Siheyuan: Xu Damao corrects his evil ways

Chapter 126 126, only calculating gains and losses regardless of harm
  At this time Xu Damao had stood up and looked down at Liu Lan.

Liu Lan, on the other hand, looked up at Xu Damao and heard Xu Damao ask her to go to the female director of the labor union in the factory. She was wondering what to say and how to persist.

Liu Lan looked at Xu Damao with light in his eyes.

At this time, she unconsciously pinched the handkerchief Xu Damao handed her and twisted it around in her palm! My heart was itching unconsciously.

The ambiguity between men and women, as long as it begins, is like a wild beast unleashed that no one can contain.

Besides, both of them have some interest in this aspect.

The two of them probably weren't thinking about cheating at this time, at least Liu Lan probably wasn't thinking about it at this time.

She had just been living in an indifferent world, and suddenly she met an interesting person who cared about her.

She just wanted Xu Damao to talk to her more, that's all.

When Xu Damao saw Liu Lan looking at him blankly, he couldn't help but reached out and touched her head in a funny way.

This startled Liu Lan, who stood up and backed away like a frightened little animal.

Liu Lan's face was hot, she lowered her head and whispered, "Projectionist Xu, it's time for me to go back to the cafeteria."

After that, he passed by Xu Damao.

Xu Damao took the vegetable soup in the lunch box and took a sip. Damn it, it was already cold.

Xu Damao turned around and forgot about Liu Lan.

After catching fish all afternoon, Xu Damao became active again when he got off work.

There was nothing that could be done about it. Xu Damao knew that he had set up a work-for-work scheme in the steel rolling mill.

Others thought he had a bright future, but only Xu Damao himself knew that this matter was over.

Is this thing useful? It works. At least the deaf old lady Yi Zhonghai has not retaliated against him until now. It has something to do with him being a leader.

However, it was just to let Xu Damao speak louder in the yard, that's all.

If you really put it in a steel rolling mill, it would be nothing.

When Xu Damao arrived at the entrance of the courtyard, it was still the same old scene. Yan Bugui was standing at the door, holding a broom and making gestures at the door.

Seeing Xu Damao, he nodded and lowered his head again.

Xu Damao ignored him and pushed the car into the yard.

Now Xu Damao and Yan Bugui are just acquaintances.

Don't even think about expecting Xu Damao to be "big, big, short" like before.

Yan Bugui wanted to approach him a few times, but Xu Damao ruthlessly rejected him.

Now Xu Damao has no good relationship with any of the elders in the hospital, but Liu Haizhong can still come and go to say hello. This is the reason why Xu Damao took the initiative to accompany Liu Guangqi to the wedding last time.

As for the other two veterans, their relationship is quite bad.

That's how it is. In general neighbor relations, it's all good to you and me.

But in this yard, if you treat people well, you will only get others' calculations.

Just like the Yanbu Gui family, that's the case.

Although Xu Damao gave Yan Bu valuable things, it was not a simple gift, but more like an exchange of mutual benefits.

But at least Xu Damao gave him real materials.

But Yan Bugui never thought of this when he made his calculations.

If Liu Haizhong hadn't taken action against the Yan family in advance, Damao would have done it even without permission.

Xu Damao thought that it was Yan Bugui who reminded him of the Yan family. The last time Yan Bugui pretended to ask for help at the door, Xu Damao got angry.

Xu Damao remembered this matter when he returned home, always feeling that Yan Bugui was testing him.

So I asked someone to inquire about Yan Jiecheng's factory, and found out that Yan Jiecheng's regular job had been screwed up.

Xu Damao is not good at other things, but when it comes to finding out something from these small factories, Xu Damao naturally has his own way.

Don't forget, I always work in a movie theater. When a new movie comes out, get two movie tickets. Or taking a few people in to watch a movie, these are all small things.

Although the benefits are not valuable, if you are just asking for information, it is completely enough.

Like most people in the yard, except for a few young people. I’ve probably never seen any other movies that cost money.

So although two movie tickets are worthless, they are something they can brag about for a long time.

The kind of life where the skin is wet during the day and the skin is wet at night is basically impossible for working people to have.

The so-called skin bag water means drinking tea and hanging out in a teahouse for a day.

The water foreskin took a bath.

Generally speaking, most people who think that people in Laosijiucheng live these two kinds of lives come to this conclusion after listening to cross talk.

But to be honest, the only people who can live these two kinds of lives all day long are the old and the young.

There is no need to calculate anything else, just calculate income and expenses.

More than 30 yuan a month is considered a high salary in today's 49 cities.

In other words, it only costs one yuan a day. Drinking tea is good or bad, but since you enter a teahouse, you still have to spend one or two cents, right?

The same goes for taking a bath. There are good and bad bathhouses. Not to mention the Tsinghua Pool and Qinghua Garden, it's just an ordinary small street bathhouse. You can go in, take a bath, rub your back, make a pot and get a pedicure.

So why are these two mentioned when basically talking about the lives of people in Sijiucheng?

It's still like watching a movie. Go once in a while and see other people's lives, and you can show off for a long time. So, although movie tickets are not valuable these days, in the eyes of most working people, this thing is really a luxury.

