Chapter 94

"Old Li, I didn't come to congratulate you last night. Is it not too late to congratulate you today?"

When He Daqing saw Li Jiandong coming back, he laughed while cooking.

Xu Fugui, Liu Haizhong and others were sitting by the fire in He Daqing's house. When they heard that Li Jiandong had returned, they hurried out to greet him.

"Master, congratulations on your promotion again."

Liu Haizhong was still as polite as ever. He always addressed Li Jiandong by his title in the hospital and did not dare to call him by his name.

"Old Li, you are amazing. You have already become the director of the Political Affairs Department without any notice. Your promotion speed is faster than ours."

Xu Fugui also said with a smile.

Jia Zhang and Jia Dongxu also came out from the side room, and Liang Ladi followed behind with her child in her arms. Jia Dongxu had lived in the tavern dormitory building with Liang Ladi for a long time, and came here today to congratulate Li Jiandong.
"Master, congratulations on your advancement. Deputy Director Zhou will retire soon, and you will be the deputy director soon."

Jia Dongxu said happily.

He had also heard that the Political Value Office was a reserve for the deputy factory director, and even if there was no deputy factory director, the director of the Political Value Office alone was quite impressive.

"Don't talk nonsense, Deputy Director Zhou is still young."

Li Jiandong said with a faint smile that Deputy Director Zhou will retire soon and will probably retreat to the second line this year or next year.

For Li Jiandong, retiring early may not be a good thing. After all, he has too little experience and was promoted too quickly. Being promoted several levels at once can easily arouse doubts.

Although it is said that the director of the political value department is a reserve deputy factory director.

But not 100% of deputy factory managers are promoted from the political value department.

Therefore, Li Jiandong still hopes that Deputy Director Zhou can work for a while longer, so that he can gain some experience and then become the deputy director.

Yan Bugui also said seriously:

"Don't say that again, Dongxu. This is just in our compound. If it gets out, people will think that Lao Li hopes your deputy director will retire soon. This will offend people."

Liu Haizhong also agreed:
"Old Yan is right. If you put yourself in his shoes, if someone wants me to retire early and covet my job, I would definitely not like him."

Jia Dongxu also realized that his speech was not appropriate, and said apologetically,
"I'm sorry, Master. I just hope you're well. I didn't think too much about it."

"It's okay. Deputy Director Zhou is not such a stingy person. But you have to be careful with your words in the future, especially when you are happy. It is easy to get into trouble if you get carried away."

Li Jiandong said indifferently and gave Jia Dongxu a few words of advice.

Jia Zhang was trying to smooth things over, saying that Deputy Director Zhou was old and so he shouldn't be allowed to talk. However, she didn't realize that such words would not ease the awkwardness at all, but instead made everyone think that she was annoying and talkative.

Li Jiandong invited everyone to sit in the house, and while they were chatting, He Daqing's food was served. The rich aroma of the food filled the room, making Yan Bugui and others very greedy, but they had to wait until He Daqing finished cooking before the food could be served, so they could only swallow their saliva and bear it.

Time passes day by day.

After a week of familiarization, Li Jiandong has gained a certain understanding of the work of the Political Office. He has begun to do his job with ease and is no longer the last one to leave at night.

It's the weekend in a blink of an eye.

That morning, Li Jiandong brought gifts and came to the home of Director Zheng of the street.

Director Zheng opened the door and saw Li Jiandong holding a gift. He smiled helplessly and said,
"Jiandong, I've told you so many times, just come and don't bring so many things. I haven't even finished eating what you brought on New Year's Day."

Li Jiandong walked into the house with a smile without waiting for the other party to invite him.

After putting the things on the stove, he said, "I didn't bring anything good, just some daily food and drinks. I can't walk around empty-handed. If others know about this, they will say I'm impolite."

"You always have something to say."

Director Zheng was very helpless. Logically speaking, he was no match for Li Jiandong.

After the two sat down and chatted for a while, Li Jiandong said:
"Director Zheng, I came to visit you for a serious matter. The teachers in our neighborhood kindergarten have very low incomes and benefits, and they are temporary workers with no security.

