Living in a Siheyuan

The next day, Lou Xiao'e came to Li Ping'an's house early again. She also brought a jade pendant as a gift to Li Haoran and Li Haoyu. Yu Li looked at it and accepted it without saying anything. After all, it was a gift from their godmother, and it was not worth much now.

Lou Xiao'e now almost regards Li Ping'an's home as her own. Except for going back to sleep at night, she spends the rest of her time at Li Ping'an's home.

It was much more convenient here than at home. She could listen to the radio, look after the children, chat with Yu Li, or learn to make children's clothes on the sewing machine. Even going to the toilet was in the yard, without having to go to the smelly public toilet.

Yu Li was also very willing to have her younger sister accompany her so that there would be someone to take care of the child when she was busy.

For this purpose, she even cleaned up the small room behind the living room. If Xu Damao was not at home, Lou Xiaoe would stay here at night. I wonder if this counts as inviting a wolf into the house?

After the Chinese New Year, everyone started to go back to work as normal.

Not long after I started working, the factory transfers began.

One of the former deputy factory managers retired due to his age.

As expected, Li Huaide took over his position and became the deputy director of the steel rolling mill.

But now he is still a deputy factory director with a low ranking, and he is only responsible for the original logistics department, transportation department and security department.

As for the production, technology, finance, publicity, personnel and other departments, they were not something that a newcomer like him could get involved in. Even the security department was temporarily let go by Li Huaide because the factory secretary was too old.

Li Huaide was promoted, and a group of people behind him benefited from it.

As expected, Liu Zhiwei took over his position and became the director of logistics, and Zhou Changming also became the head of the purchasing department.

When Liu Zhiwei came to the Purchasing Department and announced that Li Ping'an had become the deputy chief of Purchasing Section 3, Ji Qingshan, Feng Gaoge, Wei Mingjie and Yan Jiecheng all looked as if it was a matter of course.

Li Pingan's achievements in the past few years have been there. It can be said that the achievements of several of them combined are not as much as what Li Pingan gained in one trip. So no one is dissatisfied.

When Liu Zhiwei left the office, several people surrounded Li Pingan to congratulate him.

Ji Qingshan was the most senior, and it was he who brought Li Pingan up when he first came. So he said, "Pingan, that's not right! You should call him Deputy Section Chief Li now. Shouldn't you show some appreciation for your promotion?"

Feng Gaoge and Li Pingan had a good relationship, and he even accompanied him on stage. He also said, "That's right, you were just a kid when you first came here, and now you're the section chief, shouldn't you thank us? Let's make everyone happy?"

Wei Mingjie was a soldier. He was a stern man who never smiled. But he was a very nice person and would help anyone who needed help. Today, he smiled at Li Pingan, and his feelings were not expressed in words.

As for Yan Jiecheng, he was now completely subdued by Liang Yuer. He had no energy when he went out, and felt as if he was being abused by Liang Yuer every day. But his character of taking advantage of others had not changed. He also looked at Li Pingan with expectation.

Seeing everyone's enthusiasm, he couldn't refuse, so he waved his hand and went to Donglaishun for mutton hotpot that night.

Now they were all happy. At this time, it was good enough to have enough food to eat, and it was not easy to go to Donglaishun.

After sending away these colleagues with whom he had worked for more than two years, Li Pingan came to Zhou Changming's office, which was now also his office.

Zhou Changming also came over and he wanted to hand over the procedures to Li Pingan.

After explaining some things about the Purchasing Section 3 in detail, Zhou Changming said, "Ping An, you are the section chief now, you can't be missing every day like before. Just stay in the factory and don't run around."

"Also, you have to find a way to recruit some more people. I will also report this to Director Liu. By then, you three departments will have at least six purchasers, one statistician, and you, eight people. Now you only have five people, which is too few."

After thinking for a while, Zhou Changming continued with a smile: "But you can't waste your hunting skills. If you see that they have completed the procurement task too poorly, then you have to find a way to solve it. You can't give up your old profession just because you can't be an official, right?"

Li Pingan was speechless, and felt that this deputy section chief was not as good as the purchasing clerk. He would not be able to stay at home with his wife and children every day.

He also said helplessly: "Don't worry, Lao Zhou, I know this in my heart. I got to this position with this ability. How could I forget it?"

"It's about staffing. You still have to find a way to get people from the human resources department. I don't know where to find people now."

Zhou Changming also knew that it was really hard to be a buyer in this period. Many people were afraid of not being able to complete their tasks, and going out was dangerous. So few people were willing to come. They could only rely on the HR department to allocate jobs.

After talking about this, Zhou Changming left in a hurry. He had just taken over the entire purchasing department, and there were still many things to sort out. The two deputy section chiefs of Sections 1 and 2 were also somewhat dissatisfied with him. They thought he was just taking advantage of Li Pingan. He was just lucky.

Therefore, some handover work also gave Zhou Changming a headache.

Li Pingan looked around the familiar office. He had no idea how many times he had had tea and chatted with Zhou Changming here before. Now it belonged to him.

