Chapter 158

Ding Rushan said hurriedly: "My household registration is registered with the hospital, and housing has not been allocated yet. My family lives in the suburbs for the time being."

"Understood!"

Li Zhiguo raised his hand, pulled his sleeves, revealed his watch and checked the time.

This made Ding Rushan's eyes widen immediately. He knew that this Omega watch cost more than 400 yuan. How could an ordinary worker afford it?

Li Zhiguo continued, "Well, it's not even ten o'clock yet. I'll take Ding, Ding Qiunan, to Qianmen Middle School to register, and then I'll send her to the hospital. It probably won't be noon yet."

"Can you really help my daughter get into Qianmen Middle School?"

Ding Rushan was surprised. This was not scientific. It crossed different districts. He asked the hospital leaders but they couldn't solve the problem.

Ding Qiunan's eyes lit up. She really wanted to study there, but this was just a strange handsome brother. How could she ask for help?

"It's a piece of cake. You help me and I help you. This is my ID. You will know once you see it."

As Li Zhiguo spoke, he took out his work permit from the street office from his trouser pocket, actually from the space, and handed it over.

Ding Rushan saw the big words "Qianmen Street Office" before he took over. When he opened it, he was surprised to find that the man was actually a street cadre.

This surprised him and he asked, "Aren't you a worker in the steel mill?"

Ding Qiunan also opened her beautiful eyes wide. What was going on?

"You have to do many things at the same time. You should make your decision quickly. There are others waiting outside. You can't delay."

Li Zhiguo looked at his watch again, pretending to have a strong sense of time.

"Officer Li, thank you for your help."

Ding Rushan hurriedly thanked him. He only had one daughter, and it was certainly a good thing for her to go to a better school.

"No, you should just call me by my name. My identity as a street cadre cannot be publicized to the public."

Li Zhiguo gave some instructions and then called the somewhat timid Ding Qiunan to leave.

Well, he seems to be quite good at lying, but he is obviously a good person. This is probably what is called affinity.

"Ding Qiunan, just call me Brother Li. Your dad and I are helping each other, don't feel pressured."

"Okay, Brother Li!"

When Ding Qiunan saw Brother Li pushing the bicycle out, she didn't think much about it and got on the bike.

After running for a while on the road, Ding Qiunan found that the route was correct. She had arrived in Beijing during the summer vacation and had taken the bus to Qianmen Street many times in order to visit the medical school at Youanmen.

"Brother Li, why are you pretending to be sick?"

"Ahem, I was really sick before. It just so happened that not long ago, I had a lot of positions and couldn't work in one place, so it was more convenient to pretend to be sick."

Li Zhiguo had no choice but to explain vaguely, "Can't you ask something else?"

"Oh!"

Ding Qiunan seemed to understand but didn't quite understand, so he didn't ask any more questions.

We didn't say much along the way until we arrived at Qianmen Middle School. Thanks to my brother-in-law Qin Guangyou, who had studied here and had been repeating a grade two months ago.

Li Zhiguo was really familiar with the school leaders. After taking Ding Qiunan in, he completed the procedures in less than half an hour.

Fortunately, Ding Qiunan had prepared all the necessary materials. After paying the tuition, he was assigned a dormitory and there were no classes today.

Li Zhiguo sent the man back to the Workers' Hospital, which took more than an hour.

"Qiu Nan, take this little bit of food. School is different from the outside."

As he spoke, he stuffed twenty kilograms of food coupons over, ten kilograms of flour coupons and ten kilograms of rice coupons.

"Oh! I can't have that."

Ding Qiunan stretched out his hand and wanted to return it.

Li Zhiguo stretched out his hand and pushed it. "Hurry up and take it. It's not good if others see it in front of the hospital. I'm leaving now. I hope you can get into high school next year."

"Thank you, Brother Li!"

Ding Qiunan watched the bicycle go away, then happily went into the hospital to find his father.

Li Zhiguo rode his bike to the steel rolling mill just in time for lunch. He felt very busy this morning, but it seemed like he didn't do anything serious. He might as well sleep in.

Cooker, cooker soul!
Li Zhiguo ran to the workshop to get his lunch box. Just then the bell rang. He turned around and ran towards the cafeteria. He walked to the window shoulder to shoulder with the factory's sprint champion.

"No, Li Zhiguo, are you well again?"

The sprint champion is confused. Who should take sick leave?

"No, I just had a checkup today, and it's still a stomach problem, but I exercise regularly, so my legs and feet are very agile."

