart people like you definitely don't understand. I can learn two a day, let alone one a day. But the key is that I forget what I memorize on the first day, and I forget what I memorize on the second day again on the third day. My brain is not designed to remember things like that."

"Okay, okay, you can't remember it, okay? You can't even calculate the numbers. You can't be the logistics director. If you can't calculate the price correctly for purchasing, won't you lose a lot of money?"

Li Jiandong was speechless. He had been worried about He Daqing's literacy.

He has no problem with addition and subtraction within ten, but he has to wiggle his fingers when the numbers are bigger. With this level, he can only be a canteen director, who only needs to manage the canteen and does not need to make specific purchases.

But if He Daqing wants to go further, it is absolutely impossible with his current level of mathematics.

"Hehe, with my level, I can only be the canteen director with your help, Lao Li. I don't dare to think about being the logistics director."

He Daqing is quite self-aware. In fact, he initially thought that he could only be a cook in his life. But even if that were the case, it would be fine, after all, he really likes cooking.

"You, you."

Li Jiandong nodded at He Daqing. There was really nothing he could do about people like him.

But being content is a good thing. He Daqing is already so old, if he doesn't like to study then don't bother studying. As for things like popularizing the law, there's no need to force him. Most people won't think about methods when they have nothing to do.

Apart from He Daqing's impatient personality, Li Jiandong basically doesn't need to worry about him in other aspects except that he likes to do things with his hands.

As for his love of fighting, he has restrained himself a lot now that he is the canteen director, because he doesn't have to cook big pots. He used to get angry easily because his apprentices were too stupid and couldn't even cut the side dishes properly, so he would get angry easily. Now that he doesn't cook anymore, he doesn't care whether they cut the dishes well or not.

After separating from He Daqing, Li Jiandong went to the tavern.

After spending some time with the children in the pub, Li Jiandong returned to the courtyard near evening.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw Yan Bugui cleaning his bicycle. Li Jiandong walked over and glanced at the bucket next to him. A few small crucian carps were running around in fear. He couldn't help but smile and said, "Old Yan, you have a good harvest."

Yan Bugui was cleaning the car with his back to the door. He turned around when he heard the voice and smiled when he saw it was Li Jiandong:
"Old Li, you're back. Don't think that I only caught a few fish. This is already good. The weather is not warm yet and the fish don't like to eat. It's good to catch some fish. Others don't even have that."

Yan Bugui said happily, and seemed very satisfied with the harvest.

Li Jiandong said speechlessly: "Since the fish haven't opened their mouths yet, why are you running to the river all day? This little thing is not enough to waste your time."

"Hey, I'm free anyway, so a little bit is better than nothing."

Yan Bugui was easily contented. Even if he only caught a small crucian carp at a time, he could make a pot of crucian carp soup when he got home.

Isn't this much better than the ordinary people who can only eat pickles at night? After all, this is fish.

"Okay, you wash the car first. We have a meeting tonight. After dinner, come to my house first so that the three of us can talk."

Li Jiandong said this and walked towards the central courtyard.

Yan Bugui asked from behind: "What is the meeting about?"

"Wash the car first, and you'll know in the evening."

As Li Jiandong was speaking, he had already walked to the central courtyard. Qin Huairu was still in the tavern, so Li Jiandong was responsible for heating up the meal tonight.

I put the steamed buns and leftover vegetables from lunch into the pot and heated them up. Just as they were done, Qin Huairu came back with the child.

The family of three had a simple meal, then Qin Huairu took the hot water to wash the dishes, while Li Jiandong played with building blocks with his son.

It was already dark when Yan Bugui and Liu Haizhong finally arrived.

Li Jiandong handed his son to Qin Huairu, and Qin Huairu took the child back to the inner room.

Li Jiandong waved to Liu Haizhong and Yan Bugui: "Old Liu, Old Yan, please sit down first."

"I am going to hold a college-wide meeting tonight. There are two main contents, one of which is welcoming the new students.

There are new people in our hospital. You all know about it.

Another thing is to respond to the street's popular legal education activities.
I plan to let you, Old Yan, be in charge of this matter and hold a legal education class for everyone every week."

"Ah? This..."

When Yan Bugui heard about this job, he felt a little resistant. After all, if he gave legal lectures, it would definitely waste his time for other things.