Zhou Changming's things had been moved, so Li Pingan cleaned up the office and brought his own things in.

I also went to the logistics department to get some office supplies.

After looking at the neat and bright office, Li Pingan sat behind his desk contentedly.

You know what, this is really different from the feeling of sitting on the sofa as a guest. It's still the same office, but I was a guest before, and now I'm the host.

Li Ping'an spent the whole morning tidying up the office and checking previous records.

At noon, he could only take his lunch box to the canteen to eat. From now on, he would be a worker who went to get off work and left on time.

When they arrived at the cafeteria, Sha Zhu saw Li Pingan. He happily took out his lunch box and filled it with vegetables. He said, "Pingan, I heard that you became a deputy section chief? You are amazing!"

Li Pingan was a little surprised and said, "How did you know? I was only notified this morning, but you knew about it at noon? Did the news spread so quickly?"

Sha Zhu said with a smile: "Of course, don't you look at who you are? Everyone in the factory knows that you got the meat during those times. Everyone is happy that you became the deputy section chief. Many people say that with your contribution, you are more than qualified to be a section chief."

Li Pingan was also happy to hear that, it seemed that everyone still remembered his kindness. But he still said: "Brother Zhuzi, don't say that. I'm still young, and being a deputy section chief means that the leaders value me. Forget about being a section chief, I still have a lot to learn."

Sha Zhu said unconvincedly: "Everyone thinks so. If anyone disagrees, let him bring some meat back to our factory for everyone to eat."

Seeing that the people behind him were getting anxious, Li Ping'an quickly took his lunch box and left.

After returning to the office, he opened his lunch box and saw the boiled cabbage. Then he looked at the two pitiful small steamed buns made of mixed flour in his hand. Li Pingan had no appetite at all. He took out a box of stir-fried pork and a few steamed buns from his space and started eating.

Don't mistreat anyone but yourself!

After eating, I didn't even have to wash the lunch box. I just put it into the space and gave it to Liu Mi to clean up.

In the afternoon, Li Ping'an was organizing work in the office again.

He has been in the purchasing department for two or three years. He is familiar with some of the work, so he can sort it out quickly.

As the deputy section chief, he was mainly responsible for sorting out the missing ingredients in the canteen warehouse every month and handing them over to the buyers for purchase. He was also responsible for coordination.

Of course, there is no statistician now, he is also responsible for counting the ingredients submitted by each buyer, so that adjustments can be made at any time.

After everything was sorted out, it was almost time to get off work.

Li Ping'an took all the staff from the third section on a motorcycle to Donglaishun for hot pot.

They said there were only five people including him. When they arrived at the restaurant, not a single table was full.

I called the waiter to order food, and then I found out that supplies were tight and each table was limited to two kilograms of mutton, and the rest were some side dishes.

There was no other choice but to order some more side dishes and eat it.

The five of them drank three bottles of wine, which was not much. No one dared to drink with Li Pingan because of his drinking capacity. The title of the wine god of the steel mill was not exaggerated.

The meal ended at around 7 or 8 in the evening. Each person drank only a little over half a catty of wine, so no one drank too much.

When he returned home, Yu Li and Lou Xiao'e were still waiting for him.

Seeing Li Pingan coming back, Yu Li took the bag from his hand and smelled the alcohol on him. While taking off his coat, she said, "What happened today? You smell like alcohol. Go take a shower before going to bed."

Li Pingan hugged Yu Li, kissed her on the forehead and said, "Your man got promoted today. He is now the deputy chief of Section 3. How is it? Are you happy?"

Lou Xiao'e was still watching. Yu Li rolled her eyes at Li Ping'an and said, "I've already thought of this. Apart from you, no one else in our third department can be the deputy section chief, right? It's because my man is so outstanding."

After she said this, she felt like she was bragging a little and started laughing.

Lou Xiao'e saw the intimate actions of Yu Li and Li Ping'an, and she was envious, but she also felt an inexplicable sour taste in her heart.

So he said, "Have you two forgotten that I'm a light bulb here? The child is watching you two, aren't you afraid of teaching him bad things?"

Yu Li blushed and joked, "Are you jealous? Why don't you let Ping An give you a try? As long as you're not afraid of your Xu Damao punishing you, that's fine."

The speaker may not mean it, but the listener may take it seriously. Lou Xiao'e's expectant look almost made her agree directly. However, she still suppressed her desire with reason.

"I don't care about your man's stinky mouth, I have my own!"

The two women were playing around, and Li Pingan couldn't stand it any longer. If this woman started to act like a hooligan, even a man couldn't stand it.

So he took his change of clothes and went to the bathroom to take a shower. Thanks to the fact that the house was decorated very comfortably, with heating and hot water for taking a shower at any time.

After taking a shower, only Lou Xiao'e was looking after the children in the living room, and Yu Li was in the kitchen making sobering soup for Li Ping'an.

Seeing that Yu Li was not there, Li Pingan hurried over and gave Lou Xiaoe a French kiss. Suddenly, Lou Xiaoe's sourness just now disappeared without a trace.