Chapter 98

Li Jiandong didn't know the other person, but the second floor of most units is where the leadership offices are located. The man in front of him was obviously an extraordinary person, so Li Jiandong didn't dare to underestimate him.

So, he stopped and nodded and said, "Yes, I am Li Jiandong. Leader, do you know me?"

The man suddenly laughed and waved to Li Jiandong.

"Come on, come in and talk."

As he said this, he retreated back into the door. It seemed that this man came out on purpose to find Li Jiandong.

Li Jiandong looked at his watch and saw that there were still more than ten minutes before the meeting. It was a blessing in disguise, so he walked in without thinking too much.

The leader's office was relatively large, but still very simple. After Li Jiandong closed the door, the other party said, "Li Jiandong, don't be cramped, sit down first."

"Thank you, leader."

Li Jiandong said with a serious expression.

Leaders at this level are no match for those leaders in the steel mill.

Each of them can make a large factory with tens of thousands of employees tremble with just a stomp of their feet.

Li Jiandong didn't dare to show his personality in front of these big leaders.

If you perform well and please your leader, it's fine. But if you perform wrongly and make your leader dislike you, you may never be able to make any progress in your life.

Seeing Li Jiandong sitting down, the leader said:

"You don't know me yet, my last name is Bi, and I'm the head of your Red Star Steel Mill."

Li Jiandong's eyes lit up. It turned out that this person was the big boss. No wonder he was so polite to him.

Director Yang is responsible to this leader, and strictly speaking, he was promoted by him.

"Hello, Leader Bi."

Li Jiandong stood up and greeted him formally.

The big leader smiled and waved his hand for him to sit down, and continued:

"Jiandong, I heard from Jianye that you are a very capable young man, and your achievements are also outstanding.

I personally have high hopes for you and hope you will not be too proud and continue to contribute to the development of our country."

"Don't worry, leader Bi. Realizing the great rejuvenation of our nation is also my personal ideal."

Li Jiandong was not just saying this for show, he really does have this ideal.

As a systematic time traveler, Li Jiandong feels that he is worthy of such a lofty ideal, and he is confident that he can play his part in realizing this ideal.

The leader was knowledgeable and experienced, but this was the first time he had heard such an inspiring and lofty ideal from someone else.

He was immediately excited and shouted fiercely: "Okay!"

"Li Jiandong, I never thought that you have such great ambitions at such a young age. From now on, as long as you don't do anything that violates your principles, just go ahead and do it."

The big boss called Li Jiandong over today for two purposes.

The first purpose is to get to know Li Jiandong, observe him face to face, and see what kind of person he is and whether he is as capable as Director Yang said.

As for the second purpose, it is to find out what happened between Li Jiandong and Ye Xiaoning.

After all, Ye Xiaoning is the daughter of Leader Ye, and Leader Ye and he have different political views and often compete with each other. It is difficult to guarantee Li Jiandong's loyalty if he hangs out with his daughter.

But now, after hearing Li Jiandong's lofty ideal, the leader no longer thought about the second goal.

Because, no matter who Li Jiandong belongs to in the end, as long as he keeps his original aspiration in mind and keeps moving forward, striving towards his lofty ideals, he is worthy of his support and help.

"Thank you, leader. I will work hard."

The two chatted for a few more sentences, and the meeting time was approaching. The leader looked at his watch and asked Li Jiandong to leave first.

When we arrived at the third-floor conference room, everyone was already seated except Li Jiandong and the leader.

Li Jiandong found a seat and sat down. After a while, three people came in. One of them was a young man who was the clerk who was in charge of reception, and the other two were quite old.

"stand up."

The clerk shouted loudly, and everyone stood up and waited for the two leaders to sit down behind the host's desk. One of them said into the microphone: "Everyone, take a seat."

Then, without waiting for everyone to sit down, he continued,

"It seems like there are new people here today. Who is Li Jiandong? Stand up and take a look."

Hearing that Leader Ye was looking for Li Jiandong, all the directors of the political office looked in Li Jiandong's direction. Some of them had a playful look on their faces, probably because they wanted to laugh at Li Jiandong's joke.

"Hello, leader. I am Li Jiandong."

