Chapter 1077: The second one

"? ~ We workers follow the Party."

"? ~ The red flag is held in hand, the red sun shines in the heart, we sing and advance without stopping..."

"Ding—The red flag is flying! The horn of the workers' great learning has sounded!"

After the song "We Workers Follow the Party" ended, the announcer's voice came from the broadcast.

Every afternoon at three o'clock, there will be a "Red Flag Flying" program, and the broadcast content is mainly based on great learning and ideological education.

This is a new way for the Steel Rolling Factory to implement the spirit of the superior's instructions and carry out great learning and great discussion activities within the whole factory.

All factory staff listen to the organization's teachings, bathe in the organization's glory, work hard, sweat, and forge the brilliance of the new era.

During the broadcast, some teams will flexibly adjust their time to use the broadcast program to uniformly study the spirit of the superior's instructions and uniformly organize discussions on the attitude and situation of team learning.

Especially criticizing and self-criticizing the laziness and ideological emotions that appear in work.

"Today, we warmly welcome the beloved Mr. Z to inspect and guide the construction of the Red Star Factory Ecological Industrial Zone and the industrial trade fair work..."

Unlike other days, all workshops, teams, and agency units and departments had received notice long ago that they would listen to the broadcast centrally today.

At 3:00 PM, the Beijing Red Star Steel Rolling Factory, Steel City Steel Rolling Factory, Yingcheng Shipbuilding Factory, and other units listened to and studied the spirit of Mr. Z's instructions during his inspection of the Red Star Factory.

Except for the teams that could not stop work, the Steel Rolling Factory was exceptionally quiet at this time, and only the broadcaster's voice was moving in the air.

"Mr. Z gave high evaluation and praise to the Red Star Factory's development and construction work."

"After the inspection and guidance, Mr. Z put forward four valuable opinions: First, accelerate the pace of development and consolidate the foundation of production and construction."

"Second, do a good job in trade exchange work, and service and quality must be prioritized."

"Third, do a good job in ecological demonstration construction and get the industrial park up."

"Fourth, firm up ideological consciousness, be a diligent and honest old ox, and don't be a toad looking up at the sky!"

"This is the victory of all cadres and staff of the Red Star Factory, the victory of organizational leadership, and the victory of unity!"

"Now, according to the requirements of the factory management committee, read Li Huai De's theoretical article 'Call on all cadres and staff of the factory to study the spirit of Mr. Z's inspection of the Red Star Factory'."

"The 'Article' calls on all cadres and staff of the factory to seriously convey and study the spirit of Mr. Z's important instructions, implement the guidance opinions, and arrange work such as industrial career development, ecological industrial zone construction, composite industrialization promotion, and normalized great learning ideological education."

"According to Mr. Z's instruction spirit, the factory management committee studied the implementation opinions on comprehensively promoting ecological industrial construction."

"Li Huai De emphasized that all levels and departments of the factory must deeply implement Mr. Z's ecological industrial thought, deeply understand that the greatest value of industry is in ecology, the greatest responsibility is in ecology, and the greatest potential is also in ecology, and further build a solid ecological safety barrier."

"Deepen the reform of the ecological industrial system, improve the ecological industrial foundation guarantee mechanism, improve and perfect the ecological industrial guarantee system for the whole factory, and strive to achieve development in protection and achieve a higher level of protection in development."

"Solidly promote the construction of the ecological industrial zone, and coordinate and grasp key work such as industrial ecological development, joint production and trade, and security and garrison."

"Effectively play the typical leading role of the ecological industrial zone project and plant the green background of high-quality development."

"Li Huai De emphasized in the 'Article' that we should comprehensively improve the level of industrial management, strengthen industrial environmental protection governance, strengthen ecological restoration, pollution prevention and control, and ecological resource protection, maintain the ecological functions of the Liangma River, and ensure that the river is smooth, the water is clear, the banks are green, the scenery is beautiful, and the industrial zone is more beautiful."

