Yi Zhonghai's Siheyuan

It was January 1966, and the New Year was approaching. Children were playing in the alleys with laughter and joy. Some were making snowmen and some were playing with firecrackers.

Yi Zhonghai planned to take his family to visit his eldest brother's house on New Year's Eve and see how the situation was over there.

Yi Zhonghai went back to the house and warmed himself by the fire. The snow was so heavy that it was not very convenient to ride a bicycle as it was easy to slip.

Liu Haizhong has been hanging out with Qin Huairu for the past month. He often uses his meal tickets to help Qin Huairu. On the other hand, he is having a hot affair with Li Huaide. Li Huaide was just worried that he had no one to use, but who knew that Liu Haizhong would come to him on his own initiative.

So Li Huaide let Liu Haizhong be the leader of the patrol team first. Liu Haizhong wore a red armband and walked around the yard ostentatiously. Everyone avoided him when they saw him.

Ever since Liu Haizhong became the leader of the patrol team, he has been beating and scolding Liu Guangtian and Liu Guangfu at home. The two children keep flattering Liu Haizhong in order to have a full meal.

Liu Haizhong naturally benefited a lot from it. After becoming the leader of the patrol team, he began to search houses, first some wealthy families in the old city, and later targeted some families with bad backgrounds.

Liu Haizhong's success also gave Xu Damao some ideas. Originally, Xu Damao had given up the idea of ​​becoming an official. When he thought that someone like Liu Haizhong could become a team leader, he thought that he could also get an official position.

So Xu Damao began to try his best to please Li Huaide. Li Huaide accepted Xu Damao's behavior but did not give him any reply. Xu Damao realized at once that this meant that he did not give him a gift.

Xu Damao ran home and started searching everywhere. The absence of Lou Xiaoe's gold bars in this life did not bother Xu Damao. Not finding any banknotes at home, Xu Damao went to his parents' house again.

When Xu's father heard that his son was asking for something, he hurriedly walked away, but he could not stand his son's persistence, so he finally took out two small yellow croakers he had hidden and gave them to Xu Damao.

Xu Damao sent it to Li Huaide the next day. Li Huaide was very pleased and promised Xu Damao that after he took charge of the steel rolling mill next year, he would transfer Xu Damao to the Gawei Committee as deputy director.

Liu Haizhong's actions offended too many people. Everyone hated Liu Haizhong so much, but Liu Haizhong had no idea that this hatred for himself for being an official was nothing.

After dinner, Yi Zhonghai read a book in the room. The laboratory has been progressing smoothly recently, and the experiment will be successful soon! The leader still supports this project as always.

The next day, Li Huaide found Yi Zhonghai alone and asked him if he was willing to join the Ga Committee. Yi Zhonghai naturally refused and said that he was very busy developing these things. After Yi Zhonghai refused, Li Huaide didn't say anything. He knew that he could deal with others but not Yi Zhonghai. Whether the entire steel mill could increase its production capacity in the future depended on Yi Zhonghai's experiment.

Yi Zhonghai returned to the experimental workshop and began to assemble the last part. After the processing was completed, he started the first experiment!

After Yi Zhonghai finished polishing, he installed it on the valve and added a layer of oil seal to block the airtightness. With a sound of "start!", the boiler began to burn. This time the melting point of the boiler was higher and steam began to come out as the temperature continued to heat. Yi Zhonghai slowly opened the valve and oxygen entered the furnace.

The temperature on the scale had reached 3,600 degrees. It had finally succeeded! The test workshop was filled with laughter and joy to celebrate this experiment that had been developed for half a year. Yi Zhonghai sent someone to inform Yang Aimin and Li Huaide.

After the two factory managers arrived, they were surprised by this thing. They looked at the formed steel next to it. Yang Aimin couldn't let it go and picked it up to have a look. It was amazing that the formed steel crushed all previous steel in terms of hardness and flexibility.

Yang Aimin immediately went back to the office and called the boss, who said that he would come to the steel mill for inspection tomorrow. Li Huaide patted Yi Zhonghai on the shoulder and said thank you for your hard work.

Due to the success of today's experiment, Yang Aimin and Li Huaide held a meeting to discuss providing extra meals to the comrades at the steel rolling mill. They also praised the engineering department represented by Yi Zhonghai through the radio. Naturally, there were no rewards.

The workers at the steel rolling mill cheered when they heard the announcement of extra meals on the broadcast. Only one person was not convinced and that was Liu Haizhong. Seeing that Yi Zhonghai was so popular and was also the head of the engineering department, Liu Haizhong thought about visiting him wearing a red armband.

After work, Yi Zhonghai went to the vegetable market to buy vegetables and just came back, he saw a group of people surrounding his house in the courtyard. Yi Zhonghai pushed the crowd away and saw Sha Zhu and Xu Damao holding kitchen knives and confronting a group of people with red armbands.

Yi Zhonghai hurried over and said, "Da Mao, Zhuzi, what's going on?"

Before the two of them could say anything, Liu Haizhong next to them stood up and said, "We at the Ga Committee suspect that you, Yi Zhonghai, have the style of a capitalist. We are starting an investigation now!"

Yi Zhonghai: "Liu Haizhong, OK, you brought the people to the yard, right?"

Liu Haizhong was now at loggerheads and didn't care what Yi Zhonghai said. "I just suspect you are a suspect. Hurry up and ask someone to get out of the way so we can go in and investigate!" Then he pointed at the dish in Yi Zhonghai's hand and said, "Look at you. You eat a lot of meat and fish every day and you dare to say it's not your fault!"

Jia Zhang said on the side, "That's right. We have all kinds of delicious food every day, but Yi Zhonghai doesn't help us poor people!"

Qin Huairu next to her was also adding fuel to the fire with Jia Zhang. She had been unhappy with Yi Zhonghai for a long time. She had asked Yi Zhonghai for help many times but he didn't help her. He also introduced a wife to Sha Zhu, making it impossible for her to suck blood. Therefore, Qin Huairu had a lot of resentment towards Yi Zhonghai.

Yi Zhonghai said, "Liu Haizhong, I am not afraid to tell you that I am now the head of the engineering department of the steel rolling mill, and the source of my salary is well documented! As for you saying that I have a capitalist style, what about you? You beat your two sons at home every day, and when you go out, you ask people to call you Team Leader Liu. You have a big bureaucratic attitude, don't you? I think people like you should be defeated!"

Liu Haizhong was so furious at what Yi Zhonghai said that he led his men to rush inside.

Yi Zhonghai shouted, "Wait, look at what I have here!" and took out a small red notebook from his bag.

Yi Zhonghai: "Liu Haizhong, as the leader of the patrol team, I want to test you! Make up your mind, fear no sacrifice, overcome all difficulties, and strive for victory. What's the next sentence? Say it quickly!"

Liu Haizhong hesitated, he really didn't know, but the people around him suddenly changed their expressions after hearing it and looked at Liu Haizhong hesitating.

Yi Zhonghai: "You don't know? How dare you show off in front of me when you can't even recite this?" After saying that, Liu Haizhong was grabbed by the hand and taken away by the person who brought him here.