Li Jiandong stood up and said neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"Well, okay, sit down first."

Leader Ye didn't say anything, he just stared at Li Jiandong for a few times, remembered his appearance, and let him sit down.

Then continue to lead the meeting.

“We have gathered everyone here today because the higher-ups have issued a document requiring all citizens to carry out a legal education campaign to learn the Constitution. This campaign should start with us workers.

Therefore, we ask everyone present here to implement it as soon as possible after returning home, set up a special legal education group or department, and speed up this process. "

The meeting ended quickly. The other leader who came with Leader Ye didn't say a word before Leader Ye announced the end of the meeting.

"You guys go away first, Li Jiandong stay."

Leader Ye stood up and said that everyone else should wait until the leader left before leaving.

But since Leader Ye had given the order, the others had no choice but to leave first.

Many of them were whispering to each other as they left. After leaving the meeting room, they did not walk far but stood in the corridor, waiting to hear Leader Ye scolding Li Jiandong.

"It looks like this Li Jiandong is going to be in trouble. Leader Ye has the worst temper among the few. Almost everyone here has been scolded by him."

"Yes, usually he would be scolded for making a small mistake. This time Li Jiandong took away the position of leader Ye's son-in-law, so he might even be beaten."

"It seems like Leader Ye hasn't hit anyone in a while. Is he going to break his rules by helping us today?"

"Stop talking and listen carefully. You guys are making so much noise that I can't hear anything inside."

These directors of the political office were usually high and mighty in their own units, but when they came to the Ministry of Industry, they were just a group of ordinary people, waiting with great interest for Li Jiandong to be scolded.

At this moment, Leader Ye said that everyone had left, and then he came to Li Jiandong with a smile.

"Jiandong, thank you."

Li Jiandong also breathed a sigh of relief when he heard this.

He smiled and said, "Leader Ye, you are too polite. I just did what every doctor would do."

Leader Ye nodded.

"But the problem is, you're not a doctor. To be honest, when I first heard Xiao Ning say that you could cure her, I was skeptical. I even thought that you were deliberately deceiving my daughter in order to compete with Wilder. I was very angry at the time."

Li Jiandong didn't know what to say and could only smile awkwardly.

Fortunately, Leader Ye quickly continued:

"But when I saw Xiao Ning again later, I found that her complexion had indeed improved a lot, and the results of the hospital check-up were also very optimistic.

These days, I have been looking for an opportunity to meet you, to see what kind of brain you have, and why you can handle any difficulty. "

Leader Ye laughed when he said this. He had learned about Li Jiandong specifically and of course knew about Li Jiandong's achievements.

And this is exactly what he admires.

Because Li Jiandong did things that others thought were impossible to accomplish, but in the end he completed them successfully.

It's a pity that such a talent is from Lao Bi's side. Otherwise, even if he didn't cultivate his own son-in-law, Leader Ye would give priority to training Li Jiandong.

After all, for their generation, between a small family and a big family, they will choose the big family without hesitation.

"Thank you for the compliment, Leader." Li Jiandong became more and more relaxed. The two chatted for a while. Leader Ye invited Li Jiandong to have dinner at his home another day. This "someday" was definitely not meant as a courtesy, but he really wanted Ye Xiaoning and Li Huaide to take him out for a gathering, and wanted to reconcile the two juniors and resolve their past grievances.

Although Li Jiandong was afraid of being misunderstood by the leaders of Bi Da, he had no choice but to agree.
The directors of the political office outside were all waiting for Leader Ye to reprimand Li Jiandong.

But after waiting for a long time, no scolding sound was heard from inside. It was not until more than ten minutes later that the door of the conference room opened and everyone was dumbfounded when they saw Leader Ye and Li Jiandong walking out, talking and laughing.

"What's going on? Why is Leader Ye so happy?"

"It's normal for him to be happy. The key is why Li Jiandong is also happy. Didn't Leader Ye scold him?"

"I'm telling you, this Li Jiandong is the son-in-law of Leader Ye. Why are you still talking about Li Huaide? You can't trust hearsay."

"Did I really make a mistake?"

A group of directors of the political office left in boredom. This was not what they wanted to see at all.

