Chapter 21 Temporary Master
"I was appointed as the temporary uncle by the street. The leaders have their own ideas and arrangements as to why they chose me. If you have any opinions, you can go to the leaders."

Since Yi Zhonghai said so, no one would bother to get to the bottom of it and offend him.

The crowd's discussions died down.

Yi Zhonghai continued, "Since everyone has no objection, let's talk about the second thing, our sanitation division issue."

"We have been assigned to Nanluoguxiang for a while. Before, the hygiene was maintained by everyone. But later we found that this was very unfair. Some people cleaned every day, while some people never cleaned once."

"Especially some people in our hospital, they are cunning and use the excuse of working overtime every day to leave early and come back late, but in fact they are trying to avoid cleaning. I won't name them, everyone has their own standards."

Yi Zhonghai was obviously referring to Li Jiandong.

Only Li Jiandong and Jia Dongxu went to the workshop early in the morning and came back late at night to practice operations some time ago.

Jia Dongxu was young and hot-tempered. He stood up on the spot and wanted to confront Yi Zhonghai, but Li Jiandong pushed him down on a stool, shook his head at him and told him to calm down.

Yi Zhonghai glanced at them, a little proud, and continued: "From today on, the street will divide the sanitation of all the alleys into different courtyards according to the number of people. Among them, the sanitation area of ​​our courtyard is from the bus stop to the garbage dump behind our courtyard."

"After a day of careful research, I decided to assign responsibilities to every household. I divided the sanitation areas that each household was responsible for. From now on, any household with problems in their sanitation area will be listed on the blackboard and will be ridiculed and criticized by people from the entire street."

"First of all, the sanitary area of ​​Yan Bugui's house is..."

Yi Zhonghai began to divide the sanitary areas, and the rest were divided as well.

When it was Li Jiandong's turn, Yi Zhonghai said calmly, "Last is Li Jiandong. You and Qin Huairu's sanitation area is the toilet at the entrance of the alley outside our courtyard."

"This toilet is used most by our courtyard and the No. 4 courtyard, so the men's and women's toilets are divided into two parts for our two courtyards. Li Jiandong, your family is only responsible for cleaning the men's toilet."

Yi Zhonghai's last words also contained a hint of consideration for them.

There was no fool in the whole hospital, and everyone looked at Li Jiandong tacitly.

Although Li Jiandong guessed that the sanitary area assigned to him would definitely not be very good, he did not expect that he would target him so blatantly and disgust him.

"This is not a fair allocation. My master is a master fitter. His hands are used for precision machining and mold making. It's not my master's turn to clean the toilet, no matter who else does it."

Jia Dongxu stood up suddenly and made his suggestion.

Asking his master to clean the toilet, isn't that a slap in his master's face?
Yan Jiecheng also stood up and said indignantly: "Master Yi, my senior brother is right. Anyone can clean the toilet, but what my master can do, no one in our hospital can do it except him, so you should find someone else to clean the toilet, otherwise if outsiders see us, they will definitely laugh at our hospital for not respecting senior workers."

The other residents were also muttering below.

I think it's a bit of a waste of talent to ask Li Jiandong to clean the toilet, but no one is willing to step forward.
After all, people tend to seek benefits and avoid harm. What if Yi Zhonghai asks them to exchange sanitary areas with Li Jiandong, then wouldn't the job of cleaning the toilet fall on their heads?

Yi Zhonghai had long known that such a distribution would cause controversy, so he had already prepared his arguments.

"Dongxu, Jiecheng, I understand your desire to protect your master, but you are still children after all, and your perspective on the issue is not comprehensive."

"Who says that an eighth-level worker can't clean toilets? Everyone is equal in the face of labor."

"I think the more senior the workers, the more they should take the initiative to clean the toilets. This will reflect the ideological awareness of senior workers and motivate everyone."

"That's why I deliberately arranged for Li Jiandong to clean the toilet. This is also for the sake of his reputation."

Yi Zhonghai looked sanctimonious and spoke eloquently, which seemed to be the case.

But no one believed his lies, and some even curled their lips secretly.

Yi Zhonghai also knew that his words would not convince the public, but he no longer cared about that.

He wanted to suppress Li Jiandong. As long as he suppressed this eighth-level fitter, he would have no rival in this yard in the future.

At this time, the deaf old lady suddenly said:
"Li Jiandong must be the one to clean this toilet. I'm afraid it won't be clean enough if someone else does it. Li Jiandong is an eighth-level fitter, so he must be serious about his work. So he must be the one to clean this toilet."

Yi Zhonghai also laughed and said:

"The old lady is right!"