"Normalize the great learning ideological education activities, strengthen industrial ecological propaganda and education, cultivate excellent industrial brands, enrich staff practice activities, and guide all cadres and staff of the factory to enhance ecological industrial consciousness, ecological life consciousness, and resource conservation consciousness."

After this article was broadcast, the broadcast continued to report on the grand occasion of the industrial trade fair held by the Steel Rolling Factory together with other industrial departments today.

At the trade fair that just ended, the Red Star Steel Rolling Factory and other industries exhibited a total of 675 industrial products.

Among them, 78 types were newly developed and successfully researched life and industrial products.

During the process of the broad masses and citizens visiting and understanding, all factory units showed great work enthusiasm, ensuring the smooth closing of the trade fair.

The broadcast did not mention the sales volume and achievements of this trade fair. These data themselves were not the core purpose of this trade fair.

But it must be mentioned that this trade fair truly made everyone realize the vitality of joint industry and joint trade.

Joint industry and tertiary industry invested a total of 37 tons of salable livelihood goods.

By the end of the trade fair, the original 37 tons of goods were not enough at all. It was Li Xuewu who specially approved the secondary investment of 30 tons, which supported the closing.

A total of more than 60 tons of goods were sold out, which shows that the purchasing power of citizens in Beijing alone is quite amazing.

And this data was also written into the document reported to the superior by Li Xuewu.

Yes, the document delivered to the superior was written by him, not the one delivered at noon, but the one he asked Li Huai De to write.

It was just that Director Li, who was prominent in front of people, struggled for an hour and only wrote four words, so it could only be him who took over and completed the remaining 4,507 words.

But the signature of this article was still Li Huai De, and it was also reported in the name of the Director of the Red Star Steel Rolling Factory Management Committee.

Don't look at the fact that he only wrote seven words including Li Huai De's name, but these seven words were valuable, more valuable than Li Xuewu's 4,000-plus words.

And the "Article" just read on the broadcast was also written by him, which of course doesn't need to be guessed.

Old Li's reason was that he couldn't write it because his excited mood had not yet calmed down.

Li Xuewu believed this point. He believed it too much. Only Old Li was excited in the entire reception team, and he was not excited at all.

The article is not important, what is important is the data.

It is the connection relationship between current market economy and industrial development reflected behind the data, as well as the contradiction with planned production and planned economy.

The construction of the ecological industrial zone is not as simple as the combination of ecology and industry literally.

In the industrial field, the Red Star Factory is based on heavy industry, continuously expanding development space to the upstream and downstream of the industry, breaking through trade sales barriers, realizing diversified operations, and composite development of light and heavy industry.

If it is just for the convenience of factory construction, taking scientific research and tertiary industry and part of joint industry as the core circle, and building residential areas and schools and medical systems around it, this is not called an industrial zone, and it is not called an ecological industrial zone. This is called a big factory.

The concept of ecological industrial zone actually has no decisive relationship with the Liangma River.

Without the Liangma River, it doesn't matter if there is Liangma Mountain, Liangma Ditch, etc. This is just an embellishment.

What is the core of the ecological industrial zone?

It is to take the Red Star Factory's future sustainable high-speed development as the goal, take the existing production capacity and development drive as the foundation, and build a comprehensive, three-dimensional, healthy growth system with other industries.

On the basis of big factory construction and layout, through joint trade, industry, tertiary industry, humanities, medical care, and other categories, connect multiple enterprises to form a chain-like industrial system.

On this industrial development chain, economic ecology, humanistic ecology, ideological ecology, scientific research ecology, and other ecological thoughts will be added.

The ecology of the ecological industrial zone actually represents a new concept of continuous scientific and technological innovation, continuous product leadership, and vigorous humanistic development.

If it is just that the Steel Rolling Factory wants to dismantle heavy industry, expand light industry and factory area, would it attract Mr. Z to inspect it personally?

Of course not. The ideas and context of industrial development are traceable, and it is not that anyone can change them casually.

But the Red Star Factory, through ideological reform, through trade system exploration and production industrial reform, has experimented with a new concept and new thought under the planned production and economic system.

