Yi Zhonghai's Siheyuan

During dinner, Sha Zhu invited Xu Damao to stay for dinner. He did this to thank Xu Damao for speaking up for him, otherwise it would be bad for his reputation to spread.

Xu Damao was not a pretentious person, and it was Sha Zhu who invited him to dinner. He had to eat this meal, so he said goodbye to Sha Zhu and went home to get some wine.

Yang Yuhuan was cooking at the side and said to Sha Zhu who was in the room to invite Huang Yulan to dinner. Sha Zhu took He Hua to Yi Zhonghai's house without saying a word.

"Aunt Yi, you haven't eaten yet, right? Come to my house for a meal?" Sha Zhu knocked on the door and shouted inside.

Huang Yulan opened the door and politely declined Sha Zhu's invitation. Yi Zhonghai was not at home, so the three of them had dinner early. Seeing that they had already eaten, Sha Zhu did not invite them again and took He Hua back home.

Yang Yuhuan brought a plate of cooked food into the room and said, "How is it? Brother Zhuzi! Is Aunt Yi coming here to eat?"

"No, I told her that Aunt Yi has already eaten." Sha Zhu was packing vegetables and steamed buns made of two grains of flour for the third son of the He family. The child should eat first so that he and Xu Damao could drink later.

After a while, Xu Damao came from home with a bottle of Lianhuabai, and Sha Zhu also took a bottle of Erguotou from the cabinet.

Xu Damao raised his eyebrows at Sha Zhu and said, "How about it, brother, are you being righteous?"

Sha Zhu ignored him and turned around to take two eight-cent cups from the bottom drawer.

After three rounds of drinking, Sha Zhu took out the letter of complaint again. He handed it to Xu Damao and said, "Sha Mao, take a look at this letter of complaint. Who is the one who reported it?"

Xu Damao took the letter and read it. He frowned for a long time without saying anything. Just when Sha Zhu was getting impatient, Xu Damao let out a long sigh and said, "This handwriting is hard to read, but one thing is that this person wrote it this way on purpose."

Sha Zhu looked at Xu Damao with an expression of confusion. Xu Damao knocked on the table to signal Sha Zhu to pour him a glass of wine. Sha Zhu had no choice but to let Xu Damao pretend.

Looking at the wine in the glass, Xu Damao drank a sip with satisfaction and said, "Shazhu, look at the structure of this font. It was deliberately written with the left hand. If we write with the right hand, the left and right structures are symmetrical. Look at the radicals on the left, they are obviously inconsistent with the right."

Sha Zhu took a sip of wine and motioned Xu Damao to continue. Yang Yuhuan on the side had a different opinion: "Could this be written by someone who didn't receive much education?"

Xu Damao waved his hand and said, "A person with little education cannot write such a coherent letter of complaint, and the tone is a bit like Yan Bugui's."

"You are such a stingy guy, Old Yan! How dare you do this to me?" Sha Zhu stood up before Xu Damao could finish his words. He felt that Yan Bugui must be jealous of him.

Yang Yuhuan said angrily, "Brother Zhuzi, listen to what Xu Damao has to say first, don't be so anxious."

Upon hearing this, Sha Zhu had no choice but to sit down. Xu Damao on the side continued, "Based on my understanding of Yan Bugui, you must have offended him at some point. Scholars are very petty."

Sha Zhu scratched his head and said, "What could I have done to offend Yan Bugui? I haven't had much contact with him recently..."

"That means Yan Bugui is jealous of you buying a new bicycle. Didn't he ask you to treat him?" Xu Damao expressed his guess.

Sha Zhu rolled his eyes and said, "I know. When I was pushing my bike back yesterday, Yan Bugui asked me if I wanted to celebrate. I didn't treat him well at the time."

"Then, here lies the problem. Yan Bugui must be jealous and you didn't treat him well."

After hearing this, Sha Zhu was furious. Xu Damao could only say, "If you want revenge now, what if he refuses to admit it?"