Used to inquire about information from those young people, it is a good leverage, more effective than plugging cigarettes.

Xu Damao saw that Yan Jiecheng had already been tortured, so he let it go.

As a result, the same thing happened again when Liu Guangqi got married. Then I couldn't help but say to Silly Zhu: Think about how Guang Qi and the others left.

In Xu Damao's view, it is normal for your Yan family to scheme against others and to be schemed against in turn.

No matter how good Yan Jiecheng was, or if his interpersonal relationships were a little better, Liu Haizhong would not have messed up his job offer just by saying hello.

It can only be said that there were leaders in the factory who looked down on Yan Jiecheng, but someone took advantage of him and did it casually.

If I can't get my job back this year, I will still have next year, and my annual income will be only a few dozen yuan short.

But Liu Haizhong, Liu Guangqi and his son have achieved this kind of behavior, and they don't know if they can repair their relationship for the rest of their lives.

And Yan Bugui had the ability to stop all of this.

For example, he stopped Liu Guangqi and tried to persuade him. Let Liu Guangqi and Liu Haizhong discuss how to say goodbye openly.

Xu Damao didn't sympathize with Liu Haizhong, but he was a little tired of this kind of revenge, which ended up messing up the family's relationship.

Maybe in Yan Bugui's view, he is still the one who suffers. Because his family, Yan Jiecheng, became a full-time employee a year later and really lost tens of yuan in income.

The Liu family just has a feud between father and son.

Just like when Yan Bugui plotted against Xu Damao, he was just calculating the price difference between chickens that could lay eggs and chickens that couldn't.

But I never thought about the social risks involved in doing such a thing.

This is unacceptable to Xu Damao.

Yan Bugui must be a very smart character in Siheyuan, and he is also a very good calculator.

He may have his own bottom line, but Xu Damao still doesn't like him, just like Xu Damao doesn't like Qin Huairu.

In fact, most of the calculations in the Siheyuan are like this.

He only counts the benefits he gets, but never thinks about the harm he brings to others.

Just like the deaf old lady plotting Lou Xiao'e's divorce.

Just like Qin Huairu plotting against Silly Zhu to help him.

Just like Yi Zhonghai calculated the He family's house.

They all believed that they had not made any big mistakes. The deaf old lady just wanted to eat well in her lifetime, Qin Huairu just wanted someone to help her, and Yi Zhonghai just wanted to build an extra house for his apprentice's family.

But he never thought that Lou Xiao'e almost lost his family because of this incident; Shazhu almost lost his family; and the He family almost lost his family.

Xu Damao was not shirking responsibility for the original owner, but if his wife wanted to kill him, she would have just divorced him and marry her rival in the same house. Anyone else would have to think about it, have they been having an affair for a long time?
  When Xu Damao entered the house, he forgot all the troubles he had just thought about.

There is no way, no matter who has such a happy baby like Lou Xiao'e at home, no one will be upset.

Now Lou Xiao'e is using tongs to pull the sweet potatoes roasted in the stove. The black ash on the tip of her nose proves how much hard work she has gone through.

When Xu Damao came in, Lou Xiao'e had no time to pay attention to him and was concentrating on her own foodie business.

For children in ordinary families, roasting a sweet potato is a very simple meal.

But for Lou Xiao'e, she had never tried such crude food.

So after Xu Damao baked it for her once, Lou Xiao'e, who originally disliked it, completely fell in love with this kind of food.

Of course, Xu Damao is in charge of baking and Lou Xiao'e is in charge of eating.

Think about it, even if Lou Tan is a concubine, she comes from a wealthy family after all. Even if she has endured hardships, she will never allow her daughter to do such a thing.

Xu Damao picked up the kettle, first poured a basin of hot water, tested the water temperature, and soaked the towel and wrung it dry. He walked up to Lou Xiao'e and said, "Put your face up."

Lou Xiao'e raised her head cutely and let Xu Damao wipe her face with a towel.

After wiping his face, Xu Damao took the tongs from Lou Xiao'e and handed the towel to Lou Xiao'e.

In one fell swoop, he picked up a fist-sized black potato.

Looking at the sweet potatoes that had been burned to charcoal, Xu Damao couldn't help but twitch his face.

Xu Damao didn't dare to look at Lou Xiao'e. His daughter-in-law must be smart and knew that the big sweet potatoes would be roasted and eaten.

But there is definitely not much cleverness, so the roasted sweet potatoes were turned into charcoal powder.

This matter cannot be blamed, because it is indeed Xu Damao's problem.

Xu Damao always bakes large sweet potatoes, just enough to bake one sweet potato for two people.

And when it was baked in the past, it was more like stewing than baking, and the air door below was never opened.

The truth of the matter is indeed similar to what Xu Damao guessed. Lou Xiao'e woke up one afternoon today, bored, and suddenly remembered this thing Xu Damao baked.

So I took one out from the kitchen, and specifically chose a small one so that I could finish it.

In order to bake it faster, the damper under the coal stove was opened.

That's it, that's all.

While Xu Damao was thinking about how to fool Lou Xiao'e, he felt a touch on his arm.

Turning around, Lou Xiao'e was carefully poking Xu Damao with her finger, staring at the sweet potatoes burned into charcoal, full of longing.

(End of this chapter)