Chapter 1542: Sudden Incident

Everyone has their secrets, and the triumphant Li Huaide is no exception.

The sun slowly disappeared below the horizon, and the office became dim. Li Huaide, sitting on the leather sofa, had a gloomy face, holding a cigarette in his hand, and the ashtray on the coffee table was already piled with cigarette butts.

Guo Dapie, standing to the side, also didn't look good. He cautiously stole a glance at Li Huaide and whispered in a pinched voice: "Director, the incident happened too suddenly. We really didn't have time to report to you. Director Zhou from the Ministry brought people and took Old Chen away. And we didn't receive any wind of it beforehand. It seems someone is determined to fix us this time."

It would have been better if he hadn't heard this from Guo Dapie. Now, hearing his words, Li Huaide's anger rushed to his forehead, and he stood up as if his butt had been pricked by a needle. He smashed the ashtray on the ground in a fit of rage, scaring Guo Dapie into shivering, his old face turning pale as he took a step back, not daring to speak in fear.

"This trash! I promoted you to workshop director and let you enter the Revolutionary Committee, but what about you? Your deputy director was taken away by someone, and you can't even let out a fart. Tell me, what is the use of you as a director? You might as well go to the toilet and scoop feces with Shazhu."

Guo Dapie was scared and flustered, hurriedly admitting his mistake with a mournful face: "Director, it was my work error, it was me who was useless, it was me who wasn't vigilant enough. I shouldn't have gone out to drink with the leaders of the brother unit yesterday. Otherwise, Old Chen wouldn't have had an accident, and wouldn't have been taken away. However... even if I had blocked it, I couldn't have stopped Director Zhou from arresting people."

Li Huaide stared at Guo Dapie with a gloomy face: "I don't know you yet? A trash who bullies the weak and fears the strong. If you could have blocked it a bit yesterday and delayed some time, I could have reacted in time when I got the news, and wouldn't have ended up so passive. Now Old Chen has been taken to the Ministry, what do you want me to do?"

Guo Dapie slapped himself hard in front of Li Huaide: "Director, it was me who was useless, I disgraced you. I accept whatever you want to hit or punish me with, I only ask the Director to give me a chance to make up for my crimes. I will go find the dog thing who reported us behind our backs right now, and I will tear him into eight pieces."

After leaving a sentence, Guo Dapie turned to leave.

Li Huaide was so angry he wanted to slap him to death. With a black face, he shouted sternly: "Stand there for me! What's wrong with you? Is your brain filled with feces? The more critical the moment, the more you need to stay calm. Now this matter has been noticed by the Ministry. You are looking for the reporter with great fanfare—isn't that like lighting a lantern in a latrine, looking for death? Besides, how can you be sure the reporter is a nobody?"

Li Huaide extinguished his cigarette with hateful eyes: "Old Chen is also a useless fool. I told him how many times, don't just know how to fish for oil and water, but he just wouldn't listen. Now it's good, the incident has happened. I think this matter is that guy Nie playing tricks behind the scenes. He wants to use Old Chen to implicate me too. This dog thing is too vicious."

Hearing Li Huaide's words, Guo Dapie asked in a low voice, shivering: "Director, what should we do next? Are we going to let those dog things make trouble behind our backs?"

Li Huaide sat down with a black face and said coldly with a vicious look: "No matter how much that guy Nie jumps, he is only the third in command. If he dares to make the rolling mill restless, I will definitely make him pay the price. You go visit Old Chen first, tell him not to talk nonsense, I will find a way to get him out. In case I can't get him out, tell him to have some responsibility, I will arrange his family well."

Guo Dapie felt a chill down his spine: "I know, I will go do it immediately."

After Guo Dapie left in a hurry, the office suddenly became silent. Li Huaide sat on the sofa and muttered to himself gloomily: "That guy Nie, don't think you can do whatever you want just because you have someone supporting you behind your back. I am not a vegetarian either. Let's wait and see."

A moment later, Section Chief Feng knocked on the door, sweating profusely: "Director, you were looking for me."

Li Huaide turned to look at Section Chief Feng: "Old Feng, you must have heard about Old Chen being taken away for investigation for privately misappropriating collective property."

Section Chief Feng said with anxiety: "I heard."

