Chapter 158: Finding the Bottom Line



When I returned to Li Chunli's house, it was already dark.

When I walked into the living room, Li Chunli was still watching TV. The TV was playing the TV series "Desire". Li Chunli was watching with tears in her eyes. When she saw Yuan Fangguo coming in, she quickly wiped her tears.

"The environment of the community is nice, right?" Li Chunli poured him a cup of tea and said.

Yuan Fangguo nodded and said, "Not bad. I walked around and worked up a lot of sweat."

"Then go take a shower quickly. You still have to treat the company commander Fang Tai and others to a fishing trip tomorrow, so go to bed early."

"Are you still watching?" Yuan Fangguo asked with a smile.

Li Chunli shook her head. "It'll be over in a few minutes. I'll take a shower and rest. I have things to do tomorrow."

Earlier, when Li Chunli was cooking, Lin Huayong called. Yuan Fangguo guessed that it must be Lin Huayong who came back.

"Okay, then go to bed early, Sister Li." After saying that, Yuan Fangguo quickly walked into the bedroom.

After taking a nice shower, returning to the room and turning on the electric fan, Yuan Fangguo's somewhat hot heart gradually calmed down.

Perhaps because he was used to his own bed, he tossed and turned in Li Chunli's house that night and didn't fall asleep until after one in the morning.

When he got up the next day, Li Chunli was still at home and she had prepared breakfast for Yuan Fangguo.

Breakfast was porridge, steamed buns and a side dish. Li Chunli had finished her meal long ago. She looked at Yuan Fangguo drinking porridge and eating steamed buns in big gulps, and couldn't help asking him if he needed more.

"No thanks." Yuan Fangguo's mouth was full of steamed buns and his words were unclear.

"Eat slowly." Li Chunli smiled, then the smile on her face turned into a wry smile. "Fang Guo, Brother Yong is back from Pengcheng again. He said that Mr. Wu asked me to have dinner with him today. I guess it's something between him and me again. What do you think I should do?"

"It's best to deal with this kind of thing immediately. Either agree or refuse. It can't be delayed too long." Yuan Fangguo wiped his mouth and said.

Although Li Chunli had always wanted to refuse, women's hearts are fickle, and maybe Li Chunli would come to her senses someday, so Yuan Fangguo did not bring up her previous idea, but asked Li Chunli to make a decision quickly.

"I don't know how to make a decision." Li Chunli sighed, looking embarrassed.

"Sister Li, today is actually a good opportunity. After you meet Lin Huayong, you will know whether you have feelings for him or not. If you really don't have any feelings for him, it will only increase your psychological burden. Your heart will make you make a choice."

After listening to Yuan Fangguo's words, Li Chunli thought about it carefully in her mind for a while, and then she nodded.

After breakfast, Yuan Fangguo sent Li Chunli to the gate of Wu’s home, and then drove straight to Damiao Town.

The guard at the door also recognized his car and let him in without saying a word.

Company commander Fu Zhijun, instructor Zhu Shuanglin, Yuan Fangtai, Zhao Yong and Dafei had already changed into casual clothes.

The Crown car had limited capacity, so Fu Zhijun asked Yuan Fangtai to drive the jeep out as well.

Dafei and Yuan Fangtai sat in the jeep, Zhao Yong sat in the passenger seat of the Crown car, and Fu Zhijun and Zhu Shuanglin sat in the back seat.

Damiao Town is not far from Xinshi Town, only about 20 kilometers away.

In order to take care of Yuan Fangtai's broken jeep along the way, Yuan Fangguo kept the speed of the car at around 60 miles per hour. Even at this speed, Yuan Fangtai kept his foot firmly on the accelerator and was able to barely keep up.

Dalong Lake is very lively on weekends, and all kinds of cars almost fill the parking lot of the scenic area.

After getting off the car, Yuan Fangguo directly chartered a boat and rented a few fishing rods. The six of them put on life jackets and sat on the boat to start fishing.

After a handful of bait was thrown down, soon the fish around gathered around. Yuan Fangguo and Fu Zhijun's hooks were constantly pulled. In an hour, they caught more than ten carp, grass carp and crucian carp.

They paid the fishing fee, so the scenic spot has two ways to deal with these fish. One is to take them back, and the other is to cook them in the restaurant designated by the scenic spot.

They would eat these fish if they took them back, so they decided to eat them here.

They found a fishing restaurant and paid the owner a processing fee. The owner prepared a mixed fish hotpot for them.

While the shop owner was preparing the mixed fish hotpot, Dafei pulled Yuan Fangguo aside and told him about the situation of the Red Flag Machinery Factory Workers' Hospital that he had inquired about.

After listening to it, Yuan Fangguo estimated in his mind that this staff hospital was probably similar to an ordinary township hospital, but it had a lot of equipment.

Yuan Fangguo did not ask Dafei the rest of the questions, but he suddenly understood what was going on.

If nothing unexpected happens, many of those devices are probably rarely used. After all, the staff hospital serves all employees. During the heyday of the Hongqi Machinery Factory, there were only five or six thousand employees, and not every employee would get sick. As a result, there must be very few people seeking medical treatment in the staff hospital, and the hospital's efficiency will naturally not keep up.

Those expensive equipment were introduced entirely by factory and hospital leaders in order to get kickbacks. In fact, many of the equipment did not need to be purchased at all.

After the analysis, Yuan Fangguo thought to himself, this is a piece of fat meat.

It feels really good to drink beer and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Dalong Lake.

Fu Zhijun was also very happy. He was the most senior among these people. Even when Zhu Shuanglin, an instructor of the same level, toasted him, he deliberately lowered his glass very low with a humble look on his face.

Compared with the many gifts given to Fu Zhijun, the gifts Yuan Fangtai gave to the instructor were not many. However, Zhu Shuanglin did not seem to know this. While drinking, he praised Yuan Fangtai in front of Yuan Fangguo.

The group drank until around two in the afternoon, and then played mahjong under the shade of trees by the lake.

Fu Zhijun, Zhu Shuanglin, Yuan Fangguo and Zhao Yong.

Yuan Fangtai and Dafei acted as waiters, serving tea and water.

Fu Zhijun and Zhao Yong's personalities seem a bit careless, which can be seen when they are playing mahjong. They basically rely on their feelings to play the cards, and they look very noisy.

Instructor Zhu Shuanglin was more quick-witted. He counted cards while playing, so throughout the afternoon, he and Yuan Fangguo did not lose money. Instead, Fu Zhijun and Zhao Yong each lost more than 100 yuan.

At 5:30 in the afternoon, Yuan Fangguo calculated the cards in his mind and played them out at once.

Upon seeing this, Fu Zhijun couldn't help but push the cards in his hand, "All the same color..."

Yuan Fangguo smiled bitterly, "I lost a lot this time."

"Let's stop playing and go eat." Fu Zhijun only won a little more in this round.

"Okay, let's go eat." Zhu Shuanglin had a calm face, but he was very happy in his heart. He won about a hundred yuan today, enough to buy two packs of cigarettes.

"Some stir-fry for dinner?"

"Just a few of them can come, and we'll hold a company meeting after we go back." Fu Zhijun said while smoking.

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