Arriving at the second floor, Li Jiandong separated from Leader Ye. Leader Ye's office was there, and Li Jiandong went downstairs by himself.

Many directors of the political and economic departments on the first floor had not left yet. After seeing Li Jiandong, they took the initiative to approach him and make friends with him. Those who could come to the Ministry of Industry for a meeting were all from department-level units, and everyone was at about the same level, so of course they had to know each other and take care of each other.

Li Jiandong was also happy to get to know them, so that his network would not be limited to Nanluoguxiang and Red Star Steel Mill.

After leaving the Ministry of Industry, it was almost 5 o'clock when he returned to Nanluoguxiang. The steel rolling mill had already gone off work by then, so Li Jiandong went straight back to the courtyard.

As soon as I entered the room, I saw Yan Bugui guarding the door.

"Old Yan, why are you still guarding the door at this hour? Have all the people in the courtyard returned?"

Li Jiandong thought that Yan Bugui was guarding the door to take advantage, but today he was wrong.

Yan Bugui smiled and said, "Everyone in the courtyard has returned, but you just came back, right? I'm sitting here waiting for you."

"Oh? Wait for me?"

Li Jiandong chuckled. What good could come of Yan Bugui waiting for him?
I have already helped Yan Jiecheng to get some work done, and Yan Bugui's family is not short of money now. Could it be that they don't have enough coupons and want me to help him get some meat and grain coupons?
"Old Yan, why are you waiting for me? If you have something to say, just say it. But I can't promise to agree."

Li Jiandong first gave Yan Bugui a heads-up. He was no longer the director of logistics. Although it was easy to get tickets, he still had to trouble others.

Yan Bugui laughed and said, "Old Li, you misunderstood me this time. I waited for you not to trouble you, but to treat you to a meal."

"Is it true? The sun rose from the west today?"

Li Jiandong couldn't believe that Yan Bugui actually took the initiative to invite people to dinner.

At this time, the third aunt also came out of the house and explained for Yan Bugui,
"Old Li, didn't you help my family get promoted before? My family's old Yan promised to treat you to some fish. We haven't caught any fish in the past few days, so we went to buy one today. It's now in the middle courtyard where He Daqing is cooking."

"Hey, I didn't expect you to be so trustworthy, Old Yan. I was wrong about you."

Li Jiandong laughed. He really didn't expect that what Yan Bugui said was true.

I thought that his words of treating me to fish were just a polite remark and that it was almost impossible for me to really eat it, but I didn't expect that Yan Bugui really took it to heart.

"If it were someone else, I would have just said it. Want to eat my fish? No way. But who are you, Old Li? If I can't even give up a fish, then am I still a human being?"

Yan Bugui said with a smile.

It is not easy to get him to pay money, but birds of a feather flock together. After being with a person like Li Jiandong who doesn't care about anything for a long time, Yan Bugui has been influenced to some extent.

In addition, Yan Jiecheng has been promoted and his income has increased. The living pressure at Yan Bugui's family has been reduced, so naturally he is not as calculating as before.

But even so, it would be hard for him to change his stingy habit. At most, he would be more generous to Li Jiandong. It would be wishful thinking for others to want to eat his food.

"Okay, okay, Old Yan, you really impressed me. Let's go to the middle courtyard and let me taste the fish you bought."

The two of them came to the middle courtyard laughing and laughing, and He Daqing's fish was already stewing.

Li Jiandong sniffed and said, "This is stewed pickled fish, right? Lao He, can you cook this kind of dish?"

He Daqing raised his eyebrows and said, "Of course, I am best at Sichuan cuisine, which I cook more than Tan's cuisine. Do you think I can't make pickled fish?"

Li Jiandong didn't expect that sauerkraut fish was a Sichuan dish. He thought it was a Northeastern dish, because everyone knows that Northeastern people love to eat sauerkraut, even dumplings are filled with sauerkraut.

Although He Daqing learned Tan cuisine, Tan cuisine is too refined and not very suitable for ordinary people.

Nowadays, every household can only eat a few bites of vegetables, and Sichuan cuisine is strong in flavor and easier to eat with rice. In addition, the leaders above are from that side, and under the influence of idols, more and more people follow suit and eat Sichuan cuisine.