"I have also considered this. After all, the toilet is not used exclusively by our hospital. If it is cleaned, it can also show the hygiene style of our hospital among the other hospitals."

"So, no matter what, the sanitation of this toilet belongs to Li Jiandong."

"Li Jiandong, what do you think?"

It was obvious that Yi Zhonghai asked this question intentionally.

He felt that he had done this matter perfectly and had already put the nail on Li Jiandong's head. Li Jiandong had no reason to refuse, otherwise he would be ignoring the overall situation and had no vision.

Li Jiandong smiled faintly, and did not directly answer Yi Zhonghai's question, but asked back: "Yi Zhonghai, you just arranged for each household, why didn't I hear you arrange a sanitary area for your family? I don't know where your family is responsible for cleaning?"

After Li Jiandong asked this question, the residents remembered that they had never heard that Yi Zhonghai had a sanitary area.

"Yes, Lao Yi, you only assign sanitary areas to us, but what about your own sanitary area?"

"You can't just let us clean up while you stand by and watch, right? Aren't you asking for special treatment?"

"This is so unfair. You, Yi Zhonghai, don't clean the place, so why should we do it?"

"Yes, no one needs to clean up, just do whatever you want."

Seeing the crowd excited, Yi Zhonghai quickly stood up and explained: "Everyone be quiet, it's not that I don't want to clean up, but as a temporary uncle, I need to be responsible for coordinating the work. This is called different personal division of labor. I am doing the work that the uncle should do."

"Bah, he hasn't even become an official boss yet, and you're already dividing us into different classes, right? In my opinion, the boss is nothing, and we'll beat him up if he doesn't work."

Jia Zhang had a loud voice, which directly aroused the residents' anger.

For a moment, the crowd was excited and raised their hands in unison, shouting:
"Down with the temporary boss, Yi Zhonghai should step down."

"Down with the temporary boss, Yi Zhonghai should step down..."

Yi Zhonghai broke out in a cold sweat. He never expected that simply dividing the sanitary areas would arouse public indignation.

He quickly bowed and apologized: "I'm sorry, my neighbors. I'm really sorry. I'm wrong."

"I'll assign myself a sanitation area. From now on, I'll clean the area from the gate to the entrance of the alley. Don't get angry, it's easy to get angry and make you sick."

Seeing Yi Zhonghai compromise, the slogans eased slightly.

Yi Zhonghai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Jiandong stood up again and said, "Yi Zhonghai, how can you have the nerve to divide the sanitation from the entrance to the alley to yourself? As a seventh-level fitter in our hospital, doing such a light sanitation work, doesn't it reflect your ideological awareness?"

"What's more, you are the temporary uncle of our hospital, so you need to have a higher consciousness than us. In my opinion, you might as well clean the toilet with me. Cleaning the toilet may not necessarily reflect your uncle's high consciousness." He Daqing suddenly laughed: "Right, right, that's right, the uncle can't be in vain, the toilet should be fully covered by the uncle's family."

"Hahaha... Lao Yi, you are shooting yourself in the foot."

Yan Bugui also smiled and said, "Old Li's move is quite cruel. He made Yi Zhonghai take the blame for cleaning the toilet. But Xie Cheng, this is a good opportunity for you to show your filial piety to your master. From now on, you can't let your master do the cleaning of the toilet."

Yan Jiecheng nodded and said, "Dad, I know what to do without you telling me. I will clean for my master!"

Li Jiandong used this trick to kill a thousand enemies but lose a hundred of his own, which made it impossible for Yi Zhonghai to refuse.

His face turned ashen, and in the end he could only utter one word harshly.

"Okay, it's settled. We'll clean the toilet together from now on."

"The meeting is dismissed!"

A meeting of the entire institute ended in a bad mood. When the meeting was over, Jia Dongxu and Yan Jiechengdu ran to find Li Jiandong and said that they would clean the toilet for him so that the master would not have to worry about the sanitary area.

Of course Li Jiandong would not reject the filial piety of his two apprentices, so he asked them to work separately for half a month each.

In this way, Yi Zhonghai failed to trick Li Jiandong, but ended up tricking himself instead.

After returning home, Qin Huairu prepared water and helped Li Jiandong wash and soak his feet.

After they got on the kang, they turned off the lights and flirted with each other for a while. Only after they were done did Li Jiandong open the system to recruit disciples.

【Li Jiandong】

Apprentice: Jia Dongxu/Level 3 fitter (already qualified).

Apprentice: Yan Jiecheng/driver apprentice, maintenance worker apprentice (not yet graduated)
Skills: Level 8 technician fitter/junior driver/junior maintenance worker.