This has research value for the current period of collision and integration of planned economy and market economy, and is worth experimenting and thinking about.

How does the plan and opinion submitted by the Red Star Factory construct and experiment with this system?

Not to mention other items, just talk about the most obvious one, which is trade.

In the ecological industrial zone construction plan submitted by the Steel Rolling Factory, there is a large shopping mall.

This shopping mall not only sells foreign goods and livelihood materials, but also sells all goods that can be provided by the supply chain under the joint trade system.

That is to say, employees and family members living in the Liangma River Ecological Industrial Zone can all enjoy the qualification to enter the shopping mall to shop.

From the beginning, the goods transported back by the Red Star Factory's frozen train project have not been sold externally.

In the process of internal sales, no tickets or certificates were collected.

Because these materials were not products within the plan, collecting tickets would cause serious interference to the goods in the planned market.

This is also the reason why the supply and marketing system has been slow to come to find trouble, because the Red Star Factory's trade system is simply not within their supervision scope.

There is no ticket transaction, so the planned value of the tickets in the hands of workers is actually not changed or shaken.

And the limited transaction attribute of these resources isolated the inspection and supervision of the supply and marketing system.

Outside the factory area, they have the final say, but inside the factory area, the factory management committee has the final say.

The Red Star Factory is actually not particularly huge. Before the reform, it was only more than 10,000 people.

You look at those big factories and big units with 30,000 to 50,000 people, or even more than 100,000 people. Those are the ones that jump out of the three realms and are not in the five elements.

People have their own punishment agencies. You just say how great this power is.

To put it another way, is the ecological industrial zone building high walls, circling these tens of thousands of people inside with the river as the boundary?

Of course not. That is not building an ecological industrial zone, but an ecological prison.

The Red Star Factory's Liangma River Ecological Industrial Zone has no walls, and is connected to other plots in Beijing on both sides of the river.

The industrial zone has no walls, but the functional areas need identity proof.

But this psychological wall is what the Steel Rolling Factory is eager to break through and break free from. The walls were not set up by the Steel Rolling Factory, but by the planned economy.

The Liangma River Industrial Zone will always build a harmonious industrial system with an open attitude.

In systems such as educational resources, medical resources, and trade resources, a gap will be left to continuously explore marketization with the nature of experimentation.

Therefore, you can regard the ecological industrial zone as a club, a circle of friends, a development platform.

The land of the Liangma River Ecological Industrial Zone is limited, but the development of joint industry is unlimited.

Some people said, is the ecological industrial zone designed by Li Xuewu Shekou, is it the Shenzhen of later generations, is it appearing too early?

No, from the fundamental design ideas, they are not the same, and the economic system expressed concretely is completely different.

Beijing does not have the soil for opening up reform windows to the outside world, but here there are genes for ideological practice.

The Liangma River Industrial Zone is actually the integration of market economy resources that have already been produced under the planned economy system.

To generalize, what is a planned economy?

A planned economy is that the coordinating department says that your factory needs to build ten products this year, and gives you the resources and qualifications to build ten products.

You successfully completed the production plan, delivered ten products to the planned system, and the coordinating department arranges the sales and distribution of these ten commodities. This is the composition of the planned economy.

What are the market economy resources under the planned economy system?

It is to let you build ten products, and give you the resources to build ten products, because of technology, craftsmanship, and self-raised construction and other factors, you built twelve products.

The above only requires you to build ten, and people only collect ten according to the plan. What about the remaining two?

Two roads, one is to hand it over along with the production plan. In the case of shortage of this type of product, your factory will be commended, and the production plan allocated to your factory next year will be raised to twelve products.

But if the supply and demand relationship of this product in the market is stable, and ten are needed this year, these two you built more are mistakes.

If you dare to hand it over, you will be punished, and two will be cut from the production plan given to your factory next year, that is, eight as punishment.

To say this is unreasonable?

But this is the planned economy. What is planned is what it is.

What about the extra two?

You can't just throw them away or deal with them casually. After all, they are produced and cannot be wasted.

Okay, the factory leader claps his head, let's treat these as welfare products or internal supply products and give them to the factory staff.

