Chapter 51
Zheng Dacheng is not only involved, he is the mastermind of the Croton powder incident.
This is not Deputy Director Gu accusing him, he has witnesses.
——This was said one night when Zheng Dacheng and his wife were arguing and Dongzi was eavesdropping at the back corner of Zheng's house.
Lin Yao was stunned. Dongzi eavesdropped?
Gu Shian coughed dryly, indicating that the small side room for Dongzi to live in was only separated from Zheng Dacheng's house in the front yard by a long corridor. Dongzi had nothing to do at night, so instead of messing around in the house, it would be better to send him out as a spy to eavesdrop on some useful information.
Lin Yao was suspicious, "Dongzi is so obedient? It's unlikely."
Dongzi, the little guy, would not listen to anyone unless he was given some sweet treats.
Of course, Comrade Zhang Cuilan was an exception. One had to listen to his mother's words.
Gu Shian coughed twice again, "I gave the brat two yuan as errand fee."
A strange look appeared on Lin Yao's pretty face, and her curled and dense eyelashes blinked, and no one knew what she was thinking.
She didn't say anything, but Gu Shi'an spoke, "Yaoyao, how did you know that what Liu Ercui was holding was croton powder?"
Lin Yao blushed and laughed awkwardly, "Well, when Sister Chunmei got married, Hutou picked up a small paper bag at the door of Lao Zheng's house. It smelled of stinky powder, the same as dried bean powder."
Gu Shi'an smiled, "So it was Hutou who told you."
Lin Yao still laughed awkwardly, "I also gave Hutou two pieces of fruit candy as a bonus."
Gu Shi'an replied: "......."
Well, the couple is really a perfect match, and their methods of bribing little kids are exactly the same.
On the streets of Yunshui County in late autumn, an old man was pushing a tricycle with a round copper stove covered with iron leather on top. Charcoal was burning inside, and dozens of sweet potatoes of different sizes were roasting on the iron stove. The old man wore old gloves and used an iron hook to hook the stove and turned the sweet potatoes on the stove. The aroma of roasted sweet potatoes went far away with the rising white air.
Lin Yao rubbed his face that was sour from his awkward smile and hummed that he wanted to eat roasted sweet potatoes.
Deputy Director Gu was waiting for this sentence. He stretched his long legs and stopped the bicycle in front of the sweet potato stall. He took out money to buy five pieces of hot roasted sweet potatoes, one piece for two cents and five pieces for ten cents.
The old man who sells sweet potatoes opened the day before. It was time to get off work. There were many workers coming and going, and there were pairs of young people eating sweet potatoes along the way.
On a cold autumn day, the old man lifted the quilt on the sweet potato barrel. The whole layer of sweet potatoes was roasted to a crisp and delicious look.
The old man quickly picked up five big sweet potatoes and put them into a straw paper bag, and handed them to Lin Yao who was waiting beside him.
"Thank you, old man."
"You're welcome. Sweet potatoes are better when they are hot. Be careful not to burn them."
"Hey."
Lin Yao smiled and held the sweet potato bag. She picked a big one for herself and picked a slightly smaller one to hand to Gu Shian.
"You should eat too."
Gu Shi'an arranged the fallen cashmere scarf for her and coaxed, "You can eat, it's not convenient to eat while riding a bicycle on the road."
Lin Yao said "oh", jumped on the back seat of the bicycle, and patted Gu Shi'an on the shoulder, "Deputy Director Gu, go home.
" Shi An kicked off his feet, and the 28 big bar set sail again. Lin Yao shook her calves, carefully peeled off the crispy skin on the sweet potato, and took a sip of the sweet potato meat. It was hot and sweet and sweet to the heart. The chill of the late autumn evening was completely dissipated.
On the way home, Lin Yao became interested again and asked someone how he set up a trap for Zheng Dacheng's family.
Gu Shi'an looked serious, but what he said was not serious.
"Want to know?"
"Yeah."
"Go home, kiss me, and I'll tell you."
Lin Yao: "..."
Bah, you can go aside!
Deputy Director Gu did not get the promise of a kiss at night, and even asked the little girl to pinch her waist.
If he hadn't been on the street now, Lin Yao would have bitten him.
Lin Yao pinched him again and spoke in a soft and coquettish voice, "Why don't you tell me?"
After all, Gu Shi'an couldn't stand up to his little girl, so he finally told the story of how he set up a trap for Lao Zheng's family.
In fact, it was very easy to set up a trap for Zheng Dacheng, because Zheng Dacheng and his wife were not clean. Zheng Dacheng used his power to seek benefits for himself, stealing the canteen's supplies and shortchanging the steel mill workers. At that time, it was rare for workers in large factory canteens to do such things. However, Zheng Dacheng was very cautious. Usually, an outside informant contacted Liu Ercui, and the information went through several hands. Zheng Dacheng would not show up during the whole process, so it was almost impossible for outsiders to catch him.
Compared to Zheng Dacheng, the brainless Liu Ercui was much easier to deal with.
Liu Ercui has been working in the canteen of the steel mill for so many years that she is used to being arrogant. At first, she could hide things when stealing, but later she became bolder and could just hide them and walk home.
The employees in the canteen are not fools. They can find out something is wrong after the first or second time, and they can figure it out after the third or fifth time.