Li Huaide kept a straight face: "This Old Chen is really useless. If the family encounters difficulties, tell the organization. Can the organization ignore it? He actually misappropriated collective property, simply confusing his dog head. Not only does he have to be punished, but he also implicated our rolling mill. Now the factory has to face layer-by-layer review by superior departments. The comrades of the inspection team will enter the factory tomorrow. You must put more effort into the logistics work during this period, and be sure to do a good job in reception, fully take care of the food, clothing, housing, and transportation of the comrades of the inspection team, and make the comrades of the inspection team feel at home."

Section Chief Feng asked carefully: "Director, how many people are in the inspection team?"

Li Huaide said with a gloomy face: "About ten people."

Section Chief Feng: "Then what is their dining standard?"

Li Huaide: "All received according to the standard of department-level leaders."

Section Chief Feng said in a dilemma: "Ten department-level leaders! That puts a lot of pressure on the canteen!"

Li Huaide: "I don't care if the pressure is big or not, I only look at the results. If you can't do it, then change people. Besides, aren't you close friends with Cao Weiguo? If you have pressure, go find him for help. Would he ignore you?"

Section Chief Feng said with a mournful face: "Please rest assured, Director, I will definitely do my best to do a good job in reception, and guarantee not to let you down."

Nanluoguxiang

Cao Weiguo returned home from Yu Li's residence. As soon as he entered the house, he was warmly welcomed by a group of people. After talking for a few sentences, he learned that these people were his "relatives."

After knowing the "relative" relationship of these people, Cao Weiguo endured his annoyance and greeted these uncles, aunts, cousins, and female cousins to sit down, asking why these "relatives" came from so far away?

He didn't have much impression of these "relatives," let alone any family affection. Take the honest and simple cousin Uncle Cao Yunhai, Cao Weiguo had only seen him once, before his father passed away. Since his father passed away, this cousin uncle had never appeared again.

Cousin Uncle Cao Yunhai couldn't speak, but Aunt Liu Shufang was familiar and said a lot: "Big nephew, Aunt heard that you are amazing now, you have already entered the government office and become a big leader. It really gives our old Cao family face. Now the uncles and aunts in the village all praise you, and our Cao family is sharing your glory. In the village, it's called being proud and elated. You are developed, we are all happy for you. Look, as soon as we got free time, we represent the elders and villagers of Cao Family Village to come and visit you."

Cao Weiguo smiled warmly: "Thank you all for your concern. I am busy with work now, and the tasks are heavy, so I really can't get away. When I am not busy with work, I will definitely go back to the village to visit everyone."

Cao Father's ancestral home was Baoding. After liberation, he followed the army into the city and settled in Jingcheng. People's household registration can be moved, but ancestral graves cannot. In the past, during festivals, if relatives in the hometown had weddings or funerals, they would still return to the village. However, after Cao Father passed away, the relative relationship stopped. By Cao Weiguo's generation, he had never been to Cao Family Village again. As for the uncles and aunts, he had forgotten them almost completely. Not only did he forget them, but it is estimated that those relatives were the same.

It's just that hearing that Cao Weiguo was developed and became a leader of a government unit, the "family affection" of these relatives surged again, and they came to visit relatives with local specialties from their hometown, caring about the nephew they hadn't seen for a long time.

After getting close, Liu Shufang stated the purpose of this trip: "Big nephew, look, you have become a leader, you can't forget us poor relatives. Your cousin is twenty-four this year, and he has been farming at home. Because the family is poor and the conditions are not good, he still can't find a wife. You are a leader now, and you are the most promising one in our Cao Family Village. Aunt is thick-skinned and asks you to help, see if you can arrange a job in the city for your cousin."

Cao Weiguo looked at his cousin Cao Zhiqiang, who looked seven parts like his cousin uncle, had a taller figure, and stood behind his cousin uncle without saying a word, and said with a smile: "Cousin, what is your education?"

Cao Zhiqiang said nervously: "I stopped reading after elementary school."

Cao Weiguo thought for a while and asked: "Then besides farming, what other skills do you have?"

Cao Zhiqiang shook his head: "I only know how to farm."

Liu Shufang said urgently: "Big nephew, your cousin doesn't have much culture, but he is smart and willing to work hard. As long as you arrange a job, he will definitely learn carefully, and he will definitely not be lazy at work."

Cao Weiguo said with a smile: "I have remembered the matter of cousin's work. If there is an opportunity, I will definitely help. By the way, Uncle, Aunt, you haven't had dinner yet, right? I will treat you to a meal at a restaurant, and then arrange a guesthouse for you to stay." ===== CHAPTER 1544 =====