With only a dozen yuan a month, it is difficult for everyone to focus on the children. So I want to apply to our street to see if we can give priority to our kindergarten teachers when allocating workstations, so that they can have some hope for this job. "

Currently, the kindergarten teachers are all paid by No. 40 Courtyard, and of course their income is also controlled by No. 40 Courtyard.

All Li Jiandong wanted was a workstation, not to convert the kindergarten teachers into regular employees.

If a kindergarten teacher does a good job, she will be rewarded with a workstation and assigned to another unit.

In this way, although kindergarten teachers are still temporary workers and their salaries are not high, at least they have hope.

Director Zheng frowned and pondered.

After a while, he spoke:

"Jiandong, the problem with this workstation is not easy to solve. You are now the director of the political department of the steel mill, and recruiting new employees every year is one of your responsibilities.

So, you must know that there are very few workstations in each street. Not to mention that there are so few workstations, there are not enough to allocate. Even if there are extra workstations, there are countless eyes watching. "

"If we privately assign the workstations to kindergarten teachers, they will have hope, but that will rob other street residents of their hope. If that arouses public anger, it will be a big problem."

Li Jiandong nodded, Director Zheng’s consideration was not unreasonable.

Take Nanluoguxiang Street for example. There are tens of thousands of residents, but only a few hundred workstations available each year.

In some families, the children have grown up and even got married, but they still can only make a living by doing odd jobs.

It can be said that the workstation is the most valuable thing at present, even more important than a house. Even if one place is allocated to a kindergarten every quarter, it is likely to be targeted by someone with ulterior motives.

"I was not thoughtful enough in this matter. So let's just forget it. We will solve the teachers' welfare issue ourselves."

Although Li Jiandong did not think about the problem of human hearts, he also formulated more than one plan.

Since the workstation problem cannot be solved, let's just simply give the kindergarten teachers a raise.

There are now 10 classes and 12 teachers in the kindergarten. If each teacher’s salary is increased by 3 yuan per month, it is only 36 yuan.

The kindergarten’s monthly tuition and food income is close to 100 yuan, so it is still possible to take out one-third of it.

But this means that the residents in the yard will lose some income.

But if you spread it out evenly, each person won't earn much less.

"Haha, Jiandong, I haven't finished yet."

Director Zheng suddenly laughed and said:

“Although the problem of workstations is difficult to solve, our street can still solve the problem of increasing the salary and benefits of kindergarten teachers.

I can make the decision to grant each hospital 50 yuan in education subsidies to your kindergarten. This should solve the problem of insufficient salary for your teachers, right? "

Li Jiandong was stunned for a moment.

He didn't expect Director Zheng to be so generous that he would take out 50 yuan as a subsidy for the kindergarten teachers.

You know, the street was so poor that it didn't even have the money to build a dormitory building. It was Li Jiandong and his school that paid for the construction of the tavern dormitory building.

But after thinking about it carefully, Li Jiandong understood that the street now has income from the hydropower station.

Although the profits have to be shared with the steel mill and the power department, a lot of money can still be made from selling electricity every month.

No wonder Director Zheng is so generous. This money was earned by Li Jiandong for the street, and he is repaying Li Jiandong.

"That's great. I would like to thank you on behalf of the kindergarten teachers."

The matter was resolved satisfactorily. Li Jiandong sat for a while and then said goodbye and left.

the other side.

Ye Xiaoning dressed neatly and walked out of the house. He locked the door and came to the entrance of the alley. He waved and called a rickshaw, got in and said:

"Go to Hongxing Supply and Marketing Cooperative Hutong."

"Okay, sit down."

The rickshaw driver shouted and started to speed up.

Ye Xiaoning has been receiving treatment from Li Jiandong for a month, and he can clearly feel that his body is different from before.

During this period, she went to the hospital for a check-up once. Even the doctor lamented that her condition was improving. He also wanted to ask who treated her and wanted to visit Li Jiandong in person.

However, this doctor was quite familiar with Li Huaide, and Ye Xiaoning was afraid that she would expose her relationship with Li Jiandong, so she did not tell her the truth.