As Li Zhiguo spoke, he handed the two lunch boxes to the window and extorted a few cents.

When I returned to the workshop after preparing the meal, I saw Qin Huairu looking for a lunch box.

"Huai Ru, here I am, I'm going to get some food."

"Ah! Zhiguo, you didn't say you were going to the factory today. Didn't you send Jingru to sign up?"

Qin Huairu was surprised. Happiness came too suddenly.

"Jingru and Yushui are going back together. They'll have company."

Li Zhiguo handed over a lunch box and two bowls of flour.

After the two of them occupied the dining table in the workshop, he took out an oil-paper package from his bag, inside of which was a large chicken drumstick. It was normal to eat it cold in the current weather.

"I brought this specially for you. You need to supplement your nutrition since you are pregnant with your second baby."

"Well, I'll eat half."

Qin Huairu looked very happy. She had married so well and would enjoy a happy life.

In the end, Li Zhiguo didn't eat the chicken leg. He watched his wife finish it all by herself. He bought two when he came, and he had already eaten one on the way. Otherwise, how could he move his wife?

"I'm so full."

Qin Huairu touched her stomach. What a good day! She was full even after eating so much meat.

"Okay, I'll help you go out for a walk. Let's not wait for the two-day National Day holiday. We'll take maternity leave in two weeks."

Although Li Zhiguo felt that Qin Huairu had gotten used to going to work, he was still a little worried.

"It's okay. I'm not too old to walk. There's a pregnant woman in Workshop 6 who's already passed her due date, but she's still working in the factory."

Qin Huairu didn't take it seriously. Everyone goes through the same thing. Her job was already very easy and she couldn't ask for more.

"Okay, let's see how things go in two weeks."

Li Zhiguo did not argue, but suddenly shouted, "Jia Zhang, come here."

"I'm here, what's up?"

Jia Zhang wiped her mouth. She had just finished lunch.

"Help me wash the lunch box. I'll take Huairu out for a walk and talk to you when I come back."

Li Zhiguo suddenly realized that he had forgotten one thing: Jia Zhang was also very caring, but she was just lazy and unwilling to do anything.

"okay!"

Jia Zhang didn't think it was a big deal. It was just two lunch boxes, just a simple thing to do.

Then Li Zhiguo helped Qin Huairu out of the workshop. They had a break at noon, so it didn't matter even if they left the factory.

When Jia Zhang was packing up the lunch boxes, she suddenly found a chicken leg bone in one of the boxes. The chicken was not even eaten cleanly. Isn't this a waste?

She looked around and saw no one was paying attention, so she picked up the chicken bone and bit off a piece. It was chewable and contained bone marrow, which was nutritious. I heard it could supplement calcium and was good for the body.

Jia Zhang ate the chicken bones and went to wash the dishes happily.

……

Li Zhiguo took his wife to walk around the factory for a while. There was no small supermarket or milk tea shop here, so they just walked to digest the food and wasted energy.

After a while, I took a break and returned to the workshop.

"Huai Ru, go to your workstation and take a nap. I'm going to talk to Jia Zhang about something."

"Well! What did you say to her?"

Qin Huairu was quite curious. Jia Zhang had quarreled with her in the past, but that was all in the past. Now she was about to give birth to her second child.

"Good thing!"

Li Zhiguo gave an inexplicable smile and called Jia Zhang, who was taking a lunch break, out of the workshop.

"What's the matter? I have already washed the lunch box and put it back where it was."

After washing the lunch boxes, Jia Zhang stayed in the workshop without moving, so as not to waste food. If she was not sleepy, she would sit there and sew shoe soles, which was quite nice.

"It's like this, isn't Qin Huairu going to give birth soon? The due date is around National Day.

I asked her to take maternity leave but she insisted on going to work, so I would like you to take care of her.

I accompany her to work in the morning and help her get lunch and wash the lunch box at noon.

You have to accompany her even when she goes to the toilet, and you have to send her back to the hospital after get off work, and that will be considered completing your day's mission."

Li Zhiguo was a little impressed by his own idea. Apart from Jia Zhang, there was really no other suitable person.

"I'm taking care of Qin Huairu, this is not good!"

Although Jia Zhang was willing to listen to what the bad boy said, it was a bit difficult for her.

"Two cents a day, including today, is enough for you to sell three bags of white flour and two vegetable dishes. If you take good care of her, I will reward you with another two dollars after Qin Huairu gives birth.

This is the first time I've paid money in the hospital! You and I know this, and we can't even tell Qin Huairu. It will have a bad influence if it gets out. Just say you took the initiative to help without asking for anything in return."