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Li Jiandong watched until the end and was slightly stunned when he saw the junior pilot appear in his skill column.

However, he soon realized that this was a driving ability that he inherently possessed, and that the experience of driving small cars and large trucks were universal.

He checked the reward money and receipts again.

Yan Jiecheng's work that day brought Li Jiandong dozens of dollars and receipts, which was easily equivalent to one or two months' income of other workers.

Together with the more than one hundred yuan brought by Jia Dongxu, Li Jiandong's income has reached nearly two hundred yuan a day, which he can never spend.

Wake up.

It was already the next morning.

Li Jiandong had just gotten up when he heard Li Huilan's voice from outside: "Lao Yi, put on a mask."

Yi Zhonghai replied angrily: "Why wear a mask? People will think I'm delicate. The weather is not that hot now, the smell is not strong, I can stand it."

Yi Zhonghai went to clean the toilet with gloves, and when he arrived at the toilet, he saw that Jia Dongxu had already finished cleaning.

Yi Zhonghai rolled his eyes and stepped forward to greet him, "Dongxu, you're here early."

Jia Dongxu had seen him a long time ago and had no intention of paying any attention to him.

However, Yi Zhonghai took the initiative to greet him, so he just responded with a few words.

"It's still early. I started cleaning at six o'clock. Otherwise, the hotter the weather, the more stinky it will be."

Yi Zhonghai laughed and complimented, "Yes, I think the same as you, but I am old after all, and I can't get up early in the morning. In the future, I will have to rely on you young people for hygiene."

When Jia Dongxu heard this, his face changed immediately: "No, no, Master Yi, please don't rely on me. The sanitation of this toilet has been agreed upon between you and my master, and I will only do my master's part. We will each do half and neither of us will take advantage of the other."

Yi Zhonghai said with a serious face: "Dongxu, if you say that, I have to teach you a lesson. Let's not say that I am your elder and you need to respect the old and love the young. Let's just say that this job belongs to both of us. Why do you have to calculate it so meticulously? Young man, you can't do this!"

Jia Dongxu sneered: "Master Yi, this toilet is half and half, if you want to clean it, then clean it, if you don't want to clean it, then leave it dirty. Anyway, I can't help you clean it."

After Jia Dongxu finished speaking, he threw down his tools and turned away.

Yi Zhonghai was left alone, stamping his feet and cursing, but he still had to clean up what needed to be cleaned.

He thought that when he got back he would have to change the allocation system so that the sanitary areas would be rotated every week, so that he would only have to rotate once every two months.

After breakfast, Li Jiandong prepared to go to work.

Qin Huairu had prepared a lunch box and gloves, put them in a shoulder bag and handed them to him: "Brother Jiandong, why didn't you ride your bike to work yesterday?"

Li Jiandong took the bag and put it on his shoulder. "If you don't want to ride, it's not far to walk. It's good for Dongxu, Jiecheng and I to walk together. If you like, you can learn to ride a bike slowly. When you are bored at home, you can ride it out for shopping."

Li Jiandong really doesn't like riding a bicycle, especially now that the roads are uneven and there are very few concrete roads, so his butt hurts from riding a bicycle.

"How can I ride a bike? I'm from the countryside and married to the city. If I ride a bike out for fun all day, people will laugh at me."

Qin Huairu pouted. She was from the country and was somewhat sensitive.

Li Jiandong smiled and said, "I, your husband, am an eighth-level fitter. Just marrying me is enough to make people jealous. Just listen to me and learn how to ride a bike. When the weather gets warmer, take me on an outing. Whoever wants to be jealous can be jealous."

Of course Li Jiandong can ride a bicycle. He said this just to let Qin Huairu let go of her psychological burden.

Sure enough, when Qin Huairu heard that Li Jiandong had no time to learn, she thought it would be a waste to park the bicycle in the yard.

His face lit up with joy and he said, "Okay, then I'll learn how to ride it, and it will be convenient for me to take you wherever you go in the future."

"Well, that's it, I'm leaving."

Li Jiandong took his two apprentices to work and chatted on the way.

"Master, you have to learn how to ride a bicycle, which is so valuable."

Li Jiandong waved his hand: "What's the point of learning how to ride a broken bicycle? If I want to ride, I'd ride a motorcycle."

Although bicycles are very cool these days, Li Jiandong just doesn't like them.

Jia Dongxu flattered him, "Master, you are indeed worthy of being called Master, but where can I get a motorcycle? As far as I know, our factory does have one, but you must be a deputy factory director to ride it."

(End of this chapter)