She only said that she got the prescription from an old Chinese doctor she met on the street, and that she got better after taking the medicine. Now she only needs to go to Li Jiandong for acupuncture once every two weeks, and today is the end of the second week.

In order to prevent Li Huaide from finding out, she found an excuse to get him away early in the morning, and then got on a rickshaw and drove towards Yard No. 40.

However, what Ye Xiaoning didn't know was that Li Huaide had already suspected her.

Although she did not go to see Li Jiandong in the past two weeks, she went out every day to boil medicine and drink medicine.

At first, Li Huaide didn't notice anything unusual about her until he came home from work a few times and found that Ye Xiaoning was not there.

Li Huaide then discovered that she went out every morning and afternoon.

For this purpose, Ye Xiaoning even hired someone to open and lock the door for him.

In this way, when Li Huaide came home from get off work, the door was still locked, and Ye Xiaoning seemed to have never gone out.

After knowing that Ye Xiaoning had secretly gone out, Li Huaide felt nervous.

Ye Xiaoning is everything to him. Now she is going out secretly without telling him. Is she having an affair?

So Li Huaide didn't even go to the unit, but asked for leave and waited at the door to follow Ye Xiaoning.

After several attempts at tracking, Li Huaide finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Because he found out that Ye Xiaoning went out only to a pharmacy to drink Chinese medicine, and went home immediately after drinking it, and did not contact any other men in the meantime.

After following her for a week, Li Huaide was about to let down his guard and planned to follow her for the last day and then stop.

Suddenly I discovered that Ye Xiaoning went to a different place today than usual.

Instead of walking to the Chinese medicine shop, she hailed a rickshaw and drove away.

Li Huaide was greatly alarmed and quickly stopped a rickshaw to follow the car. The more he followed, the more he felt something was wrong.

Because he found that the direction Ye Xiaoning was heading was exactly the direction of Courtyard 40 where Li Jiandong was, and combined with the fact that Ye Xiaoning had told her before that Li Jiandong wanted to treat her illness.

How could Li Huaide guess where his wife was going?

"Impossible, Xiao Ning would never betray me, she just went to see Li Jiandong for medical treatment."

"No, Li Jiandong was born into a working class family. How could he be a doctor? He must be fooling Xiao Ning."

"Ye Xiaoning, you're a fool. Why would you rather believe Li Jiandong than me? Do you know that this is betrayal?"

Li Huaide became angrier the more he thought about it, but at the same time he still had a glimmer of hope in his heart.

Maybe Ye Xiaoning was not going to look for Li Jiandong, maybe she was just going to do something else and happened to be on the way to Li Jiandong's house?
However, even he himself did not believe this possibility.

At this time, Li Jiandong also returned to the courtyard from Director Zheng.

"Old Yan, come to my house later."

Li Jiandong stopped the car and said something to Yan Bugui who was preparing to go out fishing.

Then he went to the middle courtyard and the back courtyard and called He Daqing, Xu Fugui, and Liu Haizhong to his home.

These people are the "major shareholders" of the kindergarten. Li Jiandong called them together to discuss the issue of the street giving subsidies to kindergarten teachers.

"Old Li, what happened? Why did you suddenly gather us all together?"

He Daqing drank a little too much last night, and it was almost 9: but he still looked sleepy.

Li Jiandong saw that everyone was present and said, "It's nothing, just a small matter. The salary of our kindergarten teachers is only 9 yuan. There are many children now. In order to enhance their sense of responsibility, I went to find Director Zheng of the street."

"Director Zheng promised to give our kindergarten teachers a monthly subsidy of 50 yuan. I asked you to come here to discuss how to divide this money."

When he heard that there was fifty yuan, Yan Bugui's eyes lit up.

"The street was very generous this time. They actually gave me 50 yuan."

Xu Fugui also said: "There seem to be only a dozen teachers in our kindergarten. If we give them an extra two yuan each, they will be very happy. How about putting the saved money into the public funds of our school?"

He Daqing disagreed:
"I say, Lao He, you are really obsessed with money. The money is given by the street to the kindergarten teacher. What does it have to do with us?"

"Daqing, what you said is wrong."