Li Zhiguo believed in distribution according to work, that is, payment according to work done, just like hiring Yan Bugui as the accountant.

This would make Jia Zhang work as a nanny. It would be ok if it was only occasionally, such as asking her to wash lunch boxes, but if it was a long-term job and she didn't pay, there was no way to fool her.

"Are you really giving me two cents?"

Jia Zhang was tempted. Isn't it just taking care of a pregnant woman who is about to give birth? It's not a tiring job.

"When have I ever lied to you? I ask you to buy coupons every month. Have I ever been short of your money?"

Li Zhiguo felt that his dignity was insulted, but he was not short of money.

"That's right, then it's settled." Jia Zhang was happy, as she had saved money.

"I'll pay you every Sunday. That's it. Go back to the workshop and I'll go check on the excavator."

Li Zhiguo did not forget his business at the factory and followed him.

Jia Zhang rubbed her hands and returned to the workshop. She saw Qin Huairu lying on the table as if she had fallen asleep. She quickly and quietly took away Qin Huairu's water cup and poured hot water for her at the door.

There were many workers in the workshop who did not have a lunch break. After seeing this scene, they were dumbfounded. What was going on?
When Jia Zhang put down the enamel cup, Qin Huairu suddenly raised her head, looking confused.

"Huai Ru, take a good rest. I've poured you some hot water. Drink it when you're thirsty. Be careful not to burn your mouth."

Jia Zhang's face was all smiles. This was a big business worth two cents a day, enough to buy her a full meal.

"Jia Zhang, what are you doing?"

Qin Huairu is confused about the situation. Is she offering her kindness for no reason?

"Nothing, you're about to give birth, aren't you? We're from the same hospital, and your husband is a brother to my Dongxu, so I have to take extra care of you. Take a rest, and call me if you need anything."

Jia Zhang left happily, which made the workers around who had seen her look even more confused.

After a while, Qin Huairu got up and wanted to go to the toilet, but unexpectedly, Jia Zhang followed her all the way to the toilet.

"Jia Zhang, you too?"

"I'm not going. I'll stay with you. You're pregnant now, so it might be inconvenient for you to get up."

Jia Zhang was standing right next to them. What was this a big deal? At her age, she had seen everything.

Qin Huairu's face flushed, she felt something was wrong. This Jia Zhang was better at serving people than her mother. She never saw it before.

"Master Li, you're here."

Liang Ladi was the first to notice that Brother Li had arrived at the workshop.

"Well, let's see how it goes."

Li Zhiguo gave me a shot of chicken blood last time, so it should be effective.

In fact, he was not worried at all, because the excavator could be carried through the square by a Jiefang brand truck, as long as the empty shell was fine.

As for other parameters, you can adjust them slowly at the end.

But the current trend is that once a goal is set, it must be achieved, so we have to trust these engineers.

“It seems to be OK now.”

Liang Ladi didn’t quite understand it either, she only knew how to weld.

"Ok!"

Li Zhiguo immediately found an engineer to chat with him, and even drove the excavator out himself to conduct a trial excavation. The operation was not complicated, except for the accuracy, which required more practice.

It's just a sense of ritual, just act like it is.

"It's almost done. We need to perfect it a little bit. After the National Day, don't disband. Let's have a meeting together then."

He still has some use for keeping this team, but they won't be able to keep it for long because an excavator factory will definitely be built there.

I just don’t know whether it was built in the capital or in Jichun.

After leaving the workshop, Li Zhiguo went to the factory director's office.

"Tuk-tuk!"

"Come in quickly, I thought you weren't coming until the 3rd."

Director Yang put down the newspaper in his hand. This was not because he was lazy, but because he was learning the spirit of the above.

"No. 3 is not coming. My wife has collected my salary."

Li Zhiguo walked in and sat down and asked, "Director, what is Li Xinmin's current situation?"

"Nothing serious. He's working as a blacksmith in the forge shop. If he can stick with it, that's good. If not, he'll find a way to leave on his own."

After Director Yang learned that Li Xinmin was divorced, he acted without hesitation. This man had never given him face in the beginning and he tried to seize power right away.

"Okay, so be it!"

Li Zhiguo felt that this man could no longer cause any trouble. Without his backing, he was just an ordinary worker. What could he do in this era?
Even if you want to leave the capital, you need to use the national food coupons. This thing is not something that can be exchanged casually. You need a reasonable reason, such as business trip, visiting relatives, etc.

