Uncle Li looked at Ding Lei's despicable expression and wanted to slap him twice. He didn't want to waste time talking to him and quickly went out to check the sack on the bicycle parked at the gate. He found a huge roll of cables inside the sack! This was a big deal.

A retired soldier is stealing things. Is this embezzlement? Neglecting his duty? At a time when the whole nation is striving to build a new socialist society, how can you, a retired soldier, be stealing things?

The gatekeeper hates those who exploit socialism the most. It's not easy for our country to develop. The state arranges for you to work here, paying you such a high salary every month, but instead of serving the people and contributing to the Four Modernizations, you steal public property. Such behavior must be severely punished. Such parasites cannot be tolerated.

The angry old man tied Ding Lei up and locked him in a dark room, waiting for the boss to come in at dawn to see what to do. Turning around, he saw the cables in the sack and felt distressed. This bastard was very experienced in this business, and he must have done this more than once or twice. Who knew how many cables were missing from the warehouse?

The next morning, the leader of the power bureau who had just arrived at the unit saw the gatekeeper coming to his office angrily. He thought he had quarreled with someone, and when he asked him, he found that the gatekeeper was almost exploded with anger.

Ding Hai actually dared to steal things from the warehouse. Isn't he a veteran? This matter is serious. Call the police and get the police to come immediately.

In this way, the police officers from the police station and the employees of the power bureau worked together to count all the items in the warehouse. After the count, they found that not much was missing.

In fact, at the time, no one thought there was a problem with the accounting; they simply checked the inventory. When they saw that the figures were almost the same as the accounts, they dropped the case and only fired Ding Lei.

Ding Lei breathed a sigh of relief. Luckily, he had only a junior high school education. He'd often fiddled with the outbound shipment records, changing the quantities whenever there was a shipment order that could be corrected. Three days later, the power bureau's leadership team held a meeting and decided to fire him.

The details of the incident and the final punishment were written up on a large-character poster and posted on the bulletin board inside the power bureau. This was a wake-up call for all employees, allowing those with ulterior motives to nip their ideas in the bud.

Ding Lei returned to the village dejected. In the past two years, Old Lady Sun had become even more active in the village. When her youngest son was serving in the army, she never mentioned him, nor did she mail him anything. Now that her youngest son's broken arm has healed, and he's given his job to his eldest brother (something Old Lady Sun claimed was given voluntarily by her youngest son), she strolls around every day like a proud old hen.

Now Ding Lei had been fired, his iron rice bowl shattered. Old Mrs. Sun felt as if the sky were falling. Without her twenty yuan salary each month, what would happen to her family? Despite their size, not a single member of the family actually earned full work points. The second and third sons were such lazy bums that they barely earned a few points even after working in the production team every day. They even earned fewer points than some women in other families.

This is not the most infuriating thing. The most infuriating thing is that Ding Lei did not give any of the money to Old Lady Sun, but hid it all with his wife.

Why didn’t Ding Lei give it to the old lady? Because the family didn’t split up.