It was only after He Daqing discovered this problem that he began to study Sichuan cuisine. As he cooked more and more, his Sichuan cuisine skills became even better than those of Tan cuisine.

Steam from the pot gushed out from the cracks in the lid, and the delicious aroma of pickled fish soon filled the entire courtyard. Suddenly, a voice came from the front yard: "Hey, what's that smell so good?"

Li Jiandong and others turned their heads and saw that it was Ye Xiaoning who came.

Today is not the weekend, and it has only been a few days since the last acupuncture. Li Jiandong did not expect Ye Xiaoning to come today.

"Sister-in-law, why are you here?"

Li Jiandong thought that she had some health problems and came to see him for treatment.

Ye Xiaoning grinned and picked up the gift in his hand: "I came here to take a look when I was free, and I happened to see you guys eating delicious food. Is it okay to eat a bowl of rice?"

The food cooked by He Daqing tastes so delicious, better than those cooked by ordinary restaurant chefs.

Moreover, Ye Xiaoning had been bedridden for many years and had no appetite and was afraid to eat anything spicy or fresh.

Today, I suddenly smelled the delicious sauerkraut fish, and my mouth was filled with saliva and I couldn't walk.

Li Jiandong looked at the things she was carrying, which were all imported snacks and children's clothes. He didn't know how she knew the size of her son's clothes. It didn't look like there were many things, but the money she spent was enough for an ordinary family to eat for a month.

Li Jiandong saved her life and didn't ask for money, so she had the confidence to accept this gift.

So he said nothing, took the thing in his hand and said:

"Since you are here, let's eat together. I'm afraid that after you have tasted our Daqing's cooking, other dishes will be boring when you go back."

Ye Xiaoning was also very supportive and said with a smile: "I think it's possible. Just smelling it makes it delicious."

"Wait a moment, it'll be fine soon."

When He Daqing saw the guests coming, he became very alert. As a cook, his biggest responsibility is to ensure that the guests have good food and drink.

Soon a pot of pickled fish was ready.

Several people went into the house and sat down. Qin Huairu had also prepared the rice. After serving everyone a bowl, they sat together and started eating.

Li Jiandong took a bite of the sauerkraut fish, which was delicious and fragrant, and slightly spicy, which suited everyone's taste. It seemed that He Daqing had also made adjustments based on everyone's eating habits, otherwise the pure sauerkraut fish might be unbearable to eat, not to mention that there were children.

"Wow! This dish is so delicious. Master He, how come you are such a good cook?"

Ye Xiaoning took a bite of the pickled fish and his eyes became moist with satisfaction.

After being bedridden for so many years, I can finally eat normal meals. The taste is so delicious.

Yan Bugui said:
"Maybe you don't know this yet, but Master He from our hospital is a famous chef throughout the entire North City. The chefs at Shunde Building and several other big hotels are all his fellow apprentices. Among his fellow apprentices, Master He is also one of the best. The dishes you are eating are made by a top chef."

He Daqing blushed a little when he was praised like that, although it was indeed true.

"No, Old Yan, you're too kind. I'm just a level 4 cook."

It was rare to see He Daqing so shy, so Li Jiandong also laughed.

Ye Xiaoning said, "Master He, don't be so modest. The cooks are responsible for making big pot dishes, which cannot reflect your cooking skills. Although I haven't eaten many good things, I know that your cooking is definitely of high quality."

"Oh, if I had known I shouldn't have come today, otherwise it would really be like what Jiandong said, and everything I eat will taste bland after I go back."

Qin Huairu was sitting next to Li Jiandong, holding little Xunfu and feeding him.

Hearing this, he smiled and said:

"We have rooms over there in the dormitory building. If you're feeling craving for something, you can come and stay for a few days.

However, if you want to enjoy Master He’s cooking, you have to establish a good relationship with him first, otherwise you won’t be able to hire him.”

Ye Xiaoning also laughed.

"Huai Ru really understands me. To be honest, I really want to move here. The atmosphere in our compound is so good, just like a family. I like living in this kind of place.

I'll go take a look at your dormitory building later. If it's comfortable, I'll discuss with Huaide whether I can move in."

(End of this chapter)