Some textile factory staff can purchase cheap fabrics with pattern printing errors or other defects from the factory.

What if the factory staff can only eat one of the two products?

Then it is like when Li Xuewu went to Jicheng to sell pears, implementing trade with the condition of welfare product exchange between units.

Then the question comes, do internal processing and product exchange count as market economy?

Fundamentally speaking, production resources not within the plan will circulate to the market and become market economy resources.

Regardless of the form in which these products are handled, it is a market-oriented economy.

To be more concrete, your hen laid an egg, you don't want to eat it, and you took it to a neighbor to exchange for a daughter-in-law. What does this count as?

This counts as fraud!

Because the value of the egg and the daughter-in-law are not equal, your behavior is to be supervised and punished by the supply and marketing system.

Then what about exchanging an egg for a bowl of rice?

Equivalent exchange itself exists within the livelihood system and will not attract the attention of the supply and marketing system. This is the core of the ecological industrial zone.

It is not a simple market economy, but trade exploration reasonably integrating market economy resources under the planned economy system.

Is there danger in this exploration?

Yes, because this is Beijing. The old man who draws circles doesn't dare to engage in foreign trade in Beijing. You say whether it is dangerous here or not.

Therefore, whether it is the ecological industrial zone or the Red Star Steel Rolling Factory, where is the platform for integrating market economy resources? In Jinmen!

Where is the platform for improving the manufacturing capacity of market economy resources? In Steel City!

Where is the system for completing the dispatch and operation of the market economy? In the connection between joint trade units and offices across the country.

Beijing's ecological industrial zone is actually a display, from which you can see the market economy active under the planned economy system.

But you can't catch it, you can't get it, because it is just a display!

The industrial trade fair organized and prepared by the Steel Rolling Factory today is actually a form of display.

The commodities purchased by citizens and masses from here are all traded in the form of retail, which is a chain-breaking embodiment of the connection between factories and supply and marketing departments in the planned economy.

People of this era may have experienced less of this situation, but in later generations, it can be seen everywhere on the street.

The high-pitched loudspeaker shouts "Factory direct sales, profit reduction, nine yuan nine for the whole venue!"

"Leader, did Mr. Z go to your factory?" As soon as she entered the door, Qin Jingru, who opened the main gate, asked excitedly.

Li Xuewu looked at her, she was wearing an apron around her waist, and there was a flower on her hair.

It was not the plastic flower of the hairpin type, but a real fresh flower.

The big girls and little daughters-in-law of this era are like this, and their yearning for beauty is particularly simple.

In later generations, if you see a girl with wild flowers on her hair, you must think, this is a crazy girl.

But it is different now, especially in spring, wearing fresh flowers on braids or ears is an embodiment of beauty, and everyone does so.

It seemed that she was a bit embarrassed by Li Xuewu's look. Qin Jingru raised her hand to touch the fresh flower by her ear and asked: "What's wrong?"

"Nothing, it looks good, I just think it's fresh."

Li Xuewu praised with a smile, seeing her lower her head and lose the excitement just now, he explained: "Mr. Z came in the morning, did you hear the news on the broadcast?"

"Yes! Aunt Liu and I heard the news in the afternoon. Thinking that you were working in the factory, I just..."

Han Jiankun had already parked the car and was walking into the main gate. Hearing his wife say this, his face also hung with a little proud look.

He is Li Xuewu's driver, the car was parked on the side of the road, and he saw Mr. Z while sitting in the car.

Although Han Jiankun is a Beijing native, this is the only time he has seen Mr. Z, which is very rare.

Qin Jingru had the convenience of asking, grabbed Han Jiankun and asked about the details in a low voice.

She didn't dare to ask Li Xuewu, and didn't want to ask him, his words were not accurate!

Qin Jingru had too much experience with this point. If you ask him about life, there might be a few true words in his mouth.

But if you ask about the situation or work inadvertently, he can support you to Hainan Island with one pole, making you unable to return for a long time.

Spring is warm and flowers are blooming, the weather in early April is still gentle, especially for Li Shu.