"Old Li, how many hours is this law popularization lecture? It won't be held on the weekend, right?"

Yan Bugui is mainly concerned about popularizing the law on weekends, as long as it does not interfere with his fishing.

Li Jiandong smiled and said, "Don't worry, even if you are free on the weekend, everyone else may not be free."

After finally making it to the weekend, everyone wants to have a good rest for the day. If there is anything to do, it can only be done on this day. If it comes to legal education, everyone will definitely have objections.

"Here's what I think. From now on, we will have an hour of legal education every Monday. If you have other things to do, we will postpone it to the next day. Of course, Old Yan will not let you work in vain. He will reward you with one pound of meat coupons and eight pounds of grain coupons per month. Isn't this treating you unfairly?"
When Yan Bugui heard that there were food coupons and meat coupons to be won, he immediately grinned and nodded repeatedly in agreement: "Okay, okay, this reward is fine."

Although Yan Bugui was reluctant to eat meat, he might not be willing to spend it even if he was given a meat ticket, but a meat ticket could be sold for several cents on the black market.

The same goes for food stamps. The current version of food stamps is not divided so finely. One national food stamp can be exchanged for several kinds of food, including cooking oil.

One pound of food coupons can buy one pound of ordinary flour, but if it is exchanged for sweet potatoes, it can be exchanged for three pounds, and if it is exchanged for corn flour, it can be exchanged for two and a half pounds. Ordinary people who do not have enough food coupons can eat two-whe flour and three-whe flour, because one pound of food coupons can be exchanged for more than one and a half pounds of these flours.

Yan Bugui's family had always eaten like this before. Even with the food coupon subsidy from Yan Jiecheng, the family often had to eat steamed corn bread. It was not because the Yan family's salary was low, but simply because they had no food coupons.

This time, Li Jiandong rewarded him with 8 kilograms of food coupons. With these food coupons, Yan Bugui's family could eat white flour buns every day.

The prerequisite is that Yan Bugui can bear to eat like this.

"Uncle, you see, I want to do the same as Old Yan and give lectures to everyone. We can each share the food and meat coupons in half."

Liu Haizhong said with some envy.

As the deputy director of the workshop, his salary was slightly lower than that of a level 6 fitter, but he was still relatively wealthy. The 60 yuan a month was not enough to spend, not to mention compared to the time when he didn't use coupons.

In the past, when meat did not require tickets, Liu Haizhong had to eat meat at least three or four times a month, saying that it was because the physical work was too tiring and he needed to replenish his energy. The whole family could only watch him eat alone.

However, now coupons are needed to buy things, and Liu Haizhong's family only has one pound of meat coupons per month. You have to put some meat in your daily dishes. Now he can't even have meat twice a month and can only eat an egg every day instead.

If he could separate these meat coupons and grain coupons from Yan Bugui, based on Liu Haizhong's understanding of Yan Bugui.

Yan Bugui would definitely give up the meat coupons and choose the grain coupons. After all, even if he was given the meat coupons, Yan Bugui might not be willing to eat them.

With two kilograms of meat coupons, it was enough for him to eat for a month.

However, Yan Bugui obviously didn't want to share equally with him, and said unhappily: "Old Liu, you are just a primary school graduate, so don't argue with me. If I let you teach everyone, wouldn't that be misleading the students?"

"What do you mean by junior high school? I'm in senior high school."

Liu Haisheng cares a lot about this, as there is a huge difference in level between high primary school and junior primary school.

"Well, even if you are a senior, you can't teach others. There are only so many junior high schools in our courtyard. Why should we use you instead of others, right, Lao Li?"

Yan Bugui went to Li Jiandong to seek justice, as he knew that Liu Haizhong now listened to Li Jiandong the most.

Li Jiandong smiled and said, "Old Liu, don't get involved in this matter. Just help me do what I told you before. When you run out of tickets, come to me. I have more tickets than you can use up."

Li Jiandong’s family really has endless tickets.

First of all, he is a section-level cadre, and his votes are 1.5 times that of an ordinary worker.

Secondly, Qin Huairu now has a city hukou, and their son’s hukou is also directly in the city. The food tickets for the three of them for one month are enough for food.

Add to that the rewards from the usual apprenticeship system, and the number is even greater.

