Siheyuan: Happy life of veteran drivers

Machine shop kitchen.

A female worker with a Hu Lan hairstyle was pestering the chef Nan Yi.

"Hey, Master Nan, you cooked a few dishes for the leaders today. Will there be any leftovers?"

A lean and skinny cook turned around with an impatient look on his face and said expressionlessly, "How would I know that? Won't you know when you go over and take a look later?"

Liang Ladi was unhappy: "If they eat all the food, then I will have washed the dishes for nothing? Can't I just ask?"

"I told you to make the food saltier but you refused. If you make the food too salty, they won't be able to finish it!"

Nan Yi glared and said, "Are you being sarcastic on purpose? Wouldn't that ruin my reputation? I, Nan Yi, would never do such a tasteless thing!"

"Besides, I didn't ask you to help wash dishes in the cafeteria. There are helpers and kitchen assistants in the cafeteria. It's not my turn to wash dishes. If you don't want to do it, just leave. Who's asking you to stay here?"

"No, no, no, Master Nan, please don't be angry. I just said it casually. I can't really do it..."

"Hey, the door to the private room is open! I have to clean up quickly without telling you!"

After saying that, Liang Ladi picked up the flat wooden basket and walked towards the private room. She saw Wang Hongtao talking and laughing with the factory leaders coming out.

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"Director Liu, let me ask the drivers under my command and see what they decide."

Liu Feng smiled and nodded: "Okay, okay, just go and ask."

Based on past experience, none of the convoys from the main factory left on the same day, so Liu Feng thought that Wang Hongtao was just going through the motions.

Sure enough, Wang Hongtao came back soon and said that he would not leave tonight because a driver said his car broke down and needed to be repaired.

Seeing the driver's wandering eyes, Wang Hongtao instantly understood that since he was on a business trip, staying one more day away would not only allow him to have a free meal but also get one more day's subsidy.

Okay, then stay.

You can have fun with these old drivers, but it’s better not to break the established conventions rashly.

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Liang Ladi entered the private room and looked at the room full of leftovers, feeling very disappointed. The fish, meat and vegetables had all been eaten up, leaving only a little vegetable juice on the plate. Fortunately, there were two white steamed buns left on the side, so her efforts were not in vain.

Stuffing the steamed bun into her arms, Liang Ladi murmured: Half a bun for each of the three children, and I can still have half left for myself, but there is the problem of milk. Oh... do I really have to do that?

After thinking about it, Liang Ladi took the cured fish skeleton with some fish meat still stuck on it back.

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"Brother Wang, this is where you'll be staying tonight." Liu Feng said, pointing to a dormitory building in the distance.

It is said that the drinking table is the easiest place to build closer relationships. After a round of drinking, the two people started to call each other Brother Liu and Brother Wang.

"The conditions are simple, I hope you don't mind."

After all, the machine repair factory is a small branch factory and does not have its own guesthouse like the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill. It only has a few rooms reserved in the factory dormitory building for reception purposes.

Usually there aren't many customers at the machine repair shop, but it's enough.

The room was located in the middle of the second floor, with stairs at one end and a toilet and washroom at the other.

Pushing the door open under the guidance of Director Liu, Wang Hongtao found that the house was about a dozen square meters and was fully equipped with all the daily necessities including a bed, toiletries, and a coal stove.

"Director Liu, you are too polite. This is already a very good condition when you are away from home. The conditions here are no worse than those in our factory's guesthouse."

Liu Feng was also very happy to hear this. This dormitory building is the best place in their factory. It has two floors in total. The second floor is for reception, and the first floor is where some female comrades in the factory live.

"Okay then, I won't disturb your rest, Brother Wang."

"Here's the meal voucher. I won't be coming tomorrow morning. Just get up and eat in the cafeteria."

"Okay."

After Director Liu left, Wang Hongtao simply washed up and prepared to lie down to rest.

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"Help! Someone come quickly! Someone's dying..."

Just as he lit the stove and was about to go to bed, he suddenly heard a scream. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was Liang Ladi's voice.

Without time to think, Wang Hongtao put on his clothes and followed the sound.

The sound came from downstairs. When Wang Hongtao ran over, there were already a lot of people gathered in Liang Ladi's room, all female workers.

"Qiu Nan, you are a doctor, please help me think of a solution..."

Liang Ladi was so anxious that she was spinning around in circles, looking at a loss as to what to do.

Ding Qiunan supported a little boy, asking him to bend his waist and lower his head. He kept patting the boy's back and reminded him: "Sanmao, hurry up, cough hard, and cough out the stuff quickly."

Sanmao's face turned red, and he coughed while reaching his hand towards his throat, as if trying to reach into his throat and take out a foreign object.

"What's going on?" Wang Hongtao pushed through the crowd and squeezed in.

"Sanmao sucked the fish bone and sucked it down his throat!"

Liang Ladi saw a man suddenly come in, and she didn't care who he was and held his hand and complained: "I'm so stupid, really."

"Why are you feeding a child a fish bone for no reason? Now the fish bone is stuck in his throat!"

"I deserve to die, I deserve to die, I deserve to die..."

At first, Liang Ladi just stomped her feet and slapped the back of her hands, but later she started to slap herself in the face.

In just a few moments of talking, Sanmao's face had turned from red to blue, and he began to show signs of becoming unsteady on his feet.

Ding Qiunan, who was standing by, also knew that things were not going well and she sobbed as she spoke: "Sanmao, cough hard, don't scare Auntie, wuuuu..."

Ding Qiunan is both a doctor and Liang Ladi's good sister. If Sanmao had an accident at her hands, she would probably blame herself for the rest of her life.

"Let me try."

The situation was urgent and Wang Hongtao could not care about anything else. He grabbed Sanmao from Ding Qiunan's hand, half-squatted behind him, clenched one hand into a fist, and wrapped the other hand around Sanmao's abdomen, squeezing rhythmically.

One, two, three times

"Te!"

"Ahem..."

Sanmao suddenly spat out a piece of broken bone, then propped himself up on his knees and gasped: "Hu...Hu..."

Then he burst into tears and hugged Liang Ladi and cried loudly.

Seeing Sanmao successfully escaped, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, comforted Liang Ladi for a few words, and then left.

Liang Ladi cried with joy, hugged Sanmao tightly and patted him: "Woo...you bad boy, you scared me to death!"

"Don't dare to do this again next time!"

Sanmao escaped the disaster by luck, but was terrified: "I won't dare to do it again, I won't dare to do it again!"

"Mom, my throat hurts..."

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While the mother and son were talking, Ding Qiunan pulled Wang Hongtao aside and couldn't help asking, "How did you do it just now? You got the foreign object out of your throat so easily?"

Wang Hongtao spread his hands calmly: "My brother did this to my mother when he was a child. As for why it works, I don't know."

The Heimlich maneuver was not made public by Aimee until 75. Wang could only attribute the credit to his mother, whom he had never met.

Ding Qiunan's eyes lit up at first, then became sad again: "I can't even go to college now, what's the point of worrying about these things..."

Wang Hongtao opened his mouth but said nothing in the end.

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"Sanmao! Come here and kowtow to your benefactor!"

Wang Hongtao waved his hands quickly, "No, no, it's just a small favor, and I didn't pay anything."

Liang Ladi disagreed. She wiped her tears and insisted, "It may be a trivial matter for Lai, but it is a great favor to our family. If anything happens to Sanmao, I... I don't know how to live!"

"Sanmao, kneel down and kowtow!"

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Sanmao was quite straightforward. He knelt down and kowtowed three times.

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