Chapter 824: Walk Slowly, Old Zhang

Li Mingfei chuckled, "One last drink, one last drink!"

Usually, if there were outsiders, Zhu Min would definitely give him face, but today it didn't matter to Du Fei and Zhu Ting.

Du Fei and Li Mingfei drank one last drink and talked about some details.

They didn't leave until after eight o'clock in the evening.

It was a bit cold at night, so Zhu Min gave Zhu Ting a coat to wear before leaving. ??

After sending Zhu Ting home, Du Fei returned to the courtyard. It was already past nine o'clock.

As soon as he arrived at the gate, he saw Yan Tiecheng squatting in the doorway, like a landmine thief, looking out from time to time.

Seeing Du Fei, he immediately came out and said with a smile, "Section Chief, you're back~"

Du Fei saw that it was obvious that he was waiting for him, and asked, "Tiecheng, is there something?"

Yan Tiecheng laughed and said, "Well~ I went to the backyard twice just now, and you were not there."

Du Fei walked in with his bicycle and replied, "I have something to do outside today."

After entering the doorway, Yan Tiecheng took out two packs of cigarettes from his arms and stuffed them into Du Fei's pocket, and said the words that the third uncle taught him yesterday.

Du Fei looked at the two packs of Zhonghua and didn't pretend to be polite.

Since the other party is willing to give it, don't refuse it for nothing.

As for Yu Li's regularization, let them go to Sun Lan later.

Sun Lan happened to have a say in this matter.

It's just that Sun Lan still needs to have some personal connections.

On the other side, Zhang Wenzhong was drinking tea at home.

But after drinking Du Fei's tea during the day, I don't know if it's a psychological effect, but I always feel that the taste of drinking my own tea at home is a little bit off.

Zhang Wenzhong couldn't help but sigh, wondering how long this feeling would last.

But at this moment, there was a knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Zhang Wenzhong's wife answered.

Zhang Wenzhong's family lived in the old family compound of the Foreign Economic and Trade Commission, which was not in the same compound as Du Fei's new family compound.

The house was not small, with an area of ​​more than 60 square meters.

But his family was large, with a total of four children. The eldest child was married, but he never moved out.

A total of seven people squeezed into one house.

Fortunately, last year, the second child went out to serve in the army, which was considered a relief, but there were still six people.

"Sister-in-law, it's me, Xiao Liu~" Liu Xinru's voice came from outside the door.

Zhang Wenzhong frowned, thinking that it was dark, why did this woman come here instead of going home?

He immediately had a premonition that a weasel was paying New Year's greetings to a chicken.

Zhang Wenzhong's wife didn't have so many thoughts, she was just an ordinary housewife.

Relying on her husband's connections, she worked in the neighborhood committee at her doorstep.

Hearing that it was a colleague from her husband's unit, she immediately opened the door and said with a smile, "Oh~ It's Xinru!"

"Sister-in-law, a new leader has come recently, and the unit is busy so I don't have time to see you." Liu Xinru smiled and handed over the net bag in her hand.

Zhang Wenzhong's wife smiled and said, "Look at you, you come just now, why are you carrying things~" Then she turned around and called, "Lao Zhang, Xinru is here."

Zhang Wenzhong stood up from the tea table with a slight smile on his face, "Xiao Liu~ Come and sit down."

Liu Xinru called "Section Chief Zhang" and sat on the sofa for the guest, pressing the spring below to make a "creaking" sound.

"Come, drink water~" Section Chief Zhang's wife poured Liu Xinru a glass of water and sat next to her.

In theory, when comrades come to the unit, they mostly have serious matters to discuss.

Section Chief Zhang's wife should avoid it.

But Liu Xinru is a female comrade after all, and she looks pretty good, so she stayed because she didn't want to be in the same boat.

Section Chief Zhang asked, "Xiao Liu, you came so late, what's going on at work?"

The implication was that we didn't have much personal relationship, so don't talk about anything that's not about the work.

Liu Xinru smiled and said, "I really have something to do, otherwise I wouldn't bother you and your sister-in-law. Before leaving work, the section chief asked me to tell you to record Zhou Xu as leaving early..."

In front of Zhang Wenzhong, Liu Xinru didn't beat around the bush and directly told the actual situation.

Zhang Wenzhong is an old official, Liu Xinru knows her own limitations and didn't play tricks.

Besides, she didn't come to represent herself, but the meaning of Du Fei, the big section chief.

This is pure pressure, it depends on whether you, Zhang Wenzhong, accept it.

When he finished speaking, Zhang Wenzhong's face had become gloomy.

He has been in the office for nearly 20 years, how could he not understand these twists and turns.

As soon as he heard it, he guessed that Du Fei asked him to come out and compete with Zhou Xu.

What's even more abominable is that the woman in front of him has already made a choice for him and filled out the attendance form in his name. Now she is not here for him to choose, but just to inform him. This is simply unreasonable!

