Wang Youmu and his wife returned home, Xu Qiuli asked for leave in the afternoon, so when she got home, she went to prepare for class, and Wang Youmu had nothing to do and fiddled with those Gobi stones.

Xu Qiuli finished the task at hand after a while, and looked at Wang Youmu still fiddling with the stone, and asked a little curiously

"By the way, my brother didn't say anything to you in the afternoon?"

"No, what's wrong?" said Wang Youmu, putting down the stone in his hand

"It's fine, I see that he always avoids me in the afternoon, as if he wants to say something to you. ”

"No, you're thinking too much, just talking about our situation, and asking about your work again. Wang Youmu said

"Youmu, you don't know my brother, he is very selfish, alas! Don't say some things later, you will slowly know, anyway, you have nothing to do with him. Xu Qiuli said slowly

"I see!" Wang Youmu said

In fact, what his wife said was right, in the afternoon, his eldest brother seemed to say something to him several times, but it was because his wife didn't say it.

In the end, when they were about to go out, the eldest brother secretly told himself behind his wife's back that he would come to his unit tomorrow afternoon anyway, and that he had something important to say, and repeatedly told himself that he must not let his wife know.

Wang Youmu didn't plan to tell his wife, he felt that after all, there were some things that his wife might be there, and the eldest brother was not easy to say, so he had to tell himself alone, since this was the case, he didn't need to say it, and it was not too late to tell his wife after knowing something.

After getting off work the next afternoon, he came to the W City Materials Bureau to find Xu Weidong, and when he entered the gate, he easily found Xu Weidong's office.

Xu Weidong's office is a small room where three people work together, when Wang Youmu went, the remaining two people in the office were there, and Xu Weidong directly led Wang Youmu to a smaller office in the back warehouse.

"Youmu, I'm usually here, thinking that you're coming, I'm afraid you won't be able to find here, so I went to the big office to wait for you, you sit casually, I'll make you some tea." Xu Weidong greeted Wang Youmu and said

The office is very small, except for a desk and chair, there is only an old-looking single sofa left, and an old small coffee table is placed in front of the sofa, Wang Youmu sat on the sofa, looked at Xu Weidong and said

"It's okay, don't be busy, I'm not thirsty. ”

"Then what's the matter, how can you not even drink a sip of water when you come here for the first time. As he spoke, he had already put a cup of brewed tea in front of Wang Youmu.

"Well, I'm okay, but it's a little smaller, but there are usually no people, it's quiet, and there are a lot of people in that big office, it's too noisy. As he spoke, he handed Wang Youmu a cigarette.

"Isn't this a storeroom, can you smoke?" Wang Youmu asked a little curiously

"I'm in charge of the storeroom, I have the final say, you can smoke it. As he spoke, he lit a fire for Wang Youmu, and he also lit a cigarette and continued

"Youmu, what I told you today, whether you help me or not, you can't tell my sister, if you let my sister know, it will be equivalent to letting the old man know, I'm afraid it will have an impact on the old man's illness. ”

Xu Weidong said this not because he was afraid of the old man's body, he was actually afraid that Wang Youmu would not help him, in fact, before Wang Youmu and his sister got married, he had already inquired about this Wang Youmu clearly, in his opinion, Wang Youmu was an upright person, and he was a little too upright.

If he told Wang Youmu now that he had lost money because of gambling, he felt that Wang Youmu would never help him, and he would persuade himself to confess to the leader, so he prepared a set of rhetoric.

When Wang Youmu heard Xu Weidong's words, he felt that the matter should be quite serious, but when he thought of his wife Xu Qiuli's reminder last night, he asked carefully

"Tell me something first, you also know my situation, if you can help me, I will definitely find a way to help you. ”

Xu Weidong took a sip of tea, snuffed out the cigarette butt in the ashtray, and said with a bitter face

"That's right, I lost more than 800 yuan in material money. ”

"What's the matter, how could you lose so much money?" asked Wang Youmu in surprise

The combined monthly salary of him and his wife is less than 30 yuan, and the 800 yuan is their salary for two and a half years without drinking or drinking, which cannot but surprise Wang Youmu.

