"Back then, Sister Wu helped me a lot."

In the past, he helped the original owner, and after Gu Qingcheng came here, he also took donations from the Wu family.

Therefore, Gu Qingcheng was particularly grateful for this favor from the Zhou family.

“…”

Zhou Zhendong felt more at ease when he heard Gu Qingcheng mention the help provided by Wu.

Master Gu is not an ungrateful person.

He didn't say it, but he remembered every single account clearly in his mind.

In the evening, after work, Zhou Zhendong rushed to find Gu Qingcheng.

Gu Qingcheng first watched Zhou Zhendong's operation, and then pointed out his mistakes and areas for improvement.

Then, Gu Qingcheng demonstrated it herself, and Zhou Zhendong learned very seriously.

It was not until eight o'clock in the evening, when it was dark, that Zhou Zhendong reluctantly said goodbye to Gu Qingcheng.

"Dongzi! Why did you come back just now?"

When he reached the entrance of the alley, Zhou Zhendong saw his biological mother, Mrs. Wu, standing there looking up.

"mom!"

Zhou Zhendong shouted and quickened his pace.

"After get off work, I went to learn technology from Master Gu!"

"Mom, you don't know, Master Gu is not only good at locksmithing, he's also very good at welding!"

"Even better than Master Wang, the best in our workshop!"

"...She taught me step by step, and I feel like my skills have improved!"

Zhou Zhendong followed Wu, chirping like a happy bird.

"Master Gu? Gu Xiaoni?"

Mrs. Wu was stunned for a moment and blurted out a question.

Gu Qingcheng's technology surpassed Fang Yaozhong and he became the technical expert of the machinery factory. This news spread throughout the machinery factory the next day.

Immediately afterwards, the various courtyards where the machinery factory workers lived spread out instantly.

In the compound, the crowd's reaction was particularly intense—

Gu Xiaoni was a person who walked out of their slum.

The person she crushed was Fang Yaozhong, the most respectable uncle in the compound.

The neighbors were either envious, jealous, or secretly cursing and mocking.

For several days in a row, Gu Qingcheng was the talk of the neighbors.

Of course, the subjects of discussion also include Fang Yaozhong and Mr. and Mrs. Qiao.

Most of Fang Yaozhong's neighbors still sympathized with him - he was actually surpassed by the apprentice he had only taught for a few days. Alas, the hero is old.

Although the neighbors were often jealous of Fang Yaozhong, jealous of his high income and jealous of the respectability of his machinery factory and slum.

But after all, they have been neighbors for more than ten or twenty years, and Fang Yaozhong is also a fair and honest person.

All the neighbors in the compound were more or less taken care of by him.

People felt more sympathy for him.

Fang Yaozhong: ...

Of course, this sympathy disappeared instantly after Fang Yaozhong received another salary of nearly one hundred yuan.

Are you kidding me?

Fang Yaozhong is just not as good as Gu Xiaoni. To most people, he is still an awesome eighth-level fitter!

As for their neighbors, some couples don’t earn as much as Fang Yaozhong combined.

Troublemaker: ...people who earn 3,000 yuan a month feel sorry for the stars who earn 2.08 million yuan a day. That’s probably what it’s like!

The neighbors didn’t understand the changes in the Internet in later generations, but they knew that the old man was not to be pitied.

The discussion about Fang Yaozhong gradually died down.

Old Man Qiao and Mrs. Ma, however, remain at the top of the hot search list for the slum.

"How blind! This couple is really old-fashioned!"

"That's right! Master Gu is so capable, he can earn more than 100 yuan a month, enough to feed and support his family. But Old Man Qiao is such a coward and kicked him out."

"Haha, those male and female couple must be regretting their decision now."

"That shouldn't be the case! No matter how capable Gu Xiaoni is, she's still from another family. Her last name isn't Qiao."

"Oh! Qiao Weiguo's surname is Qiao, and he's Old Man Qiao's legitimate 'son', but what's he doing now? What's he doing to Old Man Qiao and his wife?"

They were all neighbors living in the same compound, and the rivalry between the Qiao family's "father and son" was witnessed by all the neighbors.

Tsk tsk, old man Qiao was smart all his life, but in the end he capsized in the gutter.

Qiao Weiguo looks honest, but he is unwilling to suffer any loss.

Not only did he break off the engagement, but he was also only willing to give half of his salary home.

Old Man Qiao was cursing him in a roundabout way, so he said sarcastically, "Uncle, what? Are you regretting it? Too bad, there's no such thing as regret medicine in this world!"

"You, you've got a son like me, so you must have done nothing good in your past life, and now you're being punished for it!"

Faced with Qiao Weiguo who said that he was the retribution for his cheap father, old man Qiao had no tricks at all.

It’s not that Qiao Weiguo didn’t hand over his salary, so old man Qiao had no sufficient reason to go to the factory or to the streets to make trouble.

The "father and son" were almost on the verge of a complete falling out, and they would squeeze and mock each other whenever they met.

For example, at this moment, Mrs. Wu was talking about her son's "adventure" in the yard. When she said "good people will be rewarded", she deliberately pointed in the direction of the Qiao family's house.

Old Man Qiao didn't hear everything, he just thought Zhou Zhendong was lucky to have met a good master.

He turned around and started to criticize Qiao Weiguo, "That Zhou family kid, he's barely grown up yet he's already scouting around the machinery factory looking for masters. You're the opposite, you're already in your twenties and still stuck in the boiler room!"

Qiao Weiguo:... Damn, whose fault is it that I become that crappy boiler apprentice?

However, the boiler room is not bad either, at least it gives him the chance to meet the real boss...

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