Sha Zhu calmed down and said, "What should we do? Just watch him shit on our heads? I can't stand this!"

Xu Damao thought for a while and said, "Then let's go after his son. I recently saw Yan Jiecheng pretending to go to Yanzhi Hutong. Follow him and when he goes in, go find the red armband and see if the Yan family can afford to lose this guy."

Sha Zhu thought about it and decided that this was a good idea, so he started drinking with Xu Damao again.

At a machine repair factory in the suburbs, Yi Zhonghai was being invited by the leaders there for a drink and a meal. Since he was sent by the head factory, no one dared to delay him.

During the meal, he saw an acquaintance, Cui Dake. He didn't know whether Cui Dake was together with Ding Qiunan. Seeing his self-familiar attitude, Yi Zhonghai couldn't bear to watch it.

After finishing his meal, Yi Zhonghai went to the dormitory of the machine repair factory, where all the workers of the machine repair factory lived. The yard was not as big as the quadrangle courtyard, but there were also many people living there. After arriving at the residence, he began to make the bed and rest.

At this time, there was a knock on the door. When I opened the door, I saw a little girl.

Yi Zhonghai looked at the little girl and said nothing, so he had to speak first, "What do you want to talk to me about?"

Before Yi Zhonghai could say anything, he saw a woman coming over and taking the little girl away.

"Xiu'er, don't be so rude and disturb other people's rest. Come back with mom quickly. I'm sorry, my daughter thought that this family has moved back so she came to our house." The woman went back with the child.

Yi Zhonghai returned to bed and realized that this guy was Liang Ladi. How could they be connected together? But then he thought about it and it was not surprising. It was normal to have Liang Ladi after Cui Dake.

Soon Yi Zhonghai fell asleep, but he slept well, and the leaders of the machine repair factory couldn't sleep. Especially Cui Dake, he felt that as long as he could serve Master Yi, who was transferred from the main factory, he could go to the steel rolling mill, which was not comparable to the machine repair factory.

The next morning, Yi Zhonghai got up early and prepared to wash up. He met Liang Ladi, whom he met yesterday, while holding a teacup. Liang Ladi smiled at Yi Zhonghai. She knew that this person was sent by the head factory to provide technical guidance and she must not offend him.

There was another girl next to her, who was the little girl who knocked on the door yesterday. Liang Ladi took the little girl's hand and walked over and said, "Xiu'er, hurry up and apologize to this old man."

Xiu'er said in a baby voice, "I'm sorry, uncle, I shouldn't have knocked on the door yesterday."

Yi Zhonghai waved his hand and said, "It's okay. Your name is Xiu'er? Come, I'll give you two candies." Then he took out two candies from his pocket and handed them to her.

Liang Ladi: "Master Yi, you don't have to be so polite. Xiu'er is not allowed to answer the phone, understand?"

Although Xiu'er wanted to eat it very much, she still resisted. Yi Zhonghai took out 5 candies from his pocket and handed them to her, saying, "It's okay. It's normal for children to like to eat candies. Here! Take what I give you."

Xiuer looked up at Liang Ladi, and only took the candy from Yi Zhonghai after seeing her mother nod. Then she said thank you to Yi Zhonghai and went back.

"What a kid! I'm sorry, Master Yi! Are you used to it here as you're new here?" Liang Ladi said, stroking his hair with his hand.

"It's OK. I'm not picky. It's all for the development of the motherland."

As soon as Yi Zhonghai finished speaking, he heard Liang Ladi burst out laughing, and asked in confusion, "Comrade, what are you laughing at?"

Liang Ladi quickly put away his smile and said, "It's nothing, I just think you're funny. Master Yi, my name is Liang Ladi and I'm currently a level five welder in the welding workshop." After saying that, he extended his hand.

"Oh, my name is Yi Zhonghai and I'm an engineer at the steel rolling mill." Yi Zhonghai also stretched out his hand and shook hands with Liang Ladi, then went to wash up because he had to improve the workshop today.