No need to wear thick cotton clothes and cotton pants anymore, a pair of open-crotch pants can fight the world invincible.

Walking into the courtyard, I saw Li Shu squatting by the water pipe playing with mud.

The small shovel used by her mother to plant flowers and raise flowers has now become her weapon to destroy the world.

Digging here, digging there, if it weren't for the fence blocking it, she would have ruined those green vegetables that had just sprouted.

In the courtyard, green vegetables were planted by Qin Jingru at the end of March, just like last year.

After only ten days, the water was sufficient, and the courtyard already had greenery and vitality.

Li Xuewu handed the bag in his hand to Han Jiankun, squatted in front of his daughter and asked: "Why don't you say hello when you see Dad coming back?"

"I... I'm busy!"

Milky and arrogant, Li Shu didn't look up and mixed the mud, as if she was doing very important work.

Whenever Li Xuewu was reading or processing documents in the study, if Li Shu dared to disturb him, she would definitely be lectured by her grandmother.

Dad is busy, don't disturb him.

So Li Shu said so now, she is busy, hoping that Dad will not disturb her.

Li Xuewu insisted on teasing his daughter, pointed at her dirty little hand, and said: "Don't you want to eat dinner, eat the mud here?"

"I eat... eat dinner, mud can't be eaten, it's dirty."

She knew this, looked up at Dad and said: "I want, I want to build a house, I have to mix mud."

"Don't be in a hurry to speak, it's not too late to speak after thinking about it in your heart."

Li Shu has been in a hurry to learn to speak recently, and the words she wants to say are repeated, but she is not stuttering.

Li Xuewu pointed at her little hand and said: "Why build a house with Dad? Doesn't our house have a house?"

"Hmm... build a house to live in."

Li Shu thought about it and said: "I live with Dad, Mom, and younger brother."

After saying this, she lowered her head and continued to mix mud, saying: "This way we can live together."

"Oh, you want to live with Dad and Mom?"

Li Xuewu understood his daughter's meaning, and didn't rush to investigate what happened to her, but continued to ask: "Do you miss Dad, or miss Mom?"

He squatted in front of his daughter with his arms crossed, treating her questions and thoughts very seriously.

Li Shu also felt Dad's concern, looked up and thought about it and said: "Just, just want to see Dad when I wake up in the morning, and also want to see Mom, and younger brother."

"Hehe—then you don't need to build a house."

Li Xuewu took the small shovel from his daughter's hand and put it aside, picked her up from behind, and carried her into the house.

"Tonight you sleep with Dad and Mom, let's send younger brother to Grandma's room to sleep, okay?"

"Hmm... I also miss younger brother."

Li Shu stretched out her dirty little hand to reach for Dad, but was dodged by Li Xuewu with a smile.

He signaled his daughter to stretch out her little hand, don't dirty the clothes, and asked again: "Then let's sleep together as a family of four?"

"Hmm—!"

This time Li Shu agreed particularly quickly, and nodded very affirmatively.

"What are you two talking about? You didn't go into the house after work, why are you chatting?"

Liu Yin held the child and coaxed him to sleep, sitting on the sofa looking at the two of them being close, and greeted with a smile.

Li Shu seemed to know that she was embarrassed, avoided her grandmother's gaze, and looked at Dad.

Li Xuewu blinked with a smile and explained to his mother: "Li Shu said she missed me and wanted to sleep with us at night."

"Oh my, so she was unhappy all afternoon just for this?"

Liu Yin looked at Li Shu with a smile and said: "Little heartless one, you don't want Grandma when you have Dad and Mom, right?"

"No—"

Li Shu was exposed by Grandma, and she was a bit embarrassed by the flattering behavior just now. Hearing Grandma ask, she buried herself in her arms and acted like a spoiled child.

Gu Ning is a sensitive person, and even more a person who prefers loneliness and doesn't want to contact secularity and trouble.

But life has various challenges that make her have to face changes.

She can be negligent in the communication between colleagues, shorten the connection between family members, and even in the concept of treating love.