As for Sister Hao, she had a grudge against Liu Ercui. Sister Hao's daughter was supposed to work as a buyer in the canteen after graduating from junior high school. Liu Ercui relied on her family connections and took over Sister Hao's daughter and worked as a buyer in the canteen.
It's okay if she took over, and Liu Ercui can just work hard.
But this woman can't read a word. She rides a tricycle to the farmers' market every day to buy vegetables. She only goes once a day and then leaves it alone after bringing the vegetables back.
Keeping accounts, counting money, unloading vegetables, etc., are all done by Sister Hao and a few other helpers.
After a long time, everyone is naturally dissatisfied.
Why do we do your work, Liu Ercui?
Oh, you can get the salary subsidy, and we will do the hard work.
You are a landlord, so what? Isn't this exploiting the blood and sweat of our revolutionary masses!
Even Zhou Baopi is not as black-hearted as you!
Sister Hao and the Hutou family live in the big compound next door, which is also part of the steel rolling mill. A few days ago, Hutou and Dongzi's group of kids were whispering in the compound, saying things like the Zheng family had fried dough sticks and egg soup again in the morning, the Zheng siblings all changed into new clothes, the pair of white nylon socks that Liu Ercui bought were really fashionable and they heard that a pair cost quite a bit of money, and the Gu family was really generous and so on.
Sister Hao and her friends were already unhappy with the Zheng couple, and after listening to the complaints of a group of little brats, they became even more angry.
Every household in the steel plant compound has many children, some have four or five, and some have two or three. The burden on the family is daunting, and there are a few families like the Zheng family with two full-time workers.
In addition, the Zheng couple did not make money from legitimate sources, and Sister Hao had long disliked them. Liu Ercui's stealing of pork was the fuse, and Gu Shi'an added fuel to the fire, accelerating Zheng Dacheng's downfall.
"..."
Lin Yao swallowed silently, thinking that she should be a little more obedient in front of Deputy Director Gu, and not be too proud, because in the end she would be the one who was bullied and cried.
TvT.
The steel mill paid wages that day, and everyone went home with their wages and food coupons in their pockets. The mill had good performance in the second half of this year, and they also gave the factory cadres and workers above the second level two two taels of meat coupons each.
Now everyone was happy to work. The wives at home smiled and asked their husbands to go to the grocery store to buy a few taels of meat. They hurriedly picked up and cut a few pieces to stir-fry a meat dish, so that the family could have a taste of meat.
On the old Gu family side, Gu Mancang was a fifth-level clamp worker. In addition to a monthly salary of 65 yuan, ten catties of food coupons and one catty of white flour, he took home five taels of meat coupons.
Zhang Cuilan was baking scallion pancakes at home. Seeing Gu Mancang coming back with a net bag, she happily wiped her hands on her apron and walked out, "Old man, there are a lot of things distributed this month."
Gu Mancang was covered in grease. He washed his hands and wiped his face. A towel was dirty. He fetched a basin of water and squatted in the yard to scrub it.
"Now the whole country is engaged in production. Our steel plant has a heavy task. The more overtime you work, the more benefits you get."
Zhang Cuilan nodded, carried the things back to the house and locked them in the closet.
The parents were busy at home, the second sister got married, the eldest brother and his wife had not come back yet, Gu Shidong was in high spirits, playing with the newborn bunny in the yard, and then he found a gray sandbag from some corner and threw it around in the yard.
Zhang Cuilan called her son from inside the house and asked him to come over to help hang a pound of flour on the beams. For some reason, the big yard was infested with mice.
The sorghum cakes in the front yard's aunt's house were eaten by mice.
These days, mice are very scared and can turn over rice and flour wherever they are placed. They can only be hung up with a rope tied to a sack.
"Mom, why do mice eat everything?"
"If they don't eat, they will starve to death."
"It's okay to starve to death. My cousin in Hutou country feeds rats and roasts them. I heard they are delicious. I want to try them too." "What the hell
, the family needs you to eat or drink. Look at your little achievements."
"Hehe."
Gu Shidong chuckled and said nothing.
After a while, Lin Yao rushed home and held a bag of roasted sweet potatoes for the family to taste.
"Mom, the sweet potatoes will not be delicious if they are cold. You eat them while I go to work."
Zhang Cuilan wanted to go to the kitchen to make the remaining scallion pancakes first. Lin Yao acted like a spoiled child and coaxed her mother-in-law to eat roasted sweet potatoes. She tied an apron neatly, washed her hands, and went to the kitchen to make pancakes.
Zhang Cuilan couldn't stop her from yelling, so she could only sit down with a smile.
"This child has the same impetuous temper as her own mother."
After saying that, Comrade Zhang Cuilan glanced at the Gu brothers who were fetching water in the yard, and said with a look of disdain, "You can't rely on this brat, but I, Yaoyao, still care about the old woman."
The Gu Shian brothers: "......."
In the evening, the old Gu family ate scallion pancakes, a portion of pickled cabbage and a pot of wild vegetable soup from the commune canteen. Such a simple meal was an improvement in life.
The next morning, Gu Shian sent his little girl to work as usual.
Lin Yao wanted to behave better, so that Deputy Head Gu might be gentler at night. Thinking of this, her usually unruly little hands did not rest on Gu Shian's waist, but honestly put them in her pockets like Zhou Xiaoxue.
Gu Shian glanced at her lightly, the bicycle bumped up and down, Lin Yao screamed, and her small hands hugged his waist again.
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