"Alas, don't mention it, I was also a good person with good intentions, but I was deceived. Xu Weidong said

"You make it clear what's going on. ”

"Didn't TC City have a snow disaster last year, I came here with a TC purchaser, he took some materials, but he said it was not enough, and the above did not approve it for a while, he told me that he would freeze to death if he did not receive the materials, and finally asked me to put a batch of materials for him, saying that it was the New Year, and I would make up the approval slips together, I think the relationship is usually good, and this is an urgent matter to save people. ”

Xu Weidong lit another cigarette and continued

"I finally gave him the supplies, I thought it should be fine, but after the Spring Festival, he never gave me a supplementary approval, so I asked the purchaser in TC City to inquire, it turned out that this guy had already been fired, and he lied to me. ”

Hearing this, Wang Youmu understood that Xu Weidong had done something bad with good intentions, but he was also taken in, he looked at Xu Weidong with a sad face on the opposite side and said

"Then you talk to the leader and see if you can recover the supplies. ”

Xu Weidong said with a sad face

"Youmu, you don't understand the management system of the treasury, I will now go to confess to the leader, there are only two ways, make up the shortfall, and then be fired, the second is to be fired if you can't make up the shortfall, and then be arrested by the Public Security Bureau. ”

Wang Youmu thought about it, this is indeed the truth, especially in a unit like a material company, the management of the treasury must be stricter, but he and his wife have no savings, because his wife is pregnant, and their family has a small savings of less than 100 yuan.

In the end, Wang Youmu gritted his teeth and said

"Big brother, you also know the situation between me and Qiu Li, I will send you 100 yuan tomorrow, and I can't help it no matter how much I have. ”

Xu Weidong looked at the brother-in-law in front of him, and said with a wave of emotion in his heart

"Youmu, I also secretly saved some money, and I have 100 yuan, you also know the situation in my family, I don't have more. ”

Wang Youmu's situation with Xu Weidong was also learned from his wife, Xu Weidong has not had children in the past few years, and he doesn't know if it is his wife Zhang Rong's problem or Xu Weidong's problem, plus the old man has been sick in the past few years, and sometimes he relies on Zhang Rong's mother's family to help, so Xu Weidong has no status at home.

Xu Weidong looked at Wang Youmu, then added some water to the teacup and continued

"How to calculate it, there is a gap of 600 yuan, there is no way to make up for it, there is wood, in fact, I came to you today to ask you to help. ”

"Big brother, I just said that I didn't lie to you, Qiu Li and I have this amount of money, and it is also because Qiu Li is pregnant, we saved some money, thinking that the child has a lot of expenses, I really have no money, it's not that I don't help you. Wang Youmu said seriously

"No, you're misunderstood, that's not what I said, I mean you can help me, it's up to you to help. Xu Weidong said a little anxiously

Wang Youmu was a little puzzled, he had no money, he was just a temporary worker, how could he help with such a big thing, so he asked curiously

"Big brother, how can I help, how can I help you except for the 100 yuan?"

Xu Weidong lit another cigarette and said slowly

"Youmu, don't worry, you can't help me, but your brother Wang Qingshan can. ”

Wang Youmu told the truth, he didn't know much about his eldest brother Wang Qingshan, he only knew that Wang Qingshan was a driver in the municipal party committee, and he didn't know what the specific situation was, but he felt that a driver could solve the dilemma Xu Weidong was facing now, so he said

"Big brother, you made a mistake, my brother Wang Qingshan is a driver, how can he help you. ”

When Xu Weidong heard this, he was happy, as long as Wang Youmu did not refuse him in person, it means that there is a drama in the matter, he said

"Youmu, you don't know, but I know, your brother is now Vice Mayor Zhou's full-time driver, and I heard that Vice Mayor Zhou is very good to your brother in private, and the relationship between the two is very good. ”

Seeing that Wang Youmu seemed to be about to interrupt him, Xu Weidong raised his hand and continued

"Don't worry, listen to me, our director is Vice Mayor Zhou's subordinate when he was in the army before, if your brother comes forward, the matter should be solved." ”