Chapter 678: Taking off pants to fart

"Hello, Director Lu... Oh my, Li Ye is very busy lately! Where would he have time to manage any ISO?"

"Is it the big factory director asking? Or Guan Liang? Oh, oh, you just report truthfully. I, Old Ding, will take responsibility if anything happens..."

After receiving "guidance" from Grandma and his wife, Li Ye perked up and was careful in everything, ready to dismantle Guan Liang's moves at any time, lest the other party put a big hat of "selfish and lacking spirit of dedication" on him.

Master Old Ding was also very accommodating, arranging some tasks for Li Ye that were low in difficulty but high in complexity.

Whenever someone called to ask why Li Ye wasn't helping the factory translate materials, Old Ding would firmly push back—we are very busy here and don't have time to manage so many idle matters.

It was just that more than a week had passed, and only today did he receive a call from Director Lu of the factory office, saying the big factory director asked him to inquire about Li Ye's situation. Clearly, this was Guan Liang blowing wind in the big factory director's ear.

But even so, the big factory director only let Lu Zhizhang inquire about the situation and didn't directly drag Li Ye over to discipline him.

To tell the truth, the big factory director entrusted Guan Liang to handle this matter, which was his trust and his opportunity. As a result, in the end, the big factory director still had to call to inquire...

He was several levels away from Li Ye! Indirectly letting Lu Zhizhang inquire was already the limit.

Could he really call Li Ye over and give him a beating until his skin was torn and flesh was ripped?

Impossible. Someone who can climb to the position of a department-level top leader won't be that superficial.

Li Ye actually hoped he would call him over to chat, but looking at the current situation, either the big factory director guessed something, or he still wanted to cultivate Guan Liang.

Someone with power in their hands must cultivate and promote a few people while in office, otherwise, when they retire, people will leave and tea will cool, and they won't even be able to borrow a car from the unit.

So he should still want to see Guan Liang's performance and see if Guan Liang can handle this matter well himself.

The next day, Yue Lingshan in the office suddenly brought back a stack of English materials with a distressed face, then hugged a thick English-Chinese dictionary and picked word by word.

But professional English isn't daily English. Yue Lingshan couldn't even say "three oil" correctly. You expect her to understand those obscure technical terms?

Li Ye saw Yue Lingshan's desperate expression and knew that Guan Liang was ashamed and then brave, starting to try every means to handle this matter well. It was just that his way of doing things really wasn't very righteous; he only knew how to push tasks down and let others do the work for him.

Yue Lingshan was also a smart person. After being distressed for most of the day, she piled up a smile and came to find Li Ye.

"Section Chief Li, can you help me see how to translate this sentence? I've looked up the meaning of every word, but I don't understand when they are put together. I'll help you organize the supply reports, and you help me translate..."

"I don't understand either! I only know simple ones like hello, love, money... Besides, I don't have time!"

Yue Lingshan came to ask for advice with eager eyes, but before she finished speaking, Li Ye refused without hesitation.

Are you kidding? People who can do work will only get more work. As long as Li Ye dared to help Yue Lingshan translate one sentence, she would come to ask eight hundred times in an eight-hour day, successfully shifting the work to Li Ye in the end.

To put it bluntly, although Yue Lingshan piled up a humble smile, her nature was the same as Guan Liang's.

Perhaps smart people in enterprises are all like this.

Another week passed, and it was almost time for the holiday. Yue Lingshan hadn't translated a few sheets of paper, but Guan Liang held a meeting once a day, urging and encouraging in various ways.

It was a pity he didn't understand the side effects of "drawing big cakes." Except for Zheng Jiemin, who was still full of energy with his lame leg, everyone else started to slack off.

Seeing that this task was about to be abandoned halfway, Guan Liang's flashy operation came.

Just before the holiday, Guan Liang suddenly distributed some traditional Chinese versions of ISO standard materials, letting Yue Lingshan and the others take them back to "draw lessons from" and find the differences and discrepancies with the original English version.

"It's really damn taking off pants to fart!"

Yue Lingshan even cursed in the office.

Originally, Guan Liang didn't trust the Hong Kong side, so he wanted to translate the original English version himself. As a result, now that he couldn't translate it, he was still using the Hong Kong side's traditional Chinese version for "Chinese-to-Chinese translation." Wouldn't it have been better to just trust the Hong Kong side directly from the beginning?

Could it be that he still wanted to find bones in an egg and insist on picking some faults to show that his level was higher?

Through this incident, Li Ye felt the "distrust" of some people in the unit toward Hong Kong capital.

People have invested money; they can't just throw meat buns at a dog and not even hear a sound, right?

However, Old Ding said to Li Ye in a low voice: "See that? Once Yue Lingshan and the others finish copying the materials, Guan Liang will have made a great contribution."

"..."

Is there any law left in this damn place?

Li Ye was stunned, frowned, and made a decision.

【I damn well must change the bad habits of these bird-men.】

In the twelfth lunar month of '86, there was no New Year's Eve; the twenty-ninth of the twelfth lunar month was New Year's Eve.

Therefore, units in the capital started their holidays one after another on the twenty-eighth of the twelfth lunar month. Like Li Ye, who needed to go back to other places for the New Year, he could ask for leave and leave a day or two early.

Actually, he didn't want to go back to Qingshui County this year because Watching Wen Leyu had been pregnant for nearly five months. The long journey was both uncomfortable and unsafe.

But Watching Wen Leyu was very persistent.

"I'm a new daughter-in-law in my first year, and I'm spending the New Year at my maiden home. What do you think others will think?"

"Li Ye, I know you care about me, and I know Grandpa, Grandma, and Dad don't care about these old rules. But will the aunts and sisters-in-law in your family gossip? Calling me an arrogant young lady from a high-class family, bullying you, the provincial number one who is a star of literature descended to earth..."

Watching Wen Leyu emphasized very seriously to Li Ye: "When I got married, my mom repeatedly warned me not to be arrogant because of being favored. Some small things in the family seem insignificant, but if they accumulate, they become big things..."

His little wife even said "arrogant because of being favored," so what else could Li Ye say?

Just serve her well!

Level not high enough to only buy hard sleeper? Screw that! Must be soft sleeper, all soft sleeper.

Even his younger sister Li Juan, who went home with them, enjoyed the taste of a soft sleeper.

He arranged for Wang Jianqiang and others to drive his own car back to his hometown in advance. When the young couple, Grandma, and his younger sister arrived at the Dongshan Railway Station, Wang Jianqiang and the others were already waiting outside the station in Li Ye's car.

It was just that Li Ye's current level wasn't high enough; otherwise, he could have arranged for a sedan to drive directly onto the platform of the railway station.

Li Ye drove slowly back to Qingshui County from the Dongshan provincial capital. The journey that usually took half an hour actually took nearly an hour.

After arriving at the county town, Grandma Wu Juying suddenly pointed the way: "Don't go back to the old courtyard. Your grandfather has already moved to the dormitory area of the instant noodle factory."

"Dormitory area? How come I don't know?"

"Moved in just a few days ago. What's the matter, do I have to get your approval?"

"No, no, no, I was just asking!"

Li Ye smiled and, following Grandma's guidance, drove all the way to the northwest corner of the county town, seeing a dormitory area six stories high.

This dormitory area was clearly modeled after the employee dormitory of Pengcheng Red Bull, with high courtyard walls, closed management, and security personnel at the gate, prohibiting idle people from entering.

Li Ye understood why Grandpa moved.

This was clearly to stop some people he didn't want to see from coming to the door, right?

It was just that this method could block those visitors who came to give gifts, but could it block certain people who were crying and wailing?