Thinking of this, Zhang Wenzhong looked at Liu Xinru with a sinister look.

Liu Xinru's heart trembled, and then she thought of Zhang Wenzhong's situation, and then calmed down, smiled back, stood up and said, "Chief Zhang, I have conveyed the leader's meaning. If you have nothing else, I will go back first."

Zhang Wenzhong did not get up, and said in a deep voice, "Goodbye, I won't see you off."

Zhang Wenzhong's wife did not lose face, and got up to send Liu Xinru out, explaining, "Old Zhang's waist is not very good, and it's hard to get up."

Liu Xinru stood at the door and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to say it, I know, you asked Chief Zhang to take care of his health."

After that, she turned on the flashlight and walked downstairs.

Zhang Wenzhong's wife watched her walk to the slow-moving platform below, and then closed the door.

But before he turned around, he heard a "bang" and a white porcelain teapot was thrown to the ground by Zhang Wenzhong.

It was immediately broken into pieces.

Zhang Wenzhong's wife was startled and hurriedly tried to persuade her, "Old Zhang, what's wrong with you? Why are you taking something to vent your anger when you have nothing to do?"

Zhang Wenzhong gasped for breath.

After the fall, I felt a little regretful.

This white porcelain teapot is his favorite.

But thinking about Liu Xinru's face just now, I felt really angry.

Gritting his teeth, he cursed "little man"!

After he finished cursing, he took a few deep breaths and then calmed down.

Section Chief Zhang's wife came up and asked, "Old Zhang, what happened to make you so angry? I heard it just now, isn't it just an attendance check?"

Section Chief Zhang sighed, "Hey~ what do you know! This is not an attendance check, it is clearly a knife handed to my hand, forcing me to stab it out!"

Section Chief Zhang’s wife didn’t understand anything, so she couldn’t help but exclaimed, “Is it so serious?”

Section Chief Zhang leaned on the sofa, "It's not that you don't know that there is a new section chief in our department. He is young and has a background. I was angry at first and wanted to fight with him. But later I saw that there was no chance at all, so I I just want to be subdued and live a peaceful life.”

At this point, he sighed again, "Who would have thought that the tree wants to be quiet but the wind doesn't stop!"

"How can we deal with that?" Section Chief Zhang's wife asked worriedly, "How about we also send gifts?"

Section Chief Zhang sneered, "Giving gifts? Do they need something like ours? Didn't you understand what I just said? They want to take it from me.

Become a sword wielder! This little brat doesn't even have all his hair... It's just, it's just too much! "

Section Chief Zhang’s wife fell silent.

She let her husband scold him for a while, until his voice became softer and softer, and finally he stopped and asked, "Then what are you going to do? Keep pushing?"

Mentioning this, Section Chief Zhang was a little discouraged, "What are you talking about? During the day, that little... Section Chief Du asked me to go to his room to talk. Do you know what kind of tea they drink?"

Without his wife having to say anything, Section Chief Zhang asked and answered himself, "The best Biluochun! Anyone can drink it? If you compare it with others, why should we drink it?"

"What should we do?" Section Chief Zhang's wife was a little anxious.

Zhang Wenzhong was the backbone of his family. If anything happened to him, the family would be doomed.

Section Chief Zhang was silent for a long time, and finally let out a long breath, "What else can we do? The situation is stronger than the people. Since he wants us to charge into the battle, then we will be his pawns, but... you have to explain the price. , You can’t be so confused now.”

Having said this, Zhang Wenzhong's eyes flashed with determination.

Early the next morning.

Du Fei was at work. As soon as he arrived at the carport and parked his bicycle, he saw Zhang Wenzhong standing at the door of the carport.

When he saw Du Fei, he immediately called out, "Good morning, section chief~"

Du Fei smiled and said, "Old Zhang, are you...waiting for me?"

Zhang Wenzhong smiled and said, "Section Chief, I have something to report to you at work."

Du Fei said, "Okay, let's go to the office and talk."

Zhang Wenzhong immediately followed him, but by chance, as soon as he entered the building, he met Zhou Xu head-on.

At this time, Zhou Xu looked gloomy and already knew that he had been remembered for leaving early.

I stayed here all morning just to block Zhang Wenzhong.

Unexpectedly, Du Fei and Zhang Wenzhong walked in together.

This made him stunned for a moment, and he was a little unable to react. Didn't Zhang Wenzhong and Du Fei seem to be incompatible with each other? Why did the two of them come in together and still talk and laugh?

"Hey? Old Zhou, who are you waiting for here?" Du Fei saw Zhou Xu and shouted with a smile.

It was as if he didn't know at all that the other party had repeatedly stumbled upon him.

Zhou Xu came back to his senses and said quickly, "Section Chief, um... no, I'm not waiting for anyone, I... I can't find the bicycle key. Let's see if I left it on the car."