Not to mention doing business, even if you have capital, you don’t have the goods. Even if a tavern sells sorghum cakes, they have to pay for coarse grain coupons.

The surplus grain in the hands of farmers can only be sold to purchasing stations, which are under unified sales and purchase.

Being able to keep your status as a worker is the greatest honor!

After staying here for a while, Li Zhiguo left without waiting for his wife to get off work.

When I was riding my bike past the kitchen door, I saw an acquaintance smoking there again.

"Oh my god, you are so lazy."

"No, I've finished my work and haven't booked any dinner parties yet. I'm free now, so I'm just waiting to get off work."

Sha Zhu went to work in the kitchen. He no longer helped in the kitchen. He only cooked the big pot of dishes at noon and occasionally prepared small dishes for entertaining guests.

"You have an easy life!"

Li Zhiguo stopped the car and went over to light a cigarette. Just as he lit it, he saw Liu Lan lifting the door curtain and coming out.

"Master He, the evening reception dishes are here. They were ordered by the new Deputy Director Nie. Can you please take a look at the menu and see if this arrangement is okay?"

Liu Lan handed over a handwritten list and looked at the man next to her curiously. She had seen this man at the factory gate that day.

"I want to see how the factory leaders drink the blood of the workers."

Li Zhiguo reached out and took the menu. Wow, this guy knows how to eat. There are quite a few delicious dishes.

He had an impression of Deputy Director Nie. He thought he was a decent person. At least he would not interfere with the workers. He had a relative in the higher-level department.

Liu Lan couldn't help but ask, "Master He, who is he?"

"Hi, Li Zhiguo, my brother, you don't even know this."

Sha Zhu started to show off and said that they were brothers and it was prestigious.

"You are Li Zhiguo."

Liu Lan was stunned for a moment. She had heard the legendary story of this man on the first day she entered the factory, but she didn't expect that he was so handsome in real life.

"Ok!"

Li Zhiguo nodded and gave the menu to Sha Zhu, who was smoking on the side.

After Sha Zhu saw it, he shouted, "Change the stir-fried liver and kidney. There is no pork kidney in the kitchen today, and this dish is also a waste of oil. Let's change it to stewed chicken with mushrooms."

"okay!"

Liu Lan didn't dare to say more and just followed him away.

"Silly Zhu, she is a lesbian after all, your attitude is a bit too tough."

Li Zhiguo was talking nonsense. He was talking about this kid Shazhu. If he met someone he liked, he would be very nice to her, but if he met someone he didn't like, he would be very angry.

"There's nothing wrong with my attitude. She's new here, so she has to endure some humiliation."

Sha Zhu didn't take it seriously, and suddenly lowered his voice and said, "Li Zhiguo, for the dinner party, I'll find half a chicken and bring it back to make soup for Sister Qin. Don't eat it all by yourself."

"Oh my god, are you so brave?"

Li Zhiguo was stunned for a moment. Does my wife need you to bring her chicken soup? Rainwater is not for drinking!
"What's the big deal? The factory leaders are allowed to drink the workers' blood, but we can't have a sip of soup or half a chicken. It's nothing."

Sha Zhu is a scumbag who doesn't follow the rules. When his father was working in the kitchen, he would bring lunch boxes home.

Take the person who weighs the grain at the grain station. He can grab a handful of flour from his pocket when he goes home. If you don’t take advantage of a good deal, you’d be a fool.

"Okay, save your half chicken for Yu Shui to eat, and take good care of your sister. I'm with your sister Qin, so she won't lack nutrition. I'm leaving now, we'll talk later."

Li Zhiguo left with a cigarette in his mouth. After testing everything, he found that Sha Zhu really had no feelings for Liu Lan, so he decided to stay single. There were four brothers in the courtyard now, and they needed someone to serve as a foil.

"Hey! You've eaten well every day, Sister Qin is not sure."

After smoking, Sha Zhu went to the kitchen to work. After blanching a chicken, he slaughtered half of it and put it in a big lunch box while no one was paying attention. After get off work, he took it back to make chicken soup for Sister Qin. Isn't it wonderful!

Time passed quickly. After Sha Zhu finished cooking, he took off his sleeves and left. He never packed up other people's leftovers because they were all packed before serving.

"Waves in the waves," Sha Zhu hummed a little tune all the way. When he arrived at the yard, he didn't see anyone. Suddenly, a mud boy ran out.

"Uncle Silly, you brought back some delicious food."

"Hey, it's Banggeng, you kid, go away, you're covered in mud, don't dirty my pants."

(End of this chapter)