Siheyuan, my new life

Xue Yingwu, who was sitting next to him, looked panic-stricken. He seemed to be able to feel the murderous intent of Consultant Lin towards him. It was as if he was in a sea of ​​fire and blood. Xue Yingwu, who already had ulterior motives, now only wanted to leave here immediately and stay away from Consultant Lin with a gloomy face. Unfortunately, his feet seemed to be welded to the ground by electric welding, and he could not move at all.

Lin Yu handed the materials he had already read to Director Zhai Yonghui, who was sitting on the left side of the conference table. Then he picked up a Zhonghua cigarette on the table, lit it, took a deep puff, and as the smoke came out, his entire face was gradually enveloped in it.

The conference room was now completely silent. No one dared to make any noise, whether it was the leaders of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill or Qin Ming and others from the Security Department. They could all clearly feel that Lin Yu at this moment was like a volcano about to erupt. The only sound in the conference room was the faint sound of Minister Wang and Director Zhai Yonghui flipping through papers of materials.

Beads of sweat kept rolling down Xue Yingwu's forehead. At this moment, the scene of the first time he accepted the "local specialties" sent by Lou Zhenhua emerged in his mind.

At that time, the city of Peking had just been peacefully liberated. Before the evacuation of the Kuomintang government, various spy organizations were said to have lurked tens of thousands of enemy agents. In order to ensure the safety of some key enterprises related to national construction and residents' lives, the Military Control Commission directly dispatched troops and working groups to these key enterprises.

Xue Yingwu was a member of the working group at that time and was stationed in Lou's Steel Rolling Mill, one of the largest steel mills in Peiping at that time. Among those in the same working group were team leader Guo Sanhu, deputy team leader Song Jiefang, as well as Yang Weimin, Dong Dongliang and others.

Lou Zhenhua, the owner of Lou's Steel Rolling Mill, had delivered urgently needed materials such as steel, cotton and medicine to our army many times before liberation, and was once called a "patriot" by some leaders.

Therefore, before the working group moved into the Lou's Steel Rolling Mill, a leader held a meeting with all members of the working group and specifically mentioned that patriotic capitalists like Lou Zhenhua must be united and that efforts should be made to mobilize Lou Zhenhua to actively join in the great cause of building the country.

When the working group entered the Lou's Steel Rolling Mill, they were warmly welcomed by the boss Lou Zhenhua, who not only hosted a banquet for all members of the working group in the mill's small canteen, but also directly expressed that he would do his best to cooperate with the working group's work.

Sure enough, in the following period of time, Lou Zhenhua actively cooperated with the work of the working group, and occasionally invited all members of the working group to have meals together in the small cafeteria.

In just less than a month, with the active cooperation of Lou Zhenhua, all the work of the working group was basically completed, and Lou Zhenhua also became quite familiar with all members of the working group.

At that time, for the convenience of work, all members of the working group lived and worked directly in two courtyard houses less than two kilometers away from the Lou's Steel Rolling Mill. These two houses were also voluntarily provided by Lou Zhenhua for the use of the working group.

Xue Yingwu remembers it very clearly. It was the evening of March 25, 1949. Lou Zhenhua hosted a banquet for all members of the working group in the small canteen of Lou’s Steel Rolling Mill. After the banquet, Lou Zhenhua personally drove all members of the working group back to their residences one by one.

Lou Zhenhua diligently helped the already tipsy Xue Yingwu back to the room, and only said goodbye and left after Xue Yingwu was settled.

Xue Yingwu was drunk at the time and went straight to bed. When he woke up the next day, he found a strange black leather bag at the head of his bed.

After opening it, in addition to two packs of Hardman cigarettes and two packs of Daqianmen cigarettes, there was also a row of small yellow croakers at the bottom of the purse.

At that time, Xue Yingwu only had eyes for the tempting golden color. He couldn't help but reach out and pick up one, carefully feeling the slightly cool small yellow croaker, feeling extremely complicated.

Xue Yingwu could certainly guess that the briefcase was left here by Lou Zhenhua. Although he drank a lot of liquor last night, he could still remember that when Lou Zhenhua helped him get out of the car, he clearly saw with the help of the car lights that the driver had handed Lou Zhenhua a briefcase, and at this time the briefcase was placed on the head of his bed.

At this time, there were two villains arguing fiercely in Xue Yingwu's mind. One villain insisted on handing over the briefcase to the team leader Guo Sanhu, and the other villain wanted to stay. After all, he had participated in the revolution for so many years, and many comrades had fallen. Since he was lucky enough to survive until the national liberation, he should enjoy the fruits of victory. He had learned from an old leader that in the future they would leave the army and work in local areas. You must know that no matter where he was assigned to work in the future, he would need a lot of money to settle down. There were twenty small yellow croakers in the briefcase, which was enough for him to buy a lot of items.

After hesitating for a long time, Xue Yingwu decided to go to the office today to check the situation. He believed that Lou Zhenhua, the big boss known as Lou Bancheng, would definitely not give the expensive gift to just himself. He was afraid that the team leaders and deputy team leaders would give him more gifts. If others took the initiative to hand them over, he would have no choice but to give them up with reluctance. If the others did not hand them over, he would keep them and improve his life in the future.

What made Xue Yingwu secretly happy was that no one, whether it was the team leader Guo Sanhu, deputy team leader Song Jiefang, or several other team members, mentioned the matter of Lou Zhenhua giving gifts.

So Xue Yingwu devoted himself to his daily work with peace of mind.

After all the tasks of the working group were completed, Xue Yingwu officially transferred to Gongyebu. Fortunately, all members of their working group were assigned to work in Lou's Steel Rolling Mill.

After negotiation, it was decided that the Lou's Steel Mill would be directly managed by the state in the future. Lou Zhenhua took the initiative to hand over most of his shares to the state, and he would only retain 49%. In the future, the Lou's Steel Mill would be renamed the Red Star Steel Mill, and would also be known as the Third Steel Mill in Gongyebu.

The government appointed Guo Sanhu as secretary of the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill (at the level of a director), Song Jiefang as director (at the level of a director), Yang Weimin and Dong Dongliang as deputy directors (at the level of deputy directors), while Xue Yingwu was appointed chairman of the trade union (at the level of a director) because of his age.

After officially taking office, Xue Yingwu was assigned an apartment in a courtyard house. On the first day he and his wife and children moved in, Lou Zhenhua personally came to congratulate them. In addition to sending some cigarettes, alcohol, cloth and other daily necessities, he also left a leather bag containing thirty small yellow croakers.