But after having children, especially when treating Li Shu, she felt more and more pressure.

Before, managing Li Shu and taking care of Li Shu was out of the responsibility of being Li Xuewu's wife, accepting everything about him, just like he accepted everything about her.

She could very calmly educate Li Shu that she shouldn't do this, shouldn't do that, and very directly care for and take care of her.

But Li Ning's birth made her know that raising a small child is not that simple, not to mention that she now has to raise two.

Can't be short of the small one, and even more can't lose the big one, and must take care of all aspects in daily life.

Especially now, she has to breastfeed the child, still has to work, and the mother-in-law is helping here.

The interpersonal relationship in the family and the mentality and ideas of raising children have made her personality change a lot.

She still maintains a low-key style for interpersonal relationships outside the family, but at home, her concern for Li Shu and her family has gradually changed from passive to active.

Good grief, a chain reaction; nobody is going to get any sleep tonight.

Gu Ning can have these changes, actually still influenced by Li Xuewu.

This man, no matter how busy he is, no matter how urgent things are, will not quarrel with children, and will not scold children.

He rarely talks about public affairs at home, especially will not bring the infighting in the unit home.

Public affairs are not discussed, and family matters are not discussed.

When the old lady was here, she didn't talk about this, and when the mother-in-law came here, she still did the same.

Qin Jingru can't help it. She grew up in the countryside, and village gossip is the main theme of adjusting life.

But Qin Jingru talks at the dinner table, talks when working, and doesn't talk after talking.

No one in the family took the words, and she had no interest in talking herself.

Looking at Li Xuewu treating children, teaching painting, teaching reading and writing, even if playing with children, he plays with flowers.

Gu Ning thinks that Li Xuewu is not a child education expert, nor a professional teacher or parenting expert.

But from Li Xuewu, she can feel that kind of care and tolerance for children.

Including treating Qin Jingru the same, never seeing Li Xuewu scold her, and never seeing him point to where to emphasize that Qin Jingru didn't clean up cleanly.

In this family, it seems that except for the mother-in-law Liu Yin, everyone else is his younger brothers, sisters, and children.

Sometimes Gu Ning feels that Li Xuewu spoils her too much, like spoiling a child.

Originally, she should live in the Sihe Academy, the house was all packed up, just because it is close to her unit, and it takes care of her original living environment.

She didn't get along well with people in the unit, he never taught her how to handle these relationships, but took the initiative to help her maintain relationships.

When she faced career choices, Li Xuewu never let her give up her ideals and give up frontline work because of taking care of the family.

Just such a man who has to take care of everyone at home, and supports a piece of sky outside, is not only the pillar of the family, but also the pillar of the unit.

In the case of Qin Jingru and mother-in-law helping, she felt physically and mentally exhausted when facing these trivial matters at home, not to mention him who sheltered from the wind and rain outside.

So it is not Gu Ning who passively changed, not who forced her to change, but feeling the pressure on Li Xuewu, not wanting him to carry all the family's burden alone.

Gu Ning walked out of her inner small garden by herself, feeling the warmth and reality of the family.

Li Xuewu never forced her, but has been taking care of her and helping her from beginning to end.

Some people say that the power of love is mutual. Gu Ning's understanding of this sentence is gradually becoming clear.

At night, Li Shu got her wish and drilled into the quilt of Mom and Dad, lying obediently on her own small pillow.

"Don't pee on the bed!"

Li Xuewu came out of the bathroom after washing, pointed at Li Shu's little nose and warned with a smile: "If you wash Dad away, Dad won't swim!"

"Hee hee—"

Li Shu was shy and stretched the quilt to cover her face, revealing her big eyes and muffled voice: "I don't pee on the bed!"

"Hmm, hope you keep your word!"

Li Xuewu looked at her, stretched out his little finger to compare with her and said: "Let's hook fingers!"

"Giggle—I don't want to!"

Li Shu herself knew that she couldn't control it, so she could say she wouldn't pee on the bed, but would definitely not make a guarantee.

You don't say, this is really Li Xuewu's daughter, the style of doing things is the same.