Jia Dongxu and Yan Jiecheng both accepted apprentices, and now have more than a dozen apprentices. They can reward Li Jiandong with hundreds of kilograms of food coupons and more than ten kilograms of meat coupons a day, and the cash rewards also reach several hundred yuan a day.

Li Jiandong had long gotten rid of his material needs. If he was not afraid of being targeted by others for eating too much, it would not be a big deal for him to invite everyone in the hospital to a banquet every day. A banquet would cost at most a few dozen yuan, and Li Jiandong could afford to invite ten tables every day.

However, no one can afford good food nowadays, so even if Li Jiandong eats alone, he tries to eat behind closed doors and will definitely not make it so ostentatious.

The three of them continued to discuss some details, and then began to convene a meeting of the entire institute.

Yan Bugui was ringing the bell outside. Li Jiandong and Liu Haizhong waited in the house for a while. When they saw that most people had arrived, they walked into the yard one after another and sat down at the eight-immortal table that belonged to the three of them.

Liu Haizhong made the announcement as usual. "Today's meeting has two contents. The first one is that we have two new residents.

Let's welcome Li Huaide, the director of the publicity department of our steel mill, and his wife Ye Xiaoning. "

After Liu Haizhong finished speaking, he led the applause, and the applause was very enthusiastic.

Li Huaide is the director of the Propaganda Department and is at least a member of the team. Liu Haizhong has a natural liking for people who are higher in rank than him.

This scene was also discovered by Li Huaide. He was very good at judging people and could see the flattery in Liu Haizhong's expression at a glance. He silently remembered him in his heart, thinking that he might be able to use him in the future.

Ye Xiaoning pulled Li Huaide up.

He nodded to the people around him and said, "Hello, neighbors. My name is Ye Xiaoning. We will live in the same courtyard from now on. I hope you will take good care of me. If you need any help from my husband and me, please let me know. As long as we can help, we will definitely not refuse."

"it is good."

Liu Haizhong shouted "good" again and clapped his hands vigorously, "Ye Xiaoning is right, we are all from the same courtyard, so we should help each other.

Before, Yi Zhonghai and the deaf old lady were isolated because they did not unite with the masses. Now that we have Ms. Ye and Director Li joining us, I believe our hospital will be more united and live better than before. "

It was a rare occasion that Liu Haizhong spoke so much without getting mad. Li Jiandong looked at him with a new respect.

It seems that Liu Haizhong can always perform exceptionally well whenever he is trying to flatter someone.

Li Huaide's mouth twitched and he smiled twice, but he was not smiling. He sat down again without saying hello.

Then came the second meeting content, which was about the arrangements for comprehensive legal education activities.

The night passed.

The next day was another working day.

In the morning, Li Huaide came to the office and said to a young man in the department: "Xiao Chen, there is a projectionist in our department who has a face that looks like a horse. What is his name?"

"You mean Master Xu? He's the only projectionist in our department, and his name is Xu Fugui."

Xiao Chen thought about it and decided that Xu Fugui’s face was a bit long, but it would be an exaggeration to say that it was a horse face.

"It should be him. Go call him over and tell him I need help."

Li Huaide didn't know before that there was someone in the department living in the same courtyard as Li Jiandong, otherwise he would have taken advantage of it long ago, but it's not too late to know now.

He has now moved into Yard 40, and conflicts with Li Jiandong are inevitable in the future. He must first win over some people to his side, otherwise he will end up like Yi Zhonghai.

Li Huaide thought this was an easy thing to do.

After all, he is rich and powerful, and has people behind him. Although his position is not as high as Li Jiandong, he happens to be Xu Fugui's immediate superior. As the saying goes, a county magistrate is not as good as an incumbent manager. As long as Xu Fugui does not want to be promoted, he will never dare to disobey him.

"Director Li, Master Xu is here."

After a while, Xiao Chen came in with Xu Fugui.

Li Huaide saw that he had found the right person, so he waved to Xu Fugui and said, "Old Xu, come on, come on, I never thought that we would become neighbors."

Xu Fugui had never expected that he would become a neighbor of Li Huaide. He just wanted to make a fortune quietly and didn't want to get involved in the affairs between leaders. Based on his understanding of Li Huaide, he definitely didn't look for him for a simple chat today, but probably wanted to win him over.

