Siheyuan: No One Can Be Left Behind

Sha Zhu, who was standing at the backyard door and looking at the excitement, saw Li Dongfang coming back and waved to him, "Dongfang, come quickly, there's something exciting to watch. Xu Damao has been assigned to go to the countryside again, and just like the previous times, he has to leave immediately."

"It's late summer and early autumn, a good time to show movies. The nights are neither too cold nor too hot. It's normal for him to be busy with work." Li Dongfang immediately gave Xu Damao an excuse.

"Hehe, this guy deserves it. He must have offended someone in the factory. Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is targeting him. Especially this time, he was directly sent to live in the countryside and only goes home four days a month. Tsk tsk." Sha Zhu's tone was full of gloating.

Li Dongfang curled his lips. Sha Zhu was pretending to be ignorant even though he knew the truth. Others might not know what was going on, but he should know. Yet he was still speaking in a sarcastic tone and in such a loud voice. It was obvious that he was saying it on purpose for Xu Damao to hear and to irritate him.

However, Li Dongfang had a bad idea at this moment. He stopped Sha Zhu from mocking him with his eyes, went into the backyard, and said to the errand boy, "Comrade, please talk it over nicely. There is no point in arguing like this. Since the higher-ups have given us the work arrangement, Xu Damao will definitely execute it. Don't rush him. It's already lunchtime. No matter how anxious you are, you have to let him eat before leaving, right?"

Seeing that it was Li Dongfang, the visitor hurriedly said respectfully: "Yes, yes, Director Li is right. It's my fault. I didn't think it through. Fortunately, Director Li reminded me."

As he said this, he turned to Xu Damao and said, "Comrade Xu Damao, you can't blame the section chief. After all, the township and village have submitted applications to show movies, and we can't just refuse them. Besides, isn't this season always so busy in previous years? Isn't the other film comrade the same? He's away from home every day. I hope you can show your dedication and stand up when the people need you."

After all, he is from the Propaganda Department. His explanation of such principles is even better than that of Li Dongfang.

At this time Xu Damao calmed down a little. Seeing Li Dongfang speaking for him, he was confused for a moment. In his opinion, Li Dongfang must have been behind the events of the past month, but now he was speaking for him, which made him a little unbelievable.

"Hmph." Xu Damao did not accept Li Dongfang's kindness. He still felt that Li Dongfang was pretending to be a good person, and no one knew what bad things he was up to behind the scenes.

Li Dongfang was unable to listen to his inner voice, otherwise he would definitely praise him for his accurate guess.

Xu Damao was in a good mood. He even cooked a few dishes and planned to have a drink with Sun Xiu and then do something good in the evening. However, before he could take action, his plan was about to fail.

Although he could occasionally have a romantic encounter with a widow in the countryside, how could those people compare to Sun Xiu? Apart from anything else, their skin was simply incomparable.

Although he had made up his mind that he would not go to the countryside no matter what and must sleep with his new wife today, but now half of the people in the courtyard had gathered here to watch the fun, and he was too embarrassed to turn around and pull his wife to drink with him. He could only sit at the table alone with a cold face, pick up the prepared wine, and drink half a bottle in one gulp.

The messenger narrowed his eyes slightly when he saw Xu Damao's behavior. When he saw Li Dongfang's even brighter smile, he felt a chill on his back. These leaders were really deep-minded. Being ignored by Xu Damao, Director Li actually laughed. He immediately scolded Xu Damao, "Xu Damao, you really don't know what's good for you. Director Li is speaking up for you like this, what's your attitude?"

Li Dongfang stretched out his hand to stop him from continuing to teach Xu Damao a lesson, and said with a smile: "Have you made everything you want to convey clear? If so, go back. You just need to do what you are supposed to do, and don't worry about other things."

"Well, okay, I've already made everything clear, so... I'll take my leave first?" The messenger, who had wanted to run away for a long time, immediately agreed and walked out when he heard what Li Dongfang said.

Li Dongfang glanced at Xu Damao who was drinking alone, and without arguing with him, he turned around and walked towards the central courtyard.

When Sha Zhu saw Li Dongfang leaving like that, he hurriedly followed him, "Dongfang, is this the end?"

Li Dongfang laughed, tilted his head and gave Sha Zhu a few words of advice, then went back to his home.

Sha Zhu was stunned for a while, then he understood what Li Dongfang said, and walked towards Yi Zhonghai's house with a smile.

"Uncle, is Uncle at home?" Sha Zhu shouted at the top of his voice while stretching his head to look towards Yi Zhonghai's house.

"Yes, I am." Yi Zhonghai came out with a bowl in his hand and said to Sha Zhu, "Stop calling Zhuzi. What's the matter?"

"Uncle, there is a person in our hospital who disregards the interests of the people and is selfish. Do you want to take care of this matter or not?" Sha Zhu looked at Yi Zhonghai with a serious face.

Yi Zhonghai looked at Sha Zhu and asked doubtfully, "You're not saying it's Xu Damao, are you?"

"Huh? Uncle, you already knew this?" Sha Zhu said with his eyes wide open.

"I heard all the noises in the backyard just now. I can't do anything about it." Yi Zhonghai said and wanted to go back to the house.

Sha Zhu grabbed him and said, "Uncle, I just asked Dongfang about this matter. He said that if I don't get involved in this matter, Xu Damao will be fired at most. Other people in our hospital will not be affected. Xu Damao's work relationship will be transferred back to the street."

At first Yi Zhonghai didn't understand what this had to do with him, but when the last sentence transferred the work relationship back to the street office, Yi Zhonghai immediately understood. If this was the case, the street office would definitely ask clearly why Xu Damao was fired.

This would affect the image of these three uncles in the eyes of the street leaders, and there would definitely be no civilized courtyard next year, which would affect the interests of everyone in the courtyard. Then people in the courtyard would have to come to him.

After thinking about this, Yi Zhonghai was scratching his head. He knew that he was being used as a gun by Li Dongfang, but he still had to go ahead.

With a roll of his eyes, Yi Zhonghai put the bowl on the windowsill and said, "Zhu Zi, I'm going to the backyard first. Can you help me call the third uncle over?"

Sha Zhu saw that it was just as Li Dongfang had expected. When he mentioned the street, he was directly hitting the vital point of the three uncles.

They can bow to Li Dongfang in private, because he is the leader, and it is not shameful. But if the street doubts their management ability and fires them, then they will lose all face. It will be questionable whether they can still live in the courtyard in the future.

"Hey, uncle, I'll go right away." After saying that, Sha Zhu ran towards the front yard.

Yi Zhonghai looked up at the open door of Li Dongfang's house. Unconsciously, in just a short period of time, Li Dongfang transformed from a small factory doctor into a powerful deputy factory director. Now he was also named by the ministry to supervise research projects. It was no exaggeration to say that he was in the limelight.