Gu Ning settled Li Ning, walked out of the small living room, and greeted him at the entrance of the restaurant.

Usually Gu Ning arrives home early, today it was very unexpected.

Li Xuewu replied with a smile: "We all worked hard today, so the leader spoke, no overtime today, get off work after the meeting."

"Did Mr. Z go to your place?"

Li Xuewu didn't come back yesterday, he called her, she naturally knew this. 【1077-2

It was obvious that Li Shu was becoming closer to her, and now that she was showing signs of jealousy, it meant that her longing for a mother figure was being well-responded to by Gu Ning.

Gu Ning's changes were actually influenced by Li Xuewu.

No matter how busy this man was or how urgent things were, he would never argue with the children, let alone scold them.

He rarely talked about official business at home, and especially wouldn't bring the office politics home.

He didn't talk about official business, and even less about gossip.

When the old lady was here, they didn't talk about it, and now that his mother-in-law had come, it remained the same.

Qin Jingru couldn't help herself; she grew up in the countryside, where spreading gossip was the main theme of life.

But Qin Jingru would talk about it at the dinner table or while working, but eventually, she would stop.

Since no one in the family picked up on it, she found it boring to talk about it herself.

Looking at how Li Xuewu treated the children—teaching them to draw, teaching them to read—even when he played with them, he made it fun.

Gu Ning didn't consider Li Xuewu a child education expert, much less a professional teacher or parenting expert.

But from Li Xuewu, she could feel that kind of love and tolerance for the children.

The same went for Qin Jingru; she had never seen Li Xuewu scold her, nor had she seen him point out where Qin Jingru hadn't cleaned properly.

In this home, it seemed that apart from his mother Liu Yin, everyone else was his younger siblings or children.

Sometimes Gu Ning felt that Li Xuewu pampered her too much, the kind of pampering one gives a child.

They should have lived in the Sihe Academy, where the house was all ready, but he chose this place just because it was closer to her workplace and better suited her original living environment.

When she didn't get along with people at work, he never taught her how to handle those relationships, but instead took the initiative to help her maintain them.

When she faced career choices, Li Xuewu never leaned toward having her give up her ideals or frontline work just to take care of the family.

A man who took care of everyone at home like this also held up the sky outside; he was not only the pillar of the family but also the pillar of his unit.

With Qin Jingru and his mother helping, she still felt physically and mentally exhausted when facing these trivial matters at home, let alone him, who was shielding her from the wind and rain outside.

So it wasn't that Gu Ning was passively changing, or that anyone forced her to change, but that she felt the pressure on Li Xuewu and didn't want him to carry everything for this family alone.

Gu Ning walked out of her inner garden on her own, feeling the warmth and reality of the family.

Li Xuewu never forced her, but from beginning to end, he was taking care of her and helping her.

Some say the power of love is mutual, and Gu Ning's understanding of this phrase gradually became clear.

At night, Li Shu got her wish and crawled into her mom and dad's quilt, lying properly on her little pillow.

"Don't wet the bed!"

Li Xuewu came out of the bathroom after washing up, tapped Li Shu's little nose, and warned her with a smile: "If you wash Dad away, Dad can't swim!"

"Hee hee—"

Li Shu shyly stretched the quilt to cover her face, revealing her big eyes, and said in a muffled voice: "I don't wet the bed!"

"Hmm, I hope you keep your word!"

Li Xuewu looked at her, held out his little finger, and gestured to her: "Let's pinky swear!"

"Giggle—I don't want to!"

Li Shu knew she couldn't control it, so she could say she wouldn't wet the bed, but she would never make a guarantee.

You have to say, she really is Li Xuewu's daughter; their style of doing things is exactly the same.

Gu Ning had settled Li Ning down and walked in from the small living room. Seeing the father and daughter leaning against the head of the bed reading a storybook, she reminded them: "Aren't your eyes tired?"

When Li Shu heard her mom ask this, she closed her eyes directly and said to her dad: "I'll close my eyes, you read to me."

"Hmm, your eyes aren't tired, but what about Dad?"