So, Xu Fugui, who had already made up his mind to play dumb, walked into the room, bowed a little stiffly and said,
"Director Li, I didn't expect this. Last night I thought I was seeing things and didn't even dare to say hello to you."

Li Huaide asked tentatively: "Are you afraid that you will admit your mistake, or are you afraid that Li Jiandong will find out and make things difficult for you?"

Xu Fugui's heart suddenly skipped a beat, thinking that Li Huaide was really a bad guy, as he gave him a warning right from the start.

If an ordinary person were asked this question by Li Huaide, he would probably be stumped.

But Xu Fugui was an old sly man, and he said naturally,

"I don't understand what Director Li is saying. We are a good old man, why are you trying to make things difficult for me?"

Li Huaide stared at his eyes for more than ten seconds, unable to determine whether Xu Fugui really didn't know or was pretending to be stupid.

The story between him and Li Jiandong should have spread to all the workers in the steel mill by now.

Could it be that the person in front of me is really oblivious to what is happening outside and is only focused on being a projectionist?

Even so, Li Huaide didn't intend to let him go.

"Old Xu, let me ask you a question. If, I mean if, if there is a disagreement between Li Jiandong and I, will you help me or Li Jiandong?"

Xu Fugui thought to himself, you are such an annoying person, do you really have to force me to join the team?

My son is Li Jiandong's apprentice. He is doing great things now and has won a medal from the state.

I myself have made a lot of money following Li Jiandong, and in the past few years, everyone who has had conflicts with Li Jiandong has been in trouble.

Yi Zhonghai and the deaf old lady were even driven out of the compound.

If you have a disagreement with Li Jiandong now, I will definitely help Li Jiandong without hesitation.

If I follow you, I will be separated from my wife and children, and I may even die without knowing how.

However, Xu Fugui seemed a little hesitant.

"Well... I don't know, I guess I can help you."

Li Huaide was not very satisfied with this answer. His expression suddenly turned cold and he said,

"Lao Xu, the relationship between people is mutual. If you help me, I will help you. If you don't help me, then our relationship will become more and more distant. Okay, go to work first."

Li Huaide waved his hand and asked Xu Fugui to go to work first.

After he left, I called Xiao Chen and said,
"Xu Fugui's bicycle was provided by our department, right?"

Xiao Chen nodded: "Yes, Director."

Li Huaide narrowed his eyes and said, "I heard from others that Xu Fugui often rode the bicycle that our factory provided him to show movies to other units and some communes in the suburbs.

This is a typical case of using a company bus for personal purposes. Before you get off work tonight, you should talk to him and tell him that if he rides a bicycle outside the factory, he must report to me. Otherwise, if he rides the bicycle outside the factory, he will be treated as a theft."

Xiao Chen thought to himself, Director Li is really petty, he just didn't agree to help you fight against Director Li Jiandong, but you immediately made things difficult for him.

However, the more such a person is, the more his subordinates respect him. Xiao Chen did not dare to say any more nonsense and nodded quickly: "Yes, Director."

Xu Fugui didn't know yet that Li Huaide was already preparing to make things difficult for him.

He felt that he had performed perfectly today and had not offended either Li Jiandong or Li Huaide.

This is his doctrine of the mean, but he doesn't realize that for some people, not offending either side is already a sin.

In comparison, Liu Haizhong is much smarter than him.

Don’t think that Liu Haizhong is very stupid. Not to mention compared with Xu Fugui, the famous smart man in the hospital, even He Daqing is smarter than him.

But the biggest advantage of having bangs is that it means being loyal to your leader.

Who is the leader in the bangs?

Of course it’s Li Jiandong.

His workshop director was promoted by Li Jiandong, so in Liu Haizhong's eyes, even Director Wang of the Production Department was not as skillful as Li Jiandong in speaking.

After Li Huaide found Xu Fugui, he went to find Liu Haizhong.

However, Liu Haizhong was the workshop director and was not under Li Huaide's supervision, so he did not call Liu Haizhong directly to the office, but went directly to the workshop to call Liu Haizhong out.

After a brief test, Li Huaide began to win over Liu Haizhong, and Liu Haizhong smiled and agreed that he would stand on his side in the future.

Who knew that as soon as Li Huaide left, Liu Haizhong found Li Jiandong.

"Director Li, can you please come out for a moment? I have something important to report to you."

(End of this chapter)