Xing Dehai's family had just had dinner, and the couple sat under the oil lamp and counted the money.

Xing Dehai's mother-in-law's name is Li Mei, and she happily clicked on the pile of gross tickets in her hand, "Although it is said that without the Revolutionary Committee, you will lose a salary, but you have this salary in the factory every month, and there are more than 100 yuan a year." ”

Xing Dehai crossed his legs, squinted and drank a cup of tea, slowly tasting the fragrance of tea, and then took out a cigarette from the back room and lit it, slowly spitting out the circles under his eyes.

He smokes, but he doesn't have much of an addiction, so he never smokes outside.

"Lao Xing, I went to my cousin's house yesterday, and my cousin-in-law said that the Rainbow Factory has a very good benefit this year, and with the support of the county, it will only be better next year. ”

Xing Dehai frowned and glanced at her.

Li Mei grabbed the money and leaned towards him, and said in a low voice: "What my cousin-in-law means is that Meng Sanqiu is old and can't work for a few years, so wouldn't it be better for you to endure for a while, and then go directly to be the factory director." ”

Xing Dehai smoked two puffs of cigarette silently.

Li Mei continued smugly: "If Meng Sanqiu retires, I think only you are qualified to be the director of this factory in our village, and no one else has that qualification." ”

Meng Sanqiu knocked on the door at this time.

Li Mei heard Meng Sanqiu's voice, quickly stuffed the money in her hand into her pants, went out and opened the door, "Oh, it's Director Meng, have you eaten?"

Meng Sanqiu nodded with his hands behind his back, "I'll come to talk to Lao Xing about something." ”

After that, he walked slowly to the house, Li Mei pouted behind him, poured a glass of water for Meng Sanqiu, and entered the inner room by himself, but the cat was behind the door, pricking up his ears to listen to the movement outside.

Meng Sanqiu sat down and glanced at the unfinished cigarette in Xing Dehai's hand, and said with a smile: "I always thought you didn't smoke, hey, you smoke tulips, right? ”

Xing Dehai snuffed out the cigarette in his hand and put it in his pocket without finishing it, "This is what Jiansheng brought back from the city, I take two puffs occasionally, do you have something to do with me today?"

Jiansheng is Xing Dehai's son and works in a flour mill in the city.

The smile on Meng Sanqiu's face disappeared, and he gently knocked the cigarette stick on the table, and said after a while: "Lao Xing, you tell me the truth, Zhang Peilan and the people of Ershengtou Village are working together to make ham sausages, do you know about this matter?"

Xing Dehai's eyes flashed, and he frowned unhappily: "Old Meng, are you suspicious of me? In my eyes, am I the kind of person who does not distinguish between right and wrong and has no overall situation?"

"I really don't know about it. ”

Meng Sanqiu raised his head calmly, and said with a faint expression: "Zhang Peilan said that He Wencai asked her to find a way to intercept Comrade Xiao Zhou and Comrade Qi. ”

Xing Dehai's face was a little heavy, and he seemed to be a little angry, "This He Wencai, how can he do something unreliable." ”

"Lao Meng, listen to me, I admit that I did have the intention of stopping Zhou Niannian and letting her come back late, but that was just a moment of confusion, I didn't think about really doing it, who knew that He Wencai would take it seriously and do something foolish. ”

"Lao Meng, don't worry, I will strictly punish He Wencai when I go to work tomorrow. ”

Meng Sanqiu smoked a dry cigarette, listened to Xing Dehai's distinction, and smoked silently for a while before sighing, "Old Xing, I've been thinking about a lot of things in the past two days, you know? ”

Xing Dehai was stunned, lowered his eyes, and did not speak.

Meng Sanqiu squinted, his expression was a little melancholy, "At that time, we were all young, we didn't say anything, and we didn't hide it, anyway, we all had the same thought, that is, to do a good job for the good of the village." ”

"Although at that time, the two of us quarreled a lot because of disagreements, but we were still able to understand each other later. ”

Meng Sanqiu paused when he said this, and looked at Xing Dehai meaningfully: "But now, old Xing, I can't understand you anymore." ”

Xing Dehai frowned, "I don't understand what you mean by this." ”

Meng Sanqiu took the last puff of the cigarette stick, then pinned the cigarette stick to his body, raised his head and said with a serious expression: "Lao Xing, it has been more than three months since you took office as the manager of the Rainbow Factory, and I won't count everything that happened and what you did. ”

"I don't want to pursue the fake ham sausage this time, whether you know about it or not, I only have one word, you ...... it"

He paused, took a deep breath, and spit out the words that were holding in his heart, "Lao Xing, you take the initiative to resign, let's get together and disperse."

Xing Dehai's face changed suddenly, "Old Meng, you ....."

With a bang, Li Mei rushed out of the back room and scolded with a bang, "Okay, you Meng Sanqiu, what kind of heart do you say you have, my old Xing has already retreated to being an honest manager, you are endless, why are your hearts so black." ”

Meng Sanqiu stood up with a dark face, "This is our factory's business, Lao Xing, I wanted to save you some face, so I came to your house to say it." ”

"I've said everything I need to say, if your mother-in-law insists on making trouble, it's not me who is embarrassed, you can do it yourself. ”

After Meng Sanqiu finished speaking, he left the Xing family with his hands behind his back.

Li Mei jumped in the courtyard and scolded Meng Sanqiu, "I'm sorry, I want my old Xing to take the initiative to resign, I think it's beautiful, you lack virtue Meng Sanqiu, you are bullying people." ”

After a while, Xing Dehai came out of the house with a gloomy face, and shouted in a low voice: "Shut up, do you want the neighbors to know?"

Li Mei opened her mouth and stared, her voice stopped abruptly, and the rest of the words were held back.

Xing Dehai glared at her and shouted in a low voice: "What are you doing here, don't hurry back to the house." ”

Li Mei reluctantly followed him into the house, and immediately said eagerly: "Lao Xing, don't listen to Meng Sanqiu's dead old man, take the initiative to resign like a fool, hmph, let's not resign, I'll see what Meng Sanqiu can do to you." ”

Xing Dehai took out the cigarette he hadn't finished just now, lit it silently, and took a few puffs before throwing the remaining cigarette butt on the ground and twisting it out with his foot.

"Take the initiative to resign, do you think this is Meng Sanqiu's idea?" he snorted coldly.

Li Mei's eyes rolled, and her angry willow eyebrows rose, "What? You mean to say that this is Zhou Niannian's idea?"

"Otherwise?" Xing Dehai lit another cigarette and spit out a smoke ring, his mood was much more stable than just now, "Since the establishment of this factory, it has almost become a hall of Zhou Niannian's words, and Meng Sanqiu is about to be brainwashed by Zhou Niannian." ”

As soon as he thought of this, Xing Dehai's expression became more and more gloomy, without Zhou Niannian, relying on Meng Sanqiu, he would definitely not be able to think of anything that would make him take the initiative to resign.