Knowing that Gu Ning wanted to sleep, Li Xuewu put the storybook away, turned off the bedside lamp on one side, hugged his daughter, and said: "The storybook wants to sleep too, Li Shu should sleep too."

"Okay—"

Li Shu shook her body, and after Gu Ning got into bed, she lay against her mom and stopped talking.

Gu Ning was indeed a bit exhausted, especially after being busy as soon as she got home; resting early was to get up in the middle of the night to take care of Li Ning.

She had just lain down when the phone in the study rang, giving her a start.

Even the groggy Li Shu woke up and sat up to see what had happened.

Hearing Li Ning crying in the crib, Gu Ning didn't have time to ask what happened and hurried to soothe her.

Li Xuewu told Li Shu not to get out of bed by herself, then went to the study.

He thought to himself that this phone couldn't be kept upstairs anymore; it had to be moved downstairs.

To be able to call the house at this time, it must be something that had to be told to him.

So when he picked up the phone, Li Xuewu didn't show any dissatisfaction.

Even though the house was disturbed by this call and couldn't sleep peacefully.

"I'm sorry, Leader, for disturbing you so late."

The call was from Zhou Ya, who apologized very embarrassedly in the first sentence.

Li Xuewu didn't mind this and asked while holding the phone: "Did something happen?"

"It's like this, Leader, something happened at the guesthouse."

Zhou Ya explained on the phone: "Tonight, Director Li was resting at the guesthouse. The former director of the agency cafeteria, Liu Lan, went to the guesthouse to find him. I don't know how, but they had a quarrel during dinner."

"Coincidentally, the dance troupe leader Zhou Miaomiao, who was there for business, was injured, and Director Li lost his temper."

"This matter was handled by the leader; the security at the guesthouse was only responsible for maintaining order."

"But at 9:45 PM, the guesthouse called to report that Liu Lan had hanged herself on a big tree behind the guesthouse."

Zhou Ya finally reported: "When we rushed over, she was already gone. She was sent to the hospital for emergency treatment, but they still couldn't save her."

"Because it involved Director Li, especially the words Liu Lan painted on the inner courtyard wall..."

"I was afraid of handling it improperly, so I contacted Deputy Team Leader Yu, but his father-in-law's family had an incident, and he couldn't make it for a while, so..."

"I understand."

Li Xuewu understood Zhou Ya's ambiguity; it must be those words on the wall and the conflict with Director Li.

It was right to call him about this matter; even if Yu De Cai had gone, he might not have dared to handle it.

"Like this, make a good record of the scene investigation, find the parties and witnesses to the conflict during dinner, and take their statements."

Li Xuewu instructed: "Strictly follow the case handling process. If you need to investigate Zhou Miaomiao, ask her clearly. If you need to question Director Li, ask him clearly, understand?"

"I understand, Leader."

Zhou Ya understood the leader's meaning instantly. If there was an issue, it was Director Li's issue; he definitely didn't want Liu Lan to die unclearly, and even less did he want to be directly involved.

Therefore, at this time, when the security department received the case report, the most important thing to do was to handle the case transparently, ensure all procedures were in place, and be fair.

"Hmm, that's all."

Before hanging up, Li Xuewu instructed: "Work overtime tonight, handle this case by tomorrow morning, and hand it over to Personnel to deal with."

"Yes, I'll go arrange it right away."

Zhou Ya agreed very crisply, then said: "I won't disturb your rest anymore, goodbye Leader."

After hanging up the phone, listening to his mother and Gu Ning soothing the child, he stood by the desk and didn't rush back.

What he was thinking about was Old Li; it really was a bad year. How many people had died in a few years?

Counting Jin Yaohui, this was already the second one, right?

Jin Yaohui was his former secretary, Liu Lan was his former honey; their deaths were directly related to him.

This was definitely Conan-level constitution; even more effective than a soul-summoner.

Watching the steel mill develop better and better, and Old Li walking more and more steadily, why did things keep happening?

Could it really be that the success of one general is built on the bones of ten thousand?