Liu Hai imitated Li Jiandong's tone and called He Daqing.

He said seriously: "The money from the street is indeed for kindergarten teachers, but isn't the salary of kindergarten teachers paid by our institute?
We can divide the salary into two parts. We can first use the 50 yuan from the street to pay the teachers, and then our institute will make up the rest. This should make sense, right? "

Li Jiandong glanced at Liu Haizhong and thought to himself that your little calculations are even louder than Yan Bugui's.

Before, Li Jiandong always thought that Liu Haizhong was a fool, with low education and easy to fool, but now it seems that he was wrong about him.
"I say, Lao Liu, how come you are just like Lao Yan? Your little calculations are really too loud, aren't they?"

When He Daqing heard Liu Haizhong say this, he was almost stunned.

This is obviously Yan Bugui's style. How come Liu Haizhong has become so calculating? Not to mention that his calculations can indeed save a lot of money, but the key is that other people are not stupid either.

This seems to be a reasonable way to divide the money.

But the amount of money teachers can get has not increased much. Can they accept this?
"No, Lao He, why did Lao Liu bring me along? I didn't say I wanted to take advantage of the teachers."

Yan Bugui said somewhat unhappily.

He does like to take advantage, but he also has a bottom line. Other people's money is theirs, and even if he wants it, he can't take it for free. What's more, this is not asking, but robbery.

Yan Bugui is a teacher after all. Li Jiandong asked for subsidies for the kindergarten teachers. How could he possibly calculate this kind of money?
"Tell me, why did I bring you along? You are the most calculating person. I think Lao Liu learned this from you."

He Daqing said unhappily.

It was obvious that Liu Haizhong and Xu Fugui wanted to take advantage of the teachers.

Although Yan Bugui didn't say it, he is also a calculating person.

Although He Daqing is a rough man, he has a sense of justice.

At this moment, facing one against three, he could only place his hopes on Li Jiandong.

"Lao Li, you are the most reasonable among us, so you should tell us how to divide the money."

After he said that, Liu Haizhong would definitely be the first to support him.

He raised his hand and said, "I also agree to let the uncle share the money. I support any proposal made by the uncle."

Yan Bugui also said:

"Old Li, you really have to divide the money, otherwise these people will definitely fight."

Although Xu Fugui didn't say anything, he looked at Li Jiandong, waiting for him to make the distribution.

Li Jiandong already had a general idea in his mind since everyone was willing to listen to him.

He just said it directly: "This is how I plan to divide the money."

"First, we will take out 36 yuan and raise each teacher's salary to 12 yuan. We can save the remaining 14 yuan and use it to give teachers benefits during festivals and holidays."

14 yuan per month, 180 yuan a year is 168 yuan. If this money is put into the salary, each teacher will only get 1 yuan more per month, which is not a noticeable improvement at all.

But if you use this money to buy popsicles in the summer, coal cores in the winter, a few pounds of meat during festivals, and some brown sugar on Teachers' Day and Women's Day, wouldn't the sense of happiness increase immediately?

After all, if this money is put directly into the salary, kindergarten teachers may not be willing to spend the money on themselves, and may not even be willing to buy meat.

Yan Bugui was the first to nod:
"I think Lao Li's proposal is good. The teachers' salaries will also increase, and there will be benefits during the holidays, and there will be more to look forward to. This distribution method is very good."

He Daqing also laughed and said:
"I knew that I had to listen to Lao Li on this matter. You two still want to take the money. How shameless."

Liu Haizhong and Xu Fugui were both a little annoyed by being ridiculed by He Daqing.

Among them, Liu Haizhong will definitely not say anything. He should now firmly support Li Jiandong. Any rebuttal will make his support seem less firm.

But Xu Fugui didn’t have so many ideas, he just wanted money.

"How am I shameless? If all this money goes to teachers, then those of us who paid to build the school will not have a penny left?"

"This money was originally meant for the teachers. Mr. Li asked us to come here to discuss how we could improve the teachers' benefits. He didn't say it was for us."

He Daqing was more reasonable, and asked again: "Is it Lao Li?"

(End of this chapter)