Making an excuse, Zhou Xu walked out quickly.

Zhang Wenzhong remained silent throughout the whole process, as if he didn't recognize Zhou Xu.

Waiting upstairs, Du Fei put down his briefcase and made tea again.

Zhang Wenzhong quickly stopped him, "Section Chief, you'd better stop making tea. I can't bear the tea you have."

Du Fei heard that he was not yin and yang, and asked in surprise, "How did you say this?"

Zhang Wenzhong smiled bitterly and said, "Your tea is so good. After you finish it, all my tea will be tasteless when you go home."

Du Fei laughed and said, "You old Zhang, if you want tea, just say it, and you're beating around the bush."

As he said this, he took out the tea leaves he brewed for Zhang Wenzhong yesterday from the cabinet. It was more than one tael, but less than two taels.

"Take all the rest later."

Don't underestimate this little tea. The bag given to Lu Guang before was not as large as this, and Lu Guang was very happy.

Zhang Wenzhong did not expect that he would be so open-minded and give such good tea without any ambiguity.

He was stunned for a moment, then gritted his teeth and said, "Section Chief, I won't be polite."

As soon as this sentence came out, it also showed his attitude.

Du Fei put the tea leaves on the coffee table and asked, "By the way, what did you say happened just now?"

Zhang Wenzhong said, "Section Chief, it's like this. Yesterday, Comrade Zhou Xu left early without any reason, and his work attitude is very problematic. I think we must pay attention to this and remind comrades that we must not relax our requirements on ourselves at all times."

Du Fei smiled and said, "Old Zhang, you are an old comrade with high ideological consciousness. Now that we have found a problem, we will correct it and leave this matter to you."

Zhang Wenzhong came over to express his position and wanted to make a price with Du Fei.

It's just that Du Fei's attitude in delivering tea just now made it difficult for him to speak.

I thought about it twice, so I didn't even mention it, got up and left.

Du Fei said, "By the way, Lao Zhang, I heard that your family's housing conditions are quite difficult?"

Zhang Wenzhong was stunned.

Du Fei continued, "Old comrade, you have a high level of consciousness and don't want to trouble the organization. But the more this happens, the more we can't let honest people suffer, don't you think?"

After saying that, Zhang Wenzhong didn't understand and couldn't help but be overjoyed.

Du Fei continued, "I will report to the director later. A big family of seven or eight people, how can a two-bedroom and one-living room be enough to live in."

Zhang Wenzhong knew that this was a sweet bait Du Fei had given him.

Whether he could eat it or not depended on his performance next.

But he couldn't refuse it at all.

In ancient times, there was a sigh of "Living in Chang'an is not easy".

It has not been easy to live in the capital in all dynasties.

A house has stumped countless people.

Zhang Wenzhong is no exception.

Because of the household registration problem, the eldest son and the eldest daughter-in-law have been married for almost two years, and they are still squeezed together.

There is no personal space at all, and they have never had children.

The second brother, who had just returned from military service, was also looking for a date.

Now that Du Fei mentioned the house, it was obvious that he had a purpose and hit his soft spot.

Zhang Wenzhong said in a deep voice, "Section Chief, watch me act."

After that, he took the tea leaves and pushed the door open.

This time, Du Fei did not stand up to see him off, but just said, "Take care, Lao Zhang~"

After Zhang Wenzhong came out, he couldn't help but let out a long breath, and then smiled bitterly.

He was secretly convinced.

Originally, he came to Du Fei early in the morning just to discuss the price.

Since he couldn't refuse, he might as well sell it at a good price.

Unexpectedly, Du Fei had already thought about it, and threw out the chips that he couldn't refuse before he said it.

Now think about it, I wanted to wrestle with him at the beginning.

Fortunately, I woke up, otherwise... the consequences would be disastrous!

Zhang Wenzhong walked towards the office while thinking.

At this moment, Zhou Xu suddenly came out from the stairs and shouted with a bad face, "Section Chief Zhang, what do you mean?"

Zhang Wenzhong came back to his senses, and looked at Zhou Xu again and couldn't help but sneer secretly, and four words popped up in his mind-don't know whether to live or die!

"You mean attendance?" Zhang Wenzhong is an old office worker, and he knows that the most taboo in the office is double-faced.

Since the decision has been made, there is no intention to be vague, and directly point out the contradiction.

Zhou Xu frowned and said, "Is it really you? What do you want to do?"

Zhang Wenzhong sneered, "I would like to ask, what do you want to do? What happened to the archived documents yesterday?"

"I..." Zhou Xu opened his mouth, but immediately reacted, "You, followed the surname Du?"

Zhang Wenzhong said without comment, "What surname Du, it's Section Chief Du." He glanced at Zhou Xu with a squint, "Anything else?"

End of this chapter